You Realize The Olympics Don't Have To Exist, Right?
The biennial games are a plague, and the only cure is death.
The Olympic rings at Flamengo Beach, where the Rio Games' sailing events took place.
Thursday morning brought the world a small bit of gross but totally unsurprising news, when the Associated Press reported that Pyeongchang, South Korea, the city that hosted the Winter Olympics all of seven months ago, may be forced to tear down at least four Olympic venues that are now sitting empty and unused.
The International Olympic Committee, the organization of grifters and profit-hounds that oversees the games and all of their excesses, is once again feigning ignorance and blaming the hosts. It's not the IOC's fault, of course. How could the organization that awarded the Olympics to a remote town in a country with zero historical affinity for winter sports have known it would all go wrong?
If only there had been signs, like the $50 billion price tag for the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia, or the incredible cost overruns of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, a city where a sprawling Olympic park now sits completely empty right next to the poor neighborhood that organizers destroyed because it was in the way, and where the public security regime established ahead of those games has left thousands of people dead.
If only there had been signs, like the modern Olympics' incredible consistency when it comes to displacing poor residents ― more than 2 million worldwide since 1988, according to studies ― or when it comes to destroying the environment and leaving empty shells of venues that require costly conversions to become useful, in the rare instance that they're re-used at all.
If only there had been signs, like the studies showing that the Olympics exceed their initial cost estimates 100 percent of the time, with final expenditures averaging double the originally projected costs, or the games' undefeated record of driving blatant human rights violations against poor, minority populations.
A man sits atop the rubble of his home in Vila Autodromo, a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood that was destroyed to make way for the city's 2016 Olympic park.
The IOC knows all of this, of course, and it is all plainly evident to cities and the media and everyone else, too. And yet it keeps happening, because the world is gripped by a cyclical Olympic amnesia and some weird belief that we have to keep doing this.
We don't, but every two years, the international sports media show up to another one of these events and spend three weeks broadly ignoring the litany of stories that have already detailed the disastrous effects the Olympics have had on city budgets, poor people's homes, the environment and everything else. Instead, the media cover the games like the party-slash-sporting event they would be in an ideal world.
During the 2016 Rio Games, for instance, a member of an NBC-contracted film crew told me that anyone working for the Olympics' biggest broadcast partner needed special permission to visit the city's favela neighborhoods, which faced exploitation and police lockdowns because of the games ― that is, when they weren't slated for actual destruction. His work station was a pop-up studio on Copacabana Beach, from which the favelas were easily ignored.
Eventually, though, the party ends, and the same old stories begin to trickle out again: The venues are empty, the budgets are exploded, the poor people don't have homes, the sacred forest that was torn down is, well, not there anymore. Everyone shrugs, as if all of this is a reasonable price to pay to see a few people run fast. The reporters wrote the stories, they did their jobs ― they even spilled some ink calling for reforms to the IOC and the Olympic process, perhaps.
But still the next party must be covered. So the process repeats itself, over and over again, with hardly any of the media figures who parachute in to cover the ice skating or the 100-meter dash or the swimming or the doping (of course, the doping) bothering to connect the dots or reach one simple conclusion: The problem isn't Pyeongchang or Rio de Janeiro or Sochi or Atlanta or Beijing. It's the Olympics themselves.
None of this is an accident. It's supposed to work like this, and so there's no reason to believe the IOC official who told AP that the organization would be "ruthless" when it came to ensuring that future games would have only positive long-term effects on host cities. There is no reason to trust an organization that has consistently touted reforms that consistently failed to reform anything. The IOC's "Agenda 2020" was supposed to usher in a new era of Olympism, but Tokyo 2020 is already a budget-busting environmental disaster that is displacing poor folks again.
In 2022, the Winter Games will return to Beijing, which forcibly removed as many as 1 million poor and indigenous people from their land or homes the last time it hosted an Olympics in 2008. This week, Chinese Olympic officials admitted that they wouldn't address ongoing human rights concerns in the country outside "the context of the Olympic Games" ― as if Olympic officials in China or anywhere else ever have or ever planned to address such abuses inside "the context of the Olympic Games" either.
Some of that amnesia and apathy on which the IOC depends is beginning to break. The media today do a slightly better job of seeing the Olympics for what they are, while some cities and activist groups around the world have surveyed the carnage left behind and decided they want no part of the spectacle. But the Olympic blinders remain strong enough to keep almost everyone from admitting the most obvious truth about the games.
The Olympics are a scourge, a persistent disease that we know how to cure but refuse to because organizers, politicians and the media are too full of the conceit that the Olympics must exist. It's that conceit that powers the belief that the Olympics can be reformed and carried out in a manner that reduces the disastrous impact they deliver with brutal, devastating consistency. Remove that conceit, get past the amnesia and it is clear they can't be fixed ― that the cure is neither corporate-branded public relations pablum masked as "reform" nor some pie-in-the-sky plan to rotate the games among a handful of semi-permanent host cities.
"This is unconscionable, IOC," tweeted USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour in reference to Pyeongchang's post-Olympic struggle. And it is. But the cure, as Armour herself has suggested, is to end the Olympics, and the truly unconscionable thing is that we haven't yet.
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Christopher Kenny was born in Limerick on the 24th of December 1876 to Michael Kenny and Mary O'Connell. There were at least two children older than Christopher and at least two younger. Michael Kenny was a Labourer, and a 'Storeman' on Christopher's birth certificate. When he died in 1901 his occupation was 'Pork Butcher'.
When Christopher Kenny married Bridget Kavanagh in December 1908 in Limerick he gave his occupation as Soldier and his address as Hampshire, England. They had one son, Michael, born on the 30th of August 1914, with Christopher's occupation on the birth certificate being Labourer. They lived in Back Clare Street with the Kavanagh family. However on the 10th of September 1914 he enlisted in Limerick in the Leinster Regiment and stated that he had already served for twelve years in the regiment. He gave his age as thirty-five though he was almost thirty-eight.
Christopher Kenny fought in Salonika, was in hospital in August 1916, contracted malaria in August 1917 and was seriously ill in Salonika in September 1917. In April 1918 he was transferred to the Labour Corps and was posted to the Agricultural Company in Exeter. In October he was on leave in Limerick and was returning to his post when he travelled on RMS Leinster on the 10th.
He did not survive the sinking but his body was recovered on the 10th of November at Howell Bay near Kirkcudbright in south west Scotland. The Glasgow Herald reported on the 19th that two bodies from the Leinster had been recovered, Private Kenny and Corporal Elms. A letter from the Chief Constable of Kirkcudbright to the Commanding Officer in Exeter is included in Christopher Kenny's military records. It informed him that "no Inquests are held in Scotland" but that "a full enquiry was made by the Procurator Fiscal and the results communicated to the Crown Office Authorities at Edinburgh". He went on to list the personal items found on the body, "a watch and chain, Crucifix, two letters and a steamboat ticket", and said that they would be returned to the family.
Christopher Kenny was buried in St Cuthbert's Old Churchyard in Kirkcudbright along with four other casualties from the Leinster recovered in the area. All were buried with full military honours. A headstone was raised by public subscription to mark their graves.

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Results as released by the NECO's Registrar, Professor Promise Okpala, revealed that over 50 per cent of the over 1 million candidates that sat for the core subjects of English language, mathematics, economics and biology got credit passes and above.
This is against the persistent and dismal 20 per cent recorded in the last five years.
According to Professor Okpala, there was a marked improvement in other core subjects of Chemistry, Physics, Government and Commerce as over 45 per cent of the candidates scored credit passes and above as against 15 per cent last year.
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The Global Passenger Cars Market is projected to register a CAGR of -2.90%
Largest Segment by Fuel Type - Gasoline: Gasoline has the highest growth among all fuel types across globe. Easy availability of the traditional fuel and the affordable price of the gasoline engines provide an edge over other fuel options.
Largest Segment by Country - Germany: Globally, China has witnessed the largest share in passenger car sales. The growing disposable income of consumers and changing lifestyles are increasing the demand for passenger cars in China.
Largest Segment by Sub-Body Type - Sports Utility Vehicle: Strong build, ability to drive in all terrains and bold looks, strong engines are some of the factors making SUVs the largest sub-body type in the global passenger car market.
Fastest-growing Segment by Fuel Type - FCEV: Stringent norms, governmental subsidies, continued encouragement of BEV adoption among private auto owners which is making BEV the fastest-growing segment in passenger car market globally.
Sports Utility Vehicle is the largest segment by Sub Body Type.
The automotive industry was one of the industries most affected by the global chip shortage and supply chain disruptions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, automobile manufacturer Tesla has continued to come under fire for contributing to climate change through the manufacturing process and the automobiles produced. EU car buyers appear to be contributing to reducing the harmful effects of fossil fuel-powered vehicles.
The year 2020 saw a substantial effect of the pandemic on global auto markets. As more nations restricted travel due to the pandemic in 2020, the automotive industry experienced several setbacks. In 2020, 63.8 million cars were sold worldwide. A slight rebound was expected in 2021, with 66 million cars expected to be sold. Toyota and the Volkswagen Group both saw reductions in their deliveries of more than a million cars.
In 2021, approximately 56.4 million passenger cars were sold worldwide, representing a nearly 5% increase over the previous year. China had the largest regional automobile market in 2021, with slightly less than 21.5 million units. Automotive technology is expected to undergo significant change in the next ten years. Around 26% of new automobile sales globally are expected to be of electric vehicles by 2030, with an estimated 58 million new self-driving cars to be added to the global fleet by 2022. As a result of technological advancements, the types of components required to create the finished product have begun to change. This allows for further segmentation of the automotive supplier market, particularly the automotive electronics market. Automation and electrification are expected to boost the car market in the near future.
Europe is the largest segment by Region.
Governments worldwide have been proactive in enacting policies to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles. China, India, France, and the United Kingdom have announced plans to completely phase out the petrol and diesel vehicles industry before 2040.
An increase in the demand for clean energy in the automotive industry is one of the major factors contributing to the market's growth. OEMs are also redefining their roadmap for electric vehicles. For instance, in March 2022, Kia Motors announced that it would enter the electric pickup truck market, announcing that two models would be available by 2027. In March 2022, Ford announced that it would offer a new generation of four electric commercial vehicles by 2024.
E-commerce companies have significant opportunities to explore the retail e-commerce market due to high internet and smartphone penetration in the North American region. It also helps e-commerce companies in expanding their business through broader reach. This is an important factor in the growth of the electric vehicle market in the world. The above trend has propelled automakers to increase their expenditure on the R&D of trucks, which has boosted the market growth of electric vehicles. These factors are expected to help market growth over the forecast period.
The Global Passenger Cars Market is fragmented, with the top five companies occupying 37.30%. The major players in this market are Ford Motor Company, Hyundai Motor Company, Nissan Motor Company Ltd, Toyota Motor Corporation and Volkswagen AG (sorted alphabetically).
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3.1 Study Assumptions & Market Definition
3.2 Scope of the Study
4 KEY INDUSTRY TRENDS
4.1 Population
4.2 GDP
4.3 CVP
4.4 Inflation Rate
4.5 Interest Rate For Auto Loans
4.6 Battery Price (per Kwh)
4.7 Logistics Performance Index
4.8 Electrification Impact
4.9 New XEV Models Announced
4.10 Charging Stations Deployment
4.11 Regulatory Framework
4.12 Value Chain & Distribution Channel Analysis
5 MARKET SEGMENTATION
5.1 Body Type
5.1.1 Passenger Cars
5.1.1.1 Hatchback
5.1.1.2 Multi-purpose Vehicle
5.1.1.3 Sedan
5.1.1.4 Sports Utility Vehicle
5.2 Engine Type
5.2.1 Hybrid And Electric Vehicles
5.2.1.1 By Fuel Type
5.2.1.1.1 BEV
5.2.1.1.2 FCEV
5.2.1.1.3 HEV
5.2.1.1.4 PHEV
5.2.2 ICE
5.2.2.1.1 CNG
5.2.2.1.2 Diesel
5.2.2.1.3 Gasoline
5.2.2.1.4 LPG
5.3 Region
5.3.1 Africa
5.3.2.4 Indonesia
5.3.2.6 Malaysia
5.3.2.8 Thailand
5.3.2.9 Rest-of-APAC
5.3.3.1 Austria
5.3.3.2 Belgium
5.3.3.3 Czech Republic
5.3.3.4 Denmark
5.3.3.5 Estonia
5.3.3.8 Ireland
5.3.3.10 Latvia
5.3.3.11 Lithuania
5.3.3.12 Norway
5.3.3.13 Poland
5.3.3.14 Russia
5.3.3.15 Spain
5.3.3.16 Sweden
5.3.3.17 UK
5.3.3.18 Rest-of-Europe
5.3.4 Middle East
5.3.4.1 UAE
5.3.4.2 Rest-of-MEA
5.3.5 Miidle East
5.3.6.3 US
5.3.6.4 Rest-of-North America
5.3.7.1 Rest-of-Latin America
6 COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
6.1 Key Strategic Moves
6.3 Company Landscape
6.4.1 BMW AG
6.4.2 Ford Motor Company
6.4.3 Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
6.4.4 Hyundai Motor Company
6.4.5 Kia corporation
6.4.6 Mercedes Group
6.4.7 Nissan Motor Company Ltd
6.4.8 Toyota Motor Corporation
6.4.9 Volkswagen AG
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8.1.2 Porter's Five Forces Framework
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8.1.4 Market Dynamics (DROs)
8.2 Sources & References
8.3 List of Tables & Figures
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SUV Market by Type (Mini, Compact, Mid- & Full-Size, MPV), Propulsion (Diesel, Gasoline, Electric), Class (B, C, D, E), Seating Capacity (5 Seater,>5 seater), EV Type (BEV, PHEV, FCEV), Sales (Compact, Mid- & Full-Size) & Region - Global Forecast to 2027
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AHEM!!!!! The National Security Agency, As Well As Other US Intelligence Agencies, Are Prohibited From Conducting Electronic and Signals Collection Inside the US. But Not In Russia
by Adam L Silverman | January 18, 2021 8:36 pm | 187 Comments
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Parler is back online now by routing 100% of its user traffic through servers located within the Russian Federation.
Raise your hand if you understand the very significant impact this has on the ability to surveil and target insurrectionists who organize on Parler.
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec) January 18, 2021
There are two interesting takeaways here.
The first is that anyone in the US planning further acts of low intensity warfare and political violence in the US on Parler are now going to be much, much, much, much easier for US intelligence to track. Because Parler's now being hosted in Russia. MORONS!!!
The second is that this supports the theory that Parler was always a Russian data collection, surveillance, misinformation, and disinformation op to begin with. As this detailed Twitter thread, which I'll excerpt, seems to suggest:
So let's talk about Parler. Where did it come from? Founder John Matze met his now wife, Alina Mukhutdinova, in May 15, 2016 in Las Vegas. Alina is from Kazan, Russia. She was on a two week road trip "vacation" across the USA with a friend.
— Dave Troy (@davetroy) November 13, 2020
(This sounds a lot like this USA road trip taken by Anna Bogacheva and Aleksandra Krylova in 2014.) https://t.co/xBBwAoqQXl
John and Alina were married December 2, 2017 in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. They were married in a government facility overseen by Alina's mother, Gulnara Mukhutdinova, a longtime government functionary. Gulnara's mother was an "Honored Builder of Russia" in Soviet times.
John and Alina traveled in Russia and in Europe extensively between December and July 2018. They returned to Vegas and launched Parler with Jared Thomson in August 2018. Almost no one joined between August and December 2018; it was in early alpha stages.
Now let's talk money. Parler LLC is owned by two member entities: John Matze and NDMASCENDANT LLC. There is no public record of who comprises NDMASCENDANT LLC. It is a Delaware corporation. The company has not raised any traditional VC rounds that we can see.
However none of this passes the sniff test: any company aiming to challenge firms at Twitter scale needs a massive supply of funds to hire employees competitively and pay for rapidly scalable computing infrastructure.
Additionally, flooding the zone with shit noise about the company's ownership would seem to be a way of deflecting attention away from valid questions about that exact question. Who does own it? Where is the money, tech talent and infrastructure coming from? Follow the money.
Much more at the Twitter thread. It doesn't mean that The guy with the Russian wife, whose mother in law who is a long time Russian government functionary, and who can't provide a straight answer about his funding is getting his funding from Russia, but that is a question that needs to be answered.
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Several people have asked me about this unpleasant news:
The NSA is 'moving forward' to install Michael Ellis, a former GOP operative, as its top lawyer. TRUMP DECISIONS ARE A FUNDAMENTAL THREAT TO US NATIONAL SECURITY. THIS IS A POLITICAL HACK IN A CAREER POSITION WITH 48 HOURS TO GO. https://t.co/1KmRM1U6zn
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) January 17, 2021
From The Washington Post:
The National Security Agency is "moving forward" to install Michael Ellis, a former GOP political operative and White House official, as the agency's top lawyer, the agency said Sunday.
The announcement came a day after acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller ordered the NSA director, Gen. Paul Nakasone, to immediately place Ellis in position as the agency's general counsel.
Ellis probably will start work on Tuesday, the day before the Biden administration takes office, said several individuals.
Although Nakasone is not the hiring authority — the decision is made by the Pentagon general counsel — by tradition the NSA director weighs in on the selection.
"Mr. Ellis accepted his final job offer yesterday afternoon," the NSA said in a statement Sunday. "NSA is moving forward with his employment."
The Pentagon declined to comment.
Ellis was selected under pressure from the White House, people familiar with the matter said at the time. The move drew criticism from national security legal experts as an attempt to politicize a career position.
The good news for all of you is because I've been both a supervisory GS 15 (on civilian mobilization orders under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of Title IV) who assisted the senior leadership of my program in managing it, as well as being a supervisory contractor pay graded as a GS 15, I have a certain amount of experiential knowledge in how all of this works including Federal hiring, personnel management, and personnel management flexibilities. The bad news for all of you is you're unlikely to be happy with my answers.
Ellis will most likely begin in-processing at NSA sometime on Tuesday, as it is the first day the government opens after the long holiday weekend. I said likely, because a whole bunch of things could delay it a couple of days. But just because he's in-processing, does not mean he's actually going to be doing any actual work. He'll be filling out a lot of paperwork, getting a new common access card (CAC card), things like that. At major commands, which NSA sort of is because it is led by a dual hatted four star, they usually do the security clearance indoctrinations once a week. This is because they have lots of people rotating in on a regular basis, so they schedule one group session once or twice a week, which then frees up the security officers to do the rest of their jobs the rest of the week. Usually you cannot be scheduled for that indoctrination until after your CAC card is issued. So it is possible, if not likely, that even if he begins to in-process on Tuesday some time, he won't be able to be read on to the NSA's TS/SCI immediately. When I in-processed at SOCOM for my senior fellowship at JSOU it took about three week's to get me indoctrinated because the SSO, who is actually a really good guy, was being a SSO.*
The person in charge of this – the clearance indoctrination and read on – is the Special Security Officer (SSO). They do not have a sense of humor. Nor do they like anyone telling them what to do. I missed out on a supervisory contract position at a three letter agency in 2016 because the SSO demanded that my Top Secret (TS) clearance be renewed, which it did not need to be because my Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance, which is the higher of the two, was active. We went ahead and started the renewal for the TS, a new interim TS was issued within 48 hours, which gave me an active interim TS and an active, fully adjudicated SCI. He still refused to allow me to be read on. Now the requirement was that my TS be fully adjudicated. This was contrary to the law and the regulations, but he wouldn't budge. My TS was renewed in record time, 11 months, but by then the position had to be filled and the prime on the contract found someone less well qualified.** So the SSO will determine when Ellis gets read on. This is NOT if Ellis gets a clearance. He already has one from being the Deputy White House Counsel for National Security. It is solely about getting him indoctrinated and read on to the NSA's clearance.
So what can be done? Well… GEN Nakasone can play hard ball, delay things on Tuesday until after President-elect Biden is sworn in on Wednesday, which means Chris Miller is no longer illegally serving as the Acting Secretary of Defense, and then just put his foot back down again and refuse to allow Ellis access to the building until the Biden team sorts everything out.
However, I think what is more likely is that Ellis will begin in-processing on Tuesday or some other time this week and then, because this is a Senior Executive Service (SES) career position, and there are questions about how the search was conducted, he'll simply be reassigned. By reassigned it means he'll still be an SES, we'll still be paying his salary, but he'll be responsible for providing legal advice to the people who restock the snack bar at the NSA building. SESes get reassigned all the time. They could reassign him to a radar intercept station in Alaska and then it is up to him to either accept the transfer or quit. The other option is they just give him nothing to do. Basically he gets an office and that's it. They just directly bypass him until they can sort out if there were hiring irregularities and then they either are able to remove him or if they can't they reassign him or freeze him out until he quits in frustration. This turns his hiring into waste, fraud, and abuse, but it is far better than letting one of Devin Nunes proteges serve as the general counsel for the NSA.
What is not going to happen is this:
Never fear General. Monday is a day off so he starts Tuesday 0900 for In processing briefings up at Fanx. Also there is the small matter of actually passing a REAL full spectrum lifestyle/CI polygraph first soooo they should be able to inform him he's fired at 12:01 Wednesday. https://t.co/jyKEapphfC
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) January 17, 2021
Ellis already had to pass a fill spectrum lifestyle and counterintelligence (CI) investigation and polygraph when he was awarded his clearance to be the Deputy White House Counsel for National Security. Top Secret clearances are currently good for seven years. There is not, despite what people will tell you, an actual expiration date for SCI clearances, but they are functionally good as long as you are read on to an agency's, department's, office's, bureau's, and/or command's sensitive compartmented information clearance or for two years. Why two years? Because the Joint Personnel Adjudication System (JPAS) is programmed to drop an individual's SCI out of the system after 24 months if they are not listed as active in the system. The only clearance related delays you might see here is the SSO not jumping through his or her grommet to expedite Ellis's indoctrination session.
Short answer: it's complicated, but Ellis will become a career SES this week. Whether he actually is ever given anything productive to do other than providing legal guidance to the person who restocks the straws next to the soda machine in the NSA snack bar is the real question. I guarantee that the Biden-Harris DOD and Intel transition teams are aware of this as it has been widely reported and have a plan to ensure that if Ellis does indeed start this week, he'll be quickly sidelined until they can figure out how to either permanently reassign him were he can't cause problems or they can vacate the hire.
The bigger problem is we don't know exactly how many other of these Trump loyalists have been burrowed into the career civil service from political appointments. I've seen reporting that indicates at least/approximately five over the past six months. And the most disturbing one, other than Ellis, is a senior political appointee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was burrowed into a career SES position there. That person was not identified in the reporting, but whomever it is, that person is going to have to be isolated, reassigned, and/or terminated.
* One of the issues is that the SSO shop at SOCOM demanded paperwork they were not legally entitled to in order to process me for indoctrination. This held things up by just long enough to miss the first possible date for me to be indoctrinated. Then they said it would take at least a week to process this paperwork that they were not legally entitled to, which meant the earliest I could be indoctrinated was during the third week after my arrival. What paperwork did they want? Paperwork that disclosed all relationships with foreign military and/or governmental personnel. Which the paperwork I'd already submitted clearly stated, after you check the box that yes you do have a relationship with foreign military and/or governmental personnel if said relationships are the result of your duties for the US government, then they do not have to be fully disclosed with the additional paperwork. There is then a box to check indicating if this was the result of official duties for the US government, which it was, so I checked it and I then explained this in the box provided to do that by narrative answer. I wound up having to fill out the same form 15 times to account for every foreign officer I either taught, supervised, are was assigned with at USAWC, which pretty much ate most of a day. My favorite part of these was "please provide a physical description". Because someone from Tampa was going to fly out to Nepal or Kuwait or Israel or Germany or New Zealand or Kenya and try to find them based on my description. My Kenyan Army students are both Masai warriors. So I wrote "Traditional Masai features". I honestly hope they actually looked these people up, because a former student was, by that time, the Director of Pakistan's ISI, which made him one of the most powerful people in Central and Southeast Asia.
** In retrospect I probably should have hired a national security lawyer ASAP and let them kick the SSO in the butt to get this resolved in my favor, but by the time it because clear that the SSO was going to hold me up no matter what the law and the regs said, let alone what we submitted to him, the government had to have the position filled and the prime had to find someone else. Which was a real shame as the position description looked like it was written off of my CV, I'd actually done this type of work before in a supervisory capacity, and they'd spent over 6 months, at the point that the prime mentioned it to my boss and he said "I'VE GOT THE GUY WHO WROTE THE MANUAL ON THIS!!!!", trying to find someone to fill it to no avail.
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Breaking: Alexei Navalny's Plane Landed Safely In Russia; He Was Immediately Arrested
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Here's Sky News video of the arrival. There's a much shorter clip of the arrest as the tram reaches the terminal in the first tweet below the YouTube embed.
🇷🇺 — BREAKING: JUST IN: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested just moments after landing in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/ET9xXdcPpA
— Belaaz (@TheBelaaz) January 17, 2021
A spokesperson for Alexi Navalny says his location is now unknown and Russian authorities are not sharing any information regarding his whereabouts or why he was detained. https://t.co/UubWTR4er2
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) January 17, 2021
When you think what likely awaits Navalny, these are heartbreaking photos. https://t.co/oxBdcpmRVI
— Ben Judah (@b_judah) January 17, 2021
I don't have much more to add other than he and his family have real courage to continue to fight this fight.
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Operation Lollipop: A Preview Of President-Elect Biden's Vaccination Plan
by Adam L Silverman | January 14, 2021 11:02 pm | 170 Comments
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Tonight President-elect Biden announced that he would be announcing his vaccination plan tomorrow. For your convenience, we here at the Balloon Juice bunker have gotten a copy of the plan, codename Operation Lollipop, and it is our distinct honor and privilege to bring it to you now. Full disclosure: contrary to initial reports, Dave Anderson was not injured in obtaining these plans. Several Bothans, however…
Operation Lollipop
Roll up sleeve.
Person administering the vaccine swabs your upper arm.
Fill syringe with vaccine.
Stick needle in arm. (Special sequel instructions for Governor Ron DeStupid in Florida: ensure that needle is attached to the syringe first!)
Push the motherfucking plunger on that syringe! Do it for God, Mom, Apple Pie, the Bald Eagle, and Randolph Scott!
Remove needle from arm!
Apply Band-Aid.
Roll down sleeve.
Observe patient for 15 minutes to ensure no adverse effects. (Special sequel instructions for Governor Ron DeStupid in Florida: these adverse effects may be indistinguishable from the normal behavior of Floriduh! Man, please refer to a medical professional if necessary.)
Provide vaccinated person with their proof of vaccination.
Issue vaccinated person a lollipop.
Repeat 350 million times.
Declare victory, put on aviator sunglasses, peel out in corvette.
Just to be on the safe side, because it is American and it is 2021:
Peter Hastings did not write this post, nor did he author President-elect Biden's vaccination plan, he did write the episode of Mindy and Buttons for Animaniacs Season 1, Episode 6.
This is SATIRE!!!!!
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The Only Thing Worse Than a Neo-Confederate Is a Historically Illiterate Neo-Confederate
by Adam L Silverman | January 9, 2021 10:52 pm | 195 Comments
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Yesterday some dumbass tied a Confederate flag to the doors of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park in New York City. I've tried to find a picture of the flag tied to the doors to confirm my suspicion that the moron who did this is a Confederate navy aficionado.
Regardless, the person who did this is also historically illiterate. The only worse thing than a racist, anti-Semitic neo-Confederate is a historically illiterate one. Unfortunately, there were Jewish Americans who supported the Confederacy.
The most prominent Jewish Confederate was Judah P. Benjamin, who is pictured above. Benjamin, known as both the brains of the Confederacy and the Dark Prince of the Confederacy – the latter was, at the time it was used to refer to him, an anti-Semitic allusion by the Christian Confederates to Benjamin's being Jewish – served as the Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America. That was after he served as a US Senator from Louisiana. Prior to that he was a Louisiana state legislator, a founder of the Illinois Railroad, and the owner of a plantation and 150 slaves until he sold both the plantation and the slaves in 1850. Benjamin also established and ran the Confederacy's intelligence service, so in addition to everything else he was the Confederacy's spymaster. After the Confederacy fell he escaped to England and became a Queen's Coroner.
Another prominent Jewish Confederate was Raphael J. Moses. pictured above. He served in the Army of Northern Virginia as LTG James Longstreet's Commissary Officer and held the rank of major. It fell to Major Moses to carry out the last order of the Confederacy: to take $40,000 in gold and silver bullion from the Confederate treasury to feed and provision defeated Confederate soldiers returning home from the war. Over a dozen of Moses's family members also served in the Confederate military and his great grandfathers on both sides had served in the War of Independence. Moses, like Benjamin, was a plantation owner, though in Georgia. It was there that he was the first person to commercially grow peaches in Georgia.
There were, of course, other Jewish Confederates, as well as a small number of plantation and slave owning Jews in both the US south and in the Caribbean, though they were fortunately few in relation to their Christian counterparts. The definitive work on this topic is Eli Farber's Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight.
America's original sin of slavery was, unfortunately, interfaith, ecumenical, and non-denominational. And while the Confederate naval jack has largely become a general symbol of racism, hate, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia because these racists are too stupid to know what flag they're flying, it is important to remember that while most Jewish Americans aren't proud of our religious forebears unfortunate associations with the Confederacy and slavery, it doesn't mean that we're historically illiterate about it either.
We leave the last word to LTG William Tecumseh Sherman!
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BOLO: Can You Help The FBI Identify This Domestic Terrorist?
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Do you know this man?
Yesterday, some of the extremist insurrectionists that Trump had mobilized to overthrow the US Congress, the Constitution, and the constitutional order, had the goal of taking the Vice President, the Senate and House leadership, and other members of the Senate and the House and their staff hostage to either coerce them by the threat of force or the application of actual force to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and reinstall Trump as president.
I heard at least 3 different rioters at the Capitol say that they hoped to find Vice President Mike Pence and execute him by hanging him from a Capitol Hill tree as a traitor. It was a common line being repeated. Many more were just talking about how the VP should be executed. https://t.co/fxHREouEWF
— Jim Bourg (@jimbourg) January 8, 2021
That's what this guy was up to:
WOW: Was there a plan to take hostages? This man is carrying police-style zip-tie handcuffs. And mace(?) pic.twitter.com/np3i1pUc6n
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) January 7, 2021
Neck Gaiter pulled way up over his nose to obscure his face and make it hard to identify him? Check. Black Rifle Coffee Company Ball Cap pulled way down to obscure his face and make it hard to identify him? Check. Tennessee Blue Line Flag patch? Check. Punisher skull superimposed on the American Flag patch? Check. Flex cuffs? Check. Micro-compact semi-automatic pistol or small taser? Check. Replacement magazines in the pouches on the left side of his plate carrier? Check. Mace in the pouch on the right side of his plate carrier? Check. Smartphone in the middle of his plate carrier streaming his involvement in the attempt to overthrow the Congress of the United States, the US Constitution, and the constitutional order? Check!
Well Bloomberg's tech reporter William Turton got him on video at the Grand Hyatt DC with his mask off:
Pretty chill vibe here in this hotel lobby, as Trump supporters decompress from today's events. All are violating local mask rules, despite multiple massive signs about the mask rule. pic.twitter.com/R98rwGDgaD
— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) January 7, 2021
Here he is sitting in the same spot in the hotel lobby, talking how how "antifa" (I'm guessing he means me) filmed him https://t.co/lzyHtqbpAN
Some intrepid folks made stills:
A few more angles pic.twitter.com/bhPnH3yYsE
— Robert Arthur (@jaunte) January 9, 2021
Here he is on video entering the Capitol with the seeming blessing of the Capitol Police:
Here is another photo of the zip-tie guy and the woman he accompanied up the stairs to the rotunda. pic.twitter.com/WTbdsiE4YV
— The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) January 8, 2021
If you know who this domestic terrorist is, the FBI would like to know:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Washington Field Office is seeking the public's assistance in identifying individuals who made unlawful entry into the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
Submit a Tip:
Anyone with information regarding these individuals, or anyone who witnessed any unlawful violent actions at the Capitol or near the area, is asked to contact the FBI's Toll-Free Tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) to verbally report tips. You may also submit any information, photos, or videos that could be relevant online at fbi.gov/USCapitol. You may also contact your local FBI office or the nearest American Embassy or Consulate.
Field Office: Washington D.C.
Submit an anonymous Tip online
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Speaker Pelosi and Senator McConnell Are Running Out of Time: The President Must Be Impeached Tonight!
by Adam L Silverman | January 6, 2021 6:56 pm | 581 Comments
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Things are now moving at their own pace. Events are out of the hands of the decision makers. There is a limited amount of time to get things back under control.
Today, at the instigation of President Trump and his enablers in the House and Senate Republican caucuses, Trump's supporters engaged in an act of violent, extremist, armed insurrection to overthrow the Congress of the United States of America and the Constitution of the United States.
Early this evening Vice President Pence, after being consulted by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff GEN Milley and the unqualified Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, authorized the mobilization and deployment of the National Guard to respond to the attack on the US government instigated and fomented by President Trump and his enablers! This is an illegal order! Vice President Pence is not in the chain of command, he has no authority to issue any such order, and, as a result, the US military is now operating outside of constitutional and lawful civilian control.
As I type this time is running out for Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader McConnell to move to both occupy the high ground and to contact in response to the ongoing events. The revolutionary insurrection that President Trump and his Republican enablers in the House, the Senate, elected Republicans at the state level, and conservative news media has created against the United States is ongoing. As such, Trump needs to be immediately impeached in the House and then the Senate must move to convict and remove him. They need to do it before he decides to up the ante, invoke the Insurrection Act, and declare martial law. We can only imagine what he might try to do with the national security emergency powers he would be granted under such a declaration, but there is no longer the actual time, let alone the political space, to wait around and find out.
If Speaker Pelosi and Senator McConnell do not act now, they will not get the chance to act. It is now or never. Despite the wishes of some, there is no time to wish for Vice President Pence and Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. America as a self governing democratic-republic is in a moment of gravest danger. Speaker Pelosi and Senator McConnell have to lead now lest the danger consume us all. If they don't, then, as Samuel Adams said:
This meeting can do nothing more to save this country!
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SWEAT Opens Tonight At Goodman Theatre
by BWW News Desk
BroadwayWorld.com Mar. 18, 2019
Powerful drama: still made in America. Lynn Nottage's 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat opens tonight in its Chicago premiere at Goodman Theatre. Ron OJ Parson directs the collision of race, class and friendship at a pivotal moment in America-hailed as "extraordinarily moving" (The New York Times) and "passionate and necessary...a masterful depiction of the forces that divide and conquer us" (Time Out New York). Sweat marks the fourth Nottage play to be produced at the Goodman, following Crumbs from the Table of Joy (2006), Ruined (a 2008 world-premiere Goodman commission that earned the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama) and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2013). Sweat appears through April 14 in the Albert Theatre. Tickets ($20 - $80; subject to change) are available at Goodmantheatre.org/Sweat, by telephone at 312.443.3800 or at the box office (170 N. Dearborn).
"When I read the play, which toggles back and forth in time between 2000 and 2008, I thought our audiences would appreciate its adroit examination of the deindustrialization of American cities, its incisive portrayal of race relations and its lively characters whose quotidian daily concerns belie the vast scope of their story," said Artistic Director Robert Falls. "We are proud to welcome back both Lynn and Ron for this work that is as enthralling as it is though-provoking, as we look back on the first decade of this century with the perspective of all that has happened in our nation since."
Friends in a Rust Belt town have spent their lives sharing secrets and laughs on the factory floor. But when layoffs begin to chip away at their trust, they're pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight. "Lynn Nottage goes into the heart of working-class America" (Variety) in this "superb, vital contribution to contemporary drama that could not be more timely" (The New York Times). The ensemble cast includes Tyla Abercrumbie (Cynthia), Steve Casillas (Oscar), Mike Cherry (Jason), Ronald Conner (Evan), Chaon Cross (Jessie), Kirsten Fitzgerald (Tracey), Keith Kupferer (Stan), Edgar Sanchez (Chris) and André Teamer (Brucie). The creative team includes Kevin Depinet (Set Design), Mara Blumenfeld (Costume Design), Keith Parham (Lighting Design) and Richard Woodbury (Sound Design). Alden Vasquez is the Production Stage Manager.
Playwright Lynn Nottage is the first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Her plays have been produced widely in the United States and throughout the world. Sweat (Pulitzer Prize, Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award nomination) moved to Broadway after a sold-out run at The Public Theater. It premiered and was commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival American Revolutions History Cycle/Arena Stage. Her other plays include By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lilly Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Ruined (Pulitzer Prize, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics' Circle, Audelco, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Intimate Apparel (American Theatre Critics and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (OBIE Award), Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, Mud, River, Stone, Por'knockers and POOF! In addition, she is working with composer Ricky Ian Gordon on adapting her play Intimate Apparel into an opera (commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater). She is also developing This is Reading, a performance installation based on two years of interviews, which opened at the Franklin Street, Reading Railroad Station in Reading, PA in July 2017. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Park Avenue Armory. She is the co-founder of the production company Market Road Films, whose most recent projects include The Notorious Mr. Bout directed by Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin (premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014), First to Fall directed by Rachel Beth Anderson (premiere at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 2013) and Remote Control (premiere at Busan International Film Festival 2013, New Currents Award). She has also developed original projects for HBO, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Showtime, This is That and Harpo. She is writer/producer on the Netflix series She's Gotta Have It directed by Spike Lee. Nottage is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Grant Letters, Columbia University Provost Grant, Doris Duke Artist Award, The Joyce Foundation Commission Project & Grant, Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award, Nelson A. Rockefeller Award for Creativity, The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foote Prize, Helen Hayes Award, the Lee Reynolds Award and the Jewish World Watch iWitness Award. Her other honors include the National Black Theatre Fest's August Wilson Playwriting Award, a Guggenheim Grant, Lucille Lortel Fellowship and Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She is also an associate professor in the theater Department at Columbia School of the Arts. Nottage is a board member for BRIC Arts Media Bklyn, Donor Direct Action, Dramatist Play Service, Second Stage and the Dramatists Guild. She recently completed a three-year term as an Artist Trustee on the Board of The Sundance Institute. She is member of the The Dramatists Guild and WGAE.
Director Ron OJ Parson returns to Goodman Theatre, where he previously directed Let Me Live (1998). As an actor, he last appeared at the Goodman in Romance. He is a resident artist at Court Theatre, and former co-founder and artistic director of The Onyx Theatre Ensemble. Recent directing credits include Skeleton Crew and Detroit 67 at Northlight Theatre; Fences at Kansas City Repertory Theatre; Five Guys Named Moe, Gem of the Ocean, Seven Guitars, The Mountaintop and Waiting For Godot at Court Theatre; East Texas Hot Links at Writers Theatre (where he is an associate artist); Paradise Blue, A Raisin in the Sun and Sunset Baby at TimeLine Theatre Company (where he is an associate artist), Apt. 3 A at Windy City Playhouse and The Who & The What at Victory Gardens Theater. Additional Chicago credits include Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Black Ensemble Theater, ETA Creative Arts, Congo Square Theatre Company, Teatro Vista (where he is an associate artist), Chicago Dramatists, UrbanTheater Company, Chicago Theatre Company, American Blues Theater and City Lit Theater. Regional and New York credits include Virginia Stage Company, Paul Robeson Theatre, Portland Stage, Studio Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Morris A. Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The St. Louis Black Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center, Signature Theatre (New York), Alliance Theatre, South Coast Repertory and Pasadena Playhouse. In Canada, he directed the world premiere of Palmer Park at the Stratford Festival. Parson is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and SDC. Parson hails from Buffalo, New York and is a graduate of the University of Michigan's professional theater program. RonojParson.com
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"Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, on the eighteenth of April, in seventy five hardly a man is now alive.
" Of the North Church tower as a signal light, One if by land, two if by sea.
"A hurry of hoofs in a village street."
In this quote from "Paul Revere's Ride" it shows rhyme scheme. At the end of each line the last word sounds the same as the last.
In this, Paul Revere is telling the spy what to do when he sees the British approaching. The lights symbolize danger is on its way.
This shows alliteration because of how the consonant sound is repeating.
In this poem the author uses similies. " A phantom ship, with each mast and spar, across the moon like a prison bar." This means that the British war ships were rolling in and were intimidating.


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