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"the engineer"
Most tools are smarter by having an IQ of 0. Haley proves a negative IQ is possible, where working against self interest is seen as a smart idea.
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solarz
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Oh I'm sure she had her own self interests well in mind...
Who the hell would want to be a rocket scientist in NK?
"Kim Jong Un has executed a second official in just five days over a launch delay at North Korea's test missile site.
The unnamed executive allegedly took responsibility for setbacks at the Punggye-ri nuclear base, which led to the date of a rocket launch being pushed back.
Five days ago, a high-ranking official once described as the "second most powerful man in North Korea" disappeared from public life, sparking speculation he may have been executed by death squads.
It is understood the most recent victim was the director of Bureau 131 - a man in charge of building and running the nuclear base.
Reports in the Japanese paper Asahi Shimbun suggest the director has been at the helm since it was formed.
The suspected execution was handed down over a delay to Pyongyang's sixth missile test and the subsequent collapse of tunnels, which killed 200 workers.
A source told the paper: "It seems he took the blame as the prolonged mining of the nuclear facility pushed back the test date to September when it was initially set for spring."
Last month, Seoul warned that one more North Korean nuclear detonation could destroy its mountain test site and trigger a radiation leak.
South Korea says any future nuclear test by Kim Jong Un risks collapsing the location set aside for launching missiles.
Seoul detected several earthquakes near the hermit nation's nuclear test site in the country's northeast after its sixth and most powerful bomb explosion in September.
Experts say the quakes suggest the area is now too unstable to conduct more tests there.
US experts issued a similar warning, stating a second nuclear test site in North Korea's northwest could cave in but that it won't be abandoned.
Five of Pyongyang's recent tests have been carried out under Mt Mantap at the Punggye-ri military base in the northwest of North Korea.
But now the base is said to be suffering from "Tired Mountain Syndrome" after three small earthquakes occurred nearby after the blasts.
Last week, speculation was rife of the execution of General Hwang Pyong-so, who was once the most senior military official in the hermit state as a Vice-Marshall after the supreme leader.
It came days after Kim Jong Un visited the significant Mt Paektu, a sign that suggested he was planning to execute a top official.
Such visits to the mystical mountain often precede important decisions by North Korean leaders.
Pyong So was reported to have been expelled from the party for "taking bribes" and has not been seen since October.
His deputy Kim Wong Hong is said to have been banished to a prison camp.............."
"Kim Jong Un has executed a second official in just five days over a launch delay at North Korea's test missile site.
The unnamed executive allegedly took responsibility for setbacks at the Punggye-ri nuclear base, which led to the date of a rocket launch being pushed back.
Five days ago, a high-ranking official once described as the "second most powerful man in North Korea" disappeared from public life, sparking speculation he may have been executed by death squads.
It is understood the most recent victim was the director of Bureau 131 - a man in charge of building and running the nuclear base.
Reports in the Japanese paper Asahi Shimbun suggest the director has been at the helm since it was formed.
The suspected execution was handed down over a delay to Pyongyang's sixth missile test and the subsequent collapse of tunnels, which killed 200 workers.
A source told the paper: "It seems he took the blame as the prolonged mining of the nuclear facility pushed back the test date to September when it was initially set for spring."
Last month, Seoul warned that one more North Korean nuclear detonation could destroy its mountain test site and trigger a radiation leak.
South Korea says any future nuclear test by Kim Jong Un risks collapsing the location set aside for launching missiles.
Seoul detected several earthquakes near the hermit nation's nuclear test site in the country's northeast after its sixth and most powerful bomb explosion in September.
Experts say the quakes suggest the area is now too unstable to conduct more tests there.
US experts issued a similar warning, stating a second nuclear test site in North Korea's northwest could cave in but that it won't be abandoned.
Five of Pyongyang's recent tests have been carried out under Mt Mantap at the Punggye-ri military base in the northwest of North Korea.
But now the base is said to be suffering from "Tired Mountain Syndrome" after three small earthquakes occurred nearby after the blasts.
Last week, speculation was rife of the execution of General Hwang Pyong-so, who was once the most senior military official in the hermit state as a Vice-Marshall after the supreme leader.
It came days after Kim Jong Un visited the significant Mt Paektu, a sign that suggested he was planning to execute a top official.
Such visits to the mystical mountain often precede important decisions by North Korean leaders.
Pyong So was reported to have been expelled from the party for "taking bribes" and has not been seen since October.
His deputy Kim Wong Hong is said to have been banished to a prison camp.............."
Gotta take that article and report with a grain of salt.
The article is even contradicting itself.
Headline reads "Kim Jong Un executes another official over North Korea missile launch delay". Then the article mentions the "a high-ranking official once described as the "second most powerful man in North Korea" disappeared from public life, sparking speculation he may have been executed by death squads."
I don't know where to put this so I decided this was as good a place as any.
(CNN)A former Pentagon official who led a government program to research potential UFOs said Monday evening that he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth.
"My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone," Luis Elizondo said in an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."
A pair of news reports in The New York Times and Politico over the weekend said the effort, the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was begun largely at the behest of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who helped shore up funding for it after speaking to a friend and political donor who owns an aerospace company and has said he believes in the existence of alien
Elizondo told he resigned from the Department of Defense in October in protest over what he called excessive secrecy surrounding the program and internal opposition to it after funding for the effort ended in 2012.
Elizondo said Monday that he could not speak on behalf of the government, but he strongly implied there was evidence that stopped him from ruling out the possibility that alien aircraft visited Earth.
"These aircraft -- we'll call them aircraft -- are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of," Elizondo said of objects they researched.
He said the program sought to identify what had been seen, either through tools or eyewitness reports, and then "ascertain and determine if that information is a potential threat to national security."
"We found a lot," Elizondo said.
The former Pentagon official said they identified "anomalous" aircraft that were "seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics."
"Things that don't have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological," Eliz
The Times' report on the government UFO study included a pair of videos of pilots remarking on something mysterious they were seeing. One of the pilots, retired Cmdr. David Fravor, told CNN that he had witnessed an object that looked like a "40-foot-long Tic Tac" maneuvering rapidly and changing its direction during a flight in 2004.
Ryan Alexander of Taxpayers for Common Sense expressed dismay about the program and cast it as a waste of money in a piece that aired on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Monday.
"It's definitely crazy to spend $22 million to research UFOs," Alexander said. "Pilots are always going to see things that they can't identify, and we should probably look into them. But to identify them as UFOs, to target UFOs to research -- that is not the priority we have as a national security matter right now."
For his part, Fravor said the money spent on the program was a drop in the bucket relative to the military's over half-a-trillion-dollar annual budget.
Politico that after Elizondo stepped down from the Department of Defense, he went to work for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, a company co-founded by former Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge that says it looks into issues surrounding government secrecy and unidentified objects.
In a statement Monday, Reid continued to defend the program.
"I'm proud of this program and its ground-breaking studies speak for themselves," the statement read. "It is silly and counterproductive to politicize the serious scientific questions raised by the work of this program, which was funded on a bipartisan basis."
(CNN)A former Pentagon official who led a government program to research potential UFOs said Monday evening that he believes there is evidence of alien life reaching Earth.
"My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone," Luis Elizondo said in an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."
A pair of news reports in The New York Times and Politico over the weekend said the effort, the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, was begun largely at the behest of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who helped shore up funding for it after speaking to a friend and political donor who owns an aerospace company and has said he believes in the existence of alien
Elizondo told he resigned from the Department of Defense in October in protest over what he called excessive secrecy surrounding the program and internal opposition to it after funding for the effort ended in 2012.
Elizondo said Monday that he could not speak on behalf of the government, but he strongly implied there was evidence that stopped him from ruling out the possibility that alien aircraft visited Earth.
"These aircraft -- we'll call them aircraft -- are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the US inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of," Elizondo said of objects they researched.
He said the program sought to identify what had been seen, either through tools or eyewitness reports, and then "ascertain and determine if that information is a potential threat to national security."
"We found a lot," Elizondo said.
The former Pentagon official said they identified "anomalous" aircraft that were "seemingly defying the laws of aerodynamics."
"Things that don't have any obvious flight services, any obvious forms of propulsion, and maneuvering in ways that include extreme maneuverability beyond, I would submit, the healthy G-forces of a human or anything biological," Eliz
The Times' report on the government UFO study included a pair of videos of pilots remarking on something mysterious they were seeing. One of the pilots, retired Cmdr. David Fravor, told CNN that he had witnessed an object that looked like a "40-foot-long Tic Tac" maneuvering rapidly and changing its direction during a flight in 2004.
Ryan Alexander of Taxpayers for Common Sense expressed dismay about the program and cast it as a waste of money in a piece that aired on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Monday.
"It's definitely crazy to spend $22 million to research UFOs," Alexander said. "Pilots are always going to see things that they can't identify, and we should probably look into them. But to identify them as UFOs, to target UFOs to research -- that is not the priority we have as a national security matter right now."
For his part, Fravor said the money spent on the program was a drop in the bucket relative to the military's over half-a-trillion-dollar annual budget.
Politico that after Elizondo stepped down from the Department of Defense, he went to work for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, a company co-founded by former Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge that says it looks into issues surrounding government secrecy and unidentified objects.
In a statement Monday, Reid continued to defend the program.
"I'm proud of this program and its ground-breaking studies speak for themselves," the statement read. "It is silly and counterproductive to politicize the serious scientific questions raised by the work of this program, which was funded on a bipartisan basis."
Nikki Haley's statements does not make sense and she was not even trying. It would have been better if she had just kept her mouth shut. It only hurts American credibility as a PERMANENT member of the Security Council.
U.N. General Assembly meeting set over U.S. veto of Jerusalem resolution
By Allen Cone | Dec. 19, 2017 at 2:41 PM
U.S. threatens countries with loss of aid over U.N. vote on Jerusalem
By December 20 at 6:20 PM
timepass
Brigadier
The UN just voted overwhelmingly to condemn Trump’s Jerusalem decision — even after he tried to bully them.....
timepass
Brigadier
After the humiliation in United Nations Security Council, president of United States is now threatening all 193 member States of UN to stop giving any kind of economical/military aid whomever gonna vote against USA.....