Ronald Dodson

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[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

Brilliantly simple

[Daniel Keene @Djkeene1]

Want young men reinvigorated? Deport so many foreigners that corporations have to come crawling to them to hire them.

We need to rebalance the worker-employer relationship for the middle class.

Deportations does this. Especially ending H-1Bs

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

@RealMattFradd The logical leaps on display make Kierkegaard jealous.

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

Impressive

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

#GTMilitaryWatch CCTV News military channel released new footage on Monday offering a close-up, multi-angle look at the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force's GJ-11 stealth drone. It also revealed that two of the Air Force's first batch of self-trained female drone operators scored a first-round hit during the GJ-11's first live-fire strike mission.
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[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

There comes a time when consent goes wrong
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[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

And yet not a single test.

[sportified @sportified25]

A strike team of undercover operatives broke into a nondescript commercial warehouse in an industrial district of southern Tehran with high-heat blowtorches, slicing through thirty-two massive steel safes in complete darkness, loading half a ton of top-secret blueprints, test videos, and nuclear warhead schematics onto ordinary delivery trucks and smuggling them out of the country before the morning guards arrived.

The reason might surprise you.

Following the signing of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), Iranian authorities faced a critical dilemma:

To satisfy international inspectors from the IAEA while preserving the core engineering knowledge of their covert nuclear weapons initiative, Project Amad, officials had to hide their historical development files.

Led by military scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, officials systematically gathered the state’s complete, classified nuclear archive, tens of thousands of pages of warhead assembly designs, implosion testing documentation, fissile material enrichment plans, and computer simulations.

Believing computer networks were too susceptible to cyber intrusions like Stuxnet, Tehran chose paper and physical digital discs.

To keep the stash hidden from foreign spy satellites, they avoided high-security military bases and bunker complexes, storing the material inside an anonymous, unmarked commercial warehouse in the gritty Shorabad industrial zone of southern Tehran.

The warehouse had no perimeter guards stationed around the clock, only two night watchmen who completed their rounds and clocked out around 10:00 PM, returning at 7:00 AM the next morning.

Mossad tracked the relocation from the moment the first crate moved:

Operatives deployed inside Iran spent nearly two years surveilling the facility, cataloging alarm circuits, security cameras, guard shift rotations, and neighborhood movement.

Mossad director Yossi Cohen presented the operational blueprint to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The operational window was set for the night of January 31, 2018, a night that coincided with a total lunar eclipse, providing unseasonable darkness across the plateau.

The breach team had an unbending deadline:

exactly six hours and twenty-nine minutes to bypass alarms, crack thirty-two industrial safes, load the cargo, and vanish before the morning shift returned at 7:00 AM.

At 10:31 PM, the strike team moved in:

Cyber and technical specialists neutralized the facility's alarm sensors and disabled local security cameras without tripping an alert at regional headquarters.

A team of roughly two dozen field operatives forced open the warehouse doors.

Conventional safe-cracking tools or plasma cutters were discarded because of noise and time limits;

instead, operatives used specialized thermal torches burning at nearly 3,600°F (2,000°C) to cleanly burn out the locking pins of thirty-two giant steel safes.

Working with surgical precision, agents bypassed peripheral administrative papers and targeted the primary core technical binders, folders, and over one hundred digital CDs containing roughly 55,000 document pages, test videos, and nuclear warhead assembly schematics.

By 5:00 AM, well ahead of the 7:00 AM deadline, the team had packed half a ton (over 1,000 pounds) of physical documents into two commercial delivery vans and slipped into early morning Tehran traffic.

When guards arrived at 7:00 AM and found the doors pried open and the safes gutted, Iranian intelligence launched a nationwide dragnet:

Checkpoints choked highways leaving Tehran, and border patrols went on high alert.

To throw off pursuit, operatives dispersed in multiple directions across Iran using decoy vehicles, while the primary cache was smuggled overland across the border into Azerbaijan and flown out of the country.

On April 30, 2018, the world learned of the breach:

In a prime-time international presentation from Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood beside a wall stacked with original black ring-binders and cases of CDs, presenting what Mossad had extracted:

indisputable physical proof that Iran had designed miniature nuclear warheads for Shahab-3 ballistic missiles under Project Amad. Days later, the United States formally withdrew from the JCPOA nuclear accord.

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

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[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

Clearly demonic, with no place on our shores.

[Firas Modad @firasmodad]

I cannot imagine what associating such demonic imagery with divinity does to a human soul.

How can anyone derive spiritual satisfaction from this? This reflects an alien, hostile, hideous moral universe.

Contrast it with La Pieta, or even with a Christian ossuary. There is nothing in common.

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

Thinking outside the munitions box...but inside the nosecone. https://t.co/s38EbBZOUx

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

@jgreenhall What an excellent essay.

The body of Christ is a political body, and it is federal.

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

@j_redemer Thank you JR

[Justin Redemer @j_redemer]

Ron is one of the deepest thinking and well read Christian men I know. Check out his Substack.

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

Power creates its own followers.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is signaling a shift toward Democrats following their midterm victories, criticizing Trump's immigration crackdown and Republicans' approach to economic justice.

Despite securing billions in federal contracts under Trump, Karp said Democrats had corrected course enough to potentially win his support in 2028.

“I've been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet,” Karp said.

On immigration, Karp welcomed Trump's acknowledgment that enforcement had gone too far, saying: “I'm glad he's saying in public now what I've been saying in private.”

Source: POLITICO

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

Why do some Americans allow comedy to trump truth?

[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

"Some of the people I spoke with worried that the discourse on gender and books would be counterproductive."

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[Ronald Dodson @RonDodson]

The Body of Christ is a Political Body
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[Sean Kelly 🪓 @skenzyme]

About 10 years ago, I visited my father at work. He was a retired controls systems engineer, and he was doing some contract work for a company that operated several power plants in Texas.

As I walked across the office, I noticed there wasn’t a single person under 55 on the entire floor. I saw maybe 40 people. All men. Almost all of them White.

Half had to be over 60. My dad was over 70.

My dad proudly introduced me to the SVP that ran the office (a fit man of about 60) and I couldn’t help but ask him:

“I’m a big fan of you guys, I use your product literally every day… but I can’t help but notice that within 10 years, just about every person in this office will be over 65.”

He just stared at me.

“What’s your plan for keeping our lights on once everyone here has retired?”

Now he looked confused as he kept staring.

“It took my dad DECADES to master this stuff, I don’t see any 30-something engineers here rounding into that second decade.”

He fed me some bullshit about their hiring workflow, and contractors, and “lean operations.”

My rejoinder that “contractors” weren’t a solution if he meant contractors like my 70-something year old father was not well received.

In the end, it was Obama that provided the solution. The coal-fired plants the company operated were simply shuttered.

But the first material consequence was Texas going dark in 2021 because those plants were no longer there for base load, and there wasn’t enough talent on hand for remaining plants to act quickly, let alone proactively.

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