Huge if true. Would be a huge boon for productivity if it could be made into a gene drive, or as TFA suggests a drug sleep subsitute.

It’s funny to read mainstream reviews of Official Secrets now—they seem to still not fully grasp the importance of what they just saw. The AV Club review (8/27/19) leads: “Virtually everyone now agrees that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a colossal mistake based on faulty (at best) or fabricated (at worst) intelligence.” Well, “mistake” is a serious understatement, even with “colossal” attached to it, for something so fervently pursued, and you just saw a movie about the diabolical, illegal lengths to which the US and British governments went to get everyone in line for it. So, no, “fabricated” is not the “worst” it is.

Yet more tales from the Iraq War Crypt

It wouldn't shock me to find out most of the violent shitheads in Antifa militias are feds.

Trump’s ultimate objective, as China clearly knows, is to whip up a world crisis over trade, then dramatically end it – of course, before next year’s elections. Trump has become a master dictator of US financial markets, rising or lowering them by surprise tweets. No president should ever have such power, but Trump has seized it.

There is no telling how much money his minions have made in short or long selling on the stock market thanks to insider information. America’s trillion dollar markets have come to depend on how Trump feels when he wakes up in the morning and watches Fox news, the Mother of Misinformation.

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Method behind their explosive madness clarified.

Huge applications for things needing insulators.

How dare people use your scopes

Epicureanism is truly a philosophy of no use to those who suffer. Christ, on the other hand, is a universal savior. This is what re-converted Russia, and will eventually return the rest of the west to the righteous path.

Good show.

psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders

Great for scamming insurance carriers though. They love their categorizations. As always, "The myth of mental illness" is the book to read here.

Of course, the author ends on his blind spot:

The resulting balance of strong property protections and weak regulatory and taxing power may or may not have been conducive to economic growth (that’s for economic historians to figure out).

That case is already laid out abundantly clearly. Everywhere that is applied, it results in strong economic growth; when property is not protected and taxes and regulations are maximized the people are immiserated.

At a certain point, the old phrase "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation" comes to mind. At the least, Quinn's judgement seems really questionable to me here.

Sounds like the op is getting cleaned up pretty promptly.

The "crazy like a fox" BoJo meme seems to be becoming more accurate.

Not really sure that'd be a good move. Who would they replace him with? Avigdor Lieberman? Sounds more like face saving activity to me.

At this point, trusting any stories on it seems out of the question. The only thing I can take to the bank on this is that when push comes to shove, nobody can seriously think the Chinese government can't crush this if they want to.

Interesting to see Luke Rudowski's video on the latest, however, despite him seeming to take some of the reporting at face value. Good on him getting on the ground there, regardless. Much better chance of getting something resembling a true story now that he's over there.

Cops rape women in lockup, bribe heavily to cover it up, get proven guilty by rape kit, plea out and get 6 months. Good to be the king, eh?

Also, another cop gets no time for raping a 5 year old. Protect and Serve!

Certainly reeks of the man.

Undeterred, the IDF has employed a new strategy of replacing real soldiers with dolls.

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They continue to be a voice of sanity.

This is probably the most important essay to read of the year. The knives are out for those of us making hay on the internet.

When I look past the ideas to the ideologues, all I see are representatives of old institutions trying to prevent powerless people from testing their worth in a new space. I only hear a command to kneel and continue to accept their rule and the disagreeable status quo. If you want my advice, whether you lean left or right, ignore the ideological hair splitting, the calls to action, and keep doing what you’ve been doing – keep exposing inconsistencies and hypocrisies in traditional institutions of power – keep doing what drives these ideologues to dedicate massive tomes to their experiences of being challenged online.

I'm sure the UAE is upset by this setback. Will be very hard to hold on to Socotra without Aden.

What just happened…:
Ilhan Omar officially supports BDS because she claims “Israel is occupying land and stealing homes”
While she literally:
Occupied another woman’s home, in her absence, and stole her husband.

Not the most flattering portrait, but what do you expect from a politician?

Hope so.