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The Trump administration is working directly with a powerful Venezuelan leader who is under investigation for an alleged political killing in Chile.

Diosdado Cabello remains the interior and justice minister, even though he is the target of U.S. drug trafficking charges and a $25 million bounty.

🔥Washington exploits the U.S. indictment to ensure Cabello’s cooperation,
while he shields himself with his power over Venezuela’s stability, former officials say.

He’s Suspected of Hiring a Venezuelan Gang for a Political Killing. Trump Officials Still Work With Him.
Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile. The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerful in the new U.S.-backed government in Caracas.

Almost four months ago Tom Kean Jr, a Republican, vanished from public view.
He missed more than 100 votes,
all while continuing to collecthis full taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000 along with excellent benefits.
The only explanation given for his absence was a cryptic statement from his office in late April saying he was dealing with a “personal health matter”.
Kean’s father, former New Jersey governor Tom Kean Sr, further told CNN in May that his son was battling…

Tom Kean got months of paid sick leave – after voting against it for others
The congressman spent four months mysteriously away from work, but he doesn’t seem to think his constituents should get mandated sick days

Here is the transcript of the meat of Carney’s proposal for a deeper Canada and EU partnership in text. Full text of the speech at the second link. The 2 minute video clip got a chuckle (“better manners”).
“So let me say plainly what Canada proposes.
Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals, defence industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space, and payments.
We should move toward seamless, digital trade in non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services.
We should deepen our people-to-people ties, allowing our youth to live, work and study where they want on either side of the Atlantic.
Canadian membership of Erasmus can give your students, and ours, more opportunity to learn at some of the world’s top universities, to broaden their horizons, and to build lasting ties that will sustain our alliance for the future.
Canadian membership of the next generation of Horizon would allow us to pool resources, cooperate on frontier technologies, and leverage our world-class research institutes and universities.
Yesterday, President von der Leyen announced a “new European Corporation on Critical Raw Materials” to obtain and stockpile the material needed for electric cars, chips and batteries, clean technology, and defence. Canada has deposits of over 34 critical minerals, and we are among the top producers of the 10 most essential for the world’s energy transition. Our alliance can help fill Europe’s need for reliable supply, Canada’s need for advanced processing capabilities, and our common objective to build complete value chains.
Canada can contribute LNG and hydrogen at large scale to support Europe’s energy security including by developing and leveraging new port infrastructure in the High North and on our East Coast. We, in turn, can benefit from your leadership in many clean energy technologies.
We can pool new sovereign compute capacity and build more secure broadband connections between Europe and Asia via our common geography.
Canada and Europe can join forces to develop AI safety protocols, coordinate common standards, and strengthen transparency, all while developing applications so our governments and companies can serve our citizens better.
Canada and Europe should also consider exploring an integrated market for financial services to broaden choice and reduce costs for our citizens, improve access to capital for our companies while maintaining our world-leading financial resilience.”
Official Text of speech: #canada #eu #europe #canPoli #cdnpoli #trade #security #war #russiaUkraineWar #theAmericanFascist

Reconstruction Bias in Timepix4 Subpixel Centroiding for Electron Imaging
Nina Dimova, Richard Plackett, Daniela Bortoletto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21072 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.21072 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.21072
arXiv:2608.21072v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Subpixel centroiding is widely used to improve the spatial resolution of hybrid pixel detectors for electron imaging by estimating the true interaction position within an entry pixel. Existing centroiding strategies are typically optimised using localisation accuracy. However, observations show that improved localisation does not necessarily translate into improved modulation transfer function (MTF) or reliable virtual-pixel rebinning. This work proposes a unified interpretation of these observations based on the ambiguity of the centroid reconstruction problem. We show that observable-based centroid estimators solve an intrinsically non-unique inverse problem using deterministic reconstruction rules, which can introduce entry-phase-dependent reconstruction bias that governs the spatial distribution of reconstructed subpixel coordinates. This framework explains why localisation accuracy alone is insufficient to predict imaging performance and identifies approximate intra-pixel translational symmetry as a prerequisite for faithful virtual-pixel imaging. The proposed interpretation is evaluated using simulated 200 keV and 300 keV electron data together with measured 200 keV data acquired with a Timepix4 detector. Comparisons of charge-weighted, timing-based, and morphology-dependent centroiding strategies demonstrate that estimators with similar localisation performance can exhibit markedly different MTFs and rebinned flat-field behaviour. The results suggest that future centroid optimisation should consider subpixel phase bias and rebinnability alongside localisation accuracy.
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