Saturday, March 15, 2008

Eliot Spitzer Needs To Go Into Business With Me


A WiMax Breakthrough in India ...... Tata Communications unveils an ambitious plan to become global leader in wireless broadband by launching the world's largest commercial network India is about to become the frontier for high-speed, mobile Internet connections. ....... countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network, the largest anywhere in the world of the high-speed, wireless broadband technology. ..... by next year Tata will offer service in 115 cities nationwide. ...... "WiMax is not experimental, it's oven-hot" ...... a WiMax network in Washington next month, and in other U.S. cities next year. ..... Predicting that the new technology will make other types of Internet access obsolete, he boasts "Tata will set the cat among the pigeons." ....... The company has invested about $100 million in the project, which will increase to $500 million over the next four years as it begins to near its goal of having 50 million subscribers in India. ...... And as WiMax scales up fast, it will give service providers greater flexibility and costs will drop equally rapidly. ....... an early morning worship service at the famous Balaji temple in South India. The temple permitted Tata to install cameras so that Hindu devotees from around the world could watch the proceedings in the temple around the clock. ...... To get connected initially, users will simply have to go to a store, buy a router, install it, and then they become instantly connected. It will be as easy as buying apples ...... a chance to launch a brand new. fourth-generation technology that the world can follow. "India is becoming the knowledge center of the world; it should take the lead in this"
Message To David Pollak

Chairman Pollak, Sir. Do me a favor. Pass on this email to the Governor. You yourself are someone I hope to have on my corporate team some day, even if only like Terry McAuliffe tipping his toe in companies while still politicking full time. You are one of those people to have on one's side every day if possible.

Message To Governor Spitzer

Governor. Granted its been dramatic, but I see a silver lining to the cloud. I have a young, ambitious tech startup. The vision statement is "to connect every human mind to the web, and then some." That can not be a vision statement for one company, likely a few different industries, a vision statement for an ecosystem of industries and companies. But it is what it is.

My company hopes to play a key, defining role in the next era of computing, the IC era. Mainframes to PCs to ICs. IC, Internet Computer.

Internet access is the voting right for this century, and the agenda is global. Politics is war by other means. Business is politics by other means. You would come in as a small investor to start with. And you take six to nine months off. Then we together create a role for you that will get you plenty of telecommuting. You are plenty rich to never have worked, but you are too young to retire. You have not lived half your life yet. If you want to live long, get into another intense career. Don't tank, don't drift, don't wallow in the mud of tabloid attention. I promise you greater intensity than what you felt as Attorney General. We are going to be picking fights as we create markets, invent markets, eat into markets, destroy markets for others. Feel like a fresh college graduate all over again. Launch a new career. If the idea of public service through elected office is to do good, you will do more good for more people through this than anything you have done yet.

We will also be spearheading a major effort down the line of spreading democracy the progressive way, the war of communications technology way, the nonviolent way. We might be part of some battles with the military-industrial complex part of the way, and that's okay, you will love it. The government can be a huge customer. (Progressive Political Religion: No Place For Superpowers)

My man Friday on my corporate team is a guy named Adam Carson who starts looking like my personal hero Larry Ellison when he grows a slight beard. Adam wrote directly to the Morgan Stanley CEO Mack to create his 2.0 job a few years ago which he has now duly quit to come along with the startup. When he first said he will quit, they promoted him, but he quit regardless. Adam has raised most of the early seed money from his personal circle of contacts. Right now he is on a cross country road trip - his vehicle is much smaller than mine was, but then he is not the top guy on the team, is he? - with his wonderful Romanian girlfriend: he telecommutes to work. He learned this from me: before you take over a country, it is a good idea to take a good look at it.

Ellison has said he is too uncompromising to be any good in politics, precisely the trait that has made him a legendary CEO. Your candidate was better on merit but the legislators went ahead and appointed someone mediocre and you went ahead and campaigned against legislators from your own party who were part of such an idiotic move. Mofos. That uncompromising subservience to merit is not a bad personality trait at all if you are in a functional setting that Albany is not. My way you don't have to go through the indignity of asking for votes to make large, positive impact, especially votes of unaccountable Albany warlords who function best in smoke-filled rooms, never coming out to see daylight.

So what's it gonna be? I hope we can cook something up. We are listing this baby on Nasdaq. Come be part of the Silicon City dreams. Someone uniquely gifted as you deserves a front seat. You are perfect to be part of my team. This swing could last a few decades. All the early people will get hugely rich.

Let's meet and talk. I am not in the same borough but I am in the same city, the magic city, first place on earth where I felt really comfortable, first hometown I ever had. (Madhesi Movement Victory In Nepal)

We are the New York Mafia. And we are here to take over the world.

Paramendra Bhagat
Chairperson, CEO
JyotiConnect Inc.


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Eliot Spitzer



In The News

Eliot Spitzer's Seven Deadly Sins BusinessWeek As a leader and manager, Spitzer made plenty of other mistakes ...... the lessons they contain for any leader or manager. ... 1. Failure To Deliver ..... a disappointment as governor. .... Lesson: You've got to deliver consistently. You're only as good as your most recent accomplishment. ...... 2. Wrong Tactics for New Job .... a combative nature, an unwillingness to compromise ...... 3. Alienated Too Many ... Lesson: You can't expect to get things done if you only have adversaries, not allies. ...... 4. Hypocrisy .... 5. Hubris ..... Lesson: No one is above the law; no one is untouchable, and no matter how smart you are, it doesn't matter. ........ 6. Underestimating the Crisis ..... Albany came to a standstill for two days ..... 7. Some sins just aren't forgivable. .... cheating, on a seemingly perfect wife, with call girls

The Incoming Governor New York Times he knows his way around Albany, having spent 20 years there, and that his fellow legislators like and respect him .... “He won’t enter office facing the resentment that Spitzer engendered.” ..... not even clear whether he will be the most powerful Democrat in the state capital ..... Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who, along with Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, has ruled Albany for years ..... there’s little in his past to suggest that he’s ready to take on these weighty problems ...... Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, or maybe even Rudy Giuliani — would be lining up for a shot at the governor’s office in 2010.

Bear Stearns Gets Emergency Funds From JPMorgan, Fed (Update2) Bloomberg
Bear Stearns' Fall Sours Stocks Wall Street Journal
Run On The Bear? Forbes
Mob rule continues in Bihar, another 'thief' lynched Sify
India Detains Tibet Protestors TIME
June 3 Is Target for Mich. Do-Over Vote
The Associated Press
Clinton, Obama Woo Pa. Political Players
The Associated Press
Clinton, Obama set for debate showdowns Inquirer.net in Philadelphia on April 16 and a second encounter on CBS three days later in North Carolina, which holds a primary on May 6.
Obama, Clinton make nice on the Senate floor Baltimore Sun
Clinton apologizes to black voters CNN
Clinton Opens Her Home to Woo Unaligned Lawmakers Washington Post
Do-over talks planned with Clinton, Obama campaigns today
Detroit Free Press
Obama, Clinton teams square off on Florida revote AFP

Obama's calculus to victory Sydney Morning Herald, Australia In politics, there is spin and doctoring and downright monstering on message management, and it is waged with no holds barred 24/7. It's the foghorns of war. And then there is calculus and the clarity of numbers. ...... Obama is in fact closer to clinching the Democratic nomination. .... Even if Clinton wins Pennsylvania 55-45 per cent, Clinton will net a gain of only 15 delegates. In the polls today, the candidates are tied in Michigan and Clinton is comfortably ahead in Florida. Even if those two states revote, and the outcome tracks today's polls, Clinton would net perhaps 30 delegates. ..... Obama for his part is expected to do well in North Carolina, Oregon, Montana and South Dakota, where 250 delegates are at stake ....... he has more voter intensity behind him. ...... Democratic voters, by a 48-38 per cent margin, say that Obama has the better chance of beating McCain than Clinton. ..... Bill Clinton is now viewed unfavourably (42-45) by more voters for the first time in five years. ..... "I have the most delegates, have won the most states, have won them more convincingly, and am the more electable. Ratify the verdict of the voters of our party, and do the right thing." .... It will be hard for most of the supers to reach a different conclusion. .... Obama today is poised to win the nomination.


Friday, March 14, 2008

Hillary For VP: Going To A Hillary Event


Friday, March 14 at 7:00 PM
Border's cafe @ Time Warner Building (New York, NY) - 9.2 miles away
11:21pm Mar 8th
I've sent the friend request already. The english service at the temple starts at 11:30 tomorrow. Here's the website:
http://www.newyorkbuddhistchurch.org/
Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow.
332 Riverside Dr
New York, NY 10025
(212) 678-0305


Spitzer Resignation

Fucking FBI. Don't respect nothing.



In The News

Paterson Says He Is Ready Wall Street Journal
Paterson Faces Early Test With State Budget New York Times
Obama: Clinton Should Not Get Florida and Michigan Delegates
CBS News
McCain, Clinton, Obama together again in Senate
Baltimore Sun
Movie Stars Help With Obama Ad
The Associated Press Oscar clout like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
Michael Jackson will keep Neverland Ranch Los Angeles Times

Friends defend call girl who took down Spitzer MSNBC they have known Dupre for three years, but had never suspected that she was a call girl who adopted the name “Kristen” while allegedly employed by the Emperors Club VIP escort service. ..... “She’s a great person,” Mysterious said. “A lot of people are portraying her as this monster, which she definitely isn’t. She has the biggest heart.” ...... “The leftover food she wanted to take with us just so she could give it to the homeless — the guys who were sleeping out on the street ..... was leaving public life to “atone” for his “personal failings.” ....... “When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. ..... Dupre until recently shared an apartment in an upscale building in the Flatiron district of New York City with a boyfriend ..... a 22-year-old aspiring musician from Manhattan.
Obama talks Spitzer, race, FL-MI MSNBC race and gender issues are very powerful in our society ...... I'm not naïve enough to think that we're going to solve the country's racial problems, and some of these other divisions in the span of six months or a year. What I do think is that our campaign has pointed towards the future, an era where these distinctions are less prominent in our politics ...... "Our campaign has been in conversations with the Michigan delegation, the Florida delegation, and the DNC
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton camps reject Michigan revote-by-mail MLive.com
Maybe Bill Clinton should stay home
Los Angeles Times As for Obama, the more voters saw of him -- or, at least the more they learned about him -- the more they liked him.
How a Michigan Do-Over Would Hurt Obama BusinessWeek Obama, in recent weeks, has not connected with working class white voters the way Clinton has in Ohio and Pennsylvania. ..... The official unemployment rate in Michigan is about 7%. But the real number is higher, perhaps in excess of 10% ...... one in ten homes currently in foreclosure proceedings. ...... The University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, and Kenyon College were among the Ohio schools on spring break for the Mar. 5 election. ....... the Obama campaign favors seating the Michigan delegation in the convention, with 50% going to Clinton and 50% going to Obama. ..... Axelrod says the best course for a Michigan do-over is a series of caucuses .... If Obama is forced to have a rematch in Michigan, one source of strength may be the Arab-American vote. Southeast Michigan is home to some 400,000 to 500,000 Arab-Americans.
A WiMax Breakthrough in India ...... Tata Communications unveils an ambitious plan to become global leader in wireless broadband by launching the world's largest commercial network India is about to become the frontier for high-speed, mobile Internet connections. ....... countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network, the largest anywhere in the world of the high-speed, wireless broadband technology. ..... by next year Tata will offer service in 115 cities nationwide. ...... "WiMax is not experimental, it's oven-hot" ...... a WiMax network in Washington next month, and in other U.S. cities next year. ..... Predicting that the new technology will make other types of Internet access obsolete, he boasts "Tata will set the cat among the pigeons." ....... The company has invested about $100 million in the project, which will increase to $500 million over the next four years as it begins to near its goal of having 50 million subscribers in India. ...... And as WiMax scales up fast, it will give service providers greater flexibility and costs will drop equally rapidly. ....... an early morning worship service at the famous Balaji temple in South India. The temple permitted Tata to install cameras so that Hindu devotees from around the world could watch the proceedings in the temple around the clock. ...... To get connected initially, users will simply have to go to a store, buy a router, install it, and then they become instantly connected. It will be as easy as buying apples ...... a chance to launch a brand new. fourth-generation technology that the world can follow. "India is becoming the knowledge center of the world; it should take the lead in this"
Obama counters with brass Chicago Tribune nine retired generals and admirals entered a room Wednesday with military precision ..... "no shock Barack" and "no drama Obama"
Nepal party says 10 hurt in Maoist attack on rally Reuters India
More than 4000 candidates to contest key Nepal election Earthtimes
Maoists struggle to win in Kathmandu Hindustan Times In 1768, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the conquering Shah King from Gorkha had attacked the kingdom of Kirtipur (Prachanda's constituency) and after a tough siege, the kingdom was captured. Angry with the resistance, King Prithvi Narayan Shah had ordered to cut off nose and lips of all the male residents. The people of Kirtipur have still not forgotten the ghastly king's torture.
Former Obama aid discusses 'monster' moment Seattle Post Intelligencer the Harvard professor has been hot news on two continents. ..... Power, a 37-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner ..... Power's 12-city U.S. tour for her new book, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World" a 535-page biography of the late United Nations commissioner for human rights. De Mello once was described as "a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy." The Brazilian native was widely admired at the time of his death as a fearless troubleshooter around the globe. .......... Until last week, Power seemed to live a charmed life. .... She had gone to Bosnia as an unknown freelance reporter. and her work there led to her first book -- "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. ....... Only one U.S. official ever contacted Power to discuss her genocide book, a new senator from Illinois. Her long dinner with Barack Obama persuaded her to take a leave from Harvard and work in his Washington office. ........ He tended to care more about the needs of strangers than the needs of those around him. ...... the most compelling international figure of the last half-century, the most important person that no one had heard of ..... It's not a question of whether to engage but how to engage. Humility without paralysis is incredibly important.

Visits on previous 'day': 450.

Woman at the Center of Governor’s Downfall New York Times has spent the last few days in her ninth-floor apartment in the Flatiron district of Manhattan ..... she said she had slept very little over the past week .... “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.” ...... She left “a broken family” at age 17, having been abused, according to the MySpace page, and has used drugs and “been broke and homeless.” ...... moved to Manhattan in 2004 and “spent the first two years getting to know the music scene, networking in clubs and connecting with the industry.
Obama on Race and the Race Washington Post
Clinton Apologizes to Black Voters The Associated Press
Democrats in a Fight to Define ‘Winner’ New York Times
Super delegates likely to be needed to split Obama, Clinton
ABC Online
McCain in Dead Heat With Both Obama and Clinton, Poll Says Bloomberg
Ferraro Leaves Clinton Camp Over Remarks About Obama
Washington Post
Obama's team accused of 'racist spin' Telegraph.co.uk
Clinton and Obama Split Over Florida and Michigan
New York Times
Clinton's advisor steps down post racial controversy NDTV.com
Clinton demands re-run of Florida and Michigan primaries Times Online