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 ## Log
 
+**23.03.17** - Inline upgrade 18.04.6 LTS -> 20.04.5 LTS
+```bash
+# make a snapshot backup
+sudo uname -mrs
+> Linux 4.15.0-206-generic x86_64
+# stop non-critical services
+sudo systemctl | grep running
+sudo systemctl stop monit
+sudo systemctl stop apache2
+sudo systemctl stop mysql
+sudo systemctl stop php7.4-fpm
+sudo systemctl stop linode-longview
+# update everything
+sudo apt update && apt upgrade
+# clean repo cache
+apt-get autoremove -y
+apt-get clean -y
+# reboot if needed
+sudo apt install update-manager-core
+# makes sure Prompt=lts
+sudo vi /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
+# allow port 1022
+sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 1022 -j ACCEPT
+# run the upgrade
+sudo do-release-upgrade
+# after reboot check version
+lsb_release -a
+sudo uname -mrs
+# enable systemd-networkd
+sudo systemctl enable systemd-networkd
+```
+
+
 **23.02.19** - added ESM and combined log to all of the hosts, changed the apache/nginx logrotated to weekly and put the monitor report in cron.
 
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+---
+title: October Surprise
+description: Today I learned that there was an effort to continue the Iran hostage crisis until Ronald Reagan was elected.
+slug: ben-barnes
+<!--- authors:
+  - name: David Windham
+    title: Something Else
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+tags: [politics,people]
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+---
+
+Today I learned that there actually was an effort to continue the Iran hostage crisis until Ronald Reagan was elected<sub>1</sub>.  A couple fellas from Texas, one of who was in the shot alongside of JFK and then switched parties for Nixon, went on a middle east PR tour to broker a deal with Iran to ship weapons for retaining hostages until Reagan was elected.
+
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+
+The term October surprise<sub>2</sub> was coined by William Casey, Reagan's campaign director who became director of the CIA. Ben Barnes<sub>3</sub> and John Connally<sub>4</sub> undertook the trip as the direction of Casey<sub>5</sub>.  Barnes confessed saying "I just want history to reflect that Carter got a little bit of a bad deal about the hostages,He didn’t have a fighting chance with those hostages still in the embassy in Iran". Casey, although accused, was never proved to have been engaged in any deal making but there has been speculation for a long time prior to this new confession<sub>6</sub>. The part that's pretty weird to me, aside from the obvious release timing, is that just several years later, the same folks were back at it laundering weapons to Iran<sub>7</sub>. 
+
+
+---
+1. *A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election* -<https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html>
+2. October surprise - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise>
+3. Ben Barnes - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barnes_(Texas_politician)>
+4. John Connally - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connally>  
+5. William Casey - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Casey>
+6. Iran hostage crisis - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis>
+7. Iran-Contra affair - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair>