ABigGuy4U
3mo ago
Ostensibly it’s to protect “sources and methods.” For example, that would include tradecraft techniques for contacting moles, or bugging and trailing sources. Technology changes, but a lot of those methods might be just as useful today as they were in 1963. Or documents might mention agents embedded in hostile foreign countries like Cuba who are still alive and might be subject to arrest and execution if their names are revealed. Conspiratorially, even if there’s nothing damning in the files, there could be evidence that might be linked to shady business, or small details that contradict the Warren Report, or possibly obvious holes in the investigative methodology that points to an after the fact cover-up.
ABigGuy4U
3mo ago
I think there was a large cohort of sheltered well-meaning liberals who genuinely thought that all the chaos breaking out in America and the world was the result of Orange Man Bad. It seemed a reasonable assumption, because a) that’s what every major media outlet told them and b) the chaos really did happen to start right around the time Trump took office. They thought that as soon as Trump walked out of the White House, that reality would magically reset to brunch and reruns of Parks and Rec and everyone would live happily ever after. Now, they’re starting to realize that the world is just falling apart for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with Trump, and Biden isn’t doing anything to effectively handle it. That cohort is starting to get angry because they feel like they were fooled.
- There’s some interesting new stuff in there, like new information on Oswald’s activities and movements in the months leading up to the assassination. There are no bombshells. Even if Kennedy had been killed by a conspiracy, I highly doubt any of that would end up written down.
- It’s pretty good and worth a watch. Even if you just take it as fiction, it’s a fairly well constructed thriller. As someone interested in the JFK assassination I find it a little annoying since I’m constantly trying to parse actual historical stuff (of which to be fair there is a lot) from things Oliver Stone added. Additionally a lot of it is based on Jim Garrison’s theories, and Jim Garrison was in some ways kind of a loon.
I personally think the circumstances around Kennedy’s assassination stink like hell. I would go off at length here, but I would rather eventually put it all together in an effort post.
ABigGuy4U
3mo ago
Sure. In New Zealand. In America a PDF of the entire thing was on the front page of Drudge Report for a full week and various mainstream outlets were discussing it for months.
ABigGuy4U
3mo ago
It should be noted that the nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway was a back up plan. The group’s original plan was to detonate a nuclear device in Tokyo. They had put together a working group of ex-Soviet scientists to build one. They didn’t get that far, but they got a hell of a lot further along than any Islamic terrorist group ever has.
ABigGuy4U
3mo ago
I don’t think this destruction of the matriarchy was necessarily unintentional. Young women tend to hate the matriarchy because it places restrictions on their behavior and interferes with maximal sexual success. The downside of this destruction is that women will now lose most of their social capital by the time they turn 30. But many young women (like many young men) have very low time preference and poor ability to visualize themselves in the future.
ABigGuy4U
3mo ago
A lot of the trading now is algorithmic. That’s part of why it moves so fast and is difficult for individual retail traders to beat.
ABigGuy4U
3mo ago
The problem you’ll run into is that the collapse of Ukraine was already “priced in” within hours or days of the initial invasion. Investors aren’t generally going to risk investments in a country that’s being invaded, regardless of what world political leaders say about the prognosis. If you wanted to short Ukraine the time to have done that was in January of 2022. I suggest shorting Poland or Lithuania instead.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
I mean I get all the various reasons why they thought it was bad, some of them seem quite reasonable. But why did everyone get together and plan out a coordinated strategy for the role out of dozens of simultaneous hit pieces about how a relatively obscure music festival from the late 90s was bad bad BAD? I don’t even follow this stuff and I couldn’t escape the constant torrent of hate for Woodstock 99. It reeks of the kind of preplanning and agenda that you typically see for obviously political stories about geopolitics, and I don’t understand why they bothered and what the larger angle was.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
In 2021 through 2022, why did Netflix, Rolling Stone and every major media company make a giant coordinated push to portray the 1999 Woodstock festival as the worst thing that’s happened since the Tiananmen Square massacre? It seems like such an obscure event to signal boost, and I don’t see any obvious culture war angle.
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating.
Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, state TV said, but had been hampered by poor weather condition in the area. There had been heavy rain reported with some wind.
Edit 6:14 GMT: Reports that three members of the Red Crescent search team have gone missing in the search area.
Edit 6:17 GMT: Iranian government claims it has made contact with two passengers at the crash site.
Edit 3:25 GMT: Iranian sources have confirmed that the President and all other people on board died in the crash.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating.
Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600 kilometers (375 miles) northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Rescuers were attempting to reach the site, state TV said, but had been hampered by poor weather condition in the area. There had been heavy rain reported with some wind.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
That’s why I’ve always thought that the X-Men was a bad metaphor for prejudice. Say what you will about any particular ethnic/social/sexual group, a single one of them can’t usually annihilate an entire city block unaided.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
Moscow’s metro area is about 13 million. Saint Petersburg’s metro area is around half that, about 6 million. Then there are about 14 other cities with a population of a million or more. Then about 20 cities with half a million or more. Then about 130 cities with a hundred thousand people or more. The population gets thinner the further East you go. Only about 8 million people live in the eastern geographic third of the country.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
Is there any way to quote only a portion of a comment when you reply to it? I would like to be able to address certain passages in a comment without having to repeat the entire wall of text in the prior poster’s comment.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
The far left has successfully forgotten that their entire moral framework was created by Christianity. They have successfully forgotten that their entire intellectual framework was created by enlightenment era European men from colonialist countries. They have successfully forgotten that their constitutional republic was created by white male slaveowners. They hate all those demographics now without any cognitive dissonance or ambiguity. I don’t think they will have any problems scrubbing away the memory that a lot of the luminaries of the modern civil rights and feminist movements were Jewish.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
The problem for the Tories is that they have been sitting in the driver’s seat for the past 15 years. Which makes it pretty hard to blame the housing/immigration/economic situation on the other guys. AfD doesn’t have that problem.
ABigGuy4U
4mo ago
I’m reminded of 1984, where the Party pumps out cheap tawdry pornography, but labors to keep the proles under the incorrect impression that it’s illegal.
Students from various campuses have occupied the Columbia University campus in New York City in protest of Israel. There reports and videos circulating of protestors harassing Jewish students on or near campus grounds. The NYPD has deployed officers to surround the campus and has established filtration checkpoints to prevent outside agitators from entering campus. Various Columbia alumni have expressed concern with Columbia’s handling of the situation. All classes are now online at least for today. Similar protests are happening at Yale and various other campuses across the country.
Edit: Congressman Josh Hawley has called on President Joe Biden to deploy the National Guard to Columbia and other universities to protect Jewish students on campus.
Edit: NYU has ordered their encampment to disperse and the NYPD is moving in to clear the demonstrators.
Edit: I’m seeing footage of NYU professors being marched out of the campus in zip ties. Cal Poly Humbolt students have barricaded themselves inside a campus building with furniture.
Edit: University of Texas, Austin student protestors are being dispersed by police. And possibly vanned. Protests now seem to be nationwide.
Edit: Mass arrests beginning at USC protests.
Edit: Tasers and rubber bullets being deployed against protestors at Emory University in Georgia.
Edit: There appear to be police snipers monitoring protests at Ohio State University.
ABigGuy4U
5mo ago
The paramilitaries are considerably more eager to attack Israel than the Iranians are. If the Hezbollah commanders on the ground had their way, they probably would have launched everything and opened up a northern front shortly after October 7. Iran held them back because if Hezbollah starts a major engagement and gets destroyed, Iran loses a lot of leverage in their Cold War with Israel.
ABigGuy4U
5mo ago
Iran has between forty thousand and a hundred thousand proxy troops parked on the Israeli border, not counting the Syrian army. It could turn into a ground war real quick.
ABigGuy4U
5mo ago
Israel has struck multiple targets in Ishfan, Iran. The location of these strikes would suggest that they hit one of Iran’s major nuclear research facilities.
ABigGuy4U
5mo ago
The vast majority of America’s petroleum refining facilities are right on the coast in Louisiana and Texas. That’s why gas prices shot up to 7 dollars a gallon nationwide after hurricane Katrina. Most standard non-nuclear attack submarines can launch ground strike cruise missiles out the torpedo tubes. I won’t get into the other stuff because I don’t want to end up on a watch list either.
Unless this person is Native American, I don’t think they really have good standing to piss and moan about the sins of the past. You know, given that they happily live on land seized by sword and ethnically cleansed i.e. the entire United States.
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