Recipes are one method to distribute of knowledge and skills to create items and events. Just mix the information: ingredients, instructions and an expected outcome. It is a matter of finding the right recipes, experimenting and perfecting.
Although the two incidents upon which I report are vastly different in scale, there is a commonality between the two. And therein is a lesson for today's political witch hunt. We are aware of an internal coup attempted against Der Führer's life in July, 1944 in Operation Valküre. This plot did not succeed. No further significant intrinsic German attempts were made against Hitler's life, at least in part to A.H's extermination of all suspected plotters and sympathizers.
We as a nation are gradually coming to grips with the fact that there is a nationwide mental health crisis. There are many institutional reasons for this crisis, and fixing them would do wonders.
As I frequently do I found an intriguing link over at Naked Capitalism about the mysterious Alice Donovan (not that Alice Donovan is a trending subject, just that I often find interesting links there).
To summarize briefly for those who don't recognize the name she's a quite obscure writer with limited output recently cited by the Washington Post as a foot soldier in the vast Russian Cyberwarfare/Troll conspiracy (for which, don't get me wrong, there is now at least some evidence while initially we were simply supposed to accept it on good faith from the same Agencies that brought us the Gulf of Tonkin, you could look it up).
The semi-mainstream site that most frequently published her unsolicited and unpaid contributions was Counterpunch who recently conducted an investigation into whether she is real or not, a Turing Test.
In 2006 I posted this diary at Dkos about Rumsfeld and George W. Bush enabling the North Korean nuclear weapons project. The last point in the FORTUNE article still concerns me. Are we subsidizing, never mind approving, private companies efforts to provide us with enemies?
...The Bush administration... authorized $3.5 million to keep the project going
Something/Someone Old
Happy New Year!
New Year's celebrations, themselves, are Old. Very old.
Due to the extensive political education I am receiving at c99 University, I have been schooled in reading political opinion disguised as factual reporting. The current Fourth Estate is now, in the words of Newton Minow, a "vast waste land", one which is strewn with land mines to eliminate reflection by the unwary. For those who do not peruse AOL, let me serve you up a helping of just one article from today. It's not that this particular day is unlike another day. It isn't.
That's the title of an RSN item I just got in my email box today.
It's short, so I'm going to post about half of it here.
Dear communitarians, not be confused with Commie-pinko-radical bastards, being as yesterday was Christmas, I, like many of you, overate. As a result I am still suffering from a case of shoe-in-mouth disease.
