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Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system

Agents discovered electronic devices in five locations in and around the city that could be used to disable cellphone towers. The system could also be used for criminal activites.
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Secret Service agents dismantle network that could shut down New York cellphone system​

Agents discovered electronic devices in five locations in and around the city that could be used to disable cellphone towers. The system could also be used for criminal activites.

U.S. Secret Service agents have dismantled a network of electronic devices located in multiple locations around New York City that could be used to disable the city's cellphone network, officials said Tuesday. They said the system was also used to anonymously convey assassination threats against senior U.S. officials and for criminal activities.

In five locations within 35 miles of New York, Secret Service agents discovered more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards, officials said. They said the system could also be used for criminal activity and that 80 grams of cocaine, illegal firearms, computers and cellphones were also found at the locations.


"These devices allowed anonymous, encrypted communications between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises, enabling criminal organizations to operate undetected," Matt McCool, the head of the Secret Service New York Field Office, said in a video statement released Tuesday morning. "This network had the potential to disable cellphone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City."
 
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“Monkey D. Luffy is a rubber-bodied pirate who battles tyrannical governments as he and his motley crew sail across the ocean. In recent months, young protesters in Asia, Europe and the U.S. have taken up his pirate flag as a protest symbol.

Luffy is the protagonist of a long-running Japanese comic and animated television show called “One Piece,” which follows his adventures in pursuit of a fabled treasure.

Now, his distinctive pirate standard can be seen waving among the national flags, Free Palestine banners and homemade signs that dot the crowds in a run of recent protests from Indonesia and Nepal to France and the U.K.…”
 
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“Monkey D. Luffy is a rubber-bodied pirate who battles tyrannical governments as he and his motley crew sail across the ocean. In recent months, young protesters in Asia, Europe and the U.S. have taken up his pirate flag as a protest symbol.

Luffy is the protagonist of a long-running Japanese comic and animated television show called “One Piece,” which follows his adventures in pursuit of a fabled treasure.

Now, his distinctive pirate standard can be seen waving among the national flags, Free Palestine banners and homemade signs that dot the crowds in a run of recent protests from Indonesia and Nepal to France and the U.K.…”
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The women on this show need to quit their jobs, go home, change some diapers, fluff up their husbands, clean the damn house, and do some other undemeaning stuff.
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Yes, it definitely gets very tiresome listening to conservative Trumper career women telling liberal career women that they need to give up their careers and return to being a "tradwife" and just stay at home and raise kids. Which none of these career women are doing. If they actually practiced what they preached then Laura Ingraham, Megyn Kelly, all of the conservative women in Trump's administration and in Congress, would not be where they are - they'd be sitting at home watching all-male governments and television shows while feeding the kids. And yet here they are, and I suspect that most of them would have to be dragged out of their jobs kicking and screaming to return to being a housewife. Look in the mirror, ladies.
 
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Apparently Trump 2.0 has adopted a new slogan and policy: "Let no dictator or right-wing authoritarian anywhere in the world fail." So as the inevitable consequences of electing right-wing demagogues hits various nations like Argentina, we'll just bail them out or, as in Brazil, keep fighting to let those nation's right-wing strongmen off the hook and maybe even return them to power. Because that's what our government is now, and we can't let our soul brothers in other countries go down the tubes, lest it indicate that choosing right-wing wannabe dictators (or the real thing) is a really, really bad idea.
 
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Apparently Trump 2.0 has adopted a new slogan and policy: "Let no dictator or right-wing authoritarian anywhere in the world fail." So as the inevitable consequences of electing right-wing demagogues hits various nations like Argentina, we'll just bail them out or, as in Brazil, keep fighting to let those nation's right-wing strongmen off the hook and maybe even return them to power. Because that's what our government is now, and we can't let our soul brothers in other countries go down the tubes, lest it indicate that choosing right-wing wannabe dictators (or the real thing) is a really, really bad idea.
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To be fair this sort of policy isn't new but rather a return to the past...especially the Reagan years when Latin America is taken into consideration in particular.

 


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“… Lutnick, who is personally close to Trump, had for months been working on a different pet project: a “gold card” that would provide a path to citizenship to wealthy foreigners willing to pay $1 million.

That idea had been proving unpopular with anti-immigrant groups typically aligned with the Trump administration, who viewed it as a pay-for-play scheme. Lutnick, according to people familiar with the meeting, told them it would reduce immigration overall and brought up another idea: a new, huge fee for the H-1B visa program, a top target of advocates for stricter immigration laws and a popular tool for tech workers. Several attendees perceived it as a fig leaf to help win their support, those people said.

The tacked-on proposal ignited a firestorm across corporate America on Friday, when Lutnick, alongside the president, announced it from the Oval Office. Senior officials at companies who depend on the H-1B visa most heavily, including several Silicon Valley tech giants, said they hadn’t been informed of the coming change.

The announcement set off a 24-hour scramble of tech workers trying to return home, lawyers peppering administration officials with clarification questions, and executives trying to figure out how expensive the change would be. The ordeal also laid bare how the administration is trying to overhaul the immigration system without alienating key parts of the president’s coalition.…”
 
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