[FE] I stood in the sand and turned 180-degrees to my left, pulling my gaze from the English Channel to the distant flag fluttering in the breeze 30 meters above the heights at Omaha Beach in Normandy.
I’ve read books and watched documentaries about the tremendous challenges and literal uphill battles that the Allies faced on June 6, 1944, but it was an entirely different thing altogether to stand in that spot and look up at those formidable heights. I had just made my way down from the Normandy American Cemetery, where I followed a well-marked trail past the monuments to the Big Red One, the 31st Canadian Minesweeping Flotilla, and the 5th Engineer Special Brigade, as well as the remains of Widerstandsnest 62, or if you speak Freedom and not Kraut, Resistance Nest 62.
As I stood there in 2019, marveling at the seeming impossibility of the task presented to the soldiers 75 years before, I whispered to myself, "I can’t even imagine how these guys did it."
"I used to wonder, too," chimed in my friend, whom I didn’t know overheard me. I was there as his guest, and Mark was still decompressing from running all of the security logistics for the American Battle Monuments Commission’s 75th anniversary events.
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A few years ago, I stood on Omaha Beach with family and an excellent French guide. Over on our right, less than 100 yards away, on the bluff was a dark spot that was a machine gun nest. On the left, another similar site. Murderous cross fire.
Amazing anybody got past that.
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[REGNUM] Modern Ukrainian officialdom denies the very fact of the founding of Odessa by Empress Catherine II and her associates. “Everything was already founded before them,” Ukrainian historians report, specifying that the city was first mentioned by the 15th-century Polish chronicler Jan Dlugosz as the “royal port of Kachubey.” This version was canonized in 2015 by a special resolution of the Verkhovna Rada on the celebration of the 600th anniversary of Odessa.
[BBC] Later this month, people in Berlin will be able to book an hour with an AI sex doll as the world’s first cyber brothel rolls out the service following a test phase.
Customers will be able to interact verbally with the AI dolls as well as physically. "please wear a condom...or a 10mm socket"
“Many people feel more comfortable sharing private matters with a machine because it doesn’t judge,” says Philipp Fussenegger, founder and owner of Cybrothel.
“Previously, there was significant interest in a doll with a voice actress, where users could only hear the voice and interact with the doll. Now, there is an even greater demand for interacting with artificial intelligence.”
It's just one of many ways that generative AI is being used by the adult entertainment business.
…by which they mean pr0n, right? Being as it’s Berlin and all.
Analysis by SplitMetrics revealed that AI companion apps reached 225 million downloads in the Google Play Store.
“I would expect more app developers to take note of this trend and look at ways this category can be further innovative and monetised,” said SplitMetrics general manager Thomas Kriebernegg.
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"Through this window when AI was borne
Shone the light of a glorious morn
And 8Ks on your walls
From those stalls in dead malls,
The last gasp of traditional pr0n."
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It's just not adult entertainment. Given all the reboots and crappy writing out of the establishment entertainment, just think of calling up one of your favorite movies but you select the actors and the AI generates it. Who needs new 'stunning and brave' casting and hack woke writers when you can do it all yourself.
The most astounding part of America’s “Joe Biden” three-plus-years thrill ride is that the Party of Chaos and Hoaxes was able to pretend until just a few days ago that this political phantasm could run for re-election. Now, regime insiders are forced to confess that they can’t hide it anymore. They spilled the beans as “unnamed sources” this week in a huge Wall Street Journal article. The president is going necrotic in full view of the whole world. His mind is gone. He looks ridiculous when he shuffles in front of the cameras. He utters obvious absurdities and lies. His wife has to lead him around like a dog on a leash. Everyone can see it. He’s got to go. ASAP.
Everything they’ve done since 2020 has been in the service of covering up their crimes, and each hoax has just compounded the damage done to our country. The Covid-19 prank was pulled to enable mail-in ballot fraud so as to assure a permanent government-by-blob, of which the Democratic Party is now a mere tentacle. We don’t know yet whether the mRNA vaccine module of the prank was a deliberate effort to kill a lot of people or a grievous blunder by greedy drug-makers, or some wicked combo — with assistance from the WEF or China.
They can’t afford to lose their grip on the levers of power in the 2024 election —lose control of the Justice Department, the FBI, and the so-called “national security” apparatus, especially. The open border is just an effort to illegally import and enlist a vast wad of potential new voters to ensure an election victory. More than twenty states have “motor-voter laws” that automatically register anybody with a driver’s license. And these enrollees don’t even have to cast their ballot. Their names can just be “harvested” systematically, attached to voting documents, and bundled to be submitted for them. Millions have entered the country illegally since 2021 at “Joe Biden’s” direct invitation. There’s nothing hidden about this — but all you see is the learned helplessness of actual US citizens unable to stop it.
And yet, even that prank may not work to keep the Party of Chaos and Hoaxes in power. Designated candidate “Joe Biden” is obviously so far gone that even actual citizen voters under the mass formation spell can’t be counted on anymore. His poll numbers look abysmal. He’s scheduled to debate his opponent, the outlaw Donald Trump, on June 27. If his handlers allow that to actually happen, it will be like the unmasking scene in The Phantom of the Opera: brain-ringing horror, from sea to shining sea! Of course, an insult to the zeitgeist that severe will force the party leaders into some ‘splainin’, and I personally doubt they will be able to ‘splain their way out of it. Did all of you Democrats not notice?
The putative replacements for him — Newsom, Hillary, Pritzker, Whitmer, Harris — are political creatures at least as loathsome to voters as “JB” has become. And the obvious pitfall for Michelle O is that her husband looks like a wannabe American Caesar seeking a fourth term. What else have they got? Nothin’. Some utterly unknown governor they can primp up in a few months? Fugeddabowdit. They’ll have to run one of the loathsomes, take the “L,” and hope for the best, perhaps make a get out of jail “deal” with dealmaker supreme Mr. Trump.
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[REGNUM] American President Joe Biden's first European tour in a whole year immediately became the basis for all sorts of jokes and ridicule. Everything worked out perfectly for this. Or, if you look at it from a different angle, it’s completely sad. The situation inside the US is worsening, Biden's ratings are low. Well, with his cognitive abilities, things get worse the closer to the elections. At the ceremony of the 80th anniversary of the landing in Normandy, Biden again delighted the whole world with his pirouettes and attempts to sit on an invisible chair. Everything would be fine, but literally a couple of days before his arrival in Europe, devastating material for him came out in the press of Rupert Murdoch.
My Pick would be Moccasin Creek - Old America
What would yours be?
The lyrics for "Old America":
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I don't like communism and I don't wanna speak Chinese
I don't care for globalization and I don't like the Middle East
Don't give me that time's a changin' line of crap
I want my old America back
I miss the days of the pledge in school
And God on the dollar bill
Keep the screen door wide open all night long
Not worried about gettin' killed
And twenty bucks could buy me a tank of gas
I want my old America back
What happened to the pledge in school
They took God out too, man that ain't cool
United we stood, and divided we fell
If we don't bring it back now, then we're headed for hell
See gas is to high, we can't find no jobs
And them government crooks steady steal and rob
Tryin' take my guns, good luck with that
We're mounted up baby
'Bout to bring old America back
I say we keep the jobs at home and quit shippin' them overseas
Don't worry about foreign folks, let's worry 'bout you and me
And get our boys the hell out of Iraq
Let's have our old America back
I remember leavin' doors open all night
I remember bein' cool to have a fist fight
I remember sayin' prayers in school
I remember teachers teachin' us the golden rule
I remember 20 dollars fillin' up my tank
I remember when we used to even trust our banks
I remember when our president was born on our land
Let's take old America back
Baby, that's the plan
Lord, shine your light upon this land I love
On the stars and stripes
On the stars and stripes
Lord, shine your light upon this land I love
On the stars and stripes
On the stars and stripes
Happy Days Are Here Again
Different Drum
Better Quit Kickin' My Dawg Around
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Wouldn't mind seeing me darlin' Uncle Tom take and leave the stage to Soul Train. "People all over the world!" I'm getting chills here. Okay, how about MacPherson's Rant?
Paranoia is in bloom
The PR transmissions will resume
They'll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down
And hope that we will never see the truth around
(So come on)
Another promise, another scene
Another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed
And all the green belts wrapped around our minds
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined
(So come on)
They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
(So come on)
Interchanging mind control
Come, let the revolution take its toll
If you could flick the switch and open your third eye
You'd see that we should never be afraid to die
(So come on)
Rise up and take the power back
It's time the fat cats had a heart attack
You know that their time's coming to an end
We have to unify and watch our flag ascend
(So come on)
They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
(So come on)
They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
(So come on)
The hostages are dead anyway
[IsraelNationalNews] I believe that Israel's future has priority over the hostages.
There.
I've said it.
And don't get me wrong. I am well aware that, in the very short run, even the most irresponsible deal saves lives in the very short run by ending the war and gaining the release of possibly live hostages.
I'm not writing these words overseas.
I am writing them in Raanana.
I have skin in the game.
There are young women in my family who photograph and video their husbands playing with their young children.
Just in case.
But a nation cannot function based on an extremely short planning horizon.
I would mention, parenthetically, that the issue of planning horizon is nothing new.
When Rabbi Ovadiah Yoseph supported Oslo as preventing the loss of life - "pikuach nefesh" - he did it by explicitly giving a huge weight to the immediate present and close to no weight to projections of the consequences in the time to come. He believed that halakhically one must trust the experts, except that the experts were wrong.
As a result, it was only when, thanks to Oslo, hundreds of Israelis were being slaughtered by our "peace partners", Rabbi Yoseph had second thoughts.
That extremely short planning horizon is why Shas came out now supporting any possible hostage deal.
As a nation we cannot afford to discount the consequences tomorrow of leaving Hamas intact today.
As a nation, we cannot afford to set the precedent that our enemies can ensure their own survival by taking Israeli hostages.
I fully understand that, as far as some of the families of the hostages are concerned, the release of their loved ones who might possibly still be alive, takes precedence over all other consideration.
But there is a difference between understanding the weight which these families put on the release of their loved ones as compared to the weight they give to the future of our nation and applying these weights to the decision-making process.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BBC] Later this month, people in Berlin will be able to book an hour with an AI sex doll as the world’s first 
My Pick would be Moccasin Creek - Old America
