QUAD A-10 staff, former journalist, author, expert encryption security programmer, developed Quantum based encryption using light.
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Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
Without France, Americans would be Canadians today.
Vice President JD Vance:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have to understand what happens when our nation gives in to these kinds of people…
Like so many of you today, I've been watching the terrible scenes taking place across the ocean in France, which, by the way, is a beautiful country. One of America's... arguably America's very first ally more than two hundred and fifty years ago.
My friends, the scene of destruction in Paris may be an ocean away, but ask yourselves, are they really so hard to imagine here in the United States of America?
And I guarantee you, if those rioters were burning down New York or Detroit, the Hassan Pikers and the Al Sayed would be right there leading in gratitude, the desire to destroy rather than the desire to build, that exact same cancer is what has corrupted Abdul El Sayed, writ large.
It is absolutely the sort of thing that has taken over the man's soul, and you can see it in the way that he talks about Michigan, and you can see it in the way that he talks about the United States of America.
That hatred is downstream of leaders who stopped feeling any obligation to the people they serve, who threw open our borders, let our jobs leave, and taught our children to hate their own country.
And if sovereignty means anything, ladies and gentlemen, it means that the United States of America belongs to its people. It belongs to the people of Michigan.
When you forget that, it's how you get Paris in flames. And unfortunately, it's exactly what El Sayed seeks to bring to the shores of the United States of America.
But you know what I believe?
I believe that this country belongs to the people.
@Acyn
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
Future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127) Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer coming into Norfolk, Virginia - October 27, 2026 SRC: YT- ThimbleShoalsShipwatching
I reposted your post only because the Community notes stated the truth - Mao was a dictator who killed millions.
You can bend over for cash - but not me.
Desde LALIGA lamentamos profundamente las declaraciones de Kylian Mbappé que han causado malestar y ofensa en China. Entendemos el daño ocasionado y, en nombre de LALIGA, quiero trasladar nuestras sinceras disculpas al pueblo chino.
Durante muchos años hemos construido una relación de respeto, confianza y cooperación con China, sus autoridades, sus instituciones deportivas, sus operadores audiovisuales y millones de aficionados al fútbol español.
No podemos permitir que una actuación individual empañe esa relación ni perjudique a los más de 20 clubes de nuestras competiciones profesionales y a millones de aficionados chinos.
Estamos adoptando las medidas a nuestro alcance y trabajando directamente con nuestros socios e interlocutores en China para superar esta situación.
Nuestro compromiso con China, su pueblo y sus instituciones es firme. Una relación construida durante tantos años no puede quedar dañada por un episodio individual.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Contexto importante: Mao Zedong fue efectivamente un dictador.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
Desde LALIGA lamentamos profundamente las declaraciones de Kylian Mbappé que han causado malestar y ofensa en China. Entendemos el daño ocasionado y, en nombre de LALIGA, quiero trasladar nuestras sinceras disculpas al pueblo chino.
Durante muchos años hemos construido una relación de respeto, confianza y cooperación con China, sus autoridades, sus instituciones deportivas, sus operadores audiovisuales y millones de aficionados al fútbol español.
No podemos permitir que una actuación individual empañe esa relación ni perjudique a los más de 20 clubes de nuestras competiciones profesionales y a millones de aficionados chinos.
Estamos adoptando las medidas a nuestro alcance y trabajando directamente con nuestros socios e interlocutores en China para superar esta situación.
Nuestro compromiso con China, su pueblo y sus instituciones es firme. Una relación construida durante tantos años no puede quedar dañada por un episodio individual.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Contexto importante: Mao Zedong fue efectivamente un dictador.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mogami-class 30DX frigate JS Noshiro (FFM-3) leaving Maizuru, Japan - October 27, 2026 SRC: X-@pHfIfKY07AKg6b4
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
Meanwhile she’s yammering on about “the joy of children” at an abortion celebration.
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
Outside the paywall. Trump started a maelstrom in Germany when Audi announced an investment in the US. This was not the US news German automakers and public wanted to heard
The Bavarian Backlash: How Trump’s Dealmaking Rattled Germany’s Auto Industry siphtor.com/public/posts/the…
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Lobbyist for China-owned Smithfield Foods hides CCP-tied owner on 30th straight disclosure report.
A federal disclosure report filed last week by the U.S. lobbyist for China-owned Smithfield Foods @SmithfieldFoods has once again omitted the company’s Chinese owner.
That makes 30 straight noncompliant federal disclosure reports dating back to 2019 where Smithfield’s lobbyists have improperly left off the company’s Chinese owner when asked to name any foreign entities with an interest in the lobbying activity.
As I’ve previously reported, Smithfield Foods is 87% owned by China’s 万洲国际 (WH Group) and its leadership is connected to the Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army. It controls 1,600 pig farms across 10 states, 25% of the U.S. pork market, and about 85,000 acres of American farmland.
On its October 20, 2026, third quarter lobbying report, Greenberg Traurig @GT_Law reported another $180,000 in lobbying for Smithfield on the Senate Farm Bill. Smithfield is lobbying to include Sen. Joni Ernst’s @SenJoniErnst and Rep. Ashley Hinson’s @hinsonashley pro-CCP “Save Our Bacon Act” (SOB Act) in the Farm Bill and to allow continued Chinese ownership of American farmland.
Smithfield’s Chinese owner 万洲国际 obviously has a vested interest in this and stands to benefit significantly.
I reported exclusively last month how, after a federal complaint, Smithfield’s lobbyist Greenberg Traurig amended its 2026 second quarter disclosure filing to name its Chinese owner.
One day after my story was published, they submitted another amendment and deleted WH Group’s name again.
Senator Rick Scott @SenRickScott responded to my story with a post saying, “This is strange. My office is looking into this.”
Senator Scott is right.
Smithfield’s lobbyists should be investigated immediately by the U.S Attorney in DC and the DOJ for violations of lobbying disclosure laws related to foreign influence…
We need to keep the CCP out of our food supply.
@JudgeJeanine @ChinaSelect @TheJusticeDept @DOJNatSec @USAO_DC
🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨
The Smithfield-China lobbying cover-up scandal I exposed last week just got worse.
Just 24 hours after my exclusive viral story last week about how China-owned Smithfield’s @SmithfieldFoods @SmithfieldBrand longtime lobbyist from @GT_Law Greenberg Traurig hid the company’s Chinese ties and was forced to report it after a watchdog complaint, Smithfield’s lobbying disclosure was amended AGAIN on Sept. 3 to ERASE any mention of the company’s CCP-linked Chinese owner 万洲国际 (WH Group).
This is super shady.
Here’s the timeline:
On July 20, Smithfield lobbyist Christopher DeLacy at Greenberg Traurig @GT_Law checked "NONE" on the foreign-interest disclosure box when asked on a federal form whether his lobbying for Smithfield to influence the Farm Bill and allow China to own U.S. farm land benefited any foreign interests. They wrote the same thing on all disclosure reports dating back to 2023.
On August 18, after a watchdog group filed a federal complaint, the disclosure form was amended and resubmitted to add that Smithfield’s Chinese owner 万洲国际 (WH Group) had an interest in the lobbying.
Then, on September 3, one day after I exposed the coverup and it went viral, the firm submitted another amendment to its lobbying disclosure that completely deleted any mention of Smithfield’s Chinese owner (after adding it 2 weeks earlier).
What the hell is going on? Smithfield is 87% owned by China. Their CCP-connected Chinese owner obviously has an interest in their lobbying on the Farm Bill, the Save Our Bacon Act, and other efforts to give Communist China more control of the US food supply.
With the next Farm Bill vote approaching soon, Smithfield’s lobbyist’s cover-up of the company’s Chinese ties is extremely alarming and needs to be investigated immediately.
Congress, the Trump Treasury Department and the American people deserve the truth about the extent of China’s dangerous influence over our agriculture and food policy.
RECEIPTS 👇🏻
@SenRickScott @SenTomCotton @ChinaSelect @RepMoolenaar @SecScottBessent @POTUS
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving Norfolk, Virginia - October 27, 2026 SRC: X-@AirAssets
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
MORE Democrat crime
Carla Wyatt, the Democrat Treasurer of Harris County, Texas, has been accused of not carrying insurance after allegedly causing a 4-car collision last month.
Wyatt has already been arrested MULTIPLE times since taking office, including at least two DWIs and a burglary charge.
She's up for re-election next week.
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
BERT MIZUSAWA
🇺🇸PATRIOT
🇺🇸WARRIOR
🇺🇸LEADER
It’s time to end Career Liar Mark Warner’s reign of failure.
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
Starbucks China officially ended its long standing open door policy by rolling out a strict "purchase before seating" rule across its roughly 8,000 stores in mainland China.
The policy directly targets "free riders" and "table-blockers", non paying visitors who have..
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
She’s a "04", but she’s an ephemeral DH private key.
Announcing 3 Critical vulns for hundreds of millions of IoT, Firewalls, OT, and Military devices including: Palo Alto Networks, Comcast, D-Link, HP, Canon, Honeywell, GE, Oracle, Siemens, Rockwell, Digi, Lockheed Martin, Boeing...
The vulns are with GoAhead Web Server which is a backend library used by these devices. There's a patch available from GoAhead but that doesn't mean there's a patch available for the devices yet -- that's up to the manufacturer.
- TLS traffic over DHE ciphers have a 1-byte secret, "04", meaning anyone can decrypt connections to these devices and steal login credentials and session tokens if the client negotiated with DHE ciphers like the latest TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, which is extremely likely.
- LibreSSL mTLS has been completely bypassed, meaning anyone can connect over mTLS. If you have one of these devices listening on the internet and are expecting mTLS to protect it from attackers, take it offline or patch asap.
- OpenSSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are not enforced, meaning if a user device is stolen or compromised, and you revoke that mTLS cert, nothing actually happens. There are a lot of other attacks this can be used for.
These are critical because these types of devices run our world. Water systems, electricity, military, firewalls, critical infrastructure.
foxio.io/blog/choose-your-ba…
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
Ark Royal. Our full Air Group was 14 Buccaneers, 12 F4, 4 Gannets, 6 Sea Kings, and 3 Wessex. And the bar was big enough to service all of us.
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
What @60Minutes didn’t tell you about the “immigration attorney” featured in its deportation story:
She openly promotes socialism, wants ICE abolished, and has already condemned:
“President Trump’s racist mass deportation agenda.”
Meet Meredyth Yoon—the activist whose politics CBS left out.
Her bio: “prison and border abolitionist.”
Her own post: “Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.”
On the border wall: “We will tear down this wretched wall and bring our loved ones home from the other side!”
The Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Atlanta chapter advertised her as a speaker at its October 2025 People’s Congress.
And the money: her employer, Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Atlanta, received $150,000 from George Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society in 2021.
“They sent him to Ghana, with full knowledge that Ghana is systematically deporting refugees back to the very countries they fled,” says immigration attorney Meredyth Yoon.
60 Minutes obtained the names of all the people on a flight that left Texas on July 30th and took deportees to three countries in Africa, including Ghana. Of the 19 deportees 60 Minutes reached who were sent to Ghana, 17 say they were then transported against their will to countries U.S. immigration judges ruled they should not be returned to. Moussa Diawara was one of them. The Department of Homeland Security told 60 Minutes that Ghana had provided the U.S. with “diplomatic assurances for [Diawara’s] safety.”
Yoon says the U.S. government was warned about Ghana’s conduct in a lawsuit last year. Despite this, the U.S. sent 10 more flights to Ghana, which Yoon believes is a violation of international law. cbsn.ws/4zTVoQo
Charles R. Smith🔹 retweeted
A Chinese-led scam ring rented an entire Vietnamese hotel and made one rule: never scam Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese police raided the Van Hoa Hotel in Thanh Hoa province on October 17 and controlled 118 people, including 74 Chinese nationals. The ring ran there from June to October 2026. Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security says the group used a front company to rent the whole building, set on an isolated hilltop with guards and limited access. Computers, phones, and data were shipped in from Cambodia.
The design was deliberate. Police say the ring avoided hiring Vietnamese staff and avoided targeting Vietnamese victims, to make local detection and prosecution harder. Investigators had anticipated that scam centers would shift into Vietnam as crackdowns hit Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.
The operation was split into specialized teams. One group of 28 Chinese targeted Taiwanese women over 40 with romance scams, then steered them into a fake forex platform. Others posed as businessmen or attractive singles to push victims into fake stock and crypto sites, letting them withdraw small early profits before blocking larger withdrawals. A separate arm streamed fake sports betting on Douyin to Chinese users and pushed big bets into USDT crypto to dodge bank freezes. Others ran fake job offers.
Authorities charged 89 people, 88 of them foreigners, and seized 108 computers and more than 500 phones. Estimated losses so far: about $2 million. The alleged ringleader is a Chinese national, Zhao Xuefeng.
Scam bosses used to hide in the border zones of Myanmar and Cambodia. This one tried a hotel in a country that wasn’t looking, and it lasted four months.
