Global Events & Politics Überthread

[nsacpi]

not sure i understand the point

[cajunrevenge]

The interwebs and kkk right wing sites tell me that some interesting things will be discovered after a raid of the solar winds HQ.

Trump gave these state executives a chance to come forward before certifying this fraudulent election. His administration learned from 2018 what was going to happen in 2020.

Barr didn’t want to spearhead the election investigation for whatever reasons. That’s what his resignation is all about.

Writings on the wall nsacpi. Hope you can put country over your hate of trump to see who the true enemy is.

If they was a way to cheat I assume Trump would be the one doing it. I find 74 million votes for him to be highly suspect considering his horrific economic record and being MIA in regards to the virus. Cant wait till an actual investigation finds Republicans cheating.

[nsacpi]

Over the past few years, the United States government has spent tens of billions of dollars on cyberoffensive capabilities, building a giant war room at Fort Meade, Md., for United States Cyber Command, while installing defensive sensors all around the country — a system named Einstein to give it an air of genius — to deter the nation’s enemies from picking its networks clean, again.

It now is clear that the broad Russian espionage attack on the United States government and private companies, underway since spring and detected by the private sector only a few weeks ago, ranks among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.

Einstein missed it — because the Russian hackers brilliantly designed their attack to avoid setting it off. The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security were looking elsewhere, understandably focused on protecting the 2020 election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/u...gtype=Homepage

[nsacpi]

[Runnin]

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing that he was poisoned by his underpants

Putin says if Russia wanted to kill opposition leader Navalny, it would have 'finished' the job

What could be more unnerving than knowing that every time you put on a pair of underpants or socks there might be poison in them?

[cajunrevenge]

Trump - "no ones been tougher on Russia than me"




Also Trump - "Russia hacking us is no big deal"

[Jaw]

Over the past few years, the United States government has spent tens of billions of dollars on cyberoffensive capabilities, building a giant war room at Fort Meade, Md., for United States Cyber Command, while installing defensive sensors all around the country — a system named Einstein to give it an air of genius — to deter the nation’s enemies from picking its networks clean, again.

It now is clear that the broad Russian espionage attack on the United States government and private companies, underway since spring and detected by the private sector only a few weeks ago, ranks among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.

Einstein missed it — because the Russian hackers brilliantly designed their attack to avoid setting it off. The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security were looking elsewhere, understandably focused on protecting the 2020 election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/u...gtype=Homepage

Weird quote. The DNC got hacked by primitive phishing emails. There have been no indications that the 2016 election was hacked. If I wasn't sure that this is a totally honest and trustworthy news source I would think they are attempting to make the 2016 results seem illegitimate. But it wasn't OAN or FOX, so it can't be that.

[nsacpi]

Weird quote. The DNC got hacked by primitive phishing emails. There have been no indications that the 2016 election was hacked. If I wasn't sure that this is a totally honest and trustworthy news source I would think they are attempting to make the 2016 results seem illegitimate. But it wasn't OAN or FOX, so it can't be that.

I believe it is pretty widely reported there were some counties in Florida whose voting systems were accessed by hackers in 2016. But if I were a news editor (and I was once one for my high school newspaper) I would cut out unnecessary adverbs and adjectives like the understandably you highlighted. It IS an interjection of opinion by the reporter and should be excised. Just above the understandably you highlighted is a brilliantly. That too needs to go.

[nsacpi]

A court in Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced Loujain al-Hathloul, one of the country's most prominent women's rights advocates, to a prison term of five years and eight months on terrorism-related charges, her family said in a statement.

Human rights groups said the charges were solely based on Hathloul’s activism: her contacts with journalists, diplomats and other human rights advocates, as well as her calls to end a system of male “guardianship” in the kingdom, according to the indictment.

The court suspended a portion of her sentence, which means Hathloul could be released within the next few months, her family said.

Hathloul, 31, is perhaps best known for campaigning for the right of Saudi women to drive. She has been in custody since May 2018 and was arrested as part of a government roundup of prominent women’s rights advocates, some of whom were branded as “traitors” in government-friendly news outlets and initially accused of aiding the kingdom’s foreign enemies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...b42_story.html

[nsacpi]

[Jaw]

So brave.

Any mention of standing up for the Uighurs that China has in concentration camps and picking cotton yet, or does that not check the right intersectionality boxes?

[nsacpi]

credibly accused creepy joe has been speaking up for the Uighurs (and Hong Kong and Tibet) long before most of the folks on these boards knew who they were...and he won't be taking Xi's word about covid-19 going away "like a miracle" when the weather gets a little warmer

[Jaw]

Excellent. Based on his Cabinet picks I was afraid he would copy the China appeasement policy of President Obama. Now I am confident that he will continue with the vastly more confrontational stance of the Trump administration. Oh, and I guess he'll talk mean to them too, so that'll help.

[sturg33]

Seriously **** the CCP

[cajunrevenge]

Thats a joke of a statement. Mother****er spent his whole ****ing career advocating for human rights violations. I wish he was guilty of all the **** Trump claims because few people deserve to die in prison more than Joe Biden. Serial killers have less blood on their hands.

[Krgrecw]

Seriously **** the CCP

This story should be bigger news than it is. You have the most powerful and influential non-party person in China missing.

[nsacpi]

This story should be bigger news than it is. You have the most powerful and influential non-party person in China missing.

rule of law vs rule of man

it's not just words

[cajunrevenge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootag...ing_in_mexico/



First I am hearing of this but theres apparently a Chinese cartel operating in Mexico.

[Jaw]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NarcoFootag...ing_in_mexico/



First I am hearing of this but theres apparently a Chinese cartel operating in Mexico.

Clever of them. Pax Brittanica probably set China back a couple of centuries by pumping illegal drugs into their country. China wants to harsh Pax Americana's mellow the same way.

[cajunrevenge]

Excellent. Based on his Cabinet picks I was afraid he would copy the China appeasement policy of President Obama. Now I am confident that he will continue with the vastly more confrontational stance of the Trump administration. Oh, and I guess he'll talk mean to them too, so that'll help.

Do you know anything of Obama's pivot to Asia? The Bush administration people were mad Obama admin said they were soft on China. If you want to say Trump took a tougher stance thats fine but I think that was all about trying to bully China into a trade deal he could market for his re-election campaign. Virtually nothing candidate Trump said about China actually happened in the Trump administration. US goods to China have fallen every year since 2017. Manufacturing jobs have not returned. Most of China's nefarious trade and cyber activities have continued and even expanded. His "phase one" trade deal did little more than lift the tariffs he put in place in exchange for a promise to buy 200 billion worth of American goods that wont likely be fulfilled. And little to nothing has been done to slow down China's military expansion.