Just when you thought you'd seen or heard it all, regarding this new generation's warp minds for posting of video attics.
But it is New Hampshire. 🤭
[LawEnforcementToday] Adult content creator busted for urinating on food in grocery store
An online adult content creator identified as 23-year-old Kelli Tedford, of Keene was placed under arrest following the investigation of an anonymous report that the woman had recorded herself and streamed a video online of her deliberately contaminating food items with her urine.
According to a press release from the Keane Police Department posted to Facebook, “During this investigation, numerous additional videos of Tedford were reviewed by investigators. At this time, it appears likely that similar historic incidents occurred in Keene and surrounding communities where Tedford contaminated items and/or surfaces with urine, as several videos appear to be recorded as early as 2021.”
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Andrey Khrustalev
[REGNUM] The fight for Ukraine's mineral resources, which Washington has started, is entering the final deal stage, and it will probably look like a Framework Agreement on the creation of a joint investment fund aimed at generating profit. It could be signed as early as February 28 in Washington, during a probable, but not yet confirmed, visit of the Ukrainian "cleaner" to the White House.
And it could become the first stone of a political avalanche that will fundamentally change the political landscape in Ukraine.
Europe's timid attempt to pull its "ally" out from under the asphalt roller may be considered a failure. As we recall, during the visit of a powerful European delegation to Kiev on February 24, the European Commissioner for Industrial Strategy Stefan Sejourné proposed a more lenient option.
"21 of the 30 most important materials needed by Europe could be provided by Ukraine in a win-win partnership," the official said, which sounds like an agreement to supply rare earth metals rather than resources in exchange for aid. They say Brussels will never ask Kiev to sign a deal that is not mutually beneficial. European Council President Antonio Costa also confirmed this position.
But despite all the initial appeal, Europe's proposal did not seem realistic.
Trump's demands for debt and payment of half a trillion dollars will not go away - the White House plans to receive $500 billion in compensation for Washington's support for Kyiv in repelling Moscow's invasion. This should be provided by revenues from minerals, oil, gas and ports, since Ukraine does not have such money now or in the future.
Europe, however, with all its desire, will not be able to allocate such a significant amount, even in exchange for all Ukrainian minerals. Which, by the way, still need to be further explored and extracted. After all, this also requires investments and time, which are also not available.
So the real meaning of the proposal is the creation or strengthening of the already emerging anti-Trump coalition in Europe as an example for Ukraine. A sort of "we don't give up - and you don't give up either." And another one is to maintain the Ukrainians' faith in the value of the country's mineral resources, for which the bidding has already begun.
Nevertheless, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal confirmed on February 26 on the air of the “Yedinye Novosti” telethon that things are on track. “We are not considering signing any agreements without security guarantees. And of course, over the course of two weeks, intensively working on an agreement between the governments of the United States and Ukraine on our economic cooperation, we have actually developed the final version,” he said, vaguely hinting at certain provisions of the deal “tied to security guarantees.”
As Shmyhal stated, as of today, the document has a very intriguing title: "Agreement on the Establishment of Rules and Conditions of the Investment Fund for the Restoration of Ukraine." In theory, Ukraine and the United States will manage it and fill it equally. As Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko emphasized, this format does not provide for the transfer of Ukrainian subsoil to the ownership of the United States, but allegedly attracts American investments for new projects without debt restrictions.
"After a certain period of time, when the Fund has accumulated enough income from its activities, payments are made to the members of the Fund," the official explained. And these are definitely not Ukrainian children, to whom Zelensky promised a share of the income from mineral extraction at the beginning of his presidential term.
On December 6, 2021, he even submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada that would provide for the issuance of special documents to all children born in the country. Funds received from rent payments for the exploitation of natural resources were to be accumulated in specially created accounts for each child.
Now the approach is different, and it was best expressed by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson : "Yes, this agreement is extortion. But remember our Lend-Lease. We were simply robbed, our military bases were taken away, and we paid for this aid until 2006." But there is a long-term partnership with the United States.
Despite the obvious loss-making nature of the deal, Zelensky simply needs it as a pass to the White House or even the right to speak with Trump.
The American president had previously stated that the former public favorite "may not come at all" to the talks. Especially after, according to the American publication Axios, five incidents occurred in nine days in February that angered Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and adviser Mike Waltz. And left no one in the US president's entourage who supports the current Ukrainian leadership.
Having lost his "handshake" in the States, Zelensky had to maneuver at maximum speed to prevent the Ukrainian issue from being discussed in bilateral negotiations between Trump and Putin and the abandonment of the principle of "not a word about Ukraine without Ukraine," which was already full of cracks. The mineral deal really became a concession to Washington's policy and a pass to the Oval Office, without which he would become useless to the US, Europe, or Ukraine.
This may explain all the recent vacillations: on the one hand, the expired president must save face in front of the Ukrainians, on the other, he must not be excluded from the negotiation process and world politics, from which they are actively trying to push him out.
For Trump, who proposed this deal, such an agreement is extremely useful on a number of issues: not only does he gain leverage over Zelensky, indicating his place in the current political situation, but he also ensures a victory for himself in the domestic political arena. At the same time, he presents the American voter with a loot of $500 billion, which is only slightly less than the $600 billion received from the richest Saudi Arabia in January and presented as the first big victory of the new owner of the White House.
As Ukrainian analyst and economist Alexander Kushch notes, the US wants to fix the amount that they have spent and will spend on supporting Ukraine:
“This amount will include EVERYTHING: both the amounts of direct budget support and the cost of delivered weapons and ammunition, including those supplies whose shelf life was expiring and the supply of which to Ukraine was a kind of ‘free disposal’.”
The investment fund will accumulate until the specified amount is reached. The fund's assets are investments and control over infrastructure facilities: energy, transport, ports. Liabilities are contributions from the parties. On the US side, this is the estimated cost of the aid provided. On the Ukrainian side, this is income from granting permits for the use of natural resources (rent and profits of state raw materials companies).
Moreover, the fund is also responsible for issuing such permits.
Thus, despite Europe’s timid attempts to pull Ukraine out of this trap, the US will still receive the “right of the first night,” like a feudal lord in the Middle Ages: they will be able to prohibit the development of certain resources, their sale to a third party, and will have the right of first refusal to acquire such resources.
In this case, the restriction of Article 13 of the Constitution, which enshrines the rights of the Ukrainian people to the subsoil, will be circumvented.
"All statements about the legal nullity of such an agreement, heard in Ukraine, are very conditional, including the mention of Article 13 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which states that the people are the owner of Ukrainian natural resources. After all, the agreement does not talk about sale: natural resources remain in the conditional virtual property of the Ukrainian people, just as they were previously "public property" on paper, but in fact, the profit from their use was, in fact, the rental income of several oligarchic financial and industrial groups," Kushch believes.
For Ukrainian oligarchs, who largely determined the country's policy, and for officials who feed themselves from the sale of licenses, such a scheme threatens the cancellation of their corrupt business. With the real control of an American overseer, it will no longer be possible to pay ten times less for a license by "bringing a suitcase" to an official to resolve the issue.
This means that they will have to pay the full amount for the right to develop the subsoil, which significantly reduces income and profitability. It is unlikely that they will be able to reach an agreement with the Americans; schemes like Burisma from the time of Hunter Biden are no longer working.
The oligarchs won’t like this, and the point of application of this discontent will obviously be Zelensky himself and his closest team.
The entire extractive industry of Ukraine in figures for 2023, according to the State Statistics Service, is 262 billion UAH of gross product, or $7 billion per year. For the budget, and therefore the social security sector, the situation is not great either. During the war, the raw materials sector of the Ukrainian economy grew from 8% to 14% of GDP.
The “escape” of a significant part of these funds abroad will be felt by society very painfully – in the form of non-payment of pensions, reduction of social guarantees and other troubles. This will not add to Zelensky’s rating and approval of the electorate – as will the “surrender of national interests”, of which he can now easily be accused and the topic will be pumped up endlessly.
International revenues supporting Ukraine's budget will only decline in the foreseeable future.
The US, until recently the main donor, does not promise any specifics on the issue of financing Ukraine - regardless of the sphere where this money may go. Frightened Europe seems to promise to allocate billions, but is forced to direct part of the funds both to support its own armed forces, with the potential creation of a European army separate from NATO, and to solve other problems that have already accumulated in the economies of the countries.
Italy, Portugal, Spain and Hungary have already spoken out against the EU's 20 billion euro military aid package for Ukraine. The two main euro-locomotives, France and Germany, are also delaying their response, Politico reports.
A separate problem in this context was the termination of USAID funding mechanisms, which not only hit the social sphere, but also deprived “independent” media that supported Zelensky’s policies of funding.
Europe will not have the strength or physical ability to compensate for all of this in the near future without the participation of the United States.
The predictable result is growing, still quiet, discontent with the policies of the regime, which has made a series of serious mistakes. Having lost his ratings among the population, losing the support of the oligarchy and having a still timid, but already identified internal opposition, Zelensky is forced to rely only on the military and time, hoping for a change in the situation and situational maneuvers.
But the field for them is shrinking as the amount in bank accounts decreases.
It is not hard to imagine that Trump is well aware of the situation and is deliberately pushing Zelensky towards elections for which he is obviously not ready. With the accumulation of negative factors in the social, economic or military spheres, the crisis will only worsen. Naturally, Europe will support its "ally" for some time as a factor restraining both Washington and Moscow. But its influence on the processes will only decrease over time.
And the one who categorically does not want to leave himself will be pushed forward by life itself.
[ZeroHedge] The Trump administration's epic purge of federal workers is shaping into one of the most significant job cuts in a generation. Early indicators suggest Northern Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland may be in the beginning innings of an economic downturn, as jobless claims rise and a surge in active housing listings signals a very ominous outlook.
On Thursday morning, Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, joined Bloomberg TV, warning, "The consensus expects total DOGE-related job cuts to be 300,000 ... However, studies show that for every federal employee, there are two contractors."
Dominic Konstam, head of macro strategy at Mizuho, asked: "DoGE-led recession risk?"
The market is focused on a negative economic fallout from Federal spending cuts. The level of potential Federal job losses is too small to derail growth, but overall government spending has been egregiously high in recent years. There has also been excessive job growth in the "government" sectors, including federal, state, and local government, as well as in education and health. If DoGE sets a precedent on jobs and achieves spending cuts that ricochet through the quasi-public sector, it is likely that new economic headwinds will develop.
Do it quick. The world constantly adjusts. Stop wasting money and by time the next election comes around Americans will realize that their everyday life was not really dependent on the one million let go.
[HotAir] Excuse me - I should change that in the interest of being precise. Thanks to my naturally cynical nature regarding authoritarian European governments marching towards outright fascism, I only interpret it to be a 'snitch' line.
The Stas...there I go again. Dammit - it's early.
The democratically elected German government is, in fact, launching a two-pronged effort - either online or by phone - to afford their citizens avenues for 'advice' on how to deal with conspiracy freaks. Those in their personal lives or even ones of accidental acquaintance who speak such strange and terrifying sentiments not approved by polite society that a good German might be...alarmed by the utterances. Or upsetting emails.
And not know where to turn for advice on how to respond, if they even should.
“Advice Compass on Conspiracy Thinking” launches
...The nationwide contact point "Advice Compass Conspiracy Thinking" is launching today. It is open to all those affected and those seeking advice. The advice center is part of a project jointly funded and commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs (BMI), which has been running since March 2024 as part of the federal program "Live Democracy!" The project is carried out by the Violence Prevention Network, the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and modus - Center for Applied Deradicalization Research.
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser: “Conspiracy theories are accompanied by lies and disinformation. They are spread deliberately to divide our society and destroy trust in independent science, free media or democratic institutions. Conspiracy theories can lead to extremist ideologies and drive perpetrators to commit crimes and acts of violence. Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are spread particularly often.
Usually, people in the immediate environment, such as family, friends or school, are the first to notice when conspiracy theories are spread. An open dialogue on equal terms often seems impossible because the other person is not open to arguments. The establishment of the nationwide advice center is therefore an important building block in the holistic fight against extremism and disinformation."
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This is nothing new. Such snitch lines, mostly operated by government funded and controlled NGO's have existed for some time.
Sometimes they're also official government institutions.
Here's a press release about the establishment of snitch lines by the state government of Northrhine-Westphalia in '22, a coalition government of Merz' party CDU and the Greens.
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Let them have their authoritarian government--just let them have it *without* our money and without our military. I no longer care what happens to Europe.
[RedState] It was fine to be annoying pro-Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... college student under Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... , but the adults are back in charge now, and hate crimes aren't going to go overlooked.
According to a report from Israel's Channel 12 News on Wednesday, a DOJ task force is looking into the pro-Hamas demonstrations that took place on college campuses after the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, which saw the murder of 1,200 innocents, as well as kidnappings and rapes.
This task force is being led by Leo Terrell, who told Channel 12 that those who actively attempted to restrain Jewish people from attending class on campus or attempted to intimidate them will be seeing jail time, according to Jewish News Syndicate:
“You see all these disorderly demonstrations, supporting Hamas and trying to intimidate Jews? We are going to put these people in jail—not for 24 hours, but for years,” Terrell, senior counsel to the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, said in remarks translated to Hebrew.
Under the Biden administration, “local prosecutors did not take action to file hate crime charges,” the civil rights lawyer said. “In major cities like New York and Los Angeles, Jews have been harassed and denied access to universities. They [prosecutors] did nothing and failed at their job. We are about to do more in a month than Biden and Harris did in four years.”
The first indictments are expected to be filed in the next week and a half, he said, adding that other “aggressive” moves would also be announced.
“A lot is going to happen in the next four to five weeks,” Terrel said. “My message to Jews in the United States and around the world—help is on the way.”
The goal here is to put a stop to the hate-centric protests that plague Universities, especially those that support terrorist groups, to the point where assaults on Jewish students happen. The antisemitic sentiment that permeated through much of academia after the October 7 attacks was met with little to no resistance from local or federal law enforcement officials in various parts of the United States.
This task force stems from President Trump signing the "Additional Measures to Combat Antisemitism” executive order. According to Terrell, a black Christian man, this task force is committed to ending the blight of antisemitism on college campuses.
“The department takes seriously our responsibility to eradicate this hatred wherever it is found,” Terrell said. “The Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending antisemitism in our schools.”
The problem is definitely out of hand. At Columbia University, a student group began publishing an anti-Israel paper called "Columbia Intifada" which spews hateful claims about Jewish people. Harvard attempted to take a stance by suspending pro-Hamas students, but caved under pressure and allowed the students back onto campus.
Riots and injuries happened with no repercussions in some places.
A Barnard security guard was roughed up so badly by the protesters the other night that he ended up in the hospital.
Jewish students were barred from traversing campus freely, and some were even assaulted.
It's clear things are out of hand. A terrorist group literally influenced activities on American campuses, and this influence was allowed to spread with little consequence.
~American government is corrupt. Stinkingly corrupt - on a scale unimaginable in, say, Norway. It remains an open question whether new leadership or even mass firings can overcome that.
The Jeffrey Epstein case is merely the most obvious example. On July 6th 2019, after giving him the kid-glove treatment for the previous decade-and-a-half, the feds chose to renege on their own sweetheart deal and arrest their chum when he landed at Teterboro (preferred New York airport of the non-rube class). Epstein was taken to New York's Metropolitan Correction Center, where the highest-value prisoner in America was put in a cell with an NYPD policeman awaiting trial for four murders.
A fortnight later, he was found on the floor with marks around his neck, and placed on "suicide watch", which required him to be checked on every thirty minutes. On August 9th, he was not checked every thirty minutes because the guard fell asleep. Fortunately, there was a second guard. Unfortunately, he also fell asleep. Fortunately, there was a camera. Unfortunately, it malfunctioned. Fortunately, there was a second camera. Unfortunately, that also malfunctioned...
So, a month after arrest by the FBI, the highest-value prisoner in America was dead.
My own legal tribulations in the District of Columbia are about to enter their fourteenth year. So I'll confess there are moments when I envy the unusually swift and efficacious disposition of United States vs Epstein.
Eventually, a trial was held. Of Jeffrey's girlfriend - a foreign socialite entirely unknown in the US except to former presidents, governors, senators and billionaires: see picture at top right of Ghislaine relaxing déshabillé with Democrat high-roller Laurene Powell, widow of Steve Jobs and owner of The Atlantic. Miss Maxwell was convicted of "sex trafficking" - including of a minor transported for the purpose of "criminal sexual activity". She was banged up for twenty years.
Gee, that must have been a lot of sex trafficking. Yet the United States Department of Justice remains totally uninterested in all the Americans "with great power and privilege" (as one witness put it) that Miss Maxwell was trafficking the girls to. Yeah, I was just working on my Presidential Library fundraising letter when, out of the blue, Ghislaine dropped a weekend's worth of fourteen-year-old jailbait on my doorstep... Could happen to anybody.
So the paedo mastermind is dead and the only two people to pay any price for their association with him are a couple of hoity-toity snot-nosed Brits - Miss Maxwell plus a son of the late Queen who made the mistake of giving an exclusive interview to the BBC that subsequently won that year's Emmy for Best Train-Wreck. It's almost like no Americans were involved in this thing at all...
And in the fullness of time a new administration took office and ordered the release of the "complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein". That happened yesterday: all - stand well back! - two hundred pages of documents.
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The level of resistance and obfuscation is yet another telling confirmation of the intelligence linkages to Epstein and how wide the connections actually are.
Today's Kunstler deal with the why, in his opinion, but it is persuasive...
"Then there is the peculiar history of Bill Barr’s dad, Donald Barr, present at the founding of the CIA (as an OSS officer in WWII), who groomed young Jeffrey Epstein into a job teaching math New York’s Dalton prep school in 1974 on the basis of fake college credentials (Stanford). Epstein was soon transformed into a Wall Street go-getter and most probably an agent for Mossad, Israeli intel. Epstein’s rise in high finance and international spookery led him to crypto-British media mogul and Mossad agent Robert Maxwell and Maxwell’s sex-crazed daughter Ghislaine. . . and the Epstein underage sex operation proceeded from there."
[PJMedia] In a major blow to the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... ' lawfare strategy to prevent the Trump administration from governing, Chief Justice John Roberts responded to the White House's request for emergency intervention. Roberts blocked a Biden-appointed federal judge's order that around $2 billion in frozen foreign aid funds be released immediately.
The Chief Justice issued an administrative stay on Feb. 27, preserving the status quo while the Supreme Court considers the matter more thoroughly. This temporary action overrides U.S. District Judge Amir Ali's midnight deadline, which would have forced the State Department and USAID to release billions in taxpayer dollars for already completed foreign aid work.
Roberts, who oversees requests for emergency relief arising from cases in the District of Columbia, acted alone in halting the decision from a federal district judge issued Tuesday. The judge, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali, gave the State Department and USAID until 11:59 p.m. Wednesday to pay its bills to contractors for work that had been completed before Feb. 13. The Trump administration had earlier in the night asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the dispute involving frozen foreign assistance funds.
Roberts gave the State Department and USAID contractors until noon Friday to respond to the Trump administration's request.
This is just the latest example of how Democrats' lawfare strategy against Trump might ultimately backfire spectacularly. Judicial rulings temporarily halting Trump's actions may ultimately serve to advance his broader objectives as they make their way to the Supreme Court.
The Trump administration filed the emergency appeal hours before the deadline, arguing that Judge Ali had overstepped his authority and interfered with the president's obligations to "make appropriate judgments about foreign aid." The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel had declined to stay Judge Ali's order, absurdly claiming his orders "could not be appealed."
Excuse me? When did District Court judges get the final say in such matters?
During a particularly revealing telephone hearing on Feb. 25, Judge Ali couldn't hide his bias against the Trump administration. "I don't know why I can't get a straight answer from you," he complained after Justice Department attorney Indraneel Sur repeatedly avoided his leading questions about fund releases. "I guess I'm not understanding where there is any confusion here. It's clear as day," Ali further insisted, regarding his original order.
Chief Justice Roberts has ordered the challengers to file a response by Friday, with the Supreme Court likely to act soon after — a sign that the Court is poised to nip these endless legal challenges in the bud.
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And still people are profoundly ignorant of what the US Congress can do to rein in the Deep State's lawfare strategy and restore sanity to the US judiciary below the level of the Supreme Court.
[Glenn Harlan Reynolds] A possible solution to lawfare: Back to the future?
We’ve seen a lot of single-judge national injunctions in the last month. These will, for the most part, be reversed in time by higher courts; they’re performative acts more than legal ones. But they do harm, and they certainly don’t increase respect for the legal system. (That "Hawaiian judge" has become a joking synonym for District Court overreach is not a good thing.)
So what can we do? Well, in the short term, let the system run its course. Most of these orders will be overturned, and the rest can probably be addressed by Congressional action or by a modest rewording of executive orders.
But there’s another solution, one that was deployed in the past when district judges seemed out of hand: The 3-judge district court.
The requirement for three-judge district courts was established by the Three-Judge Court Act of 1910 (originally 36 Stat. 539) and was later codified in 28 U.S.C. § 2281 and § 2282.
28 U.S.C. § 2281 (repealed in 1976) required a three-judge panel for cases seeking to enjoin (block) the enforcement of a state statute on grounds of unconstitutionality.
28 U.S.C. § 2282 (also repealed in 1976) mandated the same for injunctions against federal statutes.
Other statutes, like those under the Voting Rights Act or certain apportionment cases, also triggered this requirement.
The current § 2284(a) retains this for specific cases, such as challenges to congressional or state legislative apportionment.
Per § 2284(b), the panel consisted of three judges: one district judge (usually the one to whom the case was initially assigned) and two others designated by the chief judge of the circuit, at least one of whom had to be a circuit judge. This mix aimed to balance local and appellate perspectives.
Appeals went straight to the Supreme Court, bypassing the Courts of Appeals. We wouldn’t have to keep that, though, and I’m not sure we should.
These did not apply to Temporary Restraining Orders, which are the problem here, and I don’t believe they applied to challenges to executive orders, which is unsurprising as those were much less common in 1910. But such could be required easily enough, by a modest amendment. (And Covid experience means that the panel could convene via video conferencing, making a hearing on a TRO just as fast as by a single judge.)
With a diverse three-judge panel, the chance for grandstanding district judges to create national headlines would be less, and the likelihood of a kooky result would be less as well. And, obviously, it would make "judge shopping" harder.
Sen. Mike Lee has proposed something like this already, and says he plans to introduce legislation on the subject. John Lucas has also jumped on this idea, with the added proposal that the three judges should be drawn from three different circuits, which I like. I think this may be an idea whose time has come (again).
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The authority of a district court should be restricted to the district they service as it is with regional appellate courts. Talk about unelected government officials.
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The electorate needs a great deal of information about the mostly unknown powers of Congress to alter the functions and structure of the US Judiciary below the level of the US Supreme Court. Glenn Reynolds Instapundit has a very few mentions of this in its comments. This article takes a baby step in informing the public.
[BBC] Amazon has become the third tech giant in as many months to announce a breakthrough in quantum computing - a technology that promises vast processing power but is beset by technical difficulties.
The firm has unveiled Ocelot a prototype chip built on "cat qubit" technology - an approach that derives its name from the famous "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment.
The chip seeks to address one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the development of quantum computers - making them error free.
Amazon says, taken alongside other recent breakthroughs in the industry, its work means useful quantum computers are likely to be with us sooner than previously thought.
But how quickly these machines will be powerful enough to be practically useful for a range of commercial applications is a matter of debate among experts.
Oskar Painter of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing at the California Institute of Technology, where the work was carried out, told the BBC that recent progress meant an "aggressive date" of a decade was now "looking more and more realistic".
"Five years ago I would have said maybe 20 or 30 years", he said but added "this timeline's come in quite a bit."
Ultimately AWS, which provides cloud computing services, would like to offer quantum computing services to its customers, but Mr Painter also said he believed the advanced machines could eventually help optimise the vast global logistics of Amazon's retail business.
"You know, a company like Amazon, you make a one percent improvement in that and you're talking large dollars right? Quantum computers could enable you to do that more effectively, more real time - and that's the real value there," he explained.
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.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
...every time you hear the phrase 
