travmatt

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Chesterton's Fence is a brilliant insight. Funnily enough, I learned it reading some interview in a fashion magazine. They talked about what made different designers styles is the fact that they didn't break fashion 'rules&#x
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS, commonly pronounced "sifius") is an inter-agency committee of the United States Government that reviews the national security implications of foreign investments in
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They'd kill their credibility with an outright lie. It's much more useful for them to omit information that they don't find useful - like when they helped coverup Russian banks involvement in Syria.
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>You guys sound crazy. There's not much there in terms of evidence or substance, so I'll skip that. But I would suggest that sometimes nations have conflicts with each other, and further suggest that Russia and the USA have one
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''' A member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange directly collaborates with Moscow. “But Julian Assange, he openly works with [Russia],” Nadya Tolokno told The Daily Beast in an interview Thu
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The very famously anti-Putin pussy riot has stated that Wikileaks has become a Russian propaganda front. I wonder why Wikileaks didn't cite them as part of their 'vibrant ciriticism'?
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But it has a lot to do with the information they omit, amirite? Isn't that why they accused the panama papers of being a CIA operation without any evidence, because they wanted to give cover for the Russian establishment they cut telev
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by travmatt 10y ago
Can you point to a time Assange pissed off russia? Why did Assange brag about 'kompromat' he held on putins administration, and then take a meeting with Putin after Russia threatened him? Why did he cut a tv deal wth Russia state
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I don't assume there is a relationship between the two, given that information in the public sphere still gets denied in the foia process. Even better than a foia, Ben Sasse is calling for the release of the warrant. A member of the se
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notable in this story is trumps confirmation of the fisa surveillance order against him. I'd suggest someone should explain to trump that his taking the time to confirm stories such as these that he is declassifying their existence and
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Russia launching attacks on Estonian critical infrastructure. Active disinformation campaigns targeting Norway, Sweden.
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>Non-aligned Sweden is worried about Russia's Baltic military drills. >Ms Nyh Radebo said that "70% of parliament is behind the decision to strengthen the military and co-operation with the countries around us". >The
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Eric 'too big to fail' Holder defined his career on #2.
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The not-so-hidden secret is that voter id laws would stop one type of fraud - in person voting fraud, or the most logistically challenging and hardest to do. Most old white people rely disproportionately on mail-in voting, oddly enough ther
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And then they remembered the Glass-Steagal act was spurred by anti-bank hate and decided to hedge their bets. The cost of fielding a few sock puppets is literally a drop in the bucket for them, they don't have to regard OWS as an exist
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State level political parties have the power to challenge the registration of voters within their boundaries.
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At first I was tryin to deny it, but once I got to the multiple email addresses I couldn't anymore.
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If banks could have paid a few agent provocateurs to disrupt the occupy Wall Street movement and handicap it out the gate, do you think they would have? Muddying the waters is a cheap and easy tactic to use.
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This is actually something I've been quite curious about. For example, I know that stormfront regularly organizes brigades and disseminates talking points to disrupt conversation on Reddit - same with FSB/corporation/ etc. I
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I remember Tavis tweeted Friday night asking for a cloudflare engineer to contact him, and everyone joked that the last thing you want on a Friday evening is an urgent message from tavis ormandy.
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Please don't misconstrue what I said, the republicans have been engaged in litigation to repeal various portions of the voting rights act in numerous courts through America. This is quite separate from voter laws and it is a separate v
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The upcoming fight over redistributing is likely to decide our country for the next ten years. On one hand, republicans have waged a legal campaign against the voting rights act, drafted various pieces of legislation aimed at disenfranchisi
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Like the semi-colon; useful for showing you went to college.
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I don't understand how the two are in conflict. Taleb asserts that the drop in violence is not somehow inherent to human nature, while the Pax Americana is a time of relative peace guaranteed by americas military advantage. When that a
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his book is titled "Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined"
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Well other than the fact that we have both the phishing email used to compromise podesta, the link shortener account it was sent from, samples of malware and ioc's - other than the evidence we have, sure, we don't have any evidenc
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I regularly eat eggs over two weeks old as well. If they've been out ~month I'll float test them before cooking.
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| So far, the administration has consistently emphasized and exaggerated the supposed security risks of the status quo to make an argument from necessity for drastic changes. I'm trying to be neutral in describing this but I think it&#
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The goal is usually to reunite the child with their parent, but circumstances often intervene. Children have a larger network of caregivers (aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, even church members and family friends) that also play a larg
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Most promisingly, this metric was recently used as a basis for voiding the gerrymandering attempts of Wisconsin Republicans.

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