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People need to stop referring to Russia’s ongoing hybrid warfare against the U.S. as “election meddling.” Putin isn’t a “Karen” sticking his nose in America’s democratic process. He’s a mob boss who runs a nuclear-armed mafia state and his goal is to destroy the United States. twitter.com/AlexandraChalup/status/1275609244352614400 What the fightback will need to entail pushing back against strongly.  The US may have strong enough structure and institutions, security apparatus to achieve this, despite past "events", but UK may be too late to bring this about, assuming it's government has been too badly compromised, corrupted and weakened. a) Foreign Affairs (2020), " The Rise of Strategic Corruption:  How States Weaponize Graft", July/August 2020. www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-09/rise-strategic-corruption "Meanwhile, because of the deregulation of the global financial system during the 1970s and 1980s, it was much easi...

Management Jargon Bullshit. Wastes huge amounts of people's time. Initially came from US defense industry, late 1960s, more specifically US Air Force, always regarded as superior intellectuals by the US Army [am I right Major?]. Both often seemed equally dismissive of US Navy boatpeople, but at bottom were always US Army "grunts" and especially USACE (Engineers). Some bright spark thought it GREAT to adapt phraseology about fixing planes on time to general business matters. This "funky" Mission Critical pap then got badly metamophosed by another genus of bullshitters in California (mostly) by people from outfits like Pacific Bell which is where Scott Adams of Dilbert fame got many ideas. He worked there for 17 years I think. There was then further HONING of crapola through the 1980s by hordes of MBA teachers eager to teach people how to speak about making cash on the back of the Hayek/Freidman made up Chicago School of Economic Theory and Plain Lies  - shit. ...

A quite perfect explanation of the Trump attention-gathering clown show, from Noam Chomsky, probably the "hate-figure" most focused on, along with perhaps Naomi Klein (Shock Doctrine:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine ), because they know and figured out what was going on with the Ayn Rand style "Libertarianism" (or Neoliberalism, it doesn't really matter which label is used frankly) that has grown and then exploded viciously and violently over the last 40 years. If I were forced to choose a year I would say 1981. It is now at or neat it's horrible apogee. Sasha-Borisova was supposed to be a similar if somewhat smaller telegenic side-show, but he sadly does not seem to have the immense showman's talent of Donald, nor his thick orange hide, nor his quite palpable level of sheer insanity, a lumpen mass not in possession of that helpful, brutal ignorance, those gargantuan levels of corruption, the sheer bloodied evil that runs through his darken...