U.S. CONFIRMS WEAPONS IN ORBIT
The Pentagon has made its strongest acknowledgment yet that the U.S. possesses weapons in space, with Air Force Secretary Troy Meink confirming orbital systems capable of defending U.S. forces.
Space Command called the disclosure a “landmark” deterrence moment amid rising tensions with China and Russia.
The U.S. also recently conducted its largest-ever orbital military exercise, involving multiple satellites and international partners.
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To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.
🚨🇩🇪 BREAKING: Germany Eyes €35B Military Space Expansion
Germany is planning a long-term military space program worth up to €35 billion, aiming to strengthen its orbital capabilities amid rising concerns over Russia and China, Reuters reports.
The plan includes deploying more than 100 encrypted military satellites under the SATCOM Stage 4 program, alongside intelligence, reconnaissance, and space based sensor systems. Berlin is also investing in non kinetic counter space capabilities such as electronic warfare and laser technologies, while avoiding debris creating anti satellite weapons.
Major defense firms Rheinmetall, Airbus, OHB, and ICEYE are expected to play key roles as Germany positions space as a critical new defense domain.
"KILL SOMEONE ELSE, KILL SOMEONE ELSE"
This is what liberals are chanting as they riot and attack ICE agents.
The reality is they are actually happy that Renee Good was shot & killed by ICE because it gives them a reason to riot and commit more violence. And they want more deaths to satisfy their bloodthirst to have more reasons to commit acts of terrorism as they feign outrage.
The same people who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk are also happy that Renee Good is dead for the same reason: to advance their politics.
And the stupidity of it all is that in the past, people of noble character would risk their lives to protect their country against foreign invaders, but these liberals are risking their lives to defend foreign invaders from their own countrymen. Retards.
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube channel for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the entire agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing over America.
Three endgame scenarios emerging
1. AI is huge "unlit fiber" dud a la Global Crossing, leads to record capital misallocation; Mag 7 crashes, dragging market with it 30-40%, Fed steps in to bailout again
2. AI is long slog, transforms into civilizational competition between US and China, as both government unleash historic spending to be the winner of the next "arms race." Organic cash flow already maxed out, debt to follow, means CapEx is ultimately funded by both governments (in exchange for stake/warrants), sending deficits surging even more, forcing Fed to step in an monetize deficit/ YCC
3. AI is success, eventually leading to AGI, and a new industrial revolution, leaving hundreds of millions of blue collar workers without a job (plumbers, farmers just fine). Government launches Universal Basic Income to avoid revolt in the transition period until newly laid off can find a job. Fed steps in with unlimited debt monetization/YCC to prevent debt market collapse.
What else?
Sir Alex Ferguson:
"I won 13 leagues, but I was never near going through a season undefeated.
The achievement, stands above everything else & it was Arsenal’s."
Oklo's extraordinary 20+ billion valuation is presumable based upon the premise that it will meet its goals of deploying its 1st Aurora powerhouse by late 2027 & rapidly scale its fleet to meet its 14,000MW of non-binding master power agreements and letters of intent.
That's 186 Aurora powerhouses (75MWe) by 2044 or approximately 9 reactors per year.
To evaluate how realistic these goals are it is instructive to analyze the most recent newcomer to sodium fast reactor technology (NaFR), China.
China is leading the world in the deployment of conventional light water reactors as well as exotic designs like HTGRs, MSRs & SMRs with a total of 29 currently under construction.
The Chinese, working closely with the Russians, who have had a continuous NaFR program for the last 70 years, began development of a single 20 MWe CEFR sodium fast reactor in 1992.
They began construction in the year 2000, connected to the grid in 2011 at 40% power & achieved their first full power run in December of 2014 which lasted 72 hours.
That's 14 years from start of construction to spotty performance of a single NaFR with the experienced Russians providing the Chinese program with hundreds of pieces of critical equipment, installation & commissioning supervision as well as staff training.
With lessons learned China has now deployed a Russian inspired, 600MW commercial unit, the CFR-600 after 6 years of construction.
Unlike the Chinese, Oklo Inc intends to skip the prototype learning phase, going straight to commercial power production, obviously without help from the Russians.
Rosatom operates two commercial NaFRs with a combined output of 1400MW, 1/10th the capacity of Oklo's ambitious power agreement targets.
To support its fast reactor program Russia has over 4000 scientists, engineers & specialists with decades of practical hands on experience in its OKBM Afrikantov design bureau.
In contrast, Oklo currently employs 120 people, not all of them engineers.
To build, service and support a 14,000MW fleet of Aurora powerhouses they will need an army of sodium (Na) systems engineers, Na chemistry & purification specialists, Na thermal-hydraulics & safety analysts, Na component & materials engineers, Na fuel cycle & pyroprocessing specialists & experienced sodium reactor operators & maintenance crews, roles that take decades to cultivate & cannot simply be invented out of thin air.
Sadly there is not a significant pool of experienced NaFR experts outside of China & Russia. The last NaFR operated in the USA, EBR-II, a non-commercial 20MWe NaFR ran from 1964-1994 at Idaho National Laboratories. That's a 31 year gap.
In short Oklo's deployment scale and timeline just isnt credible. What is desparately needed in the USA is a common sense focus on learning how to competently deploy large, well understood light water reactors not AI inspired fever dreams about leapfrogging science experiments into scalable commercial products on impossibly short timeframes.
Vandaag herdenken we de dood van Pim Fortuyn. Na een haatcampagne vanuit politiek en media werd een visionair op brute wijze vermoord omdat hij zich uit durfde te spreken over de rampzalige gevolgen van immigratie en multiculturalisme. We zijn sindsdien nog geen stap verder. #FVD