On The Hidden Fragility Of Our Energy-Dependent World & The Cascading Consequences Of A Supply-Shock That Money Alone Can't Fix

Financial Times Hypes SpaceX's Dismal ESG Rating By MSCI, But Really Nobody Cares The Financial Times appears eager to frame MSCI's decision to assign SpaceX the "lowest possible ESG rating" as a major reputational blow. However, the real story is that the entire ESG movement on Wall Street has imploded, and anyone grounded in reality and common sense has increasingly viewed the whole woke era as counterproductive. "The triple C assessment means SpaceX has the same score as that awarded to the Russian state on MSCI's ESG government rating scale in...

DARPA's 'ECHO' Project: A Computer System That Declares You A Bio Threat - With No Physical Evidence Authored by Jon Fleetwood via JonFleetwood.com, In 2018, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) proposed building a portable computer system allegedly capable of determining whether a person had been exposed to biological or chemical threats - including weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their precursors. Even with no physical evidence. DARPA outlined the proposal in Broad Agency Announcement HR001118S0023 for a program known as ECHO (Epigenetic CHaracterization and Observation). DARPA proposed accomplishing this by comparing purported...

Interceptor-Drone Arms-Race Emerges The next type of aerial system likely to be stockpiled at scale by militaries worldwide is the interceptor drone. We've already seen early evidence of this across Eurasia, with Ukraine selling its interceptor drones to the highest bidder. The Russia-Ukraine war accelerated the development of cheap one-way attack drones. Early in the war, missile interceptors used by Ukraine were too costly and drained the stockpiles of Western militaries at dangerous rates. The proliferation of cheap interceptor drones levels the playing field and provides a low-cost solution against Russian-produced Geran...