🇺🇸 Understanding the steady and troubling decline in the average intelligence of Marine Corps officers

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-the-steady-and-troubling-decline-in-the-average-intelligence-of-marine-corps-officers/

Tucker Reveals the Untold Truth About the Ukraine War: America Could Make Peace but Won’t

“The war in Ukraine is a red line for a lot of people in business and politics,” vouched Tucker Carlson. “If you criticize that, they really are intent on making you be quiet.”

"Ukraine is losing the war ... and Ukrainians are dying in huge numbers, and the country is being destroyed. And so the US could force a peace like tonight. They could. Uniquely, they have that power, and they won’t. And they’re continuing to allow Ukrainians to be killed and the country to be devastated.”

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🛰 A controversial new type of electric propulsion system that physicists say defies Newton’s Laws of Motion, known as the Quantum Drive, has secured a spot on a SpaceX rocket and will launch into low Earth orbit (LEO) this October.

Designed by IVO Ltd., an electronics prototyping company, the promising yet controversial Quantum Drive could change the future of space travel and, if proven to work, would potentially rewrite or expand many of the accepted principles of inertia and motion that have existed for centuries.

In recent years, a company called IVO Ltd. has developed a Quantum Drive that they say is based on McCulloch’s theory and that has proven to generate thrust in laboratory tests, despite the skepticism from mainstream physicists.

Now, after a canceled flight in June, that Quantum Drive is heading into space to undergo real-world testing sometime in October. This means that, unlike other theoretical drives, including the controversial EMDrive proposed and designed by engineer Robert Shawyer that have yet to get off of the ground, IVO’s Quantum Drive will finally have a chance to fail and prove conventional physicists correct or actually work by successfully creating thrust, a result that would force physicists around the world to expand their current models to include McCulloch’s controversial theories.

https://thedebrief.org/impossible-quantum-drive-that-defies-known-laws-of-physics-scheduled-for-do-or-die-october-space-flight/

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Apple iOS wants control over Google usage on their devices

See the fine print here. This is now required by Apple to use Google on their devices. It is rather unnerving.

How can one use gmail on an Apple device without granting permission like this?

Actual causes of death versus media focus.

"It’s not hard to imagine Jimmy Connors deciding to make it obvious for everyone, given his puckish personality. And I don’t think it’s an accident that these “stunning historic upsets” so often feature something like “the first Black champion” or “the first British champion in a billion years”. Remember, sports are first and foremost an entertainment business, so making money and producing memorable storylines are their priorities, not “providing all competitors with a level playing field”.

"The fact that the International Olympic Committee is not inviting Russia and Belarus to participate in the Paris Olympics only underlines the fact that sports are subservient to the Narrative."

https://voxday.net/2023/07/14/everything-is-fake/

Why electric cars are NOT green machines: The environmental benefit of EVs may never be felt as their production creates up to 70% more emissions than petrol equivalents
Electric cars need to be used for tens of thousands of miles before they offset the higher releases, with VW's e-Golf becoming more environmentally friendly only after 77,000 miles, according to the manufacturer's own figures.
But there are fears that many such vehicles will never hit their mileage target as owners upgrade to newer models, leaving swathes of used electric cars sitting unwanted on garage forecourts.
Volvo revealed in 2021 that the emission from the production of electric cars can be up to 70 per cent higher than petrol models and said it would require between 30,000 and 68,400 miles for an EV to become greener overall, which typically takes four to nine years.
This is chiefly due to the batteries used to power electric cars. They require raw materials such as cobalt and lithium that need to be mined in places such as Africa and South America before being transported across the globe.
The environmental toll of EV manufacturing led actor Rowan Atkinson to recently claim he felt 'a little duped' by electric cars as he urged people to keep hold of their petrol vehicles for longer.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12256823/Why-electric-cars-NOT-green-machines-environmental-benefit-EVs-never-felt.html
Jul 2, 2023

An interesting read on the DEI agenda. Corporations are incentivised to prioritize Diversity Equity and Inclusion - but at what cost?

This article writes about the USA but it applies to New Zealand as well.

https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/

"Americans living today are the inheritors of systems that created the highest standard of living in human history. Rather than protecting the competency that made those systems possible, the modern preference for diversity has attenuated meritocratic evaluation at all levels of American society. Given the damage already done to competence and morale combined with the natural exodus of baby boomers with decades worth of tacit knowledge, the biggest challenge of the coming decades might simply be maintaining the systems we have today.

The path of least resistance will be the devolution of complex systems and the reduction in the quality of life that entails. For the typical resident in a second-tier city in Mexico, Brazil, or South Africa, power outages are not uncommon, tap water is probably not safe to drink, and hospital-associated infections are common and often fatal. Absent a step change in the quality of American governance and a renewed culture of excellence, they prefigure the country’s future."

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Professor John Mearsheimer warns Glenn Greenwald that the Ukrainian counteroffensive will result in significant casualties due to the Russian army's overwhelming artillery advantage, air superiority, and the undermanned and undertrained Ukrainian forces.

Professor Mearsheimer elaborates on why he thinks F-16s and ATACMS will not change the course of the war. He also mentions that the US and NATO lack the manufacturing capacity to address the current artillery disparity between Russia and Ukraine.

"The fact is, we do not have the manufacturing capability to produce enough artillery to redress the existing imbalance in artillery between the Russians and the Ukrainians. The Russians, in contrast, have a significant manufacturing capability when it comes to weaponry, and they're pumping out artillery rounds. At a remarkably rapid pace, we can't do that we don't have the manufacturing capability.

And it's going to take us a year or two, maybe even three to spin up that capability. And in the meantime, the Ukrainians are in deep trouble... Not only do the Russians have a major league advantage in artillery, in tanks for that matter, but they also have a major league advantage in population size, which means the number of potential soldiers.

Furthermore, they control the skies, they have a tremendous advantage in air power, and the F-16 is not going to rectify that. So I don't see how it's possible for Ukraine to win this war. I think they're doomed. I think that Ukrainians have foolishly picked a fight with a country that has much more military capability and will therefore win."

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1675929138346196992

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political leanings of car owners

Viasat stock drops after satellite malfunction
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/viasat-stock-drops-after-satellite-malfunction.html

Since 2010, there has been a major shift toward negativity in the media.

They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.

The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change.

Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must be protected. The fate of Europe and NATO, along with a “rules based international order” is at stake. Victory is assured.

The results are also the same. The justifications and narratives are exposed as lies. The cheery prognosis is false. Those on whose behalf we are supposedly fighting are as venal as those we are fighting against.

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Senator Castillo double crossed Senator Travis on allowing expert witnesses. Will the judge let her get away with it? Check out the latest episode of The Wise of Heart:

https://wiseofheart.substack.com/p/episode-31-the-judge-rules-on-expert