so a couple of notes on this. a) everybody in US intelligence I've ever talked to about this *despises* Pollard, b) although he tried to portray himself as devoted to Israel, he was casting around to sell secrets to other people, including the South Africans, for cash.

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Same move Bond pulled when he dropped a Nazi gold bar on the green before Goldfinger’s putt.

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I think the fatal flaw in Cameron/Osborne's policy mix was doing cuts to public service non-pay budgets and pay budgets at the same time. If you're theory is that "there is such a thing as society, it's just not the state" you need your middle class do-gooders to have lots of excess time & money

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A lot of people think they’re participating in a Three Days of the Condor scenario to spice up their otherwise boring lives; likewise, they mystify what is most likely a rather boring, procedural editorial process.

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"I'm a rando who prefers to believe that everything is a conspiracy and am happy to tell women that I know better than she does how their literal job works" That a news org makes an editorial decision you wouldn't (or I wouldn't) doesn't mean someone is killing a story on behalf of a powerful person

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