Counter Terrorism Police Probe Heathrow Fire
March 21st, 2025Mmm hmm.
Via: Daily Mail:
Counter terrorism police are now leading the probe into an electrical substation fire that has shut London Heathrow Airport for the whole of today amid claims it could be a Russian sabotage attack linked to Vladimir Putin’s campaign of disruption.
More than 1,300 flights to and from the UK’s busiest airport will be impacted today due to its closure following a blaze at the nearby North Hyde electrical substation.
Boeing Wins F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter
March 21st, 2025Sure, give Boeing a chance, after Lockheed’s $2 trillion F-35 boondoggle.
Via: The War Zone:
In the biggest development for U.S. Air Force tactical air power in more than two decades, Boeing has been announced as the winner of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) ‘fighter’ initiative. As the centerpiece of the NGAD effort, the new crewed sixth-generation stealth combat jet, now designated the F-47, is set to change air combat forever, with the Air Force hoping to begin fielding it in the next decade.
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The announcement was made personally by U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office today, alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin.
The Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract for NGAD is expected to be worth approximately $20 billion, although, across the life of the program, the company is in line to receive hundreds of billions of dollars in orders. Each copy of the jet, once series production commences, has been estimated in the past to cost upwards of $300 million. That is if the original concept for the aircraft has not changed.
“European Military Powers Work on 5-10 Year Plan to Replace U.S. in NATO”
March 20th, 2025Good. Now make it five to ten months, with payments for goods and services provided by the U.S.
Via: Financial Times:
Europe’s biggest military powers are drawing up plans to take on greater responsibilities for the continent’s defence from the US, including a pitch to the Trump administration for a managed transfer over the next five to 10 years.
The discussions are an attempt to avoid the chaos of a unilateral US withdrawal from Nato, a fear sparked by President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to weaken or walk away from the transatlantic alliance that has protected Europe for almost eight decades.
U.S. Responsible for 43% of Global Arms Sales
March 20th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
The United States was the world’s largest arms exporter between 2020 and 2024, delivering weapons to 107 states.
As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, it accounted for 43 percent of global exports in that time period, up from 35 percent of all international arms sales between 2015 and 2019.
French Scientist Denied U.S. Entry After Phone Messages Critical of Trump Found
March 20th, 2025Via: Guardian:
France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.
“I learned with concern that a French researcher” on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) “who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled”, Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. “This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added.
“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values ??that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said.
A diplomatic source told the French news agency that the incident occurred on 9 March.
Another AFP source said that US authorities accused the French researcher of “hateful and conspiratorial messages”. He was reportedly also informed of an FBI investigation, but told that “charges were dropped” before being expelled.
In Case You’re Rage Quitting Firefox Because Everything Is Broken…
March 19th, 2025tldr: It’s MetaMask. Disable MetaMask and Firefox will work normally again.
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I’ve been using Firefox for about two decades. I’ve had a few rage quits over that time. The latest was yesterday when many sites that I use were broken—just in Firefox. Without investigation, I used this latest Firefox snafu as an excuse to try to quit it again.
I’m on Brave at the moment. I can’t seem to enable a conventional window title bar, so trying to move the window around requires one to carefully pick an unused area in the top portion of the UI to click to drag the window around.
I’ve been moving windows around by grabbing the title bars since the 1980s, but in 2025, that had to go for some reason. How about an option to enable it for us geezers? Nope. And drop down menus… Those seem to be unavailable as well.
So, I slinked back to Firefox (again) to try to figure out why it shit the bed this time. Turning extensions off revealed that there’s a problem with MetaMask. Disabling it will cause sites to load normally again.
Do Cylindrical Structures Extend Hundreds of Meters Below Giza Pyramid [???]
March 19th, 2025Via: Project Unity:
Boston Dynamics Atlas: Walk, Run, Crawl, Reinforcement Learning Fun
March 19th, 2025Uh…
Via: Boston Dynamics:
JFK Assassination Records – 2025 Documents Release
March 18th, 2025Via: U.S. National Archives:
In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released.
President Trump: Stop Bombing Yemen and Exit the Middle East!
March 18th, 2025President Trump: Stop Bombing Yemen and Exit the Middle East! pic.twitter.com/dfDLAQvPwA
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) March 18, 2025
