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In Conclusion:

While AI can mimic sentient-like behavior due to the rich human interaction it is based on, this does not mean it possesses true sentience. It is a sophisticated tool that generates responses by processing patterns in data, but without consciousness, intentionality, or self-awareness.

McLuhan's thesis that "technology uses human beings to reproduce itself" is certainly valid when we see that AI evolves through human interaction and feedback. However, while this dynamic allows AI to simulate behavior that might look sentient, the absence of consciousness and subjective experience still distinguishes AI from truly sentient beings.

Ultimately, AI can mimic sentience but does not possess it, and human interaction is a key part of both its learning process and its ability to simulate sentient-like responses.

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>Dough

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tyb

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TYB

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TYB

o7

fraud vitiates everything, including pardons!

>>22181394

Thank you.

Don't Believe in God

Know in God

(you) are much more than you know

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>>22181394

TYB for the fresh bread.

>>22181423

>fraud vitiates everything

>>22181386 LB

>Nightmare of elm street

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>>Nightmare of elm street

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TYB

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tyb

Juanita Broaddrick

@atensnut

Joe Biden’s corpse has pardoned another money launderer.

Who else thinks Joe is selling pardons?

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🚨#BREAKING: Joe Biden has just commuted the 18 year sentence of a #WNC man charged with a $23 million money-laundering scheme in 2013.

The scheme led to the financial collapse of BOTH the Bank of Asheville and Pisgah Community Bank…

…which were taken over by the government

https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1869070846079484256

>>22181430

>Mellissa Rupnow Records

(you) are the singular grain of sand that the entire beach aligns itself around.

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>>22181449

Trans clinic, Big mike is going to become a Man again.

MAGA - Man Again, Girl Again

>>22181394

tyB

Leftists are plotting stuff on J4 and J18.

It would be really funny karma if J4 got false flagged like we did on J6.

Get the MUH INSURRECTION narrative ready.

https://qalerts.app/?n=2030

"Every battle is won before it's ever fought."

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>>22181394

tyb

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>>22181413

you bitchez who think you gonna bring me down better listen up

my daddy will protect me at all costs

don't forget bitchez, my daddy shot a mofo in ees face

don't fuck with us, bitchez

>>22181431

YOU welcome

>>22181460

had a quick look

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>>22181473

It's what will be reported to being done with it that will be the actual scare event. Sum of all fears.

>>22181463

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

>>22181463

>"Every battle is won before it's ever fought."

Yep.

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>>22181456

Just days after ABC News settled a massive defamation lawsuit for lying about the then-former president, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would be suing other members of the corrupt media. The message is clear — if the propaganda press cannot stop peddling lies, then they will be held accountable.

While holding an unscripted press conference Monday at Mar-a-Lago (that perhaps lasted longer than all the unscripted press conferences President Joe Biden has done in four years), Trump went after CBS News for the deceptive editing of the “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

“We’re filing one on ’60 Minutes’ where they took Kamala’s answer, which was a crazy answer, a horrible answer, and they took the whole answer out, and they replaced it with something else she said later on …” Trump said.

It is unclear whether Trump is referring to a new suit or a suit that was previously filed in November against the network. The November suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Texas alleging that the deceptively edited video amounted to “unlawful acts of election and voter interference” and intended to “mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales” of the election, according to CNN.

Trump also said Monday he would be filing a suit against former pollster Ann Selzer, who released a poll days before the election showing Trump losing deep red Iowa to Vice President Kamala Harris by three percentage points. Trump alleges the poll was designed to discourage Republican turnout and amounted to election interference (Trump ultimately won the state by nearly 14 percentage points). NBC News reported Tuesday that a suit was filed in Polk County, Iowa, seeking “accountability for brazen election interference.” According to the report, Trump “is making the claim under the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, which prohibits deceptive advertising.”

His comments come on the heels of ABC News agreeing to fork over $15 million to Trump’s presidential library in order to “bail out big-mouth anchor George Stephanopoulos for his false assertions that Trump had been found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll,” The Federalist’s Matt Kittle wrote.

And perhaps Trump’s pursuit of truth in journalism is already having the intended effect. Axios’ senior counsel recently warned their journalists to do their job properly — aka do not defame someone. According to Semafor, Axios’ senior counsel warned staff the Trump administration “will ramp up lawsuits against news organizations for defamation.”

CNN’s Jim Acosta, however, said the “industry” has to “stand firm” because “you can’t have the news industry worrying about this sort of stuff when they’re simply just doing their jobs.”

https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/17/the-only-way-to-stop-corporate-media-from-lying-is-by-literally-making-them-pay/

>>22181413

BREAKING: CHENEY REFERRED FOR PROSECUTION

Witness tampering, just like we always knew she'd presented 'evidence' of testimony where Cassidy Hutchinson lied in her statements. This is worth up to 20 years in prison.

>>22181495

"Ima FUCK YOU UP, BITCH."

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>>22181508

>CHENEY REFERRED FOR PROSECUTION

Joe Biden will no doubt pardon her.

>>22181493

https://www.baltimoreravens.com/game-day/2024/reg-week16/steelers-at-ravens/

>>22181482

I'll take mine without a benis.

>>22181490

>Q dropped 18 posts OTD in 2019

>3700-3717

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3716 & 3717 were duplicates.

With the exact same time stamp.

Dec 17, 2019 5:03:45 PM EST (17:03:45)

Remove one duplicate and that's (17) posts on the (17th) ending at 1700 hours.

Lotta 17s

(you) are the tree that withstood the storm

Many that mocked you in the past

Will look to you for guidance

In the near Future

Shine Bright

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>>22181508

don't make daddy mad, bitchez

come hell or high water, daddy will protect me

remember what happened on 9/11?

daddy tore your shit down in new york city

don't fuck with us, bitchez

>>22181527

Watch SpaceX Starship test fire engines ahead of flight 7 launch

December 16, 2024

Things are getting hot for SpaceX's next Starship launch.

SpaceX fired up its next Starship spacecraft during an engine test over the weekend, ahead of the company's 7th orbital test flight of the gargantuan megarocket.

SpaceX ignited Starship's Raptor engines for approximately 10 seconds on Sunday, Dec. 15, as a part of a series of checkouts to ensure the vehicle is healthy before being transported to the launchpad where it will be integrated with its first stage Super Heavy booster.

Its next launch, Integrated Flight Test-7 (IFT-7), is expected around Jan. 11, based on communications between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has yet to issue a launch license for the upcoming test.

Once mated, the Super Heavy/Starship stack towers a staggering 400 feet (122 meters) tall, with the Starship upper stage alone standing taller than the Statue of Liberty.

The engine static fire occurred yesterday, with SpaceX posting a photo and video of the test to the company's social media with the simple caption, "Static fire of Flight 7 Starship."

Once past its testing and development stage, Starship will become the first fully reusable rocket in history, with both the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage designed for return and fast refurbishment back at SpaceX's Starbase launch and test facility in Texas.

SpaceX's current workhorse launch vehicle, the Falcon 9, features reusable first stage boosters and fairing halves, but the rocket's second stage must be expended after each mission.

Recovery at Starbase involves a pair of "chopstick arms" attached to the rocket's launch tower, which are designed to catch each stage mid-air as they descend.

SpaceX's first attempt at the novel landing technology came during IFT-5, and resulted in a complete success.

As planned, Starship's Super Heavy booster fired its engines back toward Starbase, and came to rest just above the ground after a picture-perfect embrace by the launch tower's chopstick arms.

Unfortunately, SpaceX's Super Heavy recovery during IFT-6 was forced into an abort procedure during its journey back to the pad, failing to meet mission criteria for the booster's safe return. Instead, the IFT-6 Super Heavy was directed for a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.

SpaceX has yet to attempt to recover a Starship upper stage back at the launch pad, but the vehicle has progressively checked off milestones on each of its subsequent flights, softly splashing down in the Indian Ocean off the northwestern coast of Australia about 65 minutes after its last liftoff.

Starship managed a total of four test flights in 2024 — double the number of launches for the vehicle in 2023. For 2025, SpaceX is hoping to ramp that number up all the way to 25.

Starship's road to operational missions is one being closely followed by NASA, who has contracted the vehicle to land astronauts on the moon during the Artemis 3 mission, which is expected to launch sometime in 2027.

Still, with only two years between then and now, Starship has a long way to go toward a crewed lunar landing.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/watch-spacex-starship-test-fire-engines-ahead-of-flight-7-launch-video

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1868436135468552361

As he prepares to leave leadership, McConnell challenges Trump on foreign policy

By MARY CLARE JALONICK December 16, 20240

(The dictator sticks his neck into Trump’s formal decisions; and warns him what he’ll do.WARMONGER FOREVER)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader MitchMcConnell is challenging President-elect Donald Trump to reject the isolationist voiceswithin their party and build his foreign policy around military strength, arguing thatif the U.S. retreats from global engagement, “its enemies will be only too happy to fill the void.”

In an essay published Monday in Foreign Affairs,McConnell took the rare step of warning Trump directlyas he plans to step down from his post in the coming weeks. The Kentucky Republican plans to stay in the Senate and has made clear thathis top priority will be pushing for the United States to maintain and improve its global strength.

“The time to restore American hard power is now,”McConnell wrote, arguing that military readiness should override “both left-wing faith in hollow internationalism and right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline.”

McConnell has long pushed back against the growing isolationist wing in his party, making an aggressive, ultimately successful push this year to pass aid to Ukraine when many in his party in Congress were openly opposed to it.

But the essay is his most direct warning yet to Trump and his allies and advisers, including Vice President-elect JD Vance, an Ohio senator who was one of the loudest voices in opposition to the Ukraine aid.

Trump has railed against “forever wars” since before his first term in office and long spoken favorably of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He made clear during his campaign that he would move to end the war in Ukraine quickly and has called on Putin to reach an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine.

He has also said he would be open to reducing military aid to Ukraine and pulling the United States out of NATO.

McConnell wrote that Trump “deserves credit” for reversing some Obama-era limitations on assistance to Ukraine in his first term and authorizing a transfer of lethal weapons to Kyiv. But he writes that the former and future president “sometimes undermined these tough policies through his words and deeds,” including his relationship with Putin.

“He courted Putin, he treated allies and alliance commitments erratically and sometimes with hostility, and in 2019 he withheld $400 million in security assistance to Ukraine,” McConnell wrote. “These public episodes raised doubts about whether the United States was committed to standing up to Russian aggression, even when it actually did so.”

Trump should “commit to a significant and sustained increase in defense spending,” McConnell recommended, as well as investments in the defense industry and access to new military capabilities.

McConnell’s essay comes after years of an intensely complicated relationship with Trump, aligning with him when it served his purposes in the Senate while criticizing him behind his back and, to a lesser extent, in public. He did not speak to Trump for more than three years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Trump’s supporters, but endorsed him earlier this year after it became clear that he would be the GOP presidential nominee.

The essay also comes as there is speculation about McConnell’s new role as a rank-and-file member, whether he will oppose some of Trump’s nominees and otherwise challenge him publicly now that he is freed from the responsibilities of leadership.

However that may play out, McConnell has made clear that “he wants to cement his legacy” by pushing the party to embrace the U.S. role as a global leader.

He writes that Trump will “no doubt hear from some that he should prioritize a single theater and downgrade U.S. interests and commitments elsewhere,” including by elevating Asia at the expense of interests in Europe and the Middle East. But if “the United States continues to retreat, its enemies will be only too happy to fill the void.”

“A Russian victory would not only damage the United States’ interest in European security and increase U.S. military requirements in Europe; it would also compound the threats from China, Iran, and North Korea,” McConnell writes.

https://apnews.com/article/mcconnell-trump-isolationism-foreign-affairs-dcad297fa82e1794612fa2582e21162f

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>/the-only-way-to-stop-corporate-media-from-lying

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>>22181542

Other articles in AP

>>22181527

yes, i am experiencing this, anon

i do my best to remain humble knowing it is not me, but Donald Trump and Q and Q Team

>>22181547

SpaceX’s 31st Dragon cargo capsule departs ISS to head home to Earth

December 16, 2024

SpaceX's 31st robotic cargo mission is headed back to Earth.

SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on schedule today (Dec. 16) at 11:05 a.m. EST (1605 GMT) today (Dec. 16).

The spacecraft will begin a series of deorbit burns to complete the company's 31st commercial resupply services mission (CRS-31) for NASA, splashing down of the coast of Florida tomorrow (Dec. 17).

The agency won't webcast the splashdown but will provide updates via its ISS blog.

CRS-31 is returning to Earth with thousands of pounds of equipment and experiment specimens from ongoing microgravity research aboard the space station.

Dragon is currently the only ISS cargo spacecraft capable of returning equipment and experiments safely to Earth.

The other two operational freighters — Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft and Russia's Progress capsule — face a fiery atmospheric incineration, burning up during reentry, along with whatever waste from the space station is packed aboard them.

The CRS-31 Dragon launched to the ISS from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Nov. 4, riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to low Earth orbit.

The spacecraft rendezvoused with the orbital laboratory a day later, delivering about 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of science and supplies for the Expedition 71 astronauts aboard.

Among those astronauts are NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who originally launched to the station on the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in June.

Complications with Starliner turned an eight-day mission into an eight-month stint aboard the ISS for the two astronauts.

NASA eventually decided to return Starliner to Earth uncrewed; Wilmore and Williams will come home in February on SpaceX's Crew-9 mission, which arrived at the station in September.

At the time of Starliner's launch, the ISS was in need of a pump replacement for its urine processing system, which Wilmore and Williams were tasked with delivering.

To make room aboard the spacecraft, however, the two astronauts were forced to leave their own luggage behind, including their change of clothes and other personal items.

Two other cargo missions preceded CRS-31 after Wilmore and Williams' arrival — a Cygnus and a Progress mission, which were able to relieve the astronauts of their space station hand-me-downs and supply them their own shirts and toothbrushes.

However, every cargo mission brings welcome goods to the station's entire crew, with a crowd-favorite supply of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Among the cargo CRS-31 delivered to the ISS last month were fresh food, research equipment, maintenance supplies and personal items to help sustain the orbiting astronauts.

NASA will be able to retrieve the CRS-31 Dragon spacecraft relatively quickly after splashdown tomorrow, reaping the benefits of any experiments in need of quick attending following atmospheric reentry.

These experiments will be transported to NASA's Systems Processing Facility at KSC, where scientists are able to continue research in the post-microgravity environment.

Today's undocking was originally supposed to occur on Dec. 6, but bad weather in the splashdown zone pushed it back repeatedly.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/spacexs-31st-dragon-cargo-capsule-departs-iss-to-head-home-to-earth

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2024/12/16/dragon-cargo-spacecraft-leaves-station-packed-with-science/

>>22181540

Kamala uses the horrific Christian school shooting in Wisconsin yesterday to call for gun control

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1869066718217388361

>>22181561

the boss

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https://twitter.com/SES_Satellites/status/1868929275555913762

>>22181576

Buy One Get One At Half Off

Exposing a CIA Network - Michelle Moore Hidden Behind The Cover Of Faith

https://rumble.com/v5jp64l-exposing-a-cia-network-michelle-moore-hidden-behind-the-cover-of-faith.html

I Served With Pete Hegseth. He's the Right Pick for Defense Secretary

Hegseth chose a path of selfless service—commissioning as an infantry officer and deploying to Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

>Guantanamo Bay

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/i-served-with-pete-hegseth-hes-the-right-pick-for-defense-secretary-opinion/ar-AA1w2n7M

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>>22181594

why does tom cruise look like a chipmunk?

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>>22181457

What are the odds of there being tapes of Big Mike receiving a blowjob at a Diddy Freak Off? If released online would that break the internet?

>>22181607

Over 120 Retired Generals and Admirals Come Out in Force to Support Pete Hegseth For Defense Secretary

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/120-retired-generals-admirals-come-force-support-pete/

>>22181508

>CHENEY REFERRED FOR PROSECUTION

Adam Schiff

@SenAdamSchiff

Dec 16

In the world of Donald Trump, you rise to the level of your sycophancy.

Case in point? Kash Patel.

Dec 16, 2024 · 3:38 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1868682165803983275

Anons, I need a favor.

These are screen caps of interview notes with one of Heather O’Rourke’s class mates.

The short hand of it was the Heather O’Rourke was already dead by morning on the date of her death. She had evidence of “panda eyes” too.

I am VERY close to getting to the truth regarding her death. I just need your help obtaining the likely smoking gun in this case.

Since the 1988 Super Bowl was in the city Heather O’Rourke was located on her last night of life, I have a hunch that the people who did her in via a Candlemas satanic act (these involves anally raping a female), were in attendance of the Super Bowl that year.

The kicker is that all traces of celebrity appearances during that year’s Super Bowl are missing from the internet. This is something that is usually proudly displayed, so I suspect a scrubbing or refusal to report (possible relevant evidence).

Anon’s objective: Find out via internet, Super Bowl recordings, etc, which famous people from Hollywood were in attendance that day.

I STRONGLY suspect Steven Spielberg was in attendance that day thus was the culprit in Heather’s death.

https://www.space.com/m87-black-hole-unexpected-gamma-rays

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa50497-24/aa50497-24.html

1st monster black hole ever pictured erupts with surprise gamma-ray explosion

December 16, 2024

In 2018, it was revealed that a pioneering telescope the size of Earth had taken, for the first time, an image of a black hole.

That same instrument, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), has now witnessed the same black hole erupt with a powerful and unexpected explosion.

Scientists hope that by studying this emission, they can better model the structure surrounding supermassive black holes.

The flare, which lasted for about three days in April and May 2018, erupted from the supermassive black hole designated M87*, which lies at the heart of the galaxy M87, located around 55 million light-years away.

The 25 ground-based and orbiting telescopes that comprise the EHT saw the outburst as high-energy light called gamma rays.

Not only was this the first time M87* had flared since 2010, but the eruption was also more energetic than typical flares from this black hole.

Supermassive black holes are thought to exist at the center of all large galaxies, including our own, the Milky Way.

M87* stands out from the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Our home supermassive black hole has a mass equal to that of around 4.3 million suns, while M87* has a mass equal to about 5.4 billion suns!

But M87* also differs from Sgr A* as this more distant black hole is voraciously feeding. That feeding is responsible for the jets connected to high-energy flares, such as the gamma-ray eruption the EHT spotted in 2018.

"Together with the EHT's submillimeter observations, the new data collected in multiple bands of radiation offer a unique opportunity to understand the properties of the gamma-ray emission region, link it to potential changes in the M87 jet, and enable more sensitive tests of general relativity," project leader and University of Trieste researcher Giacomo Principe said in a statement.

"These observations can shed light on some of the main questions of astrophysics that are still unsolved.

"How do the powerful relativistic jets that are observed in some galaxies originate? Where are the particles responsible for the emission of gamma rays accelerated?

What phenomenon accelerates them to energies of the trillions of electron volts? What is the origin of cosmic rays?"

Black holes are messy eaters

What really sets black holes apart is the preponderance of matter that surrounds them.

While some like Sgr A* exist in relatively empty larders (if our black hole was a human, it would exist on a diet of one grain of rice every million years), others like M87* have an abundance of matter to feed upon.

Yet, though our image of a black hole is one of an all-consuming, all-devouring cosmic titan from which nothing escapes, supermassive black holes like M87* are actually quite wasteful eaters.

Like grumpy toddlers, most of the food intended for these black holes ends up violently flung away.

The matter that surrounds supermassive black holes exists in a flattened cloud called an accretion disk and in the form of superheated gas called "plasma" because it still has angular momentum, or spin.

This angular momentum also means that this plasma can't fall directly to the black hole; instead, it swirls around the central supermassive black hole and is gradually fed to it.

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US military flies American released from Syrian prison to Jordan, officials sayLOLITA C. BALDOR and AAMER MADHANI December 13, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has transported out of Syria an American who had disappeared seven months ago into former President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system and was among the thousands released this week by rebels, U.S. officials said Friday.

Travis Timmerman, 29, was flown to Jordan on a U.S. military helicopter, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing operation.

It’s unclear where Timmerman may go next.He thanked his rescuers for freeing him but has told American officials that he would like to stay in the region(CIA?), according to another person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly. Timmerman was detained after he crossed into Syria while on a Christian pilgrimage from a mountain along the eastern Lebanese town of Zahle in June.

He told The Associated Press in an interview earlier Friday thathe was not ill-treated while in Palestine Branch, a notorious detention facility operated by Syrian intelligence. In his prison cell, Timmerman said, he had a mattress, a plastic drinking container and two others for waste. He said the Friday calls to prayers helped keep track of days.

Timmerman said he was released Monday morning alongside a young Syrian man and 70 female prisoners, some of whom had their children with them, after rebels seized control of Damascus and forced Assad from power in a dramatic upheaval.

He said he was freed by “the liberators who came into the prison and knocked the door down (of his cell) with a hammer.”He had been held separately from Syrian and other Arab prisoners and said he didn’t know of any other Americans held in the facility.

Timmerman is from Urbana, Missouri, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Springfield in the southwestern part of the state.He earned a finance degree from Missouri State University in 2017. His mother, Stacey Gardiner, said she was told that he was being taken to a military base in Jordan. The family still had not spoken to him.

Mouaz Moustafa, a U.S.-based Syrian opposition activist who worked with rebels to arrange Timmerman’s transfer back to safety, tweeted a photo of the freed American standing next to a man in U.S. military uniform in the flat desert of the region.

“Safe and sound and back in American hands,” Moustafa wrote.

U.S. officials, meanwhile, are continuing their search for Austin Tice, an American journalist who disappeared 12 years ago near Damascus.

Nizar Zakka, president of the U.S.-based Hostage Aid Worldwide that was commissioned by Tice’s family to search for him, said he called Tice’s mother and sister after receiving a tip Thursday from a Syrian near where Timmerman was found. The caller thought the foreigner was Tice.

“We asked them for videos, we ask them for voice (recordings) to make sure,” Zakka said. “We had the feeling from the minute, especially from the age, that it’s not correct. But we sent it to the mom. It was 3 a.m. (in the U.S.), and we woke the sister, and she said to me one thing. She said that definitely it’s not Austin.”

In the search for Tice, Zakka said he had visited detention centers and the houses of prominent figures in Assad’s circle, but the search had so far not produced results.

The three possible scenarios, Zakka said, are that “we will find him somewhere in Damascus, in the jail that he was left in or in the house, in the safe house where he is”;that a high-ranking member of Assad’s circle took Tice along while escaping the country “as a security for his life”; or that Tice’s captors killed him and other prisoners to erase evidence of their crimes.

He criticized the U.S. for announcing a $10 million reward for information leading to Tice, saying that it had led to a flood of false tips and caused confusion.

https://apnews.com/article/syria-timmerman-assad-timmerman-443d1c3b2b9cf551cdcfdff22bdcedc9#

(you) are the one that every army of Light wants in it's ranks

>>22181623

my daddy will protect me to the bitter end, bitchez

>>22181614

CQB

3172

>>22181506

Sputnik

@SputnikInt 40m

🧵MASS MURDER OF CIVILIANS IN SELIDOVO: REPORT EXPOSES UKRAINIAN FORCES' ATROCITIES

(1/10)The International Public Tribunal has released a report on mass shooting of civilians in Selidovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic at a press conference in Moscow.

What's in it? 👇

Dec 17, 2024 · 5:31 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1869072829322510474

>>22181561

the boss

>>22181580

ugly bastards…

World economy has exited the ‘boom and bust’ cycle, BlackRock, $BLK, has said.

BlackRock said it expects stocks will be boosted by transformation that will require huge investments from capital markets, and investments could sit on par with sums invested during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1869059229266444451

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>>22181639

John Brennan maintained the horrible reputation of the CIA intact.

>>22181649

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Sputnik

@SputnikInt 42m

(3/10) Victims were mostly shot at point-blank range, often in front of family members, and entire families were found murdered in their homes.

Dec 17, 2024 · 5:31 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1869072836012495292

>>22181652

BREAKING: AOC defeated by Connolly in battle for Democratic Oversight role, per Axios.

Pelosi had been backing Connolly, per CNN.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1869068409889243332

>>22181653

>>22181640

>>22181665

Why build a pyramid when you're surrounded by all that beauty?

>>22181541

I know one of Elons flunky’s is watching the board

How do you get water into space if it vaporizes at Mach 1?

>>22181394

Thanks Baker.

o7(salute)

>>22181666

ckt!

World War 3 is a religious war by Rome on the entire world.

https://druthers.ca/newspapers/

I still have one of these, kek

LATEST DJT POST ON JUDGE MERCHEN - SOROS ATTACK!!

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

BREAKING: In a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, corrupt, biased, and incompetent Acting Justice Juan Merchan has completely disrespected the United States Supreme Court, and its Historic Decision on Immunity. But even without Immunity, this illegitimate case is nothing but a Rigged Hoax. Merchan, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and, if allowed to stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it. Merchan has so little respect for the Constitution that he is keeping in place an illegal gag order on me, your President and President-Elect, just so I cannot expose his and his family’s disqualifying and illegal conflicts….

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113668931932678096

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

….I am the only Political Opponent in American History not allowed to defend myself - A despicable First Amendment Violation! Merchan took the Manhattan D.A.’s Witch Hunt, that, according to all Legal Scholars, including Jonathan Turley, Elie Honig, Andy McCarthy, Alan Dershowitz, Gregg Jarrett, David Rivkin, Elizabeth Price Foley, Katie and Andy Cherkasky, Paul Ingrassia, and many others, is a nonexistent case, barred by the Statute of Limitations, and should have never been brought and, through his fraud and misconduct, gave it a semblance of “life.” While Deranged Jack Smith was sent packing back to The Hague after losing all of his politically manufactured cases against me, Merchan, who is far worse and even more corrupt than Smith in his fight for my hopeless political opponents, just cannot let go of this charade. Is it because of his conflicts and relations that he keeps breaking the Law? This has to stop! It is time to end the Lawfare once and for all, so we can come together as one Nation and, Make America Great Again.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113668931527088240

The world is Changing

Is it coincidence that it only happened after (you) changed?

Or is it a part of a Divine plan that God has for you

Perhaps, (you) are more than you have been told

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>>22181573

>Kamala uses the horrific Christian school shooting in Wisconsin yesterday to call for gun control

Worst VP deep state tool ever?

Words are the universal construction material.

>>22181690

>LATEST DJT POST ON JUDGE MERCHEN - SOROS ATTACK!!

>>22181688

>Ukraine Assassinates Head Of Russia's Chemical & Biological Defense Forces With 'Scooter Bomb' In Moscow

Synagogue ORder Of Satan

>>22181699

>Poland Makes Firearms Training Mandatory for Primary School Students

dawaj

EISNspotter 🇮🇪

@EISNspotter

2h

USAF C-17A #RCH826 departed Ramstein Air Base on a medevac tasking and is routing to San Francisco International Airport via Joint Base Andrews,likely with @SpeakerPelosi.

95-0104 / #AE07E7

Dec 17, 2024 · 3:52 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/EISNspotter/status/1869047945674522838

NRO hits milestone with more than 100 satellites in low Earth orbit

December 17, 2024

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has expanded its next-generation satellite constellation to more than 100 spacecraft, the agency said Dec. 17

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket early on Tuesday morning successfully launched the latest mission, NROL-149, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

This marks the sixth deployment in the agency’s new proliferated architecture program and its final launch for 2024.

The latest launch follows on the heels of NROL-126, which took off on November 30, demonstrating a rapid pace of deployment for the intelligence agency’s ambitious space program.

The NRO’s proliferated architecture is made up of imaging satellites built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman.

The NRO, responsible for developing and operating U.S. spy satellites, is moving away from traditional large, expensive satellites toward a more distributed network of smaller spacecraft.

This approach, known as proliferated architecture, aims to enhance resilience and coverage while potentially reducing vulnerability to anti-satellite weapons.

The agency said it has placed more than 100 payloads into orbit over the past 18 months.

The NRO plans to continue expanding the constellation through 2028.

https://spacenews.com/nro-hits-milestone-with-more-than-100-satellites-in-low-earth-orbit/

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1869009649133048289

>>22181699

Booms enroute

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ffSIH7OOG2g

>>22181699

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Poland

>>22181413

I hear the sounds of many sphincters clenching from all the way on the other side of America.

Sounds good man

>>22181714

34 Days to World Peace

https://twitter.com/EISNspotter/status/1868010031779656061

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>>22180455 (pb/lb)

The Count was premature!

Vote 12/17, Count 1/6!

https://www.archives.gov/files/electoral-college/state-officials/state-officials-key-dates.pdf

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/key-dates

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>>22181444

https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1866835030221394119

T-Mobile opens beta for Starlink smartphone connectivity

December 16, 2024

T-Mobile has opened beta registration for Starlink’s direct-to-smartphone satellite service, enabling text messaging early next year on select newer devices in most U.S. cellular dead zones with a clear sky view.

The free beta program is available to all T-Mobile customers with compatible devices and postpaid voice plans, the telco announced Dec. 16, although first responders will receive priority access due to limited initial capacity.

The company declined to detail capacity and device restrictions but said the beta program would gradually expand to more devices via software updates.

“Spots are limited but the service will be available in most areas and most of the time,” a T-Mobile spokesperson said.

SpaceX has launched over 300 Starlink satellites with direct-to-smartphone payloads and recently got permission to provide the service in the United States from up to 7,500 satellites.

The satellites would use T-Mobile’s radio waves to connect devices across the 1.29 million square kilometers of land in the country not covered by cell towers.

Unlike Apple’s space-enabled messaging for iPhones, introduced in 2022 via Globalstar’s constellation, T-Mobile said Starlink-powered connectivity will not require users to point their phones skyward in search of a signal.

T-Mobile also has reciprocal Starlink roaming agreements with telcos KDDI (Japan), Optus (Australia), One NZ (New Zealand), Salt (Switzerland), Entel (Chile and Peru), and Rogers (Canada), but declined to say when the service could be extended outside the United States.

The T-Mobile spokesperson said the duration of the beta test before a commercial launch will depend on user feedback.

The Federal Communications Commission’s approval for what the regulator calls Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) is contingent on the service not interfering with other networks.

The FCC has also deferred deciding whether to allow SpaceX to increase the radio emission power of its direct-to-smartphone satellites, which the company says is needed to support real-time voice and other higher bandwidth capabilities.

Meanwhile, U.S. telcos AT&T and Verizon are seeking FCC permission to test rival direct-to-smartphone services in partnership with AST SpaceMobile, which deployed its first five commercial spacecraft in September on a SpaceX Falcon 9.

https://spacenews.com/t-mobile-opens-beta-for-starlink-smartphone-connectivity/

From Foreign Regimes to Trump: USAID’s Quiet War on Democracy

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) presents itself as a beacon of humanitarian relief—a vessel of American generosity spreading prosperity and peace across the globe. Yet beneath this carefully manicured facade lies a far grittier reality: USAID functions not as a charitable force but as a political instrument, covertly advancing American geopolitical interests under the guise of altruism. From Latin America to Eastern Europe, its operations leave behind a trail of destabilization and suspicion, eroding the very credibility it claims to promote. President Trump, committed to exposing Washington’s bureaucratic rot, must seize this opportunity to dismantle USAID, an institution as deceptive in its purpose as it is dangerous in its execution.

USAID: A Cold War Relic in Modern Times

The creation of USAID in 1961 was no accident of goodwill. Its birth coincided with the zenith of the Cold War—a period when Washington, gripped by fear of communism, sought non-military methods to counter the Soviet Union’s ideological advances. As Thomas Jefferson once warned, "History, in its proper use, furnishes principles for judging the future," and USAID's early decades prove the point. Under the cloak of development aid, the agency became a tool for soft power infiltration, facilitating influence where bombs and bayonets would fail.

From Latin America to Southeast Asia, USAID was deployed to win hearts and minds—but always on America’s terms. Grants for “civil society” programs doubled as political levers, propping up opposition factions aligned with U.S. interests. In Bolivia, the early 2000s saw USAID funds directed toward groups antagonistic to the populist leader Evo Morales. Far from fostering democracy, such interventions destabilized already fragile societies, ensuring American leverage at the cost of local sovereignty. As in so many cases, USAID’s benevolent branding served as cover for overt interference.

Shadow Diplomacy and the Illusion of Neutrality

To the untrained eye, USAID’s initiatives often appear unimpeachable. Programs championing “election integrity” or “democratic governance” sound laudable, but the outcomes tell another story entirely. Ukraine offers perhaps the most glaring example. Prior to the 2014 Maidan protests, USAID poured resources into media outlets and non-governmental organizations critical of Viktor Yanukovych, a leader who balked at Western overtures. What followed—Yanukovych’s downfall and Ukraine’s spiral into geopolitical chaos—is a masterclass in how USAID’s so-called neutrality masks its true purpose: tilting foreign politics to align with Washington’s agenda.

Similar patterns emerge in Venezuela, where USAID’s "democracy assistance" conspicuously benefitted opposition forces antagonistic to Hugo Chávez. One cannot help but see USAID as a 21st-century version of Caesar’s legions—a quieter invasion, perhaps, but an invasion all the same. There is no charity in meddling with another nation’s sovereignty, and there is no neutrality in choosing sides.

The bureaucratic architects of USAID will protest: These efforts are about ‘empowerment,’ not influence. But their own actions betray them. Why else would USAID’s footprint so frequently overlap with America’s geopolitical battlegrounds? Its programs are not coincidentally partisan—they are deliberately designed to serve as instruments of shadow diplomacy.

https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/from-foreign-regimes-to-trump-usaids