We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇱🇧/🇸🇾/🇮🇶 30th day of the war, November 5th, status update and major events:
– Extremely heavy airstrikes on Gaza, journalists called them 'unprecedented' and possibly the worst since October 7th.
– The Royal Jordanian Air Force dropped medical aid packages to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza.
– The death toll in Gaza has officially surpassed 10.000.
– Notably, Hamas carried out two large scale rocket barrages on Tel Aviv and other cities in central Israel, showing that they still have the capability to carry out attacks.
– Two Iron Dome missiles misfired and struck Israeli streets in Tel Aviv.
— Ground situation in Gaza:
– To the north of Beit Hanoun, the IDF retreated towards the border fence. To the north-east of Beit Lahia, Israel holds most of the surrounding farmlands on the outskirts of the city, and has begun entering the urban area, where heavy clashes are taking place.
– After entering from the As-Siafa area in the north-west of the Gaza strip, the IDF has advanced along the coastline until the Al-Shati camp. The strip they control is about 1km wide from the shore measured inland, and about 7.5km deep from As-Siafa to Al-Shati camp.
– After entering the middle of Gaza from the east through Juhor Al-Dik, the IDF advanced in the north of Wadi Gaza past Al-Mughraqa, reaching Al-Rashid street on the coastline and establishing control over it, effectively cutting off the last road connecting the north to the south. Clashes are currently ongoing in the southern outskirts of Gaza City, mostly in the neighbourhood of Wahsh as well as areas near Salah Al-Deen road.
— Outside of Gaza:
– Hezbollah targeted several settlements across the Lebanese border with ATGMs, confirming casualties. As a response to the killing of 4 Lebanese civilians, they shelled the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona with 122mm 'Grad' (Katyusha) rockets, causing direct impacts. The Iron Dome failed to intercept most of these rockets. Hezbollah reportedly also downed an Israeli UAV, although this has not been confirmed. Additionally, Hezbollah announced 3 more martyrs, making a total of 61.
– Israel carried our airstrikes and artillery shelling of South Lebanon as a response to these attacks.
– U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Baghdad to meet with Iraqi PM Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani. He left for Ankara after a few hours.
– The Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted the U.S. base in Tal Baidar, in Syria's Hasakah province, with two suicide drones, as well as the U.S. base in Erbil Intl. Airport.
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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
