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What could possibly go wrong? https://www.sciencenatures.com/2020/10/researchers-at-large-hadron-collider.html Researchers At Large Hadron Collider Are Confident To Make Contact With Parallel Universe In Days Who had "Earth being consumed by artificial black holes" on their 2020 Bingo card?

Perhaps luckily for us, China is a "Continental" power, so a great deal of its military force needs to secure the borders against bordering nations, and a lot of Chinese military and paramilitary power is devoted to internal security (i.e. deployed against its own population). Geographically...

Strategy page on the evolution of the PLA: https://strategypage.com/htmw/htworld/articles/20201012.aspx Forces: The Chinese Aspirational Army

From a cost and availability viewpoint, using C-130 airframes as "arsenal aircraft" probably makes more sense. The production line is open, there are a lot of old C-130's in "boneyards" if you want to consider using unmanned airframes and having a lot of them around makes each individual one a...

Chinese action creates a counter reaction: https://strategypage.com/on_point/2020100622010.aspx On Point: For China, the Quad Is a Diplomatic and Military Double Whammy by Austin Bay October 6, 2020 What a difference indeed. "Containment" of China is happening as the nations surrounding the...

This is not good at all. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/2020-is-tumbling-toward-1917/ 2020 Is Tumbling Toward 1917 We think we're safe from revolution. We're wrong—it's already in the works. OCTOBER 2, 2020|12:01 AM HELEN ANDREWS What makes this so chilling is the "elites"...

A longer and more detailed article on the AWG is here: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/10/02/the-army-is-shutting-down-its-much-lauded-asymmetric-warfare-group/The Army is shutting down its highly praised Asymmetric Warfare Group Todd South The idea of a very quick and agile...

Potential bad news for the US, and thus by extention the global economy. Essentially, the banking industry learned nothing from the 2008 market meltdown, and are now investing heavily in similar investment vehicles backed by low rated corporate debt instead of mortgages. What could possibly go...

Weirldy, I stumbled across reference to a time travel game system when reading comments on the article in a different forum. Of course, to learn to play "Continuum", you actually need time travel, since the company which published the game went out of business in the late 1990's or early 2000's...

A British view on the debates. It is interesting to see their take on this, since their political system is quite different and they are obviously not as invested in this election as even we would be...

Maybe the Mexican government is finally going to move in a direction that reduces corruption and immunity from laws. https://strategypage.com/on_point/20200930194345.aspx On Point: The Iguala Massacre: Mexico's President Versus Beyond-the-Law Elites by Austin Bay September 30, 2020

More on Huawei's issues. It is very likely that as part of China's "Unrestricted Warfare" doctrine, planting this equipment in national infrastructures is or was part of a long term process of preparing the Battlespace. Coupling real time communications monitoring with the massive databases of...

Guided bullets fired from .50 sniper rifles. Yet another way to ruin your day: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/military-snipers-could-soon-be-using-guided-bullets-169616 Military Snipers Could Soon Be Using "Guided" Bullets It's all thanks to a DARPA project. by Kyle Mizokami The...

Democrats are finally realizing the dangers of the mail in balloting they had previously advocated for: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/09/24/we-told-you-so-democrats-are-making-a-u-turn-on-mail-in-voting-n962446 WE TOLD YOU SO: Democrats Are Making a U-Turn on Mail-In...

More is becoming revealed about the backers and organizers of the insurgency. Considering that the riots erupted in 300 US cities, it isn't difficult to believe this process happening in multiple places - this is one instance where they were caught on video doing so...

China looks to the skies as well: https://spacenews.com/new-study-looks-at-space-power-competition-through-chinas-lens/ New study looks at space power competition through China’s lens by Sandra Erwin — September 20, 2020 The rest of the article discusses how China re-frames space issues in...

It will be interestig to see the if the results of DOJ investigations into the rioting bear fruit early enough to influence the election. This tweet shows a video of a parked U-Haul van being descended upon and being unloaded of premade signs and other supplies for a "mostly peaceful"...

There seems to be an essential disconnect between what is being reported and actual events on the ground. This report suggests that there is actually no, or at a minimum, an extremely ineffectual Biden campaign being run in Michigan. This does not square with reports of the Biden campaign being...

Maybe look at the US Army and USMC, since they also use LAV varients. It would be nice if everyone could be aligned and all use one basic hull (for argument, lets say the Stryker) - you could get lots of economies of scale with a long production run. Most modern 8X8 vehicles in service have lots...

A bit out of left field, but perhaps a "small honking ship" might be worth considering. While the"Stem Landing Vessel" is really a landing craft, the idea of having a rear ramp leading into a clear deck space would make it much quicker and easier to load and offload a ship at dock, especially...