Archive for the 'Economy' Category
‘Dark Money’ Helped Pave Joe Biden’s Path to the White House
January 25th, 2021Via: Bloomberg: President Joe Biden benefited from a record-breaking amount of donations from anonymous donors to outside groups backing him, meaning the public will never have a full accounting of who helped him win the White House. Biden’s winning campaign was backed by $145 million in so-called dark money donations, a type of fundraising Democrats […]
When a ‘Democratic’ Government Spends $250 Million to Manipulate You…
January 19th, 2021Via: The Daily Bell: For-profit pharmaceutical giants assure us they have no ulterior motives, as they try to calm legitimate concerns people have about unproven vaccine technology. Pfizer expects to make $19 billion in pure profit off of its mRNA COVID vaccine alone in 2021. The windfall profit violates the frequent and much-parroted “no-profit pledges” […]
Pentagon Racks Up $35 Trillion in Accounting Changes in One Year
January 18th, 2021Via: Bloomberg: The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that’s larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Department’s continuing difficulty in balancing its books. The latest estimate is up from $30.7 trillion in 2018 and $29 trillion in 2017, the first year adjustments were tracked […]
50,000 Italian Restaurant Owners Plan to Ignore Lockdown
January 18th, 2021Via: Off-Guardian: Today – Friday 15th January – over 50,000 restaurants are planning to open, an act of mass civil disobedience against “anti-Covid” lockdown measures which have massively hurt the restaurant business, especially small family-owned businesses. Spreading through social media under the hashtag #IoOpro (“I am opening”), the movement is largest country-wide act of civil […]
Pentagon Aims to Spread Artificial Intelligence Across Military Services
January 16th, 2021Via: Roll Call: After spending the past few years demonstrating how artificial intelligence tools can boost U.S. military efforts, the office responsible for overseeing such programs at the Defense Department is shifting its focus to helping military services and agencies figure out how to incorporate the technologies in their systems. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael […]
The Tiny Satellites That Will Connect Cows, Cars and Shipping Containers to the Internet
January 10th, 2021“Enabling a new kind of everywhere…” Via: Wall Street Journal: In the shadow of giants like SpaceX, more than a dozen startups are building their own globe-spanning networks of nanosatellites, enabling a new kind of everywhere, all-the-time connectivity for people, animals and assets on Earth. … In the near future, it isn’t unreasonable to imagine […]
Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Finally Takes Off in North America and Europe
January 9th, 2021Via: IEEE Spectrum: Later this year, the Canadian firm Li-Cycle will begin constructing a US $175 million plant in Rochester, N.Y., on the grounds of what used to be the Eastman Kodak complex. When completed, it will be the largest lithium-ion battery-recycling plant in North America. The plant will have an eventual capacity of 25 […]
Navy’s Priciest Carrier Ever Struggles to Get Jets On, Off Deck
January 9th, 2021Via: Bloomberg: Aircraft takeoff and landing systems on the USS Gerald R. Ford remain unreliable and break down too often more than three years after the $13.2 billion carrier was delivered, according to the Pentagon’s top tester. The latest assessment of the costliest warship ever built “remains consistent” with previous years, director of testing Robert […]
MacArthur Park Is a Homeless Encampment Park Now
January 8th, 2021Via: German in Venice:
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny
January 1st, 2021Via: Glenn Greenwald: Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the lines of permissible speech and activism imposed by the ruling class. Those who render themselves acquiescent and harmless that way will — in […]
