[IsraelTimes] Footage of assault in Crown Heights shows man lunging at pedestrians, the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents reported in the city in recent days
A man has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly attacking Jewish men with cutting shears in New York City on Saturday.
Kareem Govan, 47, was charged with assault in the second degree as a hate crime, a felony, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office said on Monday.
The NYPD said the suspect approached a group of men on Saturday afternoon, during Shabbat, "with metal cutting shears" in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the home base of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
"The individual threatened to stab the group of males and attacked a 47-year-old male as he attempted to flee, causing minor injuries," the NYPD told The Times of Israel.
The victim was treated on the scene, the NYPD said.
Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, a community organizer and Chabad spokesperson, shared a video of the incident on X.
The footage showed a man approaching the group from behind, lunging over the head of one man, and stabbing at the face of another, who fell to the pavement.
Behrman told The Times of Israel that the targets of the attack were all Jewish.
Govan was not initially charged with a hate crime. The NYPD said on Sunday that he had been charged with seven counts including assault, menacing, and harassment. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office confirmed Monday that the top count was now the hate crime charge.
The attack was the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents reported in New York City in recent days.
Jews are targeted in hate crimes more often than any group in New York City, according to NYPD data. Last year, Jews were targeted in 345 incidents, more than all other groups combined, as antisemitic crimes surged following the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... attack on Israel.
There were 18 antisemitic hate crimes reported to police in January, a decrease from the same month last year.
The figures are preliminary and subject to change if, for example, an incident that had initially appeared antisemitic turns out to have been motivated by other factors.
An apparently mentally unstable, antisemitic man who attacked a Lubavitcher man in Crown Heights on Shabbos was charged Sunday with hate crimes, Shomrim tells Belaaz.
Kareem Govan, 47, was initially charged with assault, menacing and harassment, after being arrested for lunging at a Jewish father who was walking with his son in the area of Union Street and Troy Avenue with a pair of shears. The father suffered minor injuries to his ear.
On Sunday, the District Attorney, in collaboration with the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force, determined that his charges be upgraded to include his antisemitic motivations.
Govan uploaded a video to Youtube 10 months ago of himself walking through Crown Heights, speaking “In the name of Alla-h” and using other Muslim expressions, as he apologized for assaulting a “Muslim brother.” He also confesses to having been in jail for assault in the past. However, 8 months ago, he uploaded another video where he professes Christian beliefs.
His videos contain evidence of mental instability,
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such as calls for viewers not to be able to enter a new decade without knowing his birthday. Online, he goes by the name Kareem Arkabar Govan.
Rabbi Yaacov Berhman, a Crown Heights askan, wrote on social media: “A father was walking with his son this Shabbos around Union and Troy, in Crown Heights, when someone attacked him with scissors, allegedly attempting to cut his ear off. The father suffered minor cuts but will be okay.
“[Police] immediately responded and apprehended the perp, who was later transferred to the hospital after appearing unstable. The perp is under arrest and facing felony charges. It’s unacceptable for such things to happen in broad daylight on a busy street.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump had just signed five executive orders on Air Force One as he flew home from Miami when he turned proceedings over to the White House staff secretary to give traveling journalists a rundown of their contents.
And as Will Scharf, 38, stood in the gangway, setting out details of a memo to establish an iron dome missile shield over the United States, something revealing happened.
The president leaned towards his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, and whispered: 'He's very good.'
'He's a star,' she replied.
If Trump is the main attraction, the commander-in-chief and the leading man of the White House, he has found his sidekick in an unassuming former prosecutor and Missouri attorney general candidate.
Scharf's predecessors in the role carried out their work in obscurity, shuffling papers behind the scenes. But he has been thrust into the limelight, appearing beside the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office when Trump is signing orders.
Like a chamberlain at a royal court, Trump has employed him to announce each leather-bound executive order before it is placed on the desk for the ceremonial squiggle of his Sharpie
It began in impromptu style on inauguration day as the president looked around for an MC in front of a rally crowd: 'Why don't you say what I'm signing?'
And since then he has become a key character in the second season of the Trump show.
When Trump left for his first trip around the country, Scharf was at his side every step of the way, joining the president when they appeared in the press cabin to announce those new executive orders.
It marks an extraordinary moment in the spotlight for a low-key lawyer, who rose through Trump world without the flashy exuberance of other aides.
The staff secretary's role is to manage the papers that the president needs to see, coordinating the drafting of memos and statements as they move around the White House.
It gives Scharf an overview of every step of policy formulation. And it has sometimes been a stepping stone to the top of the legal ladder—the politicians and lawyers who have held the post include Brett Kavanaugh, the future Supreme Court justice under President George W. Bush.
Scharf became a familiar sight at Trump events during the past two years ... if you knew where to look.
He could be spotted behind the scenes at press conferences at Trump Tower and the president's Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, a sign that the former federal prosecutor was taking an increasingly important role in Trump's legal team.
A Princeton and Harvard Law School alumnus, he cut his political teeth with Eric Greitens, when he won the race to become governor of Missouri in 2016.
During the first Trump administration he worked on the Supreme Court confirmations of Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
And in 2023 he launched his own political career, announcing a run for Missouri attorney general. However, he lost out to the Republican incumbent.
At around that time, he and Newsweek senior editor Josh Hammer co-founded 'Jews Against Soros', taking aim at Democratic donor and philanthropist George Soros. A favorite target of conservatives, part of their aim was to show their criticism was not based on antisemitism.
From there he joined Trump's legal team, working on elements of the New York hush money case and the presidential immunity question.
'Will is a highly skilled attorney who will be a crucial part of my White House team,' said Trump when he tapped him for the role in November.
'He has played a key role in defeating the Election Interference and Lawfare waged against me, including by winning the historic immunity decision in the Supreme Court.'
[FoxNews] It costs nearly four cents to produce a single penny, according to the U.S Mint
President Donald Trump unveiled plans Sunday to halt production of the penny — but getting that initiative underway requires a few additional steps and possibly congressional approval.
Additionally, while Trump said he instructed the Treasury Department to stop minting them due to their high costs, supporters of the penny claim it’s wiser to evaluate changes to the nickel instead.
"For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. "This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies."
In fact, producing pennies is even more expensive than Trump’s numbers. According to a 2024 U.S. Mint report, it costs nearly 3.69 cents to mint a single penny. The coins are primarily made of zinc and then covered in copper.
Trump’s statement comes after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is heading up the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), posted on X in January how expensive minting pennies is.
DOGE is tasked with identifying ways to eliminate waste, and has so prompted changes, including gutting the $40 billion U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides aid to impoverished countries and development assistance.
Still, proponents of the penny exist. Americans for Common Cents, an organization that provides Congress and the White House with research on the value of the penny, claimed that efforts are better targeted at reducing the cost of the production for the nickel.
Nickels, worth five cents, cost approximately 13.8 cents to mint, according to the 2024 U.S. Mint report.
"The logical and fiscally responsible solution is not to eliminate the penny but to focus on producing a cheaper nickel," Americans for Common Cents Executive Director Mark Weller said in a Jan. 23 statement. "This approach would address the real driver of losses while preserving the functionality of small denominations in everyday transactions."
While the waters are a little murky on the next steps, experts say Congress likely would need to become involved and pass legislation to fulfill Trump’s wishes. And, historically, previous attempts in Congress to eliminate the coin have failed.
"The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear. It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies," Robert Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, told the Northeastern Global News.
Even so, there is bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill to modify minting pennies. In 2023, Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Maggie Hasson, D-N.H., reintroduced legislation to alter the composition of the penny to cut down on costs.
"It’s absolute non-cents that American taxpayers spend ten cents to make just one nickel. Only Washington could lose money making money," Ernst said in a statement in April 2023. "This commonsense, bipartisan effort will modify the composition of certain coins to reduce costs while allowing for a seamless transition into circulation. A penny saved is a penny not borrowed."
Even so, a composition change will unlikely yield cheaper results. The 2024 Mint Report said that options for different metal compositions aren’t available to reduce production costs down to face value.
There’s still some precedent for change though, and Congress has acted previously to discontinue minting new coins. The legislative branch authorized discontinuing new half-cent coins in 1857.
#10
...cause we went off the gold standard. That is the historical start in many civilizations to 'debasing' the coinage, aka government induced inflation.
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#11 there is a story out of the old west when the government couldn't provide enough money to a rather isolated region that caused a individual to coin money for circulation. The government arrested and tried the individual. However the jury acquitted when evidence presented in court showed 'his' coins had a higher content of gold than the government's.
Clark, Gruber and company were making silver dollars during a winter when Colorado was snowed in and cut off from the Philadelphia mint and coins were in short supply in Denver. These silver dollars had more silver in them than the dollars made by the Philadelphia mint. After the winter was over the US Treasury sued them for counterfeiting the US currency.In court they proved that they were not counterfeiting because their money was better than the US mint produced dollars. They won the case and to stop them from making dollars the US was forced to buy them out for $25,000 and converted their operations to what became the Denver Mint.
#16
At various points in the 1930s US municipalities were so short of cash (with all the banks closed at one point) that they printed their own currency. The currency included the promise to exchange it for real US notes (when / if they became available). Haven't heard any of them were prosecuted for counterfeiting. Their employees were glad to get something for their work at a time when others couldn't.
[YouTube] It appears to be getting ready to do some sort of big bang. Moses time again?
Santorini has been experiencing many earthquakes, resulting in evacuations...but the earthquakes aren't the only possible issue in Santorini. Santorini has a destructive volcanic history and has lots in common with "ring of fire" volcanoes elsewhere on Earth. This video shows what's under Santorini to produce its volcanic behavior. Parts of the Mediterranean are actually just as dynamic as the Pacific Ring of Fire, even though we don't always think of them that way!
[CNN] Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023.
But in a memorandum signed Monday, Hegseth instructed the Army to rename the North Carolina military installation in honor of a different Bragg: Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II veteran who was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart for extraordinary bravery during the Battle of the Bulge, according to a statement from Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot. Clever
“This change underscores the installation’s legacy of recognizing those who have demonstrated extraordinary service and sacrifice for the nation,” Ullyot said.
Before it was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023, the fort was named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, who drew criticism for his combative personality and poor field performance during the Civil War. A naming commission set up by Congress to study renaming bases noted Bragg is “considered one of the worst generals of the Civil War,” and was “widely disliked in the pre-Civil War U.S. Army and within the Confederate Army by peers and subordinates alike.”
The fort was among nine bases that the congressional commission proposed renaming during President Joe Biden’s presidency. Removing Confederate monikers from US military bases became a contentious political issue in the final months of Donald Trump’s first term. While Trump vetoed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that included the naming commission, Congress voted to override his veto with overwhelming bipartisan support.
The Department of Defense began implementing the naming commission’s recommendations in 2023. Changing the bases back to their former Confederate names would require congressional approval.
#8
Moore deserves a place, Bliss and Leavenworth might be ideas, perhaps even Irwin, it needs to be a significant installation to match his contributions.
[FoxNews] The Navy’s TOPGUN school launched a secret program to study brain injuries in fighter pilots
The U.S. Navy took on a secret project to learn more about brain injuries suffered by its most elite fighter pilots and now congressional lawmakers are demanding more information about the effort.
The Navy’s TOPGUN school launched Project Odin in the fall of 2024 to detect and treat an onslaught of symptoms consistent with brain injuries in fighter pilots, some of whom later died by suicide. But the program went on in secret, according to a New York Times report cited by House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and the rest of the Navy reportedly did not even know about it.
"Landing aboard an aircraft carrier, it's literally a car crash. It's the equivalent force of sitting in your driveway, in your car, and having a crane take you up to the second story and dropping you," said Matthew ‘Whiz’ Buckley, a TOPGUN graduate and F/A-18 fighter pilot, who told Fox News Digital in an interview he suffers from the brain injuries scrutinized by the project.
"The catapult shot, you go from zero to about 150, 200 miles an hour in a second to a second and a half. So your brain's kind of being jarred, you know, back and forward."
"As a fighter pilot, pulling Gs, so I would fight the jet on the edge of consciousness," said Whiz, referring to the gravitational pull pilots experience when maneuvering tight turns in a jet.
"I’d merge with a bad guy in training, pull seven, eight, nine Gs. When you do that, the blood rushes out of your head."
Comer’s investigation will look at the Navy’s efforts to "mitigate possible physiological and psychological effects inflicted on certain naval aviators and flight officers, including those within the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program (TOPGUN)," as well as Project Odin’s Eye.
The project, which reportedly was adopted without formal approval from Navy Medical and Air Commands, "raises additional questions about the Navy’s knowledge of potential issues and whether it is acting to mitigate these issues in a comprehensive and effective manner," according to the Oversight letter to acting Navy Sec. Terence Emmert.
The letter requests a briefing of Oversight staff by next week and a litany of information on the mental health struggles and resources of aviators.
The Navy did not respond to requests for comment before publication time.
Buckley, founder of veterans' anti-suicide group No Fallen Heroes, said the Navy loves to capitalize on the "cool" factor of flying jets popularized with movies like Top Gun, but fails to warn pilots about the risks associated with years of high-speed flights.
The recent New York Times report detailed how a number of F/A-18 Super Hornet crew members suffered brain injuries after years of catapult takeoffs and dogfighting training.
Symptoms included insomnia, anxiety, depression and PTSD-like feelings.
"The military does an incredible job of training us to do some pretty awful things to another human," he said.
"But when they're done with us, they do a pretty crappy job of transitioning us back to being a human."
He said he fought the Veterans’ Affairs Department for years after they classified his injuries as not service-related.
[BREITBART] Thousands of British farmers descended upon Westminster on Monday morning to protest the leftist Labour Party government's plans to impose inheritance taxes on family farms, which critics warn will force farmers to sell their land after their parents die to pay the tax collector.
Rows of tractors clogged Whitehall outside Downing Street, stretching from Parliament to Trafalgar Square on Monday as Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer's government has vowed to plough ahead with plans to slap a 20 per cent death tax on farms valued at least 1 million ( 2m for married couples) by next year.
The leftist government has justified removing the inheritance tax exemption for farmers because some wealthy individuals have bought farmland to safeguard their assets from the state, and this wealth is needed to pay for social services like the state healthcare system.
However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... others have noted that while some farms may have high land values, many farmers operate on a thin profit margin and, therefore, would be unable to pay the tax bill without selling land.
The protest on Monday comes as the government said that it will stand ''steadfast'' with its death tax agenda as a petition calling for reversal gained 150,000 signatures.
Some of the placards seen at the demonstration read: ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you'', ''Make Agriculture Great Again'', and the phrase seen at protests throughout Europe: ''No farmers, No food''.
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And you thought driving white farmers from the land is purely South African phenomena.
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"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" (alternatively "You'll own nothing and be happy") is a phrase from 2018 predictions for 2030 published by the World Economic Forum (WEF)
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If Ukrainians are raking in the dough, just think about the kickbacks to the Biden Crime Family and their friends.
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#3
Well gawd damn, what did people expect when you give billions, directly or indirectly, to the most corrupt nation in Europe?
And money continues to go thither. Europe loves to throw money at Ukraine. Good, then let them deal with it while Trump looks at beach front property in the Gaza Strip.
#5
Oh, you looking for MANPADS, OK pal keep going this direction for a couple blocks, hang a left on John McCain Road, and keep going until you come to a warehouse with a coffee shop named Benghazi across the street.
#9
Africa is probably a better market than Mexico. Lots more fighting going on there. Although, I would be unsurprised to see RPGs and MANPADS in Mexico once the US gets involved in fighting the cartels.
Also, we have seen mention of grenade attacks becoming a feature of gang war in Sweden by guys not named Sven.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A bizarre twist in the Chinese spy balloon saga has finally revealed the contents of the mystery floating surveillance device.
Investigators discovered the balloon - which was found hovering over the US before it was eventually shot down over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023 - was secretly equipped with US-made technology.
It was full of the very same technology that may have helped Beijing spy on unsuspecting Americans, two sources with direct knowledge of the classified investigation told Newsweek exclusively.
Military analysts who dismantled the balloon found it was loaded with American-made satellite communication modules and sophisticated sensors from at least five different US companies, as reported by the outlet.
A Chinese patent uncovered during the investigation also alarmingly showed that Beijing had already mapped out exactly how to use American satellite technology to control these spy balloons and harvest sensitive data.
The necessary equipment was reportedly easily available for purchase online.
Last February, the Pentagon determined the high-altitude balloon found and intercepted by the US Military was 'likely' a 'hobby balloon.'
In a statement, NORAD, along with the Federal Aviation Administration, said at the time that the mystery balloon was monitored from ground radars 'until it left US airspace overnight.'
#1
When doing work on SBIR/STTR military grant projects I was shocked to see professors at US universities who were citizens of the PRC working in the projects. {I didn't start working with universities until Bush II was in office so I have no idea when it began to be common.}
#2
IMHO, When Reagan began the Starwars program engineers left Lawrence Livermore, JPL, EG&G, etc. for Huntsville AL. The Aerospace industry then struggled to find 'clearable' talent, which drew bodies from academia and started the wage wars. Then highly educated and motivated Chinese engineers flowed into the resulting University vacumn.
#3
^^^^^
Sadly, multi-generational cultural affinity is a particular consideration, even after a couple of generations in my experience.
A study of SJS (sudden Jihadi Syndrom) found higher propensity to react of those cross cultural individuals defined as ".(be)-tweens", who didn't feel significant levels of integration into American culture vs. their ethnic origins.
In parallel, I suspect it is, in part, a particular outcome of the academic, liberal, governmental attitude of America as a salad bowl, not a melting pot and "Diversity is Our Strength" memes. When we emphasize our differences, not a common embrace of our national ethos, we don't meld as well.
[Breitbart] Sweden is planning gun bans and tighter gun control after the country’s stringent controls failed to a prevent a February 4, 2025 school shooting.
On February 4, Breitbart News reported at least five people were killed in the shooting. On February 7, Reuters noted the reported number of deceased had increased to eleven.
Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told Reuters they are looking to ban AR-15 rifles as a “preventative measure.” Strommer said this even though the specific type of firearm(s) used in the attack has not been reported.
Authorities have only indicated that the attacker, a 35-year-old man, had rifles with him which he was licensed to own.
BBC noted that Sweden also plans “to increase vetting around gun purchases.”
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said, “We have to ensure that only the right people have guns in Sweden.”
Breitbart News pointed out Sweden’s gun laws are already restrictive and includes the licensing of all would-be gun owners. The licensing requires “[being] able to certify the purpose of your need to possess a weapon,” according to the Swedish Police.
There are various types of gun licenses, each with specific requirements. For example, the Government Offices of Sweden points out that acquiring a license for a firearm to use in target shooting requires “active membership in a shooting club and a certificate verifying that the applicant is an experienced target shooter.”
Sweden has gun storage controls, too. Again, the Government Offices of Sweden notes that “all weapons, including essential parts and ammunition, must be stored in secure cabinets tested and approved in accordance with the applicable Swedish standard.”
There is also an ammunition license requirement and a requirement that a license be shown for any weapon borrowed from a friend.
In 2016, Tom Heberlein used a VOX column to gush over Sweden’s gun controls, noting that in Sweden, “Only responsible people are trusted with firearms. Sweden licenses guns in much the same way we license cars and drivers. You can have up to six guns but can get more with special permission.” He went so far as to suggest, “Sweden may have the answer to America’s gun problem.”
#2
Let me see if I understand the logic here.
Take Self Defensive firearms out of the hands of responsible citizens. Then TRUST the mentally insane, criminals, and the growing Islam radical population will also turn in their weapons. Plus Russia won't invade, and the Swedish Gov with arrive in seconds to protect you.
[FoxNews] The discovery came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to release the JFK files
The FBI has uncovered thousands of records connected to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order to release the files.
Axios first reported that the FBI released 2,400 records tied to the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy, which were not provided to the board that reviewed and disclosed the files.
When the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) submitted its plan to release the JFK files, it reportedly disclosed the existence of the records.
“See how compliant we are being, Mr. President?”
Fox News has confirmed with a person familiar with the records that the files were uncovered during the review.
"In 2020, the FBI opened the Central Records Complex and began a multi-year effort to first ship and then electronically inventory and store closed case files from FBI field offices across the country," the FBI told Fox News. "The resulting, more comprehensive records inventory, coupled with the technologic advances in automating the FBI's record keeping processes, allows us to more quickly search and locate records.
"The FBI conducted a new records search pursuant to President Trump's Executive Order issued on January 23, 2025, regarding the declassification of the assassination files of JFK, RFK, and MLK. The search resulted in approximately 2400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file," the agency added. "The FBI has made the appropriate notifications of the newly discovered documents and is working to transfer them to the National Archives and Records Administration for inclusion in the ongoing declassification process."
To be fair, J. Edgar Hoover was running things in those days, and he had very firm ideas about who owned his work product — him, not the public or the president.
Last month, Trump signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Everything will be revealed," Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office.
The executive order came after Trump had previously promised on the campaign trail to declassify the documents upon entering his second term, saying at the time, "When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the truth."
Trump had initially promised to release the last batch of documents during his first term, but such efforts ultimately dissipated. Trump then blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination following several CIA and FBI appeals.
"I have no choice," Trump said in a memo, where he cited "potentially irreversible harm" to national security if he allowed the records to be released. Trump said at the time the potential harm to U.S. national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs is "of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure."
A quid pro quo is only good so long as both parties keep the faith. It was during the Biden interregnum that President Trump learnt how badly the FBI and CIA had betrayed — and continued to betray — him.
#7
Is this where we finally learn that Oswald was a recruited US Intelligence asset ?
A most interesting question. I would expect that teasing out an answer at this late date would be difficult. Why would anyone leave paper records lying around? Not to mention that unlike regular matter, records can be both created and destroyed.
Me, I'd like to know more about Jack Ruby's involvement. Lots of funny bits in that story.
#8
Full text of the president's order dated 23 Jan 2025. It refers to the 1992 Act of Congress requiring it -- which had many exceptions to the full release.
I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue.
[JustTheNews] Vance said he hopes to have good conversations with world leaders while at the summit.
Vice President JD Vance arrived Monday in France to attend a high-profile artificial intelligence summit in Paris.
While at the summit, Vance is expected to push back on attempts in Europe to tighten AI oversight and advocate for an innovative approach to the phenomenon, according to The Associated Press.
The summit will have tech executives, policymakers and world leaders such as Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing in attendance.
Vance said he hopes to have good conversations with world leaders while at the summit.
“I think there’s a lot that some of the leaders who are present at the AI summit could do to, frankly — bring the Russia-Ukraine conflict to a close, help us diplomatically there — and so we’re going to be focused on those meetings in France," he said in a statement to the Breitbart News media outlet.
Next week, Vance will go to Germany for the Munich Security Conference. He likely will talk to European allies and request an increase in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commitments.
[FoxBusinessNews] OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Elon Musk is "probably just trying to slow us down" with his bid to purchase the company, insisting on Tuesday that it is not for sale.
Altman, who spoke to Bloomberg on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris following Musk’s unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion to take over OpenAI, also said that Musk is probably living his whole life "from a position of insecurity" and that "I don’t think he’s like a happy person, I do feel for him."
"Look, OpenAI is not for sale," Altman told Bloomberg. "Elon tries all sorts of things for a long time. This is this week’s episode."
"I think he is probably just trying to slow us down. He obviously is a competitor. He’s working hard to raise a lot of money for [his startup] xAI and they are trying to compete with us from a technological perspective from getting the product into the market and I wish he would just compete by building a better product but I think there has been a lot of tactics, you know many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff and now this," Altman added. "And we’ll try to just put our head down and keep working."
Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but cut ties with the company in 2018 after he was unable to persuade its other leaders to put him in charge of a for-profit OpenAI entity or merge the company with Tesla.
Both Musk and Altman started OpenAI as a charity in 2015. When Musk left, Altman became the chief executive and the company established a for-profit subsidiary to raise money from investors and Microsoft. Now, Altman is looking to turn the subsidiary into a traditional company, the WSJ reported.
Last month, Trump announced a massive $500 billion infrastructure project called Stargate. Major names including Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle plan to join forces to build data centers in the U.S. for the further development of AI.
[RT] Russia’s fifth-generation stealth fighter, the Su-57, has made its debut at India’s largest air show, Aero India, where it was displayed alongside America’s F-35. This is the first time that both Russian and American fifth-generation fighters have been present at the show, amid intense competition between the two nations for the South Asian country’s defense market.
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.
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