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November 12, 2017
Edward Lucas
30 October 2017
The Kremlin's 20 toxic tactics
Human weakness means we find it is easier to admire problems than to solve them, to focus on the dangers we can see than worry about those that we can’t, and to use the tools we have on hand rather than try to acquire the ones we actually need.
All that is particularly true of the West’s approach to Russian political warfare. We over-focus on easy-to-see Kremlin propaganda, especially in English and other Western languages.
In fact, information warfare—meaning deliberately misleading “fake news” plus the disorientating use of trolls and bots—is just one, albeit conspicuous, element of Russia’s well-stocked arsenal.
At a NATO conference in September, I outlined another 19. Here they are, in alphabetical order:
1. The targeted use of corruption;
2. Cyber-attacks on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data held on a target country’s computer systems;
3. Diplomatic divide-and-rule games designed to weaken multilateral rule-based organizations, and to create the perception of the targeted country’s isolation and indefensibility;
4. The exploitation of economic, ethnic, linguistic, regional, religious, social and other divisions;
5. Economic sanctions such as import curbs and restrictions on exports and transit;
Interference with energy supplies, especially natural gas;
6. Stoking financial panics;
7. Weaponizing history to besmirch the reputation of a target country and hide Kremlin crimes;
8. Covert information operations
11 more...At Link
Excellent Read
CEPA: "The Kremlin's 20 toxic tactics"
http://cepa.org/EuropesEdge/The-Kremlins-20-toxic-tacticsEdward Lucas
30 October 2017
The Kremlin's 20 toxic tactics
Human weakness means we find it is easier to admire problems than to solve them, to focus on the dangers we can see than worry about those that we can’t, and to use the tools we have on hand rather than try to acquire the ones we actually need.
All that is particularly true of the West’s approach to Russian political warfare. We over-focus on easy-to-see Kremlin propaganda, especially in English and other Western languages.
In fact, information warfare—meaning deliberately misleading “fake news” plus the disorientating use of trolls and bots—is just one, albeit conspicuous, element of Russia’s well-stocked arsenal.
At a NATO conference in September, I outlined another 19. Here they are, in alphabetical order:
1. The targeted use of corruption;
2. Cyber-attacks on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data held on a target country’s computer systems;
3. Diplomatic divide-and-rule games designed to weaken multilateral rule-based organizations, and to create the perception of the targeted country’s isolation and indefensibility;
4. The exploitation of economic, ethnic, linguistic, regional, religious, social and other divisions;
5. Economic sanctions such as import curbs and restrictions on exports and transit;
Interference with energy supplies, especially natural gas;
6. Stoking financial panics;
7. Weaponizing history to besmirch the reputation of a target country and hide Kremlin crimes;
8. Covert information operations
11 more...At Link
Excellent Read
November 12, 2017
A taxi-hailing app.
A transplant device developer.
An online mortgage provider.
Those businesses may have little in common, but one shared thread is that U.S. startups in these sectors have all secured large funding rounds led by Russia-based investors.
They’re not alone.
Over the past seven years, Russia-based strategic and venture investors have participated in more than 300 funding rounds for U.S.-based startups, according to Crunchbase data. Investments span all stages, major sectors and round sizes, and include both equity and debt financings. (See deal list here.)
The cross-border deal-making isn’t limited to Russian investors backing U.S. startups.
Venture firms based in the U.S. have invested in more than 150 funding rounds for Russian startups over the past decade, with a particular focus on e-commerce and consumer internet deals.
We’ll look at those trends in the second installment of this two-part series.
These are the US startups that Russian investors are backing
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/11/these-are-the-us-startups-that-russian-investors-are-backing/A taxi-hailing app.
A transplant device developer.
An online mortgage provider.
Those businesses may have little in common, but one shared thread is that U.S. startups in these sectors have all secured large funding rounds led by Russia-based investors.
They’re not alone.
Over the past seven years, Russia-based strategic and venture investors have participated in more than 300 funding rounds for U.S.-based startups, according to Crunchbase data. Investments span all stages, major sectors and round sizes, and include both equity and debt financings. (See deal list here.)
The cross-border deal-making isn’t limited to Russian investors backing U.S. startups.
Venture firms based in the U.S. have invested in more than 150 funding rounds for Russian startups over the past decade, with a particular focus on e-commerce and consumer internet deals.
We’ll look at those trends in the second installment of this two-part series.
November 10, 2017
Eric Garland
@ericgarland
A former FBI counterintelligence director shows how Mueller is going to send this whole gang to jail.
How Robert Mueller Works a Case
By Robert Anderson November 9, 2017
http://time.com/5016175/robert-mueller-donald-trump-george-papadopoulos/
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Anderson is a managing director at Navigant. He was the assistant director of counterintelligence for Robert Mueller at the FBI from 2011 to 2013
I worked for Bob Mueller for 12 years while he was the FBI director, Russian spy services use two main methods to run agents.
Either they recruit people as traditional assets, where the targets know they’re working for a foreign government. Or they use unwitting agents—people targeted to exploit not just what they know, but who they know.
That’s what seems to have happened here.
Russian intelligence services have run political-influence operations since the beginning of time, and if you put a seasoned intelligence officer in front of a traditional, unsuspecting businessman, there’s just no match.
More at Link
Great Read
Start clenching Repuks 😣 "How Robert Mueller Works a Case"
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericgarland/status/929051684151717889Eric Garland
@ericgarland
A former FBI counterintelligence director shows how Mueller is going to send this whole gang to jail.
How Robert Mueller Works a Case
By Robert Anderson November 9, 2017
http://time.com/5016175/robert-mueller-donald-trump-george-papadopoulos/
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Anderson is a managing director at Navigant. He was the assistant director of counterintelligence for Robert Mueller at the FBI from 2011 to 2013
I worked for Bob Mueller for 12 years while he was the FBI director, Russian spy services use two main methods to run agents.
Either they recruit people as traditional assets, where the targets know they’re working for a foreign government. Or they use unwitting agents—people targeted to exploit not just what they know, but who they know.
That’s what seems to have happened here.
Russian intelligence services have run political-influence operations since the beginning of time, and if you put a seasoned intelligence officer in front of a traditional, unsuspecting businessman, there’s just no match.
More at Link
Great Read
November 10, 2017
Eric Garland
Eric Garland
@ericgarland
Drudge Report became a regular conduit to Russian propaganda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/politics/wp/2017/11/10/one-of-the-busiest-websites-in-the-u-s-in-2016-regularly-linked-to-russia-propaganda/
One of the busiest websites in the U.S. in 2016 regularly linked to Russia propaganda
By Philip Bump
November 10, 2017 at 10:31 AM
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
"By July 2016, according to the analysis site SimilarWeb, Matt Drudge’s link-aggregation site Drudge Report was the second-most-visited on the Internet in the United States. Over the course of the month — the month of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions and the month of the leak of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee — SimilarWeb estimates that Drudge had 1,472,220,000 pageviews.
That’s 1.4 billion, the equivalent of 47 views of the Drudge Report every second of every minute that month.
Being the second-most-visited site, incidentally, means that Drudge had more page-views than Yahoo, Disney (including ABC and ESPN) and Time Warner.
It had more than the New York Times and The Washington Post, combined — with enough space left over to also outpace Hearst.
By December, Drudge had fallen to third, the position it had held for most of 2016.
That month, though, the number of pageviews had climbed to 1.83 billion.
That’s as though 58 people loaded Drudge Report every second that month.
Translated into universally accessible terms, the Drudge Report was a traffic behemoth during the 2016 election.
And every time the page was loaded last year (and today, should you visit), there were two direct links to the conspiracy-theory-hawking site Infowars.
READ MORE..
Drudge Report became a regular conduit to Russian propaganda.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericgarland/status/929011050133032960Eric Garland
Eric Garland
@ericgarland
Drudge Report became a regular conduit to Russian propaganda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/politics/wp/2017/11/10/one-of-the-busiest-websites-in-the-u-s-in-2016-regularly-linked-to-russia-propaganda/
One of the busiest websites in the U.S. in 2016 regularly linked to Russia propaganda
By Philip Bump
November 10, 2017 at 10:31 AM
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
"By July 2016, according to the analysis site SimilarWeb, Matt Drudge’s link-aggregation site Drudge Report was the second-most-visited on the Internet in the United States. Over the course of the month — the month of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions and the month of the leak of emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee — SimilarWeb estimates that Drudge had 1,472,220,000 pageviews.
That’s 1.4 billion, the equivalent of 47 views of the Drudge Report every second of every minute that month.
Being the second-most-visited site, incidentally, means that Drudge had more page-views than Yahoo, Disney (including ABC and ESPN) and Time Warner.
It had more than the New York Times and The Washington Post, combined — with enough space left over to also outpace Hearst.
By December, Drudge had fallen to third, the position it had held for most of 2016.
That month, though, the number of pageviews had climbed to 1.83 billion.
That’s as though 58 people loaded Drudge Report every second that month.
Translated into universally accessible terms, the Drudge Report was a traffic behemoth during the 2016 election.
And every time the page was loaded last year (and today, should you visit), there were two direct links to the conspiracy-theory-hawking site Infowars.
READ MORE..
November 10, 2017
GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER — Former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is speaking at a national health symposium at Geisinger Medical Center near Danville.
Clinton was the keynote speaker at Geisinger’s National Health Symposium, which brought together medical professionals from all over the country.
SNIP
The former Democratic presidential nominee also discussed the opioid epidemic and health care for women and children. Clinton is disappointed Congress has not reauthorized funding for the CHIP program.
"There's got to be a better way of expressing, explaining, and convincing women and men to take some of these steps to get help for themselves and their families."
"We have about 250 people coming in from outside of Geisinger from 20 states, one from outside the country," said Nancy Lawton-Kluck, Geisinger chief philanthropy officer.
Instead of being just a speaker, Clinton and Geisinger president/CEO Dr. David Feinberg sat on stage and had a chat about health care. Clinton spent a lot of time talking about universal health care.
“We should try to be figuring out how to cover everybody at an affordable cost and get better results,” Clinton said.[/]
Read more and see video >>>>
http://wnep.com/2017/11/09/hillary-clinton-speaking-at-geisinger-health-symposium/
Comments:
"She was really knowledgeable in how to get to the core of both medicine and politics," said Kaitlin Sweeney.
"Just to hear about her intention to serve the underserved population," said Andrea Wary, Geisinger emergency medicine.
"Of all the people, she's probably had one of the careers in dedicating herself to health and health care," Lawton-Kluck said.
The symposium's theme is, "from crisis to cure: revitalizing America's health care." but much of the focus is on the opioid epidemic.
"It's a safety issue, it's a health issue, it's a human issue," Brazil said.
Instead of just speeches, the speakers have conversations with the invitation-only crowd to make it personal.
"The concept of bringing all of these folks together in the same room and having these conversations together," Dr. Strony said.
MORE..
Hillary Clinton Speaking at Geisinger Health Symposium
https://still4hill.com/2017/11/09/hillary-clinton-talks-healthcare-at-the-geisinger-national-symposium/GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER — Former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton is speaking at a national health symposium at Geisinger Medical Center near Danville.
Clinton was the keynote speaker at Geisinger’s National Health Symposium, which brought together medical professionals from all over the country.
SNIP
The former Democratic presidential nominee also discussed the opioid epidemic and health care for women and children. Clinton is disappointed Congress has not reauthorized funding for the CHIP program.
"There's got to be a better way of expressing, explaining, and convincing women and men to take some of these steps to get help for themselves and their families."
"We have about 250 people coming in from outside of Geisinger from 20 states, one from outside the country," said Nancy Lawton-Kluck, Geisinger chief philanthropy officer.
Instead of being just a speaker, Clinton and Geisinger president/CEO Dr. David Feinberg sat on stage and had a chat about health care. Clinton spent a lot of time talking about universal health care.
“We should try to be figuring out how to cover everybody at an affordable cost and get better results,” Clinton said.[/]
Read more and see video >>>>
http://wnep.com/2017/11/09/hillary-clinton-speaking-at-geisinger-health-symposium/
Comments:
"She was really knowledgeable in how to get to the core of both medicine and politics," said Kaitlin Sweeney.
"Just to hear about her intention to serve the underserved population," said Andrea Wary, Geisinger emergency medicine.
"Of all the people, she's probably had one of the careers in dedicating herself to health and health care," Lawton-Kluck said.
The symposium's theme is, "from crisis to cure: revitalizing America's health care." but much of the focus is on the opioid epidemic.
"It's a safety issue, it's a health issue, it's a human issue," Brazil said.
Instead of just speeches, the speakers have conversations with the invitation-only crowd to make it personal.
"The concept of bringing all of these folks together in the same room and having these conversations together," Dr. Strony said.
MORE..
November 9, 2017
Mueller likely to probe Gates’ moonlighting as movie producer
Rick Gates, indicted last week with his former boss and mentor Paul Manafort in the special counsel investigation of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, is best known as a political consultant and lobbyist. In tandem with Manafort, he raked in tens of millions from Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs and a pro-Moscow Ukrainian political party. And when Manafort chaired Donald Trump's bid for the White House, Gates was his deputy.
Less well known is his sideline as a Hollywood producer.
Gates has been involved in a handful of films, including this year’s Walk of Fame, which starred Clint Eastwood’s son Scott.
Some of Gates’ colleagues in those Tinseltown endeavors, however, have run into trouble with the law. Gates — who, with Manafort, was charged with money laundering and failing to disclose foreign banks accounts in the first public indictments to emerge from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe — was listed as providing backing for several films whose other producers have been accused of defrauding investors of millions of dollars.
SNIP
Williams and Steven J. Brown, another producer, along with Minnesota Republican fundraiser Jerry Seppala, were ordered in March 2016 to pay back $10.5 million to one of the duped investors, Bill Busbice Jr., owner of a hunting company in Louisiana and, until recently, star of the reality show Wildgame Nation.
Gates' ties to Brown go beyond being co-producers, though. Manafort’s former lobbying firm, where Gates also worked, paid Brown $40,000 for political and media outreach he did in 2012 and 2013 on behalf a Ukrainian political party, Ukrainian Party of Regions.
SNIP
Shell game
Rather than use Busbice’s money for films, Williams and Brown transferred it to personal accounts they used for lavish vacations, a Jaguar, payments on a yacht loan and initial payments on a $3.5 million home for Williams in Calabass, California, according to Busbice’s lawsuit. They sent Busbice and his lawyer false bank statements they created to mask their activity, the suit said.
The two producers also allegedly sent more than $100,000 of the fraudulently-obtained funds to a politically-oriented nonprofit called the Bipartisan Coalition for American Security, which was cochaired by former U.S. Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Scott Brown (R-MA) and whose advisory board was led by Elliott Broidy, a national deputy finance chair for the Republican National Committee. (Brown is now U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand.)
SNIP
Gates’s film connections also have a distinctly former Soviet flavor. An upcoming film that is backed in part by an entity tied to Gates is a Czech production directed and produced by Petr Jakl, a former Czech judo champion; Jakl appeared in several Hollywood films in the early 2000s, including xXx, starring Vin Diesel, and EuroTrip. Brown is listed as the film’s co-producer on the website for Jakl’s production company. Brown and Williams were also both executive producers for Jakl’s last production, 2015’s Ghoul, which was set and partially filmed in Ukraine.
READ MORE...
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And from Twitter:
eplying to @ericgarland
Steve Mnuchin too. Great way to launder money, btw.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/avatar-borat-devil-wears-prada-a-look-at-all-films-trumps-treasury-pick-steven-mnuchin-helped-f
Eric Garland
@ericgarland
Multiple people in Trump's inner circle are movie producers.
Malaysia was laundering money through U.S. movies..
Bannon. Mnuchin. Bigly.
Replying to @ericgarland
Manafort did it too. Produced his daughter's movies.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericgarland/status/928661590991425537
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Some have also questioned money laundering thru Trump's underaged modelling business & ties to the porn movie industry.
Makes you want to throw up.
This is who's running our country.
Mueller likely to probe Gates moonlighting as movie producer/Money Laundering
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article183122106.htmlMueller likely to probe Gates’ moonlighting as movie producer
Rick Gates, indicted last week with his former boss and mentor Paul Manafort in the special counsel investigation of Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, is best known as a political consultant and lobbyist. In tandem with Manafort, he raked in tens of millions from Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs and a pro-Moscow Ukrainian political party. And when Manafort chaired Donald Trump's bid for the White House, Gates was his deputy.
Less well known is his sideline as a Hollywood producer.
Gates has been involved in a handful of films, including this year’s Walk of Fame, which starred Clint Eastwood’s son Scott.
Some of Gates’ colleagues in those Tinseltown endeavors, however, have run into trouble with the law. Gates — who, with Manafort, was charged with money laundering and failing to disclose foreign banks accounts in the first public indictments to emerge from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe — was listed as providing backing for several films whose other producers have been accused of defrauding investors of millions of dollars.
SNIP
Williams and Steven J. Brown, another producer, along with Minnesota Republican fundraiser Jerry Seppala, were ordered in March 2016 to pay back $10.5 million to one of the duped investors, Bill Busbice Jr., owner of a hunting company in Louisiana and, until recently, star of the reality show Wildgame Nation.
Gates' ties to Brown go beyond being co-producers, though. Manafort’s former lobbying firm, where Gates also worked, paid Brown $40,000 for political and media outreach he did in 2012 and 2013 on behalf a Ukrainian political party, Ukrainian Party of Regions.
SNIP
Shell game
Rather than use Busbice’s money for films, Williams and Brown transferred it to personal accounts they used for lavish vacations, a Jaguar, payments on a yacht loan and initial payments on a $3.5 million home for Williams in Calabass, California, according to Busbice’s lawsuit. They sent Busbice and his lawyer false bank statements they created to mask their activity, the suit said.
The two producers also allegedly sent more than $100,000 of the fraudulently-obtained funds to a politically-oriented nonprofit called the Bipartisan Coalition for American Security, which was cochaired by former U.S. Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Scott Brown (R-MA) and whose advisory board was led by Elliott Broidy, a national deputy finance chair for the Republican National Committee. (Brown is now U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand.)
SNIP
Gates’s film connections also have a distinctly former Soviet flavor. An upcoming film that is backed in part by an entity tied to Gates is a Czech production directed and produced by Petr Jakl, a former Czech judo champion; Jakl appeared in several Hollywood films in the early 2000s, including xXx, starring Vin Diesel, and EuroTrip. Brown is listed as the film’s co-producer on the website for Jakl’s production company. Brown and Williams were also both executive producers for Jakl’s last production, 2015’s Ghoul, which was set and partially filmed in Ukraine.
READ MORE...
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And from Twitter:
eplying to @ericgarland
Steve Mnuchin too. Great way to launder money, btw.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/avatar-borat-devil-wears-prada-a-look-at-all-films-trumps-treasury-pick-steven-mnuchin-helped-f
Eric Garland
@ericgarland
Multiple people in Trump's inner circle are movie producers.
Malaysia was laundering money through U.S. movies..
Bannon. Mnuchin. Bigly.
Replying to @ericgarland
Manafort did it too. Produced his daughter's movies.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericgarland/status/928661590991425537
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Some have also questioned money laundering thru Trump's underaged modelling business & ties to the porn movie industry.
Makes you want to throw up.
This is who's running our country.
November 9, 2017
Democrats painted a wide portrait of victories on Election Day. From governor races to city council contests, a winning message resonated.
23-year-old Latina trounces GOP incumbent who defended Trump’s sexual assault
Crystal Murillo, Aurora's newest city council member
Murillo’s family moved to the United States two decades ago from Mexico. She became the first member of her family to graduate high school, and then college, earning a bachelors degree from the University of Denver.
She was inspired to run after Trump’s win last November, saying his electoral victory was the “catalyst” for her decision to get involved in politics.
“But the more I looked at my own city and my own community, the more I realized that there was a legitimate reason for me to run in Aurora,” she said. “Our city council is made up entirely of older, white council members… the community here isn’t reflected.”
SNIP
Signaling a burgeoning youth movement in local Democratic politics, 23-year-old Crystal Murillo won a seat on the traditionally conservative Aurora, Colorado, city council on Tuesday.
In the process, she ousted a Republican incumbent and fervent Donald Trump supporter.
Her win was part of a larger Democratic mosaic of victories that unfolded Tuesday across the country, as women in particular, and newcomers in general, secured victory after victory and sent a message to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
Along with Murillos, Nicole Johnston and Allison Hiltz also secured victories in the Aurora race.
All three women are graduates of Emerge Colorado, which is part of a nationwide organization that trains Democratic women on how to launch successful political campaigns. Since it was founded in 2002, the group has trained more than 2,500 women across the country.
EMERGE AMERICA is sponsored by Hillary Clinton's ONWARD TOGETHER
https://emerge.ngpvanhost.com/sites/emerge/files/Onward Together-5.png
"The day after Election Day, I said that women and girls are “valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world.” I believe in that message more fiercely than ever. You are valuable and powerful. You are eminently qualified and capable. And I cannot wait to see how you use your unique gifts and skills to make your community, our country, and our world a better place."
You can do this,
Hillary
EMERGE AMERICA
https://emerge.ngpvanhost.com/home
What an amazing organization.
The training is lead by some of our absolutest finest.
The wins in Aurora Co by the 3 fine women is proof that "When Women Run, Women Win".
EMERGE AMERICA was the traing ground & support necessary for future political involvement.
Read the list of Staff also, these women are the best in the business. They have seen the political world inside & out.
Advisory Board:
https://emerge.ngpvanhost.com/about/board/advisory
(These women are in good hands)
Congrats to all women involved in defeating the old guys & the women who stand with such archaic ideals.
Thanks Hillary!
Another great GOP upset in Tuesday's Election !
https://shareblue.com/23-year-old-latina-trounces-gop-incumbent-who-defended-trumps-sexual-assault/Democrats painted a wide portrait of victories on Election Day. From governor races to city council contests, a winning message resonated.
23-year-old Latina trounces GOP incumbent who defended Trump’s sexual assault
Crystal Murillo, Aurora's newest city council member
Murillo’s family moved to the United States two decades ago from Mexico. She became the first member of her family to graduate high school, and then college, earning a bachelors degree from the University of Denver.
She was inspired to run after Trump’s win last November, saying his electoral victory was the “catalyst” for her decision to get involved in politics.
“But the more I looked at my own city and my own community, the more I realized that there was a legitimate reason for me to run in Aurora,” she said. “Our city council is made up entirely of older, white council members… the community here isn’t reflected.”
SNIP
Signaling a burgeoning youth movement in local Democratic politics, 23-year-old Crystal Murillo won a seat on the traditionally conservative Aurora, Colorado, city council on Tuesday.
In the process, she ousted a Republican incumbent and fervent Donald Trump supporter.
Her win was part of a larger Democratic mosaic of victories that unfolded Tuesday across the country, as women in particular, and newcomers in general, secured victory after victory and sent a message to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
Along with Murillos, Nicole Johnston and Allison Hiltz also secured victories in the Aurora race.
All three women are graduates of Emerge Colorado, which is part of a nationwide organization that trains Democratic women on how to launch successful political campaigns. Since it was founded in 2002, the group has trained more than 2,500 women across the country.
EMERGE AMERICA is sponsored by Hillary Clinton's ONWARD TOGETHER
https://emerge.ngpvanhost.com/sites/emerge/files/Onward Together-5.png
"The day after Election Day, I said that women and girls are “valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world.” I believe in that message more fiercely than ever. You are valuable and powerful. You are eminently qualified and capable. And I cannot wait to see how you use your unique gifts and skills to make your community, our country, and our world a better place."
You can do this,
Hillary
EMERGE AMERICA
https://emerge.ngpvanhost.com/home
What an amazing organization.
The training is lead by some of our absolutest finest.
The wins in Aurora Co by the 3 fine women is proof that "When Women Run, Women Win".
EMERGE AMERICA was the traing ground & support necessary for future political involvement.
Read the list of Staff also, these women are the best in the business. They have seen the political world inside & out.
Advisory Board:
https://emerge.ngpvanhost.com/about/board/advisory
(These women are in good hands)
Congrats to all women involved in defeating the old guys & the women who stand with such archaic ideals.
Thanks Hillary!
November 8, 2017
Russian, Chinese Companies Win Intel Community’s Facial Recognition Contest
Moscow-based NTechlab won two categories of IARPA’s facial recognition challenge.
A Russian company whose software is used to match facial photos to individual identities has $25,000 from the U.S. intelligence community.
NTechlab, based in Moscow, is best known for building a product called “FindFace” that let users surreptitiously take photos of strangers and match them to their online social media profiles through Russian Facebook-counterpart VKontakte.
NTechlab was one of two companies to win prizes as part of Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Facial Recognition Challenge, which sought to evaluate the tech sector’s best identification software.
NTechlab won in the categories of “identification speed” and “verification accuracy”—the latter refers to an ability to verify that two photos are of the same person.
A Chinese company, called Yitu, won in the “identification accuracy” category for its software’s ability to match a face to a specific identity.
Though the cash prizes do not establish any formal relationship with the U.S. federal government, NTechlab CEO Mikhail Ivanov told Nextgov that he hopes the publicity could help the company “penetrate that target market” and score more contracts with public safety groups around the world, especially those interesting in keeping specific people on the other side of their borders.
MORE....
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Responses from twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericgarland/status/928280503857352705
😠 Russian, Chinese Companies Win Intel Community Facial Recognition Contest
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/11/russian-chinese-companies-win-intel-communitys-face-recognition-tech-contest/142379/Russian, Chinese Companies Win Intel Community’s Facial Recognition Contest
Moscow-based NTechlab won two categories of IARPA’s facial recognition challenge.
A Russian company whose software is used to match facial photos to individual identities has $25,000 from the U.S. intelligence community.
NTechlab, based in Moscow, is best known for building a product called “FindFace” that let users surreptitiously take photos of strangers and match them to their online social media profiles through Russian Facebook-counterpart VKontakte.
NTechlab was one of two companies to win prizes as part of Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Facial Recognition Challenge, which sought to evaluate the tech sector’s best identification software.
NTechlab won in the categories of “identification speed” and “verification accuracy”—the latter refers to an ability to verify that two photos are of the same person.
A Chinese company, called Yitu, won in the “identification accuracy” category for its software’s ability to match a face to a specific identity.
Though the cash prizes do not establish any formal relationship with the U.S. federal government, NTechlab CEO Mikhail Ivanov told Nextgov that he hopes the publicity could help the company “penetrate that target market” and score more contracts with public safety groups around the world, especially those interesting in keeping specific people on the other side of their borders.
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Responses from twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericgarland/status/928280503857352705
November 7, 2017
R-NY Chris Collins , "Get it done or dont ever call me again"
RepChrisCollins (R-NY) on tax reform:
"My donors are basically saying, 'Get it done or don’t ever call me again.'"
9:16 AM · Nov 7, 2017
Notice he didn't say his constituents in his State.
How many of those big donors even live there?
They must be getting nervous that Mueller will take down their leader before their tax bonus is passed.
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