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Archive for 2024
July 25, 2024
NGOs REQUIRE MUCH MORE SCRUTINY: Quelle Surprise: Much of the Funding Against Europe’s ‘Far-Right’ Came From NGOs.
NO ONE WHO HAS OUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART: Matt Taibbi: Who’s Running This Country?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The ‘Free Palestine’ Nazis Get More Unhinged With Each Protest. “Keeping in mind that these people are in sync with the woman who is the presumptive Democratic nominee, let us move on to just how bat**** crazy they are.”
DON SURBER: Democrats Side With Hamas.
OUCH: Google Fails to ‘Wow’ as AI Bills Mount.
Tuesday’s results also set the stage for what might be a more challenging second half of the year. For one, comparisons will be tougher as the second half of last year had Google nearly recovered from an earlier advertising slump. Google also didn’t fully ramp up its spending on AI infrastructure until well into the second half of 2023; capital expenditures in the first half of 2023 were barely half of the $25.2 billion the company has spent in the first half of this year.
That spending won’t be taking a breather any time soon, even as Google has pared back other costs and even brought its head count down by more than 1,300 positions in the most recent quarter. Alphabet said Tuesday that capex will be at or above $12 billion a quarter for the second half of the year, likely leading to a total outlay of more than $49 billion for the year—84% higher than what the company has averaged annually over the past five years.
“Look, obviously we are at the early stage of what I view as a very transformative area,” Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said during Tuesday’s earnings call when asked by an analyst about the company’s AI investments. He added that “the risk of underinvesting is dramatically greater than the risk of overinvesting for us here,” not mentioning the record amounts of capex that tech rivals Microsoft, Amazon.com and Meta Platforms are pouring into the same thing.
Maybe it is similar or maybe it isn’t. But AI right now reminds me of the late ’90s dotcom bubble — lots of corporate spending on the latest stuff that few people have any clue how to monetize.
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: FOIA suit targets Secret Service director’s DEI push.
MUSTN’T OFFEND THE DEMOCRATS OF DEARBORN: The Veep Sweepstakes: No Jews Need Apply.
ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES:
A key element of Netanyahu’s speech was making it clear that Iran’s primary target is not Israel, but the United States. This is true, and has been true since 1979. Israel simply stands in their way. Iran has attacked American Embassies all over the world, took American hostages… pic.twitter.com/25uGPBAUsb
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 24, 2024
JOHN DEERE IS A DISAPPOINTMENT:
Wow. John Deere CEO John May should resign or be fired over this video. Listen up because you won’t believe what he admits.
He admits to seeking specific races for board seats and that "diverse" board members have questioned why certain non-diverse people were hired and how to… pic.twitter.com/IB2P4W5C6l
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 24, 2024
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Grant For Social Justice Org For Illegal Aliens = Widespread Child Sex Abuse. “One organization that took federal money was Austin-based Southwest Key, an organization that claims to be on the frontier of social justice, and now they’re accused of allowing wildspread child sex abuse to flourish on their watch.”
WELL, GOVTRACK AND AXIOS WILL ERASE THAT ANY TIME NOW: Candidate Kamala Harris Owns the Biden Administration’s War on Guns Track Record.
PRO-HAMAS PROTESTORS WARN HARRIS, TRASH THE CAPITOL: Yesterday’s massive and violent protests around the U.S. Capitol grounds by pro-Palestinian/radical far-Left activists were a blunt warning to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
That’s according to Richard Pollock, the former Saul Alinsky tactics trainer of New Left radicals in the Chicago 7 era. Pollock saw the light years ago and, after a successful career with ABC Good Morning America, has been one of the best investigative journalists on the Right. To say Pollock knows how the Far-Left operates is an understatement.
In his latest column on Substack (composed shortly after observing on-scene the protests throughout the day) Pollock pointed to comments by radical activist Linda Sansour:
“’Don’t be surprised that a war criminal has been invited by a country that harbors our own war criminals,’ she said. ‘And at the top of the list is President Joe Biden,’ she declared to vigorous applause.
“Sansour was direct. She warned the Democratic Party might lose the Muslim and Far Left votes in November. ‘Let us be clear. Our votes are still to be earned.’
“It was a direct warning to both Harris and to the Democratic Party that their election in November could be imperiled if they ignored anti-Israel voters. Similar warnings were issued earlier this year after voters in American Muslim enclaves voted to boycott then candidate Biden.”
As I’ve previously noted, Pollock was a much-valued colleague on my Watchdog investigative reporting teams at the Washington Examiner and Daily Caller News Foundation. The man knows the Far Left from the inside out and he knows how to dig out the facts the MSM refuses to report.
THE OLYMPICS ARE A CESSPIT OF CORRUPTION AND DOPING AND WE SHOULDN’T WANT THEM HERE, AND SALT LAKE CITY SHOULDN’T BE COMPLICIT: Salt Lake Awarded 2034 Olympics Under I.O.C. Pressure Over Doping Inquiries: Olympic officials insisted on the right to pull the Games amid U.S. investigations into how the World Anti-Doping Agency handled positive tests for banned substances among Chinese swimmers.
The International Olympic Committee awarded the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City on Wednesday only after a last-minute demand that the agreement shield global sports authorities from U.S. investigations into doping by Chinese athletes.
Organizers of Salt Lake City’s bid and Gov. Spencer J. Cox of Utah agreed to the changes sought by the I.O.C. The unexpected twist came amid an escalating dispute between the global antidoping agency and its American counterpart, and at a time when the Justice Department and Congress are looking into why Chinese swimmers who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs three years ago were not subject to penalties from the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Mr. Cox told I.O.C. members before Wednesday’s vote awarding the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to Salt Lake City that he would “work with the levers of power,” including in Congress, to “alleviate your concerns.”
The announcement brought fully into the open a festering clash within the sports world over reports of Chinese doping, the adequacy of the response and aggressive efforts by the United States to combat it.
Critics of the I.O.C. and the antidoping agency, known as WADA, said they saw the developments as a blatant effort to cover up both a pattern of suspicious activity in the Chinese swimming program and the unwillingness of WADA to confront it.
Well, they see it as that because that’s just what it is.
THEY DON’T HONESTLY GIVE A DAMN THAT THEY’RE GETTING CAUGHT IN REAL-TIME: Here’s the Liberal Media’s Latest ‘Cheap Fakes’ Gaslighting About Kamala Harris.
AXIOS GETS OWNED FOR LYING, WON’T CARE, WILL DO IT AGAIN:
This you? pic.twitter.com/FhqVuPlvw6
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 24, 2024
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN SMOKE-FILLED ROOMS REEKED OF TOBACCO, NOT REEFER: The cynical conspirators who deposed Biden.
IT’S JUST A HAPPY COINCIDENCE: Christopher Wray Says FBI Does Not Target Peaceful Pro-Lifers. The Stats Prove Otherwise.
GEE, CHRIS, WHEN DID YOU BEGIN TO SUSPECT? FBI Director Again Warns the Open Southern Border Is a Major Threat.
WHILE HER PARTY DENOUNCES WHITES AS OPPRESSORS SHE’S SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY: Radio Host Got Brutally Honest on Why Black Voters Never Really Liked Kamala Harris.
WEIRD IS A STRANGE WAY TO SPELL BIZARRE: A Weird and Changing Presidential Race.