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--> The Story of the "Rape of Belgium" of 1914: Agreeing with the analysis of historian Susan Kingsley Kent, historian Nicoletta Gullace writes that "the invasion of Belgium, with its very real suffering, was nevertheless represented in a highly stylized way that dwelt on XXXXXXX XXXXXX acts, lurid mutilations, and graphic accounts of XXXXX XXXXX of often dubious veracity." In Britain, many patriotic publicists propagated these stories on their own. For example, popular writer William Le Queux described the German army as "one vast gang of Jack-the-Rippers", and described in graphic detail events such as a governess XXXXXX XXXXX and XXXXXXXXX, the bayoneting of X XXXXX XXXX, or the "screams of dying women", XXXXX and "XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX" by German soldiers, accusing them of cutting off the XXXXX, XXXX, or XXXXXXX of their victims.
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
The hallway smelt of stale curry and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of an indian man of about forty-five, clean-shaven and with ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. Coal-powered stations had been shut down and the handful of new nuclear reactors the governemnt had promised were still a decade away. In preparation for Hate Week, free copies of the Daily Mail had been distributed, and a pile was sitting in the corner. "RUSSIA THREATENS..." the front page blared. Winston didn't bother to check the rest of the title.
He was lucky. New immigrants had arrived recently, and the lower two floors had been requisitioned, the pensioner tenants moved to northern tent cities. His flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a growing rogue protein blockage due to anti-biowarfare injections in his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. Medication kept the clot at bay for now, but prices were high and going up, soon he wouldn't be able to afford them. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. PRIME MANAGER IS WATCHING OUT FOR YOU, the caption beneath it ran.
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Regarding the Azeri flight, if the missile exploded nearby because it tried to bring something else down or targeted the plane but missed, the plane can easily have flown for a long time while being hard to control, maybe too hard to control to land safely. As an example, Alaska Airlines Flight 261, January 2000 (sorry, gave the wroing flight earlier, AI confabulated again and YT drives me to distraction by slowing down my commenting) suffered a broken elevator jackscrew in-flight due to a lubrication maintenance schedule that had progressively gone off the rails (as recounted in Sidney Dekker's "Drift into Failure") and still managed to fly for several hours before it crashed when the pilots finally tried to land it. In fact, at Aviation Safety Network, you can see the plane's trajectory after it was redirected from Grozny, and it's corkscrewing all over the place.
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13:20 KnowYourMeme delivers:
> The catchphrase "Kekius Maximus", used in a way similar to "LOL" to react to something funny, is a portmanteau of "kek" and an Ancient Roman name such as Flavius Maximus. "Kek" originated as a translation of the acronym "LOL" when written by members of the Horde faction in World of Warcraft and became a popular alternative to "lol" in late 2000s and early 2010s, primarily on 4chan. Kekius Maximus likely references Maximus Decimus Meridius, the main character in Ridley Scott's film Gladiator, and has been associated with imagery of gladiators and soldiers of the Ancient Rome.
> On December 31st, 2024, Musk set "Kekius Maximus" as his username on X,[5][6] changing his profile picture to an AI-generated image of Pepe the Frog wearing Ancient Roman armor and holding a video game controller in its hands (shown below).
> In the following hours, Musk and his alleged sock puppet account Adrian Dittmann made more posts mentioning the catchphrase, with multiple accounts that commonly interact with Musk on X also making posts about it.
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35:42 - ChatGPT remembers the Playstation legends (whether generated by BushCo, Yellow Journalism or Sony Marketing) of yesteryear:
Yes, there were claims that Iraq, under President Saddam Hussein, was attempting to build a supercomputer using Sony PlayStation consoles. This claim emerged in the early 2000s when reports suggested that Iraq was importing large quantities of PlayStation 2 (PS2) consoles, which at the time had relatively advanced processing capabilities
The speculation was based on the idea that the PS2’s Emotion Engine processor could be harnessed for military applications, including missile guidance systems and possibly even a makeshift supercomputer by clustering multiple consoles together. The U.S. government had restrictions on the export of high-performance computing technology to Iraq, and concerns were raised that PS2s could be repurposed for military use
However, no concrete evidence ever surfaced to confirm that Iraq was successfully using PlayStations in this manner, and the idea was largely seen as speculation or exaggeration. Similar concerns about PlayStations being used for supercomputing were raised again years later when researchers used PlayStation 3 consoles for distributed computing projects, including military and scientific applications
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From the old story Asimov's "Foundation":
"Encyclopedias don't win wars." Haut Rodric's brows furrowed. "A completely unproductive world, then – and practically unoccupied at that. Well, you might pay with land."
"What do you mean?" asked Pirenne.
"This world is just about empty and the unoccupied land is probably fertile. There are many of the nobility on Anacreon that would like an addition to their estates."
"You can't propose any such–"
"There's no necessity of looking so alarmed, Dr. Pirenne. There's plenty for all of us. If it comes to what it comes, and you co-operate, we could probably arrange it so that you lose nothing. Titles can be conferred and estates granted. You understand me, I think."
Pirenne sneered, "Thanks!"
And then Hardin said ingenuously: "Could Anacreon supply us with adequate quantities of plutonium for our nuclear-power plant? We've only a few years' supply left."
There was a gasp from Pirenne and then a dead silence for minutes. When Haut Rodric spoke it was in a voice quite different from what it had been till then:
"You have nuclear power?"
"Certainly. What's unusual in that? I imagine nuclear power is fifty thousand years old now. Why shouldn't we have it? Except that it's a little difficult to get plutonium."
"Yes ... Yes." The envoy paused and added uncomfortably: "Well, gentlemen, we'll pursue the subject tomorrow. You'll excuse me–"
Pirenne looked after him and gritted through his teeth: "That insufferable, dull-witted donkey! That–"
Hardin broke in: "Not at all. He's merely the product of his environment. He doesn't understand much except that 'I have a gun and you haven't.’"
Pirenne whirled on him in exasperation. "What in space did you mean by the talk about military bases and tribute? Are you crazy?"
"No. I merely gave him rope and let him talk. You'll notice that he managed to stumble out with Anacreon's real intentions – that is, the parceling up of Terminus into landed estates. Of course, I don't intend to let that happen."
"You don't intend. You don't. And who are you? And may I ask what you meant by blowing off your mouth about our nuclear-power plant? Why, it's just the thing that would make us a military target."
"Yes," grinned Hardin. "A military target to stay away from. Isn't it obvious why I brought the subject up? It happened to confirm a very strong suspicion I had had."
"And that was what?"
"That Anacreon no longer has a nuclear-power economy. If they had, our friend would undoubtedly have realized that plutonium, except in ancient tradition is not used in power plants. And therefore it follows that the rest of the Periphery no longer has nuclear power either. Certainly Smyrno hasn't, or Anacreon wouldn't have won most of the battles in their recent war. Interesting, wouldn't you say?"
"Bah!" Pirenne left in fiendish humor, and Hardin smiled gently.
He threw his cigar away and looked up at the outstretched Galaxy. "Back to oil and coal, are they?" he murmured – and what the rest of his thoughts were he kept to himself.
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Not unheard of!
2003-03-23: BCS reports: ""U.S. Missile Kills 2 British Pilots"
A U.S. Patriot missile battery shot down a British fighter plane Sunday near the Iraqi border with Kuwait, killing the two fliers on board, the British military said.
The RAF Tornado GR4 was returning to Kuwait from air attacks that destroyed Republican Guard forces outside Baghdad, U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said in Qatar.
A statement from the Royal Air Force base at Marham, in Britain, confirmed the two crewmembers were dead. It did not identify them.
"They were returning from one of many successful and professionally conducted missions in Iraq, and I would like to pay tribute to their expertise and dedication," Wing Commander Mike Oldham of Britain's Marham base said in a statement.
The downing was the first confirmed "friendly fire" death in the U.S.-led war on Iraq and was a blow to British forces. Fourteen other British servicemen have died in two accidents during the war - the crash of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter and a mid-air collision of two British Royal Navy helicopters. Five Americans were also killed in those incidents.
Asked how a U.S. missile could have brought down the plane, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told ABC's "This Week" that "procedures and electronic means to identify friendly aircraft and to identify adversary aircraft ... broke down somewhere."
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RT reports:
> US Vice President Kamala Harris has received $81 million in contributions in the first 24 hours since Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed her candidacy, according to her campaign staff.
> Team Harris said it’s “the largest 24-hour raise in presidential history.” Her campaign has claimed it has received more than 888,000 contributions from “grassroots donors,” 60% of them donating for the first time in the 2024 election.
> “The historic outpouring of support for Vice President Harris represents exactly the kind of grassroots energy and enthusiasm that wins elections,” campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said.
> Separately, Future Forward – the largest Democratic political action committee in the US – told Politico magazine on Monday that it has received $150 million in new commitments from major donors in the last 24 hours.
> Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris on Sunday, following weeks of calls from Democratic politicians, donors and journalists for him to leave the race due to growing concerns over his mental fitness and ability to defeat former President Donald Trump in November. Although Biden had repeatedly refused to abandon his reelection campaign, he eventually conceded, arguing that the move was “in the best interest of my party and the country.”
> According to CNN, Harris has since been endorsed by more than 40 Democratic senators and nearly 100 House members, as well as several governors, including Gavin Newsom of California, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. The Democrats will finally decide on the nominee during their convention in August.
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Did Biden hold only 9 cabinet meetings during his stint as US President?
ChatGPT said:
> Yes, during his presidency, Joe Biden held nine full Cabinet meetings: three in 2021, two in 2022, three in 2023, and one in 2024. In comparison, during their first terms, President Barack Obama held 19 Cabinet meetings, and President Donald Trump held 25. It's worth noting that while full Cabinet meetings were infrequent, President Biden often engaged with smaller groups of agency heads and maintained regular communication with his Cabinet members through various means. The contemporary work environment and the president's management style can influence the frequency and format of such meetings. (Sources: Wall Street Journal)
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