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Ukraine is being hit with a surge of attacks using North Korean missiles. Western components help make it possible
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    A report released earlier this year by the UK-based investigative organization Conflict Armament Research, or CAR, found that 75% of components in one of the first North Korean missiles used to attack Ukraine were from US-based companies.

    There is no reliable information on how exactly the components make their way into North Korea, according to weapons-tracing experts. But all signs to point to China as the likely conduit, experts say.

    “We have successfully traced some of those components, and the last known custodians are Chinese companies,” said Damien Spleeters, deputy director of operations at CAR, which works to independently document diverted weapons. That means Chinese firms bought the components from manufacturers and a series of intermediaries.

    “The diversion rarely happens at the plant that makes the components,” he told CNN.

    CAR has a policy of not “naming and shaming” specific manufacturers because there is no evidence the firms deliberately shipped the parts to North Korea.

    “Some parts of these components may be actually fake and made in China,” said Victoria Vyshnivska, a senior researcher at NAKO. “But we cannot be 100% sure,” she added, as the companies in question often failed to respond to questions.

    One manufacturer was able to provide NAKO with evidence that a low-value electronic component found in a North Korean missile was counterfeit.

    Meanwhile, Vyshnivska said, some other manufacturers are choosing not to pursue better control of their exports, as more detailed record-keeping and company audits would incur costs. “It’s ignorance that is sometimes, maybe, driven by money,” she told CNN.

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  • The premise is that “we” didn’t vote for this. Not voting is a choice- in essence a vote. Perhaps not on paper, but a vote nonetheless.

    “We” did vote for this, unfortunately.

  • www.nytimes.com Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles

    With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.

    Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles
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    www.nytimes.com Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles

    With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.

    Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles
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    www.nytimes.com Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles

    With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.

    Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles
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    Trump Takes Lead in 538 Simulations

    projects.fivethirtyeight.com Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?

    538’s 2024 presidential election forecast model showing Democrat Kamala Harris’s and Republican Donald Trump’s chances of winning.

    Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?

    For the first time since 538 published our presidential election forecast for Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, Trump has taken the lead (if a very small one) over Harris. As of 3 p.m. Eastern on Oct. 18, our model gives Trump a 52-in-100 chance of winning the majority of Electoral College votes. The model gives Harris a 48-in-100 chance.

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    Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or not ask stupid questions?

    It’s kinda how you read the name, innit?

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    Whistleblower for Boeing contractor Spirit AeroSystems dies

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    o.O Make sure you hit accept.

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