And Now… Ukraine ‘Starts Preparing to Build a Nuclear Bomb in Case Donald Trump Pulls U.S. Military Aid’
November 13th, 2024For a moment, let’s pretend that this isn’t a ridiculous bluff.
Assume Ukraine has the fuel.
Who would supply the krytrons?
Hmm.
Even if Ukraine could pull it off, how do they avoid the next step, which would involve being turned into Trinitite by the Russians?
Via: Daily Mail:
Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump pulls US military aid, a briefing paper prepared for the country’s Ministry of Defence has revealed.
The weapon would be built from plutonium and use similar technology to the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report stated.
Despite giving up its nuclear arsenal in 1996, Kyiv is still in control of nine operational reactors and has significant expertise on how to build the weapons.
DEEP Robotics Lynx All-Terrian Robot
November 13th, 2024This is nothing that 7.62×51 wouldn’t sort out, for now. But when you consider swarms of them…
Does the Second Amendment include include EMP weapons?
And hope what’s coming isn’t shielded.
Via: DEEP Robotics:
The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
November 12th, 2024I’m not sure when I first posted about this scam, but I found one from 2011.
The tech elite who pushed this nonsense knew that it would result in disaster. Mission accomplished.
Via: After Babel:
When smartphones and social media platforms swept into teens’ lives in the early 2010s, schools experienced their own digital revolution, with 1-to-1 laptops, tablets, and iPads becoming staples in classrooms across the Western world. (1-to-1 means one device for every student.) A decade later, the revolutionary optimism is fading. A recent OECD review found that most educational technology (EdTech) has not delivered the academic benefits once promised. Meanwhile, global test scores in math, science, and reading have been plummeting, as you can see in Figure 1 below. These trends were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but they began in the early 2010s, just as digital devices were being placed on students’ desks.
FEMA Worker Who Told Staff to Skip Hurricane Damaged Homes with Trump Signs Claims it Was Common Practice: ‘This Is not Isolated’
November 12th, 2024Via: New York Post:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor accused of telling staff to skip hurricane-ravaged homes that had Trump campaign signs claims it wasn’t an “isolated” incident — and that she’s been hung out to dry.
Marn’i Washington, who was fired last week over the saga, broke her silence in an interview with YouTube podcaster Roland Martin Monday, arguing she had just been following FEMA protocol.
Does Warren Buffett Know Something That We Don’t?
November 12th, 2024Via: Wall Street Journal:
When the world’s most-followed investor doesn’t feel comfortable investing, should the rest of us be worried?
Warren Buffett, who has quipped that his favorite holding period for a stock is “forever,” continues to have substantial money at work in American companies. But he has never taken this much off the table either—a whopping $325 billion in cash and equivalents, mostly in the form of Treasury bills.
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Then there is the even simpler “Buffett Indicator,” which the Oracle of Omaha once called “probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment.” There are variants on the theme, but it is basically a ratio of all listed stocks to the size of the U.S. economy. Taking the Wilshire 5000 Index as a proxy it is now around 200%, which would leave it more stretched than at the peak of the tech bubble.
With T-bills now yielding more than the prospective return on stocks, it might seem that Buffett has taken as many chips off of the table as possible since there is no upside in risky stocks.
So Much for Keeping Out the War Hawks
November 12th, 2024Via: Reason:
So much for keeping out the war hawks. President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly chosen Rep. Mike Waltz (R–Fla.) to be his national security adviser and Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) to be his secretary of state. Rubio is a longtime regime change and war enthusiast, although he’s recently pivoted to Trump’s position that the war in Ukraine has to end diplomatically.
Waltz, on the other hand, doesn’t even have a pretense of wanting to stay out of wars. He’s been passionately in favor of escalating conflicts that Trump wants out of, including in Afghanistan and Ukraine. And he supports not only threatening to attack Iran but also militarily confronting Russia, which Waltz calls a “gas station with nukes.”
If last week was a bad time to be a member of the Cheney family, this week is shaping up to be a good one. After working as a Department of Defense policy planner for the Bush administration, Waltz served as former Vice President Dick Cheney’s counterterrorism adviser. And it shows.
MYSTERY: FEMA Staging 350 Semi-Trailers at Decommissioned Air Force Base in Oscoda
November 11th, 2024Via: The Midwesterner:
Reports have surfaced of Federal Emergency Management Agency staging trucks across north central Michigan, including at the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base, sparking speculation and fears about the agency’s doings and prompting elected representatives to seek clarification from FEMA officials.
In the wake of the concerns, FEMA and Oscoda officials finally issued statements saying the site was merely being considered for material staging, according to independent reporter Dave Bondy.
According to the Iosco News last week, “the Federal Emergency Management Authority (FEMA) will station a hub for emergency services. Three hundred and fifty semi-trailers with equipment to serve a six-county region will be stored at the airport.”
“RFK Jr.’s New Bully Pulpit Sends Public Health Shock Waves”
November 11th, 2024Good.
Via: The Hill:
President-elect Trump’s promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health is demoralizing public health experts, who worry he could meddle with key government agencies, amplify vaccine hesitancy and direct agency funding to favor his preferred views.
Those include removing fluoride from public water, promoting a wide variety of unorthodox and unproven treatments and pushing a deep skepticism of pharmaceutical companies and the agencies overseeing them.
But with Trump’s victory, Kennedy could soon be in charge of those same agencies.
“FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Kennedy wrote on social media shortly before the election, referring to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma. If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.”
During a victory speech early Wednesday morning, Trump declared the country had delivered him and Republicans an “unprecedented mandate.”
That will mean big changes to health, starting with Kennedy.
ASUS ROG Rapture WiFi 6 GT-AX6000 Router
November 10th, 2024ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 Dual-band WiFi 6 Gaming Router
Note: I have a client who is buying this. Pardon the distraction. But… If you need very fast and stable wifi, this thing feels like a wired connection. Made in Taiwan = quality. Could easily run a branch office. Dual 2.5G ports. QoS. Wifi scheduling. Monitoring. etc. etc. Asuswrt-Merlin works great on this.
“Sources Reveal”: CIA and DoD Engaged in Decades-Long Retrieval, Tracking and Exploitation of UFOs
November 10th, 2024Lue, is that you?
Via: Liberation Times:
With a potentially explosive Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) hearing set to take place in the House of Representatives next week, sources connected with the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense (DoD) have disclosed new and controversial details to Liberation Times.
These sources allege that retrieval missions and covert legacy operations—stretching back as far as World War Two—were reportedly conducted by the CIA in collaboration with key elements of the U.S. Defense establishment.
The sources, who spoke under strict conditions of anonymity, describe a shadowy history of missions dedicated to recovering exotic materials of non-human origin under the utmost secrecy.
The revelations are expected to add weight to an already intense debate over U.S. government transparency regarding UAP, as officials and the public grapple with the implications of alleged, long-standing retrieval missions.
Liberation Times spoke with sources who stated that retrieval missions involving materials of non-human origin are hidden within legitimate retrieval programs.
