These strikes I think have conclusively answered the question “would the us military follow illegal orders.” And we aren’t talking about it enough.
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These strikes I think have conclusively answered the question “would the us military follow illegal orders.” And we aren’t talking about it enough.
A complete mystery! Who could be behind such an action?
I mean it’s an accident in the sense that folks didn’t want it to happen. But something was setup very wrong for this to happen. IFF set wrong, ignored, ?
The headline is a bit off. Hezbollah launches rockets at Israel, and Israel retaliates. Do better NYT.
Used in the 12 day war too, but the video is new to me at least. Crazy seeing this and the laser intercepts of the Hez rockets.
Even the IRGC media says that it was the failed ballistic missile we all saw the video of. You people have the memory of a fucking goldfish, this is the Hamas "hundreds dead at the hospital, damn the Jews" when it was their own rockets and four people hurt. Again and again.
Nope NYT, try again:
The targets the IRGC has chosen, such as the Dubai International Airport, are absolutely senseless and self-defeating. They are acting like headless chickens. By the end of this weekend the entire Middle East will have mobilized against the (surviving) regime members of Iran.
Ten years ago, the CIA released a controversial internal history of the Bay of Pigs operation. Read it here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
For a long time I got ones which were at least physics or astronomy, but recently been getting plant genetics invites as well. I think these are CV filler material along with a potential travel boondoggle for the "speaker." I vaguely assume there are people in a room at some point but maybe not?
As a kid, whenever we drove the cross Bronx, my quite conservative dad would recount the story of building this road and wrecking the poorest community because they were politically powerless. It's a cursed road.
That is a great little book, building off of what I think is his masterpiece, How Buildings Learn. It's something that I think extends a long way from architecture as well. I typically recommend it with more formal systems engineering books.
An unsettling look at drones at war
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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Research as in oil and gas field work, not as in missile tracking. www.cnoocengineering.com/english/Solu...
Huh? They never made a sequel to The Matrix.
I saw him speak in 1988 as a teenager, and was blown away. The speeches are the entry point though, and it wasn't just oratory skills but there were proposals and plans there too. A different road, and a different Democratic party, were possible.
Amazon book order for two family wealth management books, a biography of the Rothchilds and a piece of outdoor furniture.
So our financial guy bought a couple of books on family wealth management, and our advisor to the Rothchilds (and at various times claimed to be Rothchild wealth manager) bought a book on the Rothchilds. Lots of outdoor furniture over the years too. Wonder if he read the books?
So let’s take a look at these Amazon orders, starting from the oldest available to the most recent. Lots of weirdness here, and connections to be made, not being complete though, just hitting some of what jumped out at me. Data retrieved from jmail.world
So, here are some Amazon orders of Jeff Epstein. The account seemed to be linked to his personal email, and was used for book purchases, furniture, and odd little items. You can find a number of his purchases in the FBI photos of his houses.
The banality of evil was originally how I was going to describe it, and much of it is sheer banality, but the last few weeks have seen connections everywhere and perhaps there is nothing more central to the story of the last couple of decades than this nasty piece of work. In Amazon orders.
Someone has recommended this to him. Did he read it? Who recommended it? Well, I can’t answer those questions, but I got fascinated about the Amazon orders and read through the set of orders.
Jeff Epstein Amazon book order of "Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
It’s a theory that I kinda wish was true, but it probably isn’t. Dawkins, staying in a close orbit now, said it best, "either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius.”
So thumbing through Epstein’s Amazon orders in the files, and I see his order for a copy of the book.
I keep a good pile of interesting, non-physics, books in my office, and my friend left with my copy of Julian Jayne’s “Origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind.” Such an amazing title!
When I was talking to my friend who had visited Epstein, we got to talking a bit about human consciousness, certainly a common topic for physicists as well as neuroscientists. Also a touch point for the “new atheists” of twenty years ago who also were a variety of pet much beloved by Epstein.
Physics papers in a reference list, with FBI name redactions.
You can find physics funding proposals in the files. And you can find physics citations, bizarrely censored by someone. The FBI? Some DOJ AI prompt? This is miles away from the political influence centers, but is another area corrupted by these people.
What even is the connection between physics and Epstein? He was supposedly a teacher of math and physics in his brief private school stint. And it seemed that he was interested in physics, or perhaps in having physicists around, as well as girls to abuse.
One of them I was well aware of, and we even talked about him traveling by private jet and getting financial support from some wealthy folks back around 2006. Scientists who fell into Epstein’s orbit should publicly explain themselves, and science overall needs to have a reckoning on this topic.
I have gone back and forth about making this post, about writing anything about Epstein, and science and scientists. A number of colleagues of mine, and two people I had at one time considered friends, are in the Epstein files. And I feel like venting a bit...