link to these and more short takes from the longer vid below
Tag: Big Money
Nicole Shanahan on how tech companies are tied to government and funded by it
WISCONSIN court politics NATIONAL DYNAMIC
Scott Bessent on DOGE
Macgregor on why Trump ‘has no choice’ but to follow Israeli orders
Universities have a become government funded and supported CARTEL that has gone sideways in every possible way — Marc Andreessen
ActBlue Facilitates the Illegal Alien Invasion of America — Natalie Winters
A multi-billion-dollar network of far-left NGOs responsible for helping illegal aliens make it to the US and hotlines exposing ICE raids rely on this firm’s financial infrastructure.
The following organizations are all listed as current funding partners of ActBlue.
Many of these groups are actively opposing the Trump administration’s immigration agenda with lawsuits and protests and advocate for the abolition of all detention centers.
‘George Soros is a systems hacker… It’s a giant graft machine’ — Musk
Maine’s 67% Renewable Energy Claim is a Scam—And You’re Paying the Price
Maine politicians love to brag that 67 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources. Sounds impressive, right? It’s a lie—one designed to mislead hardworking Mainers into accepting skyrocketing energy costs while wealthy developers and politicians cash in. This isn’t about clean energy or energy independence. It’s about forcing you to pay more while they rake in the profits.
The Renewable Energy Lie
The 67 percent figure only counts electricity generated in Maine, not the power Mainers actually use. What else can we generate when we tear down nuclear and hydro? And here’s the kicker: much of our so-called “renewable” energy is exported to other states, while we rely on natural gas, hydro imports from Canada, and even oil to keep the lights on. The ISO New England (ISO-NE) grid—where our real power comes from—shows a very different picture, with natural gas making up over 50 percent of the region’s electricity. And wind and solar? They don’t work when we need them. Wind turbines in Maine only generate power about 30 percent of the time, and solar? A pathetic 15 percent. When the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, we’re still dependent on fossil fuels. But they don’t want you to know that. Wind and solar never register very high in ISO-NE on any given day. What that means is that you pay the price to generate expensive renewables for climate virtue signaling, while what you actually use is generated by cheaper forms of generation.
FULL REMARKS: JD Vance Puts European Leaders On Notice About Trying To Regulate U.S. Tech Giants
This is an excellent speech and I hope Vance, Trump and USA live up to it. Vance broadsides European ‘leaders’ who are trying to control AI and information in general. He warns China and others there will be serious consequences for using AI to steal or undermine USA. He promises USA will promote and protect full free speech on USA platforms. I see no other intelligent way forward but to go for it full steam and agree with how Vance has put it. ABN
Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for control of OpenAI
Feb 10 (Reuters) – A consortium led by Elon Musk said on Monday it has offered $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, months after the billionaire sued the artificial intelligence startup to block it from transitioning to a for-profit firm.
Musk’s bid could ratchet up longstanding tensions with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the future of the startup at the heart of a boom in generative AI technology.
Altman promptly posted on X: “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
The two are already embroiled in an ongoing lawsuit. Musk criticized a $500 billion OpenAI-led project called Stargate announced with great fanfare at the White House just after President Donald Trump returned to office, suggesting the investors involved lacked the funding for the project.
“It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,” Musk said in the press release. “We will make sure that happens.”
What Working at a Retirement Home Taught Me About the Elderly and Today’s Healthcare Racket
Since retiring a few years back, I’ve kept myself busy by working as a night attendant for a large retirement facility in the mid-West. The two main advantages of the job are that I get to meet some wonderful people as well as walk about seven miles each night which helps to keep me in generally good shape. Hearing the life stories of folks who have been on earth for the past eighty or ninety years and the insight they’ve learned has, at times, been fascinating and I’ve enjoyed it immensely.
Over the past few years, however, I’ve discovered many truths about our corrupt and broken Heathcare system, including just how badly uninformed enormous numbers of elderly people are about nutrition and the medical industrial complex that has largely taken over their lives.
The following are my observations and opinions based on numerous conversations with elderly residents. I don’t claim to be novel or innovative in my criticism of the contemporary Healthcare system. Nothing I’ve written here hasn’t also been said or written by someone else in some form. But this doesn’t make it any less true, and I hope some will be encouraged to rethink their opinion of doctors and the corrupt medical system that we’ve been subjected to.
The first thing I’ve learned is just how naively trusting the elderly are of their doctors. They really do view them as their ‘savior,’ almost godlike in a sense. To think their primary care physician may have ulterior motives other than the improvement of their personal health would come as a shock to a good many of them.
I hope some of this money is clawed back, especially when it went to wealthy individuals and corrupt politicians
DOGE goes to war on NPR and PBS by threatening to cut government funding
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee announced that it is going to war with National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
In two letters sent to the CEOs of the outlets – Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger – Marjorie Taylor Greene, the DOGE subcommittee chair, called on them to testify on Capitol Hill to defend the government funding they use to share ‘systematically biased content.’
Greene said that the department plans to address its concerns about the station’s ‘blatantly ideological and partisan coverage’ at the hearing, scheduled for either the week of March 3 or March 24.
In each letter, the subcommittee gave examples of ‘bias’ reporting done by both NPR and PBS against Elon Musk – the head of DOGE – and cited NPR’s decision to not report on Hunter Biden‘s laptop scandal.
In the one sent to Kerger, the subcommittee said: ‘Recently PBS implied that Mr. Elon Musk made a fascist salute while addressing an inaugural celebration hours after President Donald Trump was sworn into office,’ referring to the Tesla CEO’s hand gesture that’s sparked major controversy online.
‘The characterization was clearly false’.
The letter sent to Maher cited NPR’s decision to not report on a laptop belonging to the former president’s son, which contained data critics claim implicates members of the Biden family in a corruption scandal.
Berliner worked for the outlet from 1999 until April 2024, as he blasted NPR for its far-left political bias, while also referring to the outlet as ‘an assembly line.’
‘There’s an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed,’ Berliner wrote at the time.
‘It’s frictionless—one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies. It’s almost like an assembly line.’
NPR has potential if their entire staff is thrown out the door. The lying, the lies by omission, the patronizing lefty mind-control, the smugness and also their constant hypnotic use of sing-song and childish voices appears designed to infantilize listeners. I am a big fan of voice variety and love all ways people speak. But NPR’s exclusive use of weak voices, beta-male voices, occasional strong female voices, is a clear attempt to lull listeners into a passive state and trick them into believing they know something when they don’t. I fully agree with Berliner in the highlight above. NPR’s content largely sucks, the speakers mostly suck, the politics is disgusting for a station receiving US tax dollars. It is a negative use of money and time when it could be made positive with new people. ABN
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