The Eternal Doorman

38:38 On the financial system in Iran and Lebanon. See  Catherine Austin Fitts on Banking and War in the Middle East  and  Economic Madness .  My comment : 41:42 Dedolarization will be difficult because of these swap lines the Federal Reserve has with those countries that have intelligence sharing agreements with the US. Principally the Bank of England which has a subterranean gateway to the offshore secret banking network. Nobody even knows how much is in that system. It's BS money, but they just need to keep up a pretence that it matters.  Subscribe to  Critical Perpectives . 

Subscribe to Forbes Breaking Wind . Subscribe to AP .  See also this September 11, 2013 Guardian article by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill:  NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel .  Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart that shows the US government handed over intercepted communications likely to contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. The agreement places no legally binding limits on the use of the data by the Israelis. See also  Audrey Henson on Oracle and Healthcare Data .  Subscribe to  More Perfect Union .  See  https://thedreydossier.substack.com/ Subscribe to The Drey Dossier .  Now let's pretend we're plotting a NYT best-selling thriller, so in this chapter, the FBI are pretending to be after Russian FSB hackers, but in fact they just hacked millions of Americans' routers so they...

He focuses on this article:  What this Norwegian ‘close call’ says about a world without New START  by Jamie Withorne, Raven Witherspoon. Other articles they've published include the one claiming there was highly enriched uranium near Isfahan:  Analysis: Iran likely transferred highly enriched uranium to Isfahan before the June strikes . As regards triggering early warning systems, he says that drone attacks on Russian early warning radar systems could easily be taken as an indication of a pre-emptive nuclear strike. See this APT post about a statement purportedly made by one Colonel Richard Kemp .  Subscribe to  Dialogue Works . James Coomarasamy interview with Russian ambassador Andrei Kelin See this Guardian story from 8 May 2024:  UK to expel Russian defence attache as sanctions escalate : Home secretary announces closure of Russian diplomatic premises after pattern of ‘malign activity’ in Britain and Europe ...  The Russian properties that have h...

My comment : I don't understand why economic growth requires cheap energy. If we were intelligent then we could produce a model where an economy could grow by becoming more energy-efficient instead of by generating more energy. So the economy would be knowledge-based rather than energy-materials-based.  Subscribe to Sean Foo . My comment : What if the whole AI thing is just not a smart way to do computing? I mean, you are building these systems that you want to be deterministic, so that they do precisely what you want them to do, but then you use a non-deterministic language to specify what they are actually going to do. You can call it "prompt engineering" but that doesn't make it it engineering. And to do this, and to maintain it, you need massive datacenters to turn prompts into tokens and this is where all this adversarial bullshit is going on? That doesn't sound sustainable to me.  Subscribe to  Cyb3rmaddy .  Subscribe to Level1 Links with Friends .  See...

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Subscribe to Kim Iversen . I just saw this an hour or so before Kim posted that clip. So I looked her up on TrackAIPAC and it says Elizabeth Warren MA-SEN [D] Israel Lobby Total: $1,385,014 PACs: $30,454 IE: $0 Lobby Donors: $1,354,560 DEVPAC, JAC, JSTREET We encourage this senator to continue improving their legislative record on Israel-Palestine issues. Track AIPAC is a grassroots effort to reveal and counter the influence of AIPAC and the Israel lobby by systematically documenting their financial contributions to our federal officials. We support candidates who refuse support from the Israel lobby and champion a foreign policy based on human rights and international law. Subscribe to  Senator Elizabeth Warren .  The EU has a special Israel deal, called the Association Agreement, which makes Israel effectively a de facto member of the EU.  Subscribe to TRT World .  My comment : 12:59 On Vance in Islamabad: look into his connection with Larry Ellison who is appar...

Subscribe to  Al Mayadeen English . Subscribe to Al Jazeera .  See also Vanessa Beeley talking with Tafhim Kiani in  Lena Petrova interview with Seyed Mohammad Marandi .  Subscribe to Rachel Blevins .  9:25 On the Islamabad negotiations, Pepe Escobar talked about the US/Iran sharing "management responsibility" in the Strait of Hormuz:  Subscribe to  Judging Freedom .  Max Blumenthal 16:27 On Palestine Action and the court order on reporting on the trial of the Filton Six. See this Guardian report yesterday  Palestine Action activists wanted to smash up Elbit Systems’ property, court told .  See the Guardian piece  Trump’s Iran fiasco has led him into the gravest territory  by Sidney Blumenthal.  Subscribe to  Judging Freedom .  People in Lebanon still pleased not to be bombed,... Laith Marouf sits with Dr Jamal Wakim, professor of Political Science at the Lebanese University:  Subscribe to Free Palestine ...

See  A Complete Axiomatisation of Equivalence for Discrete Probabilistic Programming . The first part of the talk seems to be missing,...  See also  The dice probabilistic programming language .  The discussion at the end is very interesting (and civilized!) It reminds me of an e-mail discussion I had in 2009. See also  People Talking about Programming .  Subscribe to  Topos Institute