New Palantir Commercial: The Future of Warfare
December 16th, 2024Yes, really.
Via: Palantir:
“Heavy Unknown UAS Activity”: Drone Incursions Closed Wright Patterson Air Force Base’s Airspace Friday Night
December 15th, 2024Via: The War Zone:
The sprawling Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the latest military installation to report mysterious drones flying over its airspace, The War Zone has learned.
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After the drones were seen over Wright Patterson, a Notice To Airman (NOTAM) was issued closing the airspace between Friday night and Saturday morning. The airspace has since been reopened, Purtiman said.
“Q) ZID/QFALC/IV/NBO/A/000/999/3949N08402W005 A) KFFO B) 2412140400 C) 2412140800 E) WRIGHT PATTERSON CLASS D AIRSPACE CLOSED DUE TO SECURITY THREAT M1133/24 NOTAMN
Q) ZID/QXXXX/IV/NBO/A/000/999/3949N08402W005 A) KFFO B) 2412140403 C) 2412140800 E) CAUTION: USE EXTREME CAUTION; HEAVY UAS ACTIVITY IN KFFO SURFACE AREA”
The following radio call between Wright Patterson AFB tower and a medical transport aircraft that occurred during the drone incident was provided by a radio enthusiast reader:
And Now… “Feds to Deploy High-Tech System to NY as Drone Swarms Have Experts Baffled”
December 15th, 2024Mmm hmm.
Via: New York Post:
Federal officials are set to deploy a high-tech drone detection system to New York State as swarms of unidentified flying objects popping up in the tri-state area continue to leave experts perplexed.
The new system will help state and local law enforcement in their investigation into the mysterious drones that have been spotted flickering across the night sky over the past month, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday.
“In response to my calls for additional resources, our federal partners are deploying a state-of-the-art drone detection system to New York State,” Hochul said.
‘Unprecedented Risk’ to Life on Earth: Scientists Call for Halt on ‘Mirror Life’ Microbe Research
December 15th, 2024Via: Guardian:
World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.
The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could become established in the environment and slip past the immune defences of natural organisms, putting humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections.
Although a viable mirror microbe would probably take at least a decade to build, a new risk assessment raised such serious concerns about the organisms that the 38-strong group urged scientists to stop work towards the goal and asked funders to make clear they will no longer support the research.
“The threat we’re talking about is unprecedented,” said Prof Vaughn Cooper, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pittsburgh. “Mirror bacteria would likely evade many human, animal and plant immune system responses and in each case would cause lethal infections that would spread without check.”
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Beyond causing lethal infections, the researchers doubt the microbes could be safely contained or kept in check by natural competitors and predators. Existing antibiotics are unlikely to be effective, either.
“Unless compelling evidence emerges that mirror life would not pose extraordinary dangers, we believe that mirror bacteria and other mirror organisms, even those with engineered biocontainment measures, should not be created,” the authors write in Science.
More: Confronting Risks of Mirror Life
Council of the Canceled: Dr. Bowden, Dr. Wakefield, and Dr. Kruse
December 15th, 2024Via: Nicole Shanahan:
Council of the Canceled: LIVE with Dr. Bowden, Dr. Wakefield, and Dr. Kruse https://t.co/YLBprhXrkt
— Nicole Shanahan (@NicoleShanahan) September 15, 2024
UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing Suspect Luigi Mangione and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Lawyers Are Married
December 15th, 2024Via: New York Post:
It looks like Luigi Mangione and Sean “Diddy” Combs have more in common than orange jumpsuits and ankle shackles.
Karen Friedman-Agnifilo, the high-powered lawyer hired by UnitedHealthcare murder suspect Luigi Mangione, is married to none other than Marc Agnifilio, who has been representing the rapper as he battles sex trafficking charges.
Friedman-Agnifilo is a former prosecutor who ditched her longtime position as the head of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in 2021 to join her husband’s private firm, Agnifilo Intrater LLP .
New York: Drones Shut Down Runways at Stewart International Airport
December 14th, 2024Someone asked me why I’m ignoring the drone situation. haha. In fact, I’ve nearly gone blind looking at hundreds of blurry images and videos and thousands of posts on X/Reddit/Facebook from clueless people, or people intentionally making up nonsense.
Here’s my take, at this time:
1) The U.S. Government is behind this. Anyone continuously flying under minimum safe altitudes or into restricted airspace would have guns pointed at them when they landed, assuming they were not first shot down by U.S. Air Force alert fighters (Aerospace Control Alert) capable of scrambling within minutes 24/7/365. That’s not happening because THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS DOING IT.
While this is definitely a U.S. Government operation, for what purpose, you can take your pick of random theories promoted on social media: The government is searching for a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb, the government is monitoring the real aliens (I love it! Please, tell me another one), it’s a government PSYOP. There’s an arms race on X to try to trick people into engaging with content, so as long as that happens, X will promote it, regardless of how stupid. Bonus points on X for not providing a link or other citation of the source.
2) I’m aware of no in-focus imagery, captured on any professional camera system, of anything anomalous with regard to this situation. People are primarily using mobile phones which are mostly incapable of producing useful imagery at night. On top of this, people using the phones seem to not understand that their only chance of accomplishing anything with a phone (or any other camera) would require affixing it to a tripod.
Corporate media is showing endless loops of ridiculously low quality videos. Compare what we are being shown by corporate media, employing professional cameramen, 4K cameras and lenses that cost more than houses in some parts of the U.S., to what amateur plane spotters do as a matter of routine.
Plane spotter video:
Fox News (Fox just picked at random, all corporate media are the same):
Maybe someone out there should offer free pizza to a pack of plane spotters to get to the bottom of this.
3) The general public, clueless about aviation and basic photographic principals, and whipped into a state of hysteria by U.S. Government gaslighting, is now routinely identifying conventional aircraft, especially those in an airfield traffic pattern, as anomalous.
This assists with government gaslighting when the imagery is easily debunked as normal air traffic.
What is actually anomalous?
Shutting down air operations at an international airport, as described below, has my attention.
The lack of thermal signature and the U.S. Coast Guard encounter also has my attention:
A New Jersey police department has sparked concern after it revealed that a drone it sent up to track a mystery aircraft ‘easily’ evaded their device before disappearing into thin air.
Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said his force launched its drone after one of his officers saw 50 unmanned aerial vehicles, ‘coming off the ocean’.
The officer dialed 911 to alert state police, the FBI and the Coast Guard.
The maritime agency then reported seeing spotted 13 drones following their boat, estimating that the devices had a wingspan of eight feet.
Matronardy told NewsNation’s Rich McHugh the force put up an ‘industrial grade’ drone to follow one of the devices, but it quickly slipped through their grasp.
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Ocean County Sheriff’s Office said it has been struggling to track the flying objects as they don’t give off heat like regular drones.
‘We don’t know [why]. It’s not something we’ve had our hands on or experienced,’ one officer said.
Individuals who have access to professional photo and video gear, and know how to use it, need to get busy.
Via: New York Post:
The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in.
“This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour because of the unidentified aircraft.
Stewart Airport services both commercial and military flights and is adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.
The unidentified drones — which have been hovering over New Jersey for nearly a month and have been seen in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts — were also recently spotted flying over LaGuardia International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport.
The runways were closed at 9:40 p.m. “following a report from the FAA about a drone sighting at the airport,” according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates Stewart.
The runways were reopened at 10:45 p.m., “and there were no impacts to flight operations during the closure,” the spokesperson told The Post.
They See Your Photos
December 14th, 2024What Google’s AI can tell from photos.
Via: They See Your Photos:
Your photos reveal a lot of private information.
In this experiment, we use Google Vision API to extract the story behind a single photo.
OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Found Dead by Suicide in San Francisco Apartment
December 14th, 2024Via: Mercury News:
A former OpenAI researcher known for whistleblowing the blockbuster artificial intelligence company facing a swell of lawsuits over its business model has died, authorities confirmed this week.
Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead inside his Buchanan Street apartment on Nov. 26, San Francisco police and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said. Police had been called to the Lower Haight residence at about 1 p.m. that day, after receiving a call asking officers to check on his well-being, a police spokesperson said.
The medical examiner’s office determined the manner of death to be suicide and police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”
Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the San Francisco-based company.
Government Spending Shock: U.S. Budget Deficit Soars In Worst Start To Year On Record
December 12th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
According to the latest Treasury data released today, in November – the second month of fiscal 2025 – the US spent a massive $584.2 billion, a 14% increase from the prior year, and a record for the month of November.
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The surge in spending was driven primarily by higher spending on health, defense and Social Security, but mostly a huge $50BN spike on Medicare outlays!
