All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio just delivered the most brutal indictment of Third World Mass Immigration and Open Borders I've ever heard.
“They tell us that we are compelled by a sacred legal obligation to give up our power, to surrender our sovereignty, to submit to the whims of our enemies, to allow our cities to descend into violent anarchy, to welcome in any foreigner from anywhere in the world who arrives at our doorstep without permission, to transform our towns into refugee camps for the entire planet.”
“And beyond our borders, too, they would have us believe that we must allow our rivals to act against us with impunity, that those who flood our country with drugs and crime and death should be met with little more than the occasional and polite complaint.”
“There is nothing, there is nothing in our history or the history of any other great nation that requires us to recognize the authority or legitimacy of any of these ridiculous ideas.”
So good 🔥
REPORTER: “There are reports that the FAA was rolling out a new A.I. traffic control system today. Has there been any link between that?”
SEC. MULLIN: “We’re looking at that. That’s part of something that obviously, through CISA at DHS, we are we’re taking a look.” https://t.co/E5Cp5FrUZa
Yesterday morning, Microsoft experienced a global outage affecting 12 of its cloud services. This included Microsoft 365 services such as Teams, Outlook, Copilot, and so on.
It disrupted businesses, government agencies, airlines, hospitals, and millions of computer users worldwide. It left critical email and communications services unavailable for more than 24 hours in some locations.
Airlines, financial institutions and technology companies were also affected. OpenAI and Anthropic reported problems with integrations connecting their AI services to Microsoft’s systems.
By Friday afternoon, Microsoft reported that it had corrected the underlying technical problem and that services were recovering. However, the company acknowledged that some customers were still experiencing intermittent disruptions and delayed email deliveries.
In Britain, courts suspended proceedings, police departments temporarily lost the ability to receive some online crime reports, and hospitals and pharmacies experienced communication problems. Government agencies in Australia, Japan, Singapore and other countries reported interrupted services.
While Microsoft continued recovering its systems, another major technological disruption emerged Friday afternoon.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a nationwide ground stop at approximately 3:54 p.m. Eastern, halting departing flights across the U.S. because of communications problems involving the nation’s 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC).
The flight tracking site FlightAware lists 9,086 US flights as delayed as of 5:19PM ET. Some flights were already delayed by weather and other problems. The outage could affect over 700,000 people.
When asked if the new rollout of SMART AI at the ARTCCs could be the problem with the radar/telecommunication outage. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin replied, “We’re looking at that (AI).”
BREAKING: In an extraordinary move made only one other time since 9/11, the FAA orders ALL flights nationwide grounded, bringing departures across the U.S. to a halt.
The Federal Aviation Administration is directing all departing aircraft to remain on the ground until further notice, citing safety concerns.
International flights arriving in the U.S. will be handled on a case-by-case basis as questions mount over what triggered the sweeping order.
The FAA has not publicly detailed the cause of the emergency action.
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This is the second time the FAA has ordered all flights nationwide grounded since 9/11.
“International flights arriving in the U.S. will be handled on a case-by-case basis as questions mount over what triggered the sweeping order,” Fox News reported.
The @FAAnews issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers. FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them.
When the Federal Aviation Administration reinforced cockpit doors after the 9/11 hijackings, it turned flight decks into fortresses to lock out terrorists. But what if a terrorist is already inside?
That question has new urgency following the harrowing Sept. 30 attack aboard a FlyDubai flight in which a Muslim extremist (Islamist) pilot was forcefully stopped by a heroic pilot and brave passengers from crashing a plane bound for Israel.
Former aviation security officials say the FAA needs to reassess threats inside cockpits and the measures intended to counter them. They say this review is especially urgent because the agency has made insider threats to the cockpit more likely by recently forcing airlines to add a secondary barrier to the cockpit in the form of a metal gate on new planes.
Experts say the added security, while well-intentioned, could backfire following al-Qaeda's call last month for Islamist pilots to carry out more suicide attacks inside cockpits and for followers to infiltrate the ranks of pilots. Al-Qaeda has reestablished terror training camps in Afghanistan, along with recruiting and propaganda organs, echoing its pre-9/11 potency.
In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent President Donald Trump and top Cabinet members a classified memorandum detailing the relationship between the Huangs and the intelligence indicating that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy. The White House directed the Commerce Department to put Alice Huang’s Megaspeed on the entity list of companies that pose national security concerns.
Lutnick refused this request in May; he refused a second attempted crackdown order from Trump in August; and on Nov. 5, Lutnick reportedly stonewalled Trump again. And evidently, this wasn’t because Lutnick knew too little. Rather, the Commerce Department spent months last year conducting an investigation into Megaspeed and specifically whether it was illicitly smuggling Nvidia chips into China, only for Lutnick’s direct underling, Jeff Kessler, to invite Nvidia to reach out to Commerce about the case, bringing the department’s inquiry to an effective end.
I am sure it is just a coincidence that Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that Lutnick led for 35 years before passing it off to his 20-something-year-old sons Brandon and Kyle, has a $362.3 million stake in Nvidia, which makes up 7% of Cantor’s entire portfolio.
Lots of hot takes on the Microsoft 365 outage. Here's an engineering one.
To be clear: this is speculation. Microsoft hasn't confirmed a root cause. It's my read of their own updates, from 35 years of building and breaking systems.
What Microsoft has actually said:
• Traffic isn't up. Capacity is down. Servers are failing health checks and dropping out.
• A process that establishes secure connections gets overwhelmed, and servers stop processing requests.
• Servers they bring back fall over again as soon as traffic hits them.
• They're reverting a network config change that lines up with when it started. But changes aren't syncing, and some machines are stuck in a bad state.
• No indication of an attack.
My hypothesis: a metastable failure.
Whatever triggered it may be long gone. The outage is now keeping itself alive.
1. Reconnect storm. Every Outlook, Teams and mobile client on the planet is hammering for a fresh secure connection.
Full TLS handshakes are CPU-heavy, and a freshly rebooted server has a cold session cache.
A server comes up, eats a wall of handshakes, CPU pegs, it fails its health check and gets pulled, and its load lands on the next one. Dominoes.
2. The fix shares fate with the failure. If the rollback travels over the same secure channel that's melting, the cure can't reach the patient.
That's exactly what "changes aren't syncing" sounds like to me.
That's why they're throttling traffic types and rebuilding servers from an older config instead of flipping a switch.
You don't get out of this by finding the bug.
You get out by shedding load, restoring capacity in isolated cells, and letting traffic back in slowly.
Where AI fits (also speculation): not "an AI wrote the bad line". It's velocity. Microsoft flagged several recent config changes as suspects and took hours to find one that correlated.
When the volume of change outpaces the humans who understand each change, finding the culprit gets slow and rollbacks get messy. Automate the shipping faster than you automate the understanding, and this is the bill.
The takeaway for every business: your email, chat, files, identity and security tooling now share one failure domain. Today proved it. Have a way to talk to your team that doesn't live in the same tenant.
Happy to be proven wrong by the post-incident review. And I hope this post ages terribly.
Russell Brand's longtime friend and one-time fling @SammiePressdee speaks out to @MegynKelly about the TRUTH: "I said no, and he was a perfect gentleman about it... Not one single person ever warned me to be careful around Russell Brand. So, I don't buy the 'open secret'...”
More:
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Russell Brand’s ex-girlfriend Samantha Pressdee has fiercely spoken out against the verdict.
She stated the following:
"A wife is without her husband. Three children are without their Dad. Yet everyone thinks the real victim in this is a drunk groupie who was cheating on her boyfriend. Someone who has anonymity for life and will probably get a financial payout.
“If this drunk groupie thought he was a predator, why would she stand by and watch him sleep with 1000s more women? Didn't she care about those women?
"It's not true that women in the comedy industry warned each other about Russell. No one warned me, and it could not have been more obvious that I was connected to him. Just because I am a woman doesn't mean I should 'believe all women'.
"I would be more likely to believe women who report criminals to the POLICE. Not the media, decades later. I believe in the right to a fair trial. Convince me it was fair!"
She also slammed Georgina Bailey who claimed to be Brand’s ex-lover and had urged him to “tell the truth.”
"She was a groupie too,” Samantha revealed. “The kind of women throwing themselves at Brand back then often sold kiss-and-tell [stories] that were mostly made up.
"Russell paid for Georgina to go to rehab.Ballie has made a career out of sleeping with him. She's not his ex-girlfriend. At the time, she was in a burlesque troupe called 'The Satanic Sluts'."
At the moment, we are being led to believe that Russell Brand is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. There is no evidence - only the word of one woman and more words from people who don’t like him.
Now we have other words from someone who knew him that say the opposite of what the establishment and media are saying.
I also found Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s comments on TalkTV disgraceful. In the clip, she spoke about Brand as if he was 100% guilty, spoke in a rather venomous way about him saying she hoped he would go away for a long long time, and spoke about the accusers as if they are bastions of truth even though there is no way she could possibly know that.
This is trial by media. Trial by hearsay. Trial by dislike of one person. But trial by truth? No. Russell Brand faces serious danger in prison and was forbidden from saying goodbye to his kids. No mercy is being shown to him. I see only venom and hate. Yet I have seen Brand speak repeatedly about his faith for years, urging millions of people to find their own. The entire thing feels off and rancid. The more this case goes on and the more that is revealed by people like his ex-girlfriend, the more it becomes clear that something very wrong has happened here and we are in the midst of watching something very evil taking place.
One could say, "It would have been easy enough for him to pay her for these positive comments."
I really don't have much of an opinion on whether Russell Brand was a rapist, other than to say, I don't think it is really possible to prove rape in a "He Said She Said" case.
He may really have raped that woman, or women. How would I know?
But I have a hard time believing he is a rapist BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has instructed Vice President JD Vance to shift his attention to domestic issues, signaling that the administration no longer sees a need to pursue a diplomatic agreement with Iran.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he had directed Vance to focus exclusively on investigating alleged corruption and criminal activity in Democratic-controlled cities and states across the United States.
"I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.," Trump wrote.
The announcement comes as the administration continues its campaign of economic and military pressure against Iran, including a US naval blockade and efforts to prevent Tehran from generating revenue through international trade.
His post came after The Wall Street Journal reported that Vance was emerging as the lead negotiator with Iran and was considering face-to-face talks with a top Iranian security official. Vance’s efforts were aimed at ending the war — a war that Vance has blamed for the Republican midterm losses.
In Vance's fantasyland, it's everyone else's fault but his. I recall that Mark Levin took issue with Vance's planned meeting with an Iranian diplomat, which ran the risk of negotiating with terrorists, and that's something that could harm the USA. So it's a good thing Trump took Vance off the case.
Since we're on the subject, Eddie Scarry at the Federalist has been going after Levin again, and the attack the former launched on the latter is disgusting:
Sometimes a person in the political realm can become so relentlessly irksome and absurd, almost willfully self-humiliating to an impressive degree, that they end up becoming kind of cute, in a pathetic, endearing way. Mark Levin has reached that point.
In recent days, Levin, a Fox News content creator and informal White House adviser, has exhibited a series of wild public crash-outs related to Israel, the Iran war, and Vice President J.D. Vance. There was even one about his AOL email account. (Yes! Just how lovable loser Steve Urkel of Family Matters drove a comically tiny buggy car for transportation, Levin uses AOL to correspond with his friends in Israel. Aww! Haha!)
I don't know what the quality of AOL's mail is these days, but this petty, and doesn't clearly explain why it's wrong to use brute force to defeat Iran, if that's what Scarry's implying. Or why it's somehow wrong to talk with his pals in Israel about anything. Even John Daniel Davidson's been making things worse by attacking Trump for ambiguous reasons, as could surely be expected from him at this point, and along with Scarry, he continues to make the Federalist most unbearable. I wonder how they feel now that Vance has been moved to different duties? Well I'm not waiting to find out. Their latest insults to the intellect are enough. Scarry doesn't seem to understand that subjects involving barbarism like what Iran's been dishing out are not something to joke about. That's what makes his absurd rant so repellent.
Update: there is, however, an article here written by an ex-Muslim that's worth reading about. It's amazing they're still willing to publish items like those.
Germany has spent half a trillion euros on its „green“ energy transition, decimated its industry, and pushed its economy into the deepest crisis since WWII. And the „green“ energy transition has hurt the climate badly as a result.
Isn’t it really funny, that they are still convinced of their „moral superiority“, while the whole world laughs at them? How can one be so resistant against reality, facts and data, just because they contradict their childishly naive ideology?
Unruly protesters set fires, smashed storefronts and launched fireworks at riot police across parts of Spain on Wednesday as a massive nationwide strike over soaring housing costs disrupted transportation and businesses.
Violent scenes unfolded in Barcelona, where some demonstrators vandalized stores along the city's popular Paseo de Gracia shopping boulevard, set small bonfires and launched fireworks at officers arriving in riot gear and armored vehicles, according to The Associated Press.
The violence erupted after a largely peaceful march as Spain experienced its first general strike in 14 years, with workers demanding relief from skyrocketing rents and the rising cost of living.
The nationwide walkout disrupted public transportation, forced some businesses to close and blocked major roads. Police made arrests across the country, while officers used pepper spray against demonstrators in Madrid, according to the AP.
BREAKING: CNN director admits they only focus on the race of criminals when they are white, covers up when black assailants attack Asians https://t.co/zzuR7OZpzt
This is a hidden-camera sting admission, of course. He would never admit this publicly.
This is standard CNN practice. Jake Tapper is very big on reporting crimes committed against Jews -- but, when black men were playing the knockout game with Jews in NYC, he did not report it, or if he mentioned it, he made sure he didn't run the video or name the perpetrators.
But he would generally complain of violence against Jews while avoiding any mention of the actual perpetrators of what he was talking about.
But then came the Tree of Life attack, where a synagogue was attacked by an Acceptable and Approved Villain, a white man. And then Jake Tapper really talked up the problem of violence against Jews, with the none-too-subtle suggestion that White Men, Republicans in particular, were responsible for it.
You see the same thing with rapes. White feminist women love to complain about rape... so long as it's a made-up allegation about presumably white Cornell students. (Note: It turns out most of them weren't white, but they assumed they were.)
Russell Brand, safely white, makes for an excellent Morality Play about concent.
Muslim rape gangs, on the other hand? Never heard of them. What are you talking about, Racist?
Even simple tasks, like graphics, seemed to be deliberately tanked to create more work.
Asking for a simple border space increase would get the entire graphic redesigned, and the AI stating “My mistake”, repeatedly.
A few days ago, we asked ChatGPT to find those skeptical of the recent election and provided math, tables, graphs, or charts supporting their claims. Meta, X, Instagram, and other sources were desired.
Certain settings can provide better results. Enabling “Deep Research” is for more accurate and complex investigations, comparing evidence, and producing detailed reports.
The “Thinking Effort” allows for more extensive analysis, calculations, and problem-solving. It improves accuracy on complex questions. Both of these settings were activated to find election analysts and their math.
ChatGPT – Deep Research setting activated, Thinking Effort set to High.
ChatGPT came back with ZERO RESULTS, which is impossible to believe. Several individuals can be easily found on X alone, including the legendary Jeffrey O’Donnell (The Lone Raccoon). In fact, TGP reported on “Truth Is Freedom,” whose data was reposted by the President of the United States.
Yet, GPT found nothing!
In the past, GPT has stated they aren’t allowed to discuss election infrastructure. But this lack of skeptics is something entirely different. It smells of censorship. It’s as if AI doesn’t want the public to hear from election skeptics, especially those with interesting data.
“The biggest thing most people fail to understand is that there are a very limited number of smart, dedicated people! They can only do so many things.”
He added that if Tesla has to “maintain a complex production line, supply chain and allocate engineering for Cybertruck, we can’t use those people” for scaling Cybercab.
By this morning, the explanation had shifted again, to the “opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck.” But the Saturday version is the one that matters. Musk is telling us the bottleneck at Tesla isn’t factory space or money. It’s people.
The Cybertruck is the second casualty this year. In January, Musk announced the end of the Model S and Model X on Tesla’s Q4 earnings call and summed up the reason in one word: “Autonomy.” The Fremont line is being converted to build Optimus robots.
Don’t be surprised ten years from now if Tesla is known as the android company that got its start making cars.
When Anthropic’s S-1 went public on Oct 26, the headline number was a $974 million operating profit on $11.6 billion of second-quarter revenue. It also came with what we tallied as roughly $800 billion in compute commitments, including up to $120.5 billion owed to Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI.
Monday’s amendment filled in the blanks, and it’s not looking any better. Third-quarter revenue came in at $16.96 billion, up 1,127% from a year earlier. But operating profit lasted exactly one quarter, with Q3 swinging back to a $567 million GAAP operating loss as Anthropic paid up for $5 billion of short-term compute. Its committed spend is now officially $895.4 billion – more than $1 trillion once deals without a fixed dollar figure are counted – and $69.8 billion of it comes due in the next 12 months, more than the company’s entire annualized revenue run rate.
Let me get this straight: Anthropic made just under $1 billion in profit for one quarter (it’s first profitable quarter), yet it has committed to spending an additional $1 trillion, so it only needs 250 years of similar profits or so to pay off its projected capital costs!
Of course, Anrthopic is counting on continuous exponential revenue growth to pull its chestnuts out of the fire.
Wishing really hard is not a business plan.
But wait! We haven’t even scratched the surface of the crazy yet.
Here are ten disclosures that should raise eyebrows.
1. Your Vote Won’t Count
As we laid out last week, public buyers receive Class A shares and very little say. The Long-Term Benefit Trust – five financially disinterested trustees holding a single Class T share with no economic rights – elects a majority of the board. Meanwhile, a single Class F share held by the co-founders’ Founder LLC casts 50.1% of the vote on everything else, including the remaining board seats. Class A holders will be generally unable to change the outcome of any stockholder vote or director election “regardless of how they vote,” the filing concedes. The lone exception occurs if a majority of the founders deadlock among themselves, in which case Class F votes are cast proportionally to the Class A vote.
So you theoretically own a share of the airplane, but you never get a vote on where it’s going. If I wasn’t already a hard pass before, I would be now.
Also buried in the fine print: the co-founders have each pledged to donate 80% of their personal Anthropic equity to charity – pledges the S-1 describes as voluntary, revocable, and not legally binding.
But they totally pinky-sweared!
As the founders give shares away, their economic stake shrinks while their voting control through the Founder LLC remains intact.
This is not “stakeholder governance.”
The recipient charities are free to sell that stock, which the filing flags as another potential overhang on the share price. Anthropic will also qualify as a “controlled company” under Nasdaq rules, exempting it from standard governance requirements under a structure it notes has no direct public-company precedent.
This sounds less like a company and more like a conceptual comedy skit by the late Andy Kaufman as a satire of corporate management.
2. Profits Optional, Sentience Unknown
Because Anthropic is a public benefit corporation, its directors are required to balance shareholders’ financial interests against those of stakeholders affected by its conduct and its stated Company Purpose – a mandate the S-1 plainly states may not maximize stockholder value. The filing cites several commercial sacrifices already made: refusing to allow its models to be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass surveillance despite the lucrative revenue at stake; initially releasing Mythos solely as a gated research preview through Project Glasswing; and forgoing image- and video-generation models entirely to dedicate compute to research and safety.
The filing also points to the growing debate over whether AI systems could develop sentience or moral status. Given its internal stance on model sentience and moral status, Anthropic says it could impose limits on how it develops, deploys, or modifies its models that go beyond legal requirements, further curbing their commercial potential. Put simply, prospective shareholders are being warned that Claude’s potential moral status could one day cost them money.
I’m pretty sure that Ford isn’t warning potential investors that profits may be impaired by F-150s suddenly being declared human beings.
3. Washington Has Already Hit The Off Switch Once
In June, the Commerce Department imposed worldwide export restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Anthropic disabled both models for every customer until the curbs were lifted following updates to its safeguards. The S-1 warns that other models could face the same – or similar – restrictions down the road.
Then there is the Pentagon. In February, after Anthropic stated its technology should not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, the President directed all federal agencies to stop using its products. Simultaneously, the Secretary of War ordered the company designated a supply-chain risk, barring defense contractors from conducting any commercial activity with Anthropic. The Department of War also suggested early this year that it could invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to strip out those usage limits, the S-1 discloses.
The resulting legal battle is split. A federal judge in California initially ...
2020 History/Facts
Sterling & Raffesperger provided false information to the J6 Committee when telling them there was no double scanned ballots and claiming that the hand count matched the machine count.
Truth/Findings
State Election Board case 2021-181: Private citizen Joe Rossi proved 6,500 fake gross votes in Fulton hand count, 4000 net gain Biden. Fake votes forced the match.
SEB 2023-025: Private citizens Kevin Moncla & Joe Rossi proved (among other things) thousands of double scanned ballots in Fulton alone. 3,000 found initially, thousands more updated in following testimonies by analyst Philip Davis, who eventually found 8,000+ double scanned ballots. Fake double scanned ballots forced second machine count to match first machine count. @GaSecofState and Sterling refused to investigate beyond the initial 3,000 now officially confirmed double scanned ballots. Net gain Biden.
Most county digital records were prematurely destroyed so the above findings are probably just a needle in the haystack.
The media has reported that Gabriel Sterling was paid around $200K salary as a contractor to implement the Dominion system in Georgia, then went back to his government job in SOS office.
We then wanted to understand who was double scanning ballots in 2020 so we sued Ware County and asked them who scanned batch 35, which had been identified as one of the double scanned batches. My case, Fulgham v Ware forced the Ware Election Supervisor and Chairman to admit Batch 35 was scanned by a Dominion technician 8 days after the election.
History is built on a series of facts. The facts are not going anywhere.
Jeff Fulgham
SFC (Ret) SC Army National Guard
Navy vet.
Historian
According to JPMorgan Chase, worldwide petroleum production exceeded consumption by approximately 1.4 million barrels per day in October.
Middle East petroleum exports have recovered substantially, while production from the United States, Brazil and Canada continues to support global supply.
Reuters reports that Middle Eastern crude producers are increasingly competing for customers by reducing selling prices.
These developments suggest that international crude markets could face additional downward pressure if Middle East transportation conditions continue improving.
