Started reading a book on conservative criminology. Quoted in intro.

Viking sword, Hedeby, Denmark, 10th century.

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"Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Monday he did not think Ukraine could win the war against Russia and compared Ukraine’s efforts to a junior high team trying to defeat a college team in a hypothetical sports match.

"In an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Monday night, Tuberville touted his record voting against funding for Ukraine and said that, while he supported the country’s efforts over Russia, he thought Ukraine was outmatched and that no amount of funding would change that."

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4143533-tuberville-says-ukraine-cant-win-war-against-russia/

🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to the Turks, in the Orekhov area, the entire headquarters of the 47th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed by a 1,500 kg bomb. This strike severely disrupted the control of the entire group in this direction, since orders from the central command, or rather NATO, are transmitted through such headquarters through Starlink terminals.

There has not been such a high-precision strike in the area for 2.5 months, and the fact that Russia is developing and testing new systems to jam and detect Starlink, as well as following the news of Starlink malfunctions, probably indicates that these The systems have passed successful front-line tests.

Break up big staffs, like the 200-plus personnel in a divisional Main Command Post, into half a dozen smaller “sub-nodes,” each hiding in a different building or hastily dug bunker, communicating with each other not over Wi-Fi or tactical radio but over ruggedized fiber optic cables a quarter-mile (400 meters) long, unspooled by soldiers through the shelling-shattered windows and rubbled streets.

And every few hours, one of the sub-nodes takes its turn to shut down for a few hours and moved a few hundred yards — never too far for those fiber cables — so that, within a day, the entire formation has relocated, slithering undetected across the battlefield like an amoeba.

That’s the prenoscription from the US Army’s Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, helmed by Lt. Gen. Milford Beagle, a South Carolinian who’s served everywhere from Afghanistan and Iraq to South Korea. https://breakingdefense.com/2023/08/the-cloud-fiber-optics-and-hiding-in-basements-army-races-to-adapt-to-new-command-post-threats/

Sir Edmund Hillary is best known for being the first man to summit Mount Everest, But a few years later, in 1955, he also led an expedition to cross Antarctica using snow tractors. The trip took three years and became the first to cross the entire southern continent.

Wind turbine installation work 🚧 👷‍♂️

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Not that we didn't suspect as much.

https://www.rt.com/news/581067-us-pressured-pakistan-khan-ouster/

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08.08.2023

Glenn Greenwald: "The most unhinged, deranged, and evidence-free conspiracy theory in the last 20 years... didn't come from boomer pages on Facebook, nor from the bowels of 4chan... It came instead from the largest and most powerful media corporations...

For years they recited a deranged noscript cooked up by the CIA that maintained that Russia had seized control of the levers of American power through various forms of sexual, personal, and financial blackmail held over the head of Donald Trump...

The defenders of this conspiracy theory barely blinked, let alone apologized, or issued retractions when their Jack Smith of 2018, former Bush-Cheney FBI Director Robert Mueller, closed his 18-month investigation without even mentioning, let alone vindicating this laughable and paranoid McCarthyite tail...

In Newsweek, political science professor Max Abrahms argues with compelling evidence that the case for suspecting Ukraine's leverage over Biden is far more credible than the fever swamp dream that Trump was controlled with sexual and financial blackmail by Putin...

As is so often the case, the Biden administration is the living, breathing embodiment of what Democrats breathlessly accuse Trump and his administration of being."

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1689360881287835651

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Ecuadorian presidential candidate just assassinated after a campaign rally.

https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/1689442387607601152?s=09

Inside the factory: Frozen pizza

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🚨🇺🇸⚡️🇵🇰 ~ NEW: US investigation publication "The Intercept" claims it has obtained copy of US "cipher" sent to Pakistan.

— Cipher, a secret diplomatic doc, is at centre of political crisis in Pakistan after removal of PM Imran Khan.

— The cipher shows State Dept. officials using threats and promises to encourage Khan's removal.

The confidential cipher document has been alleged by Khan to contain proof that the U.S. government colluded with the Pakistani Junta to remove him from office. The cable was leaked to The Intercept and its published in full for the first time.

Read More ➡️ https://t.co/fZTg2IgvrY

#ArtWar #learntoscan #DracoAlchemicus

https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/08/07/draco-alchemicus-is-a-retelling-of-the-greatest-fairy-tale-in-the-english-language-exclusive/

"The boulders, which were spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope, range in size from three feet to 22ft across, and are drifting away from the asteroid at little more than a half-mile per hour – roughly the walking speed of a giant tortoise.

"Prof Jewitt said that given the high speed of a typical impact, a 15ft boulder hitting Earth would deliver as much energy as the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during the Second World War."

https://news.yahoo.com/nasa-asteroid-blunder-unleashes-boulder-160735199.html

Michael Mann vs Tim Ball

Propaganda vs science.