So we need 160,000 Engineers by 2032. We can't train that many American Engineers in 6-7 years? Elon isn't religious so don't forget he doesn't take into account the Religious landscape drastically changing either. You also empower the foreigners future generations by giving their children all the benefits of having high-wage parents that can put them through the best schools over Americans.
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@Cernovich
The low grade racism is bot activity and maybe even being boosted by H-1B mills.
Vivek gets standing ovations at events. Harmeet is propped up. Kash is king. And not in a token way. REAL LOVE.
I know MAGA and nobody real talks in the vulgar way seen these last 48-72 hours.
https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1873079005190209921
Jack Smith’s team may resign en masse
WASHINGTON—Justice Department lawyers who have angered President-elect Donald Trump and his allies are facing tough decisions about whether to stay in government—and how to best protect themselves from threats of retribution after Inauguration Day.
Dozens of prosecutors and agents have worked on cases that potentially make them vulnerable, such as special counsel investigations of Trump, prosecutions of hundreds of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and contempt-of-Congress cases that sent top Trump associatesSteve Bannon and Peter Navarro to prison this year.
Their concerns are part of a broader wave of uncertainty that has swept through the Justice Department since Trump’s re-election, as he and his appointees openly float plans to fire career employees and bring the department more closely under presidential control.
Some department lawyers on the fence about leaving have sought counsel from Attorney General Merrick Garland and other senior officials, who have encouraged them to stay on for continuity of government and for their expertise, people familiar with the discussions said.
Law firms say they have seen an unprecedented flood of résumés from department lawyers looking for the exits. While presidential transitions always upend the ranks of political appointees, “now, it’s seeping into a lot of career people,” said Steve Nelson, a legal recruiter who helps lawyers make the jump from government into the private sector.
“The number of people leaving, or looking at opportunities outside the Justice Department or elsewhere in the government, is way higher than it’s ever been before,” Nelson said.
Some Justice Department officials who might not have gone into private practice are now considering jobs at big firms as the best way to personally protect themselves.
One problem: There aren’t enough Big Law landing spots for all the attorneys eager for private practice. Some who sent out résumés have since decided to stay, unwilling or unable to give up their dream government jobs right away, department employees said.
Others have sought legal guidance from friends and private lawyers in preparation for the ways the next Trump administration and its supporters could make their lives difficult whether or not they leave the government, from potential harassment to investigations that could hurt them legally and financially for years.
At the center of the storm is special counsel Jack Smith and his team, some of whom are expected to leave, people close to them said, rather than return to department positions they held before being detailed to investigate and prosecute Trump for election interference and mishandling classified documents. Smith last month dropped both cases, citing longstanding Justice Department policy of not prosecuting a sitting president.
Smith still has to submit a report of the investigations to Garland, who has promised to make it public. That could further increase tensions with the incoming administration, but the report is likely to add little beyond the information that has already been made public, people familiar with it said.
A spokesman for Smith declined to comment. A Trump transition spokesman didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Trump’s surrogates and nominees have voiced a series of warnings.
“Career Justice Department lawyers must be fully committed to implementing President Trump’s policies or they should leave or be fired,” Mark Paoletta, who worked on Trump’s Justice Department transition team, said in a series of social-media posts after the election.
If confirmed, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi, would lead the department after emerging as one of its leading critics since Trump was indicted.
“The Department of Justice, the prosecutors, will be prosecuted, the bad ones,” Bondi said on Fox News last year. “The investigators will be investigated.…We can clean house next term, and that’s what has to happen.”
Kash Patel, the hard-line conservative provocateur Trump wants to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has made similar statements, pledging to hollow out the bureau’s ranks.
Exhaustive congressional inquiries could provide another avenue for Trump and his allies to exact a measure of payback. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have already told Smith’s team to retain all their records and communications.
Since Trump’s election, a loose network of sympathetic lawyers has formed in preparation for defending Smith’s team and other officials who may face scrutiny from the Trump administration. Attorneys started calling friends and colleagues in the weeks after Trump was re-elected to see who would be willing to volunteer, people familiar with the effort said.
Civil service rules offer career employees some protection against being outright fired, and some lawyers see the chances of them being dismissed—or even prosecuted—as remote.
“We can’t fall down before we get hit. We can’t be hysterical,” said William Taylor, a defense lawyer familiar with efforts to recruit attorneys for government officials. “They’re going to make life unpleasant for some people, but actual consequences to people are really unlikely.”
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Charles Dolan, HBO Founder and Pioneering Cable TV Mogul, Dies at 98
He also had holdings including AMC Networks, Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks.
Charles Dolan, the astute businessman who created HBO in the early 1970s before transforming a small cable TV business on Long Island into a multibillion-dollar entertainment, sports and telecom empire, has died. He was 98.
Dolan’s family told Newsday, the newspaper that they own, that he died of natural causes, surrounded by loved ones. “Remembered as both a trailblazer in the television industry and a devoted family man, his legacy will live on,” they said Saturday.
The Cleveland-born mogul got his start in the cable business in Manhattan, where his Sterling Manhattan Cable company was awarded rights by New York City in 1965 to wire the lower part of the borough for cable TV service. It was a way to bring reception to places like high rises, where antenna reception was difficult.
It was while building out Manhattan’s fledgling cable business that Dolan came up with the idea to offer exclusive programming through cable TV to try to drum up subscribers. His idea, which he detailed in a memo while vacationing in France in 1971, was to give subscribers access to exclusive movies and sporting events. He subsequently cut a deal with Madison Square Garden to air exclusive New York Knicks and New York Rangers games.
“You couldn’t buy the movies and the games unless you also bought the reception,” he recalled in an interview with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School in 2013. “We wanted to provide a complete television service.”
His initial idea, which he dubbed The Green Channel, was intriguing to executives at Time Inc., the majority investor in Dolan’s Manhattan cable operation.
The Green Channel was renamed HBO before launch, and Dolan and other executives like Gerald Levin sought out exclusive sporting events and films for it.
“There was a discussion, and the first idea was, ‘Well, let’s call it The Home Box [a slang term for the box that delivered broadcast signals to cable homes],’” Dolan recalled. “Then somebody said, ‘Well, if it’s Home Box and we’re selling movies, why don’t we make it the Home Box Office.’ That’s what it became, and it didn’t take long for that to convert to HBO. Everybody liked that name, and that was the beginning of it.”
Dolan’s Manhattan cable business, however, struggled. According to Felix Gillette and John Koblin’s 2022 book, It’s Not TV, HBO mustered a scant 10,000 subscribers in its first year, a number Levin called “very demoralizing.” Time ultimately bought out Dolan’s stake in HBO in 1974.
But it was after that sale that Dolan made his fortune, bringing cable services to New York suburbs via his Cablevision Systems Corp. Based on Long Island, Cablevision offered service in most of the city’s fast-growing suburbs to the east, north and west before expanding into such other markets as Boston, Cleveland and Chicago.
At Cablevision, Dolan and his family tried to replicate their success with HBO, launching a movie-focused channel in 1984 called American Movie Classics. AMC and its sibling channels operated under the Cablevision-owned Rainbow Media banner, which it subsequently spun off and now operates as AMC Networks Inc.
In 1994, Cablevision acquired a 50 percent stake in Madison Square Garden, which included the namesake arena as well as the NBA’s Knicks and NHL’s Rangers, from Viacom for a reported $1.1 billion, and it acquired the other 50 percent three years later for $650 million.
Dolan and Cablevision launched, bought and sold a variety of businesses over the years, including SportsChannel, the first regional sports network in the U.S., as well as the New York-based theater chain Clearview cinemas. Cablevision also acquired the electronics retailer The Wiz in 1998 and at Dolan’s urging purchased Long Island-based Newsday in 2008 in another $650 million deal.
In 2015, Charles and the Dolan family agreed to sell Cablevision to Patrick Drahi’s European telecom giant Altice for $17.7 billion. AMC Networks and Madison Square Garden continue to be owned by the Dolan family, with Charles’ son James Dolan running those businesses.
“The impact he made on the media, sports, and entertainment industries, including as the founder of Cablevision and HBO, is immeasurable,” said a statement on behalf of MSG Entertainment, MSG Sports, and Sphere. “His life was a testament to the importance of innovation, generosity, and hard work, and his legacy will live on in the industries he pioneered, the communities he served, and the memories of those who love him. Our thoughts are with the entire Dolan family and the countless people Mr. Dolan influenced throughout his remarkable life. We do not expect this to directly or indirectly change ownership by the Dolan family.”
Charles Francis Dolan was born in Cleveland on Oct. 16, 1926. His father, David, was an inventor; Gillette and Koblin noted that he came up with an early prototype of the automatic transmission for automobiles.
“When I learned how to drive,” Dolan said, “it was in a car that didn’t have a clutch. I’d pull into a gas station and the attendants would just be amazed.”
While attending Cleveland Heights High School, he got $2 to write a weekly column for the Cleveland Press about Boy Scout activities, and that led to him appearing on a radio program. He then served with the U.S. Air Force and studied at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, before dropping out to pursue an interest in telecommunications.
With his wife, Helen, whom he married in 1951, he launched a sports-reel business, sending prints of a “Game of the Week” to TV stations around the country in a syndication deal.
He moved to New York to produce for the syndication company Telenews, then joined Sterling Television, which he eventually bought with a partner. Sterling helped its clients reach their target audiences with films, usually by showing them at conventions held in New York.
One early deal he did with Sterling was buying cable rights to Knicks and Rangers playoff games in 1968 for $24,000.
“All the home games were blacked out,” he said. “The broadcast stations didn’t carry them because the Garden was worried about jeopardizing box office receipts. But our circulation was so modest in Manhattan that they were willing to make a deal.”
While his fortune was made by providing TV and internet services, his time launching HBO continued to stick with him. When asked by the University of Penn interviewers if if he had ever thought about its sale to Time, he replied, “Every day … I’ve never really felt that much apart from HBO.”
“Charles Dolan was a visionary creative, an extraordinary business leader and a great friend whose creation of HBO forever changed the quality and prestige of storytelling on television,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said in a statement. “His impact continues to be felt today at HBO, Warner Bros. Discovery and across our entire industry. He will be deeply missed. We send our condolences to the entire Dolan family.”
Dolan is survived by six children, including James Dolan (and his wife, AMC Networks CEO Kristin Dolan) and Patrick Dolan, who runs Newsday. His brother, Larry Dolan, is the principal owner of baseball’s Cleveland Guardians. His wife died in August 2023 at 96.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/charles-dolan-dead-media-pioneer-hbo-founder-1236095268/
Rolex, other watches stolen from Keanu Reeves’ Los Angeles home turn up in Chile
Keanu Reeves’ stolen Rolex has been found — in Chile.
The $9,000 Rolex Submariner, engraved with Reeves’ name, turned up in a police raid on four houses in Santiago. The timepiece is believed to have been stolen from Reeves’ Hollywood Hills home in December 2023. Two other watches belonging to Reeves, described by police as valuable, were also found in a sweep linked to a series of local robberies, according to CNN.
A 21-year-old man was arrested.
Reeves, perhaps most famous for his starring role in the “John Wick” movie series, had engraved the Rolex watch with his first name and the words “2021, JW4, thank you, The John Wick Five.”
The first “John Wick” begins with Reeves’ former hit man character seeking revenge after his house is broken into and robbed, and his dog killed.
According to CNN, Reeves reportedly gifted Rolex Submariners to the stuntmen he worked with on “John Wick: Chapter 4.”
Reeves’ house is no stranger to break-ins. Last December, police were called to the property on Thrasher Avenue after a reported burglary. The Los Angeles Police Department reported that burglars “entered the property through the backyard and broke a window to gain access.” Reeves was not home at the time.
Reeves’ home was the scene of back-to-back break-ins in 2014. In one case, Reeves confronted an intruder in his library, while cleaners found the other days later in his pool.
Early last year, Reeves filed for a temporary restraining order against a man who allegedly trespassed on the actor’s property at least six times between November 2022 and January 2023. In one case, the alleged stalker left behind a backpack containing a DNA testing kit, which he had intended to use on Reeves to show they were somehow related, according to the application for the order.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-29/stolen-watches-belonging-to-keanu-reeves-los-angeles-home-turn-up-in-chile
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Spy equipment found on Russian “shadow fleet” tanker detained in Finland after undersea cable damage
Spy equipment used for monitoring NATO naval and aircraft activities was reportedly discovered on the tanker Eagle S, according to a report by the British shipping journal Lloyd's List, citing a source with direct involvement with the vessel. The ship, suspected of having ties to Russia, was recently detained by Finnish authorities.
According to the source, the sophisticated equipment aboard the Eagle S was abnormal for a commercial vessel, as it consumed significant amounts of power from the ship’s generator, causing frequent power outages.
Similar equipment was reportedly found on another tanker, the Honduras-flagged Swiftsea Rider, which is owned by the same group as the Cook Islands-flagged Eagle S. The Swiftsea Rider is under UK sanctions.
According to Lloyd's List, both ships are part of Russia's “shadow fleet” — a network of tankers tied to Russia through opaque ownership structures and engaged in activities that violate Western sanctions.
The source claimed that surveillance and recording equipment were brought aboard the Eagle S in “huge portable suitcases,” along with “many laptops” that had Turkish and Russian keyboards, during port calls in Russia and Turkey. A non-crew member was also reportedly present on the ship during its voyage.
Finnish Coast Guard officials boarded the Eagle S as part of an investigation into potential sabotage related to the Dec. 25 damage to the Estlink 2 energy cable. The cable, which lies on the Baltic Sea floor, connects Finland and Estonia. Finnish police allege that the tanker slowed down and dragged its anchor around the cable, causing the damage. The following day, three additional undersea cables linking Finland and Estonia were also reported damaged.
An anonymous source shared over 60 confidential documents about the Eagle S with Lloyd’s List in June, including a vetting report detailing numerous safety violations identified during an inspection conducted while the tanker was anchored in Danish waters that same month.
https://theins.ru/en/news/277587
Joe Biden poses with Hunter's Chinese business associates in newly surfaced photos: 'Incredibly damning'
President Biden is seen in newly uncovered photos meeting with Hunter Biden’s Chinese business associates in China while he served as vice president, bringing further scrutiny to his claim he "never" discussed business with his son.
The photos, obtained by conservative-leaning America First Legal through litigation against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), appear to show then-Vice President Biden introducing his son to Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Li Yuanchao. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter’s business associates from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Li and Ming Xue.
"These images shed light on the connections between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and his Chinese business associates, and Chinese government officials including President Xi Jinping," America First Legal said in a press release this week. "Lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photographs, as they did with other records, until after Election Day."
Hunter Biden was asked earlier this year by the House Oversight Committee about his meetings while traveling to Asia with his father.
"When we returned from an event to the hotel, there was a rope line, and Jonathan Li was in the lobby of the hotel where I was going to meet him for coffee," Hunter Biden said at the time. "In that line, I introduced my dad to Jonathan Li and a friend of his, and they shook hands and I believe probably took a photograph. And then my father went up to his room, and I went to have coffee with Jonathan Li."
Hunter Biden added that he didn't tell his father "anything" about who Li was.
Joe Biden has repeatedly denied any role in his son's businesses.
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