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Twitter, can be succinct @E__Strobel @CColose @ClimateOfGavin @AdamFrank4 Explicative value is strong, predictive only in the long run — eli rabett (@EthonRaptor) June 9, 2015 Damn well better, but Steve Easterbrook has a nice explanation of what GCMs are and are not.
Read the original: Logistics 101: Where Does ISIS Get Its Guns?
Tweet Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hill, he wouldn’t even notice it. The NASA data he cites is here  (which doesn’t include any of the scorching 2015 data), and his article here
Tweet Haven’t done a foreign policy post in a while, so here’s three in one: 1. The list above shows messed-countries and messed-up outcomes, so that part’s consistent, but what’s inconsistent is the level of effort by the US to change the outcome.
Another US Foreign Policy Success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure Congratulations are in order for team Bush and team Obama for another stunning US foreign policy success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure . Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) have seized the Syrian city of Palmyra, home to a Unesco world heritage site, putting nearly half of Syrian territory in the jihadi group’s hands and sparking fears that treasured antiquities may be destroyed. Isis announced it had “complete control†of the city on Thursday, and state television said President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had withdrawn from the city, which is known to most Syrians by its Arabic name Tadmur
Their report, " Garland Shooting Suspect Elton Simpson’s Father: ‘My Son Made a Bad Choice’ ," states: Followers of ISIS had been sending messages about the event in Texas for more than a week, calling for attacks. One referenced January’s Charlie Hebdo massacre in France and said it was time for "brothers" in the United States to do their part. Simpson was well known to the FBI.
Links Burying The Greatest Victory in Spite April 29, 2015 ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) – In efforts to demonize Russia, the history of the Western World is being distastefully rewritten. The monumental sacrifices of the Russian people during World War II are not only being marginalized, but flipped upon their heads. Today, reading through the Western media, one will find a multitude of comparisons between Russia and Nazi Germany, with Russian President Vladimir Putin compared with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.