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In the 1990s, a rising entertainment industry helped revive a region devastated by the end of the Cold War aerospace downturn. Now the new space drones economy looks like it's going to save greater LA from entertainment industry jobs going off a cliff.
Los Angeles is the aerospace capital of the world.
11,000 new aerospace jobs added in LA County in the last two years.
$141k average salary.
Venture capital funding in LA-area defense tech surpassed $4 billion last year — more than double the prior year.
Greater LA is home to nearly one-third of the nation’s space technology companies and employs — contributing $35B annually to CA GDP.
SpaceX added nearly 4,000 new millionaires to the region last week.
Anduril just announced a $1 billion new campus in Long Beach, adding 5,500 jobs.
NASA JPL, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab, Relativity, Boeing, Raytheon are all within 30 miles of each other.
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We saw the same coordination with recognizing Palestine as a state.
It's hard not to get the sense that Canadians are an afterthought for the PM when he does everything in lockstep with other countries.
This is not a coincidence, it’s a well coordinated plan to control what people can see online.
This is how it starts, it’s always under the guise of “keeping children safe”
If they are willing to ban entire age groups from accessing apps & websites, they are willing to ban everyone else from them when they see fit.
Inch by inch, day by day they have inserted their tentacles into every aspect of our lives.
“Most parents agree” “Canadians want” “Canadians have been asking”
The lines of snakes pushing through their agenda.
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“What’s my approval rating?”
- It’s bad Mr Prime Minister. It’s -43. It’s…it’s in the mud.
“Could it get lower?”
- I mean anything COULD happen but realistically-
“Kill the ponies.”
- Wha-
“The ponies. The cute little ponies. Kill them.”
- Sir, they’re endangered
“Fuck ‘em. Make the call.”
Exclusive from @oliver_wright
Dartmoor ponies could be subject to mass culling to reduce the impact on biodiversity after a controversial ruling by the government’s environmental quango
Natural England has demanded that all livestock grazing on the moor is reduced by about 75 per cent to protect other habitats, plants and species
The move looks set to result in the culling of up to nine in ten of the semi-wild ponies as farmers prioritise their own cattle and sheep to remain within Natural England’s limit to minimise the impact on their own livelihoods
Natural England argued that the move was necessary to protect the diversity of Dartmoor, which is a designated site of special scientific interest
However, the plan goes against a government commissioned review into the future of Dartmoor, published two years ago, which concluded that Natural England “should not take actions likely to result in a reduction in pony numbers”, adding they were “invaluable for conservation grazing”
The move has led to claims that the quango is acting as judge, jury and executioner of the ponies — a species which is itself seen as endangered
Dartmoor ponies could be put to death under biodiversity plans
thetimes.com/article/ba529f3…
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The great thing about pushing Vance out in front to sell this thing is that not only is he making Republicans very, very nervous (imagine if John Kerry had said the IRGC has seen the error of its ways in 2015), but he's giving Democrats a very strong argument for 2028 that he'd be a terrible foreign policy president, naive and stupid when it comes to America's adversaries. Absolutely incredible stuff. And people are wondering why Marco Rubio has gone into occultation right now.
Vance: The coolest thing about the progress we’ve made over the last few weeks is that you’re seeing people within the Iranian system—senior leadership, even IRGC officials—say, “You know what? We recognize the way that we’ve done business with the US for 47 years is a mistake. Let’s try something else.”
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‘Obsession’ director Curry Barker says studios must understand that Gen Z audiences are “tired of slop.”
“We want good movies back. People are still hungry for movies that are original without some big IP, as long as the story is good.”
(Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)
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Gen Z horror movie be like “what if a girl loved you”
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So he wished for a girl to like him back. Is that so bad? How was he supposed to know it was actually a magic wish bone
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So is Trump still being controlled/blackmailed/cursed by Israel, or are certain podcast creatures going to have to finesse a major narrative U-Turn
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Squint your eyes and the Elbows Up Boomer is exactly the same as the MAGA Boomer. Bored seniors playing a game without consequences.
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It immediately ruins their credibility to not ban Bluesky. They must know that.
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This is the point. Same will happen in all countries that will make social media age restrictions. “Won’t someone think of the children” is usually not about the children
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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Rampant antisemitism is causing Canadian Jews to leave, including bestselling author and evolutionary behavioral scientist Dr. @GadSaad and Dr. Emmanuel Moss, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital.
Read my latest in @dcexaminer washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
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It’s amazing how much of Carney’s political rhetoric is just microwave reheated 1990s slop.
Total Boomer control.
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Carney: Canada is a mosaic, not a melting pot. And this is the distinction that matters. Because a mosaic doesn't dissolve or blend its pieces. Each is stitched to each and all the pieces hold all. And the beauty is in the arrangement, not in the blending.
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The UK Conservatives are over. By supporting this, they are clearly signaling that they are a failed establishment party, totally incapable of real change.
Farage will be the next leader of that country.
It is fantastic news that the Government has finally woken up to the dangers of social media for young people. This is an important step in helping parents protect childhood for children.
Huge credit goes to @LauraTrottMP and my Shadow Cabinet for relentlessly fighting for this. Conservatives welcome this latest Labour U-turn, and will continue to work for the best implementation of the policy.
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This style of speech is called affective framing btw.
It’s what politicians use to sell you on the implementation of a piece of legislation you might take issue with, and it’s executed in 3 steps:
Emotional Priming
Cognitive Hijacking
Value Alignment
His speech uses all three.
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Community note
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
gov.uk/government/pub…
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0b46…
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“Morning Sir we’ve had reports you’ve been scrolling X without signing in with your Digital ID Sir it’s not mandatory to Sir you are within Your Rights not to Sir just it’s going to be difficult to find gainful employment if you don’t sign in Sir it’s to Protect Our Kids see Sir”
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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"At the federal level, the Liberal Party planted the seeds long ago. They perhaps did not plan on these seeds sprouting into the exact politics of today, but the planting nonetheless crippled the primacy of English and French Canada. The strategy behind official multiculturalism was to sideline the tensions between the founding peoples by turning Canada into a bilingual, bureaucratic state with no official culture that was easy to manage.
"It betrayed the legacy of one of the Liberal Party’s icons, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who urged that newcomers, ‘Become Canadians… and give their heart, their soul, their energy and all their power to Canada’.
"The presence of the venerable founding compact of Canada was slowly but steadily diminished so that the modern, postnational idea could replace it, and power could be further chopped up and weaponised piecemeal between ethnocultural minorities." — @GeoffRuss3
The removal of Samuel de Champlain from Orillia was yet another salvo in the effort to strip Canadians of their history and heritage.
There is no grand, overarching conspiracy here; rather, it is a patchwork of activists and political interests who profit from the cultural erasure of Canada and Canadians.
It is a matter of power above all else, and those who dismiss the battle over symbols as a mere 'culture war' are often the very ones who have prosecuted it with the most energy.
Orillia, and the whole of Simcoe County, is as politically blue as it gets. Where are the Conservative MPs and PC MPPs as their constituents are humiliated?
My latest for @WDiminishment.
withoutdiminishment.com/p/ge…
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"Stare at a wall" is so apt bc there is literally nothing for kids to do here anymore. Parks are for young children, so teens get chased out, everything is super expensive so you can't go on a day out, and there's precious little nature left to explore.
Thats all you can do.
🚨 WATCH: School children react to the UK social media ban for under-16s live on BBC News
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"Stare at a wall."
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The reason disability charities oppose Euthanasia is that its intent is eugenic - while clothed in the garb of 'your choice to die' it will quickly morph into pressuring the vulnerable to kill themselves or, in its extreme form, the State deciding to 'remove the burdensome'
I support the principle of Assisted Dying. But I don’t support this.
The proper scrutiny hasn’t been done imo. This needs careful, thorough design. Not through a PMB.
And no one seems to be addressing that so many disability charities are really worried about the implications
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