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I could ask AI and post it as my own work like you do. You’re well-known here as a Uke propagandist, spammer, and blog pimp.

I read a very profound article once.
It was concerned about this one fact;
How wise is it to prepare to fight your last war
when faced with the next?
In WWI Europe found out the hard way.
WWII was even worse, that Maginot line didn’t slow the Germans very much.

I think America understands this to a degree, buy I don’t think Europe or Russia or their proxies have a clue.

He looks Persian to me.. 100 percent.

So you did copy and paste it all. Fraudster.

“But not until someone licks the random bursting into flame issue.”

BYD already has.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CSGESKhtZD0

It’s self explanatory. If you did this to a gasoline tank you would burn to death with one spark. The BYD pack just sits there. Problem solved end of story. This pack and technology cannot burn.

That pack also has LFP cells in it they work at minus 40C and have 6000 cycles of life at 80% DOD at 50% triple that.

China is the undisputed leader in EV tech they simply don’t care what the USA and it’s shrinking middle class does. Their middle class of 400+ million is larger than the entire population of the USA and Canada combined total.

China is liquid hydrocarbon poor and electricity rich. They have dense cities and a modern 21st century power grid with triple phase 400 volt to individual condos and homes. Their GBT charging standard has the pins needed to use all three phases at 400V unlike the NACS can only use 240V single phase. Half the voltage and missing two phases it is not even in the same league.

Schlichter *bump*

Here’s a Bob Vylan youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BypJJCsNKdA&list=RDBypJJCsNKdA&start_radio=1

Sort of a second-rate Rage Against The Machine.

The Chinese have no intention of attacking Taiwan, they don’t need to and we cannot wage a war that far off. All they have to do is wait and at some point they will reunite. Are we really going to try and protect Taiwan if there was such an invasion?
How could we respond and stop it, Nuclear War?

Biden sent much of those munitions to Israel.

Dec 2023: US sends Israel thousands of 'bunker busters,' bombs for Gaza war.

Feb 2024: Biden is planning to send another 1,000 bombs to Israel using taxpayer cash - despite publicly pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza.

June 2024: US Has Sent Israel Thousands of 2,000-Pound Bombs Since Oct. 7.

I think MAGA needs to be understood together with America First. It’s easier to understand and define.

snip-——doj press release

Today, the Northern District of Georgia unsealed a five-count wire fraud and money laundering indictment charging four North Korean nationals, Kim Kwang Jin (김관진), Kang Tae Bok (강태복), Jong Pong Ju (정봉주) and Chang Nam Il (창남일), with a scheme to steal virtual currency from two companies, valued at over $900,000 at the time of the thefts, and to launder proceeds of those thefts. The defendants remain at large and wanted by the FBI.

“The defendants used fake and stolen personal identities to conceal their North Korean nationality, pose as remote IT workers, and exploit their victims’ trust to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars,” said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg for the Northern District of Georgia. “This indictment highlights the unique threat North Korea poses to companies that hire remote IT workers and underscores our resolve to prosecute any actor, in the United States or abroad, who steals from Georgia businesses.”

According to the indictment, the defendants traveled to the United Arab Emirates on North Korean travel documents and worked as a co-located team. In approximately December 2020 and May 2021, respectively, Kim Kwang Jin (using victim P.S.’s stolen identity) and Jong Pong Ju (using the alias “Bryan Cho”) were hired by a blockchain research and development company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and a virtual token company based in Serbia. Both defendants concealed their North Korean identities from their employers by providing false identification documents containing a mix of stolen and fraudulent identity information. Neither company would have hired Kim Kwang Jin and Jong Pong Ju had they known that they were North Korean citizens. Later, on a recommendation from Jong Pong Ju, the Serbian company hired “Peter Xiao,” who in fact was Chang Nam Il.

After gaining their employers’ trust, Kim Kwang Jin and Jong Pong Ju were assigned projects that provided them access to their employers’ virtual currency assets. In February 2022, Jong Pong Ju used that access to steal virtual currency worth approximately $175,000 at the time of the theft, sending it to a virtual currency address he controlled. In March 2022, Kim Kwang Jin stole virtual currency worth approximately $740,000 at the time of theft by modifying the source code of two of his employer’s smart contracts, then sending it to a virtual currency address he controlled.

To launder the funds after the thefts, Kim Kwang Jin and Jong Pong Ju “mixed” the stolen funds using the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash and then transferred the funds to virtual currency exchange accounts controlled by defendants Kang Tae Bok and Chang Nam Il but held in the name of aliases. These accounts were opened using fraudulent Malaysian identification documents.

The FBI Atlanta Field Office is investigating the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Samir Kaushal and Alex Sistla for the Northern District of Georgia and Trial Attorney Jacques Singer-Emery of the National Security Division’s National Security Cyber Section are prosecuting the case.

21 Searches of Known or Suspected U.S.-based Laptop Farms – Multi-District

Between June 10 and June 17, 2025, the FBI executed searches of 21 premises across 14 states hosting known and suspected laptop farms. These actions, coordinated by the FBI Denver Field Office, related to investigations of North Korean remote IT worker schemes being conducted by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices of the District of Colorado, Eastern District of Missouri, and Northern District of Texas. In total, the FBI seized approximately 137 laptops.

Valuable assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the District of Connecticut, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Middle District of Florida, the Northern District of Georgia, the Northern District of Illinois, the Northern District of Indiana, the District of Oregon, the Southern District of Florida, the Southern District of Ohio, the Western District of New York, and the Western District of Pennsylvania.

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The Department’s actions to combat these schemes are the latest in a series of law enforcement actions under a joint National Security Division and FBI Cyber and Counterintelligence Divisions effort, the DPRK RevGen: Domestic Enabler Initiative. This effort prioritizes targeting and disrupting the DPRK’s illicit revenue generation schemes and its U.S.-based enablers. The Department previously announced other actions pursuant to the initiative, including in January 2025 and prior, as well as the filing of a civil forfeiture complaint in early June 2025 for over $7.74 million tied to an illegal employment scheme.

As the FBI has described in Public Service Announcements published in May 2024 and January 2025, North Korean remote IT workers posing as legitimate remote IT workers have committed data extortion and exfiltrated the proprietary and sensitive data from U.S. companies. DPRK IT worker schemes typically involve the use of stolen identities, alias emails, social media, online cross-border payment platforms, and online job site accounts, as well as false websites, proxy computers, and witting and unwitting third parties located in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Other public advisories about the threats, red flag indicators, and potential mitigation measures for these schemes include a May 2022 advisory released by the FBI, Department of the Treasury, and Department of State; a July 2023 advisory from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and guidance issued in October 2023 by the United States and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). As described the May 2022 advisory, North Korean IT workers have been known individually to earn up to $300,000 annually, generating hundreds of millions of dollars collectively each year, on behalf of designated entities, such as the North Korean Ministry of Defense and others directly involved in the DPRK’s weapons programs.

The U.S. Department of State has offered potential rewards for up to $5 million in support of international efforts to disrupt the DPRK’s illicit financial activities, including for cybercrimes, money laundering, and sanctions evasion.

The details in the above-described court documents are merely allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Updated July 3, 2025

halting forced taxpayer funding of Big Abortion in the Medicaid program for one year.

“for one year” ?

Does this mean it’s renewed every year?

😎

Over many decades, US courts of various levels have been just fine with marriage fraud.

They’ve scolded against the gov getting in the marriage business, disavowed the term “viable” with respect to marriage, been just find with any old form of consummation of marriage, and granted relief in case after case that was actually decided on either by administrative officers or courts.

It was and remains a huge business, with legions of immigration attorneys at the head of the fraud spear helping to advise or even set up phony marriages.

Some even go so far as to fund overseas offices to recruit for the marriages. It’s even been glorified in several hollywood productions, one even entitled “Green Card.”

Good luck taking it on.

Got it. :-)

Piss off, Elias.

That's not precisely true, our adversaries have a general idea, they make estimates, they make projections but they do not know.

We civilians do not know either. All we have are conclusionary statements that our mission levels are low. Low relative to what? The important metric, it seems to me is: are they too low to wage war over Taiwan? We certainly don't have that data, and that precise information, of course, should not be made available to the Chinese.

Of necessity then, we have only conclusionary statements without much context or data and, significantly, they are made by an administration whose commander-in-chief has long made clear his opposition to supporting Ukraine. How much of this declaration is motivated by domestic political considerations to justify repudiating our support of Ukraine?

So the Chinese have to make a judgment as to whether the Trump administration would go to war to defend Taiwan. True, it is no secret that our patriot systems and other weapons have been depleted. But are these the necessary weapons crucial to defending Taiwan? What do the Chinese reliably know up to the level they can bet the ranch and go to war? As the fog of war remains to any degree, the Chinese are bound to be deterred to some degree.

Are the Chinese to be deterred? It seems to me our repudiation of America's commitment to honor its many commitments to support Ukraine will be weighed far more heavily by the Chinese than this generalized statement concerning our readiness. On the other hand, this administration's commitment to Israel and its bombing of Iran to follow through on the administration's policy of no nukes for Iran, should count in the other direction for the Chinese.

An announced policy by the Trump administration that this pause in supplying patriot weapons to Ukraine will be compensated for by supplying other weapons systems would go a long way to deterring China. Such a commitment would also reinforce morale in Ukraine and among our European allies and avoid encouraging Russia. It would by action, rather than vague statements, do much to reveal the administration's actual position on Ukraine.

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