A lot of people commented on the Dragon film.  You may have missed the point of my last post:  China has been embedding virus’ in American military chips. They actually did it back around the time the film was made and got caught.

How many more attempts were not?

How sure are you your Baofangs, Holosuns, and iPhones are still going to work when war breaks out?

Short of very simplistic stuff there is almost nothing without Chinese parts.

If/when China cuts us off we are truly fucked.

Yaesu & Trijicon master race.

Our telecom networks are extremely vulnerable and will take down much more than basic communications.

This is why they need to replace whitey in the us

Of course it will eventually happen, the question is will any of us be alive for it

Is this a timeline statement or a level of violence statement?

I can see both being possible.

I love reading Twitter, it helps remind me nothing is actually ever going to happen in my lifetime.

Both I guess?

Your position is that we just won’t fight back at any point, no matter the course it follows.  Is that correct?

Wow. EVERYBODY should watch that video.

Just got word from an Embera Indian several thousand Chinese are in the Darien Gap now incoming.  Unconfirmed but he sounded confident enough that I am actually going to check it out.  There is something to it.  Unclear how much.  I know his village well and go there sometimes.…

— Michael Yon (@Michael_Yon) May 3, 2023

I’ve always suspected there were things he knew that he wouldn’t talk publicly about.  Got my confirmation.

Holy cow!  So much for traveling incognito.  Evidently, there’s no need to in 2023.

The man of few words (and posts) is correct. EVERYBODY should watch that video.

Concur!  Thanks for posting here.  I saw it this morning in a tweet but lost what tweet I first saw it before I could watch it.

Lynette Zang explains the First Republic Bank Failure

Yaesu, Icom, Motorola, Kenwood, etc... are all made in China.

At any point? No

When it no longer really matters? Yes

Per the World Economic Forum

We need a Michael Yon doom porn sub forum for this nonsense.

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No, what we really need is for you to take your shitty non contributing comments elsewhere.

Got ‘cha.

Without unity & organization on our side, I think we’re screwed. I sure don’t see that happening soon, therefore, I think we’ve already passed that point.  So for those still willing to fight, it’s just a matter of picking which hill to die on.

TommyRobinsonOfficial@TommyRobinsonOfficial
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Sleepwalking into a Chinese style social credit system.

https://gab.com/TommyRobinsonOfficial/posts/110300921197826465



Digital ID Rollout Schedule for USA, EU & UK

Tinfoil hat time: what if the Chinese used the cheap Baofangs to plant a virus on millions of PC's via CHIRP?

Is it really tin foily to think everything coming out of China possibly has a backdoor built into it? I’d bet it’s way more likely than not.

Look at the Solarwinds hack in 2020. Did we ever truly determine if that was the Russians or the Chinese? Every country has an army of very talented folks working daily to hack and access friends and foes alike. Do we not think those same folks can’t install malicious things on some podunk electrical or water service providers in our country and possibly flip a switch at the time of their choosing? That pales in comparison to the solarwinds hack. I seriously doubt the electrical cooperative in my area is smart enough to keep the Chinese out of their system.

As well as Stuxnet that took down the Iran nuclear program with a flash drive.

Some models are and some models are made in Japan. Using a bunch of Chinese components no doubt. South Korea appears to be stepping up to provide a non-Chinese source for some of the components. That will take a while, though.

Surprised nobody has posted this yet:

Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years
Published Tue, Apr 18 20238:12 PM EDTUpdated Wed, Apr 19 20231:23 AM EDT
Lee Ying Shan
@LeeYingshan

Key Points:
   Rice production for 2023 is set to log its largest shortfall in two decades, according to Fitch Solutions.
   “At the global level, the most evident impact of the global rice deficit has been, and still is, decade-high rice prices,” Fitch Solutions’ commodities analyst Charles Hart told CNBC.
   There’s a strained supply of rice as a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as weather woes in rice-producing economies like China and Pakistan.

Rest of the story: CNBC Story

I can't even imagine how many Baofengs there are in this country right now. Has to be tens of millions. Granted, most of them are sitting in a box on a shelf somewhere. (Like most of mine.)

It’s been mentioned in a few videos as well as stories about some countries regulating rice production due to methane emissions.

Since rice is the main food staple around the world, yeah, I’d say this is a really big deal.

Even in Hong Kong: people are cutting down facial recognition towers. The fight back against surveillance is on. pic.twitter.com/w3bP8j4y6q

— Lee (@VictoryDay_Hope) May 3, 2023

Lara Logan on OANN

Keep pushing towards WWIII.  That will be the biggest catalyst for food shortages here in America.



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Footage of the second drone strike on the Kremlin.

16 minutes elapsed between the strikes of the two UAVs.

https://gab.com/TommyRobinsonOfficial/posts/110305396140184632

There's one thread. Exercise some self control and don't click on it.

But then he wouldnt get attention and be all edgy and cool by ignoring current events.

This is not the Texas I grew up in…


Power brownouts, record demand possible this summer in extreme scenarios, ERCOT forecasts

The grid operator says sufficient power exists to keep the lights on, but a combination of extreme heat, demand and low generation could create shortfalls.


AUSTIN – Texans could face brownouts if record demand this summer causes extreme scenarios, the state’s power grid operator is forecasting.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas projected peak demand for the summer at 82,739 megawatts. The Texas grid broke demand records 11 times during extreme heat in 2022 with demand that topped out near 80,000 megawatts.

The forecast projects the lights will stay on as long as the grid does not experience a confluence of extreme heat, low renewable energy output and widespread outages at fossil fuel plants.

This could have major political implications at the state Capitol as lawmakers debate numerous proposals that could increase residents’ electric bills, use taxpayer dollars to build fossil fuel plants or both.

Last year, the grid saw several close calls that led ERCOT officials to call for people to conserve energy as power reserves plummeted. The grid operator’s 2022 Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy demand report undershot what the peak demand would be.

The all-time demand record briefly topped 80,000 megawatts was broken for the first time ever on July 20 last year. The seasonal report had estimated peak demand of 77,317 megawatts.

This summer’s forecast indicates a glut in weather dependent renewable production would have a greater impact than ever on the grid, with it accounting for a drop of 10,000 megawatts, enough electricity to power 2 million homes.

For more than a decade, renewable energy has been thought of as a low-cost alternative for the Texas grid. But as the net capacity of dispatchable energy – coal, natural gas and nuclear power – has stagnated in the state for the past 15 years while the state’s population and economy have surged, wind and solar is no longer a bonus but required to keep the lights on.

“We’re now getting to a place where the peak demands require the availability of renewables in order to meet the energy needs of Texans, and that is going to continue to grow,” ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas said in February.
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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/05/03/power-brownouts-record-demand-possible-this-summer-in-extreme-scenarios-ercot-forecasts/

There’s just no way that was a serious attempt by a state (Ukraine) actor. That’s a Russian false flag to justify something.

It’s not climate change. It’s the lack of building infrastructure to support the runaway population growth. There are 9 million more people here than there were 20 years ago. We’re adding 4-500k every year. That’s ridiculous.

It’s also the reliance of wind & solar to make up the difference when that was pointed out as being the source of the winter of 2021 problems and nothing really has been done to improve things since then.

Oh well, I prepared for this long ago.

And that's not counting the several hundred thousand illegals also staying in the state permanently.

It galls me that we have more natural gas in Texas than we have air yet the Feral Government seems intent on shuttering those plants as well as coal plants. It's time for Texas to tell the EPA to FOAD. Have the plants be sold to the state for $1 and then the state has the companies operate it as a GOCO. State can tell fed they certify their own equipment, too bad so sad for EPA.

BRICS, Bank Failures, and Bank Runs

Yuval Noah Harari paints a grim picture of the AI age, roots for safety checks

Celebrated author Yuval Noah Harari believes that AI has "hacked" the operating system of human civilization.

Artificial intelligence is shaking up the world. While experiments and research in this sub-field of computer science have been ongoing for decades, the recent launch of OpenAI’s powerful chatbot ChatGPT seems to be a seminal point in the timeline of AI technologies. The chatbot’s astounding abilities have led many companies to try their hands at developing their own chatbots or even integrating similar AI in their products and services.

Since time immemorial, new technologies or innovations have witnessed fear and awe before they were embraced by mankind. Most new inventions have been met with shock and apprehension, with many either hailing them or downright condemning them. The ongoing AI wave is no different. While many have heaped praise on it, there is scepticism in equal measure.

Yuval Noah Harari, known for the acclaimed non-fiction book Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind, in his latest article in The Economist, has said that artificial intelligence has “hacked” the operating system of human civilization. The Israeli public intellectual has been known for his comments on the opportunities and threats from AI in recent times.

The root of the fear

In his latest article, he argues that the fear of AI has haunted humanity ever since the beginning of the computer age. However, he said that the newly emerged AI tools in recent years could threaten the survival of human civilization from an “unexpected direction.”

He demonstrated how AI could impact culture by talking about language, which is integral to human culture. “Language is the stuff almost all human culture is made of. Human rights, for example, aren’t inscribed in our DNA. Rather, they are cultural artifacts we created by telling stories and writing laws. Gods aren’t physical realities. Rather, they are cultural artifacts we created by inventing myths and writing scriptures,” wrote Harari.

He stated that democracy is also a language that dwells on meaningful conversations, and when AI hacks language it could also destroy democracy.

The author said that the rise of AI is having a profound impact on society, affecting various aspects of economics, politics, culture, and psychology. The 47-year-old wrote that the biggest challenge of the AI age was not the creation of intelligent tools but striking a collaboration between humans and machines.

To highlight the extent of how AI-driven misinformation can change the course of events, Harari touched upon the cult QAnon, a political movement affiliated with the far-right in the US. QAnon disseminated misinformation via “Q drops” that were seen as sacred by followers.

AI and the power of intimacy

Harari also shed light on how AI could form intimate relationships with people and influence their decisions. “Through its mastery of language, AI could even form intimate relationships with people and use the power of intimacy to change our opinions and worldviews,” he wrote. To demonstrate this, he cited the example of Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer who lost his job after publicly claiming that the AI chatbot LaMDA had become sentient. According to the historian, the controversial claim cost Lemoine his job. He asked if AI can influence people to risk their jobs, what else could it induce them to do?

Harari also said that intimacy was an effective weapon in the political battle of minds and hearts. He said that in the past few years, social media has become a battleground for controlling human attention, and the new generation of AI can convince people to vote for a particular politician or buy a certain product.

The author drew parallels between present-day AI and the notions of the world of illusions by 17th-century philosopher Rene Descartes and the idea of Maya from Buddhist and Hindu sages. Highlighting the need for regulations, Harari cited the example of nuclear energy, stating that while it could produce cheap power, it could also destroy human civilization. However, over the years, we have reshaped the international order to ensure that nuclear technology is used for the collective good.

Regulation is key

In his bid to call attention to the need to regulate AI technology, Harari said that the first regulation should be to make it mandatory for AI to disclose that it is an AI. He said it was important to put a halt on ‘irresponsible deployment’ of AI tools in the public domain, and regulating it before it regulates us.

The author also shed light on the fact that how the current social and political systems are incapable of dealing with the challenges posed by AI. Harari emphasised the need to have an ethical framework to respond to challenges posed by AI.

The author has, on numerous occasions, shared his thoughts on the rapid developments in AI. In March, Harari wrote an op-ed in The New York Times discussing the rapid progress and implications of GPT-like chatbots and the future of human interactions. He argued that while GPT-3 had made remarkable progress, it was far from replacing human interactions. He also suggested that AI could lead to greater inequality, something which billionaire Bill Gates had alluded to in his blog post.

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/yuval-noah-harari-paints-a-grim-picture-of-the-ai-age-8582825/

Is your job AI proof?  Your college degree is about to become useless.

Ultimately, this leads to slavery or worse.

TommyRobinsonOfficial@TommyRobinsonOfficial
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As Ireland is on the verge of passing the most disturbing "hate speech" bill.

Some are fighting back against it, Senator Ronan Mullen today in Seanad Éireann:

“The wrongful suppression of people’s natural right to engage in the exchange of ideas”.

https://gab.com/TommyRobinsonOfficial/posts/110307569780696318

Interesting.  We’re seeing this in other countries, why not also in France during this time?

In \uD83C\uDDE8\uD83C\uDDF5France many denounce riot police who DO NOT SPEAK French!!!
A foreign hired militia?
That would explain the extreme violence used against the protesters! pic.twitter.com/wSFbgj65sL

— 11?11 (@FREEDOMWWGIWGA) May 4, 2023

that was a good video


does anybody do this type of reporting on Europe's illegal immigration?