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| Saved Stories - None: 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (27 sites): FOX News: Boredom prompts half of Americans to start holiday shopping early, study claims |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:37:20 -0400 Its always such a relief to have Christmas shopping done before Halloween.
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| Saved Stories - None: Trump Investigations from Michael_Novakhov (124 sites): 1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (197 sites): Donald Trump | The Guardian: Bidens team hopes for repeat of his 2012 performance as Trump debate nears |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:36:47 -0400 The vice-presidential candidate who debated Paul Ryan helped turn the trajectory of Obamas reelection campaign For Democrats and supporters of former vice-president Joe Bidens presidential campaign, the hope is that the version of Biden who faced then-congressman Paul Ryan back in 2012 shows up for the debate against Donald Trump on Tuesday in Ohio. The Biden who showed up for the Ryan debate eight years ago helped turn around the trajectory of then-President Barack Obamas reelection campaign. Ask just about any former Obama campaign alumna or Democratic strategist and they will concede that Obamas performance against Mitt Romney in the first debate was lacking. Related: Could Republicans ignore the popular vote and choose their own pro-Trump electors?
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| Saved Stories - None: Trump Investigations from Michael_Novakhov (124 sites): 1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (197 sites): Donald Trump | The Guardian: US election polls tracker: who is leading in the swing states? |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:36:17 -0400 As the presidential campaign heats up, the Guardian is tracking the latest polling in eight states that could decide the election Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump in the national polls for the presidential election.
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| Saved Stories - None: Counterintelligence from Michael_Novakhov (51 sites): fbi Google News: Showtimes The Comey Rule makes the former FBI director into the good guy he never was NBC News |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:35:45 -0400 Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ makes the former FBI director into ‘the good guy’ he never was NBC News
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| Saved Stories - None: Counterintelligence from Michael_Novakhov (51 sites): fbi Google News: Showtimes The Comey Rule makes the former FBI director into the good guy he never was NBC News |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:35:15 -0400 Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ makes the former FBI director into ‘the good guy’ he never was NBC News
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| Saved Stories - None: The News And Times: 4:25 AM 9/27/2020 Blogs Review: Michael Novakhov SharedNewsLinks: Putin wants the new Cyber Curtain, to protect his Tzardom Google Search |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:34:47 -0400 4:25 AM 9/27/2020 – Blogs – Links and Pages – The News and Times – Blogs by Michael NovakhovMichael Novakhov – SharedNewsLinks: Putin wants the new Cyber Curtain, to protect his Tzardom – Google SearchBlogs – Links and Pages – The News and Times – Blogs by Michael Novakhov on RSS Dog | New Page | In Brief – Page____________________________________________Blogs from Michael_Novakhov (27 sites)
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| Saved Stories - None: mikenov on Twitter: 4:25 AM 9/27/2020 Blogs Review: Michael Novakhov SharedNewsLinks: Putin wants the new Cyber Curtain, to protect his Tzardom Google Search thenewsandtimes.blogspot.com/2020/09/425-am pic.twitter.com/RS4NFILu |
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| Saved Stories - None: Showtimes The Comey Rule makes the former FBI director into the good guy he never was |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:32:25 -0400 For many Americans me included the 2016 election still feels like an open wound; I have since felt an intermittent, sick curiosity about what the devastating ascendance of the Trump administration would look like filtered through every premium cable networks sacred duty to make a too-close-to-the-event TV movie about the news, multiplied by … Continue reading"Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ makes the former FBI director into ‘the good guy’ he never was" |
| Saved Stories - None: Showtime's 'The Comey Rule' makes the former FBI director into 'the good guy' he never was |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 05:13:59 -0400 For many Americans — me included — the 2016 election still feels like an open wound; I have since felt an intermittent, sick curiosity about what the devastating ascendance of the Trump administration would look like filtered through every premium cable network’s sacred duty to make a too-close-to-the-event TV movie about the news, multiplied by the acquisition of politicians’ self-serving memoirs then filtered through screenwriters who were only half paying attention at the time Well, now I know, having watched Billy Ray’s two-night, three-hour extravaganza, which has been released by Showtime under the name “The Comey Rule,” possibly because “But Her Emails: The Movie” seemed insufficiently momentous. It’s styled as a political thriller about the tragic hero, former FBI Director James Comey, based on his memoir "A Higher Loyalty," and is Shakespearean in tone and Wagnerian in length — airing over two hour-and-a-half-ish segments on Sunday and Monday. Here's the problem: Ray has tried to craft a film about a great man’s downfall, but there are no great men in this tale. Lacking any, he had to grant both Comey and Trump the grand stature neither deserved, but which is necessary to the project, to make the movie's hero and his nemesis seem important and not silly. He’s betrayed from the outset by his source material: what makes a tragedy a tragedy is that the protagonist, though flawed, suffers more than he should. James Comey has not suffered more than he should; he lost a job after a series of totally avoidable bad acts that cost the rest of us dearly, and then Showtime acquired his corny tell-all and hired Jeff Daniels to play him. Ray is a good writer — his 2007 screenplay about a corrupt FBI agent, “Breach,” demonstrated an uncommon gift for structure and character. It is also the work of a man who takes official Washington, D.C., its denizens and their self-regard far too seriously; that is just not something anybody can or should do without being laughed at these days. RelatedTo be fair, any reporter would have serious quibbles with a dramatic adaptation of a big story on his beat, but Comey the real-life FBI director has to be radically altered to become the character Jeff Daniels plays in this goofy hagiography. Daniels’s Comey is stoic, understated and impossibly dry; his only crime is a selfless devotion to the virtues represented by his agency and the constitution and embodied in himself. This is in stark contrast to the actual James Comey who, as deputy attorney general (alongside his predecessor at the FBI, Robert Mueller), oversaw the unprecedented expansion of federal authority under first the Bush administration and then yet further under the Obama administration. That Trump has as much legal authority as he does — which liberals, Comey and the film all seem to bemoan — can be credibly laid at Comey’s feet because of his work at the Department of Justice even before he personally tossed Trump that October surprise about Hilary Clinton's emails that probably won him the presidency. RelatedRay’s film has Comey self-assuredly walking the halls of the Hoover building and the streets of D.C., softly issuing orders and keeping his own council as events unfold before him. We are told that the FBI is "having trouble" with Apple; in truth, the FBI tried to compel Apple to break its own encryption, a horrific scenario for public data security. The movie then tells us that Comey's FBI is fighting terrorism; in many cases, it did so with elaborate theatrical traps that drew condemnation from human rights organizations. Comey is then packed off to visit the child exploitation force — which actually distributed countless images of child abuse as part of a sting operation during his tenure. All of this is in service of Ray's hero-creation and Comey's own self-aggrandizement; an actual movie about the Comey-Trump dynamic could have complicated Comey in service of the plot itself. After all, at every turn, the real-life Comey tried to abridge the rights accorded to people charged with evil, inhuman offenses; when it did so successfully, the bureau was left with case law that gave it ever-greater discretion to abridge everyone else’s rights whenever it saw fit — which is the point, according to our own constitution, of granting strong rights to the worst among us from the outset. And now that authority developed by Comey belongs to Christopher Wray, a Trump flunky who is investigating ginned-up allegations of misconduct into Comey’s own investigation of Michael Flynn. Comey is the architect of his own misfortune — but also of quite a few other people’s. That’s not how the man sees himself, though, and so that’s not how “The Comey Rule” sees him. “If I make mistakes, I know they’ll be honest ones,” Daniels replies. What a guy. RecommendedOn the other hand, I’m not sure Brendan Gleason, who plays Donald Trump, is any good in this thing, but he, at least, is fascinating to watch. Every actor playing Trump has to fall back on imitating his grotesque mannerisms rather than trying to plumb the depths of his inner life (because he doesn’t appear to have one); Gleason doesn’t look or bother to look much like Trump, but he does have the aggrieved rambling down pat. For about an hour after he trudges into the frame, “The Comey Rule” is both impossible to watch and impossible to look away from. That's because, at that point in the action, you have James Comey, Jeff Sessions, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein and any number of other career politicos trying to engage in the delicate and subtle manipulations of warring chessmasters, and then there’s Trump — unacknowledged and dominant as a fart — sitting hunched over in the middle of the room, mumbling about ratings and whores. It’s a performance to make the flesh crawl, and Ray gets us every lip-smack and sniff. As Gleason’s Trump yammers aimlessly, “The Comey Rule” offers a glimpse of what it might have been — which is to say, it could have reached less for Shakespeare and more for Harold Pinter, with an appropriate lack of respect for people who bit and scratched their way to the pinnacles of power. But Ray isn’t Pinter and "The Comey Rule" isn't a tragedy. It's just kind of pitiful, and its pity is wasted on the wrong people. Sam Thielman is a reporter and critic based in New York. He is the creator, with film critic Alissa Wilkinson, of Young Adult Movie Ministry, a podcast about Christianity and movies, and his writing has been featured in The Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo and Variety. In 2017 he was political consultant for Comedy Central's "The President Show." |
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| Saved Stories - None: 4:25 AM 9/27/2020 - Blogs Review: Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks: Putin wants the new Cyber Curtain, to protect his Tzardom - Google Search |
| Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:44:28 -0400 4:25 AM 9/27/2020 - Blogs - Links and Pages - The News and Times - Blogs by Michael Novakhov Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks: Putin wants the new Cyber Curtain, to protect his Tzardom - Google Search Blogs - Links and Pages - The News and Times - Blogs by Michael Novakhov on RSS Dog | New Page | In Brief - Page ____________________________________________ |
| Saved Stories - None: 1. Podcasts from Michael_Novakhov (23 sites): Newshour: Trump to pick Amy Coney Barrett for US Supreme Court |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:32:34 -0400 President Trump is expected to name the conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacant seat on the US Supreme Court – a move likely to draw opposition from liberals worried about her stance on abortion and gun rights. We hear from a friend and colleague. Also on the programme: Lebanon’s Prime Minister designate says he’s stepping down after failing to form a government; and Switzerland votes in a controversial referendum on hunting wild wolves. (Photo: Judge Amy Coney Barrett poses in an undated photograph. Credit: Matt Cashore/Notre Dame University/Handout via REUTERS) Download audio: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-low/proto/http/vpid/p08smlnx.mp3
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| Saved Stories - None: Counterintelligence from Michael_Novakhov (51 sites): counterintelligence Google News: Steeles Dossier Source Was a Suspected Russian Spy National Review |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:31:50 -0400 Steeles Dossier Source Was a Suspected Russian Spy National Review
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| Saved Stories - None: Trump Investigations from Michael_Novakhov (124 sites): Donald Trump: Assistant U.S. Attorney Says William Barr Dishonors Justice Department |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:31:04 -0400 Current federal prosecutor James Herbert said Barr “has brought shame on the department he purports to lead.”
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| Saved Stories - None: 1. Russia from Michael_Novakhov (115 sites): NYT > World > Europe: Paris Suspect Said Attack Was Aimed at Paper That Mocked Islams Prophet |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:30:46 -0400 An 18-year-old immigrant from Pakistan was arrested on Friday after the stabbing of two people near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which was targeted in a 2015 terrorist attack.
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| Saved Stories - None: 1. Russia from Michael_Novakhov (115 sites): Voice of America English: In Leaders UN Videos, Backgrounds Tell Stories, Too |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:30:16 -0400 Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the world to “reject attempts to build blocks to keep others out” as an image of his country’s storied Great Wall hung behind him. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte used photos and videos to illustrate what he was talking about. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison shared his policy views and his scenic view of Sydney Harbor. If the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting of national leaders is always a window on the world, this year the window is opening directly onto their desks, presidential palaces and homelands. Staying home because of the coronavirus pandemic, they are speaking by video, adding a new layer of imagemaking to the messages and personas they seek to project. “They have to be authentic, they have to be believable, and this is even more of a challenge virtually. But it need not be, if you’re able to think about how to use your background creatively,” said Steven D. Cohen, a Johns Hopkins University business communication professor who has coached politicians. “They can use what happens in the frame to complement those messages, to break through the glass of the computer and connect through stories, through visions,” he said. The General Assembly hall’s podium has provided decades of presidents, prime ministers and monarchs with a coveted portrait of statesmanship and a setting conducive to it. While it’s no secret that many speeches are aimed largely at domestic audiences, sideline encounters and the prospect of live reactions from the international community can be “a factor for nudging people into what multilateral diplomacy is all about: finding common cause,” said Richard Ponzio, a former U.S. State Department and U.N. official and now a fellow at the Stimson Center, a foreign policy think tank. TV-style chyrons Others enhanced their presentations with subtitles or even cable-news-style chyrons, like “HOW WE CAN BUILD A BETTER FUTURE FOR ALL” and “WE MUST LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND” to underscore key messages from eSwatini’s prime minister, Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini. Duterte overlaid parts of his speech with relevant photos and videos of coronavirus test centers, storms and more, going well beyond the maps and pictures that leaders occasionally hold up at the assembly podium. Without the hall, some speakers opted for a more approachable posture. Pope Francis, for example, eschewed a podium to stand close to the camera in a bookcase-lined room, as though speaking to a visitor. Many leaders sat at desks, sometimes giving the world a glimpse of personal photos, stacks of books and other presumably carefully curated workaday items, including a coffee cup for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Speaking from a desk connotes being “friendly, conversational, trying to connect with people,” said Jim Bennett, executive director of the Virtual Meetings and Events Association, an event planners’ clearinghouse. But desks especially large ones also can signal authority. Morrison chose an even more conversational setting: a sunny spot overlooking the city’s famous harbor and opera house, with boats passing in the background. Morrison, who has complained in the past about international institutions bossing countries around, called the virus a reminder of the importance of multinational cooperation, though he added that international institutions need to be “accountable to the sovereign states that form them.” Cheer from Fiji Fiji’s prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, had a crowd in the background of his speech for a special session on the U.N.’s 75th anniversary. After his remarks highlighting Fiji’s role in peacekeeping missions and ocean preservation efforts, he and the spectators gave the U.N. a birthday cheer. To be sure, many leaders spoke the traditional visual language of political speechmaking, flanked by flags with TV-friendly plain backdrops. Many others appeared in well-appointed offices and ceremonial rooms that could provide plenty of fodder for the decor-ranking that took flight online this spring as the pandemic forced TV commentators and other public figures to work from home. Kausea Natano, the prime minister of the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, gave the global audience a picture of its tropical shore. For heads of state, of course, a backdrop often speaks to more than individual taste. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke against a panorama of the Acropolis and the Parthenon. The prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, seized on the chance to mark his country’s claim in a territorial dispute, appearing in front of a map that showed the British-controlled Chagos Islands as part of Mauritius while discussing the countries’ long-running disagreement over the archipelago. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro spoke before a large portrait of 19th-century South American independence leader Simón Bolivar and invoked him while lashing out at the United States, which doesn’t recognize Maduro as Venezuela’s president. U.S. President Donald Trump, for his part, used the White House diplomatic reception room to film an uncommonly brief address focused on criticizing China. Palau’s president, for one, used his video to send a more up-close-and-personal message. in his final U.N. speech after serving as the Pacific island nation’s leader for 16 of the last 20 years. With some points of pride in the background a U.N. environmental award and baseball and basketball trophies from teams on which he played and a bright pink polo shirt instead of the dark suits he wore to the assembly rostrum over the years, Tommy E. Remengesau Jr. reflected on what the group has and hasn’t tackled since he first addressed it in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks in 2001. “My message then was one of unity,” he said, and “this call remains apt today.”
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| Saved Stories - None: Global Security News from Michael_Novakhov (30 sites): 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (27 sites): FOX News: From Mideast to AL East: Orioles Israeli prospect blooms |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:29:29 -0400 Dean Kremer is a budding celebrity in Israel and a developing star in the big leagues.
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| Saved Stories - None: Global Security News from Michael_Novakhov (30 sites): 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (27 sites): FOX News: Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Amy Coney Barrett gets Dem opposition because shes a conservative woman of faith |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:28:59 -0400 Even before President Trump nominated U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Saturday to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Democrats had already determined Barrett was unfit to occupy the seat.
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| Saved Stories - None: 26/09/20 15:41 from Disease X-19 from Michael_Novakhov (82 sites) Probe into 'discarded' ballots becomes campaign outrage fuel. Associated Press. Yahoo News |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:46:47 -0400 26/09/20 15:41 from Disease X-19 from Michael_Novakhov (82 sites) Probe into 'discarded' ballots becomes campaign outrage fuel. Associated Press. Yahoo NewsDisease X-19 News Review In Brief _________________________________________________ » Disease X-19 Publications from Michael_Novakhov (5 sites): Google Alert - Coronavirus on Yahoo News: 50 staffers at SI school must quarantine after coronavirus case » Disease X-19 Symptoms from Michael_Novakhov (16 sites): Google Alert - Covid-19 blood clots: Tissue Plasminogen Activator Market to Witness Robust Expansion by 2026 with Top Key Players ... » Disease X-19 Regions from Michael_Novakhov (8 sites): Google Alert - coronavirus in israel: Israel to hold US-mediated talks with Lebanon on sea border » Disease X-19 Epidemiology from Michael_Novakhov (38 sites): Google Alert - sweden herd immunity: New study finds less than 10% of Americans have antibodies against novel coronavirus » Disease X-19 Epidemiology from Michael_Novakhov (38 sites): Google Alert - Coronavirus: various strains and illness severity: 22.4 percent of Wisconsin COVID-19 tests return positive, 7 more dead » Disease X-19 Epidemiology from Michael_Novakhov (38 sites): Google Alert - coronavirus epidemiology: Daniel Andrews will detail the next step in Melbourne's coronavirus restrictions roadmap today |
| Saved Stories - None: Putin wants the new Cyber Curtain, to protect his Tzardom - Google Search |
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:54:27 -0400Russia's controversial sovereign internet law goes into forcewww.cnbc.com › 2019/11/01 › russia-controversial-sover... www.cnbc.com › 2019/11/01 › russia-controversial-sover... Nov 1, 2019 - On Friday, a controversial law went into force that enables Russia to try to ... It's been called an online Iron Curtain. ... Vladimir Putin in May, is a security measure to protect Russia in the ... How do you stop a cyberwar? ... The new law, he said, will end up making the internet less reliable for users in Russia. People also search forRussia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here's ...www.technologyreview.com › 2019/03/21 › russia-wan... www.technologyreview.com › 2019/03/21 › russia-wan... Mar 21, 2019 - In the next two weeks, Russia is planning to attempt something no other ... Pulling an iron curtain down over the internet is a simple idea, but don't ... Your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology ... The purpose, the Kremlin says, is to make Russia's internet independent and easier to defend against ... People also search forRussia internet: Law introducing new controls comes into ...www.bbc.com › news › world-europe-50259597 www.bbc.com › news › world-europe-50259597 Nov 1, 2019 - Critics fear the government may use the new "sovereign internet" law to ... The Kremlin has said the law will improve cyber security. ... Supporters say this is to protect the system from attacks from abroad. ... The DPI technology being tested allows the state regulator to filter traffic and block what it wants. Missing: |
| Saved Stories - None: News Review - 23 - 26 Sep 2020: Former South Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Under Federal Investigation CBS Miami Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:38 |
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| Saved Stories - None: Former South Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Under Federal Investigation CBS Miami |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:38:57 -0400 MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Former Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is under federal investigation by the Justice Department for allegedly spending campaign money on personal trips and vacations for her and her family, CBS Miami has learned. In recent weeks, former members of her staff have been subpoenaed to either provide records or appear before a grand jury regarding tens of thousands of dollars of expenditures by Ros-Lehtinen, including a 2017 trip to Walt Disney World with her children and grandchildren. The investigation is being run by the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. News of the federal investigation has not been previously reported. Ros-Lehtinen declined to be interviewed for this story. Her attorney, Jeffrey Weiner, said Ros-Lehtinen is aware of the investigations. “She and her former staff members and volunteers are cooperating fully with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice,” Weiner said in a statement to CBS Miami. “We are gathering the information requested by the Department of Justice and are confident that, if bookkeeping errors were committed, they were due to negligence, and not willful or intentional misconduct by the former congresswoman or anyone on her staff, or her accountants.” “As my team and I have investigated and studied the facts in this matter,” Weiner added, “we have not found any evidence whatsoever of intentional wrongdoing by Ileana or anyone on her behalf.” After announcing on April 30, 2017 that she would not seek re-election in 2018, Ros-Lehtinen transferred more than $177,000 from her re-election campaign account to IRL PAC, a political action committee that she controlled. It is not uncommon for politicians to have PACs to support their political activities. And some of the IRL PAC’s spending is political in nature. Under federal law, however, campaign funds – even those funds that are transferred to a political action committee – cannot be spent on what election law describes as “personal use.”  Expenditures under review by the U.S. Department of Justice. (CBS4) A review of IRL PAC expense reports shows a series of questionable expenditures, including nearly $4,000 spent on the family trip to Disney World in December 2017. Other expenditures include more than $10,000 on rooms at the Lotte New York Palace in New York; nearly $6,000 on rooms and meals at the Ritz-Carlton resort on Amelia Island in northern Florida; and another $28,000 at the W Hotel on South Beach. On New Year’s Eve 2018, just days before she left office, she spent $3,100 at MesaMar, a high-end seafood restaurant in Coral Gables, according to the PAC’s expense reports. Weiner, Ros-Lehtinen’s attorney, declined to explain the political or campaign-related purpose of those expenditures. Ros-Lehtinen’s campaign spending was first reported by Noah Pransky on the Florida Politics website in June 2019. Following that news report, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group, filed a complaint in October against Ros-Lehtinen with the Federal Elections Commission. The complaint alleges: “There is reason to believe that IRL PAC” violated federal law “by converting contributions for personal use, including a family trip to Disney World and tens of thousands of dollars of expenses at luxury hotels, none of which have any apparent connection to Rep. Ros-Lehtinen’s candidacy or duties as an officeholder.” A spokesman at the FEC declined to comment on the status of the complaint. Since June, however, the FEC has been unable to act because President Trump has kept three seats on the six-member commission open, preventing it from having a quorum to investigate any possible abuses of campaign spending across the country. Typically, cases before the FEC are resolved administratively, with candidates returning the money and paying a fine. In more serious cases, the FEC can refer the allegations to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. It is not known if the FEC referred the Ros-Lehtinen investigation to the Justice Department or if federal prosecutors took an interest in the case on their own. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. Weiner said federal prosecutors would have a very high burden to bring a criminal case against Ros-Lehtinen. “For a campaign or PAC election law violation to be a crime,” Weiner said, “there must be proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the violation or violations were committed `knowingly and willfully.’ In other words, the government must be able to prove conclusively that the person to be charged knew that the conduct was intentional and done with an unlawful purpose.” Brendan Fischer, a director at the Campaign Legal Center who filed the FEC complaint against Ros-Lehtinen, agreed there is a high bar on bringing criminal charges, but calls the Justice Department decision to launch an investigation “very significant.” “To open a criminal investigation, the Department of Justice Public Integrity unit presumably had some evidence that these violations were knowing and willful,” Fischer told CBS Miami. In recent years, federal prosecutors have gone after several members of Congress for what prosecutors considered improper campaign spending. In 2016, Congressman Aaron Schock, a Republican from Illinois, was indicted for using campaign funds to decorate his office in a Downton Abbey-themed motif. Charges were ultimately dismissed after Schock resigned from Congress and agreed to pay a fine and reimburse the funds. In March, Congressman Duncan Hunter, a Republican from California, was sentenced to eleven months in federal prison after he pled guilty to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds on vacations, theater tickets and to finance an extramarital affair. Fischer suspects these cases have become more commonplace because of a lack of accountability by the Federal Elections Commission. “Some of this speaks to the FECs general hands-off approach to enforcing campaign finance law,” Fischer said. “I think there has been a number of candidates, of both political parties, who have felt comfortable pushing the legal envelope because they expected to get away with it.” Before announcing her retirement, Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican, served 30 years in Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Florida; the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress from anywhere in the country, as well as its first Cuban American. Numerous politicians such as Senator Marco Rubio, began their ascent in politics working on her campaigns or as interns in her office. “Ileana Ros-Lehtinen enjoyed a sterling reputation for honesty and integrity during her 30 years as our congresswoman,” Weiner said. “She is an extremely popular and beloved community leader and educator. “I will do all within my ability as a lawyer to protect and defend Ileana from criminal charges,” Weiner continued. “She is innocent, and I intend to convince the prosecutors that no crimes were committed. Once the prosecutors have had the opportunity to listen to our witnesses and consider the information we will provide to them, I am confident that they will do the proper and fair thing, and decline to file charges against Ileana.” News of the Justice Department investigation comes at a time when President Trump has been aggressively courting Cuban American voters. |
| Saved Stories - None: DOJ: Steele Dossier Source Suspected Russian Spy |
Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:32:44 -0400 See if you can follow this: In an effort to depict Donald Trump as if he were in an espionage conspiracy with the Kremlin, the Obama administration used bogus information, from a man the FBI suspected was an actual Russian spy, to brand as a suspected Russian spy a former U.S. naval intelligence officer who had actually been a CIA informant. Your head spinning? Mine too. And that’s just the beginning. It turns out that Igor Danchenko, the man the FBI suspected of being an actual Russian spy, initially provided the bogus information about the American, Carter Page, through a former British spy, Christopher Steele. Through a couple of cut-outs, Steele had been retained by the Clinton campaign to dig up — or, alas, to make up — Russian dirt on Trump. Through his private intelligence business in London, Steele was known to be working for Russians oligarchs, while Danchenko was on Steele’s payroll. That is, the Clinton campaign, and ultimately the Obama administration, colluded with Russians for the purpose of accusing Donald Trump of . . . yes . . . colluding with Russians. Danchenko, who in 2005 reportedly told a Russian intelligence officer that he hoped someday to work for the Russian government, became Steele’s source on Trump. Even before October 2016, when the FBI and the Obama Justice Department first sought a surveillance warrant against Page based on the information Steele was compiling, it was obvious that the information was unreliable — some of it laughably so. But the story was just too good. Nobody bothered to check the information or press Steele about its sourcing. NOW WATCH: 'Volunteers Linked to Russian Opposition Were Assaulted With Chemical Weapon' Volunteers Linked to Russian Opposition Were Assaulted With Chemical Weapon Volume 0% Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts Play/PauseSPACE Increase Volume↑ Decrease Volume↓ Seek Forward→ Seek Backward← Captions On/Offc Fullscreen/Exit Fullscreenf Mute/Unmutem Seek %0-9 TikTok Asks Judge to Halt Trump's Ban 00:31 Watch: 0:33 Volunteers Linked to Russian Opposition Were Assaulted With Chemical Weapon For months, Steele had been logged on bureau records as an official FBI informant. Nevertheless, in the most significant investigation in its modern history, the FBI did not identify Steele’s “primary sub-source,” Danchenko, until December 2016 — two months after the bureau, under oath, used the uncorroborated Steele/Danchenko information in what the FBI and Obama Justice Department labeled a “VERIFIED” application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Wait, there’s more. The FBI could easily have figured out Danchenko was Steele’s source months earlier. So why do it in December 2016? Because by then, they had no choice. It had become necessary a few weeks earlier to boot Steele out of the investigation — at least ostensibly. That’s because he had been outed publicly as a media source for information about his investigation of Trump. The public outing of Steele (in a Mother Jones article by David Corn, shortly before the 2016 election) should have come as no surprise. It had been obvious since at least September, when information from Steele was published in a Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, that Steele had been leaking to the media in order to help the Clinton campaign. Yet, the bureau repeatedly represented under oath to the FISC — four times between October 2016 through June 2017 — that “the FBI does not believe that [Steele] directly provided this information [in the Isikoff article] to the press.” To the contrary, as the Justice Department Inspector General (IG) found, there was considerable FBI suspicion that Steele was Isikoff’s source. Moreover, the FBI had continuous access to Steele. Note: I said (above) that Steele was ostensiblykicked out of the investigation. In reality, the bureau continued to get information from Steele through Justice Department official Bruce Ohr (though neither the FBI nor the Justice Department revealed that fact to the FISC). Still, as the IG concluded, no one at the FBI ever asked Steele if he was the source for the Isikoff article. Obviously, they didn’t want to know the answer — that way, they could just keep insisting to court that they didn’t believe he was the source. That doesn’t even scratch the surface of deceit. When FBI agents interviewed Danchenko for three days in January 2017, they learned, undeniably, that Steele’s story about his source “network” — the story the bureau and the Justice Department told the FISC again and again — was a risible distortion. Steele did not have a network of sources; he had Danchenko. In turn, Danchenko had a motley collection of drinking buddies, a grifter, a girlfriend, and an anonymous source Danchenko cannot identify. And, as Eric Felton recounts in infuriatingly hilarious detail, none of these sub-sources could actually vouch for anything they heard, or wildly speculated, about Trump and Russia. The “Well-Developed Conspiracy of Cooperation” Danchenko told FBI agents that a man he labeled “Source 6” was “this guy” whom he thinks — but is not sure — he once talked to on the phone for “about 10 minutes.” In a Thai restaurant, you see, Danchenko ran into a U.S. journalist he managed to chat up about Trump and Russia. The journalist told Danchenko he was “skeptical” because “nothing substantive had turned up” tying the two together. But the journalist referred Danchenko to a “colleague,” who advised Danchenko to talk to “this guy” via email. Danchenko took the email address and tried to reach “this guy” but didn’t get a reply. Weeks later, though, Danchenko got a call from an anonymous Russian who never identified himself. Danchenko assumed it was “this guy” . . . but he can’t say for sure. So, Danchenko simply labeled the presumed “this guy” as “Source 6,” with whom he had a brief “general discussion about Trump and the Kremlin” supposedly having “an ongoing relationship.” It was left to Steele, the old intel pro, to turn this sow’s ear into a silk purse. By the time the craftsman was done “summarizing” Danchenko’s unverifiable, anonymously sourced gossip, “this guy” had evolved from Danchenko’s “Source 6” to Steele’s “Source E,” depicted as “an ethnic Russian and close associate of . . . Donald TRUMP,” who had “admitted” that “there was a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump campaign and Russian leadership (emphasis added). Indeed, according to Steele, “Source E” had even “acknowledged” that Russia was “behind the recent leak of embarrassing e-mail messages, emanating from the Democratic National Committee [DNC], to the WikiLeaks platform” — a storyline that just happened to be all over the media at that point. As the IG has found, Steele’s allegation that Page was part of a “well-developed conspiracy” of cooperation between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, as well as the claim that Russia released the DNC emails in an effort to swing the 2016 election to Trump, were central to the surveillance application by the FBI and Obama Justice Department, and to the FISC’s issuance of surveillance warrants. And now we know, the liberal inflation of unsubstantiated — indeed, unattributable — rumor into purported probable cause that the now-president of the United States was a Kremlin mole is not the half of it. Why Are We Just Hearing This Now? It is mind-boggling that this information has been withheld from the public for years, despite congressional efforts to pry it from the FBI and Justice Department since 2017 (when Republicans controlled the House). In December 2019, when the IG’s report on FBI FISA abuse was released, many critical parts of it were redacted. These included Footnote 334 on page 186, which tantalizingly stated, “When interviewed by the FBI, the Primary Sub-source [i.e., Danchenko] stated that” — with remaining lines blacked out. After some complaints from Capitol Hill about the redactions, the Justice Department showed a bit more leg. As to Footnote 334, we were now told that Danchenko had “stated that [he] did not view [his] contacts as a network of sources, but rather as friends with whom [he] has conversations about current events and government relations.” That was vital information, but it wasn’t the whole story — a passage in the footnote remained blacked out. Finally on Thursday, we were told the rest of the astonishing story. The now-unredacted portion states that Danchenko “was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation from 2009 to 2011 that assessed [his] documented contacts with suspected Russian intelligence officers” (emphasis added). Apparently, the information has been concealed from the public for the sake of the Durham investigation. (When information becomes public, that complicates the ability of investigators to question people about what they know and how they know it.) But John Durham, the Connecticut U.S. attorney who is investigating “Russiagate” irregularities, informed Barr that disclosure of the information would not interfere with his investigation at this point. 2005-2010: Danchenko’s Suspected Spying for Russia Well, now we know that, in framing Page as a Russian spy, the FBI relied on nonsense provided by Danchenko, a man the bureau actually believed was a Russian spy, though this inconvenient detail, too, was concealed from the FISC. As has been publicly reported, Danchenko worked for the Brookings Institution, a prominent center-left Washington think-tank, specializing in foreign affairs. Brookings feeds experts, mainly to Democratic administrations when they are in power, and serves as a Democratic administration in waiting when they are not. When Danchenko worked at Brookings from 2005 through 2010, it was directed by Strobe Talbot, a close friend of, and later deputy secretary of state under, President Bill Clinton. Susan Rice worked at Brookings during the Bush years before becoming Obama’s national-security adviser, and career diplomat Victoria Nuland, who became a prominent assistant secretary in the Obama State Department, also worked at Brookings (she is married to Robert Kagan, a top Brookings scholar). Small world that it is, Nuland green-lighted Steele’s provision of intelligence to the State Department, was briefed on the Steele dossier during the 2016 campaign, and has acknowledged that Steele was invited to the State Department to give a personal briefing about his anti-Trump research (though she says she did not attend it). While at Brookings, Danchenko worked closely with Fiona Hill, with whom he co-wrote a research paper in 2010, shortly before leaving the country. Hill, of course, gained notoriety as an important Trump impeachment witness, owing to her time at the Trump National Security Council, to which she came from Brookings, after a stint on the National Intelligence Council under Bush-43 and Obama. The Brookings angle is relevant because of events in late 2008 that triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation of Danchenko. At that time, it was clear that there would soon be new Obama administration. The FBI received a tip that, at a Brookings function, Danchenko approached two of his co-workers. One was a research fellow for a person the bureau describes as “an influential foreign policy advisor in the Obama Administration.” Danchenko expressed interest in whether the research fellow would join this influential principal in the new administration. Danchenko was said to have made an offer to the two Brookings employees: If they “did get a job in the government and had access to classified information,” and wanted “to make extra money,” he could put them in touch with the right people for that sort of thing. There is no indication that the Brookings employees acted on the offer, but at least one of them suspected that Danchenko was a Russian spy. Naturally, this tip caused the FBI to do more digging. Agents quickly realized that Danchenko was associated with two other subjects of counterintelligence investigations. In 2005, he had been in contact with a Washington-based Russian officer, with whom Danchenko seemed “very familiar.” In 2006, he been in contact “with the Russian embassy and known Russian intelligence officers.” In fact, the FBI learned that Danchenko had visited one of these intelligence officers in his Russian embassy office. He allegedly told the officer that he hoped one day to enter the Russian diplomatic service. They went so far as to discuss future plans and Danchenko’s completing some documents for the Russian government — which, in October 2006, the intelligence officer discussed transmitting via diplomatic pouch, presumably to Moscow. The FBI also interviewed associates of Danchenko’s, who described him as pro-Russian and hopeful to return to Russia. One person recalled being pressed by Danchenko for information about “a particular military vessel.” The bureau was sufficiently alarmed that, in July 2010, agents began the process of seeking a FISA surveillance warrant for Danchenko. But he left the country two months later, so the investigation was closed without an application to the FISC having been made, but with the understanding that the investigation could be re-opened if Danchenko ever came back to the U.S. 2017: Danchenko Is Interviewed by the FBI as Steele’s Source |
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| Saved Stories - None: 26/09/20 05:00 from Disease X-19 from Michael_Novakhov (82 sites) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday authorised the country's ... Iran's death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed 25,000 and identified ... |
| Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:32:40 -0400 26/09/20 05:00 from Disease X-19 from Michael_Novakhov (82 sites) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday authorised the country's ... Iran's death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed 25,000 and identified ...Disease X-19 News Review In Brief _________________________________________________ » Disease X-19 Regions from Michael_Novakhov (8 sites): Google Alert - coronavirus in iran: Iran prepares to impose new coronavirus lockdowns as cases rise » Disease X-19 Regions from Michael_Novakhov (8 sites): Google Alert - coronavirus in iran: Jailed Iranian Human Rights Defender Ends Hunger Strike As Health Deteriorates » Disease X-19 Regions from Michael_Novakhov (8 sites): Google Alert - coronavirus in iran: Iran News in Brief – September 26, 2020 » Disease X-19 Publications from Michael_Novakhov (5 sites): Google Alert - covid-19 in daily mail: Sadiq Khan wants Londoners banned from visiting friends and family: Mayor urges PM to outlaw ... » Disease X-19 Epidemiology from Michael_Novakhov (38 sites): Google Alert - coronavirus epidemiology: Coronavirus US: Harvard epidemiologist predicted COVID-19 outbreak » Disease X-19 and Security from Michael_Novakhov (10 sites): Google Alert - Coronavirus and cyber attacks: How Covid-19 has worsened corporate cybersecurity woes » Disease X-19 Publications from Michael_Novakhov (5 sites): Google Alert - Coronavirus on Yahoo News: Coronavirus: Dozens of passengers on one plane test positive |
| Saved Stories - None: 5:07 AM 9/26/2020 - Tweets by @mikenov: Trump uses FBI director as a foil ahead of Election Day, and other stories |
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| Saved Stories - None: Russian propaganda on social media from Michael_Novakhov (5 sites): Russian propaganda on social media Google News: White House Scrapped Journalists Award Because She Criticized Trump, Watchdog Says Forbes |
| Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:45:28 -0400 White House Scrapped Journalists Award Because She Criticized Trump, Watchdog Says Forbes
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| Saved Stories - None: News: Four injured in Paris knife attack as police hunt suspects on the run |
| Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:42:31 -0400
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| Saved Stories - None: Russia and US Presidential Elections of 2016 Google News: Putin calls for reset in cyber ties with U.S., no election meddling Kremlin Devdiscourse |
| Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:41:42 -0400 Putin calls for reset in cyber ties with U.S., no election meddling – Kremlin Devdiscourse
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| Saved Stories - None: realDonaldTrump on Twitter: RT @BBCBreaking: Kim Jong-un has apologised for killing of South Korean official, South says, in highly unusual move for North Korea https: |
| Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:40:53 -0400 Kim Jong-un has apologised for killing of South Korean official, South says, in highly unusual move for North Koreabbc.in/3i2cpzF Posted by BBC Breaking News (BBCBreaking) on Friday, September 25th, 2020 6:06am Retweeted by Donald J. Trump (realDonaldTrump) on Friday, September 25th, 2020 11:09am 2836 likes, 1263 retweets realDonaldTrump on Twitter |
| Saved Stories - None: realDonaldTrump on Twitter: RT @seanmdav: BREAKING: Explosive new FBI texts uncovered by DOJ show that FBI agents were so horrified by the bureaus actions to take dow |
| Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:37:13 -0400 BREAKING: Explosive new FBI texts uncovered by DOJ show that FBI agents were so horrified by the bureau’s actions to take down Trump that they purchased liability insurance to protect themselves after they got sued. thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/tru 10647 likes, 7294 retweets
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| Saved Stories - None: 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (27 sites): World: London police officer shot dead inside police station |
| Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:45:21 -0400 A 23-year-old man was detained at the scene
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| Saved Stories - None: 1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (197 sites): Russian Intelligence services and organized crime Google News: Chinese Private Security Companies Along the BRI: An Emerging Threat? Modern Diplomacy |
| Fri, 25 Sep 2020 05:40:29 -0400 Chinese Private Security Companies Along the BRI: An Emerging Threat? Modern Diplomacy “Russian Intelligence services and organized crime” – Google News 1. Trump from Michael_Novakhov (197 sites) |
| Saved Stories - None: Brooklyn Paper: Bay Ridge: September 25, 2020 |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:50:54 -0400 The post Brooklyn Paper: Bay Ridge: September 25, 2020 first appeared on The Brooklyn Bridge. |
| Saved Stories - None: Brooklyn Paper: Brooklyn Graphic: September 25, 2020 |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:50:17 -0400 The post Brooklyn Paper: Brooklyn Graphic: September 25, 2020 first appeared on The Brooklyn Bridge. |
| Saved Stories - None: New York Daily News: You are not in North Korea: Pelosi blasts Trump over refusal to promise peaceful transfer of power |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:48:52 -0400 Pelosi called Trumps dithering on the fundamental issue very sad” and noted that he often offers praise for the authoritarian leaders of North Korea, Russia and Turkey.
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| Saved Stories - None: New York Daily News: Pregnant woman jumps into water, saves husband from shark attack near Florida |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:48:38 -0400 This was a very rare medical crisis for the Florida Keys, but everyone came together including those witnesses on the boat to 911 Communicators to all our emergency responders in order to ensure this victim received life-saving care, Sheriff Rick Ramsay said.
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| Saved Stories - None: fbi Google News: FBI Warns Voters About Election Crimes Ahead of the November 2020 Election FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:48:12 -0400 FBI Warns Voters About Election Crimes Ahead of the November 2020 Election FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
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| Saved Stories - None: NYT > World > Europe: E.U. Failure to Impose Sanctions on Belarus Lays Bare Its Weakness |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:47:31 -0400 E.U. foreign policy moves require unanimous support from the member nations a rule that continually undercuts the blocs bold ambitions for global influence.
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| Saved Stories - None: Voice of America English: Britain Plans Help for Workers Affected by Pandemic |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:47:02 -0400 British workers whose hours were cut because of the coronavirus pandemic could receive new government wage subsidies in the near future. Britain’s treasury chief has proposed measures aimed at preventing further layoffs when current subsidies expire next month. The new measures, proposed Thursday by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, are in response to a call from businesses and labor unions for the government to provide additional support. Right now the government pays up to 80% of wages workers made before they were furloughed, but the proposal would pay 77% of pre-pandemic wages. The payment would be dependent on employers allotting workers at least one-third of their pre-pandemic hours. The treasury chief hopes that will ensure fewer workers are laid off. “The government will directly support the wages of people in work, giving businesses who face depressed demand the option of keeping employees in a job on shorter hours rather than making them redundant,” Sunak said of the proposed measures. He said similar support will be offered to the self-employed. Businesses that took out loans would also have more time to pay them back. Those include $43.8 billion in loans to 1 million small businesses that could be eligible to “pay as you grow.” “Businesses who are struggling can now choose to make interest-only payments and anyone in real trouble can apply to suspend repayments all together for up to six months,” Sunak said. The treasury chief also said he will extend until March 31 the temporary reduction in the valued-added tax rate for the hospitality and tourism industries, which have been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. The cut to 5% from 20% had been scheduled to end in January.
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| Saved Stories - None: New York Daily News: Louisville university cancels classes following Breonna Taylor decision |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:46:26 -0400 Bellarmine University, a small Catholic college in Louisville, canceled classes following the grand jury decision regarding the death of Breonna Taylor.
The post New York Daily News: Louisville university cancels classes following Breonna Taylor decision first appeared on The Brooklyn Bridge. |
| Saved Stories - None: Voice of America English: Helsinki: Coronavirus-sniffing Dogs Could Provide Safer Travel |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:45:57 -0400 Helsinki Airport is getting creative when it comes to operating safely in the age of COVID-19. Beginning this week, travelers arriving at Finland’s busiest international airport will have the opportunity to take a voluntary coronavirus test that takes 10 seconds and is entirely painless but it’s not the test that is unusual, rather, it’s who is conducting it. The new state-funded pilot program uses coronavirus-sniffing canines to detect the presence of the virus within 10 seconds with shocking accuracy. Preliminary results from the trial show that the dogs, who have been used previously to detect illnesses such as cancer and malaria, were able to identify the virus with nearly 100% accuracy. Many of the dogs were able to detect the coronavirus long before a patient developed symptoms, something even laboratory tests fail to do. After passengers arrive at Helsinki from abroad and have collected their luggage, they are invited to wipe their necks with a cloth to collect sweat samples that are then placed into an intake box. In a separate booth, a dog handler places the box alongside several cans containing various scents and the canine goes to work. Researchers have yet to identify what it is exactly the dogs sniff when they detect the virus, but a preliminary study published in June found there was “very high evidence” that the sweat odors of a COVID-19-positive person were different from those who do not have the virus. This is key, as dogs are able to detect the difference thanks to their sharp sense of smell. If the dog flags the sample as positive, the passenger is directed to the airport’s health center for a free PCR virus test. While there have been instances that an animal contracts the coronavirus, dogs do not seem to be easily infected. There is no evidence that dogs can pass the virus on to people or other animals. Scientists in other countries, such as France, Germany and Britain, are engaging in similar research, but Finland is the first country in Europe to put dogs to work to sniff out the coronavirus. Finnish researchers say that if the pilot program proves to be effective, dogs could be used to quickly and efficiently screen visitors in spaces such as retirement homes or hospitals to help avoid unnecessary quarantines for health care workers. Representatives from the University of Helsinki, who are conducting the trial, said Finland would need between 700 and 1,000 specially trained coronavirus-sniffing dogs in order to cover schools, malls and retirement homes. For broader coverage, even more trained animals and their trainers would be required.
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| Saved Stories - None: New York Daily News: There will be a renaissance for New York City: de Blasio proposes recovery agenda but gives few details |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:45:15 -0400 We must be a beacon to the world again as we face these new challenges, de Blasio said at a Manhattan press conference.
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| Saved Stories - None: New York Daily News: We have not seen any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort: FBI director contradicts Trumps claims |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:45:00 -0400 Republican elections officials have testified in recent months to Congress that their systems are secure, including for mail-in ballots.
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| Saved Stories - None: New York Daily News: Notorious South African baboon arrested for stealing food |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:44:03 -0400 An infamous South African baboon known for raiding homes and gardens for food has been arrested.
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| Saved Stories - None: mikenov on Twitter: Saved Stories TWEETS BY MIKENOV: 6:19 AM 9/20/2020 Russian spies have undermined America for nearly a century. Their goals during and after the cold war were the thenewsandtimes.blogspot.com/2020/09/russia |
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| Saved Stories - None: mikenov on Twitter: RT @seth_hettena: Memo from Estonian embassy on former judge and FBI director Louis Freeh: Freehs reputation in Washington is by no means |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:42:35 -0400 Memo from Estonian embassy on former judge and FBI director Louis Freeh: “Freeh’s reputation in Washington is by no means impeccable, and several of those who have spoken to us have suggested avoiding close official contacts.”news.err.ee/1138786/estoni 1 like, 1 retweet
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| Saved Stories - None: Nato Russia Google News: British & NATO Jets Jamming The Radars Of Powerful S-400 Systems Russian Experts EurAsian Times |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:42:19 -0400 British & NATO Jets Jamming The Radars Of Powerful S-400 Systems – Russian Experts EurAsian Times
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| Saved Stories - None: Sites from Michael_Novakhov (48 sites): Global Security News globalsecuritynews.org: 1. World from Michael_Novakhov (27 sites): FOX News: Oregons once presumed youngest coronavirus victim actually tested negative for virus: report |
| Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:41:49 -0400 One family is pushing for answers after new testing verified their son was not infected with coronavirus when he died, as originally reported by state officials, one outlet wrote.
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