[Aljazeera] On September 5, the UK named two agents of the Russian military intelligence (GRU) as the main suspects in the Skripal poisoning case.
The two are accused of depositing a nerve agent in the Salisbury home of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, which poisoned him and his daughter in March this year.
The British authorities released the photos, personal details and even the route the two agents allegedly took to accomplish their mission. Russia, of course, has denied everything, but with the amount of evidence uncovered, it will have a hard time convincing the international community of its innocence.
There have been some observers who have expressed their doubt that Moscow is responsible for the Skripal poisoning, arguing that it could not have acted so clumsily, especially after the Litvinenko case. Why would Russia want another such scandal - the argument goes.
They are partially right: Russia really doesn't need such a scandal right now. Yet, we should not be surprised about its intelligence agencies undertaking such a mission and failing in it. As the popular saying goes: Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
For some reason, there is a general perception that unlike other state institutions in Russia, the intelligence agencies are quite professional and capable. Perhaps Hollywood should be blamed for this misconception. To garner interest and sell its films, the US movie industry tends to feature unrealistic depictions of Russian spies as dangerous and highly skilful men and women, who fight it out with their Western counterparts.
But if one is to shoot a realistic film about the GRU, it would probably have to be a comedy. In fact, the last few years of Russian intelligence blunders provide plenty of material for the script.
#6
Hold on a second, we're paralyzed and on the edge of civil war because of a false narrative generated in Russia but we're saying their intelligence agencies are failures?
#7
For some of us it's clear "our" own "intelligence" agencies are more establishment protection agencies (i.e. youre on your own against islamists terror etc) and hopelessly compromised with dubious staffers and illegality.
[Breitbart] U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson said on Friday that the leftists have already taken control of academia and the media in the U.S. but have yet to add control of the U.S. judiciary because Americans elected Donald J. Trump as president.
"If you really understand the big picture of what’s been going on, then what’s going on with Judge Kavanaugh will make perfectly good sense to you because, you see, there have been people in this country for a very long time ‐ go all the way back to the Fabians ‐ who have wanted to fundamentally change this country," Carson said at the 2018 Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. "They don’t like what America is and what it represents, and they want to change us to another system."
"And in order to do that, there are three things that they must control: the educational system, the media, and the courts. OK?" Carson said. "The first two they have."
"The courts they thought they had, and it was snatched out from under their noses in November of 2016," Carson said.
"So, you know, they’re like wet hornets, you know, just completely lost control at that point and have gone off the deep end," Carson said. "And the further they get away from being able to control the courts, the more desperate they become."
#1
The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.
principles of democratic demonic socialism FIFY Dr. Carson
[Telegraph] Feeding knowledge directly into your brain, just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix, could soon take as much effort as falling asleep, scientists believe.
Researchers claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a person’s brain and teach them new skills in a shorter amount of time, comparing it to "life imitating art".
They believe it could be the first steps in developing advanced software that will make Matrix-style instant learning a reality.
In the neo-noir sci-fi classic, protagonist Neo is able to learn kung fu in seconds after the martial art is ’uploaded’ straight to his brain.
Researchers from HRL Laboratories, based in California, say they have found a way to amplify learning, only on a much smaller scale than seen in the Hollywood film.
They studied the electric signals in the brain of a trained pilot and then fed the data into novice subjects as they learned to pilot an aeroplane in a realistic flight simulator.
The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, found that subjects who received brain stimulation via electrode-embedded head caps improved their piloting abilities and learnt the task 33 per cent better than a placebo group.
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Now figure out the download part...
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So, "muscle memory" is just a figment, huh?
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Don't you love the way headlines misrepresent the stories?
I read it as "they found a way to kind-of prime the candidates for learning" Maybe they pay more attention with brain zapping?
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[Guardian] Alcohol is responsible for more than 5% of all deaths worldwide, or around 3 million a year, new figures have revealed.
The data, part of a report from the World Health Organization, shows that about 2.3 million of those deaths in 2016 were of men, and that almost 29% of all alcohol-caused deaths were down to injuries ‐ including traffic accidents and suicide.
The report, which comes out every four years, reveals the continued impact of alcohol on public health around the world, and highlights that the young bear the brunt: 13.5% of deaths among people in their 20s are linked to booze, with alcohol responsible for 7.2% of premature deaths overall.
It also stresses that harm from drinking is greater among poorer consumers than wealthier ones. "Here, hold mah beer.."
#11
I guess I grew up on an old dirt road
Pedal to the metal always did what I was told
'Till I found out that my brand new clothes
Came second hand from the rich kids next door
When I grew up fast I guess I grew up mean
There's a thousand things inside my head I wish I ain't seen
And now I just wander through a real bad dream
Feelin' like I'm coming apart at the seams
Thank you Jack Daniel's Old Number Seven
Tennessee Whiskey got me drinking in heaven
Angels start to look good to me
They're gonna have to deport me to the fiery deep
Thank you Jack Daniel's Old Number Seven
Tennessee Whiskey got me drinking in heaven
I know I can't stay here too long
'Cause I can't go a week without doin' wrong
Without doin' wrong
Without doin' wrong
Without doin' wrong
(Drinkin' in heaven)
So I'm sitting as the bar stool it starts to grow roots
Feelin' like an old worn out pair of shoes
Tell me what is it that I should do
When I'm swimming in the liquor only half way through
So I'm watching as his wings spread as wide as could be
Come on now and wrap them around me
'Cause all I want to do now is fall to sleep
Come down here and lay next to me
Thank you Jack Daniel's Old Number Seven
Tennessee Whiskey got me drinking in heaven
Up here the bottle never runs dry
And you never wake up with those tears in your eyes
Thank you Jack Daniel's Old Number Seven
Tennessee Whiskey got me drinking in heaven
Angels start to look good to me
They're gonna have to deport me
To the fiery deep (Old Number Seven)
To the fiery deep (Drinkin' in heaven)
To the fiery deep (Old Number Seven)
To the fiery deep (Drinkin' in heaven)
#13
Abe Lincoln looks on, his heart sinking,
As General MacClellan sits, blinking,
Then gets up to meet 'em.
And where? At Antietam.
Is thinking more deadly than drinking?
[Gateway Pundit] our people were shot dead including the shooter who took her own life at a Maryland Rite Aid distribution center this week. Three others were wounded.
The 26-year-old shooter Snochia Moseley was a temporary Rite Aid employee and described as a typically "nice" person. Her motive for the shooting remains unknown.
Mike Carrre, an employee who works next door at a furniture distribution company said she came in to work in a bad mood and then started shooting.
This was the second mass shooting in Maryland this year. In June Jarrod Ramos killed five people and injured several others at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The story made headlines for several days. Several far left hacks blamed Trump for the shooting despite the fact that Ramos had an ongoing feud with the paper for several years.
But this week’s mass shooting received little media attention.
Snochia was a black female temporary employee.
Obviously, Snochia did not fit the liberal media narrative.
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] ...The most proximal one, though, is the accusation against Kavanaugh, which, even if true, would not be in any way actionable nor, barring this behavior persisting into adulthood, mean anything about his character as a grown up. High School has always been a weird and psychologically unstable part of anyone's growing up years, partly because we’re all learning the ropes of what "adult" means, and partly because we’re isolated with other kids, also all learning the ropes. (It’s not the best system, no.)
But this nonsense, which by the way, not only doesn’t rise to "credible" it’s barely past the level of "inane ramblings of crazy woman on the corner" are being given credibility and Senate is bending over backward to give that crazy woman the chance to ramble at them. Any way she wants to.
Which is a symptom of deeper corruption.
...the reaction older son got. I got a phone call saying he was sexually harassing a girl. Since at 6 he didn’t know how to spell "harassment" and would be uncertain on the meaning of "sexual" (both boys were far less curious than I was at their ages) I begged leave to differ, marched down to the school like the wrath of mom and demanded proof. At which point I was given a very bad, rather innocent poem. I mean the boy didn’t even say he wanted to kiss her. Just that she was pretty and her eyes were like stars. I pointed this out. I was sarcastic. It was resolved it would be forgotten if he just kept his poems to himself. (Which, honestly, every poet should be encouraged to do, since the collapse of society starts with open mic poetry nights.) Something similar happened to Grom Jr. At the age of 7 he was accused of kissing a girl on a cheek against her will (as it turned out - her parents came to apologize later - she realized that it was against her will when she saw him kissing another girl). Fortunately, for everybody concerned, I didn't find out about this until later. Ex-wife called her mother - who keeps a law firm on retainer for feuding with Tel Aviv city hall - and one of the associates called the district school supervisor. Eventually we had to move Grom Jr to another school where the principal wasn't so "American" (a common Israeli expression). Since then he's reasonably free of trouble.
This should have been seen as a sign of things to come, but I wasn’t aware of the insanity stalking this land. Not yet. So I assumed it was Manitou Springs, and someone had overindulged in hash brownies.
...Next came elementary school in Colorado Springs. Younger son (slower developing than his brother, and at that time completely unaware of the difference in "vive la difference.") was in third grade.
...I was at the dentist. We lived in the Old North End, the first trolley car suburb. Meaning it was about a mile and a half to downtown, four blocks North to the elementary school and four blocks south to my dentist.
I’m sitting in the waiting room. The dentist is a strict Christian, and his magazines are the cleanest sort, his clientele mostly elderly. I get a phone call. And hear words coming out of my mouth. And all the elderly women staring at me in horror, because they were rather special in that kind of words.
So I told the elderly ladies "the school is telling me they’re calling the police because my 8-year-old touched a girl."
...Now fast forward to this incident reported today in a Colorado Springs middle school (heavens, I hope it’s the same. This bad a crazy infecting more than one school would be scary.): Boy, 13, Arrested, Cuffed And Dragged From School Over #MeToo Allegations.
...And what girls are learning in our society, partly through warped women like that playground guard who decided kids’ interacting was sexual harassment when younger son was in third grade, is that all men are dangerous, evil and guilty of something. And that women accusing them of made up stuff is not only all right, and not only brings power, but it’s somehow "heroic" and gets the girl or woman praise and adulation. It is a "Handmaid Tale", except in reverse, in schools and universities - and with #MeToo it's came out into society at large
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There is a danger of presuming guilt and not innocence---A way to bypass Due Process. A further danger of political correctness. This becomes the "ends justify the means" railroad job.
This becomes a vehicle for every feminazi to get even for the perceived wrongs of society--much of which in learned in public schools. No matter that some guy gets lynched in the process.
#2
So school is like everything else, when the government get involved they screw it up.
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So "Women never lie"? Guess they've never been in Divorce Court
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1. I think Ms. Hoyt is being way too generous when she suggests that anyone does any more than pretend to believe in this sort of shit for the sake of power.
2. The "left" is going to continue to believe in this shit until we start a real communist party and start hauling away all the power mad passive aggressive performance autist professors, programmers, brogrammers, rentrepeneurs, and private-jet-flying enviro-mentalcases out to the rice paddies to pay off their debts to the proletariat.
The people who run China today are corrupt assholes but they're careful not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs because Mao sent _everyone_ through the system and really made an impression that you don't want to put the country out of business or you and your family is going to be sleeping in that rice paddy for the rest of their lives. The sycophants in that part of the Chinese side of the net will all talk about how smart Xi is but they simultaneously don't talk about all the specific dumb shit Xi is trying to avoid.
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I mean, stop and think for a second. Do any of y'all think for a second that any of the various degenerate western crybullies actually believe in the shit they're spouting?
They have to spread shit of an ethnic, sexual, and/or religious nature because their last figurehead spent as much time trying to destroy the industrial base of the United States in a way that was highly abusive to the working class that was the Marxist factions' original supposed constituency, and they don't have the sort of power Stalin had to just maintain power and bask in the forced love of the working class in spite of it all.
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Thing, just the fact that leftist are spreading this bullshit is bad enough. The idea that anyone is dumb enough to actually believe it is truly scary and depressing.
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Humans are social animals, Abu (not saying it's good, it's what is)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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