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China Moves Six Warships into the Middle East Amid Rising Tensions

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Please remember the global economics of the thing always aligns with the motives and outcomes of the thing.  Remember, Saudi Arabia just joined the BRICS coalition, BRICS+.

A new report shows China is moving six additional warships into the Middle East amid concerns the Israeli War could expand into a larger regional conflict.   China is aligned with multiple interests; and cunning Panda also supports the Biden administration end goal of a two-state solution in Israel.

(UK EXPRESS) – China has deployed six warships to the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Hamas escalates, according to reports.

The 44th naval escort task force – from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theatre – has been involved in routine operations in the region and spent several days in Oman last week.

The Chinese warships left Muscat for an unspecified location on Saturday after participating in an exercise with the Omani navy.

The task force includes the Zibo, a guided missile destroyer, the frigate Jingzhou, and the supply ship Qiandaohu – all of which will be stationed in the Middle East as Israel prepares for a ground invasion of Gaza.

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The First US Military Engagement in an Expanded Israeli War Has Begun

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Today, the sketchy Pentagon statements about the USS Carney are starting to make sense.  The initial suspicions within the originating statements {GO DEEP} are well founded.  Today, the Pentagon is admitting the events in the Red Sea were “much more significant” than originally outlined.  Here’s the big picture, and we will go a little deeper.

The USS Carney is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer assigned to USS Ford Carrier Strike Group 12.  As part of the October 8th deployment into the eastern Mediterranean, the USS Carney took up a defensive position for the strike group by going through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea. Fortunately, the Carney arrived in the Red Sea, on mission, Wednesday, just hours before four cruise missiles and 15 drones entered the established defensive perimeter airspace.

The Carney’s interceptions, the defensive activity against the missiles and drones, took place over 9 hours on Wed/Thursday.  All of the interceptions happened in commercial airspace, meaning the drones and missiles were targeted to fly at altitudes of commercial air travel. Obviously, the destination of the missiles and drones was/is unknown; however, the Pentagon said “potentially” targeted to hit Israel.

Now keep in mind, this report from CNN (think State Dept) is from a U.S. official that is NOT the Pentagon.  Meaning this report is political in nature and slanted to provide the State Dept/political Intelligence Community perspective.   Again, this is not a military report; this is a report from the U.S. political angle of government.

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More than a meme

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This is more than a meme. It is a check list of why freedom of speech is of crucial importance to any and all thriving civilizations. Each of these topics, and many more, conclusively demonstrate that intelligent people with minority views are often—nay, usually—right, while those who censor, ban, and deplatform are always wrong; always because in the heat of the moment it is always wrong to ban minority or non-government-approved views. The strangle-hold on Xwitter, forced by the ADL, known with sickening smugness as ‘freedom of speech without freedom of reach’, has cost and will continue to cost society millions of human lives and trillions of dollars. When speech is restricted, bad actors hide in dark. ABN

People with pronounced psychopathy and sadism are harder to startle

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…“We conclude that individuals with high levels of sadism show a diminished startle reflex that is relatively immune to potentiation by negative environmental stimuli,” the study authors wrote. “These findings provide further insight into the biological markers of the Dark Tetrad traits and their unique facets. Our findings may also have implications for fields beyond psychology, like business and economics, where managerial effectiveness (e.g., navigating workplace crises) and financial decision-making (e.g., loss aversion and risk-taking) may depend on the personality of a single individual with socially aversive tendencies.”

The study makes an important contribution to the scientific understanding of biological markers of dark traits. However, it also has limitations that need to be taken into account. Notably, most of the study participants were students. Although the second study included participants with very high levels of sadism, it is still unlikely that it included many individuals with truly high levels of this malevolent trait.

The study: “Blunted startle reactivity in everyday sadism and psychopathy”, was authored by Erin E. Buckels, Douglas A. Williams, Paul D.Trapnell, Siavash Kermani Koosheh, Owen M. Javra , and Sasha C. Svenne.

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Today’s leaders of the Western world, including Israel, clearly exhibit extreme Dark Tetrad personality traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. This study relies on student subjects (a limitation) but corroborates physical markers of the startle reflex convincingly enough to provide decent evidence for the hypothesis. I singled out Western leaders above but am sure that almost all major political leaders throughout history have had Dark Tetrad traits. Human social instincts lean heavily toward hierarchical submission and it takes outliers to climb that ladder. Nice guys finish last is one way to say it. Given humanity as it is today biologically, I see no hope in changing this. Given the promise of gene selection through selective breeding of non-coerced willing parents, I see a lot of hope that human societies will improve enough to remove our most vulgar, violent, destructive traits. I hope readers of this site have cast off the negative shroud surrounding the word eugenics. Done properly, without force or humiliation, eugenics would be a very good thing for our species. As it is, people do it all the time on their own anyway through partner selection, birth-control, abortion, in vitro gamete and zygote selection, and so on. ABN

Get to the border NOW! US Embassy tells foreign nationals to get to the Rafah crossing on Gaza-Egypt border to leave as Israeli tanks are lined up and ready to plough into besieged Palestinian enclave

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The US Embassy has told foreign nationals to make their way to the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border to evacuate as Israeli tanks prepare to plough into the besieged Palestinian enclave. 

The Israeli military has continued to punish Gaza with airstrikes. Tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers are readying themselves for battle as an invasion appears imminent.

In an urgent security alert this morning, the US Embassy said it had received information that the critical Rafah border crossing would open at 10am local time (8am BST). 

Authorities have told trapped US nationals to expect a ‘potentially chaotic and disorderly environment on both sides of the crossing’. There are an estimated 600 Americans in the enclave.

Urging foreign nationals to escape Gaza if they can, the embassy warned: ‘If the border is opened, we do not know how long it will remain open for foreign citizens to depart Gaza.’ 

They added: ‘The situation remains dynamic and fluid and the security environment is unpredictable. You should assess your personal safety and security before choosing to move toward the border or trying to cross.’ 

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EU seeks to speed up expulsion of unwanted migrants after terror attacks

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Interior and justice ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss what steps to take following a stabbing in France and a shooting in Belgium, at a time of heightened security concerns linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Speaking after the meeting, migration commissioner Ylva Johansson said she had called emergency talks on Friday with the EU’s returns coordinator, who is responsible for establishing a shared strategy to repatriate non-European nationals who don’t have the right to stay in the EU.

Speeding up the return of people considered a security risk is a priority in the wake of the latest attacks, she said.

“It is absolutely a necessity that we make sure that the European Union is safe from terrorist threats,” she told a press conference.

“People who pose a security risk to the European Union need to be much, much more quickly returned to the country of origin.”

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Newly developed ‘superlens’ allows 4X increase magnification of light microscopy

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…“We have now developed a practical way to implement superlensing without a super lens,” said Dr. Alessandro Tuniz from the School of Physics and University of Sydney Nano Institute and the study’s lead author, in a press release announcing the achievement.

To accomplish this feat, the researchers placed their light probe a distance from the sample they wanted to image and collected high-resolution and low-resolution information. According to the release, the probe gathered light “at terahertz frequency at millimetre wavelength, in the region of the spectrum between visible and microwave.”

Next, that information is entered into a computer and run through processes that effectively “select” the most valuable light and remove the unwanted light. The result is an image that peers through the seemingly unbreakable diffraction limit by a factor of four times, something previous efforts have failed to get past.

“We overcome this (diffraction limit) by performing the superlens operation as a post-processing step on a computer, after the measurement itself,” Tuniz explained. “This produces a ‘truthful’ image of the object through the selective amplification of evanescent, or vanishing, light waves.”

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