Full CORN Moon?
Q poem. Starts with D, has 5 lines.
D 5?
Or 4 to be cut? Is that the 4 other names to be added to the list next?
5:5
D 5 (5 lines in poem)
5 more names after 11.3 KC marker.
4 to be cut? 9.4 = 13. A fav number.
[D]s Nuts?
As Guns Get Drawn at Protest Sites, Demonstrators Fear a Volatile New Phase
PORTLAND, Ore. — For months, Reese Monson, who helps organize security for the hundreds of protesters who gather in downtown Portland, Oregon, every night, has advised them to use shields made of plywood, pool noodles and 55-gallon drums — tools to deflect the riot-control measures used by the police.
Now, Monson said they were considering a new kind of shield when they go out to demonstrate against racial injustice: bulletproof vests.
“Whatever body armor you can find, we need that,” Monson said. “Whatever you can protect yourself with, we need that. Right now is a time of either life or death.”
For months, as protests by Black Lives Matter and other groups have erupted across the country, the persistent confrontations have been largely between protesters and the police, with the conflict playing out in tear gas volleys and lobbed projectiles. But in recent days the protests in Portland, Oregon, and in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have taken a more perilous turn — right-wing activists have arrived, bent on countering the racial justice protests with an opposing vision of America.
Violent street clashes between the two sides have broken out over the past two weeks, leaving three people dead.
The arrival of firearms has escalated the political debate over policing into precarious new territory. President Donald Trump, scheduled to visit Kenosha on Tuesday, warns that America’s cities are out of control, while Portland’s mayor blames the president for stoking the unrest.
Three months after George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis police, setting off tumult nationwide, two opposite movements are brawling in the streets with no sign of letting up while the country begins the final stretch toward the Nov. 3 election.
After the Trump administration’s attempt at a law-and-order crackdown in Portland backfired in July, last month brought fresh upheaval. The police in Kenosha shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, in the back, fueling protests there and elsewhere, while right-wing groups in Portland came into the city to confront Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
Last week in Kenosha, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of Illinois went to the scene of unrest there, saying he had come to protect businesses. Before the night was over, two people had been fatally shot. A lawyer for Rittenhouse, who has been charged with homicides, has said he acted in self-defense.
Then in Portland on Saturday night, a member of the right-wing Patriot Prayer group was shot to death in an apparent confrontation outside a parking garage after a caravan of Trump supporters paraded into a sea of racial justice demonstrators.
The right-wing activists say they are protecting private property, protesting city officials’ failure to contain demonstrations, and offering support to the police.
But Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center, sees peril: “The far right is now anointing themselves the only force standing between order and chaos, a dangerous step toward normalizing the political violence that they already hold a monopoly on.”
One federal law enforcement official, who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the matter, said the right-wing groups did not appear to have a clear set of objectives.
“For a lot of these folks, the attention is the endgame,” said the official, who said the same appeared true of many hard-line leftist antifa demonstrators. “If you really sat down and said, ‘What are the policy objectives you’d like to see?’ They wouldn’t want that because there’s so much that comes with this, like having your voice heard in these settings and validating you to other followers.”
Lauryn Cross, an organizer with the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, said activists have had to prepare differently because of the rising threat of right-wing counterprotesters. They have to do more security planning, including examining more closely the routes they plan to march and scoping out the area before an event.
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https://news.yahoo.com/guns-drawn-protest-sites-demonstrators-122835425.html
"Organizers" are working hard to PROMOTE RIOTS.
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The Trump administration's mission to wall off the Chinese internet has officially killed a US-Hong Kong undersea cable project from Facebook and Google
The Trump administration has succeeded in killing off a project from Facebook and Google to connect Hong Kong to LA via an 8,000-mile-long broadband cable.
Google and Facebook on Thursday officially withdrew their plans for the cable, which has been in the works as part of an initiative called the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) since 2016. The PLCN was supposed to connect the US to Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong and while the cable has already been laid, it has not yet come online.
In July this year the US government started to put pressure on the FCC to block the part of the PLCN that hooked up to Hong Kong. A Department of Justice telecoms committee submitted a recommendation to the FCC in July that the cable to Hong Kong be rejected on national security grounds.
The committee's recommendation was based on the fact Beijing has significantly reduced Hong Kong's autonomy in a sweeping crackdown this year, which it claimed made the cable vulnerable to being tapped. It also specifically raised concerns a Hong Kong-based company called Dr. Peng Ltd, which it described as the "fourth largest provider of telecommunications services in the PRC [People's Republic of China]" was a significant investor in the cable.
insider@insider.com (Isobel Asher Hamilton)
September 1, 2020, 5:00 AM PDT
Operators handle an undersea fiber optic cable. <p class="copyright">Ander Gillenea/AFP/Getty Images</p>
Operators handle an undersea fiber optic cable.
Ander Gillenea/AFP/Getty Images
Google and Facebook on Thursday withdrew plans to connect LA and Hong Kong with an 8,000-mile internet broadband cable.
The cable is already laid and was built to be part of the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN), a project announced in 2016 to connect the US with Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
A DOJ committee formally recommended in July that the Hong Kong part of the network be iced on national security grounds.
The Trump administration has succeeded in killing off a project from Facebook and Google to connect Hong Kong to LA via an 8,000-mile-long broadband cable.
Google and Facebook on Thursday officially withdrew their plans for the cable, which has been in the works as part of an initiative called the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) since 2016. The PLCN was supposed to connect the US to Taiwan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong and while the cable has already been laid, it has not yet come online.
In July this year the US government started to put pressure on the FCC to block the part of the PLCN that hooked up to Hong Kong. A Department of Justice telecoms committee submitted a recommendation to the FCC in July that the cable to Hong Kong be rejected on national security grounds.
The committee's recommendation was based on the fact Beijing has significantly reduced Hong Kong's autonomy in a sweeping crackdown this year, which it claimed made the cable vulnerable to being tapped. It also specifically raised concerns a Hong Kong-based company called Dr. Peng Ltd, which it described as the "fourth largest provider of telecommunications services in the PRC [People's Republic of China]" was a significant investor in the cable.
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"We can confirm that the original application for the PLCN cable system has been withdrawn, and a revised application for the US-Taiwan and US-Philippines portions of the system has been submitted. We continue to work through established channels to obtain cable landing licenses for our undersea cables," a Google spokesperson told Business Insider.
Per Bloomberg the revised application has cut out Pacific Light Data Communication Co, a subsidiary of Dr. Peng Ltd according to the committee's July warning.
This news comes a month after the Trump administration unveiled plans to essentially seal off China from the US internet. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the "Clean Network Initiative" on August, outlining five broad areas of tech policy which would try to block off large chunks of Chinese internet.
One of these areas was undersea cables, and Pompeo wrote the aim was to "ensure the undersea cables connecting our country to the global internet are not subverted for intelligence gathering by the PRC at hyper scale."
The Trump admin has ratcheted up tensions with China over the past month or so, with the president signing an executive order in August threatening to ban social media app TikTok unless it sells its US business, claiming the app spies on US citizens. TikTok is suing the administration over the order, and China passed new export legislation on Friday that could complicate any potential sale.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administrations-mission-wall-off-120037111.html