dis can't go wrong

James Bamford summarizes the Butina Story. Audio linked is Scott Horton's interview of the same on this subject.

I must say, he's a much slicker operator than washington gives him credit. However, much like how Gaddafi had a similarly good appeal, his army is probably similarly useless; and turning the place into a failed state is actually the plan, rather than a Vietnam or Afghan style occupation. Keeping their resources off the market is basically the "Operation Grand Slam" going on here, but to be fair, Chavez-style Socialism has very nearly accomplished that anyways.

Idiot US banks smile like the fool and eat them up.

Plainclothes dynamic entry raid on the flimsiest of excuses, coppers get dropped. The more rabid the cop humping in response, the more you can be sure of police misconduct:

“If you’re the ones that are out there spreading the rhetoric that police officers are the enemy, just know we’ve all got your number now, we’re going to be keeping track of all of y’all, and we’re going to make sure that we hold you accountable every time you stir the pot on our police officers. We’ve had enough, folks. We’re out there doing our jobs every day, putting our lives on the line for our families.”

And they wonder why people treat them like the enemy. Ha.

Trump's real plan: Make the Caribbean the Yankee Lake again

To be fair, the USG has been breaking this de-facto for years. I'm amazed the Russians put up with it all this time.

Yet more semi-officially sanctioned bid rigging

We'll see how much trouble this means soon. If I hear reports of "government goons" beating up the opposition like during Panama, Maduro might be on the receiving end of an invasion soon.

Homeschooling is literally Putin

Nothing more needs to be said. That this is running in AmConMag is a sign to me that it's too late folks, this train don't let off until Auschwitz.

“The general public is familiar, if at all, only with the Armenian genocide, which occurred in 1915-1916,” he points out. “In the new study we argue, and show, that that massacre was not a one-off event but part of a deeper and broader sequence of events, which went on for three decades, with the aim of eliminating the Christian minority in Turkey,” Morris says, adding, “Three Turkish regimes were involved, from the Ottoman Empire to Ataturk’s republic.” The result was appalling: At the start of the brutality, Christians constituted 20 percent of the population of the Turkish space; at its end, just 2 percent.

Not particularly surprising when you consider the outcome of the Disastrous Greek attempt at a reconquista of Pontus and Thrace.

Regime uncertainty is real. Not having parliament meet, and just keeping the old rules in place is about the best you can hope for from the statists.

Bitches don't know 'bout my substitute goods

Hooray for detention without charge. Hey, foreigners have no rights, right?

Exactly why you shouldn't have such systems.

PARTY VAN

Recovering from a stroke through Rapping

In short, it's hokum.

Yet another sign we're due for recession.

Not quite the old Gomer joke about "sperm in the CSF" but damn close

Suspiciously the coup attempt happened a day after US AFRICOM moved into Gabon. I imagine the French are none too pleased with such US meddling in their backyard.

"Democracy"

But she's still in the saddle, so the scheming continues.