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Pentagon green-lights counter-drone strategy amid 'urgent' threat
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 10 Comments • 4 Likes • 3 days ago
“Austin's strategy is aligned with other high-level DOD efforts, including Replicator 2, which aims to quickly field counter-drone technology.”
Never let a crisis go to waste. The brass hats are on the ball, creating a multi-tiered plan to scrape as much money off taxpayers as possible. Mission accomplished!
US will send Ukraine $725M in counter-drone tech, anti-personnel mines
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 days ago
“President Biden has pledged to spend all of the military assistance funds Congress approved earlier this year for Ukraine before his administration...”
Sorry, New Jersey, you just aren't on Joe Biden's legacy list. Biden's Soviet buddies get the anti-drone tech; Trenton gets the song and dance.
Child Identity Theft Is a Huge Problem. The Solutions Are Simple.
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • one week ago
“The Social Security Administration and the IRS just need to do their jobs.”
Now the criminals are preying on children. Identity fraud, mostly by foreigners, really is threatening the foundation of our credit dependent economy.
Criminals selling fake identity documents to migrants in Colorado desperate to find work, CBS News Colorado Investigation finds - CBS Colorado
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 5 Comments • 2 Likes • one week ago
“Criminals are printing and selling fake identification documents - like social security and permanent resident cards - to migrants who are...”
The documents may be fake but the identity may be real. Even selecting random numbers for a fake Social Security card will likely steal someone's real identity. What happens when an illegal immigrant commits tax fraud using a stolen Social Security number? Or defaults on a loan? Or commits a...
NATO chief warns that Putin wants long-term confrontation with Europe
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 2 Likes • one week ago
“"It is time to shift to a wartime mindset," Mark Rutte told security experts and analysts at the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels.”
NATO has pushed up against Russia's borders. So, where is NATO going to expand now? Here in the US, we understand that NATO has been a gravy train for Europe. The US taxpayer has provided the money for almost everything. The US provided the military and nuclear umbrella to cover Europe's...
The Army is too top-heavy
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 3 Comments • 3 Likes • one week ago
“Surplus generals, swollen staffs, and excess headquarters drain headcount and resources from warfighting units.”
Modern military planning expends a lot of time covering it's brass. The amount of deadwood has proliferated across all uniformed branches of service except, possibly, the Coast Guard.
The brewing battle over water fluoridation
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 2 weeks ago
“The HHS makes recommendations about fluoride, but that's all”
A local story (Austin, TX) that will become national as RFK Jr. appointment the head HHS nears. Yes, fluoridating water has been the practice since 1945. But in 1945 other products weren't being adulterated with fluoride compounds and there weren't concerns with PFAS contamination from...
Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 weeks ago
“In 10 years, we’re going to be talking about new fields of science, new classes of objects, new types of discoveries that I can’t even tell you...”
A literal shot in the dark.
