[RT] Former MI5 chief Lord Evans has warned that the Islamist threat to the UK is likely to continue for the next “20 to 30 years.”
In an interview with BBC Radio 4, the former director of Britain’s Security Service (MI5) said the issue of Islamist terrorism is a “generational problem” and that the UK must “persevere” to defeat it comprehensively.
Evans, who resigned as the head of MI5 in 2013, warned the threat posed by radical Islamists is unlikely to subside due to the rise of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
“There’s no doubt that we are still facing a severe terrorist threat but I think it’s also important to put this in a slightly longer context because right the way back from the 1990s we have been experiencing difficulties from Islamist terrorists of one sort or another.
“Over that period the threat has come and gone but the underlying threat has continued.
“Since 2013 there have been 19 attempted attacks that have been disrupted and even since the attack at Westminster [in March] we are told there have been six disruptions, so this is a permanent state of preparedness.
“We’re at least 20 years into this. My guess is that we will still be dealing with the long tail in over 20 years’ time,” Evans added.
“I think this is genuinely a generational problem. I think we are going to be facing 20 to 30 years of terrorist threat and therefore we need, absolutely critically, to persevere.”
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the Islamist threat to the UK is likely to continue for the next “20 to 30 years
It is because Britain has become a magnet. Brexit was the pushback by citizens who were tired of the government putting out the welcome mat (at the behest of the EU) for the Islamacist hoards wanting to come in and providing them with cradle-to-grave welfare benefits. Pushback is not an unreasonable thing to do if you value your survival.
In a train from London to Manchester, an American was berating the Englishman sitting across from him in the compartment.
"The trouble with you English is that you are too stuffy. You set yourselves apart too much. You think your stiff upper lip makes you above the rest of us. Look at me... I'm me! I have a little Italian in me, a bit of Greek blood, a little Irish and some Spanish blood. What do you say to that?"
The Englishman lowered his newspaper, looked over his glasses and replied,
[New York Post] CIA director Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that Venezuela could become a "risk" to the US if chaos continues to roil the South American country.
"The Cubans are there; the Russians are there, the Iranians, Hezbollah are there," he said on "Fox News Sunday." "This is something that has a risk of getting to a very, very bad place, so America needs to take this very seriously."
He said President Trump was just trying to give the country’s people hope when he floated the idea on Friday that the US would take military action after condemning Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro for human rights abuses and calling for him to hold "free and fair elections."
"What I believe the president is trying to accomplish this week was to give the Venezuelan people hope and opportunity to create a situation where democracy can be restored," Pompeo said.
But Trump’s comments led Maduro’s son, Nicolas Maduro Guerra, to respond by warning Washington it would retaliate with force.
"If the US soils the homeland, the rifles would come to New York and take the White House," he said, Politico reported on Saturday.
National security adviser H.R. McMaster said Trump has asked for a report on what could happen next in the country.
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#1 Wunderbar. So, ignore Norks, invade another South American country to make the plebs happy?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-14 03:43
...As much as Venezuela deserves it, not only no but hell no. Pi$$ing off all of South America just so we can create another martyr? That nonsense would be enough to get me to vote Democrat/Socialist as a matter of principle.
Now, on the other hand...Venezuela has a nearby target they might go after that could (stress the could) end up bringing us in: the Netherlands Antilles. It's very much a potential Argentina-vs-UK situation, and has been for decades.
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As much as Venezuela deserves it
I must admit I don't understand how deserves comes into it - did they attack USA, except verbally? And they do provide a horrible lesson - except the people who could benefit by it remain oblivious.
Good question, and I should have been more clear. Venezuela has done no more than bad mouth us, but they are a rabidly Socialist dictatorship, which frankly deserves overthrow and trial. On the other hand, 'deserving' and 'practical/desirable' are two very different things. Their only real asset now is their oil, and we have shown that we don't have to care about that the way we used to. (Twenty years ago, had we been faced with the loss of their oil, we'd be spinning up the 82nd Airborne)
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There are many bad actors in this world. They are not all our concern. NK and Iran have often threatened the U.S. and we should be concerned with them and their aggression towards us.
However, the larger question is: What should we be concerned about and what should we address?
One of Venezuela’s most powerful leaders may have put out an order to kill Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a fervent critic of the South American country’s government, according to intelligence obtained by the U.S. last month.
Though federal authorities couldn’t be sure at the time if the uncorroborated threat was real, they took it seriously enough that Rubio has been guarded by a security detail for several weeks in both Washington and Miami.
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"The Cubans are there; the Russians are there, the Iranians, Hezbollah are there"
Many Venezuelans would like to see the Cubans gone. I don't know how many Russians, Iranians and Hezbollah are there but Probably, Venezuelans would like to see them gone too.
Venezuela is a member of OPEC and they are sitting on a lot of oil. They are having trouble getting it to market because they don't have the money to get their ships certified as sea-worthy or rather port-worthy.
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Venezuela is a narco-communist regime, even more so than Castro's dump. They play footsie with Cuba, China, and Iran. Their very indebtedness to all of teh above make them the perfect "launching point" in the western hemisphere against their neighbors and the US
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Sorry. I'm a little more concerned about Mexico these days. There are those, even among you Rantburgers, who would give my home state of California to Mexico. Quite frankly, that's the biggest threat to my security.
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#15 Venezuela is a narco-communist regime, even more so than Castro's dump. They play footsie with Cuba
Obama has played footsie with the Iranians and Cuba. That worked out well (sarc).
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Yeah, and what country is a bigger narco regime than Mexico?
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Why is anyone worried about them threatening Rubio? Actors and actresses here have threatened and called for the death or overthrow of Trump. Media seems to not care.
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you Rantburgers, who would give my home state of California to Mexico.
Naw, if anything Kalifornia will capitulate or surrender to Mexico.
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Mexico grows plenty of it own. But yes, they have other sources. One of them might start with a 'V', another starts with a 'C'.
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Abu Uluque
You gave your State back to Mexico when you let in all the La Raza people, gave them driver's licenses as identification to vote and permission to collect FEDERAL benefits and didn't revolt.
I just don't care about your whole damn State. Fix yourself or get the fuck out.
California just sucks. Been there, took the inclusionary boss man training. Tried to stop at a rest area between LA and SD for my kids to pee -- yah that was a mistake. Y'all should realize that there are a lot of people who think that without CA the USA would be better, which is your problem not mine.
Smoke some more weed and enjoy your mellow, but I am telling you that you live in a third world country right now, and it will take you 30 years to realize it.
[IsraelNationalNews] First, understand that North Korea is a pawn in a geostrategic chess game being played by China and Russia against the United States.
The North Korean nuclear missile threat is built on technology provided by Russia and China, to threaten and if necessary wage nuclear war by proxy against the U.S. and its Pacific allies. Their North Korea gambit is to so increase the nuclear threat against the United States, so that U.S. security guarantees to Japan, South Korea and other allies will no longer be credible.
Will the U.S. sacrifice Chicago and Denver to protect Seoul and Tokyo?
China, Russia, and North Korea don’t think so.
...Begging China and Russia to rescue the U.S. from nuclear North Korea plays right into their hands by messaging our allies that the United States is helpless, that real power over North Korea is not in Washington, but in Beijing and Moscow.
Winning to Beijing, Moscow, and Pyongyang looks exactly like what President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, General Clapper, proposed in a August 8 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and what Obama’s national security advisor Susan Rice proposed in the New York Times--learn to live with a nuclear North Korea.
If the U.S. learns to live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, will we also learn to live with a nuclear-armed Iran? With China annexing the South China Sea and Taiwan? With Russia conquering the Baltic states and the other territories of the former USSR?
Iran, China, and Russia will probably think so. This way leads to global nuclear war, or to global surrender by the West, and a new world order dominated by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. What do the swamp cares as long as they get rid of Trump?
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I don't think China cares too much about Russia anymore. And, North Korea is not going to be acceptable to them as a partner - who needs a lieutenant that will not follow orders? Iran? No idea really, but a bit remote for China to care all that much. Russia is probably more interested in Iran than China, mainly for "thorn in the side" purposes. We call them "China", but the Chinese call themselves the "Middle Kingdom". I think that is their goal, to regain a perimeter of tribute paying nations that provide a buffer against invasions into the motherland.
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The Chinese ignore one aspect that their peril, the American public, who given the right motivation could boycott anything made in China with little the Swamp in Washington could do to prevent. The Chinese don't have a record of dealing with severe economic downturns. That would crash their market as well as the Chamber of Commerce/UniParty cabal left desperately searching for other bases of operation. I suspect a lot of 'relabeling' in Central America would quickly occur.
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Better get to it, P2K, the sooner the better. Only problem is that will cause some pain here in our country. Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Dell and a number of other corporations along with their share holders will scream bloody murder. But, hey, screw 'em.
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Make it clear that's on the table and the smart companies will expedite alternatives: Viet Nam, Latin America, ....
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the right motivation could boycott anything made in China with little the Swamp in Washington could do to prevent. The Chinese don't have a record of dealing with severe economic downturns.
P2K: Might be a good strategy. Trump's initiative to "make products "American" and bring industry back" seems like a step in the right direction. China buys products from the Norks and helps support their pitiful economy. Pressure on China might squeeze the Nork economy even more and would either encourage them to become more bellicose or less.
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North Korea is a pawn in a geostrategic chess game
Not a Pawn, a Knight.
Freakishly, they could advance either left or right left on their own council. China accepting the UN blockade on exports (should it even come to fruition) may be the threshold that triggers DPRK's myopic vision of being a world power.
Much easier to use the Romeo's on Chinese seaports.
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Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Dell and a number of other corporations along with their share holders will scream bloody murder. But, hey, screw 'em.
China's economy is already shaky, I understand. They're being squeezed on low-cost manufacturing by Viet Nam and a few others, and at home they've got a major credit bubble threatening to pop. They wouldn't have to lose all their American contracts, just enough at the bottom to close a bunch of Walmart and Dollar Store suppliers.
With regard to the companies listed: Mr. Wife spent a number of years as a Purchasing manager, and one of his concerns was to find and vet alternative suppliers for all of his raw materials, suppliers who could quickly get up to speed when, not if, problems cropped up with the current suppler. If Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, etc. are not taking this approach, they are fools. Floods, earthquakes, and electrical outages alone will shut down supplier production, never mind war and politics.
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Can't keep a debt bubble (in reality a land affordability crash) going without a bubble of population.
The establishment in the west is subsidising the imports of gimmigrants in order to keep the bubble going to their benefit and our great cost.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The so-called Arab Spring came to an end wherever it assumed to take place. It ended in Egypt with a military coup and drove Libya into a bloody chaos. Tunisia is presented as the only success story, but in fact it is far from having a happy ending but rather had a forced consensus. Last but not least, the debacle of Syria displays the dark side of the so-called "spring."
That’s not to say that the above mentioned countries have had agreeable regimes and that they did not have considerable opposition. The point is that the popular movements which have been branded as democratic revolts had nothing to do with democratic struggles - with the exception of the existence of a handful number of democrats who supported them. The Islamist takeover in Egypt was not a surprise, since the pillar of the anti-government movement was the Moslem Brüderbund. It is no surprise that it led to civil war between Islamist militias in Libya, since the regime was displaced by foreign intervention in the absence of a democratic opposition. Even in Tunisia, the strongest opposition has been the so-called "good Islamists" under the leadership of Rached Ghannouchi, who is no more than an advocate of "Islamic democracy." Finally, even he had to be pressured to compromise in order to avoid social unrest, and his only wisdom had been to surrender to domestic and foreign pressures.
Despite that the Syrian spring was assumed to have started with peaceful democratic opposition against the regime, it is no surprise that it turned into a civil war, since the tiny democratic opposition objected to the armed struggle from the beginning. Nevertheless, the international community turned a blind eye to those who advocated peaceful transition and instead supported gangs against the regime. Nobody wanted to inquire the true identity of those gunnies who started fierce war against Bashir al-Assad’s regime, since they were assumed "to wage a just war against a brutal dictatorship." It was not questioned on how they obtained weapons and the financial and logistic support. Finally, it became clear that it indeed is a proxy war between regional and international powers, between those who support the regime and others who are determined to realize a regime change.
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Spring is followed by summer. This is the ME, not temperate Europe. Summer is the dying time.
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Trump has quit arming the anti-Assad Syrian rebels who were supported in the last admin. during the Dark Spring. Obama and his puppeteer's Dark Spring plan to move the world to the left failed. That is a good thing. It was a bit bloody and chaotic along the way as it usually is.
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The underlying assumption that democracy is natural and exportable has been buried. However, Neocons and Lefties never reevaluate their failures as much as double down on the concept of 'if only the right people were in charge'. Man is hierarchical, territorial, and tribal. Democracy is antithetical to that and requires just the right conditions and protections to exist against that kind of human behavior. Why would you ever think you could export something you are already in the process of losing at home?
[DAWN] THE Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) has transformed its political wing into a political party, so the latter is not entirely new. Long-established but informal and not involved in electoral politics, the political wing of the under-watch murderous Moslem group has been reincarnated as a political party, the Milli Moslem League (MML), whose registration with the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) is under process.
The move comes at a time when the country is heading towards a new election amidst political turbulence. Some political analysts see in it an attempt by certain establishment quarters to unite and launch a far-right political alliance to curtail the growing anti-establishment sentiments in mainstream politics. They believe the establishment is dry-cleaning its assets to launch them as part of thon the lamr electoral alliance, which could include groups and parties that were part of the Difa-e-Pakistain Council. This was formed to campaign for the severing of ties with the US and to reject the government’s decision to grant India the status of Most Favoured Nation.
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[IsraelNationalNews] From Israel's prime minister down to the lowliest clerk, from the Commander in Chief down to the lowest ranking officer, from the Mossad down to the police by way of the Shabak ‐ since 1994, everyone has been been chanting the same mantra about peace with Jordan. The prevalent reasoning is that peace with Jordan is Israel's most important strategic resource for the following reasons: Mostly, IMO, psychological - 2000 years of powerlessness left a deep imprint in Jewish psyche. Jews are pathetically eager to appease gentiles.
In exchange for recognition, Israel granted the Hashemite Kingdom, and especially its king, special status in the Jerusalem sites considered holy by Islam, mainly the al Aqsa Mosque, giving Hussein and his son Abdullah today, a significant stamp of approval in the Islamic world. This stamp of approval is especially important in granting much-needed legitimacy to the Hashemite Kingdom. The Palestinian majority and even some Bedouin groups question that legitimacy, since the Hashemites are not originally Jordanian, having come from the western section of the Arabian Peninsula, Hijaz, where the two Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina are located.
The British gave the Transjordan Emirate to Abdullah I, great grandfather of today's Abdullah. He is considered a foreign transplant, giving rise to questions of legitimate rule, and the special status at al Aqsa is intended to give him a shot of legitimacy, stabilizing his regime. The king pays the salaries of hundreds of Jerusalem Waqf officials.
Another payment Israel took upon itself is the handing over of 50 million cubic meters of drinkable water to Jordan every year. The plan was to bring this water from the Sea of Galilee, but the drought of the last few years has lowered the level of the water in the lake, so Israel has substituted expensive desalinated water instead. Jordanian agriculture in the Jordan Valley is made possible in part because of this Israeli water.
Where did we go wrong?
The first and main point is that Israel ignores the fact that the peace agreement is totally dependent on the continuation of the illegitimate Hashemite dynasty. In 1994 that meant Hussein, today it is Abdullah II, but the future is unclear, because there are quite a few people in Jordan and outside it who see Abdullah as the last Hashemite monarch. What comes next? There are several possible answers to that query, ranging from a military junta made up of local Bedouin ruling the various populations, on to a civil war that leads to the country splitting in two, with a Palestinian state rising in the northwestern part of the country where there is a Palestinian Arab majority.
...The peace agreement upon which Israel and Jordan are signed and everything Israel has paid, is paying and is willing to pay to preserve and guard that peace will be utterly worthless the day a rebellion breaks out against the king, or some assassin or suicide bomber, G-d forbid, succeeds in killing him. The house of cards Israel built around him will collapse instantaneously, the peace agreement and any others signed in its wake will become fond memories. Whoever takes the king's place will restart the process and expect Israel to pay even more than it had originally paid ‐ that is, if the country remains united. If that new leader is a Palestinian Arab, the price will entail the return of a significant number of 1948 refugees to the state of Israel, not to the Palestinian State that may exist by then.
...The cost of the peace agreement to Israel is prohibitive. First, Israel respects the status it granted the kingdom in Jerusalem, even though there is no precedent in the entire world for a sovereign state granting another country special rights in its capital city on that state's most holy site. In 1994, when this was decided during the peace talks, Israel wasn't worried about Hussein who hated Arafat and agreed with Israel that there must never be a Palestinian state. The status Israel granted him on the Temple Mount was in order to prevent Arafat and the Islamic Movement from taking over the site.
...Jordan today, it must be concluded, is working non-stop behind the cover of its peace treaty with Israel to destroy the Jewish State and create a Palestinian one instead. What is worse is that Israel refuses to admit to the situation and continues most carefully to keep the agreement, hoping calm will prevail along the border until the next elections. Every politician knows that if, during his term, relations with Jordan deteriorate, the media ‐ our shallow, slanted and agenda-ridden media ‐ will accuse him of being the cause of the agreement's nullification, making him pay the price in the next round of elections. That is why politicians bolster up the temporary tactical quiet, ignoring the strategic threat to the very existence of the state posed by the peace agreement. Jordan will become a Palestinian state. If Israel initiates the change, it can ride it and exploit it for our benefit. Otherwise...
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Jordan keeps a lot of the Paleos under surveillance.
This is an outcome of the 1970 war between Jordan and the PLO/PFLP.
The Jordanian troops have demonstrated loyalty to the crown over and over again. As long as there troops are paid well and honored by the King, this is likely to continue. The crown prince Hussain is thought to be anti Hamas and to be as suspicious of the general Paleo population as his father. Of course his mother is a Palestinian, though born in Kuwait, so who knows what he really thinks.
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If Jordan became Paleo it wouldn't stop their desire to rid the entire area of Jooos. It would become necessary to remove the Waqf
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Well it's pretty hot over there this time of year.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Syrian lands across from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Cilvegözu border gate is being controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which has roots in al-Qaeda.
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Ever play Risk? Looking at the map the orthodox Assad Strategy is: (1) Hold Damascus (the symbolic throne city), Aleppo, and Latakia (port, supply head and Russia's Med port); (2) Clear region behind Aleppo-Damascus (this will result in almost the entirety of the population being under control); and (3) Mop-Up...
Stage 2 is underway... The Opposition is vulnerable to Divide-n'-Conquer so that is being exploited. Why does the MSM think this is Rocket Science?
h/t Instapundit
Google's fascist witch-burning of an honest engineer for refusing to bow down at the altar of politically correct lies was the final straw, an unequivocal warning to conservatives that there's a new set of rules, and that we need to play by them. First they came for the tech geeks; we’re next. That means Republicans at both the federal and the state level need to rein in the skinny-jeaned fascist social justice warriors who control Silicon Valley ‐ and, to a growing extent, our society ‐ through the kind of crushing regulation of these private business that we conservatives used to oppose.
They're going to hate the new rules.
Now, the old rule for us conservatives was that businesses could do pretty much whatever they pleased, with minimal regulation, if they focused on maximizing profit and thereby rained benefits down upon society in the form of wealth and job creation. It was a good system, but, like all systems, to get benefits you have to meet certain obligations. For businesses, one obligation was to generally stay out of the cultural and political octagon.
But the Woke Weenies of Silicon Valley, flush with cash, power, and unearned smugness, decided that they just couldn’t keep on the sidelines and make their money. No, they had to make change, as in, changing us. They violated the most important of the old rules ‐ they chose a side. In the past, when a company or even an industry crossed the line, it rarely made much difference. So some insurance company was outspokenly progressive? So what? The one exception was the mainstream media/Hollywood complex ‐ its actions were extremely annoying (and destructive), but it had the First Amendment to protect it and we conservatives had alternate channels to get our ideas across.
Not so with the Googles, the Facebooks, and the Twitters. Their antics are not necessarily protected by the First Amendment, their internet monopolies choke out alternative channels, and, unlike the line-crossers of the past, they possess enormous amounts of personal information that can be used to manipulate, intimidate, and punish political opponents ‐ you know, us. Worse, their leaders are evangelists of cultural Marxism, so these companies don’t even have the fig leaf of objectivity that the mainstream media has (or had) to constrain them.
Yet they still expect the same laissez-faire treatment as any other business even as they try to gut us politically. They discriminate against conservatives, they actively assist leftist partisans like Felonia von Pantsuit, and they aggressively silence conservative voices within their apps. They imagine that they can adopt new rules for themselves while keeping in place the old rules that prevent us from defending ourselves because of "free enterprise" or something.
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That means Republicans at both the federal and the state level need to rein in the skinny-jeaned fascist social justice warriors who control Silicon Valley
The mechanism is self-correcting. Don't make rules because you can, that's how the Dems got us here.
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Hey, let's use the power of government to punish companies we don't like. Doesn't sound very conservative to me.
Seems like the problem is really the opposite - our markets are insufficiently competitive. Otherwise, alienating half your customer base would be a non-starter. So, thought experiment, what makes markets non-competitive?
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'Streetside' in Bing maps is sort of getting there, Glenmore. They have a ways to go for coverage, though.
Open Bing maps and select the 'Streetside' view. If the road(s) have a blue highlight, they've done the camera work.
Metro areas seem to be covered. Backwoods and rural, not so much.
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Just apply existing laws on monopolies. Acquiring a vertical monopoly structure seems to be a big Google feature and entry point for action.
The other entry would be to hold the company accountable for privacy information, invalidating those boilerplate user agreements. Classifying such info as inalienable property of the individual.
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Phil, I suggest a less polished version of linux, maybe one of the ones without systemd, like slackware.
I don't like any of the totalitarian societies we've handed over our manufacturing to, whether they're google, apple, or China.
Google and Apple have basically made a deal with the socialists abroad and here, that the crocodile would eat them last, and they've made mountains of hundreds of billions in cash from it.
Every bit of time we've let these left-libertarians define liberty as "We get to do what we what, while the rest of you get nickel and dimed to death in the name of imaginary externalities" we wake up less free, and broke on top of things. We've reached the point where Silicon Valley can have their power, or the rest of us maybe can get to be free, but both of those conditions can't coexist now.
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Linux makes a perfectly good web viewer. Use DDG and maybe the Brave browser (though I use Firefox with AdBlocker). Install Linux on your Chromebook.
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Anti-trust action is way to slow to have any effect.
We tried that on Microsoft's windows os, and they responded by investing in the nearly bankrupt Apple os to show there was no monopoly in operating systems. And now that company, Apple, has a higher market cap than Microsoft.
These companies are smarter and quicker than government.
If you want to break tech companies, then you need a new approach that can hit them faster than they can react.
I would suggest cutting out all the tax exemptions that they use. The IRS knows all of them. Tell Congress and cancel them. This change will add competition to their business model. Most of these exemptions were put in the tax code to exclude new entrants into their business.
Additionally, we could penalize companies who fail to protect their customer's data. This would fall more heavily on those companies with more customers.
Moreover, we could create product liability for software vendors to support their software products just like we reacquire for car manufactures. If my Dodge's airbag is a hazard ten years after I bought it, then Dodge is responsible to fix it at no cost or pay for the ensuing injuries, then why shouldn't Microsoft's dodgy OS be liable for zero day bugs that compromise my computer?
There are tons of things that could be done here. We need to decide which are the right things to do.
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Network access and the network will change radically when Musk and SpaceX launch their 12000 sat network. (starting maybe end of 2019) On the regime sides... the great firewall of China falls... DNS (if properly configured) will be hitting a random walk of Musk sats and not google's 8.8.8.8 or comcast's # or ATT's. (^8
And that's just the start.
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More satellite coms are not really going to be a solution. The amount of orbits are fixed. Perhaps Musk can get into them for a while, but they will quickly be cross loaded with other sats resulting in the Kessler Syndrome throughout the useful orbits.
Either someone has to put up a robot maid satellite to clean up the mess, which could clean up regular working satellites; so, not going to happen. Or we will just lose the ability to use certain orbits because of space trash.
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] ...the issue that so many have (wrongly, in my view) made the central one--to direct all opprobrium at the Nazis who scheduled the original demonstration--also has a long lineage. Have you seen the old movie "Skokie"? It’s about a Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois, and stars Danny Kaye. He plays himself, a Jew very upset that monsters are going to parade through the streets of his town, and he resolves to fight it. Which we all applaud. But the film stresses that the Nazis are entitled to march, just as the Nazis were entitled to demonstrate in Charlottesville. And when they do, the rest of us should denounce them. As we do, with rare exceptions. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. And, IMO, anybody who thinks that antifa aren't, at least, as bad as Nazis is an idiot.
It’s not supposed to degenerate into violence. Political leaders and the cops are supposed to prevent that. Both failed in Charlottesville. The pols condemned the Nazis but not the anarchist antifa mob, and the cops waited until the last minute before they acted. Why didn’t they act earlier? Most likely for two reasons: they weren’t ordered to, and because they didn’t want to end in front of politically ambitious prosecutors and DAs, a la Baltimore. They have learned that they themselves are, often as not, blamed for the violence. Extremism breeds extremism. One can understand, though not approve, low IQs joining the Nazis (high IQ join alt-right)
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The alt-right and the radical left are meant for each other. The term alt-right has been attributed to Richard Spencer but it got legs with Hillary's (Hillary and "legs?") campaign. It seems fairly well-defined. The left has been organizing for a long time and is a polymorphous amalgam of various groups. The lame-stream media salivates and gets a boner over these staged right-left melees that pop up. The left has found that trying to take down historical statues such as Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson are triggers for the extreme right. Meanwhile all the useful idiots play their part according to script.
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The script here are the actions of the municipal govt, as already explored by Baltimore, Berkeley and Portland. The violence will continue because that is the true script of the Left.
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The cities are largely run by Democrats or lefties and so they have become the battlegrounds of the left. Seldom do you find these conflicts in Podunk, USA. Occupy Wallstreet, BLM, and AntiFa have all stirred up things in the larger cities. I typed in "jobs for community organizers" just to see what came up. It seems to be a cottage industry with fairly good pay--definitely above minimum wages. I'd bet, these jobs attract many who don't really give a sh!t about ideology right or left.
#7
If i were a member of the alt-right or KKK or whatever I'd plan dozens of rallies. Get the permits, then wait for the anitfa and such to buy up plane tickets, drive to the location ready for battle, book hotels and such. Then cancel the rally for whatever reason and laugh at all the opposition pissing away so much money. Then repeat as often as it works.
#8
Until our leadership in DC decide to act like civil parents and leader we will continue to live the lord of the flies life. The path ahead is clear, the lead by example and we stop this craziness, or their bad example leads us to destruction....
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
08/14/2017 10:38 Comments ||
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#9
I'm reminded of two separate rallies Trump held last fall in California.
The first was in San Diego where the mayor and police chief devised a plan to keep protesters and Trump supporters strictly away from each other. The rally was peaceful.
The second was in San Jose where the mayor and police chief sat back and let the shit happen and, well, shit happens. The protesters attacked Trump supporters with eggs and fists.
I tried to tell my family that when you go out looking for trouble it's usually not hard to find. The only problem is you might get more than you bargained for. Then the rest of us have to hear about it ad nauseam everywhere we go. I'm really sick of hearing about it already.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/14/2017 11:30 Comments ||
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#10
Which raises the question: Were the mayor and police chief in Charlottesville really that stupid or did they want violence, which is a whole other level of stupid. Do we want civil war in this country or do we want cooler heads to prevail? I don't think the people who want war understand what that means.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
08/14/2017 11:36 Comments ||
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#11
I heard that the Mayor invited AntiFa - much like the Mayor of Berkley (an active antifa terrorist) did before. The precedence has been set. We need to start holding those mayors accountable for their actions.
#14
Vote hell, they don't accept a democratically voted in president or anything else that they don't agree with. They are bullies, sometimes bullies need to be hit in the mouth.
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08/14/2017 21:45 Comments ||
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