Authorities haven't disclosed a possible motive for the shooting, which took place at a warehouse rented by the Naval Medical Research Center, Biological Defense Research Directorate
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I like the name "biological defense," like you can just scatter some pox in front of an advancing army and it won't leave the area
If you wanted to be really generous, biological defence could mean developing preventative measures and cures for potential bioweapons.
It’s not surprising that as we entered this decade, just as the US was about to arrive at an geopolitical inflection point, a few short years before being economically eclipsed by China, a global crisis precipitated.
China had no motivation, given the circumstances, to interrupt the natural course of things - but for the US, it was existential.
Was the pandemic natural? Of course not.
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The pandemic very likely was natural, but if it was created by someone it was almost certainly the U.S.
Eh, that thing's a participation trophy if you were in any time after 9/11. The three medals listed in the article are stuff that pretty much everyone gets, and the rank that they list for him is the Navy medic equivalent of an E-4. If he enlisted in 2012 and was still an E-4 nine years later, pure speculation, but he may have had something in his record that has been fucking him over for promotion up to E-5 and higher, which is a decent pay bump. I'm not familiar with how bad the Navy is about discrimination in performance evaluations, but that could easily be part of it.
At E-4 you're still required to make get a good enough test as well as enough points on an eval. However that doesn't matter if your quotas are shit. Advancement rates are public so you can see differences where they literally just require you to have a pulse (Any of the Nuclear rates making E-4) or if life sucks and everything hates you (Surface Electrician's Mate (Nuclear) E-5)
Also E-4/E-5 is the difference for having a stupid easy time getting a housing allowance or being stuck in a barrack.
Bunhead don't post this the same day TrueAnon does a military episode. I can't form the words for it but like, this feels like one of the manifestations of the american deepstate and I can't sort out how I feel about it.
Crisis of the Third Century shit. Praetorian coups and assassinations, military/intelligence infighting leading to incipient state fragmentation, cults and chaos and decline, the first real throes of transitional crisis. Except this time the Praetorian Guard are all addicted to the coke they're supposed to be selling for the CIA
The transition of the slave imperial mercantile Roman Empire into feudalism which only began to collapse a thousand years later in the crisis of the 14th century. I’m reading “A Distant Mirror,” which is about the latter crisis. Do you have any book recommendations for the crisis of the 3rd century?
