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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4231)	1/2/2020 11:10:07 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Recommended By DinoNavarre Respond to of 13786

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4231)	1/14/2020 12:30:19 AM
From: elmatador	2 Recommendations Recommended By DinoNavarre SirWalterRalegh Respond to of 13786

Using Huawei in UK 5G networks would be 'madness', US says British ministers told allowing Chinese firm access would put intelligence sharing at risk A special delegation of US officials presented an incendiary dossier which they said featured new evidence of the security risks of relying on Huawei technology. Senior US officials told British ministers on Monday that using Huawei technology in UK 5G networks would put transatlantic intelligence sharing at risk, warning that allowing the Chinese firm access would be “nothing short of madness”. The extraordinary American ultimatum came as a special delegation led by Donald Trump’s deputy national security advisor, Matt Pottinger, presented an incendiary dossier which they said featured new evidence of the security risks of relying on Huawei technology in future phone networks. The intense and public lobbying presents an immediate headache for Boris Johnson, the prime minister, who had been expected to make a final decision about Huawei shortly, having been repeatedly advised by the UK’s security establishment that any security risks can be contained. Ahead of the UK decision the head of MI5, Andrew Parker, said over the weekend that he saw “no reason to think” that using Huawei technology should threaten intelligence sharing with the US, suggesting that Britain was poised to give the Chinese company the go-ahead. But that assertion was flatly contradicted by a senior US official who was part of the delegation, who said: “Congress has made it clear they will want an evaluation of our intelligence sharing.” A second member said that the US president hoped not to fall out with the UK over the issue but added: “Donald Trump is watching closely”. Last spring, the UK had indicated it would allow Huawei to supply non-core technology such as mobile phone masts and antennas in future 5G networks, after a cabinet committed had voted by 5 to 4 in favour. But even that would not be enough to allay Washington’s concerns, the US officials said. Huawei has consistently denied that it has ever been asked by the Chinese government to introduce secret “back doors” into its technology, and has even offered to sign a “no spy agreement” with countries adopting it. But the US insists there is a surveillance risk. The officials, who had flown in specially from the US, would not spell out what the “relatively recent information” that they had shared with their UK counterparts was, but it is understood to be of a technical nature. Although the long-standing intelligence-sharing relationship between the US and the UK would not be immediately compromised, they said that members of Congress would want to review it in future legislation. A final decision will also be seen as a crucial early signal in how far the UK wants to move towards the US orbit as trade talks with both Washington and Brussels loom after Britain formally leaves the EU at the end of January. As well as Pottinger, key officials in the US delegation of six included Chris Ford, an assistant secretary in the US state department, and Robert Blair, the special envoy for international telecoms. The delegation claimed that Chinese spies, working for the People’s Liberation Army, also worked simultaneously for Huawei – and that the company “had played a role” in supporting the “re-education camps” for the country’s Muslim Uighur minority. British sources initially said that they were only going to meet civil servants, but the US delegation said they had spoken to at least one cabinet minister. Huawei is one of three companies that supply equipment to Vodafone, BT and other mobile phone companies for high-speed 5G networks, alongside Ericsson of Sweden and Nokia from Finland. Its kit is recognised by UK phone companies as being cheaper and more advanced than rivals, and some believe that the Trump administration wants to weaken China’s advanced position in the market for trade reasons. A Huawei spokesperson said it was a private company that has supplied the UK for the past 15 years and that parliamentary committees had concluded there is no technical reason to ban it from supplying 5G equipment. The spokesman added: “And now, Andrew Parker, the head of MI5, says he has ‘no reason to think’ that the UK’s intelligence-sharing relationship with the US would be hit if Britain continued to use Huawei technology. We’re confident the government will take a decision based on evidence – not unsubstantiated allegations.”

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4231)	1/16/2020 6:20:47 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Recommended By Cogito Ergo Sum Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13786

Decreased IQ, impoverished language and ruined thinking After the babyboomers, the iQ started decreasing. Whihc explains these millennials screwed upideas and beliefs. SUNDAY, 17.11.2019 Christophe Clavé * Christophe Clavé The Flynn effect, named after its designer, prevailed until the 1960s. Its principle is that the average Intellectual Quotient (IQ) continues to increase in the population. Since the 1980s, researchers in cognitive sciences seem to share the observation of an inversion of the Flynn effect, and a drop in average IQ. The thesis is still under discussion and numerous studies have been in progress for almost forty years without succeeding in calming the debate. It seems that the level of intelligence measured by IQ tests is decreasing in the most developed countries, and that a multitude of factors can be the cause. To this even disputed drop in the average level of intelligence is added the impoverishment of language. There are numerous studies which demonstrate the narrowing of the lexical field and an impoverishment of the language. It is not only a question of reducing the vocabulary used, but also of the subtleties of the language which make it possible to develop and formulate complex thinking. The gradual disappearance of time (subjunctive, simple past, imperfect, compound forms of the future, past participle ...) gives rise to a thought in the present, limited to the instant, incapable of projections in time. The generalization of the tu, the disappearance of capital letters and punctuation are all fatal blows to the subtlety of the expression. To delete the word "miss" is not only to renounce the aesthetics of a word, but also to promote the idea that between a little girl and a woman there is nothing. Fewer words and fewer verbs combined means less ability to express emotions and less possibility of developing a thought. Studies have shown that part of the violence in the public and private spheres comes directly from the inability to put words into emotions. Without words to build reasoning, the complex thought dear to Edgar Morin is hampered, made impossible. The poorer the language, the less thought exists. The story is rich in examples and there are many writings from Georges Orwell in 1984 to Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451 who recounted how dictatorships of all persuasions hinder thought by reducing and twisting the number and the meaning of words. There is no critical thought without thought. And there is no thought without words. How to build a hypothetico-deductive thinking without mastering the conditional? How to envisage the future without conjugation with the future? How to understand a temporality, a succession of elements in time, whether they are past or to come, as well as their relative duration, without a language that makes the difference between what could have been, what was, what is, what could happen, and what will be after what could have happened? If a rallying cry were to be heard today, it would be one addressed to parents and teachers: make your children, your pupils, your students speak, read and write. Teach and practice the language in its most varied forms, even if it seems complicated, especially if it is complicated. Because in this effort is freedom. Those who explain all the time that it is necessary to simplify the spelling, to purge the language of its "defects", to abolish the genres, the times, the nuances, all that creates complexity are the gravediggers of the human spirit . There is no freedom without requirements. There is no beauty without the thought of beauty. * Professor of strategy & management INSEEC SBE

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4231)	1/27/2020 3:25:15 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13786

MQ, as our scientist at a large. There is a new virus 2019 nCov. As it is not known, the public health authorities and the scientific community are taking it seriously, as it should. Being this strain originated from China, with its "exotic" cuisine, adds to the terror factor China, that had been highly criticized for the handling of SARS, want this time around to show it is being serious about the virus. The virus kills a lower percentage of the infected and the older known viruses' strains do the same. Viruses prey on elderly, sick and infants below 5-year of age The new virus, became a celebrity because people's fear is a big motivator. Well publicised cases of people diagnosed and treated seem to be recovering. In the end of the day this virus strain is just a new one and will not kill or make sick millions of people.