If you nationalize them and sell them to Russia, it’s not spying any more, is it?
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I have to admit I stopped watching when Mona Charen started complaining that NPR was unpatriotic.
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I have had executives of a 
company in my office. The introduction was made via a former colleague who had worked in a senior role for our largest bank, and who was present and newly working for the firm. The offer for investment came with the demand, entirely legal in their world, that all our proprietary software be transferred to servers for evaluation.
Yeah, no… hard pass.
It was a little ironic that a 
bank was consulting with them, given the security-conscious nature of that country (at least until the 90’s).
Goodness knows what else had already leapt over Great Firewall by that point.
lost Nortel technology to Huawei in the early 2000’s. My sources confirm the theft started far earlier than this article by the CBC notes. The Nortel offices were so badly riddled with spy devices that the Dept of National Defense nearly abandoned its plans to move into the offices in 2013.
Certain network providers in have refused to swap out their Huawei equipment. Too much 
. IMHO they should be shut down, or at least barred from carrying so much as a packet of private data. That said, the company in question is busily self-immolating anyhow.
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gift link
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We were not given a democratic Constitution; we made one. We unraveled the elitist and hierarchical Constitution of the founders to build something that works for us — that conforms to our expectations.
THIS!!!
A thousand time, this. For the “originalists,” this would be heresy, but fuck them!! This needs to be said loudly and frequently.
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I gritted my teeth and tried to power through.
I am 100% with Tribe and Stewart.
I found minimal common ground with Charen.
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So a big worry I have is that Tromp and Co. Have been busy building a vast network of election denial and obstruction, at many levels, all the way up to the SCOTUS. if the election results are at at all close, such efforts might not only cause delay for months of an agreed upon result. They might also result in another stolen election.
I’m wondering what sort of counter efforts Democrats have been preparing, and how robust they are. Has anyone read any sort of useful overview of that, or otherwise heard about Dem preparation for Tromp’s multipronged effort to steal the election?
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A 30-something white male welder with a shaved head? Yeah, I think they might be skeptical given that demographic.
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Former president Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results in court, and lost. Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket and partner at Elias Law Group, talks about his experience in overturning Trump’s challenge in court, and what he anticipates may be the battle ahead for the 2024 election should Trump deny a potential loss.
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No, the one in Oregon/SW Washington. They released a description:
At a news conference Wednesday, Portland police released their first description of a suspect. Agency spokesperson Mike Benner said the person is believed to be white male, between 30 and 40 years old, with short hair or balding, a thin-to-medium build, a thin face and wearing a dark shirt.
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Ooh, nice, pretty recent too! Thank you.
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Yeah, but depending on the police department there is a difference between recognising that fact and acting on it.
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We’re talking about Portland. They have a LOT of experience with RWNJs. Sometimes they are way too sympathetic (or more) with said nut jobs, but for this kind of thing they are probably seeing clearly. Also, on their best behavior with the FBI looking over their shoulder. Portland Police Bureau is still under a consent decree for frequent and unrestrained use of force against mentally ill people, and the FBI is their monitor.
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Oky thanks again @RAvery for that link. It’s a reassuring 20-minute piece, even if the lawyer interviewed might be tempering what he says about the upcoming threats because he’s working with/for the Harris campsign. It sounds like Tromp and other Republicans will indeed throw all sorts of pocket sand into the process’s gears (and into our collective eyes), but that countermeasures are highly likely to succeed in stamping most of them out one by one. Hopefully a Harris win will be by a wide enough margin that a few failures here and there don’t overturn it.
(I even subscribed to Lehrer’s podcast. 
)
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I’m glad you liked it.
He’s a fairly decent substitute for Talk of the Nation.
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In the aftermath of the 2020 protests, Portland Police Chief Bob Day said at the press conference that the city’s response to the results will have the nation’s attention.
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“Folks, I’m not laying awake at night worried about next week,” Day said. “I think next week is our time.”
My gut translation of this, in the context which it was said, is real real bad. (said as someone living in this city who directly experienced the last few protests)
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Longish, but she makes some important points on voting strategically…
It reminds me of a Rebecca Solnit quote that @Millie_Fink has posted in the past, about voting not being a valentine, but a chess move…
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Yeah, that’s not an auspicious statement.
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