Who knew that a tiger stalking his prey could be so beautiful? A keeper at Cedar Cove Tiger Park managed to film one of these animals sneaking up on him while his back was turned. It’s a good thing that there was a fence in between them, because this big cat seemed like a pretty skilled hunter! Steve Klein’s footage of Mohan the tiger’s stealthy approach is completely mesmerizing. Of course, in order to get a video of the tiger stalking him, Steve had to have his back turned. So, he filmed the encounter over his shoulder. It worked like a charm! As soon as the keeper looked the other way, Mohan slowly prepared to strike. His patient, graceful movements are amazing to watch! “Striking in his focus, Mohan gives an excellent example of stealthy approach as his prey’s awareness is turned towards and away from him,” writes Cedar Cove Tiger Park in their caption. “Using the cover of ambient noise and adjusting his path to remain outside his prey’s field of view, were it not for the chain link and a backwards facing camera this would have been a clean kill.” This tiger’s stealth will send chills down your spine. As the tiger stalked his keeper, he kept his eyes on the target with laser focus. Although his steps were slow, each one seemed incredibly calculated. Commenters were fascinated by Mohan’s prowess. Many even pointed out particular moments where they could see the animal using his environment to maximize his sneakiness! Screengrab from YouTube “0:47 Anyone else notice here that the tiger made its biggest gain of distance when there was a loud noise to mask its footsteps?” wrote one user. “It’s both brilliant and terrifying.” Another added, “Notice how he feels for sticks or anything that might make noise before he actually puts his paws down, and back feet step in his front paws tracks for the same reason, smart animals.” What an incredible privilege to witness this shrewd tiger stalking his prey from the safety of our own homes! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Keeper Captures Tiger Stalking Him Ever So Slowly As His Back Is Turned appeared first on InspireMore.

Hmm ... fascinating, but a bit un-American

A new explanation has been offered for the reflective signals that were once acclaimed as evidence for a lake of liquid water under the ice sheet at the Martian south pole. Without further data, we cannot definitively state the cause of the reflections– but given what else we know, the exciting idea of a subsurface lake appears exceptionally unlikely.Liquid water on Mars, even deep underground, would be one of the most thrilling developments possible in the search for extraterrestrial life. We’ve learned the outer solar system is packed with moons with internal oceans, but even getting a spacecraft to fly by them is a slow and expensive exercise, let alone drilling down. Something on Mars would not only be much more convenient, but could preserve a record of the time when an entire ocean existed on the surface.So the announcement in 2018 of radar reflections coming from under the Martian southern ice cap, which were interpreted as a large buried lake,  was the ultimate case of “huge if true” for astrobiologists. Sadly, the if was doing a lot of work. Now it has been shown that layers of ice mixed with dust could produce similar reflections.The initial reports of a buried lake were based on signals from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) radar bouncing back from 1.5 kilometers (0.9 miles) underground. These reflections spanned an area 20 kilometers (12 miles) across, and the team that discovered them claimed the water needed to make them had to be at least a few centimeters deep. Follow-up work found similar signals more widely.Subglacial lakes exist on Earth, and the presence of all that protective ice and dust could prevent swift evaporation, as would happen to any water near the Martian surface. Anything this potentially important is going to be subject to considerable scrutiny. The team that made the finding considered several alternative explanations prior to publication, including a layer of carbon dioxide ice or very cold water ice, but claimed both would produce a weaker signal. However, according to new analysis, layers of dusty water ice with small variations in composition and layer spacing could cause the radar waves to constructively interfere in ways that match the observations. This sort of interference is usually represented by analogy with water waves passing through two channels in a breakwater, "I can't say it's impossible that there's liquid water down there, but we're showing that there are much simpler ways to get the same observation without having to stretch that far, using mechanisms and materials that we already know exist there," said Dr Daniel Lalich of Cornell University in a statement. "Just through random chance you can create the same observed signal in the radar."The presence of water ice on Mars has been known for decades, and rovers have provided evidence for the once-controversial idea that the planet used to be quite wet. Consequently, the idea of a buried lake was not considered out of the question. However, Lalich and colleagues are not the first scientists to raise doubts.For one thing, Mars is so cold – particularly at the poles – that even deep underground there are doubts water could stay liquid, no matter how salty it is. The more examples of this reflection that were found, the less likely it became that a surviving magma hotspot was providing the warmth required.Although clays and a revived carbon dioxide ice  explanation have been revived as alternatives, neither matches all the data MARSIS and other orbiters have provided, however. Lalich also says previous work relied on fairly simple models of radar behavior on Mars, and that his team has represented reality more closely. They generated thousands of random scenarios for ice layers, all consistent with the conditions we know exist, and changed the composition and spacing of the layers in plausible ways.When the layers’ spacing was too small for the instrument reading them to resolve, the result was constructive interference, with peaks and troughs amplified. The peaks would appear as bright patches, which could easily be interpreted as subsurface water, the authors concluded. The patches would be distributed randomly compared to the thickness of ice above or subsurface conditions, consistent with the MARSIS data, but surprising if liquid water really was present."The idea that there would be liquid water even somewhat near the surface would have been really exciting," Lalich said. "I just don't think it's there."The study is published open access in the journal Science Advances.

A new theory by researchers suggests that among us live the remnants of an advanced ancient human civilization that managed to survive. Aliens living among us and secretly piloting UFOs or hiding underground sounds like a science fiction movie script. However, in fact, this is the content of a new article by scientists about the existence of “crypto-earth creatures,” reports IFLScience . In a new paper, a team of scientists from the Harvard Human Flourishing Program and Montana Tech University argue that there might be intelligent crypto-terrestrial creatures living on Earth, hidden from human eyes. They are believed to live underground or in the vicinity of our planet, for example on the Moon. The study’s authors suggest that these intelligent crypto-terrestrial beings may in fact be responsible for many unidentified aerial phenomena typically attributed to intergalactic aliens. Note that the scientists’ work has not yet been peer-reviewed and published as a preprint. Scientists also believe that “crypto-terrestrial beings” could potentially be UFO pilots. They are believed to represent the remnants of an ancient, advanced human civilization that was largely destroyed long ago, such as by a flood, but has continued to exist as remnants. The authors of the article claim that these ancient superhumans may live in volcanoes or deep under the ocean. Moreover, the team claims that the remains of this ancient civilization seem to have been exposed by Albert Einstein’s former assistant, Dr. Shirley Wright, who claimed that she and the boss were invited to examine ” biological entities” recovered from a supposed UFO in 1947. Nearly 50 years later, Wright revealed that the pilots were actually just humans, but in an “advanced form.” Wright also claimed that this type of superhuman still lives among us, but lurks beneath the surface of the planet. In their article, scientists also claim that there are several subtypes of crypto-earth creatures. For example, these could be highly developed primates or reptiles that store their flying machines under volcanoes. Researchers claim that the Popocatepetl volcano in central Mexico and Mount Shasta in California are “hot spots for UFO sightings” and have therefore been identified as possible “habitats” of ancient and intelligent creatures. At the same time, reports by naval personnel of unidentified underwater objects moving at incredible speeds have sparked speculation that some of the crypto-terrestrial creatures may actually live on the ocean floor. In their paper, the authors also cite claims from Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who was not involved in the new study but has previously argued that the Moon may actually be a crypto-Earth base and home to a variety of creatures and their spacecraft. However, the team also claims that the pilots of most UFOs can hide in plain sight and are aliens who have mastered the art of merging with humans. A The authors of the new work acknowledge the many shortcomings of their assumptions, but insist that the idea should not be completely rejected. According to the study’s authors, the probability of crypto-earth creatures existing today is only about 10%, but it is not at all impossible. The post UAPs may be evidence of ancient Cryptoterrestrials secretly living on Earth appeared first on Anomalien.com.

It was reported earlier this year that physical attacks against New York Police Department officers reached unprecedented levels. Experts noted to the New York Post that anti-cop rhetoric and woke policies emboldening criminals have been fueling the rising number of attacks against cops.Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Hendry told the paper that "well over 5,000 cops were attacked and injured last year" but that they "didn’t come out of nowhere. This dangerous environment has been building for years. ... It’s not going to get better until those who attack police officers are consistently prosecuted and kept in jail. And that won’t happen unless New Yorkers keep speaking up to demand an end to the chaos.”'Let 'em whup his ass! Let 'em whup his ass!'A 28-year-old female NYPD officer added to the Post that "everyone wants to fight.” She said she was assaulted while handcuffing a shoplifting suspect — and while the officer added that she sprained her hand in the incident, the suspect was released from jail the same day.The following are 10 gut-wrenching instances when thugs brutally attacked and injured police. In one heartbreaking case, an officer died just a few days after he was pummeled.Punk on parole accused of punching cop in face, breaking his nose — and judge releases suspect with no bailA male with a long criminal record who was out on parole was accused of punching a Yonkers, New York, police officer in the face last September, breaking the cop's nose. But despite assault charges against the suspect and the district attorney's request for $150,000 bail, a judge decided to release the suspect with no bail, WCBS-TV reported. Police answered a Sept. 6 call concerning an unresponsive man on the sidewalk near Cypress Street and Yonkers Avenue, the station said. Officers on the scene tried to convince 39-year-old Johnny McCray to sit in an ambulance — and then McCray suddenly hauled off and punched a male officer in the nose, WCBS reported. According to the Yonkers Times, McCray was on parole through 2027 over a 2017 attempted robbery conviction for which he served most of his five-year prison sentence. The paper added that McCray had six felony and seven misdemeanor convictions on his record dating back over 20 years and had a history of not making court appearances. The punched officer went on leave after his injury, WCBS said, adding that he had just transferred to Yonkers from Bedford, which the station described as a "quiet community in northern Westchester." The judge reportedly decided on a no-bail release with GPS monitoring as the best way to guarantee McCray would return to court.Trio of siblings convicted of aggravated battery against a police officer — and it all started with a stop sign violationAn officer with the Aurora, Illinois, police department on June 21, 2021, conducted a traffic stop for a stop sign violation, the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said. Paul Sherrod Taylor was driving the car, and his sisters — Jennifer M. Taylor and Sheba A. Taylor — were in the vehicle. Within seconds of the stop, Sheba Taylor exited the vehicle and refused to re-enter it despite the officer's orders, and then Paul Sherrod Taylor exited the car, aggressively approached and threatened the officer, and refused to re-enter the car as well. Paul Sherrod Taylor shoved the officer, who was trying to handcuff him, and fled. The officer chased him on foot, after which Paul Sherrod Taylor stopped, turned, and aggressively faced off with the officer by putting up his fists and getting in a fighting stance while yelling at the officer to “keep running, boy.” The officer decided to wait for backup, but as he turned to walk toward his squad car, the Taylor sisters attacked him and repeatedly struck him. A police news release said the two female passengers began striking the officer with closed fists and kicking his body and head. The release states that the officer heard a male voice and then was struck repeatedly in the head from several angles, and a female passenger placed her forearm around the officer’s neck and applied significant force to his windpipe, causing him to lose the ability to breathe. Paul Sherrod Taylor called 911 and threatened the officer to a dispatcher, stating multiple times that he would “kill” the officer unless police arrived immediately, and he was heard repeatedly screaming at the officer that “I’m going to kill you, bitch," the state attorney general's office said. Arriving officers saw Sheba Taylor sitting on the officer's chest and neck as Jennifer Taylor held him down; the arriving officers had to physically remove them. You can check out police video of the incident here. The Taylor sisters each were sentenced to 120 days of imprisonment in the Kane County jail, 200 hours of community service, and four years of probation for committing aggravated battery against the officer. Their brother received a three-year sentence in the state Department of Corrections for aggravated battery to a police officer, threatening a public official, aggravated assault of a police officer, and resisting a peace officer, the state's attorney's office added.Thug beats cop's face bloody in brutal attack livestreamed on Facebook while laughing onlookers encourage suspectA North Carolina police officer was airlifted to a hospital after he was beaten while trying to make an arrest in October 2020 — and the attack was livestreamed on Facebook, left his face bloody, and featured laughing onlookers. The video lasted 11 minutes, WPDE reported, adding that the officer — who was repeatedly punched in the face — asked a man for assistance, but the man refused. While the video shows one man pulling the attacker away from the officer, another man is heard saying, "Let 'em whup his ass! Let 'em whup his ass!" Authorities charged Jamel Alphonso Rogers with assault with a deadly weapon with intentions to kill while inflicting serious injuries, kidnapping, and two counts of resisting a public officer, the station said. The officer suffered a broken nose and several facial cuts, WBTW-TV reported.Suspect who allegedly helped beat up NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer, other cops amid Brooklyn Bridge protest released without bail — (@) A bloody brawl broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge between violent protesters and New York City Police Department officers in July 2020 during which eight officers were injured, including a sergeant, lieutenant, and Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer. One police officer lost consciousness during the incident. Lt. Richard Mack with the department's Strategic Response Group was struck several times in the face, resulting in the fracture of his orbital bones and 12 stitches on his face. Quran Campbell, 25, was accused of physically attacking Mack, Monahan, and another officer — but he was released without bail after his arraignment on assault charges in Manhattan criminal court. Monahan said morale among NYPD officers is "as low as it's been in a long time," adding to Fox News that "on the street corners, there is a feeling that they don't have to listen to the police, and that they're willing to fight the police officers."Officer beaten so severely in sneak attack that he was found in a pool of blood and with a dent in his forehead; he died soon afterCpl. Keith Heacook of the Delmar (Del.) Police Department responded alone to a call about a fight in a home in April 2021, after which he was found unconscious in a pool of blood, apparently having been bludgeoned with his own baton, which was missing from its holster, a police source told Blaze News. Heacock was repeatedly hit so violently that there was a dent in his forehead, the source told Blaze News. A witness in the home reportedly claimed to have seen suspect Randon Wilkerson "throat-stomping" the officer. Heacock died a few days later, and Wilkerson — who was convicted of killing Heacook — was sentenced in December 2023 to two consecutive life sentences for murder charges and over 200 years for other offenses, DelawareOnline reported. The victim's son, Matthew, was 12 at the time of his father's murder and said in an impact statement that he "curled in a ball on the floor and cried for what seemed like hours" after he received the tragic news, the outlet added.Male caught on police bodycam video charging at female officer, striking her with claw hammerPolice in Middletown, Connecticut, said Detective Karli Travis was investigating a complaint about noise and broken glass at a residence around 6:30 a.m. Aug. 12, 2023. Travis' bodycam video shows a man later identified as 52-year-old Winston Tate charging at the officer with a claw hammer. Authorities said Tate struck Travis with the hammer at least four times, Fox News reported. Travis responded by shooting Tate several times. Tate was charged with attempted first-degree assault, second-degree assault, assault on a police officer, and interfering with police. He was out on probation for assaulting another officer and had at least 30 prior arrests — including a third attack on an officer – and 14 convictions within the past six years, Fox News added, citing court records. He was jailed on more than $1 million bail, the cable news network said. The detective suffered significant bruising and also was recovering from a gunshot wound to her hand, Fox News said.Thug smashes glass bottle on NYPD officer's head in unprovoked attack caught on bodycam video; suspect was arrested twice before for assaulting copsThe incident took place around 4:50 a.m. July 18, 2021, as a 67th Precinct officer stood on a street corner in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, WABC-TV reported. Bodycam video shows the suspect walking toward the officer and speaking, after which the officer raises his right hand in an apparent attempt to prevent the suspect from getting any closer to him. Seconds later, it appears the suspect moves closer to the officer, after which the officer appears to move the suspect backward with his right hand. The suspect reacts by taking a swing at the officer with a glass bottle, the station said. Police said officers caught up with the suspect and arrested him a block away, WABC reported. The attacked officer needed staples to close a wound to the left side of his head, the station said, adding that he also was cut on his hand, elbow, and left knee. The suspect — 27-year-old Tyshaun Holloway of Hackensack, New Jersey — was charged with assault, menacing, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, and criminal possession of a weapon, WABC reported. The station said Holloway was arrested twice in 2016 for assaulting officers in the Bronx and that he also has been arrested for two attempted robberies, making terroristic threats, and fare evasion.Woman charged with aggravated battery against 4 Chicago cops is released 1 day after arrest — the first day cash bail is eliminated across IllinoisEsmeralda Aguilar, 24, was arrested after the incident that took place at 2:38 a.m. Sept. 17, 2023, in the 200 block of North Wabash Avenue, police said. Aguilar shot pepper spray toward a group of officers during Mexican Independence Day festivities in the Loop, CWB Chicago reported, adding that two officers were hospitalized. Aguilar was released the day after her arrest — the same day the Pretrial Fairness Act — part of the controversial SAFE-T Act — went into effect, Fox News said. The new law allows the release of charged individuals if they don't pose a danger to the community or are flight risks, the cable news network added.After a separate incident on the same weekend, prosecutors charged Arturo Rodriguez, 46, with felony aggravated battery of a peace officer, the Chicago Tribune reported. They alleged Rodriguez on Sept. 17, 2023, hit a police officer lying on the ground in the back of the head with a wooden flagpole as officers tried to pursue and arrest two teens, the paper said, citing court records. The Tribune, citing a police report, said officers had been blocking traffic at the corner of West 26th Street and South Homan Avenue before the 1 a.m. attack. Vehicles with flags were in the streets throughout the neighborhood of Little Village for Mexican Independence Day, the paper said.Thug takes swing at cop's face, knocks her flat on her back amid suspected shoplifting; bone in officer's face brokenA male was caught on video taking a swing at a New York City police officer's face and knocking her flat on her back outside a Duane Reade pharmacy in Manhattan's Murray Hill neighborhood in December 2021. You can watch surveillance video of the attack here. The clip shows the officer blocking the doorway and apparently speaking to the suspect when he grabs the officer, shoves her away, and exits through the doorway. The officer fights back and grabs the suspect as he continues to attempt to get away, but the suspect turns and punches the officer in the face, sending her tumbling backward and landing feet away and through the entrance of the store on East 34th Street. The officer suffered a fractured bone in her face and cuts to her ear, WABC-TV reported, adding that she was taken to a hospital in stable condition following the attack.Mob swarms, physically attacks cop, punching and kicking him, after he responded alone to shots-fired call; one thug cackles that he caught beatdown on videoThe incident took place on the night of June 3, 2021, in Jacksonville, Florida. Individuals in a crowd that the officer approached surrounded him and pushed him to the ground, punching and kicking him and shouting expletives at him. A video news report shows part of the attack captured on cellphone video, and the person who recorded it reportedly ran off laughing about the attack and how he caught it on video. Authorities arrested 23-year-old Jermisha Ramsey in connection with the attack and charged her with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and street fighting. WTLV-TV reported that the officer suffered "multiple abrasions" in the attack. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Throughout the 2020 presidential season, Americans were harangued with the idea that if Donald Trump won a second term in office, all hell would break loose. There would be World War III, political enemies would be locked up, our standing in the world would be diminished, life for everyone, especially the poor, would become unbearable, the press would be silenced — and on and on. Even the HBO documentary film “Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections,” which was released in the spring of 2020 as a warning of Trumpish things to come, followed a narrative claiming Trump could very well be bent on manipulating the voting machines to steal the presidency — and this for a second time. Keep in mind that the Democrats are still claiming the 2016 election was not on the up and up. If you only know Trump by what the opposition left tells you, you do not know him at all. What seems very likely to have occurred is that in the production and release of “Kill Chain,” the Democrats may have gotten their own brilliant idea of election theft from the plotline. The documentary is worth a look if you want a deeper understanding of how the deep state thinks (And can that really be Kamala Harris testifying about voting machine tampering in front of Congress?) But if you do not have time to watch the entire documentary, the two-minute trailer might provide quite enough of an eye-opener. So Joe Biden gets planted behind the Big Guy desk in the White House (and not just for 10% of the take but for the whole enchilada), and from there he proceeds from day one to enact all those traitorous ideas that Trump was accused of harboring. Is there talk almost daily from the press that World War III is imminent? Are political prisoners still wasting away in the D.C. gulag after more than three years? And are these same unfortunate souls being joined weekly by still more arrestees under our weaponized justice system? Is Biden's chief political rival now a “convicted felon” by a stacked-deck New York City court system, where the prosecution created a whole new meaning to the words “Trumped-up charges”? Are we more respected, or less so, since the Biden team stormed onto the national stage? Can anyone in the working and middle class in this country honestly say they are better off today than four years ago? Could it be that they are dramatically worse off? Is the press that sees and opposes all this fascism being marginalized, hushed, boxed into its own echo chamber, with the administration only permitting the trained seals of the corporate media to applaud the audacious actions of the Democratic Party? These are just some of the big-ticket items that the left and its devilish contingent, which includes the entire Democratic Party, lukewarm Republicans, and globalists, have manufactured in just under four years. Many other obvious tyrannical deeds will spring to mind for many readers here. A rule of thumb with the left is that leftists will accuse the opposition of being guilty of that which they themselves are doing — or intend to do. Propagandists from Joseph Goebbels to Saul Alinsky have employed these tactics quite successfully, as history demonstrates. Trump himself observed this. “There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense,” he said ahead of the 2016 election. Our biggest challenge is to help enough people wake up to what has happened to our country and to know with whom the blame lies. Yes, ultimately, the blame lies with us for not being vigilant and active enough until it is possibly too late. But “better late than never” still applies. Like him or not, Trump is our man of the hour. If you only know him by what the opposition left tells you, you do not know him at all. Sure, he has a rough-around-the-edges personality and a tough-guy way of speaking and addressing the issues, but do you go into battle with a leader who is a well-spoken sheep or a hard-nosed lion? Are we finally serious enough about winning, if not for ourselves but for our children and our grandchildren, that we will lay it all on the line as some did fighting for freedom in foreign wars? They sacrificed in their time. We need now to sacrifice in ours. "I didn’t need to do this,” Trump said in 2016. “I built a great company, and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the benefits of years of successful business for myself and my family, instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, and malicious attacks. I’m doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel strongly it was my turn to give back." Most of us, no doubt, haven't been given (or achieved) the largesse of Donald Trump, but we still have our "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" intact. The possibilities of an incredible future are endless.

“Watching full self driving cut the entire line to make a left proves that AGI is here.” That’s the headline user @0xgaut posted to X to come to grips with a video from @AIDRIVR showing Tesla’s latest model creep up into an open spot in a backed-up left-hand turn lane, just like a human driver who’d draw howls, honks, and possibly physical hostility for trying the same. Does this count as “artificial general intelligence”? Hardly. It’s simply the logical move given the destination and the problem set posed by the array of cars and streets involved. But, while some might be moved to attack self-driving cars making road-rage-inducing moves on the road, the futility (and lawsuits) involved in that kind of hostile reaction point to the way that computerization far short of fabled AGI can and will still have incredibly sweeping effects. Perhaps if wayward Westerners hadn’t been so beguiled by the promise of secular ethics, we wouldn’t be in this mess today. In this telling case, the consequences would run like this: Self-driving cars connected into a large-scale network will optimize for driving paths that best balance and harmonize individual and aggregate routes. If your car should happen to take a route that strikes you as not entirely optimal from your own personal standpoint, what can you do about it, and what type of way is it worth feeling about it? Instead of feeling aggrieved, outraged, or victimized by some jerk you must somehow get revenge on, if only with a shake of the fist, you’ll probably just sigh a little and accept the situation, even if deep down you’re hit with a passing sensation of wishing the whole automated system disappeared and we went back to the days of horses and buggies. What this augurs — wherever we find such scaled-up networks of automated automobiles (lol) — is not just an end to road rage as we knew it. It’s an end to the idea that basic public order is rooted in a shared experience of justice that depends on people personally living out ethical behavior. At first blush, this looks like an attack on some of the most familiar foundations of what we like to think of as Western civilization. But, interestingly, right now the dominant Western vision of the proper relationship between society, justice, and ethics is wokeness. Yes, wokes say! Basic public order depends on a collective social justice experience in which everyone is expected to ground their every choice and behavior in ethical principles, such as diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, etc.!It’s enough to make a person question just what it is we mean, or thought we meant, by Western civilization. If networks of automated automobiles threaten the familiar contours of principled public philosophy in the West, they must pose an even greater threat to the woke notion of principled public philosophy that has emerged from Western thought to seize power ... right?Things get even more curious when you consider that Western civ got into this predicament by trying to find ecumenically nonreligious ways of optimizing for public order, but that woke civ has learned from the failure of that project by injecting back into it a new kind of religion, one that worships justice itself — and turns to technology in the hopes of perfecting the execution of justice on earth via woke programming of planetary supercomputers. There’s not much use for ethics in a society where justice-worshippers use omnipresent AI trained to micro-adjust everyone’s lived experiences in real-time, microaggression by microaggression, rewarding and punishing trillions of times a second with nanoscopic perfection. Such a world holds out the promise of transcending not just ethics but Christianity and all its spiritual practices, from discipline and discernment to repentance and forgiveness. Perhaps if wayward Westerners hadn’t been so beguiled by the promise of secular ethics, we wouldn’t be in this mess today. And, perhaps, at least some Westerners — of a tomorrow coming sooner than we might think — will reason that they don’t need to wait for the coming of the Tesla hive mind to switch out their complex intellectual ethics for the simple commandments of Christ.

The European aerospace company Airbus has recently blamed the United States for China’s unfair trade practices. This “blame the victim” argument accuses the United States of being at fault for China’s repeated violations of international trade agreements and the theft of intellectual property from American companies. Such a stance is outrageous and should not be rewarded.Ironically, this French company is in the process of demanding U.S. taxpayer money to build next generation refueling tanker aircraft for the Air Force. The American government should not contract with a European company that cannot be trusted to manufacture aircraft for the U.S. military, especially when that company has aligned with America’s most dangerous adversary.It seems clear that Airbus identifies with Chinese trade practices, as the company has a history of engaging in similar unethical business conduct.Although blaming the U.S. government for China’s well-documented unethical and illegal trade practices may not be the best way to secure contracts from the U.S. government, Airbus remains undaunted.“The CEO of Airbus has a view on who’s to blame for the trade wars that have engulfed the global economy, but unusually he’s not pointing fingers at China,” Fortune reported. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury is angry that his company has not muscled out American companies — and Chinese companies for that matter — to monopolize the world market for commercial and government aircraft.It is absurd to blame America for China’s notorious cheating. Joe Biden said on May 14: “For years, the Chinese government has poured state money into Chinese companies across a whole range of industries: steel and aluminum, semiconductors, electric vehicles, solar panels — the industries of the future — and even critical health equipment, like gloves and masks” leading to illegal subsidies that end up “dumping the excess products onto the market at unfairly low prices, driving other manufacturers around the world out of business.” There is no profit motive for China’s heavily subsidized products, because the government will provide the profit.In addition to illegal subsidies and dumping, Biden noted how China forces American companies to transfer technology to do business there. That is not the U.S. government’s fault. Biden cited “cyber espionage” and said China’s business practices are “not competition. It’s cheating.” I seldom agree with Joe Biden, but he is right about that.Donald Trump was also tough on China as president. When Trump announced $50 billion in tariffs in 2018 on Chinese imports, he remarked, “China apparently has no intention of changing its unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology.” The past two administrations were responding to Chinese cheating, not causing it.Airbus has its own problems. “Airbus SE (Airbus or the Company), a global provider of civilian and military aircraft based in France, has agreed to pay combined penalties of more than $3.9 billion to resolve foreign bribery charges with authorities in the United States, France and the United Kingdom,” the Department of Justice announced on January 31, 2020. The settlement indicated that the company had been accused of using “third-party business partners to bribe government officials, as well as non-governmental airline executives, around the world and to resolve the Company’s violation of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and its implementing regulations, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), in the United States.”It seems clear that Airbus identifies with Chinese trade practices, as the company has a history of engaging in similar unethical business conduct.Part of the charge against Airbus is that it paid bribes in China and tried to hide the bribes. The fact that “international corruption involving sensitive U.S. defense technology presents a particularly dangerous combination,” as the Justice Department noted, speaks to the idea that Airbus has disqualified itself from U.S. government contracts. It is clear Airbus blames America, not China, for Chinese protectionism and unfair trade practices, because the French company has a close relationship with the Chinese.It makes no sense for the Pentagon to award any new contracts to Airbus until the company changes direction and abandons unfair trade practices. Find an American company to build aircraft for the U.S. military.

Blaze Media reporter Sara Gonzalez exposed the hidden truths about a recent Pride event in Arlington, Texas. The Arlington Pride gathering on Saturday presented a self-described "event in a world where all people are free to express their sexual orientation and gender identity with pride."The event was determined to have a "strict zero-tolerance policy on any discrimination, harassment or bullying regarding sexual conduct, race, sex, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, beliefs and socio-economic background."Organizers warned that any type of "disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace, and hate speech will not be tolerated." The warning threatened to remove and ban anyone who violated the festival's policies. "Anyone who violates our policies will reportedly be removed by police and banned from re-entry and all future Arlington Pride Celebrations," the warning threatened. Gonzalez – the host of Blaze Media's "Sara Gonzalez Unfiltered" – infiltrated the LGBTQIA event, and exposed the eyebrow-raising details of the "all-ages" Pride festival. Gonzalez stated: "Would you believe me if I told you Arlington, TX had a sexually-charged all-ages Pride festival that included a dildo booth?"According to the investigative reporting by Gonzalez, there were several dildos, advertisements for free HIV testing, exotic dances, products with explicit language, a sign alleging that Christianity and LGBTQIA cultures synchronize, and a moment when a woman exposed her breasts at the "all-ages" Pride festival. Also seen in the disturbing video is a man walking another individual on a metal leash wearing a leather dog mask. There were products with the word "c**t" on them for the family-friendly event. Gonzalez reported that there was a 5-year-old brought up on stage to interact with a drag queen, who asked the child if it was their "very first Pride." There are scantily clad individuals at the supposed all-ages event and drag queens dancing provocatively seen on the footage. There is an LGBTQ merchandise shop utilizing themes known to children, such as video games, kids' cartoons, and Taylor Swift. There is a booth featuring rainbow colors and a rainbow flag advertising "scouting for everyone." The male manning the booth is wearing a rainbow shirt that reads: "Papa Bear." (WARNING: Explicit images) — (@) Gonzalez retweeted Kyle Rittenhouse who shared a photo of two men in bondage garb at the "all-ages" Pride festival. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A review of courses offered exposes an obsession with the same radical politics as those of the campus protesters.