John Malpas
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The Russians probed the Americans to find out where their sources were, how big their networks were and any potential weaknesses to exploit later.
“It was worse than a polygraph,” one former senior intelligence officer told The Daily Beast. “They used different people to ask us the same questions over and over, each time phrased in slightly different ways, as if to see whether we were lying,” and to trick information out of them...
The Russians probed the Americans to find out where their sources were, how big their networks were and any potential weaknesses to exploit later.
“It was worse than a polygraph,” one former senior intelligence officer told The Daily Beast. “They used different people to ask us the same questions over and over, each time phrased in slightly different ways, as if to see whether we were lying,” and to trick information out of them...
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Here is the thing: this guy Trump started out with overly simple
and naive expectations of what a president does.
(Whenever I read someone like Gingrich complaining about the 'deep state' it reminds me that there certainly is a deep state; the deep state is the world in which an effective president must work.) After becoming president, Trump has encountered disappointments relative to his initial expectations. But, instead of learning from those disappointments, which would mean re-aligning his expectations with the actual requirements of the job, he gets mad at any person or event that reveals his initial expectations as overly simple. He ends up clinging more and more fiercely to his initial, overly simple expectations.
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Trump appears willing to test the bounds of convention and his own powers against a legal and political establishment that he believes is conspiring against him.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/19/politics/trump-investigation/index.html
and naive expectations of what a president does.
(Whenever I read someone like Gingrich complaining about the 'deep state' it reminds me that there certainly is a deep state; the deep state is the world in which an effective president must work.) After becoming president, Trump has encountered disappointments relative to his initial expectations. But, instead of learning from those disappointments, which would mean re-aligning his expectations with the actual requirements of the job, he gets mad at any person or event that reveals his initial expectations as overly simple. He ends up clinging more and more fiercely to his initial, overly simple expectations.
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Trump appears willing to test the bounds of convention and his own powers against a legal and political establishment that he believes is conspiring against him.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/19/politics/trump-investigation/index.html
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look at this -- Big Data Gets Political::
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/past/#big-data-gets-political
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/past/#big-data-gets-political
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STENGEL: What Al Jazeera was was a great soft power effort on the part of the Qataris, and, in fact, a soft power revolution in a way for the Arabic voice in the Middle East.
And some part of this has to do with the sense by the Saudis and the Emirates and the Bahrainis is that the Qataris have really launched the voice of Middle East, the kind of big tent emotional voice of Sunni grievance. And they're a little bit jealous of that.
STENGEL: What Al Jazeera was was a great soft power effort on the part of the Qataris, and, in fact, a soft power revolution in a way for the Arabic voice in the Middle East.
And some part of this has to do with the sense by the Saudis and the Emirates and the Bahrainis is that the Qataris have really launched the voice of Middle East, the kind of big tent emotional voice of Sunni grievance. And they're a little bit jealous of that.
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"Let's bomb delusion with truth"
http://www.iagreetosee.com/portfolio/powerful-anti-terrorism-ad-ramadan/
"Let's bomb delusion with truth"
http://www.iagreetosee.com/portfolio/powerful-anti-terrorism-ad-ramadan/
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Do today’s ... engineers have the skills and tools to address the global problems that our planet and humans are facing today or will be facing within the next 20 years?
Since the answer to that question is negative, and people cannot solve tomorrow’s problems with yesterday’s tools and skills, a new epistemology of engineering practice and education is needed — one that is based on the idea of reflective and adaptive practice, system thinking, engagement, and a holistic approach to global problems.
Do today’s ... engineers have the skills and tools to address the global problems that our planet and humans are facing today or will be facing within the next 20 years?
Since the answer to that question is negative, and people cannot solve tomorrow’s problems with yesterday’s tools and skills, a new epistemology of engineering practice and education is needed — one that is based on the idea of reflective and adaptive practice, system thinking, engagement, and a holistic approach to global problems.
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Trump’s team is preparing a campaign-style line of attack aimed at undercutting Comey’s reputation. They plan to portray him as a “showboat” and to bring up past controversies from his career, including his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016, according to people involved in the planning.
The Republican National Committee has lined up a roster of surrogates to appear on conservative news stations nationwide to defend Trump. But a list the RNC distributed on Tuesday could hardly be described as star-studded...
Trump’s team is preparing a campaign-style line of attack aimed at undercutting Comey’s reputation. They plan to portray him as a “showboat” and to bring up past controversies from his career, including his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016, according to people involved in the planning.
The Republican National Committee has lined up a roster of surrogates to appear on conservative news stations nationwide to defend Trump. But a list the RNC distributed on Tuesday could hardly be described as star-studded...
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Moreover, according to what is arguably the next-best measure of class, household income, Trump supporters didn’t look overwhelmingly “working class” during the primaries. To the contrary, many polls showed that Trump supporters were mostly affluent Republicans.
Moreover, according to what is arguably the next-best measure of class, household income, Trump supporters didn’t look overwhelmingly “working class” during the primaries. To the contrary, many polls showed that Trump supporters were mostly affluent Republicans.
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Fascism says nothing’s true. Your daily life is not important. The facts that you think you understand are not important. All that matters is the myth ― the myth of one nation as together the myth of the mystical connection with the leader.
When we think of “Post-truth,” we think it’s something new. We think it’s something at campuses. We think it’s something irrelevant. Actually, what post-truth does is it paves the way for regime change. If we don’t have access to facts, we can’t trust each other. Without trust, there’s no law. Without law, there’s no democracy.
So if you want to rip the heart out of a democracy directly, if you want to go right at it and kill it, what you do is you go after facts. And that is what modern authoritarians do.
Step one: You lie yourself, all the time. Step two: You say it’s your opponents and the journalists who lie. Step three: Everyone looks around and says, “What is truth? There is no truth.”
And then, resistance is impossible, and the game is over.
Fascism says nothing’s true. Your daily life is not important. The facts that you think you understand are not important. All that matters is the myth ― the myth of one nation as together the myth of the mystical connection with the leader.
When we think of “Post-truth,” we think it’s something new. We think it’s something at campuses. We think it’s something irrelevant. Actually, what post-truth does is it paves the way for regime change. If we don’t have access to facts, we can’t trust each other. Without trust, there’s no law. Without law, there’s no democracy.
So if you want to rip the heart out of a democracy directly, if you want to go right at it and kill it, what you do is you go after facts. And that is what modern authoritarians do.
Step one: You lie yourself, all the time. Step two: You say it’s your opponents and the journalists who lie. Step three: Everyone looks around and says, “What is truth? There is no truth.”
And then, resistance is impossible, and the game is over.
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With a president who does stuff like this, who needs enemies?
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/528511980/report-trump-gave-classified-information-to-russians-during-white-house-visit
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/528511980/report-trump-gave-classified-information-to-russians-during-white-house-visit
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