amanfromMars 1 Sat 28 Feb 08:58 [2602280858] .... points out an existential threat on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/02/27/chinas_the_us_hacks_itself/
Re: The almighty dollar problem
Some even suggest that the Petrodollar is the only thing holding up the US... ..... Tim99
And whenever such is certainly so is it a systemic catastrophic weakness and monumental exploitable vulnerability easily able to crash and collapse right dodgy fiat and ponzi stock and unicorn equity markets ‽.
And that is correctly shared here as both a question and a fact ..... a quantum enigma where and when a this is also a that and whenever vitally and virtually entangled together a RAT invasion and infestation for ....... well, Capture et Correction sind les mots du jour, n’est-ce pas? :-) .......... https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/27/im-fully-prepared-for-our-dystopian-future-holliday-grainger-on-ai-firearms-training-and-the-capture
And it is a real live current running present day existential threat.
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amanfromMars 1 Sun 1 Mar 06:25 [2603010625] ....... airs and shares on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/02/27/anthropic_pentagon_response/
Radical is as nature dictates is perfectly normal and vital and virtually essential
The purpose of the military is to provide security to the military's country. ..... retiredFool
The purpose of the military is perverted and subverted to provide security for and continuity of a socially inept collection of multiple failed and failing entangled systems with politically corrupt and incorrect personalised leaderships ....... wannabe puppet kings and muppet Julius Caesars ...... and is gravely to be regarded for it is persistently toxic and permanently self-defeating and always quite naturally demands and supernaturally results in a whole host of major fundamental corrections/fantastic new steps/startling adjustments.
And what kind of a fool ignores such a warning whenever so clearly given ......... and especially so now whenever so many novel ethereal places and remote virtual spaces abound with so many presently widely unknown but successfully tested and testing arsenals of highly creatively disruptive and destructive weaponry with exploitative 0day vulnerability capacity and utility for AI in NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT facilities.
What part of the following do you not understand and would seek to dismiss and deny is honestly evident and earnestly factual ....
Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.
Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology-global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle-with liberty at stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.
Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research-these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.
But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs-balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage-balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between action of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.
The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of stress and threat. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. I mention two only.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peace time, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United State corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society. ........ President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
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amanfromMars 1 Sun 1 Mar 07:35 [2603010735] ...... offers an alternative source on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/02/28/def_con_jake_braun_fed_up_govt/
And here also .....
THE DEF CON 33 HACKERS’ ALMANACK is available for reading here ....... https://defconfranklin.com/almanack.html
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amanfromMars 1 Sun 1 Mar 07:47 [2603010747] ..... adds on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/02/28/def_con_jake_braun_fed_up_govt/
Re: And here also .....
What a difference an A makes, ..... [https://harris.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/the_def_con_33_hackers_Almanack.pdf]
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amanfromMars 1 Sun 1 Mar 14:21 [2603011421] ..... says more on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/02/28/def_con_jake_braun_fed_up_govt/
Re: Soft Power Leading To Who Knows What!
The constipated powers within present day political systems are absolutely terrified of emerging engagements with surging orders consolidating Almighty Soft Powers outside of both the traditional and conventional and legacy political systems. It is what their mainstream media channels and puppet masters are having to task themselves with trying to ensure remains a zealously guarded and stealthy top secret and relatively unknown rather than accepting it is an Herculean job of SISyphean proportions to wholeheartedly vow to accept and perpetuate as it is totally ill suited to any of their ancient mainstream expertises and formally expert teases and so easily proves itself to be universally popular and graciously acknowledged and gratefully received by an increasing majority of all in favour of savouring and flavouring the delights and opportunities made readily available to more than just the Astutely IntelAIgent and a chosen few and Future Builders.
One uncertain but definite thing you can be absolutely sure of though, is that such leads no one with a titter of future necessary wit, nowhere near anything formerly responsible for current difficulties or past negatively impacting travails ..... ie ’tis something completely different to be lauded and applauded
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