Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Tulsi Gabbard: My Urgent Warning To All Americans
September 30th, 2024“A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney.” Sums it up. So, Cheney in a wig or President Pfizer Warp Speed… Via: Tulsi Gabbard: Related: The New York Times Endorses Kamala Harris for President
East Coast Port Strike Looming
September 30th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Time is running out for the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the US Maritime Alliance (USMX)—a coalition of port operators and carriers—to form a new labor contract as the existing one expires at midnight. A no-deal scenario would mean thousands of longshoremen at three dozen facilities across 14 Gulf and East Coast ports […]
England’s Chief Medical Officer Admits Government “Potentially” Overstated Danger of Covid
September 29th, 2024Mmm hmm. And yet, nobody is in jail, or being prosecuted for any of it. Via: Off-Guardian: The Government potentially overstated the danger of Covid to the public at the start of the pandemic, Prof Sir Chris Whitty has admitted. The Chief Medical Officer told the Covid Inquiry he still worries about whether the Government […]
Sam Altman Just Pitched The Biden Administration On A Massive Build Out Of AI Data Centers
September 29th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: While most of the news this week about Sam Altman has been centered around the nearly $10 billion in equity he could be receiving in OpenAI, another headline slipped through the cracks mid-week: OpenAI has pitched the Biden administration on a build-out of massive data centers. OpenAI has urged the Biden administration to […]
Fraud, So Much Fraud
September 27th, 2024Hmm, I wonder what other aspects of medical research are subject to, “Multiple, widespread, blatant instances of fraud”… Get your boosters, though. *snort* Via: Science: It’s about Eliezer Masliah, who since 2016 has been the head of the Division of Neuroscience in the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and whose scientific publication record over at […]
Biden: Another $8 Billion for Ukraine
September 26th, 2024Via: The Hill: President Biden on Thursday announced an estimated $8 billion in aid for Ukraine, drawing down billions of dollars in military stockpiles from the Pentagon that were at risk of expiring Sept. 30, providing an additional Patriot air defense battery and expanding training for F-16 pilots. Related: Israel Says It Has Secured $8.7 […]
Degrees of Deception: How America’s Universities Became Debt Factories
September 25th, 2024Via: Anand Sanwal: …there’s a reason this broken system persists. It’s not just inertia or incompetence. It’s because there are powerful, entrenched interests that profit handsomely from the status quo. They cloak themselves in the noble rhetoric of education, but their actions tell a different story: skyrocketing tuition, subpar outcomes, and a generation drowning in […]
California Fast Food Chains Replacing Employees with Robots
September 23rd, 2024Via: Daily Mail: Chipotle has introduced two robots that can take over tasks normally done by its workers. The ‘autocado’ can peel, stone and cut an avocado for guacamole in 26 seconds. Meanwhile, a ‘digital makeline’ portions up salads and bowls based on orders on the app. The machines are part of an automation drive […]
Interrogation of Trump Doral Shooter Jonathan Oddi: “Do You Know Sean Combs?” “Puff Daddy?” “Yeah.”
September 20th, 2024[???] Is Jonathan Oddi alive? I have not been able to figure that out. Jonathan Oddi remains in jail and his trial is ongoing. He has not yet been sentenced. This has been going since 2018!? Case Information Court Case No.: F18010338 State Case No.: 132018CF0103380001XX In other news, Diddy placed on suicide watch. Via: […]
Microsoft Electricity Purchase Agreement Will Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant for AI Data Centers
September 20th, 2024Via: The Verge: Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs. Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement […]
