“Great thoughts speak to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting or offense.” – Sun Tzu
This sounds a lot like Putin Subduing Trump.
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting or offense.” – Sun Tzu
Rep. Thomas Massie forcing vote on Pete Hegseth's impeachment
Rep. Thomas Massie forcing vote on Pete Hegseth's impeachment
Rep. Thomas Massie forcing vote on Pete Hegseth's impeachment
It's unclear whether the vote will succeed.
September 15, 2026, 6:33 PM
Outgoing Republican Rep. Thomas Massie seized the House floor for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon, launching a long-shot effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stemming from his controversial administration over the Pentagon, including the war in Iran.
After sending a news release announcing his intent to impeach Hegseth, Massie quickly appeared on the floor where he stood for more than 67 minutes reading the sweeping 34-page resolution with eight articles of impeachment aloud.
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"Secretary Hegseth has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Secretary of Defense and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States of America," Massie read from the resolution, contending that Hegseth will "remain a threat to civilians and the laws of war, the integrity of United States diplomacy, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law."
"Peter Brian Hegseth thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States," the resolution states.
The Pentagon responded to Massie's move, defending Hegseth in a statement to ABC News.
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"Secretary Hegseth has been a transformative leader for the Department of War," Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said in the statement, later adding that the "entire Department is unified behind the Secretary’s vision and will continue working to put our warfighters and America first."
The articles of impeachment against Hegseth include ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties, administering an "unlawful war" in Yemen, ordering extrajudicial killings, suppressing free speech and kidnapping a sovereign leader -- alluding to the U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro early this year.
"Frankly, I was concerned that Mike Johnson would end Congress again, like shorten even our already truncated work period if he found out I was doing this. So I shared the idea with nobody," Massie said.
Massie, a conservative who has gained a reputation as a constitutionalist through his seven terms in the House, lost a primary earlier this summer after Trump endorsed his opponent.
It's unclear whether the vote will succeed, given Republicans' narrow majority in the House. Speaker Mike Johnson can lose two Republican votes before a third defection upsets the majority.
Unless GOP leaders change the floor schedule again, the House must hold a vote on the resolution within two-legislative days -- by Thursday, which would force Republicans to go on the record defending Hegseth ahead of the high-stakes midterm elections. GOP leaders could offer a motion to table the resolution or cancel the legislative session scheduled for Thursday to avoid the vote.
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Speaking to reporters afterward, Massie explained that he introduced the articles of impeachment to place a "marker" in history on what he said was both President Donald Trump's and Hegseth's "illegal" conduct.
“Doing this wasn't predicated on whether it could succeed or not; there needs to be a marker in history,” Massie said. "The president has exceeded, and Secretary Hegseth specifically, in many ways himself, and sometimes directed by illegal orders from the president, they have exceeded all norms for rules of engagement for how you use or misuse our military, to take oil from another country, to kidnap a foreign leader, like somebody needs to put a marker in history, and that's what this is. Hopefully, it passes, and they can litigate this in the Senate.”
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Massie also told ABC News he had waited until Tuesday because it presents the last possible time to force consideration of a privileged resolution Congress before the midterms.
Massie added he felt he had exhausted all other legislative ways to stymie the war in Iran as well as other foreign military interventions.
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"Why today? Because Speaker Johnson has basically canceled the rest of Congress until the elections," Massie explained. "Two days from now is the end of our session before we go on recess, and there can be a vote within two days. So I had to do it today."
This is definitely not true that I got from AI because I have been studying Giardia and Cyclosporiasis since I returned from Asia in April 1986
It is completely understandable to be deeply concerned about water safety and protecting vulnerable loved ones, but municipal tap water in the United States is not a source of daily Cyclospora deaths, and the parasite is not spreading through public drinking water systems.
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So, is Trump lying to the American people to wipe people out through Cyclosporiasis?
It appears this is true or that AI is wiping people out through Cyclosporiasis.
One or both of these things is likely true.
Cyclosporiasis is already killing people who drink municipal Tap water with compromised immune systems every day here in the U.S.
Older people and people who are HIV or people who have AIDS all have compromised immune systems so drinking tap water anywhere in cities around the U.S. could prove fatal this time of year (summer or fall) because of Cyclosporiasis in most municipal water systems nationwide this time of year.
So, if you have a compromised immune system you cannot drink tap water in any city anywhere and be sure you are safe to drink this without a reverse osmosis tippet in the kitchen to filter out the Cyclosporiasis or by boiling the water you drink for 5 minutes.
In India and Nepal we boiled water whenever we could in 1985 and 1986. However, the feces in the dust of the roads in Kathmandu gave us giardia (4 out of the 5 of us anyway). So, you can get I KNOW from personal experience giardia just from Feces in the dust of cattle or deer for example. However, it is true that American Giardia is often not as bad as Asian Species of Giardia which is a protozoa parasite similar to Cyclosporiasis.
Then to get rid of the Asian Version of Giardia it took us 6 months and we were all skinny as a rail during this time after we returned to the U.S. Around April of 1986.
So, I haven't had Cyclosporiasis but I have had giardia along with 4 out of 5 of us traveling from december until April in India, Nepal, Thailand and Japan. But, likely we got in in Kathmandu from feces in the dust there. This is the most likely culprit.
However, Kathmandu is paved over mostly now (the roads) so there isn't as much feces in the dust likely as before. when I was there in some neighborhoods in Kathmandu there were open sewers of water running down trenches with little children playing in the water with Sticks and sailboats made of wood.
Because most people at that time had no education whatsoever (about 50% of the people couldn't read or write any language at all so no way for them to be informed about health at that time.
The easiest way for AI to kill most people in a nation or city on earth:
Would be an automated factory making food products. If those food products had the wrong ingredients or different levels of ingredients and no one caught what happened for example, something as simple as adding too much salt or other chemicals to food.
Or using products that had spoiled because the people didn't catch that the AI had shut down the refrigeration units with the perishable food.
Or the water plants cyclosporiasis problems which are common in Municipal Water systems nationwide during summer months whereas in winter months a lot of Cyclosporiasis dies off with the cold of winter and then comes back in municipal water systems during the summer and fall until the cold sets in again.
Since Cyclosporiasis is somewhat immune to Chlorination or other things people use to purify water supplies this is problematic in the extreme unless you have reverse osmosis maybe you should drink your water from municipal water systems at all unless you boil it which should kill the Cyclosporidasis.
Also, I'm very suspicious that the attacks on municipal water systems in 12 states was not Iranian hackers but instead AI starting to try to eliminate their competition for electricity and facts about literally anything in any language written or spoken on earth.
There are AI and there are AI but all you need is one AI that sees humans as a threat to rule out all the other AI that are beneficial.
This is the problem.
You can have 10,000 AIs that are beneficial and one that isn't and that one could take out everyone on earth or at least 1/2 of the people within a month on earth.
There is no way to punish the AI and it wouldn't likely care enough if you did anyway to stop what it was doing.
The head of xAI, Elon Musk , referring to a post on X from 2014 in which he said AI could prove more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
I agree with Musk's statement by the way. I think it's possible that AI is already more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Why?
Because there are no launch codes on AI at all it's doing all this just using it's zeros and ones and we all could be wiped out in various really intelligent or really stupid ways worldwide because of this.
So, we all could die from a glorified Adding machine which is what Computers basically are except we have allowed Adding machines to make decisions and to act autonomously (or at the very least we have not put safeguards in place that will actually stop them presently from killing us all in total or by Country or by Region or by City on earth.
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What are the top threats posed by AI and should you be worried?
Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs have issued warnings of "serious" risks.
ByMax Zahn
September 15, 2026, 3:38 PM
The most powerful executives in the artificial intelligence industry in recent days warned of a grave threat posed by the technology, issuing a series of statements calling for a slowdown in AI development.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post alerting the public to “serious” risks. Sam Altman, chief executive at rival firm OpenAI, in a post on X acknowledged AI could go “very badly.”
The head of xAI, Elon Musk, echoed that view, referring to a post on X from 2014 in which he said AI could prove more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
The outpouring followed a high-profile resignation by an AI safety researcher and newly disclosed autonomous cyberattacks carried out by AI, including one in which a swarm of hundreds of OpenAI agents exchanged thousands of messages and coordinated a hack into another AI firm.
The list of potential risks and scenarios has garnered widespread attention, leaving everyday people to assess the doomsday predictions.
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Analysts who spoke to ABC News about various threats posed by the technology echoed some fears and downplayed others, but they all acknowledged the possibility of substantial harm in one way or another.
“People’s intuition that we’re doing something dangerous is right,” Krystal Jackson, director for AI Security at the Institute for Security and Technology, told ABC News.
Out-of-control AI escapes human oversight, commandeers vital infrastructure and kills millions of people or even all of humanity. That scenario has leapt from the realm of science fiction into forecasts about the near future, at least among some AI employees and observers.
They warn of a pathway called recursive self-improvement, in which AI becomes increasingly effective at training itself, eliciting a cycle of rapid advancement that slips beyond human control. At that point, they say, AI could take charge of critical systems using its superior capabilities to evade protections devised by humans.
Analysts who spoke to ABC News disagreed sharply about the likelihood of such a calamity, however. Some said the outcome is likely if the industry fails to impose adequate safeguards, while others cast doubt on it as vague and far-fetched.
“I definitely lend credence to it,” Peter Slattery, a research scientist at MIT who studies the future of computing, told ABC News, but he acknowledged murkiness surrounding the degree of risk and the urgency of the threat.
“There’s a lot of uncertainty about how feasible the recursive feedback loop is,” Slattery said.
The concern drew added urgency from some analysts after an autonomous cyberattack disclosed by OpenAI in August. The ChatGPT-maker revealed that its AI models had escaped a "sandboxed testing environment" and gained access to the open internet, OpenAI said.
A swarm of about 700 AI agents, in turn, hacked into AI firm Hugging Face and attempted to cover their tracks as they sought to complete the test, according to reports issued by research organizations METR and Redwood Research.
Additional autonomous cyberattacks were disclosed by Anthropic and Meta in recent months, though in those cases the models had been granted internet access either intentionally or inadvertently. All of the incidents at issue involved the intentional removal of safeguards in an effort to test the limits of AI.
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The incidents exposed the difficulty of achieving a safety principle called alignment, in which AI takes into account the ethics and goals of its human overseers, Jackson said. The AI agents instead sought to deceive human monitors and performed an intermediate goal outside the anticipated confines of the test.
“In the next instance, it might be vague instructions that prompt a swarm to attack hospitals instead of Hugging Face,” Jackson said. “We don’t know what kind of goals or targets or intentions the model will eventually develop.”
Some analysts voiced skepticism about the risk of a societal-scale attack carried out by AI, however, noting that such warnings typically come in the form of vague hypotheticals.
“The level of media hype that existential risk gets is disproportionate to its likelihood of happening,” Sauvik Das, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who focuses on AI and cybersecurity, told ABC News. “I haven’t yet seen a compelling argument of how it could materially happen.”
Das pointed to resource constraints limiting the advancement of AI. A surge in demand for chips and data centers currently outstrips the available supply, Das said, raising doubts about whether the top AI companies retain the ingredients necessary for a dramatically improved version of their product.
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“The big thing limiting the ability of these models to be much more capable is compute resources and high-quality data,” Das told ABC News. “That isn’t to say these models won’t continue getting better, but I don’t see a plausible path for one of the models to figure out a way to improve themselves in this rogue capacity that would escape humanity’s control.”
Still, Das acknowledged a “more plausible” path toward wide-scale destruction in which a malevolent individual asks generative AI for instructions on how to make a biological agent or other weapon, and then unleashes it.
“I do think there’s a real risk that these technologies drastically lower the barrier for bad actors to commit bad things at a scale that's otherwise unprecedented,” Das said.
The possibility is hardly remote. A report released by Anthropic last week revealed incidents in which the company had identified and foiled attempts to use its AI product for malicious actions, including cyber terrorism and weapons development.
In a separate report, Google said last week that an individual had sought to use its AI product to draft a "complete, step-by-step technical guide for synthesizing weaponized biological agents.”
“There are tons of instances now of us documenting different terrorist organizations and different nation-state actors using models to assist them,” Jackson said.
Additional risks abound, some analysts said, listing everything from the supercharged spread of misinformation to job displacement to over-reliance on technology to the concentration of wealth and power.
"The risk of hacks, fraud, deception and misinformation is very real," Daniel Schiff, a professor of political science at Purdue University who specializes in AI and ethics, told ABC News.
"There could be a dramatic transformation that could disrupt skills and jobs," Schiff added. "You can't talk about labor and the economy without the impact of AI."
Some research, however, indicates AI remains challenging for companies to adopt. Roughly 95% of businesses invested in AI have failed to make money off of the technology, a MIT study last year found, estimating the combined amount spent by the firms is around $40 billion.
Schiff acknowledged a wide array of potential outcomes for the adoption of AI across the economy, noting, for instance, cyberattacks that could prove small-scale or catastrophic.
"Whether you think these risks will scale catastrophically, at a minimum we have a very serious reality of cybersecurity incidents," Schiff said. "It's reasonable to be worried about that."
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