HOW PRIVATIZATION, RELIGION AND CONSTITUTIONAL ABUSES HAVE CREATED A ‘SHADOW’ STATE
“Forces well outside any political system envisioned by the Founding Fathers control America, forces capable of side-stepping or overruling any elected official or any law, up to and including, even especially, the Constitution of the United States of America.”
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
A little over 2 weeks ago, John Wheeler III, former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, a man whose Washington resume put him in contact with presidents, was found in the back of a garbage truck. Two weeks later, there is no police investigation, no cause of death, no questions from the press, just silence, deafening silence.
Nothing is said of Wheelers career, a high profile Vietnam veteran, a man much admired, even loved. Work, bio-chem warfare, nuclear programs, now totally blacked out. All that remains is a moment or two of video, very inexplicable, Wheeler, the consummate disciplined professional drifting in what seems to be an LSD induced haze. There, the curtain was drawn, the door was closed, no further cover story, no prepared lie, the “imagineers” responsible for such things caught off balance, this time at least.
John Wheeler was clearly, “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”
Wheeler was also a “contractor,” part of the army of private citizens that now control everything that the Department of Homeland Security does not. We call this “privatization.”
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This is pretty funny on the one hand, but it just goes to show how fuckin stupid people really are, especially when they think they can text/talk on the phone while driving. And for the record boneheads, when talking on the phone, it's the conversation that is the distraction, not holding the phone to your ear. Anyway, on with the show...
Federal District Court Judge Suzanne Conlon has dismissed (PDF) an ACLU challenge to the Illinois law that makes recording someone in a public space without their permission a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. As I've reported here, the law is used almost exclusively against people who attempt to record on-duty police officers. The ACLU was seeking declarative and injunctive relief to prevent the police from arresting workers and volunteers who planned to record police at an anti-war protest this spring.
Until recently, no one was even sure if China's answer to America's F-22 Raptor actually existed. A few grainy photos have been circulating around the web for some time, but some speculated that they may be a hoax, or a deliberate disinformation mock-up by the Chinese. That is put to rest now, as this video shows the first test flight of the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter, along with an escort plane. Reports state that the flight lasted eighteen minutes.
You can plainly see that the J-20 is larger than the F-22, which means it will likely have a greater weapons payload and/or greater range being able to carry more fuel. The engines are also obviously larger, which means that the J-20 likely has a greater thrust-to-weight ratio than the F-22. Excellent placement of vertical stabilizers and canards will increase low-speed maneuverability and control at high angles of attack. The J-20 looks poised to dominate the F-22 in a dogfight if is also utilizes pitched-thrust vectoring, which is likely. The canards also have a negative impact as well however, which will degrade the J-20's range, super-cruise ability, and top speed.
Wow, and they say China is the police state. If someone tried that here, not only would they be locked in a mental ward faster than you could say flied lice, but she also would have gotten the shit tased out of her and a boot stomp to the face for good measure...
This article is from back in September, but still raises very relevant points and gives us something to think about...
Pastor Terry Jones was recently sent a security bill of $180,000 by the local authorities for his "burn the Koran" uproar. Pastor Jones is clearly another religious hack pushing hatred and division instead of love and peace, but he is still an American citizen with the right to protest and burn whatever book he wishes. His stunt was divisive and an obvious attempt to stir the pot, but for the police to charge a tax-paying citizen for securing an event that never happened is just, well, mind-boggling.
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Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?
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I doubt it’s actually AGI, but it looks impressive. If it’s any
consolation, they let it use a very nontrivial amount of compute to pull
this off. If/when ...
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Air Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020
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