Daily review 12/12/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, December 12th, 2024 - 6 comments
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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

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6 comments on “Daily review 12/12/2024 ”

  1. adam 1

    No wonder trump was able to attack the main stream media and get votes for the attack – in the case of the killing of the united health care CEO – they been lying and shaming people for their reactions.

    Mangione Manifesto is not unhinged, nor is it the rantings of a mad man.

    • joe90 1.1

      shaming people for their reactions.

      Everyone should categorically condemn any cold-blooded assassination no matter who the victim is. Otherwise they're just like the right wingers, who were rightly shamed for their reaction, who rationalised and justified Zimmerman, Rittenhouse, Chauvin, etc.

      and anyone rationalising murder deserved to be shamed.

  2. thinker 2

    AT wins global road safety award, minister dismisses it as 'woke'
    https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/12/11/at-wins-global-road-safety-award-over-speed-limit-reductions/

    The UK road safety expert says how can awards for saving lives be 'woke'… Unless you disregard people and people's lives.

    Nuff Said.

  3. SPC 3

    Finally some western media coverage of the modern "Area 51/spy plane/secret" technology.

    For a few years SE Asia media has covered the use of sound weaponry by China against its local dissidents.

    This sort of tech was first known back in the early 1990's – first used in the liberation of Kuwait in the early 1990's. When American Mensa asked whether it had been trialled on American citizens, it became another Area 51 "conspiracy theory".

    This is where CIA/FBI programmes went post the 1975-76 Church Committee – "Holy War" terrorism against its own citizens. It's administered by techies called Old Crows ("Ravens" in WW2)(slang, conspiracy of ravens and born again murder of/by old crows).

    So here we are.

    China’s military is advancing the development of high-technology arms, including sound weapons to wage cognitive warfare — the use of unconventional tools and capabilities to alter enemy thinking and decision-making, according to a new open-source intelligence report.

    The People’s Liberation Army is building sound weapons and other nonlethal arms that can incapacitate enemy forces by disrupting the neurological functions of human targets without causing visible injury, warns the report by the CCP BioThreats Initiative, a think tank of former intelligence and military experts.

    The report, “The Evolution of Cognitive Warfare: NeuroStrike Capabilities and the Strategic Role of Infrasound Weapons,” is the third study by the initiative covering what are being called Chinese “neurostrike” weapons.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/16/inside-ring-china-cognitive-warfare-advances/

    This tech has been used on western citizens for years. Now on Chinese citizens.

    The Crimes (Countering Foreign Interference) Amendment Bill passed its first reading in Parliament on November 19, with the support of the two main political parties.

    It will be used on local dissidents here.

    • SPC 3.1

      For civilians this may be the most relevant, especially as per the stalking legislation before parliament next year.

      • “Infrasound generators, when integrated with power sources and control systems, form the backbone of non-lethal weapons designed to incapacitate personnel without causing permanent damage,” the report said. “However, significant advances in the ability to focus and amplify infrasound waves, such as those achieved through the infrasound phased array systems, have expanded the range and effectiveness of these weapons in modern warfare.”
      • The report urges the U.S. government to take steps to deal with the growing threat posed by infrasound and cognitive warfare technologies, arguing that the military should invest in counter-sound weapon technology that can detect, block and neutralize infrasound waves.
      • Work with U.S. allies and partners in countering the weaponry should also be launched. Sound weapons and other cognitive warfare means also should be included in international arms control negotiations.

      The Chinese were not the first to use advanced sound weapon tech on civilians.

  4. Obtrectator 4

    I've been wondering when someone, anyone, would raise this particular point about the recent events in Syria:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/11/assad-revolution-women-syria-president-street

    For what it's worth, I believe there'll be very little meaningful change in that benighted country. Arab culture is inherently conservative, they actually like to think there's a "strong" man in charge, and don't have a lot of time for Western-style democracy. Their loyalties are to (1st) family, (2nd) tribe, (3rd – by a long distance, if at all) the nation. Abstract political concepts come nowhere.

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