cosmic context is NOT astrology mumbo-jumbo, but the actual orientation of the earth and moon in the solar system (coarsely grained)
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Illegals were/are special assets that would never be concurrently running so many different operations and engaging in risky wet (i.e. assassination) operations right and left. More likely they would spend many boring years cultivating their positions in society and a select few important contacts. That doesn't make for good television.
Or, as Charlie Munger famously remarked, Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
Now, the abysmal nature of name brand corporate history videos is another matter.
One notable exception I have found is this channel https://www.youtube.com/@wildwestfaces The narration is often of first person memoirs of historic events and the images are relevant and sync well with the narration.
It was back in the time of the SLA terrorism and Patty Hearst kidnapping. One of the brothers in East Oakland casually mentioned to a cop "What are all these hippies doing in our neighborhood?" (It turns out they were having a strategy meeting.) This got reported up the chain of command and OPD intelligence set up traffic stops all around the neighborhood perimeter. That was it. They just asked for ID of everyone leaving the neighborhood and recorded them, with special interest in anyone White.
When the sh!t hit the fan and the FBI got involved (soon thereafter) the OPD chief told the FBI they knew exactly who was involved. The FBI was dismissive and wasted valuable time. When the FBI hit a blank wall in regards to identifying SLA members they finally swallowed their pride and asked the OPD for the list. That's how the SLA membership was identified.
George Washington was a spy master and much of what we think we know about his operations is dot connecting. This is true of most historical accounts of spying.
A good fictional account of true to life spy craft in the 19th century is Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Some of the characters are based on historical persons in the business.
The OG does well to point out the misconception this is somehow a modern invention. It's interesting to read well-researched accounts of spy craft in different historical eras. Its secrecy at the time makes it hard to find source material. They knew how to keep secrets in olden days and there were not many whistle blowers. A lot of what you come across is just speculation. From the article it appears there is quite a lot of source material for Venice.
With that disclaimer out of the way, (I think) it is distressing and damaging for young people to be doing this job. (And maybe the rest of the article goes on to say something like that.)
Still in today's world it is a job that has to be done. If it is to be done it should be by older more mature people with more life experience under their belts. And it should be revealed up front what the job is and how damaging it can be. I think you would have to be very spiritually grounded and take many breaks to refresh your spirit (mental health) to do this.
Everyone should have their own email domain, and an agent that also serves as your email client will generate a proper looking (for some definition of that) email address within your domain for every new correspondent.
Now, whenever you see your identity (email address) associated with anything at all you can determine the original source.
But this is neither here nor there. The energy you extract from a geothermal well is heat, which then needs to be converted to electricity. The BTUs in a good oil or gas well exceed those of a geothermal well. You have the same issues of the well becoming less productive. The remediation strategies for this are similar, i.e. pumping fluid back into the ground.
I worked on a farm growing rape seed in Germany and once slept on the side of a rape seed field outside Malmo, Sweden on summer solstice night, a very short night.
I've also noticed a movement renaming to canola seed. Yeah, some people need a new name for everything.
Most on-line sources claim the phrase originated in 1104 in a small town in Essex, England.
In the third paragraph the author states he prefers the boxer story.
Personally, I think the usage of that idiom is older than 117 years.
A good portion of the class time was spent listening to Mudrick's phenomenal reading of the text. I knew at the time he should have been recorded for posterity and I'm sure today no such recordings exist and he liked it that way. There are plenty of audio recordings of Mudrick from his writing seminars.
The really big thing Mudrick maintained about this work is it contains a chapter that is the single greatest description of love-making in all of world literature. (And Mudrick should know, he was a great scholar.) Every other work attempting this reduces to mere pornography in comparison. (My words, not his, so you know I agree.)
I once knew a guy who worked in the field of providing services to non-profits, and he described to me the lavish retreats provided to people in the industry, the first-class air travel and five-star hotels provided for travel. He called it the charitable industrial complex.
Take a hard look at the tooth to tail ratio of the organization the next time you make a charitable contribution.