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New Update on Quantum Computing Industry 2021 : Growth Drivers, Market Opportunities, Business Trends and Forecast to 2026 Industrial IT – Industrial…

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Scientists created a biological quantum circuit in grisly experiment with tardigrades – The Next Web

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An international team of researchers are claiming to have performed the first ever experiment successfully quantum entangling a multi-celled organism.

The team, whose research was recently published in a pre-print paper, says its managed to place a tardigrade a tiny critter affectionately known as a water bear in a state of quantum entanglement between a pair of superconducting qubits.

In other words: the researchers managed to put a tardigrade in a state where it was directly connected to the qubits in such a way that anything that happens to the water bear or the qubits would simultaneously affect all three.

This is a fundamental property of quantum computing. But this kind of quantum function usually only occurs with particle-sized objects. Researchers have put single-celled organisms in a state of quantum entanglement before, but this would mark the first time scientists have done so with a complex biological organism.

There is, however, some debate as to the significance of the teams efforts. Per the researcherspaper:

We observe coupling between the animal in cryptobiosis and a superconducting quantum bit and prepare a highly entangled state between this combined system and another qubit. The tardigrade itself is shown to be entangled with the remaining subsystems. The animal is then observed to return to its active form after 420 hours at sub 10 mK temperatures and pressure of 6 106 mbar, setting a new record for the conditions that a complex form of life can survive.

Theres a lot to unpack there, but first and foremost: other physicists are being critical of this work early due to what appears to be a loose definition of entanglement.

As spotted by Live Sciences Brandon Specktor, the buzz on social media appears to be entirely skeptical:

But, as Specktor also points out, this is all likely to get sorted in peer-review. For now, lets talk about the experiment itself.

Tardigrades are among the most resilient creatures we know of. They can enter a state of suspended animation where they have no observable biological functions in order to survive in extremely hostile environments.

Its for this reason the scientists chose to attempt integrating them with quantum bits in a circuit. The ideas pretty basic. You freeze the tardigrades to the point that theyre next to absolute zero, and then you can put them in a state of entanglement just like any other super-cold particle.

However, because the tardigrades are living beings, the storys a bit more visceral than your standard we entangled several photons variety of experiment.

According to teams paper, these particular tardigrades were collected in February 2018 from a roof gutter in Niva, Denmark.

So, to sum up, a group of humans in white coats kidnapped a bunch of cute little water bears, who were already living in a literal gutter, and then exposed them to the coldest temperatures a tardigrades ever experienced before forcing them into a three-way entanglement with superconducting qubits.

The team was able to revive one of the tardigrades that were successfully involved in what theyre calling entanglement. But, as for the others, the researchers wrote we wish to point out that it is very important for the revival of the animal to change the external temperature and pressure gently.

Rest in power little science bears, well never forget you.

Further reading: Physicists might have created quantum entanglement in bacteria

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CGTN: Seeking happiness for the people: China’s journey to common prosperity – Yahoo Finance

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BEIJING, Jan. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Back in the 1980s, China allowed some people to get rich first to help others gradually achieve the national goal of common prosperity. Now common prosperity is the priority route to delivering happiness to all the people.

Seeking happiness for the people: China's journey to common prosperity (PRNewsfoto/CGTN)

In 2021, China realized the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects (known as "Xiaokang" in Chinese) and got off to a good start during the 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP) period (2021-2025).

"To ensure that everyone leads a better life, we must never rest on what we have achieved, and there is still a long way to go," Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his New Year address on Friday.

Following the blueprint

In the first year of the 14th FYP period, China implemented the blueprint with a focus on the people-centered philosophy and prioritized efforts to foster a new development paradigm, strengthen the role of innovation, and advance the green transformation of the social and economic development.

The people-centered philosophy has been the key to China's remarkable achievements in the past decades and will guide the country toward common prosperity. After eliminating extreme poverty across the country and accomplishing the "Xiaokang" goal, China embarked on a new journey toward socialist modernization and national rejuvenation.

"On the journey ahead, we must rely closely on the people to create history," Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said in a speech at a gathering marking the centenary of the CPC on July 1. He vowed that the CPC would address the people's concerns and promote common prosperity for all.

Chinese leaders have stressed the importance of creating and accumulating social wealth on the one hand, and preventing polarization on the other. First, all Chinese people need to work together to make the "cake" bigger and better; then efforts should be made to divide the "cake" well through proper institutional arrangements, according to a statement released after the Central Economic Work Conference in December.

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While putting more emphasis on the domestic market, China also reiterated its pledge to open wider and share development opportunities with the world.

Putting innovation at the center of its modernization drive, China made various scientific and technological breakthroughs such as the launch of the crewed spaceship Shenzhou-13, the landing of the Mars probe Tianwen-1 on the red planet, advancement in the chipmaking industry and leaps in quantum computing.

As green development becomes a priority, China repeatedly stressed its pledges to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, and released a series of policies to realize the goals.

In 2021, the country saw an odyssey of Asian elephants that caught global attention, pledged more investment to protect biodiversity, launched wind power and photovoltaic projects in desert areas, and reiterated its commitment to fighting climate change.

Xi's top concerns in domestic tours

President Xi made 11 inspection tours around China during the past year, leaving his footprints in dozens of places. There were a number of key issues that Xi highlighted at these stops, which reflected some priority areas of the country's development in the 14th FYP period and beyond.

From the 2022 Winter Olympics venues and remote villages to nature reserves and small companies, his visits demonstrated China's commitment to advancing ecological progress and pursuing innovative, green and high-quality development.

"People," "ecology," "innovation," "high-quality," "security," "culture," "service," "education," "technology" and "rural areas" are among the top words and phrases Xi mentioned during his visits in 2021, according to CGTN analysis.

In each of his visits, Xi showed deep concern towards the people. He went to old revolutionary bases, ethnic minority regions, and places with poor infrastructure, fragile environmental conditions and victims of frequent natural disasters. He visited the poor, talked with local officials, inspected the conditions and reviewed the poverty alleviation work.

When visiting Guizhou Province in southwest China in February, he emphasized the importance of blazing a new path that prioritizes ecological conservation and green development.

He also highlighted protection of biodiversity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the ecological environment in the Yellow River basin and Saihanba the once barren land located in north China's Hebei Province that has turned into one of the world's largest man-made forests during his visits to Qinghai, Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces and the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Amid an increasingly complex external environment, he called for efforts to deepen supply-side structural reform, build a new development paradigm and advance high-quality development on many occasions.

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Faith: What does it mean to be Orthodox (part 10) – Kamloops This Week

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For more information on the Eastern Orthodox Mission to Alaska, see Michael Oleksas excellent book, Orthodox Alaska

Over the course of several columns, I have attempted to provide a view of Church history that expands on the Readers Digest versions, which we too often receive.

The final result has been less a panorama than a few select keyholes into the past, which I hope will open new doors of understanding of Christianity and specifically, of Eastern Orthodoxy.

So much more could be said. This series, in fact, could extend for many more years come.

Early church history can and does consume entire books. The 1,100 years of Byzantine history fills bookshelves. The history of Russia and the other Slavic nations occupy armies of scholars.

And I have barely touched the vast array of topics in Eastern Orthodox theology and spirituality, from iconography to monasticism, from the Jesus prayer to the

Divine Liturgy.

I have decided to leave the details of the above topics to those who can do them a little more justice.

For instance, an overview of Orthodox Church history and teaching can be found in Timothy Wares book The Orthodox Church, which is both authoritative and accessible to the non-scholarly reader.

I would like to end this series on a personal note: how did I end up as an Eastern Orthodox Christian?

What was it about this rather strange faith that originally attracted me and that now commands my devotion and service?

A personal history of my religious background is in order. I was born in the Seychelles, to a Roman Catholic mother and an Anglican father. At the insistence of my mothers parents, I was christened Roman Catholic.

In 1979, we left the Seychelles and spent the next 10 years living in East and Southern Africa. During this period my religious experiences were more Protestant than Catholic.

My father would bring my sister and I to Sunday school at whatever denomination was convenient, and pick us up afterward.

1989 saw us immigrate to Canada. Then, in my early teens, I was tending toward spiritual rebelliousness.

My father, however, insisted that I be confirmed Anglican, in the tradition of his family.

Then, he said, I could do what I wanted. I acquiesced with bad grace. After Confirmation, I dropped out of Christianity and sought the dubious pleasures of a purely secular, hedonistic lifestyle.

By Gods providence, however, I was a very bad hedonist.

Having failed to live a dissolute life, I found myself in an emotional and spiritual crisis. At the time, I was working for a couple who were Evangelical Protestants.

They had been trying to get me to become a Christian for a while, but it was not until I hit bottom that I finally paid attention to their message: God loves you. Otherwise He would not have sent His Son to die for you.

I dedicated my life to Christ from then on. I roamed in Evangelical circles for a while, but was uncomfortable with the hyper-emotionalism.

Finally, I rediscovered my roots and joined the Anglican community of St. Johns in Shaughnessy, Vancouver. It was then I encountered the Orthodox Church.

One night in 1993, I was at a poetry reading in Vancouver, and met a young man, who (like me) was an aspiring poet taking a B.A. in English Literature at University of British Columbia. He invited me and my friends to his church: Saint Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church in Langley.

My first experiences of Orthodoxy were strange.

There were no drums, bass, guitars, or piano; worship was chanted in a cappella harmony. Each service was lit by candles and fragrant with incense.

And most troubling of all, communion was restricted to those who were members of the Orthodox Church.

I struggled for months with this all or nothing mentality.

I was interested in the worship, which claimed to derive from the first century, but I was not sure I wanted to make the commitment required to participate.

Finally, unable to accept the Catholic doctrine of papal infallibility, I had to decide whether the intense, strange Orthodox Church was some weird cult, or the real spiritual home for which I was longing.

Given the significance of the decision, I was rather impulsive.

I read only one book about Orthodoxy (and not a very good one at that). I listened to the witness of my best friend (who became Orthodox before I did) and the loving attitude of St. Hermans community.

I attended more services, got used to the strangeness, and fell in love with the dignity and beauty of Orthodox worship.

I asked questions, thought through the answers, and found them acceptable. I made the commitment.

In fact, I took the right approach, for Eastern Orthodoxy is best encountered through a direct experience with its worship and fellowship.

Newspaper articles are useful as far as they go, but Christianity is less about a text (central as the Bible text is) than the person of Jesus Christ crucified and raised from the dead.

Encountering Eastern Orthodoxy is likewise a personal matter, which means simply meeting and praying with Orthodox Christians with an eye to growing in ones understanding of the community. If you find yourself curious as to what this little-known faith has to offer, the best thing you can do is follow the advice that the apostle Philip offered his friend Nathanael: Come and see!

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Captain James Bradley and the USS Halibut: A Story Like No Other – The National Interest

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Here's What You Need To Remember: cTheHalibutand other submarines began regular courier runs to install new tapes on the tap while bringing back the old tapes for analysis by the NSA in what was called Operation Ivy Bells.

Since 2015, there have been reports of Russian submarines and spy ships trawling the waters near the ocean-spanning underwater fiber-optic cables vital to trans-oceanic Internet access. In fact, reported activity by spy ship Yartar off the U.S. nuclear-armed submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia is likely in search of secret military cables used exclusively by the Pentagon.

The Russians might be interested in hacking into those cables because the U.S. Navy pulled of such an exploit forty-six years earlier using a specially-modified spy submarine, a nuclear-powered wiretap, and some helium-swilling aquanauts.

TheHalibut, Missile-Sub Turned Spy Submarine

Commissioned in 1960, the USSHalibutwas a one-of-a-kind nuclear-powered submarine designed to launch Regulus II nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The 5,000-ton submarine housed two 17.5-meter-long Regulus II missiles in a grotesquely bulged hangar on her foredeck. The missiles were launched while surfaced from a hydraulically extended ramp to strike targets up to 1,150 miles away.

However, by the time theHalibutentered service, the Navy had developed the Polaris, the U.S.s first Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile, which could be fired from underwater into space to strike a target nearly 3,000 miles away. The obsolete Regulus II was canceled a year before theHalibutwas commissioned in 1960, and the submarine spent four years lugging five older Regulus I missiles on deterrence patrols before these too were retired.

Still, the Navy saw useful potential in theHalibutsunconventional layout, and in 1968 she received a unique overhaul. The bulged missile hangar was converted into the Bat Cave (inspired by comic book characters lair) stuffed full of spy equipment, including a rare 60s-era 24bit UNIVAC computer, a retractable seafloor-scanning sonar, and a photo-developing lab. A well underneath the Bat Cave could deploy two 2-ton Fishremotely operated underwater spy vehicles.Halibutslower hull had special thrusters and anchoring winches to maintain its position on the seafloor and later received four skids allowing it to safely land there.

An apparent mini-submarine was prominently strapped onto theHalibutsrear deck, which the Navy publicly boasted was a Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) simulator. This was a deception: the pod actually housed a special pressurized chamber for use by saturation divers, with an integrated diving lock.

Deep-sea divers risk decompression sickness (the bends) caused by gas bubbles forming within the body when reacclimatizing to regular air pressure. Based on technology pioneered in the SEALAB underwater habitats, the pressure chamber was designed to give divers a long-term pressure-stable habitat so they would only need to depressurize once at the end of their mission. The divers used oxygen mixed with helium rather than heavier nitrogen to aid acclimatization. You can see an amazing diagram by HI Sutton of theHalibutand its gadgetshere.

TheHalibutsfirst mission was to locate the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129, which on March 8, 1968, sank nearly 5,000 meters to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean under mysterious circumstances. The Soviet Navy searched for K-129 for months, but it was theHalibutthat finally found her with her Fish that August, after having the search radius narrowed to only 1,200 square miles using data from the Navys SOSUS hydrophone network.

In 1972, Captain James Bradley of the Office of Naval Intelligence thought of a new use for theHalibut. The Soviet Navy maintained a major nuclear-missile armed submarine base at Petropavlovsk on the remote Kamchatka Peninsula. Bradley felt it was likely that the base maintained an undersea communication cable to transmit messages directly across the Sea of Okhotsk.

However, the cables presence was not even confirmed, so how was it to be located? Bradly was inspired one day by recollecting the signs he had seen on the side of the Mississippi River warning ships not to lay anchor in areas near underwater cables. (Anchors remain a frequent cause of damaged cables.)

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Reasoning the Soviets would use similar signs, he dispatched theHalibutoff the coast of Kamchatka to search for them. TheHalibutwas not particularly quiet by the standards of modern submarines, and she risked being attacked if she was discovered penetrating the perimeter formed by Soviet naval bases on the Kuril Islandsseized from Japanat the end of World War II. In fact, theHalibuthad was a self-destructive device to ensure she and her crew could not be captured.

After a week of snooping, theHalibutscrew finally spotted beach signs in Cyrillic warning ships not to lay anchor. Discretely, the technicians in the Bat Cave began scanning the seafloor with her Fish, and in a matter of hours spotted the cable 120-meters below the sea via a grainy video feed. The 5,000-ton submarine carefully settled close to the seafloor, deploying her special anchors. The elite saturation divers in the pod swam out to the cable and wrapped a three-foot-long magnetic induction device around the cable. Rather than risking damage and detection by piercing inside cables, the tap recorded the activity passing through the cable.

The operation was considered so secret that most of theHalibutscrew were told their mission was to recover fragments from a P-500 Sandbox missile test for analysis. The supersonic anti-ship missile was rumored to use an advanced infrared seeker. To reinforce the cover, after recording several hours of conversation, theHalibutsailed to the site of the test and her dovers did recover two million tiny P-500 missile fragment, which were reassembled jigsaw-like until it was discovered that Sandbox used only radar guidance!

The brief tape was brought back to Pearl Harbor and found to be highly promising. The Navy rapidly commissioned a new six-ton wiretap device from Bell Laboratories called the Beast (photohere) which used a nuclear power source and a massive tape recorder to records of weeks of conversation across multiple lines at the same time.

TheHalibutreturned and installed this new device, and the subs crew were soon listening in on Soviet telephone conversations, celebrating their success by feasting on a spider crab scooped up from the sea floor.

Thenceforth, theHalibutand other submarines began regular courier runs to install new tapes on the tap while bringing back the old tapes for analysis by the NSA in what was called Operation Ivy Bells. TheHalibutherself was decommissioned in 1975, and the courier runs taken over by the USS Parche, Sea Wolf and Richard B. Russell.

The tapped cables provided a treasure trove of intelligence for the NSA: mixed in between personal calls to family and sweethearts were private conversations on sensitive political topics and detailed information on Soviet submarine operations. Much of the Soviet traffic was unencrypted because cables were considered a highly secure form of communication.

This candid, unfiltered portrait of the Soviet Navys state of mind vis--vis the United States reportedly influenced U.S. military leaders to deescalate activities which were threatening to panic Moscow, and also apparently informed the Washingtons negotiating posture for the SALT II treaty which limited the size of strategic nuclear weapons forces.

Cheap Betrayal

The cable-tap operation did have its risks. In Sherry Sontags bookBlind Mans Bluff, he describes how on a later tape-recovery mission, a sea storm bucked theHalibutto and fro until her anchors snapped, causing her to begin rising uncontrollably with divers trapped outside. TheHalibutrisked exposure in Soviet territorial waters, and her tethered divers risked death from rapid decompression. Captain John McNish decided to flood theHalibutuntil it smashed onto the seafloor and brought the divers back into their pressure habitat. But now theHalibutwas dangerously mired.

After completing the planned data collection, theHalibuttried a dangerous emergency blow to free herself from seabed sediment, followed by an immediate dive to avoid breaching the surface. The submarine had only enough compressed air to try the maneuver onceand luckily, it worked.

In 1980 mishap also befell the USSSea Wolf, which was uniquely equipped with a liquid metal-cooled nuclear reactor. On one tape-recovery mission, a storm caused her to crash into the seafloor and become stuck, with mud and mollusks gumming up her insides. Her captain considered scuttling the vessel before he managed to wriggle it free to surface in a noisy emergency blow out. After this incident, Soviet ships were observed heading towards the site of the cable tap.

However, it was human frailty, not sea storms or Soviet sonars, which brought an end to the intelligence bonanza. When theParchewent to pick up the latest tape, the tap was missing.

In July 1985 Soviet KGB defector Vitaly Yurchenko revealed that Ronald Pelton, a heavily indebted former analyst for the NSA, had walked into the Soviet embassy on January 14, 1980, and sold the secret of Ivy Bells for $5,000with an additional $30,000 paid for later consultation. This led to the taps removal by Soviet divers, though its possible that the Soviets might have planted misleading information in the cable traffic before doing so.

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2021: A Year in Review > US Cyber Command > News – United States Cyber Command

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FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md.

Here are some of U.S. Cyber Commands (CYBERCOM) most impactful moments of 2021:

Over the last year, the cyber security community has encountered new challenges and worked to adapt and respond in innovative ways. Ransomware is no longer considered just criminal activity, but a threat to national defense and infrastructure; deterrence is conducted across multiple domains simultaneously; and the value of cyber defense partnerships across nations is reasserted again and again.

This year started with the dissemination of vaccines to essential workers as well as vulnerable populations.Pictured here is U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William J. Hartman, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force, receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Jan. 11, 2021. Despite a global pandemic, CYBERCOM still conducted cyber operations vital to the Nations defense. Read more about the Commands early vaccination approach here.

This year also saw a rise in cyber challenges that CYBERCOM rose to meet and overcome through various means, including full-spectrum cyber operations.

CYBERCOM Commander U.S. Army Gen. Paul M. Nakasone recently highlighted the work both CYBERCOM and the National Security Agency (NSA) have performed against foreign ransomware actors, including conducting successful offensive cyber operations that disrupted their malicious activity. CYBERCOM focuses on the away game, executing operations in foreign spaces against foreign actors.

For example, when Russian intelligence actors compromised a supply chain of cybersecurity vendors to conduct espionage, CYBERCOM deployed an elite defensive cyber unit, called a hunt forward team, to hunt for additional Russian activity. They found and disclosed new malware that was being used to enable malicious cyber activity. That malware was shared with our partners to stop the actors and mitigate the ongoing compromise. These operations were conducted by the Cyber National Mission Force, the Commands national offensive and defensive cyber unit. Read more about this mission and the benefit of hunt forward operationshere.

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AsGeneral Nakasone said this year, partnerships are the lifeblood that makes us so different than our adversaries. The Command has benefited from a historic partnership with the Five Eyes, but there are other partnerships with likeminded nations that we will continue to work.

Cyber is a team sport, and training and working along with our partners ensures we know how each of our cyber operations teams would respond in any situation. We accomplish this through CYBERCOMs bilateral exercise programs.

Cyber Fort III With our partners from Frances Cyber Defense Forces, cyber defenders from the two countries exercised with more than 70 participants, 400 simulated users, 450 simulated networks and subnets, and 1,000 different simulated systems.

Cyber Dome VI Brought our partners from the Israel Defense Forces Joint Cyber Defense Directorate (JCDD) for a hands-on-keyboard defensive cloud-based training exercise. The exercise brought together joint defensive cyber operators from the two countries and involved more than 75 participants.

Both bilateral exercises simulate the relevant tactics, techniques, and procedures of advanced persistent threats that we confront both today and in the future.

Read more about Cyber Fort IIIhere.

Integrated Deterrence is a key aspect of our Nations success in the era of strategic competition. Strategic competition is alive and well in cyberspace, and the Command does its part every single day via persistent engagement efforts. How does CYBERCOM stay persistently engaged in multi-domain and multi-capable operations? One example is by sending a U.S. Air Force Cyber Protection Team to defend vital networks on a B-1 Lancer during a U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. European Command strategic deterrence mission. Cyber defense is one part of integrated strategic deterrence, achieved by denying any malicious cyber actor access to critical platforms like the B-1 Lancer. Read morehere.

Pictured here are two Estonian defensive cyber operators, wearing the insignia of the Estonian Defence Forces Cyber and Information Operations Centre, testing their skills and ability to detect enemy presence, expel it, and identify solutions to harden simulated networks during CYBERCOMs CYBER FLAG 21-1 exercise. More than 200 cyber operators from 23 countries participated in the Department of Defenses largest multinational cyber exercise, designed to help us bolster our collective defense against cyber-attacks targeting critical infrastructure and key resources. Defensive cyber teams from Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and others participated in CYBER FLAG 21-1 using CYBERCOMs real-time virtual training environment. Read more about this exercisehere.

We wrapped up the year with our Commander, Gen. Nakasone, who provided ABC News and the public with an exclusive look into our Joint Integrated Cyber Center and insight into how we defend the nation in cyberspace. It was a great opportunity to showcase how CYBERCOM and NSA workwith our interagency, industry and international partners.You can view ABCs special reporthere.

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Everything Democrats Didn’t Do in 2021 – The Intercept

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Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding his campaign plane at Duluth International Airport in Duluth, Minn., on Sep. 18, 2020.

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If politics worked the way we learn about it in school, Biden and his party would have seized this fleeting opportunity to pass his popular agenda and cement and expand their power.

Instead, after a strong start with the American Rescue Plan, passed in March, the Democrats have puttered forward, slowly losing momentumand now appearing at a standstill. Here are all the things they could have done this year, in theory, but did not.

Its true that Democrats hold the Senate with the slimmest margin possible, needing the votes of all 50 Democratic senators including semi-quasi-Democrats like West Virginias Joe Manchin to pass anything.

But normal people will rightfully never accept this as an excuse if theyre even aware of it, which many likely are not. Since Bidens inauguration, his approval rating has fallen from 57 percent to 43 percent. Even among Democrats, its gone down from 98 percent to 78 percent.

Democratic voters might have maintained enthusiasm if the partys leaders had explained that they actually had a plan one to use all the power they now have to improve peoples lives and to get more power to do more in the future. Instead, their only plan appears to be to come up with as many excuses as possible for their sluggish drift to nowhere.

This dynamic is the same as when Barack Obama took office in 2009. He had the greatest grassroots army ever assembled in U.S. political history, one extremely eager to keep fighting. Instead, Obama essentially told them to go home, stay out of his hair, and let him handle things from there. The Democratic Party then spent the next eight years quietly collapsing into dust across America.

Biden did not have the same energy behind him as a person. But there was certainly lots of energy to be mobilized to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House, via bold action that Americans would feel in their everyday lives. The Democrats have not done this.

One potential explanation for this is what can be called The Iron Law of Institutions i.e., that people within institutions like the Democratic Party are primarily interested in maintaining power inside the institution, rather than the institutions overall success. Any steps to expand the partys power would require bringing in new constituencies, which would in turn lead to some current constituencies losing their status.

This phenomenon could be seen clearly in the 1972 election. George McGovern won the Democratic nomination by taking advantage of new ruleswhich had madethe process much more small-d democratic; he sought out donors and voters from the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement, the youth movement, and more. The old guard of the Democratic Party did not like this at all. During the period between the convention and the election, they were given to saying that McGovern was gonna lose because were gonna make sure hes gonna lose. After McGovern did lose badly, his campaign gave their list of 600,000 volunteers and small donors to the Democratic National Committee, then run by the Robert Strauss, a right-wing powerbroker from Texas. The DNC promptly threw the list away.

Whatever the reason for Democratic stasis, its perplexing: Even if they dont care about making things better for Americans, you might think theyd be interested in self-preservation. Biden, for instance, will probably beimpeached if Republicans take back the House in the 2022 midterm elections. But this has not produced enough motivation for the Democrats to seriously try to make any of thefollowing things happen.

Presidents have enormous unilateral power, if they choose to use it. Biden doesnt need Congress to cancel student debt (as a candidate he called for forgiveness of a minimum of $10,000/person); make marijuana effectively legal (Bidens lack of action has frustrated even some Republicans); or force drug companies to lower prices (as issue Democrats have purportedly supported for 30 years). Biden has done none of these things, although he has utilizedexecutive orders in some areas.

Activists attend a rally about voting rights and ending the filibuster near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 3, 2021.

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There is no future for Democrats, or democracy, if the GOP succeeds in its ever-more strenuous efforts to undermine the meaningfulness of the ballot. There are three main things Democrats must do to prevent this, but havent.

First, they have to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. In 2013, the Supreme Court killed the most significant part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which requires that jurisdictions that have engaged in discrimination get permission from the federal government beforechanging their voting laws. The JLVRAA would restore preclearance.

Second, they have to pass theFreedom to Vote Act,which has eight cosponsors in the Senate, including Manchin. The bill incorporates many provisions of the now-deadFor the People Act, and would prevent partisan gerrymandering, purges of voter rolls, restrictions on ballot access, and more.

Third, they must reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887, a badly written law that Trumps allies planned to use to keep him in office despite his loss of the election.

The Senate was designed by James Madison to, in his words, protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The filibuster was invented by accident in 1806 and has generally been used to protect the opulent and thwart the will of the majority even moreadamantlythan Madison envisioned.

The Democrats could eliminate or restrict the filibuster today if they wanted to. So far they havent wanted to.

Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff both won in the January 5 Georgia Senate runoff election by promising voters that if they won, eligible Americans would receive $2,000 in additional support during the pandemic. Biden promised it too, saying, Their election will put an end to the block in Washington that $2,000 stimulus check that money would go out the door immediately. Then both Warnock and Ossoff did win. Then it turned out $2,000 didnt mean $2,000,but rather $1,400, because Democrats were now counting $600 from a bill already passed in December 2020 under Trump. A Democratic politician even edited a Warnock ad to convert the $2,000 into $1,400. Psych!

There should be a national minimum wage of $15 an hour, Biden said in his first address to Congress in April. Then the Senate parliamentarian declared that raising the minimum wage could not pass via budget reconciliation and hence would need to overcome a filibuster. The Democrats could have ignored the parliamentarian or as both Democrats and Republicans have done to previous parliamentarians dismissed her. Instead theyve just given up, leaving the minimum wage at $7.25 about the same level in real terms as during the 1950s. (In fairness, Biden has issued an executive order increasing the minimum wage to $15 for federal contractors.)

The world desperately needs the U.S. to take action to decarbonize the American economy. Various measures to make this happen were in various versions of the Build Back Better bills. But with the BBB agenda on life support, its anyones guess whether there will be significant climate accomplishmentsduringthe Biden administration.

Signs sit on the ground as a small group of pro-abortion protesters gather outside a New York City courthouse as oral arguments begin over Mississippis controversial abortion law begin at the Supreme Court on Dec. 1, 2021.

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Even if the Supreme Court overturnsRoe v. Wade, Congress possesses the power to prevent states from making it illegal. Of course, Texas has demonstrated how far the GOP will go to restrict abortion access even without a Roe decision. But Congress can also stop such state-level efforts. The House has passed such a bill, but it has no chance in the Senate.

Organized labor has always been the backbone of successful progressive politics, in the U.S. and around the world, and any progressive party would prioritize rejuvenating the labor movement. The decline of the U.S. middle class can be measured in the decline in unions: Almost 30 percent of the workforce was unionized in the 1950s. Its now barely 10 percent overall, and only 6 percent in the private sector. The Protect the Right to Organize Act would have made organizing unions much easier. (Some of the PRO Act was incorporatedinto a version of the Build Back Better bill, but again, its now unclear whether any BBB law will pass.)

The increase of the Child Tax Credit in the American Rescue Plan is estimated to have reduced child poverty in the U.S. by 40 percent. It is a moral and policy slam dunk and should be a political slam dunk actual, material support for family values, rather than cynical rhetoric. But the expansion will expire on January 1, 2022.

It shouldnt be beyond the capacity of the U.S. government to simply mail lots of high-quality masks and home Covid tests to everyone in the country, but apparently it is.

There are six justices on the Supreme Court appointed by GOP presidents. Yet only one of them, Clarence Thomas, was appointed by a Republican president who was first elected with a plurality of votes. (John Roberts and Samuel Alito were appointed by George W. Bush in his second term.)

The current courts makeup guarantees that any new Democratic initiatives will face a real prospect of being declared unconstitutional. This is so blatantly anti-democratic that it will inevitably lead to some kind of political explosion. The only way to defuse this would be to add members to the court appointed by Biden, plus some common-sense reforms that would lower the stakes of future appointments. Biden created a commission to study what to do about the court, the classic move when you plan to do nothing.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer testifies before the House Judiciary Committees Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 20, 2010.

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At the very least, Democrats could have exerted pressure in every way possible to encourageStephen Breyer to retire, so Biden could replace him with a younger justice. Breyer, now 83, has seen Ruth Bader Ginsburgs example right in front of him: She was diagnosed with two forms of cancer yet refused to step down during the Obama presidency, finally dying while Trump was president. Yet this seems to have made no impression on either Breyer or Democratic elites, who surely could influence him if they wanted to.

The disenfranchisement of Washington, D.C. residentsis an incredible, ongoing scandal yet it endures because ending it would lessen GOP power, and Democrats dont press the issue. With a population larger than that of Wyoming and Vermont, D.C. hasno representation in the Senate, and one representative in the House, whocan sometimes vote as long as it doesnt matter. D.C. residents clearly want statehood and should get it.

Meanwhile, more people live in Puerto Rico than 20 states. The most recent referendum on statehood there found a small majority does want to become a member of the union.

Biden has pumped the brakes on the U.S. use of drones, and he managed to withdraw from Afghanistan, something three previous presidents couldnt bring themselves to do. But beyond that, his foreign policy trundles onward down predictable paths. Hes spoken nice words about ending the Saudi war on Yemen, with little follow-up in reality. Remarkably, he did not move immediately to rejoin theIran nuclear deal negotiated by Obama and with the election of a new Iranian president in June, the window for that may have closed. His policy toward China bears a lot of similarities to that of Trumps.

Thanks to a drought, plus U.S. sanctions and a halt to much international aid after the Taliban takeover, tens of millions of Afghans face potentially life-threatening hunger this winter. Aid organizations say a million Afghan children could die. Its within the power of the Biden administration to greatly ameliorate this situation, but so far its largely paid lip serviceto any humanitarian concerns. Members of the Senate appear to share a bipartisan indifferenceto this looming catastrophe.

That brings us to 2022, which begins tomorrow. It is, of course, theoretically possible that the Democrats will take significant action on some of these issues in the coming year.But with rareexceptions, thats not how U.S. politics work. The biggest things happen in a presidents first year in office, or they dont happen at all.

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After Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaWill Biden's 2021 foreign policy failures reverberate in 2022? Voting rights: The safety pin that holds America together Eleven interesting races to watch in 2022 MOREs 2008 White House victory, Democrats believed they had created an unbreakable coalition of the ascendant voters, driven by increasing participation of minority groups and college-educated women. But recent left-wing economic and policy woes have brought about a demographic realignment that threatens to sink Democrats chances not just for 2022, but for the next several decades.

As President BidenJoe BidenKentucky governor declares state of emergency after powerful storm Seven most vulnerable governors facing reelection in 2022 At least 20 states to increase minimum wage starting Saturday MOREs approval ratings have tanked with nonwhite voters, the Democratic Party increasingly has become dominated by liberal white women who virtue-signal with suburban lawn signs and then henpeck people in supermarkets to pull their face masks up over their noses. Or, put more simply, the Democratic Party is at risk of becoming a party of Karens. Recent polling suggests that Hispanic and Black voters are abandoning the party many of these individuals are being harmed by thesurging inflation,anti-business COVID measures, and explodingcrimerates in urban areas brought about by a year of left-wing measures.

For more than a decade, Democrats worked to build a voting base composed of minorities and unmarried women. After Donald TrumpDonald TrumpOne in three Americans say violence against government sometimes justified: poll Seven most vulnerable governors facing reelection in 2022 Sunday shows preview: Omicron surge continues; anniversary of Jan. 6 attack approaches MOREs 2020 loss, it would appear the mission was being accomplished. White voters dropped from 81 percent of the electorate in 2000 to just 67 percent two decades later. Meanwhile, Biden carried a whopping 63 percent of single women in 2020.

However, poor public policy over the past year is already casting the idea of a continuing Democratic majority in doubt. Recent polling suggests that Hispanic and Black Americans are more likely to vote as individuals than as aggrieved racial blocs.

In February, nearly 70 percent of Hispanic voters supported Biden by November, that number had crashed to below 50 percent. In early polling for the 2022 midterms, Hispanic voters split 37-37 percent between the two major parties in their congressional preferences. There are many fingers that could be pointed at why, but two factors seem most significant. First, to borrow a phrase from James Carville, Its the economy, stupid. Record high stock prices and artificially low unemployment rates cant paper up rampant inflation, supply shortages and decreasing numbers of employees in the workforce. Among a population that owns their own businesses at parity rates with whites and whose average incomes are catching up with the majority population, the wider economy is more than an abstract concept. Second, the cancer of wokeness is downright anathema to Hispanic Americans. Forty percent find the phrase Latinx offensive and just 2 percent of the group actually uses the phrase.

The panic must be real for Democrats. Not only are migrs from socialism among Venezuelan and Cuban Americans increasingly voting Republican, so are Mexican Americans especially in South Texas. The disapproval rate for Biden among the group is higher than that among whites.

Among Black voters, Bidens approval had fallen from 85 percent to 67 percent by September and has continued to slide. The increasingly vapid demands of the urbane upper-middle class often harm the communities that liberals claim to help. NIMBYism drives up housing prices for minority residents. Defund the police rhetoric has led to major cuts in law enforcement in some cities, as violent crime soars and quality of life declines. Families in cities such as Chicago, which has experienced more murders in 2021 than any year since 1996, are forced to live with shootings that occur routinely in public areas in some cases, young children have been killed by flying bullets. Black Democrats are 20 percent more likely to support more police funding than their white counterparts.Large looting gangs rove San Francisco and Chicago. Poor policy and rampant handouts have created tent cities in former tourist areas such as Venice Beach, Calif. Homeless people and drug addicts fill subway cars in New York City. Philadelphias Kensington neighborhood is known for being a large, open-air drug market. Now, COVID-19 vaccine mandates have helped to destroy immigrant-owned businesses and may disproportionately affect Black residents. The issues most crucial to the new kingmakers of the Democratic Party are not only counter to the popular will of many nonwhite voters but may actively harm them.

If the Democratic Party no longer has Hispanic and Black voters as electoral locks, it is left with a diminishing constituency of its most consistent members: single, college-educated white women, who dominated last years social media slacktivism and protests. It is possible that this liberal woman demographic would be able to hold enough sway to choose Democrat nominees for the foreseeable future. And yet, party bigwigs must understand that as offensive as much of the electorate considered Donald Trump, morphing into the party of Karens who are more concerned about your carbon footprint than keeping your community safe, likely will further alienate Hispanic and Black voters.

The coming Second Great Awokening not only threatens the fabric of Americas history and future, but also threatens to rip apart the Democratic Party coalition. Voters of all races who support public safety, economic opportunity and a dose of sanity in politics may find a home in the Republican Party. For many, such a choice will be natural. For others, it will be because the new Democratic Party simply left them behind.

Kristin Tate is a libertarian writer whose latest book is How Do I Tax Thee? A Field Guide to the Great American Rip-Off. Follow her on Twitter @KristinBTate.

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Ousted Democratic county executive warns her party faces ‘bloodbath’ in 2022, conveys ‘weakness’ – Fox News

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Recently ousted Democratic Nassau County (N.Y.) Executive Laura Curran told "Watters' World" on Saturday that her party is conveying weakness and faces a "bloodbath" in the 2022 midterms if it doesn't step up.

LAURA CURRAN: Unfortunately, my party, the Democratic Party, just conveys weakness right now. It almost feels like elder abuse with what's going on with President Biden. He has a hard time putting a sentence together. I think everyone gets nervous listening to him talk, he's going to mess up. What we need always, and especially now, is someone who exudes confidence and competence. Someone who sets a reassuring tone. And we're not getting that at the top right now, and unfortunately, I think your previous guest, Karl Rove, is absolutely right. I think it's going to be a bloodbath for the Democrats in the midterms.

LONG ISLAND COUNTY LEADER ON WHY HE WON'T ENFORCE MASK MANDATE: NOT NECESSARY

As a Democrat, I think it's really important to have a strong, two-party system. I think it's good for democracy. I don't think it should be one-party rule either way, but unfortunately it seems like we're giving the Republicans ammunition just to shoot us because we exude this weakness. People want to be reassured that government is there for them, not telling them what to do, but making sure the roads are in good shape, making sure the sewage is properly run, making sure that public safety is where it should be. That's what people are expecting. Unfortunately, my party is not delivering this right now.

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After Joe Manchin killed President Bidens ambitious Build Back Better spending bill, some Senate Democrats have moved onto a plan to pass voting rights legislation by exempting the topic from the filibusters requirement of 60 votes. This is the wrong lesson to take from their legislative defeat, which actually shows why Democratic leaders have been wise to preserve the filibuster. Until maverick Democrats Joe Manchin and Krystin Sinema become reliable partisans, getting 50 votes for legislation will be almost as difficult as getting 60.

Democrats are rightfully frustrated by their inability to pass legislation. But their problems are rooted in the politics of 2020, not 1837, the year of the first Senate filibuster. Democrats cannot lose a single vote in the 50-50 Senate, yet Manchin and Sinema regularly break with the party on issues like rolling back the Trump tax cuts and letting Medicaid pay for abortion. They also disagree with each other on many issues, so concessions to one may further alienate the other.

Even without the filibuster, either Manchin or Sinema could still kill any voting rights bill. The same is true for codifying Roe v. Wade into law, universal background checks for gun buyers, and making it easier for workers to organize into a union. Indeed, given their actions so far, the chance of these bills getting 50 votes is almost zero.

George W. Bush faced a similar dynamic in the first two years of his presidency, with an evenly divided Senate that included liberal Republicans Lincoln Chaffee and Jim Jeffords. His domestic legislative agenda was limited to a tax cut that got 12 Democratic votes and an education bill co-sponsored by liberal icon Ted Kennedy.

Weakening the filibuster will not lead to transformative progressive legislation but a stronger Republican Party. Because every state gets two senators, the Senate favors less populous, rural states that are now Republican strongholds. Unless Democrats somehow reverse a decade of decline with white, non-college educated voters, Republicans will control the Senate most of the time. That means Democrats should preserve the filibuster at all costs, not out of devotion to 19th century legislative norms, but because it is in their political interest to preserve the power of the Senates minority party.

Many progressives want to ignore this grim reality. Some argue the filibuster doesnt check Republican majorities because Republicans only goals are confirming conservative apparatchiks as judges and cutting taxes which only require 50 votes under the rules of the Senate. This ignores the potent power of conservative legislation. Free from the 60-vote threshold, a Republican majority could pass a federal right to work law, a version of Texass de facto abortion ban, and allow nationwide unrestricted concealed carry of handguns. Without the filibuster, Democrats only response to far-right legislation will be sending angry Tweets and frantic fundraising emails while Mitch McConnell sends his agenda to a Republican president.

The other Democratic argument for strengthening the power of Senate majorities is that Republicans will eliminate the filibuster the moment it limits their agenda. Under this logic, Democrats should strike first. This ignores reality. While McConnell will use the 50-vote threshold if its handed to him, he has shown no appetite for creating it on his own. In 2016, while Donald Trump was president and Republicans had a 52-48 Senate majority, the legislative filibuster went untouched.

Democrats should not hand the Republicans the political equivalent of a loaded gun just because theyre rightfully frustrated by the constraints of a 50-50 Senate majority. Instead, Charles Schumer and President Biden should try to salvage as much of Build Back Better as they can. That could mean shrinking the bill to something Manchin can support or going bipartisan and embracing Mitt Romneys alternative plan for a child tax credit. Neither of these options will thrill progressives, but theyre certainly better than weakening the filibuster a year away from Republicans controlling at least one chamber of Congress.

Brian Jencunas is a Massachusetts-based political and government relations consultant.

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