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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 15, 2021 22:45:14 GMT
Florida wins the most disgusting treatment of trans teens....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 5:33:21 GMT
Not political but worth a look if you want a chuckle.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 5:56:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 20:39:43 GMT
Pompeo claims these errands he had his staff do were the kind of “friend helping a friend”.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 16, 2021 20:48:45 GMT
To the Pompeos, NO not what people at work do for their boss!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 16, 2021 22:56:11 GMT
Justice Department sues Trump ally Roger Stone, alleging millions in unpaid taxesStone, a well-known GOP political operative, served as a campaign adviser to Trump. April 16, 2021, 6:36 PM EDT By Pete Williams WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday sued Roger Stone, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, accusing Stone and his wife of owing nearly $2 million in unpaid income taxes. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says the couple underpaid their income taxes by $1,590,361 from 2007 to 2011. It further says Stone did not pay his full tax bill in 2018, coming up $407,036 short. Stone, a well-known GOP political operative, briefly served as a campaign adviser to Trump. This is a breaking news story, please check back for updates. ** www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-sues-trump-ally-roger-stone-alleging-millions-unpaid-n1264372UPDATE: Stone was on a payment plan with the IRS.. Then he just stopped payments. Started putting property on others' names even "sold" his house to someone on paper...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 16, 2021 23:27:33 GMT
Pompeo claims these errands he had his staff do were the kind of “friend helping a friend”. So they scheduled salon appointments, made dinner reservations and picked up dogs for the staff who worked for them too? Am I reading that right? Um.......... no.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 17, 2021 1:10:08 GMT
Speaking of Pompeo......... #1 in his class at West Point... He has set a great example for the cadets, NOT! Eight West Point cadets have been expelled while 51 others must repeat a year of school over the academy’s biggest cheating scandal in more than 40 years.The military school is also ending its policy that allows students who violate its honor code to stay at the academy if they admit fault and accept punishment, a program known as the Willful Admission Process.(This is why they were not all expelled!)Most of the cadets caught cheating on an online freshman calculus exam in May had enrolled in the program, which was found in a review not to have increased self-reporting of cheating. "The tenets of honorable living remain immutable, and the outcomes of our leader development system remain the same, to graduate Army officers that live honorably, lead honorably, and demonstrate excellence,” West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams said in a statement. “West Point must be the gold standard for developing Army officers. We demand nothing less than impeccable character from our graduates.”The cheating took place while West Point students were studying remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The school’s instructors initially raised accusations against 73 cadets, including 72 first-year cadets and one second-year, but two cases were dismissed due to a lack of evidence, four cadets were acquitted by a board of their peers and six cases were dismissed because the cadets resigned. Of the 61 cadets found guilty, 51 have to redo one full year, and two have to redo six months.In total, 52 cadets, or more than half of those caught cheating, were athletes, the majority on the football team, USA Today reported. Fifty-five of the cadets had enrolled in the Willful Admissions Process, which has them write journals and essays calls on them to pair with a mentor and enroll in other programs. ** thehill.com/policy/defense/548738-west-point-expels-8-cadets-over-cheating-scandal-more-than-50-must-repeat-aSo as long as they admit it and say sorry, they can stay at the Academy?!? (Not others to come) WE ARE paying them to be there!
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Post by hop2 on Apr 17, 2021 10:32:56 GMT
Wow, would you look at that, the President of the United States talking about responsibility. We haven’t had that for awhile, like 4 years to be exact. This President doesn’t owe his entire company & paper fortune to Russian Oligarchs. When your empire is highly leveraged you don’t have an empire, you have debt.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 0:01:25 GMT
"MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's new alternative social media platform FRANK — which (somehow) is supposed to stand for "Free, Forthright, and Sincere Expression of Speech" — was originally scheduled to welcome fearless pro-Trump and pro-pillow users last Thursday at midnight. That deadline came and went with no successful launch, and another was scheduled for Monday at 9 a.m. Eastern. That one didn't happen either. Instead, the bedding magnate, whose company filed a $1.6 billion dollar lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems on Monday — precisely matching Dominion's defamation suit against Lindell and his company — remained in his familiar domain, hosting a disjointed live stream described as a "48-hour Frank-a-thon," interrupted by prank callers and an impromptu interview with a Salon reporter. (This one.) Thursday's "VIP" launch of FRANK had been endlessly hyped by Lindell during numerous appearances on Steve Bannon's podcast and guest shots on about every far-right YouTube channel under the sun. Early adopters could supposedly get onto the platform ahead of others and seize a golden opportunity to learn how FRANK worked. But the launch on Thursday night never got off the ground, leaving many of Lindell's most loyal fans asking each other hopeless questions and missing out not on a good night's sleep." www.salon.com/2021/04/21/mypillow-man-mike-lindells-new-social-platform-has-brief-bumpy-bizarre-launch/Now offline - so sad
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 24, 2021 3:54:26 GMT
Oh joy, just what we need here!!! Wonder how he will be voting in the primaries? Oh wait, when does Florida hold there primaries... NJ is in June. And NO this is not funny!! Trump relocating to New Jersey after Mar-A-Lago closes for summer: Sources Travis Gettys April 23, 2021 Trump relocating to New Jersey after Mar-A-Lago closes for summer: Sources Former president Donald Trump may temporarily move from Florida to another one of his properties in New Jersey. The twice-impeached one-term president and his team may relocate from his Mar-A-Lago resort to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, unnamed Trump advisers told Business Insider. "They're moving the whole operation to New Jersey because they're going to start doing more fundraising," said one Trump advisor familiar with the discussions. Trump has been trying to maintain control over the Republican Party since losing the election to Joe Biden and getting impeached over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, and GOP officials and candidates have frequently visited Mar-A-Lago since the end of his presidency. The Palm Beach resort, where Trump has lived since leaving the White House, closes just after Memorial Day due to the hot and humid weather in South Florida. www.rawstory.com/trump-bedminster/
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 24, 2021 4:08:39 GMT
THIS is a big issue!! Civil rights groups have been lambasting Republicans for the many voter suppression bills they have been proposing in state legislatures all over the U.S., warning that the bills are designed to make it more difficult to vote. But election law expert Rick Hasen, in a New York Times article published this week, warns that making voting harder or more of a hassle is not the worst part of these bills — or in the case of Georgia's so-called Election Integrity Act of 2021, an actual law.The most "dangerous" part of Republican voter suppression bills, according to Hasen, is the type of power they would give Republicans over the administration of elections. Hasen is worried that Republicans want to give themselves the ability to throw out democratic election results that they don't like. "A new, more dangerous front has opened in the voting wars, and it's going to be much harder to counteract than the now-familiar fight over voting rules," Hasen warns. "At stake is something I never expected to worry about in the United States: the integrity of the vote count. The danger of manipulated election results looms." ** "The Georgia law removes the secretary of state from decision-making power on the state election board," Hasen explains. "This seems aimed clearly at Georgia's current Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, punishing him for rejecting (former President Donald) Trump's entreaties to 'find' 11,780 votes to flip Joe Biden's lead in the state. But the changes will apply to Mr. Raffensperger's successor, too, giving the legislature a greater hand in who counts votes and how they are counted." Hasen compares the Election Integrity Act to GOP actions in other states, noting a disturbing pattern. ** Hasen continues, "The message that these actions send to politicians is that if you want a future in state Republican politics, you had better be willing to manipulate election results or lie about election fraud. Republican state legislatures have also passed or are considering laws aimed at stripping Democratic counties of the power to run fair elections. The new Georgia law gives the legislature the power to handpick an election official who could vote on the state election board for a temporary takeover of up to four county election boards during the crucial period of administering an election and counting votes." www.rawstory.com/legal-expert-warns-theres-an-under-the-radar-gop-plot-that-could-create-a-future-democratic-crisis/
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 4:29:21 GMT
After Testing the World’s Limits, Putin Steps Back From the Brink
The Russian president pulled back troops from Ukraine’s border and relented on medical treatment for his nemesis Aleksei A. Navalny, after a performance blending fear and force to affirm his power.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 14:35:02 GMT
Especially since this is a start up headquartered in Florida
From the Washington Post....
“Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon’s dormant IP addresses sprang to life”
“After decades of not using a huge chunk of the Internet, the Pentagon has given control of millions of computer addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats.
While the world was distracted with President Donald Trump leaving office on Jan. 20, an obscure Florida company discreetly announced to the world’s computer networks a startling development: It now was managing a huge unused swath of the Internet that, for several decades, had been owned by the U.S. military.
What happened next was stranger still.
The company, Global Resource Systems LLC, kept adding to its zone of control. Soon it had claimed 56 million IP addresses owned by the Pentagon. Three months later, the total was nearly 175 million. That’s almost 6 percent of a coveted traditional section of Internet real estate — called IPv4 — where such large chunks are worth billions of dollars on the open market.
The entities controlling the largest swaths of the Internet generally are telecommunications giants whose names are familiar: AT&T, China Telecom, Verizon. But now at the top of the list was Global Resource Systems — a company founded only in September that has no publicly reported federal contracts and no obvious public-facing website.
As listed in records, the company’s address in Plantation, Fla., outside Fort Lauderdale, is a shared workspace in an office building that doesn’t show Global Resource Systems on its lobby directory. A receptionist at the shared workspace said Friday that she could provide no information about the company and asked a reporter to leave. The company did not respond to requests for comment.
The only announcement of Global Resources Systems’ management of Pentagon addresses happened in the obscure world of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) — the messaging system that tells Internet companies how to route traffic across the world. There, messages began to arrive telling network administrators that IP addresses assigned to the Pentagon but long dormant could now accept traffic — but it should be routed to Global Resource Systems.
Network administrators began speculating about perhaps the most dramatic shift in IP address space allotment since BGP was introduced in the 1980s. “They are now announcing more address space than anything ever in the history of the Internet,” said Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis for Kentik, a network monitoring company, who was among those trying to figure out what was happening. He published a blog post on the mystery Saturday morning.
The theories were many. Did someone at the Defense Department sell off part of the military’s vast collection of sought-after IP addresses as Trump left office? Had the Pentagon finally acted on demands to unload the billions of dollars worth of IP address space the military has been sitting on, largely unused, for decades?
An answer, of sorts, came Friday.
The change is the handiwork of an elite Pentagon unit known as the Defense Digital Service, which reports directly to the secretary of defense. The DDS bills itself as a “SWAT team of nerds” tasked with solving emergency problems for the department and conducting experimental work to make big technological leaps for the military.
Created in 2015, the DDS operates a Silicon Valley-like office within the Pentagon. It has carried out a range of special projects in recent years, from developing a biometric app to help service members identify friendly and enemy forces on the battlefield to ensuring the encryption of emails Pentagon staff were exchanging about coronavirus vaccines with external parties.
Brett Goldstein, the DDS’s director, said in a statement that his unit had authorized a “pilot effort” publicizing the IP space owned by the Pentagon. “This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,” Goldstein said. “Additionally, this pilot may identify potential vulnerabilities.”
Goldstein described the project as one of the Defense Department’s “many efforts focused on continually improving our cyber posture and defense in response to advanced persistent threats. We are partnering throughout DoD to ensure potential vulnerabilities are mitigated.”
The specifics of what the effort is trying to achieve remain unclear. The Defense Department declined to answer a number of questions about the project, and Pentagon officials declined to say why Goldstein’s unit had used a little-known Florida company to carry out the pilot effort rather than have the Defense Department itself “announce” the addresses through BGP messages — a far more routine approach.
What is clear, however, is the Global Resource Systems announcements directed a fire hose of Internet traffic toward the Defense Department addresses. Madory said his monitoring showed the broad movements of Internet traffic began immediately after the IP addresses were announced Jan. 20.
These hackers warned the Internet would become a security nightmare Madory said such large amounts of data could provide several benefits for those in a position to collect and analyze it for threat intelligence and other purposes.
The data may provide information about how malicious actors operate online and could reveal exploitable weaknesses in computer systems. In addition, several Chinese companies use network numbering systems that resemble the U.S. military’s IP addresses in their internal systems, Madory said. By announcing the address space through Global Resource Systems, that could cause some of that information to be routed to systems controlled by the U.S. military.
The data could also include accidental misconfigurations that could be exploited or fixed, Madory said.
“If you have a very large amount of traffic, and someone knows how to go through it, you’ll find stuff,” Madory added.
Russell Goemaere, a spokesman for the Defense Department, confirmed in a statement to The Washington Post that the Pentagon still owns all the IP address space and hadn’t sold any of it to a private party.
Dormant IP addresses can be hijacked and used for nefarious purposes, from disseminating spam to hacking into a computer system and downloading data, and the pilot program could allow the Defense Department to uncover if those activities are taking place using its addresses.
A person familiar with the pilot effort, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity because the program isn’t public, said it is important for the Defense Department to have “visibility and transparency” into its various cyber resources, including IP addresses, and manage the addresses properly so they will be available if and when the Pentagon wants to use them.
“If you can’t see it, you can’t defend it,” the person said.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 15:02:57 GMT
Raise your hand if you are surprised by this...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 24, 2021 16:30:37 GMT
Good move Albuquerque!! Hope the other cities follow soon!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 24, 2021 16:42:55 GMT
Not quoting all, but wasn't Miller the Sec of Defense? trump's hand picked flunky who knew nothing and no one wanted who also was the one who refused to send the National Guard in a timely manner to the Capitol Jan 6th?
WE knew that administration would leave damages, but will w ever know what and how bad we have been compromised... It will not likely be found and fixed in less then 2 years. All the more reason the GOP has to be stopped and not be allowed to follow through their plans to take over again...
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 24, 2021 19:50:13 GMT
Not quoting all, but wasn't Miller the Sec of Defense? trump's hand picked flunky who knew nothing and no one wanted who also was the one who refused to send the National Guard in a timely manner to the Capitol Jan 6th? WE knew that administration would leave damages, but will w ever know what and how bad we have been compromised... It will not likely be found and fixed in less then 2 years. All the more reason the GOP has to be stopped and not be allowed to follow through their plans to take over again... @freddie
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2021 22:16:50 GMT
Oops....
I wonder how much more of this kind of stuff will surface.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 5, 2021 2:16:45 GMT
The judge is not happy! She spelled it all out so well. It amazes me how much we, the peas, know. Maybe because we are many and we share from all different areas with similar, but expanded ideas!
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Post by onelasttime on May 12, 2021 16:55:36 GMT
So this guy thinks the Biden Administration is attacking voter rights. Ok
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Post by onelasttime on May 12, 2021 17:21:38 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on May 12, 2021 17:42:35 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on May 12, 2021 17:45:27 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on May 12, 2021 17:47:39 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on May 13, 2021 1:24:47 GMT
This is definitely not political but check out this video. The Salesforce Tower in SF is the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Look at what it’s doing with the fog.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 14, 2021 1:12:31 GMT
Congressman Lamborn also called Covid a "hoax" would not allow staff to social distance, he slept in his office during Covid. www.rawstory.com/doug-lamborn/
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Post by aj2hall on May 14, 2021 4:07:44 GMT
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