The Russians are so successful at what they are doing because the work along the fissures that are already there.
But I can't shake the suspicion that they have something on Trump. It's a tried and tested Russian method, and Trump visit the country many times. Given his sexual appetites it would have been easy for their secret service.
This is just speculation, but not completely unfounded given that we know that Trump used to espouse much more liberal views in the past, and the fact that he was tricked into accepting Pence as VP - also given what is now confirmed about the Russian influence.
A well informed acquaintance of mine thinks Trump is under duress, make of it what you wish: Well it is speculation. But there was quite a change politically about five years ago as specified by that informant. And I can't explain the look in his eyes sometimes. He just looks terrified. Like, I don't really want to be here, terrified. And something odd. When he went off about "Mexican rapists" and then tried to qualify that with that awkward "and I'm sure some of them are good people" that was almost like he was reluctant to say what he had just said about them. I was sort of bizarre. And he never did that again. Gestapo spank. I just don't think he controls anything. Who picked his VP? Bannon. And the first appearance trump had with him was just bizarre. Almost like he had no say in it. By all accounts he was tricked by Bannon into even meeting with him. And this was the guy he had foisted off on him because it would bring in the Evangelical vote and when exactly has the Trump Monster been even remotely religious? Or actually bought into their point of view. A Kremlin diplomat today finally admitted that they had been in contact with the trump campaign during the campaign.
Why? According to reports, Bannon has actually been running his campaign from day one. Behind the scenes. Why? Why wasn't he openly running the campaign and why was Manafort the front man? To me, there is a direct connection from Putin, to Manafort to Bannon. Maybe they do have something on him and it would ruin him. I don' know, he really just doesn't seem to be actually enjoying himself or give the air of any real commitment to what his doing or be really in charge of anything. I think it is the Bannon/Pence administration and he is just the card board cut out they need to reassure the public. And quite often, I swear to God, he has this weird terrified, unhappy look in his eyes.
Yes, the Russians are very systematic about it. Their goal all along was to shatter the Western alliance from within, and if possibly the United States themselves through internal division. The former goal is within reach. NATO at this point is but a faded paper contract.
A major German conservative newspapers already speculated before the election that a Trump victory may mean that the country has to acquire nukes. Unprecedented in a country where the nuclear anti-proliferation sentiment is strong across the entire political spectrum.
On the bright side with Trump in the White House nothing will be done to mitigate global warming. It's a long game, but I can assure you, moving to Canada help me to keep my sanity.
I read Trump has absolutely zero candidates to draw on for preparing the transition of the security and intelligence apparatus. No experienced national security personnel wants to work for his administration.
Indonesia is the most democratic Islamic country and certainly one of the freest societies in the Islamic realm.
Egyptians fought a bloody revolution for their right to vote and quickly lost it again to a military strongman, so I am not sure how much they qualify.
Iranians can only vote for politicians approved by the clerics, so there isn't much of a choice there.
For my Master degree I researched random search feed-forward artificial neural network learning algorithms. That was a long time ago, crunching numbers on a Pentium 90MHz system with a Linux 0.9x kernel.
Any smartphone has way more computing power these days.
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Google is your friend. There are many ways to infer the past thermal record, some are mentioned in the article.
The Russians are so successful at what they are doing because the work along the fissures that are already there.
But I can't shake the suspicion that they have something on Trump. It's a tried and tested Russian method, and Trump visit the country many times. Given his sexual appetites it would have been easy for their secret service.
Not true.
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-c...
Consider the scaling, on the scaling to the left our current trend would make for an almost vertical ascent.
Less funny longer time scale:
http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx...
This is just speculation, but not completely unfounded given that we know that Trump used to espouse much more liberal views in the past, and the fact that he was tricked into accepting Pence as VP - also given what is now confirmed about the Russian influence.
A well informed acquaintance of mine thinks Trump is under duress, make of it what you wish:
Well it is speculation. But there was quite a change politically about five years ago as specified by that informant. And I can't explain the look in his eyes sometimes. He just looks terrified. Like, I don't really want to be here, terrified. And something odd. When he went off about "Mexican rapists" and then tried to qualify that with that awkward "and I'm sure some of them are good people" that was almost like he was reluctant to say what he had just said about them. I was sort of bizarre. And he never did that again. Gestapo spank. I just don't think he controls anything. Who picked his VP? Bannon. And the first appearance trump had with him was just bizarre. Almost like he had no say in it. By all accounts he was tricked by Bannon into even meeting with him. And this was the guy he had foisted off on him because it would bring in the Evangelical vote and when exactly has the Trump Monster been even remotely religious? Or actually bought into their point of view. A Kremlin diplomat today finally admitted that they had been in contact with the trump campaign during the campaign.
Why? According to reports, Bannon has actually been running his campaign from day one. Behind the scenes. Why? Why wasn't he openly running the campaign and why was Manafort the front man?
To me, there is a direct connection from Putin, to Manafort to Bannon. Maybe they do have something on him and it would ruin him. I don' know, he really just doesn't seem to be actually enjoying himself or give the air of any real commitment to what his doing or be really in charge of anything. I think it is the Bannon/Pence administration and he is just the card board cut out they need to reassure the public. And quite often, I swear to God, he has this weird terrified, unhappy look in his eyes.
Russian hackers can't "hack" the election and decide who gets to be president,
Nice AC projection. Of course that's not how they operate they are way more subtle than that. Going through Wikileaks for instance was very crafty.
Competent bunch :-)
Yes, the Russians are very systematic about it. Their goal all along was to shatter the Western alliance from within, and if possibly the United States themselves through internal division. The former goal is within reach. NATO at this point is but a faded paper contract.
A major German conservative newspapers already speculated before the election that a Trump victory may mean that the country has to acquire nukes. Unprecedented in a country where the nuclear anti-proliferation sentiment is strong across the entire political spectrum.
To roughly half of american voters, that is an absolute zinger of a comeback.
Sad!
With a bit of active help they got the president they wanted. Why stop now?
Getting Trump into the White House was just the beginning.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...
Actually Russian politologists have long predicted such a break-up.
What's new is that they are actively working to make it happen.
On the bright side with Trump in the White House nothing will be done to mitigate global warming. It's a long game, but I can assure you, moving to Canada help me to keep my sanity.
With the money saved on paying for the federal budget you can buy a lot of water desalination plants.
Just saying ...
It seems now that the contention that the Russians meddled with the election turns out to be true as well. A Kremlin adviser spilled the beans
"... after I got tired of being called a RINO."
Happened to all the best of them.
I read Trump has absolutely zero candidates to draw on for preparing the transition of the security and intelligence apparatus. No experienced national security personnel wants to work for his administration.
My respect, I didn't know that there are still moderate conservatives left.
I thought they were all RINOed into extinction by now.
... for foreign powers to influence the elections, which the Kremlin now admitted: http://www.mobypicture.com/use...
Indonesia is the most democratic Islamic country and certainly one of the freest societies in the Islamic realm.
Egyptians fought a bloody revolution for their right to vote and quickly lost it again to a military strongman, so I am not sure how much they qualify.
Iranians can only vote for politicians approved by the clerics, so there isn't much of a choice there.
Thanks for the offer :-) But Canadians will be too polite to do that.
You do realize that the people in these Islamic countries actually don't get to vote for their leaders?
Well, I already moved to Canada several years ago. Too bad we may have to build a wall now.
Indeed, what pathetic hype.
For my Master degree I researched random search feed-forward artificial neural network learning algorithms. That was a long time ago, crunching numbers on a Pentium 90MHz system with a Linux 0.9x kernel.
Any smartphone has way more computing power these days.