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[The Valkyrie]

DOD Contractor ARRESTED For Mishandling Classified Documents

[color=var(--style-type-primary-1-highest)]A contractor for the Defense Department was arrested Friday and charged with mishandling classified documents, according to an FBI complaint.[/color]

[color=var(--style-type-primary-1-highest)]From May until as recently as August 7, Turkey-born electrical engineer Gokhan Gun printed over 250 documents at work, a few of which were labeled “top secret,” FBI officials allege. Because of his employment with the Defense Department, Gun possesses a top-secret clearance, but he was not authorized to take the documents home, according to an 11-page complaint filed in a Virginia federal court.[/color]

So, they can, like, arrest people for that? Huh.

Boru

I no-one going to comment on...

...Gokhan GUN?

[Sheldon]

"There was no word on what was contained in the documents."

That made me laugh fair play, I mean there wouldn't be would there...

His public defender told the court he wasn’t a flight risk and was heading to Mexico for a fishing trip. He was a bit more reticent about the 155 pages of top secret documents, among the most sensitive state secrets, stacked in his dining room and stored inside a backpack...a bit of light reading no doubt...

LINK, just because I can...

[brewer]

The Food and Drug Administration declined to approve MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ne...rcna165531

[arewethereyet]

The Food and Drug Administration declined to approve MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ne...rcna165531

Of all the chemicals I have dabbled in, MDMA was the one I liked the least.  Back in the day I even knew people who would inject it.  The couple times I took some of it all I wanted to do was to come down.  The second and last time, I slept 14 hours straight after I came down.  

Back then we called it Multiple Drugs of America.  You really never knew what you were getting.  

Somehow I survived my teens and twenties.  How is a mystery.

[Silver]

I had an opportunity to try it once, but I didn't.

Was never the type to experiment with or be curious about drrugs.

[brewer]

The Food and Drug Administration declined to approve MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ne...rcna165531

Of all the chemicals I have dabbled in, MDMA was the one I liked the least.  Back in the day I even knew people who would inject it.  The couple times I took some of it all I wanted to do was to come down.  The second and last time, I slept 14 hours straight after I came down.  

Back then we called it Multiple Drugs of America.  You really never knew what you were getting.  

Somehow I survived my teens and twenties.  How is a mystery.

It's one of the few I've not tried. Ayahuasca is another. At that time and if they were available I'd have 'experimented'.

[Sheldon]

The Food and Drug Administration declined to approve MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ne...rcna165531

Of all the chemicals I have dabbled in, MDMA was the one I liked the least.  Back in the day I even knew people who would inject it.  The couple times I took some of it all I wanted to do was to come down.  The second and last time, I slept 14 hours straight after I came down.  

Back then we called it Multiple Drugs of America.  You really never knew what you were getting.  

Somehow I survived my teens and twenties.  How is a mystery.

Sorry to hear that, I once spent a year living and working in the Netherlands, and must have got lucky. The pills we experimented with had very different results. The place was awash with top quality cocaine as well, but nonetheless, there are many risks, not least of which is that a large fast artificial high, seemed to involve a slightly longer but less pronounced depression afterwards.

I was a little older, and so perhaps more able to cope than I might have been in my twenties, I shudder to think about me doing that in my teens.

I also tried mushrooms in a chocolate bar, and have to say it wasn't for me at all, never tried it again, though others raved about it. The hallucinations were astonishing, but overall not worth sitting on the bog for 12 hours convinced by my guts I needed a shit. In a whole year of contracting, it was the only night anyone (a good friend) told me I ought to go to home to bed, and afterwards told me I looked a proper state, which was saying something tbh.

[The Grand Nudger]

Smash and grab.

In his 17-month stint as UF president, Ben Sasse more than tripled his office’s spending, directing millions in university funds into secretive consulting contracts and high-paying positions for his GOP allies.

Sasse ballooned spending under the president’s office to $17.3 million in his first year in office — up from $5.6 million in former UF President Kent Fuchs’ last year, according to publicly available administrative budget data.


A majority of the spending surge was driven by lucrative contracts with big-name consulting firms and high-salaried, remote positions for Sasse’s former U.S. Senate staff and Republican officials.

https://www.alligator.org/article/2024/0...-contracts

[arewethereyet]

Of all the chemicals I have dabbled in, MDMA was the one I liked the least.  Back in the day I even knew people who would inject it.  The couple times I took some of it all I wanted to do was to come down.  The second and last time, I slept 14 hours straight after I came down.  

Back then we called it Multiple Drugs of America.  You really never knew what you were getting.  

Somehow I survived my teens and twenties.  How is a mystery.

Sorry to hear that, I once spent a year living and working in the Netherlands, and must have got lucky. The pills we experimented with had very different results. The place was awash with top quality cocaine as well, but nonetheless, there are many risks, not least of which is that a large fast artificial high, seemed to involve a slightly longer but less pronounced depression afterwards.

I was a little older, and so perhaps more able to cope than I might have been in my twenties, I shudder to think about me doing that in my teens.

I also tried mushrooms in a chocolate bar, and have to say it wasn't for me at all, never tried it again, though others raved about it. The hallucinations were astonishing, but overall not worth sitting on the bog for 12 hours convinced by my guts I needed a shit. In a whole year of contracting, it was the only night anyone (a good friend) told me I ought to go to home to bed, and afterwards told me I looked a proper state, which was saying something tbh.

Back in the days of my youth, MDMA was literally whatever some dealer had on hand mixed together.  Acid, speed, cocaine...whatever was around.  I don't think my age had as much to do with it as did the fact that MDMA was all the leftovers mixed together.  It wasn't even in pill form, it was powder.

[Belacqua]

Has everybody been keeping up with the gang rape news out of Israel? I'm not sure if the media where you are are covering this.

So a few days after the US Congress gave Netanyahu 58 standing ovations, military police in Israel went to arrest nine prison guards who had gang raped two Palestinian prisoners. There have been lots of reports of rape in Israeli prisons over the years, but apparently this time there was video.

Soon after the guards were arrested, angry Israeli mobs overran two military installations, demanding their release. There was a debate in the Knesset over whether gang rape is OK or not, and several high-ranking politicians argued that it's a good thing to gang rape Palestinians. A well-known news commentator went on TV to argue that gang raping prisoners is self-defense. The guards were released without punishment. The rape victims died of their wounds.

A few days after the debate in the Knesset, the US promised Israel another $3,000,000,000 worth of weapons. Two days ago, they promised another $20,000,000,000 worth. Although much of this figure includes war planes which won't be delivered for a while.

Meanwhile of course the genocide continues. The same day that the war planes were promised, Israel dropped bombs on a school being used as a refugee camp, killing close to 100 people.

Both Harris and Trump promise to continue this.