18 - 24 March 2019 | 116 comments (116 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Meanwhile, the Air Force, which has a $156 billion annual budget, still doesn't always use serial numbers. It has no idea how much of almost anything it has at any given time. Nuclear weapons are the exception, and it started electronically tagging those only after two extraordinary mistakes, in 2006 and 2007. In the first, the Air Force accidentally loaded six nuclear weapons in a B-52 and flew them across the country, unbeknownst to the crew. In the other, the services sent nuclear nose cones by mistake to Taiwan, which had asked for helicopter batteries.

by generic on Wed Mar 20th, 2019 at 01:11:02 PM EST
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Today must by CHINA! day. AP certainly has been cranking the gin since early morn to turn out inscrutable THREATS to, oddly enough, the EU.

Closer to special relationships between industrialists and DOD at home: Top US general to meet with Google on China security worries

So goes the turn of the screw on Huawei.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Mar 22nd, 2019 at 08:04:17 PM EST
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What Disney gets as its $71.3B buy of Fox assets closes
balance sheet accounting for "media consumers"

archived goodwill valuations
A man has been sentenced to monthly viewings of Disney's Bambi
Following merger of AT&T and Time Warner Fox accepts Disney takeover bid
blockbuster summer for media mergers!

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Mar 20th, 2019 at 04:12:17 PM EST
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Bambi? But the story is by Felix Salten, who also wrote Josephine Mutzenbacher, a pornographic novel about a 13-year old prostitute. In these #MeToo days should we even be watching the movie, let alone ordering other people to do so?

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Mar 20th, 2019 at 06:04:44 PM EST
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dude. we went over this. click the link.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Mar 20th, 2019 at 06:21:44 PM EST
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I don't see this on the link....

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Mar 20th, 2019 at 06:35:34 PM EST
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This is one of the most bizzare election ad you have ever seen: Israel's Minister of Justice (!!) Ayelet Shaked plays a model, sprays herself with "Fascism" perfume and says: "Smells like democracy to me". Viktor Orban on steroids pic.twitter.com/s8Y4Oziw75
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) 18. März 2019

by generic on Wed Mar 20th, 2019 at 10:04:05 PM EST
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Trump: Time to recognise Golan Heights as Israeli territory
"Israel annexed the Golan in 1981 in a move not recognised internationally."
Winning (without bogus people's votes)
"'The Golan is not disputed. It is in the hands of Israel and will always remain in the hands of Israel,' Graham said from a cliff [!] overlooking Syria, where Syrian flags could be seen fluttering in the distance on buildings damaged in the country's civil war. 'My goal is to try to explain this to the administration,' he said."

This is a fine example of the good kind of territorial annex: "not now actually possessed by any Christian Prince or People." Finders, Keepers! 9/10 The Law! moral authority.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Mar 22nd, 2019 at 02:27:59 PM EST
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