you can charge your phone with wireless, right?

that means you could blow it up remotely, too.

i'm trying to understand how israel might be behind the pager attack in lebanon and coming up blank. i think a more likely suspect is the chinese, and it opens a can of worms. could they do this to american devices?

the media is speculating that they planted bombs in a production facility. that sounds ridiculous. it's a plot in a james bond film.

it is physically possible that they might be zapping them with a satellite using gps, which is why everything in the area is blowing up rather than specific targets. they would essentially be shooting out a frequency all across lebanon that causes devices of the sort to do something like vibrate, or overheat. this would be an application of quantum physics, rather than some kind of sneaky production sabotage. the israelis are currently working on replacing and expanding their iron dome with a laser system. a high frequency audio attack isn't crazy at all. 

muslims tend not to keep dogs as pets, but are there stories in lebanon about dogs freaking out at the time of the attack?

i'm more likely to lean to the idea that it's something the chinese are dropping into all kinds of devices, probably including chinese made chips and phones. the pentagon has been warning about that kind of thing for a while. if so, it's a positive signal that the chinese aren't going to tolerate terrorism in the region.

the problem with the democrats right now, and this might be a long term and structural problem, is that they can't figure out who america's friends and enemies are, because they're basing their foreign policy on domestic policy rather than vice versa. this is what happens when an empire permits immigration from societies that want to destroy it from the inside.

the democrats want muslim americans and chinese-americans to vote for them, which fundamentally fucks up their foreign policy to an unworkable mess and functionally makes them unelectable and renders them incapable of governing.

america needs to be able to fight it's enemies, and it can't do that if the natural governing party relies on them as a part of their voting coalition.

this is one way that empires collapse. it seems oddly similar to how christianity destroyed rome from the inside.

i've been suspicious about biden's connections to iran via iran-contra since before he was elected but have never been able to find direct links. the closest thing was the weird elliot abrams appointment.

i would strongly suspect that this is the tip of something very serious.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/iran-sent-hacked-trump-documents-to-biden-campaign-fbi-says