Category: National Security

$25 Billion: Hegseth Accused Of Lowballing Cost Of Iran War Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has been in a very public spat and back-and-forth with Congressional Democrats over the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request, as well as over Iran war strategy and mounting costs. Hegseth has turned to some classic wartime fearmongering: “What is it… Continue reading $25 Billion: Hegseth Accused Of Lowballing Cost Of Iran War

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved to address staffing issues that triggered concern and uncertainty among and about its workforce, including reinstating employees put on leave for publicly opposing agency policies, and extending contracts for some workers whose terms were set to expire soon.

AI Hype Meets Hardware Crunch As US Power Equipment Market Eyes $65 Billion Boom Wood McKenzie has released a report that US spending on power generation gear for data centers alone could hit $65 billion by 2030, more than triple the $20 billion logged last year. Data center capacity is forecast to reach 110 GW… Continue reading AI Hype Meets Hardware Crunch As US Power Equipment Market Eyes $65 Billion Boom

Congress on Thursday punted its deadline to reauthorize a foreign surveillance law for the second time as lawmakers continue to debate privacy protections for Americans’ data caught in the spying operations.

A Delta Air Lines flight had to return to the gate in Miami after a Georgia woman refused to get off her phone while the plane taxied.

President Trump’s legal timeline for engaging in hostilities with Iran without congressional approval is running out, and some GOP lawmakers are ready to have their say.

Thousands of passengers aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line vessel were trapped on their ship for up to nine hours Tuesday after a customs screening process at the Port of San Francisco ground to a near-standstill — the result of broken facial recognition technology, a late docking and the need to process a passenger’s death onboard.

Several key economic reports were released today highlighting a broad and strong U.S. economy with a very strong labor market. ♦ The first quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) [DATA HERE] The first estimate is for growth at 2.0 percent.  At first glance that is lower than… Continue reading First Quarter Economic Data Shows Stable U.S. Economy and Strong Job Market

The Vaccine Safety Signal The Media Still Won’t Read Authored by Dr. Joseph Fraiman via the Brownstone Institute, The serious-adverse-event signal found in the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA Covid-19 vaccine trials has been in the peer-reviewed literature for nearly four years. Mainstream media outlets, on the rare occasions they address it, have treated it not… Continue reading The Vaccine Safety Signal The Media Still Won’t Read