Michael Pritzlaff

[Jon Justice @JonJustice]

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[CrimeWatchMpls @CrimeWatchMpls]

South Minneapolis - Report of a STABBING. The suspect reportedly also has a gun.
32nd and Bloomington Ave

***The @MinneapolisPD 911 dashboard has not been updated since 11 a.m., so nothing can be verified in a complete lack of transparency by @CityMinneapolis @MinneapolisOCS.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The U.S. Department of Defense has been directed by the Trump Administration to erect a 50 to 250-bed quarantine facility and military field hospital in Kenya within the next week, which will be used to house Americans exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in the growing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to a release from the Japanese Joint Staff, fighter jets of the Japanese Air Self Defense Force’s Southwestern Air Defense Force were scrambled to deal with a suspected intrusion in Japanese airspace by what was likely Chinese aircraft.

Japan has been the recipient of both naval and aerial coercion from both Russia and China this year. Such events, oftentimes joint Sino-Russian efforts follow the Japanese prime minister’s past comments showing solidarity with Taiwan and increasing moves by the Japanese to expand their force posture in the local region in response to Chinese coercive measures in the region.

[Blois Olson @bloisolson]

On the eve of her confirmation - Shireen Gandhi is out as DHS Commissioner. It is clear that she didn't have the votes to be confirmed by the DFL Senate.

@GovTimWalz moves someone in to avoid her being replaced.

https://t.co/bw0TbLTvom

[National Fraud Enforcement Division @DOJFraudDiv]

The Fraud Division announced its new West Coast Strike Force to aggressively combat health care fraud in the region.

Learn more about it below:

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[MN CRIME @MN_CRIME]

MANKATO: Police are investigating after a man was found dead and a woman was injured in a shooting on Castle Pines Drive on Sunday afternoon. Officers responded to reports of shots fired and found one deceased male and an injured female who was transported to Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, where she is reportedly in stable condition.

A suspect was taken into custody at the residence without incident, officials say.

The victims and the suspect have not yet been officially identified and police say there is no additional threat to the public.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

In a notable announcement, as a part of a slew of new defense appointments in Australia following the end of previous terms, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles announced today that they plan to appoint Lieutenant General Susan Coyle as Chief of Army, making her the first woman to fill the role.

[CrimeWatchMpls @CrimeWatchMpls]

Minneapolis - SHOOTING. One who was shot showed up at Fairview Riverside before 1 p.m.

[The Will Cain Show @WillCainShow]

What’s Happening to These Scientists?

At least 8 scientists tied to defense and aerospace have died or disappeared under strange circumstances. But @MichaelDuncan and @JohnAshbrook aren’t buying the alien angle—saying if something’s going on, it’s far more likely human.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The Qatari Ministry of Defense announced that Iran launched 7 missiles and "a number" of one-way attack drones at the country today.

[CrimeWatchMpls @CrimeWatchMpls]

There were three property damage reports in south Minneapolis within an hour overnight that had multiple squad responses. Unknown details at this time or whether they are connected or were the beginning of a pattern.

[CrimeWatchMpls @CrimeWatchMpls]

. @GovTimWalz spent $5.2 million taxpayer dollars virtue signaling so the National Guard could hand out coffee and donuts to agitators who were interfering with a federal immigration operation.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The Nevada National Guard announces that it has deployed a contingent of Airmen with the 152nd Airlift Wing of the Nevada Air National Guard, from Nevada Air National Guard Base in Reno, Nevada, to the U.S. Central Command Area-of-Responsibility in support of Operation Epic Fury.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Any move to seize the uranium by force would be complex and dangerous, former U.S. military officers and experts said, ranking among the most challenging operations ordered by Trump. The potential operation, which would likely trigger retaliation from Iran, could also lengthen the war well beyond the 4-6 week time frame that Trump’s team has publicly outlined. 

Teams of U.S. forces would need to fly to the sites, likely under fire from Iranian surface-to-air missiles and drones. Once on site, combat troops would need to secure perimeters so that engineers with excavating equipment could search through debris and check for mines and booby traps. 

The extraction of the material would likely need to be conducted by an elite special operations team specially trained to remove radioactive material from a conflict zone. The highly enriched uranium is likely contained in 40 to 50 special cylinders that resemble scuba tanks. They would need to be put into transportation casks to protect against accidents. That could fill several trucks, said Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University and a former nuclear negotiator with Iran.

Unless an airfield was available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to bring equipment in and take the nuclear material out. The entire operation would take days or even a week to complete, experts said.

[CrimeWatchMpls @CrimeWatchMpls]

South Minneapolis - Responders dispatched on a report of a "small child on the outer ledge of a building" on the 3rd floor at 24xx Chicago Ave. Police canceling fire, they got the child down.

14:39

Sign in the front yard ⬇️

[CrimeWatchMpls @CrimeWatchMpls]

South Minneapolis - Report of a STABBING.
20xx Portland Ave

No suspect info due to encryption.
20:55

[The Drill Down Podcast @TheDrillDown1]

Ep. 261 is out now!

AI Is Here. This Is What You Need to Know. 🤖

AI is not a future problem. It is a right now problem. And most Americans have no idea what is already happening.

@wynton_hall, author of Code Red: The Left, the Right, China and the Race to Control AI, joins @Eric_Eggers on The Drill Down with @peterschweizer to break down the AI arms race with China, the political weaponization of job replacement fears, the children already being targeted by AI companion apps, and what conservatives need to do before the window closes.

This is one of the most important episodes of The Drill Down that you will ever watch. AI isn't just a tool, it's political power.

Pick up Code Red at https://t.co/VBdTE5Sb9N.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

U.S. President Donald J. Trump hasn't made up his mind yet on whether he wants to send American special forces into Iran and seize the country's nuclear material, which would be a very dangerous operation, with him telling people close to him in private conversations: “I have a lot of decisions to make,” sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.