3 Stars — A Great Deal of Disinformation, Some Useful Bits
I was not planning to spend time or money on Bob Woodward's new book — he is a known agent of the Deep State — but I was trapped in an airport for several hours, and relented.
Let's start with the obvious disinformation — Woodward can simply not be trusted to tell the truth about the world we live in:
The atrocities and crimes of the Bush family, headed by George Herbert Walker Bush, are unspeakable and unimaginable in depravity and scale.
Decades of war, war crimes, and treason.
Global narcotics trafficking, money laundering, fraud and financial looting.
Mass murder, assassination; the extermination of political enemies and whistleblowers.
The absolute criminalization of military and intelligence agencies, and the corruption of entire governments, across all political parties.
Devastation and violence in every corner of the planet, from the killing fields of Asia to the Middle East and Latin America, to the United States itself.
The institutionalization of terrorism, criminal cover-up and The Big Lie.
Yes, President Trump has had some successes, most not reported at all by the mainstream media.
Both slides can spin this as much as they want. The reality is that the Democrats have gained an important advantage for the next two years. They can blow this advantage but I don't think they will. So the Grand Old Party (GOP) has to get smarter.
We cannot afford to believe our own Information Operations (IO). Pelosi is the bogey woman but she is not a idiot. She is a formidable adversary with the power and influence to keep the extreme elements in the new congress under control. She also controls the purse strings and is effectively the now elected Speaker and de facto leader of the Democrats going into the general election. That means she has a lot of power to influence who gets nominated by the Democrats. She would clearly favor someone more moderate than the likes of Saunders. None of that is good news for the GoP.
Religious communities often face a choice: Sell off the buildings they can no longer afford, or find a way to fill them with new uses.
Many of our nation’s churches can no longer afford to maintain their structures—6,000 to 10,000 churches die each yearin America—and that number will likely grow. Though more than 70 percent of our citizens still claim to be Christian, congregational participation is less central to many Americans’ faith than it once was. Most denominations are decliningas a share of the overall population, and donations to congregations have been fallingfor decades. Meanwhile, religiously unaffiliated Americans, nicknamed the “nones,” are growingas a share of the U.S. population.
“While CNN doesn’t do great in the United States based on ratings, outside of the U.S. they have very little competition. Throughout the world, CNN has a powerful voice portraying the United States in an unfair and false way,” he tweeted.
“Something has to be done, including the possibility of the United States starting our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!”
Vice president of infrastructure Peter DeSantis introduced the AWS Graviton Processor Monday night, adding a third chip option for cloud customers alongside instances that use processors from Intel and AMD. The company did not provide a lot of details about the processor itself, but DeSantis said that it was designed for scale-out workloads that benefit from a lot of servers chipping away at a problem.