Definitionally, Triple Canopy is a mercenary agency. Who hired them to block access to these buildings? Who paid for that?
Again, they are contractors to the federal government. They freaking work at one of the Federal buildings that I have to enter occasionally. No firearms, just security. Who hired them???? IDK, obviously you must so tell us who, and post their contractual derivatives.
Yes, a private military personnel that takes contracts is what? Nobody knows, that's the problem. What authority do they have?
Private security contractors typically hire ex military, law enforcement, FBI and other experts. They provide security for nuclear plants, DOD, government agencies, government departments, government officials, and private companies and citizens. They are called security contractors. What combat theater are they working in??? What authority do they have? It would be outlined in their contract. For the last damn time, they are contracted to the US government for multiple facilities. I’m beginning to realize that you also have EDS.
I very much believe private military contractors are a mistake (a mistake made by both parties since 9/11). They're tied up with blackwater, they do security contracts in war zones regularly, they have no business keeping elected officials out of government buildings.
Do you have a problem with the federal employee security guard that kept Maxine Watters and her fellow Democrat loons from entering the DOE? You really should educate yourself on government security and military contractors before you make statements as if they are facts.
How does $30+ million to Politico, NY Times, WAPO, Sesame Street productions in wherever country, DEI initiatives in Guatemala, UK, and worldwide, and countless other self serving million dollar payments all over the world 'take care of their people'? Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house. The left are, as they like to say, the deplorable ones. You bought in, hook, line and sinker. And that's what's happening to them, faster than they and anyone else thought could possibly happen, they're sinking. Good riddance.
A write up on new NIH announcement: "Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. While NSF and NIH indeed have a mission to fund specific research innovations via grantmaking, they do a lot more than that. Their principal role is support a scientific ecosystem in the United States, that includes everything from education and training to infrastructure and communication. To this end, they support the institutions where grantees work by paying facilities and administration (F&A) costs to research institutions such as universities. These costs above and beyond the direct amount of the grant are essential to fund university infrastructure and personnel. These F&A costs, colloquially known as "overhead", are typically north of 50%. At the UW, for example, the overhead rate is 55%. That means that if I get federal grant for $1,000,000 of direct research funding, the university receives an additional $550,000 to cover operating expenses and such. Other schools may have even higher overhead rates. Harvard's is around 69%. This new order slashes that percentage to a maximum of 15%. This means cutting one of the most important sources of university funding nationwide by 75% or more. Universities cannot function with this scale of cut. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds. This order did not come out of nowhere. It was a core component of Lindsey Burke's Dept. of Education chapter in the Project 2025 report. (Private foundations typically pay 10-15% overhead rates, and the logic of this comparison is made explicit in today's Supplemental Guidance from NIH.) It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities."
This will have far reaching impact. It won't just be core support staff (like animal handlers, genetics support, etc.) This will impact IT departments, support admins, and even kill local economies of universities by killing deals with local contractors for services and construction.
Bye bye Joe Briben. No more security clearance and daily security briefings for you. Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jo...es-bidens-security-clearances-intel-briefings
The country needs to be looked at through the business lens to fix what ails it and that’s exactly what Trump is doing. Really it’s more of a common sense lens, but every business needs to have that in its building to flourish.
No, I am not on X. If there are so many problems with the platform, why are there more users than ever there?
Government taking care of its people also means not grinding its citizens under the heels of debt!!!.
You can tell by being there. It's really slow and dead compared to what it used to be, and the bot replies are annoying. They stopped releasing numbers and went private the moment users started dropping. Try looking up the term "untegretted user minutes" That's some fake term Elon came up with that means nothing but he kept touting before I quit using the site. Now, your turn. Source?
