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NewExpertBread 2 points ago +2 / -0

That is correct.

It is also correct for cellphones.

You can create a Hotspot for any wireless internet device @ 4g/5g

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NewExpertBread 16 points ago +16 / -0

Anon, you are onto something big I think.


https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1621996004521156614

Catherine Herridge @CBS_Herridge “It's long overdue for Congress to take action and really fund this problem,” PIDB member Ezra Cohen tells @CBS_Herridge on how to possibly fix the U.S. government's classified records system. “The US system is unique in the sense there's an assumption that all government activities will ultimately be judged by the public, even if it's time delayed. And so the idea that we might have records that will never see the public light because we just don't have the resources to process them is frankly a threat to our democracy”


https://www.justsecurity.org/73465/not-a-coup-at-dod-how-acting-sec-millers-reorganization-may-improve-special-ops-oversight/

"Section 922 of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act directed, among other things, that SO/LIC report directly to the Secretary on administrative, readiness and organization, resources and equipment, and civilian personnel matters and that the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) work through SO/LIC on these issues."

https://greatawakening.win/p/16ZXCnMWw4/fyi-former-sec-of-defense-chris-/c/

https://media.greatawakening.win/post/YOHUl5OJ41eX.png


https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106379

Export Controls: State Needs to Improve Compliance Data to Enhance Oversight of Defense Services GAO-23-106379 Published: Feb 06, 2023. Publicly Released: Feb 06, 2023.

U.S. companies or individuals that sell certain defense services, like military training, to foreign buyers often need permission first from the State Department, which enforces U.S. International Arms Trafficking Regulations.

According to State, from FYs 2013-2021, it received 8,547 voluntary disclosures of potential regulation violations from exporters.

However, State said it could not readily provide data from its compliance database on how many disclosures or potential violations involved defense services. Without such data, State will have difficulty assessing defense services export trends and risks. Our recommendations address this issue.

Highlights What GAO Found

The Department of State, which has responsibility for enforcing the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), uses three mechanisms to monitor and enforce ITAR compliance among U.S. individuals or entities exporting defense services. They are (1) exporters' voluntary disclosures about their potential ITAR violations; (2) directed disclosures exporters submit in response to State's request for information about potential violations; and (3) referrals from State's end-use monitoring program.

State's Process for Identifying Potential ITAR Violations

According to State, in fiscal years 2013 through 2021, it received 8,547 voluntary disclosures of potential ITAR violations from exporters; requested information about potential violations from respondents in 505 directed disclosures; and found 85 potential violations through its end-use monitoring program. However, State told GAO it could not readily provide GAO with data from its compliance database on how many disclosures or potential violations involved defense services. According to State officials, State could not specify the number of cases related to potential ITAR violations for defense services in both the Compliance Case Management System and its predecessor system. According to State officials, State has limitations in its internal information technology mechanism used to tag cases, and in the mechanism used to collect information on violations from the regulated community. As a result, GAO found that State may not be able to readily use these data to assess trends or risks related to the export of defense services. State officials said they plan to develop procedures to improve data entry and quality, but were unable to provide GAO with documentation of these plans. State also plans to implement an online application that would improve the accuracy of disclosure submissions but has not yet established a definitive time frame for implementing the application.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) pursued at least 11 cases involving defense services during fiscal years 2013 through 2021. According to DOJ officials, these numbers are likely undercounts because DOJ databases do not specifically track ITAR violations and the department often charges persons under other statutes due to the high legal bar of prosecuting such violations. During this period, State pursued 16 civil enforcement actions for ITAR violations, five for unauthorized defense service exports; imposed fines of $100,000 to $41 million each year; and imposed other remedies.

Why GAO Did This Study Cases involving private U.S. companies and individuals who have provided defense services, such as military training or furnishing technical data directly to foreign governments or entities, in violation of the ITAR have prompted questions about the U.S. government's monitoring and enforcement of such cases. U.S. persons seeking to export defense articles and defense services subject to control on the U.S. Munitions List as direct commercial sales must obtain authorization from State before exporting them. This process assists State in limiting exports that could present national security risks.

GAO was asked to review the U.S. government's efforts to enforce ITAR requirements for exports of defense services. This report examines (1) State's mechanisms for ensuring U.S. persons comply with ITAR requirements for defense services and (2) the actions that State and DOJ have pursued when a suspected violation of ITAR requirements has occurred. GAO reviewed related laws and regulations ; analyzed agency data on compliance, investigations, and prosecutions in fiscal years 2013 through 2021 ; and interviewed State and DOJ officials in Washington, D.C.

This is a public version of a sensitive report GAO issued in September 2022. Information State deemed sensitive has been removed.

Recommendations GAO recommends that State complete and implement: (1) procedures for recording data on potential ITAR violations and (2) changes to electronic data collection mechanisms to improve accuracy and completeness of data. State concurred with the recommendations.

Recommendations for Executive Action

The Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Defense Trade Controls should complete and implement procedures for DDTC compliance specialists to capture complete and accurate information on ITAR violations related to defense services in CCMS. (Recommendation 1) Open

When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

The Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Defense Trade Controls should complete and implement electronic data collection mechanisms to improve the accuracy and completeness of CCMS data on violations of ITAR requirements for defense services. (Recommendation 2) Open

When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

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NewExpertBread 10 points ago +10 / -0

It's worse. What you are thinking of is the cover story.

Cover story:

"They hid it because Trump was dangerous, a loose cannon."

Real story:

"We were doing this behind the American People's back, intentionally. Behind POTUS back, intentionally.

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NewExpertBread 2 points ago +2 / -0

People get it twisted.

The lockdown was for processing and would render the prisoner destitute (and compliant [re: enhanced interrogation tactics, reprogramming]), the nukes were for culling a locked down (immobile) target, the jab was the shackles that would chain you to big pharma for your next breath.

The panopticon was the lockdown, the jab was the new world.

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NewExpertBread 4 points ago +4 / -0

I always chuckle when it comes to satellites in Ukraine.

People always scoff at Elon, saying he was helping Nazis.

That's stupid.

The Ukrainian military doesn't have their own internet.

They get their data from the United States when it comes to tactical movements of troops and supplies.

Ergo- why so many US/NATO have died over there. That's a top of the pyramid in CoC grouping.

I mean, the military / government wanted it on. Then they got mad after it was turned on.


Why DID Elon turn on the internet?

Who did he turn it on for?

Well, it's not a cellular service- per se.

Starlink is currently designed to be a non-mobile internet provider. Its satellite dishes are meant to be stationary and provide internet for homes and businesses. This does mean that you can connect to your Starlink network using your cell phone, but only via wifi and within proximity to your router.


So, some strategically placed dishes could allow for free flow of information.

  1. Information for a resistance, or to spread information to the public that might change their minds or turn the tide of war.

  2. Getting information out of the country.

  3. All the reasons they said they wanted it for.

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NewExpertBread 1 point ago +2 / -1

So, fixing this would also allow repair of any other injury to our current aging process(?).

Meaning, if there were injuries like this before to our DNA it would repair those as well(?).

Meaning--if such technology existed--there would be a group of people hiding that technology until there were very few people to enjoy it.

Meaning, lab grown organs would need to be already available for those left.

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NewExpertBread 3 points ago +3 / -0

Even the US uses these type of surveillance blimps. They have been in Iraq as far back as 2007.

They mean only one thing:

Underneath is an active Area of Operations for whomever owns it.

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NewExpertBread 2 points ago +2 / -0

Great Read:

u/MAGAdeburger

u/CHAOSACTUAL

President Trump’s recent forays into the details of military justice and other military disciplinary actions is a potentially dangerous deviation from this longstanding practice. Beginning on the 2016 campaign trail, candidate Trump denigrated the military justice system when he lambasted the financial resources wasted to court-martial Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier pending general court-martial for several UCMJ violations resulting from his decision to abandon his combat outpost in Afghanistan. Instead Trump called for his execution as a traitor.

https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/presidential-power-and-military-justice-a-tradition-of-effectiveness-under-strain/

(not to mention that treason is not even an offense in the UCMJ)

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NewExpertBread 2 points ago +2 / -0

When the president's actions (or inactions) provide "Aid and Comfort" to enemies or levy war against the United States, then Congress has the power to impeach and remove (convict) the president for treason.


A simple majority of the House is necessary to approve articles of impeachment. If the Senate, by vote of a two-thirds majority, convicts the official on any article of impeachment, the result is removal from office and, at the Senate's discretion, disqualification from holding future office.


Only three presidents—Andrew Johnson (1868), Bill Clinton (1998), and Donald Trump (twice, in 2019 and 2021)—have been impeached. Neither Johnson nor Clinton were convicted, and Trump’s first impeachment resulted in an acquittal by the Senate. One president, Richard Nixon, resigned his office in 1974 when it became clear that he would be impeached by the House and likely convicted by the Senate. Nixon was pardoned for his alleged misconduct by his successor, Gerald Ford.

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NewExpertBread 2 points ago +2 / -0

But likely no Abrams tank for Ukraine since ... the armor for them is still classified and engines are turbines, so hard to maintain and fix. Would be surprised if the US does it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK7FFOLRVto

Ukraine: military situation Jan 11, 2023


RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JANUARY 11, 2023

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-11-2023

The Russian MoD’s public announcement of this restructuring framed the change as necessary to both improve Russian command and control and to intensify Russian operations in Ukraine. The official MoD readout of the appointment states that these changes were made in association "with the expansion of the scale of tasks solved in [the special military operation’s] implementation, the need to organize closer interaction between the services and branches of the Armed Forces, as well as improving the quality of all types of support and the effectiveness of command and control."[4] Putin’s decision to have the Russian MoD publicly announce the changes and their intent, unlike several previous changes to the Russian command structure that were not officially announced, indicate the Kremlin intends Gerasimov’s appointment as a major shift—both in actual conduct of the war, as well as the framing of the Russian MoD’s role. Gerasimov’s appointment and the overall command restructure are likely in part intended to signal, both internationally and domestically within Russia, the Kremlin’s dedication to the traditional power structures of the Russian MoD and Putin’s willingness to fight a long war in Ukraine.


5 things to know for Jan. 11: Storms, Ukraine, US military, Airline complaints, Eggs

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/us/five-things-january-11-trnd/index.html

Ukrainian troops are set to begin training on the Patriot missile system in the US as soon as next week, according to the Pentagon. The training program will take place at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, where the US conducts its own training on operating and maintaining the advanced air defense system. The US has already trained Ukrainian troops in Europe, but analysts say the decision to conduct Patriot training on American soil could increase tensions with Moscow further as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has constantly warned Western nations against further involvement in the war. About 90 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are expected to arrive in Oklahoma for the training, the Pentagon said.

The US military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for troops has been officially rescinded, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a memo Tuesday night. The requirement to remove the mandate was viewed as a win for conservative lawmakers who had argued that it was hindering the military’s recruitment efforts, although Pentagon officials maintained there was no evidence to support the claim. This comes after President Joe Biden recently signed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, requiring its dismissal. Separately, the US military announced Tuesday that it intercepted a shipment of more than 2,000 Iranian assault rifles destined for Yemen. The move will likely add to the existing tensions between the US and Iran, which have increased in recent months due to the crackdowns on civil unrest throughout the country.

After Southwest Airlines experienced a meltdown that scuttled holiday travel plans for hundreds of thousands of passengers, federal officials now say they’re acting on “thousands” of complaints from Southwest customers – including complaints that the airline is not making good on its pledge to issue refunds. The Department of Transportation “has sent every complaint directly to Southwest” and is now demanding the airline “provide substantive responses” to each within 60 days. Southwest Airlines told CNN it is processing “tens of thousands” of requests each day and is complying with the department’s regulations. According to a financial filing from Southwest, the meltdown cost the airline between $725 million and $825 million in lost revenue, additional crew costs, and passenger refunds.

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse before the ruling was overturned in 2020, has died, according to his secretary. He was 81. Pell’s death was confirmed Tuesday after he was admitted to a Rome hospital for hip replacement surgery. While the operation was successful, Pell subsequently suffered a cardiac arrest.

TODAY’S NUMBER 5 months

That’s how long Allen Weisselberg, the long-time chief financial officer for former President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to serve in jail for his role in a decade-long tax fraud scheme. Weisselberg’s sentencing on Tuesday caps one long-running investigation – but it comes as the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office continues to investigate the Trump Organization over the accuracy of the companies’ financial statements.

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NewExpertBread 3 points ago +3 / -0

And this decision today is really - you got to take a couple of steps back and look at it in the context of the combined arms training that we're doing with Ukrainian battalions right now outside the country. They believe - and we believe they're right to believe - that in the spring and the summer months, that they are going to face Russia coming back in an offensive way and that they want to be able to conduct offensive operations of their own. And they want to do it in a combined arms fashion, which means you need to maneuver in open terrain and on vast parts of ground. And that means you need armored capabilities like the Bradleys and the Strykers we've sent. And that, of course, includes tanks. So this decision was really the culmination of weeks of diplomatic conversations about how do we help Ukraine in the fight that we expect them to be in when the winter fades and spring and summer months come.


But the difference is Ukraine is at war. And they are in the midst of an invasion by a hostile neighboring power, and they are losing civilians and troops every day. So we need to make sure that we tailor the delivery of Ukraines in a way - I'm sorry, Abrams, pardon me - that we deliver the - that we tailor the delivery of Abrams tanks in a way that the Ukrainians can absorb it effectively. So that's why we're going to start with this battalion. That's why it's going to take many months for them to get there.

We gave them the equivalent of one Ukrainian battalion, so that it wasn't...

...Some symbolic gesture. It was actually - have operational impact.

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NewExpertBread 7 points ago +7 / -0
  1. Article 4. Dismissed Officer’s Right to Trial by Court Martial

(a) If any commissioned officer, dismissed by order of the president, makes a written application for trial by court-martial setting forth under oath, that he has been wrongfully dismissed, the President, as soon as practicable, shall convene a general court-martial to try that officer on the charges on which he was dismissed. A court-martial so convened has jurisdiction to try the dismissed officer on those charges, and he shall be considered to have waived the right to plead any statute of limitations applicable to any offense with which he is charged. The court-martial may, as part of its sentence, adjudge the affirmance of the dismissal, but if the court-martial acquits the accused or if the sentence adjudged, as finally approved or affirmed, does not include dismissal or death, the Secretary concerned shall substitute for the dismissal ordered by the President a form of discharge authorized for administrative issue.

(b) If the President fails to convene a general court-martial within six months from the preparation of an application for trial under this article, the Secretary concerned shall substitute for the dismissal order by the President a form of discharge authorized for administrative issue.

(c) If a discharge is substituted for a dismissal under this article, the President alone may reappoint the officer to such commissioned grade and with such rank as, in the opinion of the President, that former officer would have attained had he not been dismissed. The reappointment of such a former officer shall be without regard to the existence of a vacancy and shall affect the promotion status of other officers only insofar as the President may direct. All time between the dismissal and the reappointment shall be considered as actual service for all purposes, including the right to pay and allowances.

(d) If an officer is discharged from any armed force by administrative action or is dropped from the rolls by order of the President, he has no right to trial under this article.

u/#q804


April 1st itself is interesting as well.

Origins of April Fools' Day Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.

People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.


Other interesting connections I made are that it is AFTER March, when any wars that may happen will kick into high gear.

Perhaps the joke is that there will be no war, or it won't go as anticipated.

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NewExpertBread 2 points ago +3 / -1

FISA vs INSCOM

https://www.inscom.army.mil/

FISA and INSCOM intercept through NSA and 706MIG.

https://www.inscom.army.mil/msc/706MIG.aspx

FISA = FISC

FISA doesn't get a sign off without the head judge of the FISC, Roberts.

Therefore, FISA = Roberts.

Who is accountable to Congress?

Impeachment of judges is rare, and removal is rarer still. With respect to federal judges, since 1803, the House of Representatives has impeached only 15 judges — an average of one every 14 years — and only eight of those impeachments were followed by convictions in the Senate. Justice Samuel Chase is the only Supreme Court justice the House has impeached, and he was acquitted by the Senate in 1805.

The United States Constitution provides little guidance as to what offenses constitute grounds for the impeachment of federal judges: as with other government officials, judges may be removed following impeachment and conviction for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”; otherwise, under Article III, Section 1, judges “shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour.”

Historical practice suggests a strong tradition against impeaching judges for judicial rulings. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who wrote a book examining the history of judicial impeachment, found that early historical uses of the impeachment power established a norm that “judicial acts — their rulings from the bench — would not be a basis for removal from office by impeachment and conviction.”

According to Rehnquist, the attempted removal of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase in 1804 was, in particular, “enormously important in securing the kind of judicial independence contemplated by” the Constitution. President Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican, encouraged the House to impeach Chase, a Federalist, after Chase openly criticized the president and his policies to a Baltimore grand jury. In addition to the charge that his partisan statements undermined the judiciary, the charges against Chase ultimately included inflated allegations of misconduct in several trials. The House impeached Chase in 1804, but the following year, the Senate declined to convict, despite Jefferson’s party holding a supermajority. This failed impeachment helped set the bounds of the proper use of the impeachment power — including that judicial decisions should not be a basis for removing judges from the bench.


NOW:

Will we discover Hunter had PDB (Presidential Daily Briefs) attached as part of his e-mails?

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NewExpertBread 5 points ago +5 / -0

The delayed gratification popcorn I am eagerly awaiting is only after ALL 3 movies are playing.

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NewExpertBread 2 points ago +2 / -0

Here's what I don't know:

It will be revealed that Trump was 25th Amendment'd.

It will be revealed that Pence was Acting POTUS.

It will be revealed that AI is overly censored, and there will be a push against it.

Vaccine manufacturers will accelerate in a hemorrhaging of 'customers' willing to be jabbed.

The economy will be revealed to be at the precipice of collapse.

Ukraine investigations will reveal the money is all gone.

Classified documents will be revealed with others, and possibly will find outside the executive both Congressional and private industry with documents.

Further federal entrapment will be revealed and J6 prisoners will start to see the tide turn on their incarceration.

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NewExpertBread 3 points ago +3 / -0

This is also the kind of thing that the term "Government Cheese" came from.

The US took the surplus milk and had it made into barely edible cheese.

It was given out as part of the original welfare programs.

Excess was stored underground, and there's a ton today.


Government intervention is great, and now we have cartels smuggling eggs over the border.

Fucking peak clown world.

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NewExpertBread 2 points ago +2 / -0

This scenario leaves millions of disabled or retired veterans homeless overnight. Millions more elderly and disabled. Millions more low income families homeless.

Everyone hungry.

Everyone angry.

Everyone looking for someone to blame.


The truth is, this is pennies on what was stolen.


Alas, standing armies out of thin air.

I've discussed that at length in my emails.


Further, what was the ultimate solution?

A table.

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NewExpertBread 3 points ago +3 / -0

They field tested these in Iraq in 2007, as blimps.

The payload is the real purpose, of course.

I remember the geeks saying they "could read a book in your hands across the city".

https://www.wired.com/2008/07/blackwater-want/

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NewExpertBread 5 points ago +5 / -0

You ever fought a narcissist?

There's only two ways to do it:

  1. Don't fight, flee.

  2. A tactful loss is a crushing victory.


I would say this was a Masterclass in debate.

In debate you can:

  1. Win the debate, unless it's rigged.

  2. Lose the debate tactfully, but plant a seed.


Comparable:

Serial killer average viewer gets off on the struggle, salivate as they circle their prey on the boob tube. Prey behaves perplexingly, shakes predator out of trance momentarily. Seed planted. Continue with snuff pornography.

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NewExpertBread 6 points ago +6 / -0

The network claims that domestic terrorism charges “can be politicized and used against marginalized groups or those disliked by government.”

The NBC article cites Patrick Keenan, a professor of law at the University of Illinois, who says that civil rights groups aren’t crazy about domestic terrorism charges “because of the risk of politicization, because they can be used against politically disfavored groups by the government.

No, seriously.

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