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Pakistan Police arrest female suicide bomber in Balochistan
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-Land of the Free
Elon Musk Rips Pentagon for DEI Tweet: ‘Your Strategic Imperative Is Defending the United States'
[Breitbart] Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk ripped the Department of Defense on Sunday after it tweeted that “diversity is a strategic imperative.”

The DOD tweeted on Saturday, “Diversity is a strategic imperative critical to mission readiness and accomplishment. We were on site for the 2023 inaugural [Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] Summit as DEIA experts led forums to advance the DEIA and DoD mission — because our people matter.”

Musk responded, “Your strategic imperative is defending the United States.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/20/2023 01:08 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  U.S. proposes 'responsible military use of artificial intelligence' declaration

WTF does that even mean?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/20/2023 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  ...we can't do our job, so we create paperwork to look like we're doing something.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/20/2023 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  U.S. proposes 'responsible military use of artificial intelligence' declaration

Like responsible use of VX nerve gas? Or, how about nuclear bombs?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/20/2023 12:15 Comments || Top||

#4  If DOD is looking for diverse outcomes - i.e. ones that don’t look like the colossal bug out that was Afghanistan, they should clean house.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/20/2023 12:29 Comments || Top||

#5  WTF does that even mean?

It means US forces will be naked while the Chinese release millions of autonomous swarming GI seeking drones.
Posted by: Unert Angogum9735 || 02/20/2023 22:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, it was the "responsible" part that got me.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/20/2023 22:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
The Resurgence of Militancy in Pakistan
[The Nation (Pak)] The resurgence of Death Eater activities over the past two years is alarming for Pakistain’s national security. Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
and KP province in particular are facing a resurgence of a new wave of militancy.

In 2022, Pakistain faced at least 376 terror attacks, in which 533 people were killed and 832 injured. Security forces lost at least 282 personnel in 2022, with 40 fatalities only in December. The mode of attack included improvised bomb (IED) ambushes, suicide kabooms, and raids on security posts mainly in Afghan border regions. Three main groups have been active in perpetrating 165 attacks that includes Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Posted by: Fred || 02/20/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)

#1  Attacks have just begun in Karachi:
2 days ago · KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Islamists stormed a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing two people in a hail of gunfire....
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 02/20/2023 8:31 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ BINI - But it's not insurrection.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/20/2023 8:33 Comments || Top||

#3  It reminds me of the Terry Tate commercial when he is suspended and office mayhem ensues. Our weakness is provocative not only towards attacks against us.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/20/2023 12:22 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Associated With Heart Inflammation
[ZERO] A higher than expected number of heart inflammation cases have occurred in people who received Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, researchers reported in a new study.

Sixty-one cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or both following a Novavax vaccination were reported in the World Health Organization’s vaccine safety database through Aug. 23, 2022, Spanish researchers found.

Using pre-pandemic rates of heart inflammation in the population, the researchers calculated that the number of post-vaccination cases was higher than expected.

Reporting odds ratio values of higher than one indicate a higher-than-expected rate. For myocarditis following Novavax vaccination, the ratio was 5.2. For pericarditis, it was 24.75. For myopericarditis, or both conditions at once, it was 14.4.

Heart inflammation is a known side effect of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, which utilize messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, but little data has been collected on the condition following Novavax vaccination, which does not contain mRNA.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, when it authorized Novavax’s shot during the summer of 2022, noted in fact sheets that clinical trials indicate there are increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis after receipt of the Novavax vaccine. In the trial data submitted to the regulator, five cases of one or both conditions were reported in the vaccinated and zero were reported in placebo recipients. U.S. authorities have since cleared a Novavax booster, and recently reached a deal to obtain up to 1.5 million additional doses on top of the original tranche.

The European Medicines Agency initially did not warn about inflammation after Novavax vaccination but later added a warning to its product information.

Most cases of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis after Novavax vaccination in the real world—50—have been reported in Australia, according to the new study. Two have been reported in the United States and nine have been reported in Europe. Most have been among those aged 18 to 44.

While the exact mechanism for induction of myocarditis has yet to be confirmed, the study’s authors pointed out that all of the Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax vaccines use nanoparticles to deliver a spike protein into the body.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/20/2023 00:34 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That is odd.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/20/2023 12:25 Comments || Top||



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