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-Lurid Crime Tales-
A US teacher and her lover were arrested for attempting to seduce a schoolgirl
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A school teacher and her lover were arrested in the US state of Nebraska for attempting to seduce a high school student. This was reported on October 26 by the British newspaper Daily Mail.

Law enforcement officials suspected 36-year-old Elizabeth Love and 41-year-old Jarid Krause of attempting to seduce and sexually exploit a minor after the latter filed a complaint.

According to the high school student, in August, she overheard a phone conversation between her teacher and her lover, in which they discussed their desire to have sex with the student. Afterward, on October 11, Love brought the minor to her home and made a sexually suggestive request. The court documents do not specify what the teacher requested.

The high school student refused and decided to leave, though the teacher made no attempt to stop her. Love then asked the student not to tell anyone about it and gave her $100.
An ugly little tale that could have been much nastier, so we can at least be grateful for that — assuming that it is true, of course. People do lie, from time to time, and the Russian press, like so many others, is pleased to find proofs that America is decadent and weak, to shore up their own self-regard.

Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1748 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In Israel a male teacher being hired has to provide a report from the police that he's not a known sexual offender. Female teachers do not.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/30/2025 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I've noticed the local TN websites generally have one or two stories like this EACH DAY. Always school employees. The school hiring practices in the state suck.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/30/2025 10:00 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
DISD removes Woodrow Wilson principal following controversial meeting with Black students
[FOX] The principal of Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas ISD has been removed after holding a meeting with only Black students to discuss academic performance.

The principal, who is also Black, apologized to parents, but some interpreted her message as blaming Black students for the school's B rating.

Dallas ISD removed the principal of Woodrow Wilson High School after she called a meeting with only Black students about their academic performance.

The parent of one student in that meeting told FOX 4 that she found the meeting offensive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1762 views] Top|| File under:


#2  You know who was inherently violent toward black people? Woodrow Wilson.
Posted by: Secret Master || 10/30/2025 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 yes he was the first blatant pro-KKK president and his whole reign was so wrong in so many evil ways.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/30/2025 1:28 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house." Heinlein, Robert A. Source: Time Enough for Love.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/30/2025 2:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Never forget the KKK were also violent antisemites.
It was the ADL who sued them out of existence. They used to have headquarters, elect politicians (Democrats naturally), the whole deal.
They sent David Duke to Congress! Wasn't it Robert Byrd(D) the grand poo-bah of the whole organization?
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 10/30/2025 6:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Including the Latino students would have only confused them because she was speaking. The two white students were probably in chess club. No need to bother them.

Hopefully, I offended a lot of people.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/30/2025 6:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Thomas "Woodrow" Wilson was a scumbag of the absolute highest order. And thanks to Teddy Roosevelt running as a third-party candidate, we got a Perfidious Albion lover as president and entry into WWI. And, yes, Wilson the Dem was all for segregation of the armed forces.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/30/2025 6:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Looks like Herb's chact-fecker's down again.
Posted by: Anguting Angomoper2623 || 10/30/2025 6:38 Comments || Top||

#9  The KKK were equal opportunity haters of everyone who was not a right thinking WASP. A younger Joe Biden was very proud to be considered a friend of Senator Robert Byrd.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/30/2025 10:06 Comments || Top||

#10  #8 Herb's chact-fecker's?

I *snorted*
Posted by: Frank G || 10/30/2025 11:44 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The Crown Empress burned on the first day of its Nile cruise
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Crown Empress cruise ship caught fire on its first day sailing on the Nile, the Daily Mail reported on October 29.

According to the publication, more than 200 passengers were evacuated from the ship. The incident occurred the day before, while the ship was cruising between the cities of Luxor and Edfu in southern Egypt.
"Other than that, how was the rest of your cruise?"
According to preliminary reports, the fire started in the galley (ship's kitchen) and quickly spread throughout the hull.

The crew activated the emergency alarm and transferred passengers to the upper deck. The ship was quickly moored at an emergency berth. No one was injured in the incident.

According to one of the passengers, the evacuation process was complicated by the fact that the fire started on the lower floor, which blocked that exit route.
Well Egypt, donchaknow. Inshallah, and all that.

Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1754 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing is done except by the will of Allan.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/30/2025 2:56 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Trump celebrates winning 'war' on climate change after Bill Gates admits he was 'completely WRONG'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump wrote that he's won another war after Bill Gates admitted climate change 'will not lead to humanity’s demise.'

The president, who has long been a skeptic of government programs attempting to solve the issue and even declared it a hoax, declared victory on Truth Social Wednesday night.

He wrote: 'I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!!'

It comes after Gates downplayed global warming's effect on humanity and called out those who continually preach climate alarmism, arguing they should instead focus more on health and poverty issues.

The Microsoft co-founder has spent a large amount of his estimated $122 billion net worth raising the alarm on climate change. He previously warned that it is already affecting lives and threatening long-term consequences for families and future generations.

However, Gates has now signaled a shift, arguing that the United Nations's 'doomsday outlook' focuses too heavily on short-term emission targets instead of looking at how to improve overall life right now.

The 70-year-old billionaire is calling for more focus and spending on vaccines to fight deadly diseases across the world, including malaria.

'Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else,
…to be fair, everything bad hits poor people worse…
for the vast majority of them, it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare,' Gates wrote in an open letter ahead of the upcoming UN COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/30/2025 00:57 || Comments || Link || [1757 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else

Cause them to not have a dozen children?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/30/2025 2:30 Comments || Top||


Scientists have predicted weak magnetic storms on October 29
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On Wednesday, October 29, weak magnetic storms are expected on Earth, caused by the impact of a coronal hole on the Sun. This was reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"Space weather, October 29, 2025. 24-hour forecast: geomagnetic conditions – disturbances and low-level magnetic storms are predicted due to the impact of plasma from the solar coronal hole on Earth," the laboratory's Telegram channel states.

According to scientists, calm flare activity is also expected. Meanwhile, a weakly disturbed geomagnetic environment was observed on Earth over the past 24 hours.

Earlier, on October 26, specialists from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences predicted an increase in solar activity over the next few days. At that time, geomagnetic activity and solar flares were quiet.

Prior to this, on October 19, a solar flare of the penultimate M-class occurred. Its duration was 18 minutes; such events can be accompanied by solar plasma emissions

Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1759 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Remember This the Next Time St Jude's Sends You a Beg
[PJMedia] The Boy Who Was Too Healthy

When Shelly Boyce walks through her home in Charlotte, the walls are lined with children’s laughter. There are four of them — barefoot, curious, full of life. Judah, the second, is eight years old. He likes dinosaurs and building things. He used to play outside more, before the chemo started. These days he gets tired easily. But he’s alive. And until recently, that was supposed to be the miracle.

At Novant Health Hemby Children's Hospital, an affiliate of St. Jude’s, Judah was nearing the end of his treatment for cancer — five months away from the finish line. He’d done better than anyone expected. His bloodwork was strong. His organs were healthy. His mother says it was because she refused to let the medicine destroy him completely. She used nutrition and detoxification to help his small body endure what medicine called “cure.”

Shelly and Shawn Boyce aren’t miracle-chasers; they’re working parents trying to keep all four of their children — Emilia, Judah, Luca, and Micah — safe and whole. Guided by a licensed functional-medicine specialist, they added supportive, non-toxic therapies to Judah’s standard protocol: hyperbaric-oxygen sessions (HBOT), scalar-light exposure, red-light and cold-laser treatments, acupressure, and targeted nutritional supplementation.

Insurance covered none of it. During frontline chemotherapy, those sessions cost roughly $5,000 per month, dropping to about $1,000 during maintenance, an enormous stretch for two middle-class parents working full-time. Yet they believe these measures helped Judah tolerate the chemo and stay out of inpatient care, while many children around him were hospitalized with complications. Their reward for that devotion was suspicion — and a CPS report.

Evidently St. Jude Hospitals don’t celebrate outliers. They investigate them.

When Judah’s liver and kidney numbers came back exceptional, the doctors didn’t smile. They started asking questions — the wrong kind. What was she giving him? What supplements? What else was she doing that wasn’t in the protocol? Shelly answered honestly. She believed the goal was the same: to keep her son alive. But her honesty made her a suspect. In the new arithmetic of modern medicine, healing outside the formula is heresy.

Last month, Novant Children’s threatened to report Shelly and Shawn to Child Protective Services. The reason, she says, was that Judah was “too well.” Too strong, too stable, too inconvenient for the narrative that cancer always equals decline. The same hospital that uses St. Jude’s imagery of hope turned its face away from a boy whose strength contradicted its system.

Then came the letter. A cease-and-desist, filed by the family’s attorney, Adam Draper. It included that North Carolina law requires everyone (including physicians) to report suspected child abuse, those who do report it are provided broad immunity from legal redress. However, that immunity is only provided if the referral was made in good faith and not based upon information the referring person knows to be false. Draper went on to state, “Your notes indicate that your referral to CPS would be based upon your suspicion that our clients are not administering the MTX and MP as prescribed. Since you will know as a matter of fact on October 17 that they have indeed been administering the MTX and MP as prescribed, we exhort you not till then, nevertheless, refer them to CPS.” However adamant the St. Jude’s affiliate’s concerns about integrative therapies might be, reporting these superlative parents to the state for child abuse would amount to crossing a legal Rubicon.

But instead of compassion, the response was silence. The doctors informed the family they are happy to “transfer his care.” After years of chemo, countless nights spent praying beside hospital beds, and the exhaustion that only parents of sick children understand, the family was threatened with abandonment — five months before the end.
Posted by: Black Charlie Gurly-Brown3993 || 10/30/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1802 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why main line medicine since Obama Care rules has been total bulls...
Posted by: 3dc || 10/30/2025 1:24 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Trump meeting with XI on video
[YouTube:USA Today]
Posted by: 3dc || 10/30/2025 00:41 || Comments || Link || [1750 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Cyber
Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted
[TheRegister] UPDATED Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region, which last week caused massive disruption to online services, is having another bad day as internal dependencies again prove problematic.

At 3:36 PM PDT on October 28 (10:36PM UTC), the cloud colossus advised customers that “Earlier today some EC2 launches within the use1-az2 Availability Zone (AZ) experienced increased latencies for EC2 instance launches.”

Amazon throttled some requests for EC2 resources, but said retrying a request should resolve the issue.

Another impact of the incident created “task launch failure rates for [Elastic Container Service] ECS tasks for both EC2 and Fargate for a subset of customers in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

Amazon’s status page advises that ECS operates cells in the US-EAST-1 Region “and a small number of these cells are currently experiencing elevated error rates launching new tasks and existing tasks may stop unexpectedly.” The cloudy concern also warned that customers “may also see their container instances disconnect from ECS which can cause tasks to stop in some circumstances” but advised it had identified the problem and was working to fix it.

The incident also impacted EMR Serverless services – the elastic map reduce service Amazon offers to run big data tools like Hadoop and Spark.

More at the link

Related from X:



Text:

A massive Microsoft Azure outage has taken down key systems worldwide, including Alaska Airlines, which says its websites and online check-in are offline.

The airline confirmed it’s working with Microsoft to restore services “as quickly as possible” and urged passengers to see airport agents for boarding passes and expect delays.

Reports suggest both Azure and AWS are down, impacting more than half the internet’s infrastructure, a rare simultaneous failure that’s already grounding flights and freezing major platforms.

Source:
@AlaskaAirNews
Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1801 views] Top|| File under:



#3  Cloud. Streaming. Subscription software. Online only video games.

Remember being called a Luddite for observing, "If you don't have a copy, you don't have a copy."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/30/2025 18:15 Comments || Top||


Economy
Nvidia Says It's Adding This Tech Company to Its Investment Portfolio. The Stocks Are Surging.
[Investopedia] A vote of confidence from AI chipmaker Nvidia sent shares of another tech company soaring Tuesday.

Nvidia (NVDA) said it's making a $1 billion investment in Nokia (NOK) in addition to a new strategic partnership, sending shares of the Finnish tech company up nearly 23%.

With Tuesday's gains, they've added about three-quarters of their value in 2025.

Nvidia said it will purchase nearly 166.4 million new Nokia shares at $6.01 each, and become a 2.9% shareholder of the Finnish firm. Nokia said it would use the proceeds "to accelerate its strategic plans to advance trusted connectivity for the AI supercycle and other general corporate purposes."

Nokia, known for its early cellphones and mobile network products, has shifted its focus to cater to the booming AI data center market of late, and the investment by Nvidia marks its latest bet on AI infrastructure plays.

Nvidia has made history by becoming the first company ever to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization, reflecting its dominance in the AI industry.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2025 03:16 || Comments || Link || [2167 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Who remembers during the late 1990s/early 2000s when Nokia was trading around $300/share and had regular forward splits, to include a 4:1 split?

I didn't realize that as low as NOK is now, they still pay a dividend.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/30/2025 6:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Both Nokia and Motorola were robbed at the same time by Erdogan's best friends. Both companies won in the World Court too and Turkey (Erdogan) REFUSED TO TURN THEM OVER. Shortly after he refused to let the US attack Iraq from the North.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/30/2025 14:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Motorola's land line side of cellular is now owned by Nokia. In a sense Bush 1 robbed Motorola first by enticing the Military side of Motorola to make swords into plowshares without telling Motorola corporate until 10s of billions were noticed spent and the PeaceKeeper wasn't able to put Iridium Sats into orbit. So.. Motorola was robbed twice and Nokia once. Motorola couldn't take two massive robberies. Oh and since the PeaceKeeper couldn't work Mot needed to use China's Long March and some early 20s idiot engineers showed China how to MIRV.

Presidents. American or others should be out of the business cycle.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/30/2025 14:48 Comments || Top||


The US Federal Reserve has lowered its base rate to 3.75-4% per annum
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The US Federal Reserve (FRS) cut its interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.75-4% per annum. The corresponding information was published on October 29 in the regulator's official press release.

The US regulator noted that economic activity is growing at a moderate pace. Job growth has slowed this year, and the unemployment rate has increased slightly, although it remained low as of August.

The Federal Reserve clarified that inflation in the US has increased since the beginning of the year and remains somewhat elevated. The regulator reaffirmed its firm commitment to ensuring maximum employment and returning inflation to the 2% target. However, the US Federal Reserve noted that uncertainty regarding the future economic outlook remains high.

In addition, the regulator announced its decision to complete the balance sheet reduction program on December 1.

On September 17, the Federal Reserve cut its interest rate to its target range of 4–4.25% per annum. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Jerome Powell also announced plans to cut 10% of the staff on the board and at all Federal Reserve banks.
Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1802 views] Top|| File under:


#2 
Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2025 14:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Some may find this old article of interest:

The untold story of the film Zulu starring Michael Caine, 50 years on
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2025 15:52 Comments || Top||


NVIDIA becomes the first company in history with a market capitalization of over $5 trillion.
Sounds like their business is bubbling up nicely

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

[Regnum] The American company NVIDIA's market capitalization has exceeded $5 trillion, becoming the first company in history to achieve such a milestone. This follows from trading results that began on October 29.

At the peak of NVIDIA's stock price around 4:30 PM Moscow time, each share was trading at $209.86. At that price, the company was worth $5.1 trillion. The stock later fell to $207.20.

Microsoft is second in market capitalization, followed by Apple.

In July, NVIDIA also became the first company with a market capitalization exceeding $4 trillion. The company produces graphics processing units and computing power for artificial intelligence technology.

NVIDIA became the world's most valuable company in June 2024, overtaking Microsoft. However, in January 2025, it fell to second place when the shares of several American tech giants fell significantly following the launch of the DeepSeek R1 chatbot in China. Its operation does not require as much processing power as its peers.

In June, the processor manufacturer regained its top spot by market capitalization, thanks to a more than 5% intraday increase in its share price.

Posted by: badanov || 10/30/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1798 views] Top|| File under:

#1  at COB today, NVDA was down a bit. Market cap at $4.94T
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/30/2025 20:16 Comments || Top||


Europe
Pentagon scales back troops from NATO eastern flank, denies American withdrawal from Europe
[FoxNews] Senate and House Armed Services Committee chairs say the move undermines deterrence amid ongoing Russia-Ukraine war

The U.S. is scaling back its military presence in Romania as Eastern Europe continues to grapple with the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Some have expressed concern that this could mean American troops withdrawing from Europe, something the Pentagon denies.

U.S. Army Europe and Africa announced on Wednesday that the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division would redeploy to their Kentucky-based home unit without replacement. The statement explained that this was part of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's "deliberate process to ensure a balanced U.S. military force posture."

"This is not an American withdrawal from Europe or a signal of lessened commitment to NATO and Article 5. Rather this is a positive sign of increased European capability and responsibility," U.S. Army Europe and Africa said in the statement. "Our NATO allies are meeting President Trump's call to take primary responsibility for the conventional defense of Europe. This force posture adjustment will not change the security environment in Europe."

However, NATO allies and some Republican lawmakers do not see the move as a sign of trust.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., issued a joint statement rebuking the move.

"We strongly oppose the decision not to maintain the rotational U.S. brigade in Romania and the Pentagon’s process for its ongoing force posture review that may result in further drawdowns of U.S. forces from Eastern Europe," Wicker and Rogers' statement read.

The lawmakers said the move goes against their March 19 declaration that they would not accept significant changes to the U.S.'s military structure "without a rigorous interagency process, coordination with combatant commanders and the Joint Staff, and collaboration with Congress."

President Donald Trump told reporters earlier this month that the U.S. was not planning on withdrawing troops, but that "we may move some around a little bit."


Posted by: Skidmark || 10/30/2025 00:19 || Comments || Link || [1768 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given EU's constant anti-USA narrative, DESPITE having bailed their asses out of 2 world wars and prevented a USSR take over (60's to the 90's).
Let the US taxpayers save a $$$Billion's wasted there each year. Let us get the US ready for the CCP/RUSSIA/Muslim WW-III
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/30/2025 2:57 Comments || Top||

#2  ^In other words: their Drang nach Osten, should stop. Concentrate on countering Muslim conquest, dear EUropeans!
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/30/2025 5:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Let me get this straight: a tired out, wrecked Russian army is going to somehow invade NATO, the one thing that is guaranteed to trigger an extreme American response?
They're not even trying to be realistic.
A single brigade is going to swing the balance?
Come on.
The Russians can't even beat Ukraine!
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 10/30/2025 5:45 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Concentrate on countering Muslim conquest, dear EUropeans!

With the possible exception of coastal outliers Ireland and rural Albion, they appear to embrace "Muslim conquest."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/30/2025 6:02 Comments || Top||

#5  The US should finally give the Urinepeans, especially the Germans, what they've always wanted: Amis raus.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/30/2025 6:19 Comments || Top||

#6  ...denies American withdrawal from Europe

You are 30 years too late.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/30/2025 7:38 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Trump orders US nuclear weapons testing to begin 'immediately' after Russia tests new missiles
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, saying the leader should be pursuing peace in Ukraine rather than testing missiles.

President Donald Trump announced that he has ordered the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing "immediately," saying he directed the Department of War to match other nations’ programs. He called the move a necessary step to maintain global parity.

Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Wednesday night: "The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office."

"Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years," Trump said. "Because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately."

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One after a high-stakes meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Trump said it was a response to other nations’ recent actions.

"It had to do with others — they seemed to all be nuclear testing. We have more nuclear weapons than anybody. We don’t do testing. We halted it many years ago, but with others doing testing, I think it’s appropriate that we do also," Trump said.

Trump declined to provide details on where and when testing might take place when pressed for the information.

"It’ll be announced. You know, we have test sites. It’ll be announced," he said.

Trump also said he did not believe that resuming U.S. nuclear tests could make the global environment more dangerous.

"I don’t think so. I think we have it pretty well locked up," he said. "But we have more than anybody, and I see them testing. I say, well, they’re testing, we have to test too. I’d like to see a deneutralization … because we have so many. Russia’s second and China’s third. China will catch up within four or five years. I think de-escalation, or denuclearization, would be tremendous. We’re actually talking to Russia about that, and China would be added to that if we do something."

The announcement comes days after Trump warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. has a nuclear submarine stationed "right off their shores." The warning followed Russia’s recent missile tests.
The Times of Israel adds:
China More Than Doubled Arsenal In Last Five Years

Trump’s decision to restart nuclear weapons testing follows a rapid expansion by China of its nuclear stockpile in recent years, and came just after Russia announced what it called a successful test of a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable cruise missile as well as a nuclear-powered torpedo.

Trump addressed the Russian moves aboard Air Force One earlier this week, telling news hounds that Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
should be working to end the war in Ukraine "instead of testing missiles."

Beijing has more than doubled the size of its arsenal to an estimated 600 nuclear weapons in 2025 from 300 weapons in 2020, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.

It said US military officials estimate that China will have over 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030. A Victory Day parade in September revealed five nuclear capabilities that can all reach the continental United States, CSIS said.

The Arms Control Association says the United States has a stockpile of 5,225 nuclear warheads and Russia has 5,580.

Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that military analysts say is capable of devastating coastal regions by triggering vast radioactive ocean swells.

As Trump has toughened both his rhetoric and his stance on Russia, Putin has publicly flexed his nuclear muscles with the test of a new Burevestnik cruise missile on October 21 and nuclear launch drills on October 22.
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The first flight of the experimental supersonic aircraft X-59 was conducted in the United States
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] American defense industry corporation Lockheed Martin, in partnership with NASA, conducted the first test flight of the X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft. The company's press service reported this on October 28.

The tests took place in Palmdale, California, where Lockheed Martin is located. The flight proceeded as planned, and the aircraft confirmed its flight characteristics and aerodynamic performance.

The statement quoted O.J. Sanchez, vice president of the corporation's Skunk Works division. The company specializes in aircraft design and related research and development.

"We are thrilled to have achieved the X-59's maiden flight. This aircraft is a testament to the innovation and expertise of our joint team, and we are proud to be at the forefront of quiet supersonic technology development," he said.

The X-59 is designed to fly at Mach 1.4 at an altitude of about 57,000 feet, more than twice as fast and about 60% faster than conventional airliners.

It is specified that during subsequent test flights, the X-59 will ascend higher and reach greater speeds. The ultimate goal is to exceed the speed of sound and reach approximately 1,225 km/h at sea level.

The developers noted that the X-59 is not a prototype, but an experimental aircraft, and its use will help collect data for the development of new generations of supersonic passenger airliners.

In 2024, the American space agency (NASA) unveiled the X-59, an experimental supersonic aircraft capable of breaking the sound barrier without creating a sonic boom. The unveiling took place at the Skunk Works facility in Palmdale.

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Reminds me of the SR-72 Black Bird
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