"Which found that the ADL was engaged in extensive domestic spying operations on a vast number of individuals and institutions around the country."
Just call them the DL from now on.
As the Anti-Defamation League marched further and further left, other organizations have sprung up to do the work they used to do for the Jewish community.
#7
'Free Speech' is different than propagating bad speech to malleable students at $1000 (?) a head and charging $285(?) for a textbook required for the class.
But are they electric, with railguns, and lasers?
[FoxNews] Gap between US, Chinese ship count expected to grow larger by 2035
A U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) slide that was leaked online highlights concerns over a rapidly expanding Chinese navy and the country's continued capability to produce ships at a faster rate than the United States.
#3
"Our PLAN is for boasting the most ships
Controlled by new chips with the most mips
And crewing them all...
Maybe not."
[a Great Wall of atolls full of rusty old ghost ships]
#4
...If we go to war west of the International Date Line, whether or not we win or lose the US Navy will be literally broken for decades afterwards. All of the available drydocks and dockside repair facilities will be overwhelmed just trying to repair damage, much less replace losses. Aircraft losses will be replaced faster - but only in a relative sense; if they absolutely had to, Boeing (for instance) might be able to turn out 12-14 F-18s in a month - assuming the parts suppliers could keep up.
Worst of all, however, will be the human losses. One carrier - one - could take as many sailors with it as all personnel we lost in the GWOT. We can't meet 'peacetime' manning now - trying to get a new USN manned after a truly ugly war will be nightmarish.
#7
Actually, they do have one with a railgun and lasers.
The difference is in China they build what they think they'll need or would be useful, but over here we build what the contractor would like to sell. Do you realize that in several new classes (Virginia, Ford, LCS) there is equipment that sailors aren't allowed to work on because it would violate the builders 'Intellectual Property' rights? What's gonna happen in a freakin' war?
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#8
In modern warfare ships are just floating targets for missiles. As the Russians are learning in the Black Sea.
#12
The difference is in China they build what they think they'll need...
Not quite. The PLAN build cycle is evolutionary not revolutionary. They build a block of 2-to-4 and see what works, the newest ships get assigned to the South China Fleet and the older designs shift to less important commands finally ending in their 'Coast Guard'.... Build, test, rethink and build a newer iteration.
[TechCrunch] Hotel and entertainment giant MGM Resorts continues to battle a widespread outage after a cyberattack forced it to shut down systems across its properties.
MGM, which operates a number of hotels and casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, including the Bellagio, Aria and Cosmopolitan, shut down large parts of its internal networks on Sunday. This resulted in widespread disruption across the company’s hotels and casinos, with guests reporting that ATMs and slot machines are out of order, along with room digital key cards and electronic payment systems.
The outage has now rolled into its fourth day, with MGM saying in an update on Thursday that the company was working to “resolve our cybersecurity issue.” Guests continue to report issues across MGM properties, despite the company claiming earlier in the week that its resorts, including dining, entertainment and gaming, are “currently operational.” Read the rest at the link
I'd sure hate to be part of the The Scattered Spider threat group right now.
Given the Gray Hat back-channels of a $Million bounty rumored to be offered by certain rumored silent MGM Casio owners/partners. (yes I had to say rumored.)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA] The US Congress has begun the procedure to remove President Joe Biden from power - now officially. Congressmen were in no hurry: three years have passed since the New York Post, owned by the conservative Karabas-Barabas - Rupert Murdoch, published correspondence from Hunter Biden's laptop. For three years now, anyone in our world who might be interested has known that Biden Sr. is called “the big guy” and that the “big guy” is owed ten percent of the deals of his son, whose business is peddling his father’s influence.
Since then, additional figures have been revealed (tens of millions of dollars through dozens of shell companies), but not the substantive details. The scandal did not prevent Biden from being elected president, and the investigation into his son’s case was so bad that the liberal US media (and this is all the major media, with the exception of those included in the Murdoch empire) successfully managed to hush it up, citing the machinations of Russian intelligence.
#4
He will likely soon resign due to health reasons and the "investigations" will make their way to the memory hole. In a year or two we will learn that all of the paperwork from the investigations was subsequently destroyed.
#6
I doubt there is a "collapse". But the establishment has realized they can't keep propping him up so expect a statement of he won't run for re-election and if things get bad he resigns.
[y-net] Anyone who associates the judicial overhaul with the perceived threat to IDF soldiers from the International Criminal Court demonstrates a lack of understanding of both the provisions of the Rome Statute and the reform itself
The fear of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is a baseless marketing gimmick used by opponents of judicial reform. It is essential to clarify that this warning isn't just directed at the Israeli Air Force pilots; it extends to every soldier in the IDF.
According to their argument, under their doctrine, military service in the IDF constitutes a war crime in itself, and any reduction in the likelihood of prosecution would harm our ability to protect our servicemen. The underlying premise of this fear campaign is that reducing the likelihood of prosecution would make it harder for the country to invoke the "reasonableness clause" as a defense for IDF soldiers against the ICC's jurisdiction. As I mentioned in the past, the opposition to judicial reform itself is just an anti-Bibi ploy (we can't have a PM opposed by USG!)
The principle of complementarity, enshrined in the Rome Statute which governs the activities of the ICC, establishes that national legal systems have primary jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute individuals suspected of committing war crimes. The ICC's authority only comes into play when national legal systems are unwilling or unable to enforce the law.
However, there are several challenges to this claim. First, the Rome Statute defines the crimes falling under the ICC's jurisdiction, including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. These offenses do not pertain to isolated actions by individual soldiers but rather to systematic policies aimed at deliberately harming civilians. Unless proponents of this argument accept the false narrative of our adversaries, neither the State of Israel nor the IDF has a policy of committing genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. Therefore, reducing the likelihood of prosecution will not alter this fundamental fact. Most importantly, Israel (just like USA, Russia, and most everybody else of any importance) is not a member of ICC. So, they can inscribe their "Rome Statutes" on 2x4 ...
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Parliamentary continuity.
Attempting to stay relevant:
Germans vs. Jews,
Jews vs. Gazanians.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] NASA has created a new UFO research division that will continue studying the phenomena even though the space agency has ruled out aliens - for now.
The landmark report, which covered hundreds of cases of unidentified objects or phenomena in our skies, was published today after being commissioned by the space agency last year.
The 16-expert advisory panel stressed that there is 'no reason to conclude' that any of the sightings have been alien in origin - however, the panel did warn that mysterious flying objects were a 'self-evident' threat to American airspace.
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#2
Think of the potential of programmed swarms of drones- with lights that change color or brightness or blink rate, all organized to change patterns to appear to be changing speed and direction. What fun!
#5
Sadly, those SD lights were over on the lame end of the UFO spectrum. Immediately obviously flares. Unless of course they were incandescent avatars of Trump spying on the Romney compound!
#2
We will soon see mass 'synthetic identities' manufactured by AI for consumer credit fraud.
Name, birthday, SSN, employer, online history, residency, immigration status, marital status, country of origin, etc. All data that can exhaustively be fabricated for any credit form, bank application, online membership.
Hordes of unemployable fraudsters now fabricating identities offshore will be decimated.
#4
SCFI, the problem with the Three Laws is that "injure" and "harm" are vague. I'm sure that Asimov meant them in the common terms in the 40s when he wrote them. Unfortunately, these days, a person can be "harmed" by mean words.
Human: "Robot, tell that person she is ugly."
Robot: "Sorry, Dave, I can't do that. It would violate the First Law."
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Human: "Robot, tell that person she is ugly."
I think the world would be a better place if people were more polite to each others.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] NASA has created a new UFO research division that will continue studying the phenomena even though the space agency has ruled out aliens - for now.
