"Choose wisely, my students."

http://www.techinsider.io/professor-tests-prisoners-dilemma-on-his-students-2015-7

A professor at the University of Maryland threw his class a curveball when he allowed them to each choose how many extra credit points they wanted to add to their final paper grade.

Sounds generous right? Well, not really. 

Here's what Professor Dylan Selterman positioned for his students:

Select whether you want 2 points or 6 points added onto your final paper grade. But there's a small catch: if more than 10% of the class selects 6 points, then no one gets any points.

So how did they choose?

A fine mess

Mehdi Hasan talks with Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, former head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency.



"Which...you have to really ask the President what is it that he actually IS doing with the policy that is in place, because it is very, very confusing...I'm sitting here today, Mehdi, and I don't, I can't tell you exactly what that is. And I've been at this for a long time."

Background:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/confirmed-u-s-armed-al-qaeda-topple-gaddaffi.html

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis.html

And then the refugees come here:
http://para-rigger.posthaven.com/while-you-sleep-america

Updates:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/08/unofficial-war-isis-nothing-to-show-for
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentary/565703-bedlam-in-washington


August 6, 1945 ... The Decision to Drop the Bomb

This was filmed twenty years ago in 1995.  It since has come to light that Russia's invasion of Manchuria on the day of Nagasaki was an even greater factor in the surrender of Japan than the bombs themselves, and that the Japanese had already exploded a small uranium bomb in Manchuria.