Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
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As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey
The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control. People are likely to get hurt.
As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey
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If your conscience troubles you… you may have options
In recent years, we have gotten calls on the GI Rights Hotline from service members concerned about having to police the US-Mexican border and/or police demostrations in the US. Others feel disturbed by US support for specific overseas operations, like Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank. Many call us with a troubled conscience, and some ask about applying for a conscientious objection (CO) discharge. Military regulations spell out very specific criteria for military members to qualify as a conscientious objector. Keep reading to see if a CO discharge may be appropriate for you. Even if you don’t meet the definition of a conscientious objector, you may still qualify for a different discharge. You can call us on the hotline to discuss your options: 877-447-4487.
Trump Called Threat to Journalistic Freedom After Foreign Press Hit by ‘Non-Lethal’ Rounds
Trump Called Threat to Journalistic Freedom After Foreign Press Hit by ‘Non-Lethal’ Rounds
Trump Called Threat to Journalistic Freedom After Foreign Press Hit by ‘Non-Lethal’ Rounds
Protests Were Largely Peaceful Before Being Inflamed by Trump
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DOJ Proposes Merging ATF with DEA in Major Shakeup: What It Means for Gun Owners
Reuters.com reports that, in line with President Trump’s plan to streamline the federal government, the Justice Department is weighing a historic merger between two of its most controversial agencies: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
DOJ Proposes Merging ATF with DEA in Major Shakeup: What It Means for Gun Owners
The Militia and the Mole
This whole story seems suspicious to me. The overemphasis that the mole was a loner, that he was a criminal, and legally changed his name, etc.
John Williams kept a backpack filled with everything he’d need to go on the run: three pairs of socks; a few hundred dollars cash; makeshift disguises and lock-picking gear; medical supplies, vitamins and high-calorie energy gels; and thumb drives that each held more than 100 gigabytes of encrypted documents, which he would quickly distribute if he were about to be arrested or killed.
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A Return to Leftist Self-Defense
Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe.
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“In moments where I have seen [community defense], it’s always been something that has been asked for explicitly,” says Snow. [Yellow Peril Tactical] YPT formed in 2020 amid a slew of anti-Asian hate crimes. Organizers from around the U.S. met through activist networks and began supporting each other not just in learning self-defense and firearms skills but also in creating more visible networks of care and connecting their ideas about community empowerment to international struggles such as supporting anarchists fighting Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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Australia-Philippines Military Public Affairs workshop
Throughout the three-day course, we’ve looked at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. We’ve looked at the operational framework in which both nations work. Some of the considerations that we have to work together with. We’ve looked at media programs and media talent and preparing that talent and facilitating media embed programs. And we also unpacked and looked at photography workshop as well, where we’ve been able to have lots of fun looking at the kits and the tools, and taking some photography and vision in order to amplify key messages into the region.
ADF | Australia-Philippines Military Public Affairs workshop
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‘The workshop got our nations on one page to deliver the right information and messages that we want to convey across the globe.’
Embedded journalism:
The original purpose of embedding was to control journalists, according to Helen Benedict, a professor at the Columbia Journalism School. Citing award-winning Australian journalist Phillip Knightley’s book “The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq” which describes how the U.S. government invented embedded journalism in response to critical coverage of the Vietnam War. As civilian casualties in Afghanistan reached 5,000, the Pentagon sought a media strategy that would bring attention back to the military’s role in the war, especially the role played by ordinary American service members. This would require bringing war correspondents on side.
What are Information Operations?
To obtain a competitive edge, information operations and warfare entail obtaining intelligence on opponents and disseminating propaganda.
Definition: Information operations are tactics used to sway people’s opinions and affect how decisions are made.
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Embedded Journalism, Media Manipulation & Apathy
How Immigration Is Affecting Whitewater, Wisconsin + What ProPublica Leaves Out
Whitewater, Wisconsin, gained national media attention after the arrival of hundreds of Nicaraguan immigrants motivated the police chief to reach out to President Joe Biden for additional resources.
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Read More »America Is Updating Its Nuclear Weapons. The Price: $1.7 Trillion.
To understand how America is preparing for its nuclear future, follow Melissa Durkee’s fifth-grade students as they shuffle into Room 38 at Preston Veterans’ Memorial School in Preston, Conn. One by one, the children settle in for a six-week course taught by an atypical educator, the defense contractor General Dynamics.
“Does anyone know why we’re here?” a company representative asks. Adalie, 10, shoots her hand into the air. “Um, because you’re building submarines and you, like, need people, and you’re teaching us about it in case we’re interested in working there when we get older,” she ventures.
Adalie is correct. The U.S. Navy has put in an order for General Dynamics to produce 12 nuclear ballistic missile submarines by 2042 — a job that’s projected to cost $130 billion. The industry is struggling to find the tens of thousands of new workers it needs. For the past 18 months, the company has traveled to elementary schools across New England to educate children in the basics of submarine manufacturing and perhaps inspire a student or two to consider one day joining its shipyards.
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Though the new Columbia-class subs are primarily being built in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Virginia, the Navy is going to tremendous lengths to recruit talent across the country. Over the past year, a blitz of ads has appeared at various sports events — including major league baseball games, WNBA games and even atop a NASCAR hood — steering fans to buildsubmarines.com. The website connects job seekers with hiring defense contractors as part of a nearly $1 billion campaign. Some of that money will go toward helping restore the network of companies that can supply the more than three million parts that go into a Columbia sub. Like so much of the nation’s nuclear infrastructure, those supplier numbers have plummeted since the 1990s.
America Is Updating Its Nuclear Weapons. The Price: $1.7 Trillion.
Now this is grooming!
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The Many Meanings of Kamala Harris’s Glock
In a “60 Minutes” interview this week, the vice president shared the kind of gun she owns. Its associations with law enforcement and pop culture make it a potent symbol.
They forgot to mention the following about Gaston Glock:
Glock was born in Vienna on 19 July 1929. He was conscripted into the Wehrmacht as a teenager near the end of World War II, after which he graduated from school as an engineer and joined a hand drill company.
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