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What Elon Musk really thinks of Donald Trump, from Walter Isaacson’s new biography.
Elon Musk on Trump:
“He seems kind of nuts.”
“Trump might be one of the best bullshit*ers ever.”
“If you just think of Trump as a sort of a con-man performance, then his behavior sort of makes sense.”
“I’m not Trump’s fan. He’s disruptive. He’s the world’s champion of bullsh*t.”
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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4199367-china-preparing-for-war-with-us-air-force-secretary-says/
China preparing for war with US, Air Force secretary says
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Monday warned that China was building up its military to prepare for a potential war with the U.S., and he said America must optimize its forces to counter the rising threat.
Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association Warfighter Symposium at National Harbor, Md., Kendall said the U.S. must be ready for a “kind of war we have no modern experience with,” though he stressed “war is not inevitable.”
“Our job is to deter that war and to be ready to win if it occurs,” Kendall said. “We’re all talking about the fact that the Air and Space Forces must change, or we could fail to prevent and might even lose a war.”
Kendall said it was vital to prepare for war because China is developing its forces at a rapid pace and has created two new military branches: a force designed to counter aircraft carriers, airfields and other critical assets, and a strategic support service that works to achieve information dominance in the space and cyber domains.
The Air Force secretary said, “China has been reoptimizing its forces for great power competition and to prevail against the U.S. in the Western Pacific for over 20 years.”
“China has been building a military capability specifically designed to achieve their national goals and to do so if opposed by the United States,” he added.
U.S.-China relations have reached a low point amid rising tensions over the self-governing island nation of Taiwan, which Beijing sees as historically part of the mainland.
The U.S. has warned that Chinese President Xi Jinping may seize the island by force if necessary, and President Biden has repeatedly said the U.S. would send troops to help defend the island in such a scenario. Washington maintains informal ties with Taiwan and has provided advanced weaponry to the nation.
Kendall joins other Pentagon and U.S. military officials in warning of a potential war with China, possibly in this decade.
“The Air Force and Space Force are incredibly capable, but we need to reoptimize the department for greater power projection and for great power competition,” he said in his remarks.
“The war we need to be most ready for, if we want to optimize our readiness to deter or respond to the pacing challenge, is not the type of conflict we have been focused on for many years,” he added.
“If our power projection capability and capacity are not adequate to deter Chinese aggression against Taiwan or elsewhere, war could occur. If it does, and we cannot prevail, the results could cast a long shadow.”
anybody else see starlink being down as a sign of CCP alliance making moves?
CCP/RUS/IRAN/NK/SYRIA
medvedev statements over the past 2 days
CCP maritime movements around taiwan
russian mobilization of Iskanders and 700000 troops
nk submarine declarations
Syria demands
etc
What a coincidence… Attack warnings in Ukraine are going up now…
>starlink being down
"It’s not down. It’s been allocated to 100% military operation use as its intent always was."
sauce?
Shouldn't elon be tweeting why his earth mesh satellite network is offline to all civilian customers?
CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was likely: whistleblower
https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/cia-tried-to-pay-off-analysts-to-bury-covid-lab-leak-findings-whistleblower/
The Central Intelligence Agency offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges.
A senior-level CIA officer told House committee leaders that his agency tried to pay off six analysts who found SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan lab if they changed their position and said the virus jumped from animals to humans, according to a letter sent Tuesday to CIA Director William Burns.
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) requested all documents, communications and pay info from the CIA’s COVID Discovery Team by Sept. 26.
“According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” the House panel chairmen wrote.
CIA Director William Burns
The CIA offered to pay off analysts in order to bury their findings that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, according to a letter sent to Director William Burns.
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Wuhan Institute of Virology
A senior-level CIA officer told House committee leaders that his agency tried to pay off six analysts who found SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan lab if they changed their position.
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“The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis.”
“The whistleblower further contends that to come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position,” they said, noting that the analysts were “experienced officers with significant scientific expertise.”
Wenstrup and Turner also asked for documents and communications between the CIA and other federal agencies, including the State Department, the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Energy Department.
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In a separate letter, the House committee leaders identified former CIA chief operating officer Andrew Makridis as having “played a central role” in the COVID investigation and asked him to sit for a transcribed interview.
“At CIA we are committed to the highest standards of analytic rigor, integrity, and objectivity. We do not pay analysts to reach specific conclusions,” CIA Director of Public Affairs Tammy Kupperman Thorp told The Post in a statement. “We take these allegations extremely seriously and are looking into them. We will keep our Congressional oversight committees appropriately informed.”
Makridis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The FBI was the first US intelligence agency to conclude the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated with a lab leak. In February, the Energy Department also concluded a lab leak was likely, based on new intelligence.
Andrew Makridis
In a separate letter, the House committee leaders identified former CIA chief operating officer Andrew Makridis as having “played a central role” in the probe and asked to interview him.
The US intelligence community declassified its 10-page reporton COVID origins in June, which found “biosafety concerns” and “genetic engineering” taking place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but most of its “agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not genetically engineered.”
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Several scientists at the Wuhan lab also became sick in the fall of 2019 with symptoms “consistent with but not diagnostic of COVID-19,” the report states.
The CIA and one other intelligence agency “remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting,” it says.
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio)
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) in the letter requested all documents, communications and pay information from the CIA.
AP
Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio)
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) in the letter said the analysts were “experienced officers with significant scientific expertise.”
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But some former US intelligence officials have disagreed with the assessment. In April, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Congress that the so-called “lab leak theory” was the “only” credible explanation for the pandemic, which has since claimed the lives of nearly 7 million people across the globe, according to the World Health Organization.
“My informed assessment as a person with as much access as anyone to our government’s intelligence … has been and continues to be that a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science and by common sense,” Ratcliffe told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic in a hearing.
“If our intelligence and evidence supporting a lab leak was placed side by side with our intelligence and evidence pointing to a natural origins or spillover theory, the lab leak side of the ledger would be long, convincing, even overwhelming — while the spillover side would be nearly empty and tenuous,” added Ratcliffe, a former Texas Republican congressman who served as President Donald Trump’s second and last director of national intelligence.
Wuhan Institute of Virology
In April, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told Congress that the so-called “lab leak theory” was the “only” credible explanation for the pandemic.
AP
As the former number three official at the CIA during the pandemic, Makridis coordinated his agency’s response to COVID before retiring in 2022.
He now serves as a senior adviser at Beacon Global Strategies.
The strategic advisory firm also says on its website that he spent “over a decade in the Directorate of Intelligence working and then leading the technical analysis of Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean strategic weapons and space capabilities.”
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'muh' meaning 'my'?
Not my anything. Data is data. It forms pictures and patterns.
If you don't see the alliance of Russia, China, NK, and Iran you may be stuck in belief system, and not an adaptable mind that can constantly process and reassess the landscape with the new data. OODA
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kick rocks clown. nothing posted is 'mine'.
Anon is not making those public statements that Medvedev, Kim, the USAF, Syria, etc have made in the last 48 hours.
miss anon w your bullshit.
brought to you by the us gov't, along w/
other great hits like Sar-Cov2, DEWs, etc
> originated from a Wuhan lab
see Wuhan Institute of Technology contractor and Harvard professor Charles Lieber's patents in nanotechnology- those skeptical of a 5g+/satellite, nano signal transmission, and virus as an integrated wetware system.
USAIDEcohealth Alliance/Peter Daszak> UNC > Wuhan Labs> Chales Lieber>DARPA
US Govt made the bioweapon AND the follow on mrna nanoweapon. DARPA funded Pfizer and moderna in 2013 to make the mrna tech, and USAID funded Ecohealth Alliance, Lieber, UNC, Wuhan, NIH, etc to make the viral weapon.
And the shit is about to become common, global knowledge, it appears.
none of it is hidden, yet most treat truth like dark alley
>Suicide weekend.
Many many many around the world voluntarily gave themselves, their children, etc VAIDS. Pressured family, coworkers, neighbors, etc… When they fully grasp that they are and have made others walking dead, some may indeed choose this route en masse. (Probably [their] plan anyway, given MAIDs in CAN, death pods in Netherlands, etc.
bet acid reflux and myriad GI issues are from swallowing those poisons.