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Vlad Rattled Some Sabers , But It's China Moving Fastest in Weaponry Meanwhile Americans are paying close attention to our "reality TV" president Mutual Assured Destruction "MAD" is baaaack. OK, I'm a generic hypersonic weapon. Live with it. ...But I'm spending the big bucks on weapons I'm bad and I'm scary... Informed, enlightening, podcast from knowledgeable folks who sound scared. These are the military, weaponry and technology editors of Aviation Week and Space Technology , pulling no punches on how the Russians and the Chinese are trying to lap America in war fighting tech. As you can see from these links to other SeniorJunior posts, this has worried the poo out of me for some time. Other  "Worried about China Skunking the U.S."  posts: Science Leadership Deep space  communications Electric  Cars Quantum  communications Jet passenger  planes Robots Hypersonic  weapons A.I.   So

“ How can we create a news ecosyst em ... that values and promotes truth?” ** Huge Study Says "Tell Me What I Want to Hear" ... is where a lot of us are right now. Huge Study, reported in Flipboard Though the study is written in the clinical language of statistics, it offers a methodical indictment of the accuracy of information that spreads on these platforms. A false story is much more likely to go viral than a real story, the authors find. A false story reaches 1,500 people six times quicker, on average, than a true story does. And while false stories outperform the truth on every subject—including business, terrorism and war, science and technology, and entertainment— fake news about politics regularly does best. * And politics becomes lies. There's a lot of good reporting on our new(est) culture of lying. In VOX , there is a great line: How do politicians get so comfortable with lying? One theory: practice. The unscrupulous politician wi

Think 180 Degrees From Truth Exact Opposite! Look! Over there! * TRUTH 180 DEGREES OUT: "No Collusion. No Collusion! No Collusion!!!   TRUTH 180 DEGREES OUT: "No chaos, only great energy!" Not just untruthful, exactly the OPPOSITE of the truth.   Then... Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat ... the age old "Big Lie" technique . Combine the two and   That makes it a       Sup er Lie ....Able to leap tall incredulity with its super propaganda power!! More powerful that the slow train of actual truth!! Super lies are becoming much more common in politics all over the world. When you examine the statement and say to yourself "That's the exact opposite of the truth," like when Bashar al Assad says reports of horrible cruelty in his merciless siege of Eastern Ghouta are "fake news" and "terrorist propaganda" and "not true," when we are all seeing daily video of the actual

What's Totally Wrong With the Russian Influence Numbers from Facebook and Twitter? They don't count the number of Americans sucked into repeating Russian Lies. Boy, did we fall for that one! * LOOK HOW WRONG THEY WERE ON  THE REDDIT REPORT   But their CEO just told the truth and it's scary. According to (Reddit CEO) Steve Huffman, the most troubling activity on Reddit from known and suspected Russian operatives wasn’t in the form of ads or accounts run by trolls, but rather from actual Reddit users who were amplifying troll-made content of their own volition. One known Internet Research Agecny account on Twitter, @TEN_GOP, which posed as the account for the Republican Party of Tennessee, had its tweets “amplified by thousands of Reddit users,” according to Huffman, adding, “sadly, from everything we can tell, these users are mostly American, and appear to be unwittingly promoting Russian propaganda.” I KNEW THIS WAS HAPPENING. I COULD SEE IT NOT ONLY ON R

The Great Winter Drought 2017/2018,  New Mexico Us Mountain Folks talking fire prep Fear of Fire is the Local News Angle There was a community meeting on fire preparation and planning in our area. The local NBC affiliate in Albuquerque decided to do a "package" to go with their live report from the meeting.  Somehow we were selected as the subject. A competent young reporter and her cameraman came to the house out here in the country, and they interviewed us for a good 45 minutes. I knew it would become a 2 1/2 min piece and was curious what parts they would use.  They found a story in all the palaver and here 'tis, for your dining and dancing pleasure:   (You have to watch a 20 second commercial first.) ​ http://www.kob.com/ albuquerque-news/east- mountains-wildfire-season/ 4808501/?cat=504 ​ I don't know how long they leave links active.

Died Shielding School Children From Gunfire See a stunning collection of political cartoons from this transplanted American artist. Go to "Google Images" and search ' Pia Guerra cartoons .'

     Right Now... It is LEGAL (buying and owning a .50 caliber rifle and military ammo) right up to the moment you pull the trigger. That's how the 2nd Amendment is currently enforced. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? BOOM! For $10,000 (almost) anybody can buy a 50 cal. rifle with armor-piercing  incendiary  rounds to shoot an airport fuel storage tank or an airplane  just taking off. BANG! NEVER MIND :   " A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,..." . .. the important thing is to allow gun manufacturers to sell any gun that's not a "machine gun" to practically everybody. And it's still legal to buy a bump stock and  turn your semi- into a full-automatic; i.e. a machine gun.  SO SAYETH THE NRA and Congress.  Warning!  Political Statement!! Republicans stole the Second Amendment. Over the course of 30 years, the right waged a war on political, legal, and academic