Even the article admits Trump doesn’t want war with Iran. What Europe is worried about is Washington going its own way on Iran and possibly doing better. Europe has no real answer to the Iran problem. Perhaps neither does Washington, but it’s not as if there is now a choice between War and Peace.
Insurer says Iran’s Guards likely to have organized tanker attacks
A confidential assessment issued this week by the Norwegian Shipowners’ Mutual War Risks Insurance Association (DNK) concluded that the attack was likely to have been carried out by a surface vessel operating close by that despatched underwater drones carrying 30-50 kg (65-110 lb) of high-grade explosives to detonate on impact.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-oil-tankers-exclusive-idUSKCN1SN1P7
Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War
The weird thing is nobody knows why.
Mom and daughter strangled pregnant Chicago teen
How many people died in this incident is the single greatest mystery of modern times.
Strauss lured students to private clinic with local advertising
The advertisement in The Lantern described his clinic as offering “prompt treatment of common genital/urinary problems,” as well as providing examinations for rashes, lumps, pain/burning, checkups, testing, sexually transmitted diseases and “answers to questions.”
Now-dead Ohio State doctor accused of abusing at least 177
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A now-dead Ohio State team doctor sexually abused at least 177 male students over nearly two decades, and university officials knew what he was doing and did little to stop him, according to an investigative report released by the school Friday.
Dr. Richard Strauss committed the abuse from 1979 to 1997 — nearly his entire time at Ohio State — in episodes involving students from at least 16 sports, plus his work at the student health center and his off-campus clinic, the report said.
Social Media Battlespace
Speech and the control of speech is part of hybrid war
Nurse Facing Capital Murder Charge Isn’t Licensed To Practice
Unlicensed nurse may have killed a thousand grannies. Nothing deadlier than the trusted killer.
The suspect may be an illegal alien.
Trudeau threatens ‘consequences’ for disinformation on online platforms
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday promised that efforts to regulate social media in Canada would include “meaningful financial consequences” for online platforms that fail to counter disinformation.
Facial recognition comes to London.
Masking won’t help. China has body biometric and gait recognition. The only escape is to partly disempower the State
Assad’s torture chambers
The question is always who will bell the cat. Sometimes the truth is not in vogue.
The global chain gang
If the globalization meant China could turn off your fridge would you still like it?
CGI Democracy
Max Boot, remarking on Duterte’s midterm poll victory in the Philippines tweeted “undermining democracy is popular”. It’s more than’undermining’ but rather fake democracy. The new tactic in hybrid warfare is for strongmen to make dictatorship look like democracy. Just as politicians have learned the art of making war in secret they have perfected the skill tyrannizing in secret. Low observable technology goes beyond stealth airplanes.
Ordinary people are losing the political arms race against their rulers. Digital manipulation, mass surveillance and individual targeting have tipped the scales against publics that rely on traditional protest tactics like marches and rallies. These old methods are increasingly ineffective against an administration that can call on the technical help of China.
Hence protesters are adopting the tactics of the elite and forging international alliances, waging information warfare and reducing rather than amplifying their signature. One bad turn deserves another.
Can the ‘true’ result, if one can call it that, be recovered? The one constant is reality. Duterte’s fraud was primarily digital. The original paper ballots are the scam’s weakness because they are real and therefore harder to change.
Wholly virtual electoral systems are like CGI where anything is possible. Paper ballots and physical artifacts introduce an element of live action requiring an actual something. We have to step back from CGI politics and go back to live action. Just now
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday after a meeting with FBI officials that Russian hackers successfully penetrated the election systems of two Florida counties in 2016.
“Two Florida counties experienced intrusion into the supervisor of election networks, there was no manipulation or anything but there was voter data that able to be gotten,” said DeSantis. “It did not affect any voting or anything like that.”
But it could have. Virtual systems are far more vulnerable than ones based on stubborn physical artifacts like paper ballots.
Now the spying probe
Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday.
AP
Too quiet
Family and colleagues mourned Sunday the deaths of the first woman to lead Massachusetts’ university system and her husband,a retired MIT professor, after the couple were found Friday in their Florida home overcome by carbon monoxide from a car they had purchased for its modern safety features, family members said .. accidentally left running in the garage
Boston.com
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
WKRN
The prevalence of keyless ignitions is growing, and so too are concerns about carbon monoxide.
Drivers who forget to turn them off in an enclosed garage could be killed by the buildup of the colorless, odorless gas.
Congress is now trying to force the government agency in charge of vehicle safety to act.
Keyless ignitions are now standard on millions of cars. In many cases, the engines run so quietly that drivers forget its running once it’s pulled into a garage.
Three dead, 2 crossbows, 0 suspects
Hotel staff discovered the bodies in a room alongside two crossbows, the German news agency DPA reported. …
BBC
“There was no evidence to suggest that another person was involved in the deaths.”
Although it is little remembered now, the OSS developed a crossbow called Big Joe for covert assassinations.
Why you’re bigger than a giant floating airfield
Sen. Chris Murphy calls for probe into Giuliani efforts in Ukraine
“What’s he worried about?” Giuliani told NBC News in a text message in response to Murphy’s call for an investigation
Chicken in the Gulf
Iran’s probably think it’s in their interest to try pull US forces back to the Middle East by engaging in asymmetric provocation. It is something Trump will resist. But some damn fool thing can always happen. History shows that once escalation occurs it becomes unpredictable.
The semi-official ISNA news agency quoted hardliner Ayatollah Tabatabai-Nejad in the city of Isfahan as saying: “Their billion(-dollar) fleet can be destroyed with one missile.
Reuters
“If they attempt any move, they will … (face) dozens of missiles because at that time (government) officials won’t be in charge to act cautiously, but instead things will be in the hands of our beloved leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei),” he said.
‘SANCTIONS HAVE NO EFFECT!’
Separately, Yadollah Javani, the elite Revolutionary Guards’ deputy head for political affairs, said: “No talks will be held with the Americans, and the Americans will not dare take military action against us.”
The sharpening edge
As the world continues through a conflict that has yet to receive history’s name the fight — between whom and whom — continually intensifies. The culture wars have become vicious, uncompromising. The antipathy is open. A new stage may be starting.