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Anonymous ID: 8f0682 July 16, 2020, 9:07 a.m. No.9979819   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9948 >>0196

“Today in Mayberry History” - July 16.

 

On today’s date in 1945, the first detonation of a nuclear bomb occurred in New Mexico. Codenamed Trinity, it was conducted by the US Army as part of the Manhattan Project, which ultimately led to the end of World War II.

 

"The Andy Griffith Show' rarely made reference to real-life events as part of the effort to keep the show’s 1930s feeling even though it was occurring in the 1960s. One exception was a reflection of the public’s understandable concern about the effect such weapons would have on the planet. When Aunt Bee commented that it seemed a little warm, Barney responded, “Well, the weather’s been changin’ so much lately. Must be the bomb.”

 

Writer Harvey Bullock later said he regretted making the rare joke such as this that reflected real life.

Anonymous ID: 8f0682 July 16, 2020, 9:16 a.m. No.9979889   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9902 >>9943 >>0045 >>0196

bam

 

Hackers Reveal Twitter’s Shadowbanning Tool Is Manual and Not Accidental — Exposes Tech Giant’s Massive Censorship Operation

By Jim Hoft

Published July 16, 2020 at 11:03am

 

  • On Wednesday the Twitter account belonging to former Vice President Joe Biden was hacked, the account belonging to former President Barack Obama was hacked shortly after.

 

Many other massive figures and accounts were also hacked, including Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, Elon Musk, Uber, Warren Buffet, Apple and Bill Gates.

 

The hackers used the accounts to request money be sent to a Bitcoin wallet, which raked in tens of thousands of dollars in minutes.

 

Senator Josh Hawley wrote to Twitter following the massive security breach to explain the extent of the breach and how this was possible.

 

MOAR: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/hackers-reveal-twitters-shadowbanning-tool-manual-not-accidental-explains-extreme-anti-conservative-bias-tech-giant/

Anonymous ID: 8f0682 July 16, 2020, 9:34 a.m. No.9980015   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0053 >>0070

Did not see this in the Notables anywhere?

 

== Pompeo Draws a Line Against Beijing in the South China Sea

The United States has aligned itself on the side of international law, but backing up a tough statement will be hard. ==

 

  • In a surprise move, the Trump administration has issued a statement on the South China Sea that is consistent with international law, grounded in historical evidence, and completely in line with the expectations of the United States’ allies and partners. It places the United States squarely behind the interests of Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines, all of which have serious disputes with Beijing. It’s a strong move—but the big question is how Washington will follow up on it.

 

In his statement on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was aligning the U.S. position on China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea with the 2016 ruling of an international arbitral tribunal in The Hague. That ruling, in a case brought by the Philippines, comprehensively demolished China’s decades-old claims to maritime resources that go beyond those allowed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). China refused to even attend the tribunal, despite being a UNCLOS signatory, and fiercely denies the result.

 

In an alternate universe, one in which Rodrigo Duterte lost the Philippine presidential election in 2016 and Hillary Clinton won the White House, this statement would have been issued long ago. Duterte’s taking power, just 12 days before the arbitration ruling was announced, killed the chances of such an approach at the time even under then-U.S. President Barack Obama. It is easy to imagine it lying buried in a file for four years until some patient State Department officials felt able to revive the practice of diplomacy and working partnerships in the twilight months of Trump. But with the statement now nailed to the mast of U.S. policymaking in Asia, what should happen next?

 

China’s claims in the South China Sea fall into two types: “territorial claims” to the disputed rocks and reefs and “maritime claims” to the resources in the sea around those rocks and reefs. The United States, quite sensibly, has never taken a position on which country is the rightful owner of these territories. However, Pompeo’s statement breaks new ground by asserting that China has “no lawful territorial or maritime claim to (or derived from) James Shoal.”

 

MOAR:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/15/pompeo-south-china-sea-nine-dash-line-unclos/