[FoxNews] A San Francisco reporter shared he was assaulted while riding his bicycle by a group of young teens, and confessed it wasn't his first time being a victim of crime in the blue city.
In a video taken right after the assault, ABC7 investigative reporter Dan Noyes says he was on his way home from his bike ride when he saw a group of about 15 young teens across the street from where he was on the bike path.
That's when he said one of the kids rushed over suddenly and knocked him off his bike in an attempt to steal it.
"I came crashing to the ground. My left elbow is pretty darn sore, I hope it’s not a hairline fracture or something. But I nailed hard onto the ground. I got up, and the kid had grabbed my bike and was starting to run away," Noyes says in the video posted to X.
He shared images of heavy bruising on his arm from the fall and a doctor's note showing he suffered a broken elbow. Noyes confirmed to FOX News Digital that he suffered a broken elbow with a fractured radial head from the assault.
After Noyes warned the teen that he would be on the local news, the group of kids rode away quickly.
"Well I jumped up and went after him, and said, ‘You're about to be on Channel 7.’ The kids, at that, just scattered," he said in the social media video, while showing camera footage of the teens riding away.
Noyes said the teens appeared too young to even hold a drivers' license.
"That's crazy," the rattled reporter remarked in the aftermath.
Analysis of satellite imagery shows test site expansion in all three countries
There is no evidence of an imminent nuclear test planned at any of the sites
But the development worries nonproliferation experts who fear a new arms race
Satellite images shared with DailyMail.com on Friday show significant construction in recent years at the Nevada National Security Site near Area 51 in the US, China's Lop Nur test site, and Russia's atomic proving ground Novaya Zemlya.
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Everybody's (except perhaps China) nukes are getting older. A lot of the engineering of the actual 'pits' that do the detonating is based on assumptions, and half life vs enrichment purity has become a statisical issue.
If you spend a billion dollars on it and it maybe doesn't go bang at the right moment, you'd have been better off burning the money for heat.
In the US, they're setting up to try to make actual new pits for the first time in almost 50 years, that's how long we've been recycling the old pieces.
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[BEE] KYIV — In a shocking move, Ukraine announced today that they have hired trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney as their official military spokesperson.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the decision at a press conference today, stating, "In these trying times, we need a professional like Dylan to come in and be the face of Ukraine. He's someone that people unanimously respect after seeing how he masterfully handled his role as a Bud Light brand ambassador. Speaking of which, Bud Light is now the official beer of the Ukrainian army."
Mulvaney has committed to handling one of the most critical geopolitical crises of our time by making disturbing TikTok videos about how little girls love Abrams tanks. "On day 400 of being a girl, I discovered my love for F-16 fighter jets," said Mulvaney. "Yay for being a girl and yay for cluster munitions!"
Zelensky said that he hopes that such a well-beloved and highly respected person like Mulvaney will help to unify the world behind Ukraine. "We recognize that the war has become polarizing and controversial," said Zelensky. "We believe a deranged trans influencer is the best person on the planet to update the world on what your billions of dollars are doing for Ukraine's military. Welcome aboard, Dylan!"
In response to the buzz surrounding his appointment, Mulvaney has posted a video announcing that he's about to make Ukraine the "next Bud Light".
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This is actually a genius plan. Now anyone who opposes sending more stuff to Ukraine is not only a Putinist, but also transphobic and anti-LBGTQWERTY++. Take that, you Haters!
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Ukraine's last....face...of their PR Department was a trans dude.
Until he threatened to have anyone less than 110% on-board with his judgement of proper propaganda assassinated.
But don't you dare call dudes hyper-saturated in artificial hormones violent and emotional.
*Ghost of Kyyyyv was a trans, according to lore, a gal IIRC. One of the initial call to arms for Ukraine! was to defend lkewadi+ rights and especially trans rights, which the barbarous Rus would ride down at night.
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[REGNUM] The words of the chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society, Vladimir Medinsky, that “we must not forget” Stalin’s deportations of peoples, caused some discontent in the networks. But we really must preserve the memory of the crimes of that era. Otherwise, others will store (and use) it for us. Some discontent? Mr. Khudiev is clearly a master of understatement. I’m impressed.
But let's remember what happened. Vladimir Medinsky answered a listener’s question on Sputnik radio regarding the upcoming 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Karachays.
...the indigenous Turkic-speaking people of the autonomous Karachai-Cherkessia Republic in the northern Caucasus. Russia conquered and annexed this Sunni people in the early 19th century. After Stalin purged the intelligentsia, leadership class, and independent farmers in 1938, and the population collaborated with the Nazis in self defense, the Soviets deported the entire population to Central Asia and subjected them to re-education with the usual results. It’s interesting that Mr. Khudiev does not call the Karachays “Nazis” as others do the Ukrainians, though the historical process appears to be exactly the same — using one evil in an attempt to fight back against another.
Speaking about both the Karachays and other groups that were subjected to repression, he said: “This cannot be forgotten. This is a tragic story that should not be erased from people’s memory... It is, of course, impossible to justify these blanket repressive measures on national and ethnic grounds.”
Any talk about the tragic events of our past, and especially the Stalin era, immediately evokes performances by two half-choirs. One, clearly more powerful, sings in a bass voice, “We will not allow our glorious past to be denigrated,” the other, smaller, sings in thin but excited voices, “This is always how it is with them, in the damned prison of nations.”
There is nothing specifically Russian in this confrontation.
Any society that has a history - in particular, any really existing country in the world - is faced with the fact that its history is full of tragedies and crimes.
For example, right now inside the United States there is an acute ideological confrontation between those who glorify America as a unique society of freedom and dignity, and those who see it as a country created by slave owners on the blood and tears of Indians, blacks and other oppressed minorities.
We cannot choose whether there are large-scale manifestations of evil in our past or not. They are in the history of any country. We were never a unique reserve of saints in this fallen world—we were part of it.
But we can decide how to treat them.
The tragedies and crimes of the past are easily transformed into an instrument of current politics, which is often called the “politics of memory,” although, in a less exalted expression, it could be defined as the “politics of historical claims.”
This is too convenient a tool for political manipulation to be ignored.
People who want to rise as leaders look for someone to lead. To do this, they need to form a group of followers. Group identity is most easily formed through opposition - “us”, the good ones, against “them”, the bad ones.
Maybe the man had nothing against his neighbor; their children played together in the same yard. But then they explained to him that he and his neighbor belong to different groups - his ancestors suffered from the neighbor’s ancestors, now he must be imbued with righteous indignation and demand that the neighbor pay and repent.
The neighbor will not only not pay, but will also be indignant that he is accused of crimes that he had no intention of committing. And this will show that he is not only a villain, but also an unrepentant villain - he is the same as his criminal ancestors. Yes, in fact, all “they” have been thinking for centuries about how to offend and oppress poor “us”.
Discord between neighbors, however, creates an excellent opportunity for a number of beneficiaries.
Political activists who will shout “our people are being wronged!” and they will hasten to recruit him on the one hand, and his neighbor on the other, for a difficult, bloody, but, of course, fair fight against the enemies.
Foreign powers who would like to weaken the enemy and generally solve their problems by causing civil unrest in his rear.
Just bandits for whom any turmoil opens up rich opportunities.
We, alas, have seen all this many times already.
Therefore, historical crimes and grievances are mines that lie in the ground for tens and hundreds of years, waiting for malicious people to activate them.
How to defuse these mines?
The position “we will not allow it to be denigrated,” that is, we will refuse to admit at all that any crimes took place, is emotionally understandable.
We can roughly guess who is removing old skeletons from closets and why, we don’t trust these people for a minute and don’t want them to succeed at anything.
Since the tragedies of the past are being manipulated, let's deny them altogether.
This is what people do in many different countries, and many examples can be given. This is a fairly natural reaction. People everywhere are inclined to declare unpleasant historical events as slander on their glorious past.
The trouble is that this strategy turns out to be a losing one. It does not stop malicious people from detonating historical mines. On the contrary, it intensifies the explosion.
We can remember our own history in the late 1980s and early 1990s - people read what they were not allowed to read, and learned what they tried to hide from them. A lot of unpleasant truths about the past. If this truth had not suddenly burst out of hiding, it would not have caused harm - but its sudden breakthrough was destructive. As the TV group sang: “Who will believe you now - after all, you have been silent for so long.”
Worse, a lot of lies were immediately mixed in with the unpleasant truth - and it turned out to be impossible to refute it precisely because those “hiding the truth” had lost all trust.
Historical events are never remembered in isolation - they are always somehow interpreted, integrated into some kind of overall picture, and given a certain coloring.
To refuse to talk about them is to hand over this process of interpretation to others. And these will quickly turn out to be people who will try to use old tragedies in order to create new ones.
Therefore, the more openly we talk about the tragic pages of our past, the more difficult it will be to use them against us.
It is impossible to reveal the “terrible truth” to a person who learned about it at school.
The image of an ideal country with a sinless history may seem attractive - but it is very fragile. In the current world, where any smartphone makes it possible to find out anything in half a minute, it will be broken before it can be created.
We can create an image of a far from ideal, but worthy country, in the history of which there have been ups and downs, saints and criminals. The achievements we are proud of and the hard lessons we have learned.
We cannot make sure that historical mines do not exist. This has already happened before us, and it is not in our power to undo it. But we can take them away from those who would undermine them. And for this, we, and not our opponents, must talk about the tragedies of the past.
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The lesson Russians re-learned in the last 30 years is that weak Russia is an invitation for foreigners to come in and have a meal.
They also learned that "human rights" is a tool of Globalists - who destroy everything they touch (look that they managed to do to USA).
The lesson they need to learn about Stalin is that Russia was strong not because of Stalin (who, among other things, killed their best generals pre WWII) but despite Stalin.
[Larry Johnson] We are seeing the classic signs of the growing discontent within some key sectors of the military and intelligence bureaucracy over the Biden policy towards Ukraine (I will touch on those in a minute), but the Biden national security team continues to stridently insist insist it will back Ukraine to the bitter end. However, despite the tough talk, Biden continues to balk on sending some weapon systems that could transform the Special Military Operation into a full blown war with Russia.
...Jake Sullivan is delusional. Consider this portion of his remarks to the press:
Well, let’s define success kind of stepping back for a moment. Number one Kiev stands, Kharkiv stands, Kherson stands. Major cities of Ukraine are not under Russian domination and occupation today because first and foremost of the bravery of the Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines and the people the Ukrainian people who are supporting them. But also, in no small part, because of the material assistance we have provided and that is a significant fact.
Second Ukraine is in fact taking back territory. It is doing so methodically step by step and the weapons that we have provided have allowed them to de-occupy (sic) more territory in the last 3 months than the Russians were able to take in 8 months over the course of its fall and winter offensive last year. So we will keep at this and we believe that the weapons we are providing are helping Ukraine not only make forward progress but also critically defend the territory that they continue to hold against Russian efforts to overrun it and occupy it.
Give Sullivan kudos for being a master of spin. He presents the press with a steaming pile of manure while assuring them it is a delicious plate of chocolate mousse. Slurp it up guys. He starts off with the red-herring that Russia has not yet captured Kharkiv, Kiev or Kherson. A meaningless point, proving nothing, because Russia’s military operations are concentrated on destroying the Ukrainian army — which is losing upwards of 1,000 troops a day — rather than conquering cities. So far Russia regularly bombing critical targets in Kharkiv, Kiev, Kherson, Lviv and Sumy with missiles and drones and Ukraine is impotent to stop those attacks because its air defense is no longer viable.
Sullivan deserves a Burger King crown as a reward to giving the press a Big Whopper by claiming that Ukraine has taken back more territory than Russia has. This is patent nonsense. Someone needs to get a map out and show him Bakhmut, Soledar, Lysyschansk as well as the location of the three defensive lines erected under General Surovikin’s direction a year ago. Is Sullivan really this blind and stupid? Maybe.
Sullivan’s "rah rah" nonsense did not obscure the fact that Biden is not giving Ukraine ATACM missiles. I do not know if that is out of fear of inserting a weapon that could risk Russian escalation or if it is because U.S. military planners want to keep those missiles for themselves as a contingency. I suspect it is the latter. Bureaucrats at the Pentagon still have some clout.
Notice that not a word was said about "Patriot Missile" batteries. That was supposed to be a game changer for Ukraine’s air defense capability. It appears that the units the United States sent have been destroyed or are no longer in working order. Sullivan did claim the United States agreed to send other "air defense" systems to Zelensky but the fact is those are only window dressing. They will do nothing to alter the strategic picture or halt Russian attacks.
The Biden team confirmed that the M1-Abrams tank will make its debut in Ukraine next week. I wonder if London bookies are offering a bet on how long before a video appears on-line of the smoldering wreckage of one of those tanks in some sodden Ukrainian wheat field? If the tanks really do show up next week, we should have proof of the first destroyed Abrams by October 5.
...I think the key factor during the next eight weeks will be how much damage Russia inflicts on Ukraine’s remaining military strength and infrastructure. Barring a mass surrender of Ukrainian forces, however, the Biden policy is to keep the war going. Politics is the guiding principle governing the Biden team’s decisions on Ukraine. The American leaders are content, so far, to ignore the military situation on the ground in Ukraine as long as it does not create political problems in the United States. They don’t give a damn about dead and dying Ukrainian soldiers. As long as they are convinced that Ukraine’s attacks on Russia are weakening Putin, Biden and his malevolent advisors will continue to fan the flames of war.
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I still believe that, before the elections, Democrats will turn into "Party of Peace", and the Ukrainian debacle will become the fault of Republicans.
[NY Post] US Attorney General Merrick Garland swears (literally: in sworn testimony) that US Attorney David Weiss was in fact the top dog when it came to charging ne’er do well First Son Hunter Biden — yet senior feds keep blowing up his claims: Two more IRS professionals have now contradicted him.
Garland repeated his claim at a Wednesday hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, saying that "no one had the authority to turn him down," of Weiss’ alleged power to bring whatever charges the evidence justified against Hunter.
He added that Weiss "had the authority because I promised he would have the authority."
Yet Garland immediately contradicted himself, saying others in Justice "could refuse to partner with" Weiss.
And IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf and DC IRS Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon — both vets of the tax agency — added even more wrinkles.
"My understanding is that . . . he can’t make that [charging] decision without DOJ Tax authorization," Batdorf said of Weiss in an earlier hearing — recalling a meet where DOJ tax muckamucks gave static about charging the first son.
Batdorf also OK’d felony charges against Hunter for actions dating back to 2014, including related to his service on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma — charges that Weiss still couldn’t manage to bring before the statute of limitations passed, because someone else wouldn’t sign off.
Funny how such timing issues keep playing out to protect the Bidens.
Waldon said, re: Weiss’s alleged powers, "There was processes that Mr. Weiss would have to work out with the Department of Justice."
Sure doesn’t sound like actually being in charge to us.
And it goes a looooong way to explain how in the heck Weiss’ office came up with a bonkers plea deal for Hunter that would have had him cop only to far fewer and lesser charges and get a basically lifetime free pass for any related crookery.
Garland appointed Weiss special counsel for the Hunter affair, giving him actual full-stop authority, only recently — long after the lack of it compromised any prosecution in exactly the ways Garland had testified wouldn’t happen.
This, to any rational person, looked like a smokescreen to please the prez.
And lo and behold, Garland said Wednesday he can’t comment on any details about Hunter because of the "ongoing" investigation — using the special-counsel probe as a shield.
He also straight-up refused to answer whether he’s had discussions with Weiss about the Hunter case.
At this point, there’s enough smoke (and sufficient sweaty squirming from Garland) that the American people would be more than right to scream fire.
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They will eventually whittle this down to some misdemeanor stuff like Ray Epps so that he can not be charged again. It is less damaging than a pardon. Hopefully, Garland, Wray and many others will be ruined at least politically in the process.
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The best comment from these whole hearings, ironically enought, came from Jerrold Nadler regarding Hunter Biden's gun charges. He said that these laws "are rarely enforced."
So if they are rarely enforced, why are they even on the books?
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There are alot of felons out there that will tell you these laws are enforce more than he is letting on.
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If the FBI and Justice Department are kept busy with this, they’ll have less energy for doing the many things they oughtn’t.
Digging the Deep State deeper.
Like a tick when you try to pull it.
[FoxNews] There are more than 2 million federal workers. As a group, they overwhelmingly lean left.
The Biden administration is setting a booby trap in case a Republican wins the presidency in 2024.
On Friday, the White House unveiled a proposed rule that would make it even harder than in the past for an incoming Republican president to wrestle control of the left-leaning federal bureaucracy and actually implement the conservative policies promised to voters.
The answer to presidential executive orders is bills passed into law in Congress. But the only way to accomplish something like this is to get veto-proof Republican majorities in both Houses of Congress... in the first weeks after the Republican president takes office, whoever he turns out to be. Hit the ground running, guys!
Of the 2.2 million federal civil workers, only 4,000 are presidential appointees. The rest stay in their jobs, from one administration to the next, protected by rules that make it nearly impossible to discipline or replace them.
They overwhelmingly favor the left. A staggering 95% of unionized federal employees who donate to political candidates give to Democrats, according to Open Secrets. Only a tiny 5% support Republicans.
Some federal workers in high positions slow-walk or even derail a Republican president's agenda — and get away with it.
Why bother to vote if the left-leaning deep state stays in charge no matter who wins the presidency?
GOP candidates Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis are vowing to conquer this obstructionism.
Everett Kelley, union president of the American Federation of Government Employees, claims GOP contenders want to "politicize routine government work." Nonsense. We're not talking about mail carriers. It's time to make lawyers, PhDs and other top-level career bureaucrats implement the president's agenda, not their own.
After Trump won in 2016, they went to town neutralizing him on almost every policy front, explains James Sherk, special assistant to the White House Domestic Policy Council under Trump.
Career lawyers in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division flat out refused to challenge Yale University's discrimination against Asian American applicants. Trump had to recruit lawyers from other divisions. After Joe Biden became president, the DOJ dropped the case. But the same career lawyers who refused to sue Yale made the losing argument in support of affirmative action before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Career health officials like Dr. Deborah Birx circumvented Trump's instructions to moderate COVID lockdowns. Environmental Protection Agency lawyers pursued cases against fossil fuel producers and withheld the information from Trump appointees.
Trump mandated in a 2020 executive order that new federal buildings be designed to please the public, which prefers classical designs. Instead, General Services Administration architects chose modern designs they like. Trump mentioned as an example the San Francisco Federal Building, the ugliest edifice in the city.
It goes on, including weaponization of the FBI against the president himself.
In October 2020, Trump issued an executive order that federal workers who make policy should be reclassified as at-will employees who can be terminated.
But before it could be implemented, Biden became president. He canceled it immediately, knowing the bureaucrats were on his side.
The rule announced Friday would slow a president's ability to reinstate Trump's order. Democrats in Congress are going further, pushing to eliminate the president's authority to reclassify jobs altogether.
The New York Times announced, "Biden Administration Aims to Trump-Proof the Federal Work Force."
Ramaswamy vows to go further than Trump, eliminating half or more of civil service positions. "Speaking as a CEO, if somebody works for you and you can't fire them, they don't work for you," he said in a speech on Sept. 12.
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Congress can gut everyone's budget and insert instructions on the number of senior positions there can be. [just like they have done to the military since the beginning of the old republic]
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I've been saying for years, the solution is neutron bombs.
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The Biden administration is setting a booby trap in case a Republican wins the presidency in 2024.
I couldn't disagree more. One of the first things I saw Mickey Kaus write was about twenty years ago - 'Do you know how difficult it is to fire a Federal employee?' This problem's been around a lot longer than Biden or even Obama, who padded the Federal payroll with a shit ton of his hack loyalists on his way out.
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At the end of his term in office President Obama moved a lot of his political appointees — who can easily be got rid of — onto the civil service payroll, where they became practically untouchable. They all boasted about it.
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This why government offices need to be moved to remote airbases in Alaska, with no internet. Let them shuffle paper until they get mad and quit. Oh and have weekly audits and supervisors who lurk constantly over their shoulder.
[Consortium News] The United States is being defeated in Ukraine.
One could say that it is facing defeat — or, more starkly, that it is staring defeat in the face. Neither formulation is appropriate, though. The U.S. doesn’t look reality squarely in the eye. It prefers to look at the world through the distorted lenses of its fantasies. It plunges forward on whatever path it’s chosen while averting its eyes from the topography it is trying to traverse. Its sole guiding light is the glow of a distant mirage. That is its lodestone.
It is not that America is a stranger to defeat. It is very well acquainted with it: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria — in strategic terms if not always military terms. To this broad category, we might add Venezuela, Cuba and Niger. That rich experience in frustrated ambition has failed to liberate Washington from the deeply rooted habit of eliding defeat. Indeed, the U.S. has acquired a large inventory of methods for doing so.
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American leaders, military as well as civilian, are stuck to a model that emphasizes control of territory.
Interestingly, US military should've learned the opposite from its Indian Wars.
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We've been dealing with defeats since the beginning. The First and Second Seminole wars were fought to remove the tribe from Florida. Guess who is still there?
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The US has a long history of getting in shooting matches in places no one had heard of, where we didn't have any actual business, was done by half measures, with no plan that defined what the end would look like.
What's the goal? If you can't define it, you can't do it.
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#3The US has a long history of getting in shooting matches in places no one had heard of, where we didn't have any actual business, was done by half measures, with no plan that defined what the end would look like.
What's the goal? If you can't define it, you can't do it.
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I don't think the point was to win. The point was to f**k with the Russians. It was fun at first, but the party is starting to drag and we need to find an excuse to make a graceful exit.
[Hot Air] This column is being written during the 10-day period between Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) — two Jewish holidays known together as the "High Holy Days." Just as many Christians who do not generally attend church do so on Easter and Christmas, many Jews who rarely attend synagogue do so on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
This year, for the 17th consecutive year (except for 2020, when I could find no open venue due to government-induced lockdowns), I conducted Rosh Hashanah services and will conduct Yom Kippur services (pragerhighholidays.net). In Jewish life, the sermons on those two holidays are the most important of the year. The following is a summary of the talks I delivered on Rosh Hashanah.
What does God most care about?
The answer is: good and evil, i.e., how we human beings treat each other.
Here are some proofs from the Bible, the book that gave us God:
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A struggle and human condition as old as man himself. Well chronicled biblically and in Shakespear's Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Macbeth.
The lust of power and fortune is never far away. We see it play out nearly every day.
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I wouldn't presume to know. So which Karen out there feels that God owes them an explaination?
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Innit funny how your lifestyle is killing the planet, but the elites can never get enough?
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The trouble is, we are ALL evil--"All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:10.) Which is why we need a Savior. God offers us one in Jesus.
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Love one another as i have loved you.
a simple and effective command.
[War on the Rocks] The U.S. Department of Defense recently unveiled an ambitious initiative aptly named Replicator, aimed at rapidly scaling capabilities in the face of strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China. Replicator’s first task will be to quickly scale and field thousands of attritable autonomous systems within the next 18 to 24 months, leveraging AI, robotics, and commercial technology. This initiative is the latest in a series of institutional pushes the Department of Defense is making to transition advances in emerging technologies into realized and ready-to-use capabilities. The initiative’s intent is to keep pace with China’s efforts to "intelligentize" its military by leveraging an array of cutting-edge technologies to pursue its foreign policy goals in the Indo-Pacific.
Replicator’s goal is to integrate emerging technologies — and particularly those originating in the private sector — into the military’s operational framework. However, there is growing concern that the Department of Defense’s recent initiatives and existing processes may not be sufficient to meet the immediate challenges, that the planned degree of change isn’t sufficient, and that the department risks falling down a path of risky incrementalism. The planned changes, such as the launch of a generative AI task force or efforts to conduct extensive AI training and education of the Department of Defense workforce, are long-term investments that won’t yield immediate results. This leaves the United States potentially vulnerable in the short term as China continues to rapidly build up to blunt current U.S. operational advantages.
The question remains whether the pace and scale of Replicator’s innovations can meet the demands of an increasingly complex and competitive geopolitical landscape. If Replicator lives up to its hype, it could create a streamlined pathway for integrating emerging technologies into the military — another cut at the bottleneck analysts and policymakers alike have been lamenting has hindered the U.S. military’s ability to maintain its competitive edge. So, while the promise of Replicator is immense, its success hinges on overcoming a myriad of challenges, from production scalability to bureaucratic inertia, that have hindered previous similar innovation adoption efforts.
From Exquisite to Attritable Sounds like the US could use a robust industrial base and supply chain right about now. Much more at link.
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.
[BEE] KYIV — In a shocking move, Ukraine announced today that they have hired trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney as their official military spokesperson.
