When I was starting out as a Chicago City Hall reporter for that big metropolitan paper‐when we could smoke in newsrooms on deadline, curse, tell jokes, laugh and wore jackets and ties to work‐I had one rule.
I'd often discuss this rule with my political sources, elected officials, cops, city workers and others:
Lie to me just once, just once, and I'll burn you to the ground.
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The sooner people stop talking about this old-fashioned newspaper, the sooner the disappear.
This is everyone's responsibility.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Oleg Shevchenko
[REGNUM] "We knew what we were doing. It was a dirty deal. We'd use any bastard as long as he was an anti-communist."
To be fair, during the Second World War America had teamed up with Stalin against the Nazis, who were at the time the more immediate threat. Afterward the nuclear armed and equally totalitarian Soviet Union moved up to first place.
This characterization of the "information work" of the United States against our country in the post-war era could be written off as "Moscow propaganda." If not for one "but": the phrase is very likely genuine.
This statement by former CIA operative Harry Rositzke is cited by Christopher Simpson, a researcher of Nazi crimes at the Washington American University, in his 1988 book, " Blow Back : America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Devastating Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy."
Intelligence officer Harry Rositzke, who worked in West Germany under CIA co-founder Frank Gardiner Wisner, had a very specific operation in mind when he spoke of recruiting “bastards.” It was the opening, 72 years ago, in March 1953, of Radio Liberation, better known by its other brand name, Radio Liberty (recognized in Russia as a foreign agent), in Munich.
Now this station, along with another “honored” foreign agent media outlet, the Voice of America, is being closed by decision of the Donald Trump administration.
In the age of social networks, radio as such is no longer an effective instrument of soft power and a weapon in a proxy battle.
But at the beginning of the last Cold War, under another Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower (to whom Trump is often compared), it was a powerful tool that could be put into the hands of ex-Nazis.
Let us add that the second information warfare machine, the Voice of America, was launched in Washington even before the start of the Cold War, at the height of the fight against Hitler and our alliance with the Americans.
"THE VOICE" CHANGES INTONATION
The Voice of America (VoA) first went on the air on February 24, 1942, at a time when the Third Reich and its allies were enjoying their greatest successes. Europe from Scandinavia to the Balkans was occupied, the Germans were advancing in North Africa, the Japanese had taken Singapore, and the Battle of Moscow—which marked the collapse of Hitler’s blitzkrieg in the East—was not yet over.
The Franklin Roosevelt administration's decision to begin broadcasting the Voice of America had a noble goal: it was necessary to interrupt the flow of Goebbels' propaganda, which was benefiting from the situation at the front.
"We will talk about America and the war, the news can be good or bad - we will tell you the truth" - this was the first phrase with which VoA went on air. And the fact that, in addition to news broadcasts, jazz and pop melodies and stories about the American way of life were heard on the airwaves - was perceived as an integral part of the "truth".
Immediately after the war, propaganda and counter-propaganda work acquired a new target: no longer Europe, but a recent ally – the USSR. The Russian-language broadcast of the Voice of America was launched on the initiative of a man from Roosevelt’s team who specialized in our country.
It was the industrialist and diplomat William Averell Harriman, who represented the United States at the Moscow Conference of 1941, was Roosevelt's special representative to the Soviet Union and the United States ambassador to Moscow in 1943–1946, was responsible for contacts on Lend-Lease issues, met with Joseph Stalin on several occasions, and witnessed decisions in Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and American diplomat Averell Harriman (left to right) at a meeting in Moscow
At the same time, the master of Soviet diplomacy Oleg Troyanovsky noted: it was Harriman who was largely responsible for the deterioration of relations between the USSR and the USA after Roosevelt’s death in 1945.
In early 1946, he conveyed to the Harry Truman administration his thoughts on the ineffectiveness of distributing American printed materials in the USSR and pointed out that radio was the most effective means of directly reaching the Soviet audience. On February 17, 1947, the first Voice of America broadcast in Russian was broadcast.
And a year later, in 1948, the Voice officially ceased broadcasting... on the territory of the United States itself.
Congress then passed the Information and Educational Exchange Act, better known as the Smith-Mundt Act. It created a foreign policy propaganda agency within the State Department, the United States Information Agency (USIA), and simultaneously restricted propaganda broadcasts to the United States.
The authors of the published collection “U.S. Foreign Affairs in the New Information Age: Charting a Course for the 21st Century,” edited by senior USIA veteran Alvin Snyder, noted that in passing the Smith-Mundt Act, “Congress wanted to make sure that a government agency (USIA) could not brainwash citizens, as Hitler did in Germany.”
"THE BEGINNING OF AN ORGANIZED POLITICAL WAR"
But “brainwashing” the inhabitants of Europe and the peoples behind the Iron Curtain seemed not only acceptable, but also necessary.
At the same time, the Voice of America and other “voices” distanced themselves more and more from the White House administration. In full accordance with the memorandum that diplomat George Frost Kennan, the author of the doctrine of containing the Soviet Union, presented to the US National Security Council in 1948.
Kennan's memo spoke of "The Inauguration of organized political warfare" and mentioned "carefully concealed official control so that it would be impossible to connect the operations with the state."
"General direction and funding come from the government; guidance and funding are provided to private American organizations... private individuals... these organizations, through their branches in Europe and Asia, establish contacts..." the memorandum stated.
One of the "guiding instructions" was the propaganda treatment of the peoples of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union "oppressed by Moscow." Usually, in this connection, the law PL 89-90 "On Captive Nations", adopted under Eisenhower in 1959, is recalled, but in fact the "instructions" came much earlier.
On March 12, 1947, at a joint session of the Houses of Congress, Harry Truman declared: "The United States...must help to liberate peoples so that they can decide their own destiny."
In 1949, the Ukrainian broadcast of the Voice of America began. The first editor was Nikifor Grigoriev, a full namesake of the famous ataman, who himself had distinguished himself during the Civil War as the head of the press bureau of the Symon Petliura army. It is not surprising that one of the main topics of the broadcast was the "national liberation struggle" against Russia.
Since 1951, the Voice of America has been broadcast in the languages of the Baltics and Transcaucasia. At the same time, the Radio Free Europe began to broadcast from West Germany, initially targeting the countries of the socialist camp, from Poland to Romania, and then expanded to include Baltic editorial offices.
And then the interesting personnel policy of the Voice of America - Free Europe showed itself. For example, Mikhail (Michel) Dadiani broadcast in the Georgian editorial office of VoA, about whom it is cautiously reported that during the war he became "a victim of fascist propaganda and fought in the German army."
Another example: the first editor of the Estonian edition of VoA was Harald Parrest - in biographical sources he is called a "literary critic", but if you dig a little, it turns out that Parrest "was known under the pseudonym Partisan", from 1944 he also served in the Wehrmacht, and in 1949, that is, the year the American occupation regime in West Germany ended, the "literary critic" moved to the United States.
THEATERGOERS AGAINST THE BOLSHEVIKS OR THE DEATH OF DUBROVSKY
In 1953, the Russian Service of the Voice of America was headed by Alexander Barmin, also a very curious character. In the early 1930s, a repentant Trotskyist, later a resident of the Red Army Intelligence Directorate in France and the Balkans, since 1937 a defector, an employee of the first unified intelligence service of the USA – the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
At the same time that Barmin took over the reins of the Voice of America, Radio Liberation from Bolshevism debuted in Munich, also known as Radio Liberation/Radio Liberty. In full accordance with Kennan’s memorandum, this “office” was not quite state-owned – its founder was listed as the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism (ACLB).
But the personnel policy was reminiscent of that adopted at the Voice of America: they recruited people who had collaborated with the Nazis.
The first broadcast of “Radio Liberation from Bolshevism” was hosted by Boris Vinogradov, a man with a strange fate.
Before the war, he was an actor at the Lensovet Theatre, was evacuated along the "Road of Life" to the Caucasus, found himself under German occupation in Pyatigorsk and "retreated" with the Wehrmacht. Another prominent theatre-goer, former actor and director of the Moscow Art Theatre Sergei Sverchkov, who ended up with the Germans immediately after the war began, worked in the editorial office. Unlike Vinogradov, he gave the impression of being ideological.
In particular, Sverchkov worked productively in the "Vineta" - the Special (Eastern) Department of the Propaganda Ministry of the Third Reich. In 1945, Sverchkov managed to escape to the Allies, the Americans refused to hand him over to the NKVD, and in 1946, the successfully "denazified" former Goebbels employee arrived in New York, where he was already in circulation.
At Radio Liberty, Sverchkov (hiding under the pseudonyms Ostrovsky, Orlovsky, and finally Dubrovsky) was considered a mentor. And in 1955, Vinogradov informed his boss Dubrovsky that he intended to... quit. Moreover, it became known that the first announcer had applied for repatriation to the USSR.
Vinogradov gave a farewell dinner, after which Sverchkov-Dubrovsky suddenly fell ill. And in October of the same 1955, the "mentor" of the Svoboda members mysteriously died suddenly - with a diagnosis of "rapid cirrhosis of the liver." Vinogradov calmly moved from the FRG through East Berlin to his homeland, returned to work in the theater and cinema (for example, he played the role of a pastor in Mark Donskoy's 1962 film "Hello, Children!") and died a natural death.
Let's just chalk it all up to luck.
FROM SMERSH VIA NTS TO THE CIA
Another person with an interesting fate in the first line-up of Radio Liberty was an actress from Rostov-on-Don, “the first female voice of Liberty” Victoria Semenova-Mondich.
This employee of Sverchkov-Dubrovsky's troupe ruined her career with "Great Russian chauvinism": she believed that radio should fight Bolshevism only by broadcasting to Great Russians. And at that time, broadcasting to enslaved peoples was just being developed - from Adyghe and Armenian to Uzbek and Turkmen languages.
Rostov resident Semenova apparently did not consider herself an “ethnic Cossack”.
Of no less interest to the curators of Svoboda was her husband, the Transcarpathian writer Mykhailo Mondich (aka Mykola Synevyrsky), an activist in the émigré People's Labor Union (NTS).
The well-known part of Mondich-Synevyrsky's biography is quite interesting: this Carpathian Rusyn, a citizen of Czechoslovakia, worked as a translator for SMERSH with the arrival of the Red Army, supported the annexation of Transcarpathia to the USSR, then fled to the West, joined the NTS and got a job at Radio Free Europe. Mondich-Synevyrsky was subsequently a full-time employee of the CIA and, according to him, survived several assassination attempts by MGB agents.
But what is interesting is that it was precisely at the time of the formation of the staff of Radio Liberty that Mondich was not accepted into the editorial board - precisely as a person from NTS, at that time this organization was under suspicion of being “infiltrated by Soviet agents.”
FROM VLASOV'S BARRACKS TO "FREEDOM"
If you continue to study the biographies of Svoboda employees, you will see less and less “spy passions” and more and more stories of dirty deals between American propagandists and Nazi collaborators.
For example, the Ukrainian editorial office of Radio Liberty employed career CIA employees Ivan Maistrenko and Alexander Voznyak. Not only Soviet, but also American intelligence services were well aware of their past: as militants of the OUN (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), Maistrenko and Voznyak participated in mass shootings in Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) in 1941.
One of the founders of the Tatar-Bashkir editorial board of Svoboda, the predecessor of Idel. Realii (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia), was Garif Sultan, who had recently been a fighter in the SS legion Idel-Ural. According to historians, it was Sultan who gave Musa Jalil's anti-fascist underground group, which operated in the legion, to the Gestapo.
Jalil's case could theoretically have fallen into the hands of the Slovak Gestapo functionary Imrich Kruzlyak, who rose to the post of editor of the European service of Radio Liberty under his new bosses.
Even more well-known is the case of Konstantin Kromiadi (Sanin), the head of the personnel department of Radio Liberty and a devout Christian who was a member of the Holy Prince Vladimir Brotherhood.
At the same time, Kromiadi rose to the rank of chief of the CIA's Munich base for relations with the second wave of emigration. His superiors knew his track record very well. In particular, this included participation in the creation of the 1st Russian National SS Brigade "Druzhina" and the so-called Russian National People's Army (better known as the "Gray Head" Special Purpose Unit as part of the sabotage Abwehrkommando-25).
Kromiadi-Sanin also "showed up" in the most famous collaborationist project - he was the head of Andrei Vlasov's personal chancery. Before moving to work for Svoboda, he was known for successfully hiding "officials of the Russian Liberation Army" from being extradited to the USSR, where the traitors would face a well-deserved sentence.
BRAINWASHING ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE
Having been staffed with Vlasovites, Banderites, “forest brothers”, defectors and other “ideological fighters against Bolshevism”, the conglomerate “Voice of America” – “Radio Liberty” – “Free Europe” reached a serious technical level.
As the Voice of America staff liked to tell, already in the early 1950s their broadcasts could theoretically be received by about 1.5 million listeners in the Soviet Union. By the 1960s, the supposedly not quite state radio station was already broadcasting 850 hours a week in 38 languages of the peoples of the USSR, creating materials for TV centers in 90 countries around the world.
American music has always been one of the elements of "soft power". Jazz producer and radio host Willis Conover worked for VoA for more than 40 years
The transmissions were transmitted using state-of-the-art, top-secret military radio transmitters at American bases in Lampertheim, Germany, and Taiwan. The network was reinforced by the resources of over a hundred powerful radio stations in the United States, as well as a network of radio centers in London, Munich, Athens, Tangier, Thessaloniki, Manila, Delhi, Bangkok, and on the islands of Okinawa and Rhodes.
An exotic project was also carried out to transmit news using Morse code (to break through our jamming system).
At the disposal of "Svoboda" were 28 powerful radio transmitters, 2 thousand employees (among whom were 700 successfully denazified West Germans and 470 post-war emigrants). Fruitful cooperation with the same "white émigré" NTS, which no longer raised questions from the CIA, also made its contribution. The Munich Institute for the Study of History and Culture of the USSR, affiliated with "Svoboda - Free Europe", worked closely with the diasporas of "enslaved peoples" - Ukrainian, Belarusian, North- and Transcaucasian organizations.
The history of counteraction to this intelligence and propaganda factory (which counteraction is not limited to "jammers") is worthy of separate consideration. Let us just note that the counter-efforts were nullified in 1989-1991 with the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the USSR.
Let us recall that Voice of America, Liberty and Free Europe were added to the register of foreign agents only in 2017.
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Christmas 1942 was, by ten thousand times, the most interesting part of WW2.
Fight me.
I know, the Americans weren't in the war so it didn't count.
A lot of Americans only like to pay attention to the part of the war when the Axis was already broken and it was one one-sided ass-kicking after another.
Like a video game player playing alone on a server destroying bot after bot and thinking he's the best player in mom's basement.
[CompactMag] It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list. In 2012 the Times included seven white American men under the age of 43 (the cut-off for a millennial today); in 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six.
And then the doors shut.
By 2021, there was not one white male millennial on the “Notable Fiction” list. There were none again in 2022, and just one apiece in 2023 and 2024 (since 2021, just 2 of 72 millennials featured were white American men). There were no white male millennials featured in Vulture’s 2024 year-end fiction list, none in Vanity Fair’s, none in The Atlantic’s. Esquire, a magazine ostensibly geared towards male millennials, has featured 53 millennial fiction writers on its year-end book lists since 2020. Only one was a white American man.
Over the course of the 2010s, the literary pipeline for white men was effectively shut down. Between 2001 and 2011, six white men won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions prize for debut fiction. Since 2020, not a single white man has even been nominated (of 25 total nominations). The past decade has seen 70 finalists for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize—with again, not a single straight white American millennial man. Of 14 millennial finalists for the National Book Award during that same time period, exactly zero are white men. The Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, a launching pad for young writers, currently has zero white male fiction and poetry fellows (of 25 fiction fellows since 2020, just one was a white man). Perhaps most astonishingly, not a single white American man born after 1984 has published a work of literary fiction in The New Yorker (at least 24, and probably closer to 30, younger millennials have been published in total).
“The kind of novel we think about as the literary novel, the Updike or DeLillo, I think it’s harder for white men,” a leading fiction agent told me. “In part because I don’t know the editors who are open to hearing a story of the sort of middle-to-upper-middle-class white male experience. The young agents and editors didn’t come up in that culture.” The agent proceeded to list white male writers who have carved out a niche for themselves—Nathan Hill, Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Michael Connelly, Adam Ross—but none was younger than Cohen, who was born in 1980. Read the rest at the link.
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That's because the publishing industry is dominated by AWFLs - has been for some time.
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And movie scripts, and prestige western gaming.
Well I guess Dragonage: Veilguard was a dude pretending to be an AWFL.
On on the other side, all men in general are probably not writing to impress Vanity Fair, New York Times, The New Yorker, or if you've seen what it is now Esssquire.
Not if the aid is not actually getting to patients.
[BBC] US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned.
It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight against HIV, which has seen the number of deaths from the disease decrease from more than two million in 2004 to 600,000 in 2023, the most recent year for which figures are available.
UNAids Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said the US government's decision to pause foreign aid - which included funding for HIV programmes - was already having devastating consequences.
She called on the US to reverse the cuts immediately, warning women and girls were being hit particularly hard.
US President Donald Trump announced the pause on foreign aid, for an initial 90 days, on his first day in office in January as part of a review into government spending. The majority of the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) programmes have since been terminated.
Many US-financed HIV treatment and prevention programmes received stop work orders, leading to the closure of mother and baby clinics in Africa, and severe shortages of life saving anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines.
Ms Byanyima said she feared a return to the 1990s, when HIV medication was scarcely available in poorer countries, and infections and deaths soared.
The US has for years been the single biggest funder of HIV treatment and prevention, and Ms Byanima thanked Washington for its generosity and humanity.
She added it was "reasonable" for the US "to want to reduce its funding - over time", but said the "sudden withdrawal of lifesaving support [was] having a devastating impact".
There has been no sign that Washington is listening to appeals to change course.
Traditional aid donors in Europe also plan funding cuts, and UNAids - the joint UN agency which combats HIV - has had no indication that other countries might step in to fill the gap left by the US.
Last I heard, about 20% of USAID programs have been evaluated as worthwhile and restarted, including something for Gaza. If this particular program has not been restarted, very likely it is entirely too corrupt and ineffective to be worth spending American taxes on. Perhaps UNAids Executive Director Byanyima might want to consider the wisdom of announcing to the world that she is functionally evil.
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“She called on the US to reverse the cuts immediately, warning women and girls were being hit particularly hard.”
What is the basis of that assertion? Is it only possible to define a woman in a third world setting?
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So will the other 192 UN members start doing their fair share?
Isn't it time to 100% focus on the USA Citizen's needs?
Instead of those nations that constantly need and demand more and more. Which never seem to actually change the root causes for their problems.
Then time after time bite the USA in the ass, despite what all the US Taxpayers have done for them? eg. Somalia
Or could it also be, Big Pharma, the MEGA-Political Donor, whining that it's going to lose $$$$$ and can't spread as much $$$$ around the next election?
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Maybe, England, Russia, Iran, Soddi, and the rest just might want to chip in a little more if they are so concerned. And a note to BBC, if it is so important, the UN will take directed donations.
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[IsraelNationalNews] The grief of October 7th still haunts every Israeli soul.
It wasn’t just a failure of security or intelligence; it was a shattering of our national innocence, the brutal end of a belief that goodwill could protect us.
And yet, in the face of one of the worst atrocities in Jewish history, there are those among us — the Israeli leftist elite — who continue to point fingers not at the monsters who crossed the border with murder in their hearts, but at their own people.
I can’t forgive that.
The problem is not just Hamas. It is Israel’s own elites, the NGOs, the academic class, the so-called humanitarians — those who have spent decades undermining victory, pursuing policies of enriching and placating Palestinian Arabs based on "the hope that being nice will win reciprocal gestures." Each has spectacularly failed. Instead of acknowledging this failure, they double down, desperate to preserve their moral vanity.
...What’s more, the Israeli Left (a minority after all) has spent decades trying to convince the world, and the rest of Israel, that peace comes from surrender, that empathy will melt away hatred. That if we just humanize our enemy, they will stop trying to dehumanize us.
It was a beautiful dream. But October 7th killed that dream. And the Israeli Left’s unwillingness to face that truth — their insistence on mourning the collapse of their ideology more than the collapse of our safety — is a betrayal I cannot overlook.
On October 14, 2023 — exactly one week following October 7th — I said to my Israeli cousin: "Just watch, in a few weeks or months the Israeli Left will take to the streets, wailing and screaming about how the real crime isn’t what Hamas did to us, but how our own government responded. They’ll say the hostages are being forgotten, that the war is immoral, that Bibi is the devil, and that somehow, somehow, Israel is to blame for all of this."
...In their worldview, the true enemy isn’t Hamas or Hezbollah or the Houthis — it’s the right. It’s the settlers. It’s the religious. It’s the Zionist who believes in Jewish power and defense and sovereignty. And that hatred has blinded them. It has made them incapable of unity, incapable of reflection, incapable of change.
This has nothing to do with holding leaders accountable and everything to do with salvaging a broken ideology. They do not oppose the war because they think it’s unjust. They oppose the war because it confirms what they most fear: that their decades-long program of appeasement, withdrawal, and moral relativism has utterly failed.
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Sadly yes. I would be furious, but I haven’t the energy for it.
$2.5T?
Ah'm thinkin' orbital laser.
[JustTheNews] Some skeptics say the technology needed to protect a land mass the size of the U.S. still isn't ready. Israel's Iron Dome system works only against short-range rockets.
[ZeroHedge] “There’s an iPhone moment happening with humanoids,” said Brett Adcock, founder of Figure, a humanoid robotics company in California. “It’s going to happen right now,” added the serial entrepreneur, his robots already working on the production line in BMW’s Spartanburg factory. Another major corporate customer is trialing his robots for warehouse work. “To succeed at this, you have to do three things that have never been done before. And you have to get all three of them right within the next 5yrs or you’re going to fail for sure.”
“The first thing is you have to build hardware for humanoids that’s incredibly complex and can never fail, and it’s got to work at human speeds with human range of motion,” explained Adcock. “The second thing is a neural net problem, not a control systems problem. You can’t code your way out of this problem. You need to have a robot that can ingest human-like data through a neural net and it has to be able to imitate what humans do. Humanoid robots are not like arms bolted to a factory table. None of those robots have AI.”
“The third problem is that you then have to generalize. This is the holy grail of robotics,” explained Adcock. “To have a robot look at something it’s never seen before, or heard through speech, and to be able to tell a robot how to do it, and then have it be able to complete that task end to end with one neural net,” he said. “If you can solve those three things, then you’re in the right decade and you’re at the iPhone moment,” he said. “And we can confidently say we have solved or are making major progress on all three problems.”
“If we had 100,000 robots today that all worked, our two commercial customers would take them all,” said Adcock, not able to leverage scaled up supply chains because they do not yet exist, it’s still early. Which nation wins remains up for grabs. “And we could sign on fifty Fortune 100 companies by the weekend. We are bombarded by demand. The supply of humans is going down.” The working age population is in steep decline across the developed world. “There is unbounded demand. We could ship 1-million robots this month if they were all ready to go.”
I asked Perplexity to tell me about the leading companies that are producing humanoid robots. Perplexity is an AI that excels in searching the web for the most up-to-date information. I now use different robots depending on the type of task. I’d guess that someday soon we’ll all have multiple robots. Anyhow, Perplexity gave me the top ten companies. Brett Adcock’s Figure, Boston Dynamics, many others I’d never heard of. Tesla made the list of course, its Optimus humanoid robot, run on a proprietary AI, getting smarter every day I drive.
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.
