taffernicus on 29/9/2025 at 12:04
waiting something new (particularly C-UAS) from kongsberg, hanwha group and thales group
Nicker on 29/9/2025 at 12:27
Cue Music - Yakety Sax (Benny Hill Theme)
[video]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uyYaSkMgMCc[/video]
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Your tax dollars at work.
Sorry. Embedding isn't working for me today.
Pyrian on 7/10/2025 at 00:33
Is this basically just a jamming device? It seems like it could be
totally ineffective against the fiber-optic drones in mass use in Ukraine.
Starker on 15/10/2025 at 03:06
More from the crime is legal genre, though now that government officials are openly getting caught on video accepting bribes without any consequences, I guess it shouldn't come as an especially great surprise:
[video=youtube;5fTv9ThJg6U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fTv9ThJg6U[/video]
DuatDweller on 15/10/2025 at 23:03
WW3 here I come.
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Trump confirms he authorised CIA action inside Venezuela
US President Donald Trump has confirmed a report he authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela - and said he was considering strikes targeting drug cartels there.
US forces have already conducted at least five strikes on suspected drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean in recent weeks, killing 27 people. UN-appointed human rights experts have described the raids as "extrajudicial executions".
Speaking at the White House, Trump said the US "is looking at land" as it considers further strikes in the region.
Trump has sought to increase pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, who the US and others do not recognise as Venezuela's rightful leader following disputed elections.
The increased US military presence in the region has raised fears in Caracas of a possible attack.
According to the New York Times, Trump's authorisation would allow the CIA to carry out operations in Venezuela unilaterally or as part of any wider US military activity.
It remains unknown whether the CIA is planning operations in Venezuela, or whether those plans are being kept as contingencies.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday alongside FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Trump was questioned about the New York Times report.
"Why did you authorise the CIA to go into Venezuela?" a reporter asked.
"I authorised for two reasons really," Trump said in a highly unusual acknowledgement from a US commander-in-chief about a spy agency whose activities are typically shrouded in secrecy.
"Number one, they [Venezuela] have emptied their prisons into the United States of America."
He added: "And the other thing are drugs. We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela, and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea, so you get to see that, but we're going to stop them by land also."
The president declined to answer when asked whether the CIA authorisation would allow the agency to topple Maduro, for whom the US has offered a $50m (£37m) bounty.
"Wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer?" he said.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ex1jq9pdvo)
Just if you don't realize it yet, Venezuela is backed by Russia, that's right the serial killer Putin.
mxleader on 17/10/2025 at 03:45
I doubt that there will ever be a WWIII. The CIA is in the business of keeping wars small. Of course they have their work cut out for them with Trump running the show and his mouth about everything. Lucky for all of us that the CIA is generally filled with more intelligent people than Trump and Putin.
What I don't really understand is the lack of focus that the Trump administration has. It seems like they are throwing darts at a map and doing random shit around the globe. Even if Trump did something outrageous it would be better to see some focus. But maybe the lack of focus is keeping him from becoming something worse.
Nicker on 17/10/2025 at 09:08
Yeah, the good old days when black-ops were dirty secrets, were properly run behind the scenes, and not paraded around at White House Press Briefings.
And speaking of the Press, (
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-16/pentagon-press-corps-leaves-in-protest-over-reporting-rules/105892258) they vacated the Pentagon over a propaganda ultimatum from town-drunk and Secretary of Treason, Pete Hegseth.
Even FOX joined the exodus, leaving only One America News Network to sign their souls away, with special blood-filled commemorative pens.
demagogue on 17/10/2025 at 09:33
Trump doesn't have the cognitive capacity to focus on anything for long. He focuses all of his attention on the thing that he's noticed in the last maybe 30 minutes, and that's it, which explains why his staff often vie to be the last person he speaks to before a gig. The way that it's often explained is that persons with cluster b disorders as bad as he has one see the world from 4 inches off the ground as they're moving along. It's surprising that people paying attention to him don't catch on to that, but you can't really understand anything he does without understanding that part.
DuatDweller on 17/10/2025 at 09:33
Well somewhere in that flow of madness from Trump, there must be something that he does right. Or not.
Quote:
Trump tariffs live updates: White House nears tariff relief for auto industry; US deficit falls in first drop since COVID
The US budget deficit declined for the 2025 fiscal year due to tariff revenue hitting a record high. The deficit fell 2% for the fiscal year and was $1.78 trillion, down from $1.82 trillion in 2024, according to figures released by the Treasury department on Thursday.
The White House is ready to ease tariffs on the US auto industry, delivering a major win for carmakers who have lobbied to reduce the fallout from higher import duties.
The Commerce Department is set to announce a five-year extension that allows automakers to reduce what they pay in tariffs on imported car parts, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump on Wednesday confirmed that trade tensions with China remain high, telling a reporter who asked whether the two countries are headed for a prolonged trade war, "Well, you're in one now."
The president's comments came despite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggesting that an extension of the tariff pause between the US and China was possible — and that Trump still plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month.
Over the past week, relations between the two countries have become increasingly strained, though both sides have sent mixed signals about just how serious the fallout could be.
China accused the US on Thursday of causing "panic" over Beijings export controls on rare earth materials, according to a report in China's state newspaper the Global Times.
Last Friday, Trump said the US would impose an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods starting on Nov. 1 over Beijing's plan to impose new export controls on rare earth minerals.
Since then, however, China sanctioned US units of a South Korean shipping company, while Trump threatened to further curtail trade with the country in response to its halt of US soybean purchases.
Read more: What Trump's tariffs mean for the economy and your wallet
US tariffs on China of nearly 145% in some cases are on hold until Nov. 10 while the two countries negotiate a larger trade deal. Chinese tariffs on US goods ballooned to 125% before the pause.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-white-house-nears-tariff-relief-for-auto-industry-us-deficit-falls-in-first-drop-since-covid-162418171.html)
demagogue on 17/10/2025 at 16:43
We're in bizarro world now. The conservatives have always had it right that after a certain point raising taxes to outrageous levels does a lot more harm to the economy than it helps. It's amazing that it has to be the Democrats that have to press that point, since it usually goes the other way around, but here we are. Tariffs are also the stupidest way to raise taxes since they also raise prices on just about everything (not even just the imports because of cross-price elasticity, etc., raising the prices on one category also raises it for all the linked categories).
And that's not even counting the bad will it creates with just about every country in the world except Russia, who got an exemption for some mysterious reason, who could guess? (9_9) Not being trusted is going to make every kind of dealing with other countries harder & more expensive for a generation or more.
But going back to the tariffs, the deficit may be going down, but the middle and working classes have a boot on their neck now with prices that doesn't allow them to save much less invest money; so they're living month to month, and then on top of that they're losing their health insurance, so any little illness can wipe their savings out in an instant.
Also, the reason it's bringing down the deficit is because it's not actually being spent on government services, because so many gov't services are being slashed, except for the SS-like ICE force, which is being greatly expanded and is starting to look like Trump's personal armed forces of uneducated brutes loyal to him and not the country.
