Palantir CEO says it's “very likely” the US will fight 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇮🇷 in a 3-front war; supports connoscription

«[Palantir CEO Alex Karp] thinks the United States is “very likely” to end up in a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran», writes the New York Times (August 17).

«So, he argues, we have to keep going full-tilt on autonomous weapons systems».

«“I think we’re in an age when nuclear deterrent is actually less effective because the West is very unlikely to use anything like a nuclear bomb, whereas our adversaries might,” he said. “Where you have technological parity but moral disparity, the actual disparity is much greater than people think. […] [Given that] we don’t have parity morally, they have a huge advantage.”»

«Mr. Karp said that we are “very close” to terminator robots and at the threshold of “somewhat autonomous drones and devices like this being the most important instruments of war. You already see this in Ukraine.”»

«Mr. Karp believes the Democrats need to project more [military] strength.»

«He said he would support class-based affirmative action and declared himself “pro draft”.»

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Palantir was founded in 2003 by five persons, including Karp and Peter Thiel, to resurrect the DARPA project TIA “Total/Terrorism Information Awareness”, which was suspended in late 2003. Its only client until 2008 was the CIA. Its first funder was the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel.

Alex Karp's Jewishness is manifestly central to his activism: 1) His support for Israel is «adamantine»; «The company took out a full-page ad in The New York Times last year stating that “Palantir stands with Israel”», NYT writes. 2) Karp supports the “populist-left”; he fears fascism; when he lived in Germany, «he often thought about the young men from Iowa and Kansas who risked their lives “to free people like me” during World War II.» 3) His donations are «in multiples of 18 because it’s “in the tradition of Kabbalah”». 4) He «enjoys being a provocateur onstage and in interviews» because “I’m a Jewish, racially ambiguous dyslexic, so I can say anything”, he said.

«Palantir’s tech» is thought to have helped Israel shoot down «scores of Iranian missiles and drones in mere minutes» in April.

Palantir is thought to be behind IDF's killing algorithm, Lavender AI.

🇺🇸🚓 Racial differences in homicide rates are poorly explained by economics

🔸There are, of course, many progressives today that will claim that black-on-black crime is a “myth” or that these differences are fairly modest and can be explained mostly by stuff like poverty.

🔸Race is a strong predictor of homicide rates at a county level. It predicts better than the poverty rate, median household income, racial segregation, income segregation, education rates, and so on and so forth. The single-motherhood rate is a close second though.

🔸Even in modestly racially segregated counties percent black remains a very strong predictor of homicide rates.

🔗 Random Critical Analysis

🇺🇸💼 Goldman: revision to nonfarm payrolls will be as large as 600k-1mn

🔗 Energy News Headline

🇺🇸📉 What is happening here?

US job numbers have been revised lower by 778,000 jobs since February 2022, according to BlackRock.

This year alone, non-farm payrolls were revised down by 279,000 from January to June.

Furthermore, the US economy LOST 192,000 jobs in Q3 2023 and added 344,000 jobs in Q4 2023, according to the BED survey released by BLS.

On the other hand, nonfarm payrolls data showed that the US labor market added 663,000 and 577,000 new jobs in Q3 and Q4 2023.

This is a jaw dropping 1,088,000 difference in job count over just two quarters.

The labor market is weaker than the headlines make it seem.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

🇺🇸📉 Fed confronts up to a million US jobs vanishing in revision

🔸U.S. job growth in the year through March was likely far less robust than initially estimated, which risks fueling concerns that the Federal Reserve is falling further behind the curve to lower interest rates.

🔸Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. economists expect the government’s preliminary benchmark revisions on Wednesday to show payrolls growth in the year through March was at least 600,000 weaker than currently estimated - about 50,000 a month. While JPMorgan Chase & Co. forecasters see a decline of about 360,000, Goldman Sachs indicates it could be as large as a million.

🔸There are a number of caveats in the preliminary figure, but a downward revision to employment of more than 501,000 would be the largest in 15 years and suggest the labor market has been cooling for longer - and perhaps more so - than originally thought. The final numbers are due early next year.

🔸As it stands now, the BLS data show the economy added 2.9 million jobs in the 12 months through March 2024, or an average of 242,000 per month. Even if the total revision is as high as a million, monthly job gains would average around 158,000 - still a healthy pace of hiring but a moderation from the post-pandemic peak.

🔗 Detroit News

📝 Anon: A buddy of mine was tinkering with the math, his guess is that unemployment is probably around 5.37% based off these figures.

"The Logistics of the Great Repatriation"

Exceedingly difficult? Quite the opposite!

Americans have the benefit of living in the wealthiest and most well resourced nation in human history.

A pro-White administration would have all the manpower and funding needed in order to enact repatriation based policies which would turn around the demographic decline of Whites.

A combination of deportations of non-citizens and voluntary enticements to compel other non-Whites to emigrate abroad would save the American taxpayer hundreds of billions each year and trillions over the course of a single generation.

Foreign states are willing to take in Western born non-Whites and many already wish to relocate. It's simply a matter of making it logistically and fiscally possible.

Read our breakdown of just how feasible a repatriation based politics are, and how quickly the United States could be put back on a healthy demographic and fiscal course:

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "It looks as if we are giving up the Donetsk region. Ukrainian Armed Forces are being withdrawn from the Donetsk region, the Russians are passing through empty fortifications." – Mariana Bezuhla, Peoples Deputy of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The occupation of Pokrovsk is a matter of the near future, and Toretsk is living out its last days. Beyond Pokrovsk is the direct route to Pavlograd, where there are no fortifications at all, and then there is the Dnieper." – Mariana Bezuhla, Peoples Deputy of Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "One Ukrainian artillery brigade commander in eastern Ukraine told the Financial Times that part of the reason for the Russian advance was Kyiv moving its scarce resources north.

His troops were back to rationing shells for their canons — the first time since US aid to Ukraine was held up by Congress — because ammunition had been reallocated for the incursion into Russia’s Kursk region."

🔗 Rob Lee

There are reports that the 47th mechanised brigade has finally been withdrawn from the Pokrovsk direction after heavy losses. It is unknown whether this includes their "Strike drone company".

The 128th mountain assault division has apparently taken it's place.

🌐💵 For all of the talk about globalisation, it's remarkable how concentrated global GDP remains.

50% of global GDP is concentrated in those coloured areas

🔗 François Valentin

📝 Luke Gromen: Without the ~60% of the world's oil located in Eurasia (a small part of the gray-colored area), the red, blue, & yellow portions of 50% of global GDP would collapse, as would their populations.

🇨🇳⚛️ China just approved 11 new reactors at five sites. The total cost is estimated to be $31 billion.

China's deployment of nuclear is accelerating. They're also showing that nuclear is not inherently expensive, and can be economically competitive. They're building 11 reactors at a cost similar to what the two Vogtle reactors cost!

🔗 James Hopf