[Hot Air] After the past several years it should come as no surprise that intelligence agencies are not mere servants to their government masters, but rather sophisticated and nefarious political players of both the domestic and international political game.
The history of the FBI and CIA meddling in domestic politics is long and not especially heartwarming. Despite being lionized by the media, "Deep Throat" was nothing more than a disaffected FBI bureaucrat named Mark Felt who despised Nixon because he didn’t get the promotion to FBI director he wanted. He started leaking right after he was passed over for the directorship after J. Edgar Hoover died. Hoover himself was a vile political player, and his passing led to major reforms at the FBI.
Most people don’t know this, but Felt himself was convicted of violating the civil rights of political opponents he suspected to be in the Weather Underground. He ordered agents to break into people’s houses looking for evidence of wrongdoing. He was pardoned for his crimes while appealing his case. He was a real Hoover acolyte.
There are many other examples in the US, of course. The most recent was the campaign waged against Donald Trump both during the 2016 political campaign and the relentless and often illegal hounding of Trump and his associates. Lying to courts, illegal leaks, constant misinformation spreading. The works. And, of course, the FBI has helped cover up Hunter Biden’s crimes, as we all know through the Twitter files.
Well, it’s not just in the United States that this happens. You can bet it happens everywhere. And through some very disturbing leaks of top secret information that was tossed out onto the Internet, we have learned about Mossad plotting to discredit the current Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
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Dunno if it's true but I used to hear that Hoover used kompromat to blackmail the people who might have otherwise driven him from office. If the House doesn't defund the FBI it would raise the suspicion that Wray has something over them.
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A leak of SCIF documents would have to be intensional. The intent is not likely to be financial gain as secret information is not valuable when everybody knows it. SCIF logs should lead directly to a perpetrator unless the leak was authorized like the Dobbs draft.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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Lyndon Johnson when asked why he wouldn't fire J. Edgar Hoover, "I'd rather have him on the inside pissin' out than the outside pissin' in ".
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Intelligence agencies working against their own government? Isn't this treasonous? Isn't that exactly what we have now? It weakens the rule of law and a constitutional government. Isn't this the epitome of a deep state or shadow government? This leads to coups and the overthrow of duly elected leaders by unelected government officials.
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Why GPUs (Graphical processing Unit) instead of CPUs (Computer Processing Unit). Planning on a major 3D visual for the chatbot? One does graphics, the other calculates orbital flights for spacecraft (and your excel budget spreadsheet)
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One does graphics, the other calculates orbital flights for spacecraft (and your excel budget spreadsheet)
This was true in the olden days, when Excel VisiCalc was the new New Thing. But the modern GPU has evolved into a machine for doing a *bleep*load of vector math operations in parallel, all at once, really fast. At its heart, modern AI is number-crunching and anyone crunching big piles of numbers uses a GPU for speed.
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GPUs are reduced infrastructure while CPUs require complex coding to function well, GPUs use simpler coding to chive their function. A lot of it also has to do with memory management, CPUs has a complex memory management scheme with multiple layers of unrelated codes here and there in memory, while GPUs tend to have "page style" memory scheme with one primary code laid out in memory at a time and have several pages ready to switch at once.
At least this is in a nutshell. Actual usage is a bit more complex, but end result is that GPUs can execute codes much faster than CPUs in a given cycle.
Not sure how to make this simpler, but there it is.
Best reply: "They’re being downvoted because their reasons are bullshit and ignorant exceptionalist propaganda. They're also coming across as ungrateful dependent children, especially given the current circumstances that the US is currently ONCE AGAIN taking responsibility for a war on their continent that they caused. Admittedly, they caused it indirectly this time, through irresponsibly linking their energy economy inextricably to a rogue, imperialist petrostate, rather than through the genocide that’s their usual schtick."
Absolutely. Well said.
Supporting imperialist nations that invade and conquer others is wrong. Europeans need to be taught the error of their ways.
My favorite part is French and German people agreeing on every point except Germans also hate the US.
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Sometimes there is a difference between what people are theoretically willing to defend versus what they are actually willing to defend - by defend, I don’t mean defend themselves. What they are willing to have a kid from Amarillo or Little Rock defend.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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I’m referring to increasing calls for California Senator Dianne Feinstein to resign since she is missing so many Senate votes due to illness.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on Feinstein’s illness and absence:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has missed 58 Senate votes since getting sick in late February with the painful, but non-life-threatening shingles virus.
Her extended absence, along with that of Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman, has made it more difficult for the Senate to confirm President Biden’s nominees and pass legislation. The Senate has a 51-49 party split favoring Democrats, but the absence of multiple senators changes how many votes are needed for a measure to succeed. Vice President Kamala Harris has cast three tie-breaking votes this year in her role as president of the Senate.
Feinstein was hospitalized in early March for treatment and returned to her San Francisco home on March 7. She has not been in Washington, D.C., since the onset of the illness. She has missed 60 votes of the 82 taken in 2023 so far, including two prior to her illness.
With each passing day, Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... has been recording a significant decrease in the number of terrorist incidents and related casualties. For that matter month of March recorded only one killing- an intruder rubbed out in Tangdhar area of Kupwara.
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Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein narrowly escaped death during the Gulf War, according to a recent account by Sabbah Nahi, a witness to the events.
Nahi recounted how Saddam and his close associates fled Baghdad as war broke out, with the president frantically searching for a hiding place. "I saw him by chance in Mansour neighborhood in the early hours of that fateful morning," Nahi told Independent Arabia." "He was looking for a smuggler to take him away in two white Peugeot cars that were racing to enter a garage of a restaurant in 14 Ramadan Street in Mansour. That was the moment he disappeared."
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I bet you could track down the spontaneous creation of a couple of thousand new wealthy Arab individuals throughout the world with no family trees about the time of Sadaam’s fall.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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[Hot Air] After the past several years it should come as no surprise that intelligence agencies are not mere servants to their government masters, but rather sophisticated and nefarious political players of both the domestic and international political game.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
