🇺🇦❌☦️🇷🇴 The Ukrainian government has denied the request made by the Romanian Orthodox Church which tried to register itself with the Ukrainian Ministry of Religious Cults and open up a bishopric in the Cernăuți (Chernivtsi) Oblast.
In the place of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) which served the Romanian minority in Cernăuți until the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces with the help of national security forces seized many of the churches belonging to the UOC, Ukraine has refused to right the wrong made by the USSR in 1944 when it kicked out the Romanian Church and forcefully confiscated and transferred the churches to the Russian led UOC. To its credit, the UOC allowed the use of Romanian in its churches where a Romanian community lived.
Kiev has decided to fully support the schismatic (some would say, outright heretical) Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) which firmly rejects the use of other languages in religious services other than Ukrainian. This is just another attempt done by Kiev to assimilate the Romanian minority in Ukraine by forcing the Romanians in Cernăuți to pray in Ukrainian only.
Step by step Kiev eliminated Romanian from its schools and now it has eliminated Romanian from its churches. Next up: the imprisonment of those that speak Romanian at home following the Austro-Hungarian model seen in Transylvania more than a century ago.
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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