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Cyber Command Pursues Perfect Citizen
Originally Published August 17, 2010; Last Updated January 16, 2020; Last Republished January 16, 2020:
Cyber Command Pursues Perfect Citizen Res:
UPDATED 12/05/2016 WH, Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, December 01, 2016, Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy
The commission make a number of recommendations and action items.
UPDATED 06/09/2016 NIST, The Stakeholders Have Spoken: NIST to Refine Cybersecurity Framework
UPDATED 11/03/2015 NSF, Cybersecurity: Tech, Tools, and Training
UPDATED 10/20/2015 NSF, Cybersecurity research looks to guard networks from 'insider threats'
UPDATED 07/03/2013 NIST, Draft Outline of Cybersecurity Framework for Critical Infrastructure
UPDATED 09/28/2012 NSF, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
UPDATED 08/02/2012 Thomas, Cybersecurity Act of 2012
UPDATED 09/07/2010 Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
UPDATED 09/07/2010 GAO, Cybersecurity: Key Challenges Need to Be Addressed to Improve Research and Development (pdf)
Wikipedia, United States Cyber Command
UPDATED 01/16/2020 USAToday, Speaker Pelosi's Weekly Press Conference and WP, U.S. Cybercom Contemplates Information Warfare to Counter Russian Interference in 2020 Election and Reuters, Ukraine Asks FBI for Help to Probe Suspected Russian Hack of Burisma
...the Speaker calls Facebook's behavior "shameful" and "very abusive"...
...a public announcement consistent with the Washington Post's reporting, if it occurs, is a big deal... the above article provides some information on the growing malignant influences of social media platforms..."wet behind the ears" doesn't begin to describe the "leaders" of these companies or their mostly uninformed users...
...below is an older version with different and more information...
...it's unclear why targeting a malign Putin is "too provocative"...is it any more provocative than using a revised BlackEnergy (BE-n) toolkit to sow chaos in the lives of civilians1 and the infrastructure they depend on?...
UPDATED 09/08/2019 CISA, U.S. Cyber Command Shares 11 New Malware Samples
UPDATED 06/16/2019 NYT, U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia's Power Grid
UPDATED 11/26/2018 DOE, CyberForce Competition
UPDATED 10/05/2018 NAP, Recoverability as a First-Class Security Objective: Proceedings of a Workshop
UPDATED 09/22/2017 Reuters, Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight and ReutersTV, Distrustful U.S. allies force NSA To Retreat In Encryption Row and Improved Differential Cryptanalysis of Round-Reduced Speck (pdf) and The SIMON and SPECK Families of Lightweight Block Ciphers (pdf) and SIMON, SPECK and NISTIR 8114 Slides (pdf) and Notes on the design and analysis of Simon and Speck
Reuters, Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption fight
UPDATED 08/18/2017 WP, President Trump announces move to elevate Cyber Command
UPDATED 06/14/2017 Brookings, Cyber Threats and How the United States Should Prepare and OSD, Final Report of the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Cyber Deterrence
Brookings, Growing Threat From Cyber and Recommended Preparation
UPDATED 05/23/2017 NYT, Watch Live: Mike Rogers, N.S.A. Director, Testifies
UPDATED 11/19/2016 WP, Pentagon and intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama to remove the head of the NSA
UPDATED 10/27/2016 Navy, USNA Breaks Ground at New Cyber Security Studies Center to Prepare Future Navy Cyber Warriors
UPDATED 09/23/2016 Quanta, Hacker-Proof Code Confirmed and DARPA, High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) and 2016 CyLab Partners Conference
"...HACMS will produce a set of publicly available tools integrated into a high-assurance software workbench, which will be widely distributed for use in both the commercial and defense software sectors..."
and CSIS, Deepening U.S.-Australia Cyber Security Cooperation
UPDATED 07/27/2016 CSIS, Webcast Live: Hacking the Skills Shortage (also, NIST, National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework)
UPDATED 06/14/2016 Reuters, U.S. sees progress in latest cyber talks with China
UPDATED 02/19/2016 WEST 2016, Panel, Information Warfare: Identifying the Gaps and Seams in Cyber Security and NIST, Cybersecurity "Rosetta Stone" Celebrates Two Years of Success
UPDATED 02/11/2016 WH, The President Meets with his National Security and Cybersecurity Advisors
UPDATED 10/19/2015 NYT, Cybersecurity Firm Says Chinese Hackers Keep Attacking U.S. Companies
UPDATED 09/14/2015 Wired, We're at Cyberwar: A Global Guide to Nation-State Digital Attacks
UPDATED 08/31/2015 WP, U.S. developing sanctions against China over cyberthefts
...and working to develop international protocols for incorporation into international agreements—no counterattack necessary—just an invoice and current account offset.
UPDATED 08/14/2015 UCTV, The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
UPDATED 07/09/2015 CFR, Strategic Risks of Ambiguity in Cyberspace
UPDATED 07/07/2015 Guardian, Hacking Team hacked: firm sold spying tools to repressive regimes, documents claim and Reuters, Surveillance software maker Hacking Team gets taste of its own medicine and WP, U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a potent digital weapon for sale overseas and SonS, Hacking Team Is Hacked (includes mirror to leaked documents) and CL, Open letter to Hacking Team
UPDATED 02/13/2014 WH, Launch of the Cybersecurity Framework
UPDATED 01/31/2014 NYT, N.S.A. Choice Is Navy Expert on Cyberwar and NavyMil, Navy Short Bio Vice Admiral Michael S. Rogers
UPDATED 07/03/2013 MoJo, Why the Story on Snowden and the NSA Doesn't Add Up
The President's comment that he won't be "scrambling military jets to go after a 29-year-old hacker" is interesting in the context of this article.
UPDATED 06/09/2013 Guardian, Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
UPDATED 06/02/2013 NYT, U.S. and China Agree to Hold Regular Talks on Hacking
Unsupported hyperbolic statements by well-meaning Chinese and American generals are distinctly unhelpful and unlikely to motivate an improved bilateral relationship.
UPDATED 03/20/2013 DiscoveryNews, Teens Prepare for Cyberwar
UPDATED 03/12/2013 Time, Hack Attack: China and the U.S. Trade Barbs on Cyberwarfare
UPDATED 01/28/2013 NYT, Pentagon Expanding Cybersecurity Force to Protect Networks Against Attacks
UPDATED 11/14/2012 WP, Obama signs secret directive to help thwart cyberattacks
Classified cybersecurity directive 20 must be publicly published in its entirety—if cybersecurity directive 20 cannot be immediately published in its entirety those asserting its classification must immediately publicly publish a "sanitized version" pending public disclosure of cybersecurity directive 20 in its entirety. (UPDATED 07/03/2013 above Guardian article on Snowden leaks: Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks)
UPDATED 08/02/2012 Reuters, Hopes fade for new U.S. cybersecurity law in 2012 and Slate, Republicans Filibuster Cybersecurity Bill With Anti-Abortion, Obamacare Amendments
UPDATED 08/02/2012 ProPublica, Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
UPDATED 10/29/2010 SFGate, Napolitano: Military to aid civilian cybersecurity.
It will be useful to formally rely on laws and published policies and procedures that guarantee protection against infringement of our civil rights.
UPDATED 10/09/2010 Reuters, Special report: The Pentagon''s new cyber warriors.
------notes-----
1. ...interested in learning more about Russia's malign hacking activity?...how about Andy Greenberg's latest book, Sandworm? (named after the fictional and rapacious underground worms in Frank Herbert's novel Dune...
Labels: Cyber Domain
....This Is A Finding Of Fact, Unfolding Of The Truth...
...and then a decision will be made and that is a decision that goes beyond me...but we're not dominated by the polls...what we're dominated by are the facts and the truth and I do believe the truth will set us free...there are many things that the president does that are completely out of the question that are not impeachable...and they're about the election...
...but when it comes to violating the Constitution of the United States, as he undermines our national security, jeopardizes the integrity of our elections1, dishonors his own oath of office...that's about impeachment...I really have a real discomfort level of responding to what Republicans say because they are in denial about what has happened in the country... --from the below video interview with Speaker Pelosi--
...Madame Speaker, our nation is fortunate that you're in the wheelhouse...
...the majority in the Senate et al. are behaving like a parent who enters a room to discover their toddler is smearing feces on the wall and joins in hoping to create a Picasso...
UPDATED 01/16/2020 CSPAN, Senate Impeachment Trial Oaths and NBCNews, Rep. Adam Schiff Read The Articles Of Impeachment To The Senate
NBCNews, Rep. Adam Schiff Read The Articles Of Impeachment To The Senate
..."a republic, if you can keep it"...
...the response most often attributed to the octogenarian and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin when asked what type of government the constitutional convention delegates created...so far so good!!!...
UPDATED 01/15/2020 CSPAN, Speaker Pelosi Announces Impeachment Managers...
...and Al Jazeera, Trump impeachment trial: Who are the House managers?...Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, Jason Crow and Sylvia Garcia...
...a wonderfully diverse and professional impeachment prosecution team...
UPDATED 01/13/2020 ABCNewsThisWeek, Trump will 'be impeached forever': Pelosi
...kudos to Madame Speaker and those members voting (Final Vote Results Roll Call 695 and 696) to impeach Donald John Trump...
Trump will 'be impeached forever': Pelosi
...their votes will forever proudly rebuke the ignominious actions of the conspicuously unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, unlawful, untrustworthy occupant of the White House, its senate sycophants☭ and any future aspiring wannabe authoritarians...our nation is forever grateful for their principled preference for good governance...more leaders like those voting "Yea" in roll call 695 and 696, please...
☭...why does "Moscow Mitch" believe that an independent senate impeachment trial will or should conform with a House impeachment?...sycophancy is not a desirable behavior for any senator...sycophancy for the purpose of perpetuating a conspicuously unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, unlawful, untrustworthy presidency is dangerous and destructive of our nation...
...compare and contrast sycophant and partisan...
01/10/2020 C-SPAN, Limiting Military Action Against Iran, Speaker Pelosi and Newsweek, Iranian Missile System Shot Down Ukraine Flight, Probably by Mistake, Sources Say
...wonder if the "dumb-ass duo" envisioned that their "gunboat diplomacy" and "saber-rattling" could down a civilian airliner, killing all 170+ passengers aboard...of course it's unlikely the "dumb-ass duo" thought an "elephant-walk" (a costly test of war readiness) at Hill AFB could trigger a battlefield SAM site shot...which is precisely the point of the above war powers limiting concurrent resolution...
UPDATED 01/07/2020 RollCall, Road Ahead: House To Debate Iran War Powers As Impeachment Articles Hold Continues and SpeakerPelosi, Dear Colleague on Introduction of War Powers Resolution
...kudos to the Speaker and House...a set of 535 commanders in chief trumps a dumb-ass duo deciding to go to war while taking Mulligans on the back nine...there are no Mulligans in war...unlike the golf course every shot counts on the battlefield...
...Senator Graham et al. stultify themselves while trying to shield the impeached president's behavior...the real arguments they're advancing in the highest courts (USCA-DC 19-5331 mp3) and elsewhere are beyond stultifying...there is no executive "prerogative" (maybe counsel means privilege?) to obstruct investigations into criminal behavior (official or unofficial), [remember Nixon]...
...reigning in the out of control executive is long over due...as an aside those who've doubted whether women can govern, let them doubt no more...
UPDATED 01/16/2020 USAToday, Watchdog: White House budget Office Violated Federal Law by Withholding Ukraine Security Funds and GAO, Office of Management and Budget—Withholding of Ukraine Security Assistance and AP, McConnell and Pelosi give no signs of budging on impeachment
...kudos to the Speaker and senate minority leader...Chief Justice John Roberts has a duty to make publicly clear he will not preside over a sham impeachment trial...the idea that he 's there as "eye candy" or a "partisan rubber stamp" is nonsense...
UPDATED 01/02/2020 JustSecurity, Exclusive: Unredacted Ukraine Documents Reveal Extent of Pentagon's Legal Concerns
..."Clear direction from POTUS to continue to hold [appropriated Ukraine military funding.]"...released redacted email from former Wisconsin GOP cum RAG Party head Michael Duffey who is now a political appointee at the Office of Management and Budget...wonder why the RAG Party senators are ignoring relevant redacted facts?...
...understanding these emails in the context of Ukraine's history and its persistent progress toward autonomy makes impeding current diplomatic efforts more than criminal...of course it's highly unlikely that Duffey et al. know much about Ukraine's long-suffering efforts toward autonomy, inspite of periods of extraordinary cruelty by Russia...
...kudos to President Zelensky on the prisoner exchange, gas contract signing and New Year conversation with Putin...and planning for a future connection to the euro-grid...an event, which will present the "BlackEnergy " hackers w ith new and more dangerous challenges...
UPDATED 12/18/2019 C-SPAN, U.S. House: Debate & Vote on Articles of Impeachment
...digressive diatribes, conspiracy theory, sloganeering or parroting (SHAM, CIRCUS, WITCH-HUNT, PARTISAN-COUP, ELECTION VENDETTA, SCHIFF SHOW etc.) will not substitute for pertinent facts and evidence...
UPDATED 12/12/2019 C-SPAN, House Judiciary Committee Debates on Articles of Impeachment
...the only response to any president's failure to recognize Congress's impeachment authority is immediate impeachment. and removal...
...those that think this Executive's response is customary...let them think that no more...
UPDATED 12/10/2019 C-SPAN, Articles of Impeachment and HouseJudiciary, Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors (pdf); Article I Abuse of Power and Article II Obstruction of Congress
UPDATED 12/09/2019 C-SPAN, Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment, Report by the Staff of the Committee on the Judiciary and House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry Evidence Hearing
...so far the House minority's response to overwhelming evidence of impeachable conduct is that the House is partisan and moving too fast...as always history will judge...meantime all future presidents will know that asking for, accepting or coercing foreign electoral help will result in their swift impeachment, even when that president tries to blockade all evidence...a wonderful message that will only strengthen our democracy (republic)...
UPDATED 12/05/2019 C-SPAN, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Articles of Impeachment
...the Speaker of the United States articulates a bright-line between behavior that is impeachable and partisan...blur the line at your own risk, so says our Founding Fathers and Madame Speaker...attempt to erase that line and you'll be immediately impeached...
UPDATED 12/05/2019 C-SPAN, LIVE: House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry Hearing
UPDATED 12/03/2019 WP, House Intelligence Committee's Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report (latest document posted to the growing collection of impeachment documents; 60 to date)
Document Cloud PDF
UPDATED 11/21/2019 C-SPAN, House Speaker Weekly Briefing
-----notes-----
1. ...impeachment and removal is the only way to lawfully, peaceably and reliably end a constitutional threat presented by any president's willingness to ask for, accept, or coerce foreign electoral assistance...by definition the president's own action(s) has removed elections as the customarily reliable method of preserving a democracy (republic)..
...contrast this with the Judiciary's power to annul an election to meet the same ends...
Originally Published November 18, 2019; Last Updated January 16, 2019: Last Republished January 16, 2019:
Is Georgia's Secretary Of State Criminally Suppressing Voters
..Is Georgia's secretary of state criminally suppressing voters...former President Carter has called on Brian Kemp to resign...not only must Kemp resign...the DOJ must launch an inquiry...
...the upside of gerrymandering is the possibility of gaining more seats than your expected fair allocation of seats...to get this unfair allocation a party must distribute "their" finite number of precious partisan voters across many districts in "just enough numbers" to win, but no more (i. e. "waste" a precious partisan voter)...to determine what is "just enough" the gerrymanders generally use "historical voting patterns and turnout"...
...now the downside of a gerrymander...enter an ultra qualified charismatic politician who is able to "energize" their voters to turnout in numbers far exceeding the expected historical averages (i.e. Stacey Abrams)...the "just enough" allocation of the precious partisan voters in a particular gerrymandered district is "swamped"...and the opposition wins the gerrymandered district...
...this may be why Georgia's Secretary of State is very, very, very, concerned with the Democratic turnout...there are not enough reliably Republican voters in the gerrymandered district to cover the huge turnout...enter voter suppression (i.e a method of reducing the excessive turnout to the expected historical averages and those used when drawing the gerrymandered map)...
WP, My Civic Duty': How The Governor's Race Is Reenergizing Georgia Voters
UPDATED 12/14/2019 RiggedTheMovie, Have Your Been Purged [from the Voter Rolls],1
Elijah Cummings Social Media Clip Sample from Alex Ostroff on Vimeo.
UPDATED 10/26/2019 EconomistPodcast, Where Does Power Lie In America? and FacingSouth, The Long Fight Over Using Student IDs To Vote in North Carolina and NYT, The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It and WP, Civil Rights Group Challenges Rejection of George Mason Student Voter Registrations
EconomistPodcast, Where Does Power Lie In America?
UPDATED 09/09/2019 NYT, In North Carolina Do-Over Vote, a Reliable Republican District Is Up for Grabs
UPDATED 08/30/2019 WP, It Seems Clear That Stacey Abrams's Next Political Move Is Pursuing An Executive Role, Not A Legislative One
UPDATED 08/19/2019 WP, Stacey Abrams to Launch Voter Protection Program in Battleground States Ahead of the 2020 Election
...the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party's antiquated political platform necessitates use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks (RAG)...lately, their use of Ruses, Artifices, and Gimmicks is transparently flagrant...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Demands Facebook Investigate Why Obama's Post Got So Many Likes
LastWeek, Bias In Medicine
LateShow, Epstein Death Sets Off Wild Wave Of Conspiracy Theories
Protests at Hong Kong's Airport & A Terrifying Open-Carry "Prank"
LateShow, Donald Trump Acts Like A Villain To Energize His Base
UPDATED 07/13/2019 NYT, Dear Candidates: Here Is What Black People Want and Black Census Project
Commonwealth, Black Futures Lab and Black Census Project
UPDATED 02/23/2019 NYT, Republican Cries Against Voter Fraud Go Mostly Quiet After Scheme Tied to Party
...just in case you're tempted to think Georgia is the only [southern?] state the GOP/RNC cum RAG Party is actively using in ruse, artifice, and gimmickry to win elections...
...don't forget to laugh...
RealTime, New Rule: Prime Real Estate
UPDATED 02/06/2019 ABCNews, Stacey Abrams Delivers Democratic Response to Trump's State of the Union
ABCNews, Stacey Abrams Delivers Democratic Response to Trump's State of the Union
UPDATED 12/26/2018 Reuters, North Carolina Affidavits Released in Alleged Election Fraud Case and DCCC, Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Responds to Reports of Alleged Election Fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District and DCCC, Chairwoman Cheri Bustos Announces First Round of Senior Staff Hires
"...The DCCC did amazing work in 2018 to win 40 seats. Our challenge is to build on that progress, to fortify and expand our majority...America's strength has always come from our diversity. That's why I'm committed to building a leadership team that reflects the tremendous diversity of our House Democrats and our nation..."
UPDATED 12/12/2018 NYT, With Power Grabs in the Midwest, G.O.P. Risks a 2020 Backlash
"...The more fundamental risk for Republicans is that voters are increasingly savvy about issues like gerrymandering, voting rights and campaign finance, which were once thought to be of great interest to elites but of little relevance to most citizens..."--NYT, With Power Grabs--
UPDATED 12/13/2018 TED, Three Questions to Ask Yourself About Everything You Do and CBS46, Fair Fight Georgia Files Lawsuit Against State of Georgia and Fair Fight Georgia
TED, Three Questions to Ask Yourself About Everything You Do
Fair Fight Georgia
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Iraq Offers to Help Establish Democracy in North Carolina...
FullFrontal, This American Trash: Voter Suppression in Georgia
FullFrontal, Medicare for All UFC Fighters
FullFrontal, Stacey Abrams V. Everybody
UPDATED 11/29/2018 AP, Candidate-Backed Group Challenges Georgia Election Process and CHNews, Abrams Supporters Seek Wide-Reaching Election Reform in Georgia and Complaint, Fair Fight Action and Care in Action v. Robyn A. Crittenden (acting Georgia Secretary of State)
UPDATED 11/19/2018 AP, Abrams Says She Can't Win Georgia Governor's Race
...Georgia's electoral processes are a long way from inspiring confidence...the Republican Party has degenerated to a party of whiteface☂ ruse, artifice, and gimmick (i.e. GOP ⇒ RAG) across the United States...
☂...BBC, What's Killing America's White Men? and USAToday, Stepping Back from The Edge...
BBC, What's Killing America's White Men?
UPDATED 11/13/2018 NYT, Georgia's Shaky Voting System
...the NYT opinion has enough information to order a run-off based on Secretary of State, Bryan Kemp's gross negligence...a scandalous farce where a state's secretary of state "oversees" his own candidacy for governor is not an election...
UPDATED 11/08/2018 WP, Stacey Abrams Legal Team Holds News Conference
WP, Stacey Abrams Legal Team Holds News Conference
UPDATED 11/04/2018 USAToday, Georgia's GOP Secretary of State Alleges [w/o Evidence] State Democrats Tried To Hack Registration
UPDATED 11/03/2018 Reuters, U.S. Courts Rule Against Georgia On Voter Suppression Cases and NYT, Fired Up' Voters in 22 States Are Outpacing [by 80%] 2014 Early Ballot Counts
UPDATED 11/03/2018 Vox, Why American Voter Registrations Are Disappearing and NewYorker, Are Police Targeting Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts in Georgia?
Vox, Why American Voter Registrations Are Disappearing
...don't forget to laugh...WP, The GOP Has A Preexisting Condition: Bigotry
RealTime, New Rule: Win or Go Home
...the caravan is "marching" like a bunch of D-0 Army recruits...better send Seal Team Six-Red and the 3rd Airborne Group to stop this "invading force"...(AP, Fact Check: President Trump's Rhetoric and The Truth About Migrant Caravans)...make sure you pack the C-130s with extra MREs, doctors, and medical supplies...the "threat" will welcome offers of nourishment and medical attention...because the "threat" will likely mistake soldiers for border agents be ready to tell the surrendering "threat", in Spanish directions to the nearest border patrol agent... (WP, Trump's Border Deployments Could Cost $200 Million by Year-End)
LateNight, Trump's Racist Fearmongering Is His Latest Scam
(WP, In 649 days, President Trump Has Made 6,420 False or Misleading Claims)
1. UPDATED 01/03/2020 Charlotte Observer, NC Voter ID Law Written with 'Discriminatory Intent,' Says Judge Who Just Blocked It and ABCNews, Memorandum Opinion, Order, And Preliminary Injunction Loretta C. Biggs, District Judge (pdf)
...evidence continues to accumulate for requiring a form of the 1965 Voting Rights Act §5 preclearance rules, which the Supreme Court's ideologues invalidated in Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), leaving the "gods" to sort out our nation's entrenched partisan regional racism...
...kudos to the local judges who are stepping in to fill the insidiously discriminatory gaps created by the Supreme Court ideologues' Shelby ruling...
UPDATED 12/14/2019 USAToday, Judge Orders 234,000 Purged from Wisconsin Voter Rolls and Texas Settles Lawsuit Over Attempt To Purge Thousands From Voter Rolls
...Georgia is not the only state where the RNC-GOP cum RAG Party is conducting bulk voter roll purge programs...unsurprisingly these bulk programs, disproportionately impact the economically disadvantaged and minority groups...
...everybody concerned about fair (i.e. credible) elections must actively intervene to make sure these "voter roll purges" do not remove a single legitimate...expect these ruses, artifices, and gimmicks (RAGs) to continue into the foreseeable future...
...combining an aggressive "voter roll purge" oversight program, which must receive a copy of any purge letter with an equally aggressive voter registration program is ideal...
...here is a statement from Wisconsin's Elections Commission on Judge Malloy's oral ruling:
Statement regarding decision in voter list case
Date:Fri, 12/13/2019 - 17:30
The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued the following statement in response to Judge Malloy's ruling today in Timothy Zignego et al vs. Wisconsin Election Commission et al:
"We will be analyzing the judge's oral decision and consulting with the six members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on next steps. A written order has not been issued yet."
For more information, contact
Reid Magney, public information officer, 608-267-7887, reid.magney@wi.gov.
...the statement should say "We will be overruling Judge Malloy's oral ruling"...
Originally Published October 31, 2018; Last Updated January 03, 2020; Last Republished January 03, 2020:
Kupperman Complaint Requests The Judiciary To Join A Wacky Conspiracy
...Kupperman complaint requests the judiciary to join a wacky conspiracy masquerading as a legal proposition...
...the district court should dismiss Kupperman et. al's complaint and impose Rule 11 sanctions...if Kupperman et. al want to void a congressional subpoena they can file a motion to quash the subpoena...
...structuring a routine motion to quash as a standoff between the congressional and executive branches of government is unnecessarily abusive...attaching an opinion from the Office of Laughable Legal Counsel and a laughable letter from White House Counsel (Pat Cipollone), which asserts absolute presidential immunity does not lessen the abusiveness...(but it may increase it!)...
UPDATED 12/31/2019 CourthouseNews, Charles M. Kupperman, Plaintiff, v. United States House of Representatives, et al., Defendants, Civil Case No. 19-3224 (RJL), Memorandum Opinion, December 30, 2019 [Dkt. ## 40, 41, 43] pdf
...the judge has dismissed the case as moot...he should have dismissed it, with prejudice, as meretricious...Kupperman et al indirectly seek to inflict a delusion by the unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, unlawful, untrustworthy and mentally ill occupant of The Executive Office of the President of the United States et al...
...really!, our nation has devolved to a point that we need a judicial declaration that a President of the United States has zero absolute immunity...perhaps such a declaration can in substance read that any United States president directly or indirectly claiming absolute immunity for any purpose whatsoever has committed an impeachable offense, be immediately removed from office, and never again hold any federal government office or place of trust...
UPDATED 11/07/2019 Axios, House Democrats Drop Subpoena for ex-Bolton Aide Charles Kupperman
...the forthcoming McGahn ruling from a judge (Jackson) on the same appeals court is expected to be adverse for the unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, unlawful, untrustworthy and mentally ill occupant of The Executive Office of the President of the United States cum "very stable genius" with "great and unmatched wisdom"...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Gets Note from Podiatrist Exempting Him from Impeachment and Trump Accuses Whistle-Blower of Working for United States
FullFrontal, Scaling The Border: The Not-So-Great Wall of America
CourthouseNews, Former Trump Aide Seeks Federal Ruling on Testifying in Impeachment Inquiry
Originally Published October 28, 2019; Last Updated December 31, 2019; Last Republished December 31, 2019:
Electing A Wannabe Authoritarian Will Not Make You Free
Ironically the GOP/RNC cum RAG (Ruse, Artifice, Gimmick) Party and citizenry have elected a wannabe authoritarian🏋 hoping he will make them "free"...the beauty of irony is boundless...
...this time our nation is lucky to have elected a wannabe authoritarian so conspicuously unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced and unlawful that he has self destructed...it is unwise to depend on luck in future elections...this media presentation from the "enemy of the people" (aka New York Times) may help envision living under authoritarian governance...
NYT, A Secret Look Inside a Chinese Labor Program for Uighurs (added 12/31/2019)
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Redaction of Mueller Report Halted as Barr Passes Out from Sharpie Fumes and TheOnion, Presidential Pardons In History and TheOnion, Shocked Vladimir Putin Slowly Realizing He Didn't Conspire With Trump Campaign and TheOnion, Mueller Kinda Miffed That Barr Clearly Didn't Read His Stuff Like He Said He Would
RealTime, Why Government is Good
(notwithstanding RAG Party the grifters' fulminations)
LateNight, Trump Lashes Out over Immigration and His Tax Returns
LateShow, Jerry Nadler Wants To See It All (The Mueller Report)
FOX Shows Making Fun of FOX (from Apr 2017)
🏋...those seeking to understand and respond to the dynamics of authoritarianism will find Karen Stenner's The Authoritarian Dynamic helpful...she uses just two explanatory variables to elucidate the seemingly infinite variations of the authoritarian dynamic: the first is authoritarian predisposition and the second is conditions of threat... the conditions of threat can be natural (e.g. virus outbreak); perceived bias (e.g. prior trauma); and exaggerated, fabricated or manipulated (e.g. hyped border crisis, threats of attack, threats of war or constant environment of chaos, etc.)...
...Cass Sunstein's Can it Happen Here: Authoritarianism in America is a practical discussion applying the variables of "authoritarian predisposition" and "conditions of threat" to our current political environment...
...both short books will help that final handful of diverse candidates replace the wannabe authoritarian occupying the White House...each will gain insight into why single-party impeachments are not optimal...
...also, Larry Diamond, Saving American Democracy and Ill Winds, Diamond's latest book on preserving democracy...
UPDATED 09/10/2019 WSJ, 'Social Credit' May Come to America ...comparing "red light" traffic cameras with China's nascent ubiquitous surveillance of facial, content, and location data ("Social Credit" suggests a lack of understanding...
UPDATED 08/17/2019 NYT, China Said It Closed Muslim Detention Camps. There's Reason to Doubt That and SCMP, The Village Testing China's Social Credit System: Driven by Big Data, Its Citizens Earn A Star Rating (Chinese can expect emails from the Nigerian scammers collecting on jaywalking fines)
Guantanamo-Like Detention, Xinjiang
Redlight Camera for Jaywalkers, Shenyang
UPDATED 09/07/2019 Reuters, U.S. House Panel Poised To Spell Out Trump Impeachment Probe: Source
...members of Congress that permit this notoriously and conspicuously unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al to continue are unfit for office, too...
...don't forget to laugh...TheNewYorkerSatire, Americans Shocked by Spectacle of Legislative Body Taking Action
JimmyKimmel, Trump Hard at Work Not Working
LateShow, Hey Former Trump Administration Officials: Your Future Is Bright
LateNight, Trump Keeps Lying About Hurricane Dorian and Alabama
RealTime, Monologue: Weather Vain
UPDATED 08/16/2019 NYT, Citing Economy, Trump Says That 'You Have No Choice but to Vote for Me' and Independent, 'We're NOT for sale': Greenland Shoots Down Trump Plan to Buy Island and Reuters, Greenland Tells Trump It Is Open for Business but Not for Sale
...really...no choice to an unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...and its ceaselessly contemptible chaotic craziness and convoluted conspiratorial shit crap...
...we can choose to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Denmark Offers to Buy U.S...before, during and after we vote...
RealTime, Monologue
DailyShow, Democratic Candidates Hit the Iowa State Fair
RealTime, New Rule: Armed and Lonely
LateShow, As Trump Ignores Hong Kong Protests, Steve King Sinks to a New Low in Iowa
LateNight, Trump Combines Cruel Immigration Policies with Broken Promises
UPDATED 07/13/2019 Atlantic, Robert Mueller Must Finish the Job
...the attorney general's job description must include extending and perpetuating the chaos of our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...
UPDATED 07/07/2019 Time, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Defends Border Facility Conditions and NYT, Trump and His Aides Dismiss Reports of Disease and Hunger in Border Facilities
...who could have foreseen that our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. could not foresee that detained immigrants would need humane and habitable detention facilities while detained...(our government has at least one apartment available: Paul Manafort's Trump Tower Condo Lists for $3.6M ..."excellent condition" and "unobstructed views of Central Park"...more may become available soon...)
...the solution to the continuous chaos and catastrophe created by our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. is simple...just ask our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. or those "working for" our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump's Fourth of July Parade to Include Flyover by Russian Air Force...
LateShow, 'The Golden Candidates': Season 2020
UPDATED 05/29/2019 Reuters, U.S. Special Counsel Mueller Says Charging Trump Was 'Not An Option'
... congress and the courts must make extraordinarily clear, when properly subpoenaed a special counsel or others cannot choose whether to appears before congress or a court...they may respond and read aloud from a report, but they cannot decline to appear...
UPDATED 05/24/2019 AP, Trump Moves To Escalate Investigation of Intel Agencies
...it is highly likely that prayers and family interventions are insufficient to obviate our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...can we have early elections...
UPDATED 05/23/2019 WP, Pelosi Says Trump Wants to Be Impeached and Is Angry That House Democrats Are Not Moving in That Direction and UPI, Another Judge Refuses Trump Request to Block Subpoenas and Reuters, Trump Blasts Pelosi 'Cover-up' Accusation, Balks on Infrastructure and Trump v Deutsche Bank, Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction — Document #59 and View Entire Docket for Donald J. Trump v. Deutsche Bank, AG (S.D.N.Y. 2019) Docket Number: 1:19-cv-03826 Date Filed: April 29th, 2019
...more rectum-ramblings from our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...it's reminiscent of Nixon's "I've never obstructed justice...I'm no crook"...
...our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. say's "I don't do cover-ups"...our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. forgot the word "well"...
...don't forget to laugh...as a FOX waits for the Republican Party cum RAG Party senators to grab their trump-tar-baby...TheOnion, Entire Southern Border Somehow On Fire 10 Minutes After Kushner Begins Tackling Immigration System...the beauty of irony is boundless...
WP, 'It's My Way or No Highways': Trump Mocked for 'Nationally Televised Hissy Fit' After Leaving Infrastructure Talks
Justin Amash, The Only Republican Of His Kind
Frontline, Trump's Road to the White House
UPDATED 05/21/2019 Reuters, White House Does Not Need A 'Strongman,' Hickenlooper Says in 2020 Policy Speech and CNBC, Judge Rules Against Trump in Lawsuit to Block Democrats' Subpoena for Financial Records and Scribd, Mehta Opinion in Trump Subpoena Case
...the great diversity of ideas coming from the wonderfully diverse candidates running for President of the United States of America in 2020 is a breath of fresh air during the poisonous presidency of our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al...
...the Democrats' diverse campaigns are an effective antidote to the lethal governance of our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. during a period that lethal governance is "protected" by a complicit Republican cum RAG Party controlled senate...
Chicago Council on Global Affairs, John Hickenlooper on American Foreign Policy
...asleep, any of the Democrats' 2020 candidates is preferable to the Republican cum RAG Party's protected wannabe dictator ...democratic help is on the way...
...[begin words from the court's memorandum opinion, links added ; Donald J. Trump et al. v. Committee on Oversight and Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives et al.]
...INTRODUCTION
I do, therefore, . . .solemnly protest against these proceedings of the House of Representatives, because they are in violation of the rights of the coordinate executive branch of the Government, and subversive of its constitutional independence; because they are calculated to foster a band of interested parasites and informers, ever ready, for their own advantage, to swear before ex parte committees to pretended private conversations between the President and themselves, incapable, from their nature, of being disproved; thus furnishing material for harassing him, degrading him in the eyes of the country . . .- President James Buchanan
These words, written by President James Buchanan in March 1860, protested a resolution adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives to form a committee—known as the Covode Committee [aka United States House Select Committee to Investigate Alleged Corruptions in Government]—to investigate whether the President or any other officer of the Executive Branch had sought to influence the actions of Congress by improper means.
Buchanan "cheerfully admitted" that the House of Representatives had the authority to make inquiries "incident to their legislative duties," as "necessary to enable them to discover and to provide the appropriate legislative remedies for any abuses which may be ascertained."
But he objected to the Covode Committee's investigation of his conduct. He maintained that the House of Representatives possessed no general powers to investigate him, except when sitting as an impeaching body.
Buchanan feared that, if the House were to exercise such authority, it "would establish a precedent dangerous and embarrassing to all my successors, to whatever political party they might be attached."
Some 160 years later, President Donald J. Trump has taken up the fight of his predecessor.
"...Courts have grappled for more than a century with the question of the scope of Congress's investigative power. The binding principle that emerges from these judicial decisions is that courts must presume Congress is acting in furtherance of its constitutional responsibility to legislate and must defer to congressional judgments about what Congress needs to carry out that purpose. To be sure, there are limits on Congress's investigative authority. But those limits do not substantially constrain Congress. So long as Congress investigates on a subject matter on which "legislation could be had," Congress acts as contemplated by Article I of the Constitution.
Applying those principles here compels the conclusion that President Trump cannot block the subpoena to Mazars. According to the Oversight Committee, it believes that the requested records will aid its consideration of strengthening ethics and disclosure laws, as well as amending the penalties for violating such laws. The Committee also says that the records will assist in monitoring the President's compliance with the Foreign Emoluments Clauses. These are facially valid legislative purposes, and it is not for the court to question whether the Committee's actions are truly motivated by political considerations. Accordingly, the court will enter judgment in favor of the Oversight Committee..." --Case 1:19-cv-01136-APM Document 35 Filed 05/20/19--
[end words from the court's memorandum opinion]
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Trump Demands Investigation Into Whether Clintons Gave Him Non-Registry Wedding Gift In 2005...
LateNight, Trump Threatens Iran on Twitter
UPDATED 05/16/2019 WP, Barr Asks Pelosi at Event: 'Did You Bring Your Handcuffs?' and USAToday, Attorney General Barr to House Speaker Pelosi: 'Did You Bring Your Handcuffs?' and AP, Pelosi: 'Nothing Is Off The Table' To Enforce Subpoenas
...if our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. and rogue AG Barr continue spewing drivel and six sigma legal theory, respectively, as justification for ignoring the rule of law, "Madame Speaker" will have more than handcuffs at her disposal to deal with a wannabe authoritarian government...
...the misogyny is more than a little clear in rogue AG Barr's taunt...our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al.'s long-standing misogyny is widely known...
UPDATED 05/15/2019 Atlantic, Impeach Donald Trump; Yoni Appelbaum; March 2019 and C-SPAN, Attorney General William Barr Contempt Resolution and NYT, Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Full Mueller Report
...the only problem with our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al.'s assertion is that there is nothing for it to decide before complying with the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena...
Atlantic, It's Time to Impeach Trump
USAToday, House Judiciary Expected to Vote to Hold AG William Barr in Contempt◯
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Barr Releases Catatonic Mueller After Removing All Sensitive Material From Special Counsel's Brain...
DailyShow, Globetrotting for Gender Equality
LastWeekTonight, Green New Deal
SNL, Meet the Press Cold Open
RealTime, Monologue: The Resistance is Futile
SNL, Weekend Update: Trump Lost Over $1 Billion
◯ ...Congress must start contempt and impeachment proceedings against any Executive asserting a theory or right of conditional compliance with oversight...preferably "with lightening speed"...(WP, Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Mueller Report; House Panel Holds Barr in Contempt)
...at the very least the many contempt and impeachment proceedings will have the beneficial therapeutic effect of enabling our unstable, unfit, unwell, unbalanced, and unlawful "new" alt-white-house et al. and its supporters to again spew their "stream of consciousness" theories into our social networks and the public domain...
WP, Trump Delivers Remarks on Medical Billing (i.e. "stream of consciousness')
UPDATED 05/07/2019 WP, McConnell Calls for End to Investigations of Trump, says 'Case Closed' and WP, It's Time to Start Impeachment Hearings. Today. and NYT, White House Signals Fight Over McGahn's Records With Congress
...wow!, a resolute United States Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer rebuffs the United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell efforts to whitewash a lawless Executive...
...Majority Leader McConnell et al. may want to refresh their recollection of how Americans respond to a lawless Executive and efforts to whitewash its lawlessness...
CBSNews Archive, 1974 Nixon Resignation
UPDATED 05/07/2019 C-SPAN, Speaker Pelosi on Attorney General Barr
...wow!, a resolute United States Speaker of the House emphatically rebuffs the AG Barr's, Special Interests', and GOP cum RAG (Ruse, Artifice, and Gimmick) Party's protracted crusade to establish an unimpeachable Executive...
C-SPAN, Speaker Pelosi on Attorney General Barr
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Barr Unable to Give Honest Answer to Drive-Thru Window at Arby's
SNL, Weekend Update: William Barr's Senate Testimony
USAToday, Mitch McConnell Says 'Case Closed' on Russian Investigation
(...Senator McConnell Using Partisanship to Impede Executive Oversight...)
[...The Beauty of Irony Is Boundless...]
LateNight, Barr Refuses to Testify After Lying About Mueller
UPDATED 04/30/2019 05/22/2019 CNBC, Judge says Deutsche Bank, Capital One Can Give Trump Financial Records to House Democrats and NYT, Trump Sues Deutsche Bank and Capital One to Block Compliance With Subpoenas and Reuters, Escalating fight, Trump Sues Deutsche Bank, Capital One Over Democratic Subpoenas
....the frivolous complaint filed by our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. in its private and corporate capacity will not survive summary judgement...the complainants are vicariously complaining that Congress is using subpoenas to harass our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house...pass me the box of Kleenex...
...compliance with the congressional subpoenas need not await summary judgement...our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. can sue for damage, if any, which may arise from complying with the law (i.e. subpoena)...
UPDATED 05/01/2019 NYT, Mueller Pushed in Letter for Barr to Release Report's Summaries and UPI, Barr Threatens To No-Show at House Judiciary Hearing Over Format
...it's useful to use the "opportunity" presented by our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al.'s government and other illiberal belligerents! to show how congressional oversight works...the AG can no-show, but not dictate the terms of congressional oversight...if the AG chooses not to respond to informal requests for sworn testimony subpoenas must immediately follow...
...the ignominious behavior of the AG is that of an obsequious stooge and propagandist, which has culpably compromised his ability to credibly do the duties of the United States Attorney General...the AG must resign or face impeachment regardless of Senator Graham et al.'s perpetual crusades to "investigate the investigators"...
GlobalNews, William Barr to Testify before Senate Amid Report of Mueller Frustration
(Also, CBSN, A Defiant Barr Grilled About Mueller Letter by Senate Judiciary Committee -- Live Updates)
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Americans Beg Trump for Secret to Staying So Young and Vibrant...
Ron Chernow Complete Remarks at 2019 White House Correspondents' Dinner
"...the people are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as a joke.."
! ...some (e.g. Zakaria) suppose that impeachment will frustrate and thus exacerbate the conspiratorial claims and retrenchment of the illiberal belligerents and cultural nationalists that supposedly voted for our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. to send a message to the arrogant and condescending elite...there is so much incorrect with this supposition one barely need respond with...so what?...
...it is always preferable for our electorate to choose a stable, fit, well and balanced leader to guide our nation but, when they do not an evidence based impeachment is the correct remedy...especially if the only evidence is that the unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced leader blockades or otherwise frustrates access to evidence...
UPDATED 04/26/2019 WPOpEd, As New Questions on Trump's Corruption Emerge, His Lawless Threats Escalate and NYTOpEd, The Danger in Not Impeaching Trump and WP, Trump says he is opposed to White House aides testifying to Congress, deepening power struggle with Hill and NYT, Democrats Ask and Trump Says No, Signaling a Bitter Fight Ahead and AP, Graham: Dems Will Stampede to Impeach Trump and WP, House Panel Moves to Hold Former White House Official in Contempt After He Obeys Trump Administration's Instruction Not to Testify and WP, White House Plans to Fight House Subpoena of Former Counsel Donald McGahn for Testimony on Mueller Report and FactCheckOrg, Giuliani's Obstruction Distortions
AP, Graham: Dems Will 'Stampede' to Impeach Trump
...it seems the Democrats are conducting a methodical inquiry to remove our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. (i.e. government)...the antithesis of "stampeding to impeachment"...if Senator Graham believes our citizenry want perpetual presidential prevarication, propaganda, protectionism, and psychopathy he should join the inquiry and condemn all efforts to impede it, then vote not to remove our unstable, unfit, unwell, and unbalanced "new" alt-white-house et al. (i.e. government) and await the "landslide victory" of the RAG Party in 2020 (WP, Republicans Everywhere Are Waging A Desperate Battle Against Democracy)...
AP, Pelosi: Impeachment The 'Most Divisive' Path
Word for Word: Mayor Pete Buttigieg Discusses 2020 Democratic Message ..."a horror show is a hard thing to look away from, our responsibility is to change the channel to something better"...(e.g. state infrastructure upgrades CNBC, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Will Meet with Trump to Discuss Infrastructure Plan Next Week)⌽
...don't forget to laugh...TheOnion, Report: You're Far Too Dumb To Be Reading The Mueller Report Yourself and TheOnion, Trump Sues House Democrat To Block Release Of Tax Returns
FullFrontal, Historians Roast Trump
DailyShow, Why "No Collusion" Doesn't Equal "No Obstruction" - Between the Scenes
⌽...new members that have not mastered the art of working with a mortally flawed foe without losing your message, mission, and mind will benefit from lunching with the very capable House Speaker or Senate Minority Leader....
UPDATED 04/15/2019 NYT, Trump's Message to Homeland Security Official: Close the Border Despite an Earlier Promise of a Delay
...sometimes you just have to stop asking "how we got in this mess" or "how we get out of it" and prepare to cleanup the debris field...the good news is that America will never be the same post cleanup...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Americans Fear That Former Trump Staffers Will Be Released Into Their Cities and TheOnion, William Barr Agrees To Release Nonverbal, Abstract Visual Representation Of Mueller Report
DailyDesi, Wall Street's Male Backlash Against the Me Too Movement
DailyShow, Assange Arrested and Charged with Conspiracy
UPDATED 04/11/2019 NYT, Attorney General William Barr Thinks 'Spying Did Occur' on Trump Campaign and Newsweek, William Barr Is Redefining What "Spying" Means
...wow, AG Barr is on a mission to destroy the Department of Justice he's hired to run, without a scintilla of evidence...he hasn't gone off the rails, he's plowing them up...it's not too late to start a prologue impeachment to the impeachment...
...don't forget to laugh...NewYorkerSatire, Trump Names Lori Loughlin Education Secretary
DailyShow, The Mueller Report Tug-of-War
RealTime, Monologue: Double Down Politics
DailyShow, Trump Wages War on Windmills
UPDATED 05/10/2019 France24, Surviving China's Uighur Camps
UPDATED 05/07/2019 Vox, China's Secret Internment Camps
UPDATED 04/15/2019 FP, U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China's Orwellian State and Bloomberg, This Company Is Helping Build China's Panopticon. It Won't Stop There (Nov 2018) and MIT, MIT and SenseTime Announce Effort to Advance Artificial Intelligence Research (Feb 2018) [MIT has recently announced stricter oversight of its cooperation-corroboration with some authoritarian entities (e.g. China, House of Saud etc.)]
UPDATED 04/07/2019 Guardian, Bulldozing Mosques: The Latest Tactic in China's War Against Uighur Culture
NYT, Guantánamo Trials Grapple With How Much Evidence to Allow About Torture
NTY, China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise
NYT, What It's Like to Live in a Surveillance State
NYT, Su: Uighurs
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Q: Calendar onSelectedDayChange and sqlite sum I have Calendar view and a text view on a class, Ive formatted the calendar on onSelectedDayChange to yyyymmdd (which is the format of my datestamp database names)
How can I fetch a data of particular selected date? Like if i select january 01,2017 on calendar view then it will fetch data from that table?
Here is my codes to fetch the sum of column Fat for the current day only,
This is on my mainactivity class
public Integer totalFat()
    {
        repo repo = new repo(this);

        double i = repo.totalFatrepo();

        Textbreakfast.setText(""+i);

        return null;
    }

This is on my repo class
public double totalFatrepo(){

        SQLiteDatabase db = dbHelper.getWritableDatabase();

        String query = "SELECT SUM(Fat) FROM " + breakfast.TABLE;

        Cursor c = db.rawQuery(query, null);

        //Add in the movetofirst etc here? see SO
        c.moveToFirst();
        double i=c.getDouble(0);

        return i;

    }

What i want is if i click any dates on calendar view, it will fetch from db and display the data associated with that date.

-----Edit for additional codes------

This is my db helper class. How can i format it to read the setOnDateChangeListener value?
public static String getDateTime() {
        SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat(
                "yyyyMMdd", Locale.getDefault());
        Date date = new Date();
        return dateFormat.format(date);
    }

    // Database Name
    private static final String DATABASE_NAME = getDateTime();

A: I save a timeOfDay calendar timeInMillis value with a std hour, minute, sec and millisec to isolate it to the day, basically i set it to 4am or something. then i can do a simple comparison on that value.
selectQuery = "SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE day >= " + thisDate + " AND day < " + thatDate;

OR
selectQuery = "SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE day = " + thisDate

So long as you set the hour, minute, second and millisec it works.

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Sony needs money! And what better way to get money than to sell things. First up, Sony is considering whether or not to sell its New York skyscraper.
According to The Post, the Japanese electronics giant is supposedly stewing on whether to sell the entire building, which its US headquarters occupies, and move to another location or sell the building and then rent part of it back.
The Sony Building is apparently worth between US$700 million and $1 billion. The rumored consideration to sale the building comes as Sony posted record losses.


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The WS10W is a 2/2 solenoid directional valve, poppet type and direct-acting.
Furthermore, in the de-energized mode, the valve blocks flow in both directions. So, when the valve has energy, it allows flow in both directions.


Do you have a "best way" of writing? Some writers are the pen and pad "longhand" writers. They feel the satisfaction of scrolling their pen over the page. Others have become accustomed to the clicking of keys at a computer and there may even still be a few folks who hold sacred the pounding on typewriter keys, the old Underwood most notorious.
Once you have the feel of your preferred method, you will probably know where you will practice your habit of writing. The laptop owners will be flexible in taking their keyboard anywhere that a pad and pen writer can go almost. If you will be tied to your desktop, the options may narrow. Consider putting your desktop in a place that you feel will inspire you as a writer.
Now you have a time, a place and an intentional environment for writing. What will you write? If you need a starting place, look at the writing of your life you already do and incorporate it into your new routine. Do you regularly correspond with anyone? Are you usually writing cards for people? Maybe you have the excellent practice of keeping a journal and you can use your time and place for your daily journal writing. If you are sure you don't already have any regular writing that you do, select something you would like to do for writing. Identify something high in interest or emotional value for you, especially if you tend to be a reluctant writer. Next month, we will explore some specific ways to build your writing skills through certain writing activities.
If you have questions about becoming a writer or comments about the article, send them to the Editor and we will respond and/or incorporate your needs in future articles. Remember that you will grow as a writer the more you write.
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An interesting idea that can emerge is the ability to let a business communicate effectively with its customers (present or future) via push-based channels. After all, it is customers that generate the revenue. This is what Google enables a business to do – get new customers to a website. Google does it for businesses that have an online presence. But it does nothing for businesses that may not have an online presence – and that is one of the opportunities that we can tap into. It can also work well as an awareness spreading tool.
Here is how it would work. A Customer is identified by an Address — either an email ID or a mobile number. These two may or may not be linked. The customer address (email ID, mobile number) may also have certain Attributes linked with it. In addition, a customer can also be given an opportunity to enhance their profile. <any such Customer Addresses make up a Database. A database can be created for a business in one of four ways: existing DB (semi-opt-in), future DB (built around opt-in), dynamic DB (built via queries run on a set of Addresses), media DB (like MyToday SMS).
Communication to this database happens primarily via Push-based channels — email and SMS. This is perhaps the biggest change in India in the past five years. Today, over 350 million Indians have mobile phones and 75 million Indians have email addresses — both these numbers are many times what the equivalent numbers were in 2004.
The key question: how to make this Push-based Customer Communications a reality? This is one business that could scale well globally, with India being the first market.
Push will work only if we know the characteristics (interests) of the email or mobile number.
This is where twitter like social network or linkedin kind of professional network can come into play along with google master for the push market.
Another area i can think of is db at naukri and mytoday joining together for professional related push…OR yellow pages with mytoday for business oriented push.
What about customer privacy? That's one thing that's blithely ignored in India-make the mistake of filling up your number at a form (I did at MusicWorld once) and be bombarded with promotional SMSes unto eternity with no way of stopping them. The mobile provider says they can't do anything about it either.
Any such push system should have a clear and easy opt out policy.
At the end of the day, as a consumer- I do NOT want to be pestered via cellphone by businesses trying to peddle stuff. If I want something I'll look it up on the net, read a dozen reviews and then decide what and where to buy.
Mr. jain can you tell me how bulk sms companies get mobile numbers data. either from mobile phone operator or trai.


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Peas Cheese and Pickles is a great side salad that changes things up from a green salad. Great variety of flavors and textures.
As a kid my mom made Peas Cheese and Pickles. I thought this was a family recipe and that no one besides our family had ever made it. I had never seen it in a restaurant. I had never had it at a friend's house. It was just something we only had at home.
Then I moved to Texas. Peas Cheese and Pickles salad was something available at all the BBQ restaurants. It was a little different than my mom's, but was very close. Who knew that other people ate pea salad too?
After marrying The Hardworking Husband, I made him Peas, Cheese and Pickles. He asked me to change it up just a little. Mom had always made it with canned peas. The HH doesn't like the texture of canned peas. So I started making it with frozen peas. We love it with the frozen peas, and it adds some extra crunch.
Combine peas, cheese and sweet pickles in a medium bowl.
In a small bowl, mix together pickle juice and mayo. Once blended pour over the pea mixture.
Enjoy right away or chill for an hour.
This can also be made with 2 can of peas. I used muenster cheese, but you can use your favorite cheese. Mom used cheddar.
This salad is great for summer BBQ side dishes. Some other great side dishes are Carrot Craisin Salad, Creamed Corn, Crockpot Dr. Pepper Baked Beans, and Broccoli Jicama Coleslaw.
Very similar to our "back in the day" English Pea Salad. We've always called them English peas, I guess because in Texas we eat so many different kinds! Anyway, we just added some extra stuff- boiled eggs and onion, sometimes pimiento too. Thanks for sharing this!


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package interfaces;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.rmi.Remote;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

import implementation.serveur.ObjetEnVente;

public interface IServeurVente extends Remote{

	/**
	 * inscrit un acheteur au serveur. L'acheteur est en attente tant qu'une enchere est en cours
	 * @throws RemoteException
	 */
	public void inscriptionAcheteur(String pseudo, IAcheteur acheteur) throws RemoteException;

	/**
	 * propose une enchere au serveur
	 * @throws RemoteException
	 */
	public void rencherir(int prix, IAcheteur acheteur) throws RemoteException;

	/**
	 * previens le serveur que le client ne souhaite pas rencherir ce tour
	 * @throws RemoteException
	 */
	public void tempsEcoule(IAcheteur acheteur) throws RemoteException;

	public void ajouterEnchere(ObjetEnVente obj) throws RemoteException;

	public void lanceurEnchere() throws RemoteException;
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using NLog;

namespace Pimix.Cloud.BaiduCloud
{
    class SeekableDownloadStream : Stream
    {
        private static Logger logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();

        public delegate int Downloader(byte[] buffer, int bufferOffset = 0, long offset = 0, int count = -1);

        Downloader downloader;

        bool isOpen = true;

        public override bool CanRead
            => isOpen;

        public override bool CanSeek
            => isOpen;

        public override bool CanWrite
            => false;

        long length;
        public override long Length => length;

        public override long Position { get; set; }

        public SeekableDownloadStream(long length, Downloader downloader)
        {
            this.length = length;
            this.downloader = downloader;
        }

        public override void Flush()
        {
            if (!isOpen)
                throw new ObjectDisposedException(null);

            // Intentionally doing nothing.
        }

        public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin)
        {
            if (!isOpen)
                throw new ObjectDisposedException(null);

            switch (origin)
            {
                case SeekOrigin.Begin:
                    Position = offset;
                    break;
                case SeekOrigin.Current:
                    Position += offset;
                    break;
                case SeekOrigin.End:
                    Position = Length + offset;
                    break;
            }

            if (Position < 0)
                throw new ArgumentException(nameof(offset));

            return Position;
        }

        public override void SetLength(long value)
        {
            throw new NotSupportedException("The download stream is not writable.");
        }

        public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            if (!isOpen)
                throw new ObjectDisposedException(null);

            if (buffer == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(buffer));

            if (offset < 0)
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(offset));

            count = (int)Math.Min(count, Length - Position);

            if (buffer.Length - offset < count)
                throw new ArgumentException();

            if (Position >= Length)
            {
                return 0;
            }

            bool done = false;
            int readCount = 0;
            while (!done)
            {
                try
                {
                    readCount = downloader(buffer, offset, Position, count);
                    done = readCount == count;
                    if (!done)
                    {
                        logger.Warn("Didn't get expected amount of data.");
                        logger.Warn("Responses contains {1} bytes, should be {2} bytes.", readCount, count);
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    logger.Warn(ex, "Failed once when downloading (from {1} to {2}):", Position, Position + count);
                    Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
                }
            }

            Position += readCount;

            return readCount;
        }

        public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            throw new NotSupportedException("The download stream is not writable.");
        }
    }
}


The fashion industry really wants you to wear pajamas on the street! Chrissy Teigen's airport ensemble of a long cardigan and coordinating satin pants looks super cozy for a long haul flight. Arriving recently at LAX, she's basically wearing the Gucci luxe version of pajamas, which is totally fine with me!


I was reading reading about convolution matrix which was brillianty explained by Colah. If you're looking for good blog to follow, you might want to add him into the list. One of the application of convolution matrix is image manipulation like applying filters to the image.
The cool part is that the filters are just some matrix that you apply to the image. If you want to know more about the inner working of convolution matrix in image processing, check out this brief explanation from GIMP.
There are several packages that have convolution filter built-in like the one in OpenCV, but just for fun, I implemented image filtering from scratch.
Play around with the kernel variable and change it to any of the pre-defined kernel.


This property describes the largest volume in space that an instance of E18 Physical Thing has occupied at any time during its existence, with respect to the reference space relative to itself. This allows you to describe the thing itself as a place that may contain other things, such as a box that may contain coins. In other words, it is the volume that contains all the points which the thing has covered at some time during its existence. In the case of an E26 Physical Feature the default reference space is the one in which the object that bears the feature or at least the surrounding matter of the feature is at rest. In this case there is a 1:1 relation of E26 Feature and E53 Place. For simplicity of implementation multiple inheritance (E26 Feature IsA E53 Place) may be a practical approach. For instances of E19 Physical Objects the default reference space is the one which is at rest to the object itself, i.e. which moves together with the object. We include in the occupied space the space filled by the matter of the physical thing and all its inner spaces. This property is a subproperty of P161 has spatial projection because it refers to its own domain as reference space for its range, whereas P161 has spatial projection may refer to a place in terms of any reference space. For some instances of E18 Physical Object the relative stability of form may not be sufficient to define a useful local reference space, for instance for an amoeba. In such cases the fully developed path to an external reference space and using a temporal validity component may be adequate to determine the place they have occupied. In contrast to P156 occupies, the property P53 has former or current location identifies an instance of E53 Place at which a thing is or has been for some unspecified time span. Further it does not constrain the reference space of the referred instance of P53 Place.


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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Schlage-Co-to-shut-plant-in-Vis-Valley-3058238.php
Schlage Co. to shut plant in Vis Valley
George Raine, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
Published 4:00 am PST, Saturday, November 21, 1998
1998-11-21 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Schlage Lock Co., a San Francisco institution for 73 years and one of The City's last remaining machine-making operations, will close its manufacturing facility on Bayshore Boulevard over the coming year, signaling the end of an era.
"It is the end of an incredible epoch. I've watched (manufacturers) leaving this city sometimes with the assistance of the different mayors and at times with benign neglect," said John Moran, business agent of Machinists Local Lodge 1414 in San Mateo, a union representing some of the Schlage workers. "This is now a town of hamburger flippers, sheet changers and maintenance people."
Founded here in 1925, many Schlage inventions such as the push-button door lock were created and produced in The City.
The company will offer severance pay, benefits and training to about 200 employees who make internal component parts for locks. The layoffs will not begin until March and then will occur over a "gradual transition" period, David Wemmer, director of Bay Area operations for Schlage, said Friday.
Schlage determined that contracting out the work would be cheaper than the major capital investments required to upgrade the San Francisco manufacturing operations, according to a statement from Ingersoll-Rand, Schlage's New Jersey-based parent.
Wemmer said Ingersoll-Rand had decided money would be better spent on new product development, marketing and customer service and support.
Schlage has had a long working relationship with its internal-component suppliers in Southern California, Michigan and Arizona, said Wemmer.
Some 100 company employees in customer service, technology and other jobs at the Bayshore Boulevard offices, will be unaffected by the closure of the manufacturing operations and will continue to be based in The City.
In all, Schlage has some 3,000 employees, including those at manufacturing facilities in San Jose and Security, Colo.; a distribution center in Lexana, Kan., and fabrication and assembly facilities in Mexico.
Of the 200 employees who work two shifts at Schlage, 106 are members of the International Association of Machinists, and nine are members of the Metal Polishers and Platers Lodge of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers.
Moran, who negotiated with Schlage officials on the workers' behalf, said employees would receive "an excellent severance package."
He said about 60 percent of the workers were unskilled or semi-skilled, with hourly wages ranging from $9.60 for new hires to $12.07. The workers will be able to find jobs that match or top those wages, but Schlage provided an excellent health-and-welfare package and a good pension plan that will be difficult to match, Moran said.
Skilled workers, he said, earn more than $20 an hour.
The shop also includes 38 tool and dye workers, who are not members of unions. They are, however, the highest-paid tool and dye workers employed by Ingersoll-Rand, Moran said.
The Schlage property is one of nine Environmental Protection Agency "Superfund" sites in San Francisco, meaning its soil contains hazardous waste. However, that did not influence the business decision to close the manufacturing operation, said Paul Dickard, director of public relations for Ingersoll-Rand.
Wemmer added that the decision to phase out manufacturing of component parts was "not a reflection of what the associates in San Francisco have been trying to do."
He added, "We are very appreciative of the hard work that they have done. It is just something that is not in line with the long-term direction of the company any more." <
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Federal court rules Pa. ban on alcohol ads in student media is unconstitutional
PENNSYLVANIA — A federal appeals court ruled on July 29 that a state law banning paid alcohol advertisements in student media was a violation of the First Amendment.
The law, known as Act 199, was enacted in 1996 and prohibited the advertisement of alcoholic beverages in any medium that is "published by, for or in behalf or any educational institution."
Under the act, college newspapers could not run advertisements if they contained any information about alcohol.
In conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, The Pitt News, a student newspaper at the University of Pittsburgh, filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania attorney general, the Pennsylvania State Police and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board in 1999.
The newspaper sued after a local restaurant was fined for placing alcohol-related ads in the publication. After the fine, the newspaper said many local businesses stopped advertising, which resulted in a $17,000 decrease in newspaper's annual advertising revenue.
A first-time violation of the law could have resulted in a maximum fine of $500 and a three-month prison sentence for advertisers.
The unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said that while the law intended to curb underage drinking, students still were exposed to advertisements on the radio, television and in other community nonstudent publications distributed on campus.
"The suggestion that the elimination of alcoholic beverage ads from the Pitt News and other publications connected with the University will slacken the demand for alcohol by [University of Pittsburgh] students is counterintuitive and unsupported by any evidence that the Commonwealth has called to our attention," the court said.
The court also said the law is not tailored to achieve its goal of curtailing underage or abusive drinking, noting that 67 percent of the students on campus were of legal drinking age, as were 75 percent of the total university population.
The panel also found the law to be unconstitutional because it placed a financial burden on a narrow segment of the media — college and university publications.
The court's ruling overturns several previous rulings that found the law to be within the bounds of the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled in 1999 that the newspaper did not have standing to challenge the statute because the act only targeted advertisers and not the student media. The newspaper appealed the decision, however, a three-judge panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected the appeal in June 2000, saying the newspaper could not argue that the First Amendment rights of businesses were being violated.
Lawyers for the newspaper petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in November 2000 to hear the case, but the high court declined and sent the case back to the federal district court in January 2001.
The federal district court ruled against newspaper for the second time in February 2003, granting summary judgment to the defendants. The court said that student newspapers have a First Amendment right to determine their content, but ruled that The Pitt News did not show that the act violates these rights. The court stressed the law was directed at advertisers and that student publications were not punished for printing alcohol-related ads.
The newspaper appealed that decision, and the federal appeals court heard oral arguments on the appeal in January.
Several media organizations, including the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Student Press Law Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.
"Eight years after this law was enacted, a court has finally recognized how irrational and unconstitutional it was," said SPLC executive director Mark Goodman. "The staff of The Pitt News deserves much credit for its willingness to fight this over the course of many years. College student newspapers around the state will be the beneficiaries of its courage."
View the court's decision in The Pitt News v. Pappert, No. 03-1725 (3rd Cir., July 29, 2004).
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Read previous coverage:
Appeals court hears challenge to Pa. ban on alcohol ads in student newspapers News Flash, 1/27/2003
Penn. college newspapers hurt by anti-alcohol advertising law News Flash, 9/26/2003
Alcohol ad ban for Pa. student press is not unconstitutional, federal court rules News Flash, 2/21/2003
Supreme Court refuses to hear paper's appeal The Report, Spring 2001
High Court refuses to hear appeal of state law banning alcohol ads in student publications News Flash, 1/22/2001
Students ask High Court to overturn state ban on alcohol advertising in college publications The Report, Winter 2000-2001
Court upholds state ban on alcohol advertising in college newspapers The Report, Fall 2000
Federal court of appeals upholds state ban on alcohol adsin college newspapers News Flash, 6/8/2000
Battle brews over alcohol ads in college media The Report, Fall 1999
Students and ACLU fight for the right to advertise alcoholin newspapers The Report, Spring 1999
Modern day Prohibition The Report, Fall 1998
Penn State editor counters state ad ban The Report, Spring 1998
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Yes, they are BUYING land during a CRISIS
Categories: Basics - Property Investment, China and Hong Kong Property related
The go-getter usually gets what they want to get because they are always looking and looking and pounding on the right opportunities. This is the same for property developers in Malaysia. We continue to occasionally read about land buying before the COVID-19 hit us. Perhaps with the current Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO), we will soon hear of these land acquisition news as well?
In Hong Kong, property developers continue to bid a lot of money for land. They (property developers) are bidding to win because they could then build homes to be sold to Hong Kongers who needs a roof over their head. Real estate is a big thing in Hong Kong. Even car park space could become an investment asset. Earlier article about car park space being bought and sold for a profit here. As for Hong Kong land bidding, here's one happy company which has won versus its rivals. CK Asset Holdings, the property arm of Li Ka-ching's empire has outbid its rivals to win a land plot in Kowloon for a bargain price of HK$4.95 billion (RM2.79 billion). Wait a minute, just buying land alone is RM2.79 billion?
Article in forbes.com With regards to CK Asset Holdings' winning bid, this was what Thomas Lam, head of valuations and advisory at Knight Frank said, "The winning bid is slightly lower than expected, and the result is still encouraging as there was no tender withdrawal this time. The site came with stringent requirements, including providing at least 1,000 starter homes and various controls on eligible buyers as well as future flat sales arrangements."
CK Asset said it's pleased to have won the tender for the Anderson Road site and will look forward to contributing housing supply to Hong Kong through the development. The project will have both subsidized and private housing. The government's stipulation is that at least 1,000 of the site's apartments have to be sold to Hong Kong residents at a 20% discount to market prices. This will help alleviate the city's chronic housing shortfall. Please do read the full and comprehensive article here: Article in forbes.com
The starter home project is an initiative by the Hong Kong government to help eligible middle-class families and single young professionals to buy their first property. This scheme is only for first-time property buyers and those who meet certain asset and income criteria are eligible. That first started home project has flats which range in sizes from 261 to 507 sq ft. It was priced from HK$3.14 million to HK$6.6 million (RM1.77 Million RM3.72 million) after a 38 per cent discount. Reference on the first of such a project in South China Morning Post here.
What CK Asset Holdings have done is to invest for their future development. What this tells us is that beyond just looking at current situation, it's important to also look into the future and investing towards it today. There's definitely some risks involved. All the What Ifs and What may happen. Their experience in the real estate world may have helped them to come to the winning bid, even if it's slightly lower as per Knight Frank.
This may just be a good question. Do we think property is a necessity or do we think of properties like a car. Do we think our purchase of our first property has the same status as our purchase of our very first car? Or our very first iPhone? By the way, renting is definitely cheaper today when compared to the potential mortgage which one has to pay for the same home. The question is for how long? There's no need to answer or even to debate. The action is in your hands yeah. Happy deciding what makes us happy.
Next suggested article: Someone won after 136 rounds of bidding. The price is a RM10,500 per sq ft home.
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LANE CLOSURES WILL BEGIN FOR THE WESTBOUND LEFT TURN LANE WIDENING ON S.R. 261 AT S.R. 43 (S. WATER ST.) THE FOLLOWING CLOSURES WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL MAY, 2019.
THE WESTBOUND LEFT TURN LANE ON S.R. 261 WILL BE CLOSED AT S.R. 43. LEFT TURN TRAFFIC WILL BE MAINTAINED DURING THIS WORK. AS AN ALTERNATE ROUTE, WESTBOUND TRAFFIC ON S.R. 261 MAY TURN LEFT ONTO CAMPUS CENTER DRIVE TO MELOY ROAD THEN TURN RIGHT ONTO MELOY ROAD TO S.R. 43. SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC ON CAMPUS CENTER DRIVE CAN CONTINUE STRAIGHT ON CAMPUS CENTER DRIVE AT S.R. 261 TO MELOY ROAD THEN RIGHT ONTO MELOY ROAD TO S.R. 43.
ADDITIONALLY, THE EASTBOUND LEFT LANE ON S.R. 261 WILL BE CLOSED EAST OF S.R. 43. ALL EASTBOUND TRAFFIC ON S.R. 261 AT S.R. 43 WILL BE DIRECTED TO USE THE RlGHT LANE.


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"Wanted to add a touch of fitness to my business campaign. That is why I went for these pedometers. "
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Q: Условие подстановки переменной lua У меня очень маленький опыт работы с lua. У меня есть lua скрипт, который подставляет переменную в Rest API запрос:
USR_ID = nil
KROPISANIE = nil
OPISANIE = nil
ITEMID = nil
CATID = nil
TYPETS = nil
OPRICH = nil
SPOSOB = nil
PRICHTS = nil
MERY = nil
VINOV = nil
PRIOR = nil
success, err = ASSYST:connect()
result, err = ASSYST:sql(string.format([[
with assyst_test_bc (USR_ID,KROPISANIE,OPISANIE,ITEMID,CATID,TYPETS,OPRICH,SPOSOB,PRICHTS,MERY,VINOV,PRIOR) AS (
SELECT   i.aff_usr_id AS 'USR_ID',
REPLACE(i.short_desc, ' ', '+') AS 'KROPISANIE',
REPLACE(SUBSTRING(id.remarks, -3, CHARINDEX('<==#', id.remarks)), ' ', '+') as 'OPISANIE',
i.item_id as 'ITEMID',
i.inc_cat_id as 'CATID',
MAX(CASE WHEN cp.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id = 3945 THEN ikd.jptsys_web_lkup_data_sc END) AS 'TYPETS',
MAX(CASE WHEN cp.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id = 3946 THEN ikd.jptsys_web_lkup_data_sc END) AS 'OPRICH',
REPLACE(MAX(CASE WHEN cp.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id = 4048 THEN pc.string_value END), ' ', '+') AS 'SPOSOB',
REPLACE(MAX(CASE WHEN cp.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id = 4051 THEN pc.string_value END), ' ', '+') AS 'PRICHTS',
REPLACE(MAX(CASE WHEN cp.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id = 4052 THEN pc.string_value END), ' ', '+') AS 'MERY',
MAX(CASE WHEN cp.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id = 4053 THEN CONVERT(varchar, pc.LOOKUP_VAL_Id) END) AS 'VINOV'
,MAX(CASE WHEN cp.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id = 3925 THEN ikd.jptsys_web_lkup_data_sc END) as 'PRIOR'

FROM         jptsys_web_cust_prop_cont as pc INNER JOIN
                      jptsys_web_cust_prop as cp ON pc.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id = cp.jptsys_web_cust_prop_id INNER JOIN
                      jptsys_web_lkup_data as ikd ON pc.single_sel_val_id = ikd.jptsys_web_lkup_data_id INNER JOIN
                      incident as i ON pc.entity_id = i.incident_id INNER JOIN
                      inc_data as id ON i.incident_id = id.incident_id
 WHERE  i.incident_id = ']] .. EVENT_ID .. [['
 and ikd.jptsys_web_lkup_data_sc not in ('NTC','3TC')
group by i.aff_usr_id,i.short_desc,id.remarks,i.item_id,i.inc_cat_id,i.incident_id
 )

select *
from assyst_test_bc
where PRIOR IS NOT NULL ]]))
if not result then
    USR_ID = " "
    KROPISANIE = " "
    OPISANIE = " "
    ITEMID = " "
    CATID = " "
    TYPETS = " "
    OPRICH = " "
    SPOSOB = "тест"
    PRICHTS = " "
    MERY = " "
    VINOV = " "
    PRIOR = " "
elseif result.n == 1 then
    USR_ID = result.USR_ID
    KROPISANIE = result.KROPISANIE
    OPISANIE = result.OPISANIE
    ITEMID = result.ITEMID
    CATID = result.CATID
    TYPETS = result.TYPETS
    OPRICH = result.OPRICH
    SPOSOB = result.SPOSOB
    PRICHTS = result.PRICHTS
    MERY = result.MERY
    VINOV = result.VINOV
    PRIOR = result.PRIOR
else
    USR_ID = " "
    KROPISANIE = " "
    OPISANIE = " "
    ITEMID = " "
    CATID = " "
    TYPETS = " "
    OPRICH = " "
    SPOSOB = "тест"
    PRICHTS = " "
    MERY = " "
    VINOV = " "
    PRIOR = " "
end
ASSYST:disconnect()

local http = require("socket.http")
local http_url = require("socket.url")
local RESULT_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8989/assyst/assystEJB/Event/new?eventType=problem&entityDefinitionId=339&affectedUserId=' .. USR_ID .. "&itemAId=" .. ITEMID .. "&categoryId=" .. CATID .. "&assignedServDeptId=1704&remarks=%22" .. OPISANIE .. "%22&shortDescription=%22" .. KROPISANIE .. "%22&custom.field.4075=%22" .. SPOSOB .. "%22&custom.field.4073=%22" .. TYPETS .. "%22&custom.field.4074=%22" .. OPRICH .. "%22&custom.field.4077=%22" .. PRICHTS .. "%22&custom.field.4078=%22" .. MERY .. "%22&custom.field.4081=" .. VINOV .. "&fields=formattedReference,dateLogged"

local RESULT_REQUEST = http.request(RESULT_URL)

Rest API не воспринимает пустое значение, который возвращает sql запрос. Я пытаюсь задать условие в lua, что если sql запрос ничего не возвращает, то в переменную подставлялся текст. В приложенном варианте lua работает, но в rest api запрос не подставляется текст из переменной и поэтому рест не отрабатывает.
Что я не так делаю?
P.S. дополнительный вопрос: есть ли в lua возможность логировать результат url запроса?

A: Вот так?
USR_ID = result.USR_ID or ""
    KROPISANIE = result.KROPISANIE or ""
    OPISANIE = result.OPISANIE or ""
    ITEMID = result.ITEMID or ""
    CATID = result.CATID or ""
    TYPETS = result.TYPETS or ""
    OPRICH = result.OPRICH or ""
    SPOSOB = result.SPOSOB or ""
    PRICHTS = result.PRICHTS or ""
    MERY = result.MERY or ""
    VINOV = result.VINOV or ""
    PRIOR = result.PRIOR or ""

Если слева от or пустота (nil), то подставится то что справа, то есть "", а если нет, то что слева


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/****************************************************************************
*   PROJECT: Squeak port for Win32 (NT / Win95)
*   FILE:    sqWin32ExternalPrims.c
*   CONTENT: External (named) primitive support
*
*   AUTHOR:  Andreas Raab (ar)
*   ADDRESS: University of Magdeburg, Germany
*   EMAIL:   raab@isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
*   RCSID:   $Id: sqWin32ExternalPrims.c 1224 2005-06-22 07:31:28Z bernd $
*
*   NOTES:
*     1) Currently, we're looking for DLLs named either sample.dll or sample32.dll
*
*****************************************************************************/
#include <stdio.h>
#include "sq.h"

/* Return the module entry for the given module name */
void *ioLoadModule(char *pluginName)
{
	return NULL;
}

void *ioFindExternalFunctionIn(char *lookupName, void *moduleHandle)
{
	return NULL;
}

sqInt ioFreeModule(void *moduleHandle)
{
	return 0;
}