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More infos for Triphala (tablets), organic, Economy Pack
Triphala (three fruits)
Triphala, also known as "three fruits", is the most famous ayurvedic food supplement and is known to be the most important rasayana. It contains, in precise proportions, amla (Indian gooseberry), haritaki (panicles myrobolan) and bibhitaki (beleric myrobalan). Amla has a calming effect on the pitta dosha, haritaki mainly harmonises vata and bibhitaki is calming for the kapha dosha. The combination of all three fruits is balancing for all three doshas.
Brief overview
- Lat.: Emblica officinalis, terminalia chebula, terminalia bellirica
- Ayurvedic plant product, certified organic
- Known to be a rasayana
- Natural plant product, free from any artificial flavours or preservatives
- Country of origin: India
- Can be consumed all year round
- Harmonisis all three doshas
Tested by a German laboratory to ensure product safety. This product is conforms to the German/ EU- Directives in respect of heavy metals and microbiology.
Details for Triphala (tablets), organic, Economy Pack
|Product description
|Food supplement with tannins
|Delivery time
|approx. 2-3 working days
|Net quantity
|200 g (approx. 500 tablets)
|Classic Ayurveda
|Food business operator responsible
|Amla Natur GmbH, Butterberg 3, 21279 Drestedt, Germany
Amalaki* (Emblica officinalis) fruit powder 32,5%, Bibhitaki* (Terminalia belerica) fruit powder 32,5%, Haritaki* (Terminalia chebula) fruit powder 32,5%, Tapioca starch*
* certified organic
|Consumption recommendation
Take 2 x 3 tablets daily. Daily dose contains: 2,340 mg fruit powder and 634 mg tannins. Do not exceed the recommended dose. Food supplements are not a replacement for a normal, varied diet.
|Storage instructions
Keep out of the reach of small children.
Store in cool, dry conditions.
|Dietary type
|LEFO-quality seal , Organic
|Certificates details
|DE-ÖKO-037 (Non-EU-Agriculture)
|Label language
|English, German
|Quality check
|View product specification


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Bhutan Broadcasting Service Corporation (BBSC) has not made any formal presentation but shared a draft copy of the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) bill to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) when the People's Democratic Party was in power.
The bill is now with the incumbent government.
BBS has approached the ministry and requested for the status of PSB to perform their mandates optimally.
The former minister of MoIC, DN Dhungyel said that BBS made a presentation to the ministry. "Certain clauses were added and deleted but they did not submit the final report."
"The present government should take it forward now. I am for it," he added.
Managing Director of BBS, Tshering Wangchuk, said that there is no update on the issue and BBS would announce any new developments. "The matter was discussed with the board last week and in the next few weeks, the matter will be discussed with Office of Attorney General (OAG) to seek the legal advice," he said.
He also mentioned that the management might not be able to submit a PSB bill for the coming session but will definitely submit it during the summer session after all the frameworks are worked out. "Once the bill is completely ready, we will present it to the stakeholders," he added.
Director for Department of Information and Media (DoIM), Rinchen Dorji, said BBS has drafted the bill for PSB and the former government had left it for the new government to take over and continue. BBS had asked for the opportunity to present the bill. "We have to ask BBS and if it comes then BBS needs to look into the provision on PSB in Information Communication and Media Act of Bhutan, 2018," he said.
The former minister had told the National Assembly back in December 2014 that BBSC would be a PSB. Since then, BBS has been looking forward to donning PSB status.
The PSB draft bill aims to make BBS a complete PSB that will work for public interest. Currently, about 50% of its recurring expenses are met from advertisements.
One of the reasons that BBSC is pushing for PSB status is to prevent it from becoming the mouthpiece of a political government.
The BBSC was delinked from the Royal Civil Service Commission in 1992.
If BBS does turn into a PSB, it opens up the sector to private TV channels, according to the National Broadcasting Policy.
Chencho Dema from Thimphu

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Who's Who
John Kerr
John is the pastor of Coopers Edge Baptist Church and lives on the estate with his family. Born and raised in Hertfordshire, John studied engineering at Oxford University before embarking on a career as a bridge engineer. His work took him to Australia and New Zealand, where he met Lisa. They were married in 2011 and have two daughters, Chloe and Bethany. Over a number of years John became convinced that God was calling him to full-time pastoral ministry and in 2015 John and family returned to the UK to train at the London Seminary. After completing his studies, John began working as a Trainee Pastor at Trinity Baptist Church in Gloucester, and he became the pastor of Coopers Edge Baptist Church in May 2019.
In his spare time, John loves playing the piano (check out the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9cfsqPVljexjDtbUgSeNYw) and singing in a local choir. He also enjoys cooking and going for walks with the family.
Andrew Charlton
Andrew studied electronic engineering at Southampton University and moved to Gloucester for work in 1989. He now works as a software engineer for a local company that specialises in simulation products for training purposes. Anita, his wife, comes from March in Cambridgeshire and they were married in Gloucester in 1994. They have three grown up children. Both Andrew and Anita enjoy camping and hill walking (the Malvern Hills being their favourite place for local walks).


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ACDC Thumper Unit
Cryonics Institute ACDC Heart-Lung Machine
The Cryonics Institute uses both a Portable Ice Bath (PIB) and an Active Compression DeCompression (ACDC) Michigan Instruments Heart-Lung Machine (Thumper). The PIB was fabricated by the Florida cryonics support organization S-A and the ACDC Thumper was fabricated by Michigan Instruments according to the design specifications of S-A. Both were purchased by CI from S-A.
The PIB is truly portable, folding into what amounts to a small table for carrying by hand as well as in a vehicle. It takes about a half-hour to assemble and comes with a vinyl liner and cover, which are sturdy and water-proof. Although cooling a cryonics patient is often done with ice-packs, cooling with ice-water is faster than cooling with ice-packs because of the high thermal conductivity of the water -- which can carry heat away by conduction as well as convection. Water baths are messy, but when it is possible to use them they are an added benefit to patient care.
The ACDC Thumper is a top-of-the-line instrument for giving cardiopulmonary support to a cryonics patient. Whereas ordinary Thumpers only induce heart pumping action by compression, an ACDC unit can also use decompression to lift the chest with the suction grip of a rubber cup (like a toilet plunger, "plumber's helper"). ACDC Thumpers have not been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and therefore cannot be used on those who have not been legally pronounced dead. But there is no law restricting their use on cryonics patients. Our ACDC Thumper contains the words "WARNING: NOT FOR CLINICAL USE" in bold letters.
The ACDC Thumper is driven by the pressure of an oxygen tank, and therefore is quite mobile. The Thumper can deliver steady compressions and decompressions or -- more likely -- can deliver five cycles of ACDC action with one cycle of oxygen ventilation through an air mask. Knobs on the ACDC Thumper allow for control of the force of compression, the force of decompression and the volume of oxygen delivered during a ventilation.
The most likely use of this equipment would be for CI Members living in the Michigan area or for CI Members who have come to Michigan for hospice or hospital care prior to an anticipated deanimation. We have some manually-operated ACDC units -- Ambu-CardioPumps, thanks to Paul Michaels who was able to get them imported from Europe -- which we purchase for those living outside of Michigan who might want to use them.


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Flashback is a literary device wherein the author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following, or events that have happened before the events that are currently unfolding in the story.
Flashback devices that are commonly used are past narratives by characters, depictions and references of dreams and memories and a sub device known as authorial sovereignty wherein the author directly chooses to refer to a past occurrence by bringing it up in a straightforward manner. Flashback is used to create a background to the present situation, place or person.
Back in the day when Sarah was a young girl…
You can see flashbacks used very often in movies. For example, it is common in movies for there to be a flashback that gives the viewer a look into the characters life when they were younger, or when they have done something previously. This is done to help the viewer better understand the present situation.


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One of the worst things about war is the fact that the people usually doing the fighting are those most physically capable of fighting, usually a nation's strongest and most vibrant young men. The men most able to build or sustain a nation's prosperity are the very ones that are going away to war and too often not coming back. As costly as war is, it's usually undertaken because a nation, or its leaders or its citizens, think the sacrifice is worth achieving some objective.
The loss of such strong and vibrant youth is a cost that is paid not only by the families of the dead, but it's paid by the communities and the nations that are left without whatever contributions the young men might have made to the world around him.
War is hell, as they say, and looking over a battlefield littered with a nation's treasured youth is the perfect embodiment of that. The sacrifices always hurt, but they are to some degree understandable because they are undertaken in the pursuit of some greater good.
Which brings us to Ferguson, MO, and not just because it looked a lot like a war zone recently. No, Ferguson is important because of what sparked the riots: the shooting of an unarmed black youth by a white police officer.
To listen to the protesters is to understand that America is rampant with white cops killing innocent black men in every town or city. That is simply not true. More importantly, it's a red herring. (Yes, white cops do sometimes kill innocent black men, but it's relatively rare.) But why is it a red herring? Because it takes the focus off the fact that the number one killer of young black men ages 15-34 is… murder, and not by white cops or white people at all. It's murder by other young black men! (For young black men ages 15-24, fully 50% of their deaths are due to murder!) How is it possible that in 2014 the number one killer of the most robust and vibrant elements of black America is murder? Not accidents. Not cancer. Not sickle cell anemia… it's murder by other black men!
And this is where the connection with war comes in. During war the young men whose lives are lost are sacrificed for a purpose, for something that has been deemed in the national interest in one sort of another. Young black men who are dying on our streets and in our cities on the other hand are dying for… nothing.
Which is what makes the red herring of Ferguson so heartbreaking. Even if such protests were to ensure that no white cop ever killed another innocent black man, the scourge of death and murder that pervades the black community wouldn't diminish by much beyond a small fraction of the total deaths.
So while the American media spent a week and a half obsessed with a burning Ferguson where protesters pelted cops with Molotov cocktails, bricks and urine, dozens of young black men were being killed in obscurity around the country by other black men. But of course it's so much easier to throw bottles and make accusations than it is to advocate for real solutions to real problems. Problems like a dearth of fathers as 73% of all black children are born to single mothers. Problems like a crumbling education system where Democrats and the teachers' unions keep the poorest children tethered to failed public schools. Problems like minimum wage laws that make it prohibitively expensive to hire young black men with little work experience, resulting in an unemployment rate in excess of 20% while the national rate is below 6%. Problems like a government welfare system that grows like an unbridled leviathan seeking to expand its budget rather than help the poor find their dignity, self respect and the pride that comes with being contributing member of society.
But none of those things are nearly as visually compelling as watching police square off against protesters. None of those things lend themselves to pithy sayings that are easily captured on tee shirts or cardboard signs or in 30 second sound bites. None of those things inspire media savvy "leaders" to roll up their sleeves and get busy trying to solve real problems. None of those things are easy. They are by definition hard problems to solve. It takes real work to solve them and they can't be fixed by rioting.
Which is the tragedy of the red herring of Ferguson. Regardless of what the circumstances were, losing a son is devastating for a family. Thousands of black families across the country experience equally painful losses each year. By focusing energy, passion, angst and media on the aberration of Ferguson it takes the spotlight off of where it should be, which is solving the problems that cause thousands of young black men to lose their lives every year whose families don't at least get the solace of knowing their sons died fighting for something of value to them and society as a whole.


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This Delicious Mexican-Style Meatball Soup Recipe Is Even Better the Next Day by 30Seconds Food
"Soup helps stretch the family dinner budget while filling up those bellies with fresh, whole-food ingredients you just made and carefully chose yourself," says Rachel Maser, mom of four and founder/creator of the clean eating blog, Clean Food Crush®. Rachel often doubles this meatball soup recipe because it tastes even better the next day and freezes well.
Cuisine: American/Mexican
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 to 30 minutes
Total Time: 35 to 40 minutes
Servings: 4 to 6
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1/3 cup oatmeal flour (rolled oats ground pulsed or blended into flour)
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- sea salt and black pepper, to taste (about an 1/8 teaspoon each)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil or avocado oil
- 1 large yellow onion, diced
- 3 - 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 stalks celery, sliced thinly
- 1 large red bell pepper, diced
- 1 jar (15 ounces) diced tomatoes, with juice
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, drained and rinsed
- 4 cups chicken bone stock or chicken broth
- 2 fresh ears corn, corn cut from cobs
- fresh cilantro leaves
- sliced fresh jalapenos
- lime wedges and/or lime juice
Here's how to make it:
Combine all of the meatball ingredients. Mix well. Take spoonfuls and roll into meatballs. Heat the oil in a large soup pot over medium-high heat. Add meatballs and cook until browned on all sides (they do not have to be cooked through at this point).
Add the onion, garlic, celery and bell pepper. Continue to cook until vegetables are soft, about 4 minutes.
Add the tomatoes, stock, black beans and corn. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer about 15 to 18 minutes.
Stir in desired garnishes and serve.
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Adopt-a-Beach is working together to protect the Great Lakes through cleanups and community projects.
Adopt-a-Beach is working together to protect the Great Lakes through cleanups and community projects.
The goals of the Citizen Lake Monitoring Program are to collect high quality data, to educate and empower volunteers, and to share this data and knowledge.
Citizen observers collect ice-on and ice-off dates for MN lakes to better understand the effects changing ice cover has on lake health, local wildlife, and citizen lake use.
Volunteers and cooperative organizations collect and report lake levels throughout the state to measure changes in water levels.
LoonWatch's Annual Lakes Monitoring Program engages an active volunteer network of Loon Rangers as its primary tool to collect critical long-term data on loons in northern WI. Working as population monitors and environmental educators, these volunteers have been the field force that has provided data, and contributed to environmental awareness.
Information about Common Loon numbers is collected on over 600 lakes. Volunteers visit lakes during the summer, count adult and juvenile loons, and report observations for data management and analysis.


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For each purifier that we review, we look at the following points:
1. Make sure that no gas leaks [this includes ozone]
2. Check that the filtration process is up to HEPA industrial standards.
3. Is the purifier well built or will it fall apart in a few weeks?
4. How easy will it be to fix yourself? Can you replace parts and filters easily?
5. Do the filters last long? How much do they cost?
6. How noisy is the machine when it's running?
7. What level of trust do we have for the company? Do we trust the returns policy?
8. Is the price fair for what you receive?
9. Have customers made complaints about the purifier?
10. Is the design attractive?
Using this guideline we find that all our reviews are both fair and informative to the consumer.
Be careful with reviews that mention:
1. Really positive reviews that don't mention any negative points
2. Small review with very little detail
3. Any site or magazine that only sells on purifier as they will be biased.
If you find any of the above points in your review then we think you should not trust it.
You should combine reading reviews from sites such as housefresh.com with looking at big retailers like Amazon.com and epinions.com. These big retailers allow their customers to provide reviews and will often cover most air purifiers on the market. You will find that many air purifiers have already been given star ratings at amazon and epinions.
Most sites and blogs will only review that popular purifiers from Oreck, Sharper image, Alen and Honeywell.
We will recommend that new customers should go with the popular brands as its easier to find reviews, parts and replacement filters with ease.
We recommend that you should always look at reviews that test the machine under conditions that you plan to use it.


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When it comes to getting the most out of lectures, effective listening is a crucial skill to have. But when else do you need to be opening your ears?
In a recent CampusWell survey, 65 percent of students said they just want to be listened to during times of distress. Sometimes what people need most is the opportunity to talk. So how can you demonstrate that you're really hearing what other people say?
Listen carefully
Active listening refers to the goal of truly understanding what someone says. Facilitating a conversation where the speaker feels heard is a crucial part of good communication. "Sometimes people are just waiting for their turns to speak," says James D., a third-year undergraduate at Temple University in Philadelphia. "It feels like what you're saying is just going in one ear and out the other."
Dean M., a student at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada, suggests, "If you care about someone, show it." Here are some basic techniques:
- Allow silence in conversation so the speaker has time to reflect.
- Ask open-ended questions. These lead to more descriptive answers rather than just a "yes" or "no."
- Paraphrase the speaker's words to show that you're listening and to confirm that you understand what they are saying.
- Summarize the conversation. This again serves as validation for the speaker and an opportunity to clarify anything you've misunderstood.
What your body says
In our survey, many students ranked eye contact as the most important part of a conversation. "I look directly at the person I'm talking to so he or she knows I'm paying attention," says Sarah R., a fourth-year undergraduate at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Here are some body language tips:
- Keep your posture open by uncrossing legs and arms.
- Remove physical barriers between you and the speaker.
- Lean toward the speaker (slightly) to display interest in what they are saying.
- Maintain eye contact.
- Nod silently to show agreement or encouragement.
- Avoid looking at phone or device screens during the conversation.
Take this quiz to find out how good you are at reading body language
Increase understanding
Effective communication combines welcoming body language with active listening skills. Practicing these helps ensure that not only do the people you speak with feel heard, but also that you get the most from conversations.
"Make eye contact. Nod [to show] you agree or understand what they are saying, and offer input or questions to keep the conversation going."
—Alex B., second-year graduate student, St. Clair College, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Try out these active listening techniques in your next convo
|Nonverbal Encouragement
|Let the speaker know you're listening without the need to interrupt.
Provide silent validation of the speaker's feelings.
|Leaning in
Maintaining eye contact
|Confirm the listener accurately understands what's being said.
Offers the speaker an opportunity to correct any misunderstandings.
|"It sounds like you're feeling…"
"What I hear you saying is…"
"Am I understanding correctly?"
|Demonstrates careful listening without parroting back what the speaker said.
Allows the speaker to hear what they've said. This may prompt clarification.
|"So what I think I hear you saying is…"
"I understand that…"
"It seems like you…"
|Pulls together the discussion's main ideas.
Creates a shared basis for future discussion and/or action.
|"It sounds like the main issues are…"
"The things you would like to have happen are…"
Become a better listener: PsychCentral
10 steps to effective listening: Forbes
Find out how well you read other people (quiz): The Greater Good Center at UC Berkeley
Dr. Isis Artze-Vega, assistant director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
Artze-Vega, I. (2012 October 1). Active listening: Seven ways to help students listen, not just hear. Faculty Focus. Retrieved from http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-and-learning/active-listening-seven-ways-to-improve-students-listening-skills/
Taft College. (n.d.). Active listening skills.
Retrieved from http://www.taft.cc.ca.us/lrc/class/assignments/actlisten.html
University of Missouri. (n.d.). Attributes of good listening. Retrieved from http://web.missouri.edu/~campbellr/Leadership/chapter6.htm
The George Washington University. (n.d.). Organizational development & effectiveness, active listening. Retrieved from http://ode.hr.gwu.edu/active-listening
HelpGuide.org. (2018, October). Nonverbal communication.
Retrieved from https://www.helpguide.org/articles/relationships-communication/nonverbal-communication.htm/
U.S. Department of State. (n.d.). Active listening. Retrieved from http://www.state.gov/m/a/os/65759.htm


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I've had discussions at this point with a wide range of Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent. I think I can extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people who were at the Capitol on January 6, and probably even that of Trump himself.
Most of these people believe some or all of the various theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc. But what you find when you talk to them is that, while they'll defend those positions with information they got from Hannity or Breitbart or various other sources, they're not particularly attached to them. If the theories were disproven, it wouldn't disprove the fraud for them. That's because there are far more important facts—actual, confirmed facts—that shape their perspective. Here they are:
A Glimpse Behind the Curtain
To begin with, the FBI and other intelligence agencies spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign. We now know that all involved knew this evidence was fake from Day One (see just for one example: this memo from July of 2016 by former CIA director John Brennan).
Many of the people who believe in fraud are Tea Party people. The types who give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday and have Founding Fathers memes in their bios. To them, the intel community spying on a presidential campaign using fake evidence (including falsified documents) is a big deal. Everyone involved lied about their involvement as long as they could. This was true with everyone, from Brennan and Representative Adam Schiff—who were on TV saying they'd seen clear evidence of collusion with Russia, while admitting under oath behind closed doors that they hadn't—all the way down the line. In the end we learned that it was all fake. But we only learned key information—including that the DNC paid for the manufactured evidence—because of a court order. James Comey denied on TV knowing the DNC paid for it, when we have emails from a year earlier proving that he knew.
At first, many Trump supporters were worried there must be some collusion, because every media and intelligence agency wouldn't make it up out of nothing. When it was clear that they had made it up, people expected a reckoning. When that didn't happen, they shed many illusions about their government.
We also know, as fact:
- That the fraudulent Steele Dossierwas the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign,
- That the FBI knew the Steele dossier was a DNC op,
- That Steele's source told the FBI the info was unserious, and
- That they did not inform the court of any of this and kept spying.
Trump supporters know this collusion case front and back. They went from worrying the collusion must be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to realizing it was a scam. Then they watched as every institution—agencies, the press, Congress, academia—gaslit them for another year.
Worse, collusion was used to scare people away from working in the administration. They knew their entire lives would be investigated. Many quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees. The Department of Justice, press, & government destroyed lives and actively subverted an elected administration throughout the whole affair.
This is where people whose political identity was largely defined by a naïve belief in what they learned in Civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed all institutional boundaries. Because it had stepped out of the shadows to unite against an interloper.
The Lies
GOP propaganda still has many of these Trump supporters thinking in terms of partisan binaries. But a whole lot of them see that the Regime is not partisan. They all know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it was a Tulsi Gabbard vs. Jeb Bush election. It's hard to describe to people on the Left, who are used to thinking of the American government as a conspiracy (see for example, Watergate, COINTELPRO, the Weapons of Mass Destruction, etc.) how shocking and disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and who are appalled when others don't stand for the Anthem.
They could have managed that shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or government official, because they feel most betrayed by them. The idea that the press is driven by ratings and sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they'd be all over the Jeffrey Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.
This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc., would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true. They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots.
Trump supporters always claimed the media had liberal bias. Fine, whatever: they still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. They don't think that anymore. It's a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence. Timemagazine told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving—among others—leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution.
Then, throughout the summer, establishment governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn't just the mail-ins: they also lowered signature matching standards, got rid of voter ID and notarization requirements, and much more. Forget the ballot conspiracies. It's a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) and help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system.
At this point Trump people had lived through not only the collusion scam but also a fake impeachment. We now know that Trump's request for Ukraine to cooperate with the Department of Justice regarding Biden's financial activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine Attorney General at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. So Trump people expected shenanigans by now.
Then you get the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a "mistake"—but, ya know, the election's over, so who cares? It hardly needs saying that if the New York Times had Don, Jr.'s laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the New York Times would not have been banned.
So now think back: Stories about Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. And then the New York Postwas banned for reporting on true information.
The reaction of Trump people to all this was not, "no fair!" That's how they felt about Romney's "binders of women" in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by ppl who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13 million more votes than in 2016—10 million more than Hillary Clinton. As election night dragged on, Trump supporters allowed themselves some hope.
But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew.
The Aftermath
Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real. Media and Tech did everything to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange—the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc.—but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it (even in DMs!).
Everyone knows that, just as Don, Jr.'s laptop would've been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would've been Taken Very Seriously. See 2016 for proof.
Even the courts' refusal to hear the fraud case gets nowhere with those who have seen these truths, because the opposition embraced mass political violence. Trump supporters say, with good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house?
It's a fact, according to Time, that mass riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump won. Sure, they were "protests," but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. Judges have families, too.
Trump voters knew the changes to election law were unconstitutional, it's right there in plain English. But they knew the cases wouldn't see court until after the election. And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules? The threat of mass riots wasn't implied, it was direct.
The entrenched bureaucracy and security state subverted Trump from Day One. The press was part of the operation. Election rules were changed. Big Tech censored opposition. Political violence was legitimized and encouraged. And Trump was banned from social media. People are putting these things together into a very ugly—and quite accurate—account of how their country works.
Trump voters were led down some rabbit holes. But they are absolutely right that their government is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost. It might've kept him alive.
And the follow up article from the same author
I quit Twitter last August. Quit for good. Other than posting links to two new episodes of my podcast, I stayed away for eight months and didn't regret a thing. Around mid-June I let myself be persuaded that social media engagement was part of having a podcast, so I dipped back in, promising myself I'd avoid being pulled into politics. Things haven't gone as planned.
The temptation was disguised cleverly as a conversation with a friend's mother. She was visiting from upstate New York and we got to talking while my buddy was in the house tending to my goddaughter. She's a hardcore Trumper from a less cynical generation that believes what she hears from sources she trusts. She'd been hounding her son about the stolen election all week, and he'd been trying to disabuse her of various theories involving trucked-in ballots and hacked counting machines. Now she had me cornered and put the question to me: "Do YOU think the election was legit?" So I told her the truth: I don't know.
By the time my friend had put the baby to bed and rejoined us, we were waist-deep in a discussion about what happened last year, and she was satisfied that I was on her side. "See?!? He (she meant me) knows what's going on! I'm not crazy. He's smart, and HE knows!" My friend pulled the Captain Picard facepalm, and said, "Darryl, what the f*ck are you telling her?"
What I told her was some version of the Twitter thread Tucker Carlson read on air Friday night and which President Trump, using my name, then explicitly promoted in his speech to CPAC on Sunday, which has blown my inbox, and my promise to stay away from politics, to smithereens.
I told her I didn't know much about the ballots, or the voting machines, or some company that she'd heard had ties to Venezuela. I didn't follow Sidney Powell, or Lin Wood, or the details of the cases proceeding through the system. I think it was around the time Rudy Giuliani chose a landscape and gardening emporium as the location for a press conference on what would have been the greatest political scandal in American history that I made the conscious decision to stop paying attention. Or maybe it was the dripping hair dye, or something about a kraken — it's all sort of blended together these days.
But I felt for her. She wasn't the first person with whom I'd had the discussion, and I felt for all of them. I've had the discussion often enough that I feel comfortable extracting a general theory about where these people are coming from.
Like my friend's mother, most of them believe some or all of the theories involving fraudulent ballots, voting machines, and the rest. Scratch the surface and you'll find that they're not particularly attached to any one of them. The specific theories were almost a kind of synecdoche, a concrete symbol representing a deeply felt, but difficult to describe, sense that whatever happened in 2020, it was not a meaningfully democratic presidential election. The counting delays, the last-minute changes to election procedures, the unprecedented coordinated censorship campaign by Big Tech in defense of Biden were all understood as the culmination of the pan-institutional anti-Trump campaign they'd watched unfold for over four years.
Many of them deny it now, but a lot of 2016 Trump voters were worried during the early stages of the Russia collusion investigation. True, the evidence seemed thin, and the very idea that the US and allied security apparatus would allow Trump to take office if they really thought he might be under Russian blackmail seemed a bit preposterous on its face. But to many conservatives in 2016 and early 2017, it seemed equally preposterous that the institutions they trusted, and even the ones they didn't, would go all-in on a story if there wasn't at least something to it. Imagine the consequences for these institutions if it turned out there was nothing to it.
We now know that the FBI and other intelligence agencies conducted covert surveillance against members of the Trump campaign based on evidence manufactured by political operatives working for the Clinton campaign, both before and after the election. We know that those involved with the investigation knew the accusations of collusion were part of a campaign "approved by Hillary Clinton… to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service." They might have expected such behavior from the Clintons — politics is a violent game and Hillary's got a lot of scalps on her wall. But many of the people watching this happen were Tea Party types, in spirit if not in actual fact. They give their kids a pocket Constitution for their birthday. They have Yellow Ribbon bumper stickers, and fly the POW/MIA flag under the front-porch Stars and Stripes, and curl their lip at people who talk during the National Anthem at ballgames. They're the people who believed their institutions when they were told Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. To them, the intel community using fake evidence (including falsified documents) to spy on a presidential campaign is a big deal.
It may surprise many liberals, but most conservative normies actually know the Russia collusion case front and back. A whole ecosystem sprouted up to pore over every new development, and conservatives followed the details as avidly as any follower of liberal conspiracy theorists Seth Abramson or Marcy Wheeler. When the world learned of the infamous meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, it seemed like a problem and many Trump supporters took it seriously. Deep down, even those who rejected the possibility of open collusion worried that one of Trump's inexperienced family members, or else a sketchy operative glomming onto the campaign, might have done something that, whatever its real gravity, could be successfully framed in a manner to sway a dozen of John McCain's friends in the Senate.
Then, Trump supporters learned that Veselnitskaya was working with Fusion GPS, the political research and PR firm used by the Clinton campaign to formulate and spread the collusion accusations. They learned that the anti-Clinton information that was supposed to be the subject of the notorious meeting was provided by the same firm. They learned that she'd had dinner with Glenn Simpson, the owner of Fusion GPS, both the day before, and the day after the meeting. Needless to say, Trump supporters were skeptical of Simpson's claim that Veselnitskaya's meeting with Trump campaign officials never came up during either of their dinner dates, given that the content of the meeting was alleged to be the very treasonous, impeachable crime his firm was being paid to investigate and publicize.
There's no need to relive all the details of the Russia collusion scam. The point is that conservatives were following it all very closely, in real time, and they noticed when things didn't add up. After James Comey told Fox News' Bret Baier that, even at the time of their interview in April 2018, he didn't know who had funded the Steele dossier, conservatives noticed when the December 2019 DOJ Inspector General's report showed that he had been informed of the dossier's provenance in October 2016. And they asked themselves: Why would he lie? Lying to investigators about one's knowledge of or involvement in a potentially criminal act is often taken as consciousness of guilt.
This was the bone that stuck in conservatives' craw throughout the two years of hysteria over Russia. Why would Comey lie about knowing where the dossier came from? Why would the people involved claim to have seen evidence that never seemed to materialize? If the point of the Special Counsel is to take the investigation out of the hands of line investigators to avoid the appearance of political influence, why staff the office with known partisans and the same FBI personnel who originated and oversaw the case? Why was the relationship between Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya and Fusion GPS being dismissed as irrelevant? Why were people who must know better continuing to insist that the Steele dossier was originally funded by Republicans long after the claim had been debunked? Why wasn't the media asking even these most obvious questions? And why were they giving themselves awards for refusing to ask those questions, and viciously attacking journalists who did ask them? These journalists are intelligent people — at least they present that way on television. Is it possible that these questions simply had not occurred to them? It seemed unlikely.
Many Trump supporters reasoned that it was simply not possible to carry on this campaign without some degree of coordination. That coordination perhaps did not take place in smoke-filled rooms (though they weren't ruling it out), but at least through incentives, pressure, and vague but certain threats all well-understood by people who moved about in the same professional and social class, and who complained that they could "smell the Trump support" when they were unfortunate enough to have to patronize a Wal-Mart.
If there was a time when Trump supporters feared Robert Mueller's goon squad, that time had passed by the 2018 midterm elections. Conservatives knew by then the whole case was bunk, and they were salivating at the prospect of watching him get chopped up by the likes of Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes. And he did.
The collusion case wasn't only used to damage Trump in the polls or distract from his political agenda. It was used as an open threat to keep people from working in the administration. Taking a job in the Trump administration meant having one's entire life investigated for anything that could fill CNN's anti-Trump content requirement for another few days, whether or not it held up to scrutiny. Many administration employees quit because they were being bankrupted by legal fees due to an investigation that was known by its progenitors to be a political operation. The Department of Justice, press, and government used falsehoods to destroy lives and actively subvert an elected administration almost from the start. Perhaps worst of all, some portion of the American population was driven to the edge of madness by two years of being told that American politics had become a real-life version of The Manchurian Candidate. And not by Alex Jones, but by intelligence chiefs and politicians, amplified by media organizations which threw every ounce of their accumulated credibility behind the insanity.
President Trump Gives A Shoutout To @martyrmade's Viral Thread That @TuckerCarlson Read On His Show This Week. #CPACTexas
For two years, Trump supporters had been called traitors and Russian bots for casting ballots for "Vladimir Putin's c*ck holster." They'd been subjected to a two-year gaslighting campaign by politicians, government agencies, and elite media. It took real fortitude to stand up to the unanimous mockery and scorn of these powerful institutions. But those institutions had gambled their power and credibility, and they'd lost, and now Trump supporters expected a reckoning. When no reckoning was forthcoming – when the Greenwalds, and Taibbis, and Matés of the world were not handed the New York Times' revoked Pulitzers for correctly and courageously standing against the tsunami on the biggest political story in years – these people shed many illusions about how power really operates in their country.
Trump supporters know – I think everyone knows – that Donald Trump would have been impeached and probably indicted if Robert Mueller had proven that he'd paid a foreign spy to gather damaging information on Hillary Clinton from sources connected to Russian intelligence and disseminate that information in the press. Many of Trump's own supporters wouldn't have objected to his removal if that had happened. Of course that is exactly what the Clinton campaign actually did, yet there were no consequences for it. Indeed, there has been almost no criticism of it.
Trump supporters had gone from worrying the collusion might be real, to suspecting it might be fake, to seeing proof that it was all a scam. Then they watched as every institution – government agencies, the press, Congressional committees, academia – blew right past it and gaslit them for another year. To this day, something like half the country still believes that Trump was caught red-handed engaging in treason with Russia, and only escaped a public hanging because of a DOJ technicality regarding the indictment of sitting presidents. Most galling, conservatives suspect that within a few decades liberals will use their command over the culture to ensure that virtually everyone believes it. This is where people whose political identities have for decades been largely defined by a naive belief in what they learned in civics class began to see the outline of a Regime that crossed not only partisan, but all institutional boundaries. They'd been taught that America didn't have Regimes, but what else was this thing they'd seen step out from the shadows to unite against their interloper president?
GOP propaganda still has many conservatives thinking in terms of partisan binaries. Even the dreaded RINO (Republican-In-Name-Only) slur serves the purposes of the party, because it implies that the Democrats represent an irreconcilable opposition. But many Trump supporters see clearly that the Regime is not partisan. They know that the same institutions would have taken opposite sides if it had been a Tulsi Gabbard vs. Jeb Bush election. It's hard to describe to people on the Left, who are used to thinking of American government as a conspiracy and are weaned on stories about Watergate, COINTELPRO, and Saddam's WMD, how shocking and disillusioning this was for people who encouraged their sons and daughters to go fight for their country when George W. Bush declared war on Iraq.
They could have managed the shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the press is what radicalized them. Trump supporters have more contempt for journalists than they have for any politician or government official, because they feel most betrayed by them. The idea that the corporate press is driven by ratings and sensationalism has become untenable over the last several years. If that were true, there'd be a microphone in the face of every executive branch official demanding to know what the former Secretary of Labor meant when he said that Jeffrey Epstein "belonged to intelligence." The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the Regime these people are now seeing in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period.
This is profoundly disorienting. Again, we're not talking about pre-2016 Greenwald readers or even Ron Paul libertarians, who swallowed half a bottle of red pills long ago. These are people who attacked Edward Snowden for "betraying his country," and who only now are beginning to see that they might have been wrong. It's not because the parties have been reversed, and it's not because they're bitter over losing. They just didn't know. If any country is going to function over the long-term, not everyone can be a revolutionary. Most people have to believe what they're told and go with the flow most of the time. These were those people. I'm pretty conservative by temperament, but most of my political friends are on the Left. I spend a good deal of our conversations simply trying to convince them that these people are not demons, and that this political moment is pregnant with opportunity.
Many Trump supporters don't know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know with apodictic certainty that the press, the FBI, and even the courts would lie to them if they were. They have every reason to believe that, and it's probably true. They watched the corporate press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on an unproven accusation, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They helped lead a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on the most deadly and destructive riots in decades.
Conservatives have always complained that the media had a liberal bias. Fine, whatever: they still thought the press would admit the truth if they were cornered. They don't believe that anymore. What they've witnessed in recent years has shown them that the corporate press will say anything, do anything, to achieve a political objective, or simply to ruin someone they perceive as an opponent. Since my casual Twitter thread ended up in the mouths of Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump, I've received hundreds of messages from people saying that I should prepare to be targeted. Others don't think that will happen, but even most of them don't think it's an irrational concern. We've seen an elderly lady receive physical threats after a CNN reporter accosted her at home to accuse her of aiding Kremlin disinformation ops. We've seen them threaten to dox someone for making a humorous meme.
Throughout 2020, the corporate press used its platform to excuse and encourage political violence. Time Magazine told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving – among others – leaders of the protests, local officials responsible for managing them, and members of the media charged with reporting on the events. They worked together with Silicon Valley to control the messaging about the ongoing crisis for maximum political effect. In case of a Trump victory, the same organization had protesters ready to be activated by text message in 400 cities the day after the election. Every town with a population over 50,000 would have been in for some pre-planned, centrally-controlled mayhem. In other countries we call that a color revolution.
Throughout the summer, establishment governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures, often over the protests of the state legislatures. It wasn't only the mass mailing of live ballots: they also lowered signature matching standards, axed existing voter ID and notarization requirements, and more. Many people reading this might think those were necessary changes, either due to the virus or to prevent potential voter suppression. I won't argue the point, but the fact is that the US Constitution states plainly that "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections… shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof." As far as conservatives were concerned, state governors used COVID to unconstitutionally usurp their legislatures' authority to unilaterally alter voting procedures just months before an election in order to help Biden make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system. Lawyers can argue over the legitimacy of the procedural modifications; the point is that conservatives believe in their bones – and I think they're probably right – that the cases would have been treated differently, in both the media and in court, if the parties were reversed.
And then came the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Liberals dismiss the incident because, after four years of obsessing over the activities of the Trump children, they insist they're not interested in the behavior of the candidate's family members. But this misses the point entirely. Big Tech ran a coordinated censorship campaign against a major American newspaper while the rest of the media spread base propaganda to protect a political candidate. And once again, the campaign crossed institutional boundaries, with dozens of former intelligence officials throwing their weight behind the baseless and now-discredited claim that the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. That lie was promoted by Big Tech companies, while the true information being reported by The New York Post about the laptop's contents was suppressed. That is what happened.
Even the tech companies themselves now admit it was a "mistake" – Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said it was an error and apologized – but the election is over, Joe Biden has appointed Facebook's government regulations executive as his ethics arbiter, so who cares, right? It hardly needs saying that if The New York Times had Donald Trump Jr.'s laptop, full of pictures of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, and emails with pretty direct discussions of political corruption, the Paper of Record would not have had its accounts suspended for reporting on it. Let's remember that stories of Trump being pissed on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact across the media spectrum and used as the basis for a multi-year criminal investigation, when the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its primary source.
The reaction of Trump supporters to all this was not, "no fair!" That was how they felt about Romney's "binders of women" in 2012 or Harry Reid's lie that Romney paid no federal taxes. This is different. Now they were beginning to see, accurately, that the institutions of their country — all of them — had been captured by people prepared to use any means to exclude them from the political process. And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. Trump got 13 million more votes than in 2016 – 10 million more than Hillary Clinton had gotten.
As election day became election night and the tallies rolled in, Trump supporters allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark around midnight, they knew.
Over the following weeks, they were shuffled around between honest critics, online grifters, and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one then another increasingly outlandish theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real, of which election day was only the culmination. Media and Big Tech did all they could to make things worse. Everything about the election was strange, confusing, and unprecedented – the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, counting delays, etc – but rather than admit that and bring everything into the open, they banned discussion of it (even in private messages!), and launched an absurd propaganda campaign telling us that it was – I'm not making this up – the most well-run and secure election in American history.
Conservatives know – again, I think probably everyone knows – that just as Don Jr.'s laptop would have been the story of the century, if everything about the election dispute was the same, except the parties were reversed, suspicions about the outcome would have been taken very seriously. See 2016 for proof.
Even the judiciary had forfeited its credibility with these voters because of the opposition's embrace of political violence. Trump supporters say, with good reason: What judge will stick his neck out for Trump knowing he'll be destroyed in the media as a violent mob burns down his house? Maybe most judges would do their jobs, but given the events of the last four years it's not an unreasonable concern, and the concern itself is enough to cast the whole system in doubt. Again, we know, thanks to Time Magazine, that riots were planned in cities across the country if Trump had won. Sure, they were "protests", but they were planned by the same people as during the summer, and everyone knows what it would have meant. The Chamber of Commerce took the threat of a second round of destruction of its members' property seriously enough to offer its assistance to the "well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information" – Time's words, not mine.
Trump voters were adamant that the governors' changes to election procedures were unconstitutional. Everything in law is open to interpretation, but it doesn't require a Harvard Law degree to read Article 1, Section 4 (quoted above) and come to that conclusion. But they also knew the cases wouldn't see a courtroom until after the election, and what judge was going to make a ruling that would be framed as a judicial coup d'etat just because some governors didn't go through the proper channels? Even a judge willing to accept the personal risk would have also to be willing to inflict the chaos that would follow on the country. Even a well-intentioned judge could convince himself that, whatever happened or didn't happen, as a public servant he had no right to impose an opinion guaranteed to lead to mass violence – because the threat was not implied, it was direct. Some Trump supporters, unfortunately, thought the license for political violence applied to everyone; the hundreds of them now sitting in federal jails learned the hard way that it wasn't true.
From the perspective of Trump's supporters, the entrenched bureaucracy and security state subverted their populist president from day one. The natural guardrails of the Fourth Estate were removed because the press was part of the operation. Election rules were changed in an unconstitutional manner that could only be challenged after the deed was done, when judges and officials would be playing chicken with a direct threat of burning cities. Political violence was legitimized and encouraged. Major newspapers and sitting presidents were banned from social media, while the opposition enjoyed free rein to promote stories that were discredited once it was too late to matter. Conservatives put these things together and concluded that, whatever happened on November 3, 2020, it was not a free and fair democratic election in any sense that would have had meaning before Donald J. Trump was a candidate.
Trump supporters were led down some rabbit holes. But they are absolutely right that the institutions and power centers of this country have been monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to prevent them getting it. I encourage people on the Left to recognize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of them. You're not going to agree with the conservatives on everything. But if in 2004 I had told you that the majority of the GOP voter base would soon be seeing the folly of the Iraq War, becoming skeptical of state surveillance, and beginning to see the need for action to help the poor and working classes, you'd have told me such a thing would transform the country. Take the opportunity. These people are not demons, and they are ready to listen in a way they haven't in a long, long time.


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The U.S. government has reached an agreement with South Korea on Seoul's development of longer-range missiles beyond limits set by an international accord.
The deal, expected to be announced this week, will result in South Korea's military moving ahead with plans to build ballistic missiles with ranges of up to 341 miles from the current range limit of 186 miles set under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
The new agreement will also open the way for South Korea to purchase U.S.-made long-range Global Hawk intelligence drones, currently limited for export due to MTCR restrictions.
South Korea has been seeking to purchase Global Hawks for surveillance of North Korea since 2009.
The current U.S.-South Korean missile agreement limits South Korea from building or buying ballistic missiles—those that travel into space and re-enter the atmosphere—with ranges greater than 186 miles. The new agreement modifies that 2001 accord to increase the ballistic missile range limit from 300 kilometers to 550 kilometers, or 341 miles.
The extended range missile accord would give South Korea the ability to attack targets throughout most of North Korea.
Some arms control proponents inside the Obama administration opposed the new arrangement, arguing that it undermines international efforts to limit missile proliferation.
The agreement has been under discussion for the past several months.
A State Department spokesman could not be reached for comment on the agreement.
In April, South Korea's defense ministry requested $2.1 billion over five years for new missiles. The missile buildup is being sought as a response to North Korea's development of long-range missiles.
South Korea's defense ministry on April 19 released video of two new missiles, including a cruise missile with a range of over 620 miles, and a tactical ballistic missile with a range of 186 miles. The old U.S.-South Korea agreement does not limit cruise missile ranges.
The video quoted a South Korean general as saying the new ballistic missile is more powerful than the U.S.-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System deployed with South Korean forces.
One defense official said the missile range extension pact is raising new questions about U.S. extended nuclear deterrence for South Korea, which could influence that nation's decision to remain a non-nuclear power.
Extending the range of ground-launched missiles could be the first step toward developing a South Korean nuclear deterrent to counter the small arsenal in the communist North.
The Obama administration is seeking sharp nuclear force cuts that some specialists say could undermine so-called extended deterrence—the umbrella of U.S. nuclear forces that are designed to counter nuclear powers in Asia and Europe.
An administration Nuclear Posture Review implementation study group was directed to examine the possibility of cutting deployed U.S. strategic nuclear warheads to as low as 300, less than are estimated to be in China's currently known strategic arsenal.
The agreement follows North Korea's recent test of a long-range missile and comes amid growing concerns that Pyongyang will follow the launch with a third underground nuclear test, as it did in the past when two nuclear tests followed two long-range missile launches.
Signs of activity have been detected at a North Korean nuclear test site, although China's government is said to be urging its North Korean ally to avoid further provocation.
Last month, U.S. intelligence agencies detected work that appeared to be improving a North Korean missile launch facility at Musudan-ri, in the northeast part of the country. The construction has fueled new worries about North Korea's development of a long-range missile.
Also, on April 15 North Korea displayed for the first time a new long-range, road-mobile ICBM deployed on a Chinese-made transporter-erector launcher, highlighting continued Chinese assistance to North Korea's strategic missile program.
The missile launcher export was traced to a Chinese company and violates United Nations sanctions on North Korea that prohibit the transfer of any goods related to Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.
Last month, North Korea's state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported that South Korea's government is using the North's test firing of what it claimed is a satellite launch as an excuse to build new missiles in response.
John Tkacik, a former State Department intelligence specialist, said the South Koreans "have reached the end of their collective rope with North Korea" after several deadly military confrontations since 2010.
The recent failed missile test was the last straw, he said, along with the brazen display by the North of the new mobile ICBM launcher.
"Understandably, Korean President Lee and President Obama realize that the United States is no longer in a position to claim any legal, ethical, or logical reason – certainly no arms control reason – to restrain South Korea from developing the types of weapons systems it needs to deter Pyongyang's viciousness," Tkacik told the Free Beacon.
"The whole rationale for restraining South Korea's missile development was to keep a damper on North Korea's weapons, but it's just nutty to keep on citing that as a goal. That genie is already long burst from its bottle. However, that's not to say the nuttier side of the arms-control community won't argue against South Korea's ability to defend itself."
South Korean press reports from April said the missile extension agreement was discussed during the visit to Washington in late April by Kim Tae-hyo, a senior national security aide to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
One report at the time said the new missile accord would not be made public because of concerns that it would undermine agreements between the Untied States and other countries not to develop longer-range missiles.
A Pentagon spokeswoman would not address the new missile accord.
"The U.S. and the Republic of Korea are in regular discussion on the security alliance and how it is best postured and equipped to maintain peace and security on the Korea Peninsula," said Maj. Cathy Wilkinson.
South Korea in 2001 signed up to the limits of the Missile Technology Control Regime, an informal political understanding that seeks limits on trade in missiles and related technology.
The 2001 New Missile Guidelines prevent South Korea from buying or building complete rocket and unmanned aerial vehicle systems (including ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles, sounding rockets, cruise missiles, target drones, and reconnaissance drones) that can carry payload of at least 500 kg to a range of at least 300 km.
Missile subsystems, including rocket stages, engines, guidance sets, and re-entry vehicles, are banned under the 2001 agreement, as are related software and technology, and production facilities.
According to a State Department cable made public by Wikileaks, South Korea carried out "repeated and continued … development of new missiles systems that are inconsistent with the 2001 U.S.- New Missile Guidelines (NMG) agreement constraining their missile systems to MTCR Category I limits."
The cable said that if Global Hawks are sold to Seoul, delivery would take place around 2014.
Also, current Global Hawk deployments in Guam do not provide enough intelligence coverage of North Korea.
"The United States understands the ROK's need for enhanced ISR capabilities and is carefully reviewing the ROK's request for Global Hawk," the 2009 cable said.
Another 2009 cable quotes a South Korean official asking the United States to reconsider the MTCR restrictions on exporting space launch technology following a failed South Korean space launch. The request is an indication that South Korea would like to better develop space launchers with U.S.-origin technology. Space launch rocket boosters are very similar to long-range missiles.
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The main function of a house is to protect its inhabitants from the weather, but unfortunately, modern houses are often built without keeping some of the most important basics in mind. Energy-saving houses aren't just flashy, fancy labels or a trend—the basics of house building that's in line with how nature works are as old as time itself.
Ideally, you'd be building the house that lets you stay warm during the winter months, while at the same time capable of sheltering you from the harsh sun during summer. The balance of the temperature inside of your house comes down to constructing an ideal space to keep the temperature comfortable with minimum use of thermostat. Here are some of the most important things to keep in mind to build constructions that could help you so much in cutting down energy cost.
Keep the Sun Orientation in Mind
House orientation with sun as the guide is an age-old method when it comes to dwelling constructions. It has a great impact in house cooling and heating. Temperatures inside the house often depend greatly on sun's orientation. This is the most important step, especially when you're building a home from scratch. In the US, rooms that face South will allow the most sunlight to come through. Remember an appropriate overhangs that will protect you from the summer sun that still allows for the sun to transfer its warmth during the winter days.
A well-insulated house does not simply keep the insides warm during winter—it also helps reduce the impact of the sun's heat during hot weathers. All of the exterior walls need to be insulated, as instructed in all building codes. One of the most commonly used insulation is fiberglass. It is an excellent material as an insulator and it's also known to be resistant to fire. Aside from the exterior walls, foundation walls, attics, and slabs for houses that doesn't have basement space are some of the most important places to insulate your house. If you're building a house from scratch, make sure to research, consult with your architect, and insulate according to your house's designs.
Cross ventilate
Cross ventilation is also known as the wind effect insulation. This method has been present long before air conditioner or even fans are invented. It's a straightforward natural way for cooling, as well as to make sure the inside air of your house is circulated well. Ventilations are important not just to keep your rooms cool, but also to ensure the quality of your indoor air. By allowing natural air and wind to flow through your house better through cross ventilation, the cost of air conditioner could be reduced well.


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Graceful arches, a stucco finish, and a tile roof define the exterior of this stunning Mediterranean house plan. Convenience and style define the interior. With over 10,000 square feet of living area, elegance is definitely in the details. For example, with a wet bar just outside the door of the theater, you and guests are just steps away from drinks and snacks. There are spaces to store theater equipment and DVDs. After wearing yourself out in the exercise room, step directly into the spa for some relaxation. A butler's pantry serves both the kitchen and dining room. Guests enjoying the outdoors can be served from the outdoor kitchen on the covered lanai. With an outside entrance to the powder room, no one has to wander about searching for it. Pool equipment is conveniently located in its own cabana. Occupants of the master suite enjoy access to the pool from their sitting area. Midnight snacks or cocktails can be served from the wet bar just outside its door. In the garage next to the storage area, a half bath accommodates outside workers. The second floor has its own wet bar, kitchenette, lounge, study area, balconies, and covered lanai. You will love the style of living created with this Premier Luxury home plan.
First floor wall framing is CMU. Second floor framing is 2x6.
These plans are not available for purchase for anyone planning to build Collier County or Lee County, FL.


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Although camera LCD Screens are getting larger they are still rather small, so why not get more out of your screen?
Almost all camera manufacturers set their cameras to automatically rotate the image so that you do not have to rotate your camera. In other words, if you have taken a vertical picture the camera will rotate it on your screen automatically. But what this means is that you will only be using half of your available LCD screen. Turn this function OFF in your main menu and you'll be using the entire screen.
Happy shooting!here's a video for Canon Cameras: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpwwnH5zGyw&feature=plcp This is what happens: This:
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Rumor has it that Android 10 will be made available on September 3rd. A Canadian operator unintentionally confirms this release date.
Although it has abandoned its sweet nicknames, the Android operating system continues its journey with such energy that we can feel the benefits of fast sugars from here. This tonicity!
While the last beta 6 was made available recently, we were only waiting for its official release.
The date of September 3 then appeared in Google's service technicians, but this source is not necessarily the most stable.
September 3rd For Android 10, It's Confirmed!
She is no longer the only one to point out this date. As we learn from Android Central, the Canadian operator Rogers has just offered its update release schedule, and this one contains Google Pixels, of course.
Therefore, we can confirm again that Android 10 will be released on September 3rd. Even the name "Q OS" used incorrectly on this table goes in this direction, it is likely that this date was known to the operator even before the final name was made official.
However, we will still be a little skeptical: without an even more reliable source, it would be difficult to eliminate any chance of Android 10 not being released on September 3, but on the other hand, we will be on the starting blocks by that date from now on.


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It's not easy competing with Amazon in the cloud, as Rackspace has learned. A month ago, Rackspace announced that it had retained Morgan Stanley after having "been approached by multiple parties who have expressed interest in a strategic relationship with Rackspace, ranging from partnership to acquisition."
Although Rackspace could attract many parties attempting to expand cloud and data center offerings, like Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Cisco and CenturyLink, one banker's impression was that no buyer had enough incentive for an acquisition to justify issuing a public statement about a potential sale. "Nobody wants to buy something that competes face to face with Amazon," he said.
The problem is that Amazon dominates cloud services and is pushing others to the wayside. Two weeks ago, Gartner named Amazon Web Services the clear leader in its 2014 Magic Quadrant for infrastructure-as-a-service, followed by Microsoft's Azure. The market research firm demoted Computer Sciences Corp from a leader and bumped Rackspace from its list of "visionaries," companies that have roadmaps for becoming major forces. Gartner determined no companies were strong enough for its "challenger" ranking.
Rackspace issued an SEC filing about retaining Morgan Stanley because of significant stock declines in the past year, speculated a second banker. "The company's under pressure because investors unfairly think it competes head to head with Amazon" but according to the banker, only 20% of Rackspace's sales are in direct competition with the book retailer's cloud services. Rackspace also sells traditional data center services. Business customers lease space in these data centers to store their servers and other networking equipment. Additionally, Rackspace provides IT services to its data center customers.
Both bankers wondered about Rackspace's mention of the possibility of forming partnerships in its exploration of alternatives. It was unusual terminology to use in a statement about exploring alternatives, the second banker said, and might indicate that alliances are more logical and easier to achieve than a takeout.
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LOS ANGELES — In a sense, Staples Center was the site of a pair of G League games Wednesday.
Midday, the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario – the organization's developmental team – borrowed the arena to defeat the Salt Lake City Stars, 116-108.
By the fourth quarter of the NBA game there later that night, a trio of G League regulars spent significant time on the same court, a pair of them closing it out – and cutting it close.
Together with Terance Mann, Luke Kennard and Justise Winslow off the bench, Jay Scrubb and Keon Johnson helped bring the severely short-handed Clippers back from 25 down to within eight points before eventually succumbing in a 124-115 loss to the Sacramento Kings before a crowd of 17,217.
"They were moving way faster than we were, flying around and we couldn't keep up in that third quarter," Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said. "So made some early substitutions, got our younger guys in there. They came in with some fresh legs and played pretty well."
Both of the Clippers' superstars were relegated to spectator status on Wednesday, as Paul George got the night off to rest following 21 games of heavy lifting. He'll be back for Friday's game against the Lakers, the first half of a back-to-back set that concludes with a rematch of the Kings on Saturday in Sacramento.
On Wednesday, George joined Kawhi Leonard – out indefinitely after surgery to repair a torn ACL – on the sideline for the Clippers' third consecutive loss, this one against a Kings squad that improved to 9-14 and won its fourth game in its five most recent appearances against the Clippers at Staples Center.
The Clippers also continued to miss Nicolas Batum, who Lue said won't be available for Friday's game.
Playing their sixth consecutive game Wednesday without their versatile veteran (who is out in accordance with COVID-19 health and safety protocols), the Clippers stumbled to 2-4 without him – and now are 11-11 overall.
"Nico is a big part of the team and the stuff he does on defense and offense is great for us," Zubac said. "He can guard anyone out there one night; he'll be guarding the five-man, the other night he'll guard the point guard, pressing full-court. He's a really smart player, high-IQ guy, and he's a big piece of the team – we for sure miss him."
For the first time this season, Lue started a pair of centers – 7-foot Zubac and 6-10 Serge Ibaka – and his team was competitive on the boards, winning that tally 49-38. That included 17-7 on the offensive glass, a marked improvement from Monday, when they grabbed only four offensive boards and 31 altogether.
The Clippers also finished with 35 assists – two shy of their season high, 18 more than on Monday and seven more than Sacramento. And they even made one more basket than the Kings, going 47 for 100 while Sacramento shot 46 for 88.
Credit the Kings' success Wednesday to their sudden prowess from beyond the 3-point arc: The night after shooting just 6 for 29 from 3-point range in a 117-92 loss to the Lakers, they went 15 for 38 from deep against the Clippers.
"Some guys you want to live with making shots, and they've been making shots and so that's gonna happen," Lue said, with a nod to Jonas Valanciunas, who was the unexpected breakout shooting star for New Orleans in its victory over the Clippers, against whom he hit his first seven 3-point attempts.
"You know, Valanciunas made seven in the first (half) the other night … and how many did he make tonight? Yeah, you saw that, right? Yeah, he had zero," Lue said of the Pelicans' center, who went 0 for 4 from deep in a loss to Dallas on Wednesday.
"So I mean, it just happens. Going under the pick-and-roll we thought early with Sacramento, a lot of guys shoot 25% and under. They made some shots. That's just how it is, try to come into it with your best game plan. Sometimes it don't work, so you got to be able to adjust. And we did that but they kind of had it going."
All five Kings starters scored in double figures, led by Terence Davis' 23 points. L.A. native Chimezie Metu (USC) scored 13. And off the bench, rookie Davion Mitchell – heralded for his defense – put on an offensive clinic, finishing with 20 points on 7-for-10 shooting, including going 3 for 4 from deep.
With Lue's starting big men – and rookie scorer Brandon Boston Jr., whose minutes were limited because of his recent G League workload – joining George and Leonard on the bench in the final period, the youngsters helped cut the margin to 119-111 on a pair of Johnson free throws with 1:28 left.
They got it back to 121-113 on a couple more from Mann (who scored a season-high 19 points in the loss, equaling Kennard's total). But they couldn't get closer.
Two days after scoring 46 points in a G League game at Staples Center, Boston, 20, showed flashes of his famed offensive flourish, energizing the Clippers with 13 points on 5-for-10 shooting in 24 minutes.
And just a few hours after he scored 36 points on 15-for-30 shooting, Jay Scrubb, 21, played 16 minutes for the big-league team, contributing five points.
Johnson, 19, scored two points but was plus-14 in his 12 minutes of work.
Wednesday's contest was the start of a four-day, two-game sequence between the teams, with Friday's intracity showdown with the Lakers in between.
On Saturday, the Clippers will travel to Sacramento, where they've beaten their hosts 15 consecutive times.
"Obviously this has been a rough stretch," Kennard said after posting a double-digit tally for the first time since Nov. 18. "But rough start to the year then I thought we kind of got back to how we needed to play, and we just played hard throughout that winning stretch that we had … I think that we're starting to try to still learn a lot of things about each other and how we're playing and how we need to play.
"But we believe in ourselves. We believe in each other. We know we have the team to win some games and now's the time to start turning that around and like I said we believe that we can, for sure."
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La Jolla: A Brief History
First InhabitantsArtifacts have been found throughout La Jolla over the decades, indicating that Native Americans settled along the shoreline nearly 10,000 years ago. Archaeologists have found stone utensils and Indian metates. Unfortunately, the remains are small and scattered, leaving historians unclear about the fate of these earliest inhabitants.
So, What's in a Name?La Jolla's name is a somewhat controversial subject among town historians. No one knows where the name originated - whether it comes from the Spanish word La Joya (which means "the jewel") or from the Indian term Woholle (meaning "hole in the mountains"), an appropriate name considering the caves and rock formations along La Jolla's shoreline. The name has appeared in all land grant and mission records since 1928 and in scattered documents at least back to 1870 when they appeared spelled "L-a-J-o-y-a".
Modern SettlersThe lands of La Jolla became incorporated as part of San Diego in 1850. However, there were no permanent settlers in this section of town until 19 years later when two brothers, Daniel and Samuel Sizer, each bought a plot here. The City of San Diego sold these 80-acre plots for the price of $1.25 per acre. Little did the Sizer brothers know that their plots of land, located between present-day Fay Street and La Jolla Boulevard, would be worth nearly $2 million per acre by 2000.
When Frank Botsford arrived in San Diego in 1886, he wrote in his diary, "Magnificent day at La Jolla!" Like the Sizer brothers, Botsford purchased a plot of land and began developing it. With the help of George Heald, who purchased one-quarter interest of the property, Botsford surveyed and subdivided the land. Although Botsford could not find drinkable water in the area, he was still able to auction pieces of the land. Botsford's foresightedness earned him the title of "Father of La Jolla.".
The Town GrowsIn the 1890s, the railroad extended to La Jolla, enabling additional growth. Around this time, real estate developers began to take an interest in the coastal property of La Jolla, constructing resorts to attract visitors from San Diego and the inland region. La Jolla Park Hotel opened its doors in 1893 and cottage-style homes began to appear along Prospect Street and Girard Avenue.
It was during this time that La Jolla first became an artist colony and when newspaper heiress Ellen Browning Scripps settled here. She was extraordinarily generous with her wealth and her name is on a number of landmarks and institutions here in La Jolla, in San Diego and scattered around Southern California, including the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Ellen Browning Scripps Park.
Twentieth Century DevelopmentLa Jolla has grown dramatically from its 350 residents in 1900. From 1900 to 1920, tourism became the economic base of La Jolla. With the end of the First World War, La Jolla grew to 4,000. During this era, the beach cottage look began to give way to the elegant California Spanish style. As elsewhere in the nation, the 1929 stock market crash devastated development in La Jolla and only a few houses were built until after World War II. When the War began, 7,700 people called La Jolla home - after the War, many service members came back to settle in La Jolla and large subdivisions began sprouting up on the mountain slopes and old horse trails were paved over. By 1960, there were over 17,000 people living in La Jolla. Today, there are over 40,000 people living here.
Recreational DestinationAs La Jolla's appeal as a seaside location grew during the century, it became one of the most popular destinations on the West Coast, attracting naturalists, beachcombers, swimmers, divers, and surfers. Additionally, the favorable winds that swept over the hills and cliffs overlooking La Jolla made it a preferred site for flying sailplanes, and Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh learned to fly gliders at Mt. Soledad and Torrey Pines.
La Jolla also is proud to have been home to a number of notable individuals in the arts, sports, and sciences. Cliff Robertson, Gregory Peck, Raquel Welch, Dr. Francis Crick, Theodore Geisel (more famously known as Dr. Seuss), and Doug Flutie all either were born in La Jolla or have called it home.
La Jolla TodayRemnants of La Jolla's early settlers are still evident throughout the town, from the names of key institutions to the eclectic form of architecture which has evolved over the decades. La Jolla is host to world-renowned research institutions, breathtaking beaches, distinguished art galleries, and top-notch restaurants.
The citizens of La Jolla are some of the most actively engaged in all of San Diego, advocating for or against numerous causes that effect their community. The La Jolla Historical Society is one organization that benefits from their involvement and continues to partner with the community as a resource for learning and gaining a greater appreciation of their heritage.
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She couldn't believe it. In fact, she could barely lift up her eyes to look at the thing! There it was, her painting, hanging in the dining room of one of Canada's most talented artists, a man whom she greatly admired. People were gathered all around it, gasping with delight — quite an unusual reaction to someone whose motto in life had been to keep her expectations low. Emily Carr's Indian Church (renamed Church in Yuquot Village in 2018), was a success. Problem is it was too much of a success, as far as she was concerned.
When an overly enthusiastic Lawren Harris — who had bought the painting and hung it in his house — wrote to her "I do not think you will do anything better," she wasn't particularly elated. No, she was angry. "At that I flew into a rage," Carr writes in her autobiography Growing Pains. "Mr. Harris thought I had reached the limit of my capabilities, did he! Well, my limit was not going to congeal round that Indian Church!"
Determined to change Harris's mind, Carr sent him more paintings, paintings which she thought were better or, at the very least, as good as Church in Yuquot Village. But it was all in vain. Harris was completely bewitched and thought that no other artwork measured up. "You limit me! I am sick of that old Church. I do not want to hear any more about it," Carr wrote to him boiling with frustration, before they finally dropped the subject for good.
Carr had first sketched the small church while traveling by steamer up the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1929. There, in the Mowachaht village, she had stumbled upon this peculiar edifice engulfed by rain forest and built by the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe of the Yuquot community.
In the painting the church looks misplaced and diminished by the green sea of foliage, an awkward monument showcasing the assimilation of Christianity by the First Nations' local population. With its windowless walls, barely discernible door and wobbly, leaning structure, the church reveals itself less like a place of worship, and more like an unexpected guest, at odds with the wild vegetation that surrounds it.
The white crosses behind the church marking a small cemetery reinforce the clash between two different realities: on the one hand, the indigenous culture devoted to life and to the bounty of nature, and on the other hand, the Western culture with its emphasis on the afterlife, religion, and man's control over the elements. Beyond mere representation, we can see this contrast amplified through color (white vs. dark green) and shape (the sculptural, lively forest vs. the flat religious edifice).
And yet, despite all that, there's something rather endearing about the small church and its open vulnerability, like a smooth pebble rolling in your shoe during a morning walk or a ladybug that somehow finds itself onto your kitchen table. Because the artist isn't questioning the merging of two cultures here, but merely shows their awkward juxtaposition and the surprise this elicits.
Carr's fascination with the First Nations peoples dated back three decades, ever since she had visited the Ucluelet Indian Reserve on Vancouver Island in 1898. The simple life amidst lush vegetation enchanted her:
"We lived on fish and fresh air," she writes in Growing Pains. We sat on things not meant for sitting on, ate out of vessels not meant to hold food, slept on hardness that bruised us; but the lovely, wild vastness did something to it all. I loved every bit of it — no boundaries, no beginning, no end, one continual shove of growing — edge of land meeting edge of water, with just a ribbon of sand between. Sometimes the ribbon was smooth, sometimes fussed with foam. Trouble was only on the edges; both sea and forests in their depths were calm and still. Virgin soil, clean sea, pure air, vastness by day, still deeper vastness in dark when beginning and endings joined."
At the time, painting the great Western forests seemed unfathomable to Carr, a goal too ambitious and overwhelming in its grandiosity for her limited skill and experience:
"To attempt to paint the Western forest did not occur to me. Hadn't those Paris artists said it was unpaintable? No artist that I knew, no Art School had taught Art this size. I would have to go to London or to Paris to learn to paint. […] I nibbled at silhouetted edges. I drew boats and houses, things made out of tangible stuff. Unknowingly I was storing, storing, all unconscious, my working ideas against the time when I should be ready to use this material."
Unbeknownst to Carr, that trip sowed seeds that would take decades to grow into the unraveling, spellbinding forests of her artistic maturity. Among them, Church in Yuquot Village remains one of her best works. Carr's best work, if you asked Lawren Harris.


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