Criminal suspect Donald John Trump is facing up to 100 years in prison
38 Count Indictment
Massive crime spree!
To be 100% clear the 1512(c) charge under 1512(i) set DC as a place with proper venue. So why file in Florida? Could it be that the DC indictment is coming and it is way worse and could charge conspiracy to murder the VP, levying war treason, sedition and insurrection
Looking at some of the detail in the indictment, one thing which stood out was the effort Nauta appears to have taken to hide his presence - beyond the text 🤫 emojis - at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend of at least June 25-27, 2022.
Including de Oliveira's bush-jumping Monday.
On Mon, June 27th, Nauta went to Mar-a-Lago but doesn't appear to have entered the property, meeting De Oliveira instead on an adjacent property on the north end of Mar-a-Lago.
Note the very specific times - quite possibly derived from CCTV coverage in the govt's possession.
Two footmen dressed in white approach the vehicle as it arrives. One opens the rear door. #Guo#Ping, one of #Huawei's rotating chairmen, steps forward and extends a hand as the guest emerges.
After walking a red carpet, the two men enter the magnificent marble-floored building, ascend a stairway, and pass through French doors to a palatial ballroom.
Several hundred people arise from their chairs and clap wildly.
The guest is welcomed by Huawei's founder, #Ren#Zhengfei, whose sky-blue blazer and white khakis signify that he has attained the power to wear whatever the hell he wants.
After some serious speechifying by a procession of dark-suited executives, Ren
—who is China's Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Warren Buffett rolled into one
—comes to the podium.
Three young women dressed in white uniforms enter the room, swinging their arms military style as they march to the stage, then about-face in unison as one holds out a framed #gold#medal the size of a salad plate.
Embedded with a red Baccarat crystal, it depicts the Goddess of Victory and was manufactured by the Monnaie de Paris. Ren is almost glowing as he presents the medal to the visitor.
This #honored#guest is not a world leader, a billionaire magnate, nor a war hero. He is a relatively unknown Turkish academic named #Erdal#Arıkan.
Throughout the ceremony he has been sitting stiffly, frozen in his ill-fitting suit, as if he were an ordinary theatergoer suddenly thrust into the leading role on a Broadway stage.
Arıkan isn't exactly ordinary.
Ten years earlier, he'd made a major discovery in the field of information theory.
Huawei then plucked his theoretical breakthrough from academic obscurity and, with large investments and top engineering talent, fashioned it into something of value in the realm of commerce.
The company then muscled and negotiated to get that innovation into something so big it could not be denied:
the basic #5G#technology now being rolled out all over the world.
Huawei's rise over the past 30 years has been heralded in China as a triumph of smarts, sweat, and grit. Perhaps no company is more beloved at home
—and more vilified by the United States.
That's at least in part because Huawei's ascent also bears the fingerprints of China's nationalistic industrial policy and an alleged penchant for intellectual property theft;
the US Department of Justice has charged the company with a sweeping conspiracy of misappropriation, infringement, obstruction, and lies.
As of press time, Ren Zhengfei's #daughter was under house arrest in Vancouver, fighting extradition to the US for allegedly violating a ban against trading with Iran.
The US government has banned Huawei's 5G products and has been lobbying other countries to do the same. Huawei denies the charges; Ren calls them political.
Huawei is settling the score in its own way. One of the world's great technology powers, it nonetheless suffers from an inferiority complex.
Despite spending billions on research and science, it can't get the respect and recognition of its Western peers. Much like China itself.
So when Ren handed the solid-gold medal
—crafted by the French mint!
—to Erdal Arıkan, he was sticking his thumb in their eye.
It had failed to adapt, disappointed its customers, and was ill-prepared to respond to new Chinese competition.
And there was that hack.
Huawei seized the moment.
Nortel's most valuable asset was the unmatched talent in its Ottawa research lab, known as the Canadian equivalent of the legendary Bell Labs.
For years, Huawei had been building up its research capacity, trying to shed its reputation as a low-cost provider whose tech came from purloining the discoveries of others. It had a number of R&D labs around the world.
Now, with Nortel's demise, it could pursue a bigger prize than market share:
technical mastery. And respect.
The head of research at Nortel's lab in Ottawa, #Wen#Tong, grew up in China and joined Nortel's wireless lab in 1995 after earning a doctorate at Concordia University in Montreal.
He had contributed to every generation of mobile technology and held 470 patents in the US.
If telecommunications companies staged a research scientist draft in 2009, Wen Tong would have been a first-round pick.
Now he was a free agent, and Google, Intel, and others courted him.
Tong picked Huawei. He wanted to keep his networking scientists together, and the team didn't want to leave Canada.
The Chinese company was happy to recruit the group and let them stay in place.
Huawei also promised them freedom to attack the signature challenge for networking science in the 21st century:
creating the infrastructure for #5G.
In this iteration of mobile platforms, billions of mobile devices would seamlessly connect to networks. It promised to transform the world in ways even the scientists could not imagine, and it would mean vast fortunes for those who produced the technology.
The race for #patents would be intense, a matter not only of profit but also national pride.
Not long after Tong joined Huawei, in 2009, a research paper came to his attention.
Tong had helped produce the technology that provided the radio-transmission error correction for the current standard, known as turbo codes.
He thought the polar codes concept could be its replacement in 5G.
But the obstacles were considerable, and Tong originally couldn't interest his Canadian researchers in attacking the problem.
Then, in 2012, Huawei asked Tong to restructure its communications lab in China.
He took the opportunity to assign several smart young engineers to work on polar codes.
It involved the none-too-certain process of taking a mathematical theory and making it actually work in practical design, but they made progress and the team grew.
With each innovation, Huawei rushed to the patent office.
In 2013, Wen Tong asked Huawei's investment board for $600 million for 5G research.
“Very simple,” Tong says. “20 minutes, and they decided.”
The answer was yes, and a good deal of that money went into polar codes.
After Huawei came up with software that implemented the theory, the work shifted to testing and iterating. Eventually hundreds of engineers were involved.
Tong was not the only information scientist who had seen Arıkan's paper. #Alexander#Vardy of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego says the paper achieved “something that people were trying to do for 60 years.”
The challenge was that polar codes were not suited for 5G's short blocklengths
—the amount of 0s and 1s strung together.
Vardy and his postdoc, #Ido#Tal of the #Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, modified the error-correcting technology so it outperformed other state-of-the-art codes when applied to 5G's short blocklengths.
Vardy says he presented his findings in a conference in 2011.
“Huawei was there in the audience, and right after that they ran with it,” he says, seemingly without rancor.
(UC San Diego owns Vardy and Tal's patent and has licensed it to Samsung on a nonexclusive basis.)
IN 1987, AROUND the time Arıkan returned to Turkey, #Ren#Zhengfei, a 44-year-old former military engineer, began a company that traded telecom equipment.
He called it #Huawei, which translates roughly to “China has a promising future.”
Ren tried to distinguish his company by maintaining a fanatical devotion to customer service.
Frustrated with the unreliability of suppliers, Ren decided that Huawei would manufacture its own systems. Thus began a long process of building Huawei into a company that built and sold telecom equipment all along the chain, from base stations to handsets, and did so not only inside China but across the globe.
The rise of Huawei is painstakingly rendered in a small library of self-aggrandizing literature that the company publishes, including several volumes of quotes from its founder.
The theme of this opus is hard to miss, expressed in a variety of fighting analogies. In one such description, Tian Tao, the company's authorized Boswell, quotes Ren on how the company competed against the powerful international “elephants” that once dominated the field.
“Of course, Huawei is no match for an elephant, so it has to adopt the qualities of wolves:
a keen sense of smell, a strong competitive nature, a pack mentality, and a spirit of sacrifice.”
The hagiographies omit some key details about how the wolf got along.
For one, they dramatically underplay the role of the #Chinese#government, which in the 1990s offered loans and other financial support, in addition to policies that favored Chinese telecom companies over foreign ones.
(In a rare moment of candor on this issue, Ren himself admitted in an interview that Huawei would not exist if not for government support.)
With the government behind them, Chinese companies like Huawei and its domestic rival #ZTE came to dominate the national telecom equipment market.
Huawei had become the elephant.
Another subject one does not encounter in the company's library is the alleged use of #stolen#intellectual#property,
a charge the company denies.
“If you read the Western media about Huawei, you will find plenty of people who say that everything from Huawei was begged, borrowed, or stolen. And there is absolutely no truth in that,” says Brian Chamberlin, an executive adviser for Huawei's carrier group.
But in one notorious 2003 case, Huawei admitted using router software copied from #Cisco, though it insisted the use was very limited, and the sides negotiated a settlement that was “mutually beneficial.”
More recently, in February, the US #Department of #Justice filed a suit against the company charging it with “grow[ing] the worldwide business of Huawei … through the deliberate and repeated misappropriation of intellectual property.”
The indictment alleges Huawei has been engaging in these practices since at least 2000.
The Chinese government also provided support to help Huawei gain a foothold overseas, offering loans to customers that made Huawei's products more appealing.
One of Huawei's biggest foreign competitors was #Nortel, the dominant North American telecom company based in Canada.
But Nortel's business was struggling just at a time when competition from Chinese products was intensifying.
Then, in 2004, a Nortel security specialist named Brian Shields discovered that computers based in China, using passwords of Nortel executives, had been #downloading hundreds of #documents from the company.
“There's nothing they couldn't have gotten at,” Shields says.
Though no one ever publicly identified the hackers, and Ren denied any Huawei involvement, the episode added to the suspicion in the West that Huawei's success was not always achieved on the up and up.
Today Huawei holds more than two-thirds of the polar code patent “families”
—10 times as many as its nearest competitor.
The general feeling in the field, Vardy said, was that Huawei “invested a lot of research time and effort into developing this idea.”
It seemed “all the other companies were at least a few years behind.”
But all that work and all those patents would be wasted if the technology didn't fit into the 5G platform.
“It has to be adopted by everybody,” Tong says.
“You have to convince the entire industry that this is good for 5G.”
If polar codes were to be the symbol of Huawei's superiority, there was one more hurdle:
“I had the responsibility,” Wen Tong says, “to make it a standard.”
Kashyap Patel is suddenly animated. Not surprised. He was involved with Devin Nunes and document mishandling and I have him high on the list of people who could have been involved in the espionage conspiracy from long before Trump drove off with the documents.
Enter Kash Patel. November 2020, Patel was made chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Miller, a move that followed Trump's firing of Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
As such, the criminal suspect kashyap patel held a security clearance. 🧵
Prosecutors are now prepared to “stack” an “additional 30 to 45 charges” on top of the 37-count indictment brought against Criminal Defendant Trump on 8 June. They would do so using evidence against the ex-president that has not yet been publicly acknowledged by the department, including other recordings prosecutors have obtained which reveal the Criminal Defendant making incriminating statements.
▪️The grand jury didn't stop at the first indictment. Possibly a first superseding indictment was already handed down.
Investigation of Trump Documents Case Continues After Former President’s Indictment
"This is objectively correct.Trump is the very worst—the actual bottom of the barrel—of the human beings our country has birthed.You can tell me that he is tied with some others ...Manson, Dahmer, and but as a Trump biographer I’m not going to have any difficulty arguing that no one exceeds Trump in being despicable. Keep in mind that the death toll from his actions during the pandemic will never be equaled by any serial killer or terrorist because it would be logistically impossible." s.a.
He is responsible for the death of many thousands of Americans.
Donald Trump is a horrid, malignant, narcissistic sociopath. He’s one of the worst exemplars of the human species I’ve ever witnessed. Period.
The Mara-a-largo pool guy called the IT guy and asked questions about where the "surveillance footage was stored and for how long" and then just ACCIDENTALLY
floods the room where the surveillance footage is stored?
Then the pool guy flooded the room where video surveillance servers were kept.
▪️Corrupt Aileen Cannon just denied the Special Counsel's motion to file under seal its list of 84 witnesses with whom Trump and Nauta may not communicate about the facts of the case; in fact, it appears she rejected their effort to file it with the court at all
▪️Defense counsel has the list already; the only question now is whether the rest of us can or will and on what timeline. After all, she questions whether it need be filed with the court period
▪️Cannon should learn from E Jean Carroll case.. Trump harasses, bullies & threatens witnesses.. jurors, etc. If there was any doubt about which way Cannon was going to rule, she’s begun to show her cards
▪️ Remember the magistrate judge asked the government to produce a list in furtherance of his conditions for Trump’s pretrial release?
▪️NOW the special counsel should introduce his criminal, harassing behavior during previous trials and arraignments.
Breaking: Head fascist Meltdown Live!
Liable for sexual assault, charged with 91 felonies, Donald Trump just suffered a frightening show of cognitive decline at his #NewHampshire rally and blamed Nikki Haley for January 6th.A confused Trump repeated Haley's name multiple times in a row as the crowd fell silent.
We are not standing by doing nothing, but we are also aiding the aggressors by supplying ammunition in their efforts to execute their #genocidal#murders as they extend their property holdings.
What Is it about world politics that I'm missing? Shouldn't we all be outraged and demanding a #ceasefire and the assembly of a #world court?
New: Trump’s lawyers just spotted by #CBSNews, just two of Trump's lawyers, John Rowley and James Trusty, were in the meeting,
entering the Justice Department, per #RobLegare who is on site… comes as sources tell me the special counsel is moving toward a charging decision in the classified documents case.
If you ever come across this #Nokia N-Gage B2.0 #prototype unit (previously owned by Jamie from StuffWePlay), inform German police - case number is 042015/03072022/1609. Alternatively, you can contact us if for whatever reason you don't feel comfortable with contacting the police.
This device was subject to fraud and should be considered #stolen. Whoever owns it right now is not the legal owner of it.
It's kind of amazing after doing the absolute most extractive colonialism around the world, slave trading and genocides and ruination of land and societies just looted into the isles, the Brits have managed to squander everything so much in the last 70ish years that they've turned themselves into a backwards, increasingly poor nation. They've thrown the richest empire the world has ever known away to become a broke rump nation on the edge of Europe, with literal shit in the water supply.
@quinn
It wasn't thrown away. It was embezzled. #stolen.
The British 0.01% ran out of #Empire to steal from, so they took what they could out of the mouths of the mouths, homes and lives of the #British people, all the while pointing at Europe, making jingoistic "Juan Foreigner" jokes.
The coup leader/rapist/fraud is blocking a bipartisan border reform bill this month that would’ve provided billions for our border security. He blocked it.
The entire GOP has bent the knee and given allegiance to a man who is charged with #91Felonies, adjudicated fraud, adjudicated rapist, bragged about grabbing women by the genitals, engaged in numerous adulterous affairs, was held liable for sexually assaulting a woman, and is proud of helping kill Roe v Wade.
Republicans are weak and in profound moral collapse.
NEW: ▪️A filing just posted on the UNITED STATES vs. Trump docket that could be a superseding indictment.
▪️A sealed filing has appeared on the docket in United States v. Trump and Nauta.
▪️ It may be the list of 84 potential witnesses who Trump and Nauta are not allowed to communicate with about the case.
▪️The motion to continue the trial certainly makes even more sense if this new filing is a superseding indictment.
Remember:
▪️ Special Counsel seeks to delay the August trial date to Dec. 11 to allow more time for Trump lawyers to obtain security clearances required to review the most sensitive docs in classified discovery
▪️Special Counsel also asks to schedule CIPA Section 2 hearing (imp for govt to have the judge bake in enough time later for CIPA Section 5 and 6) and to file a sealed list of witnesses with whom Trump and Nauta cannot discuss this case.
Bit of a long shot, but my friend's ICE Adventure FS recumbent tricycle was stolen in Slough, UK this afternoon. It's blue, well-used with a torn seat cover, and has a Bafang bottom-bracket motor conversion. Keep an eye out.
Learning about others' cultures is good for us all, so I strongly recommend a film I was surprised is showing on Netflix. It's called Stolen.
It's about a Sami girl/woman trying to right a wrong. It's apparently based on true events and going by how we see indigenous folk treated, could well be close to the truth.
Moab police investigate rash of mountain bike thefts (www.ksl.com)
Moab city officials say that in one day, thieves stole $22,000 worth of bicycles from tourists.