Rotondella, Italy. A village in the clouds.

“He was sent by one of the saner factions of Clown World to try to extricate its empire from the suicidal path on which it has been set by the lunatic neocon faction.”

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Penguins attempting to jump on ice. Whilst most are falling short, it's pretty remarkable how far they can actually leap. 🐧

National Geographic

NPR, the government subsidized propaganda network, makes a bid for relevance by pretending Tucker Carlson isn't much more relevant and popular than they are.

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1230024588/tucker-carlson-putin-interview-video

Is Disney Abandoning California?

There was an all hands emergency meeting at Disney Animation Studios Burbank. They started the meeting by telling the animators that no one at Burbank was being laid off. Which probably means that everyone is being laid off. It turns out that the Moana 2 movie that Bob Iger announced last night is going to be […]

https://arkhavencomics.com/2024/02/09/is-disney-abandoning-california/

‼️The attenuated poliovirus vaccine is causing (8 times) more polio cases than the infections with the wild polioviruses.😡😡😡

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1284337/full

*making the World's Fair in a year be like

How incredibly strong an elephant is. 🐘

Did you know? 🎓

How Disney makes its content. No wonder so many films bomb.

Finance worker pays out $25M after VC with deepfake CFO
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📖 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 PLA war plans for the Pacific - Strategic Considerations

⬛️ Theory: PLA will fight aggressively in the Pacific like the US did in the first Pacific War. It will aim to bring the fight out to the seas, where detection advantage will allow it to gain informational dominance and prosecute a winning war.

🔶️ The PLA, while strategically defensive1 , is operationally and tactically offensive. Moreover, the PLA has already identified that the IJN's greatest weakness was in its operationally defensive posture. A posture that it was forced to adopt because of its lack of industrial capacity to replace lossses.

🔶️ In contrast, the PLA identified the US' impressive logistical capabilities, industrial depth, and almost recklessness in throwing assets to gain information dominance as factors that determined victory on the high seas. With the way that China has built a massive industry, large in-country logistics network, and an operationally offensive doctrine, concluding that the PLA intends to fight an operationally defensive war feels like the wrong conclusion. We can even just throw out two simple comparisons.

🔶️ Taken altogether, the PLA views the USN as the IJN analogue in a potential Pacific War conflict, and it is building up its forces to replicate all the things that the US did to achieve victory. Yet the CSBA paper makes the odd conclusion that the PLA intends to prosecute a defensive war where the USN is allowed to slowly pick through its A2AD bubble rather than reach out to punch the USN on the open seas. You'll find this attitude very prevalent in think-tank land that is divorced from reality vs. the DoD and the service branches.

🔶️ And therein lies the biggest problem: think tank land doesn't treat the PLA like the proactive, operationally-aggressive force backed up by deep industrial capacity that it is. The DoD does, but Congress listens to think tank land first.

https://csbaonline.org/uploads/documents/CSBA8336_(Chinese_Lessons_from_the_Pacific_War)_FINAL_web2.pdf

https://www.reddit.com/r/LessCredibleDefence/comments/10g3bsl/pla_war_plans_for_the_pacific_strategic/

Basilica of Saint Servatius, Maastricht, Netherlands

"The fact is, legacy media is dying. Which is a good thing. But do you think the establishment doesn’t see this? Do you think it hadn’t occurred to them to get out in front of it by seizing control of the new media platforms and planting “leaders” in supposedly independent media movements?"

https://off-guardian.org/2024/02/10/what-no-one-is-saying-about-tucker-carlsons-putin-interview/

"In other words, since the Hungarian government foolishly permitted itself to become dependent upon the transfer of free money created ex nihilo by German banks, it now no longer has the ability to establish its own policies in the interest of the citizens of Hungary. Hungary might as well be a heroin addict attempting to defy the wishes of his heroin dealer."

https://voxday.net/2024/02/11/free-trade-is-economic-heroin/

Imagine having the keys
to the Sistine Chapel

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville