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BVTK's CEO provided insights into requirements generation at NCOIC event yesterday for NATO leaders:ncoic.org/11-news/events…
$BVTK Notes are near completion
1,489,592,166 in total
3.5B (current OS) -1.4B = 2.1B (previous OS)
otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilin…
Nope 3.5
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FCC hit by online attacks after John Oliver criticizes net neutrality proposal. bit.ly/2pYdP6L
John Oliver crashes FCC site after he tells viewers to leave comments on net neutrality hill.cm/LtpkuO0
FCC security breach today
Tell his billionaire friends to buy up shares
I keep adding as notes finalized
Warren Buffett sees cyber attacks as a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons.
"I'm very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally although I don't think that nuclear probably is quite as likely as either primarily biological and maybe cyber," Buffett said during Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders' meeting on Saturday.
"I don't know that much about cyber, but I do think that's the number one problem with mankind."
Last year, Buffett said CNBC — cyber, nuclear, biological and chemical attacks — posed a major threat to the economic well-being of Berkshire shareholders.
"If [a nuclear attack] ever happens, there'll be more to worry about than the price of Berkshire," Buffett noted.
In 2015, Berkshire made a bet that could profit from increased cyber breaches. Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance launched two insurance policies that cover cyber liability and the costs incurred to respond to a data breach or threat.
Similarly, AIG launched a product earlier this year that covers expenses arising
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Mike Allen 3 hrs ago
Warren's wisdom
Nati Harnik / AP
Warren Buffett, 86, gave a master class during Q&A yesterday at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting ("Woodstock for Capitalists"), which drew 30,000 devotees to CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska:
On declining U.S. manufacturing: "Nobody should be roadkill ... Greater productivity will benefit the world in a general way, but to be roadkill, to be the textile worker in New Bedford [is painful] ... It would be no fun to go through life and say: I'm doing this for the greater good, and so that shoes or underwear was all for 5 percent less."
On cyber attacks: "the number one problem [for] mankind."
On not investing in Google: "I blew it."
On Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and his success in both e-tailing and cloud computing: "the most remarkable business person of our age ... I've never seen a guy succeed in two businesses almost simultaneously that are really quite divergent in terms of customers and all the operations."
On the House health-care plan, which would repeal added taxes on payroll and investment income for high earners: "It is a huge tax cut for guys like me."
On managing employees: "We count very heavily on principles of behavior rather than loads of rules."
P.S. Lead story of The (London) Sunday Times, "Brexit brings bonanza for billionaires" (paywall): "[W]ealthy individuals have benefited from the weaker pound since Britain voted for Brexit, boosting the sterling value of their overseas investments."
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BUSINESS
Stef W. Kight 7 hrs ago
FEATURED
Trump 101: His advisers talk about him like he’s a child
Lazaro Gamio / Axios
Thanks to a leaky administration, everyone gets an inside look at how the Trump White House operates. Aides often leak stories about the difficulty of managing Trump — as if they were his babysitters. Here are some of the clearest examples, sourced from Axios, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Politico.
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Mike Allen 17 mins ago
California's politics are shifting further left
Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP
A surge of activism is rippling through California's political landscape, the L.A. Times's Melanie Mason writes in "Activist groundswell may sweep lawmakers leftward":
In a nutshell: In recent years, it was cool to be moderate in Sacramento. Now, it's cool to be progressive.
"What accounts for this magnetic pull leftward? An influx of new activists, energized by the 2016 election, have turned their focus to state-level politics. Advocacy groups, striving to offer a progressive seal of approval, are poring over legislators' voting records. And the prospect of single-payer healthcare in the state — the government would cover all residents' medical costs — offers a galvanizing rallying cry."
Why it matters: California is so massive (world's 6th largest economy, with 11 million more people than Texas) that its fashions are vital, and for decades (including the taxpayer revolt of 1978 that foreshadowed Reagan), it has started trends that marched west.
POLITICS
Dave Lawler 1 hr ago
Paul Ryan defends GOP health care "rescue mission"
Evan Vucci / AP
Paul Ryan defended the Republican health care plan on ABC's "This Week," and said it would be a "disaster" for Republicans in the midterms if they didn't repeal the ACA.
Repeated lines: Bill is a "rescue mission," Obamacare is "collapsing."
Rushed vote, lack of CBO score: Ryan said that's a "bogus attack from the left" (Lindsey Graham would disagree)
Expecting changes in Senate: Ryan said the Senate would have to "complete the job" of making sure 55-64 year olds aren't hurt by the plan.
Testy exchange: Ryan, "People want the peace of mind of knowing they can get affordable coverage," Stephanopoulos, "and a lot of people think it's going to be worse."
Speaking of critics: Sen. Susan Collins followed Ryan on This Week and said she's not convinced the House bill would handle pre-existing conditions as well as the ACA: "So much discretion is given to the states without any guardrails."
HEALTH CARE
David Nather 2 hrs ago
Price: No one will lose coverage with $880B in Medicaid cuts
Evan Vucci / AP
Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price claimed this morning that the $880 billion in Medicaid cuts over 10 years in the House-passed health care bill would "absolutely not" cause anyone to lose health coverage. "We believe strongly that the Medicaid population will be cared for in a better way," Price said on CNN's State of the Union.
Reality check: The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cuts would cause 14 million Americans to lose coverage over 10 years. (That estimate was for the original House bill — it hasn't analyzed the revised version the House passed.)
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HEALTH CARE
Mike Allen 3 hrs ago
Polls open in Paris
Philippe Wojazer/Pool Photo via AP
Russian fingerprints on the last-minute dump of campaign emails hacked from pro-business independent Emmanuel Macron, the heavy favorite in today's French presidential election:
"Vitali Kremez, director of research with New York-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint, told Reuters his review indicates that APT 28, a group tied to the GRU, the Russian military intelligence directorate, was behind the leak. He cited similarities with U.S. election hacks ... attributed to that group."
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POLITICS
Mike Allen 3 hrs ago
National gut check
Jonathan Tamari, the Washington correspondent for the Philly Inquirer, posts a first-person look at the windshear wackiness of the new media and political environment, "I tweeted a photo of the Trump rally crowd — and then things got crazy":
By the time I got to a late dinner, my Twitter feed was overwhelmed with more attacks and mentions than I could track. As of Friday, 2.4 million had seen the tweet, more than 30,000 had liked it, and more than 19,000 had retweeted it. ...
Why it matters: It's time for a national gut check. The hysteria of the election isn't dissipating and both sides are getting too spooled up about too many things, too often, based on too little evidence. Get a life: Who cares how many people show for a stinkin' event?
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Becca Rotenberg 6 hrs ago
College grads struggle finding substantial work
In the wake of the great recession, the ratio of underemployed graduates to unemployed is close to the highest it has ever been, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. That means a growing number of highly-educated workers are in a job that does not give them the hours they need to financially sustain themselves.
Note: Underemployed is different from unemployed, in that it describes someone in an unwanted part-time job after they were seeking a full-time position, or those who settled on a job that wasn't what they were seeking for.
Data: Economic Policy Institute; Note: Data reflects 12-month moving averages for college graduates age 21–24 who do not have an advanced degree and are not enrolled in further schooling; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon / Axios
BUSINESS
Becca Rotenberg 7 hrs ago
Liberal and conservative brains handle emotions differently
Mary Altaffer, Chuck Burton / AP
The structure of our brains may explain why liberals and conservatives react to emotional political appeals — like Jimmy Kimmel's viral health care push — in different ways. Psychiatrist Gail Saltz found that if you look at the size of brain structures, you can predict someone's ideology at at a "frequency of 71.6 percent."
Liberals tend to have a larger and more active anterior cingulate gyrus.
What that means: This part of the brain is responsible for conflict detection, as well as taking in new information and understanding its impact while making decisions. This could make liberals more likely to approach issues with heightened sensitivity.
Conservatives often have a larger and more active amygdala.
What that means: This is responsible for fear processing information and activating the fight-or-flight response. It is expected that someone with this feature will be influenced by fear when making decisions. Psychologists have also found that conservatives prefer stability and structure.
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David Nather 18 hrs ago
Town hall moment: "Nobody dies" for lack of health care
Get ready for a lot more town hall protests against the Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act now that it has passed the House. One that's going viral now comes from Rep. Raul Labrador, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus. It's from his town hall meeting in Idaho yesterday, but it's circulating on social media today.
Watch how the crowd erupts when he says, "Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care."
The House bill's treatment of pre-existing conditions is also drawing emotional objections from constituents. Rep. Tom Reed was confronted at a town hall today by an audience member who was worried because he had donated a kidney, ABC News reports: ""Now that I have a pre-existing condition, my cost of health care could go up significantly or I could lose health care."
HEALTH CARE
Alexi McCammond 19 hrs ago
USA Today gained millions of fake FB followers
Paul Sakuma / AP
An estimated one-third of USA Today's 15.2 million Facebook followers were removed because they belonged to fake accounts, per a report from the company. Executives at its parent company Gannett said Thursday that millions of its remaining followers are linked to fake accounts, too, so they asked the FBI to investigate.
Why now: The company reported receiving a recent influx of millions of followers that accounted for half of its total following. They continue to receive 1,000 fake followers each day, per the company. Weeks ago, Facebook said there was a "major spam operation" on the social network that resulted in countless fake accounts being set up to engage with businesses' pages to appear legitimate, with the goal of scamming and spamming their users.
Catfish trends: The accounts largely listed users locations from Bangladesh, India, Egypt and Pakistan, so Gannett said it will now block users from Bangladesh primarily, as it is believed to be the primary source of this spamming effort. Another common theme: Photos of attractive, young women who claim to work for the New York Yankees.
TECHNOLOGY
Alexi McCammond 19 hrs ago
Eating insects could save the planet
Lisa Rathke / AP
If half the meat eaten worldwide was replaced by insects (think: crickets and mealworms), greenhouse gas emissions would be significantly reduced and farmland use would be cut by one-third, a new study shows. It's a radical new solution for tackling livestock effects on the environment, but the idea of eating insects for sustainability has been thrown around for years.
The study: Researchers at the University of Edinburgh compared how conventional meat production from cattle and chicken compared to the process of cultivating alternative meat sources, like insects, lab-grown meat and tofu. They found insects and tofu are the most sustainable and environmentally friendly options because they take up the least amount of land and require the least amount of energy to process.
Why it matters: In the US, insects are typically eaten for the "fear factor" or shock value, rather than their nutritional value. Continued research into the benefits of eating insects could change that, help the environment, and provide high-protein, sustainable alternatives to meat. After all, insects are common meals in other countries.
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5/15 latest
Reverse merger coming imo
5/15 or earlier
May be pinky but you have a Fortune 500 CEO
I personally trust him
This is why I am here
Yes, normal pinkies lot of crooks
This one is different
Leadership is important
You rock CJ. Thank you
Thanks CJ your my inspiration to hang on
Will Tom ever stop diluting?
shake it baby so I can add
100 million on the bid, wowwwwwwwwwww
wow, big explosion, someone needs to get this CEO to protect his shareholders
This CEO SUCKS, who with let their company and stock get manipulated like this
you better buy at the ask quickly my friend, no one scared
are we looking at the same stock?
Chuck Brooks is a genius
Excellent post
After holding Netflix hostage, hacker group claims Fox, National Geographic, IFC and ABC next on their list
Is BVTK on the nosho
Here we go
50 million bid
This could go up 10,000 percent in one day
This is a pos
Something good better happen soon
129 million bid. Wowwew
keep calm
8 ways govt improve
ISA to hold meeting
$3 billion by FY 18
You are right my friend
Been watching
Not dilution after all
Cyber attack Cippoties
Well they should have plenty of money with all this dilution
Thanks I will signup LMFAO
Your going to lose big time
You may have won the battle last few days, but we will win the war
Now I see
Your trying to get cheap shares by scare tactics
You are a crook
jrozer Friday, 04/21/17 05:22:50 PM
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Answer me this, if this is a pump and dump , why is this on an official government page? Ya I'll give you some time to respond because I know you will have nothing. Now gtfo