We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
Brief summary from the European fronts
Today in Brussels at the EU summit, the leaders of 27 states have agreed to allocate 50 billion euros to Ukraine until 2028.
Against the backdrop of a discussion of the " most important " issue for European citizens, over a hundred tractors have arrived at the building of the European Parliament since yesterday evening. On the morning of February 1, Belgian farmers gathered in front of the building and began burning tires.
Protests have also taken place in Germany and France, and Dutch agricultural workers have joined them.
France remains the most active center of resistance against the authorities' policies. Farmers there continue to block highways and suburbs around Paris, protesting against imported products in supermarkets, indoor markets, wholesale warehouses, and trucks, by destroying them. The prefectures are still being heavily fertilized with slurry.
Yesterday, as comrade @fifthrepublic reported, the blockade of the suburbs of Paris led to restaurants collecting food for future use, which resulted in a decrease in supermarket supplies. An interesting point is that the first French Revolution started after Paris ran out of bread.
European bureaucrats, realizing their inability to work in the interests of their citizens, have started making "democratic" arrests. According to @fifthrepublic, in Brussels, the police are currently using tear gas and water cannons against demonstrators. Over 110 French individuals were arrested on January 31 alone. Similar processes are also being observed in Germany, but on a smaller scale.
Thus, the governments of European countries, which do not prioritize their people's interests, by providing funds to the corrupt Ukrainian regime (a non-EU member), have once again demonstrated whose interests they truly serve.
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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
