#DNC collision

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The Washington Post drew heavy criticism Tuesday for its fact check of the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Democrats attacked Republican nominee Donald Trump throughout the evening, but many critics argued Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler tried to draw a false equivalency between the former president's lies and some of the statements made by speakers during Monday's event. "Wow," said journalist Judd Legum. "The Washington Post 'fact check' of night 1 of the DNC is embarrassing." Kessler rounded up 12 claims made from the stage in Chicago that he felt lacked context, but many readers felt that he focused too narrowly on specific words Trump had used and the implied meaning of those statements, as characterized by Democrats. "This kind of 'fact-checking' is an artifact of the collision between Trump's politics of lying and elite media's business-model-driven bothsidesism," said Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall. "The two things are obviously categorically different. But the need to jam them into one model creates nonsense like this."

I'm so glad that others in the media noticed this. It was frustrating reading the WaPo's "fact check" of the first night of the DNC.

In his attempt to get more readers for The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos hired William Lewis (from Murdoch's WSJ) as CEO. As a result, the once great newspaper that produced the Watergate investigation, is now reduced to giving its readers mediocre, if not misleading "fact checks."

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I ❤️ Bernie, but I am utterly disgusted by his refusal to run for President in 2024 and instead back senility Joe simply because Donald Trump.

Joe Biden had signs of dementia BEFORE even the democratic primary, but the corrupt DNC forced Biden on the people, just like they forced Clinton on the people in 2016, and we know how that worked out.

Biden might have been able to beat Trump in 2020, mostly on the back of the lies of the Liberal media (Russia-gate, overboard MAGA narrative, DNC collision etc) and by co-opting black movements (BLM, police accountability, Medicare for all, $15 minimum wage, waiving student debt as a few) and on strong voting from PoC, but having broken just about every election promise, and from simply more of the status quo as under Trump, with an increased defense bill, more funding to cops, no semblance of enacting police accountability, an unjustifiable proxy war in Ukraine, pouring billions into a new cold war with Russia and the pure, unfettered antagonism towards China, the end of the US empire is near, as is Joe Biden's undeserved presidency (as was Trump's)

Wallace had earlier mentioned how the late Sam Walton could make the giant retail chain Walmart the largest single private employer in the US thanks to his family’s net worth of about $225bn. Sanders countered that Walmart in many cases pays starvation wages to its 1.2 million employees despite how rich the Waltons are.

“Many of their workers are on Medicaid or food stamps,” Sanders said, referring to forms of government assistance for which low-income Americans can qualify. “In other words, taxpayers are subsidizing the wealthiest family in the country. Do I think that’s right? No, I don’t.”

Nonetheless, Sanders said his comments on the matter weren’t a personal attack against the Waltons or other billionaires.

“It is an attack upon a system,” Sanders said. “You can have a vibrant economy without [a few] people owning more wealth than the bottom half of American society” combined.

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Why do “progressives” keep treating the DNC as some big, bad boogie man because Bernie didn’t win opposed to realizing that most voters didn’t want him?

I know the Bernie or bust crowd believes that people who didn’t support him were “low info” and bought into propaganda, but has it ever occurred to any of y’all these criticisms may apply to y’all.

I’ve noticed that whenever talking to a never Biden person, most of them consistently say that Biden doesn’t support something that he’s on record supporting. There is a fundamental difference between not believing he’ll follow through in his word and saying he does support “x” at all.

And, more times than not, these Bernie or bust/never Biden people AREN’T Democrats, yet they have the nerve to speak for the party. Which explains why they’re confused as to how Bernie lost and/or blame the dnc. Bernie was rejected by actual democrats because 1. He kept shitting on the party 2. He doesn’t share their values. But, you say, “saving human lives aren’t their values???” Yes, but it has to be realistic meaning the legislation has a chance at being passed.

These voters constantly mock people for asking “how is he going to pay for this” as if it’s not a valid question. Let’s think about it this way: even if bernies plans were supported, they would be denied based off of shitty budgeting. His M4A plan has a 15 trillion GAP. It costs 32 trillion and, when the math was broken down, they had no idea how to account for 15 TRILLION dollars.

Who the fuck is going to pass a god damn plan like that?

Loans worth a couple thousand have been denied for less, but y’all don’t think appropriately accounting for the money for a plan worth trillions of dollars is important?

And Bernie had fucking years to fine tune this plan, so what the fuck?

The other part: dem voters don’t believe that Bernie is the only person who can achieve certain things. When talking about M4A, which is a FORM OF universal healthcare, Bernie supporters act as if Bernie is the only person supporting this and to ever support this (in America). Both of these beliefs are false.

Hillary supported universal healthcare in THE 90s. And I believe she supported it even before Bernie was a national name. Outside of her, most of the candidates supported universal healthcare, but had different paths to achieve this.

People can say “it’s not far left enough” until they are blue in the face, but a healthcare policy not matching your politics doesn’t mean it’s not universal healthcare. For those who are confused, using another form of insurance as an example: I was a claim associate for a car insurance company. At my company, not sure if this applied to other companies, but when someone said they had full coverage, it applied to: collision, comprehensive, tow, and rental. Now, people literally thought that meant everything including uninsured and additional medical coverage, etc. But, it only referred to FOUR key things.

My point: many of you are talking about something you don’t understand when you’re really showing how much you don’t understand.

Part of the reason we can’t go far left is that republicans are going to shoot that shit down on sight, but the other part is about budgeting and feasibility. These people have to work through details we don’t even have to think about—Bernie’s plan is super inclusive, but the budgeting part is utter shit!

Circling back: Bernie doesn’t resonating with dem voters who ACTUALLY vote. This doesn’t mean these voters “don’t” care for young people or the sick, but many of these people—older—have spent years watching and listening to politicians made grand promises. Whether or not these politicians believe what they say is irrelevant because voters know when someone will be able to accomplish what they’ve promised.

Bernie isn’t that person.

He’s promising a lot of free shit and, yeah, it ain’t going to happen.

Even if he were elected potus, the presidency isn’t a dictatorship and trump has only “accomplished” the shit he has with the backing of congress. Which...Bernie doesn’t have. And more times than not, those back trump are a majority of republicans who control the congress.

But, also, don’t try to put this on those who don’t believe Bernie can accomplish shit, because the fact still remains that people, not me, are voting these people into their position. Attacking dems won’t get rid of your republican problem or the fact that voting dems don’t think Bernie will be able to accomplish shit because they’re realists.

Then there’s the fact that many of you motherfuckers DON’T vote. Y’all think because people like Bernie on social media, that means he’s “won.” But, anyone can be popular online. Which leads to: y’all overstating how popular Bernie was.

Bernie’s wins in 2016 had people the people’s choice back then, when really, anti Hillary/Clinton and sexism/misogyny was why he over performed. Don’t believe me, look at the voting trends this year.

Bernie knee he didn’t have the votes and wanted a brokered convention. He had a black voter problem and they are the backbone of the party. People who insist that Biden only regained the lead because of the Obama connection are being racist. Joe’s role in the Obama administration played a part, but not enough to have joe winning the way he is.

Joe was not most peoples first choice. But, misinformation, which torpedoed several candidates, or lack of funds caused many to drop out. Since the field was no longer split, candidates started supporting Biden, and Bernie’s far left policies didn’t resonate with older voters, Biden started becoming “popular.” Biden appeals to many voters regardless of party affiliation. And that’s what helped him win the dem nom.

Not the DNC.

But, keep peddling this conspiracy and living in your echo chamber.

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So Trump said on Twitter a month ago he had tapes of meetings with Comey, and everyone in Grandpa Media shit their pants about it for a month. Now he just said on Twitter he DOES NOT actually have any Comey tapes, and Grandpa Media is shitting their pants about how they shit their pants about it. You guys are aware that the Russians hacked like 20 states' election departments, and the DNC, and we're one jet collision away from going to war with them over Syria, right? Like, I get that you're all rich and have negative five real problems. But if the Russians start blowing up our electrical grid, I think that's going to impact you, too. Man. It's almost like putting NYC / LA corporate lawyers and their TV news reporter girlfriends in charge of our entire civilization was kind of a really stupid idea, or something.

[vanhunt]

just watched the 'Get Me Roger Stone' documentary. and what struck me is that, during the primaries, there were clear signals that the HRC campaign was compromised vs Trump. let me state this another way: the corporate-dollar-backed DNC manipulated the primary election process to ensure HRC the nomination, KNOWING IN ADVANCE that an HRC nomination would put the country in greater peril than whatever plans even the their greedy asses had in store for it. after the primaries, there were even clearer signals that, without a fuller support of its own extreme left - Sanders supporters (the left's own version of a tea party, if you will), the HRC campaign was compromised vs the corporate-dollar-tea party-backed GOP/Koch/Mercer/RogerStone/Bannon/Trump alliance. "compromised", meaning, they couldn't beat them. still, HRC and the DNC threw a hail mary, hoping to miraculously outmaneuver the right - who had a strategy that had been brewing for more than 30 years. it was a roll of YOUR dice at a most critical time FOR YOU. while pretending to have the moral high ground, the left had fallen too far into the mud; and the right knew it. one set of crooks took over your government by giving the APPEARANCE of being more transparent than the other set of crooks. to be beaten by a better thief on the eve of your greatest heist has to be disorienting. but, here's a truth even more disturbing to accept: the DNC, many of whom knew full well the potential impact of a trump-led GOP, would rather have that same GOP in power than any leader or government who prioritizes the rights of the people over personal wealth. that's what an addiction to an ideal...a fictional status that doubles as a fictional character trait...like "wealth"...will do. it perverts your reality. one can only hope that the increased public awareness, resulting from this collision of ambitions, will save us from each other. reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite people: "it always takes Armageddon for motherfuckers to get a clue. i think its exactly what we deserve, for knowing more about the Kardashians than we do Congress."

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Russians Hacked Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of Impeachment https://nyti.ms/2TmvgfS

🚨 🚨 BREAKING: As the November impeachment hearings got underway, Russia's GRU hacked Burisma in what appears to be a repeat of 2016, when GRU hackers breached the DNC and then selectively leaked emails to hurt Clinton's candidacy. https://t.co/nQhhndnAV3 with @AllMattNYT and @nicoleperlroth

The GRU attacks appear to be running parallel to an analog effort by Russian spies to dig up information that could embarrass the Bidens. Russian spies are trying to penetrate Burisma and working sources in the Ukrainian government in search of emails, financial records.

Russians Hacked Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of Impeachment

By Nicole Perlroth and Matthew Rosenberg | Published Jan. 13, 2020 Updated  7:04 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted January 13, 2020 |

With President Trump facing an impeachment trial over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, Russian military hackers have been boring into the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the affair, according to security experts.

The hacking attempts against Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter Biden served, began in early November, as talk of the Bidens, Ukraine and impeachment was dominating the news in the United States.

It is not yet clear what the hackers found, or precisely what they were searching for. But the experts say the timing and scale of the attacks suggest that the Russians could be searching for potentially embarrassing material on the Bidens — the same kind of information that Mr. Trump wanted from Ukraine when he pressed for an investigation of the Bidens and Burisma, setting off a chain of events that led to his impeachment.

The Russian tactics are strikingly similar to what American intelligence agencies say was Russia’s hacking of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign. In that case, once they had the emails, the Russians used trolls to spread and spin the material, and built an echo chamber to widen its effect.

Then, as now, the Russian hackers from a military intelligence unit known formerly as the G.R.U., and to private researchers by the alias “Fancy Bear,” used so-called phishing emails that appear designed to steal usernames and passwords, according to Area 1, the Silicon Valley security firm that detected the hacking. In this instance, the hackers set up fake websites that mimicked sign-in pages of Burisma subsidiaries, and have been blasting Burisma employees with emails meant to look like they are coming from inside the company.

The hackers fooled some of them into handing over their login credentials, and managed to get inside one of Burisma’s servers, Area 1 said.

“The attacks were successful,” said Oren Falkowitz, a co-founder of Area 1, who previously served at the National Security Agency. Mr. Falkowitz’s firm maintains a network of sensors on web servers around the globe — many known to be used by state-sponsored hackers — which gives the firm a front-row seat to phishing attacks, and allows them to block attacks on their customers.

“The timing of the Russian campaign mirrors the G.R.U. hacks we saw in 2016 against the D.N.C. and John Podesta,” the Clinton campaign chairman, Mr. Falkowitz said. “Once again, they are stealing email credentials, in what we can only assume is a repeat of Russian interference in the last election.”

The Justice Department indicted seven officers from the same military intelligence unit in 2018.

The Russian attacks on Burisma appear to be running parallel to an effort by Russian spies in Ukraine to dig up information in the analog world that could embarrass the Bidens, according to an American security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. The spies, the official said, are trying to penetrate Burisma and working sources in the Ukrainian government in search of emails, financial records and legal documents.

Neither the Russian government nor Burisma responded to requests for comment.

American officials are warning that the Russians have grown stealthier since 2016, and are again seeking to steal and spread damaging information and target vulnerable election systems ahead of the 2020 election.

[Read: Even as American election defenses have improved, Russian hackers and trolls have become more sophisticated.]

In the same vein, Russia has been working since the early days of Mr. Trump’s presidency to turn the focus away from its own election interference in 2016 by seeding conspiracy theories about Ukrainian meddling and Democratic complicity.

The result has been a muddy brew of conspiracy theories that mix facts, like the handful of Ukrainians who openly criticized Mr. Trump’s candidacy, with discredited claims that the D.N.C.’s email server is in Ukraine and that Mr. Biden, as vice president, had corrupt dealings with Ukrainian officials to protect his son. Spread by bots and trolls on social media, and by Russian intelligence officers, the claims resonated with Mr. Trump, who views talk of Russian interference as an attack on his legitimacy.

With Mr. Biden’s emergence as a front-runner for the Democratic nomination last spring, the president latched on to the corruption allegations, and asked that Ukraine investigate the Bidens on his July 25 call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. The call became central to Mr. Trump’s impeachment last month.

The Biden campaign sought to cast the Russian effort to hack Burisma as an indication of Mr. Biden’s political strength, and to highlight Mr. Trump’s apparent willingness to let foreign powers boost his political fortunes.

“Donald Trump tried to coerce Ukraine into lying about Joe Biden and a major bipartisan, international anti-corruption victory because he recognized that he can’t beat the vice president,” said Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the Biden campaign.

“Now we know that Vladimir Putin also sees Joe Biden as a threat,” Mr. Bates added. “Any American president who had not repeatedly encouraged foreign interventions of this kind would immediately condemn this attack on the sovereignty of our elections.”

The corruption allegations hinge on Hunter Biden’s work on the Burisma board. The company hired Mr. Biden while his father was vice president and leading the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy, including a successful push to have Ukraine’s top prosecutor fired for corruption. The effort was backed by European allies.

The story has since been recast by Mr. Trump and some of his staunchest defenders, who say Mr. Biden pushed out the prosecutor because Burisma was under investigation and his son could be implicated. Rudolph W. Giuliani, acting in what he says was his capacity as Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, has personally taken up investigating the Bidens and Burisma, and now regularly claims to have uncovered clear-cut evidence of wrongdoing.

The evidence, though, has yet to emerge, and now the Russians appear to have joined the hunt.

Area 1 researchers discovered a G.R.U. phishing campaign on Ukrainian companies on New Year’s Eve. A week later, Area 1 determined what the Ukrainian targets had in common: They were all subsidiaries of Burisma Holdings, the company at the center of Mr. Trump’s impeachment. Among the Burisma subsidiaries phished were KUB-Gas, Aldea, Esko-Pivnich, Nadragas, Tehnocom-Service and Pari. The targets also included Kvartal 95, a Ukrainian television production company founded by Mr. Zelensky. The phishing attack on Kvartal 95 appears to have been aimed at digging up email correspondence for the company’s chief, Ivan Bakanov, whom Mr. Zelensky appointed as the head of Ukraine’s Security Service last June.

To steal employees’ credentials, the G.R.U. hackers directed Burisma to their fake login pages. Area 1 was able to trace the look-alike sites through a combination of internet service providers frequently used by G.R.U.’s hackers, rare web traffic patterns, and techniques that have been used in previous attacks against a slew of other victims, including the 2016 hack of the D.N.C. and a more recent Russian hack of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

“The Burisma hack is a cookie-cutter G.R.U. campaign,” Mr. Falkowitz said. “Russian hackers, as sophisticated as they are, also tend to be lazy. They use what works. And in this, they were successful.”

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Barr Asks Apple to Unlock iPhones of Pensacola Gunman (This is a slippery-slope when you allow the government, especially this administration, to unlock people's phones. We already know this administration using racial-profiling at both the U.S.-Mexico and Canadian borders. Also it raises the question of 'free-speech' and the 1st-amendment.

The request set up a collision between law enforcement and big technology firms in the latest battle over privacy and security.

By Katie Benner | Published Jan. 13, 2020 Updated 3:16 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted January 13, 2020 |

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr declared on Monday that a deadly shooting last month at a naval air station in Pensacola, Fla., was an act of terrorism, and he asked Apple in an unusually high-profile request to provide access to two phones used by the gunman.

Mr. Barr’s appeal was an escalation of an ongoing fight between the Justice Department and Apple pitting personal privacy against public safety.

“This situation perfectly illustrates why it is critical that the public be able to get access to digital evidence,” Mr. Barr said, calling on Apple and other technology companies to find a solution and complaining that Apple has provided no “substantive assistance.”

Apple has given investigators materials from the iCloud account of the gunman, Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a member of the Saudi air force training with the American military, who killed three sailors and wounded eight others on Dec. 6. But the company has refused to help the F.B.I. open the phones themselves, which would undermine its claims that its phones are secure.

Justice Department officials said that they need access to Mr. Alshamrani’s phones to see messages from encrypted apps like Signal or WhatsApp to determine whether he had discussed his plans with others at the base and whether he was acting alone or with help.

“The evidence shows that the shooter was motivated by jihadist ideology,” Mr. Barr said, citing a message that Mr. Alshamrani posted on last year’s anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks warning that “the countdown has begun.” He also visited the 9/11 memorial in New York over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Mr. Alshamrani also posted anti-American, anti-Israeli and jihadist messages on social media, including just two hours before he attacked the base, Mr. Barr said.

Mr. Barr turned up the pressure on Apple a week after the F.B.I.’s top lawyer, Dana Boente, asked the company for help searching Mr. Alshamrani’s iPhones. Apple said that it would turn over only the data it had, implying that it would not work to unlock the phones and hand over the private data on them.

Apple’s stance set the company on a collision course with a Justice Department that has grown increasingly critical of encryption that makes it impossible for law enforcement to search devices or wiretap phone calls.

The confrontation echoed the legal standoff over an iPhone used by a gunman who killed 14 people in a terrorism attack in San Bernardino, Calif., in late 2015. Apple defied a court order to assist the F.B.I. in its efforts to search his device, setting off a fight over whether privacy that was enabled by impossible-to-crack encryption harmed public safety.

As in the investigation into the Pensacola shooting, the San Bernardino gunman, Syed Rizwan Farook, was also dead and no longer had a right to privacy. In both cases, law enforcement officials worked to piece together a clear motive and any ties to extremist groups.

The San Bernardino dispute was resolved when the F.B.I. found a private company to bypass the iPhone’s encryption. Tensions between the two sides, however, remained; and Apple worked to ensure that neither the government nor private contractors could open its phones.

Mr. Alshamrani’s phones are also of interest because he tried to destroy them at some point before he began firing, according to a Justice Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Justice Department officials have long pushed for a legislative solution to the problem of “going dark,” law enforcement’s term for how increasingly secure phones have made it harder to solve crimes, and the Pensacola investigation gives them a prominent chance to make their case.

But the F.B.I. has been bruised by Mr. Trump’s unsubstantiated complaints that former officials plotted to undercut his presidency and by a major inspector general’s report last month that revealed serious errors with aspects of the Russia investigation. A broad bipartisan consensus among lawmakers allowing the bureau to broaden its surveillance authorities is most likely elusive.

But much has also changed for Apple in the years since Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, excoriated the Obama administration publicly and privately in 2014 for attacking strong encryption. Obama officials who were upset by Apple’s stance on privacy, along with its decision to shelter billions of dollars in offshore accounts and make its products almost exclusively in China, aired those grievances quietly.

Now Apple is fighting the Trump administration, and President Trump has shown far more willingness to publicly criticize companies and public figures. When he recently claimed falsely that Apple had opened a manufacturing plant in Texas at his behest, the company stayed remained silent rather than correct him.

At the same time, Apple has financially benefited more under Mr. Trump than under President Barack Obama. It reaped a windfall from the Trump administration’s tax cuts, and Mr. Trump said he might shield Apple from the country’s tariff war with China.

Even so, people close to the company say that Apple will not back down from its unequivocal support of encryption that is impossible to crack.

Mr. Barr indicated on Monday that he is ready for a sharp fight.

He had said last month that finding a way for law enforcement to gain access to encrypted technology was one of the Justice Department’s “highest priorities.”

Mr. Alshamrani, who was killed at the scene of the attack, came to the United States in 2017 and soon started strike-fighter training in Florida. Investigators believe he may have been influenced by extremists as early as 2015.

The investigation into the shooting also found that some Saudi students training with the American military in Pensacola had ties to extremist movements while others possessed pornography, which is forbidden in Saudi Arabia. About a dozen trainees will be sent back to Saudi Arabia as a result.

Investigators have not found evidence to suggest that any of those students knew about Mr. Alshamrani’s contact with extremist groups or his mass shooting plan.

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Comments from readers to the above article and I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter.

"We've got a lot more to fear, as Americans, from William P. Barr than we do from terrorists' iPhone data."

RUSSELL RALEIGH NC

"Barr should spend more time poking around and ensuring that our voting machines are as secure as an Apple phone." JEAN, CLEARY

"Let me get this straight: Barr demands access to potential evidence for an act of terrorism. The House requested access to documents of potential evidence and witness testimony for an inquiry into an act jeopardizing national security. I would like to hear from Barr - or this administration - regarding how public safety is important to them but national security is not. How public safety is important to them but climate change is not. How public safety is important to them but environmental regulations protecting air and water quality is not. Barr's appeal is obviously not about potential harm to Americans." E. SOL, PORTLAND

"Just to be clear, you can't have a backdoor for law enforcement without also leaving the device vulnerable to malicious actors. Politicians don't seem to understand this (probably because they're all too old to even know how to use their iPhones). There's no magical 'middle ground' solution where only law enforcement would be able to bypass security and unlock the phone. A backdoor is a backdoor and someone smart *will* figure out how to take advantage of it. If a law were passed requiring a backdoor for law enforcement, your phone would be vulnerable. That's just the way it is. I can't support any politician who tries to force Apple or any other manufacturer to make their phones less secure."

MR. ADAM'S, TEXAS

"What's not said is that Apple cannot access the contents of encrypted iPhones. This is by design. There is no backdoor for Apple because that would mean a backdoor for potentially anyone who has the tools and expertise to exploit it. Barr is either ignorant of this or willfully ignoring it."

PATRICK, ST. PAUL MN

"Barr made a "high profile request" so he could publicly blame Apple when they refuse. But Apple must resist because there is way more at stake than investigating one crime no matter how terrible it was. Capitulate this time and soon the government will be back demanding access to someone else's phone, and someone else again, etc., all with the "ticking time bomb" rationale. Then it won't be long before our phones, with all their detail about who we are, what we do, where we go, etc. are fair game for government and police on whatever rationale they invent."

PAT, SOMEWHERE

"I'm no great fan of Apple; however, considering the fact that Barr belongs in jail for his illegal acts, lies, and overall corruption, I hope Apple tells him to take a hike." GEORGE ELIOT, ANNAPOLIS, MD

"If Apple gives the government the ability to break encryption they may just as well just forget adding it at all. Both of our super secret agencies, the NSA and the CIA have allowed hacking tools to be stolen. You can bet your bottom dollar that if Apple gives them the keys that our government will find some way to lose them. Even if they didn’t, I have no desire to have what is already an exceptionally insecure digital environment further compromised by giving access to our government. Stand strong Apple."

CRAIG, CAROL STREAM, IL

"Stand your ground Apple. As time passes phones will contain even more of our private lives. You have no right to give them access to my personal property, just because you happened to make it. Thank you." MOMS AWARE, BO

"If Apple were to build a "back door" override to the encryption on the iPhone, accessible by the FBI, it would be a certainty that bad actors would eventually obtain it or hack it. It would be the end of any expectation of privacy, already a precious commodity in today’s world." BOB, NY STATE

"What exactly is Barr asking Apple to do? The article does not make this clear. Apple says (credibly) it has turned over all data from the account, and Barr seems not to dispute this. So st Barr asking Apple to use its resources to try to hack into its own phone? Is the idea that somehow Apple might be aware of security flaws and not identifying those to the FBI? I am seriously concerned about Barr's request. While I do take very seriously the problem of defending the US against bad actors, this must be balanced against potential harm to democracy and civil liberties -- and Barr has given us no indication he is to be trusted in making such a judgment."

SC, MIDWEST

"Well, Apple should be hired to make our voting booths secure! No other company has been able to stop the Russians and other criminals from interfering in our elections. Maybe Apple could protect our votes."

DUDLEY, BANNER ELK, NC

"Apple has given investigators materials from the iCloud account of the gunman, Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a member of the Saudi air force training with the American military, who killed three sailors and wounded eight others on Dec. 6. But the company has refused to help the F.B.I. open the phones themselves, which would undermine its claims that its phones are secure." No. It would undermine the privacy of all Americans above and beyond the way it already is. We pay taxes and a good portion of that money goes to a Department of State that has refused to sanction Saudi Arabia for the worst of the crimes it and its citizens have perpetrated on this nation. We pay taxes and some of that money, a great deal of it, goes to the NSA, FBI and CIA. Let them use their resources and gumshoe investigative skillz to track down anyone who may have coached or directed this terrorist to commit this crime. Steve Jobs was right to refuse to give the FBI and DOJ the tools to crack open an iPhone. It is the right policy. Our collective privacy rights are not trumped by the police state because it is more convenient to do their job through trampling on our rights than it is to actually investigate. Since Edward Snowden's revelations nothing has been done to safeguard Americans' rights to have their lives remain private vis a vis the state and corporations. Good for Apple for saying no. As for these Saudi students? Send them home." RIMA, SOUTHERN CAL.

Law enforcer often talk as if they have an entitlement to people's most private digital activities. I've read and seen local officials at different levels talk as if the human owners are merely a worthless impediment to a rightful police activity. Many times, access is treated as an excuse to go wandering about the private lives of suspects and even individuals tangentially related. When authorities secure search warrants to go into individuals' homes, they're looking principally for physical objects that confirm their suspicions about a crime and help them build a case. However, mobile phones and digital devices capture not only actions but often deeply private thoughts of owners, as well. Americans need spaces that are sacrosanct. That includes portions of the digital world. Just because mobile devices exist does not mean authorities should ever have the right to crack them open and rummage around. Police have other avenues -- such as social media and strong search tools -- to find what people have already shared online. However, the brains and thoughts of Americans -- to which phones are often an extension -- are supposed to remain their own -- in all instances. The U.S. Constitutions says so.

PEGGY ROGERS PA

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Iran’s Grim Economy Limits Its Willingness to Confront the U.S.

Fearful of public anger over a plunging economy, Iran’s leaders appear to be turning inward, pulling back from escalation.

By Peter S. Goodman | Published Jan. 13, 2020 Updated 6:44 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted January 13, 2020 |

LONDON — Iran is caught in a wretched economic crisis. Jobs are scarce. Prices for food and other necessities are skyrocketing. The economy is rapidly shrinking. Iranians are increasingly disgusted.

Crippling sanctions imposed by the Trump administration have severed Iran’s access to international markets, decimating the economy, which is now contracting at an alarming 9.5 percent annual rate, the International Monetary Fund estimated. Oil exports were effectively zero in December, according to Oxford Economics, as the sanctions have prevented sales, even though smugglers have transported unknown volumes.

The bleak economy appears to be tempering the willingness of Iran to escalate hostilities with the United States, its leaders cognizant that war could profoundly worsen national fortunes. In recent months, public anger over joblessness, economic anxiety and corruption has emerged as a potentially existential threat to Iran’s hard-line regime.

Only a week ago, such sentiments had been redirected by outrage over the Trump administration’s Jan. 3 killing of Iran’s top military commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani. But protests flared anew over the weekend in Tehran, and then continued on Monday, after the government’s astonishing admission that it was — despite three days of denial — responsible for shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner.

The demonstrations were most pointedly an expression of contempt for the regime’s cover-up following its downing of the Ukrainian jet, which killed all 176 people on board. But the fury in the streets resonated as a rebuke for broader grievances — diminishing livelihoods, financial anxiety and the sense that the regime is at best impotent in the face of formidable troubles.

Inflation is running near 40 percent, assailing consumers with sharply rising prices for food and other basic necessities. More than one in four young Iranians is jobless, with college graduates especially short of work, according to the World Bank.

The missile strikes that Iran unleashed on American bases in Iraq last week in response to Gen. Suleimani’s killing appeared calibrated to enable its leaders to declare that vengeance had been secured without provoking an extreme response from President Trump, such as aerial bombing.

Hostilities with the most powerful military on earth would make life even more punishing for ordinary Iranians. It would likely weaken the currency and exacerbate inflation, while menacing what remains of national industry, eliminating jobs and reinvigorating public pressure on the leadership.

Conflict could threaten a run on domestic banks by sending more companies into distress. Iranian companies have been spared from collapse by surges of credit from banks. The government controls about 70 percent of banking assets, according to a paper by Adnan Mazarei, a former I.M.F. deputy director and now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. Roughly half of all bank loans are in arrears, Iran’s Parliament has estimated.

Many Iranian companies depend on imported goods to make and sell products, from machinery to steel to grain. If Iran’s currency declines further, those companies would have to pay more for such goods. Banks would either have to extend more loans, or businesses would collapse, adding to the ranks of the jobless.

The central bank has been financing government spending, filling holes in a tattered budget to limit public ire over cuts. That entails printing Iranian money, adding to the strains on the currency. A war could prompt wealthier Iranians to yank assets out of the country, threatening a further decline in the currency and producing runaway inflation.

In sum, this is the unpalatable choice confronting the Iranian leadership: It can keep the economy going by continuing to steer credit to banks and industry, adding to the risks of an eventual banking disaster and hyperinflation. Or it can opt for austerity that would cause immediate public suffering, threatening more street demonstrations.

“That is the specter hanging over the Iranian economy,” Mr. Mazarei said. “The current economic situation is not sustainable.”

Though such realities appear to be limiting Iran’s appetite for escalation, some experts suggest that the regime’s hard-liners may eventually come to embrace hostilities with the United States as a means of stimulating the anemic economy.

Cut off from international investors and markets, Iran has in recent years focused on forging a so-called resistance economy in which the state has invested aggressively, subsidizing strategic industries, while seeking to substitute domestic production for imported goods.

That strategy has been inefficient, say economists, adding to the strains on Iran’s budget and the banking system, but it appears to have raised employment. Hard-liners might come see a fight with Iran’s archenemy, the United States, as an opportunity to expand the resistance economy while stoking politically useful nationalist anger.

“There will be those who will argue that we can’t sustain the current situation if we don’t have a war,” said Yassamine Mather, a political economist at the University of Oxford. “For the Iranian government, living in crisis is good. It’s always been good, because you can blame all the economic problems on sanctions, or on the foreign threat of war. In the last couple of years, Iran has looked for adventures as a way of diverting attention from economic problems.”

How ever Iran’s leaders proceed, experts assume that economic concerns will not be paramount: Iran’s leaders prioritize one goal above all others — their own survival. If confrontation with outside powers appears promising as a means of reinforcing their hold on power, the leadership may accept economic pain as a necessary cost.

“The hard-liners are willing to impoverish people to stay in power,” said Sanam Vakil, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, a research institution in London. “The Islamic Republic does not make decisions based on purely economic outcomes.”

But Iran’s leaders need only survey their own region to recognize the dangers that economic distress can pose to established powers. In recent months, Iraq and Lebanon have seen furious demonstrations fueled in part by declining living standards amid corruption and abuse of power.

As recently as November, Iran’s perilous economic state appeared to pose a foundational threat to the regime. As the government scrambled to secure cash to finance aid for the poor and the jobless, it scrapped subsidies on gasoline, sending the price of fuel soaring by as much as 200 percent. That spurred angry protests in the streets of Iranian cities, with demonstrators openly calling for the expulsion of President Hassan Rouhani.

“That’s a sign of how much pressure they are under,” said Maya Senussi, a Middle East expert at Oxford Economics in London.

In unleashing the drone strike that killed General Suleimani, Mr. Trump effectively relieved the leadership of that pressure, undercutting the force of his own sanctions, say experts.

Within Iran, the killing resounded as a breach of national sovereignty and evidence that the United States bore malevolent intent. It muted the complaints that propelled November’s demonstrations — laments over rising prices, accusations of corruption and economic malpractice amid the leadership — replacing them with mourning for a man celebrated as a national hero.

A country fraught with grievances aimed directly at its senior leaders had seemingly been united in anger at the United States.

“The killing of Suleimani represents a watershed, not only in terms of directing attention away from domestic problems, but also rallying Iranians around their flag,” said Fawaz A. Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.

Mr. Trump had supplied the Iranian leadership “time and space to change the conversation,” he added. Iranians were no longer consumed with the “misguided and failed economic policies of the Iranian regime,” but rather “the arrogant aggression of the United States against the Iranian nation.”

But then came the government’s admission that it was responsible for bringing down the Ukrainian passenger jet. Now, Iran’s leaders again find themselves on the wrong end of angry street demonstrations.

For now, the regime is seeking to quash the demonstrations with riot police and admonitions to the protesters to go home. But if public rage continues, hard-liners may resort to challenging American interests in the hopes that confrontation will force Mr. Trump to negotiate a deal toward eliminating the sanctions.

Iran may threaten the passage of ships carrying oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for more than one-fifth of the world’s consumption of liquid petroleum. Disruption there would restrict the global supply oil, raising the price of the vital commodity. That could sow alarm in world markets while limiting global economic growth, potentially jeopardizing Mr. Trump’s re-election bid, as the logic goes.

Iran previously had a different pathway toward gaining relief from the sanctions: Under a 2015 deal forged by President Barack Obama, the sanctions were removed in exchange for Iran’s verified promise to dismantle large sections of its nuclear program.

But when Mr. Trump took office, he renounced that deal and resumed sanctions.

The Iranian leadership has courted European support for a resumption of the nuclear deal, seeking to exploit divergence between Europe and the United States. The Europeans have been unhappy about Mr. Trump’s renewed sanctions, which have dashed the hopes of German, French and Italian companies that had looked to Iran for expanded business opportunities.

Whatever comes next, Iran’s leadership is painfully aware that getting out from under the American sanctions is the only route to lifting its economy, say experts.

The nuclear deal was intended to give Iran’s leaders an incentive to diminish hostility as a means of seeking liberation from the sanctions. Mr. Trump’s abandonment of the deal effectively left them with only one means of pursuing that goal — confrontation.

“They see escalation as the only way to the negotiating table,” said Ms. Vakil. “They can’t capitulate and come to the negotiating table. They can’t compromise, because that would show weakness. By demonstrating that they can escalate, that they are fearless, they are trying to build leverage.”

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Iran Protests Rage Over Downed Jet, as Other Nations Seek Redress

Protesters chanted against Iran’s clerical rulers for a third day, while Ukraine’s foreign minister said five countries would seek action against those responsible.

By Ben Hubbard | Published Jan. 13, 2020 Updated 3:16 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted January 13, 2020 |

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Protesters and riot police faced off in at least two cities in Iran on Monday, a third day of angry demonstrations at the country’s leaders after the government acknowledged having shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane, killing 176 people.

The protests are the most recent spillover from escalating regional tensions between the United States and Iran that built up to President Trump’s decision to kill a high-ranking Iranian general, and Iran’s firing missiles at United States forces in Iraq in response.

After days of denials, Iran acknowledged early on Saturday that it had shot down the Ukraine International Airlines flight on Wednesday, blaming the attack on human error. But the government’s obfuscation has angered many Iranians, already squeezed by poor economic conditions exacerbated by United States sanctions, and some took to the streets soon after.

Videos from inside Iran shared on social media on Monday showed university students in Isfahan and the capital, Tehran, chanting against the country’s clerical rulers while riot police deployed nearby.

The extent of the protests and the amount of violence used to try to stop them were hard to assess because of tight restrictions on social media and the news media inside the country. Videos from previous days have shown protesters carrying off bleeding comrades while gunshots echoed in the background.

The authorities in Iran denied that security forces had opened fire.

“At protests, police absolutely did not shoot because the capital’s police officers have been given orders to show restraint,” Hossein Rahimi, the head of Tehran’s police, said on Monday, according to state-run news media.

[Read: Iran’s only female Olympic medalist has defected from the country over “lies” and “injustice.”]

Late Sunday, Mr. Trump warned Iran not to target the demonstrators. Framing himself as a supporter of the media, which in other circumstances he has frequently disparaged, Mr. Trump exhorted Iran’s leaders to allow unfettered reporting.

“To the leaders of Iran — DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS,” he wrote on Twitter. “Thousands have already been killed or imprisoned by you, and the World is watching. More importantly, the USA is watching. Turn your internet back on and let reporters roam free! Stop the killing of your great Iranian people!”

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To the leaders of Iran - DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. Thousands have already been killed or imprisoned by you, and the World is watching. More importantly, the USA is watching. Turn your internet back on and let reporters roam free! Stop the killing of your great Iranian people!

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The Ukrainian plane took off from Tehran on a flight to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, before dawn on Wednesday, and barely two minutes later it was struck by an anti-aircraft missile fired by an Iranian crew. Iranian forces had fired missiles at American forces in Iraq hours earlier, and were on the alert for retaliation by the United States.

In addition to the domestic outrage, Iran may also face demands for compensation from nations whose citizens were killed on the plane, Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko of Ukraine told Reuters on Monday in an interview in Singapore.

“We have created this group of foreign ministers from the grieving nations. On Jan. 16, we will meet in person in London to discuss the ways, including legal, how we are following this up, how we are prosecuting them,” Mr. Prystaiko said, referring to the Iranians.

The talks would include five nations, he said: Canada, which lost 57 citizens, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Sweden and another country he did not identify.

They and other nations have pushed for greater international involvement in the investigation of how the crash happened, and Mr. Prystaiko said Tehran had agreed to hand over the jet’s black boxes for analysis, but had yet to set a date to do so.

Mr. Prystaiko separately told the BBC in an interview broadcast Monday that President Hassan Rouhani of Iran had accepted full responsibility for the crash, without trying to shift the blame onto the United States for escalating overall tensions in the region.

“At least at the presidential level, nothing of this nonsense was mentioned,” Mr. Prystaiko said, describing Mr. Rouhani’s phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday. “He tried to do his best to explain that it was human error, that no one who is to be punished will escape the punishment.”

Tensions between the United States and Iran have soared since 2018, when Mr. Trump pulled the United States out of an international agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program and imposed the first in a series of sanctions on Iran to punish it for what his administration sees as its destabilizing activities across the Middle East.

After a number of attacks on United States assets and allies in the Middle East in recent months, Mr. Trump ordered the killing on Jan. 3 of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds force. He headed Iran’s efforts to support and direct allied militias in the region.

Those militias include an Iraqi group that fired rockets at a military base in Iraq late last month, killing one American contractor. United States forces retaliated against militia bases, killing more than two dozen fighters, and militias responded by surrounding the American Embassy compound in Baghdad, breaching its perimeter wall, setting fires and throwing rocks.

The killing of General Suleimani in a drone strike at the Baghdad airport raised fears that Iran or its network of allies across the Middle East would respond against the United States and its allies, possibly igniting a regional war.

On Wednesday, Iran responded by firing a barrage of missiles at two military bases in Iraq that host United States forces, inflicting some damage but killing no one. The Ukrainian jet crashed after being struck in the air by an Iranian missile a few hours later.

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Anton Troianovski contributed reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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‘There’s no president yet’: Dems yearn for a front-runner to break out

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‘There’s no president yet’: Dems yearn for a front-runner to break out

The primary campaign appears likely to become even more muddled over the next month. | Eric Gay/AP Photo

2020 Elections

For the most part, the top-tier candidates have adhered closely to their original battle plans, feeling little pressure to improvise or change direction.

Joe Biden continues to retain a fragile lead in the polls. Elizabeth Warren, his ascendant challenger, is not forcefully confronting him. Warren and Bernie Sanders, the progressive behemoths in the race, are not separating from each other.

Deep into the 2020 primary campaign — post-Labor Day and with three rounds of debates and fundraising quarters past — caution, patience and stasis have emerged as the defining traits of the Democratic contest.

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Even as three candidates have pulled away from the rest of the field, early-state Democrats sayit’s remarkable how none of them have truly taken command of the primary. They’re not seeing bold strategic strokes designed to distinguish their campaigns or sustained attempts to strike a decisive blow against rivals. And they don’t see an obvious front-runner with just 140 days until the Iowa caucuses.

“It’s really strange,” said Sean Bagniewski, chairman of Iowa’s Polk County Democrats. “It’s strange that we’re this far along, we’ve been slugging it out, it feels like, for two years, we have this much interest, and there’s not really a clear favorite yet.”

Some were counting on Sanders and Warren to better highlight their differences by now. Other Democrats were expecting a collision between Biden and Warren at last week’s debate — a confrontation that never materialized. Instead, a lower-polling candidate, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, appeared to gain new momentum. By the end of the week, Biden’s campaign was tangling with Julián Castro, who is polling at about 1 percent, over the appropriateness of Castro questioning Biden’s memory.

As one Democratic official in Iowa said of the field, “We’ve got a bunch of exceptionally talented people, a bunch of exceptionally talented vice presidents, Cabinet members, DNC chairs. But there’s no president yet.”

One reason for the lack of clarity: For the most part, the top-tier candidates have adhered closely to their original battle plans, feeling little pressure to improvise or change direction. Warren’s approach has been slow and steady, ever-confident in the eventual payoff from her expansive field organization and detailed policy agenda. Biden’s campaign has shown few signs of panic in the face of gaffes and other candidate missteps.

But the lack of volatility in the campaign also reflects a caution informed by experience: Kamala Harris’ campaign surged in June following her criticism of Biden for his past opposition to busing and former associations with segregationist senators. But she quickly fell back. Castro, the ex-HUD secretary, has not benefited in public opinion polls from his remarksagainst O’Rourke or, more recently, his slams on Biden. None of the candidates, in fact, who have singled out rivals for sharp criticisms — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, among them — have seen big returns on their attacks.

A still-evolving primary issue set is also driving the measured approaches of the individual campaigns. Last week, O’Rourke — who had failed to gain traction in the campaign for months — drew newfound attention for his call for a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons. The candidates’ competing views on health care, a defining issue of the campaign, are only now becoming more clearly defined.

Sanders and Warren, flanking Biden onstage in Texas, battled over the differences in their plans. Biden noted that Warren has in the past asserted “I’m with Bernie,” on “Medicare for All,” then stressed that he supports keeping the Affordable Care Act but adding a public option. “I’m for Barack,” he said, before pressing Warren on whether she would raise taxes on the middle class to pay for the plan.

“I think clearly for the first time you had Bernie and Warren having to defend Medicare for All in a way they haven’t had to. Biden had help making that case from [Sen. Amy] Klobuchar and Mayor Pete [Buttigieg],” said Joe Trippi, a Democratic campaign veteran. “That’s the big defining issue. They’re going to have it out and that’s not going to happen in one night. That was the beginning of it. That was the first shots fired, the first volley — real volleys — I think you’re starting to get to the crux of the matter.”

Trippi said the vast majority of Democratic voters are still not tuned in to the primary or even watching the debates. Those who are tuned in tend to have more hardened views behind a certain candidate.

“Anybody who thinks this thing is set is just not understanding a multi-candidate field like this,” Trippi said. “The only people paying attention are really interested people, who already love Joe Biden and think he’s the greatest, or already love Elizabeth Warren. They’re all watching to cheer their candidates. So when you attack someone else, you’re not going to score anything against them. That’s why when Castro attacks Joe, everybody pukes. It was the same mistake Harris made in the first debate.”

Comparing the primary to a marathon, Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said, “We’re at mile eight.”

With many top Democrats — like Perez — convinced that it’s still early in the campaign rather than late, one view holds that there is still a great deal of fluidity in the field.

“On the one hand, it’s clear that 60 percent of the voters are with the top three candidates, and that has been very stable,” said Rose Kapolczynski, a Democratic strategist who is unaffiliated in the race. “On the other hand, Biden and Sanders are not knocking it out of the park every day, and they aren’t growing.”

She said, “I still think there is a good chance that someone else emerges.”

Though six Democrats have dropped out of contention and many others are on the brink, Bakari Sellers, Harris’ campaign co-chair in South Carolina, said it’s too soon to count out candidates who have time to catch on with voters.

“The reason that the top three are the top three is simple: There was a draft Warren movement since 2014, Bernie Sanders has been running for president since 2015 and Joe Biden’s been running for president since before I was born,” Sellers said. “A lot of these candidates are still learning who they are and defining themselves, and now voters are finally paying attention.”

The primary campaign appears likely to become even more muddled over the next month. Biden appears no stronger — or weaker — than he appeared going into the last debate. Warren and Sanders have not appeared eager to confront each other. Major donors in Texas were jockeying for photographs with Andrew Yang after the debate, while Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker were both widely viewed as significantly more effective than in previous debates.

Jen O’Malley Dillon, O’Rourke’s campaign manager, said people only now “are starting to tune in,” predicting, as other candidates’ advisers have, that the race will remain fluid “through the winter.”

In remarks at a Houston fundraiser on Friday, Biden noted as much.

“The fact of the matter is for the first time we had something approaching a debate,” Biden told the crowd.

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DAVIE, Fla. - A Tesla that crashed and caught fire Sunday afternoon in Davie caught fire again after it was towed away, police said. The driver of the 2016 Tesla Model S, later identified as Omar Awan, overcorrected and lost control of the car, which traveled across three lanes on Flamingo Road, struck several trees in the median and caught fire, Davie police Sgt. Mark Leone said. MORE TESLA HEADLINES Tesla crashes into tree in Davie, killing driver, police say Tesla's miserable week ends on a high note Consumer Reports no longer recommends the Tesla Model 3 Awan, who was "burned beyond recognition," was pronounced dead at the scene, Leone said. Witnesses said the Tesla was traveling anywhere from 75 to 90 mph when it crashed. Early the next morning, the Tesla reignited and caught fire again at A Superior Towing from a ruptured battery, Leone said. "We've been out here three times already," Davie Fire Department Battalion Chief Robert DiFerdinando told Local 10 News. Tesla released a statement about the crash Monday, saying the company would cooperate with investigators. "We understand that speed is being investigated as a factor in this crash, and know that high speed collisions can result in a fire in any type of car, not just electric vehicles,” the statement read.

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Exclusive: Wall Street Journal Frames Roger Stone

In a public trial in the media, where journalists are acting as judge and jury for conservative activists and conservative political pundits, the Wall Street Journal has admitted they break the law by printing leaks from a taxpayer-funded government office with unlimited resources, and they like making money on denying an American his civil liberties. In an exchange with Shelby Holliday of the Wall Street Journal, Roger Stone said,"This has been reported on so many times, I can’t believe the WSJ have any interest in rehashing it again." The media's current political target: Stone, a longtime friend of President Donald J. Trump, and Conservative/ Libertarian political icon. THAT IS CALLED A "LEAK" "Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is scrutinizing how a collection of activists and pundits intersected with WikiLeaks, the website that U.S. officials say was the primary conduit for publishing materials stolen by Russia, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Mueller’s team has recently questioned witnesses about the activities of longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone, including his contacts with WikiLeaks, and has obtained telephone records, according to the people familiar with the matter," reported Shelby Holliday, in the Wall Street Journal on Oct.19, 2018. Read Full Article  Their next target:  Could be you. Have you volunteered for a candidate or campaign?  Are you a member of the GOP?  Have you started a media company or blog?  Have you posted about your political choices on social media? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you should care about this story. DEAR POLITICAL PUNDITS AND ACTIVISTS Imagine a world where you get an email from the Wall Street Journal framing you with treason, claiming they have proof of your criminal collision because they heard from the Top Cop in the land that you are basically guilty and they are going to publish the story to the world, after months of targeted harassment against you and your family. Scared enough to stay out of politics yet? Do you know who would be brave enough to print your side of that story, and stare down the monolith of the Leftist Mainstream Media in your defense, and in defense of American Civil Liberties? Populist Media is here for you, just remember. TIMELINE- FOR THE RECORD- ACCORDING TO ROGER STONE: According to Stone the following is his rebuttal to the constant Leaks to the Media and their coordinated drumbeat, declaring his guilt (without a trail) and what he calls "recycled fake news".  This is his timeline, which the Wall Street Journal has received and which Populist Media has received. STATEMENT ABOUT ADVANCE NOTICE OF HILLARY EMAILS TO WSJ BY STONE: " On June 12, 2016, Julian Assange announced to CNN that WikiLeaks had obtained MORE Hillary Clinton email.  In March 2016, WikiLeaks had already posted a searchable database of tens of thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails.  Assange was widely reported to be planning periodic releases of all the information he and his organization had received. My comments reflect what was common knowledge and expectation. It was around this time that Randy Credico told me whatever WikiLeaks had was "big" and would shake up the race and would drop in October. He was correct," Stone told the Wall Street Journal. STATEMENT ABOUT GUCCIFER TO WSJ BY STONE: "I initially believed that Guccifer 2.0 had hacked the DNC because he(?) publicly predicted the e-mails from WikiLeaks. I even wrote a piece for Breitbart saying so. I no longer believe, based on forensic evidence published in the NATION, that the DNC was ever actually hacked at all. The evidence shows that, based on download times, the purloined e-mails were downloaded to a portable storage device and taken out the door. Therefore, I doubt Guccifer 2.0  or anyone else hacked the DNC. I explained this evolution in my thinking, under oath, to the House Intelligence Committee. I have also said it publicly elsewhere.  As for "He actually released them several weeks ago. They got no traction. He took them to Assange. Well, Assange put them out to WikiLeaks." This was a tip I got from a Guardian reporter. Probably also false. As to whether Guccifer 2.0  is a Russian, I note this is the claim of the Intelligence Community who claim he (?) left digital fingerprints of its hacks which prove it was a Russian. The WikiLeaks disclosures (Vault 7) show Intelligence Services have the technology to make it appear a hack came from somewhere other than where it came from. I also question why Guccifer 2.0 would be using a software program registered to a DNC staffer. The point is moot. I no longer believe Guccifer 2.0 hacked the DNC. I noted this in my sworn testimony. Hopefully, in the lawsuit in which I am being sued by the DNC we will finally get discovery to inspect the servers which the FBI was never allowed to inspect to determine if they were hacked at all. My attorneys have asked that they be preserved for discovery. Please reflect in your reporting that my 24-word exchange with the persona of Guccifer 2.0 took place after the DNC material had already been published so based on timing, context, and the actual content the DM exchange provides no evidence of collusion, collaboration, or coordination. This exchange was gratuitously included in the DOJ indictment of 12 Russian Intelligence Agents although Rod Rosenstein noted at the time "There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime." As CNBC put it, "Rosenstein also highlighted that Friday's indictment does not allege that any American knowingly participated in the Russian operation." STATEMENT ABOUT SAM NUNBERG CLAIM TO WSJ BY STONE: "I supplied airline tickets, a hotel receipt, and restaurant receipts to show I was in Los Angles on the very day Sam said I was in London. The Post article misquoted me…After trying for 40 minutes to get Sam Nunberg off the phone on a Friday night, he asked if I had plans for the weekend." STATEMENT ABOUT ASSANGE CONNECTION TO WSJ BY STONE "I never said I had direct communication with Assange and I clarified it was thru a back channel. Just because I dramatized the facts for a partisan audience does not mean I fabricated them. Credico was my confirming source." STATEMENT ABOUT CLINTON FOUNDATION TO WSJ BY STONE The prediction regarding the Clinton Foundation is based on an e-mail as detailed here (click link) https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/22/roger-stone-WikiLeaks-claim-reporter-email/ This is the so-called second source as reflected in my e-mails. My tip is based on the content of this e-mail which Charles Ortel has confirmed the authenticity of. Ironically it turns out to be wrong. STATEMENT ABOUT ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF PODESTA EMAILS TO WSJ BY STONE "My tweet is based on the Aug 14th Breitbart Story that identified Tony Podesta's work for the same Ukrainian Political Party as Manafort and the extensive report on the Podesta brothers’ lucrative Russian business deals in gas, aluminum, uranium and banking.  All of this was brought to my attention by Jerry Corsi who subsequently sent me a very well researched memo on their dealings that I planned to feed to certain reporters. I was going to be the one parsing out Corsi’s report, I was going to make it their time in the barrel.  I later wrote a piece about their Russian Bank deal." FULL STATEMENT TO WSJ BY STONE "Let's get it exactly right "I had no advance knowledge about the acquisition and publication of John Podesta's e-mail.” “I had no advance notice of the source content or exact release date of the WikiLeaks DNC disclosures. I received nothing including hacked e-mails from Guccifer 2.0, the Russians, WikiLeaks or anyone else and therefore passed on nothing to Donald Trump and the Trump campaign or anyone else. My testimony in front of the House Committee was accurate and truthful." What I am guilty of is using publicly available information and a solid tip to bluff, posture, hype and punk the Democrats on Twitter. This is called Politics. It’s not illegal “ My testimony to the House Intelligence Committee was 100% accurate and truthful despite claims by hyper-partisans who enjoy congressional immunity from lawsuit. Reread this  https://stonecoldtruth.com/randy-me-truth-about-WikiLeaks/ And to recap In September I was told by former Congressman Walter Fauntroy that he had brokered an agreement between Quadaffi and the Clinton State Department for Quadaffi to abdicate and gains safe passage out of the country. I was supplied a signed agreement which appeared to be genuine. I noticed an interview in which Assange said he had documents reflecting disagreement over whether to take out Quaddafi. I asked Credico if he knew if they had been posted. Why would I ask Randy if I was in communication with Assange in 2016? His response “ I can't be asking them for things every day….I’ll ask one of the lawyers.” He provided nothing. You characterize this as “digging dirt”. I call it legitimate political research. Congressman Fauntroy is a credible source and his story detailed. To be clear Dr. Corsi never told me Podesta’s e-mail had been acquired or gave any e-mails from those eventually published or indicated that he had seen them.  E-Mail and text messages confirm events as outlined above and make no reference to Podesta’s e-mail being acquired." END OF STONE STATEMENTS Remember that Stone has been banned from Twitter and other platforms, so his reach is intentionally reduced in an organized media attack on his reputation. BEGINNING OF PERSECUTION https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1056979130070302720 https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1056922808201166848 https://twitter.com/LawWorksAction/status/1056931906804219904 and so on and so forth... YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT IF YOU PROMISE TO ROLL OVER THE PRESIDENT Unless the Media is publishing constant political attacks, dressed up as journalism.   Unless they are given authority to libel your name, brand and reputation.  Back in the old days, Americans had "civil liberties" and the right to a fair court trial.  The American Mainstream Media, including the Wall Street Journal, has pitched that old-fashioned notion. And American activists and pundits are helpless to stop them.  Unless we are brave enough to make a stand like Stone has done.           Read the full article

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Saudi Patriot Missile Fail as Houthi Rocket Strikes Riyadh, Rumors of Bolton's Big War with Hezbollah and Iran

MBS Grand U.S. Tour: PR Firms Ensure Good Publicity for Saudis as President Trump Boasts of More Arms Sales to the Kingdom, Friendship with Presidential Son-in-Law Kushner  

The 32-year-old Crown Prince, who successfully purged and shook down rivals in the Royal family like Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for billions of dollars, has been on something of a roll lately -- that is if you believe his slick PR. In a sit down interview with CBS News, the devastating war in Yemen and the Saudis inability to extricate themselves from the quagmire barely came up and MBS blamed (who else?) Iran for endemic Mideast warfare and terrorism, warning that his country would build a nuclear bomb if the Iranians did so (praise Allah the Persians have no intention to do so). During MBS visit to the White House, President Trump boasted about U.S. arms sales to the Kingdom, with a handy chart depicting where the weaponry is being manufactured across the USA.

But it's not all perfume and roses from America for the impetuous young prince. Pesky pseudo-alternative media outlets like The Intercept funded by a Persian-American multi-millionaire are pointing out that the Yemen war has created mass famine and a cholera epidemic. The Intercept also reported that MBS had bragged to United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed that presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner was in his back pocket. This leak concerning the Kushners came after the Kush and his younger brother were reportedly blurring the lines between presidential diplomacy and seeking Mideast bailouts for their failing Manhattan real estate ventures. Qatar and the Kingdom have been at odds for months with the Saudis trying and failing to make a commercial blockade of the fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member state and gas-rich neighbor stick. 

The U.S. Senate voted on whether the U.S. should pull back its support for the Kingdom's war-making, and the measure was defeated 55-44. The bill was co-sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). After the Senate vote, Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis met with MBS at the Pentagon and made some perfunctory remarks about seeking a peaceful negotiated end to the Yemen War. The crown prince was to head to the West Coast for meetings with Hollywood executives and Microsoft founder Bill Gates on March 30. Clearly MBS is on a shopping spree trying to make all of the various power factions among the U.S. elite -- Hollywood, Silicon Valley/Big Data, and above all the military industrial complex -- quite happy with his newly inaugurated reign on behalf of his ailing father, King Salman.

However, the once anticipated Saudi Aramco IPO was quietly scaled back this same week the petroyuan officially launched on the Shanghai Oil Futures exchange. And the Saudis are still working on the 'final stages' of their planned purchase of S400 long range air defense missile systems from Russia, which may lead to awkward requests for exemption from Congressionally mandated sanctions over buying hardware from Moscow. But the S400s can't work worse than the expensive Patriot missile systems that apparently sent an interceptor rocket into an apartment block late Sunday night/early Monday morning.

Rumors of Bolton's Big Plans for War with Hezbollah and By Extension Syria and Iran

This brings us to the topic that was on the mind of V the Guerrilla Economist and our esteemed producer CJ on Friday: war. Namely, will newly named National Security Adviser John Bolton get the war he has long advocated for against Iran? Or will President Trump content himself with tearing up the Iranian nuclear agreement, perhaps the only useful thing the Obama Administration managed during its entire eight years? Long time RogueMoneyRadio listeners and RM website readers know that our very own intelligence insider 'W' is convinced a second Israel-Hezbollah War is gathering like a stormcloud on the horizon, with the U.S. almost certain to get directly involved. Certainly, while Bolton has flirted with dismissing the DNC hack as a Democratic false flag op, he has taken an even harder line on Russia than his resigning predecessor Gen. H.R. McMaster. However, even more so than the preemptive war he's advocated with North Korea, Iran has been John Bolton's abiding obsession since the pre-9/11 Project for a New American Century (PNAC) organization longing for their 'Pearl Harbor event' of the 1990s. What we do know is that Bolton is planning a 'purge' of 'Obama holdovers' many of whom happen to be career civil servants or ranking officers on loan to the White House national security staff from the Pentagon. Republicans supportive of the president's nominee say this will reduce the leaks to the mainstream media that had become endemic under McMaster. We also know that the United States military and multiple NATO allies recently wrapped up a military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean, that simulated them providing major logistical if not fire support during a war waged by the Zionist State on three fronts: Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and with Hamas in Gaza. Moscow may have viewed said exercise as a cover for building up assets in the region that were to be used in strikes against Damascus after a major chemical false flag, but that operation appears to have fizzled after the Russians warned they would directly retaliate against the Americans if their personnel were struck alongside Syrian government forces. Consequently Gen. Joseph Dunford chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff engaged in intense talks with his Russian counterpart Gen. Valery Gerasimov and a collision between two nuclear armed military superpowers was averted -- for now.

Weighing in from 'the Chans, inspired by the QAnon phenomenon, is this line posted by Italy-based American expat blogger Vox Day aka Theodore Robert Beale:

The President signed the [pork laden and barely making a dent in building the wall on the Mexican border omnibus --JWS] bill because the military needed to be funded. They're going to have some big jobs this year: war with Iran, rounding up most of the Obama administration to stand trial in front of military tribunals, and keeping domestic order when the roundup happens. The midterms are going to be utterly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. That means the roundup will happen before then and the DNC will be struggling with things other than running for office.

Whether you believe QAnon is revealing deep state shake ups and plans within plans or is simply a big hoax, the latest missile barrage designed to humiliate the Crown Prince raises the stakes for Riyadh. The Saudis need more help at the very least in hunting down the Houthis arsenal of Burkan rockets and increasingly sophisticated air to air missiles converted into SAMs that have been shooting down the Kingdom's drones and occasionally, some of its U.S./UK made fighter jets. The risk of escalation through the back door of special operations raids and direct participation by American pilots who could get shot down by the Houthis most advanced SAMs is real, and growing by the day under Bolton as he is clearly determined to 'get tough' on Iran and their Shi'a proxies. Even if it is likely to prove very different from the war gaming calculations made at the Pentagon and Israeli Ministry of Defense in consultation with the Saudis, a wider showdown of some sort seems inevitable.