Posts by peanutbutter and jellyfish

NSA whistleblower to tech firms, Obama: 'Grow a pair!'

We all remember the legend of the brave Dutch boy who saved Holland

"he was startled by the sound of trickling water. Whence did it come? He looked up and saw a small hole in the dike through which a tiny stream was flowing. Any child in Holland will shudder at the thought of a leak in the dike! The boy understood the danger at a glance. That little hole, if the water were allowed to trickle through, would soon be a large one, and a terrible inundation would be the result."

Today Edward Snowden is the brave American who emulated that brave Dutch boy, not by sticking his finger in the dike, but by pulling his finger out..

Israeli activists tell Hawking to yank his Intel chips over Palestine

Re: Sorry, Matt. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me"

The only observation about black holes I've made, concerns the ginormous one between your ears. If you wake up in the middle of the night and Jacob Bekenstein is sitting on your face, he's just doing a black hole dynamic while Hawking gets even more jealous

Climate scientists agree: Humans cause global warming

The only take-away from this discussion is...

an Ostrich's head is more comfortable buried in warm, loose sand.

Alleged CIA spook cuffed by Russians: US Gmail 'spycraft' revealed

" I doubt this was faked"

And 'faked' is the only hypothesis that makes sense. It makes no sense that our intellegence would allow an officer of the Embassy with a grab bag full of trinkets and a wad of Euros in large denominations to wander the dark streets of Moscow.

And it makes even less sense that Russian intelligence would piss away the opportunity to have a double agent being run by a secretary at the Embassy of the United States.

Thrown away for what?

Astonishing photographs that the American media either didn't print or buried in the back pages. And then he was declared non grata and expelled.

When the FSB could be analyzing what Fogle was asking their mole for and occasionally spouting disinformation in his direction.

It's possible "that an American "diplomat" was out recruiting with a wig or two in his bag.'

So you think that Fogle, or his operator in Langley, assembled that smorgasbord of props, which would have been deemed too ridiculous even for Maxwell Smart.

Has it occurred to no one here that the mole was instructed by the FSB, to ask him to bring those props to test Fogle's bona fides. Is it possible that as a further test of Fogle's good intention, the mole not only asked for three different colored wigs, but asked Fogle to wear the blonde one that night, seeing as it was a blind date in a dark park and Olga, his wife is blonde. ("Ach, Olga. I betrayed Russia for you)."

Clearly the FSB sting operation is a more satisfactory way of looking at this.

Because if Third Secretary Fogle assembled these props on his own, whether or not he carried them to the rendezvous in a Buzz Lightyear lunch box, America is doomed.

Re: "Once you eliminate the impossible, etc."

I didn't imagine that Fogle would be exchanged for Bout and Yaroshenko in the middle of a bridge over the Spree. Fogle has already been ordered out of Russia.

But now Obama has a reason to be embarrassed, sorry and contrite. And nice to Putin. And Bout and Yaroshenko would be going to a Russian prison, not Sochi. Because an American CIA agent was caught red (hey, a pun) handed, Obama's critics will have less to gripe about.

And, of course, Russia will be more cooperative about Syria,

Turn on Fox News, Watson. Let's see what's really happening.

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

This is such a bumblefuck operation it can only mean that Obama has decided to let Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko complete the remaineder of their prison terms in Russia. "Earlier this year (2012), in April, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was sentenced to 25 years in prison and Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko was sentenced to 15 years in prison".

By 'setting up' Fogel for this bust -- no doubt he knew the part he played -- Obama gave Putin a get-out-of-American-jail-free to redeem for Bout and Yaroshenko. Letting Russia arrest an American diplomat is the only possible explanation for this event, so reminiscent the The Mossad in Dubai