We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
December 5️⃣. Special military operation progress, stay tuned for tomorrow:
◾️Russian air defence forces shot down 26 Ukrainian drones on the night of 5 December, with a further 15 intercepted over the Sea of Azov and Crimea, the Defence Ministry said.
◾️Another 74 drones and a HARM missile were downed in various areas of the LPR and DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the defence ministry said.
◾️Ukraine lost two MiG-29 aircraft, one Mi-8 helicopter, up to 695 soldiers, 12 armoured vehicles and artillery units, including M777 and M109 Paladin, during the day, the MoD said.
◾️ZNPP management announced the 14th rotation of IAEA inspectors, who will meet at the plant on New Year's Day.
◾️Russian presidential aide for international affairs Ushakov said Putin would discuss the special operation in talks with the leaders of the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
◾️NATO will continue to support Ukraine despite the position of Hungary, Slovakia and the Netherlands, alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
◾️The Ukrainian defence ministry said that following talks between the Ukrainian and Belgian defence ministers, Brussels had promised to hand over F-16 fighter jets in 2025.
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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.
Included ...
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
