Another "transplant" thread that I found today searching for a Wuhan story "over there". This lays out how to control you with Personal ESG scores which are planned for us. Basically the Chinese social credit score right down to making sure you "Support the Correct" Party or else.

https://theimpactinvestor.com/calculate-...esg-score/

Quote:In many cases, people are generally unaware that they even have an ESG score unless they happen to come across it in the process of doing something totally unrelated.


A few different things will determine your personal ESG score, many of which can be discovered via your regular credit report and other public records. Your purchase history and also your sales history will have a dramatic effect on your ESG rating as a person.

there will come a time where too low of a score can result in denials for loans or services similar to the way credit scores currently function.

The charities that you support will also increase or even decrease your ESG score. The platform will track your personal impact in the environment around you through various means, which will also be used to calculate your individual ESG score.

The purpose behind each person being assigned an individual ESG score is to help reward actions that will help move the world towards sustainability.

For those who have already started using ESG scores as part of their business model, some people with good scores may notice lucrative offers, easier loan terms, and even targeted packages designed to reward green or sustainable behaviors.

After segmenting each section, a value will then be assigned to each. Some areas have a heavier weight than others. For example, if you invest in green programs and also avoid eating meat, it will have a heavier weight than your use of electricity in your home daily.

Buying a gun, alcohol, or even clothing will all affect your overall ESG score. Not only will your purchases matter, but who you purchase from and how they do business.

Your political affiliations also factor into your personal ESG score. Aside from the politics in governance, the party you support and even the person you vote for will make your score go up or down based on that person’s actions, policies, and voting habits.

The type of car you drive, how often, and even how many people are in the car when you drive will also come into play when deciding your score.

Unlike credit scores with a clear method of tabulation, cause, and effect, ESG scores depend on a wide variety of factors that most people have yet to consider.

You thought pundits and journalists are bad, wait until it is all AI garbage content. This media group is firing people and replacing them with AI trash. Timcast may hire some of them. Good Video.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/g-o-...45399.html

Quote:After G/O Media, which owns sites including The Onion, The Root and Deadspin, announced it is rolling out AI-created content next week, “appalled” unionized editorial staffers blasted the company, saying, “The hard work of journalists cannot be replaced by unreliable AI programs.”


Editorial director Merrill Brown assured editorial employees via email that the trial rollout will produce only a few stories “basically built around lists and data,” and that “these features aren’t replacing work currently done by writers and editors.”

“We hope that over time if we get these forms of content right and produced at scale, AI will, via search and promotion, help us grow our audience,” Brown wrote.

That assertion was met with scorn by The Onion Union and GMG Union. In a response shared to Twitter, they stated, “They have given us no reason over the years to believe this statement.” They cited “years of disinvestment, increased demands on reporters and editors and attrition of staff,” noting that the announcement comes “mere days after the company laid off more than a dozen colleagues, including union employees.”

In a June 14 tweet, The Onion Union described the way the layoffs occurred as “cruel” and “incredibly callous.”

So I have been contemplating a possible scenario of a Trump / RFK independent ticket if events lead to Trump not being the GOP nominee. I have not been shy that I would rather have "someone else" be the GOP nominee but does anyone think Trump would not run as an independent to be a spoiler to ensure GOP loss in retaliation?

I think he would be spiteful enough to do so. What do you think?


Koch network adopts new strategy in push to block Trump from returning to the White House

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...tegy-trump

Quote:The network connected to conservative billionaire Charles Koch is launching a key political strategy to keep former President Donald Trump from becoming the Republican nominee for the White House in 2024.

Americans for Prosperity Action pledged on Thursday that it would, for the first time in its history, back a single contender in the GOP presidential primary. That singular candidate has not been announced, but they can expect to benefit from the $70 million the network has collected to use for political races next cycle.

With the entire support of the network behind them, the chosen candidate is likely to reshape the Republican candidate pool dramatically. Currently, Trump is the front-runner in most polls, with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) either leading, tying, or slightly trailing the former president, as surveys vary.

Americans for Prosperity said part of the strategy will also look at bringing more general election voters into the GOP primary process to alter the outcome of early contests. Polling from third-party organizations shows that if Trump were not the GOP candidate on the ticket, many Republican or conservative voters would not show up to vote.

Oh oh, Hunter had a secret burner phone.. .but Hunter doesn't answer it, Joe Biden did.

This is going to open a can of worms for sure.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ma...r-n1707224

Now get this – journalist John Solomon called the phone, and President Joe Biden picked up!

Quote:But here’s where things get really interesting. During an appearance on Real America’s Voice, investigative journalist John Solomon revealed that in 2019, he received leaked documents from the Hunter Biden laptop containing these cell phone numbers.

“I never told this story before — only my editors at The Hill knew this back in 2019 — I, early on, got some documents from the Hunter Biden laptop — by the way before it was turned over for the FBI, there had been some documents that law enforcement had gotten to by other means — and one of those documents got leaked to me and it had a cell phone number that Hunter Biden was [paying] for,” he began. “So I figured this is my chance. Maybe I can — I’d been trying to get fair comments from Hunter Biden. So I’m going to call the cell phone. So I call the cell phone, and guess who picked up the phone?  Joe Biden, Joe Biden. Boy, was he shocked when he got — when he picked up the phone and find out it was me. He hung up pretty quickly.”

Quote:“We shared that phone number and that account information with people in the House Oversight Committee. My hope is that they if they haven’t already, they will subpoena those records because I think it will give an indication on how tight the communication was.

And that may be the phone, for example, that the Ukrainian, the Burisma executive might have used in this allegation that the he talked to Joe Biden in recorded conversations.” -Peter Schweizer

Aye yer' bugger! Them-there border water-bulls are thing te' steer clear of!

https://lists.youmaker.com/links/6zzOG5g...n3G5G6U7Bc

Quote:
Teamsters march on May Day in Los Angeles on May 1, 2018. (David McNew/Getty Images)

By Jack Phillips
June 29, 2023Updated: June 29, 2023

The Teamsters Union warned that a U.S.-wide strike is imminent if the United Parcel Service (UPS) doesn’t come to an agreement with the union Friday, potentially triggering one of the largest strikes in American history.
The union, which represents hundreds of thousands of UPS drivers, “walked away from the national bargaining table” and said that UPS must give its “last, best, and final offer”  by Friday, June 30.
“The largest single-employer strike in American history now appears inevitable,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a news release this week. “Executives at UPS, some of whom get tens of millions of dollars a year, do not care about the hundreds of thousands of American workers who make this company run,” O’Brien said.
UPS is the second-largest ground carrier of packages in the United States, only behind the U.S. Postal Service. The company delivers some 20 million packages per day, meaning that a protracted strike could be devastating for some industries and workers.
“With a deadline of Friday to return a last, best, and final offer, UPS risks putting itself on strike by August 1 and causing devastating disruptions to the supply chain in the U.S. and other parts of the world,” the Teamsters said, adding that “we have an economy today that is reliant on parcel delivery and no one in the game handles more packages per day or provides better service than Teamsters at UPS.”
Amid negotiations, UPS said earlier this year that it would  “equip all newly purchased U.S. small package delivery vehicles with air conditioning” by next year, and it also said that it would install more cab fans and heat shields in trucks. The union also has demanded higher wages for its members.
Reports indicated that UPS Teamsters had held practice strike pickets in various locations in recent days.
UPS Responds
In a statement, UPS denied some claims made by the Teamsters and said its executives are “ready to negotiate.”
“Last week, we provided our initial economic proposal,” UPS said in its statement Wednesday, coming after the union issued its latest strike threat. “This week, we followed with a significantly amended proposal to address key demands from the Teamsters. Reaching consensus requires time and serious, detailed discussion, but it also requires give-and-take from both sides. We’re working around the clock to reach an agreement that strengthens our industry-leading pay and benefits ahead of the current contract’s expiration on August 1.”
On its website, UPS also said that its employees get “industry-leading pay” along with a pension, benefits, paid vacation time, and superior healthcare coverage.
“Our delivery drivers make $95,000 a year on average in wages, and our part-time union employees are paid on average $20 per hour after 30 days,” it said in what appears to be a counter-claim to the teamsters’ demands about wages. “We will continue to provide highly competitive wages and benefits that reward our employees and attract and retain the best talent.”
[/url] A United Parcel Service (UPS) truck leaves the yard October 29, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Frank Polich/Getty Images)
“UPS drivers have planned workdays with reasonable overtime. Our planning considers normal volume fluctuations by day of the week and time of the year, which has enabled us to keep our delivery drivers’ average paid day to about 9 hours,” said the company. “We need to remain flexible to meet the changing needs of our customers, but we also want to consider our employees’ desired number of work hours.”
As of Thursday afternoon, shares of UPS Inc. were down less than 1 percentage point. Over the past month, UPS’s stock has [url=https://www.google.com/search?q=ups+stock&oq=ups+stock&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg8MgYIAhBFGDzSAQgxODUzajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8]seen a 3.42 percent increase.
Previous Threats
Earlier this month, members of the Teamsters overwhelmingly voted to strike if the union’s demands aren’t met by Aug. 1, as the current five-year contract ends on July 31. But at the time, UPS said it was confident that no strike would occur.
“The results do not mean that a strike is imminent and do not impact our current business operations in any way,” the firm said on June 16. “We continue to make progress on key issues and remain confident that we will reach an agreement that provides wins for our employees, the Teamsters, our company and our customers.”
While the Teamsters have accused UPS of making record profits in recent years, in the first quarter of 2023, profits, volume, and revenue have all dropped year-over-year. The company also warned of a possible economic downturn around the world.
“While we expect to hear a great deal of noise during the negotiation, I remain confident that a win-win-win contract is very achievable and that UPS and the Teamsters will reach [an] agreement by the end of July,” UPS CEO Carol Tome also said in April, as reported by CNN.
If there is a strike, reports indicate that it would be the largest one against a single employer in U.S. history. UPS is the largest unionized employer in the private U.S. sector. CNN reported that about 6 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, is moved on board UPS trucks each year.

Quote:Forbidden Archaeology: Lost Giants of America | The Smithsonian's Biggest Secret In 1886, mining engineer John T. Reid was told the Paiute legend of a giant people defeated by the natives near Lovelock, Nevada. The last of the giants met their fiery end deep within the bowels of a cave. Reid’s belief in this legend stirred great interest in the secrets held within Lovelock Cave. Official excavations were undertaken in both 1912 and 1924 by the University of California, with reports telling of thousands of artifacts being recovered. Of these artifacts, the most puzzling were human remains. Well, they were almost human. Skeletons measuring between eight and ten feet tall were said to be found during the dig. Skeletons belonging to who are now known as “The Lovelock Giants.” Legends of people of enormous size are told across a myriad of cultures, And despite what we’ve been told by mainstream science, there is evidence to suggest they really existed. The remains of giants have been found all over the United States; and all over the world. So why aren’t these amazing finds on display in any museum? Or taught in any classes? Or mentioned in any history books? Because the existence of giants, for some reason, has been covered up.

He explains how we have been lied to by big Farma over the years and are still being lied to for profits. I wish his voice was not so FUBAR but he hangs in there and presents a good case for not trusting those who push the jabs on everyone.

Anyone following the riots in France? Pretty Big, people carrying around chainsaws and ramming cars through buildings. France is deploying 40,000 Police to deal with it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuFzxqZsgz1/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuF9_g9o7in/

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-66049895

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fra...023-06-29/

Quote:Major French cities saw a third night of riots on Thursday as President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting unrest triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop.


Forty thousand police officers were to deploy across France -- nearly four times the numbers mobilised on Wednesday -- but there were few signs that government appeals to a de-escalation in the violence would quell the widespread anger.

In Nanterre, the working class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a peaceful vigil.

Protesters scrawled "Vengeance for Nahel" across buildings and bus shelters and as night set a bank was lit on fire before firemen put it out.

Local authorities in Clamart, 8 km (5 miles)

from central Paris, imposed a nighttime curfew until Monday.

Valerie Pecresse, who heads the greater Paris region, said all bus and tram services would be halted after 9 p.m. after some were set alight the previous night.

National police said on Thursday night that officers faced new incidents in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille including fires and fireworks.

In Marseille, France's second city, police fired tear gas grenades during clashes with youths in the tourist hot-spot of Le Vieux Port, the city's main paper La Provence reported.

"The response of the state must be extremely firm," Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said earlier, speaking from the northern town of Mons-en-Baroeul where several municipal buildings were set alight.

The incident has fed longstanding complaints of police violence and systemic racism inside law enforcement agencies from rights groups and within the low-income, racially mixed suburbs that ring major cities in France.

The local prosecutor said the officer involved had been put under formal investigation for voluntary homicide and would be held in prison in preventive detention.

Under France's legal system, being placed under formal investigation is akin to being charged in Anglo-Saxon jurisdictions.

"The public prosecutor considers that the legal conditions for using the weapon have not been met," Pascal Prache, the prosecutor, told a news conference.

Or somethin along those lines of theater confusion. I'll leave you to ponder some really weird, out of this world drama news...

So, stepford Biden moves to Install New COG Commander as tensions flare at NORTHCOM over UFO Threat Op Plans. Meet the Nominee Air Force Lt. Gen. Gregory M. Guillot of MacDill AFB. A report shows NORAD Commander General VanHerck called the Administration "totally deceiving and incorrect" using UFO code name "Santa Claus"...VanHerck sees the UFO Threat Op is being taken from him...hence the anti US Space Command comments.

Do you speak UFO Santa language?

Quote:NORTHCOM’s head sets record straight on missile defense boundaries with SPACECOM

WASHINGTON — Gen. Glen VanHerck wants to make it crystal clear that the military’s most recent plan laying out warfighting responsibilities in no way changes the missile defense-related roles of his two commands, US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and NORAD — following what he told Breaking Defense was an “incredibly misleading” announcement from US Space Command late last month.

“To be clear, the missile defense mission has not changed,” he said in an interview Thursday. “There’s been no change to any of our missions, including the NORAD mission for missile warning, attack assessment, any of those. And we’re still tracking Santa Claus each year.”

VanHerck pulled no punches in expressing frustration after SPACECOM’s May 31 statement about the 2022 revision of the Unified Command Plan (UCP) signed in April by President Joe Biden that reassigned it some of the missile defense support functions previously owned by US Strategic Command (STRATCOM).

Though it has expanded its role, SPACECOM’s vague language appeared to some that it had eaten responsibilities in both missile warning and defense that in reality continue to fall to regional commands like NORTHCOM or NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command. 

“When you have somebody from Space Command saying: ‘So, we’ve owned the missile warning mission since Space Command stood up,’ is totally deceiving and incorrect,” VanHerck said.
He explained that he has a double-hatted role in the US military’s somewhat complicated missile defense ecosystem, that includes various combatant commands, services and the Missile Defense Agency.

“In my NORAD hat, I’m responsible for providing a threat assessment of threats in North America, and am also responsible for an attack assessment of where that potential threat missile would be going, such as Washington, DC or Denver, Colorado,” VanHerck said.
“In my NORTHCOM hat, I’m responsible for defense the United States of America including Hawaii and Alaska, ballistic missile defense. And so the GBIs, the ground-based interceptors we have in Alaska, we have in California at Vandenberg [SFB] allow me to do that against rogue actors, such as North Korea, and that’s where we’re primarily focused,” he added.

Days after its announcement SPACECOM too sought to clarify “confusion” it caused. Those missions transferred from STRATCOM do not include shooting down incoming ballistic missiles, SPACECOM officials told reporters on June 7.

Instead, “each regional combatant commander, to include NORTHCOM, is still responsible for missiles that are coming into their areas of responsibility,” stressed Col. Mark Cobos, deputy commander, of Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense.

As for missile warning, responsibilities under the latest UCP also remain the same for both SPACECOM and NORTHCOM, according to officials from both. While SPACECOM has been and will remain in charge of operating missile warning satellites, NORAD retains the responsibility for actually warning US national security leaders about missile threats to the US homeland.

SPACECOM also keeps the role — assigned to it in the 2021 UCP update, as first reported by Breaking Defense — of Global Sensor Manager, matching the capabilities of the myriad sensors in space and on the ground that contribute to space domain awareness and missile warning to specific missions. SPACECOM operators gather all that data relevant to detecting and tracking missiles, fuse it and send it back out to missile defense operators in the other commands.

So, despite the recent public kerfuffle, VanHerck stressed SPACECOM was a critical partner in the nation’s defense.

“Without Space Command doing that, I don’t have the domain awareness and the ability to execute my missile defense mission or my threat warning mission,” he said. “I am comfortable where the department has landed with Space Command as the sensor manager, and the one that’s going to provide advocacy on behalf of everybody who has equities in missile defense around the globe. I think that’s a good place.”

NORAD’s Santa Tracker And Missile Defense

VanHerck noted that the Santa tracking mission is in many ways a good example of how NORTHCOM, NORAD and SPACECOM work together to ensure US leaders have “global situational awareness.”

“As Santa goes around the globe, Space Command provides domain awareness to me to track Santa and provide warnings all the kids around there of where Santa is and what time he’s going to show up at their house,” VanHerck said.

Another NORTHCOM official elaborated that SPACECOM satellites home in on Rudolph’s red nose with  infrared satellites and “big radar” on the ground, and pass along location information to NORAD for tracking Santa’s reindeer-powered sleigh over North America. (And one would assume, ensuring that no one mistakes Santa for a threat.)

What has changed, officials from both commands explained, is that SPACECOM is now providing other types of supporting capabilities that were previously in STRATCOM’s bailiwick that enable warfighters in charge of missile defense systems to do their jobs.

For example, Cobos’s Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, which “synchronizes global missile defense planning in support of the coordinating authority, conducts global missile defense operations support, advocates for and recommends acceptance of missile defense capabilities, and executes joint and combined global missile defense training and education,” according to a military fact sheet [PDF] — now reports to SPACECOM, not STRATCOM.

“We’re seeing a convergence between a lot of aspects of the missile defense and space missions,” Cobos said. “A lot of the sensors we use for space are the same as missile defense and missile warning.”

Gordon White, SPACECOM deputy chief of global sensor management, elaborated that therefore the command is looking to provide improved “better integration and fused data for better characterization of threats. This helps all theaters defend their areas.”

Another responsibility that has shifted to SPACECOM under the new UCP is the role of ensuring “trans-regional missile defense,” explained the NORTHCOM official. This is a “support mission,” the official said, and essentially means helping to ensure no one drops the ball in cases where an incoming missile passes through the geographic boundaries on more than one of the US military’s regional combatant commands. (These are Northern, Indo-Pacific, European, Central and Africa commands.)

“What has really changed is who manages the sensors, who does the operational planning, and who does the advocacy — and that used to be STRATCOM and now it’s SPACECOM,” VanHerck said.

It’s self-evidently a complicated relationship between all these entities, though, and VanHerck mused that because of how complex it has become to integrate missile and air defense needs in the face of proliferating missile threats — from ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles — it may be time for the Defense Department to create a single office to coordinate acquisition programs to ensure everything is knitted together tightly enough.

“I think the department needs a single entity responsible for oversight that forces efficiencies across services, across the MDA, across the globe that takes a global look to ensure that we don’t end up with regional pictures, regional perspectives. We need a global picture and global perspectives to enable a global layered defense, and globally integrated air and missile defense,” he said.

Santa wouldn’t stand a chance of going rogue then.

NORTHCOM's head sets record straight on missile defense boundaries with SPACECOM

Quote:GOP Congressman Suggests UFOs May Be 'Ancient Civilization'

Republican congressman has suggested that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) could be an "ancient civilization" that is hiding on Earth but has only just begun to show itself.

Mike Gallagher, a representative for Wisconsin and chair of the House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, discussed various theories about the potential origins of alien sightings while appearing on the Pat McAfee show on Tuesday.

There, he spoke about the ongoing efforts of Congress to investigate claims that the government may be in possession of technology not from this world. House Oversight Committee chair James Comer announced an investigation into allegations at the beginning of June.

Quote:Appearing on the sports talk show, Gallagher suggested that one possible explanation of supposed UFO sightings was the so-called "Terminator" theory—based on the film of the same name—that aliens were actually human beings from the future.

Another hypothesis, he said, was that "as opposed to being us from the future, it could actually be an ancient civilization that's just been hiding here and is suddenly showing itself."

Another member of the discussion then interjected: "Like Transformers," referencing the toy and film franchise in which a mechanized race of aliens seeks refuge on Earth from a civil war taking place on their own planet. In comic book literature, they are said to live for millions of years.

Quote:However, Gallagher said the "worst-case scenario" would be if the reported sightings of craft that appeared to defy modern capabilities were actually advanced technology built by adversarial nations. He added that fears of potential Chinese weapons developments had been his "entry point" into the UFO discussion.