Nuke...*

An engineer, Szuhsiung "Allen" Ho, working as an operative for the Chinese government in a bid to use American know-how to beef up China's nuclear program pleaded guilty in the first-of-its-kind prosecution in the nation.

Ho, his firm Energy Technology International, and Chinese nuclear power plant China General Nuclear Power were indicted in an alleged plot to lure nuclear experts in the United States into providing information to allow China to develop and produce nuclear material based on American technology and below the radar of the U.S. government.

Tennessee Valley Authority Office of the Inspector General, contacted the FBI with concerns about one of TVA's senior executives, engineer Ching Huey, who later admitted that Ho, and by extension the Chinese government, paid him to supply information about nuclear power production.  Huey agreed to cooperate in the probe and has since struck a plea deal.

Ho is a Taiwan native who became a naturalized U.S. citizen. 
It is not Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Pakistan. It is China.   Just a thought.

Spies...*

Alleged Spy, Anna Chapman.

Someone has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, providing the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers.

It was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker that has exposed a series of Western cyber-espionage operations.
The targets included government, military, telecommunication, banks, energy, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said.

The firm said it was closely linked to Stuxnet,  attacked Iran's uranium enrichment facility. The NSA is the agency responsible for gathering electronic intelligence on behalf of the United States. 

Disk drive firmware is viewed by spies and cybersecurity experts as the second-most valuable real estate on a PC for a hacker, second only to the BIOS code invoked automatically as a computer boots up.
"The hardware will be able to infect the computer over and over.  

Placebo...*

Meet...

Hicks, already spoken with special counsel Mueller's team, has emerged as a central figure in when and where witnesses can legitimately resist answering questions in a congressional probe.  

Neverless, every one wants to meet this Beaut. 

Crash...

The Democrats are having the most difficult time ever. The Market is up high, the job market is up high, the economy is up high, Tax rebate and tax cuts are up high for individual and corporation, and no New War in the Middle East. It seems that this is Bill Clinton time again on someone else's watch.

No New Ideas from the Dems, No rising star available, no Revolutionary direction is proposed. Same old things from the NY Governor and Mayor, more Tax and more spend.

Gone...

Kids...

Secure...

Good Horse...

Authorities say a man accused of riding a horse on a freeway in Southern California was arrested for driving under the influence. The California Highway Patrol says Luis Perez of Placentia had a blood-alcohol level of more than double the legal limit when they allege he took his horse on the 91 Freeway.

Officers say the 29-year-old hoofed it into Bellflower where they arrested him.

Perez, according to police, failed a field sobriety test and was booked into jail.

The horse was unharmed, but the rider is something else....

Janus...

the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.  

The issue known as fair-share fees, in which workers who are covered by union-negotiated contracts have to pay a portion of the union dues, even if they are not members. These funds used to cover the costs of negotiating and enforcing a union contract. Unions say that such fees help prevent the “free rider” issue, where workers reap benefits of a unionized workplace without paying for it.  

In 2015, Mark Janus, who worked at the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, sued his local union, arguing that paying fair-share fees curtailed his freedom of speech.  “The union voice is not my voice, the union's fight is not my fight. But a piece of my paycheck every week still goes to the union.”

As of last year, 28 states have passed legislation known as right-to-work laws, under which workers cannot be required to pay such fees. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Janus, as it is expected to, an estimated 5 million workers in the other 22 states would be able to opt out of paying fair-share dues. That’s revenue that labor unions cannot afford to lose.

This has nothing to do with the voice or the vote, you get paid due to someone's else money spent and cost. Someone has to pay for these benefits.   Shameful attempt.