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I’m cynically amused by the brouhaha over the US deal with Saudi Arabia to help that country develop a peaceful – underline, peaceful – nuclear energy program, including (it seems) enriching nuclear fuel.

Consider the facts of the current situation, in no particular order.

Saudi Arabia bankrolled much of Pakistan’s nuclear program, including its nuclear warheads and missiles. It’s long been rumored among “those in the know” that Pakistan has guaranteed Saudi Arabia that it can have nuclear warheads at twenty-four hours’ notice, in an emergency.
Saudi Arabia has bought Chinese ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. By strange coincidence, they’re the same type of ballistic missiles that Pakistan has in its nuclear silos. Odd, that . . .
Iran has launched missile attacks on Saudi Arabian territory from the north, using cruise and ballistic missiles. Its Houthi allies have done the same from Yemen in the south.
That would be enough to make any nation a little paranoid. What if the Iranian Revolutionary Islamic Guard, or whatever it calls itself these days, were to figure out how to put nuclear payloads on those missiles – either a full-blown nuke warhead, or a “dirty nuke” using conventional explosives to spread radioactive material around, say, Riyadh or a major military base?
Israel has for decades maintained that it will neither confirm nor deny that it has nuclear weapons. Anyone with two working brain cells to rub together is quite confident that they have more than a few, almost certainly including major thermonuclear weapons. See my comments in these pages from time to time concerning the so-called “Vela incident”.
Given those various and sundry realities and threats, it was obvious that Saudi Arabia was going to go ahead and greatly expand its nuclear program(s). It didn’t really have any choice but to do so, if it was to survive in an environment like that.

That being the case, why is anybody surprised that President Trump would try to get involved with Saudi Arabia’s plans and help them along? Saudi was going to do it anyway. We could have sat there and criticized, or expressed concern, or whatever – which would have bounced off Saudi’s national interests like water off a duck’s back.

This was a case of making the best of two very difficult and unpalatable choices, and I think the President acted wisely. I’m sure he, and the US establishment, would rather not have made that choice, but as I said earlier, this was going to happen whether or not we were involved.

As for the fat-headed reports that the President was/is at odds with his Energy Secretary over what was done, and how it was done . . . yeah, right.

As if any Secretary in the President’s cabinet is going to land a surprise like that on his boss’s desk, without so much as a “by your leave”! Sure, there may have been friction in the give-and-take between the White House and the Energy Department, but what else is new? The very fact that the Energy Secretary still has his job is sufficient evidence that any such friction was relatively minor.

I’m also enjoying outraged suggestions from the left that the President is trying to stretch the agreement in new ways by pressuring Saudi Arabia to accept the Abraham Accords in exchange for US nuclear help.

There’s nothing new in this: President Trump has been trying to persuade Saudi Arabia to sign on to the Accords ever since he took office. It might be a very useful talking point to mention that if Israel finds Saudi Arabia diplomatically cooperative, some of the former’s nuclear warheads may no longer needed to be targeted at the Arabian peninsula. In Saudi’s position, I’d find that a very thought-provoking consideration . . .

Overall, I think America joining Saudi’s nuclear program as a partner nation has far more positives than negatives. It will also make Iran rethink its nuclear ambitions, given that the existing Saudi-Pakistan nuclear relationship might put them between two actinic fires, so to speak.

What’s next in the Middle East? Your guess is as good as mine . . . but it’s likely to be “interesting”, in the sense of the fabled ancient Chinese curse!

Peter

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New Digital Surveillance Tools Threaten Gun Owner Privacy by Guy J. Sagi

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Post date July 17, 2026
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Resurgence Of 2 — Seen above is the map of Flock camera’s that have been verified in operation across that nation, provided by Deflock.org. Readers who visit the organization’s website and visit the map page can zoom into and locate the devices in any city in the continental United States, down to the street level.

Image courtesy of Deflock.org

Leonardo, a company that holds multiple surveillance-related defense and government contracts, recently introduced ELSAG SignalTrace, and its hardware is being offered as a bolt-on supplement to the more than 110,000 Flock cameras taking and storing photos of vehicles on public roadways nationwide. The technology contained within that hardware could conceivably track who has recently purchased a firearm and where they’re taking it.

The SignalTrace webpage explains the system can detect cellphone manufacturer and make, audio system in the vehicle, smartwatches, wireless ear buds and more. Tire pressure monitors, laptops and iPads are also included as part of the “electronic fingerprint.” According to analysis by TechRepublic, this even includes those popular microchips used to reunite lost pets with their owner, along with RFID signals from tags used by many retailers for inventory convenience.

Enough FFLs use such RFID technology that the National Shooting Sports Foundation published a “Best Practices” bulletin five years before Leonardo’s introduction. The trade organization’s advice is straightforward.

“Our position can be summarized simply as ‘Turn It Off, Take It Off at the Checkout Counter.’” Failure to do so today could mean that, at the very least, that gun you’re taking home from the store could be identified and included in your “digital fingerprint.” Consider inspecting the firearm and all packaging after making a purchase and before ever leaving the store to be sure you’ve removed all possible identifying information.

Information collected by SignalTrace is transmitted into the cloud. There it undergoes AI analysis, and a digital fingerprint is assigned to that vehicle for law-enforcement use. If a license plate or other identifying features are captured by Flock—including bumper and window stickers, according to Deflock.org—they are noted.

Law enforcement agencies nationwide claim the vehicle data collected by Flock cameras is deleted after a certain period—usually 30 days. The SignalTrace datasheet, on the other hand, plainly states, “All data collected may be uploaded to the EOC server and archived for future queries and analysis.”

Everyone wants law enforcement to catch criminals fast and, just as importantly, the justice system to issue appropriate sentences. The new technology, however, raises all new privacy concerns for gun owners.

There’s no doubt familiar brands in the gun industry are already eyeing this development and weighing the wisdom of offering products to address growing privacy concerns. The uproar online certainly indicates they’re going to be in demand—by those of us who exercise our Second Amendment rights, and anyone else concerned about Big Brother’s surveillance.

Certain products that can guard against privacy intrusion have been made available before, typically called “Faraday cages” or bags. In 2013, Blackhawk introduced its Under the Radar pouches and bag with Zero Trace signal-blocking technology. The company was ahead of their time, but despite the bag’s ability to thwart phone and computer surveillance, it was discontinued just a few years later.

New surveillance technology being marketed to law-enforcement agencies is now fueling a resurgence in interest in similar designs, and every gun owner needs to pay attention.

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Reading stuff like this just scares me silly & I like to think that I don’t scare easily. Seeing as that Privacy is effectively dead in this country and in a lot of the world too. I’m just glad that I am one of the last Generation that actually enjoyed having some. Grumpy

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Post date June 15, 2026
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An updated list of our stories about Patrick Tate Adamiak Thanks again to all who keep requesting this. by Lee Williams

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Post date May 25, 2026
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by Lee Williams

Patrick “Tate” Adamiak was arrested more than four years ago even though he never committed any crime. More than 40 officers led by ATF Agents kicked down his doors and ripped apart his home.

They found nothing illegal—not a thing—yet he’s starting the fourth year of his 20-year federal prison sentence.

Bottom line: He is completely innocent.

For those of you who have asked, here’s Tate’s address: