ALLIES: U.S. F-35A Jets Land On A Highway Strip In Finland For The First Time.

On Sept. 4, 2024, two F-35A jets belonging to the 495th Fighter Squadron of the 48th Fighter Wing operated out of a road strip in Finland for the first time. The two Lightning II aircraft took part in Banaa, the yearly dispersed operations drills of the Finnish Air Force.

The landing on Hosio Highway Strip, Ranua, Finland, marked the first time in history a U.S. fighter aircraft operated on a Finnish highway strip. During the exercise U.S. Air Force Airmen expanded on Agile Combat Employment capabilities by learning austere environment aircraft landing and take-off operations and techniques from their Finnish counterparts.

On the very same day, German Eurofighter aircraft also took part in Banaa24, landing for the first time on the Hosio highway strip in Ranua, Laplan.

Finland seemed happy to maintain its postwar neutrality until Vladimir Putin’s third (or fourth, depending on whether you count Moldova) invasion of a neighboring country.

SOD OFF, HAL: $100 Billion AI Company Says They Must STEAL to Make Money.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

BREAKING: Newly obtained documents reveal city officials, the CO AG, FBI, and DHS, knew of the Venzualan gang takeover of apartment buildings in Aurora for WEEKS and did nothing.

Not only did they do nothing but they actively gaslit the public that it wasn't true and there was… pic.twitter.com/oQIkaWkJ9E

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 4, 2024

THIS IS ALMOST AS SURPRISING AS THAT EARLIER ITEM ABOUT LIZ CHENEY ENDORSING HARRIS: Excuse Me? ABC News May Change Rules of Debate to Help Kamala Harris.

FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT: FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist. “On Wednesday, federal prosecutors charged a North Carolina musician with defrauding streaming services of $10 million through an elaborate scheme involving AI, as reported by The New York Times. Michael Smith, 52, allegedly used AI to create hundreds of thousands of fake songs by nonexistent bands, then streamed them using bots to collect royalties from platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Houston, You Have Another Problem? “It looks more and more like China might beat NASA back to the moon.”

THIS DEMONSTRATES THE VALUE OF NOT BEING SEEN: Ukraine Rolls Out More Drone Innovations. “I wasn’t planning on doing another Ukraine drone piece so soon after my Martian war machine post, but these new Ukrainian ground drones are pretty interesting.”

CORN, POPPED: House Subpoenas Walz to Chat About That $250 Million Fraud on His Watch.

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

SCOOP: the @KamalaHarris campaign has told people at the rally they can’t leave because the busses they used to bus people in from out of state are not operational for another 30 minutes.

The announcement just came over the speakers at the rally and the crowd, already waiting…

— Steven Cheung (@TheStevenCheung) September 4, 2024

According to reports, the Harris campaign required six to a dozen busses to bring Massachusetts ringers to a rally in New Hampshire — and I guess they got to spend a little more time than they wanted in the Granite State.

Video here:

JUST IN: 12 busses captured on video leaving vicinity of Kamala Harris rally..

PAYING ATTENTION NOW.. pic.twitter.com/8ayCpHG6oY

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) September 4, 2024

CHRIS QUEEN: United Methodist Church’s New LGBTQ Heritage Center Reveals a Denomination That’s Too Far Gone.

NOTED: Kevin O’Leary says ‘right to disconnect’ laws are ‘stupid’—he’d just fire workers who go ‘silent mode’ on him.

Millions of workers in Australia have just been given the legal right to ignore after-hours demands from their boss—and the development isn’t sitting well with some corporate leaders. In fact, Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary said that the new law makes him “crazy”.

“It’s so dumb,” the Canadian businessman said on Fox News. “Who dreams this crap up is my question? Why would anyone propose such a stupid idea?”

The Australian law, which went into effect on Aug. 26, follows the likes of France and Spain in giving workers the right to unplug from their work phones, laptops and messaging apps in their personal time without repercussions—unless their refusal is deemed “unreasonable”.

But O’Leary was stunned by the idea that an employer’s 2 a.m. texts could be left unread.

If it’s a real emergency, employees are almost certain to respond — stupid law or no stupid law.

If it isn’t a real emergency, employees will probably do what they usually do and somehow fail to notice — stupid law or no stupid law.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The World’s Bad Actors Do Not Want Trump to Win in November. “The world leaders who most want to knock the United States of America off of its superpower perch don’t want any part of a second Donald Trump term in the White House. They’ve all been living large on the weakness of the Biden administration. There were probably buckets of tears shed for days in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran when Biden was tweeted out of the presidential race.”

WINNING:

Big news: Last week I messaged executives from @CoorsLight @MolsonCoors to let them know that I planned to expose their woke policies. Today they’re preemptively making changes.

Here are the changes:

• Ending participation in the @HRC’s woke Corporate Equality Index social… pic.twitter.com/RuOVb1IuNU

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 3, 2024

DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST STANDARDS BECAUSE YOU GET TWICE AS MANY: Sanctimonious Dems Rage at Trump Visit to Arlington, Should’ve Checked the Mirror First.

ALL VOICES WELCOME EXCEPT FOR DISSENTING ONES: German Gov Holds ‘Cross-Party’ Immigration Summit – Guess Who’s Not Invited? “Everyone’s invited…except the party which has recently and repeatedly been elected because of their stance on *checks notes* immigrants and knives.”

CAN SHE FIND A SEMI-LEGITIMATE SEEMING WAY TO BOW OUT BEFORE DEBATE NIGHT? Kamala’s Debate Prep Is Not Going Well.

LIVE BLOG: Trump’s Fox News Town Hall.

THEY MADE HIM AN OFFER HE COULDN’T REFUSE: Starlink relents to Brazil, agrees to block Elon Musk’s X platform.

Starlink said it is complying with Brazil’s order to block Elon Musk’s X platform, backtracking from its earlier position that it would not block X until Brazilian officials released Starlink’s frozen assets. In an update on Tuesday afternoon, Starlink said it is blocking X while continuing to fight the asset freeze in court.

“Following last week’s order from [Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes] that froze Starlink’s finances and prevents Starlink from conducting financial transactions in Brazil, we immediately initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court explaining the gross illegality of this order and asking the Court to unfreeze our assets,” SpaceX’s satellite broadband division said. “Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil. We continue to pursue all legal avenues, as are others who agree that @alexandre’s recent orders violate the Brazilian constitution.”

Starlink previously said that a Brazilian court order froze its assets “based on an unfounded determination that Starlink should be responsible for the fines levied—unconstitutionally—against X.” An Associated Press article said that “de Moraes froze Starlink’s accounts last week as a means to compel it to cover X’s fines that already exceeded $3 million, reasoning that the two companies are part of the same economic group.”

De Moraes ordered the suspension of X, formerly Twitter, on Friday and gave ISPs five days to block the service. His ruling was unanimously upheld on Monday by a Supreme Court panel of five judges including himself.

Brazil under Lula only pretends at lawfulness.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Kamala Seinfeld: A Campaign About Nothing.