🤢 Convenience or control? Dark side of subscription society

Young Global Leader for the WEF Ida Auken is selling a "circular economy" future: Lease your phone, your fridge, your dishwasher. "Why own anything?" she asks. It's cheaper and greener!

But here's the fine print: The system only works with total control.

Your leased life will be contingent on:

➡️ Your vaccination status
➡️ High social credit score
➡️ Your weekly carbon allowance

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👀 THROWBACK: Breakthrough technology could permanently alter human DNA

A 2015 WEF video reveals the unsettling reality of altering human genetics permanently. Using breakthrough technology, scientists can now target specific genetic mutations—like changing a mouse's coat color—by editing fertilized eggs. What once took a year can now be done in weeks by almost anyone.

This technology is already being used on plants, animals, and stem cells, and soon, it could be applied to humans.

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🚨 Settler attack reported in West Bank

A group of Israeli settlers has launched an attack on the outskirts of the town of Qabalan, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, Palestinian media reports.

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🇨🇳 China unveils world's largest ion accelerator: A GAME-CHANGER for global research

The Chinese HIAF facility has successfully completed beam commissioning.

🛢 The engineering marvel—featuring over 6,000 equipment units and one million meters of pipeline—was built in a record-breaking eight months using digital twin tech.

Now it is poised to deliver the world's highest-intensity beams, revolutionizing research in nuclear physics, astrophysics and energy.

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🚀 9M729: the Russian ground-launched cruise missile keeping NATO planners up at night

😡 Ukrainian officials claim Russia’s been using its nuclear-capable 9M729 cruise missiles for conventional strikes deep into Ukraine, with one missile fired in October supposedly traveling over 1,200 km to reach its target. The officials did not provide evidence, like missile debris, to back up their claims.

👉 The 9M729’s alleged long range capabilities became the pretext used by the US to rip up the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Moscow in 2019, with Washington claiming the missile violated the treaty’s range restrictions (500-5,500 km for ground-launched missiles).

🇷🇺 Russia took the unprecedented step of declassifying the 9M729’s technical characteristics in 2019 to try and save the agreement, but the US quit anyway.

What’s actually known about the missile?

🔴 While the INF was in force, 9M729 had a range cap of 500 km, in line with treaty restrictions

🔴 After the US quit the INF, Russia did the same, becoming free to tinker with ground-launched missiles far beyond the treaty’s limitations

🔴 The 9M729 is launched by the Iskander-M launcher, which also fires the 9M728 missile, with which it shares its fuel mass characteristics (same 500 km range limit). But the 9M729 has a more powerful warhead and better guidance system (inertial+Doppler drift angle sensors, GLONASS/GPS correction, active radar seekers in terminal phase)

🔴 The 9M729 essentially amounts to a ground-based variant of the Kalibr cruise missile, with conventional aerodynamic cruise missile configuration and winglets that fold out after launch

🔴 It has a 500 kg warhead for targeting enemy vehicles, emplacements, airfields, command posts or communication hubs

🔴 It has a solid-fuel motor and turbofan engine

🔴 The 9M729 was developed by the Novator Design Bureau in Yekaterinburg

🔴 NATO classifies it as the SSC-8 ‘Screwdriver’, and claims it has a range up to 2,500 km

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