Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think
July 19th, 2024From my commentary on Vance: Vance is Thiel’s creature. No doubt about it. That means, of course, that Vance is Palantir’s creature. And now, Whitney’s longer version. Via: Whitney Webb: With Thiel, Palantir and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale now pumping millions into the Trump-Vance campaign after the recent VP announcement, it seems almost inevitable that […]
Trump Announces Ohio Sen JD Vance as His 2024 Running Mate
July 15th, 2024Update: Brief Commentary When this announcement came out, I didn’t know anything about JD Vance at all. I looked briefly and saw that he’s closely associated with Thiel and Vance’s wife was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Thiel is the special sauce behind Vance’s rise (financial backing) and his making amends with Trump. Vance used to […]
Ukraine: German Volunteer Medic Claims Ukrainian, American and Other Foreign Fighters Committed Potential War Crimes
July 7th, 2024Not surprising, if true. The source is The New York Times… Via: ZeroHedge: A military correspondent with The New York Times has issued the newest bombshell report this weekend which shines a spotlight on not just Ukrainian troops but American and foreign fighters who’ve volunteered with pro-Kyiv forces and have committed potential war crimes. The […]
John Deere Laying Off Hundreds in Midwest Amid Production Shift to Mexico
June 29th, 2024Via: Fox Business: John Deere, the world’s largest seller of tractors and crop harvesters, has announced another wave of layoffs Friday, telling around 610 production staff at plants in Illinois and Iowa that they will be out of a job by the end of the summer, according to reports. … The company says it generated […]
Pentagon Says $62 Million In Ukraine Weapons Aid Was ‘Lost Or Destroyed’ – But It Doesn’t Know Which
June 27th, 2024Via: Tampa Free Press: The Pentagon doesn’t know whether $62 million in missing U.S. weapons aid to Ukraine has been lost or destroyed, according to a new report released on Wednesday. The $62 million in weapons were designated for end-use monitoring (EEUM), but problems in reporting and tracking between U.S. and Ukrainian forces left an […]
Batteries as a Military Enabler
June 25th, 2024Via: War on the Rocks: The larger and more sophisticated the Chinese battery complex becomes, the more likely it is to secure technological advances in next-generation solid-state batteries that could revolutionize energy or transform military affairs. It could also leverage its existing industrial capabilities in lithium-ion batteries to scale deployments of unmanned and manned aerial […]
Gates and EcoHealth Alliance: Global Virome Project
June 21st, 2024“What could go wrong?” Via: Dr. John Campbell:
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
June 15th, 2024Via: situational-awareness.ai: The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace many college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. … Before long, the world […]
Former NSA Director Joins OpenAI; Will Serve On Board And “Security” Committee
June 14th, 2024Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model: This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial. OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible. OpenAI is probably able to review […]
Counterfeit Titanium Found In Some Boeing And Airbus Jets
June 14th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Some recently manufactured Boeing and Airbus jets have components made from titanium that was sold using fake documentation verifying the material’s authenticity, according to a supplier for the plane makers, raising concerns about the structural integrity of those airliners. The falsified documents are being investigated by Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies fuselages for Boeing […]
