All-in costs for troubled F-35 fighter jet program price tag likely to top $2 trillion, GAO says ( www.washingtontimes.com )
Turns out the Epoch Times was a giant money laundering operation ( www.justice.gov )
Yellen was stumped by the question: Is it possible we’re just being outcompeted by the Chinese in those (electric vehicles, batteries, all of those things.) ( www.marketplace.org )
https://archive.ph/E0JUs
Employees are being offered the ‘party drug’ through company health schemes as psychedelic-assisted therapy grows in popularity. Just some good old capitalist innovation in action. ( www.ft.com )
https://archive.ph/wYcfe
Why Is A24 Suppressing Its Own Jan. 6 Documentary? ( www.themarysue.com )
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Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US ( www.resilience.org )
Top Oklahoma educator says teachers who won't teach Bible could lose license ( www.nbcnews.com )
U.S. lawmakers urge Blinken to issue 'do not travel' notice for Xinjiang. Can't have people seeing what Xinjiang is actually like. ( asia.nikkei.com )
America Has No Idea What a Ukraine 'Victory' over Russia Looks Like ( nationalinterest.org )
Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think ( act.represent.us )
The F-35 fleet can only perform the full range of its combat roles 30% of the time. This unreliability renders the entire program ineffective. ( www.pogo.org )
Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks ( www.ft.com )
https://archive.ph/snNkw
U.S. chip fab construction is among the slowest in the world -- a complex web of regulations is to blame according to study ( www.tomshardware.com )
American men are stuck in what’s been dubbed a friendship recession, with 20 percent of single men now saying they don’t have any close friends. ( www.pbs.org )
Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. ( www.cnn.com )
13-year-old killed by police after officers say teen fled and pointed replica handgun at them | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
The Lockbit ransomware group announced that it had breached the US Federal Reserve and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data. ( securityaffairs.com )
Lawsuit reveals Chiquita’s rôle in financing Colombian death squads ( www.workers.org )
The AUC didn’t just receive funding and weaponry from the U.S. and Chiquita. [Herzlian] settlers traveled to Colombia to train AUC gunmen. Fifty of the AUC’s most effective assassins were sent to [the Middle East] on “scholarship” to train with [a neocolonial] military. In May 2002, an [imperialist] defense contractor...
Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. ( www.cnn.com )
Whistleblower says Boeing lost hundreds of faulty parts -- and some may be on new 737 Max planes ( www.independent.co.uk )
The US economy is in a 'selective recession' as lower-income consumers can't cover the cost of living ( www.businessinsider.com )
The US economy is experiencing a "selective recession" where lower-income Americans are struggling due to rising costs and dwindling savings, while upper-income consumers remain unaffected. Inflation, although cooling down, has significantly impacted the purchasing power of lower and middle-income individuals. With the pandemic...