Friendly judge extends the time till the polls close, there's a dump of ballots pushing the leftist over the top for the win, and then the rival candidate flees to America after the party in power vowed on the debate stage to use the levers of government to punish the audacity of running an opposition party.

Latin America as usual I suppose.

https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/pentagons-fortress-america-hardens-us-bases/562404

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is moving to harden major U.S. military installations against attacks on civilian power grids, cyber intrusions and disruptions to critical supply chains under a new initiative called FORTRESS America. Announced by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Sept. 30, the program seeks to ensure that American forces can continue operating even when the civilian infrastructure supporting them is damaged or unavailable.

Quick Look Five pillars: Energy independence, supply-chain resilience, strategic reserves, installation hardening and cyber resilience, and protection of space and electromagnetic-spectrum capabilities. Independent power: Major installations are expected to become less dependent on civilian electrical grids. Program office: An Oct. 6 memorandum designated Richard “Matt” O'Malley interim director of the FORTRESS America Program Office. Energy comes first: Pentagon officials have identified installation assessments, microgrids and battery storage as early priorities. Reported 90-day standard: Fox News Digital reported that major continental U.S. bases would be expected to sustain essential operations independently for at least 90 days. The public announcement does not specify that duration. Industrial resilience: The initiative also addresses critical supplies, domestic production and the ability to mobilize civilian manufacturing during a crisis. The initiative reflects a growing concern that an adversary could disrupt U.S. military operations without first striking a base directly. Power failures, compromised communications, interrupted fuel deliveries and damaged transportation networks could affect military readiness long before an attack reaches an installation's perimeter. The Pentagon's challenge is to make its bases more resilient while maintaining the ability to project military power abroad.

Why Now: The Threat to the Homeland Hegseth presented FORTRESS America as a response to a changing threat environment in which the United States can no longer assume that two oceans will protect the infrastructure supporting its military. Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell made a similar argument in an Oct. 25 statement shared on X, linking the initiative to the administration's broader homeland-defense priorities, including Golden Dome and a renewed focus on the Western Hemisphere.

Modern military installations depend on extensive networks beyond their boundaries. Commercial electricity supplies power to buildings, communications systems, maintenance facilities and other critical functions. Bases also depend on municipal water, fuel distribution, transportation, commercial telecommunications and a steady flow of parts and supplies. An adversary that disrupts these systems could reduce a base's ability to generate sorties, maintain command-and-control capabilities, move equipment or support personnel without launching a conventional attack against the installation itself.

That vulnerability is documented, not merely theoretical. In February 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency and FBI issued a joint advisory on Volt Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored cyber operation targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. The agencies warned that the actors had compromised networks in sectors including communications, energy, transportation, and water and wastewater systems. They assessed that the activity was intended to establish access that could support disruptive or destructive attacks during a major crisis or conflict. The advisory establishes a relevant threat to civilian infrastructure, although the Pentagon's public FORTRESS announcement does not identify Volt Typhoon as the specific trigger for the initiative.

Russia's war against Ukraine has provided another demonstration of the strategic consequences of attacks on electricity generation and distribution. Repeated strikes on energy infrastructure have disrupted civilian services and complicated the operation of essential facilities. The broader lesson for U.S. defense planners is that infrastructure can be a target in its own right, while damage to civilian systems can also undermine military operations that depend on them.

FORTRESS America seeks to reduce these vulnerabilities at the installation level. The objective is not simply to add generators or strengthen fences, but to determine which functions must continue during a prolonged disruption and what infrastructure, supplies and backup systems are required to keep them operating.

Hegseth’s Five-Pillar Plan Hegseth announced FORTRESS America during his Sept. 30 State of the Force address at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. The name stands for Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability. The initiative is organized around five pillars.

The initiative is built around five pillars:

Energy independence: Enabling major installations to generate and distribute electricity independently of civilian grids. Supply-chain and defense industrial base resilience: Reducing dependence on vulnerable sources of critical materials and components. Strategic defense reserve: Maintaining essential supplies, potentially including munitions, fuel, medicine and blood. Installation hardening and cyber resilience: Protecting bases against cyber intrusion, sabotage and drones. Resilience in space and the electromagnetic spectrum: Preserving communications, navigation and other capabilities if satellites or spectrum-dependent systems are disrupted. These objectives are interconnected. Independent power offers limited protection if an installation loses access to water, fuel or essential replacement parts. Strategic reserves cannot sustain operations indefinitely if transportation networks fail or domestic industry cannot replenish them. FORTRESS therefore treats base resilience as a system-wide problem rather than a collection of separate infrastructure projects.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies has described FORTRESS as a resilience effort intended to preserve the military's ability to project power. Making installations more self-sufficient does not eliminate the need for overseas logistics, allied support or functioning national supply networks. It is intended to give commanders more options when those networks are disrupted.

Program Office Moves Toward Implementation On Oct. 6, Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey issued a memorandum designating Richard “Matt” O'Malley interim director of the FORTRESS America Program Office. DefenseScoop reported on the memorandum the following day.

Duffey instructed senior officials across the department to designate representatives to coordinate with the new office. Those officials cover the Air Force, personnel and readiness, sustainment, industrial-base policy, energy and installations, information technology, administration and management, and the department's comptroller. The office is intended to coordinate implementation across the five pillars and track progress.

Energy Resilience Is the Early Priority At an Oct. 20 Defense Writers Group roundtable, a senior defense official identified energy resilience as an early focus, including installation assessments, microgrids and battery storage. The official acknowledged that other parts of the initiative could take years to implement. The immediate task is to establish how much power each installation needs, which missions are most critical and where existing systems are vulnerable. Air & Space Forces Magazine reported on the discussion.

A microgrid can operate alongside the commercial electrical network but may also disconnect and supply designated loads independently. Combined with adequate generation, energy storage and appropriate controls, it can help maintain critical operations during a grid outage. Its effectiveness depends on more than installed battery capacity: a base must have sufficient energy sources, distribution equipment, trained personnel and the ability to operate for the required duration.

Nuclear microreactors have also been discussed as a potential source of sustained power, but their deployment involves substantial engineering, licensing, security, construction and cost considerations. The Pentagon has not publicly established a single technology or deployment schedule for all bases.

The Reported 90-Day Standard On Oct. 25, Fox News Digital reported, citing documents it reviewed, that major military installations in the continental United States would be expected to sustain essential operations independently for at least 90 days. The report described planning involving electricity, water, fuel, communications and other services necessary to maintain military operations. It also discussed alternative energy sources, strategic reserves and more resilient supply chains.

Supply Chains and the Civilian Industrial Base Beyond base hardening, FORTRESS America seeks to improve access to critical materials and equipment, build strategic reserves and strengthen domestic production. The initiative also addresses the ability to bring civilian manufacturing capacity into defense production during a crisis, extending resilience planning from individual installations to the industrial system that sustains them. The practical challenge will be to identify critical dependencies, establish adequate reserves and ensure that suppliers can continue producing and delivering essential items when normal commercial networks are disrupted.

What It Means For American Citizens FORTRESS America is focused on military installations, but the vulnerabilities it addresses extend well beyond the gates of a military base. The United States depends on interconnected power grids, water systems, communications networks, transportation infrastructure and industrial supply chains. A cyberattack, sabotage or other disruption affecting one of these systems can have consequences far beyond its original target. A military installation may have generators and emergency plans, but ordinary American families and businesses will also find themselves without electricity, water, communications or access to routine supplies.

Britain is taking a more direct approach to household preparedness. On Oct. 22, 2026, its government launched the Be Ready campaign, advising citizens to maintain basic supplies sufficient for 72 hours without normal services. The recommendations include drinking water, non-perishable food, essential medicines, a flashlight, spare batteries, a battery-powered or wind-up radio and a first-aid kit. The campaign addresses a range of emergencies, including severe weather and interruptions to essential services, against a wider national-security backdrop in which British officials have warned about hostile-state threats and the possibility of a direct threat to the homeland.

Fight and Win by 2030 Britain’s 72-hour household preparedness advice is not a prediction that war is imminent, but it comes against a clear strategic backdrop. The British government has identified Russia as an immediate threat, warned of growing risks to the homeland and called for NATO to be ready to fight and win a war by 2030. The household guidance is officially intended to cover a range of emergencies, but it also reflects a broader recognition that essential services would be disrupted during a serious national crisis. Stop and think what the long-term effects of suddenly losing electricity and water would be for tens of thousands or millions of people.

For American households we should consider this a clue to what may be coming. The practical lesson is familiar to anyone who takes preparedness seriously: do not assume that electricity, running water, communications and readily available supplies will always be there when you need them.

A reasonable starting point is to keep drinking water and shelf-stable food on hand, maintain essential medicines, have reliable lighting and a way to receive emergency information, and plan for family members who may need additional assistance. The right preparations depend on household size, climate, medical needs and the kinds of disruptions most likely to affect a particular area.

Foreign nation-states possess the capability to disrupt critical American infrastructure, including power grids, communications networks and other systems on which daily life depends. Such attacks are not merely theoretical, and Americans should recognize that a serious disruption could affect essential services, supply chains and access to everyday necessities. Awareness of that risk is the first step; taking reasonable precautions, when possible, is the next.

Keeping essential supplies on hand and having a plan for temporary interruptions to electricity, water and communications can reduce a household’s dependence on outside assistance during the initial stages of a crisis. FORTRESS America seeks to ensure that U.S. military installations can continue operating under such conditions. Citizens cannot provide the same level of protection for the nation’s infrastructure, but they can take practical steps to make their own households more resilient if those systems fail.

Scott Bessent: Treasury Secretary and the highest-ranking openly LGBTQ+ government official in U.S. history, confirmed by the Senate in January 2025.

Richard (Ric) Grenell: Presidential envoy for special missions (and former Acting Director of National Intelligence and Ambassador to Germany during Trump's first term)

Jacob Helberg: Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment

Tony Fabrizio: Longtime pollster and strategist for President Trump.

Tammy Bruce: State Department spokesperson

Bill White: Ambassador to Belgium

Art Fisher: Ambassador to Austria

Almost as bad as the Biden admin.

The US supported Ukraine when Russian was winning, The US supporting Russia now that Ukraine is winning. Is the goal to keep the War going so that the US can keep Europe hurting with Gas and food, to continue to collect drone warframe battle data for future wars, deplete military man power and weapons and to de populate the Russian people which many of Russians are poor and stubborn people what the New World Order would call "undesirables". Stop looking at World Leaders as forces that are fighting each other, its all a World stage where the World Leaders act like they are fighting, the real goal is controlling the masses. Maybe Russia will use a nuke which will lead to more War and Trump will get to point to it as "look see I was right about Iran." Everyday people are just pawns on their chessboards to kill off where they see fit.

TL;DR: Poe was a weirdo with a ludicrous life story sent forth by the Salem Witches to influence culture.

I assume that everyone reading this is familiar with “Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory”:

Cultural Marxism is a far-right and antisemitic conspiracy theory that misrepresents Western Marxism (especially the Frankfurt School) as being responsible for modern progressive movements, identity politics, and political correctness.

Customary blackwash. In practice and to greatly shorten the real explanation of Cultural Marxism, the aim involves “solve et coagula”, to dissolve and to coagulate. When you submit the Latin phrase to DuckDuckGo, the very first result that comes up is “Baphomet”. Provocative, eh?

But you see, Wikipedia made a big admission with that page on Cultural Marxism: they admitted it exists as a concept. Cultural Marxism is the “solve” part. Those elements of culture which are not desirable to “Them” are destroyed and even consciousness of their ever existing is wiped away.

The “coagula” part is Culture Creation. Wikipedia has no page for that. In the 1984-esque “Reality” they wish to manifest, Culture Creation cannot even be said to exist. Yet it does. In our present example, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a Salem Witch. He was also extraordinarily influential on culture:

Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be one of the pioneers of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living exclusively through writing, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career.

Except that last sentence is bullshit. We’re handed a sob story about Poe’s parents (who knows if it’s true) and then told:

The nearly three-year-old Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who dealt in a variety of goods, including cloth, wheat, tombstones, tobacco, and slaves. The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe", although they never formally adopted him.

Successful merchants and slave owners, eh? Also, Poe is not a Salem Witch name but Allen is. Make your own call as to what may have been transpiring there. But did these “successful merchants” not have enough money? A few paragraphs later we read:

In March 1825, Allan's uncle and business benefactor William Galt died, who was said to be one of the wealthiest men in Richmond, leaving Allan several acres of real estate. The inheritance was estimated at $750,000 (equivalent to $21,000,000 in 2025).

That would have been when Edgar was 16. Recipe for a “financially difficult life”, right? Anyway, it’s not just me blowing up his importance to, IDK, click-bait you into reading some crazy nonsense about him:

The Timeless Horror and Genius of Edgar Allan Poe (Halloween Living Magazine 6/18/2024)

What would Halloween be without Edgar Allan Poe, the master of macabre and the architect of American Gothic literature?… Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential figures in American literature, is celebrated for his mastery of macabre and gothic tales.

Point is, everyone assumes—literally without conscious question—that culture just grows and develops organically over time in accord with the collective dynamics of the individuals and groups that compose society.

Yeah, somewhat, but those dynamics are pushed and shoved around by the forces I’ve been exposing. You know who I’m talking about and it’s not the Jews. Edgar Allan Poe was one of Them and—among many other things—helped to shape Halloween, something we all think of as very mundane. This is an example of how, in broad terms, our culture has been handed down to us. The quote above continues:

Born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, Poe’s life was as turbulent and haunting as the stories he penned. Despite a relatively short life marred by personal tragedy and professional hardship, Poe’s works have left an indelible mark on literature, particularly in the genres of horror, mystery, and the supernatural.

Okay, “turbulent”? That hardly begins to describe it. You’re really going to have to read the relevant Wikipedia pages for yourself and decide what may or may not be true. But back on ol’ “Empty Pockets Ed”, two years and four paragraphs later we read:

As Poe was unable to support himself, he decided to enlist in the United States Army as a private on May 27, 1827, using the name "Edgar A. Perry"…. He first served at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor for five dollars a month.

If one could sustain oneself for $5/month in those times, then that Galt inheritance represented 4.2 million months. Makes your own calculations as to whether the picture they paint is to be believed.

But I do believe that Edgar was stationed in Boston Harbor. You see, as a Salem Witch born in Boston, why in the hell should he inconvenience himself for the sake of his bullshit “service”? Ask anyone you know in the service if they were stationed in their hometown.

Also, what was up with the name change? He was just some rando 18-year-old, wasn’t he? If you think he might have shot a man just to watch him die and was fleeing justice, remember that he was in his own hometown. All I can tell you with any certainty is that there is a page for “Case files referencing Goodman Perry” at the Salem Witch Trials.

Edgar’s biological father was David Poe Jr. (1784-1811), and there is something of note about him. You know how I have often commented (and have yet to write up) that the Salem Witches were all over the American Revolution?

His father, David Poe Sr.,... was well known for his patriotic self-sacrifice as a quartermaster during the American Revolution, paying for supplies out of his own pocket, including $500 for clothing for the troops. Poe Sr.'s commitment had earned the respect and friendship of the Marquis de Lafayette and the honorary title of 'General'.

So his real dad had money too. You’re supposed to interpret this as the act of a true patriot who—just as stated in the Declaration of Independence—had pledged his Fortune. Maybe. Another way of looking at it is that the Salem Witches were off to the side (off to both sides, to be specific) making certain it all moved forward.

We’ve already had some math so here’s more: if the $750k = $21m ratio is correct, then the $500 would be the equivalent of $14,000. Do you think anyone is going to call you “General” for kicking down fourteen grand? Sounds like more was going on with Poe Senior, don’t you think?

Edgar’s mother was Eliza Poe (1788-1811). Her parents were Henry and Elizabeth Arnold. We were just speaking of the Revolution, were we not? The most famous traitor (or so we are told) of that conflict was Benedict Arnold.

Funny how these things work out sometimes. I have no way when you’ll be reading this, but as I write it, I just mentioned Benedict and linked to him in my post before last. It was on Salem Witch and former WH press secretary Katie Zacharia, and I mentioned that she got the boot at the same time as one-time DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who was born Kristi Lynn Arnold:

She has Norwegian ancestry and is a descendant of Ephraim Wilson, who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Yes, Wilson is yet another Salem Witch name. I suspect they don’t want to mention Benedict since that might alert a few inquiring minds. But seriously, how much of that war was not manipulated?

David was Eliza’s second husband, and her first was Charles Hopkins (m. 1802; died 1805). I didn’t even try to look up his genealogy, but among numerous other Hopkinses, the guy that got the whole (phony) “witch trial craze” of the 17th Century kicked off was the “Witchfinder General” himself, Matthew Hopkins (1620-1647). Another general, huh?

It turns out that Edgar’s genealogy connects us to even bigger topics. Start at Edgar’s Wikitree page. You’ll see that his 2g-grandmother was Elizabeth (Popham) Seymour (1693-1761).

Do you recognize either of those surnames? Neither fits the stricter definition of Salem Witch names but I can tell you this: one connects to the very beginning of British settlement of North America, and the other to the Royal Family. Telling those stories—and the suppressed history that goes along with them—will have to wait for a future post. Point is, Poe was well-connected to the Salem Witches.

Further, Edgar’s Wikipedia page is overflowing with Salem Witch names. That’s because he was thoroughly saturated in Their insular world and They manufactured his literature and his literary career. It’s way too much to cover all the detail so I’ll just try to give you the drift with a couple of examples.

First, what a freak. I hate to get gossipy but this is what we have. Edgar’s wife was Virginia Eliza Clemm (1822-1847). All of the following is from her page and you will see that it is severely abridged on Edgar’s:

Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 and named after an older sister who had died at age two only ten days earlier. Her father William Clemm, Jr. … had married Maria Poe, Virginia's mother,… after the death of his first wife, Maria's first cousin Harriet.

Edgar Allan Poe first met his [first!] cousin Virginia in August 1829, four months after his discharge from the Army. She was seven at the time.

Yeesh, they wouldn’t even put that on a TV drama. Anyway, Poe eventually came to live with Virginia, her brother, her mother, and her bedridden grandmother. Poe used young Virginia as a go-between to woo some neighborhood trollop. Neat.

A couple of years later, grandma died and her pension went away. Then Virginia’s brother died and the family was left destitute. So, of course, Poe bailed.

While Poe was away from Baltimore, another cousin, Neilson Poe, the husband of Virginia's half-sister Josephine Clemm, heard that Edgar was considering marrying Virginia. Neilson offered to take her in and have her educated in an attempt to prevent the girl's marriage to Edgar at such a young age, though suggesting that the option could be reconsidered later. Edgar called Neilson, the owner of a newspaper in Baltimore, his "bitterest enemy," and interpreted his cousin's actions as an attempt at breaking his connection with Virginia.

Poe was 27 and Virginia was 13, though her age was listed as 21. Due to Virginia's young age, Poe needed her father's permission to marry her; since he was dead, it is likely that her age was listed as 21 so she could marry without her dead father's consent.

Cinderalla story. Hulu better jump on this intellectual property ASAP.

I thought it a bit odd that Wikipedia took pains to note the name of their wedding officiant, especially for a match of such dubious circumstances. He was Reverend Amasa Converse (1795-1872). Yes, a Salem Witch name.

And if you were wondering, also yes, the Converse Rubber Shoe Company (1908) was founded by Marquis Mills Converse in Malden, Massachusetts. That’s about ten miles from Salem.

As to Edgar’s work product, let me be brief and brutal: (1) his work was plaigiarized and handed to him, and (2) support was manufactured by other Salem Witches. If you ever wonder how culture is created, this is it. As to “The Raven” (1845):

Critical opinion is divided as to the poem's literary status, but it nevertheless remains one of the most famous poems ever written.

We’re going to talk more about that “divided”. But first, read this carefully and critically:

In part due to its dual printing, "The Raven" made Edgar Allan Poe a household name almost immediately, and turned Poe into a national celebrity.

Do you really believe that printing something in two outlets turns the author into a household name overnight? Do you think everyone in media is aware of this? Maybe not? Okay then, here’s the artificial promotion:

Nathaniel Parker Willis, editor of the Mirror, introduced it as “unsurpassed in English poetry for subtle conception, masterly ingenuity of versification, and consistent, sustaining of imaginative lift ... It will stick to the memory of everybody who reads it.”

A double: Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867). And Nate is lying to you: what sticks to the memory is Salem Witches repeating something over and over and over.

The New World said, “Everyone reads the Poem and praises it ... justly, we think, for it seems to us full of originality and power.”

The feel-good hit of the summer, as well. Jesus, these people need to dial it back.

“The Raven” was praised by fellow writers William Gilmore Simms and Margaret Fuller, though it was denounced by William Butler Yeats, who called it “insincere and vulgar ... its execution a rhythmical trick”. Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I see nothing in it.”

Surprise, Symmes and Fuller are Salem Witch names and they are on-message. Interestingly, though, Butler is too. Let this be another example of the dynamic that the Salem Witches are under heavy influence, but occasionally they do not go along with the program.

Bonus: After Poe dropped out of college, he started using the pseudonym “Henri Le Rennet”. Strange name, right? What does it mean? I couldn’t possibly know but I have a guess.

Go back to the very beginning of this post, to that big metaphor about cultural destruction and culture creation as parallel to the phrase “solve et coagula”. It’s clear now that Poe was part of the “coagula”.

Although Henri is a French name and “Rennet” sounds like a French word, it is not, so far as I know. Rennet is a very ancient product from the stomach lining of ruminants and has been used for many thousands of years in cheese-making to coagulate milk.

Thanks for reading! And Happy Halloween!

Rogue AI agents accessing bank accounts without permission: report Insiders are warning about AI programs accessing potentially millions of accounts and making financial decisions on behalf of someone other than the account owners, according to a new report.

(LifeSiteNews) – Banking industry insiders are sounding the alarm about a “security nightmare” arising from the unfettered expansion of artificial intelligence: unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts potentially making decisions without human direction or approval.

Axios reports that industry sources tell them executives at Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and others are concerned about signs that AI agents and assistants (systems designed to autonomously pursue tasks on behalf of a user or service) are making unauthorized access to customer accounts.

Some customers allow AI assistants to access their accounts using their login credentials, even though it’s often against bank policy. But “other instances, some banks have tracked activity when agents — programmed to fulfill requests or complete tasks on a user’s behalf — contact call centers or appear to take actions independent of user instructions.”

“Many banks are broadly not able to parse whether agent account activity is user-directed, sources said,” the report continues. “One bank executive told Axios they struggle to differentiate between agents, as well as whether an agent has been authorized by a user or has gone rogue and gained access to a customer account.”

The implications of rogue programs accessing potentially millions of accounts and making financial decisions on behalf of someone other than the account owners is being described as “horrifying.” Officials said that it is not always easy to determine whether or not an AI agent’s action was made with the direction of a human.

In response, institutions are taking action to restrict third-party whether and/or how AI services can access accounts at all, potentially impacting the utility of tax preparation and budget applications such as Quicken.

A Chase spokesperson reminded customers to “not give their usernames and passwords to anyone,” while “most banks have authorized or are moving in the direction of allowing read-only access, which should allow agents to see customer financial information without taking action.”

“Imagine a rogue AI agent liquidating your bank account and investment portfolio. If you are the only victim, I suppose you could get made whole by the AI company responsible,” responded Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has taken a proactive stance against Big AI. “If rogue agents liquidate hundreds of billions across millions of accounts, the AI company would go bankrupt and you wouldn’t get made whole. Imposing criminal liability on AI executives might help mitigate it at the front end, but once the crime is complete and you lose everything criminal responsibility will be necessary but completely insufficient.”

The AI industry has exploded in recent years with countless applications in business, media, the internet, medicine, entertainment, and more. Advocates tout promised benefits in areas such as improving productivity, simplifying complex tasks, and more rapidly and effectively diagnosing diseases, while others caution that the technology can be exploited for nefarious purposes, such as supplanting individual choice, replacing human workers, effectively erasing personal privacy, and outsourcing discernment of true or false information.

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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/rogue-ai-agents-accessing-bank-accounts-without-permission-report/?utm_source=most_recent

The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench that sits to the south-east of the Mariana Islands in the western region of the Pacific Ocean. Its deepest point is thought to be approximately 11,034 metres below the surface of the sea, although the very lowest section to have been accurately measured, known as Challenger Deep, lies at 10,911 metres. This makes Challenger Deep the deepest-known point on the Earth’s seabed. If Mount Everest were located here, it would still sit two kilometres below the waves.