Trial Of Alleged "Vault 7" CIA Leaker Ends In Hung Jury

On Monday, a federal jury in Manhattan could not agree on whether to convict 31-year-old Joshua Schulte on eight counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information, according to the New York Times. Schulte was convicted on two other counts; contempt of court and making false statements to the FBI.

The motivation for the alleged theft, prosecutors said, was Mr. Schulte’s belief that C.I.A. management did not take his workplace complaints seriously. His feuding with co-workers led to his resignation in November 2016 to join Bloomberg L.P. as a software engineer.

The partial verdict came after six days of chaotic deliberations. One juror was dismissed in the middle of the discussions because she violated the judge’s orders by researching the case, and the lawyers involved, on her own, and then shared that information with the jury. The judge declined to replace her with an alternate, leaving a panel of 11 people. -New York Times

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/trial-alleged-vault-7-cia-leaker-ends-hung-jury

New England Region’s Power System Considers Carbon Pricing, as Critics Cry Foul

Posted to Energy March 10, 2020 by Hiram Reisner

New England’s shift to renewable energy resources could accelerate if the six states in the region move to a carbon pricing system, according to ISO New England’s CEO and President Gordon Van Welie.

However, critics say advocates are overlooking the impact of such policies on electricity rates in a region that already pays some of the highest prices in the country.

“There’s no doubt that New England is moving toward a clean-energy future,” van Welie said on Friday, as he reviewed the ISO’s recently released 2020 Regional Electricity Outlook, during a conference call with reporters.

ISO New England (ISO-NE) was created in 1997 as the independent operator of the region’s power system and administrator of the region’s wholesale markets.

“The region’s resource mix has changed, and will continue to change over the coming years and decades, driven by innovations in the electric industry and state policy goals,” van Welie said. “The best way to achieve these goals and unlock this innovation is by harnessing the same competitive market forces that have kept the power system reliable for more than 20 years.”

The main focus of the 2020 report is ISO-NE’s annual “forward capacity auction” — which occurred last month — through which generators guaranteed fulfilling energy demands three years in advance. In exchange for their 2023-2024 commitments, bidders who cleared the auction receive monthly payments, expected to total approximately $980 million.

https://www.insidesources.com/new-england-regions-power-system-considers-carbon-pricing-as-critics-cry-foul/

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Protecting Your Digital Life In The Age Of IoT

Unless specifically demonstrated otherwise, you should assume that every electronic device in your home is capable of ratting on you in one form or another. Here are some steps that can protect you. ⁃ TN Editor

The Internet of Things (IoT) device universe is expanding. This statement echoes for the fifth year in a row—only the numbers change as they grow bigger. Indeed, as the universe of IoT devices grows, so do the dangers they bring. With Gartner’s predicted 20 billion IoT devices by 2020 and 25 billion by 2021 comes not only lack of certification for IoT security (ISO/IEC 27030 is still in draft version and there are no clear dates when it can be released) but also real dangers right now from interconnected, insecurely designed, and not properly updated and maintained IoT.

Such constant expansion clearly demonstrates the attitude of those who participate in the IoT market. New models are introduced with shiny new functionality, but secure design, and extensive quality assurance and testing remain low on the priority list.

17 entry points to a connected home

https://www.technocracy.news/protecting-your-digital-life-in-the-age-of-iot/

VIDEO: Confused Joe Biden Calls North Korea’s Leader ‘Cum Kim Jong-un’ During Campaign Event

How could any world leader respect a man who has literally lost his last marble?

He also screwed up the name of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.

While speaking to a small crowd, Biden was talking “tough” about “evil rulers,” when he couldn’t seem to get his mouth and his brain to work in synch and referred to King Jong-un as “Cum Jong-un.”

Biden corrected himself, but of course, it’s too late. All eyes are on him for his obvious “dementia” symptoms.

https://www.theamericanmirror.com/2020/03/video-confused-joe-biden-calls-north-koreas-leader-cum-kim-jong-un-during-campaign-event/

Fake ‘Anti-Intervention’ Washington D.C. Think-Tank Debuts by Hosting CIA Warmonger David Petraeus

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statescraft, a Washington D.C. think-tank that is a joint project of George Soros and Charles Koch, kicked off with its initial conference last week, and iconic anti-war author and journalist Gareth Porter is calling the group out for their lack of authenticity.

Porter hammered the conference for their weak “realism and restraint” messaging and their kowtowing to the political elite. He criticized them for partnering with the warhawks at Foreign Policy magazine and hosting CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus to lead their inaugural conference.

“Quincy needed a way to highlight the weaknesses of the status quo elite’s ideas and the power of its own alternative, and a debate between Petraeus and a highly articulate opponent of his position and argument would have done that. That was a talking point for the defense of Petraeus as a representative of the war system offered by one Quincy officer in advance of the conference,” Porter explained in his exposé of the conference.

https://libertyconservativenews.com/fake-anti-intervention-washington-d-c-think-tank-debuts-by-hosting-cia-warmonger-david-petraeus/

“…Hurry Up Please, It’s Time….” The ONLY Way Hillary Stays Out Of Jail?

As T.S. Eliot said, “it’s time.”

Time to close up and get the hell out of Dodge.

Time for all good Democrats to hang up, stop drinking, and go home. Because it looks like they want to nominate an old, senile, baby-touching, hair-sniffing, digit-sucking pervert named Joe Biden.

I spoke to several Libs. The general consensus among them seems to be, “Biden’s just a Hugger, is all. C’mon, man, he’s a Hugger!

As far as Biden’s obvious senility and confusion–well-documented, even on the left–I was told, generally, “All lies. Just lies made up by Trump. And by Jews in The Bernie campaign.”

https://www.watcherofweasels.org/hurry-up-please-its-time/

Ruling Class Hopes COVID-19 Will Sink Trump. But It Could Play Into His Hands.

If President Trump wants to weather the coronavirus panic, his best way forward is: Make borders, immigration, national sovereignty, and economic nationalism the cornerstones of his re-election campaign. His America First agenda is the best protection against pandemics. Democrats are locked into Open Borders, and can propose nothing but government-run healthcare. They and their Main Stream Media Ministry of Truth hope coronavirus kills a second Trump term. But if Trump stays the course, it will play into his hands.

Before I explain why, let’s stipulate that the latest U.S. stats show that coronavirus is not—yet— the planetary extinction event that the MSM is hyping:

As of this writing, CDC is reporting 423 cases and 19 in 35 states, 72 percent of them in Washington (136), California (110), New York (40), and Massachusetts (28) [Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S., CDC.gov, March 9, 2020].

By contrast, the U.S. 2018-2019 flu season alone, CDC reported, ended in 35.5 million cases that required 16.5 million doctor visits, another half-million or so hospital visits, and more than 34,000 deaths [Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2018–2019 influenza season, CDC.gov]. Ninety-one 91 percent of those who died were 50 years or older; 75 percent were 65 or older.

https://vdare.com/articles/ruling-class-hopes-covid-19-will-sink-trump-but-it-could-play-into-his-hands

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