U.S. President Donald Trump's budget proposal seeks to axe key parts of NASA's moon program with a $6 billion cut (24% of NASA's current $24.8 billion budget) for the space agency's 2026 budget, but provides a boost to the Mars-focused agenda pushed by billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Trump's new administration has fixated on getting humans to Mars, the long-sought destination for Musk, the president's outgoing adviser who spent $250 million on Trump's campaign to return to the White House. "The Budget phases out the grossly expensive and delayed Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule after three flights," the budget summary said. "The Budget funds a program to replace SLS a...

Guess they didn't fire/Courts-Martial enough people their. BTW, that Female Pilot should be Courts-Martial'd Posthumously for ignoring repetitive warnings.

Steps closer to the Unz Hypothesis.� However, as with earlier scenarios, this one continues to be of the “accidental leak” type.� The summary doesn’t broach the possibility of a deliberate attack against China.

Retired US Army Colonel MacGregor launches his "Our Country, Our Choice" Documentary Series with the SITREP of Our Borderlands.

Suspect arrested for Domestic Violence (DV) prior - which should have had him deported - and was rejected by other Law Enforcement Entities because of that.

Manus is the AI agent product made by the Chinese startup, Butterfly Effect, that briefly went viral globally. The reported investment, if true, is of course notable. It is a major fundraising event for one of the few AI agent products that caught consumer traction. It also comes at a time when the US-China decoupling intensifies in all dimensions. For the most part, VC investing between the two countries has already shut down completely. Benchmark Capital's bet on Manus is both contrarian and rational, illustrating how “VC math” and “Geopolitics math” can work both against and for each other.

I have the feeling that the US is going to lose this US-China Cold War

"In the 1860s, physician Hermann von Helmholtz did a simple experiment to understand how the world stays still during eye movements. With a still head, he closed one eye and swiveled the other to look around. Despite the rapid darting of the open eye, he noticed the image of the surroundings appeared stable rather than blurred. Next, instead of moving the eye naturally, he gently pushed it around in the socket with a finger and noticed the chaotic movement of the view. Why does the world shift when an external force is used to move the eye, but not when it swivels on its own?"

In a comment outside of the courthouse, Mohsen thanked supporters, leading a chant: “The people united will never be defeated” across a crowd of hundreds of Vermonters. “We are pro-peace and anti-war,” he added. In closing, Mohsen shared a heartfelt message to Palestinians: “To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”

Immigration courts don’t have the power to give Khalil the relief he seeks in his claim that the government’s determination that he is "deportable" was unconstitutional. Opinion available here.

Gao Zhisheng, a compassionate human rights lawyer in China, persecuted for years, tortured, kidnapped and sentenced to prison, even showing mercy to his persecuters. "Gao repeatedly reminded me that people who carry out the orders of authoritarian rule are also victims of it themselves."--Teng Biao. Gao went missing again in 2017 and has not been heard from since..."We hope that we will soon find his gentle smile, his extraordinary strength, his unrelenting spirit in his fight for human dignity and his refusal to accept defeat."

"There is nothing else after generative AI. There are no other hypergrowth markets left in tech. SaaS companies are out of things to upsell. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta do not have any other ways to continue showing growth, and when the market works that out, there will be hell to pay, hell that will reverberate through the valuations of, at the very least, every public software company, and many of the hardware ones too. And I fear it'll go much further, too. The longer this bubble inflates - the longer everybody pretends - the worse the consequences will be."

¹Under Instructions. WTF! Just report the facts. Fire all the Flags+Colonels covering this up for so long...

Lucas Ropek; 28 Apr