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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
 
Polygraph panic: CIA director fretted his vote for communist
Polygraph panic: CIA director fretted his vote for communist
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John Brennan on Thursday recalled being asked a standard question for a top security clearance at his early CIA lie detector test: Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the US?

"I froze," Brennan said during a panel discussion about diversity in the intelligence community at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual conference. "This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate,"

Brennan was responding to a question about barriers to recruiting diverse candidates for the intelligence fields,
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"I said I was neither Democratic or Republican [...] I said I'm not a member of the Communist Party [...] he soon got his admission notice to the CIA
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https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/index.html

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- posted by Oleg Zabluda @ 7:33 PM | permalink | | | technorati | bloglines | feedster
 
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I was anti-Trump but never Never Trump, both because I was Never Hillary [...] I just had no idea what to make of Trump at first because he didn’t look like any mainstream Republican I had seen in the last few decades. But then, I soon realized that he didn’t look like any mainstream Republican I had seen in the last few decades because he wasn’t a hapless loser. [...] my conversion [...] from being anti-Trump to Trump-curious to pro-Trump [...] was based on the undeniable fact that Trump kept his promises and sided with America in a way we haven’t seen from a Republican since Reagan was owning the libs back in the eighties.
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Unlike our exhausted establishment, Trump rarely holds to bizarre, indefensible positions. [...] establishment has somehow talked itself into taking positions that are so clearly ridiculous that Normals scratch their heads, baffled at what they are being told by their betters via the lapdog liberal media.

Look at NATO. The entire foreign policy establishment is scandalized that Trump says he expects the Europeans to cover their fair share of the NATO [...] “HE’S DESTROYING THIS ESSENTIAL ALLIANCE BY ASKING THE PEOPLE BENEFITING FROM IT MOST TO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN IT!” And the Normals [OZ: say - bullshit] [...] And the establishment responds, “SHUT UP, RUSSIAN [PUPPET]! ASKING THE ALLIES TO MAKE NATO MORE EFFECTIVE BY PAYING WHAT THEY PROMISED, WHICH IS STILL A FRACTION OF WHAT THE U.S. PAYS, IS PLAYING RIGHT INTO PUTIN’S HANDS. ALSO, THE EMOLUMENTS”. [...] This is such a facially idiotic argument that only someone in the establishment could talk himself into believing it.

Here’s a test. Leave DC or New York, drive a few hours out to America, find a random guy on the street and ask, “Hey, don’t you think it’s awful that Trump wants our allies to increase their contributions to their own defense to just about half of what the U.S. pays?” You can safely assume he’ll respond, “Wait, why only half?”

The Normal/Elite disconnect was also in full effect regarding the new SCOTUS dude. The establishment decided it’s going to bork Brett by pointing out that he bought baseball tickets and apparently liked beer in college,
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The Democrats have also decided that they want to go into November on the platform of abolishing ICE and opening the borders to future Democrat voters from festering Third World [shitholes].
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https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/07/16/its-undeniable-trump-is-blessed-with-really-stupid-enemies-n2500638

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/07/16/its-undeniable-trump-is-blessed-with-really-stupid-enemies-n2500638

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Obama bans eastern Gulf drilling for 7 years (December 1, 2010)
Obama bans eastern Gulf drilling for 7 years (December 1, 2010)
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/12/01/obama.gulf.drilling/index.html

Trump signs order looking to reverse Obama's ban on off-shore drilling (April 28, 2017)
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/politics/trump-obama-off-shore-drilling/index.html

Gulf Of Mexico Production Expected To Hit Record High (Jun 24, 2018)
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Chevron, Shell, and BP continue with their deepwater developments offshore Louisiana and Texas and have brought down breakeven costs to $40 a barrel or less—comparable with the breakevens at some shale formations onshore. Now operators are vying for new exploration acreage close to existing production platforms that would bring development and production costs down even further.
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In April this year, Shell announced the final investment decision for Vito, a deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico with a forward-looking, breakeven price estimated at less than $35 a barrel.
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Last month, Shell started early production at the Kaikias deepwater subsea development in the Gulf of Mexico a year ahead of schedule and at a forward-looking, break-even price of less than $30 per barrel of oil.
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https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Gulf-Of-Mexico-Production-Expected-To-Hit-Record-High.html

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Gulf-Of-Mexico-Production-Expected-To-Hit-Record-High.html

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- posted by Oleg Zabluda @ 10:44 AM | permalink | | | technorati | bloglines | feedster
 
Predicting human behavior (adversarial examples)
Predicting human behavior (adversarial examples)
https://www.facebook.com/Bclipz/videos/1756973914350852/
https://www.facebook.com/Bclipz/videos/1756973914350852/

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