The union was the first to announce the buyout, calling it an ‘illegal violation’ of the national contract in which UPS committed to create 22,500 jobs.
‘Our members cannot be bought off and we will not allow them to be sold out. UPS needs to live up to the existing contract. They must honor their commitments,’ said Sean O’Brien, general president of the union.
The company concluded that its profit margins from Amazon deliveries profit were too small, and it wanted to focus on other markets like healthcare and international deliveries.
‘The world has not been faced with such enormous potential impacts to trade in more than 100 years,’ said CEO Carol Tomé. Deliveries for Amazon make up around 12 percent of UPS’s revenue.
Donald Trump has threatened to turn the Department of Government Efficiency on his former ‘First Buddy’ Elon Musk.
The president suggested he may use the department Musk once headed to strip away the billionaire’s government subsidies to decimate his business empire, as their feud hit galactic new heights.
‘Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social early Tuesday.
‘It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one.’
He then turned the screws on Musk, suggesting his time benefitting from the U.S. government could be over and that the South African native could be forced to return to his homeland.
‘Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!’
It is possible Musk has been poisoned or transmogrified by energy weapons or destabilized by some other deliberate method. There are many groups who would do that to him.
It’s also possible he was a Trojan time-bomb from the outset.
X has become terrible since his flap with Trump, which happened around the same time X’s algorithms were changed to yield more shallow, cartoonish feeds.
It’s also possible Musk has Promethean fantasies, or Icarian ones and rose so high he had to fall.
Of these possibilities, the two that are more serious are: 1) he has been poisoned or 2) he was himself a plant, a poison pill from the beginning. Both options suggest a clandestine group working nefariously behind the scenes to control Musk through the carrot or the stick.
This is how elites operate. They do this to maintain control, and even want the public to see it and know it. It serves as a warning.
Where does Trump stand in this? No way to be sure but he is still better than any other option I can see. ABN
From what I can see, there were 3 separate signatures used with the Joe Biden Autopen during his tenure, but again, none were his established signature. However, the live signature on Joe’s resignation letter on July 21, 2024, when he dropped out of the campaign, is authentic in my opinion. So is his signature on his pardon for Hunter Biden, even though he was shaky with that one and messed up his B, but it is still consistent with his established signature, not Jill’s.
If you will study the information I sent to The Gateway Pundit back in January 2021, [see the link above] you will see what I am talking about.
The concise point here is: it appears Joe Biden had a consistent signature before he was President, then different ones during his presidency, and then reverted back to his original signature when he resigned and signed Hunter’s pardon. That never happens in my experience.
Facsimile laws do not allow for a forged signature to bind a legal document. That is the issue here and while the Autopen alone is a big thing and worth prying into insofar as who was controlling it, the larger issue is it was never legitimate with the signature of Joe Biden, but a forgery.
GE Appliances on Thursday said it would spend $490 million to move the production of most of its washing machines from China to Kentucky.
The operation will move to the company’s massive industrial Appliance Park headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, where it already manufactures washers and dryers. At least 800 new full-time jobs are expected to be created, the company said in a news release.
The news came as President Donald Trump is attempting to lure companies back to the United States by imposing tariffs. He has slapped additional tariffs on China, as well as other countries. GE Appliances is a subsidiary of the Haier company, which is based in China.
This is the result of tariffs. More of this, more cheap energy, more nuke reactors, more trade, more wealth, more freedom, less war or no war, more freedom of speech, more happiness. ABN
Scientists have begun work on a controversial project that aims to create human DNA from scratch. World’s largest medical charity, the Wellcome Trust, has donated Rs 117 crore (10 million pounds) to start the project, which involves scientists from universities including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College.
“The sky is the limit. We are looking at therapies that will improve people’s lives as they age, that will lead to healthier ageing with less disease as they get older,” Dr Julian Sale, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, who is part of the project, told the BBC.
“We are looking to use this approach to generate disease-resistant cells we can use to repopulate damaged organs, for example, in the liver and the heart, even the immune system,” he said.
As per Professor Matthew Hurles, director of the Wellcome Sanger Insititute, studying how genes and DNA regulate our bodies could help us pinpoint when they go wrong and ultimately develop better treatments.
“Building DNA from scratch allows us to test out how DNA really works and test out new theories, because currently we can only really do that by tweaking DNA in DNA that already exists in living systems,” said Mr Hurles.
This isn’t just another UFO mystery. What Greer said in Mexico about the sphere’s materials, movement, and possible alien inscriptions, will blow your mind.
1/ Dr. Steven Greer flew to Mexico for one reason: To examine the Buga Sphere up close. After seeing it, he didn’t hold back:
“This is clearly an anomalous object with multiple possible origins.”
2/ Greer didn’t jump to conclusions. He brought a team of scientists to test the sphere using isotope-level metal analysis and Carbon-14 dating. To determine if it’s from Earth, or from deep space.
3/ They found a polymer embedded in the sphere, near its equator. It contains carbon, and if it’s thousands of years old, then this isn’t a modern object. It predates industrial civilization.
4/ Now here’s where it gets exciting! Inside the Buasphere are microscopic fiber optics which according to Dr. Steven Greer are molded into the structure itself. That’s not 20th-century tech, that’s integrated photonics before we even knew what that was.
5/ Greer says this kind of fabrication doesn’t match anything known from Earth, unless a long-lost civilization once had access to tech we can’t even replicate today.
Layoffs due to AI are sweeping America, nixing hundreds of thousands of jobs at Microsoft, Walmart, and other titans. The newly jobless speak of a ‘bloodbath’ on the scale of the pandemic.
This time, it’s not blue-collar and factory workers getting whacked — it’s college graduates losing white-collar jobs to AI in tech, finance, law, and consulting.
Entry-level jobs are vanishing the fastest — stoking fears of recession and a generation of disillusioned graduates left stranded with CVs no one wants.
College grads are now much more likely to be unemployed than others, official data show.
Chatbots have already taken over data entry and customer service jobs. Next-generation ‘agentic’ AI can solve problems, adapt, and work independently.
These ‘smartbots’ are already spotting market trends, running logistics operations, writing legal contracts, and diagnosing patients.
The choice is fewer people working more. Or more people working less. If it’s more people working less, this could be the start of a wonderful new era. This should be a soluble problem. Simply stated, it’s an embarrassment of riches. If machines can output more, we will be wealthier with less work. There have to be ways to benefit everyone under those conditions. ABN
After spending almost 6 years at #Palantir, I know something about what they do and what they don’t do. As a result, I want to address the inaccuracies in the 6/30 @nytimes article that’s been picked up by multiple outlets this week. 🧵 1/11
In this thread, I speak solely for myself. I departed Palantir in April (and will share my new chapter soon!). My purpose here is simple: to call for honest and accurate reporting—especially in an era increasingly shaped by distortion and #disinformation. 2/11
Plenty of people have valid criticisms of Palantir—I at times raised concerns while there, as the culture encourages. I believe in speaking up. I also believe in getting the facts right and straight. Criticize what you find problematic—but start with the truth. 3/11
INACCURACY #1: The headline “Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans” is fundamentally wrong. Palantir doesn’t do that. They provide software that helps organizations analyze data those organizations already possess.
Ed Martin – Trump’s ultra-MAGA pardon attorney – said the Justice Department has been directed to investigate clemency granted by Biden in the waning days of his presidency, including the December pardon of his troubled son Hunter.
Martin’s unprecedented probe was revealed in a Monday email to staffers that was obtained by Reuters.
The attorney said the investigation involves whether Biden ‘was competent and whether others were taking advantage of him through use of AutoPen or other means.’
An autopen is a device used to automatically affix a signature to a document.
Hunter Biden, who was convicted last year of three felonies over an illegal gun, and the former First Lady Jill Biden have been accused of wielding significant power over the president in his final days.
The prodigal son was treated ‘almost like a chief of staff’ despite being ‘provably, demonstrably unethical, sleazy and prone to horrible decisions,’ Jake Tapper said in a recent interview about the behind-the-scenes health cover-up.
There are groups of psychopaths who do almost all the bad conspiracies that harm USA.
With today’s tech, a moral group within government (or next to it) could easily map who the bad guys are, how they are connected to each other and how they do their conspiracies.
Ofc, we have not seen anything like this so far but it is possible.
If the mapping were done using our best technology, entire syndicates of bad actors could be busted in one day.
For this to happen, the tables will have to be turned somewhere deep inside the intelligence community, or high above it.
Massive raids on the syndicates by special forces would effect enormous change for the good almost immediately.
By busting these groups and disabling them permanently, USA would free itself from widespread infestations of these parasites.
Needless to say, these parasitic groups themselves know who they are and how they are connected and they are probably well aware of this vulnerability.
But they would not necessarily know they are being identified and slated for destruction.
If the bad guys can hide, so can the good guys.
If something like this ever happens, I doubt we the plebs will know anything about it until it happens.
What are the odds? Maybe not so bad.
What if someone like Peter Thiel were already doing this? Or someone we have never heard of.
A small group of tech geniuses with deep moral sensibilities might be fascinated by work like this and become passionate about pulling it off.
USA has harbored many clandestine criminal gangs.
Maybe the new surveillance tech will help us get a secret gang of really good people who will wipe them out. ABN
The Trump administration is collecting data on all Americans, and they are enlisting the data analysis company Palantir to do it.
The New York Timesreports that President Trump has enlisted the firm, founded by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel, to carry out his March executive order instructing government agencies to share data with each other. The order has increased fears that the government is putting together a database to wield surveillance powers over the American public.
Since then, the administration has been very quiet about these efforts, increasing suspicion. Meanwhile, Palantir has taken more than $113 million in government spending since Trump took office, from both existing contracts and new ones with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. That number is expected to grow, especially given that the firm just won a new $795 million contract with the DOD last week.
Palantir is speaking with various other agencies across the federal government, including the Social Security Administration and the IRS, about buying its technology, according to the Times. Palantir’s Foundry tool, which analyzes and organizes data, is already being used at the DHS, the Department of Health and Human Services, and at least two other agencies, allowing the White House to compile data from different places.
This is an opinion piece, slanted toward privacy and against totalitarianism, but I do not see how anyone can stop data collection. Information about us is everywhere and easily gathered. It can be weaponized and probably will. How do you stop it? If USA does not do it, others will. Information knows no borders. This is another reason why we should do all we can to preserve free speech and support those who support it. Free speech and freedom of thought are all we have left to protect ourselves. Masses of free humans will become the only database that can stand up to AI and those who control it. ABN
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