Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Joe Biden says he won’t be “as polite this time” when he faces fellow Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate and Senator Kamala Harris (D, CA) in the Tuesday-Wednesday Party primary debates.
So, what’s he going to do? Take Harris out behind the gym? Or just challenger her to a push-up contest?
You decide. In connection with a UEFA Europa League qualifying match between Israel’s Maccabi Haifa and RC Strasbourg, in Strasbourg, France, the French police barred the Maccabi fans from waving the Israeli flag or wearing club or Israeli paraphernalia in the area around the stadium.
Because of, claimed the police,
fears of violence following anti-Semitic actions against fans of the Israeli club.
On top of that,
Just 600 Haifa fans were allowed into the Stade de la Meinau for the match.
In other words, the Strasbourg police either restricted the Israelis out of bigotry, or they surrendered to anti-Semitic terrorist wannabes.
It was only after extensive objections from the Israeli government and the Maccabi fans that the police relented. Sort of.
…fans could now wave the Israeli flag inside of the venue starting around 6:30 p.m. local time. However, the restriction was kept in place outside the stadium and on the streets of Strasbourg[.]
Either way, this stinks. And restrictions of any sort never should have been retained. It never should have happened, and it mustn’t be allowed to happen again. Nor bigotry nor cowardice can be allowed to prevail.
…to be clear and overt in our support for the Republic of China.
We sailed a guided missile cruiser through the international waters of the Taiwan Strait last Wednesday, and the People’s Republic of China objected. Then it threatened.
China said it would take all necessary military measures to defeat “separatists” in Taiwan.
This comes, also, after the PRC threatened military action against the people of Hong Kong because they’ve been uppity enough to insist that the PRC honor its commitment to Hong Kong’s (semi-)autonomy IAW its handover agreement with Great Britain.
All this adds to the necessity of selling the RoC anti-missile and anti-aircraft systems, modern combat aircraft and ground combat equipment, and brokering deals between the RoC and Israel for the latter’s Iron Dome and Arrow systems. And systems designed specifically to defeat amphibious and airborne invasion attempts.
We’re already in the processing of selling them $2.2 billion worth of arms, but that should be only a start.
Attorney General William Barr, in front of the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University, said that
“warrant-proof” encryption was “enabling dangerous criminals to cloak their communications and activities behind an essentially impenetrable digital shield.”
Of course. And the FBI, in the aftermath of a mass-shooting in California a while back, (in)famously said that it needed Apple to crack the lock on one of the murderer’s smartphone so they could read it, insisting they were helpless without Apple’s cracking (and they demanded then, too, that Apple install encryption backdoors on its commercial cell phones). Then the FBI hired a third party, which cracked the encryption forthwith.
And before that, crime investigations were hindered by lack of fingerprints because the crooks wore gloves. Until DNA technology and testing opened other avenues of identification. With search warrants required before that DNA could be sought out from individuals so that crime scene deposits could be matched.
And before that wired messaging, done privately, hindered crime investigations until wire tapping technology opened that for investigation. With search warrants required before wire tapping could be done.
It’s always an arms race between the bad guys and the good guys. And the good guys always win in the end, because they’re always able to get the better technology.
This time, The Wall Street Journal says, is different, though, via its subheadline at the link:
[Barr] offers no clear path forward
Of course, there is a clear path forward: get a warrant. Do old-fashioned detective work.
And: hold onto that communications device. There’s no such thing as unbreakable (and so warrant-proof) encryption, there’s only encryption that can’t be broken today.
The Trump administration has moved to make it harder for folks arriving on our border to claim to be seeking asylum, and the American Civil Liberties Union and American Immigration Council don’t like it. Here’s AIC’s Managing Director Royce Murray:
…the Trump administration is “throwing everything they have at asylum seekers in an effort to turn everyone humanly possible away….”
Which, of course, misrepresents the facts. The vast majority of folks arriving at our border claiming to be asylum seekers are nothing of the sort. Their presence on our border or illegally crossing it demonstrates that they’ve already rejected asylum offers, even job possibilities—offers and possibilities Mexico has offered them.
The folks running the ACLU and the AIC know this full well.