Comments on: Noted: The Microsoft-Abramoff Connection http://techrights.org/2008/12/22/microsoft-gates-abramoff-connection/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/12/22/microsoft-gates-abramoff-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-54052 Roy Schestowitz Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:13:45 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/22/microsoft-gates-abramoff-connection/#comment-54052 Thanks a lot for all this additional information. As I wrote at the end, this is just "the tip of a very large iceberg" and I'll return to exploring it. There are not enough people curious and willing enough to find answers to the Big Issues, which often involve white-collar crime. it's simpler to concentrate on celebrity scandals and OJ-like cases, whose impact is orders of magnitude lower on society. The links Microsoft established in the Abramoff era seem to have remained. There needs to be a stronger challenge to expose them. Thanks a lot for all this additional information. As I wrote at the end, this is just “the tip of a very large iceberg” and I’ll return to exploring it. There are not enough people curious and willing enough to find answers to the Big Issues, which often involve white-collar crime. it’s simpler to concentrate on celebrity scandals and OJ-like cases, whose impact is orders of magnitude lower on society.

The links Microsoft established in the Abramoff era seem to have remained. There needs to be a stronger challenge to expose them.

]]> By: Dr. Gene Nelson http://techrights.org/2008/12/22/microsoft-gates-abramoff-connection/comment-page-1/#comment-54014 Dr. Gene Nelson Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:13:21 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/22/microsoft-gates-abramoff-connection/#comment-54014 Great collection of information including some of my earlier articles regarding the massive scale of corruption involving Microsoft and "Team Abramoff." The evidence that I have gathered suggests that the economic losses suffered by experienced American citizen technical professionals are in the trillions of dollars, dwarfing any losses by the American indian tribes that were swindled by "Team Abramoff." I also worked with Tom Adelstein in Dallas while he edited LXer in uncovering this corruption. Here are links to nine articles and LTEs that I have written regarding highly-skilled labor markets and the controversial H1-B visa program. http://www.caller.com/news/2008/sep/14/letters/ Corpus Christi TX Caller - Times Letters to the Editor: 09.14.08 Right sentence (Jack Abramoff's role in H-1B Visa program expansion.) Foreign workers take jobs away from skilled Americans Washington, DC Examiner Op-Ed 21 August 2008, page 22 http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/guestcolumnists/NO_Foreign_workers_take_jobs_away_from_skilled_Americans.html or http://tinyurl.com/GeneNelsonOpposesH-1BVisas Immigrants don’t "make it all work," they take work 6 August 2008 Letter to the Editor, Schenectady, NY Daily Gazette http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/aug/06/0806_print/ Whose University is it Anyway? 8 February 2008 University of Buffalo Spectrum (I earned my Ph.D. there in 1984) http://spectrum.buffalo.edu/article.php?id=35243 The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit Fall 2007 (Published in January 2008) http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/eighteen-one/tsc_18_1_nelson.pdf Career Destruction Sites - What American colleges have become Spring 2005 http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/fifteen-three/xv-3-207.pdf Missing table regarding H-1B visa usage by NIH Grantees: http://www.jobdestruction.com/ShameH1B/Library/BrainSavers/H-1BVisaUsage_NIH_2003.pdf How Not to "Solve" the Social Security Problem - Mass immigration is the wrong answer Summer 1999 http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/nine-four/ix-4-260.pdf Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D.'s 13 April 1996 speech at the National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC headquarters. I worked as a Microsoft contractor from 1995 to 1996 for $11.06/hr in Dallas, Texas. http://www.engology.com/ArtNelson.htm Note the draft of my 5 August 1999 Oral Testimony critical of the controversial H-1B visa program before the House Immigration and Claims Subcommittee, in particular the final two paragraphs http://judiciary.house.gov/Legacy/nels0805.htm I was able to get "on the record" in the case USA v Jack A. Abramoff. I attended Jack Abramoff's sentencing hearing on 4 September 2008 at the DC District Courthouse. My 110 page "Victim Impact Statement" is document #40 in the Court docket in PDF format. It was filed with the Court on 3 September 2008. A searchable PDF copy is available at: http://www.cwalocal4250.org/outsourcing/binarydata/Abramoff.pdf . It is also available including Judge Huvelle's handwritten approval comment via the DC District Court's PACER website. Please tell me what you think about these articles, particularly the newest Social Contract article, which is about the "Abramoff Visa." Thanks! My email address is c0030180 [at] airmail dot net. Great collection of information including some of my earlier articles regarding the massive scale of corruption involving Microsoft and “Team Abramoff.” The evidence that I have gathered suggests that the economic losses suffered by experienced American citizen technical professionals are in the trillions of dollars, dwarfing any losses by the American indian tribes that were swindled by “Team Abramoff.” I also worked with Tom Adelstein in Dallas while he edited LXer in uncovering this corruption. Here are links to nine articles and LTEs that I have written regarding highly-skilled labor markets and the controversial H1-B visa program.

http://www.caller.com/news/2008/sep/14/letters/
Corpus Christi TX Caller – Times Letters to the Editor: 09.14.08
Right sentence (Jack Abramoff’s role in H-1B Visa program expansion.)

Foreign workers take jobs away from skilled Americans
Washington, DC Examiner Op-Ed 21 August 2008, page 22
http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/guestcolumnists/NO_Foreign_workers_take_jobs_away_from_skilled_Americans.html
or http://tinyurl.com/GeneNelsonOpposesH-1BVisas

Immigrants don’t “make it all work,” they take work
6 August 2008 Letter to the Editor, Schenectady, NY Daily Gazette
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/aug/06/0806_print/

Whose University is it Anyway?
8 February 2008 University of Buffalo Spectrum (I earned my Ph.D. there in 1984)
http://spectrum.buffalo.edu/article.php?id=35243

The Greedy Gates Immigration Gambit
Fall 2007 (Published in January 2008)
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/eighteen-one/tsc_18_1_nelson.pdf

Career Destruction Sites – What American colleges have become
Spring 2005
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/fifteen-three/xv-3-207.pdf
Missing table regarding H-1B visa usage by NIH Grantees:
http://www.jobdestruction.com/ShameH1B/Library/BrainSavers/H-1BVisaUsage_NIH_2003.pdf

How Not to “Solve” the Social Security Problem – Mass immigration is the wrong answer
Summer 1999
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/nine-four/ix-4-260.pdf

Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D.’s 13 April 1996 speech at the National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC headquarters. I worked as a Microsoft contractor from 1995 to 1996 for $11.06/hr in Dallas, Texas.
http://www.engology.com/ArtNelson.htm

Note the draft of my 5 August 1999 Oral Testimony critical of the controversial H-1B visa program before the House Immigration
and Claims Subcommittee, in particular the final two paragraphs
http://judiciary.house.gov/Legacy/nels0805.htm

I was able to get “on the record” in the case USA v Jack A. Abramoff. I attended Jack Abramoff’s sentencing hearing on 4 September 2008 at the DC District Courthouse. My 110 page “Victim Impact Statement” is document #40 in the Court docket in PDF format. It was filed with the Court on 3 September 2008. A searchable PDF copy is available at: http://www.cwalocal4250.org/outsourcing/binarydata/Abramoff.pdf . It is also available including Judge Huvelle’s handwritten approval comment via the DC District Court’s PACER website.
Please tell me what you think about these articles, particularly the newest Social Contract article, which is about the “Abramoff Visa.” Thanks! My email address is c0030180 [at] airmail dot net.

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