A long, best effort attempt to put the different pieces on the troubled state of civilization at PJMedia VIP.
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Rebels without a cause
Unrest is sweeping the world. Can the centuries old categories of Left vs Right, Reactionary vs Progressive still explain it?
Creating a narrative
The reliance on classified briefings and special knowledge for news is one way to bring back the vanished age of Cronkite.
No prisoners
The perverse incentives of well intentioned policy.
Can you ever regain control of your data
Or are you doomed to lose it both to those would steal it and those who would protect you?
The coming upheaval
The old world order is giving way to something new. But what?
The declaration of war
One small part of Barr’s broadside
We are now in a crazy position that, if we identify a terrorist enemy on the battlefield, such as ISIS, we can kill them with drone or any other weapon. But if we capture them and want to hold them at Guantanamo or in the United States, the military is tied down in developing evidence for an adversarial process and must spend resources in interminable litigation.
The Barr declaration suggests the attempt to restrict the rebellion to one man has failed. It is now a cause of it’s own. I don’t think this is Trump anymore. This is a post Trump challenge to the Left.
Epstein guards refuse deal
The alternative to doing time was unappealing.
https://apnews.com/11ae6142bbb84af49daae80b94f1b4e2?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
The lost “old normal”
Maybe the way back to stability is to start from scratch.
Things you ought to know
According to a quick survey of videos of people introducing her, American and British pronunciations are roughly the same (Maxwell was the founder of an environmental nonprofit, a philanthropic job that often took her to conferences and TedTalks, and before the U.N.). These people, who I assume confirmed how to pronounce the name before saying it in front of others, say “Gee-lane,” with a hard g. For the second syllable, some hit the “–ane” pretty hard, as in “Gee-lane,” or “G’lane.” Others go with “-ahn,” as in “Gee-lahn”. It depends on regional accent (this guy sounds like he’s saying “Glen” when introducing her at a conference some years ago). But regardless of accent, the g is a hard one and the s is silent. “Gee-lane.”
Big Brother
“The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.”
Doubts grow on Epstein suicide
Won’t talk without union lawyers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/nyregion/epstein-suicide-jail-investigation.html
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites with first reused rocket nose
LEO satellite Internet will disrupt 3rd world politics.
Maybe Hillary is Remain
“But to see this country sort of shrink up and turn inward and to be trying to separate yourself from Europe”
https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/former-us-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-i-am-concerned-about-path-uk-is-headed-1-5043107/amp?__twitter_impression=true
Power corrupts everyone
After a controversial decision by the constitutional court to scrap presidential term limits, Mr Morales ran for a fourth consecutive term in office in October 2019.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-12166905
The Ukraine Scandal Spreads
Widespread secrecy can only survive if the institutions are trusted. The lower the level of trust, the smaller the volume of classified material that can be tolerated.
Some secrecy is necessary but excess classification hurts everybody because ironically it creates a paranoid society.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/the-ukraine-scandal-spreads.php
The fool
It’s impossible to commemorate the collapse of the USSR without recalling Ronald Reagan, a man contemporary media opinion regarded as a bozo and a fool, yet clearly saw what self-appointed intellectuals missed: Communism was a fraud.
Who is the state
Because this is a case of alleged collusion vs alleged coup neither side can claim the right to keep a secret.
Ordinarily one party represents the state in an investigation. But the question in this case is precisely who is the state? Because this is ultimately a political struggle there are precious few rules either side can hide behind. The Marquis of Queensbury has left the building. They have bet the farm, both of them.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-donald-trump-whistleblower-kass-20191109-4y5nwaa4enbvrbpfq7gfpwdrba-story.html
The other person
Bill Barr plays the pipes. Some others join celebrity dance contests. What do a person’s hobbies convey?
So who leaked the off mic moment?
“In contract theory and economics, information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. This asymmetry creates an imbalance of power in transactions.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
The job of the media is not to disseminate the news but to protect the information asymmetry of the ruling elite. What you are to be told is important. What you are not to be told is even more important.
Virtue signaling is a smokescreen for pure, cynical power grabbing.