>Explain in one sentence why you still trust the plan.
>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10536703/Former-New-York-Gov-Andrew-Cuomos-daughter-Michaela-spiritually-focused-Etsy-shop.html
Michaela explained in the painting's description that it was 'priced at $77.77 because 7777 signifies wisdom, intuition, great intellect, and success.'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hillary-clinton-s-quebec-ancestry-dates-back-to-new-france-1.3839020
Hillary Clinton's Quebec ancestry dates back to New France
Like Madonna, Angelina Jolie, presidential candidate has connections to 17th-century Filles du Roi
Gail Moreau-Desharnais of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan has traced a branch of Clinton's family tree all the way back to the Filles du Roi or "King's Daughters,'' a group of young women who were sent from France in the 17th century to help populate the colony.
Clinton briefly mentioned her maternal grandmother's French-Canadian roots in her 2003 memoir, "Living History.'' But as she researched the connection, Moreau-Desharnais says she was surprised by how deep those roots went.
"She really has a good French-Canadian line, she said in an interview. "And when you trace her matrilineal line, or female to female to female, her ultimate female ancestor is Jeanne Ducorps, one of the Filles du Roi.
Ducorps was one of more than 700 women sent to New France — often against their will — by King Louis XIV between 1663 and 1673 to serve as brides for the men in the colony.
>Note AZAZO909 normally USAF callsign for a C560…this bird is a RUSSIAN Ilyusin II-82 operated by Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
http://syria.liveuamap.com/
>SCAB
https://twitter.com/SyriawatanNews/status/1495025886176985089
News reporter: A checkpoint of the Syrian Arab Army in the village of Al-Mujaibara in the eastern countryside of Al-Hasakah prevents the passage of a convoy of the American occupier, which includes 4 military armored vehicles, and forces it to retreat.
http://syria.liveuamap.com/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/politics/us-navy-russia-jets-mediterranean/index.html
US Navy aircraft had an 'extremely close' encounter with multiple Russian military jets over the Mediterranean
A US Navy aircraft had an "extremely close" encounter with multiple Russian military jets over international waters in the Mediterranean this weekend, according to multiple US officials directly familiar with the US military reports of the incident.
The sources would not detail precisely how close the Russian aircraft came to the US Navy P-8 maritime patrol aircraft or where precisely the encounter occurred, but the maneuvers by the Russians were described as "unsafe and unprofessional."
"We have made our concerns known to Russian officials through diplomatic channels," said Captain Mike Kafka, the Pentagon's Director of Defense Press Operations.
The initial reporting indicates there was a subsequent additional encounter after that between US and Russian jets, which were Sukhoi SU-35 fighters, according to a defense official.
Several of the officials indicated there is video of the incident. But the Biden administration has yet to publicly acknowledge any of the details amid rising tensions with the Russia as it masses troops on the border with Ukraine.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US had not observed any "meaningful pullback" of Russian forces near Ukraine, despite Russian state media reporting that troops would be leaving Crimea.
The Russian ambassador to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, told Die Welt, a German newspaper, that there would be no attack on Ukraine "in the coming weeks, nor months."
But the US and NATO remain broadly skeptical of Russian statements about de-escalation because of the overwhelming forces positioned so close to Ukraine and the Kremlin ambiguity about their fundamental purpose.
The encounters between US and Russian aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea, though hundreds of miles away from Ukraine, only add to the sensitivity of the situation.
It is not unusual for Russian aircraft to approach US military aircraft but the majority of the interactions are considered safe and professional by the US.
"While no one was hurt, interactions such as these could result in miscalculations and mistakes that lead to more dangerous outcomes," Kafka said.
CNN also has reported that US military aircraft escorted a Russian cargo plane and fighters across an air exclusion zone in eastern Syria on Tuesday when the Russians failed to give appropriate advance notification of their flights, according to other US officials.
US officials continue to say these close and unexpected encounters risk a miscalculation that could lead to a military incident.
"The US will continue to operate safely, professionally and consistent with international law in international waters and airspace," Kafka added. "We expect Russia to do the same."
Over the weekend, Russia also claimed to have chased a U.S. submarine out of its territorial waters, according to state-run news outlet TASS.
https://tass.com/defense/1402489
US submarine detected by anti-sub aircraft, Pacific fleet submarine
According to the source, the submarine’s coordinates were transmitted to the group of warships led by the Pacific Fleet’s frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, with the Russian multi-purpose ship undertaking all the necessary actions on the protection of Russia’s state border
A Virginia-class submarine belonging to the US Navy was spotted in Russia’s territorial waters near the Kurils by Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft and one of the Pacific Fleet submarines during a planned exercise on locating a submarine of a hypothetical enemy, a source close to the naval sphere told TASS.
"An American Virginia-class submarine was detected by Il-38 naval aviation aircraft and one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet during the drills on the search and elimination of a hypothetical enemy’s submarines in the areas of their possible deployment," the source said.
According to the source, the submarine’s coordinates were transmitted to the group of warships led by the Pacific Fleet’s frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, with the Russian multi-purpose ship undertaking all the necessary actions on the protection of Russia’s state border. The source noted that the US submarine had an objective advantage in the detection of the Russian vessel yet the speedy actions of the Pacific Fleet’s anti-submarine forces apparently caught it off guard and the submarine did not manage to leave the area of the drills unnoticed.
On February 12, 2022 at 10.40 (Moscow Time), a Virginia-class submarine belonging to the US Navy was detected by Russian anti-submarine forces in Russia’s territorial waters near Urup Island of the Kuril range. The submarine did not react to the orders to surface. The Russian side made a decision to use special means while the submarine started a self-propelled simulator to split the target image on radar and acoustic control means into two parts and retreated from Russian territorial waters at a maximum speed. The US military attache in Moscow was handed a note and told that the Russian Defense Ministry reserves the right to undertake all possible measures in Russia’s territorial waters to ensure the security of the Russian Federation.
https://news.usni.org/2022/02/18/wife-of-navy-nuclear-engineer-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-sub-secrets-conspiracy
Wife of Navy Nuclear Engineer Pleads Guilty to Role in Sub Secrets Conspiracy
An Annapolis, Md., woman pleaded guilty to attempting to sell secrets about U.S. submarines to a foreign country, days after her husband pleaded guilty to the same charge.
Diana Toebbe appeared in the District Court of Northern West Virginia Friday in order to plea guilty to her role in a conspiracy to sell classified information about the Virginia-class submarines to an unnamed country.
Toebbe and her husband, Jonathan, were arrested in October after the FBI conducted a nearly year-long investigation into the couple, which included FBI agents posing as representatives of the unnamed country and setting up multiple dead drops for Jonathan Toebbe to leave the classified information.
While initially charged with two counts of communicating restricted data and a count of conspiracy to communicate restricted data, as part of the plea agreement, the government will drop the two counts of communicating restricted data against Diana Toebbe, according to court documents.
In exchange for pleading guilty to conspiracy to communicate restricted data, the government agreed to a maximum prison sentence of 36 months, according to court documents. Although the plea is binding, the court can choose to not accept it, which would void the agreement.
Diana Toebbe, who acted as a lookout while her husband, Jonathan, used dead drops to give flash drives containing the classified information to FBI agents posing as representatives of the unnamed country, received a much lower sentence than Jonathan Toebbe, who pleaded guilty to the same charge on Monday.
Jonathan Toebbe faces a sentence of between 12.5 to 17.5 years for attempting to sell classified information to the unnamed country.
As with Toebbe’s plea agreement, Diana Toebbe will assist the FBI and other federal officials with finding all of the classified information, allow them to access all of her electronic devices and accounts and help them find the $100,000 the FBI paid the Toebbes in exchange for the classified information received during the dead drops set up the agency.
>An Annapolis, Md., woman pleaded guilty to attempting to sell secrets about U.S. submarines to a foreign country, days after her husband pleaded guilty to the same charge.
https://news.usni.org/2022/02/14/navy-nuclear-engineer-pleads-guilty-to-attempting-to-sell-sub-secrets
Navy Nuclear Engineer Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Sell Sub Secrets
An Annapolis, Md., man pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to give confidential information about the Virginia-class submarine to an unnamed country.
Jonathan Toebbe appeared in the District Court of Northern West Virginia at 3 p.m. to plea guilty to conspiracy to communicate restricted data. The FBI arrested Toebbe and his wife Diana in October after the agency built a case against him, suggesting he was attempting to sell restricted material to another country.
Toebbe likely now faces a sentence of between 12.5 and 17.5 years, unless the court chooses to not accept the plea deal, in which case Toebbe will also be allowed to withdraw his plea.
Toebbe and his wife were each charged with one count of conspiracy to communicate restricted data and communication of restricted material. Toebbe was an employee of the Department of the Navy, serving as a nuclear engineer with the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
Over the course of eight months – from October 2020 to April 2021 – Toebbe attempted to give classified documents about the Virginia-class submarine to another country, which has not been named, Toebbe said during his plea hearing.
Toebbe originally sent a package of information to the unnamed country, offering to start a relationship in which Toebbe would send more classified documents in exchange for cryptocurrency, USNI News previously reported.
The country sent the proposal package to the FBI, which then posed as agents of the unspecified country. The agency set up multiple exchanges with Toebbe, during which he would place a flash drive in various objects, including a peanut butter sandwich, a gum package and a bandaid.
The flash drive included typed messages from Toebbe, as well as information for how to access the restricted data once Toebbe received payment.
As part of the plea deal, Toebbe will allow the government to search all of his electronic devices and accounts, as well as help federal officials find all of the classified and restricted data he possessed.
Toebbe will also assist the federal officials in finding the $100,000 in cryptocurrency that the FBI paid Toebbe in exchange for his information while the FBI agents posed as officials from the unnamed country.
Toebbe’s wife, Diana, still faces her two charges. While she did not plea guilty, the facts of Toebbe’s plea deal include that Diana Toebbe acted as a lookout while he conducted the dead drops.
https://www.cfr.org/event/combating-human-trafficking-and-modern-slavery
Combating Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Welcome to today’s Council on Foreign Relations meeting on “Combating Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery.” I’m Mark Lagon. I’m chief policy officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and I’ll be presiding over today’s discussion.
Human trafficking is a horrendous atrocity in our world. It takes many forms. Sometimes it’s for the exploitation of people for labor, sometimes for commercial sex. It is something that crosses borders but need not cross borders for the child sex trafficked in the United States or the bonded laborer in India. It’s something that is largely done in the private sector and in the informal economy, but it is sponsored directly by states in some cases. And for the—for the migrants, sometimes it involves guest workers who are documented, as well as undocumented migrants.
We’re joined by the very best array one could imagine for this discussion.
We have Susan Coppedge, who is senior counsel at Krevolin and Horst. She’s the former ambassador-at-large at the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the State Department, and she’s a member of the board of directors of Polaris Project. I had the privilege of being the ambassador and heading Polaris Project, so I’m delighted to work with her.
Siddharth Kara is British Academy Global Professor and Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the University of Nottingham. He’s senior fellow at the Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, and author of multiple books on human trafficking, including Sex Trafficking, Bonded Labor, Modern Slavery, and another about to come out.
Maggy Krell is supervising deputy attorney general—was supervising deputy attorney general in the Special Crimes Unit of the state of California. She’s author of the recently published book Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World’s Largest Sex Trafficker: A Prosecutor’s Story. She’s also been chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood affiliates in California.
>she’s a member of the board of directors of Polaris Project. I had the privilege of being the ambassador and heading Polaris Project
https://polarisproject.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_Project
>https://polarisproject.org/
Polaris later partnered with data analysis firm Palantir Technologies to improve the organization of data reported to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center and the accuracy of statistics released to the public.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/14/how-big-data-is-being-used-in-the-fight-against-human-trafficking
How Big Data Battles Human Trafficking
From services for victims to prosecuting offenders, new technologies are being utilized to address exploitation.
A solution came after a December 2012 Google Ideas conference, where Polaris’ executive director, Bradley Myles, crossed paths with representatives of Palantir Technologies, a data analysis firm whose biggest clients include the CIA, the U.S. military and major banks. Palantir's philanthropy arm was seeking “organizations dealing with complex data challenges and a great mission so that we could help enable them do what they do even better, and Polaris is an exemplar of that,” says Peter Austin, philanthropic engineer at Palantir. The organizations soon became partners.
Within a few weeks, Palantir had created software that streamlined Polaris’ network of resources into a single dashboard for call specialists to use.
“What Palantir does is sit on all those different data sets – the location information, it has those protocols, it has all 2,700 resources – and the call specialist says, ‘This is where my crisis is happening,’” Kimball says. “You’ll basically click a button and it will show you, 'OK, here is the way to respond in that area.'”
and then you smoke two more
>check what condition my condition was in
https://polarisproject.org/leadership/catherine-chen/
Catherine Chen is a veteran anti-trafficking strategist who has spent nearly two decades building innovative programs that apply a social justice lens to the systemic failures and inequities that are at the root of sex and labor trafficking.
Catherine comes to the role after serving as Polaris’s chief program officer, where she spearheaded the organization’s 10-year vision for supporting survivors and reducing and preventing trafficking at the magnitude of the problem.
Catherine’s personal experience growing up as the daughter of Chinese immigrants in California shaped her commitment to confronting racism and injustice. While working as a management consultant after college, she began doing volunteer outreach to people who were experiencing homelessness or in prostitution. Her journey continued with a trip to the Northern Mariana Islands where she thought she would be teaching summer school and instead was confronted with the plight of thousands of trafficked Chinese workers forced to work for pennies, producing clothing for American brands, with no way to get back home. At the time, the United States did not even have a legal definition of human trafficking on the books.
Inspired by that experience, Catherine began researching human trafficking, obtained a Masters Degree in public health from Columbia University, and went to work as the inaugural Anti-Trafficking and Child Protection Advisor for Save the Children. In that role, Catherine spent two years in Indonesia leading work to prevent child sex trafficking and child domestic servitude. Among the most formative experiences of her work with Save the Children was meeting a young Nepali survivor of sex trafficking and child marriage, whose experiences solidified her understanding that survivors must be central to the formulation of solutions that actually work for them.
Upon returning to the United States, Catherine continued to deepen her anti-trafficking work by providing training and technical assistance to U.S. Department of Justice task forces across the country, ensuring law enforcement and service providers working on human trafficking had access to best practices and peer learning.
Before joining Polaris, Catherine spent seven years at Humanity United, where she led the Human Trafficking and Labor Migration team as Director of Investments, building an extensive program to address trafficking and labor exploitation of South Asian migrant workers.
Catherine has a B.A. in human biology from Stanford University. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and her Indonesian street dog.
>Before joining Polaris, Catherine spent seven years at Humanity United, where she led the Human Trafficking and Labor Migration team as Director of Investments
https://humanityunited.org/about/team/
https://www.omidyargroup.com/
After creating eBay in 1995 — a pioneering company that today provides more than 150 million people around the world with a platform to connect — Pierre turned much of his focus to philanthropy and, along with his wife Pam, began building the foundation for a life dedicated to empowering people, fostering change, and tackling important issues on a global scale. While their portfolio of philanthropic work spans multiple geographies and areas of focus, it is bound by a single belief that people are inherently good and capable, but don’t always have access to opportunity. Pierre and Pam are deeply committed to increasing this access wherever possible and addressing inequities through innovative, long-term solutions.
Pam also founded Hopelab, a non-for-profit created with the idea that young people who have chronic illnesses can make positive behavior changes to improve their treatment. HopeLab is now embarking upon a deeper exploration of how science, technology, and the power of play can be harnessed to support resilience in young people as a way to improve health. Pam remains a guiding visionary at HopeLab, serving on its board.
>big darts
kief coffee
regular punctuation and spacing does, until then I recommend a good filter
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1496108534374744064
Though Canada proudly served as a place of refuge for enslaved persons, its own history of slavery was shameful. It was thanks to Black Canadians, like Chloe Cooley, that slavery was limited and eventually abolished in Canada.
https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1495790633935585283
Calls have emerged for Randy Hillier's arrest after he urged protesters to disobey a request from Ottawa police that people not tie up their phone lines.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/calls-to-arrest-randy-hillier-mpp-after-involvement-ottawa-protest-1.6359028
Calls emerge for arrest of 'rogue' Ottawa-area MPP
Ottawa police then tweeted a plea Saturday for people to "stop calling critical emergency and operational phone lines to express displeasure about the police action."
Hillier retweeted that request, affixing his own message: "Keep calling in a democracy expressing yourself is a fundamental freedom #FreedomConvoy2022."
The post was encouraging people to ring up the police force's "operational dispatch," said Hillier.
His message was shared widely on Twitter, with many angry that Hillier would urge protesters to call emergency phone lines.
Soon, #ArrestRandyHillier started trending.
Ottawa lawyer James Bowie compared Hillier's involvement in the occupation with leaders like Tamara Lich, who was arrested and charged with counselling to commit mischief and remains in an Ottawa jail.
"I think Randy Hillier did almost exactly, precisely the same thing as Tamara Lich has done," said Bowie. "I see no juristic reason why she should be prosecuted and he should not be."
But Hillier said he's not worried about "bots on Twitter" calling for his arrest.
"We should always be able and free to call up our institutions and express either our acceptance or displeasure with their operations," he said.
Matthew Perry Beat Up Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Matthew talks about his Canadian heritage and he shamefully reveals that he and a friend beat up Justin Trudeau when they were in 5th grade.
it's shills, filter and move on
notable
It's the music video of Castro and Justin's mom
>Russia feels no pain, just profit.
shills rolling deeeep
>tag-team over Poland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact
Nazis to the left of me,
Soviets to the right.
Here I am,
stuck in the middle with Jews.
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Poland WWII
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact
SENATE LIVE
https://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20220221/-1/10553
>https://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20220221/-1/10553
>https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1496125360131514377
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60478131
Israeli inquiry finds no indication police used spyware unlawfully
An inquiry has found "no indications" that Israeli police used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to hack the phones of public figures without authorisation.
The newspaper Calcalist reported that officials, protesters, journalists and a son of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were among those targeted.
But the deputy attorney general found no evidence to support the claims.
Internal Security Minister Omer Barlev welcomed what he called "a resounding acquittal" for the police force.
NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance firm that developed the Pegasus software, said it hoped the inquiry's conclusions would "result in reporting that no longer relies upon misinformation and political organisations issuing biased and prejudiced reports", according to the Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/technology-israel-police-hacking-benjamin-netanyahu-a6bb60cccebe93716db2820eeaf44a85