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US Carries Out 'Self Defense Strikes' on Iran, As Trump Makes Important Announcement About 'Nuclear Dust'
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Witches of Luigi Mangione
By John Kass
Glad he's back!
[JOHNKASSNEWS] The media has an odd term for the sullen young women who have made a sexual fetish of pretty-boy killer Luigi Mangione.

They’re called Luigi Fangirls.

It evokes a frolic, young women skipping down the street, singing, holding hands. You know, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."

But I much prefer another name, a more direct name:

Witches.

I’m told that witches are supposedly fictional, a phobia created by men, by the patriarchy, to impose our evil will upon women who cling to stories like "The Handmaid’s Tale," to justify generations of their cruelties upon boys, from wholesale abortion to "gender affirming" castrations of transgenders.

But they began to appear in our lives, as they had appeared in the past, when they publicly poured out their hysterical sexual fantasies and pathetic love for their heartthrob with those Italian eyebrows, the killer Luigi Mangione, the rich boy of privilege who stalked then shot Health Care executive Bryan Thompson in the back.



Mangione is the pretty privileged boy who murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Health Care. Thompson was fatally shot outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in December 2024. Mangione, who was apprehended days later in Pennsylvania, is currently facing both federal and state murder and weapons charges.

But what explains the hysteria of the witches?

It is a special kind of hysteria, this hysteria of women attracted by the demonic. This is the crucible where witches are made.

From the article "Women Who Love Serial Killers" consider the story of Rosalie Martinez, a public defender and mitigation specialist, and who was once married to an attorney. They had four daughters. After she met death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. in 1995, she left her husband for him. Martinez and Bolin married that same year, over the phone.

He kidnapped and killed three young women. After she met death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. in 1995, she left her husband for him. Martinez and Bolin married that same year, over the phone.

I’m surprised she didn’t insist upon a proper church wedding. Having trouble processing all this depravity? It’s really not all that hard. Just think of the left-wing man-hating hags on the daytime ABC television show "The View"
…which claims to be a real news show instead of the cabal of cackling, mean girl h8ters it really is…
and realize that the shrews are helping raise America’s kids.

Bolin, a former truck driver, has been convicted 10 times for raping and killing three women in Florida. In each case, rulings have been overturned due to errors. This week, he was back in the courtroom for another retrial. Convicted again, he received a life sentence on top of two death sentences.

According to the article by Katherine Ramsland, Martinez believed that Bolin is not a killer, once stated that when she met him, he left her "breathless." And she sensed his loneliness and isolation. She told a reporter, "It affected me because I felt the same way." She decided to marry him, she said, to raise awareness of the injustice of his plight.

"Plenty of serial killers have attracted mates, especially those with a high media profile. Carol Ann Boone became Ted Bundy’s girlfriend while he went through his legal proceedings in Florida. She took every opportunity to describe how he was being unfairly railroaded. Boone maintained her stance, and during the penalty phase of his 1980 trial, she testified on his behalf. They exploited an old law and married in the courtroom just before he received a death sentence. Boone had a child with Bundy, but eventually realized he was guilty. She took her child and moved away."

This psychological condition of being sexually or romantically attracted to criminals is known as hybristophilia, sometimes colloquially referred to as the "Bonnie and Clyde syndrome" But Bonnie wasn’t a victim, some Dewey-eyed ingénue who could’ve played a nun if models Fay Dunaway or Linda Evangelista were paid enough money and wore habits.

Bonnie was a stone killer, as murderous as any witch. As self-hateful as a smoker refusing to quit or the streetwalker on her sixth abortion.

Self-proclaimed "Mangionistas" Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas and Lena Weissbrot proudly showed off the passes they received from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, apparently for their online content documenting Mangione’s upcoming trial for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

But the credentialed "reporters" chillingly made no bones about supporting Mangione’s alleged vendetta to strike fear into the hearts of healthcare executives such as Thompson. "F—k Brian Thompson," the witch Rojas said, city-issued press pass dangling from her neck. "That’s all I want to say. F—k Brian Thompson. F—k his mom."

His mom?

When you think of how much the communists hate America, think of the witches.

The Mangionistas — who collectively run an Instagram account with that name — are among the most visible and fervent Mangione superfans, churning out a grab bag of far-left posts across social media and blogs.

But there are many others out there.

They’re witches. All of them. And may they burn in hell.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/26/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1782 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Devils of Loudun
The Devils of Loudun is a 1952 non-fiction account expressed in a novelistic style by Aldous Huxley.
It recounts the events of the Loudun possessions of 1634.


Also an excellent film with Oliver Reed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/25/2026 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  We definitely have a youth problem. I was surprised to find out that the Columbine shooters had fan clubs like they were The Monkeys. It is occultic and witches is a correct term for the members.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/26/2026 6:19 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not official till they're invited to be on the 'View'.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/26/2026 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 LMAO

This is an area of human psychology I hope never to understand.
Posted by: Matt || 05/26/2026 12:58 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Sanitary ghettos: South Asia's disposable Christians
[BrusselsSignal] The systematic degradation of Christian communities in South Asia is not an accident, but a policy. The millions of Christians trapped in the slums of Lahore, Karachi, and Dhaka are victims of calculated exclusion. These are not merely poor neighbourhoods. They are ghettos of a permanent underclass. In the shantytowns of Pakistan and the slums of Bangladesh, clean water, electricity, basic sanitation and safety are luxuries reserved for the majority faith. Those living there are literally destined for the gutter.

In Pakistan, this exclusion has been institutionalised through a modern-day caste system. Approximately 80 per cent of the country’s sanitation workers are Christian, a staggering statistic that reveals a society segregating its citizens according to religious faith. This is not a coincidence. It is a structural feature of a state that relegates Christians to the most hazardous and degraded occupations, often forced into work deemed "unclean" for others. An entire community is confined to the sewers and the slums. It is essential for the maintenance of the city, but it is not permitted to belong to it.

The pathology is identical in Bangladesh, where the situation has moved from quiet marginalisation to active siege. Following the political upheavals of the last two years, the safety of the Christian minority is in continuous danger. From the shantytowns of Dhaka to rural outposts, we are seeing a coordinated campaign of land seizures and intimidation. In the chaos of transition, radicalised mobs have targeted Christian schools and homes, viewing the community as an alien body to be expelled.

Perhaps the most disturbing element of this crisis is the utter indifference from the international community. We hear endless lectures from Brussels about human rights and global solidarity, yet when it comes to this systematic degradation, the silence is complete. There is a strange, self-imposed paralysis in Western diplomacy that avoids addressing the struggles of Christians abroad — when it is the Christian West that ought to rush to their rescue first.
But we do hear, a lot, about the "oppression" of Christianity in Israel.
...The Christian slums in South Asia are not just a humanitarian crisis. They are a mirror of our profound hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy. By allowing these communities to suffer, the West signals that its commitment to human rights is arbitrary, dependent on political convenience. The state-sponsored marginalisation of minorities must be met with real diplomatic costs, while Christian rights in Islamic countries must be protected. Anything less is a betrayal of the very foundations of our culture and identity.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/26/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1781 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats?
[AmericanThinker] Just look at the nefarious behavior of Jack Smith. And he’s far from the only one.

Reports last week confirmed that former special counsel Jack Smith “secretly arranged” to preserve evidence in his criminal cases against President Trump in order to maintain the threat of future prosecution once the president leaves office. This is not a big surprise. Democrats have thrown every civic norm out the window in their ruthless efforts to target Trump’s businesses and send him to prison for life.

In his quest to imprison an American president, Jack Smith accused Trump of engaging in a conspiracy to “overthrow” the 2020 election, as well as retaining possession of classified documents after leaving the White House. Both allegations are ridiculous, and Smith’s own words make him sound like a lawfare hitman and anti-MAGA zealot. He told members of Congress in January, “Our investigation revealed that Donald Trump is the person who caused Jan. 6, it was foreseeable to him, and that he sought to exploit the violence.” Smith stated emphatically that Trump committed “serious crimes.”

Serious crimes? You mean like using the FBI to spy on all the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2015 and 2016? Oh right, that was President Obama. Or fabricating intelligence in order to justify a counterintelligence operation against candidate Trump? Oh, that was Obama’s corrupt CIA director, John Brennan. Or paying British Intelligence operatives to manufacture a fake “Russia collusion” dossier implicating Trump? Oh, that was Hillary Clinton. Or using the FBI and CIA to frame President Trump as a Russian spy? Oh, that was Obama and Clinton, too. Or sabotaging President Trump’s administration by using a Democrat spy on the National Intelligence Council to construct a false story about an innocuous phone call in order to trigger a bogus impeachment? Oh, that was Intelligence Community Democrats attempting to hide Joe Biden’s corruption in Ukraine by, again, framing President Trump for a quid-pro-quo “crime” he never committed. Or submitting fraudulent documents to the FISA Court in order to maintain spying operations against President Trump? Oh, that was corrupt James Comey, corrupt Robert Mueller, corrupt Andrew Weissmann, corrupt Norm Eisen, corrupt Mary McCord, and their Democrat accomplices in the FBI and DOJ who covered up Obama’s illegal spying operations while framing President Trump as a criminal, spy, and traitor.

Listening to Jack Smith call President Trump a “serious” criminal sounds ridiculous when serious criminals Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Comey, and legions of their Democrat colleagues, subordinates, and co-conspirators in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, D.C. courts, and FISA Court (see Judge James Boasberg’s impeachable offenses) have never been properly investigated or punished for undermining President Trump’s election, sabotaging his administration, and framing him for treason. The most powerful Democrats in the country organized a coup d’état in broad daylight and dragged the country through a barbed-wire field of partisan propaganda for the last ten years, and Jack Smith wants Americans to be upset that President Trump retained documents that he was entitled to possess? It’s just such lunacy. The constant gaslighting from D.C. operatives is equally infuriating and exhausting.

Glossing over the Democrats’ monstrous Russia Collusion Hoax, their relentless efforts to subvert the Trump-led government, and their continuing obsession with tossing the president in prison for imaginary crimes is bad enough, but Jack Smith does what all Democrats do: He pretends that the January 6, 2021, protest for election integrity was an attempt by Trump and his supporters to overthrow the government. This lie is so brazen that it’s astonishing how Democrats can keep telling it with straight faces.

The people who showed up at the Capitol that day had one objective: to express their strong belief that mail-in-ballot fraud, violations of multiple states’ electoral statutes, and numerous voting discrepancies had tainted the 2020 election. Several senators intended to make these very arguments before the certification of the election’s results. The people who gathered outside the Capitol were exercising their First Amendment right to assemble peaceably. They were unarmed. Most had no criminal records. A large number had served their country in various capacities. Most who entered the Capitol walked around as tourists, took pictures, interacted in a friendly manner with Capitol Police, and posed no threat to anyone.

Only after law enforcement officers chose to fire flash-bang grenades on the assembled crowd did a section of the protest turn into something that could be described as a riot. Trump supporters — not police officers — died on January 6. Ordinary Americans exercising their constitutional rights were thrown into a state of fear of being hurt or killed.

Nevertheless, Smith continues to propagate the lie that the three-hour event at the Capitol was somehow the greatest threat to the country since 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War (real comparisons that Democrat propagandists continue to make). Smith and his fellow Democrats desperately wish for Americans to believe that a hot-chocolate-drinking gathering of grandparents, revelers, and veterans was somehow going to topple the government of the United States. If a crowd of retirees is capable of overrunning Washington, what’s the point of a trillion-dollar military budget?

Smith’s perpetuation of the Democrats’ J6 propaganda is bad enough, but the fact that he treats that day as equivalent to the Civil War is all the more preposterous given that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their fellow Democrats openly encouraged Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists to burn down neighborhoods, loot businesses, and murder civilians throughout the summer of 2020. If President Trump “caused Jan. 6” and the events of that day were “foreseeable” to him, then the violence and mayhem of 2020’s so-called “summer of love” were certainly foreseeable to Democrats. The BLM riots of 2020 were the most costly in American history, and Vice President Harris encouraged Democrats to donate money to a bail fund that put arsonists, rapists, and murderers back on the street.

Were the Democrat-organized riots of 2020 “foreseeable”? Of course. Did prominent Democrats “exploit the violence,” as Smith accuses Trump of doing with January 6? They absolutely did. Biden and Harris ran for the White House on the message that the violence would end once they were elected. Will preening, self-righteous Jack Smith investigate, harass, arrest, or prosecute any of these Democrats? Of course not. Will Democrat rioters be tossed into pre-trial solitary confinement and refused bail by partisan prosecutors and judges? Definitely not. To this day, Democrats celebrate BLM and Antifa domestic terrorists as champions for civil rights. When Democrats burn cities to the ground, the arsonists get statues. When MAGA Americans protest for free and fair voting, they are condemned for crimes they never committed.

Unfortunately, this is how leftists all over the world now operate. Brazil’s communist President Lula has imprisoned his predecessor, President Bolsonaro, for supposedly trying to overthrow the government. French President Macron has permitted his political opposition, Marine Le Pen, to be prosecuted and convicted for similarly bogus “embezzlement” crimes. Germany has flirted with designating the popular anti-immigration party, Alternative for Germany, a “terrorist” organization and banning its candidates from running for office. When the “wrong” candidate won Romania’s presidential election eighteen months ago, the country’s Constitutional Court annulled the outcome by blaming “Russian interference.”

If President Trump hadn’t possessed the financial resources and sheer grit to face down the onslaught of malicious and meritless prosecutions against him, he would likely be in a courtroom or a prison today. If he hadn’t been re-elected a third time, January 6 defendants would still be awaiting trial or serving time in prison for an imaginary “insurrection.”

Forget about Jack Smith. He’s no lawman, and he has no principles. He’s nothing but a corrupt propagandist, partisan hack, and lawfare assassin.

Nothing will change until prominent Democrats are prosecuted and convicted for their crimes. Until then, it’s open season on all of us.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/26/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1816 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
The question is:

Is Prison the Best Place for Certain Prominent Democrats DC SWAMP Persons?

My Suggestion
Only if it is done using General Population in a common Prison (Fed or State), and not one of the DC Swamp setup Country Clubs Resorts (Club-Fed) they use for Elites.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/26/2026 5:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Prison is the best place for the middle managers in the coup.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/26/2026 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I would prefer a hole in the ground for all of them.
Posted by: Chris || 05/26/2026 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Afraid they'll subvert the prison system the way they did the government system?😎
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/26/2026 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  The gallows set up in capital park is a good start.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/26/2026 14:42 Comments || Top||


#7  Actually, I think all Deep Swamp critters (including those elected or appointed to high office, then abuse it) should be exiled to a small asteroid, with a one- to three-day supply of oxygen.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/26/2026 18:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Chuck Schumer Celebrates Memorial Day Alone As All Of Last Year's Guests Dead From E. Coli
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Chuck Schumer reportedly spent Memorial Day alone with his thoughts after having killed all of his backyard barbecue guests the previous year by serving them raw hamburger beef infected with E. coli.

During a disastrous Father's Day BBQ in 2025, Chuck Schumer fed his guests raw hamburgers after admitting he thought that's how burgers were made. He's been carrying the guilt ever since.

"How was I supposed to know that serving raw meat was deadly?" neighbors heard Schumer saying as he stared sadly at his grill. "Eating burgers that way has never hurt me, and I've been doing it for years."

Officially, Schumer blamed his newfound loneliness on President Donald Trump and his healthcare policies. But deep inside his black heart lies a weeping child who desperately wishes he could turn the clock back and learn to cook hamburgers properly.

"Poor people cook hamburgers all the time. Why can't I do it?" he reportedly said as he cast a stone into the Potomac River. He gazed thoughtfully at the ripples it made and thought about those he lost in the last year due to E. coli poisoning.

When asked about his Memorial Day plans, Schumer admitted he had none. "I will spend the day in remembrance for those I killed," he said. "And coming up with a way to blame it on Trump."

At publishing time, Schumer was seen by witnesses gorging himself on raw hamburger meat, hoping that the next bite would reunite him with his friends.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/26/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1750 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Iran's proxy war has crossed oceans and is now knocking on America's door
[FoxNews] The Al-Saadi case shows how Tehran's proxies exploit cartel corridors, criminal networks, and migration pipelines

Americans still debate Iran through an outdated lens. We speak of war as something that starts with bombs, troop deployments, or congressional declarations. Yet Iran has waged asymmetric war against the United States and the West since 1979 — through terrorism, proxy forces, illicit finance, ideological movements, cyber operations, criminal partnerships, and gray-zone tactics deliberately kept below the threshold of conventional conflict.

The real danger is not merely Iran’s capabilities. It is our refusal to recognize the nature of the fight.

Americans must reframe the debate. The threat is hybrid, networked, and already operating inside the strategic seams of the West.
Many Americans view conflict with Iran as something happening "over there" — in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, the Red Sea, or the Strait of Hormuz. In reality, Iran’s infrastructure has embedded itself much closer to home: across Latin America, inside cartel corridors, through illicit financial networks, migration pipelines, and the operational seams inside the United States itself.

This did not happen by accident. It was built deliberately over decades via proxies, criminal convergence, ideological networks, covert finance, and tradecraft designed to obscure attribution. In fact, just two days after I testified before Congress warning about the convergence between cartel infrastructure, Iranian-backed proxies, and gray-zone warfare, the Department of Justice unsealed charges against an Iraqi national tied to exactly the kind of hybrid threat architecture I described

Prosecutors charged Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a senior commander in Kata’ib Hizballah (KH)—an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — with directing attacks on Jewish, Israeli, and American targets across Europe and North America, including a plot against a Manhattan synagogue.

The most revealing aspect of the case was not simply the attacks themselves. It was the operational model behind them.

Al-Saadi allegedly sought to coordinate through Mexican cartel-linked smuggling networks and criminal facilitators across the Western Hemisphere. The attacks were branded under a new front group, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (HAYI), designed to appear independent while advancing KH, Hezbollah, and IRGC goals.

This layered structure provides operational security, plausible deniability, and strategic distance from the violence itself — hallmarks of Iranian tradecraft. Iran has refined this operational model for decades. In 1983, Iranian cleric and intelligence operative Mohsen Rabbani arrived in Argentina under commercial and religious cover tied to halal meat certification. He became imam of a Buenos Aires mosque while serving as Iran’s cultural attaché. Using mosques, cultural centers, charities, front companies, and diaspora networks, he helped build Iranian and Hezbollah infrastructure across Latin America. The Tri-Border Area (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay) became a hub for Hezbollah financiers, smugglers, traffickers, and money launderers operating alongside criminal networks. This ecosystem enabled the 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing in Buenos Aires and the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 people. Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman’s investigation found Iran directed the attacks while Hezbollah executed them through layered proxies — mirroring today’s tactics.

These are not isolated terrorism cases. They reflect a resilient asymmetric architecture built to operate below the threshold that would trigger conventional war. Iran does not see threats as separate silos — Houthis in the Red Sea, militias in Iraq and Syria, Hezbollah in Latin America, or cartels at the U.S. border. Tehran views them as interconnected fronts in a multi-domain campaign that exploits globalization’s infrastructure: smuggling routes, corruption networks, illicit finance, and governance gaps.

Hezbollah networks have long intersected with Latin American narcotics trafficking, sanctions evasion, and money laundering. DEA investigations, such as Project Cassandra, documented these ties. Recent U.S. Treasury and State Department sanctions targeted Iranian shadow banking systems, front companies, shipping networks, and a "shadow fleet" used to move illicit oil and finance proxies. These financial and logistical tools sustain the broader apparatus of proxy warfare and criminal convergence.

The same operational logic applies elsewhere. Houthis disrupt Red Sea shipping with Iranian backing and deniability. Iran pressures energy markets via the Strait of Hormuz through harassment and proxies. In the Western Hemisphere, Iranian influence overlaps with Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles, transnational drug pipelines, and anti-Western networks involving Russia and China.

Not every cartel operative works for Tehran, but hostile actors routinely exploit the same permissive corridors.

This creates a growing mismatch: adversaries wage persistent, sub-threshold irregular warfare through networks, erosion, and exploitation of open societies, while America still thinks in binaries of "war" versus "peace," "foreign" versus "domestic," or "terrorism" versus "crime."

The southern border is no longer just an immigration or law-enforcement issue. It has become a strategic access point into the U.S. homeland, where transnational networks exploit gaps in ways resembling irregular warfare environments. Inside the country, this expands beyond crime into homeland defense and critical infrastructure concerns.

The Al-Saadi case is not simply another terrorism investigation. It is a warning. Iran’s war against the West did not begin with any single operation, and it will not remain overseas simply because Americans refuse to recognize it. Proxy networks, criminal pipelines, migration corridors, maritime logistics, covert finance, and propaganda ecosystems continue adapting to extend reach while maintaining deniability.

Americans must reframe the debate. The threat is hybrid, networked, and already operating inside the strategic seams of the West.

Recognizing the conflict for what it is — a long-running asymmetric campaign already converging on the homeland — is the first step toward effective defense.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/26/2026 07:50 || Comments || Link || [1828 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


#2  Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Rumsfeld was right when he called this the "Long War."
We haven't even touched Russia or China. This war on terror will take up most of the 2st century.
Posted by: Woodrow Javins2199 || 05/26/2026 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I, for one, worry very little about collateral damage in Iran. If the people wanted a revolt, it would happen. Yet it has not. Iran has vowed to exterminate America, not some vision or philosophy, but kil you and me for their god! It is time for Trump to grow a pair of balls and end them for the next 100 years. We MUST destroy this enemy before it moves its army here to America, not just hit teams but battalions. We are weak, cant tell boys from girls, cant make a decision, and that makes us more vulnerable than any time in our history. Time to end Iran and their evil manifesto. If that means bombing every power plant, every hospital, every bridge, airport, and building, then so be it. They want total war and we should oblige and bring it to them in spades.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/26/2026 18:48 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ What he said!
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/26/2026 23:43 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The Evolution of the 'Thousand Cuts' Doctrine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from the Telegram channel of budni_manipulyatora

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] The evolution of conflicts has undergone profound changes. This shift is particularly noticeable in how crises unfold today.

The traditional concept of defense was built on persuasion (for example, through diplomacy and alliances) and coercion (the use of force). Now a third important element has emerged: shaping what people perceive as reality and use to make decisions. More precisely, this element was present before, but there was a relative parity of forces and means capable of influencing the average person, and through them, the expert community.

Now, through information environments, algorithmic information selection, and emotional amplification, it is possible to shape the conditions in which political and strategic decisions favored by the manipulator are made. And advances in artificial intelligence are accelerating this trend, enabling the rapid creation and dissemination of content on an unprecedented scale and with unprecedented speed. In such conditions, strategic competition increasingly relies on shaping public opinion and interpreting events, rather than on traditional military and diplomatic activity.

The constitutional right to peaceful protest and dissent is systematically exploited by the enemy through relentless cyber operations, psychological manipulation, and targeted disinformation campaigns. What initially appears to be a localized demonstration sparked by agricultural issues, demands for social justice, or political dissent often devolves into violent mobs.

The true goal of these shadowy agents is never to resolve the stated grievance. Instead, their mission is to create a spectacular image of chaos, undermine public trust, and force law enforcement into a permanent defensive posture. Once these provoked crowds mobilize, the ensuing physical chaos is strategically used as a weapon.

The resulting destruction is not simply collateral damage, but a carefully calculated tactic of economic attrition designed to paralyze the country from within. The sheer scale of these orchestrated riots strains the criminal justice system and inflicts permanent damage on the national economy.

This is precisely the cognitive warfare that, like other types of warfare, is aimed at inflicting kinetic damage on the enemy using the methods described. It's worth noting that the resources of developing neural networks are currently being deployed for such tasks, which are used by US intelligence agencies and increase the overall effectiveness of such operations in the enemy's information field.

Posted by: badanov || 05/26/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1752 views] Top|| File under:


China Focuses on New Metric for Chip Design - Reducing Time Constants Instead of Chip Size
[WARWICKPOWELL] Preface: Huawei, one of China’s leading technology development companies, announced the τ (Tau) Scaling Law, a new metric to evaluate improvements in the semiconductor industry. This short essay is a quick response to this announcement, and seeks to consider what this means from the perspective of thermoeconomics and issues related to information viability.

In the shadow of escalating geopolitical tensions and resource constraints, Huawei’s announcement on May 25, 2026, at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in Shanghai marks more than a technical milestone. By unveiling the τ (Tau) Scaling Law, the company is reframing semiconductor progress around minimising time constants — signal propagation delays, data movement, and execution efficiency — rather than relentless geometric shrinkage. This pivot from size to compute/energy/time as the defining metric is not mere adaptation to U.S. export controls. It represents a deeper alignment with the physical realities that will determine long-term information viability in an era of thermodynamic limits.
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Tue 2026-05-26
  US Carries Out 'Self Defense Strikes' on Iran, As Trump Makes Important Announcement About 'Nuclear Dust'
Mon 2026-05-25
  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards UAE-based company to procure Chinese satellite equipment tied to its drone and missile programs
Sun 2026-05-24
  IDF struck an Hezbollah underground compound in the area of the Beqaa that was used by terrorists to manufacture weapons
Sat 2026-05-23
  'State Security Service' conducted an operation against “'Islamic State' (ISIS) cells in Pankisi Gorge
Sat 2026-05-23
  'State Security Service' conducted an operation against 'Islamic State' (ISIS) cells in Pankisi Gorge
Fri 2026-05-22
  Demand soars for Israel's weapons tech, even among countries claiming to boycott Jewish state
Thu 2026-05-21
  Troops killed terror operative who crossed Yellow Line in northern Gaza, army says
Wed 2026-05-20
  Neo-Nazi ‘Active clubs’ haven't been broken up and arrested by the FBI. Now, they're getting bolder, cf. San Diego Mosque Killers, Day 3
Tue 2026-05-19
  FSB has shut down a major interregional drug trafficking ring in Astrakhan
Mon 2026-05-18
  Hezbollah's FPV Drone struck Israeli Army (IDF)'s soldiers in Al-Naqoura
Sat 2026-05-16
  Top ISIS commander is killed by American forces as Trump says world's 'most active terrorist' has been 'eliminated'
Tue 2026-05-12
  UAE secretly launched strikes on Iran during war, attacked oil refinery — report


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