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"For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years," the billionaire wrote on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 8) via X, the social media platform he bought in 2022.
"The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars," he added. "It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a moon city than a Mars city."
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"The priority shift is because I'm worried that a natural or manmade catastrophe stops the resupply ships coming from Earth, causing the colony to die out," he wrote. "We can make the moon city self-growing in less than 10 years, but Mars will take 20+ years due to the 26-month iteration cycle. That is what matters most."
He viewed a Lunar colony as becoming a mining, manufacturing and satellite launching hub.
And that is with $65 million in tax credits because they filmed it in the UK; without those tax credits, the movie would have lost $235M, writes Stephen Green at PJ Media. He also notes that "out of the 139 biggest box office bombs listed on Wikipedia (for losing about $100 million or more in today's dollars), 123 of them were made since 2000." This is what happens when you rely on tent-pole productions that need the widest possible audience in order to recoup the insane budgets, and then write and cast them in such a way as to alienate half or more of your potential audience.
The host of this video looked at the dominant terrain and vegetation types across the continental U.S. and divided the continental U.S. into 3 main zones: dense woodland, "grassland", and desert. The dense woodland is most of the U.S. east of the Mississippi river states to the Atlantic Coast, from the Gulf coast up to Canada; and the coastal area from Washington down into Northern California. It should have also extended eastward from the top of Washington into Northern Idaho (which even includes a bit of rain forest), but that is where your local knowledge comes in useful. Plus, there is so much farmland in those areas, I suppose "grassland" may fit depending on where you live.
"Grassland" would probably be better termed savanna because it is not just the great plains, but a lot of the scrub land and forest in areas considered to be high mountain desert. Basically, it is the great plains area west through the Rocky Mountains and Intermountain regions, but also includes central California. Most of Texas falls into this region.
And the "desert" area, no surprise, includes west Texas, the lower half of New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California, while stretching north into Nevada and southern Utah. (Although I would argue that the coastal area of southern California, which is considered a Mediterranean climate, would actually be better classified as part of the "grassland"--of course, you don't have to drive too far inland and you are in some of the driest, hottest deserts in the world).
For each of these three areas, the author has a primary pick and then offers a couple alternatives plus a photo realistic hunting camo pattern. The primary isn't just driven by what is the best camo for that terrain, but the availability of the camo and tactical gear in that camo. Thus, in some categories, better camo has been dropped to an alternative because the camo clothing is hard to source and/or other gear in that pattern is hard to find. So, for the woodland he recommends M81 Woodland; for grassland he recommends the regular Multi-Cam or similar patterns adopted by other militaries; and for desert he recommends 3-Color Desert. Keep in mind, this is not just the effectiveness of the camo but availability of gear.
Beyond the three main terrain types, the host also addresses special considerations such as camo for the snow (without buying a whole different set of gear in snow or white); consideration if you live in a transition area and discussing transition camo patterns; urban areas (which is basically "no camo" as he recommends you just dress as you normally do albeit perhaps in subdued tones); and, finally, for those that are cash strapped, he basically recommends that you buy UCP gear--which can generally be had for very low prices--and then dye it.
I would note that in many of the desert and high country desert areas, a mix of clothes in flat dark earth, coyote, tans, and other earth tones seem to work well.
The Venezuelan terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA) is expanding dramatically in Mexico City and has become one of the leading criminal organizations in the Mexican capital city. TDA is one of several criminal organizations designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the U.S. government. The expansion in Mexico appears to be closely tied to the push by the U.S. government to track down its members and remove them from U.S. soil.
A special report by Mexico’s Proceso Magazine shows that in a span of two years, TdA has gone from having a minimal presence in police intelligence reports to becoming one of the most violent and profitable organized crime groups controlling criminal enterprises in Mexico City.
As Breitbart Texas reported, the TdA is a criminal organization from Venezuela that grew exponentially in recent years as a large number of its members migrated from there to the United States and set up operations in various metropolitan cities. The criminal organization focused on the drug trade, sex trafficking, and extorting the vulnerable migrant communities. They rapidly drew attention for their hyperviolent tactics and the impunity with which they operated in some U.S. cities.
The TdA became one of the priority targets of the Trump administration, which began targeting its members and removing them from the U.S. This rapid action appears to have triggered the crime syndicate’s move to Mexico City.
The TdA’s operation in Mexico focuses on sex trafficking and the use of Chinese precursors to manufacture pink cocaine and other designer drugs, Proceso reported. Basing their operations out of Mexico City, TDA has been able to establish a large-scale sex trafficking operation that feeds popular tourist destinations like Cancun and has also gone international by trafficking South American women into Europe.
As soon as Democrats regain power, TdA will be back.
Leftists are well known for their propensity to project their own behavior and desires onto other groups. Thus, they are forever accusing conservatives of being fascists when, in fact, it is the Left that are totalitarians. Some of the latest examples:
"Democrat candidate comes up with a ‘final solution’ to the ‘MAGA problem’"--American Thinker. Democrat Suzanna Karatassos states: "When this is all over, and Trump is gone, and Democrats are back in charge, and we’re rebuilding everything, the punishment for MAGA for voting Trump three times needs to be that they lose their internet access for four years."
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed on X that the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of War "acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion" at or near the border town of El Paso.
"The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The restrictions have been lifted, and normal flights are resuming," Duffy said.
But now that we are learning that hundreds of billions—at least—of government expenditures go to fake nonprofits and businesses, and that likely a similar amount is sent out in inflated costs attached to legitimate government contracts, it has been dawning on me and others that some significant fraction of our apparent economy amounts to storefronts that provide little to no actual goods and services.
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How much? God only knows, but it can't be a small percentage.
Ten percent of all employment in the US is in the NGO sector, and much of that money comes from local, state, and federal governments. The people who run these nonprofits are often, perhaps usually, tied in some way to government officials or even former government officials, and there sure are a lot more "service providers" than services provided.
As Nick Shirley showed, you only have to scratch the surface to discover that recipients of government largesse are frauds, and that many of the people who provide the funding are in on it.
Read the whole thing and particularly the excerpt he quotes about how the dumpy, run down businesses are mostly fronts for money laundering ("In Los Angeles, and many other cities, there are miles and miles of streets full of businesses with no customers. And yes, most of them are owned by immigrants."). But it is more than just empty storefronts with sham businesses. He notes that Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon just bragged about getting $689 million for a rural broadband connection program that started under the Biden Administration that has yet to connect anyone to broadband. That money that Oregon got will pay for approximately 104,654 connections or $6,854 per connection, but Starlink is only $350 with free shipping. "That's $6500 of pure waste per connection, assuming it ever happens, and that money goes somewhere."
At first I thought the piece by Josina Manu Maltzman ("all pronouns" per its bio) at the Literary Hub, "Letter From Minnesota: Echoes of the Other Occupation," to be just another example of liberal double-speak by comparing illegal alien invaders in the United States to the Palestinians in the West Bank who are being displaced by Jewish settlers. The more appropriate analogy would have been comparing the illegals to the Jewish settlers, but Maltzman was not going to let logic or facts get in the way of it equating ICE to the IDF. Besides, as they say, inversion is the only version liberals know.
But as I read on, I quickly realized that besides showcasing its creative writing skills, what its article reveals is the high level of organization and coordination amongst illegals and traitors. For instance, intermixing its tale of moving from one house to another with the resistance against ICE, it writes:
... We talk about our experiences doing protective presence in Palestine, and how it’s the same work here. “Protective presence” is a tactic utilized by a targeted group of people in which they get untargeted people to be a buffer so that they can go along with trying to resist their occupation and live a normal life. In Palestine this looks like recording settler violence, accompanying shepherds in their orchards and kids to school. It looks like staying up all night and keeping watch, it means going back home and telling people about what you’ve witnessed.
Here in Minneapolis, because I’m not living in the crosshairs, the mandate is the same: protective presence. Here in Minneapolis it looks like giving rides to and from work to people who are taking the gamble to leave their homes. Delivering groceries to families sheltering in place. It looks like the elaborate networks called sanctuary schools, helping get kids fed and to/from school as safe as possible. It looks like the rapid response network. It’s the people in the streets planning rallies or just spontaneously [hah!] showing up to combat an ICE presence, people maintaining vigil sites in negative twenty degrees. It’s the care network of healers doing bodywork for those targeted and those doing frontline response, it’s the street medics and their dispatchers, the people researching hotels and car rentals that do business with ICE and staging relentless noise demos and call-ins to ruin those businesses, it’s the people holding a presence at the Whipple building where detainees are caged, it’s being stationed at stores, at mosques, at schools. It’s the tow truck drivers moving vehicles abandoned when their drivers are snatched in the street. It’s the distribution sites and businesses donating all their meals, and the elaborate mutual aid infrastructure getting supplies and money in the hands of people who need it. It’s the people giving and taking know-your-rights and observer trainings. It’s the safety and security teams, the vets and doctors doing house calls, the journalists documenting all of it and getting arrested for doing so, and the artists and culture workers trying to make meaning out of all of this. And it’s everyone, targeted and not, who are living into this mandate.
What it is describing are communication and intelligence networks, smuggler networks, underground medical networks, and protestors and harassers (and, presumably, security) that can quickly be mobilized. This is a parallel government and guerilla force mostly financed, as we are only beginning to fathom, by tens and probably hundreds of billions of stolen tax dollars. And the thing is, we see this all over the country. When things go hot, it may well be less like the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860 and more like the Tet Offensive.
