[JTN] Air Force officials confirmed on Friday that F-22 Raptor fighters originally expected to take part in the flyover were diverted to operational missions as military priorities shifted.
The revised flyover lineup will include Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers and F-15C Eagle fighters, joined by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets and F-35C Lightning II jets.
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F-22's vs. Magic Carpets? I know which I'm betting on.
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What operational missions require our best air to air fighter? If it was just blowing something up air to ground, the F-35 would be a better choice.
[Breitbart] The establishment media enthusiastically reported that Vice President JD Vance was booed during the opening ceremonies of the 2026 Olympics in Milan, Italy, but video clips appear to show an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response from the crowd.
Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, arrived for the event on Thursday to lead President Donald Trump’s delegation to the games, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
When the United States was introduced during the ceremony the voices of the crowd grew even louder. A handful of groans was overpowered by cheers.
Video footage shows the moment the announcer said, “The United States of America,” and those gathered in the stadium cheered and clapped. Some even chanted “USA! USA! USA!”
Vance and his wife were briefly shown on the Jumbotron:
A USA Today reporter, the AP, and the New York Times claimed Vance was not warmly welcomed during the ceremony, per For the Win.
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Snoop Lion dressed like a toddler, interviewing apex athletes Jamaican Bobsled Team, stereotype talking about how high he, they, are, that's the look.
Also, "I'd like to thank my absolute queerness for my achievements." Not family, faith, coaches, friends, support, and the sheer amount of resources poured into the USA olympic athlete machine...just wanting to get pegged in various ways gets it done.
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[Regnum] One of the most powerful solar activity outbursts since the turn of the century has suddenly ended, surprising scientists. The Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported this on February 7.
"The active region 4366, which was raging opposite the Earth and was just one event away from repeating the current century's record for the number of strong flares and two events away from breaking it, simply stopped producing flares," the laboratory's Telegram channel reported.
On February 4th and 5th alone, 11 high-level solar processes were recorded, but by yesterday evening, everything had ceased. Researchers compared it to someone flipping a switch and turning off the activity. However, fears of a plasma cloud ejected toward Earth were unfounded.
Scientists expect the Sun to soon enter a period of stabilization. It's difficult to predict how long this will last. Region 4366 will remain visible from Earth for another five days, so it remains theoretically possible that this region could yet break the century's record.
Scientists observed the most intense solar activity of the 21st century in May 2024. This resulted in a plasma cloud covering the Earth, triggering the first major magnetic storm in 20 years.
[FoxNews] Erik Duran became the first NYPD officer found guilty of a crime for killing someone while on duty in city in a decade
A New York City Police Department (NYPD) sergeant who fatally threw a plastic cooler at a scooter-riding suspect fleeing a drug bust was convicted of manslaughter Friday.
Sgt. Erik Duran, 38, was found guilty in the August 2023 death of Eric Duprey, who was speeding away from undercover police along a sidewalk in the Bronx after allegedly being busted for selling them $20 worth of cocaine, trial testimony revealed, the New York Post reported.
Duran became the first NYPD officer found guilty of a crime for killing someone while on duty in New York City in a decade, the Post reported. He faces up to 15 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced March 19.
The case was decided by a judge rather than a jury after Duran waived his right to a jury trial.
The case was prosecuted by New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office, which has jurisdiction over police-involved deaths under a 2015 state law.
Surveillance video shows Duprey riding on a sidewalk toward a group of people who do not appear to be in uniform.
As he approaches, the video shows Duran picking up a red object — the cooler — and throwing it at the motorcyclist's head from close range. Duprey then loses control and is thrown toward a tree as the motorcycle veers into the street. The bike then smashes into a metal barricade before coming to rest against a parked car.
He was pronounced dead minutes after the crash, police said.
Duprey had fled as plainclothes narcotics unit officers tried to arrest him on suspicion of selling drugs in what’s known as a "buy-and-bust" operation, according to police.
Bronx Supreme Court Judge Guy Mitchell announced the verdict Friday afternoon in a courtroom filled with police officers on one side and Duprey’s relatives, friends and activists on the other, the New York Post reported. Court officers separated the groups.
Duran looked down at the defense table as the verdict was read while Duprey’s mother, Gretchen Soto, and his partner, Pearl Velez, the mother of his two children, cried in the gallery.
"I never lost faith. I always was, you know … that justice is going to happen," Velez told reporters afterward.
Following the conviction, Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) President Vincent Vallelong issued a statement calling the verdict a "miscarriage of justice" and stating it sends a "terrible message" to officers who use force in defense.
"We vigorously maintain Sgt. Duran’s innocence," Vallelong said. "The verdict rendered by Judge Mitchell is clearly against the weight of the credible evidence.
"Verdicts such as this send a terrible message to hard-working cops: Should you use force to defend yourself, your fellow police officers or the citizens of the city? No matter how justified your actions, you risk criminal charges and conviction," Vallelong added.
According to the Post, Duran testified in his own defense, claiming he threw the cooler to protect fellow officers.
"I thought he was going to kill my guys," Duran said during the three-week trial.
Judge Mitchell rejected that argument, ruling Duran was not justified in using deadly force.
"After consideration of all evidence, the people proved beyond all reasonable doubt that this defendant was not justified," the judge said.
Duran joined the NYPD in 2010 and has been recognized by the department dozens of times for what it deems excellent and meritorious police service, according to a police personnel database. Duran's disciplinary record includes a substantiated complaint in 2022 for abusing his authority during a stop, according to the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board.
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Back in the 50s most people, having gone through WW2, weren't too worked up about most police shootings. You understood you didn't give them a reason to use them. It was a more civilized society.
[BBC] A South African man named in a major police corruption probe has died after reportedly shooting himself at a petrol station.
Police are now investigating the death of Wiandre Pretorius, 41, who last week said he had survived an assassination attempt.
Pretorius's name had been mentioned at the ongoing corruption inquiry, known as the Madlanga Commission. This was in connection with the 2022 murder of a man, Emmanuel Mbense, allegedly at the hands of police officers.
Four of the 12 people named as persons of interest in that killing are now dead themselves, a police spokesperson said.
At 22:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Saturday the police received reports that a man had taken his own life at a petrol station in Brakpan, east of Johannesburg. At the scene, officers found Pretorius's body with a firearm next to it, spokesperson Brig Athlenda Mathe said.
The police are now looking at CCTV footage to confirm what happened. There had been reports that Pretorius had been involved in a row with his fiancée at the petrol station before taking his own life.
The murder four years ago of Mbense is one of several issues that has come up at the Madlanga Commission, which was set up by President Cyril Ramaphosa after a senior police officer alleged that organised crime groups had infiltrated the government.
At a hearing last year, a man, only identified at the time as Witness D, said that in 2022 he had been ordered to get rid of the body of someone accused of robbery who had allegedly been tortured and killed by police officers.
Witness D also alleged that Pretorius, who was not a policeman but had previously served as a police reservist, was involved.
The witness, later named as Marius van der Merwe, was shot death three weeks after testifying.
Police spokesperson Mathe said on Sunday that Pretorius had been questioned and his firearms confiscated in connection with Van der Merwe's killing.
Mathe added that the death of Pretorius on Saturday night leaves only eight of the original 12 persons of interest in the killing of Mbense still alive.
Three were killed "execution style" – one in 2023 and two last year.
"The question is: are we dealing with a syndicate that is eliminating each other in relation to the Emmanel Mbense murder? That is what our detectives are probing," Mathe told reporters.
Last week, police began investigating whether Pretorius himself had been the target of an assassination attempt after he said that his vehicle had been shot at.
In connection with the murder of Mbense, Mathe said that "arrests are imminent" following an investigation by the independent police watchdog body.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Federal Security Service said Sunday that the man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia. Dubai, you say? That's just a short walk from Moscow
Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was hospitalized after being shot several times Friday by an assailant at an apartment building in northwestern Moscow, Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said. The attack followed a series of assassinations of senior military officers that Russia has blamed on Ukraine.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) said a Russian citizen, Lyubomir Korba, was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting. In a statement on its website, FSB said it had also identified two "accomplices," one of whom was detained in Moscow and another who "left for Ukraine." You don't want to be that guy.
[Just The News] FBI boss raises concerns Biden-era bureau may have 'buried' truth about Chinese Communist Party ties to dangerous biolabs on U.S. soil, cites 40% increase in Chinese espionage arrests.
BI Director Kash Patel says his agency has resumed an aggressive counterintelligence offensive against China and its Communist Party (CCP) that had been sidelined during the Biden presidency but is concerned the prior administration may have "buried" the truth about dangerous biolabs on U.S. soil tied to Beijing.
"This FBI, under this leadership, has prioritized the threat against it by the CCP against us, and we've taken swift action," Patel said Friday in an interview with the Just the News, No Noise television show that focused on China’s threat to U.S. national security and the bureau’s efforts to handle the Chinese Communist Party.
The FBI boss said the renewed efforts have already resulted in a 40% increase in Chinese espionage arrests in the first year of the second Trump administration.
"What we did in the last year with President Trump and the attorney general and the Department of Justice is reprioritize our dynamic threat landscape, going after and disrupting and looking after the criminal activity from the CCP," he explained.
[Just The News] "Why would you have some illicit labs set up in an Airbnb, except for, maybe, you’re trying to create some sort of, you know, patient zero scenario, that you might infect someone, that you might create another COVID-like scenario," Crawford says
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., is warning that illicit biolabs on U.S. soil that the FBI says are linked to Chinese nationals could represent a serious national security threat, and may be an effort by Beijing to infect a "patient zero" for the next pandemic.
Speaking during an interview Friday on the Just the News Not Noise television program, Crawford pointed to labs raided by authorities in California in 2023 and Nevada a week ago, raising questions about the intent, oversight failures, and the potential risks posed by foreign actors.
One of the labs was located in a vacation rental home near Las Vegas, a major metropolitan center frequented by vacationers.
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I asked in a DDG search if methane breaks down in sunlight.
I got the DDG AI answer: "Yes, methane can break down in sunlight through a process called photolysis, where sunlight causes chemical reactions that lead to its decomposition. However, methane has a relatively short lifespan in the atmosphere, typically lasting about 7 to 12 years before it is converted into other compounds."
[Politico] As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
Across the Atlantic, heads are rolling over the Jeffrey Epstein revelations. Somewhere above, Ján Hoch softly chuckles.
In Norway, one prominent diplomat has already been suspended and a police investigation has been opened into a former prime minister. In the U.K., the former ambassador to the U.S. has been fired; on Tuesday, he resigned from the House of Lords. Police are reviewing reports he shared market-sensitive information with Epstein.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was stripped of his royal titles and residence. A charity founded by his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, will shut down indefinitely following the release of emails where she called Epstein a "legend" and "the brother I have always wished for."
But as Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with the convicted sex offender, it’s inadvertently highlighting something else — the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S. "Lack of accountability?" Rubbish! Our Boxman monitored every bet and play.
No prominent politicians have taken a fall. Consequences have been limited. Wagons have been circled around the most prominent political figures whose names have surfaced in the legal document dumps. But, but, but, it was supposed to be an overseas operation. We were never targeted.
No actual subversion of logic here. It is as it appears.
In the U.K., former ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson — who has said he was wrong to believe Epstein following his conviction and to continue his association with him afterwards — has emerged as a millstone around British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s neck. While Starmer never actually met Epstein, some are calling for his resignation over his appointment of Mandelson. The prime minister publicly apologized Thursday to Epstein’s victims.
"I am sorry," Starmer said. "Sorry for what was done to you, sorry that so many people with power failed you, sorry for having believed Mandelson’s lies and appointed him and sorry that even now you’re forced to watch this story unfold in public once again." I'm dreadfully sorry, old boy. Things really did get out of hand.
It’s a different story in the U.S. Donald Trump’s Republican Party has largely averted its eyes or rallied to the president’s defense despite his documented ties to Epstein and the unverified additional allegations against the president that appeared last week.
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I anxiously await the news flash that links this fellow and his "former" River House employer to the Epstein business:
Christopher Steele, a former MI6 officer, played a significant role in the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. He co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence and authored the Steele dossier, which claimed that Russia interfered in the 2016 United States elections. Steele's dossier was prepared for Fusion GPS, a firm hired by an attorney associated with the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. The dossier's claims have been met with skepticism and controversy, with Trump and his allies falsely claiming that the Crossfire Hurricane FBI probe into Russian interference was launched due to Steele's dossier.
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Steele's involvement in the dossier has been a focal point of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, with various allegations and claims surrounding his actions and the dossier's impact on the political landscape.
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this was initial major drop. i think we are seeing how the Epstien files geo-political leverage is playing out. if so we can expect to see subtle shifts in certain countries regarding their public stance on the "trump doctrine" and equally domestic behaviour.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s lawyers scored big on Friday when a Texas-based appeals court allowed officials to hold arrested migrants in detention so their migration cases can be quickly decided.
"ENORMOUS Immigration win for President Trump," said Eric Wessen, the Solicitor General in Iowa’s Attorney General’s Office. He added:
The Fifth Circuit, the first federal court to address President Trump’s expedited removal efforts, sides with the administration. Illegal aliens may be detained and removed!
The 2:1 decision "is a big deal," said Ilya Shapiro, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute.
"After reviewing carefully the relevant provisions and structure of the Immigration and Naturalization Act, the statutory history, and Congressional intent, we conclude that the government’s position is correct," the three-judge court decided.
One Biden-nominated judge argued that the policy is unfair because prior presidents did not use the law:
[BBC] If a loved-one died tomorrow, would you want to keep talking to them?
Not through memories or saved messages, but through artificial intelligence - a chatbot that uses their texts, emails and voice notes, to reply in their tone and style.
A growing number of technology companies now offer such services as part of the "digital afterlife" industry, which is worth more than £100bn, with some people using it as a way to deal with their grief.
Cardiff University's Dr Jenny Kidd has led research on so-called deathbots, published in the Cambridge University Press journal Memory, Mind and Media, and described the results as both "fascinating and unsettling".
Attempts to communicate with the dead are not new.
From séances to spiritualist mediums, similar practices have existed for centuries.
But as technology advances, AI has the potential to make them more convincing, and far more scalable.
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It starts with an atheist being lonely for a loved one that has passed. It ends with a homicidal psyborg offering us insight about his memories being like tears in rain.
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We own a lot of chip related stock. But frankly I don't see how regular business will use these chips to increase their revenue. There is only so much advertising that can be paid for unless there is a lot more products being made.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
