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The UK Metropolitan Counterterrorism Police in London had a busy week as they detained several members of an alleged Russian sabotage ring, as well as uncovering two UK nationals suspected of spying on behalf of China. 1) The UK CT police arrested a...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 01:01 AM PDT
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That’s a rhetorical question. Of course we haven’t. And we won’t until we and enough of the public take control our commons, physical and digital, including system wide networks to individual contributions. We’ve trashed much of our physical commons,...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 03:01 PM PST
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London’s High Court has just thrown out a lawsuit Donald Trump brought against a British private investigations firm. The suit aimed to prove false persistent claims that Trump participated in “perverted sexual acts” in Russia. This started with...
by Alan Austin
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 07:02 AM PST
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The Air Force disciplined 15 service members for poor performance in the Jack Texeira case, which is reasonable. However, from what I have read, it is possible Texeira case analogs are going to reoccur like school shootings, due to conservative...
by spn09
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 09:50 PM PST
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I began this essay as a comment in response to a cartoon which appeared as one of the “diaries” on Daily Kos. Realizing that it was a long comment, I decided I might as well turn it, for all the good doing so will accomplish, into a diary in its own...
by hontonoshijin
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on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 08:54 AM PST
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A cartoon by Clay Jones.
by Clay Jones
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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1. Barbara’s Visions Barbara has many strange experiences. She frequently sees people and things that are not really there; yet she perceives them as real. She also often believes herself to be in various locations far away from where she actually is....
by Perlinator
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 09:39 PM PDT
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‘He’s the universal soldier, and he really is to blame. But his orders come from far away no more. They come from him and you and me, and oh, brothers, can’t you see? This is not the way we put an end to war.” Buffy St. Marie “The Universal Soldier”...
by Gregg Matson
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on Sat Sep 30, 2023 at 12:18 PM PDT
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Here is a well-researched and thought-provoking article on how Russia plays with the mindsets of the Western elites and, particularly, with those in the government: The Second Front by Françoise Thom. I will cite some parts of the text to give you the...
by KyivGuy
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on Sat Sep 23, 2023 at 12:37 PM PDT
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Calling people stupid these days is considered politically incorrect and socially unacceptable, and it raises the hackles of people on both the left and the right—perhaps one of the few areas where the left and right disagree. At the risk of being the...
by Charles Ray
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on Sun Jun 25, 2023 at 09:01 AM PDT
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Recent reports of the leaking of intelligence documents online have caused serious concerns over the security of classified information. And as with nearly every matter of concern in politics, Donald Trump can be counted on to make things, not just...
by News Corpse
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 12:37 PM PDT
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UPDATE 2:12pm The NY Times reports the house of the suspect is being searched, and the Pentagon is doing a live briefing. Pinned Updated April 13, 2023, 2:11 p.m. ET3 minutes ago 3 minutes ago Aric Toler, Michael Schwirtz, Haley Willis, Riley Mellen,...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 09:22 AM PDT
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Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says
by mikemonett
139 comments
on Wed Apr 12, 2023 at 08:35 PM PDT
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SEE UPDATES BELOW The Pentagon and the Biden administration is trying to get a handle on some critical documents that have been leaked to social media. I posted about the original story from The NY Times report which dealt with the discovery that...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Apr 08, 2023 at 09:03 AM PDT
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The actual fighting in Ukraine isn’t taking a break. Already on Friday, Ukrainian forces�shot down a Russian Su-25 that was supporting an attempted Russian advance at Marinka,�a town that has been ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Apr 07, 2023 at 08:23 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Friday, Mar 31, 2023 · 6:27:20 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner Yesterday, the number of reported Russian attacks took a jump to 80. That’s the highest number in the last five days, but still lower than any date in the first half of the month (or in...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Mar 31, 2023 at 08:30 AM PDT
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The same Russian agents who worked with Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani helped Russia invade Ukraine Back in 2019, Rudy Giuliani made a series of trips to Ukraine on orders from Donald Trump. During these trips, he hired a pair of Russian mobsters, who were arrested and convicted of funneling money into U.S. elections from Russian oligarchs, made...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Mar 30, 2023 at 12:25 PM PDT
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This may seem like a diversion from the bombs going off at Avdiivka, or the new equipment driving into Lviv. It’s not. If you wander outside the Ukraine Update, you might notice that for two days ...
by Mark Sumner
177 comments
on Thu Mar 30, 2023 at 09:35 AM PDT
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From The NY Times: Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say New intelligence reporting amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Mar 07, 2023 at 12:38 PM PST
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Last week the Bavarian Polizei raided the homes and offices of “Dieter S” and “Alexander J”, two men allegedly plotting to sabotage two US military bases in Germany. According to Der Spiegel, the facilities included the Grafenwöhr army base, where...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 09:33 PM PDT
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