Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. Giving Up On $230 Million Gaza Air Pier
June 19th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: A vivid metaphor for American global geopolitical incompetence is about to float off into the sunset, as the White House is poised to give up on the $230 million Gaza aid pier it built to alleviate an Israel-imposed humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Disassembly could begin in July, officials told New York Times. First […]
“IDF Knew of Hamas’s Plan to Kidnap 250 Before October 7 Attack”
June 18th, 2024Via: Jerusalem Post: A newly surfaced document has revealed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and intelligence systems had detailed knowledge of Hamas’s plan to raid Israel and kidnap 250 people weeks before the October 7 massacre. The document, which was compiled in the Gaza Division, outlined Hamas’s intentions and was known to top intelligence […]
U.S. Navy in Most Intense Combat Since World War II Against Yemen’s Iran-Backed Houthi Rebels
June 15th, 2024Via: AP: The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world’s waterways. But instead of a global power, the Navy finds itself locked in combat with a shadowy, Iran-backed rebel group based in Yemen. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the […]
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
June 15th, 2024Via: situational-awareness.ai: The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace many college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. … Before long, the world […]
Military Draft Coming? House Passes Measure To Automatically Register Men For Selective Service
June 15th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: The House of Representatives on Friday approved its version of the annual defense policy bill, effectively clearing the $883.7 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to move forward in a 217-199 vote which largely fell along party lines. Only three Republicans opposed it. … But among the most interesting aspects to the bill […]
Former NSA Director Joins OpenAI; Will Serve On Board And “Security” Committee
June 14th, 2024Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model: This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review […]
Pentagon Wants to Feed Troops ‘Experimental’ Lab-Grown Meat to ‘Reduce CO2 Footprint’
June 14th, 2024The U.S. military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries, so feed U.S. military personnel experimental lab-grown meat??? Via: Washington Free Beacon: A Pentagon-funded company is seeking proposals to feed America’s soldiers lab-grown meat in a bid to “reduce the CO2 footprint” at Defense Department outposts. BioMADE, a public-private company that has […]
Chiquita Held Liable for Funding Colombian Paramilitaries
June 13th, 2024Old habits die hard: Founded in 1899 in Boston, United Fruit quickly grew to be the dominant force in the region. In addition to the banana plantations and railway, it also ran the post office and the telegram service. By the 1930s, with a dictator in power, United Fruit had amassed hundreds of thousands of […]
Finland’s First NATO Deployment Sends F-18 Jets to Romania
June 12th, 2024Via: ZeroHeadge: NATO’s two newest members – Finland and Sweden – have already seen their militaries quite busy as part of recent joint exercises with the alliance. For the first time this week, another milestone has been achieved as Finland has deployed fighter jets to another NATO country, in a further reversal of the Scandinavian […]
U.S. Spending More Money On Chip Manufacturing Construction This Year Than In Previous 28 Years Combined
June 12th, 2024Via: Tom’s Hardware: The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act is pumping money into chip manufacturing construction at an historic rate. According to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the growth of computer and electrical manufacturing construction funding is so great that the U.S. government will add as much funding to the sector in 2024 […]
