@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-20 13:56:12
Interesting and fulsome interview on exactly how NORAD reacted to the plane hijacking in Victoria/Vancouver on Tuesday. They speak to the commander of NORAD, currently a Canadian.
I appreciated the last section most though:
“It's the only bi-national command in the world; it's been a strong bi-national command since 1958, and nothing has changed.
We don't ever talk politics at work. It's not something that we do, nor does it affect what we do.
I would say that we are as tight, and probably tighter than we've ever been. As the world around us gets to be more dangerous, I would say that NORAD is even closer than it's ever been.
But one last thing — we have the watch. That's the slogan here for NORAD.
To give you a great example, all of the assessors, we all live on-base in homes that actually have a safe, we call it the SCIF. It's basically a classified room that has all of our systems. The days that you're on duty, you're either at work or in your house. Because the timelines are so small for answering the phone, you don't walk the dog; you don't do all these other things, and someone covers for you when you're going between work and home.
That's how important this mission is to us down here. It's really important for everybody in Canada to know that at NORAD, we have the watch”
#canpoli #norad #cf18
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-fighter-jets-bc-alleged-plane-hijacking-1.7588750
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-07-20 08:59:22
Planning on bringing the teenagers to this one ..
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-19 16:12:51
'Extremely dangerous provocation,'
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has responded to the reports of three Russian fighter jets violating the Estonian airspace.
In a statement on X, she said:
“Today’s violation of Estonia’s airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation.
This marks the third such violation of EU airspace in days and further escalates tensions in the region.
The EU stands in full solidarity with Estonia.
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@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-09-19 04:05:39
“Is it an accident that polling this week shows him with the lowest approval ratings he’s had this term? Or that 1 in 4 Trump voters now regret their vote or are disappointed in his performance?
No. It’s not. Americans are turning on him—it’s a fact…one thing nearly all Americans agree on is that speech must not be censored. These attacks are going to backfire. They already are.”
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Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
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@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-08-20 16:36:27
The #CPB cuts are likely to be the first obvious impacts to rural communities - the Medicaid, etc cuts will probably take longer to impact the rural areas. It's a painful way for voters to discover how much the Federal budget provided critical services to them, and that perhaps they are not as self-sufficient as they thought.
This is just the first in a chain of unpleasant hits to rural life,…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-08-20 16:36:27
The #CPB cuts are likely to be the first obvious impacts to rural communities - the Medicaid, etc cuts will probably take longer to impact the rural areas. It's a painful way for voters to discover how much the Federal budget provided critical services to them, and that perhaps they are not as self-sufficient as they thought.
This is just the first in a chain of unpleasant hits to rural life,…
@GivMeCoffee@mastodon.coffee2025-06-20 12:16:12
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-09-19 09:21:09
120gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-20 15:53:49
As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism
as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.”
Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics.
With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech
— at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense
— by…
