Analyst?

Y'all remember that James Coburn film 'The President's Analyst?' 

Coburn plays this psycho-analyst who is contracted by the Government of the United States to 'look after' the state of mind of the President - who happens to be a black guy in the movie.

Very scary movie, with a very scary ending.

'The Telephone Company' apparently has gone around substituting real people with automatons - or perhaps have implanted people (I can't quite recall which it was right now) with some kind of device that allows them to completely control these subjects. Including the President, and eventually, including the President's analyst too! 

I only clearly remember now that the fading final scenes of the movie show a cable being plugged into the shoe of Coburn's character with the intended meaning that he had himself now been 'taken-over' by the Borg/Telephone CORPORATION.

Personally I am not one of these anti-'H++' (Augmented Human) Luddites. I like technology, I am a technologist myself, and it isn't the machine intelligence of a dynamic electronic system that worries me particularly.  

It is the defective human that worries me. It is the malevolence of human ideologies wrapped in some other covering that is so easily sold to the continually unsuspecting ordinary person who is trying to mind their own business.

I told you all that Erdogan was going after the US Air Base in Incirlik in Turkey. Today, there was a huge protest rally outside that base. Erdogan could not have been anything other than behind it. He seems to be able, after all, to suppress even a military coup against him in fifteen minutes...

Saudi University class

You 'watch it now,' but... I suppose there are a lot of doomsayers around; it's the easiest thing to engage in, that kind of EOTW scenario talk. But we are in for the hell of it now. And you'd better hope Trump is the guy in the driver's chair and he can get back some of the top brass, like McChrystal.

Saudi Arabia, is being run by madmen. It isn't Assange's leaks about Hillary's emails that ought to concern anybody - we already all know she is 'problematic.' And it isn't those emails that the Russian Secret Services particularly cares about. THEY, actually have got Arabic readers and speakers working for them on the electronic communications traffic in places like Indonesia, Singapore, Saudi, Bahrain, Qatar, Londonistan, Egypt, and Turkey. And they know EXACTLY what's up.

And none of it is funny.