Protests in the Netherlands as dozens of protesters stormed the headquarters of Dutch defense firm GKN Fokker in Papendrecht, accusing the company of supplying F-35 fighter jet components to Israel amid the Gaza war. Protesters called GKN Fokker “complicit in genocide”, demanding an immediate halt to all weapons exports and collaboration with Israel’s defense industry. Riot police were deployed to remove demonstrators who had occupied offices and rooftops of the facility.
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Nvidia CEO Says China Is “Going to Win” the AI Race
In a new interview the Financial Times, Huang said that “China is going to win the AI race.”
He added that China will defeat the US due to lower energy costs and looser regulations, while the West is paralyzed by “cynicism” — an astonishing admission about the technological capabilities of a country which multiple presidential administrations have taken pains to hinder.
Full article: https://futurism.com/future-society/nvidia-ceo-china-trump-win
Here’s How Nancy Pelosi Got Filthy Rich In Congress
The former House speaker, who announced Thursday that she will retire from Congress in 2027, had a $2,675,036 minimum net worth in the year she began serving and a $63,996,050 minimum net worth in 2024, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of assets and liabilities listed in her congressional financial disclosures. An analysis by Quiver Quantitative estimates her current net worth more precisely at $278,760,000 million.
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The 85-year-old congresswoman’s portfolio nearly doubled the S&P 500’s growth in 2024, the DCNF previously reported. Her wealth prompted calls for reforming the rules on lawmakers trading stocks, as well as suspicion that she engaged in illegal insider trading based on advance knowledge about industry trends. Her office denied such claims, saying she does not personally own stocks or have prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in transactions. Her husband, Paul, manages her trades.
Full article: https://www.aol.com/articles/nancy-pelosi-got-filthy-rich-160259206.html?
Lipstick, manicures … and fascism: the ugliness behind the $450bn beauty industry
I did multiple interviews a week for years, with people all around the world, with three translators, via email and Zoom and in person. I interviewed every type of person that’s mentioned: auditors, NGO people that directly interact with and record the deaths of child laborers, farmers, retail associates, cosmetic chemists, lawyers, CEOs. I didn’t talk to the assassin [one vignette features the point of view of an assassin who kills a lawyer representing peasant farmers in Honduras] – unfortunately, they were not easily accessible.
Ultimately, we are all participants and complicit in how beauty is produced throughout the world. I wanted the reader to be immediately implicated in the story, like you are the final girl in this horror movie.
Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/nov/07/beauty-industry-arabelle-sicardi-book
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
Basically, we might completely destroy our economy, our culture, our sense of privacy and individuality, our sense of pride in contributing to our communities—but we’ll be damned if we let anyone else do it to us.
Full article: https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-a-surveillance-state-is-preferable-to-china-winning-the-ai-race-2000683144
Mission Statement
Paranormal Psycho-Economic Activity Monitor
Dismantling the Propaganda Matrix
The Rich Are Not Rich Enough in America
What is this historic chaos really about? If you’ve just arrived and are observing what’s happening in the United States, you might think that our most pressing issue is that the richest among us simply aren’t rich enough – as the Trump administration and the OBBB cuts public services and benefits that will make life more precarious for millions in the name of tax breaks for the rich.
While they play out their destructive tendencies predicated on non-existent problems like DEI or in service to imagined government waste, the real goal is to have a YOYO – you’re on your own – economic system for the masses in order to transfer more income to those without need.
One of the most striking statistics on inequality is the historical trend in the share of national income received by the Top 1 Percent. Figure 1 shows that at the end of the “Roaring Twenties,” just before the Great Depression, the Top 1 Percent held about 20 percent of all income (excluding capital gains) – about where it was in 2022 (most recent data available).
Read on… https://cepr.net/publications/the-rich-are-not-rich-enough-in-america/
Escobar: Taming The Sound And Fury Of The Empire Of Chaos
In a nutshell: Burevestnik and Poseidon “will ensure strategic parity for the whole 21st century.”
Cue to thunderous silence heard all across the NATOstan sphere – permeated by the usual “the Russians are bluffing” gaggle noise.
Who cares? Facts are stubborn, and continue to be incontrovertible. Extra facts: Putin and Xi signing into law a mutual investment protection agreement, which translates as China protecting trillion-dollar worth Russian companies, Sberbank, Rosneft and Lukoil in case of a potential NATO-Russia war.
Or, in Eurasia connectivity corridor terms, take Putin, during the Russia-Central Asia summit, proposing unifying Eurasian logistics projects into a single network: “This would allow us to exponentially increase the volume of international transportation through our shared region.”
The massive economic/trade potential of Eurasia still remains largely untapped. Cut to the Russia-China goal of building a production-technological belt from the Russian Far East to Central Asia.
web https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-taming-sound-and-fury-empire-chaos
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers in Mecca Arrested for Demanding Unpaid Wages
At least 600 migrant workers employed by Saudi Arabian Baytur Construction Company have not received their salaries for at least eight months, Human Rights Watch said today. The actual figure of unpaid workers could be significantly higher. The workers at the US$26 billion Mecca-based Masar redevelopment project, funded by the nearly trillion-dollar Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), resorted to work stoppages and strikes as a last resort, based on media reports and interviews. Eleven migrant workers were detained and later released.
web Escobar: Taming The Sound And Fury Of The Empire Of Chaos
How the World Zionist Congress became a web of patronage and nepotism
The controversy over Yair Netanyahu’s proposed appointment to a senior post has cast light on a vast patronage system inside the World Zionist Organization, where political deals, high salaries and invented roles flourish