ABC World News Tonight, the YT of News

Yesterday, it was announced that US has weapons in space, no mention of that by ABC World News Tonight. Video of fireworks that caused an airliner to go around in Guatemala? They had that. Video of a ground-resonance helicopter crash in May (minor injuries of pilot and instructor? They had that.

It’s not as though a destabilizing national security move isn’t newsworthy. But since there’s no compelling video, no story. They couldn’t find a talking-head expert to talk about the risks of putting weapons in space?

Dumbing down things is only slightly less evil than the Bari Weiss Trumpification of CBS News.

But only slightly less.
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An update to this: Home heating oil is closing in on the $6/gal range in some local markets.

Flock: ACAB Ed.

404 Media has a report out that shows that lots of cops have been putting in nonsensical reasons for license-plate searches.

The surprise in this is that anyone is surprised.

Renaming These Down, Here

This is Probably Not Good

The US has deployed weapons in space, the US military has confirmed, in an extraordinary public announcement that analysts warn will accelerate a high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit.

The US secretary of the air force, Troy Meink, said Washington had active “on-orbit” weapons, meaning they had been deployed and were circling the globe.

“Today, we continue to ensure we remain ready to meet the challenges of evolving threats wherever they exist,” Meink said on Monday at the annual Air, Space, Cyber conference. “This is why the United States now has, on-orbit, space-control weapons.”

Meink said he would not go into the “specifics” of the weapons. However, a US Space Force spokesperson said space control could refer to “employing kinetic [combat] and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities”.

The statement added that “these capabilities can be employed for offensive and defensive purposes”.

Screw AI, we're getting closer and closer to a situation where a civilization-ending war can happen because of a single mistake or misreading of data. Situations where someone doesn't have time to think or reflect or cross-check and just reacts because the risk of not doing so is seemingly too high.

And we don't exactly have the most stable person with his hand over the red button.

The Trump Family is Corrupt to Its Core

A Russan oligarch bankrolled Don,Jr's wedding to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Trump's family is just rotten. They are in thrall to Putin, which is why the governing message of the GOP is "if they win, we go to prison." They are all crooks.

And their bone-deep debt to Putin is why nobody blinks an eye at Kushner's attempts to sell out Ukraine.
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You'd think the fact that the son of the President of the "party of family values" 2nd marriage is to the daughter of Epstein's banker and it was funded by a Rusisan oligarch involved in the mass kidnap of Ukrainian kids during a KGB agent's illegal war would be bigger news.

Kushner Channels His Inner Neville Chamberlain

US President Donald Trump's special envoy Jared Kushner has said that the only thing missing for an agreement to end the war is Ukraine's consent to give up its territories within the boundaries demanded by Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.
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"President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that. And obviously, our job as the mediators [is] to figure out how can we come up with a creative solution that doesn't violate their desires and that helps them achieve their objective, and does in a way that we can get Russia to end the conflict in a way that hopefully allows both parties to move forward in a framework where this doesn't happen again."

Here's a wild idea: Russia, the aggressor nation, can withdraw to its internationally-recognized border. Of course Ukraine doesn't want to give up territory, particularly at the behest of two men who are pretty much operating as Russian assets. Witkoff and Kushner likely have eyes on development projects in Russia, but those won't go forward with a war on. So they want it to end, on any terms that they can finagle.

Add to this is the fact that Kusher is just not that bright. He's gotten everywhere he's been on family connections, not talent. That was true when his dad bribed Harvard to let him in and when he used his connections to Trump to wheedle billions out of the Gulf-State Oil Arabs.

Remember This, Too

25 years ago, President George Bush and Vice President Cheney resolved to send the country to war against a country that had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks. They pushed the intelligence community to fabricate intel justifying their war: The WMDs that didn't exist, the aluminum tubes that weren't suited to refine uranium, the "mobile biologial weapons lab" that was an apparatus that made hydrogen for weather balloons.

Thousands of Americans died, millions of Iraqis were made refugees and the costs to this country alone runs into the trillions, all because Darth and Chimpy wanted their war. Between a war of aggression and conspiring to commit war crimes, the White House, not for the first nor the last time, was the site of meetings of war criminals.

Your Sunday Morning Combined Aircraft Noise

A P-2V:

Funny How They Keep Hiring Nazis

Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) fired his campaign’s political director, Stephen Woytek, on Friday after learning about social media posts linked to Woytek, including a Facebook profile photo of Nazi officers and a public playlist of songs celebrating Rhodesia, a now-defunct nation often venerated by white supremacists.

A spokesperson for Husted’s campaign told The Hill that Woytek, who joined the campaign in August, had “denied negative intent” but said the senator had quickly opted to fire him after learning of the posts Friday.

Only the best people.

Stupid Orange Fucker Can't Keep His Yap Shut

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that a unified Ireland would be “fantastic” as he waded into a complex and politically charged subject during a weekend visit to a major tournament at his Irish golf course.

At a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin, Trump said he would love to see the reunification of the Republic of Ireland with the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland.

“I don’t want to cause any problems but I’d love to see it unified,” Trump told a reporter who sought his opinion on the issue. “It’s going to happen eventually. It may as well happen now.

“I think it would be a fantastic thing,” the Republican president said, adding that “the U.K. will have something to say about it, obviously.”

Any president worth two shits would know how sensitive that topic is and would keep quiet, but not Trump. He's gotta yap about anything and everything because he truly believes he's the smartest person in whatever venue he's in. But he's not. He's as dumb as a fence post but far less useful.