[BI] An unconventional visionary: Col. Charles "Chargin' Charlie" Beckwith
Charlie Beckwith commissioned in the Army in 1952, volunteering for Special Forcers a few years later.
In 1960, he deployed to Laos as part of a covert special-operations program to harass the North Vietnamese. Following that tour, Beckwith was an exchange officer with the British Special Air Service (SAS).
He was given command of an SAS troop (about 15 operators) and deployed to Malaya, where the British were fighting a Communist insurgency. That deployment had a profound impact on "Charlie Blister," as the British called him.
About the author: Managing Editor. Greek Army veteran (National service with 575th Marines Battalion and Army HQ). Johns Hopkins University. You will usually find him on the top of a mountain admiring the view and wondering how he got there. You can reach him at Stavros@sofrep.com.
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Major General Robert T. Frederick -- commander of the First Special Services Force in WWII. Despite rocky starts, the unit was trained in parachuting, skiing, amphibious landings, and received extra training in hand-to-hand combat. The US Army itself recognized the unit's contributions to the concept of special operations forces by adopting a green beret for future special forces units, based on the FSSF's red berets -- themselves inspired by the Canadian portion of the unit's issued headgear.
Geoffrey Pyke -- the stereotypical British mad genius who inspired the formation of the FSSF with his plan to drop a small unit into Norway to destroy their heavy water and power generation facilities. There was, eventually, a unit of saboteurs sent to Norway, but without the "snow machines" he wanted them to have, and in smaller numbers. Also known for being the mind behind Project Habbakuk, a giant aircraft carrier made of "Pykrete" -- ice embedded with wood fiber.
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[Reuters] BEIJING (Reuters) - Trade frictions between the United States and China may not ease in the near term even if Joe Biden becomes president, former Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei said on Friday.
BLUF:
Stocks in China and other parts of Asia rose on Monday on news that Biden had clinched enough votes to win last week’s election, which investors hoped could lead to a thaw in frosty Sino-American ties. But President Donald Trump has not yet conceded.
When asked about the outlook for the U.S.-China economic and trade relationship, the outspoken former minister Lou said: "Even if Biden is elected, the U.S. suppression of China will be inevitable."
[Business Insider] After getting laid off from my full-time job in 2015, I decided I'd do whatever it took to be my own boss. While that meant growing my side hustle into a business and taking on more freelance gigs, it also meant finding ways to make passive income every single month.
At the time, and even now, the idea of owning a rental property was out of the question, though it was one of the top ways I'd heard of to earn passive income. I didn't have the cash to invest in buying a home, and I didn't have the time to manage a rental property. I knew I had to find other ways to make the idea of passive income come true.
The thing about passive income is that it fluctuates. Some months I make more money in passive income than I do from my business or freelance jobs. Other months, I hardly make enough to cover my grocery bills. Because of that, passive income has to be just one of the many ways I make money every month.
Over the years, I've found a handful of ways to bring in anywhere from a few hundred dollars to over $1,000 in passive income every month. Here are the five ways I'm doing that.
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1) "I moved my cash from a savings account that had a 0.01% interest rate to one that offered 1.6% (though it has since fallen). In five years, my fiancé and I earned about $15,000 in interest combined on our high-yield savings accounts.
2) I didn't have the cash to invest in buying a home
Yeah right
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Rental property is not passive income— Mr. Wife and I had some properties, back when regularly working together until midnight looked like fun. Unless one hires a property manager, at which point the cost of paying the property manager offsets the profits, leaving only depreciation offsetting other taxable income.
Sweat equity is a wonderful way for hard working youngsters with few assets to grow their nest egg quickly, though, if they have the skills.
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But his key idea is that everyone should write books and online courses like he did, because the market for that isn’t already flooded with horrible examples of both.
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For a $15K interest over 5-years, even at the 'absurdly high' 1.6% rate, would require a serious initial cash base (north of $850K with quick reckoning). And she didn't have enough money to invest in property.
Agree with EC, 'Yeah, right'.
Our youngest (37) has fixed and flipped two houses in the last 5 years, made a heck of a lot more than $15K (~x10), and only had about $55K un-allocated cash to start with. As TW says, 'sweat equity' is great for those who actually have the skills (and actually want to work).
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At the time, and even now, the idea of owning a rental property was out of the question, though it was one of the top ways I'd heard of to earn passive income.
What TW said, so I just had to see how to make this magic money. I got real excited when I saw the author's picture.
She says five steps, but its really 2 and an advertisement - investments and lifestyle coach revenues.
Maybe what the kids consider passive income and what I do differ. Last I went shopping, a decent rate started at 5 years. During that time that money would be unavailable without a penalty so bad it doesn't even include a coupon for lube. Stocks, well, they are not only a long term investment usually, but can be an active loss. Unless you are throwing darts at the WSJ pages there should be good time spent researching the company (this is on your own 'sweat equity' not hiring a broker or investment counselor).
As for money from lifestyle coach, good luck with that. It is easy to laugh, but I understand this is a highly competitive, over saturated market. Money is made from advertising and endorsements, or like kitty here, royalties on item sales or purchasing lessons. It is an absolute hustle, not only staying interesting and relevant in your field but there are also x number people vying for that attention in a finite market.
Then here come the e-mobs, willing to burn down your e-store without consequence, your e-store which took however long to cultivate, gets burned.
This gal, and I'm not endorsing just recognizing, by getting an article in a name publication is more successful than 99% of those in the market. Taken hundreds of hours is sounds like, likely thousands. And some Twitter Mob NPC, down on xer quota of destroyed lives this month, comes across this article and decides to attack. The NPC summons a hoard and attack her as racist, as a traitor to women by endorsing the patriarchal "Wall Street". Probably hates panda bear cubs too.
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...and I didn't have the time to manage a rental property.
Clearly insufficient research was done here - unless you have the proverbial 'contractor's special' as your property, it takes little more than collecting rent checks and tending to repairs, cutting the grass and snow removal.
[WND] Amid calls by Republicans for President Trump to declassify documents related to the Obama administration's probe of debunked Trump-Russia collusion, former Obama CIA Director John Brennan once again is calling for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
Brennan, who has accused Trump of "treason," discussed in an interview with Monday with CNN's Chris Cuomo the president's decision to fire Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
"It's clear that Mark Esper was removed as secretary of defense because he rebuffed Donald Trump's efforts to politicize the U.S. military," Brennan said. "And I think it's quite apparent from reporting that Mark Esper has stood up to Donald Trump repeatedly. Who knows what else he has refused to do?"
He said Trump could do "a lot of damage" before leaving office, and he might carry out "vendettas."
Brennan repeatedly expressed concern about what "information" Trump could release, urging officials to take immediate action.
"If Vice President Pence and the Cabinet had an ounce of fortitude and spine and patriotism, I think they would seriously consider invoking the 25th Amendment and pushing Donald Trump out, because he is just very unpredictable now," Brennan said.
Long, beautifully written, tightly argued. Here is a taste:
[NationalReview] Voters might not have had concerns about irregularities, if fundamental steps were taken, and problems fixed.
No wonder half the public is concerned about irregularities in the 2020 voting.
No wonder they would support Donald Trump’s skepticism, once a reputable legal team quickly, publicly, and transparently presents to the nation justified concerns about constitutional violations in changing state voting laws and documented accounts of computer glitches, inexplicable late arrivals of ballot troves, and systemic efforts to prevent transparency — all at a level that reasonably could question the authenticity of the final vote count or even serve a dire warning of things to come.
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but did they in actuality vote for the Dems? certainly there is a hard core group of dead-enders and LIV who will pull the lever in knee jerk fashion for anything with a D next to its name. But after all the fraud that is coming out (media protestations to the contrary) who knows if that group was EVER that large to begin with.
If they were trying to steal this one, it isn't the first time.
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The Democrat machines have been doing this sort of thing for decades. Even if he doesn't win Trump will be doing all of us a favor if he can tear this garbage apart and end it for good.
GOP should be ready to put election transparency laws onto ballots in 50 states.
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A Republican polling email this morning asked what news sources we were using instead of Fox. This highlights an urgent issue in my mind, that the right needs a unified and trusted source to demonstrate resolve to overcome this existential threat to the Republic. The deep state must see and fear the public’s anger and determination to undercut the swelling belief that they will get away with this. If we cannot show massive support through some media source to encourage our allies and daunt the belief that they’re winning the greatest theft pf power in our history.
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This highlights an urgent issue in my mind, that the right needs a unified and trusted source
I disagree that we need a unified source, NoMoreBS. A unified source is a single point of failure that is easily burrowed into and undermined, as Fox News has been. What we need is lots of news sources providing overlapping fields of fire, so to speak, in such a way that they check each other’s work even before facing the lies, forgeries, and fantasies of the leftwing legacy media.
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We only get CNN and BBC here. Well you know how I feel about Trump but I simply couldn't stand the sanctimonious attitude of Cooper, Cuomo and Lemon. This is not journalism.
I found one of the most reliable, no nonsense reporting is done by the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
So yes, get as many sources as possible and use your own brain as much as you can.
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You got that right. If I had to call it anything, I'd call it propaganda. ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN are all on the same page all the time. What power could make that happen?
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2021 will be the year shit falls apart completely.
Maybe not the end but the beginning of the Long Slide into a third world, Latin-style oligarchy.
2021 will see the beginning of these hallmarks of Mexican, Brazilian, Argentine etc chaos countries:
- PRI-worthy electoral fraud
- High inflation. Already underway in the Ag/food sector
- Currency debasement
- hollowing out of small businesses and the professional middle classes
- expansion of state sector union power & size
- massive escalation of public sector corruption, graft, self-dealing, pension chicanery
- kangaroo courts
- hollowing out of charter schools, suppression of homeschooling, harassment of private and parochial schools by a newly-dominant teachers' union
- open borders to enable the complete latinization of American society, governance and other institutions
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An alternate is 2021 might be the year where the corrupt political machines in a number of liberal cities are rooted up and torn apart and liberal shave to convince people of their policies in order to win, and thus slip into decline.
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What has been revealing is how vast the Deepstate is, the extent to which it is unified in resistance to reform and clean-up, and the ends to which it will go to block such efforts.
[Ampgoo.com] Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about Covid-19 since she started treating patients with the disease in the emergency room in February.
But there is one question she still cannot answer: what makes some patients so much sicker than others?
Increasing age and underlying medical problems explain only part of the phenomenon, said Ranney, who has seen patients of similar age, background, and health go down completely different paths.
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Long read but interesting B. I think they're on the right track. Genetics controls everything we just don't know all the triggers yet. Junk DNA? Yeah..nature always propagates useless stuff.. Hubris on our part to call it junk. And seriously..the guys last name is Bastard!?! Is his nickname "Fat"?
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/\ Yea, I just saw where Musk took 4 COV tests in one day or something. Two came back pos, two negative. Appears to be additional evidence testing can be bogus.
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Since the China-C19 is acting like a Flu strain, in that it started in Oct/Nov 2019, peaks and dies down as it got warmer. Then resurfaces in colder months.
Shouldn't we reset the numbers like the CDC does every year for the FLU seasons?
Like ending the Oct/Nov 2019- May 2020 C-19 Flu season and start using Oct. 2020 to May 2021 as the next C19 Season?
Otherwise to be fair we could cite the C-19 counting process and truthfully say the Flu kills MILLIONS world wide and infected 500 plus Million.
Per the CDC Website: "While seasonal influenza (flu) viruses are detected year-round in the United States, flu viruses are most common during the fall and winter. The exact timing and duration of flu seasons can vary, but influenza activity often begins to increase in October. Most of the time flu activity peaks between December and February, although activity can last as late as May."
The C-19 started in Nov. 2019 Peaked on April 18th, 2020 and started building again (we are told) in Late Oct. 2020 Just like a FLU.
[ENGLISHBETA.ALARABIYA.NET] Last Thursday while the Lebanese were anxiously awaiting the results of the US presidential elections, where many watched understanding the outcome would determine the fate of the region and their country, news broke of looming sanctions against Gebran Bassil, former foreign minister and the head of the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... and the son-in-law of Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... For many Lebanese, especially those who went to the streets a year ago, the sanctioning of Bassil was a long-awaited response to the public outcry to hold the entire political class accountable for decades of corruption, which is responsible for their current economic downfall.
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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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Business Insider] After getting laid off from my full-time job in 2015, I decided I'd do whatever it took to be my own boss. While that meant growing my side hustle into a business and taking on more freelance gigs, it also meant finding ways to make passive income every single month.
[Ampgoo.com] Dr. Megan Ranney has learned a lot about Covid-19 since she started treating patients with the disease in the emergency room in February.
