Month: June 2019

NSA Gave Israel Access to All US Citizens’ Communications Data, Leaked Documents Show

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Frustrated by a legal ban on sharing intelligence with Israeli operatives conducting targeted assassinations against Hezbollah, the NSA crafted a loophole giving them total access even to US citizens’ data, leaked documents show. The Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU), the NSA’s counterpart in Tel Aviv, convinced the Americans to circumvent the legal prohibition on providing
— Read on russia-insider.com/en/nsa-gave-israel-access-all-us-citizens-communications-data-leaked-documents-show/ri27167

[2013] Balkan Peace and Prosperity Will Remain Elusive Unless Freed of Dead Hand of the 1990s

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Aug 09, 2013 // It has been said that the Balkan region produces more history than can be consumed locally. Much of the world would prefer to forget the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia, if only to escape the competing versions of history that members of the various communities seem so inordinately fond of reciting.
— Read on www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/balkan-peace-and-prosperity-will-remain-elusive-unless-freed-of-dead-hand-of-the-1990s

The Breakup of Yugoslavia

My Role in Weaponizing ‘Moral Equivalence’ and ‘Religious Freedom’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

It’s confession time … Without getting overly autobiographical, it is worth noting that my perspectives (whatever their value) on American public policy and global affairs…
— Read on www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/05/11/my-role-in-weaponizing-moral-equivalence-and-religious-freedom/

Posting for a few reasons, including my own personal interest in the Orthodox Church. I hadn’t known that Mr. Jatras was an Orthodox Christian, until I followed him on Twitter a while back. I recently found his writings on the Chinese Uighurs, which he also mentions in this article. Someday I will have to put together a list of people who I admire. It won’t a long list, since I’m still new to geopolitics, but Jim Jatras will definitely be on that list!

Russia Declares Northern Passage Effectively Closed to Foreign Warships

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Russia Declares Northern Passage Effectively Closed to Foreign Warships
— Read on www.checkpointasia.net/russia-declares-northern-passage-effectively-closed-to-foreign-warships/

Joe Manchin sounds like we need a few more NATO bases surrounding Russia:

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/joe-manchin-on-face-the-nation-warns-of-largest-russian-presence-in-arctic-since-cold-war/

Then again, are they hiding something?