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#McKayCoppins, respectfully, because you're a marvelous political reporter, bu: -what u report Miller doing as "years ahead of his time" was the kind of trolling Willam F. Buckley did at Yale in the 1940s... /1
"Conservatives are the true rebels" was a stock line Young Americans for Freedom members would give to journalists in early 1960s. /2
("You walk around with your Goldwater button, and you feel the thrill of treason.") books.google.com/books?id=2l2TM…
A faction of Young Republicans in 1965 trolled all and sundry singing in praise of Nazis to the tune of "Jingle Bells," daring people to object. jta.org/1966/03/21/arc…
The trolling holy terrors of the student right in the mid-1970s were a bunch of cats who went nowhere: Stone, Manafort, Black...
It's a tradition.
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Fab that conservatives oppose Trump, but it would also be fab if post-Trump conservatism didn't just return back to...this. /1
19:32 is where #DavidFrum says JFK broke into political enemies' psychiatrists' offices, too, just like Nixon, or something. /2
25:05 is where #DavidFrum says LBJ just should have put down riots "more forcefully," then stammers to non-respond when I note cops killed 23 in Watts (oops, actually 34) and state police went on a murder rampage AFTER the Newark riots were subdued /3
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Today is Jayanti of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, one of the greatest scientists of modern India. However this thread is not about his life per se, I would be focusing more on his work on radio communication, a field where he was a pioneer in many ways.
While JC Bose is more known for his work on plants,his work on radio science is not that much known. Matter of fact while Marconi often gets the credit for Radio, it was Bose who laid the foundation, came up with the original concept and implementation too.
This thread is more a look at Bose's work in radio science. And it would be a bit technical too in places, so please do bear with me here. Of course considering the fact that my Engg Major was in Communication Engg, have a soft corner for this, though in IT now.
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Today is the Punya Thithi of Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose, one of the great Indian scientists of the modern era. One who came up with the concept of radio much before Marconi did. A true polymath, and a selfless genius who gave his all for India.
To call J.C.Bose just a scientist, would however be akin to calling, Leonardo Da Vinci a mere painter, this man was a true polymath, whose genius transcended boundaries.
. What do you say of a man who was a physicist, biologist, and has been named by IEEE as one of the fathers of radio science. A man who was not just a scientist, who discovered that plants too could have feelings, but also wrote science fiction in Bengali.
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#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!
The Evidence Obtained Outside Cameras will not show any evidence of ‘tempering’ but other than license plates of dozens of diplomatic cars (Many with tinted windows-large trunks) with related time stamp, drivers Info, model/year: Nothing.
#Turkish Intel-Investigative Bodies also have the list of all Diplomatic & Private Saudi & “other significant’ Planes in #Turkey for the period of ‘interest.’ Many of the Target airports have their own security cameras & related evidence.
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We honor the memory of 146 victims lost in 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Many were young immigrant women, new to America, working to support their families. From the ashes rose a movement of change, led by women like them. This is their story. These are their names: #Triangle146
Lizzie Adler was 24 years old at the time of the fire. Born in Romania, she had lived in the U.S. for 3 ½ months. She was buried in Mt Richmond Cemetery on March 26, 1911. She was the daughter of Labil Adler and Rachel Jacobs. #Triangle146
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I've enjoyed Rick's writing style since his snarky anti-Trump pieces in Politico well before the nomination. But it's blog-style, not opposite-the-masthead Op-Ed style. I also love to find the unlikely off-color metaphor and goose it for all it's worth ;)
A few years ago, I spent some time with Lyndon LaRouche watchers (the old FACTnet forum that migrated to a message board), and it's important not to be too glib with the comparison -- although a devastating comparison exists. LaRouche led a crazy religious-grade personality cult.
LaRouche didn't innovate anything ideologically, but for a time he was a perfect synthesis of the anti-establishment, antiwar left, extreme statism, 50s sci-fi-grade technocracy (Fusion Power Now!), all with the promise of occluded knowledge only Master Lyndon could impart.
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