HE’S TURNING OUT TO BE EVEN MORE AWFUL THAN I EXPECTED: In Appeal to Hard Left, Bloomberg Praises Chinese Communism. “It may be difficult to discern the logic of Bloomberg’s apologia for Xi. But it’s quite easy to posit a logical reason for Bloomberg to spew illogical apologies for the Communist Party: The billionaire has vast financial interests in China, and those interests have allegedly compromised his civic-minded endeavors in the past. In 2013, the New York Times reported that Bloomberg News had killed an investigation that had threatened to upset Chinese officials.”
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December 3, 2019
UH OH, KANYE WEST HAS DONE IT NOW: His latest video — “Closed On Sunday” — makes the case for traditional families and faith, as well as for raising boys to be men and girls to be protected. But then he has the audacity to say this: “No more livin’ for the culture, we nobody’s slave.” The PC Nazis and SJWers will not take this one lying down.
HMM: FaceApp Went Viral. Now the FBI Is Calling It a ‘Potential Counterintelligence Threat.’
“A warning to share with your family & friends: This year when millions were downloading FaceApp, I asked the FBI if the app was safe,” Schumer tweeted Monday afternoon. “Well, the FBI just responded. And they told me any app or product developed in Russia like FaceApp is a potential counterintelligence threat.”
Schumer’s tweet accompanied a letter from the FBI in which it didn’t necessarily call FaceApp a counterintelligence threat, but did say that, like all other Russian apps, it could pose problems.
“Russia’s intelligence services maintain robust cyber exploitation capabilities as evidenced by, for example, Russia’s surveillance system, the System of Operative Search Measures, which allows the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to obtain telephonic and online communications via direct communication to Internet service providers (ISP),” the FBI wrote. “In other words, the FSB can remotely access all communications and servers on Russian networks without making a request to ISPs.”
That’s a potential problem for anyone in Russia, let alone an app developer. The FBI noted in the letter to Sen. Schumer that the company “removes most of its photos from its servers 48 hours after submission.” The agency also said that it stores, “according to FaceApp,” its data in the United States, Singapore, Ireland, and Australia. But as long as someone is in Russia, where anything from user credentials to cloud servers to their own traffic, can be intercepted, anything can happen.
Cold War II has all kinds of parameters we could hardly even have imagined during the first go-’round.
THIS IS WHY YOUR HOLIDAY TRAVEL IS AWFUL. “The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things.”
Flashback (From Ed): Lead Us Not Into Penn Station.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Bernie Sanders Surrogate Linda Sarsour Equates Israel With White Supremacy. Israel ‘is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else.’
OBVIOUSLY, A PUTIN PUPPET: Bob McManus: Andrew Cuomo stands with America’s energy enemies.
News came over the long holiday weekend that, for the first time in 70 years, the United States in September had been a net oil exporter for an entire month. This was a signal achievement, almost entirely attributable to hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) — and a will in Washington to break US dependence on foreign energy.
The war is far from won, but for now, America has degraded the ability of a few Iranian gunboats’ to body-slam the US economy by throttling off the Strait of Hormuz.
But no thanks to Cuomo. Or, more precisely, no thanks to those members of the Democratic Party so dedicated to green extremism that they effectively are sailing with the gunboats — consequences be damned.
In this respect, Cuomo is a type. He almost single-handedly forced the approaching shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear plant — it produces 35 percent on New York’s electricity — with no clear plan for replacing its power.
And his theatrical opposition both to fracking and the transmission of natural gas across the state holds him in high esteem with greens, but has had substantial and growing negative effects on New York, especially upstate.
The governor engineered an outright ban on fracking — the technology responsible for a 55 percent increase in hydrocarbon extraction in America over the past decade, with no significant ill effects.
In so doing, Cuomo cut the natural-gas-rich Southern Tier out of the relative prosperity currently enjoyed by nearby fracking states like Pennsylvania and Ohio.
His positions help Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, at the expense of working-class Americans.
WHAT WOULD HE KNOW? HE WAS MERELY ON THE CALL, RATHER THAN THE SUPERIOR HEARSAY EVIDENCE SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS: Ukraine President Zelensky Says (Again) There Was No Quid Pro Quo.
THE REAL GOAL ALL ALONG WAS USING THE NYT’S BRAND TO INFILTRATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH LEFTY PROPAGANDA: Top Historians Slam NYT ‘1619 Project’ As It Infiltrates Public School Curriculum.
December 2, 2019
SARAH HOYT: Rattling The Cage Doors. “There is an anger in the land I don’t think you’re even vaguely aware of. I’m not — not even close — the most hot tempered on our side. And I was a very reluctant Trump voter. But watching your sham- wow-impeachment (It’s Russia, it’s Ukraine, it’s taxes, it’s mean tweets against the squad, it’s the fact that orange man bad), your attempt to reverse elections you don’t like, and silence people who don’t agree with you, has me spitting mad, furious, not even sure what to do with all this anger. And I’m not alone. You have no idea of the anger stalking this land.”
NOW OUT FROM MICHAEL Z. WILLIAMSON: Freehold: Resistance. Stories in the Freehold universe by Larry Correia, Michael Z. Williamson, Brad R. Torgersen, Mike Massa, Kacey Ezell, and others. Ships today!
SECOND AMENDMENT NEWS: New York City, Which Defended Its Onerous Gun Transport Restrictions As Necessary for Public Safety, Concedes They Weren’t: Several justices seem skeptical of the claim that revising the rules after SCOTUS agreed to consider a challenge to them made the case moot. My friends who attended the argument — I’m on one of the amicus briefs — seemed to think the Supreme Court might make the case more about mootness than the Second Amendment. But impressions formed during oral arguments are often unreliable.
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy the last month of this decade.
GREAT FOR COLD WEATHER: Carhartt Men’s Fleece Neck Gaiter.
THIS IS COOL: Various designs for wind-powered cargo ships. Wind-assisted is a better term, really, since they’re not going to be wind-only.
UPDATE: Link from commenter “gospace” in another thread.
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BAY AREA CONTINUES RETURN TO ORIGINAL PRIMITIVE ROOTS: Logs dumped in front of Oakland businesses to deter overnight car camping.
Related: In 2020, Trump must save the cities — “progressive” leadership is destroying urban America.
At the risk of sounding like the “Point/Counterpoint” guy in Airplane…
…Trump can and should use California’s failing cities as props in his reelection commercials.