Christopher Barron

Horse racing, real and @Zed_Run (stable: Monument Bloodstock); Energy biz; Trad Fi, crypto, commodities; airline miles, Sussex Spaniels, and random things

[MovieTalks🎬🍿 @jackofficial_01]

If you want espionage + political intrigue + intelligence agencies + conspiracies, Add these 30 excellent picks to Your watchlist;

1. The Americans 🇺🇸 — Deep-cover Soviet spies living as an American family

2. Homeland 🇺🇸 — CIA operations, terrorism, politics and psychological warfare.

3. The Night Agent 🇺🇸 — FBI agent uncovers a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of government.

4. Slow Horses 🇬🇧 — MI5 agents, espionage failures and political conspiracies.

5. The Bureau (Le Bureau des Légendes) 🇫🇷 — Realistic French intelligence and deep-cover operations.

6. Fauda 🇮🇱 — Undercover intelligence operations and Middle Eastern conflict.

7. The Spy 🇮🇱 — An Israeli agent infiltrates Syria under deep cover.

8. Tehran 🇮🇱 — Mossad operative infiltrates Iran during a dangerous mission.

9. Bodyguard 🇬🇧 — Political assassination plots, terrorism and government secrets.

10. The Diplomat 🇺🇸 — International crises, political maneuvering and covert operations.

11. Jack Ryan 🇺🇸 — CIA intelligence, terrorism and geopolitical conspiracies.

12. Lioness 🇺🇸 — CIA special operations and covert missions.

13. The Little Drummer Girl 🇬🇧 — Cold War espionage and an elaborate intelligence operation.

14. Deutschland 83 🇩🇪 — East German spy infiltrates West Germany during the Cold War.

15. The Capture 🇬🇧 — Surveillance, intelligence manipulation and political conspiracies.

16. Condor 🇺🇸 — CIA analyst becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.

17. The Looming Tower 🇺🇸 — Intelligence agencies and the events leading toward 9/11.

18. The Honourable Woman 🇬🇧 — International politics, espionage and Middle Eastern intrigue.

19. The Little Drummer Girl 🇬🇧 — High-level infiltration and Cold War intelligence games.

20. A Spy Among Friends 🇬🇧 — British intelligence, betrayal and Cold War espionage.

21. The Old Man 🇺🇸 — Former CIA operative dragged back into a dangerous geopolitical conspiracy.

22. The Recruit 🇺🇸 — CIA lawyer gets caught in international espionage.

23. Berlin Station 🇩🇪🇺🇸 — CIA officers deal with spies, leaks and political intrigue.

24. Rubicon 🇺🇸 — Intelligence analyst discovers a disturbing government conspiracy.

25. Treason 🇬🇧 — MI6 leadership, betrayal and political power struggles.

26. The Ipcress File 🇬🇧 — Cold War espionage and intelligence manipulation.

27. The Assets 🇺🇸 — CIA counterintelligence and the hunt for a Soviet mole.

28. The Company 🇺🇸 — CIA operations spanning the Cold War.

29. Patriot 🇺🇸 — Dark, unconventional espionage mixed with political intrigue.

30. Secret State 🇬🇧 — British government, corporate power and political conspiracy.

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@RepoleStable @keenelandsales Did anybody ask the Buyers agent shown what happened? She seems kind of well known now.

[OkieMaga_Patriot46 @Okie_Patriot46]

I need to make a very PUBLIC announcement on behalf of younger GenXers and older Millennials.

If you see someone in their 40s or 50s who seems a little boring now, I need you to understand something...

We already got it in.

Like...GOT. IT. IN.

We are not sitting home on a Friday night because we never knew how to have fun.
We are sitting home on a Friday night because we have seen enough.

We went to parties in houses that should have been condemned and were almost certainly owned by the local drug dealer.

We saw police lights and RAN and not across a nice, flat field.
INTO THE WOODS.

Do you understand the athleticism required to hurdle uprooted tree roots in platform shoes while simultaneously trying to keep your low-rise jeans from sliding completely off your ass?

And somehow...we never spilled the Zima. We never spilled the Boone’s Farm.

That was TALENT.

We slept on floors in strange houses because the designated driver either never showed up or, in a shocking turn of events, was drunker than everybody else.

There was no Uber, Life360 or Find My Friends.
There was just somebody named Mike saying, “I know a shortcut.”

And we FOLLOWED MIKE.

We closed down bars and then decided the night was still young, so we drove to Atlantic City, where we somehow managed to get drunk, sober up, get drunk again, sober up again and then get drunk a THIRD TIME before breakfast.

And according to our parents? We were at Michelle’s house.

Eating pizza and watching movies.

Michelle’s mother unknowingly covered for approximately 17 people every weekend. If there even was a Michelle.

We drank things called Purple Passion, Mad Dog 20/20 and whatever somebody mixed inside a giant plastic garbage can. Nobody asked what was in it. You grabbed a red Solo cup and trusted the process.

We went to clubs until the lights came on. Do you know the psychological damage of seeing a nightclub with the LIGHTS ON? Nothing good happens after those lights come on.

We danced for four straight hours in shoes that permanently altered the structure of our feet.

We made entire plans without cell phones...no texts, dropped pins or group chats...just an extremely questionable sense of direction.

We rode in cars with 11 people when the vehicle legally seated five. Someone was always sitting on someone. Someone was always in the hatchback.
And there was always one friend yelling, “DUCK!” when we passed a cop.

So yes...now we like being home.
We like sweatpants.
We like cancelling plans.
We like saying, “That sounds fun!” with absolutely no intention of attending.
We like restaurants at 5:30 because we can get a good table.
We like being home by 8:17.

And if someone texts at 9:30 PM and says, “What are you doing?”
Sleeping...we are sleeping.

Because this is not boring my friends...this is retirement.

We already played, partied and danced on the bar.
We already ran from the cops through a wooded area dressed like a Spice Girl.

We have stories that cannot be posted because there are still people with careers, marriages and reputations to protect. And thank GOD there were no camera phones.

So kids, when you look at your Gen X and older Millennial parents sitting peacefully on the couch watching Dateline at 8 PM and think:
“God, you guys are boring.”

Sweetheart...oh sweetheart.
You are looking at retired legends.

Put some respect on our names. We're probably the reason Life360 was invented.

xoxoxo (posted from someone else on FakeBook) 🤣 #genx #oldandtired

[andi (twocents.com) @Nexuist]

In 2009, WikiLeaks published 448,358 pager messages from 9/11/01, likely leaked from an NSA dragnet monitoring NYC at the time.

There are messages from the Secret Service, NYPD, news stations, hospitals, FEMA, civilians, and more.

I built a viewer to help you explore them.

[Daniel McFadin @danielmcfadin]

Somebody, somewhere in NYC for whatever reason recorded the New York 1 morning news broadcast on Sept. 11, 2001.

They wound up recording history. It starts at 8:30 a.m. ET.

You get 15 minutes of news from the Before Times.

Then the world changes.

https://t.co/1N3J5Stf1M

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@Bowtiedplayer Man you’re going to be banned lol

[shobhanai @HeyShobhan]

In 1986 a guy got kicked out of every casino in Vegas for counting cards. So he flew to Hong Kong with $180,000 and started betting on horses instead. He walked away with almost $900 million.

It's Bill Benter. He figured horse racing was just another counting problem. Same math, more moving parts.

He and a partner showed up with $180k and a computer. Benter spent years teaching that computer to guess one thing, the real chance each horse had to win. If his number was better than the odds the bookies gave, he bet. If not, he skipped it.

That's the whole trick. Expected value.

EV = p · b − (1 − p)

Only bet when your win chance p, at odds b, is worth more than your chance of losing.

This recording was never meant to be some hidden gem. Nobody expected Professor Tsitsiklis to hand the whole foundation away in 45 minutes, but that's exactly what happens on the board. Students in that room pay over $80,000 a year to sit through it. It's free right here. It's free right here.

Every quant, every professional bettor, every hedge fund analyst started with this exact hour. Benter just watched it and actually did the homework.

Almost nobody knows this lecture even exists. Watch it before it gets taken down.

The answer is in this video.

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@Aiwithkumail Ha fun post

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@themamahagan Wow saw one years ago in North Carolina but less violent. Guess the truck I saw was going slower.

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@TGTM_Official Excellent

[Jon Walczak @jonwalczak]

This is a previously unpublished photo of 9/11, taken at the base of the North Tower of the World Trade Center shortly before it collapsed. It was developed from a previously unknown rubble camera, which we investigate in our film, "32 Frames: A 9/11 Mystery".

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@StraightFlorida Very well done. Note the Waffle House thing is kind of true lol

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@DAVIDLSINGER @SwifttKirk The airport analogy is valid

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@AncientHistorry Curve Wars. IYKYK lol

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@BenGoldsmith Not perfect (which is fine) but pretty good.

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@Ambrose0_X Good explanation

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@SahilBloom “Likeable”

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@DougieSal Fair Hill angle? 🤣

[Doug Salvatore @DougieSal]

My new update on the Fair Hill 5 Betting Coup...

Video can be seen by clicking the link below:

https://t.co/nyY5U3nvwe

[Christopher Barron @NCBarron]

@JerseyTom @EJXD2 Opened at 1-9