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Sep. 26th, 2019
Covfefe is a symptom of an audience keen on conspiracy theories. He procures and sells goods that the трамповата market wants to buy:
... Crowdstrike..
Popular as the theory has been in the conservative-conspiracist echo chamber, it hardly stands up to scrutiny.... Nonetheless, Trump appears to focus on the alleged Pinchuk-Crowdstrike connection in his call with the Ukrainian president.
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Trump’s second conspiracy theory is better known. It contends that Joe Biden, then the U.S. vice president, got former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin because the latter was investigating Burisma..
In fact, none of the three prosecutors general who served under Poroshenko, including Shokin, made any serious attempt to investigate Burisma, and all contributed to burying the case. It’s impossible to determine now whether the Biden-Burisma association had anything to do with that, even though Hunter Biden’s board appointment – which came soon after U.K. prosecutors froze the firm’s assets - was transparently meant to help Burisma weather the storm.
During his call with Zelenskiy, Trump couldn’t have been playing to the crowd: The conversation was never supposed to be public. This suggests that the U.S. president actually believed the theories he aired. And now, Trump’s decision to release the rough transcript – even though it contains more damning evidence of a quid pro quo than anyone had expected – suggests that he intends to employ the theories in his election campaign.
The conspiracy theories can allow Trump to hammer Democrats with corruption accusations of his own, even as they try to impeach him. He can say their attacks on him are funded by Ukrainian oligarchs and that Biden, the Democratic front-runner, is linked to them, too, through his son. Trump knows that the dot-connecting doesn’t have to be fact-based or convincing to cause real damage. And he knows partisan voters will ignore any inconvenient evidence.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-26/trump-s-crowdstrike-ukraine-connection-is-a-conspiracy-theory
Once appointed, UKSC Justices can serve “during good behaviour’’ until the mandatory retirement age of 70 (for judges appointed to the bench after 31st March 1995) or 75 (for those appointed
before 31 March 1995).
https://www.supremecourt.uk/docs/scotus-and-uksc-comparative-learning-tool.pdf
This is quite rational. Appointing judges for life is a vestige of times when life expectancy was much less than 60 years.
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Sep. 26th, 2019 01:03 pmБезотносительно к украинским делам, интересно наблюдать, насколько быстра Зеленский из сатирика превратился в посмешище. Я бы с удовольствием посмотрел, как он в своей прежней роли играет себя сегодняшнего, когда по запросу Трампа ищет Crowdstrike & Clinton's email server в Украине.
“It’s a crisis the likes of which we just never had to deal with before,” said Matthew Gutchess, president of Gutchess Lumber Co. in Cortland, N.Y. “The demand elsewhere is just not absorbing what China is dropping.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-a-crisis-lumber-mills-slash-jobs-as-trade-war-cuts-deep-11569490206
Maybe the impeachment will force the Orange Swan to wrap up his stupid trade war. Or maybe not. Because China (and not Ukraine) might still be hiding Hillary Clinton's email server. Remember Crowdstrike! :)
Arion's dilemma
Sep. 26th, 2019 05:40 pm“they plotted to throw Arion overboard in order to get his money. Once Arion perceived this, he begged them to take his money but spare his life. [3] But he could not persuade them. The sailors ordered him to kill himself if he would have a grave on land or to get it over with immediately and to jump into the sea. [4] Arion, made desperate by their decision, asked one request of them. Would they permit him to sing for them from the stern in full costume?[5] He promised that as soon as his song was ended, he would kill himself. Delighted at the prospect of hearing the best of all singers, the sailors retreated from the stern to the middle of the ship. Arion put on his costume, picked up his lyre, stood on the deck, and performed the high-toned hymn. When he finished the song, he leapt into the sea, still in full costume. [6] And the men sailed back to Corinth.”
--- Herodotus. 1:24.
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Sep. 26th, 2019 10:59 pmLet's say a thousand years from now, what would people remember about "beginnings" of our time?
1. Video as the dominant form of inter-human communications.
2. Mass commerce in intangibles.
3. Basic integration of biological and computational systems.
4. Augmentation and substitution of human decision-making.
5. Portable electricity.
6. Deep(-er) bioengineering.
7. Massive shift in population age patterns.
1. Video as the dominant form of inter-human communications.
2. Mass commerce in intangibles.
3. Basic integration of biological and computational systems.
4. Augmentation and substitution of human decision-making.
5. Portable electricity.
6. Deep(-er) bioengineering.
7. Massive shift in population age patterns.