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SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2017, Issue No. 51 July 5, 2017 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     ARMY ISSUES NEW COUNTER-WMD DOCTRINE **     STILL NO CLASSIFIED TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVES ARMY ISSUES NEW COUNTER-WMD DOCTRINE Countering weapons of mass destruction is "an enduring mission of the U.S. Armed forces," the US Army said last week in  a new doctrinal publication . Counter-WMD operations are defined as actions taken "against actors of concern to curtail the research, development, possession, proliferation, use, and effects of WMD, related expertise, materials, technologies, and means of delivery." See  Combined Arms Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction , ATP 3-90.40, June 29, 2017. The Army document does not refer to any specific countries such as North Korea. Instead, it says generally that "Conventional forces and SOF [special operations forces] capabilities may be

Please join Tchipakkan on the New Normal  8 pm   Wednesday, July 5, 2017 ,  8-9 p.m. edt . Some years ago some friends and I decided we needed a conference for occult stuff in New England, and if no one else was going to do it, we’d do it ourselves. We wanted it to be more than just the “Spooky foo” collection of “isn’t that weird” experiences. Some of us had been doing psychic stuff and magick for 40 years or more, and wanted good instructive classes beyond the “introduction to” level. We also wanted to create / facilitate communication between different groups who do this stuff- who do energy healing, who talk to the dead, who dowse, who do divination, who know this stuff is natural and “Normal” (within certain parameters of normal).  We called the conference Changing Times-Changing Worlds, because, as with the New Normal, we are hoping that in another generation we’ll have gotten to the point where the fact that people are psychic, that we can do magick, that “this stuff is real”

What’s a Furry? The term furry describes a diverse community of fans, artists, writers, gamers, and role players. Most furries create for themselves an  anthropomorphized  animal character ( fursona ) with whom they identify and can function as an avatar within the community. Some furries wear elaborate costumes or paraphernalia such as animal ears or tails, or represent themselves as anthropomorphic animals in online communities such as Second Life. Furry fandom  is an inclusive term that describes the community of furries that span online, local, and international settings. The furry fandom is global, with hundreds of local groups existing worldwide and dozens of conventions held annually. A small subset of furries (~20%), called “therians,” believe they are spiritually connected to animals, are less than (or more than) 100% human, are an animal trapped in a human body, or were an animal in a former life.  Otherkin , like therians, feel spiritually connected to non-hum

Imagining Attractive Global Governance Questioning possibilities and constraints of well-boundedness - / - Introduction   Pattern of governance-related questions Representing boundaries to governance (constrained by other boundaries )  Refinement through disciplinary perspectives and cognitive preferences  Reframing sets of injunctions through questions Dynamic representation of proposals for principled global governance   Global governance via multipolar global oscillations   Imaginatively enabling attractive "Six Sigma" global governance Attractive global governance through animation and "special effects"  References Introduction It is striking to note the number and variety of indications of what people, groups and nations believe the world ought to do. It is equally striking to note the manner in which implementation of precepts, injunctions, recommendations, resolutions and plans is systematically avoided in some way -- irrespective of whether they