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crazytown's JournalBeto is 2 polls short of qualifying for the November debate.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/24/klobuchar-qualifies-for-november-debate-056454Gabbard is 3 polls short, Castro is 4.
trump: The Kurds Military Commander " appreciates what we have done"
Now they should head for the oil fields.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1187395521805275137
@realDonaldTrump
I really enjoyed my conversation with General @MazloumAbdi. He appreciates what we have done, and I appreciate what the Kurds have done. Perhaps it is time for the Kurds to start heading to the Oil Region!, and I appreciate what the Kurds have done. Perhaps it is time for the Kurds to start heading to the Oil Region!
US military will no longer use 8" floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches
WTF.
US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches
It now has a "highly-secure solid state digital storage solution."
The storage is used in an ancient system called the Strategic Automated Command and Control System, or SACCS. It's used by US nuclear forces to send emergency action messages from command centers to field forces, and is unhackable precisely because it was created long before the internet existed. "You can't hack something that doesn't have an IP address. It's a very unique system -- it is old and it is very good," Rossi said.
The Defense Department planned to replace the old IBM Series/1 SACCS computer and "update its data storage solutions, port expansion processors, portable terminals, and desktop terminals by the end of fiscal year 2017," it said in 2016. The Air Force hasn't revealed whether that project is complete, but did say that it has enhanced the speed and connectivity of SACCS.
Despite the age of the system, the Air Force is confident in its security and has a pretty good handle on maintaining it. By contrast, installing an all-new system isn't as easy as it sounds. "You have to be able to certify that an adversary can't take control of that weapon, that the weapon will be able to do what it's supposed to do when you call on it," said Air Force Scientific Advisory Board chair Dr. Werner JA Dahm back in 2016.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/18/us-military-nuclear-missiles-floppy-disks/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFjc3VyZmVyLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANyWfvG927T2hO_RMfpEd8wsuGkBhOe_RsutsDXOewiQnLZPFK7mK1WKd-kOPenkREzbCjM1Yi8PuLqgsoGCcc3huGJET7AqQnqQVIlnAzIyXN0Zx7cIRS4jGoiqu6MP7Wu0BLXh4ex8dZS5xag3HTg_78GV1W69BKwIaa84Fq4S
Lis Smith: Buttigieg campaign not going negative - August, 29
Pete Buttigieg Has Cooled Off But His Campaign Says It’s Time For “Phase Three”“I witnessed the 2004 primary and the dynamics there with Gephardt and Dean,” Smith said, “and I think that any presidential campaign that doesn’t understand a multiway primary and how [going negative] will affect their long-term standing is probably not going to be the campaign that will take on Donald Trump.”
Buttigieg’s decision not to go negative is a tactic. Sometimes an apparently second-tier figure can stand aside while their rivals destroy one another, and step past them, as Kerry did in 2004. But it also reflects a bet on what both Democratic voters and the American electorate want, in terms both of policy and style: leadership whose primary orientation isn’t toward partisan confrontation and that holds out the hope of national unity. That is: a throwback to the hopes of the early Obama years.
Calling out Sanders and Warren in a TV ad doesn't count, or mocking the number of selfies Warren has done? Describing a gun buy-back scheme as a "shiny object", or small donor contributions as "pocket change"? Mean Pete has arrived.
Beto finishes debate with highest Unfavorable rating 25.7%
Survey audience considering Warren as Nominee exceeds 50% (Biden No.1, Sanders No.3 -went backwards)
Another good night for Elizabeth Warren.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/democratic-debate-october-poll/
Russia calls Turkey's invasion of north Syria 'unacceptable'
Source: Irish Times
Russia has said Turkey’s military assault on northeastern Syria is “unacceptable”, heaping pressure on Ankara as Moscow seeks to capitalise on a US withdrawal from the region to help Syrian president Bashar al-Assad reassert control.
Alexander Lavrentiev, President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Syria, told reporters that the offensive launched last week by Turkey against Kurdish forces in the country’s northeast had not been agreed with Russia, which has emerged as the most influential foreign power in Syria.
In the harshest comments yet from a Russian official, Mr Lavrentiev said Moscow had “always believed that any military operation in Syrian territory is unacceptable”.
He said the security of the Turkish-Syrian border “should be ensured . . . by way of deploying government forces along the entire border” – a suggestion that directly conflicts with Ankara’s plan to control a 32km-deep stretch of the country’s northeast.
Read more: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/russia-calls-turkey-s-invasion-of-north-syria-unacceptable-1.4051499
In related news
Russia Troops Patrol Between Turkish and Syrian Forces, Filling an American Void
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/world/middleeast/kurds-syria-turkey.html
Syria: 'Putin likely can't believe his luck'
Business Insider, October 14, 2019
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjCo7a0gZzlAhV4JDQIHb66AogQ0PADMAF6BAgBEAo&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Ftrump-russia-free-hand-syria-putin-cant-believe-luck-2019-10&usg=AOvVaw0mDavl-BJxZETWW9nKPA4z
Trump has delivered what Russia wants in Syria — at zero cost — and 'Putin likely can't believe his luck'
(snip) Syrian government troops entering Rojava without a fight represents a massive victory for not only Assad but Putin and the Iranians, who had long demanded the Americans withdraw from the strategically critical corridor that links northern Iraq with eastern Syria.
With the Americans out of the way, the portion of government-controlled Syria is likely to increase by about a third, including key ground transport lines and the large oil fields around Deir al-Zour.
"Putin continues to get whatever he wants and generally doesn't even have to do much," a NATO official said. "He got to sit back and watch the Turks and the Americans unravel five years of success, and not only did it not cost him anything, he didn't even have to try to make it happen. Small wonder he'd interfere on Trump's side in an election."
Syria Live Updates: Assad's Forces Move Into Area Hit by Turkey
Source: NYT
Hours after reaching an agreement with Kurdish forces, the Syrian Army entered a key town near the Turkish border — a significant shift in the power dynamic.
The Syrian Army entered the town of Tel Tamer in northeastern Syria, the state news media reported on Monday, soon after the government of President Bashar al-Assad forged an alliance with the Kurdish forces that control the region.
The return of government forces to northeastern Syria not only deals a blow to Kurdish-led forces who were supported by the United States, but also signals a major shift in Syria’s eight-year war.
The Syrian government had been almost entirely absent from the northeast since it withdrew or was chased out by armed rebels. The Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led militia that worked with the United States to fight the Islamic State, soon became the region’s overarching political force.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/world/middleeast/turkey-syria.html
NYT: Candidate's Ground Game / Campaign Offices in Early States
New York Times, October 12, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/us/politics/democratic-candidates-campaigns.html
Which 2020 Candidates Have the Ground Game Lead in Early Primary States
(snip) Mr. Buttigieg, whose deep financial resources has helped him open more offices than anyone else in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, has been slow to add staff in South Carolina, where polling has shown him with very limited appeal to African America voters. His campaign has just two South Carolina field offices and announced the hiring of a state director just one month ago. In Nevada, Mr. Buttigieg has four offices in Las Vegas alone, along with a presence in far-flung Republican-heavy locales like Elko, Fallon and Pahrump.
(snip) The Warren campaign built the earliest presence across the state, opening its first eight field offices in June. When Mr. Buttigieg, on a July walking tour of downtown Waterloo, popped into a sneakers-and-skateboards shop, organizers from the Warren field office across the street came outside to greet him.
Ms. Warren’s army of paid Iowa organizers — the campaign puts the number at “more than 65,” though it is by all accounts far higher — spent the summer appearing almost anywhere Democrats gathered. Democratic Party leaders in even the state’s smallest counties reported Warren organizers, alone among the presidential campaigns, appearing at nearly every one of their monthly gatherings.
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