🚨BREAKING: Laura Helmuth has resigned as Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American after over four years in the role. During her tenure, she transformed @sciam from a widely respected, objective popular science magazine into a science-themed, woke political publication. pic.twitter.com/5nMNp79lSF
[IsraelTimes] Along with foreign policy, Trump has put Musk and another wealthy entrepreneur, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, in charge of a new "Department of Government Efficiency" tasked with overhauling the federal bureaucracy.
The new initiative has raised questions about conflicts of interest given the extensive interactions between Musk’s businesses and the government.
An account for the program has been created on X, formerly Twitter, where it asked applicants to apply through a direct message.
"We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting," said a post on X, adding that "Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants."
Musk remarked, "Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies [willing to work 80+ hours per week] & compensation is zero. What a great deal!"
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He should set up an account open for suggestions from the public. I'm sure 320 million Americans can provide a few thousand ideas of places where cuts could be made. I'd suggest denying all financial assistance to anyone in the country illegally, except in emergencies where a person's life is at extreme risk. Watch the reverse flow begin!
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"the packages of both salted and unsalted Kirkland Signature Sweet Cream Butter list cream as an ingredient, but may not contain the "Contains Milk" allergy statement visible on the packaging."
DOGE is crowd sourcing, with a handful of independent researchers already reaching out to Vivek and Elon over Twitter to pass on their research. These are serious people with a depth of knowledge and fully cited research with credible sources.
They will dissolve DOGE July 4th, 2026 on the 250th Birthday of America.
[FoxWeather] When the Mountain Fire erupted in southern California’s Ventura County on Nov. 6, residents had only minutes to flee with their lives and their belongings — whatever they could grab. But dozens of horses remained trapped in the encroaching flames.
Robyn Fisher tells FOX Weather she had to race through smoke and flames to rescue several horses threatened by the fast advancing Mountain Fire that burned in Southern California earlier this month.
When the Mountain Fire erupted in southern California’s Ventura County on Nov. 6, residents had only minutes to flee with their lives and their belongings — whatever they could grab.
But for equestrian communities threatened by the encroaching flames, the situation was far more complicated and help was urgently needed.
Robyn Fisher was one of many who answered the call for help. The equestrian owner and trainer at R Farms raced into the fire zone when she heard several horses were in danger and needed transport to safety.
The first stop was a facility where flames were burning across the street.
"It was a lot more dire than I had anticipated," Fisher told FOX Weather. "Little did I expect it to be as dire and smoky and escalated as it already was. I was quite nervous... I mean, all you could see was orange smoke around us."
She was able to quickly get four horses into her trailer.
"And I thought that I was being smart by going out the driveway in the opposite direction. But it actually was worse," she said. "And I ran into a fireman and I stopped and I said, ‘I can't turn around. What do I do?’"
She said the firefighter told her to stay in the middle of the road and "whatever you do, do not stop. And if you have shavings in the trailer, make sure your windows are closed."
Her assistant, Tony, guided her through the thick smoke that obscured the way out.
"He pulled out his phone and called up the navigation in front of us, and he was telling me when to turn, when to go straight and that kind of stuff because all I was seeing was smoke and feeling the heat," she said. "And I thought that I had made a huge mistake and was actually going to go up in flames."
She said she just did barely escape the flames - a fate not afforded to another horse rescue team just minutes behind her.
"There was another rig following me, and they loaded up four more horses. They actually were not as lucky as me," she said. "They did the same exit that I did and were probably 2 to 3 minutes behind me and their rig caught on fire, and they actually had to unload the horses and run them down the street in hand."
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[Regnum] A unique tomb, previously unknown, was discovered in Egypt by scientists from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences near the famous pyramid complex in Giza. TASS reported this on November 13.
It is specified that the Russian expedition led by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Eleonora Kormysheva discovered a rock tomb in the eastern part of the Giza necropolis, 300 meters from the Pyramid of Cheops. The researchers managed to clear a small hole through which the burial chamber can be seen. Archaeologists are preparing to completely open the entrance to it.
"The tomb dates back to the Old Kingdom, to the reign of the 5th dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs. On the walls there are preserved inscriptions and reliefs depicting the owner of the tomb and his wife at a sacrificial table, as well as their full-length statues carved into the rock," Kormysheva said.
It is specified that a small hole has been cleared, through which the remains of a wooden painted sarcophagus, whole ceramic vessels (usually supplies with which the deceased was supposed to go to the other world were placed in such vessels), as well as other objects, are visible in the burial chamber. Now archaeologists are preparing to completely open the entrance to the burial chamber.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that Egyptian archaeologists discovered a bronze sword of Pharaoh Ramses II during excavations in the province of El-Buheira. Archaeologists also discovered a number of adobe structures, including military barracks, weapons depots and food storage facilities. They were attributed to the era of the New Kingdom, the heyday of ancient Egyptian statehood (around 1550 - 1100 BC).
[Breitbart] The government of South Africa said on Thursday it will not assist a group of illegal miners who became trapped in a mine shaft with minimal supplies after police sealed off the entrance.
The miners can leave at any time, provided they are ready to be placed under arrest by the police waiting for them outside.
The illegal gold mine has been targeted by a police operation called Vala Umgodi (“Close the Hole,”) which aims to crack down on unlicensed digs by sealing off the mine entrances employed by illegal crews to obtain food, water, and other supplies.
The miners are known as zama zama, a Zulu phrase that means “take a chance.” Many of them are illegal migrants from other countries. Mineral-rich South Africa has a large number of illegal mines, spread across a vast area that is difficult to police. Zama zama miners live underground for weeks or months at a time to escape detection, relying on local suppliers to pass them food, water, cigarettes, tools, and other supplies through small tunnels.
The operation in Stilfontein, a town in South Africa’s North West province, is one of the largest “Close the Hole” exercises to date. According to police reports, roughly a thousand zama zama miners have already emerged from tunnels in the Stilfontein area and been arrested – but almost 4,000 more could be holed up underground.
“We feel that the numbers are being exaggerated. We have deployed maximum resources to this case including our intelligence operatives, who are on the ground who have engaged with all stakeholders. We have managed to estimate the numbers to be between 350 and 400,” police spokeswoman Athlenda Mathe said on Thursday.
Hundreds of people trapped underground is still an alarming situation, especially since no one is quite certain how long the miners have been down there. Some Stilfontein residents are pleading with the authorities to send supplies into the mine, but they have adamantly refused.
“We have taken a decision that no police officer, no soldier or government official will go down to an abandoned mine. There is a high risk of loss of life,” Mathe said, citing reports of “hazardous gasses” underground.
“We have consulted with the mining company and the Department of Mineral Resources, and they are telling us that it is unsafe. It is inhumane to allow people to go down there,” she said.
Mathe added the police have reason to believe the miners could be heavily armed. Hundreds of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been seized in police operations against zama zama miners since December, along with about $275,000 in cash and $1.75 million worth of uncut diamonds.
One reason for the ramped-up “Close the Hole” operation, which began in mid-October, was a rash of reports from locals that the illegal miners were committing robberies and rapes in the area. Gangs of miners have also been known to engage in fierce turf battles.
“As a caring government, we have gone to great lengths to allow these illegal miners to resurface, and it seems as though they are refusing,” Mathe said, accusing the illegal miners of attempting to “blackmail” the government by making their situation appear more dire than it really was.
“We are told by intelligence that they are refusing to resurface. No one is trapped,” she declared.
“We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out. They will come out. Criminals are not to be helped. We didn’t send them there,” said Cabinet Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni at a press conference on Wednesday.
The most recent group of five miners to surrender on Wednesday were sick and weak from malnutrition. Busi Thabane, who works for a charity called the Benchmarks Foundation, told the BBC on Thursday that the situation in the Stilfontein mines has become a “humanitarian crisis.”
“It’s not as easy as the police make it seem – some of them are fearing for their lives. For many of them, it’s the only way they know how to put food on the table,” she said of the miners.
“Those people must come out because we have brothers there, we have sons there, the fathers of our kids are there, our children are struggling,” a local woman said. Other residents said at least one dead body has been pulled from a blockaded mine shaft.
The South African Human Rights Commission is threatening to investigate the police for cutting off food and water to the miners, but some South Africans are praising the police operation on social media for taking a tough stance against lawlessness.
“I love this. Finally, our government is not tiptoeing on these serious matters. Decisiveness will help this country,” said an approving social media post quoted by the BBC.
[NY Post]The other shoe drops Boeing said it is issuing layoff notices to employees who are included in the aerospace giant’s broader workforce reduction plan.
The approximately 17,000 employees included in the cuts were notified this week and are expected to leave the company in mid-January, Boeing said.
The cuts, which come after a labor union strike, equate to 10% of its workforce.
“We are adjusting our workforce levels to align with our financial reality and a more focused set of priorities,” Boeing said in a statement to FOX Business.
CEO Kelly Ortberg, who took over in August, told staff in a memo last month that the job cuts would include executives, managers and employees.
“Our business is in a difficult position, and it is hard to overstate the challenges we face together,” Ortberg told staff, saying that the situation “requires tough decisions, and we will have to make structural changes to ensure we can stay competitive and deliver for our customers over the long term.”
The company has about 170,000 employees worldwide, many of them working in manufacturing facilities in South Carolina and Washington state.
The company also announced the end of production of its 767 aircraft in 2027 after it completes the current orders for 29 jets.
They don't care. My father turned off the lights at a shipyard where he'd worked for 19 years because the union was demanding a four hour work week and a 2 year contract. The Navy and Coast Guard were willing to commit years of work and construction if they would approve a 4 year contract, but the union president had delusions of Godhood.
They closed the doors in the spring of 83, and the union's first response was to convince the excreable Howard Metzenbaum to introduce a bill forcing the yard to reopen under the union's terms.
When that didn't work, the union convinced itself that it was all a trick, and they kept meeting every week for nearly twenty more years before they gave up.
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.
