Trump Announces $500 Billion AI “Stargate” Plan for Texas
January 21st, 2025But wait, there’s more. Here’s Larry Ellison, standing next to Trump, talking about how they’ll use AI to make custom mRNA cancer vaccines:
Larry Ellison, standing next to Trump: We'll use AI to make custom mRNA cancer vaccines pic.twitter.com/REOG6PWWP2
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 22, 2025
Mmm hmm.
Also, Larry Ellison: Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure Good Behavior.
Via: AP:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank.
The new entity, Stargate, will start building out data centers and the electricity generation needed for the further development of the fast-evolving AI in Texas, according to the White House. The initial investment is expected to be $100 billion and could reach five times that sum.
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Joining Trump fresh off his inauguration at the White House were Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle. All three credited Trump for helping to make the project possible, even though building has already started and the project goes back to 2024.
“This will be the most important project of this era,” said Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
Ellison noted that the data centers are already under construction with 10 being built so far. The chairman of Oracle suggested that the project was also tied to digital health records and would make it easier to treat diseases such as cancer by possibly developing a customized vaccine.
Everything Democrats and Corporate Media Falsely Claimed Trump Would Do with the Pardon Power…
January 21st, 2025Everything Democrats and corporate media falsely claimed Trump would do with the pardon power to destroy democracy and the rule of law– pardon all his family members and all his political allies — were things Trump didn't do.
They were, however, all things that Biden did: https://t.co/uQeMXGsfDA
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 20, 2025
Trump’s New Presidential Actions and Executive Orders
January 21st, 2025I’ve just started looking through Trump’s new Presidential Actions. I’m trying to pick the most important ones to read first because… There’s a lot.
Trump took many emergency and executive actions within hours of the start of his second term, some of which are extremely significant:
GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION
ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY”
PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST INVASION
DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY
CLARIFYING THE MILITARY’S ROLE IN PROTECTING THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OF THE UNITED STATES
DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES
WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
ENDING THE WEAPONIZATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Keep in mind, this is a small fraction of what happened on just the first day. There’s much more.
As you might gather, from my archives going back decades, it’s difficult for me to believe that anything meaningfully positive will happen. The long term decline of the U.S. is an indisputable fact. The Biden administration’s primary goal appeared to be to accelerate this decline. Large swaths of the U.S. are already in a post collapse situation.
Here’s a very general definition of a failed state from Wikipedia:
A failed state is a state that has lost its ability to fulfill fundamental security and development functions, lacking effective control over its territory and borders. Common characteristics of a failed state include a government incapable of tax collection, law enforcement, security assurance, territorial control, political or civil office staffing, and infrastructure maintenance. When this happens, widespread corruption and criminality, the intervention of state and non-state actors, the appearance of refugees and the involuntary movement of populations, sharp economic decline, and military intervention from both within and outside the state are much more likely to occur.
If you live in U.S., some of that might hit close to home.
Kleptocracy is another useful term:
Kleptocracy… is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population. One feature of political-based socioeconomic thievery is that there is often no public announcement explaining or apologizing for misappropriations, nor any legal charges or punishment levied against the offenders.
Kleptocracy is different from plutocracy (rule by the richest) and oligarchy (rule by a small elite). In a kleptocracy, corrupt politicians enrich themselves secretly outside the rule of law, through kickbacks, bribes, and special favors from lobbyists and corporations, or they simply direct state funds to themselves and their associates. Also, kleptocrats often export much of their profits to foreign nations in anticipation of losing power.
To sum up, the U.S. Government is a kleptocracy that has created a proto-failed state (armed with nuclear weapons).
Is it possible to turn this situation around?
I don’t know, but the new Trump administration appears to want to try.
In order for any meaningful change of course to occur, the U.S. would first need to re-establish control over its borders. As is typical in failing states, military forces increasingly become involved in attempts to prevent further declines and chaos domestically. Indeed, as of today, this is about to happen in the U.S.
If the U.S. actually manages to re-establish control over its borders, perhaps other corrective actions are possible. Trump took emergency action along these lines in the opening hours of his second term.
Whether or not it’s clear to average Americans, the United States is in (and has been in) an extremely dire emergency, mostly caused by a criminal class that moves in and out of government and corporations. The kleptocracy in the U.S. (which I’ve also called the American Corporate State), is deeply established and has been the status quo at least since JFK was assassinated.
My guess as to why some elites flocked to Trump is that, to put it simply, the host was about to die. They couldn’t continue to extract wealth from a carcass. Facing near certain collapse with Harris at the helm, why not go with Trump?
Is there a reason for optimism? I’ll try my best:
While I don’t know how much Trump will be able to move the needle, what’s for sure is that Harris would have moved the kleptocracy in the U.S. to the terminal phase.
Trump’s inauguration speech, delivered a few feet from Biden and Harris, the criminals who did their honest best to destroy the U.S., was extremely powerful. That didn’t feel like Trump the entertainer, or Trump the bullshitter. That speech was very different.
It’s one thing for me, with virtually no audience or impact, to write:
This is a military operation against the United States, no doubt about it. The part that will be difficult for most people to comprehend is that the the U.S. Government is facilitating the attack by funding NGOs and leaving the border open.
It’s an entirely different situation when the President of the United States references these crimes, with the perpetrators in the room:
Our recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal, and all of these many betrayals that have taken place…
Never mind that Trump nearly got his head blown off, or all of the absurd prosecutions. My guess is that he looked at his own grandchildren and thought something like, “Nobody is exempt from what’s coming. Change course, or we’re all doomed.”
We’re about to find out if that’s possible.
Related: An Overview Of Trump’s Day One Executive Actions
Donald Trump Inauguration 2025 in Washington DC
January 20th, 2025It was astonishing to hear Trump’s withering remarks on the disastrous state of the U.S. right in front of Biden and Harris.
Trump is going to sign hundreds of executive orders in the coming hours. He is going to declare two different national emergencies related to illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and energy supplies.
Trump said that he would designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
Via: Fox:
Anduril Industries Will Build Massive Autonomous Weapons Factory in Ohio
January 20th, 2025Via: Interesting Engineering:
Anduril Industries – the maker of autonomous systems and weapons – has selected Columbus in Ohio for its first hyperscale manufacturing facility.
The facility named Arsenal-1 will be built with the motive of making the United States and its allies self-sufficient in the race for autonomous systems and drones.
At full scale, the facility will span 5 million square feet and produce tens of thousands of military systems annually, as per Anduril. Moreover, the company also says that there is further scope of expansion of the manufacturing facility.
Arsenal-1 in Ohio will join Anduril’s other factories including its solid rocket motor factory in Mississippi, the robotic submarine facility in Rhode Island, a launched effects factory in Georgia, the XL-AUV factory in Australia and production facilities in California.
Biden Pre-Emptively Pardons Fauci, Milley and Jan. 6 Committee Staffers
January 20th, 2025Hm. pic.twitter.com/06bZMQfQDT
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 20, 2025
Via: New York Post:
President Biden on Monday pardoned truth-challenged former chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, embattled retired General Mark Milley, and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — just hours before President-elect Donald Trump was due to be sworn in as the 47th commander-in-chief.
More: President Biden Pardons Brother James, Other Relatives for Unspecified Crimes Before Leaving Office
Trump Unveils “Official” MemeCoin Late Friday; 12 Hours Later It Is Up 16,000% To $30 Billion
January 18th, 2025At first, I thought his Truth and X accounts had been hacked. Nope.
Via: ZeroHedge:
My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE! It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW. Go to https://t.co/GX3ZxT5xyq — Have Fun! pic.twitter.com/flIKYyfBrC
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2025
More: Donald Trump, Crypto Billionaire
Unitree G1 Bionic
January 17th, 2025Via: Unitree Robotics:
Nightcrawler: Eye on the Sky, Interview with John & Gerald Tedesco
January 17th, 2025Via: UAP Files Podcast:
Bill Gates Claims Trump “Excited” About Working Together on New Vaccine Development
January 17th, 2025I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
Why wasn’t Bobby in the room?
Via: Independent:
In a separate interview with the Wall Street Journal, Gates said he was “impressed” with Trump’s interest in global health issues during their “long and actually quite intriguing dinner.”
He said they discussed the possibility of developing a cure for HIV, with Gates adding: “He, in the Covid days, accelerated the vaccine innovation. So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got, I think, pretty excited about that.”
Gates also said he urged Trump to continue efforts to combat polio around the world.
“I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” Gates told the Journal. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”
