We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇱🇧/🇾🇪 13th day of the war, October 19th, status update and major events:
– Airstrikes on Gaza throughout the entire day, still a huge lack of food, water, medicine and electricity.
– An Israeli airstrike nearly entirely destroyed the Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza, where civilians were taking shelter.
– Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tells his troops: 'The order will come, you will see Gaza from the inside'.
– United States issued a 'worldwide caution' travel alert, due to possible hostility against Americans around the world in light of recent events.
– As of today, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom have called on their citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible.
– U.S. Bases in Syria and Iraq came under rocket fire from Iraqi Shiite militias.
– Kann announced that Israel will be evacuating its embassies in Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Turkey.
– A U.S. Navy ship intercepted 3 missiles that were fired from Yemen, presumably headed towards Israel. It is widely speculated that the missiles were fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis.
– Throughout the entire day, Hezbollah carried out attacks against IDF targets across the border. ATGMs were used against Israeli tanks and radar sites, and small arms were used to destroy surveillance equipment.
– In response to these attacks, the IDF fired artillery into South Lebanon at various times during the day and carried out drone strikes against Hezbollah. The IDF also started shooting at a mixed Iranian-Lebanese film crew who approached the Israeli border, resulting in one dead Lebanese journalist, and one journalist critically injured.
– Unusual amounts of Iranian LRBM launchers of the IRGC Aerospace Force were seen moving on the Tehran-Qom highway.
– The Pentagon announced that one U.S. contractor died of a heart attack during yesterday's (October 18) attack on American bases in Iraq.
– The Israeli cabinet held another meeting which lasted for 6 hours.
– Biden held a speech in the oval office, to be honest it was uneventful.
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Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
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My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
