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Interesting perspectives…
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The End of the Web as We’ve Known It
June 14, 2025 — by Per Christensson
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
https://pc.net/news/2025-06-14/the_end_of_the_web
Per Christensson explains how search monopolies have scraped and stolen website content without atrribution and crippled traffic to independently developed blogs, homepages and reference sites.
A.I. is the end.
“It was fun while it lasted, but the web we’ve known for the past 25 years is coming to an end”.
How Is the British Empire Still Causing Wars?
The Big, Beautiful Bill – First Term Redux
During his first term, President Donald Trump significantly increased military spending…
Key Points:
- Increased Spending: Trump’s administration oversaw a substantial rise in the defense budget, with the Center for American Progress noting that by 2019 the defense budget had grown by $133 billion, or 23 percent, since he took office.
- Fiscal Year 2020: He approved a $738 billion defense bill for fiscal year 2020, according to CNBC, representing a $21 billion increase over the previous year.
- Priorities: This funding was allocated to various areas, including:
- Modernizing and recapitalizing nuclear forces and missile defenses.
- Upgrading cyber defenses.
- Increasing troop pay.
- Creating the Space Force, the first new branch of the military since 1947 😮
Now we have the “Golden Dome” re-hash of Reagan’s “Star Wars” missile shield defense system boondoggle, 😐
Jimmy Dore’s take…
Huge Planetary Climate Changes – Massive Polar Vortex Shift
“In early March 2025, a sudden stratospheric warming event caused a major disruption to the polar vortex, causing it to shift away from the North Pole towards Europe. This shift resulted in a reversal of the winds that make up the vortex, and the winds made several unsuccessful attempts to resume their westerly direction. The disruption is expected to continue for at least two weeks, with smaller lobes of the vortex potentially splitting off”.