I am a former Stratfor subscriber. At $99/year it was well worth it (but babies are expensive and now every 99 bucks count). I think the Stratfor readership is not stupid and know pretty well what they are getting for their dollars. I never expected any secret intelligence or detailed first hand reporting of currents events, just a good explanation on how these pieces might fit in the big picture. I need Stratfor because traditional media are failing me. They are too easily manipulated, too hard to read, too uninterested in he truth.
I follow Max Fisher and Dan Drezner, they are very readable, but limited. I follow the cool kids / IR superstars like Dan Trombly and Andrew Exum. They are very bright, but George Friedman is much more useful because he provides a very simple and coherent framework for understanding geopolitical events past and future. Sometimes he gets things wrong, sometimes spectacularly wrong, but over the years his views have mostly stood the test of time (even if Japan and the USA haven't gone to war yet).
This attack on Stratfor really changed my opinion about Anonymous and Wikileaks. The purported reasons for the attack are not believable. It is obvious to me that this is a failed (at least for now...) act of censorship and Anonymous / Wikileaks are a front to someone who isn't interested in having Stratfor's opinions and advice polluting the USA media consensus on some issue. Things may become clearer when/if other news organizations are attacked.
Is there any other news source for this besides Strategy Page? Strategy Page is bad. Usually they know just enough to make their mistakes sound plausible.
They could well just have made up this announcement.
I don't think this is correct. The state-owned electricity company EDP was split before being privatized. REN is the company that got the electricity distribution side of the business and started as a fully public company (in 1994) before being gradually privatized. I think the journalist got it all wrong, or perhaps just the wrong country...
This is a paranoid fantasy. It is uselesss to analyse imaginary enemies instead of real societies. There is a real society out there, with complex balances of power and its own political logic. Surprise: they don't want to die!
Read what you have typed: when you call the leader of the bad guys insane it always means you are living in an ideological delusion.
"Word of advice from the British Empire: things get really sticky later on down the line when outsiders draw lines on maps and tell locals how it's going to be."
Wise words, but I'm afraid they will be lost on the parent poster. That kind of thinking almost makes wish that the usa will stay in Iraq. The belief that the world can be shaped by force and according to a plan is one of the most dangerous delusions out there.
Iraq is already fucked up, while the invaders are there at least other countries will remain safe for a while. If they leave who knows who will be next...
Maybe, but this is so pathetic that it seems an admission of defeat. The Coyote is still fighting the Road Runner, but in the end gravity always wins.:)
The media doesn't give equal time to those who's research shows the global warming we are observing is most likely part of a natural global cooling and warming cycle.
Who are you talking about? What research? Names and references, please.
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No, he was not. The parliament could have impeached him, but they didn't. They did not try to follow the constitutional procedure for that.
There's even a "Let's rebuild Opera as it was" open-source effort doing what Opera SHOULD have done if they wanted a Chrome renderer in there.
Link, please?
I am a former Stratfor subscriber. At $99/year it was well worth it (but babies are expensive and now every 99 bucks count). I think the Stratfor readership is not stupid and know pretty well what they are getting for their dollars. I never expected any secret intelligence or detailed first hand reporting of currents events, just a good explanation on how these pieces might fit in the big picture. I need Stratfor because traditional media are failing me. They are too easily manipulated, too hard to read, too uninterested in he truth.
I follow Max Fisher and Dan Drezner, they are very readable, but limited. I follow the cool kids / IR superstars like Dan Trombly and Andrew Exum. They are very bright, but George Friedman is much more useful because he provides a very simple and coherent framework for understanding geopolitical events past and future. Sometimes he gets things wrong, sometimes spectacularly wrong, but over the years his views have mostly stood the test of time (even if Japan and the USA haven't gone to war yet).
This attack on Stratfor really changed my opinion about Anonymous and Wikileaks. The purported reasons for the attack are not believable. It is obvious to me that this is a failed (at least for now...) act of censorship and Anonymous / Wikileaks are a front to someone who isn't interested in having Stratfor's opinions and advice polluting the USA media consensus on some issue. Things may become clearer when/if other news organizations are attacked.
Interesting times.
Is there any other news source for this besides Strategy Page? Strategy Page is bad. Usually they know just enough to make their mistakes sound plausible.
They could well just have made up this announcement.
I don't think this is correct. The state-owned electricity company EDP was split before being privatized. REN is the company that got the electricity distribution side of the business and started as a fully public company (in 1994) before being gradually privatized. I think the journalist got it all wrong, or perhaps just the wrong country...
So cybersex is an example of proper usage of the prefix?
A minha mãe não me deixa falar com anónimos :)
I don't understand Americans. Why don't you just beat them up?
An interesting project coming from a private foundation, instead of the government, is Pordata, a database of statistical data about Portugal:
http://www.pordata.pt/
This is a paranoid fantasy. It is uselesss to analyse imaginary enemies instead of real societies. There is a real society out there, with complex balances of power and its own political logic. Surprise: they don't want to die!
Read what you have typed: when you call the leader of the bad guys insane it always means you are living in an ideological delusion.
+1 Pearl of Wisdom
Sources, please.
Dogma.
You must be new here.
Evolution is both a fact and a Theory.
> " to reject competing theories as false "pseudoscience" "
There are no competing scientific theories.
Wise words, but I'm afraid they will be lost on the parent poster. That kind of thinking almost makes wish that the usa will stay in Iraq. The belief that the world can be shaped by force and according to a plan is one of the most dangerous delusions out there.
Iraq is already fucked up, while the invaders are there at least other countries will remain safe for a while. If they leave who knows who will be next...
Relax man! At least they are not coming armed. Other nations are not so lucky...
Maybe, but this is so pathetic that it seems an admission of defeat. The Coyote is still fighting the Road Runner, but in the end gravity always wins. :)
Iranian, not Arab.
> I should die in a fire?
Learn Geography or perish, now that would be a promising educational policy.
Usually not a good sign! :) Read the first book and then invest your precious reading time in something else.
A coup d'état is cheaper. And no, I will not mention Thailand.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they provide indemnification."
Write once, exploit everywhere.
Who are you talking about? What research? Names and references, please.