2) Q reminded us of the strategies and tactics being used by both sides in the battle for control of the world.
The first thing Q wants us to understand is the importance of optics—how things are perceived by the public.
3) Many people believe POTUS is losing the war.
With the mockingbird media blaring non-stop propaganda about the Mueller investigation and how close Trump is to being indicted it's easy to think nothing positive is happening.
We forget that half the war is a battle over optics
The first in a new series. Since Trump's election, Democrats are panicking as they watch him roll back all of Obama's "progress". It's caused them to reveal who they really are.
A few notes on Bezos' security apparatus. The guys I knew at FBI and Secret Service often ended up in VIP Protection, a lucrative post-government position where salaries can be in the high 6 digits. It's a serious job, especially to protect the richest of the rich. 1/
A few have reached out since Bezos memo with some interesting thoughts; all of them work in VIP world so won't go public but all are experts. First, all stated their governing philosophy: "our advice is if you never want to see it out there, then don't do it." Too late. 2/
Second, interestingly, before the memo, all of them believed it to be an insider job, likely the girlfriend's phone (there was some speculation on that). Someone got her phone and shared it. Not likely to be Bezos phone. "People like Bezos don't 'lose' their phones," one said 3/
1. That's not how property works. I bought it, I own it, and I am not under any obligation to arrange my affairs to benefit the shareholders of HP at my own expense.
2. The ink is not subsidized. They are charging 100s of % markup on this ink. (they normally charge 1000s)
3. There is no choice. HP and a handful of other companies effectively own the industry and EVERY SINGLE ONE uses countermeasures to lock out competitive ink offerings.
4. When a customer refills their own cartridge, or buys third party ink, that is "the customer deciding"
The choices are not "Behave exactly as the company would have you behave" or "do nothing." You are not an ambulatory wallet: you have the right and duty (in a market) to punish firms for bad conduct by subverting it with both political and commercial choices.
Operators operarating operationally: I spent today looking into the mil op “training” and the building they breached. I will begin by saying I believe the Army is pushing disinformation with regard to “training”. What we discovered - the buildings are owned by a single owner 👈🏻
the “Operators” were likely Army Delta Force (5th FG Green Berets) piloted by 160th Nightstalkers. Note: in the video, 4 little birds =12 D-Boys exiting. 2nd Bird, H60 = 8 D-Boys and 1 HVT center, front, 3rd Bird, H60 = D-Boys and intel
Video is from the rooftop of an adjacent hotel. Buildings are owned by Thomas V Gilardi. Most recent leaser is a Eduardo G Sanchez - “Guatemalan House of Culture” Both are Attorneys. Building is likely vacant as there are plans in place to demo it.
Tim O’Reilly on The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy | qz.com/1540608/the-pr…
Long evocative read. Chiding one & all using Hoffman/Yeh’s Blitzscaling as canvas. Key quotes on thread:
Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.”
Blitzscaling “prioritizes speed over efficiency,” and risks “potentially disastrous defeat in order to maximize speed and surprise.”
O'Reilly challenges notion that "network effects" doctrine (as imbibed by SV) is THE way forward.
A strong case can be made that blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.
I want to talk about abortion and BC from the perspective of the 70s and what we knew. BC was difficult to get and I very well remember living in MPLS and going to my 1st gyno appt, which was like the Spanish Inquisition.
I was asked all kinds of ? about why I wanted BC and how long I had been having sex with my boyfriend, which was 3 yrs. Then I was asked if we were thinking of marriage, and at that time that was a YES.
I was the last of 8 kids and my Mother was 43 when she had me. In my 50's my cousin, who was like my older sister, told me that she had heard my mother tried to abort me several times. I was not surprised. I knew I was not wanted and kinda given to my aunt.
It's interesting to me how much cis people (like Jesse on his tantrum about the immutability of ~biological sex~ insist they have all the answers and simply dismiss what trans people have to say about being trans, about medical transition, etc. Singal invokes science as a
justification, as all transphobic cis people (and many transphobic trans people) do, but their invocation is always restricted to the parts they agree with, ignoring the reality that scientifically speaking, sex is complicated and is certainly not defined - scientifically - the
same way it's been defined in the past. No one's saying that biological sex doesn't exist, but we do question the assumption that it's an unyielding set of binary categories with no permeability. This is something that is extremely hard to explain to people who aren't intersex,
Straight talk by @Eskom_SA CFO Calib Cassim. This is just 1 of 15 questions put to the Eskom CFO in a wide-ranging post-SONA interview by @chrisyelland of @eepublishers on Friday 8 February 2019. Watch this space for the full interview tonight. bit.ly/2tdOGVV
@Eskom_SA@eepublishers Cassim: "The best thing that has ever happened is the presidential task team, & the fact that we have the ear of the president who understands the urgency. He used the words “financial crisis” in his state-of-the-nation address, & this is the best way to describe where we are".
@Eskom_SA@eepublishers Cassim: "I fully agree that this is undoubtedly the biggest ever financial calamity faced by government. At the end of the day, it’s not about Eskom any more with the guarantees. If we go down, we bring down the sovereign and the economy. This does cause sleepless nights."
#BasantPanchami traditionally refers to the fifth day of the month of Magh, usually around January – February. It is primarily meant to welcome the arrival of Spring, after the long and dreary winter in India. This is observed primarily in the northern and eastern parts of India
echnically speaking, it falls in Magha Shukla Panchami, the bright phase of the moon. Magha in a sense, marks the spring festival cycle in India, that also includes, Ratha Saptami, Maha Shivratri and concludes with Holi.
In ancient times, Vasant Panchami was celebrated in honor of the God of love, Kamadev and his wife Rati. Spring or Vasant was Kamadev’s close friend, and hence it was associated with him.
1/ For those who might be interested, I will periodically tweet about New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) primary sources. I am currently rereading, for research purposes, several books I used to have as a former evangelical. I just finished Wagner’s book called “Dominion!” (2008).
2/ This is a foundational source to understand the NAR notion of “dominionism.” In the introduction, Wagner explains why he wrote this book. His basic premise is “that God’s Kingdom should come and that his (God's) will should be done here on earth as it is in heaven” (p.11).
3/ Wagner says that he's not advocating for “theocracy” but favours democracy (p.12-13). He wishes that Christians could “move into positions of leadership influential enough to shape the whole nation from top to bottom” (p.15). It sounds like theocracy by means of democracy.
Tim O’Reilly on The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy | qz.com/1540608/the-pr…
Long evocative read. Chiding one & all using Hoffman/Yeh’s Blitzscaling as canvas. Key quotes on thread:
Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.”
Blitzscaling “prioritizes speed over efficiency,” and risks “potentially disastrous defeat in order to maximize speed and surprise.”
O'Reilly challenges notion that "network effects" doctrine (as imbibed by SV) is THE way forward.
A strong case can be made that blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.
THREAD: We can have as many reviews and slogans as we want, but we fail to be a ‘people led movement’ when the feelings of one MP supersede the feelings of hundreds of local members without access to media or friends who can use a parliamentary speech.
Justice is not about who can get more exposure to their side. It’s about truth and facts.
All members, regardless if they’re an MP or not, should be treated equally. If not by the Labour party, then who?
We should be the example we want to see in the world. For the many etc..
It’s tiresome to see some MPs act with impunity. They slag off our party and dash our chances almost every time they get on the media.
One 5min clip of a MP slagging off our party/members/leader equates to wiping out 800 members knocking on doors.
I don't care for Senator @CoryBooker's politics and I admit his drama is a bit too much, but he's a great friend of Jews & Israel and knows more about Torah and Gmara than most American Jews. There are many Democrats who are friends of Israel in Congress. Where are you guys?
Can't y'all put your hatred towards .@realDonaldTrump aside for a moment and fight for your values? b/c you can't claim to be a SJW if you condone the massive waves of antisemitism your newbies bring to Congress.
And let me tell you something, in the past 30+ yrs only a candidate that supported Israel was elected as #POTUS (Obama was hateful only in 2nd term) b/c deep down, even the DEM Jews don't want the Jewish State to be annihilated no matter how much they hate @realDonaldTrump
Putin’s name is mentioned every day but many don’t know who Putin is and circumstances leading to his rise to power. Many call him a terrorist, a mobster, a murder. All of the above is true! While in Dresden working in KGB PGU illegal intel Putin was a liaison bet RAF and KGB
The RAF at the time was being trained in East Germany and committing terrorist attacks in West Germany. Putin then came back to Leningrad and watched what he called one of the most tragic events occur, the fall of the Soviet Union.
While in Leningrad Putin made alliances w powerful mafia figures who who controlled politicians & were under protection of intel agencies. Putin was taken under the wing of Sobchak and began running the Committee for External affairs handing out contracts for food that never came