TonyMc

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I must get around to doing a bio thingy.....

Caerphilly Council and Gwent Police have confirmed they have received no complaints about election interference, despite Reform UK's Risca East by-election candidate claiming his campaign is being disrupted ✍️Emily Price wp.me/p8Mk4U-1xcQ

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BBC News - Former senior police officer believes agent involved in Omagh bomb www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In the early 80s MI5 changed policy to put "Intelligence" above "Criminal Justice". Scappaticci & Brian Nelson were just two of the outworkings.

Omagh Bombing Inquiry: Former senior investigating officer believes covert agent was involved

Retired Ch Supt Norman Baxter was the Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) of the Omagh Bombing investigation from May 2002 until he retired in November 2008.

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Within the counter intelligence field one of four potential target areas are known 'motivators'. The intelligence community refer to these by the acronym MICE - Money, ideology, Coercion/Compromise, Ego. The current POTUS, alarmingly, ticks at least 3 out of 4. Make of that what you will.

There’s a really interesting question sitting behind the AI boom. If AI is going to materially boost productivity/GDP - do you have to be the one paying for all the frontier investment to benefit?