Note: Just ‘some’ of the feces in my ‘news’ (sic) feed in a two-hour period.
Defense industry heaps praise on Hegseth’s weapons-buying reformation
Terry Gerton You, I’m sure, paid very close attention to Secretary Hegseth’s speech last Friday on the arsenals of democracy. What was your takeaway?
Stephanie Kostro Thanks so much for asking, Terry. And not only was I listening with bated breath, I was actually in the room. And for any Hamilton fans out there, it was the room where it happened. There were roughly 250 folks in an auditorium on Fort McNair when Secretary of War Hegseth rolled out his ideas for transforming acquisition. And there was a lot to be said, Terry, he spoke for well over an hour, nonstop, no questions, just kept going. I would say it’s fair to characterize the audience as a rapt. We were waiting for everything he had to say. There were three main topics he wanted to talk about. One was reforming or transforming the requirements process. The second was transforming the acquisition process. And the third was reforming foreign sales processes, and that’s including both foreign military sales and direct commercial sales. So all of that were key topics for everyone in that room.
Specific attendees in the arsenals of democracy audience included:
“The Aerospace Industries Association congratulates Pete Hegseth on being confirmed to serve as the 29th Secretary of Defense. We look forward to working closely with him to bolster America’s national security, provide our warfighters with the best and most cutting-edge technology, reinvigorate the acquisition process, and ensure A
- James Taiclet, Chief Executive of Northrop Grumman Corp.
- Kathy Warden, Chief Executive of Northrop Grumman Corp.
- Senior executives from Palantir Technologies Inc. and Anduril
Our Members — A list of Offensive Weapons Companies brown-nosing Cap’n Pete.
Member company representatives partner with AIA’s councils and committees to stand as a unified voice on the many challenges and opportunities facing the aerospace and defense industry.
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News feed continued . . .
Can’t take a step forward without the wise words of a felon Billionaire. AmeriKKKa. Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, Economist, WP, NYT, Atlantic, Variety, et al.
As AI continues to reshape industries at lightning speed, it’s becoming more apparent to Gen Z that even a prestigious degree may not be the ultimate key to success. After all, the unemployment rate is ticking up even among recent graduates.
That reality has reignited the long-standing debate between pursuing a degree and focusing solely on skills training. But according to Udemy CEO Hugo Sarrazin, the two shouldn’t be seen as opposites.
“It’s cohabitation. I think you start with a degree, there’s a foundation that comes with a degree, but you need the skills to be relevant in the workplace,” he said.
The U.S. is committed to bailing out Argentina to the tune of $20 billion using a little-known mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund. On today’s show, what is this fund, why was it created and does Argentina have any hope of paying it back?
No fucking pushback on this cunt of a deal? Where did the US get $20B to bail out Argentina.
[Genesis Prize Foundation — a group that offers an annual award to members of the Jewish community — announced that Milei, its most recent winner, would use his prize money to launch a new nonprofit, the American Friends of the Isaac Accords (AFOIA).]
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The value of blue state politics in my current state of chaos — Oregon and Parks, man.
[A rendering of the new Smith Rock State Park welcome center was released on Oct. 18, 2024. The project was put on hold a year later.]
4 Oregon state park projects put on hold as agency runs low on funds
Four years ago, state park officials identified 11 projects across the state that would be paid for using $50 million in GO bonds. Most of them have been completed or are slated to be completed by 2026, when the funding expires, but with that deadline looming, the parks department is pulling the plug on several of the big projects that have yet to get underway.
- Kam Wah Chung: A new interpretive center was planned with classrooms, restrooms, collection processing, archive storage and office space for staff at the historic Chinese medical clinic and community center in eastern Oregon.
- Smith Rock: A new welcome center was planned for the central Oregon destination, along with changes to parking and traffic flow. More accessible trails were planned to improve visitor flow.
- Champoeg: The Willamette Valley park was to get additional RV sites, cabins and a new restroom and shower building.
- Silver Falls: The immensely popular state park was set to get a new North Gateway campground, including new restrooms and shower facilities.
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But we have the putrid accused and convicted rapist and soon-to-be outed pedophile in office spending billions.
This Dirty Rat Trump and his Great Gatsby ball?
“Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat, or I’ll give it to you through the door!”
Quite the, well, accused Pedophile:
Oh, that bloody Minyan in the White Man’s House loves the cross.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander?
Thune personally negotiated the inclusion of language in the legislative branch funding measure that would allow senators to receive a $500,000 payment if federal law enforcement obtains their electronic data and doesn’t notify them.
It was a direct response to recent revelations that eight Republican Senators had their phone records subpoenaed during former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
A sea of White Psychotics: Ray Ban Newsome in Brazil for COP30!
“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed. Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked,” Duffy said, referring to the state’s governor. “This is just the tip of iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.”
Those two psychotics:
Even as President Donald Trump and Kennedy have disagreed on issues from COVID-19 vaccines to abortion, the White House this year has largely left Kennedy alone as he has made sweeping changes to the agencies he leads, including laying off thousands of workers, firing science advisers and remaking vaccine guidelines.
The Trump administration has touted Kennedy’s efforts to phase out artificial dyes in foods, wage war on ultra-processed foods and update the national dietary guidelines. As health secretary, he has said he wants to find the root causes of chronic disease and help Americans reduce their exposure to toxins.
RFK Jr.’s brother overdosed, died on Palm Beach. Caroline says he led family to addiction!
Only months after he had gotten clean himself, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Kennedy family lost his younger brother to addiction at a Palm Beach hotel in 1984.
RFK Jr., nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Health and Human Services, has spoken openly about his own 14-year battle with addiction to heroin.
But his “best friend,” brother David, didn’t make it. He died at age 28 of a drug overdose at the Brazilian Court Hotel in April 1984. David Kennedy’s autopsy showed a mixture of cocaine, the painkiller, Demerol, and the tranquilizer, Mellaril.
On the eve of RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearings, their cousin, Caroline Kennedy, urged lawmakers to reject his nomination saying he’s led other family members “down the path of drug addiction.”
Trump administration prepares to fire worker for TV interview about SNAP!! That fucking constitution!
The USDA employee warned that the shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the federal government to put food on the table.
The employee, Ellen Mei, a program specialist at the Food and Nutrition Service, was interviewed on MSNBC on Oct. 2, during the early days of the shutdown, to talk about how the impasse in Washington would impact her team, as well as the work it does. Mei is also president of the National Treasury Employees Union’s Chapter 255, which represents employees at USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service in the Northeast.
While Mei’s co-workers went back to work Thursday as the government reopened, she was placed on administrative leave.
In the four-minute interview, Mei said she and her co-workers are “anxious because we’re hearing about the risk potentials and office closures that are looming over USDA as this shutdown kind of drags on.” She also explained that funding for key food assistance programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — which feeds about 42 million Americans monthly — would probably be available in October but that “things might get a little dicey if this drags on into November.”
And so the Babyfication of the systems of Lower/Higher Learning and then Jewish Game of Thrones/Antisemitism is on Steroids!
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes — The university system will ban advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” without approval.
Now, imagine talking about Palestine and the history of terrorism before, during and after the first Nakba, in Tex-ASS!
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Maybe end ALL Jewish/Zionist Managers, Bankers, Financiers, dudes. Know where your mansions are, who manages your vast sums of portfolio money, who is your mortgage holder, real estate agent, producers, dudes and dudettes. Why more than 1,000 musicians are boycotting Israel with ‘No Music for Genocide’
“Artists getting robbed for their publishing by dirty Jewish execs who think it’s alms from the covenant”
Too many best rappers, not enough best rhymes tho
Guess I’m delusional, used to doing it all the time so
Maybe I’m just jaded, out of touch and unrelated
Unable to connect greatness based on the person who makes it
Or maybe I just hate it
And that would make me hater
Maybe it is great but that don’t mean it’s greater
Having your profile raised doesn’t make you a raiser
Being ambiguous with assertions, isn’t making you safer
What you mean tho?
Line us up, paddling us on the back
Like we steamboat you, president of the frat
You goin’ sling toast, like you Ringo
And you think Doc Holliday’s
Just goin’ tolerate and too sick to let that thing go
It’s just a matter of returns
Ashes to ashes, scattered them from the urns
To start a fire shaky to gather them from the burned
And reassemble these ashes, the blackness is something firm
Then moving blackness backwards in the bread of some other shit
Any deep we spreadin’ wheat seeds from a bucket shit
McDonald had a farm and he lovin’ it
Rolls Royce of the scented voice against the arms of the government
Artist gettin’ robbed for their publishing
By dirty Jewish execs that think his alms from the covenant
I’ll retire when I’m tired, that’s a Firestone death
Easy to say when nobody’s there, like a microphone check
They wanna hear what I’m gon’ say before the microphone check
Make me sign an NDA before the microphone test
Let you face that type of faith, institutional opposition
Then with all due respect, you are not my competition
Nah
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Lies from the InBred UnUnited QueenDumb.
The United Kingdom has reportedly stopped sharing some intelligence inputs with the United States regarding suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean as it doesn’t want to be complicit with America in its military strikes against the suspected drug boats and believes that the strikes are illegal, CNN reported quoting sources familiar with the matter.
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Oh, those Finks and Schwarzmans, Black/Rock/Stone: How Private Equity’s Vision for a Roofing Conglomerate Went Bust
Investment firms are buying and bundling contractors, leaving some workers and customers worse off.
The Big Short: After his employer abruptly closed last month, Nathan Hendricks, a cabinet installer, didn’t receive his last paycheck or reimbursement for the $400 he spent on gas driving to job sites.Credit…Taylor Johnson for The New York Times
Renovo took shape in 2022 when the Audax Group, a Boston-based private equity firm, started buying up family-owned remodeling companies that were leaders in their regions.
Minnesota Rusco had been around for 70 years, and was known for its catchy television jingle. Dreamstyle Remodeling was founded in 1989 in Albuquerque by a husband-and-wife team who amassed a 125,000-person client list. Newpro, which a family started in 1945 as a window replacement business, grew into one of the largest remodeling firms in the Northeast.
They were among seven purchased with about $150 million from some of the largest private lenders in America: BlackRock, Apollo and Oaktree Capital Management. By 2022, Renovo ranked eighth on Qualified Remodeler’s list of the largest home improvement companies, with 2,700 employees and $653 million in annual revenue.
Some executives stayed on to help run their companies, but knitting them together proved difficult. Management was centralized in a “top-heavy” office of people who didn’t all have experience in home improvement, said Melanie Marfoglio, who was vice president of Reborn Cabinets when it was acquired and stayed with the company until July.
More billionaire felonies, and worthless news:
With a $4.6 trillion balance sheet, JPMorgan Chase is America’s largest bank. It is more valuable than its three biggest Wall Street rivals combined. And much of that success may be due to its long-time leader, Jamie Dimon. The JPMorgan Chase CEO runs the $4.5 trillion bank with 300,000 employees. However, when it comes to a gadget that has become an integral part of work-life and otherwise for most of us, Dimon has different views. Jamie Dimon says he keeps his phone use to a minimum during the workday — including turning off notifications and ignoring most text messages.
“I don’t have notifications,” Dimon told CNN’s Erin Burnett in a recent interview. “If you sent me a text during the day, I probably do not read it.”
AmeriKKKa, the Farewell Tour! Donald Trump is facing a tricky balancing act over H-1B visas, a key source of highly skilled foreign labor in the United States.
Trump on Tuesday defended the use of H-1Bs, acknowledging the U.S. still needs international talent, even as his administration has imposed steep new fees that have sparked confusion among employers, legal challenges and set off a global arms race for skilled workers.
China has launched a new K-visa program as part of its effort to compete with the U.S. for global talent, while Canada has announced new plans aimed at attracting skilled foreign workers.
Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that H-1B visas were needed because you “have to bring in talent”. When Ingraham pushed back, saying the U.S. has a pool of domestic talent, Trump replied: “No, you don’t.”
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Deportations or H-1B’s?
In exchange for Hamas freeing its final group of Israeli hostages, Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinians from prison in October.
Most of the Palestinians released by Israel had been arrested in Gaza on suspicion of taking part in hostilities during the war and held without charge, and they were sent back to the territory. But 250 of them were serving long sentences for deadly attacks against Israelis.
For 154 of those prisoners, their freedom came with a major condition: They were sent into exile, never to return to their homes in the Palestinian territories. They were sent to Cairo, with their final destination still undetermined.
Palestinian human rights advocates criticize the deportations, which prisoners agreed to under conditions of imprisonment, as forcible displacement. Israeli analysts defend the practice, saying prisoners were offered a choice to remain incarcerated or be freed and deported.
The majority of Palestinian prisoners’ close relatives were barred by Israeli authorities from traveling abroad to greet their deported relatives after the most recent prisoner release, according to Qadura Fares, a veteran Palestinian prisoner advocate and the former head of prisoner affairs for the Palestinian Authority. Fares says the families were told the restriction was for security reasons.
Something else, those concentration camps and death trains Jews in Occupied Palestine, man!
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This is what a soulless and misanthropic white psychotic looks like: It’s in the eyes, man, the slack face, the whore of it all.
- Michael Burry of “The Big Short” fame has terminated Scion Asset Management’s SEC registration.
- Burry posted on X that he’s “on to much better things” after betting against Nvidia and Palantir.
- The contrarian investor foreshadowed the decision, writing the “only winning move is not to play.”