[FOX] Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyquan Thornton suffered one of the most gruesome ankle injuries you will ever see during Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders.
[NYP] Jay Clayton was a great pick to be President Donald Trump’s new artificial-intelligence czar — a smart guy to handle the delicate job of running the White House task force on the tech.
The director of national intelligence has four months to report on the pros and cons of the technology; he’ll work with a larger task force ordered to figure out how the United States remains the leader in AI while “the interests of the American people are put first,” as he puts it.
“The risk of not being first is high,” Clayton rightly told The Wall Street Journal — since letting Chinese companies, tightly controlled by their totalitarian government, take the lead basically ensures monstrous results even beyond ceding economic leadership to Beijing.
Democrats are now running hard on AI hysteria, with Sen. Bernie Sanders pushing to stop research dead in its tracks (just months after he was calling for the feds to seize half the stock in AI firms).
Also seeding fear are some AI insiders, whether because they’re looking to partner with Uncle Sam to shut out new competitors or because they’re in love with their own wilder speculation about their models becoming self-aware or even having souls.
All of which makes Clayton, a smart but extremely level-headed guy, perfect as Trump’s point man and a nice contrast to the . . . eccentric characters who helm the top AI firms.
He’s a longtime corporate lawyer who helmed the Securities and Exchange Commission in Trump’s first term (annoying some because he was happy to work with Democrats to get his job done) then hard-charging US attorney for the Southern District of New York starting in 2025 (overseeing the thankless task of vetting the Epstein Files for public release) before taking over as DNI this summer.
Since his only real critics are far-left ideologues like Sanders and Sen. Liz Warren, he ought to be able to bolster support for Trump’s trust-but-verify approach to keeping AI development safe.
The country needs to retain its leadership on this tech, while holding companies responsible for any abuses; the safest course is staying in first because, as Clayton says, “Not being first increases the identified and unidentified risks, particularly from our adversaries.
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.....letting Chinese companies, tightly controlled by their totalitarian government, take the lead basically ensures monstrous results even beyond ceding economic leadership to Beijing
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I view AI efforts the same way I look at "gain of function" fests. The bottom line is, even if it may lead to disaster, you have to do it if other hostile actors are.
[RealClearEnergy] In September last year, images from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin — Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi smiling, arms linked — told Brussels and London more than any communiqué about where two decades of energy self-harm had led. On the sidelines, Gazprom and CNPC signed a "memorandum" on the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline through Mongolia. This was a political signal, not a priced gas contract. I set out at the time, in How the West Snookered Itself in Energy Geopolitics, how the obsession with Net Zero had handed Moscow and Beijing a strategic gift while leaving Germany, once Europe's industrial powerhouse, prostrate.
A year on, the diagnosis has not changed. What has changed is the prescription. Having wrecked their own economies through the fantasy of decarbonisation, the EU and UK's governing liberal-left establishment — stagnant, unpopular, and facing the electoral rise of AfD in Germany and Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National in France — has settled on a time-honoured remedy for domestic failure: warnings of the threat of war.
THE WAGES OF SELF-SABOTAGE
I have written at length about the irrationality of EU and UK energy policy (here and here among others). America pursued a radically different trajectory during President Trump’s second term. Washington's November 2025 National Security Strategy openly abandoned the pretence that Europe remains a serious partner. It described a continent that has traded its classical liberal inheritance — free speech, open inquiry, democratic accountability — for the utopian triad of Net Zero, mass immigration (consisting largely of young unskilled men from the Middle East, North Africa and West and South Asia) and an ever-expanding regulatory, growth-killing state.
Mario Draghi’s competitiveness report found that the EU’s total real output, measured at 2015 prices, had slipped from a little more than 15% below the United States in 2002 to 30% below by 2023. At market exchange rates the EU's share of world GDP has fallen from roughly 29% in 1980 to about 17% in 2024. China's surged over the same span while the US maintained it leading position.
Chemical and industrial firms have voted with their capital: for example, BASF's Ludwigshafen closures of its ammonia and fertiliser lines, and the relocation of production to the United States and Asia. This reflects the industrial logic of policy-inflated energy costs working itself out. Heavy and energy-intensive industries, from automotive to steelmaking and oil refineries, have moved to where energy is cheap and abundant — to the US and above all to China, now the world's dominant industrial power by far. The US under President Trump is increasingly incentivising a "reshoring" of industrial capacity. To give momentum to the reshoring of industry, America has ditched the Paris Agreement and, as of January this year, formally withdrew America from the IPCC and UNFCCC along with dozens of other multilateral bodies judged contrary to American interests.
None of this need have happened. Europe possessed impressive endowments — a skilled workforce, deep capital markets, an educated population, robust economic growth arising out of the ashes of World War II. It could and did ably compete with the United States and China. What it lacked was the political will to resist a green industrial policy conceived by activists and bureaucrats rather than engineers and economists.
In Britain that policy has a name and a face: former Energy Secretary (and now Foreign Minister) Ed Miliband, whose economic and energy illiteracy has been widely remarked upon. The result, as the shuttered ammonia lines at Ludwigshafen attest, is not the low-carbon prosperity promised by the architects of the European Green Deal but a slow, voluntary surrender of manufacturing capacity. This has migrated to jurisdictions unburdened by carbon pricing, renewables mandates and the regulatory thicket of the EU's "sustainability disclosure" regime.
FROM CLIMATE ALARMISM TO WAR FEVER
The climate consensus that sustained two decades of European energy policies is collapsing under its own contradictions. US support for the globalist green agenda is gone, the IPCC's alarmist scenario modelling has been retracted and ESG finance is in retreat. The EU and UK political establishments that built their legitimacy on the alarmist climate consensus need a new organising threat. The rhetoric of imminent war with Russia, barely audible eighteen months ago, has become the dominant note of European public life, displacing the language of climate emergency that had until recently served much the same unifying, mobilising function.
The pattern will be familiar to students of political history: a governing class unable or unwilling to reverse policies that have visibly impoverished its own population reaches for an external threat large enough to make domestic failure feel secondary. What is unusual about the present European episode is the speed of the transition and the transparency of the motive. One season the enemy is carbon dioxide; the next, it is Vladimir Putin. The rhetorical machinery — moral urgency, the demand for public sacrifice, the casting of suspicion on dissenters — barely needs repackaging.
MANUFACTURING AN ENEMY
The EU's Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 projects high-intensity war as a near-term likelihood. It sets 2030 as the date by which Europe must be able to deter Russian aggression. Military planning deadlines of this kind are how governments convince their citizens to prepare for war. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has said Russia could be "ready" to use military force by 2030. Even while insisting President Putin "is in a bad place" and is "not winning the war" in Ukraine, he simultaneously urges NATO members toward heightened readiness against a Russian attack. This characterization of Russia as both weak and a dangerous threat is an odd combination of confidence and alarm that only makes sense as political theatre. My prediction is that Russia will be reincorporating the breakaway Republics for the next 50 years. AN OLD STORY, RETOLD
As the saying goes, when all else fails, start a war. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that this old and cynical political logic — familiar episodes of governing-class failure across history — is precisely what is now in play across Western Europe and Britain. The region’s political elites presided over two decades of self-inflicted energy poverty, deindustrialisation and demographic upheaval. They now face electorates increasingly inclined to reward the populist parties that promise to reverse course. A governing establishment that built its legitimacy on Net Zero and open borders has discovered that a foreign enemy, real or embellished, is a more reliable route to continued power than an honest reckoning with its own record.
Vladimir Putin's Russia makes an unusually convenient target: distant enough to be safely feared, weak enough (on Mr Rutte's own telling) to be safely provoked, and useful enough, as an organising threat, to justify the curtailments of speech and dissent that a discredited establishment now finds it needs. Europeans and Britons alike would do well to ask, before this logic runs its course, who exactly is being asked to do the dying, and in whose interest. Lets not forget the (so far, cold) war that the nice European leaders conduct against the detested Zionist Entity!
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[TT] The old Pax Americana socket just blew a fuse.
When missile salvos pierced Gulf skies that had drawn billions in tourism and development, they short-circuited decades of American strategic posture in the region.
The illusion of a comfortable, all-encompassing security umbrella shattered overnight with American lives lost. In its place emerged a volatile, tripolar Middle East where old allies form autonomous blocs, adversaries hold key global chokepoints, and legacy playbooks no longer apply.
Reading the room, the Trump administration realized it cannot force this new landscape back into a single outlet. To manage the shift, Washington updated its outdated playbook, checking its worst knee-jerk impulses, and swapped a blown single plug for a flexible, modular adapter. Here is how the new wiring actually works ...
[TT] Donald Trump has his toy soldiers now. His little men, lined up just so. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s job is to promise the fat ones stay in the box.
Prior to his “State of the Force” speech at Quantico this week, Hegseth asked commanders to nominate service members who meet waist-to-height requirements, exhibit “impeccable” grooming, and demonstrate leadership and professional character. From the enormous American military, in other words, find him the shiny ones.
“As the president says to me,” Hegseth cackled at his playthings, “‘Pete, central casting. I want central casting.’ The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top.”
The chosen troops get a Pentagon tour and an opportunity to work out with Hegseth. Even tin soldiers were spared doing push-ups with the kid who owned them.
The joke would be merely another specimen of Washington weirdness if the stakes were not so high. Hegseth likes military readiness, but he especially likes its visible signs: haircuts, waistlines, and push-ups. Earlier he told senior officers he wanted “no more beardos” and “fat generals.”
There is something almost too perfect about Hegseth inspecting waistlines while artificial intelligence is learning to break into computer networks.
And this would merely be America’s problem if America were Freedonia, where the Marx Brothers beta-tested the Trump Administration as slapstick in “Duck Soup.” But much of the world still runs through systems the U.S. built, protects, or dominates: NATO, the dollar, global technology, intelligence networks, disease surveillance, and the diplomatic architecture that keeps heavily armed countries talking instead of shooting.
When confidence in those systems weakens, the cascade begins. Adversaries probe, allies hedge, investors reprice risk, middle powers cut side deals, and local leaders discover new reasons to ignore Washington. A little dysfunction can become a miscalculation in the Taiwan Strait, a cyberattack in Europe, or another dangerous afternoon over Syria.
Türkiye has a front-row seat for the slapstick, except Ankara can’t afford to laugh.
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Oh look a pro China outlet saying China is ahead of the US.
The US is also pushing drones and AI for war and if you ignore the MSM headlines about Hegseth, you can actually find him talking about it and making it work for US forces now instead of next decade.
[Bee] ITHACA, NY — Immediately following her appointment as a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged sexual assault of a female student, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she was indicting President Donald Trump in the Cornell case.
Fierce debate swirled on social media about the case, but James said she determined almost instantly upon joining the investigation that Trump was the one who was ultimately responsible for the incident.
"I know he's to blame somehow," James told the media when announcing the indictment. "Though he was not present at the time of the incident, has no connection to Cornell University, and was not named by anyone involved, I'm absolutely sure he's the one behind all of it. Justice will be served. As long as it's against Trump."
James made it clear that no stone would be left unturned in her effort to indict Trump for another crime he didn't commit. "We have unfinished business," she told reporters. "And by ’unfinished business,' I mean I haven't been able to send him to prison, no matter how much stuff I try to make up out of thin air. But I will not quit until I get Trump behind bars for something he didn't do."
At publishing time, James had expanded her investigation to pursue the possibility that Trump was responsible for the death of Lindsay Clancy's children.
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Letitia James apparently is a f**king retard.
I'll be surprised if she has any credibility or respect left.
[FoxNews] Cameron Chell says possible mesh repeaters hidden in Ukraine could signal a deadly new battlefield tactic to counter electronic warfare
Russia may be concealing signal repeaters inside Ukrainian cities to help its long-range drones evade air defenses and strike with greater precision, a weapons expert told Fox News Digital.
The Kyiv Post first reported the possible use of the small ground devices, or repeaters, which Draganfly CEO and co-founder Cameron Chell said form part of an expanding "mesh" network that allows Russian drones to relay encrypted signals across multiple connections, making drones and drone swarms far harder for Ukraine to disrupt and bring down through standard electronic jamming.
Chell’s warning also came amid escalating diplomatic notices for the region, with Moscow urging foreign nationals and embassy staff to leave the capital Kyiv immediately on Oct. 3, highlighting "mortal danger" as Russian forces threatened further "massive retaliatory strikes."
"Russia has come to the realization that innovation is going to have to win this war, to the point now where they are becoming the innovative leader in this war—not just in terms of tactics, strategy, and technology, but the entire mindset is shifting," Chell said.
Mesh networks, Chell explained, allow drones and strategically placed ground-based repeaters to relay encrypted signals across multiple connections, making many Russian drone flights harder to disrupt.
"The use of mesh networking is now making it increasingly hard for a defensive position to bring down Russian drones in an effective manner."
"With real-time precision, Russia can also now take their drone device into a particular window," Chell warned.
"You can take the device onto a particular portion of a bridge because you can make that real-time, last-minute decision live because you've got all these additional network connections that increase not just your bandwidth, but also your resilience in terms of being jammed," he added.
Moscow's rapid technological evolution on the battlefield comes alongside unusually precise strikes on critical infrastructure in Kyiv, including major river crossings.
Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat confirmed Sept. 29 that Russian forces are integrating mesh networking into their drone fleet while upgrading onboard optics.
"The enemy is using high-quality materials in its UAVs and increasing camera resolution, allowing the enemy to view the situation on the ground in detail and use these UAVs for various targets. And the use of mesh networks is indeed present. Of course, this is quite dangerous," Ihnat said, according to Ukrainska Pravda.
"They are using the principles of mesh networking to combat the counter-drone measures taken by Ukraine to ensure that drones can't get through or that those Russian communication links are broken," Chell said.
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
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[Bee] ITHACA, NY — Immediately following her appointment as a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged sexual assault of a female student, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that she was indicting President Donald Trump in the Cornell case.
BREAKING: Israel says pilot tried to hijack flydubai flight to Tel Aviv that diverted, landed in Saudi Arabia
