Posted on 11/13/2020 5:38:32 PM PST by weston
Good morning to Rudy Giuliani, who filed an application to formally appear in the Trump campaign's federal case in Pennsylvania; there's a hearing set for 1:30 pm today
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7329052/11-17-20-Giuliani-Pro-Hac-Application.pdf…
Mitt Romney is not a dick.
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Amazon jumps into the pharmacy business with online prescription fulfillment, free delivery for Prime members
PUBLISHED TUE, NOV 17 20206:00 AM EST UPDATED 9 MIN AGO
Christina Farr Annie Palmer
FTA
Amazon is making its biggest move yet into the pharmacy space.
Amazon Pharmacy is designed to make it easy and convenient to order prescription medicines online.
There’s also a savings program and free two-day shipping for Prime Members.
Amazon is entering the pharmacy business with a new offering called Amazon Pharmacy, allowing customers in the United States to order prescription medications for home delivery, including free delivery for Amazon Prime members.
Amazon has been quietly building out its pharmacy offering for several years after ramping up internal discussions in 2017 and acquiring PillPack in 2018. The pharmacy space is notoriously complex and competitive in the U.S., and Amazon Pharmacy is built in part on PillPack’s infrastructure, including its pharmacy software, fulfillment centers and relationships with health plans.
Amazon Pharmacy, announced Tuesday, is the company’s biggest push yet into $300 billion market, and threatens the dominance of traditional pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens, as well as other large retailers that offer pharmacy services, including Walmart.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/17/amazon-pharmacy-free-prescription-delivery-for-prime-members.html
https://www.historynet.com/online-exclusive-colonial-cryptographers-helped-patriots-win-the-revolution.htm
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Q..Past is Future..Future is Past.
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Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, used codebreakers to decipher messages being sent by Mary Queen of Scots, who had recourse to 100 ciphers and codes. By the 1700s, Europeans could count centuries of experience obscuring and uncovering messages. In government offices known as “black chambers,” analysts intercepted, opened, transcribed, decoded, resealed, and resent mail, often with no sign of tampering, and functioned like today’s cryptanalysts, identifying and breaking codes.
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vertently of André’s capture, Arnold narrowly escaped. Tallmadge and even Washington admired André as a man of character, but the Americans hanged the British officer as a spy in counterbalance to the British execution of Nathan Hale, Tallmadge’s friend and fellow spy.
By forming a secret unit that employed code, invisible ink, dead drops, and rudimentary signal by laundry, with spies and relays traveling under cover of legitimate mercantile trips and illegal smuggling, Washington compensated for Continental forces’ severe deficits in funding, soldiers, training, supplies, and materiel.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin had little interest in cryptography, but as a master of statecraft he used such tools as he had. At the outset of the Revolution, working from Philadelphia, Franklin engaged Charles Guillaume Frédéric Dumas, a German supporter of American independence living in the Netherlands, to foster alliances for the Americans and nose around The Hague’s crowd of diplomats.
Dumas provided Franklin with an advanced cipher. Both were careless in stream ciphering (see sidebar), but apparently never were discovered. Between 1776 to 1781, Dumas helped the Americans negotiate a loan from Holland through the French and got the Dutch to recognize America’s independence, receive its representative, and sign a treaty...................................Kern Dutch German/Dumas/
John Adams
John Adams was ambassador to Britain, between 1785 and 1788. Assuming his letters were being read, Adams used encryption—a chore, because of a dizzying profusion of codes until 1789, when a standardized nomenclator (see sidebar, below)
John Adams was so flummoxed by the need to encrypt communiques that he assigned the task to his daughter, Nabby. (Portrait by Gilbert Stuart)(Actor-Knappy-who apparently jumped off of a bridge...Actor Isaac Kappy dies by suicide.
Isaac Kappy death: Thor and Breaking Bad actor dies, aged 42
The actor died at the scene in Arizona after he ..........‘forced himself’.......... off a bridge and was struck by a car.
Clarisse Loughrey
@clarisselou
Wednesday 15 May 2019 10:20
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came into use. Between 1776 and 1789, however, American diplomats were using more than 17 ciphers, 10 mixed cipher/code sets, and 23 codes, Ralph Weber notes in United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers: 1775-1938.
In London, Adams sometimes assigned ciphering to daughter Abigail II, pet name “Nabby.” Writing to her brother of deciphering correspondence to Adams from ambassador to France Thomas Jefferson, Nabby told him, “When there is nobody elce to desyper I have the agreable task.”
Having no alternative, Adams dutifully persisted with codes. “He does understand it’s a necessary part of the job, but I think he’s very concerned with the delays it might cause,” said Sara Georgini, series editor for The Papers of John Adams at the Massachusetts Historical Society. “The use of cryptography becomes part and parcel of the story of the professionalization of the early American diplomatic corps.”
Thomas Jefferson
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Rather than put his wheel into production, however, Jefferson seems to have set it aside in favor of a non-mechanical solution devised by Robert Patterson. A professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania following the Revolution, Patterson as of 1805 was director of the United States Mint. His was a complex but seemingly easy-to-deploy cipher. Upon receiving details on the concept from Patterson, Jefferson wrote to him in March 1802, “I have thoroughly considered your cypher, and find it so much more convenient in practice than my wheel cypher, that I am proposing it to the Secretary of state for use in his office.”
Ciphers used by American peace commissioners during the 1782-83 peace talks with Britain that resulted in the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. From left, ciphers assigned to commission members John Adams, Henry Laurens, and Benjamin Franklin. (National Archives)
Patterson had a sender write a message as a series of lines of text, transcribe them in the perpendicular—that is, if written left to right, transcribed top to bottom—and rearrange those lines. At the beginning of each line the send would insert “padding”—a specified number of meaningless letters. To decipher a Patterson message, a recipient needed a key giving the correct order of each line and the number of meaningless letters to remove from that line. The system was error-prone, even for Jefferson and Patterson, who could not get anyone else to use the method. One of Patterson’s messages remained unbroken until 2009.
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Tools of Tradecraft
At the time of the Revolution, three methods of encryption saw wide use, along with a fourth, more difficult and less commonplace method.
Codes. A code substitutes a number or word for the name of a thing or person, or even an entire phrase. In a code John Adams employed, he was “Steady.” All parties using a code must work from the same list, or nomenclator. “One-part” nomenclators list words alphabetically and number them sequentially, usually starting with 1. Culper Ring leader Benjamin Tallmadge developed a code that looked in part like this:
gloomy 226
govern 227
Grandieure 228
guilty 229
guinea 230
As is common with codes, Tallmadge assigned proper names higher numbers, like 711 for General Washington and 728 for Long Island. Once a codebreaker had decoded one such word, the job of unmasking alphabetically adjacent words became easier because each code word had a corresponding number one higher than the one preceding, as shown above.
To improve security, cryptographers developed two-part nomenclators. The sending code was an alphabetical list of words assigned arbitrary numbers; the receiving code listed those numbers in ascending order with the corresponding code word. This deterred alphabetic solutions.
A book or dictionary cipher. In this gambit, parties agreed on a common work, perhaps a specific edition of Entick’s Spelling Dictionary, as Benedict Arnold sometimes did when corresponding with General Sir Henry Clinton and aide John André. To encode a word, a sender would find the page upon which it appeared in the dictionary and record the page number, the column, and the word’s position numerically, typically from the top of the page.
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https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolutionary-war/spying-and-espionage/the-culper-code-book/
LET’S DISCUSS!!!!
US Household Incomes Increased More in 2018 Than in the Previous 20 Years—Combined
Why did US incomes suddenly explode in 2018 after decades of tepid growth? The answer is not difficult to find.
Monday, November 16, 2020 Jon Miltimore
FTA
Government statistics, which use the Consumer Price Index to measure inflation, show that from 2002 through 2015 median weekly earnings didn’t budge at all, but surged between 2018 and 2020.
I’m not the first person to notice this stunning wage growth. Writing in Bloomberg, economist Karl W. Smith describes the growth in income using a slightly different metric, real median household income.
“In 2016, real median household income was $62,898, just $257 above its level in 1999,” writes Smith. “Over the next three years it grew almost $6,000, to $68,703.”
Indeed, median household incomes increased from $64,300 to $68,700 in 2018 alone—an increase of $4,400. To put it another way, US incomes increased more in 2018 than the previous 20 years combined. (Household incomes were $61,100 in 1998 and $64,300 at the end of 2017.)
The question, of course, is why did US incomes suddenly explode after decades of tepid growth? The answer is not difficult to find.
The year 2017 saw massive deregulation and passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Estimates placed the deregulation savings at $2 trillion. But what was likely even a bigger factor was the cut businesses saw in corporate taxes.
What happened to Trump Family Train? Everything is posting in BOLD font???
The Universe has finally realized how important this thread and our posts are to the well-being of all mankind.
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Giuliani: Two established vehicles 'ready to go' to the Supreme Court https://t.co/luRSj7VAWZ @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness @RudyGiuliani || On Parler @Mariabartiromotv— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) November 17, 2020
Rep. Louie Gohmert sees ‘revolution’ as option in face of ‘cheated election’
Post of the day!
Now let’s put it into code !
Do think Nikk is on to something. Misspellings mean something.
Look up Q & code
Thank you for posting this, I love seeing what Lin Wood is up to. He gives me hope. I follow him on parlor but I keep forgetting to go over there. And I’m trying not to give Twitter any more bandwidth.
What is a TRO?
It just popped in my mind, temporary restraining order. Do you know what that would mean? Restraining them from certifying the election?
prayers for this man. I hope they got the thugs that assaulted him in jail.
More evidence! Actually a witness.
“Dominion Voting Systems’ Vice President of U.S. Engineering Eric Coomer allegedly spoke with Antifa members on conference calls and reportedly assured the other participants by saying:“Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f**king sure of that!”
He spoke to someone who infiltrated antifa. I’m not sure what agency they were with, but they will make a superb Witness!!
“And posts are in bold most of the time.”
I thought everybody was just doing what I requested, making the important stuff stand Out :-)
“Today is day 14 after the election”
Is that all it has been? Things like months and months.
Nice lysie, thank you.
Just had a pumpkin muffin and an Activia.
Have a great day everyone.
LOL, that is great!
I read somewhere that they didn’t like Rudy talking so much about the investigation.
Did you all hear that antifa, Trump hater, Dominion executive/patent holder/shareholder Coomer was actually one of the ones counting ballots in Maricopa? I will come back with a link if I can find it again
I like that.
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