Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2025-019
News & views not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine ...
Posted by b on January 30, 2025 at 16:25 UTC | Permalink
next page »I wonder where these two nuclear heavyweights, will test their plutonium.
"The US is preparing for another ‘subcritical’ nuclear experiment this spring, to test whether the decades-old plutonium at the core of its nuclear weapons has degraded, the National Public Radio (NPR) network reported on Wednesday. Such tests are not full-scale nuclear tests, meaning they do not use enough fissile material to produce a self-sustaining reaction.
Washington insists such experiments are not prohibited under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which forbids nuclear test explosions in all environments. Both the US and Russia signed the 1996 accord but stopped short of ratifying it. Neither nation has conducted live nuclear tests since the early 1990s."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 17:04 utc | 2
The US had the previous Bangladesh leader overthrown - though her legacy employment laws didn't do her any favours - no doubt Washington will want to squeeze Modi (India) at every turn due to his closeness with Putin.
Of course the Yanks had Pakistan's premier Imran Khan overthrown as well - on trumped up embezzlement/fraud charges - it looks as though he'll spend many years rotting in a Pakistani prison - as will some of his close party associates.
"Bangladesh’s interim government is planning to take a strong stance on border issues with India, local media reported on Wednesday, citing senior officials. The remarks come ahead of a meeting between Indian and Bangladeshi border officials expected to take place next month.
Talks between the top border security officials of the two countries are scheduled for February 17-20 in New Delhi, according to the Dhaka Tribune. It will be the first such meeting since the regime change in Dhaka last year."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 17:09 utc | 3
The Yanks, Nato and the EU won't like this one little bit - they've already cheated the guy out of a victory, and dismissed democracy in Romania. I wouldn't be surprised - if they tried to do a Fico on him and assassinate him - or do a Imran Khan on him, and falsely accuse him of fraud/embezzlement - to get him out of the picture in Romania.
"Calin Georgescu, the politician whose first-round victory in the Romanian presidential election was overturned by the Constitutional Court, has argued that the borders claimed by Ukraine were artificially drawn and are subject to inevitable change.
The staunch critic of Western policies made the remarks on Wednesday in an interview with political analyst Ion Cristoiu on YouTube. He was discussing the adjustments of European borders after World War II, which resulted in a transfer of territories to Soviet Ukraine. Georgescu said he expects Ukraine to be fragmented as part of a peace deal with Russia, along historical lines."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 17:13 utc | 4
FWIW: Dear President Trump, While You At It, Please Deport Liberal White Women Too.
https://tinyurl.com/yfjjz7wb
The Fragile State of Turkey: A Nation on the Brink of Collapse
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/01/30/the-fragile-state-of-turkey-a-nation-on-the-brink-of-collapse/
Posted by: Dogon Priest | Jan 30 2025 17:15 utc | 5
why ?
Posted by: exile | Jan 30 2025 16:30 utc | 1
Isn't it kind of an annual event now?
Name the most recent time the fedgov hasn't reached the debt ceiling.
Posted by: Mary | Jan 30 2025 17:15 utc | 6
Re: Fed debt ceiling, this happens every year. We are use to it.
Posted by: lester | Jan 30 2025 17:16 utc | 7
Its okay to commemorate one genocide - but speak out against another one and you'll pay the price - what a bunch of nasty hypocrites.
"Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun called on his fellow legislators to “pray for the victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza” during a moment of silence in remembrance of Holocaust victims on Wednesday. He was swiftly asked to leave the chamber by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.
After being ejected from the European Parliament’s commemorative ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the MEP from Poland’s right-wing Confederation alliance insisted in a post on X that he hadn’t wanted to “disturb” the event, but rather “supplemented” it."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 17:17 utc | 8
Re Modi and India, I've been expecting the US to turn on India and and crap on them the way it does China and the Chinese. India, too, is a big Eastern civilization, prospering, and not particularly submissive to Uncle Sam, King of KIngs.
Of course, the Raj has been split up and is not as strong and prosperous as it might be. British colonialism makes India, Pakistan, Bangla Desh, seem "tame". But they are not, not really.
Posted by: lester | Jan 30 2025 17:21 utc | 9
Nato-Finland, after taking ten US military bases in the ass, is again feeling the brunt of that decision as a gigantic fog is everywhere, leaving an unnatural smear on all surfaces, oddly grainy under the streetlights.
Several people say they're coughing blood after being outside.
Reports from other countries say that under a microscope, the "fog" is laced with millions of parasites. Nothing new for America/Nato/UN of course.
Posted by: Jack M | Jan 30 2025 17:22 utc | 10
Gong xi fa cai, everyone! Be lucky, get rich! The Chinese Spring Festival (aka Chinese New Year) has begun! Eat jiaozi, set off fireworks, play cands and win for good luck.
Posted by: lester | Jan 30 2025 17:24 utc | 11
@lester #9
The US won't turn on India until it is obvious that India will not provide the manpower to fight China. There is nobody else in Asia with remotely the warm bodies to be able to do this.
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2025 17:25 utc | 12
Re the Blackhawk which crashed into a passenger jet landing at a Washinton airport...
The pilot of the Blackhawk had its TCAS (anti-collision system) switched OFF. This made it electronically invisible to nearby aircraft - according to abc.net.au's Aviation consultant.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 30 2025 17:32 utc | 13
Ed Zitron's latest Deep Impact
Pretty nice overview on what Deepseek has done, how they have done it.
But more important: the impact on the existing AI bubble. He specifically says we have now officially passed "Peak AI".
And if this is true, it is going to hurt.
1/3 of all venture capital (VC) went to various AI companies last year.
nVidia will crash if its latest/greatest GPUs are no longer in insatiable demand.
Nobody will need/want massive new data centers if they are unnecessary.
The $200 billion spent last year on capital for AI data centers, stranded much less the larger numbers bruited about for this year -including the $500B Stargate proposal.
The stock market won't do well either. Zitron goes into detail how investors are neither going to keep funding the loser AI companies, nor give credence/credit to the big tech companies for having dumping tens and hundreds of billions into a literal pig in the poke.
And it is worse than that: even with DeepSeek's lower costs, there still is no killer app for "AI" i.e. LLMs. As anyone who has ever done reviews before - whether code or documents or anything - there is a point where it is more effort to review than it is to do the original job, more correctly. This break even point is much smaller if the reviewer is not the originator of the information being reviewed, because the reviewers have to learn all about the reviewed material first plus there is a lot less efficiency due to not having the mind set, data set and goals/practices of the originator.
The lingering question I have is: what is the hallucination percentage of LLMs as compared to this break-even point? If the break even point is structurally at or near the break even point, then there is literally zero to negative benefit of using LLMs.
Of course, the break even point varies by industry. For customer service, the tolerance is probably pretty high. But what about medicine? law? research?
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2025 17:36 utc | 14
From Leopold To Lithium...
https://www.rt.com/africa/611829-causes-ongoing-conflict-in-drc/
"The causes of the conflict in the DRC."
Thread: On the Congo War to Defend Homeland
https://x.com/BookerBiro/status/1884914381575631247
"Statement by Comrade Boswa Isekombe Sylvere, Sec-Gen of the Communist Party of Congo.
'The West is committing a grave crime by violating the integrity of our territory through its blind support for Rwanda.'
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 30 2025 17:42 utc | 15
As usual, another outstanding discussion between Wolff, Hudson and Nima. It begins with Wolff explaining his recent article, "Settler Colonialism – ‘It Ends With Us’ in Palestine and Israel", and the current West Asia situation that also relates to the declining Outlaw US Empire. One other event discussed is the internal political battle occurring over the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard and what that reveals. And then we have Trump fighting hard not to be named the One who LOST OUR Ukraine that's shaping up similarly to what happened in 1949 when Mao's forces liberated China. The ending commentary about Trump's use of the Tariff Tool is very instructive.
Of course, the break even point varies by industry.
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2025 17:36 utc | 14
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HUAWEI Atlas 200I DK A2 AI Developer Kit are $200ish.
http://www.aiotetech.com/ProductsDetail/366.html
The current 200I (inference SoC) is based on Huawei's Ascend 310b chip. They are camera, radio and sensor ready and pre-distilled models are available for integration into drones and robotic dogs.
I'd say the price/performance is quite good for the roving autonomous robot use case.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 30 2025 18:15 utc | 17
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
GENOCIDE! GENOCIDE! GENOCIDE!
30,000,000+ DEAD! 30,000,000+ DEAD! 30,000,000+ DEAD!
Viruses = Superstition
Virology = Pseudoscience
Vaccines = Weapons of War
"COVID-19" = Global Genocide
"Great Reset" = War on Humanity
"Agenda 2030" = Global Technocratic Fascism
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/breaking-our-largest-study-of-its
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SETTLING-THE-VIRUS-DEBATE-Source.pdf
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition.pdf
ACT NOW!
Posted by: KOB | Jan 30 2025 18:48 utc | 18
I guess it won’t be long before the USA sanctions any state or non-state entity that uses Chinese AI.
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 30 2025 18:50 utc | 19
The West, via a proxy assassin sympathetic to Ukraine - has already tried to murder Fico - Fico has spoken out against the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine, cutting-off Russian gas to Europe and Slovakia, Slovakia relies heavily on Russian gas - of course Ukrainian Neo-Nazi hit men are for hire, and European targets are no outside their remit.
"A Ukrainian national has been arrested in Slovakia in connection with a coup threat, local media reported on Thursday, citing a police statement. The man, who has not been named, will be expelled from Slovakia and returned to Ukraine.
The move comes after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has refused to follow NATO and EU policy on the Ukraine conflict and survived an assassination attempt by a pro-Kiev activist last year, linked recent anti-government protests in his country to interference by Ukrainians."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 18:53 utc | 20
Right children the lesson for today in the classroom - is how to built a killer drone quickly - forget reading and writing or spelling - its all about the killing.
"A Ukrainian defense manufacturer has suggested dispersing military production across civilian sites, including to school facilities, to protect its weapons-making operations from Russian strikes. Aleksey Polonchuk proposed that students assemble drones in school workshops as part of a decentralized production strategy.
Polonchuk, who owns a defense company specializing in electronic warfare equipment, made his remarks in an interview with Dignitas Fund, a nonprofit focused on raising funds for Kiev’s military. The interview was published on the NGO’s YouTube channel on Wednesday."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 18:58 utc | 21
Lets not forget these British murderers have/are in Gaza, and Ukraine doing god knows what - the (SAS) are nothing more than terrorists and assassins - which should be proscribed like any other nasty terrorist outfit.
"Key evidence held at UK special forces headquarters containing allegations the SAS had killed Afghans in cold blood was destroyed to prevent the military police from seeing it, an inquiry was told this week.
Senior special forces officers and defence officials were so desperate to cover up SAS activities in Afghanistan that the crucial data was deleted from an IT system at the “higher headquarters of special forces”, inquiry chairman Lord Justice Haddon-Cave said.
He noted how the data was “wiped before the military police could seize and examine it”. But he revealed that with “independent help” the inquiry had managed to get a back-up copy and intended to restore the data.
It was the latest testimony in an inquiry that has placed an unprecedented spotlight on an elite band of British troops that have a degree of protection from scrutiny greater even than that enjoyed by the security and intelligence agencies – MI5, MI6, and GCHQ."
https://www.declassifieduk.org/sas-rogue-heroes-or-just-rogues/
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 19:04 utc | 22
Of course, the break even point varies by industry. For customer service, the tolerance is probably pretty high. But what about medicine? law? research?
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2025 17:36 utc | 14
Some one third of surgeries are completely unnecessary, one third of deaths (probably more now) are prematurely caused by doctors, and the billionaires and their proxies such as the UN want us all dead, maimed and incapable of thought or function, so a medical AI hallucinating will be exactly the thing.
One more layer of absolved responsibility too.
Posted by: Jack M | Jan 30 2025 19:08 utc | 23
Whilst you are there Grossi - have a word with the little Nazi dictator Zelensky, and tell him - to stop trying to blow up nuclear facilities - such as the ZNPP the largest nuclear power station in Europe - but then again every time the Neo-Nazi's attack the ZNPP the IAEA just happens to not be in the vicinity - coincidence?
"International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi plans to visit the Ukrainian capital of Kiev next week to hold high-level talks on nuclear security, the agency said in a statement.
"Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi will travel to Ukraine next week for high-level meetings in Kiev, in which the ongoing efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help prevent a nuclear accident during the military conflict will be discussed."
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 19:09 utc | 24
So Tulsi Gabbard is trying to be brought down today, see why they fear her at DNI
Also, the idea of differences in how people think or how "intelligent" they are being based on a biological basis is shown to be unscientific and based on cognitive pseudoscience.
Posted by: kana | Jan 30 2025 19:12 utc | 25
Posted by: KOB | Jan 30 2025 18:48 utc | 18
Yawn. Anti-virology is like the theory of relativity: it's triumphantly and conclusively, loudly and angrily, proven again and again, every month, because none of the previous proofs hold.
Wake me up when the anti-virologist conspiracy theorist losers explain chicken pox or rabies. Until then fuck off.
Posted by: Jack M | Jan 30 2025 19:14 utc | 26
Italian regulators, block the DeepSeek chatbot on iPhones and Android Phones - Ireland has blocked it as well.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 30 2025 19:23 utc | 27
I didnt find Tulsi very impressive aside from prepared remarks in the opener. In contrast, RFK Jr and Kash seem very passionate about their cause and had all the information they needed at their fingertips to rebut any position the Senators take against them; I did not see that in Tulsi. She seems more like a Press Secretary than a tough as nails, cunning head of DNI, ready to take on the heart of darkness, Deep State. It's too important of a position, I think Trump needs to find someone else (assuming he is sincere).
Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 30 2025 19:43 utc | 28
@ c1ue | Jan 30 2025 17:36 utc | 14
Don’t know if you’ve seen this one: https://youtubetranscriptoptimizer.com/blog/05_the_short_case_for_nvda
It’s a transcript of a podcast by Jeffrey Emmanuel, covering similar ground, but from a different viewpoint. Here’s a snip of the opening few paragraphs:
As someone who spent ~10 years working as a generalist investment analyst at various long/short hedge funds (including stints at Millennium and Balyasny), while also being something of a math and computer nerd who has been studying deep learning since 2010 (back when Geoff Hinton was still talking about Restricted Boltzmann Machines and everything was still programmed using MATLAB, and researchers were still trying to show that they could get better results at classifying handwritten digits than by using Support Vector Machines), I'd like to think that I have a fairly unusual perspective on how AI technology is developing and how this relates to equity valuations in the stock market.For the past few years, I have been working more as a developer, and have several popular open-source projects for working with various forms of AI models/services (e.g., see LLM Aided OCR, Swiss Army Llama, Fast Vector Similarity, Source to Prompt, and Pastel Inference Layer for a few recent examples). Basically, I am using these frontier models all day, every day, in about as intense a way as possible. I have 3 Claude accounts so I don't run out of requests, and signed up for ChatGPT Pro within minutes of it being available.
I also try to keep on top of the latest research advances, and carefully read all the major technical report papers that come out from the major AI labs. So I think I have a pretty good read on the space and how things are developing. At the same time, I've shorted a ton of stocks in my life and have won the best idea prize on the Value Investors Club twice (for TMS long and PDH short if you're keeping track at home).
I say this not to brag, but rather to help establish my bona fides as someone who could opine on the subject without coming across as hopelessly naive to either technologists or professional investors. And while there are surely many people who know the math/science better, and people who are better at long/short investing in the stock market than me, I doubt there are very many who are in the middle of the Venn diagram to the extent I can claim to be.
With all that said, whenever I meet with and chat with my friends and ex colleagues from the hedge fund world, the conversation quickly turns to Nvidia. It's not every day that a company goes from relative obscurity to being worth more than the combined stock markets of England, France, or Germany! And naturally, these friends want to know my thoughts on the subject. Because I am such a dyed-in-the-wool believer in the long term transformative impact of this technology— I truly believe it's going to radically change nearly every aspect of our economy and society in the next 5-10 years, with basically no historical precedent— it has been hard for me to make the argument that Nvidia's momentum is going to slow down or stop anytime soon.
But even though I've thought the valuation was just too rich for my blood for the past year or so, a confluence of recent developments has caused me to flip a bit to my usual instinct, which is to be a bit more contrarian in outlook and to question the consensus when it seems to be more than priced in. The saying "what the wise man believes in the beginning, the fool believes in the end" became famous for a good reason.
I found it to be an enlightening and thought-provoking, if lengthy, read.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 30 2025 19:50 utc | 29
The Fragile State of Turkey: A Nation on the Brink of Collapse[link]
Posted by: Dogon Priest | Jan 30 2025 17:15 utc | 5
Erdoğan has been PM or President of Türkiye for 20 years, walking a diplomatic tightrope among all major world powers and local interests. It is a wonder he and Türkiye have survived this long. Türkiye is in the center of the most tempestuous locations on the planet.
After assassination and regime change attempts, it is obvious the US would prefer his country to be under US control. The al Qaeda associated new leader of Syria controls a small part of Southern Turkey, might want more than just Syria. Israel now occupies more of Syria, might occupy Türkiye if it could. The US occupies NE Syria, the Kurdish area bordering Eastern Turkey. Turkey and the Kurds don’t get along. Armenians in the Southern Caucasus have no love for Türkiye. The EU has ‘considered’ Turkish admittance for decades, apparently wants its status to stay the same, providing inexpensive manufactured goods and not stirring up the large Türkish population in Germany. Erdoğan has annoyed Russia but they must maintain good relations. Türkiye is a member of NATO but remains on the list as a possible member of BRICS. Türkiye has economic ties with China. Anatolia is a major intersection between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is also a transit point for energy supplies in the region. It controls access to the Black Sea. If the country fails, the chaos that would ensue might be devastating.
Like Putin, Erdoğan has faced existential crises for decades. I wish them both continued success.
Posted by: Samu | Jan 30 2025 19:51 utc | 30
Canadian Hands in Congo Drip With the Blood of Millions
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canadian-hands-in-congo-drip-with-the-blood-of-millions
"Engler: Ottawa has stayed silent on Rwandan aggression while continuing to back Africa's most ruthless regime led by Paul Kagame."
See also:
https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1884747963697676778
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 30 2025 20:02 utc | 31
Posted by: Jack M | Jan 30 2025 19:14 utc | 26Yawn. Anti-virology is like the theory of relativity: it's triumphantly and conclusively, loudly and angrily, proven again and again, every month, because none of the previous proofs hold.
Please read the information I posted. It contains important details.
Virology and theory of relativity are pseudosciences. They have been disproven or never been proven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CSL702JSdY
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-FAREWELL-TO-VIROLOGY-Expert-Edition.pdf
https://drsambailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SETTLING-THE-VIRUS-DEBATE-Source.pdf
http://www.wissenschafftplus.de/uploads/article/Dismantling-the-Virus-Theory.pdf
http://wissenschafftplus.de/uploads/article/wissenschafftplus-the-virus-misconception-part-1.pdf
http://wissenschafftplus.de/uploads/article/wissenschafftplus-the-virus-misconception-part-2.pdf
http://wissenschafftplus.de/uploads/article/wissenschafftplus-the-virus-misconception-part-3.pdf
Wake me up when the anti-virologist conspiracy theorist losers explain chicken pox or rabies. Until then fuck off.
"Chicken pox" is caused by poisoning. "Rabies" is caused by neurotoxins.
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/What-About-Rabies:a
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/chickenpox-parties-and-varicella-zoster:f
Please refrain from personal attacks as they make conversation very difficult.
Posted by: KOB | Jan 30 2025 20:14 utc | 32
@Jeremy Rhymings-Lang #29
nVidia as a stock is not going to anywhere. The reality was that even if DeepSeek never happened, customized ASIC chips would have taken over much as they took over cryptocurrency mining.
The only reason nVidia is flying high now is precisely the "big money moat" that Zitron talks about: the bullshit idea that nVidia chips in massive new data centers plus OpenAI/Anthropic models were the only way to achieve good performing LLMs ("AI").
This idea was perfectly formed to sell to Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc because all of these companies are hitting the wall in terms of growth in their core businesses - and need a new hyperscale opportunity which is both monopolistic and magically valuable. Monopolistic because the massive price tag of data centers and LLM training models and nVidia GPU access would literally price out all competitors but themselves, and magically valuable because LLMs are touted to be able to do everything.
DeepSeek has punched a big hole in the former; the clock is ticking at triple time for the latter.
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2025 20:16 utc | 33
Rest In Peace Marianne Faithfull, Working Class Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2SDRQJrawU
Posted by: Chas | Jan 30 2025 21:01 utc | 34
I found it to be an enlightening and thought-provoking, if lengthy, read.
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jan 30 2025 19:50 utc | 29
Salaam. I second that. Really good overview of the technology aspects as well. Recommended. & Salaam.
Posted by: sunof27 | Jan 30 2025 21:16 utc | 35
Trump needs to stfu.
First he immediately blamed air traffic control for asking if the BH could see the plane instead of telling them what to do. Which they did in the next sentence & probably there is a protocol & reason for doing what they did in the sequence that they did it.
Now he's blaming DEI because reasons.
Wait until it turns out to be a technical malfunction.
It's a personal bugaboo but I really despise idjits who think they're experts at everything that they've never done in their lives & couldn't do if their lives depended on it precisely because they're idjits.
Meantime, officials say the BH was supposed to be at 200' & the plane at 350' & they'll need the blackboxes to confirm what happened, but it appears the BH was 150' too high.
The pilot being evaluated had 500 hrs flt time, the evaluator had 1,000 hrs & the guy in the back 40 yrs experience.
Altimeter malfunction?
Posted by: Mary | Jan 30 2025 21:16 utc | 36
Perhaps the Trump administration will being back anti-trust laws, this is promising, below-but oit takes more than this tidbit.
"Under the Trump-Vance administration, the US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. The DoJ argues that the tie-up, which would leave Juniper and HPE with control of 70% of the enterprise wireless equipment market, would "eliminate fierce head-to-head competition" in the US.
"The acquisition, if consummated, would result in two companies—market leader Cisco Systems, Inc. ("Cisco") and HPE—controlling well over 70 percent of the US market and eliminate fierce head-to-head competition between Defendants, who offer wireless networking solutions under the HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist brands," the DoJ complaint read, which was filed in federal court in California on Thursday. "(10
1. Zero Hedge article
Posted by: c1ue | Jan 30 2025 17:36 utc | 14
Excellent analysis, thanks.
However, it may be crudely distilled into one idea:
"The pioneers get slaughtered, settlers prosper"
Daymond John
ID2020.org | Posts from a previous thread.
@Jane. Noted your reply. And yep, if you know, you know.
AND. Ginormous thanks and appreciation to poster who gave a link to an early archived version of ID2020.org sponsors and partner page, which one longer appears on the 2025 site.
Huge (humble) request of that poster (and extended to others)
Given Bangladeshi is serendipitous back in the headlines.
Is it possible to post an archives link to the March 2020 ID2020.org case study referencing the roll-out of “digital”/ DNA identification across Bangladesh?
Jane says she shares my frustration at not being able to foster interest in ID2020.org in 2020. But now in 2025, it’d be “fun” to read that Bangladeshi case study with the benefit of “2020” hindsight.
Short-sentence executive summary of the case study.
“They” went to Bangladeshi, because $USD50 goes a long way there, and signed millions up to a digital identity using an individual’s unique DNA.
So what?
Phase two: you can’t buy groceries without showing your digital identification
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 30 2025 21:24 utc | 39
Washington air accident.
6min SkyNews report. Old Aussie ex fighter pilot puts the blame 100% on the Blackhawk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEYEGx1Nnps
Sky News aviation expert Byron Bailey has discussed the fatal crash near an airport outside Washington DC between a regional American Airlines flight carrying 64 people and a Black Hawk military helicopter.
“This was definitely the military failing to obey, having told air traffic control they had the airliner in sight – it was up to them, their responsibility to pass behind as they were instructed to do and they didn’t,” he told Sky News host Paul Murray.
“So that unfortunately will be the finding.”
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 30 2025 21:40 utc | 40
Question: How can the daughter of Baroness Erisso, who sent the girl to be educated at an exclusive convent, become a woman who just died and has lived a life of self-indulgent excess, then be described as a 'working class hero'?
Maybe one day all people will eschew beat-up media bullshit.
Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 30 2025 21:52 utc | 41
Continuing on from my comment @13 above: The first 17-minutes of Ray McGovern's chat with Nima is all about Gabbard's confirmation hearing as well as some on Pattel's, with an interesting aside about the Edward Snowden drama.
@ karlof1 | Jan 30 2025 18:13 utc | 16
thanks for the link and article.. that article is good...
@ c1ue | Jan 30 2025 20:16 utc | 33
nVidia stock was at 20$ same time 2023 - in 2 years it went up 6 or 7 times that price... it was 7 x, before this deepseek news..
Posted by: james | Jan 30 2025 22:10 utc | 43
richard d wolff is pretty hard on dear leader trump, lol...
Posted by: james | Jan 30 2025 22:32 utc | 44
@karlof1
Thanks for that link to that video of Hudson et al.
@Deniz 152
Tulsi Gabbard has been at war with the Deep State not just in America but the Global Deep State for many years ( see Tulsi Gabbard: Enemy of T̷h̷e̷ Their State), these hearings are not real, they are fake, all decisions have been made before they start with the Democrats all serving the same agenda regardless of anything else. What you saw is a show for TV--so anyone who knows that, like Tulsi does not take it seriously.
Posted by: kana | Jan 30 2025 22:52 utc | 46
Debsisdead | Jan 30 2025 21:52 utc | 41
Lol. Thanks for that. Had to google who TF you were talking about.
Miles Matthis might be a crackpot. But one thing I learnt from him - he’s so often right about the linkages and connections.
Maybe one day all people will eschew beat-up media bullshit.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 30 2025 23:10 utc | 47
Question: How can the daughter of Baroness Erisso, who sent the girl to be educated at an exclusive convent, become a woman who just died and has lived a life of self-indulgent excess, then be described as a 'working class hero'?Maybe one day all people will eschew beat-up media bullshit.
Posted by: Debsisdead | Jan 30 2025 21:52 utc | 41
No Mars bar for you Debs!
Posted by: Ново З | Jan 30 2025 23:19 utc | 48
What do they feed them in Brussels to create such Idiots in the corridor of Power?
Per this report: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/politics/government/eu-seeks-to-ban-playstation-and-xbox-shipments-to-russia/ar-AA1y0wHM
“The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has proposed banning the sale of gaming consoles to Russia, including PlayStation and Xbox, the Financial Times reports.
According to Kallas, this decision aims to prevent Russian armed forces from using these devices to control drones deployed in Ukraine.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy stated that products such as Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox would be included in a new round of sanctions scheduled for the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 22.
"We are considering all possible options to stop Russia. We are really looking at all types of things that help Russia wage this war to include them in the sanctions list - even video game consoles, because, evidently, they are being used to control drones," said Kallas.
The three largest gaming console manufacturers - American Microsoft and Japanese groups Nintendo and Sony - halted sales in Russia in early March 2022. The EU ban would target traders within the bloc who send consoles to Russia, including sellers of used equipment.”
Whatever way we spin it, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, does not appear to have great brains.
Is this all that one with such a high-sounding title can come up with?
Let us dissect this a little. So, in their collective wisdom, Eurocrats met, deliberated, and all that they could come up with was to impose sanction #21 or so on Russia.
Firstly, did these people ask themselves basic questions like: What has been the impact of sanctions one to twenty on influencing the behavior of the Russian Federation?
Per IMF figures, Russia today boasts of the world's fourth-largest economy. Obama et al. ridiculed it as a gas station with nuclear weapons.
Do our brilliant folks at the EU fail to take into consideration the fact that their sanctions have helped Russia to become the world's only genuinely autarkic nation?
Not only that, but a more sober, more intelligent person would notice that the EU sanctions have only hurt the economies of Europe. For example, the touted Europe’s economic powerhouse, Germany, has seen its industrial and manufacturing output decimated. The reason is simple: denied access to cheap Russian energy, German industries can't compete!
Secondly, looking at what the EU is sanctioning in its latest foray into uber-stupidness, these goods are produced outside the EU, with Europeans only acting as traders. And why do EUcrats delude themselves into thinking that other people (Chinese, Arabs, Indians, Africans) cannot step in to buy a new sell game in Gaming consoles to Russia?
Thirdly and more importantly, the reasoning in Brussels is quite bizarre.
What arrogant hubris made Europeans believe they were still indispensable in the scheme of things?
How can people in Europe be so obtuse as not to be able to reason that a country like Russia, which builds submarines, advanced fighter jets, and Space Stations and is the only country to have developed and used hypersonic weapons, will have problems developing game consoles?
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Posted by: Femi | Jan 31 2025 0:06 utc | 49
Virology and theory of relativity are pseudosciences. They have been disproven or never been proven.."
Posted by: KOB | Jan 30 2025 20:14 utc | 32
You are 100% on the right track; most of the morons here will never have head of Antoine Bechamps whom Louis Pasteur , on his deathbed, confessed that he, Pasteur was was wrong and Bechamps was correct:
"In 19th century France, while Pasteur was advocating the notion of germs as the cause of disease, another French scientist named Antoine Bechamp advocated a conflicting theory known as the “cellular theory” of disease.
Bechamp’s cellular theory is almost completely opposite to that of Pasteur’s. Bechamp noted that these germs that Pasteur was so terrified of were opportunistic in nature. They were everywhere and even existed inside of us in a symbiotic relationship. Bechamp noticed in his research that it was only when the tissue of the host became damaged or compromised that these germs began to manifest as a prevailing symptom (not cause) of disease.
To prevent illness, Bechamp advocated not the killing of germs but the cultivation of health through diet, hygiene, and healthy lifestyle practices such as fresh air and exercise. The idea is that if the person has a strong immune system and good tissue quality (or “terrain” as Bechamp called it), the germs will not manifest in the person and they will have good health. It is only when their health starts to decline (due to personal neglect and poor lifestyle choices) that they become victim to infections.
You can see this when a group of people go hiking in the woods. It often seems that the mosquitoes attack only one or two people out of the group. And as it turns out, it’s always the same person that always gets attacked by the mosquitoes. This person is usually the one who always catches the latest flu and has the weakest immune system. This is because these germs (including insects) are opportunistic in nature and only attack the weak.
To treat illness, Bechamp’s cellular theory also applied. Bechamp was less concerned with killing the infection and focused more on restoring the health of the patient’s body through healthy lifestyle choices. Bechamp saw the infection as a footnote to the state of illness and not the primary cause. As the person restored health through diet, hygiene, and detoxification the infection went away on its own…without needing measures to kill it.
Pasteur and Bechamp had a long and often bitter rivalry regarding who was right about the true cause of illness. Ultimately Pasteur’s ideas were accepted by society and Bechamp was pretty much forgotten. The practice of Western medicine is based on Pasteur’s germ phobia which gives rise to the use of vaccinations, antibiotics, and other anti-microbials.
The irony is that towards the end of his life, Pasteur renounced the germ theory and admitted that Bechamp was right all along. In the 1920’s medical historians also discovered that most of Pasteur’s theories were plagiarized from Bechamp’s early research work."
@KOB | Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:14:00 GMT | 32
Virology and theory of relativity are pseudosciences. They have been disproven or never been proven.
Scientific theories need to be falsifiable. They aren't "proven" or "disproved," that's not how science is done. Science accepts or rejects ideas. New evidence may come to light based on observation or experimentation (the scientific method) that changes perception and modifies existing ideas. But "science" cannot "prove" or "disprove," meaning with 100 percent certainty, anything.
Posted by: James M. | Jan 31 2025 1:22 utc | 51
Today's effort is ad hoc as my major essay is unfinished, but most will find this informative, "More on Russia's Imploding Economy: The Transport Sector".
Re: Grzegorz Braun calling for praying for the Gazans at the Holocaust memorial
I Like this guy👍
I look forward to seeing more of his hijinks 😹
Posted by: Featherless | Jan 31 2025 2:06 utc | 53
Investopedia
U.S. Trade Deficit Soars As Buyers Race To Beat Trump's Tariffs . . here
The Basics of Tariffs and Trade Barriers . . here
Key Takeaways
Tariffs are a type of protectionist trade barrier that can come in several forms.
While tariffs may benefit a few domestic sectors, economists agree that free trade policies in a global market are ideal.
Tariffs are paid by domestic consumers and not the exporting country, but they have the effect of raising the relative prices of imported products.
Other trade barriers include quotas, licenses, and standardization, all seeking to make foreign goods more expensive or available in a limited supply.
Posted by: Don Bacon | Jan 31 2025 2:09 utc | 54
After days of deepseek problems logging in, now it's chatGPT that has errors, tit for tat?
You block mine I block yours?
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 31 2025 2:17 utc | 55
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 30 2025 18:13 utc | 16
Thank you again, karlof1 for that interesting Dialogue Works discussion. I was with the guys all the way through the first half, and partway through what they were saying about tariffs. I'm just not sure why they moved past the good critique about the costs of bringing industry back to the US that depend on beneficial government practices for workers. That was an excellent point. We haven't yet seen that side of things - - health care, education, etc. Trump has made promises in those areas, and he has people undergoing Congressional approval for his cabinet that are sympathetic to those aims. We'll see. But that is up to Congress.
I don't think the critique of the way the illegals are being handled was a balanced one. Certainly the examples Dr. Wolff was citing are not good; nobody wants those issues, Trump included. But there was a real problem because the wide open border was a problem.
But overall I'm glad the two addressed the international issues positively.
Posted by: juliania | Jan 31 2025 2:31 utc | 56
@40:
Haven’t heard the entire ATC/pilot com playback yet but based on what is publicly available it appears that the tower controller (Local Control) failed to ensure that the copter pilot had the correct traffic in sight (the CRJ on short final to Runway 33) before authorizing use of pilot applied visual separation. Most likely the copter pilot saw the aircraft departing the airport (visible in public video) and fatally assumed it was the CRJ. Furthermore, had the controller issued a timely traffic advisory to the CRJ about the close proximity of the copter the CRJ pilots might have had time to spot it and maneuver to deconflict. FAA Order 7110.65, the manual of ATC rules and regs, details proper application of visual separation. Time will tell if it was correctly followed at DCA. What a tragedy. A nightmare for all.
Posted by: UBAH | Jan 31 2025 2:35 utc | 57
@ c1ue | Jan 30 2025 17:36 utc | 14
@ snake
I wonder what you think of Yanis Varoufakis’ thinking on cloud capital, capitalism and techno feudalism.
Varoufakis argues that cloud capital was not challenged this week with the release of DeepSeek.
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, this week changed the global AI landscape, not to mention caused $1 trillion losses in the New York stock exchange and the NASDAC. In the process, it demonstrated the difference between cloud capital, which drives technofeudalism onward and upward, and AI-services, which were always a bubble waiting to burst…
DeepSeek pierced the US AI companies’ bubble by decommodifying the results of the model’s training, shifting them from behind a paywall to the public arena. Within days, developers around the world started building their own models on top of DeepSeek’s.
This is was the nightmare for US Big Tech’s AI service providers who offered the results of prompts as a commodity, in the form of subscriptions…this means that the morsels of cloud capital …has lost its market value.Nevertheless, and this is a huge nevertheless, it is only AI-as-a-commodity that has lost its (grossly exaggerated) value. In sharp contrast, cloud capital utilised not as a commodity producing piece of tech but as produced means of behavioural modification is not at all threatened by companies like DeepSeek. And since technofeudalism is powered by cloud capital working that way, rather than commodity-like AI services of the ChaptGPT type, our technofeudal order is not threatened by competitors such as DeepSeek.
…my basic point: Cloud capital is in a league of its own, beyond market competition from DeepSeek-like upstarts, because its power lies in its capacity to modify our behaviour and remove us from any market (e.g., to shift us from real markets to cloud fiefs like Amazon and Alibaba).
In conclusion, cloud capital’s capacity to drive technofeudalism is not challenged by companies like DeepSeek. Only companies like OpenAI, which invested so much and so foolishly in providing a commodified service, stand to lose enormously. Yet another sign that capitalism is dead at the hand of cloud capital while technofeudalism is going from strength to strength and, as it does so, fuels even further the New Cold War between the US and China which in my book, Technofeudalism, I have explained away as the clash of the two huge concentrations of cloud capital: the American dollar-denominated super cloudalist power and the Chinese yuan-denominated one…
Posted by: suzan | Jan 31 2025 2:59 utc | 58
@ c1ue | Jan 30 2025 17:36 utc | 14
@ snake
I wonder what you think of Yanis Varoufakis’ thinking on cloud capital, capitalism and techno feudalism.
Varoufakis argues that cloud capital was not challenged this week with the release of DeepSeek.
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, this week changed the global AI landscape, not to mention caused $1 trillion losses in the New York stock exchange and the NASDAC. In the process, it demonstrated the difference between cloud capital, which drives technofeudalism onward and upward, and AI-services, which were always a bubble waiting to burst…
DeepSeek pierced the US AI companies’ bubble by decommodifying the results of the model’s training, shifting them from behind a paywall to the public arena. Within days, developers around the world started building their own models on top of DeepSeek’s.
This is was the nightmare for US Big Tech’s AI service providers who offered the results of prompts as a commodity, in the form of subscriptions…this means that the morsels of cloud capital …has lost its market value.Nevertheless, and this is a huge nevertheless, it is only AI-as-a-commodity that has lost its (grossly exaggerated) value. In sharp contrast, cloud capital utilised not as a commodity producing piece of tech but as produced means of behavioural modification is not at all threatened by companies like DeepSeek. And since technofeudalism is powered by cloud capital working that way, rather than commodity-like AI services of the ChaptGPT type, our technofeudal order is not threatened by competitors such as DeepSeek.
…my basic point: Cloud capital is in a league of its own, beyond market competition from DeepSeek-like upstarts, because its power lies in its capacity to modify our behaviour and remove us from any market (e.g., to shift us from real markets to cloud fiefs like Amazon and Alibaba).
In conclusion, cloud capital’s capacity to drive technofeudalism is not challenged by companies like DeepSeek. Only companies like OpenAI, which invested so much and so foolishly in providing a commodified service, stand to lose enormously. Yet another sign that capitalism is dead at the hand of cloud capital while technofeudalism is going from strength to strength and, as it does so, fuels even further the New Cold War between the US and China which in my book, Technofeudalism, I have explained away as the clash of the two huge concentrations of cloud capital: the American dollar-denominated super cloudalist power and the Chinese yuan-denominated one…
Posted by: suzan | Jan 31 2025 2:59 utc | 59
Posted by: kana | Jan 30 2025 22:52 utc | 46
Gabbard is supposed to be Director of National Intelligence and isn't strategic enough to expose our feckless Senators? The CIA would run circles around her and it appears they already did.
Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 31 2025 3:16 utc | 60
@Deniz 152
Well Tulsi has the support of Ray McGovern as well as VIPS (veteran intel pros for sanity). Ray really likes her, and hopefully she’ll call on him and the VIPS.
Posted by: Featherless | Jan 31 2025 3:57 utc | 61
Posted by: Mary | Jan 30 2025 21:16 utc | 36
I think an altimeter failure is unlikely. It uses a combo radar/baro altimeter. If the radar goes out, baro is the automatic backup. Baro is set at the beginning of each flight. At such low altitude, it would be accurate to 4 ft or so. Radar would be less than 1 foot.
If a crew with that much experience did have a radalt (using the lingo) failure they would be hesitant crossing into an active commercial flight path. As a helicopter, they can simply slow down and hover (with permission), and/or ask tower for a different course.
Having only 150 ft altitude separation in that scenario is extremely close. In flight, (I believe but I may be wrong on the downside) airliners keep 1,000 ft vertical separation in landing patterns, (where you fly in the same direction) 2,000 for main flight path.
I will wait to see if the "transponder off" really happened. No reason any experienced crew would do that. A transponder failure just a few seconds before seems unlikely timing. Again, crew would report it to tower and probably hover (at least request permission) while trying to reset it.
Crew experience is fine, but realize with a deployment, 500 hours could only be 2 or 3 years. More importantly is local area orientation (amount of time flown there, especially in daylight) is more important. Perhaps that is what the "evaluator" was doing? Providing guidance on night ops in local area?
Guy in back with 40 years? What freaking rank would he/she have after 40 years? Did they lose a 4 star?
Guy in back as flight crew would be the crew chief. That seat sits sideways behind the pilot/copilot, and had no operational controls for flying available.
(not attacking you, just my thoughts)
The other thing put forward is under staffed control tower. I think this more likely, and will be easy to trace.
I read an article 6 to 12 months ago warning about the ATC system with their DEI goals and initiatives. Hiring people not the best qualified, them promoting them quickly. The article concluded that safety was getting de-emphasized to meet the DEI goals, and that accidents were bound to happen. I will search for it.
Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jan 31 2025 4:05 utc | 62
Posted by: UBAH | Jan 31 2025 2:35 utc | 56
Maybe ultimately the blame will be placed on the Blackhawk crew, however ATC should have seen a pair of intersecting flight paths with minimal altitude difference, and told BH to either deviate path, or simply slow down for a hover hold until CRJ went past.
Helos hovering near airport takeoff landing airspace until clear to cross is fairly typical.
Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jan 31 2025 4:16 utc | 63
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Virology and theory of relativity are pseudosciences. They have been disproven or never been proven.
Posted by: KOB | Jan 30 2025 20:14 utc | 32
You should tell the folks in charge of GPS systems that they wasted their time adjusting the clock speed of the satellites for minor errors introduced by relativity due to altitude. It was done to improve accuracy.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 31 2025 4:30 utc | 64
Marianne Faithful had left her “self-indulgent” years behind by the time of recording her “Broken English” album in 1979. She was a remarkable vocal artist in the years following, including renditions of Brecht/Weil classics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-tOZ1Su6fo
Posted by: jayc | Jan 31 2025 4:38 utc | 65
Deniz152@316 Jan the last
Tulsi humbled by hostile senators? Not apparent in the video clips I viewed earlier this evening. Skeletor Senator who attempted to take her down by clever questioning...typical lawyer trickery...did manage to retain his cool as she smoothly waltzed through his jabs. She was well prepared for his traps and sailed smoothly throughout.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 31 2025 4:42 utc | 66
a substack writing on ACT. Just today
https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/the-skies-arent-safe-how-dei-policies
https://unherd.com/newsroom/dei-air-traffic-control-safety/
2021 Fluff piece on applying to ATC.
Posted by: BroncoBilly | Jan 31 2025 4:44 utc | 67
Canuck@039 Jan31
Bit of support here by means of a personal anecdote. Perhaps 33 years ago on a sunny day here in the Northwoods of Minnesota; an Iowa couple came to visit me at the homestead. They were clad in pastel shorts and such. Perfume and deodorant were likely present. So we took a little tour of the place. I was wearing accustomed blue jeans, a tee shirt and sandals.
As we ambled up Echo Ridge, it was close to peak mosquito season...even on that sunny afternoon. There were some slaps, the occasional cuss words from the male and an observable discomfort by his mate. She was getting a bit red and he was sweating...even though Iowans do have rather hot summers...good for corn and hogs.
Didn't take long before he suggested we repair to the house. No problemo. The tour took less than fifteen minutes. Guess I was a bit smug as effectually they were running interference for me. Not even one of those needle-nosed beasties alighted on me. Oh yeah, spending most of my daylight hours had given me a pretty good "farmer tan". Native folks back in the day would have called them "palefaces".
Too much indoor time in that city of Boone. Kinda ironic...Boone...Mamie Eisenhower's home-town.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 31 2025 5:05 utc | 68
Not normal': FAA confirm air traffic controller was doing the job of two people
SkyNews Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_flyQM1B2k
Hannity: Proof that DEI overtook the FAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da-z9ZY0g70
>…”Stack of reports and investigations showing air safety risks
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Pondering the Boomer in the back of the Blackhawk.
Transponders off?
Was this an off the books flight of a Someone?
Military should be able to release names ranks and the flight purpose by now?
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 31 2025 5:05 utc | 69
Good summary of Muammar Gaddafi and Libya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQzFjac1A1M
Posted by: Matt | Jan 31 2025 6:04 utc | 71
Scientific theories need to be falsifiable. They aren't "proven" or "disproved," that's not how science is done. Science accepts or rejects ideas. New evidence may come to light based on observation or experimentation (the scientific method) that changes perception and modifies existing ideas. But "science" cannot "prove" or "disprove," meaning with 100 percent certainty, anything.Posted by: James M. | Jan 31 2025 1:22 utc | 51
Disprove = falsify. Prove = apply the scientific method. This is what I meant. If part of your theory is a claim that something exists you must prove it exists, you cannot say it exists because there is no proof it doesn't.
Virology is not science because it doesn't follow the scientific method, but it has largely been falsified. General relatively is based on invalid mathematics, so the scientific method doesn't apply. We don't have science here we have "consensus science".
If I claim that something exists but I have no proof of its existence or it cannot be disproven (unfalsifiable) and I don't follow the scientific method and suppress all evidence that contradicts my claim from being published, would you call this science?
Posted by: canuck | Jan 31 2025 0:39 utc | 50This is because these germs (including insects) are opportunistic in nature and only attack the weak.
This is not how nature works.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R26VJ2LL2Y0OGQ
Read: Can You Catch A Cold?: Untold History & Human Experiments by Daniel Roytas
vaccinations
Useless and dangerous poisons.
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/breaking-our-largest-study-of-its
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/did-the-c19-vaccine-kill-17-million
Posted by: KOB | Jan 31 2025 6:11 utc | 72
You should tell the folks in charge of GPS systems that they wasted their time adjusting the clock speed of the satellites for minor errors introduced by relativity due to altitude. It was done to improve accuracy.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 31 2025 4:30 utc | 62
That's not true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQKTG5LQ05Y
Posted by: KOB | Jan 31 2025 6:18 utc | 73
....The (Blackhawk) pilot being evaluated had 500 hrs flt time.......
WTF ???? I have around 1,000 hours left seat time (plus 2x that in the right seat) and there is NO WAY I'd ever try to fly at night 1/2 mile from the runway threshold of Wahington National. 500 hours is like still needing training wheels level of experience.
Have standards in the military plummeted that far ???
Posted by: Exile | Jan 31 2025 6:26 utc | 74
I don't think many understand the implications of Deepseek as Open Source.
🇨🇳giving away DeepSeek is like giving away the keys to the 4th Industrial RevolutionTHAT is THE Paradigm Shift
🇨🇳experienced how the West hobbled nations during the 3rd Industrial Revolution n wants to give nations in the Global Majority a place at the starting gate in 4IR
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2025 6:30 utc | 75
And then we see this
https://x.com/Kanthan2030/status/1884854234190839901
after Russia has designed anti-cancer treatments recently.
Can anyone tell me what the West does for humanity?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2025 6:32 utc | 76
@Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2025 6:30 utc | 72
We are not at the verge of the "4th Industrial Revolution", that's pure technocratic delusion, we are at the verge of human extinction. See @18.
Posted by: KOB | Jan 31 2025 6:37 utc | 77
@ LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2025 6:30 utc | 72 about the implications of Deepseek as Open Source.....thx...I agree
AI is a Western created techie investment strategy that has just been blown out of the water just like EV was by China out competing everyone.
The West is in serious trouble because AI was suppose to be a techie area they could lord over the RoW and that balloon has just been popped.....where is all that liquidity going to go? The Mars thing is a bit far out [pun intended], isn't it?
My answer to my question is Trump's crypto coins and other crypto currencies that are about to be instantiated as just as good as fiat US dollars by the Trump team.........I don't know how Trump expects to protect himself when crypto/tulip mania goes to ground when fiat money is exposed for the debt it represents.
Empire is having to face having lost the ability to project economic leading exceptionalism other than through nuke Might-Makes-Right.....will they resort to that because they are sore losers?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 31 2025 7:18 utc | 78
I don't think many understand the implications of Deepseek as Open Source.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 31 2025 6:30 utc | 72
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The current AI situation quite parallels the jealous protection of textile manufacturing technology.
Born in Derbyshire, England, to a prosperous farmer, Slater apprenticed at a mill at age 14. Learning all he could about textile production, in 1789 Slater left for the United States to pursue opportunities in the industry there. The U.S. was still largely agricultural and handicraft methods of textile production still prevailed. No U.S. inventor had yet been successful in building a textile spinning machine, and British law prohibited the export of such machines. In an effort to preserve their dominance in the industry, Britain also prohibited the emigration of skilled mechanics. In order to leave the country unnoticed, Slater disguised himself as a farm laborer.
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2025 7:24 utc | 79
I don't care that much for nVidia , they don't sell "AI chips" they sell GPUs with AI capability. It can be used in a variety of applications that doesn't involve AI. The real value behind those chips is the ease of working with them because of a dedicated software stack : the CUDA toolkit.
See AMD for an example : they also sell AI chips (the "instinct" chips), but their software stack (RocM) is not as popular nor easy to use.
Same in the virtualisation context, it's not that easy to share GPUs computing power between VMs with other brands.
As long as nVidia will deliver chips easy to work with that have good computing power per watt used ; they will have customers. Nobody buys higher TCO hardware...
Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Jan 31 2025 7:46 utc | 80
@KOB | Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:11:00 GMT | 69
Disprove = falsify. Prove = apply the scientific method. This is what I meant
Then you should specify that, and you should know that all science is falsifiable by its nature. Every experiment and observation that leads to a scientific theory must be falsifiable. The rest of your post wasn't worth reading.
Posted by: James M. | Jan 31 2025 7:51 utc | 81
As long as nVidia will deliver chips easy to work with that have good computing power per watt used ; they will have customers. Nobody buys higher TCO hardware...
Posted by: Hiro Masamune | Jan 31 2025 7:46 utc | 77
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Huawei's Ascend has the best performance/Watt by a significant margin. It doesn't carry nVidia's legacy baggage.
SMIC is projected to make over 1 million fully localized Ascend 910C chips this year, on par with nVidia's Hopper series production.
https://semianalysis.com/2024/10/28/fab-whack-a-mole-chinese-companies/
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2025 7:55 utc | 82
The plane's black boxes have been found & are at ntsb lab. The runway that the plane was headed for has been closed until 2/7. Air search is called off.
Interesting discussion of the copter-plane crash going on at Sonar21.
*Larry claims incompetence, but gets directional details wrong. The BH clearly hit the plane.
*1 atc simultaneously watching both plane & helo traffic
* BH was practicing continuity of government
* BHs are drones / can be remote controlled*
* High profile Russians as possible target to damage negotiations?
* Who else was on the plane? Flight manifest may be released today (friday)
Posted by: Mary | Jan 31 2025 8:27 utc | 83
Exile | Jan 31 2025 6:26 utc | 71
Blackhawk) pilot being evaluated had 500 hrs flt time……
>Have standards in the military plummeted that far ???
One of the pilots was female. (I’m not sure what sort. Maybe an original version. Might be a newer version with modified equipment)
Should we guess which one?
Was it a case of DEI = DIE?
Oh. And *allegedly* pilot was wearing night vision because… training.
~~~
My (female) younger cousin is a commercial pilot. Of course females can be competent pilots. I know in her case, she absolutely earned her career by merit.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Jan 31 2025 8:28 utc | 84
* BH was practicing continuity of government <== 👀
Posted by: Mary | Jan 31 2025 8:27 utc | 80
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2025 8:38 utc | 86
* BH was practicing continuity of government <== 👀
Posted by: Mary | Jan 31 2025 8:27 utc | 80
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2025 8:38 utc | 83
Yup, per Larry.
And now I've just seen (on msm) that change from 2 to 1 atc was made 40 minutes earlier than normal.
Honzo is right. This is getting to Epstein suicide-level coincidences.
Posted by: Mary | Jan 31 2025 8:52 utc | 87
About the gold shortage
interbank gold lease rates which typically hover below 0.5% recently shot up to peak up around 12% and that is a massive jump and it's forcing short sellers to unwind positions leading to a sharp rise in gold prices ...
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2025 9:13 utc | 88
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2025 9:13 utc | 88
Thanks forthe link too scents, an article I read in Kitco Gold earlier trying to figure out why the prices of gold and silver are surging, your links explains:
Gold at $15K, silver at $70? ‘This is what happens when the U.S. prints fake money’ – Robert Kiyosaki
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2025 10:10 utc | 89
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 30 2025 17:42 utc | 15
Thanks for the post. The DRC supplies almost 70% of the world's lithium and the US and Europe and looking to secure exclusive supply by backing the Rwandan M23 Rebels. The lithium supplied by Rwanda has been smuggled from the DRC.
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2025 10:15 utc | 90
its interesting that among all the brouhaha regarding the new US President in regimes media; there isn't a peep about the Federal Gov't hitting the debt ceiling a few days ago.
why ?
Speaker Johnson is calling for "bipartasanship", which indicates that he cannot whip up enough Republican votes to raise the debt ceiling and needs Democrats to help. Funny, because when it came to raising the debt ceiling under a Democratic administration, the Republicans stood opposed like a stone wall.
Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | Jan 31 2025 10:43 utc | 91
"Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2025 9:13 utc | 88
Thanks for the link too scents, an article I read in Kitco Gold earlier trying to figure out why the prices of gold and silver are surging, your links explains:
Gold at $15K, silver at $70? ‘This is what happens when the U.S. prints fake money’ – Robert Kiyosaki
Posted by: Menz | Jan 31 2025 10:10 utc | 89
Yes, it is a simple equation: governments can print money but they cannot print gold or silver.
"About the gold shortage
interbank gold lease rates which typically hover below 0.5% recently shot up to peak up around 12% and that is a massive jump and it's forcing short sellers to unwind positions leading to a sharp rise in gold prices ...
https://youtu.be/lrlY-wATnBg?t=180"
Posted by: too scents | Jan 31 2025 9:13 utc | 88
Not just shorters are getting squeezed the BOE used to transport gold in 2 or 3 days to buyers , now it takes 6-8 weeks as they have lent out the same gold to more than one ETF .
Its a complete shitshow.
Also BOE is worried about the US tariffs so they shunted gold to NY to avoid the tariff if
Less than 50 meters (150 feet) is very close and depending on the locations of the altimeters within each craft one can reduce it further by perhaps as much as a fifth!
I'm thinking something has already gone very wrong for them to be that close.
For reference it can require extreme skill and experience for helicopters to fly close to static objects such as cliffs and in this situation you have what could be thought of as a moving "horizontal cliff" appearing and changing the local atmospheric pressure and airflow.
Ordinary civilian collision detection systems (clearly not applicable to this case, whether by error or not) would/should have been going crazy for a long time before getting as close as fifty meters.
The reason for the collision might be something simple and ordinary but speculating out loud all kinds of very small, temporary, possibly random, and ordinarily unforeseen, and/or exotic changes could be enough to cause a collision when being that close.
It might perhaps be something as stupid as a small loss of lift caused by approaching the vicinity above the rotor blades lifting the helicopter (by pushing large amounts of air inwards and down; they're keeping many tons of metal floating up in the air) or the helicopter gaining lift due to the oncoming changes in pressure caused by the approaching plane, or both (or neither, it could be something entirely different happening).
For the airplane it could alternatively be like suddenly experiencing a strange kind of negative (rather than the ordinary positive) ground effect since the air is being hoovered down.
If anything like that (it might not be) then it's perhaps comparable to something a bit like trying to leap across a maelstrom with a speedboat...
Or maybe whatever it was only caused some relatively small instability that was enough to have some small part of each contact each other and then speed and momentum did the rest. When birds can be enough to bring airplanes down imagine what an errant tail rotor can do.
If it was anything like this the flight recorders may not be up to the task of explaining it.
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 31 2025 10:53 utc | 94
Posted by: KOB | Jan 31 2025 6:11 utc | 72
You need to read the work of French chemist Antione Bechamp (1816-1908) to understand how infection actually works; Bechamp was right, Pasteur was wrong as Pasteur confessed on his death bed.
"Today's effort is ad hoc as my major essay is unfinished, but most will find this informative, "More on Russia's Imploding Economy: The Transport Sector"."
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 31 2025 1:28 utc | 52
I just read it-a wonderful article, thanks.
Gold, silver.... I prefer my USD from North Korea XD (kidding, I've got none lol).
Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 31 2025 11:04 utc | 97
Re the Blackhawk which crashed into a passenger jet landing at a Washinton airport...The pilot of the Blackhawk had its TCAS (anti-collision system) switched OFF. This made it electronically invisible to nearby aircraft - according to abc.net.au's Aviation consultant.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 30 2025 17:32 utc | 13
"The TCAS system is inhibited below 500 feet", the 737 pilot said. "At that point, it's expected that you are effectively concentrating on landing".
ref: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/adelaide-breakfast/american-airlines-crash/104881508
but they just went below 500". so it must have been still active seconds before.
But if it was off on the chopper ... This sounds like the US Navy crashes with merchant marine : AIS transponder off, no radar watch and traveling in ignorant bliss.
Posted by: MAKK | Jan 31 2025 12:55 utc | 98
Trump Pushes Ahead With 25% Tariff Threats
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6629701
"US President Donald Trump says the US will go ahead on its threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, saying the US does not need their products. Trump also said the US may target Canadian oil imnports."
Should be interesting, given that domestic US oil consumption is 60% Canadian.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 31 2025 13:10 utc | 99
"Underneath haphazard ideas lurked an announcement that lent a little clarity to the multipartisan strategy that the range of Canada's parties seem to be pursuing: capitulation.
There is no doubt that Trump's tariff threats pose a very real problem for Canada. The US accounts for almost two-thirds of Canadian trade volume and virtually all of Canada's oil exports go south.
But responding to this threat with anything but capitulation will require a significant break from the decades of Canadian policy that opened the door to foreign ownership..."
To Respond To Trump's Tariffs, Canada Should Nationalize Its Oil Industry
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 31 2025 13:34 utc | 100
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Re: Peace ?
its interesting that among all the brouhaha regarding the new US President in regimes media; there isn't a peep about the Federal Gov't hitting the debt ceiling a few days ago.
why ?
Posted by: exile | Jan 30 2025 16:30 utc | 1