PJay
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Really nice...I would love to live up in the trees....
what would a civil conflict look like
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WingsOfGold
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Yeah but this is a pita.
gemma_rae
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I always wondered why Oliver didn't terminate some bridal wire on the lugs and run it down to a Bell System B 105 block at the base of the pole?
Historical side note: June Foray, best known as the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Natasha and the other female characters on the Bullwinkle Show had one of her few onscreen appearances with "Green Acres." For a few episodes, June portrayed Carmelita, the little Mexican telephone operator Mr. Haney employed. June was one of my dad's paternal side 1st cousins.
CPUSA
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Funny how you STILL talk big...
While STILL exhibiting smallness & frailty.
And STILL too scared to come outta mommy's basement to have a "conversation" about American Exceptionalism...
Kinnakeet
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He is going to call Steny he knew too
gemma_rae
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I remember her! GA was, and still is, one of my all-time favorite shows.
2 of the cousins of my generation of the family flew me out to LA for Easter Week in 2017 do I could meet the last few cousins of my dad's generation. Easter Sunday was at June's home, but too many people for her to understand who I was to her. She was 5 months shy of 100.
This picture was taken during a private visit my cousin Lauren arranged. June brightened up when she realized that my grandfather was her uncle Harold. She said he was her favorite when she was a girl in Springfield, MA. We had a very nice visit. She passed away in late summer just 45 days shy of her birthday. She did voice work from the age of 12 until the age of 98.
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gemma_rae
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Such a sweet woman. I saw she was also the voice of Cindy Lou Who in 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'.
WingsOfGold
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That looks like a sound powered phone!
FBI agents monitor social media. As domestic threats rise, the question is who they're watching
One contractor is the private intelligence firm the Hetherington Group, which has trained law enforcement and the military on conducting online investigations.
Cynthia Hetherington, the firm’s founder and president, said the company identifies “actionable intelligence” that can be used to protect life or someone’s reputation by helping those it trains learn how to hyperfocus and efficiently identify a key collection of terms that demonstrate legitimate threats, such as “kill,” “die,” “shoot,” “fire,” “bomb,” “rob.”
“Individuals should be allowed to say what they want to say on the internet, but should also understand that it’s open source and the parties concerned will trace it back” to them, Hetherington said.
Another way of saying that, said Shapiro, who holds a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focusing on government surveillance, is that the FBI can, and is, monitoring practically whoever it wants, whenever it wants.
“The FBI is almost entirely unhindered in its ability to monitor American social media postings,” Shapiro said, “so when the FBI reported to Congress that it was unable to do so – I mean, that is a bald-faced lie. That’s what the bureau does. They lie.”
As the FBI becomes more interested in specific posts, the bureau can ramp up its monitoring in more “intrusive” ways, FBI officials said. With additional internal approvals, FBI agents can access not just public-facing social media but also private groups and chat rooms.
Even when accessing this more private information, the FBI’s internal checks don’t protect Americans’ civil liberties, several experts told USA TODAY.
The FBI has a long and troubled history of focusing on groups on the left of the political spectrum while largely turning a blind eye to domestic extremists on the far-right, said Guariglia, who holds a doctorate in the history of police surveillance.
“Both historically speaking and in current events, we've seen the amount of surveillance that has been marshaled specifically against groups fighting for racial justice increased exponentially than from what we've seen being monitored on the right,” Guariglia said.
The FBI pushed back on this assessment. “The FBI aggressively investigates threats posed by domestic violent extremists,” a bureau spokesperson wrote in a statement. “We do not investigate ideology, and we do not investigate particular cases based on the political views of the individuals involved.”