Air Force and Navy fighter pilots took directions from an AI system for the first time in a test that could drastically change combat tactics. Semafor reports that in a recent trial run, U.S. fighter pilots consulted with an AI “air battle manager” to confirm flight paths and receive real-time reports on enemy aircraft locations. The test, conducted jointly by the Air Force and Navy this month, involved pilots communicating with Raft AI’s advanced battle management technology instead of relying solely on human ground support to monitor radar and provide directions. This groundbreaking development comes as defense technology companies increasingly focus on unmanned and AI-driven solutions that minimize the need for human involvement in combat scenarios. According to Raft AI CEO Shubhi Mishra, the AI technology enables critical decisions that once took minutes to be made in mere seconds. While this rapid response time can help pilots intercept threats more efficiently, some experts express concerns about removing strategic human judgment from the loop. However, the incorporation of AI in life-or-death situations raises important ethical questions about the extent to which human control should be relinquished to machines. If America lost one-third of an entire generation to war, disease, suicide, or gun violence, it would be treated as the greatest tragedy in our nation’s history. But according to a new report, abortion has claimed the lives of that many would-be Gen Zers – and hardly anyone in the political or media establishment has taken note. As the National Catholic Register reported earlier this month, data from the Guttmacher Institute, the CDC, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization show that some 850–900 million babies were aborted globally between 1997 and 2012, the years generally accepted as the range for Gen-Z. In the United States alone, more than 63 million children have been aborted since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure in 1973. That includes 24.5 million millennials and 26 million members of Gen Z, nearly a third of both generations. Pro-life commentator Catherine Hadro calls these missing brothers, sisters, classmates, spouses, and friends the “unseen wound” of abortion: a generational trauma that has left holes in families, communities, and the nation’s future. This staggering loss has also accelerated America’s rush toward demographic collapse. The U.S. fertility rate remains well below the 2.1 births per woman needed to sustain a population, meaning overall population growth now depends entirely on immigration. In 2023, the fertility rate among native-born women in the United States was about 1.73 births per woman. Proponents of abortion will often point to cases of rape, incest, and life-threatening pregnancies to justify the practice. But less than 0.5 percent of abortions stem from incest, less than 1.5 percent are the result of rape, and only about 2.8 percent of abortions are performed for maternal health concerns, according to Encounter Today. This means that about 95 percent of abortions – 24.7 million Gen-Z babies – were killed by elective abortions. https://amac.us/newsline/politics/report-one-third-of-gen-z-was-never-born/ More than 20 non-Western leaders were invited by Xi to the summit, framed as a crossroads for “global governance” and urging attendees to reject a “cold war mentality”, “bloc confrontation” and “bullying behaviour”. Modi and Putin arrived together warmly, telegraphing comfort and alignment among Asia’s heavyweight players to the rest of the world. For UK and US readers, these pictures make a big difference: it’s clear that tariff pressure and sanctions have not split this triangle. In fact, they may well have reinforced it. Following the meeting, footage emerged of Putin thanking Xi – his “dear friend” – for the welcome, which only went to underscore the narrative that their ties are tightening. The messaging throughout this meeting and immediately after is clear: political solidarity, economic cooperation, and a shared critique of Western power. ...the centre of gravity appears to have shifted. Finance that skirts Western levers and currency, energy trade that benefits everyone but the West, and completely aligned public messaging that they will not submit to the “bullying” tactics of the US. For now, the West holds the stronger cards with reserve currency, global markets and technology depth – but the margins have narrowed now that rivals are building their own infrastructure and slowly but surely attracting new partners. https://expose-news.com/2025/09/02/china-russia-india-global-shift-what-next/ The separation between advocacy and unbiased, independent journalism at a network news operation is being called into question by CBS News’s use of a climate change group as a “partner” in its reporting. The network has disclosed in recent weeks in both on-air and online reports its coordination with Climate Central, a nonprofit that calls itself “policy-neutral,” though it clearly promotes the notion that mankind is headed for certain disaster because of human impact on the environment. Climate Central’s website promotes its “Partnership Journalism” program, which it says contributes “guidance” to reporting and presenting “joint features” about climate to news outlets. CBS is not its only partner. Fox says Climate Central’s website explains the “Partnership Journalism” program like this: A partner outlet contributes local reporting, including field reporting, photography and some editing for a story. We contribute data and charts plus a science reporter and an editor. For a text story, we help craft a feature in a way that puts climate change in appropriate and accurate context. For broadcast media, we provide story and interview suggestions and help develop and review scripts. Climate Central’s researchers assist with fact-checking. The nonprofit’s website says it has garnered more than 50,000 mentions in more than 170 countries with “[a]rticles, stories, and segments using Climate Central content to communicate climate change impacts and solutions reach local audiences nearly every day.” The organization has been busy for nearly two decades disseminating climate change examples and theories that now routinely show up everywhere from network reporting to comments by local weather forecasters. In the organization’s timeline, it reports that in 2010 launched a plan “to bring climate change to TV weather.” In 2015 it pushed that extreme weather events were “tied to climate change” and worked to “eliminate the false public narrative” that they were not. Paris politics has once again descended into chaos, as the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou collapsed on Monday after the National Assembly overwhelmingly voted against a confidence measure brought forward by the embattled PM in a last-ditch effort to pass through a national budget. Facing soaring debt and budget deficits — the consequences of which may result in economic sanctions from the European Union or a downgrading of the nation’s credit — Bayrou has proposed a series of tax hikes on top earners, welfare cuts, and a reduction in the number of public holidays to help balance the books. Yet, he was unable to convince either the left wing or Le Pen’s National Rally to support his budget. Facing the prospect of defeat, Bayrou took a risky gamble of attempting to call their bluff by demanding a vote of confidence himself. Despite his last-ditch pleas, Bayrou was voted down by a margin of 364 to 194, becoming the first PM of the Fifth Republic to be voted out in a confidence measure he introduced....Bayrou is expected to hand in his resignation on Tuesday morning to the president.
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