BREAKING: ⚡US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has a meeting with the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah It is noted that the negotiations are taking place as part of US efforts to unite the Middle East region and build post-war plans for Gaza, which include concrete steps to create a Palestinian state. As the Associated Press news agency reported yesterday, Blinken managed to obtain commitments from many countries in the region to assist in the reconstruction and management of the Gaza Strip after the war. According to the American official, broader normalization of "Israeli-Arab" relations is still possible, but only if there is a "path to a Palestinian state." This approach faces serious obstacles. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is categorically opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and the autocratic, Western-backed Palestinian leadership is seen by many Palestinians as lacking legitimacy, the Associated Press notes. Megatron: The US plan now is to stop the war at all costs before it flares up with Hezbollah. If the war continues, it is crystal clear to Washington that Israel will not survive, even if the US goes directly to war. The plan is now to offer the Palestinians an independent state, with a puppet prime minister like Abbas, who will be fully funded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE and, following the example of Jordan, will not allow outside influence from Iran. In this way, Washington plans to remove Iran from Israel's back. This would mean a great defeat for the Palestinians after the losses they suffered. The Arab world is again being put in a humiliating situation in front of the United States.
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