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Three Explosive Devices Sent to Clintons, Obama and CNN Offices
Explosive devices were sent to former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as to CNN's offices in New York, sparking an intense investigation on Wednesday into whether a bomber is going after targets that have often been the subject of right-wing ire.
A law enforcement official said the three devices were similar to one found Monday at the home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and liberal donor.
[...] The device sent to CNN was contained in a manila envelope addressed to John Brennan, who was the C.I.A. director in the Obama administration and is a harsh critic of Mr. Trump. The president revoked Mr. Brennan's security clearance in what was seen as an act of retribution. The return address bore the name of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida congresswoman who formerly headed the Democratic National Committee.
In a statement, the White House condemned "the attempted violent attacks."
Update 1: The explosive devices have been described as pipe bombs. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says that a device was also sent to his office.
Update 2:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's spokesman has identified the device sent to his office, originally believed to be suspicious, as a thumb drive containing files on the far right group Proud Boys. It does not appear to be related to the explosive devices.
[...] Another suspicious package has been intercepted at a Congressional mail screening facility in Capitol Heights, Maryland, according to CNN. [...] ABC News reported the package was addressed to Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 24 2018, @08:41PM (2 children)
Diversity is Strength is Darwinism. Just not the white supremacy kind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @07:50AM (1 child)
Without in any way taking a side on the implications beyond what was stated, the notion that 'Diversity is Strength is Darwinism' makes absolutely no sense. Darwinism is rooted in survival of the fittest. What this would mean is that overtime all members of a group would trend homogeneity as the most effective traits become dominate, and less productive traits die out.
(Score: 4, Informative) by urza9814 on Thursday October 25 2018, @02:06PM
That's not how it works. Evolution is not a march towards a single ideal; it's a constant arms race -- and diversity is the R&D budget. At best "the fittest" is only a local maximum. The environment is not static -- seasons change, diseases change, rivals change...and the survival strategy must change in response. If you've got an abundance of food, and your entire species adapts to utilize that food as quickly as possible, and then you have a famine...you'd better have some energy saving diversity in that gene pool, otherwise you're all going to starve. And if you've all got identical genes, it's very easy for a new disease to evolve to exploit that and rapidly spread through your population (for a great example of this that we're all familiar with, just look at Microsoft Windows). The guy who happened to win the diversity lottery and doesn't have that gene will be the new "fittest", even if lacking that gene makes them weaker in other circumstances. And then the disease eventually runs out of hosts and dies off, or evolves to overcome the genetic resistance, and the definition of "fittest" changes once again.
"The fittest" survive and thrive today; but diversity is what creates "the fittest" over larger timescales.