Blog Heap of Links for the day 18 October 2017

Nine months after President Trump promised to defeat ISIS "quickly and effectively," U.S.-backed forces captured Raqqa, which until Tuesday had served as the ISIS capital. The battle now is over who deserves credit… the bottom line is that while Obama preached patience, Trump promised a swift end to ISIS, and then delivered on it.

…The security protocol used to protect the vast majority of wifi connections has been broken, potentially exposing wireless internet traffic to malicious eavesdroppers and attacks, according to the researcher who discovered the weakness.…

My desire to stay informed is now running counter to my desire to be sane.

…A study published in the Scientific Reports journal shows that clams, mussels and oysters produce one-tenth of methane and nitrous oxide gases in the Baltic Sea as a result of digestion.

…What we are experiencing, far from a deadly revolutionary upsurge threatening everything of value, is a historically unique situation where, for the first time on record, a leftist movement is in complete and accelerating collapse within a democratic polity.…

…-TPP dead.
-Paris Accord abandoned.
-NAFTA hanging by a thread.
-Dangerous Iran nuclear treaty boondoggle in jeopardy.
-Gorsuch, etc.
-Serial USSC victories on so-called "Muslim ban."
-DOW, record of records.
-GDP growth encouraging.
-ISIS capital has fallen.
-Iraqis retake Mosul with coalition support.
-MOAB.
-Sane ROE restored.
-UN agreements, including historic unanimous agreement on NK.
-DOJ pedophile sweeps and ICE actions apace.
-Sanctuary jurisdictions under assault.
-Obamacare individual mandate not being enforced, insurance company slush fund in danger, and obamacare on the ropes to the point that dems are working with lying GOPe, who never intended a repeal. Working together.
-Wall prototypes being reviewed, and IIRC, house passed $10B in border security spending.
-EPA sue and settle dead.
-CA governor moonbeam agreeing with Devos on Title IX reforms.
-Harveywood's war on women (and possibly soon, on children) under seige.
-DNC is near bankrupt.
-The Left is turning on each other and eating their own. People on the left openly calling for hillary and pelosi to be put out to pasture.
-NFL on the ropes.
-Fake news' propaganda stranglehold on the American conscience virtually eliminated.
-Masks ripped off enemies of the American people left and right.
-And on and on.

Nine months.