The Trump 2.0 regime seems to be succeeding in its efforts to convince the oil markets that they have cracked open the Hormuz Strait and are escorting an ever-increasing amount of crude oil past the Iranian blockade. For their part, the Iranian claims to have hit almost two dozen ships over the weekend have gone quiet, but the IRGC did send a letter to the American people and threats are being issued. Meanwhile, major meetings took place in New York, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and even London, and kino continued on the Yemeni front.
A rumored Iranian electromagnetic weapon raises a larger question: could a conventional EMP weapon disrupt the electronics of a modern warship? Following the engineering problem from electromagnetic coupling and shipboard hardening through satellites, networks, and automated warfare reveals something more consequential: another technological arms race adding complexity and instability to an increasingly interconnected weapons complex.
The sword of Damocles now hangs over the citizen’s head—not over that of the ruler. Could giving people the ability to recall elected presidents help change this?
Trump rejects Iranian ceasefire terms, threatens to attack in November. US casualty count continues to mount. The war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen continues to heat up.
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Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the UN, bragging about Israel's many victories in its 8 front war, Iran issued warnings aplenty, and Ansar Allah hit the Saudis hard and deep.
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The Army’s new M7 rifle and 6.8mm cartridge deliver greater range and armor penetration, but at the cost of heavier ammunition, reduced magazine capacity and increased soldier burden. The larger question is not whether the M7 is a better rifle, but whether optimizing some weapon capabilities improves the combat effectiveness of the infantry squad. The M7 offers a revealing case study in a recurring procurement problem: destructive simplification of requirements.
Poised on the brink of a wider war and economic collapse, the leaders of the US empire and their lackeys have doubled down and re-confirmed their fealty to unreality and delusion like a fundamentalist religious couple renewing their marriage vows at a mega-church revival.
Greetings gentle readers and welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today it’s more Svankmajer goodness: Faust: and next week’s movie, Fire and Ice: Reviews of Faust: BFI says: Faust is Jan Švankmajer’s first feature-length film and his most ambitious work since his adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in 1988. Its action moves […]
Part the First: And in Other News, What Really Maintains Brain Health. Big brother obviously knows how old I am. That’s the only explanation for why he litters my screen with ads for old people things with each click to a new website. “Dementia happens when you cannot pronounce these three words” is my favorite. […]
POTUS Trump has turned his 2.0 regime into a pay-to-play pardon machine and seems willing to pardon virtually anyone, no matter how heinous the crime, how notorious the reputation.
Liberals refuse to see what’s right in front of them as Germany is the latest example of what happens when centrists confuse managing markets for democracy.
Naval power has long been built around scarce, expensive warships that concentrate sensing, weapons, communications, and crews in a few sophisticated platforms. Autonomy and global networking now make another architecture possible: a persistent naval mesh that distributes those functions among large numbers of specialized unmanned systems.
