A now-unavailable (but cached) page on FIU News says the bridge was constructed "using a method called Accelerated Bridge Construction" & installed on Saturday in 6 hrs to minimize traffic disruption https://t.co/xCr5CtBxlMpic.twitter.com/zLn0gI30uI
Oh, sure, a lot of people died. But thousands avoided being late!
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Guess France changed their minds. Now the French government goes back to being full of liars whose statements Watser would never cite as evidence.
I mean, sure, they should do more investigation. But it is pretty natural to assume that Putin's Russian critics dropping like flies isn't just some coincidence, and when it happens using Russian weapons, it's probably Russia.
Expelling some diplomats is not exactly starting WW3 either.
I'd also assume that if more investigation leads Jeremy Corbyn to conclude that Russia is responsible and the UK should retaliate, Watser will probably decide that Corbyn's ambition has led him to embrace warmongering.
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin apparently abused his access to military and non-commercial aircraft for both business and occasional personal travel, spending at least $1 million of taxpayer money. https://t.co/evG5yjFCQ9pic.twitter.com/pskKATbB2A
A joint analysis by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security described the hackers as extremely sophisticated, in some cases first breaching suppliers and third-party vendors before hopping from those networks to their ultimate target.
They forgot to include "and the President of the US".
The majority of the media and political class seems to have accepted the Conservative government’s position. But it looks like it’s much easier to synthesise Novichoks than May suggests. Most of what is publicly available about Novichoks comes from dissident Russian scientist Vil Mirzayanov. In Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas, author David Wise quotes Mirzayanov as saying:
Uglev [a man who Wise says “helped to perfect Novichok”] claims the binary form of the gas can be produced in a garage. He exaggerates a little, but it is basically true.
In fact, it appears that Russian scientists developed Novichoks partly so they could be easily manufactured. In Weapons of Mass Casualties and Terrorism Response Handbook, author Charles Stewart writes:
The Novichok agents are thought to be far more difficult to detect during manufacturing and far easier to manufacture covertly, because they can be made with common chemicals in relatively simple pesticide factories.
In short, it wouldn’t be too difficult for other states or non-state actors to produce Novichoks.
Three package bombs have gone off in Austin, Texas, in the past two weeks, and they appear to have targeted members of prominent black families, the president of the local NAACP told NBC News Wednesday.
The families of Stephen House, who was killed on March 2, and Draylen Mason, who was killed on Monday, have known each other for a long time “and go to the same church,” according to Nelson Linder. The Austin NAACP president said that a third bomb, which injured 75-year-old Esperanza Herrera, may have been intended for “another person who might be connected to the House and Mason families.”
Though the Austin police agree that the bombings are related, they haven’t suggested a motive. They also haven’t said whether they think the victims were personally targeted. But interim Austin police chief Brian Manley did tell reporters this week that they’re not ruling out the possibly “that hate crime is at the core of this.”
The writers have been throwing enough gratuitous, implausible curveballs the last few seasons that I think there's a legitimate case to be made that the show has jumped the shark, but I must confess that I didn't see this one coming. And without overusing any of the played-out characters in the WH, either. Kudos.
ETA: On a serious note, evidently the allegations have been around for years, but I'm only just now hearing about them for some reason. Still, it's heartening that even powerful people can still be arrested for crimes in some parts of the world. Even if it's France.
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“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
Yabbut, it's not a "ludicrous denial", it's a conscious definition of the word terrorism. Insofar as the legal code might say something else, it's on the way to a conscious redefinition.
Yabbut, it's not a "ludicrous denial", it's a conscious definition of the word terrorism. Insofar as the legal code might say something else, it's on the way to a conscious redefinition.
Alternate Facts.
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Your job is to inspect and maintain trails for the State Forest Service. You hear a rumor of an illegally built mysterious cabin hidden in the woods. As an exercise in curiosity you gather a few clues and start looking for it.
One day you find it! Imagine how you'd feel when you discover:
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framed photos of naked young girls and an envelope stuffed with more sexually explicit images of children