#SECURITY
Britain warns that Russia plans to strike civilian shipping in the Black Sea.
Nuclear Waste
@Mining_Atoms There’s no such thing as “nuclear waste.” We’re thinking about it wrong. Partially spent nuclear fuel can be manufactured into high-value, simple, safe energy products. Every atom. From new fuel to batteries. Ask a scientist👇
Stephen A. Boyd, Ph.D.@StephenABoydPh1
There’s no waste, because 100% of the partially spent nuclear fuel (PSNF) can be recycled – all of it. As Randall just indicated, beta batteries should be deployed EVERYWHERE there’s a need for remote ops.
“We, IDF chiefs of staff, Israel Police commissioners, former heads of Mossad and Shin Bet, retired IDF generals and heads of Mossad and Shin Bet divisions, see you [Netanyahu] as the person directly responsible for serious damage to…Israel’s security”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r13h4ufc3#autoplay
Trump will stand trial on May 20, 2024 — after most presidential primaries have elapsed — on charges that he hoarded military secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate, a federal judge ordered today.
TRump’s former DHS Chief of Staff, Miles Taylor, claims that TRump wanted his own Wagner-like “mercenary” Army. This is why the Republicans are going to try to cheat like hell in every election going forward they Will complain and whine and say every election they lose is rigged. By 2028, Millennial and Gen Z Voters will dominate the political landscape in the US. They were raised doing active shooter drills.
POTUS is the commander in chief of the DC national guard & doesn’t need permission to deploy them.
So why didn’t he deploy them after the riot started & Capitol police begged for them?
Pence had to make the call. Trump didn’t make ONE call to the DOD.
Traitor
@wikileaks
Amnesty: “We call on the UK to refrain from extraditing Julian Assange, for the US to drop the charges, and for Assange to be freed”
@amnesty #FreeAssange2023
Microsoft called a new report from Wiz on the recent U.S. gov’t hack “speculative and not evidence-based.” Wiz said they’re confused because they worked on the report with members of Microsoft’s security team
Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm
Vendors knew all about it, but most customers were clueless.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/researchers-find-deliberate-backdoor-in-police-radio-encryption-algorithm/
The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre assumed the responsibility of notifying radio vendors and computer emergency response teams around the world about the problems, and of coordinating a timeframe for when the researchers should publicly disclose the issues. The researchers say anyone using radio technologies should check with their manufacturer to determine if their devices are using TETRA and what fixes or mitigations are available. Critical infrastructure in the US and other countries use TETRA for machine-to-machine communication in SCADA and other industrial control system settings—especially in widely distributed pipelines, railways, and electric grids, where wired and cellular communications may not be available.
Jessica Lessin @Jessicalessin Jul 20
Goodness gracious. Let it be said, journalists don’t need Google to write their articles as “a personal assistant.” And anything that Google (or any AI) could write has no real original reporting value. NYT
Florida revised school curriculum on slavery is an obscene revision of Black history and they wouldn’t have been able to do it unless publishers agreed to accept the money to change the content, and that wouldn’t have happened if the writers on staff the “educated PhDs” who do the writing hadn’t cooperated like good little Nazis.
The push continues for school districts to move away from paper textbooks and toward digital curricula and e-textbooks. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged educators last year to move quickly to adopt digital textbooks and materials. Also last year, the Federal Communications Commission and the Education Department released a report, the “Digital Textbook Playbook,” which provided a blueprint for schools to make the shift. Florida, for one, has already adopted legislation requiring districts to spend half their instructional-materials budgets on digital content by 2015-16, and other states are considering legislation promoting digital textbooks.
Now, the only publisher approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education for K-5 mathematics is Accelerate Learning, a company out of Houston, Texas.
Florida approves dozens of K-12 social studies books after Studies Weekly publishers tweak material
A Florida textbook publisher apparently altered the story of Rosa Parks printed in its books, removing all references to her race.
https://www.publishersglobal.com/directory/subject/school-publishers
Example of Capitalism that went off the rails.
2010 Abu Dhabi has a 75 year lease on all of the parking meters in Chicago.
In a decade they’ve already made back their investment
The city of Chicago has 36,000 parking meters. In 2008, it sold them on a 75 year lease for over one billion dollars. The buyers were led by Morgan Stanley. “Mayor Daley has nodded to operational problems with the parking meter sale but says it’s financially sound.”
Financially sound for who? ~ Max Fisher
118 degrees Climatologists: July’s intense heat “exactly what we expected to see”
Deadly temperatures will become common unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut fast.