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Goodnight room
Goodnight moon
Goodnight cow jumping over the moon
Goodnight light
And the high altitude Chinese spy balloon
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NORAD and U.S. Northern Command statement on the high-altitude surveillance balloon.
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Interesting day above the Western US todayβ¦ Billings, MT airport was put on a ground stop for, βSpecial military missionsβ A balloon was spotted over the city. F-22s (RAMBO & RAPTOR) were refueled by KC-10 / KC-46 (ABATE), AWACS also in the area. F-22s went back to Nellis.
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A little BTS to celebrate the season opener being 2 weeks out from today! #StarTrekPicard I call this one, "Trouble in the Ryton System."
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Annie Wersching's Borg Queen in #StarTrekPicard season 2 was outstanding. Vulnerable, yet sinister. Scheming, yet pitiful. She gave all to the role, including the long hours in the make-up chair. She will be missed and she will not be forgotten! π
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OK, you can only write with ONE type of pen for the rest of your life, which one are you picking? (ignoring the ink color)
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As always, Helen is great at tracking flu.
The current news is good, as she outlines, but not a reason to dismiss influenza as an ongoing, annual threat.
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Activity continued its sharp decline in the week ending Jan 21. It's barely over the epidemic threshold at this point nationally; in 6 regions it's below it. But for the fact that we've seen little #fluB activity, it would be tempting to guess flu season is over.
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We have amazing people that work . While on a protection assignment at a Hawaii beach, Special Agent Akos noticed a young man in a small group struggling in the water & ultimately falling below. He rushed to the boy & with another good Samaritan prevented a tragedy.
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Today we are honoring Special Agent Joseph Akos, Jr., a rescue swimmer, who received the Secret Service Directorβs Lifesaving Award for his actions that resulted in saving the life of a 15 year-old boy in Hawaii.
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Incredible that JWST's data is already challenging the consensus understanding of how the universe was formed
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Also a reference to the bespoke "Joint Intelligence Brigade," and its "screeners." JIB = JSOC J2's main intelligence analysis and exploitation directorate. JSOC _and_ and the GFC were involved here. But the military would rather not concede the JSOC part.
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"JSOC" is redacted more than 50 times in this report about the Kabul civilian death strike, but not everywhere. int.nyt.com/data/documentt
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Broke: Shor
Woke: Schnorr
Bespoke: PIC Blade
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One of the first things I had the privilege of doing when I was an intern for ABC News was to brief Barbara Walters about some breaking news event. (The Concorde explosion, I think.). It was cool. She was grand. Took no shit from anyone and lived a marvelous life.
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Awesome seeing Michael perform, with . Come for the magic, stay for the shaving cream.
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Seeing for the first time since the pandemic. (And !). Get well soon, !
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1964 classification policy concerning Talent Keyhole information.
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A cover up? Certainly not! It is responsible discretion exercised in the national interest to prevent unnecessary disclosure of eminently justifiable procedures in which untimely revelation could severely impair public confidence.
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan bit.ly/3hvaKIC
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As for #Twitterfiles and , the Internet's leading authorities on JFK assassination--namely and jfkfacts.substack.com--want to note: We are unaffected by the current controversies. We are not cancelled. We're credible to Left, Right, and Center. #JFKFacts
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Well, I certainly picked the right year to go INTO trust and safety ....
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Hereβs something new: domestically developed Ukrainian squad radio
- LPI/LPD
- encrypted spread spectrum frequency hopping
- 0.1 watt transmission
- 200-500 meter range
- usb C!!!
- designed just to fuck with Russian EW
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Lots of gems for historians and historical hobbyists in here.
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Wow! Amazing thread of recently released files related to the JFK assasination. twitter.com/marcambinder/sβ¦
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Tarkin, Revisited, by open.substack.com/pub/athertonkd One of the best things I've read on one of the best shows of 2022.
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The proboscidean who must not be named ....
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People really need to understand how mainstream it has become in some tech VC circles to argue that journalism itself is dangerous as an idea and should be abolished, and that it will be up to the tech world to carry this out.
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I asked ChatGPT to assume the posture of a Dzogchen master and provide me with a pointing out instruction.
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There are 16 documents mentioning #KGB in the new set of JFK assassination records released today by .
One of them dated Feb. 1990 refers to the debriefing of a source codenamed IJDECANTER. This is likely Sergei Papushin, an ex-KGB SCD (counterintel) officer.
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The story of journalists cooperating with the government in various and sundry manners... old as the hills. And the tenor really didn't change until after Vietnam, Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
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TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER
Back in the day, CBS allowed CIA operatives into its booth overlooking the UN Security Council chamber. From that vantage point an expert lipreader would scrutinize the Soviet delegationβs whispered consultations.
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He knows this stuff. Worth a watch.
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I'm going on @thereidout to talk about #JFKFIles shortly. @MSNBC
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Inside the NSA SIGINT Command Center on 11/22/63
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My overall assessment so far - lots of fascinating insight into how intelligence and national security worked in the 60s ... not much new about Oswald and the assassination. Read through my tweets for the highlights.
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The new Kennedy assassination documents: archives.gov/press/press-re
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I occasionally tweet out cool ADSB stuff, mostly about military aviation; so, just in case...
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I'm on post.news - post.news/marcambinder and on Mastodon - masthead.social/@MarcAmbinder.
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Follow me and I'll try to make it worth your while.
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Stratcom...err...the Strategic Air Command...really never agreed with CIA about anything related to Russian missiles. From 1963.
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Pauling. Pasternak.
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A list of Americans whose mail the CIA was poking through in 1960-1962 archives.gov/files/research
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FBI counterintelligence operations against Russian facilities and agents inside the US, circa 1962-1963 archives.gov/files/research
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The CIA assesses flap potential after Watergate archives.gov/files/research