[Guns America] To anyone who thought that Joe Biden might take a moderate stance on gun control if elected president, think again: the former VP vowed at a campaign stop in Dallas this week to put Robert "Beto" O’Rourke in charge of his gun control agenda.
The former Congressman from Texas ran on one of the most extreme anti-gun platforms during his short time as a Democratic presidential candidate, endorsing plans to confiscate "assault rifles" and enforce a nationwide gun registry, among many other proposals.
Biden told O’Rourke he’d be placed in charge of the administration’s gun control agenda during an event at which O’Rourke endorsed Biden for president.
"I want to make something clear: I’m going to guarantee you this is not the last you’re seeing of this guy," Biden said to a crowd in Dallas. "You’re going to take care of the gun problem with me. You’re going to be the one who leads this effort. I’m counting on you. We need you badly, the state needs you, the country needs you, you’re the best."
[ZDNET]Chinese security firm says CIA hacked Chinese targets for the past 11 years
Qihoo 360 becomes second Chinese security vendor to blame the CIA for hacks against its civil aviation sector.
China's largest cyber-security vendor has published today a report accusing the CIA of hacking Chinese companies and government agencies for more than 11 years.
The report, authored by Qihoo 360, claims the CIA hacked targets in China's aviation industry, scientific research institutions, petroleum industry, Internet companies, and government agencies.
CIA hacking operations took place between September 2008 and June 2019, and most of the targets were located in Beijing, Guangdong, and Zhejiang, Qihoo researchers said.
Qihoo claims that a large part of the CIA's hacking efforts focused on the civil aviation industry, both in China and in other countries.
The Chinese security firm claims the purpose of this campaign was "long-term and targeted intelligence-gathering" to track "real-time global flight status, passenger information, trade freight, and other related information."
Qihoo says it linked the attacks to the CIA based on the malware used in the intrusions -- namely Fluxwire [1, 2, 3] and Grasshopper [1, 2].
Both malware strains came to light in early 2017 when Wikileaks published the Vault 7 dump, a collection of documentation files detailing the CIA's arsenal of cyber-weapons.
WikiLeaks claimed it received the files from a CIA insider and whistleblower, later identified as Joshua Schultz -- currently under trial in the US.
Weeks after the WikiLeaks Vault 7 revelations, Symantec confirmed that Fluxwire was the Corentry malware that they had been tracking for years.
"Qihoo 360 analysis found that the technical details of most of the samples are consistent with the ones in the Vault 7 document, such as control commands, compile PDB paths, encryption schemes," the Chinese researchers said -- echoing the findings of the Symantec report.
The Chinese researchers also claim they found Fluxwire versions deployed in the wild long before the Vault 7 leaks became public, with detection times matching the now-public Fluxwire changelog.
Furthermore, Qihoo researchers also claim that the malware's compilation times are consistent with US timezones. Ironically, this is a common technique that US investigators have used to link malware samples back to Chinese hackers many times in the past.
The Qihoo report does not bring anything new to the table. Most of the information in the Qihoo report was already public knowledge that was shared and confirmed from different sources more than three years ago.
The only new information included in the Qihoo report is the specific targets that have allegedly been hacked by the CIA in China, information that was not previously known before today's Qihoo blog post.
CALLING OUT FOR RETRIBUTION
But the Qihoo 360 report might also play a bigger role in the grand scheme of things and signal a change in how the Beijing government deals with the US and its offensive hacking operations.
Shortly after the report went live, news outlets known for being a mouthpiece for the Chinese regime have begun calling for "swift action" against "US institutions, including the CIA, its hacking group and personnel involved in the cyber-attacks."
"Legal and all other possible channels should be considered to remedy the damages the US attacks have imposed on Chinese institutions and the public," wrote today Global Times China.
This call for legal action against the US and CIA officers didn't come out of the blue but looks like the first steps towards retribution.
Last month, the US charged four Chinese military officers for the Equifax hack. Prior to that, the US Department of Justice frequently charged members of Chinese hacking groups, such as: ...
#3
So this CIA guy who was angry and vindictive... did he realize that we'd all be looking down the barrel of a Chinese engineered virus when his released data hit the big time?
Wikipedia: In June 1999 CIA chief George Tenet named Black director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC).[4] In this capacity, Black served as the CIA Director's Special Assistant for Counterterrorism as well as the National Intelligence Officer for Counterterrorism.[5] Black's promotion was a part of Tenet's "grand plan" for dealing with al-Qaeda. Black was the operational chief in charge of this effort. Tenet also put "Richard," one of his own assistants, in charge of the CTC's bin Laden tracking unit. Black still headed the CTC at the time of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Corrupt and incompetent.
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#6
The Trunks need to kick him out and classify him as a full party Donk. Period.
#3
I went with Stalin. The others are too prone to compromise, and Bernie never compromises. His advance team is already compiling a list of kulaks and counterrevolutionaries.
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#9
None of the above. Bernie is nowhere near ruthless and cunning enough to run with those boys. Hell, he couldn't even compete with Hillary.
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#10
Just because he can hoodwink a bunch of loser college kids doesn't mean he can play in the big league. If he wasn't a senator from a second rate state like Vermont he'd be lucky to be a college professor, more like a high school history teacher.
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[DAILYCALLER] Hunter Biden cited political connections in 2019 while pitching the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Los Angeles School of Law on letting him teach a drug policy course, emails reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. The talks broke down after Hunter failed to "submit further materials for the proposed course," a UCLA Law front man told the DCNF. Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... said in October 2019 that Hunter was "gonna be teaching at law school next year."
[BREITBART] Co-host Whoopi Goldberg pitched former President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... for the vice president slot on the Democratic Party’s ticket with 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... The panel was discussing former Vice President Joe Biden’s ten-state Super Tuesday victory, including beating Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... (I-VT) in an upset win in Texas on Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s "The View."
Goldberg said, "So I had another ‐ I’ve been sitting here ‐ I’ve been crazy all morning." Oh, longer than that, skanky dipshit
Co-host Meghan McCain said, "It’s a crazy time."
Goldberg said, "I’m sorry. I’m just going to do my crazy right now."
McCain said, "I like it. I like when we go rogue."
Goldberg continued, "Everybody was thinking about who could the VP be for Joe. I thought, oh man, what would happen if Joe Biden said my choice for VP is Barack Obama?" After all, he's one hell of a doctor...
After the audience cheered, Goldberg said, "He won’t, but it’s not illegal."
McCain said, "It’s not going to happen."
ABC legal analyst and co-host Sunny Hostin said, "I don’t think it’s illegal."
Goldberg said, "It’s not illegal."
Co-host Joy Behar said, "But you have to be eligible to run for president when you’re the vice president and he can’t."
#8
Well, remember people like Whoopi look to Bath House Barry as a "constitutional law scholar," hence their success results in interpreting the Constitution.
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#9
Dear Whoopi — so lucky that she was never hired for her brains...
#12
constitutional issues aside, how many really think bath house would take a demotion, much less having to perform some semblance of work? it would be amusing go watch do the errand boy tasks of attending state funerals and the like
#13
The Wookie is looming out there, a way to sell the return of the Obama leadership meme. Return of the twofer Presidency idea after SloJoe goes 25th amendment early in his first term.
#15
Rube Goldberg? Too dull. As a rule,
He drew you a specialized tool
For doing... whatever,
But Whoopi is clever
And needs but a mic and a stool
To infallibly make like a fool.
Shoot. As Buddy said about the flaming semi full of pickles...
[APNEWS] Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... ended her once-promising presidential campaign on Thursday after failing to finish higher than third place in any of the 18 states that have voted so far. While the Massachusetts senator said she was proud of her bid, she was also candid in expressing disappointment that a formerly diverse field is essentially now down to two men. Those misogynist Dem primaries, ya know?
"All those little girls who are going to have to wait four more years," Warren told news hounds outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as her voice cracked. "That’s going to be hard."
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#5
Morons. They can't do simple arithmetic, and they think that there's some magical piñata called "the rich" that can be whacked to produce trillions in government funds.
As rich as he is, Bloomberg's entire fortune is not much more than what this country spends each year just on K-12 schoolkids' subsidized lunches.
The nation's real wealth is still dispersed among tens of millions of middle- and upper-middle income households.
You'd think that media figures earning high 6 figures or even a million-plus would know this stuff.... morons.
#7
/\ Remember the following: "Wealth is not Money. Wealth can produce Money, but Money is just a Result..." Socialist think they can create Wealth from thin air by fiat.
BTW, I don't recall being a mandatory class to get journalism credentials. It all took a nose dive when they ended it as a trade and move the money making scheme to universities.
#13
Math isn't the only problem here. I'm no fan of Twitter and I don't use it. Still, this whole deal was started by discussion of a Twitter post. Didn't anyone in the original thread catch the mistake? If so, didn't the talking head who highlighted the tweet read far enough down to see it was wrong? Any way you slice it, seems like echo chamber commentary like Twitter promotes isn't any friend of fact checking or editorial peer review.
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#14
It's beyond math. The logic is absent too.
Even if you or Bernie Chavez or Hugo Sanders confiscated Bloomberg's entire fortune in order to pay off, say, student debt, it wouldn't even begin to make a dent in these people's $1.5 trillion liability.
#18
The height of arrogance. Bloomberg is so hide bound in the notion that his ideas and his direction for the country is the right one, he blows a ton (or more) of his money on crappy ads. This is the same guy who blew a ton of money buying his way around term limits to obtain a third term as the mayor of NYC. What a putz. Small in stature but large in ego.
[AMGREATNESS] With hundreds of millions of dollars from billionaire financier George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... and dozens of his comrades-in-arms at the "Democracy Alliance," the progressive network of labor unions, activist investment firms, social justice organizations, and ideological media outlets is the tip of the spear in "cancel" culture.
Matthews was accused of sexually inappropriate comments by Laura Bassett in a GQ column. The "Hardball" host’s precise crime? Boorish and slightly creepy comments about her appearance and his penchant for "falling in love" with her. Matthews did not touch her or proposition her. Inappropriate? Probably. But Matthews is no Matt Lauer or Harvey Weinstein.
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#3
If the left wants to eat it's own I can't say I have a problem with that. Yes, Matthews will be replaced by someone even worse, but the bottom is down there somewhere.
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[Guns America] To anyone who thought that Joe Biden might take a moderate stance on gun control if elected president, think again: the former VP vowed at a campaign stop in Dallas this week to put Robert "Beto" O’Rourke in charge of his gun control agenda.
Chinese security firm says CIA hacked Chinese targets for the past 11 years
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
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