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[Regnum]< A live dog was found at the top of the Cheops pyramid in Egypt, running in circles and barking at birds. This was reported on October 16 by Times Now News. The poor pup will die unless rescued.
The animal was discovered by a social media user named Alex Lang, who was flying over the pyramid on a paraglider. He filmed the dog and posted the video online, where it went viral.
The article notes that tourists often use paragliders to see what is on top of the Cheops pyramid, since entry to it is prohibited.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in November 2023, a dog was rescued in Podolsk, Moscow Region, after it got stuck between pipes in a manhole. The 12-year-old dachshund fell into the manhole while walking with its owner. The city administration organized a rescue operation, during which specialists used heavy equipment to move the concrete blocks that had trapped the pet. The dog was freed a few hours later. The animal was not harmed.
Dead Democrats DO vote.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Former President Jimmy Carter voted this week for likely the last time in his life on Wednesday.
The 100-year-old cast his ballot in the 2024 presidential election for Vice President Kamala Harris, his family revealed.
Carter told family members that he was only trying to make it to his 100th birthday in October so he could also vote for Harris to become the first female President of the United States.
The former Democratic president's ballot for the VP's promotion was deposited in the drop box at Sumter County Courthouse near Plains, Georgia, where Carter has remained in at-home hospice care since February 2023.
Carter's grandson Jason Carter and son Chip Carter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that their family's patriarch 'feels good' and that he 'absolutely' voted for Harris.
He's never voted for a Republican in his life,' Chip added.
The longest-living president's son said his wife Becky dropped off the ballot on his father's behalf on Wednesday.
'It was a good morning for him and good for us that he got it done,' Chip said.
Early voting began on Tuesday in Georgia and more than 300,000 people cast their ballots in the first 24 hours – more than double the turnout in 2020.
Carter said it was one of his final wishes to vote in the 2024 election.
Georgia is one of the seven key swing states in the 2024 race, and Donald Trump is dead set on winning it back after losing in the Peach State to Joe Biden in 2020.
[X - Falun Gong] The CCP has already started to massively conscript discharged soldiers to return to service. This is a "Reserve Service Notification." The full text translates to:
"Comrade Kong Deyong:
In accordance with the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Reserve Personnel," you have actively responded to the call and have been honorably approved to serve in the reserve force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It is hoped that you will faithfully fulfill your military service obligations and contribute to the defense of the socialist motherland."
The date of the notice is September 18, 2024, with the seal of the "Chinese People's Liberation Army XXX People's Armed Forces Department." The specific location in the middle has been concealed.
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The post election Overton Window moment preparation. I fear it will be linked to massive fifth column events to American critical infrastructure targets as the Taiwan invasion unfolds.
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[Regnum] The PRC will not abandon the forceful option of returning Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). Moreover, if the situation escalates, the island will be completely destroyed. This was stated on October 16 by the Chairman of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of the PRC Chen Binhua.
"No matter how many troops Taipei has and how many weapons it acquires, and whether outside forces intervene or not, if the island dares to take risks, it will lead to its own destruction," Reuters quoted Binhua as saying.
He stressed that Beijing seeks peaceful reunification of territories, but China's actions to protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity will not stop "for a minute."
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on October 14, the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) began the Joint Sharp Sword 2024B exercise around Taipei, during which they will practice a joint assault, blockade, and take control of key ports and areas of the island. The goal of the maneuvers conducted by the Chinese military is stated to be "intimidation of separatist forces" that seek "independence" of the island.
A day earlier, a detachment of PLA naval ships sailed into the Pacific Ocean through the Bashi Strait near Chinese Taipei. The Taipei Defense Ministry said it was monitoring the situation and responding accordingly.
On July 27, during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Chinese Taipei was and remains part of China and will never become a "separate state." According to him, the Chinese authorities will definitely take countermeasures to provocations by forces supporting the island in its desire to separate.
China's intelligence gathering operations have surged to an all-time high, posing a significant challenge to Western nations. These efforts have far exceeded Cold War-era espionage activities in both scale and persistence.
According to US intelligence, around 600 000 individuals are involved in China's intelligence and security operations. The FBI has revealed that Chinese hackers outnumber its own cyber personnel by at least 50 to one. FBI Director Christopher Wray stated that China's hacking program surpasses the combined efforts of all other major nations.
Recently, a data breach linked to a Chinese state-owned company compromised 260,000 internet-connected devices across several countries, including the US, UK, and France.
Additionally, investigations uncovered that Chinese cargo cranes in US seaports were equipped with technology allowing remote control by Chinese intelligence.
China has also been using students, researchers, and LinkedIn to collect sensitive information.
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#1
Behold! An analysis tool so complex it could translate the Egyptian ruins, fit together the various broken puzzle pieces, create a simulation of the Aegean Economy prior to 1100 BC, then create a Virtual Tour of any of the deciphered settlement or fill in the blanks effectively, and let a person VR into this world, complete with smells, and interact with any of the characters in a real non-NPC to experience life or investigate existential questions, or play running an ancient shipping transport company!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] John Deere is laying off even more workers - while moving manufacturing to Mexico.
On Wednesday. the tractor maker told officials in Iowa and Illinois that nearly 300 workers are being laid off as demand slumps.
About 200 production workers will be laid off in East Moline, Illinois. Additionally, 80 workers in Davenport, Iowa will also lose their jobs, along with seven in Moline, Illinois.
It is the latest batch of layoffs this year, after 103 jobs were also cut in July, for the company founded 187 years ago.
The total this year is now around 2,100. They layoffs are across several Iowa sites - Ankeny, Dubuque, Ottumwa, Urbandale, Waterloo - plus Davenport and East Moline in Illinois, as well as a research center in Urbandale.
In many instances, production that these US workers were responsible for is being shifted to new locations in Mexico.
But the company said Wednesday that the layoffs are unrelated to its production moving to Mexico.
Instead, bosses attributed the job cuts to a decline in demand for tractors and other agricultural equipment, which has resulted from falling crop prices and farmers reducing their expenditures.
Movement of production to Mexico has attracted the attention of politicians.
Donald Trump said in September that he will slap a 200 percent tariff on John Deere's imports into the US if the company goes ahead with plans to move production to Mexico.
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I would rather do business with Japanese brands that manufacture in the US. The Japanese are not only vastly more quality conscious, they are a far better ally than Mexico.
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Nice crop sprayer, buddy!
Nah, its a 710 Series with a lift kit.
Looking forward to getting Farm Simulator 2025 with the ultra real mod.
-purchase a Juan Deere-
"Sorry! Contraband was found in the gas tank of your purchase and has been confiscated with no refund! Would like like to purchase again?"
[FoxNews] NC election officials says 76 polling locations in the 25 counties affected by Hurricane Helene will be open for early voting
Early in-person voting kicks off Thursday in North Carolina, one of seven hotly contested battleground states in the 2024 presidential election.
Some North Carolina communities are making last-minute adjustments to their 2024 election schedules in the fallout from Hurricane Helene this month.
In Buncombe County, one of the counties hit hardest by the storm, the board of elections approved new times and locations for early voting. Early in-person voting kicks off Thursday morning, with polls remaining open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Nov. 1.
"We’ve got a new early voting plan," Buncombe Board of Elections Chair Jake Quinn said in a statement. "Please everybody, spread the word."
Buncombe is also having to adjust polling locations, as some are no longer fit to serve as polling places or are more difficult to access. The county published a list of locations that are now operating for early voting.
Buncombe County voted decisively for President Biden in the 2020 election, according to state records. Biden received 96,515 votes, compared to former President Trump's 62,412, totaling a 60%-40% split.
Nearby Watauga County also released its own revised early voting schedule this month. The county's board of elections says none of its polling places has changed, but they will now expand their timing to be open on weekends during early voting. Residents will be able to access polling places from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
"We are grateful to all the people that worked so hard to build our county’s infrastructure back so quickly. It is truly amazing to see people from all over the country pitching in to help strangers in need. That’s what America is all about. This helped minimize any disruptions to voters so that every voice can be heard. We also want to thank all the election officials who offered to work the new weekend shifts. We literally can’t do it without them," the board said in a statement.
Biden also took Watauga County in the 2020 election, receiving 53% of the vote to Trump's 44%.
State election officials are scheduled to hold a press conference Thursday on other measures they are taking to ensure the election goes smoothly.
They say roughly 25 counties were heavily impacted by Helene, and those contain 80 polling locations. Officials say 76 of those locations will be operational for early voting. Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the NC State Board of Elections and Corinne Duncan, the Buncombe County elections director will lead the press conference.
The majority of North Carolina voters in the 25 counties impacted by Helene are Republican, according to state voter registration records. Officials say 482,930 registered Republicans live in the area, compared to 294,106 Democrats. There are also 492,546 unaffiliated voters.
North Carolina is one of the most competitive states this cycle
North Carolina last voted for a Democrat president in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama won the state by 0.3 points, or 14,177 votes.
Trump pulled out a convincing 3.7 point win in 2016, but that margin shrank to 1.3 points against Biden in 2020.
Late last month, the Fox News Poll had the two 2024 presidential candidates just a point apart from each other, with Democrat nominee Vice President Harris at 49% and GOP nominee former President Trump at 50%. North Carolina is ranked a Toss Up on the Fox News Power Rankings.
The state has become more competitive as its population has grown. Over the last full decade, North Carolina added roughly 1.1 million people, the fourth-largest gain among all states.
Much of that growth has been in urban and suburban areas like those in solidly blue Mecklenburg and Wake counties.
The pandemic brought more wealthy, urban Americans from surrounding states, and there are pockets of college voters as well.
Rural areas have experienced some population decline, but they remain a powerful part of the state’s overall vote, and they vote overwhelmingly Republican.
HOW TO VOTE IN NORTH CAROLINA
This is a guide to registration and early voting. For comprehensive and up-to-date information on voter eligibility, processes and deadlines, please go to Vote.gov and the election website for North Carolina.
[IsraelTimes] Gift from the prolific pro-Israel donor is the largest among new batch of major spending disclosures, eclipses the $75 million that Elon Musk recently gave to a pro-Trump pac.
Miriam Adelson has delivered on a pledge she reportedly made at the start of the general election season, donating $100 million to a campaign committee supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , according to disclosures filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.
The money was distributed to Adelson’s super PAC, Preserve America, which she had seeded earlier this year with $5 million, in a series of installments: $25 million a month in July, August and September and an additional $20 million at the end of September.
A major funder of pro-Israel politics and a prolific donor to Jewish causes, Adelson, 79, is carrying on a legacy she built with her late husband, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. The Adelson family has long been one of the largest sources of campaign money for Republican candidates and has backed Trump during each of the last three general elections. Now, the widow is wielding an estimated net worth of $35 billion on her own. Though seen as more deliberate in her decision-making, she has not meaningfully departed from her late husband’s politics.
Her contribution was the largest in an array of new big money disclosures on Tuesday, eclipsing the $75 million contributed by Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and head of Tesla and SpaceX, to his own pro-Trump super PAC.
If Trump wins, Adelson could once again be instrumental in shaping American policy on the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. Miriam Adelson and her husband were influential in Trump’s monumental direction to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the country’s capital city of Jerusalem in 2017.
Adelson’s ties to Israel run deep. She was born in Tel Aviv during the British Mandate and speaks fluent Hebrew. She also served as an officer in the Israeli military. Though her business empire is based in the United States, she reportedly spends much of her time nowadays in Israel, where is known as the owner of the country’s largest newspaper, Israel Hayom.
Her writing in the newspaper since the attacks of October 7, 2023, makes clear that she’s been swept up in the political and social fervor gripping the country as it mourns the dead and seeks retribution. She said those who don’t support Israel in its campaign against Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... are "dead to us."
Adelson’s spokesperson earlier this year denied a report No, no! Certainly not! that she conditioned support for Trump on his public endorsement of Israeli annexation of the West Bank. But a top confidant, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, told the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... she’s against the establishment of a Paleostinian state.
That position, along with many others, puts her at odds with liberal-leaning J Street, a lobbying group set up as a counterweight to the more hawkish AIPAC. J Street on Wednesday announced a fundraising milestone of $6 million for the campaign of Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress and Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retired rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... , the largest contribution total from any Jewish organization.
[CS] I’m sharing an announcement that I ran across whilst perusing the Federal Register this morning. It appears that travel from Rwanda is being restricted due to Marburg diagnoses.
[ZeroHedge] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Elon Musk pulled off a "superhuman" feat by setting up a supercluster of 100,000 H200 Blackwell GPUs in just 19 days - a process he says takes everyone else "one year to accomplish."
According to Tom's Hardware, the xAI team reportedly went from "concept" to full-ready compatibility with Nvidia's "gear" in less than three weeks - including running xAI's first AI training run.
From start to finish, the process involved building the massive X factory where the GPUs would reside and equipping the entire factory with liquid cooling and power to make all 200,000 GPUs operational. That's not to mention all of the coordination between Nvidia's and Elon Musk's engineering teams to get all of the hardware and infrastructure shipped and installed precisely and in a coordinated manner.
What's more, Huang says that networking Nvidia's gear isn't as simple as networking traditional data center servers. "The number of wires that goes in one node...the back of a computer is all wires," he said, adding that Musk's integration of 100,000 H200 GPUs has "never been done before," and probably won't be repeated by anyone else anytime soon.
[ManilaBulletin] DAVAO CITY — Former President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian told him that the Philippines will not be spared if it allows the United States to utilize its military installations in the country to launch an aggressive action against China.
During his program Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa aired over SMNI News, Duterte said that the Chinese envoy conveyed to him, during their recent meeting, that even the Philippines, one of the strongest allies of China, would become a target once US forces initiate an attack against it.
"I reminded him (Chinese Ambassador) again that the Philippines does not have a quarrel with China," Duterte said, "but his answer to me was, ’if you provide places where there can be an aggressive action to China, the Philippines would always be a target.’"
Duterte admitted meeting with Huang regularly.
"I am not a lackey of China. I do not want to be subservient to any country. Neither would I be a protector or spokesman of America. I am just a Filipino," the former commander-in-chief stressed.
He urged both governments of the Philippines and the US to inform the Filipino people about the US military bases under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) that have actually been established in the country.
Duterte claimed EDCA sites have grown to 17 locations across the country.
"In the interest of the public’s right to know, there should be an open discussion. Americans should come clean and give us a truthful narration or narrative or an explanation and identify the places where they have installed bases here in the Philippines," he said.
He said the Marcos administration should be "open for discussion" because it would affect the Filipino people who "would be facing a war not of our own making" if tensions between US and China would escalate.
Duterte, who disallowed EDCA during his time as President, said that the US could bring "nuclear warheads" to its military installations in the country.
"I said by granting America several bases, we can be sure and I am sure as the Sun will rise in the east that these nuclear bases...will have nuclear warheads," he said.
Duterte feared that the "the next war or wars will be fought mainly using nuclear warheads."
"We don’t know because of EDCA, they are bringing in some right now. There is no accounting of the weapons in the hands of Americans to use against China if war breaks out. But we can be sure and it would be stupid for us or so naive to think that there is none," he said.
Duterte said that the consequence of a US attack on China would be a retaliation with nuclear arms against the Philippines.
"You (US) who are farther away have ’anti-missiles’ missiles. You can shoot them down before they can enter your airspace. The problem is here in the Philippines. What are the stakes for us? Nothing," he said.
He said a nuclear weapon could affect a "wide area" leaving radioactive materials that could last for 50 years.
"It would not only be destructive. I believe that the Philippines would be a graveyard, if war comes. Remember that," he said.
He said he does not welcome US military installations as he does not welcome the possible catastrophic consequence of a possible war between US and China.
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Follow-up to this story from yesterday. They did it to themselves, with no help from Mossad… probably.
[Rudaw] At least three people died and over a dozen others were maimed after separate fires erupted in Iran’s Isfahan and Khuzestan provinces, state media reported on Wednesday.
A blaze erupted at the Pars Petro Shushtar refinery in Khuzestan’s Shushtar city at around 10 pm, local time, on Tuesday, according to Shushtar governor Seyyed Mohsen Seyyed Mousavi.
"The initial cause of the incident was unsafe refilling of the transport vehicles," Mousavi said.
The fire in Shushtar killed one person and injured seven others, with three of them being at death's door, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
In a separate incident on Tuesday, a kaboom in Isfahan province’s Kashan city killed two and injured seven others, state media IRNA reported.
"An explosion of a melting furnace at the cast iron factory located in Phase two of Amir Kabir Industrial urban area in this city left two dead and seven injured on Tuesday afternoon," Mehrdad Farzandipour, the head of Kashan emergency center told IRNA.
"One of the fatalities in the incident died instantly at the moment of the earth-shattering kaboom due to severe burns, while the other person passed away in the hospital," he added.
Mousavi announced on Wednesday that the fire was brought under control, but the emergency teams at the site remain on standby.
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.
[FoxNews]
...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retired rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
