Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist #Peter#Higgs has died aged 94.
He proposed the particle that gives other particles mass – now named the Higgs #boson and discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012
Project 2025 partner floats repealing the 22nd Amendment and allowing Trump to serve a third term
The American Conservative, a right-wing blog and Project 2025 partner, published an article 💥advocating to repeal the 22nd Amendment💥 so that Donald Trump would be able to serve a #third#term.
The 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, limits a president to serving two terms. It was adopted after former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to a third and fourth term amid public concerns about a “long-term president.”
An article headlined “Trump 2028” published in The American Conservative advocates for the amendment’s repeal so that Trump could be eligible to serve a third term should he win the 2024 election.
The American Conservative is a partner of #Project2025, the conservative movement’s comprehensive transition plan for the next Republican presidency. Project 2025
— organized and led by The Heritage Foundation, a leading right-wing think tank
— is a policy and staffing initiative that threatens to weaken democracy, significantly roll back civil rights, and exacerbate climate change, among other issues.
#Peter#Tonguette, a contributing writer to the Washington Examiner who also regularly writes for The American Conservative, dubiously argues in his piece that the drafters of the 22nd Amendment could not have anticipated a president who would serve nonconsecutive terms, a possibility that he argues is a reflection of Trump’s supposedly unique popularity.
(Polls show that the majority of Americans have an unfavorable view of the former president.)
He says voters should not be “denied the freedom” to elect him to a third term.
Roughly everyone in America has heard some version of the Burisma/Biden backstory.
But briefly: in March of 2016 then-Vice President Joe Biden delivered a blustering speech in which he threatened to withhold foreign aid from Ukraine if that country didn’t fire its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.
Shokin, the so-called “Diamond Prosecutor,” was shockingly corrupt, and it was the consensus of the entire US government, along with our Western European allies and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), that Shokin had to go.
In 2017, he repurposed the lie for Joe Biden.
This time, the story was that Biden had gotten Shokin fired to protect Burisma, a company which employed Hunter Biden as a board member.
In reality, Shokin had let the investigation of Burisma go dormant by 2016.
But that didn’t stop Rudy Giuliani, then Donald Trump’s lawyer, from spending 2019 traipsing around Ukraine trying to prove that this fabrication was true
— or at least to find someone willing to say it was true so he could dirty up Biden and ensure his loss in 2020.
Unsurprisingly, Shokin was willing to play ball with Rudy as he tried to make fetch happen.
But so were a whole host of other Ukrainians, many of whom had ties to the Kremlin.
One of them was Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker, who was photographed showing Giuliani “evidence” in December 2019.
(Source: Derkach’s press office)
And here’s how Donald Trump’s own Treasury Department referred to Rudy’s buddy when it announced in September 2020 that it was sanctioning him for election interference:
🔸Derkach, a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, has been an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services. Derkach has directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in an attempt to undermine the upcoming 2020 US presidential election. […]
🔸From at least late 2019 through mid-2020, Derkach waged a covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning US officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election, spurring corruption investigations in both Ukraine and the United States designed to culminate prior to election day.
The announcement went on to note that “between May and July 2020, Derkach released edited audio tapes and other unsupported information with the intent to discredit US officials.”
And that is where #Smirnov comes in...
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Stop the witch-hunt against vaccinologist Peter Hotez
On Sunday, as he was getting a cake for his father on Father’s Day, vaccinologist Dr. #Peter#Hotez was stalked at his home by two fascists, who followed him to the door of his house while shouting accusations that he was “injuring” the population with vaccines.
This incident is part of an escalating campaign, spearheaded by the fascist right, #against#experts who specialize in #COVID-19 #research and are fighting for a scientific response to the pandemic, aimed at terrorizing them into silence
#Palantir already sells its #domestic#surveillance services to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so it should come as no surprise that the company founded by billionaire #Peter#Thiel is working to make inroads into the #Pentagon as well.
On Tuesday, the company released a video demo of its latest offering, the Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). While the system itself is simply designed to integrate large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT-4 or Google's BERT into privately-operated networks, the very first thing they did was apply it to the modern battlefield.
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real (www.scientificamerican.com)
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook
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Peter Dutton showed “all the empathy of a rock” in responding to Robodebt
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