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Thursday, February 13. 2020

Thursday morning links

 Standard poodle Siba wins best in show at Westminster


Betelgeuse might explode soon - like 1000 years ago 


United States Led Entire World In Reducing CO2 Emissions In 2019


NYC:  Save our city: Stop making it so damn hard to build


Inside Hong Kong's cage homes (video) 


" Ensuring civil liberties on campus does not mean being permissive of acts of sexual violence. No matter what our politics may be, we should all agree that Title IX policies need to ensure that all students — both male and female — have the right to due process and a fair and impartial investigation..."


 “This Is the Biggest Political Scandal of Our Time.  Let’s Be Clear!” – Maria Bartiromo Goes Off on Attempted Coup Against Trump


 Fix the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and Punish the Crooks Who Abused It


 While you were focused on New Hampshire, more Trump judicial nominees were confirmed


The Boy Party vs. the Girl Party


Not really, just sort-of 


 Rush Limbaugh imagines what's going on in the desperate, desolate minds of Democrats.


The Facts About Trump That Are Deadly For Democrats


 Warren Campaign Obituary: She tried to fake it, but America didn’t buy it


 Why Joe Biden’s campaign is collapsing


 ‘Lightweight’ Mike Bloomberg already proving he’s no match for Sanders or Trump


WSJ:  The Incompetence Party - The Democrats’ biggest problem isn’t Bernie Sanders. It’s that many voters doubt the party’s ability to govern anymore.


 Dem Post-Impeachment Strategy: Let’s Hit Trump On The Economy


 Affair Mila: A French 16-Year-Old Criticized Islam And Set Off A National Debate About Free Speech


 Swiss machines 'used to spy on governments for decades'


 China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine

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"Swiss machines 'used to spy on governments for decades'"

Countries spy on one another? Who knew?

BBC notes that "Russia and China never trusted the machines, and did not use them".

Of course they didn't. No nation that is serious about the security of its own information would rely entirely on foreign equipment to encrypt it.
#1 JJM on 2020-02-13 08:29 (Reply)
This revelation has been public over 20 years. Why so many articles about it now?
#1.1 Jay (Link) on 2020-02-13 09:32 (Reply)
Mila:

Ok, so a lesbian at the top of the victim-hood hierarchy ripped another top victim group when she said forbidden things about Islam. Since it is renowned as The Religion of Peace, I am sure that she got no death threats and had to switch schools, right?

Let's watch this one play out. Grab a seat and have some popcorn.
#2 Dangerous Dean on 2020-02-13 09:48 (Reply)
Let me see if I understand this: She called Islam a religion of hate and immediately she began receiving death and rape threats from Muslims. So are we (the French) trying to say she was wrong or just that in fact Islam is so bad that you cannot speak the truth about it? Which is it? We need to know because Canada is already on board this train and the U.S. is checking the boarding schedule.
#3 OneGuy on 2020-02-13 10:51 (Reply)
There is no fixing the FISA court. It’s corrupt. What does it say about the Chief Justice, the guy in charge of oversight? End it. As a free people, we deserve better than a secret court, that was used to spy on a presidential candidate. Willing accomplices to insure their fellow deep state candidate would win an election.
#4 B. Hammer on 2020-02-13 11:02 (Reply)
+1

We also don't know how many times the FISA court has been misused. What is needed is a bulldog special prosecutor with the authority to investigate everything the court has done especially the last 12 years. I nominate Judge Jeanine Pirro
#4.1 OneGuy on 2020-02-13 17:55 (Reply)
I find this remarkable.

Voyager 2 comes back online, 11.5 billion miles from home

QUOTE:
Plenty can go wrong when you're floating through interstellar space, billions of miles from Earth, running on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator and coming up on 43 years since the last time anyone laid a spanner on you. Last week, Voyager 2 shut itself down into a safe mode after an unexplained delay in a calibration maneuver caused two high-powered systems to come on at the same time, overdrawing the power supply.

Figuring out what went wrong and deciding what to do next was a laborious process, mainly because communications to and from Voyager, traveling at the speed of light, take 17 hours each way. So, any time you give this extraordinary spacecraft a command, you need to wait about 34 hours before you know if it had the desired effect.

Now, NASA has announced that it's turned Voyager 2's scientific instruments back on and resumed collection of scientific data. The rest of the craft is still under review, and the team is slowly running diagnostics to determine when everything else can be switched back on.

https://newatlas.com/space/voyager-2-back-online/
#5 feeblemind on 2020-02-13 11:53 (Reply)
Thank you, feeblemind, for the link to news about the voyagers. I track their awesome progress at
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
#5.1 mary on 2020-02-13 19:09 (Reply)
"Swiss machines 'used to spy on governments for decades'"

Now they use Facebook.
#6 DrTorch on 2020-02-13 15:39 (Reply)

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