It is a waste of money, no different than the F-35.

It will be a gift to Russia and China.

August 1, 2018
By Michael Warren and Alex Rogers

The Pentagon (click here) said on Thursday that a highly sought-after cloud computing contract will not be awarded until Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has completed his examination of it.

The $10 billion, 10-year contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), has come under recent scrutiny from President Donald Trump, who has expressed concerns over the fairness of what has been a contentious bidding process among a handful of large tech companies.

Amazon has been widely seen as the front-runner to win the contract. Microsoft is the other finalist. The contract could be awarded as early as August 23....

I TOLD YOU SO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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iT IS BETTER TO RECYCLE THE JUNK THAN PUT OUR SOLDIERS IN IT!

AND YES, IT IS ALL A WASTE OF MONEY BY THE TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS!

11 October 2018

Most weapons systems, including the F-35 jet, were found to be vulnerable to cyber-attack

Some of the most cutting-edge weapons (click here) in the US's military arsenal can be "easily hacked" using "basic tools", a government report has concluded.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found "mission-critical" cyber-vulnerabilities in nearly all weapons systems tested between 2012 and 2017.

That includes the newest F-35 jet as well as missile systems.

In the report, Pentagon officials said they "believed their systems were secure", NPR reported.

The committee's members expressed concerns about how protected weapon systems were against cyber-attacks.

The report's main findings were:

- the Pentagon did not change the default passwords on multiple weapons systems - and one changed password was guessed in nine seconds

- a team appointed by the GAO was able to easily gain control of one weapons system and watch in real time as the operators responded to the hackers

- it took another two-person team only one hour to gain initial access to a weapons system and one day to gain full control

- many of the test teams were able to copy, change or delete system data with one team downloading 100 gigabytes of information

The GAO added that the Pentagon "does not know the full scale of its weapons system vulnerabilities".

The Pentagon has not issued a detailed response to the 50-page report but the document quoted officials as saying that some of the security test results "were unrealistic"....

"More important than life itself ?"

That is Trump. Tonight he is blaming four minority women for inner-city blight and decay. He didn't use those words. A reality moment is they are not that old. But, the bottom line now is that billions and billions and billions of dollars have been wasted because of the USA people of color.

The racism is not stopping and now it is being attached to a dollar amount at a time when slavery descendant reparations are being discussed.

Racism is on the ballot and Trump demands it.

The corruption of power entitlement is spreading.

August 1, 2019

Lauren McGaughy and James Barragan

Austin - One of the lawmakers (click here) who listened to a conversation that a conservative activist secretly recorded with top GOP leadership said the Texas House speaker suggested he would take floor access away from a credentialed media outlet.

Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, said he listened to the audio of the meeting between Speaker Dennis Bonnen, Texas House Republican Caucus Chairman Dustin Burrows and Michael Quinn Sullivan of Empower Texans, a political group that targets GOP lawmakers it deems not conservative enough. 

Bonnen said he could strip House media credentials from Scott Braddock, editor of the insider political website and newsletter the Quorum Report, and give media access to Empower Texans' writers at its website the Texas Scorecard, Stickland said.

Sullivan had previously alleged the credentials were offered if Empower Texans agreed to target only Republicans the speaker wanted ousted.

At least two other GOP lawmakers, Reps. Steve Toth of The Woodlands and Travis Clardy of Nacogdoches, also said that they've heard the audio and that it backs up Sullivan's account. Toth has received donations from Empower Texans, but Clardy, who ran against Bonnen for speaker, has not been a favorite of the group....

"Medicare for All"

It is bold and timely. The number of people in need of reduced costs medications is clearly illustrated with Bernie's trip to Canada. The national health care of Canada does not exploit people for profit. The profit of the current health care system is the problem. CEOs have reduced the American health care as far as they can and now they are simply exploiting the cost of everything in order to increase profits and make shareholders happy. Those CEO and Executive Bonuses are driving the cost of health care. That is not what is supposed to drive the cost of health care. 

Everything in the USA health care ECONOMY is costly. Wall Street believes playing roulette with prescriptions using "Good Rx" is the solution. It is to some extent, but, there is no continuity of care from a trusted pharmacist in that scheme. I know the "Good Rx" option is valued by many Americans, but, it sacrifices the quality of care in searching for medications with coupons in a local pharmacy that makes it affordable. 

No current plan by any candidate is going to maintain it's current definition after it makes it to the legislature. There is no option in thinking the status quo is good enough for now. It is not. And NOW should be as expensive as it gets and it needs to get better from here. Health care has a high priority in this upcoming election. It was a high priority in 2018. The legislation has been written and passed in the US House of Representatives. It is "Moscow" Mitch McConnell that is the problem in providing a Senate vote on those bills waiting for Senate passage. 

Remember that in 2020. There is a roadblock in the US Senate and if that doesn't change in 2020 there is no moving forward.

When this legislative session ends with the inauguration of the next set of US House Representatives and Senators the current legislation not signed into law will expire and the process starts over.

I wouldn't be afraid of any proposal any of the Democratic candidates are putting forward. They all hold the American people in high esteem and value the Middle Class and the quality of life that has to be returned to them. When the legislative sessions of January 2021 begin there will be plenty of ideas to come forward to make health care better, including those Senators that will not be newly elected. I am looking forward to a better President that actually cares about the people and not the power of the Executive Branch.

The country is in better hands with the Democratic candidates by pure understanding of the misguided obstruction of the majority USA Republican Senate.

Let's get over the apprehension and get some good laws passed in 2021.

Bernie? Did your trip to Canada bring about sincere change in the laws of the USA?

July 31, 2019
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

Washington - The Trump administration (click here) said Wednesday it will create a way for Americans to legally and safely import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada for the first time, reversing years of refusals by health authorities amid a public outcry over high prices for life-sustaining medications.

The move is a step toward fulfilling a 2016 campaign promise by President Donald Trump. It weakens an import ban that has stood as a symbol of the political clout of the pharmaceutical industry.

But it's unclear how soon consumers will see benefits, as the plan has to go through time-consuming regulatory approval and later could face court challenges from drugmakers. And there's no telling how Canada will react to becoming the drugstore for its much bigger neighbor, with potential consequences for policymakers and consumers there....

The "Three Strikes and Your In" Era has not been met with equity yet.

Senator Cory Booker, as usual, did an exceptional job in describing the inequity in the past laws of the USA in sentencing people of color. He stated there was a strong disparity in the way Caucasians were sentenced and that of people of color. From his statement last night I take it that it is not only a social issue but at the time of the sentence, it was an economic issue.

He needs to write a grant and attach it to a Senate bill, any Senate bill would be honored to carry it. The grant needs to ask PhD level scientists, both social and mathematical, to find a way to move forward with changing the outcomes of the adversely affected prisoners. In other words, it might be a math equation and it might not, but, my guess is it will be.

MIT would have such people when it comes to deriving a far easier and faster method of identifying adversely affected populations of prisoners. I am assuming it is not just those in prison under the "Three Strikes and In" laws, but, also others that would fall under that paradigm.

Economics can be quantified. Ages, sentence length and year of incarceration for the first offense (the first offense is when the clock started to run on their life sentence) can be averaged. If MIT can quantify the difference between the Caucasian population of prisoners and that of those of color there can be a quick way to actually quantify the injustice and how best to bring about a far fairer sentence and quite possibly prisoner release. 

I do believe once such determinations can be made the prisoners first be moved off the life sentence and given a chance to decompress and prepare for release. That period of preparedness would fall to the warden who knows the inmate and his/her prison record.

I wish Senator Booker the best. As I said when he first announced his candidacy, he is a really incredible person, a unique personality with unique insight and he never disappoints.