Saturday, October 13, 2018

Headlines with links

UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. It’s Actually Worse Than That.


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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/un-says-climate-genocide-coming-but-its-worse-than-that.html


White House Begins the China Counter-Narrative

Vice President Pence is giving a speech today at the Hudson Institute. Normally that wouldn’t get a lot of attention, especially with so much else going on. But this is a bigger deal than it might appear. Seeing portions of the speech now on Twitter, it is crystal clear that the White House is trying to delegitimize the on-going Mueller probe by setting up China is the real meddler in US internal affairs and democratic practice.

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white-house-begins-the-china-counter-narrative


Here are all the ways the effort to clear Kavanaugh was a farce


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https://thinkprogress.org/ridiculous-process-white-house-senate-republicans-pushing-brett-kavanaugh-on-supreme-court-17010cf15538/


Iowa gun distributor sends free AR-15s to North Dakota high schools


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https://boingboing.net/2018/10/04/assault-rifle-pedagogy.html


Chinese Military at Center of Massive US Server Hack


Bloomberg reports today that the world’s largest maker of motherboards for computer servers was hacked several years ago by the Chinese military. But this was no ordinary software hack. This was a hack straight at the source: chips installed on the board that opened up the boot process to malicious penetration:

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https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/chinese-military-at-center-of-massive-us-server-hack/


America's super-concentrated telcoms industry unites to sue California over Net Neutrality law


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https://boingboing.net/2018/10/04/cozy-crony-capitalism.html


VP Pence accuses China of trying to push Trump out of the White House


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https://thinkprogress.org/mike-pence-accuses-china-push-trump-white-house-367d7d205849/


Susan Collins Finds Her Figleaf; Calls FBI Investigation 'Thorough'


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https://crooksandliars.com/2018/10/susan-collins-finds-her-figleaf-calls-fbi

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