Sri Lanka’s President has demanded the resignation of two top security officials after the Easter Sunday terrorr attack after it emerged key intelligence on attack targeting churches was withheld from ministers. The perpetrators were educated in the UK and Australia. The question asks itself. What role did trendy Western fads play in unleashing this ISIS …
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We are getting a glimpse of hybrid warfare, American style For the first time, the United States government is offering a multi-million dollar reward for those who provide accurate information about the finances and activities of the Hezbollah terrorist group; a tempting offer for some Venezuelans with classified information.The amount offered by the State Department …
NEARLY THREE YEARS after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA’s hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open web, Iran’s hackers are getting their own taste of that unnerving experience. For the last month, a mystery person or group has been targeting a top Iranian hacker team, dumping their secret data, tools, …
The CIA thought the USSR would overtake the US as the world’s largest economy in 1992. The article tries to understand how such a tremendous intelligence failure could take place. Part of the reason was because the wrong estimates were ‘secret knowlege’ and therefore they must be true. It was secret baloney. Errors do not …
The irony in the story that the Sri Lanka church attacks were a retaliation for NZ is the New Zealand attacker was neither a Christian nor a New Zealander. The ‘Easter Worshippers’ are just a designated target. So what happens? The New Zealanders get their guns confiscated and the Sri Lankan Christians are bombed. Yet …
Since 2014, NATO strategists have focused much of their attention on a forty-mile-wide stretch of border between Poland and Lithuania called the Suwalki Gap (pronounced ‘Soo-vow-kee’). The gap’s two highways are the only land corridor by which NATO troops could reinforce its Baltic member states in event of a conflict with Russia. …To the west …
“Secularism” is on the decline in the West too. It’s full of fanatics. Secularism requires not the absence of belief, but the absence of fanaticism. Odd that it should have reached its peak in the early 2000s when much that is now deemed anathema was prevalent. “JAKARTA, Indonesia — The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka …
If the investigation based on the Steele dossier represents a ‘coup attempt’ has it started a runaway train by provoking a backlash? Or is there some way of getting the locomotive back on track? But they felt as an insurance policy that Donald Trump for a variety of reasons–culturally, politically, socially–was unacceptable as president. And …
The solution to failing states is to fix them in situ. It’s not always compassionate to turn 3rd world doctors into taxidrivers. The open borders philosophy may designed for the elites more than the poor. Across the region, governments are struggling to deal with the consequences of many of their most talented young people leaving …
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“It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult, and it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it OK to still have children?” the Democrat representative wondered aloud. Bristol-based eco-activist Alice Brown, who was one of the first to sign up to …
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But do you believe in memes? Belmont Club There’s something on the loose As Christians in Sri Lanka gathered on Sunday morning to celebrate Easter Mass, powerful explosions ripped through three churches packed with worshipers, leaving hundreds of victims amid a havoc of splintered and blood-spattered pews.New York Times. Convincing the world he doesn’t exist is …
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Alberta’s new premier plans to abolish the carbon tax. Jason Kenney, the newly elected premier, is set to clash with Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister Economist Canada’s opposition conservatives won a clear victory in provincial elections in oil-rich Alberta Tuesday, in a setback for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his environmental policies just six months …
From the new basing plans in Poland, to the rebuild of the US military, to a hardline vs Cuba it’s getting harder to see Trump as Putin’s stooge. The Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded several Obama-era policies toward Cuba, while imposing tough sanctions against Venezuela and Nicaragua – as part of a new crackdown on …
A Florida man was convicted Friday of running an 18-year, $1.3 billion health-care fraud that prosecutors called the largest such scheme ever charged by the Justice Department. Philip Esformes, a 50-year-old Miami Beach resident, used a network of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in South Florida to defraud U.S. government health-care programs while providing inadequate …
Caught up in Operation Car Wash, which has rocked leaders in Latin America. Peru’s former president Alan Garcia, 69, died in hospital after taking his life as police were about to arrest him at his home in a sprawling corruption case. The health ministry said Garcia died at 1.05am Thursday of “a massive cerebral haemorrhage …
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The fundamental challenge that Tocqueville’s book poses to American dogma arises from his refusal to assume that equality and freedom are always mutually reinforcing. The American creed since the Declaration of Independence and especially since Lincoln has linked the two values, assuming that an increase in one naturally accompanies an increase in the other. Tocqueville …
The definition of a meme Dilbert walks into a meeting and asks, “Who called this meeting?” The male coworker replies, “We thought you did.” The coworker continues, “I think we should discuss issues and assign tasks so it’s not a complete waste of time.” Dilbert responds, “Maybe meetings have become a lifeform capable of calling …
ISTANBUL — The party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey applied to the country’s election commission on Tuesday for a rerun of the Istanbul mayor’s race, after two weeks of appeals and recounting of ballots still showed the opposition candidate ahead. NYT
Maybe the biggest existential danger to humanity are UN bureaucrats with trillion dollar terraforming schemes. As a result of global warming, winters are only going to get more severe, but there’s at least one silver lining as researchers from UCLA have come up with a way to harness electricity from all that snow. Gizmodo
