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Thread: On Firing Mattis – a Contrarian View
1. A number of my retired military pals (including some Marines) have opinions contrary to all the gushing praise of SecDef Mattis these days.
1. A number of my retired military pals (including some Marines) have opinions contrary to all the gushing praise of SecDef Mattis these days.
2. Before we start, it is always good to remember this axiom. When all of official Washington sings the praises of someone – with almost no dissent – your political antenna should be quivering BIGLY! Here’s just one red-flag example:
3. I don’t remember Democrats praising Mattis before his recent letter of resignation, do you? And they only praised McCain and Bush 41 after their deaths because those two were used as political battering rams-of-the-moment against @POTUS, too.
PRESS RELEASE BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI
CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION
IF THE SYSTEM WERE TO BE WORKING BEFORE PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI TOOK OVER IN 2015, ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR WOULD BE IN JAIL BY NOW INSTEAD OF CONTESTING FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
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CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION
IF THE SYSTEM WERE TO BE WORKING BEFORE PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI TOOK OVER IN 2015, ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR WOULD BE IN JAIL BY NOW INSTEAD OF CONTESTING FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
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Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to the Presidential Candidate of @OfficialPDPNig, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar disputing the assertion by @MBuhari that the system in Nigeria allows corruption to thrive because the system is slow in tackling corruption. - @fkeyamo
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar further blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for perceived failure in addressing some instances of ‘corrupt practices’ under his watch. - @fkeyamo
#GreatAwakening #QAnon @qanon76 @RealEyeTheSpy @RealEyeSpy
Something is up.
1/6. Obama tweets a picture from 2014 and passes it off as a 2018 Christmas tweet
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Something is up.
1/6. Obama tweets a picture from 2014 and passes it off as a 2018 Christmas tweet
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2/6. Hillary Clinton tweets a picture from God knows when and passes it off as a 2018 Christmas wish.
3/6. GW Bush's twitter is on lockdown
There is simply no question left—*none whatsoever*—that the Trump campaign was secretly negotiating future U.S. foreign policy throughout the 2016 campaign in order to win covert (and illegal) financial and other support from Russia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Hungary, Israel, and Egypt.
2/ That Trump knew this was wrong is shown in substantial part by the fact that he used proxies not directly associated with the campaign—Flynn, Prince, Trump Jr., George Nader, Joel Zamel, Mohammed Dahlan, and others—to conduct the negotiations. But he slipped up several times.
3/ He let his son admit Nader, Prince, and Zamel to Trump Tower in August 2016. He let Papadopoulos overstep by coordinating his September 2016 meeting with Egypt's Al-Sissi while giving interviews about sanctions with Russian media. He permitted secret negotiations with Russia.
This all started because the #MetPolice & #LBRUT couldn't do their day jobs properly & decided to take the law into their own hands. It started as a small cover up 12 years ago but has turned into British State Persecution.
#Skynews #BBCNews #DailyMail #Guardian #Euronews
#Skynews #BBCNews #DailyMail #Guardian #Euronews
My company was raided. It should have been a straightforward matter. But the #MetPolice & #LBRUT forgot to seize my computer & came back to do a 2nd raid. The search warrant didn't permit a second entry, however, #LBRUT entered unlawfully
#Guardian #Telegraph #DailyMail #GMB #UK
#Guardian #Telegraph #DailyMail #GMB #UK
Complaints were then made to my MP #VinceCable. He liaised with the #Metpolice & #LBRUT. And then weeks later, the search warrant was completely changed & was passed off as the search warrant executed on the day of the raids.
#DailyPolitics #Libdems #Conservatives #labour #bbcdp
#DailyPolitics #Libdems #Conservatives #labour #bbcdp
This all started because the #MetPolice & #LBRUT couldn't do their jobs properly & then decided to take the law into their own hands. The result of this decision has led to events stranger than fiction
#BBCNews #Skynews #Itvnews #Channel4News #ThisMorning #TheresaMay #UKGov #LBC
#BBCNews #Skynews #Itvnews #Channel4News #ThisMorning #TheresaMay #UKGov #LBC
My company was raided. It should have been a straightforward matter. But the #MetPolice & #LBRUT forgot to seize my computer & came back to do a 2nd raid. The search warrant didn't permit a second entry, however, #LBRUT entered unlawfully
#Guardian #Telegraph #DailyMail #GMB #UK
#Guardian #Telegraph #DailyMail #GMB #UK
Complaints were then made to my MP #VinceCable. He liaised with the #Metpolice & #LBRUT. And then weeks later, the search warrant was completely changed & was passed off as the search warrant executed on the day of the raids.
#DailyPolitics #Libdems #Conservatives #labour #bbcdp
#DailyPolitics #Libdems #Conservatives #labour #bbcdp
Technology
Even if we had the money to turn K-12 into K-16, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be a good idea, either for our university system or for working-class Americans.
Instead, focus on changing the economy so people without 17 years of school can live a comfortable life.
Instead, focus on changing the economy so people without 17 years of school can live a comfortable life.
I'm a big champion of expanding the university system. But turning it into the K-12 system won't be good for it. Or for anyone, really. We focus way too much on the education function of universities, and way too little on their research function.
Some people are responding "technology is going to eliminate all our jobs, so we may as well just stay in school forever". But so far there is no evidence that technology is leading to mass disemployment. This is still science fiction.
epi.org/publication/th…
epi.org/publication/th…
0/ In my experience “Crossing the Chasm” almost never plays out as written. Rather, it seems as if most b2b startups remain in the chasm through liquidity, or hop from one to the next struggling with multiple shifting markets.
1/ While the “chasm model” is useful as a platonic guideline, founders (or the board) often draw the unrealistic expectations from it that a market will soon mature, and early signs of repeatability mean it’s time to dramatically scale.
2/ While this happens in some (rare) cases. Many b2b companies will continue to struggle with a push-based market through their lifetime -- that was certainly the case with the business I ran — and yet they can still be hugely successful.
Teams often use bad metrics to hype themselves up to investors, yes, but they also use them to lie to themselves. 👇 Thread.
1/ One example from @rrhoover is the red flag of using cumulative numbers and graphs. This way, the graph can only go up and to the right- it never shows a decline. Combine this with a big cartoon arrow that shows a huge m-over-m number for more impact.
2/ There are a lot of problems with this. At least most investors will have seen these types of graphs often, and will discount them. The problem is that teams will often think this implies everything's working! And will mislead themselves in continuing a path that's not working
Science and Space
OK.
I've been primed for a rant for a few days, and now's the time.
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I've been primed for a rant for a few days, and now's the time.
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2/
Once upon a time SF was a continuum.
The center of it was libertarian / competence fiction.
...but it shaded into all sorts of other things. Pournelle / Drake mil SF, feminist SF, socialists / communitarian. There were certain clusters, but >>>
lfs.org/blog/travis-co…
Once upon a time SF was a continuum.
The center of it was libertarian / competence fiction.
...but it shaded into all sorts of other things. Pournelle / Drake mil SF, feminist SF, socialists / communitarian. There were certain clusters, but >>>
lfs.org/blog/travis-co…
3/
the thing was a continuum. You could walk stepwise from lesbian left-anarchist fiction like Slow River to left-punk cyberpunk to centrist cyberpunk to centrist space opera to rueful veteran The Forever War to jingoistic right wing mil SF Starship Troopers.
And it was good.
the thing was a continuum. You could walk stepwise from lesbian left-anarchist fiction like Slow River to left-punk cyberpunk to centrist cyberpunk to centrist space opera to rueful veteran The Forever War to jingoistic right wing mil SF Starship Troopers.
And it was good.
Even if we had the money to turn K-12 into K-16, I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be a good idea, either for our university system or for working-class Americans.
Instead, focus on changing the economy so people without 17 years of school can live a comfortable life.
Instead, focus on changing the economy so people without 17 years of school can live a comfortable life.
I'm a big champion of expanding the university system. But turning it into the K-12 system won't be good for it. Or for anyone, really. We focus way too much on the education function of universities, and way too little on their research function.
Some people are responding "technology is going to eliminate all our jobs, so we may as well just stay in school forever". But so far there is no evidence that technology is leading to mass disemployment. This is still science fiction.
epi.org/publication/th…
epi.org/publication/th…
I'm not sure why, but a lot of folks seem to be under the impression that "gender neutral parenting" is how transgender youth happen. That it's somehow so confusing for kids that they suddenly don't know their own gender?
And what they're saying is that a child who has access to MORE toy options is going to be so discombobulated that they have an identity crisis. Which, in my experience, kids are just stoked about having lots of toys to choose from. But okay.
I was not raised in a "gender neutral" household. I had an older brother, who had the stereotypical boy stuff. And then my parents gave me the stereotypical girl stuff.
Culture and Books
BOOK 3: THE BOOK OF MYTH
Welcome back to the "12 days of #99Things"...
Yesterday, we saw Book 2 (The Book of the Hero) in our 12-book saga.
Today, we reveal Book 3: The Book of Myth...
The book of the gods...
The book of the Warrior, Magician, Lover, Trickster & KING.
👇
Welcome back to the "12 days of #99Things"...
Yesterday, we saw Book 2 (The Book of the Hero) in our 12-book saga.
Today, we reveal Book 3: The Book of Myth...
The book of the gods...
The book of the Warrior, Magician, Lover, Trickster & KING.
👇
This is the part of your Hero’s Journey where you must leave the Ordinary World…
& slip deep down into the Rabbit Hole.
Don’t worry, we’ll rope you in softly, with one simple truth:
Every life has an inner and an outer world...
& slip deep down into the Rabbit Hole.
Don’t worry, we’ll rope you in softly, with one simple truth:
Every life has an inner and an outer world...
The ancient Greeks understood that all parts of the inner-world needed to be honored.
They took this idea so seriously, in fact, they saw these parts as autonomous gods and goddesses.
And from the council of these gods, they carried forth the mythic.
They took this idea so seriously, in fact, they saw these parts as autonomous gods and goddesses.
And from the council of these gods, they carried forth the mythic.
An essay that treats the claim “real resources are a constraint on what is otherwise infinite” as #MMT’s secret, reluctantly shared ingredient, when the reality is that it’s a central pillar. As with any unit of measurement, 💰 is indeed infinite. The stuff being measured is not.
The fact that money is infinite to the federal government is incontrovertibly true.
The fact that its use is limited by real resources is also incontrovertibly true.
The genius of #MMT is exactly that it so clearly separates the two concepts. This author strongly disagrees.
The fact that its use is limited by real resources is also incontrovertibly true.
The genius of #MMT is exactly that it so clearly separates the two concepts. This author strongly disagrees.
OK.
I've been primed for a rant for a few days, and now's the time.
>>>
I've been primed for a rant for a few days, and now's the time.
>>>
2/
Once upon a time SF was a continuum.
The center of it was libertarian / competence fiction.
...but it shaded into all sorts of other things. Pournelle / Drake mil SF, feminist SF, socialists / communitarian. There were certain clusters, but >>>
lfs.org/blog/travis-co…
Once upon a time SF was a continuum.
The center of it was libertarian / competence fiction.
...but it shaded into all sorts of other things. Pournelle / Drake mil SF, feminist SF, socialists / communitarian. There were certain clusters, but >>>
lfs.org/blog/travis-co…
3/
the thing was a continuum. You could walk stepwise from lesbian left-anarchist fiction like Slow River to left-punk cyberpunk to centrist cyberpunk to centrist space opera to rueful veteran The Forever War to jingoistic right wing mil SF Starship Troopers.
And it was good.
the thing was a continuum. You could walk stepwise from lesbian left-anarchist fiction like Slow River to left-punk cyberpunk to centrist cyberpunk to centrist space opera to rueful veteran The Forever War to jingoistic right wing mil SF Starship Troopers.
And it was good.
Politics
Many of you have happily pointed out this story to me. Aha! The dossier is true! What can I say? Either these two McClatchy reporters have huge story or they're really, really wrong. ow.ly/uuU430n7osC 1/5
In April, same two reporters said Mueller had other evidence Cohen was in Prague. Interesting thing: No other journalists, including well-sourced ones covering Mueller, replicated story. 2/5
Now, McClatchy cites sources with 'foreign intelligence connections' saying there's cell phone evidence Cohen was in Prague at time dossier said he was; also, wiretap of Russians confirming Cohen presence. 3/5
Let's relook at #Hamilton68 dashboard with the following question in mind: Is it an authentic effort to track Russian propaganda activity or a propaganda tool unto itself? or some combination of both?
Recall I was the first to notice #Hamilton68's role in lending credibility to the false flag op in the Senate Alabama race through someone who was involved in creating both the dashboard and the disinfo effort.
The AL Senate false flag is a lesson in laundering credibility for disinformation. Here's how it worked, by all appearances:
Create botnets & other disinfo promoting Roy Moore > blame Russians > validate claim via #Hamilton68 > media amplifies/legitimizes claims > impact votes
Create botnets & other disinfo promoting Roy Moore > blame Russians > validate claim via #Hamilton68 > media amplifies/legitimizes claims > impact votes
On the latest McClatchy report about Michael Cohen and Prague... dailycaller.com/2018/12/27/mic… @dailycaller
If accurate, it's a game changer and would be the strongest evidence yet of collusion between Trump associates and Russia. I will also personally have been very wrong on this particular topic. The main reason to take the report seriously...
...is that McClatchy and the 2 reporters are doubling down on their April 13 report. The story also has specific details about the alleged evidence that has been given to Mueller...Now time for the "but"....
