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“We are increasingly concerned about the radicalization of minors,” government report says.

As mentioned in the opening, the CBP’s P-3 AEW is the only law enforcement dedicated airborne radar aircraft in the world, and is flown by the CBP’s Air and Marine Operations (AMO) division.

I had no idea U.S. Customs and Border Protection had an airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system, I post this because I am not sure most people in the US know this either and this is a seriously powerful machine with direct political relevance to ongoing geopolitics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_early_warning_and_control

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The FBI used facial recognition technology to place Taylor at the scene of the unrest. She admitted on Jan. 19 to being at the scene of the protest and to witnessing the government vehicles being broken into. Taylor, who originally contacted the FBI tip line to provide information, said that although she was present during the break-in of the vehicles, she did not damage the vehicles or take anything from the scene.

However, the video given to law enforcement captured her taking ammunition from the lockbox of one agent’s vehicle with Johnson at her side.

Richland County blocked large-scale renewables in most townships. Voters now have a rare opportunity to overturn that policy at the ballot box.

US government reverses course on removing LGBTQ+ Pride flag from New York monument after efforts from advocates

Before the post was deleted, Evangelical and Catholic allies called the image blasphemous in a rare public break from a base that has largely stood by Trump.

The AI image in question

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We suggest that this flawed analysis helps to explain why the United States has been out-thought, outmanoevred and outclassed by the Iranians ever since the US and Israel launched their barbaric assault five weeks ago.

TikTok users in Los Angeles are going viral for a bizarre new trend where they run into Scientology buildings to see how far they can get before being stopped and thrown out.

The clips, often filmed in Hollywood, show creators rushing through the front doors, sprinting down hallways, and sometimes even using skateboards to push deeper into the building. The goal is simple: make it as far inside as possible.

The challenge has quickly been dubbed the “Scientology run,” with users trying to one-up each other after one viral clip claimed to show the “deepest recorded run.”

President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ on Truth Social Sunday night, sparking outrage from Marjorie Taylor Greene and other social media users.

The image, which was shared without a written comment by the president, showed the president donning Jesus’ traditional white robe and red sash and healing a man while surrounded by four adoring people, including a nurse and a soldier.

In the background, an eagle is flying in front of the U.S. flag to the left, soldiers appear to be ascending toward a Heaven-like light in the middle, and another eagle is flying next to military jets to the right.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45537372

Project MKUltra Begins (1953)

Mon Apr 13, 1953

Image: From 1955, artist William Millarc takes part in an LSD experiment alleged to have been part of the MK-ULTRA program. [whyy.org]

On this day in 1953, the CIA's Project MKUltra began. MKUltra is the code name given to a secret CIA program of mind control experiments, sometimes involuntary and involving the unethical use of hallucinogens, on test subjects.

These experiments were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control, and often ran without the test subject's consent or knowledge.

Under MKUltra, the CIA created secret detention camps in international areas under American control so experiments could be done on prisoners without being prosecuted, hired British psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron to conduct experiments on patient, including dosing them with LSD and putting them in drug induced comas for weeks at a time, and secretly dosed Dr. Frank Olson with LSD after he asked to resign from the CIA, resulting in his suicide.

In 1973, amid a government-wide panic caused by Watergate, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed. Most CIA documentation of the project was destroyed, however 20,000 documents survived because they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building.

We only know about MKUltra today because of this misplaced cache and a Freedom of Information Request filed in 1977.

• Date: 1953-04-13
• Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.smithsonianmag.com.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org