US Nearly Depleted Stockpile of Precision Munitions

US State Department Issues Travel Advisory For Caribbean Tourist Destination Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The State Department updated its travel advisory for the Bahamas, highlighting the risk of crime, including sexual assaults, in the Caribbean nation. Violent crimes, such as sexual assaults, armed robberies, and burglaries, can occur anywhere in the country, the department said in a July 28 update. “Most crime occurs in Nassau and Freeport on New Providence and Grand Bahama islands. Stay alert in the ‘Over the Hill’ area in Nassau, south of Shirley Street, where...

Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan Defy US Pressure, Refuse To Seal Borders With Iran Via The CradleUS efforts to pressure Iran’s neighboring states to close their land borders have failed, stalling Washington’s campaign to cripple the Iranian economy, the New York Times (NYT) reported this week.According to three Iraqi officials and a US official cited by the US daily, Washington has spent weeks urging Turkey, Iraq, and Pakistan to close their border crossings with Iran. via AFP The US military has since launched Task Force Iron Gate, a Central Command (CENTCOM) unit tasked with...

AI's Core Flaw: "Mass Regurgitation Of Misinformation" Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These immense hidden costs will not show up in GDP until they collapse the entire house of speculative gambling cards propping up the global economy. I approach all AI topics with several things in mind. One is the nature of problems, which implicitly define what qualifies as solutions, and the resulting incentive to define the "problem" such that the "solution" happens to be the one we own and control. So the "problem" AI solves is "corporate profits are too low," and so...