Western 'divide-and-conquer' tactics against Russia and China are failing miserably

The Roman Empire did it. The British Empire copied it in style. The Empire of Chaos has always done it. They all do it. Divide et impera. Divide and rule - or divide and conquer. It's nasty, brutish and effective. Not forever though, like diamonds, because empires do crumble.A room with a view to the Pantheon may be a celebration of Venus - but also a glimpse on the works of Mars. I had been in Rome essentially for a symposium - Global WARning...

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Ratings Firm Worried That Northeastern Cities Drop Ticket Cameras

The state of New Jersey, Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York decided to pull the plug on photo enforcement last week. New Jersey's red light camera program expired, Nassau County's school zone speed cameras were unpopular and Suffolk decided to drop plans before any cameras were ever installed. These developments have Moody's Investors Service, a credit rating agency, worried about the impact on the bottom line for jurisdictions...

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Facebook: Managing public perception and socially engineering the masses for the elites

The Western media has attempted to portray Mark Zuckerberg's ambitious plan to get every human being online as altruistic at first, but later revealed as simply what could be called "profitable empathy." In reality however, the truth is much more sinister, with Facebook already revealed to be much more than a mere corporation run by Zuckerberg and his "ideas"Facebook is the pinnacle of social engineering, an online operant conditioning chamber...

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Why are there so many psychopathic surgeons?

© Getty I have never inserted a catheter into a patient's femoral vein. In the unlikely event I ever have to perform this procedure, I hope I don't screw it up as epically as the unnamed doctor assisting with Clayton D. Lockett's execution last April.What's notable about this doctor's dismal failure, described by the warden who witnessed it as a "bloody mess," isn't just that he hit the nearby femoral artery instead of the vein. Nor is it that his...

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BBC reporter standing next to burning pile of drugs too high to finish report

The BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville was unable to finish a video broadcast after inhaling fumes from a pile of burning drugs.In the video, Sommerville attempts to deliver a serious opener only to fall into a giggle fit, overcome by the potent narcotic fumes."Burning behind me is eight tones of heroin, opium, hash and other narcotics," Sommerville begins, but after pausing for breath he starts to laugh and is unable to continue.[embedded...

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The Russian-Chinese Double Helix: Unprecedented alliance

© Jack WiensThe Dragon and the Bear. Vladimir Putin said it clearly: "Russia and China will have a significant effect on the entire system of international relations. The relationship will be a significant factor in world politics and will affect the contemporary architecture of international relations . . ." And to state precisely what this relationship means in geopolitical sea change, President Putin continued: "Russia and China have never had...

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