Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency's initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. read more
The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market "within months," one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
Outside supermarkets or in festival crowds, millions are now having their features scanned by real-time facial-recognition systems in the UK -- the only European country to deploy the technology on a large scale.
If you think climate change is a hoax, you might believe wind turbines poison groundwater.
"The road was a raging river. It was like the ocean," recalled Maria Blancett. "There were white caps going down the street. There were fish in the road." Maria and her husband, Dave Blancett, had weathered major hurricanes while living in Virginia and Texas. But they had relocated to Florida for their retirement, and nothing had prepared them for the force of Hurricane Ian.
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Revamped CDC Panel Taps Covid Vaccine Critic to Lead Task Force
www.bloomberg.com
... An influential vaccine panel's task force will be led by a member who has previously expressed distrust in the Covid vaccine, weeks after a shooting on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was fueled by Covid misinformation.
Retsef Levi, an operations professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will lead the Covid-19 immunization task force, a spokesperson for Health and Human Services confirmed without offering additional comment. Levi has previously said the Covid shots should be removed from the market and has called the safety of mRNA shots into question. ...
Facial recognition systems are flawed and biased. Police departments are using them anyway. (January 2025)
fortune.com
Related?
Vietnam War resisters in Canada
en.wikipedia.org
... Vietnam War resisters in Canada were American who did not wish to serve in the Vietnam War by seeking political asylum in Canada between 1965 and 1975. They were typically college-educated and middle class Americans who were eligible for conscription.[1] They tended to be lower-income and working class who had been inducted into the United States Armed Forces right after high school or had later volunteered.[1]
Many Americans who took refuge in Canada assimilated in the country and continued to reside there after the war's end in 1975.[2] ...
OK, my last tune for this weekend for me...
A fav movie of mine from te 80's
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams (1984)
www.youtube.com
And, so ends the weekend ...
No need to go with an archive site (that the configured security of my browser blocks)...
Pentagon restricts Ukraine's use of US missiles against Russia, WSJ reports
www.reuters.com
... The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv's ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow's invasion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing U.S. officials. ...
@#2 ... Even now, after they seem to admit they saw it coming? ...
No wonder Democrats seems to view their current representatives so poorly...
Chuck Schumer: Favorable/Unfavorable
www.realclearpolling.com
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RCP Average 5/3 - 8/3
Favorable: 27.7
Unfavorable: 47.0
Spread: -19.3
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Yeah, a new group seems to be needed.
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