Looks like the Yemenis weren't lying about downing a Saudi jet today.
Aditionally Yemeni air defenses shot down a Saudi Wing Loong Il reconnaissance drone over #Marib.
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Qualitative scenes of the downing of a Saudi F-15 fighter jet and its wreckage in Ma'rib Governorate - September 16, 2026.
Aditionally Yemeni air defenses shot down a Saudi Wing Loong Il reconnaissance drone over #Marib.
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The 60 Minutes interview with the pilot that survived a parachuteless ejection hitting the ground at 160km per hour and climbing a mountain with a broken back is beyond Hollywood and Bollywood.
@pracislam - Sayyid Samer Hakim
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@pracislam - Sayyid Samer Hakim
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So, shortly after the arrival of Russian Navy vessels to Tartous port in Syria and the reported offload of weapons and equipment:
Al Qaeda of General Staff at Defense Ministry Maj. Gen. Ali al-Naassan, accompanied by AQ Air Force Commander Brigadier General Assem al-Hawari and Naval Forces Commander Brigadier General Mohammad al-Saoud, conducted a tour into Hmeimim Airport in Lattakia countryside.
This follows the deal between Russia and the quisling Al Qaeda regime that dictates that Syria will take over civilian facilities, including the Hmeimim airport and the commercial berth at Tartous port, [allegedly] integrating them into its civil administration. The remaining military sites will be converted into joint Russia-Syria "training and capacity-building centers."
Russia is keen to maintain a foothold in Syria as a launchpad into Africa. It is safe to assume that deals are being made to facilitate this. The following quote is from one media report covering the arrival of the naval vessels to Tartous:
"The docking of Russian vessels backs up analyst assessments that cold geopolitical bargaining has enabled the Kremlin to hold onto its bases in Syria, even as official statements appear calibrated to suggest otherwise.
“Syria's new leadership needed things only Russia could offer,” Ruslan Trad, a Syria analyst told RFE/RL. Among other factors, Syria’s weapons stocks are largely Russian, and Damascus “needs to refill the warehouses,” Trad says."
With Turkey looking at expansion and annexation of Syrian territory on the coast to ensure resource control and the Mavi Vatan project (dominance of the eastern Mediterranean), this could also be a move by Russia to protect its assets.
Al Qaeda of General Staff at Defense Ministry Maj. Gen. Ali al-Naassan, accompanied by AQ Air Force Commander Brigadier General Assem al-Hawari and Naval Forces Commander Brigadier General Mohammad al-Saoud, conducted a tour into Hmeimim Airport in Lattakia countryside.
This follows the deal between Russia and the quisling Al Qaeda regime that dictates that Syria will take over civilian facilities, including the Hmeimim airport and the commercial berth at Tartous port, [allegedly] integrating them into its civil administration. The remaining military sites will be converted into joint Russia-Syria "training and capacity-building centers."
Russia is keen to maintain a foothold in Syria as a launchpad into Africa. It is safe to assume that deals are being made to facilitate this. The following quote is from one media report covering the arrival of the naval vessels to Tartous:
"The docking of Russian vessels backs up analyst assessments that cold geopolitical bargaining has enabled the Kremlin to hold onto its bases in Syria, even as official statements appear calibrated to suggest otherwise.
“Syria's new leadership needed things only Russia could offer,” Ruslan Trad, a Syria analyst told RFE/RL. Among other factors, Syria’s weapons stocks are largely Russian, and Damascus “needs to refill the warehouses,” Trad says."
With Turkey looking at expansion and annexation of Syrian territory on the coast to ensure resource control and the Mavi Vatan project (dominance of the eastern Mediterranean), this could also be a move by Russia to protect its assets.
Yemen secures international recognition of sovereignty over key Red Sea passages:
With Yemeni forces completing their control over the entire western coastline of the #RedSea overlooking some of the most important shipping routes in the Middle East, international reactions have begun to follow. However, these reactions have largely come against Saudi Arabia, which had sought to portray the developments as a threat to international navigation. So how did the international positions unfold?
The developments began at the #UN Security Council, which held an emergency session on the situation in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. #Saudi Arabia strongly pushed for the session through #France and the #UK, seeking international cover for an escalation in #Yemen. Riyadh was at least hoping for a statement condemning those it refers to as the “Houthis,” while its representative spent much of the session portraying the control of the strategic strait by the group as a threat to international navigation, rather than merely a threat to Saudi Arabia.
Contrary to Saudi Arabia’s expectations, and despite its belief that international organizations had become subject to its influence and financial leverage, the responses were different. Successive statements by representatives of major powers at the council expressed no particular concern over the control of Bab al-Mandab by wrongly described as the “Houthis.” Instead the Yemeni Armed Foces ( #YAF) , their statements focused on the need for negotiations and a diplomatic solution, precisely the path Saudi Arabia does not want.
The session ended without even issuing a statement, after which senior officials from major powers began making their positions clear. America, having experienced the costs of war several times, quickly reaffirmed its commitment to the truce and its objective of avoiding further confrontation in Yemen. #Russia presented an initiative aimed at rescuing Saudi Arabia that included returning to the implementation of the previously proposed roadmap that Riyadh had rejected. China, meanwhile, explicitly stated through its foreign minister that it categorically opposed expanding the conflict into Yemen, in a reference to Saudi military mobilizations.
According to this interpretation, the positions of the major powers carry one clear message:
Yemen has the right to assert control over its coastline and vital maritime passages, provided that it remains committed to securing maritime navigation. #Sanaa has made such commitments since the beginning of its efforts to expel the remaining coalition forces from the western coast. The positions therefore constitute indirect recognition of Yemen’s sovereignty and rejection of Saudi efforts to expand the war.
@enemywatch
With Yemeni forces completing their control over the entire western coastline of the #RedSea overlooking some of the most important shipping routes in the Middle East, international reactions have begun to follow. However, these reactions have largely come against Saudi Arabia, which had sought to portray the developments as a threat to international navigation. So how did the international positions unfold?
The developments began at the #UN Security Council, which held an emergency session on the situation in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. #Saudi Arabia strongly pushed for the session through #France and the #UK, seeking international cover for an escalation in #Yemen. Riyadh was at least hoping for a statement condemning those it refers to as the “Houthis,” while its representative spent much of the session portraying the control of the strategic strait by the group as a threat to international navigation, rather than merely a threat to Saudi Arabia.
Contrary to Saudi Arabia’s expectations, and despite its belief that international organizations had become subject to its influence and financial leverage, the responses were different. Successive statements by representatives of major powers at the council expressed no particular concern over the control of Bab al-Mandab by wrongly described as the “Houthis.” Instead the Yemeni Armed Foces ( #YAF) , their statements focused on the need for negotiations and a diplomatic solution, precisely the path Saudi Arabia does not want.
The session ended without even issuing a statement, after which senior officials from major powers began making their positions clear. America, having experienced the costs of war several times, quickly reaffirmed its commitment to the truce and its objective of avoiding further confrontation in Yemen. #Russia presented an initiative aimed at rescuing Saudi Arabia that included returning to the implementation of the previously proposed roadmap that Riyadh had rejected. China, meanwhile, explicitly stated through its foreign minister that it categorically opposed expanding the conflict into Yemen, in a reference to Saudi military mobilizations.
According to this interpretation, the positions of the major powers carry one clear message:
Yemen has the right to assert control over its coastline and vital maritime passages, provided that it remains committed to securing maritime navigation. #Sanaa has made such commitments since the beginning of its efforts to expel the remaining coalition forces from the western coast. The positions therefore constitute indirect recognition of Yemen’s sovereignty and rejection of Saudi efforts to expand the war.
@enemywatch
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❗️US nurses demand hospitals cut ties with Palantir over role in Gaza genocide and ICE
National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the US, is demanding that hospitals cut ties with Palantir, citing the company’s role in immigrant surveillance and its alleged involvement in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Truthout reported.
The union, which represents more than 225,000 nurses across all 50 states, announced a global week of action against Palantir beginning 28 September.
NNU is calling on hospitals and other public institutions to end contracts and partnerships with the company and divest from it, accusing Palantir of developing technology used for mass surveillance and targeting civilians in Gaza.
The campaign follows demonstrations in eight US cities on 27 August. Nurses have accused Palantir of helping ICE identify and detain immigrants while also providing technology used by Israel.
"Palantir’s AI is enabling atrocities and human rights abuses," NNU nurse Elizabeth Lalasz said, accusing the company of providing technology for "Israel’s US-funded genocide in Gaza."
National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the US, is demanding that hospitals cut ties with Palantir, citing the company’s role in immigrant surveillance and its alleged involvement in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Truthout reported.
The union, which represents more than 225,000 nurses across all 50 states, announced a global week of action against Palantir beginning 28 September.
NNU is calling on hospitals and other public institutions to end contracts and partnerships with the company and divest from it, accusing Palantir of developing technology used for mass surveillance and targeting civilians in Gaza.
The campaign follows demonstrations in eight US cities on 27 August. Nurses have accused Palantir of helping ICE identify and detain immigrants while also providing technology used by Israel.
"Palantir’s AI is enabling atrocities and human rights abuses," NNU nurse Elizabeth Lalasz said, accusing the company of providing technology for "Israel’s US-funded genocide in Gaza."
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ELON MUSK'S NEXT TRILLION DOLLARS IS RIDING ON THIS ONE HALLWAY WALK.
The clip opens with Optimus Gen 2.5, Tesla's current-generation unit already deployed in a handful of pilot roles. Black-and-gold shell, glossy visor head, the same silhouette the world's seen since its reveal. It walks fine. It moves the way robots have moved for the last few years, functional, a little mechanical, joints doing their job without pretending to be anything else.
Then the video cuts to Optimus 3, and the difference isn't subtle.
The arm swing has natural counter-rotation now, the kind a human does without thinking about it while walking. Shoulder movement isn't locked to a single plane anymore. Hand gestures carry actual weight distribution, fingers curling and settling instead of snapping between fixed poses. It's a shift from "robot performing human motion" to something that reads, at a glance, as a person standing in a hallway.
Numbers behind that jump: Optimus 3 is reportedly targeting over 40 degrees of freedom in each hand alone, up from roughly half that on earlier generations, and Tesla's stated goal for the platform is 22 degrees of freedom in the actuated joints of the whole body working in tighter coordination, not just more motors, better sequencing between them. Production cost per unit is aimed at under $20,000 at scale, down from estimates north of $50,000 for early Gen 2 builds, the gap that has to close before 1,000,000 units a year is even mathematically possible.
That number matters because it's not marketing filler. It's one of the milestones tied directly to Musk's $1 trillion pay package approved by shareholders in November 2025. Gen 2.5 proved Optimus could stand upright in public without falling over. Optimus 3 is the version that has to prove it can move through a normal room without anyone doing a double take.
The hallway in this video isn't a stage. It's the actual test.
The clip opens with Optimus Gen 2.5, Tesla's current-generation unit already deployed in a handful of pilot roles. Black-and-gold shell, glossy visor head, the same silhouette the world's seen since its reveal. It walks fine. It moves the way robots have moved for the last few years, functional, a little mechanical, joints doing their job without pretending to be anything else.
Then the video cuts to Optimus 3, and the difference isn't subtle.
The arm swing has natural counter-rotation now, the kind a human does without thinking about it while walking. Shoulder movement isn't locked to a single plane anymore. Hand gestures carry actual weight distribution, fingers curling and settling instead of snapping between fixed poses. It's a shift from "robot performing human motion" to something that reads, at a glance, as a person standing in a hallway.
Numbers behind that jump: Optimus 3 is reportedly targeting over 40 degrees of freedom in each hand alone, up from roughly half that on earlier generations, and Tesla's stated goal for the platform is 22 degrees of freedom in the actuated joints of the whole body working in tighter coordination, not just more motors, better sequencing between them. Production cost per unit is aimed at under $20,000 at scale, down from estimates north of $50,000 for early Gen 2 builds, the gap that has to close before 1,000,000 units a year is even mathematically possible.
That number matters because it's not marketing filler. It's one of the milestones tied directly to Musk's $1 trillion pay package approved by shareholders in November 2025. Gen 2.5 proved Optimus could stand upright in public without falling over. Optimus 3 is the version that has to prove it can move through a normal room without anyone doing a double take.
The hallway in this video isn't a stage. It's the actual test.
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According to the Financial Times, Sonderstab Ukraine (Special Staff Ukraine), a group of fewer than 20 people is behind the €11.5 billion in annual military aid that Germany sends to Kiev.
It can conclude arms procurement deals in as little as two weeks thanks to a legal workaround: the contracts are signed not by the German government, but by Ukraine. Berlin pays. As the FT put it: "Ukraine provides the shopping list. Germany pays the bill". This structure allows the unit to circumvent procurement procedures and bypass the 13,000-person agency responsible for equipping the Bundeswehr. Is it clearer why the golden toilets in Kiev are small change compared to what is happening in #Germany and in other countries that are arming #Ukraine?
@VodkaEcho
It can conclude arms procurement deals in as little as two weeks thanks to a legal workaround: the contracts are signed not by the German government, but by Ukraine. Berlin pays. As the FT put it: "Ukraine provides the shopping list. Germany pays the bill". This structure allows the unit to circumvent procurement procedures and bypass the 13,000-person agency responsible for equipping the Bundeswehr. Is it clearer why the golden toilets in Kiev are small change compared to what is happening in #Germany and in other countries that are arming #Ukraine?
@VodkaEcho
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Former spokesperson for President Zelenskyy, luliia Mendel, was scheduled to deliver her speech about peace at the European Parliament. However, she was banned from entering the building and prevented from giving her speech.
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#Ukraine #YuliaMendel #EU
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#Ukraine #YuliaMendel #EU
#GrapheneOS:
#Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. [Thread]
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
#aosp #Google #why
#Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. [Thread]
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
#aosp #Google #why
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Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs.
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"I'm calling it the threatro-dollar. The US is basically threatening the rest of the world, particularly the nations that have a lot of bonds, and what it's going to do is say, OK, we want you to take this 100-year bond, and if you don't, your nations are going to be destabilized.
The way that it could work with the techno-dollar, which goes back to what we were discussing before, is if you have people take Tether, these digital dollars, because of the Genius Act, they have to buy U.S. Treasuries, so they're a forced buyer, so the more people you get using the digital dollar, the more treasuries get bought. So what they could do is just collapse all the other currencies, have a major financial crisis, melt it all down, and then force nations to take Tether and that will give a guaranteed buyer of treasuries too. There's going to be some major events in the coming years, probably the next 6 to 12 months regarding US debt.
I think that's what all of this with Trump has been building up to. It also explains why they put Bessent in, who's a guy who's crashed not just the British pound, but the Japanese in too, by the way. When you zoom out, you can see there's actually quite a coherent narrative here as to where it's going. Go read that paper by Stephen Moran (A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System). It lays it all out..." Cognitive Dissidents 💰🔥
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The way that it could work with the techno-dollar, which goes back to what we were discussing before, is if you have people take Tether, these digital dollars, because of the Genius Act, they have to buy U.S. Treasuries, so they're a forced buyer, so the more people you get using the digital dollar, the more treasuries get bought. So what they could do is just collapse all the other currencies, have a major financial crisis, melt it all down, and then force nations to take Tether and that will give a guaranteed buyer of treasuries too. There's going to be some major events in the coming years, probably the next 6 to 12 months regarding US debt.
I think that's what all of this with Trump has been building up to. It also explains why they put Bessent in, who's a guy who's crashed not just the British pound, but the Japanese in too, by the way. When you zoom out, you can see there's actually quite a coherent narrative here as to where it's going. Go read that paper by Stephen Moran (A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System). It lays it all out..." Cognitive Dissidents 💰🔥
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"When you look at Laurel Canyon and all the bands that came up out of Hollywood in LA in the 60s, all had military intelligence parents, their dads, or they had some kind of close family member that was a high-ranking military individual, right? So it's obvious that the kids of high-ranking military individuals were used because they were the ones that were proven and they knew that they were mostly going to keep their mouth shut.
This is why a lot of people don't actually make it. You can be as talented as you ever really want to be, but if you're not a part of the group, then you're not going to be a part of the group, right? You're not ever really going to get to that level. That high level of fame..." Ryder Lee of Linktr.ee/raisedbygiantspod 🎸🪖
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This is why a lot of people don't actually make it. You can be as talented as you ever really want to be, but if you're not a part of the group, then you're not going to be a part of the group, right? You're not ever really going to get to that level. That high level of fame..." Ryder Lee of Linktr.ee/raisedbygiantspod 🎸🪖
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"The European Union is an evil entity, a very dangerous entity. It's very communistic, and it's actually destroying the nations in Europe. Some of the countries are now at the brink of a civil war.
They need to find an external enemy. And they know that the population can be used as loose cannon. The Malthusian plan in the past could operate via starvation and wars. That took place in the past, and now they really believe that the best way to save Mother Earth, which is a pantheistic approach, is to reduce the size of those who are killing Mother Earth, namely us human beings.
While they further digital ID, they are probably engendering another crisis, perhaps COVID or something like that. Perhaps the ideal thing would even blame the Russians for that. I wouldn't be surprised if you have a so-called cyber attack and then we start a new world order..." Dr. Augusto Zimmermann 🇪🇺 🛂 👁
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They need to find an external enemy. And they know that the population can be used as loose cannon. The Malthusian plan in the past could operate via starvation and wars. That took place in the past, and now they really believe that the best way to save Mother Earth, which is a pantheistic approach, is to reduce the size of those who are killing Mother Earth, namely us human beings.
While they further digital ID, they are probably engendering another crisis, perhaps COVID or something like that. Perhaps the ideal thing would even blame the Russians for that. I wouldn't be surprised if you have a so-called cyber attack and then we start a new world order..." Dr. Augusto Zimmermann 🇪🇺 🛂 👁
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