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Companies struggle to fill manufacturing jobs, let alone plan for what Trump has in mind
US manufacturing is struggling to fill existing jobs as tariffs aim to bring back more.
The manufacturing industry faces a skills gap, an aging workforce, and negative perceptions.
Trade experts say China has advantages in manufacturing from subsidies and low-cost labor.
The US manufacturing renaissance may need a lot more than tariffs.
President Donald Trump wants to bring back manufacturing, but even if his tariffs manage to stimulate growth in this sector, the industry faces a skills gap, an aging workforce, and negative perceptions — not to mention the potentially mounting cost of hiring domestic labor in comparison to countries like China.
Experts and researchers in trade told Business Insider that the manufacturing sector is struggling to fill the existing open positions.
“Manufacturers have faced a structural challenge for multiple years now,” said Carolyn Lee, president and executive director of the Manufacturing Institute. “The heart of that is most people don’t know what modern manufacturing is all about, that we still are challenged by a perception of what the industry used to be.”
“Our workforce, a lot of them are also retiring, and they are older,” Lee added. “Manufacturers have averaged about 500,000 open jobs every month for several years now.”
The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte found in an April 2024 report that the manufacturing sector could need as many as 3.8 million net new employees between 2024 and 2033, and that around half of these jobs could remain unfilled if the shortfall in workers with the right skills is not solved.
More than 65% of manufacturing companies consider recruiting and retaining workers as their top business challenge, according to the Manufacturing Institute.
Sameeksha Desai, Associate Professor at Indiana University and director of the Manufacturing Policy Initiative, told BI that job functions and the types of technologies that workers need to know are rapidly changing, and training is struggling to keep up.
“More innovation and more technology uptake are crucial for the industry, but this also means manufacturing companies need to fill needs related to cybersecurity, digital skills, data management, and so on,” said Desai. “These skills can also be workforce concerns.”
Trump made manufacturing a cornerstone of his policy, but experts are skeptical
Bringing back manufacturing jobs has been an integral part of Trump’s campaign promise, which he doubled down on by imposing some of the highest tariffs the country has seen in decades.
“Have you ever heard that we’re going to take other countries’ jobs?” he said to attendees during a campaign rally at the Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savannah, Georgia, in September. “We’re going to take their factories — and we had it really rocking four years ago — we’re going to bring thousands and thousands of businesses and trillions of dollars in wealth back to the good ole’ USA.”
“Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country,” Trump added while announcing sweeping tariffs on April 2. “And ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers.”
https://www.terminaleconomics.com/2025/06/01/companies-struggle-to-fill-manufacturing-jobs-let-alone-plan-for-what-trump-has-in-mind/
Will Russia's Retaliation To Ukraine's Strategic Drone Strikes Decisively End The Conflict?
Ukraine carried out strategic drone strikes on Sunday against several bases all across Russia that are known to house elements of its nuclear triad. This came a day before the second round of the newly resumed Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul and less than a week after Trump warned Putin that “bad things..REALLY BAD” might soon happen to Russia. It therefore can’t be ruled out that he knew about this and might have even discreetly signaled his approval in order to “force Russia into peace”.
Of course, it’s also possible that he was bluffing and the Biden-era CIA helped orchestrate this attack in advance without him ever finding out so that Ukraine could either sabotage peace talks if he won and pressured Zelensky into them or coerce maximum concessions from Russia, but his ominous words still look bad. Whatever the extent of Trump’s knowledge may or may not be, Putin might once again climb the escalation ladder by dropping more Oreshniks on Ukraine, which could risk a rupture in their ties.
Seeing as how Trump is being left in the dark about the conflict by his closest advisors (not counting Witkoff) as proven by him misportraying Russia’s retaliatory strikes against Ukraine over the past week as unprovoked, he might react the same way to Russia’s inevitable retaliation.
His ally Lindsay Graham already prepared legislation for imposing 500% tariffs on all Russian energy clients, which Trump might approve in response, and this could pair with ramping up armed aid to Ukraine in a major escalation.
Everything therefore depends on the form of Russia’s retaliation; the US’ response; and – if they’re not canceled as a result – the outcome of tomorrow’s talks in Istanbul. If the first two phases of this scenario sequence don’t spiral out of control, then it’ll all depend on whether Ukraine makes concessions to Russia after its retaliation; Russia makes concessions to Ukraine after the US’ response to Russia’s retaliation; or their talks are once again inconclusive.
The first is by far the best outcome for Russia.
The second would suggest that Ukraine’s strategic drone strikes on Russia’s nuclear triad and the US’ response to its retaliation pressured Putin to compromise on his stated goals.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/will-russias-retaliation-ukraines-strategic-drone-strikes-decisively-end-conflict
Taxpayers to pay Pauline Hanson’s PHON $3m for no seats
Taxpayers will pay Pauline Hanson’s One Nation $2.98M for her not to win a single seat in the House of Representatives election. Rex Patrick reports on some fun and not so fun vote payment facts from the 2025 election.
Any party or independent that gets more that 4% of the primary votes in any of the 150 electorates in the House of Representatives (House) will receive $3.39 per vote from taxpayers to offset the cost of their election campaign.
Likewise, any party or independent that gets more than 4% in any of the six State or two territory Senate elections also gets $3.39 per vote.
Looking at the mostly settled results of the election draws out some interesting facts.
Harvesting taxpayers’ money in the House
To have any chance of winning a House seat you need to get about 35,000 votes, which is about 25% of the total votes in an electorate, and some good preference flows. There’s a huge difference between the 4% which triggers payment from the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) and getting a seat-winning percentage.
Pauline Hanson will have been watching the polling in the lead up to the election. She would have known that she was getting numbers in and around 10% in those polls – enough to get a Senate seat (which takes 14%), but nowhere near enough to get a seat in the House.
But she ran 147 candidates for the House, and for her efforts she’ll scoop up $2.98M.
No chance of winning in any of those seats, but every chance of raising a quid to fund her campaign in the legally separate Senate elections.
One is left wondering if she told her House candidates they weren’t really electioneering, rather they were harvesting cash.
Green with envy
One Nation was not alone.
The Greens also ran in every House seat, even though they had real prospects in only a few. In the end, they got just one seat and will collect $6.43M in House funds to help pay for their successful Senate campaign.
Clive Palmer’s Trumpets of Patriots didn’t get more that 4% in many House seats and will collect only $263K off the taxpayer (and he will collect nothing from his national Senate run). The taxpayer hit is small.
Sarcastic readers may be glad the duopoly parties completely upended out electoral donor laws to stop Clive’s ‘success’ in future elections … to spare us those annoying yellow ads … oh, and to entrench Labor and the LNP in the Parliament for eternity.
And we just can’t let you read on until you’re been made aware of the $621K that will be paid to the Legalise Cannabis Party. No seats for them, but It’ll buy a lot of ganga.
The big party take
Of course, the biggest payouts are to the old parties who set the rules on how much they are paid. Between the House and Senate, the Labor Party will take home $36.9M while the Liberal-National Party Coalition (LNP) will take home $32.5M.
The total Greens take across both houses will be $12.2M and, for One Nation, $6M.
The average taxpayer cost for a Labor member to get into the House was $196K, which seems a bit of a bargain when compared to the LNP at $387K.
For the Greens it’s a whopping $6.43M per seat ($6.43M ÷ 1 seat) and for One Nation – well, that involves a divide-by-zero error.
Moving to the Senate, the taxpayer cost per elected senator for Labor and the LNP was around $1.2M, a bargain $980K for the Greens and a million a-piece for each of the three One Nation Senators (although that doesn’t take into account the House harvested cash for the two minor parties).
David Pocock came as a great value-for-money Senator, only costing $389,102 in AEC funds. Jacqui Lambie takes the prize in the competition, getting a seat in the Senate for the grand sum of $91,608 in taxpayers’ money.
https://michaelwest.com.au/taxpayers-to-pay-pauline-hansons-phon-3m-for-no-seats/
If you don't arrest the deep state this is how they plan
John Bolton Laments USAID Demise, Pledges Its Revival Post-Trump
“I speak as an alumnus of AID in the Reagan administration back when we were trying to reform it… This idea of using economic assistance to influence events in other countries is an old, old phenomenon…
After eight years of Obama and then four more years of Biden, there were plenty of things to reform in USAID…
I’m entirely on board with the idea that change was needed. But what they did was like the briefing officer in Vietnam who said ‘we had to destroy that village in order to save it.’ You know, it’s not the most persuasive thing to do…
We’re going to build these capabilities back, I’ll guarantee, in some future administration. The total cost of destroying them and then building them back may well be higher than if we just tried to reform them internally… But that’s part of the cost of the Trump administration.”
https://youtu.be/MzrXo056iKs
Palantir's Deepening Government Ties Spark Fears Of Centralized Surveillance
On Friday the NY Times published a report highlighting the Trump administration's increasing use of software from data analysis firm Palantir, which has been deployed across at least four federal agencies for the stated purpose of increasing operational efficiency through data modernization.
For now, each deployment of Palantir software is focused on department-specific services, but the fact that they're now embedded across multiple agencies - combined with Trump's March executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies - has raised concerns over whether the US government is laying the groundwork for what could become an interconnected and unified surveillance apparatus created by a company which has been in business with the government since 2008.
On Wednesday we noted that Fannie Mae, the quasi-government financial firm overseen by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), announced a partnership with Palantir to detect mortgage fraud using the firm's proprietary technology, which includes some elements of artificial intelligence.
According to the report, since Donald Trump took office Palantir has received over $113 million in government spending - which doesn't include a $795 million contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) awarded last week. According to the Times report (citing six alleged government officials and Palantir employees), the company is also in discussions with the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service (the latter of which contracted with Palantir during the Biden administration).
Former Employees Revolt
Palantir was founded in 2003 by Alex Karp and Trump ally Peter Thiel, and specializes in finding patterns in data and streamlining it into easily presentable formats. While Thiel is clearly a conservative, Karp - a self-described "socialist" who voted for Hillary Clinton, bragged about stopping the "far right" in Europe.
And so it's of little surprise that employees would flip out and leave over Palantir's recent $30 million contract with ICE to build a platform to track migrant movements in real time. (Palantir notably designed software for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to identify and track Hamas targets).
This month, 13 former employees signed a letter urging Palantir to stop its endeavors with Mr. Trump. Linda Xia, a signee who was a Palantir engineer until last year, said the problem was not with the company’s technology but with how the Trump administration intended to use it.
“Data that is collected for one reason should not be repurposed for other uses,” Ms. Xia said. “Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse.”
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Ms. Xia said Palantir employees were increasingly worried about reputational damage to the company because of its work with the Trump administration. There is growing debate within the company about its federal contracts, she said.
“Current employees are discussing the implications of their work and raising questions internally,” she said, adding that some employees have left after disagreements over the company’s work with the Trump administration.
Last week, a Palantir strategist, Brianna Katherine Martin, posted on LinkedIn that she was departing the company because of its expanded work with ICE. -NY Times
According to Xia's letter, "We no longer believe Palantir’s executives are upholding these values. By supporting Trump’s administration,Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, and dangerous expansions of executive power, they have abandoned their responsibility and are in violation of Palantir’s Code of Conduct."
"As Musk’s DOGE operation dismantles U.S. government institutions under the guise of exposing corruption, opposition remains silent. Companies are placating Trump’s administration, suppressing dissent, and aligning with his xenophobic, sexist, and oligarchic agenda.Government databases are already erasing references to transgender people and gender-affirming care.These injustices could be facilitated by the very software infrastructure we help build."
Palantir Responds
In response to the Times, Palantir pointed to a blog post on how the company handles data, which reads: "We act as a data processor, not a data controller."
"Our software and services are used under direction from the organisations that license our products: these organisations define what can and cannot be done with their data; they control the Palantir accounts in which analysis is conducted."
What say you?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/palantirs-deepening-government-ties-spark-fears-centralized-surveillance
Tucker Carlson Greenwald Expose 911!!!! Actually It Was Carl Cameron November 2001
https://youtu.be/c688Phxl80c
Navy Orders Forcewide Housing Inspections After Secretary 'Appalled' by Guam Barracks Conditions
Navy Secretary John Phelan visited Guam earlier this month and was "appalled" after seeing the conditions of an Air Force barracks where junior service members were living, prompting an ongoing Navy-wide inspection of more than 100,000 barracks units, according to a government watchdog and service officials.
Conditions included exposed wires, corroded plumbing and dilapidated walls splattered with paint to cover mold; after Phelan's visit, more than 70 Marines and sailors were moved out of the Palau Hall barracks, a housing facility at Andersen Air Force Base. Another 77 airmen there are "in the process of being relocated" in anticipation of a $53 million renovation scheduled to start later this year, an Air Force spokesperson told Military.com on Friday.
The Project on Government Oversight, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, obtained images of the squalid housing and correspondence sent by the Navy's head of installations, who ordered all regional commands to inspect their barracks by the end of May.
The Navy official, Vice Adm. Scott Gray, noted that the Palau Hall barracks were "way outside of any reasonable standard" and that the conditions were "a failure of leadership across multiple echelons of command," according to the documents.
Not all of the inspections have been completed, the Navy told Military.com Friday, but are expected to be finished by the end of June.
Following his visit May 1-2, Phelan ordered Marines and sailors be moved out of the Air Force-owned barracks within 10 days and that new housing aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz be opened about a month ahead of schedule in response to the squalid conditions, according to POGO and confirmed by the Navy.
"I actually thought the buildings were condemned," Phelan told POGO in an interview. "When we pulled up to them and saw what shape they're in, I was shocked."
Days later, on May 5, Gray sent the email, with photos of the barracks conditions attached, directing the worldwide inspection and adding that "if you would not want a sailor's mother/family visiting them at the housing unit, then you have a problem that needs to be addressed. Fix It!"
The inspections are meant to "ensure our sailors are residing in unaccompanied housing that meet living standards regardless [of] if they are Navy-owned or not," Leslie Gould, the Fleet and Family Readiness director for the service's installation command, told Military.com in an emailed statement Friday.
Palau Hall is Air Force-owned, but it is not uncommon for troops from different branches to stay in cross-service housing. The Navy's inspection includes barracks where sailors are living, but that are operated by other branches.
There are more than 104,000 unaccompanied housing units across the Navy, Gould said. They are given a "red, yellow or green" designator following a multi-leader inspection of the barracks' exterior, common areas such as kitchens and laundry rooms, and quarters, according to Gray's email.
Within the "yellow" category, Gray urged leaders to apply the "Washington Post test," meaning that "if the pictures you have taken or the results of your assessment conducted of a particular facility were published online tomorrow, would you be able to personally justify sailors living there?"
Gould said that housing facilities deemed to be "red" will result in a sailor being immediately removed from the barracks. Those identified as "yellow" will be prioritized for restoration.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/30/navy-orders-forcewide-housing-inspections-after-secretary-appalled-guam-barracks-conditions.html
Putin is Preparing for More War, US Senators Warn, Urging Swift Sanctions and Global Action
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal spoke to The Associated Press in Paris after meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and touring neighborhoods shattered by what they called the worst Russian bombardments since the full-scale invasion began.
In Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron — who they say is “100% aligned” with them on the war — the senators warned the window to prevent a renewed assault is closing. A sweeping U.S. sanctions bill could be the West’s last chance to choke off the Kremlin’s war economy, they said.
"What I learned on this trip was he’s preparing for more war,” Graham said of Putin. Blumenthal called the sanctions proposed in legislation “bone-crushing” and said it would place Russia’s economy “on a trade island.”
“It is crunch time for Putin and for the world because Russia is mounting a new offensive,” he said.
At the heart of their push is a bipartisan sanctions bill, backed by nearly the entire U.S. Senate but still facing uncertain odds in Washington. It would impose 500% tariffs on countries that continue buying Russian oil, gas, uranium and other exports — targeting nations like China and India that account for roughly 70% of Russia’s energy trade and bankroll much of its war effort.
Graham called it “the most draconian bill I’ve ever seen in my life in the Senate."
“The world has a lot of cards to play against Putin,” he said. “We’re going to hit China and India for propping up his war machine.”
Peace talks or stalling tactic?
Peace talks are scheduled to resume Monday in Istanbul. But Ukrainian officials say Moscow has yet to submit a serious proposal — a delay both senators described as deliberate and dangerous.
“Putin is playing President Trump," Blumenthal said. “He’s taking him for a sucker.” The senator said Putin "is, in effect, stalling and stonewalling, prolonging the conversation so that he can mount this offensive and take control of more territory on the ground.”
Graham added: “We saw credible evidence of a summer or early fall invasion, a new offensive by Putin. … He’s preparing for more war.”
Trump has yet to endorse the sanctions bill, telling reporters Friday: “I don’t know. I’ll have to see it.” Graham said the legislation was drafted in consultation with Trump’s advisers.
Graham backed the president’s diplomatic instincts but said, "By trying to engage Putin — by being friendly and enticing — it’s become painfully clear he’s not interested in ending this war.”
Blumenthal hoped the bipartisan support for Ukraine at least in the Senate — and the personal testimonies they plan to bring home to Congress and the Oval Office— may help shift the conversation.
“He needs to see and hear that message as well from us, from the American people,” he said of Putin.
A moral reckoning
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/01/putin-preparing-more-war-us-senators-warn-urging-swift-sanctions-and-global-action.html
Victims Say L.A. Fires Fundraiser Proceeds Are NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
CHAPTERS:
0:00 FireAid fundraiser
2:15 Shadowy non-profit
3:15 James Li's investigation
4:15 Elite overproduction
6:40 Sketchy donations
8:30 Annenberg's revenue
9:40 Where grant money has gone
https://youtu.be/nDfy2jXm9Yg
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The Hidden Hand: Unraveling the Rothschilds & Israel
The Rothschild family, a name synonymous with wealth and power, has long been at the center of global financial narratives and conspiracy theories, true and not. Emerging from 18th-century Frankfurt, their banking empire shaped European and American economies, but a longer historical view reveals a millennia-hidden story, supported by modern DNA, that the Rothschilds are not Jewish but Babylonian Rādhānites (Turkic, Persian, Khazarian, Sogdian, Chinese).
The Rādhānites are an ancient merchant-banker group that controlled the banking and commerce of the Silk Road trade of the Babylonian Empire among China, Europe, and North Africa, extending all the way to Iceland.
Arab historian, postmaster, and secret policeman in Baghdad (formerly Babylon), Ibn Khordadbeh, wrote about them in his Book of Roads and Kingdoms ca. 870 AD. This article explores these claims, examining their role in creating British Zionism, fueling the antisemitism trope, and controlling modern Israel.
The people-group Babylonian Rādhānites originated in Kish around 5300-4300 BC, initiating practices of usury, human slavery, and sacrifice of the innocents. They ran the banking, tax collection, government, commerce, public works, and law of Babylon/Baghdad.
They were identified as Rādhānites ca. 800 AD from their geographic location being a wealthy southeastern suburb of Baghdad named Rādhān between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. There they ran the Silk Road settlement banks—as they had done for millennia. Earlier they were identified in history from the extensive banking archives of the Egibi and Murašû families ca. 600 BC. who some historians even call “the Rothschilds of Babylon.” They have identified as “Jews” for four millennia, but were in fact an admixture of Silk Road people groups (i.e., Turkic, Khazarian, Persian, Sogdian, Chinese, even Indian).
These non-Jewish merchant-bankers were so deceptive that St. John the Revelator actually called them out in Revelation 2:9 (to the Church in Smyrna): “I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.” St. John also called them out in Revelation 3:9 (to the Church in Philadelphia): “I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them’ come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.” Notably, the cities he references are Smyrna and Philadelphia two cities along the Silk Road to the seaport at Smyrna where goods were offloaded and taken to Italy, Spain, North Africa, France, Britain, and the rest of Northern Europe, even to Iceland.
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https://aim4truth.org/2025/05/28/the-hidden-hand-unraveling-the-rothschilds-israel/