Fading...

For as much as Hillary Clinton still bemoans losing the election despite winning the popular vote, if politics were a popularity contest, her speaking tour unquestionably shows hers is fading. The Clinton brand is fading, seeming to indicate that even many of those who voted for her wish she would simply go back into the woods.

Their latest speaking tour is called “An Evening With The Clintons,” and they’ve already appeared on the ticket discounting website Groupon.

For the Houston-area event originally slated for Dec. 4, tickets on the official venue website were going for between $29.50 and $399. But a search on second-party sites, like StubHub, revealed tickets going for as low as $7.

The American people have had enough of the lady's …..   Just a thought.

Nobetes...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Nobetes Corporation, maker of Nobetes pills, which were advertised to treat diabetes. The pills, which contained a mixture of vitamins, minerals, and plant extracts, continued to be advertised on TV, radio, Facebook and Youtube even after warnings from the FTC and FDA. 

The complaint alleges, amongst other things:

• Misusing credit card information
• Presenting a paid actor as a “medical expert”
• Failing to disclose that product endorsers were provided with free product

The proposed settlement has the company paying $182,000, which may be used to provide refunds to consumers. 

Leaks...

A former government intelligence analyst has been charged with leaking classified documents to a reporter.

Authorities say 31-year-old Daniel Everette Hale of Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested Thursday morning and will make an initial appearance at the federal courthouse there.

An indictment charges him with counts including obtaining and disclosing national defense information and theft of government property.

According to the indictment, Gale worked as an intelligence analyst for the Air Force and later for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Hale began communications with a reporter in 2013 while at the Air Force and continued communications after going to NGA.  Hale provided 11 Top Secret or Secret documents to the reporter and his online news outlet. Those documents were published either in whole or in whole.

Crickets...

Nude...

An Egyptian man climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, removed parts of a wooden mast put in place in the late 19th century to measure the actual height of the pyramid and threw stones at security forces, an official said.

The secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the man approached the Khufu pyramid  as an ordinary visitor before catching a security guard cold.

 Climbing the pyramids is not explicitly outlawed, although you can kill yourself.

Last year, a Danish couple sparked outrage in the conservative -majority after posing for nude photos on top of the Great Pyramid. 

Linked...

A hacker group linked to the Chinese government found and repurposed a set of the National Security Agency's (NSA) cyberweapons against targets in Europe and Asia beginning in 2016, according to cybersecurity firm Symantec.

Symantec's findings, released, said the cyberweapons were used at least a year before a massive leak by a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers made public some of the NSA's most powerful cyber tools – suggesting the China-linked hackers gained access to them earlier and in a different way.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged three alleged members of Buckeye with hacking, IP theft, conspiracy and identity theft in 2017.

Symantec said it identified one "zero day" vulnerability – a piece of code that allows a hacker access to a machine without anyone on the other end clicking a link, opening an attachment, or using a website – in a piece of Microsoft software in 2018. 

Stick...

We'll throw everything at it and see if something stick.

Kind...

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has long been criticized for being chummy with the developers he promised to hold to account when he took office in 2014, with the Campaign for One New York—the nonprofit he established in 2013 to advance his pet projects, such as universal pre-K a particular source of opprobrium.

A probe into CONY by the city’s Department of Investigation provides evidence that the mayor may have, in fact, violated city conflict of interest rules by seeking donations “from an individual who had or whose organization had, a matter pending or about to be pending before any executive branch of the City.”

A large chunk of the summation focuses on de Blasio’s relationship with developers. Throughout CONY’s existence, it received several sizable donations from developers, including TF Cornerstone, John Catsimatidis’s Red Apple Group, Brookfield Property Group (which donated $50,000), Two Trees Management (which donated $100,000), and Toll Brothers. 

Message...

"It's the economy stupid."

"It's the economy, stupid"  which James Carville had coined as a campaign strategist of Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign against sitting president George H. W. Bush. 

Conflict...

The UK is not ruling out the warlord Khalifa Haftar from a role in a future Libyan government despite his attack on the capital, the British foreign secretary has said as he reiterated calls for a ceasefire.

Jeremy Hunt told the Guardian: “We do not agree with what Haftar is doing. We do not think it is possible for Haftar to achieve a military victory, and as a government he will not be seen as legitimate by whole swathes of the country. So we want a political process.”

Asked if Haftar’s offensive in Tripoli had forfeited him the right to be a major figure in the future of Libya, Hunt said: “We have to be careful about making those kinds of judgments. We have not covered ourselves in glory with our policy on Libya. Let us face it, if we knew in 2011 we would be in the situation we are now we would be asking ourselves some searching questions, so we had better be careful about ruling people out and ruling people in. The right way forward is a a ceasefire, political talks and a political settlement

Despite a UN call for a humanitarian corridor, Haftar this week ordered his troops to fight harder through the month of Ramadan to wipe out the opposition. The fighting has so far displaced 50,000 people, killed more than 400 and led to the destruction of parts of the south of Tripoli.

Obama/Hillary's policies in the Middle East.