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What the Media Isn't Telling Us About the Nvidia Scandal
When Nvidia’s board of directors forced out co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang on November 12, 2026, mainstream headlines immediately seized on the salacious details. Television panels and front-page stories framed the downfall of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated executive as a classic tale of personal hubris: a married tech titan undone by two extramarital affairs—one with Nvidia healthcare executive Kimberly Powell, and another with Alice Huang, a Singapore-based businesswoman whom U.S. intelligence officials suspect of working for Beijing.
By Elliott J. Schuchardtabout 6 hours ago in The Swamp
How an Overvalued Dollar Sank U.S. Naval Power
At the close of World War II, the United States possessed the most formidable maritime industrial base in human history. During the war, the United States launched thousands of vessels that secured global trade routes and projected power across every ocean. Today, that industrial might has virtually vanished. While East Asian shipbuilders—specifically China, South Korea, and Japan—have surged to dominate the seas, American shipbuilding has withered into a fraction of a percent of global output.
By Elliott J. Schuchardtabout 22 hours ago in The Swamp
The private militia that grant states plausible deniability
Your life is like a schedule, you run to meet the bills, no one's awake to tell you... life kills! Words I first heard as my life was reaching the final furlong on the first of the rank of treadmills we’re thrust upon to keep us from questioning the fruitlessness of our struggle to survive... until the curtain finally comes down somewhere on the retirement stage.
By Steve Harrison3 days ago in The Swamp
U.S. Army Engineer Equipment Readiness
By the end of 2027, the United States Army will only have 56 Active-Duty Combat Engineer Companies spread out across its force. Of those 56, 34 are designated as Combat Engineer Company – Armored (CEC-A), which makes up 60% of the Engineer Regiment’s combat capability.[1] What is common across all of these CEC-As and various National Guard Engineer Companies is that they possess Assault Breacher Vehicles (ABVs) and Joint Assault Bridges (JABs), which serve as the primary breaching assets for armored brigades. Each CEC-A is assigned three ABVs and four JABs; however, across the Army, they are plagued with maintenance issues that lead to readiness concerns. The current engineer breaching vehicles have systematically low operational readiness (OR) rates due to high op-tempo, poor supply chains, and extreme lack of expert knowledge; and fixing these issues cannot be solved at the individual unit level but rather from the top of the Engineer Regiment.
By Sam Shroyer5 days ago in The Swamp
THE CURRENT AND FUTURE STATE OF THE U.S. ARMY’S C-UAS CAPABILITIES
Anyone who follows world news and online media has seen videos over the last three to four years of mounted and dismounted soldiers being killed or wounded by various drones. In 2022, The Russia-Ukraine Conflict became the first place for widespread use of drone warfare. Then the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict showed the world that these technologies and tactics are not isolated to one war but are now the norm for modern combat. Most recently, the heightened tensions between the United States and Iran have proven that even the U.S. Military is vulnerable to simple and sophisticated drones.[1] This presents the question, does the United States Army currently have the capabilities to combat hostile drones and are our protection and defensive innovations reactive or proactive to what we are seeing across the globe in these current events?
By Sam Shroyer7 days ago in The Swamp
Europe Risks Sabotaging Prosperity With China Trade Curbs . AI-Generated.
As Brussels explores increasingly stringent trade measures against China, a critical question arises: are European policymakers safeguarding the continent's economic interests, or potentially placing its future prosperity in jeopardy?
By The Ireland Sino Institute25 days ago in The Swamp
When a Society Stops Replacing Itself: The Consequences of Declining Birthrates and the Path Toward Recovery. AI-Generated.
Introduction: The Consequences of a Changing Population In Part One, we examined the changes that reshaped American family formation across more than sixty years. From the expansion of contraception and changing marriage laws to rising living expenses, declining religious participation, increasing chronic illness, digital socialization, changing relationships between men and women, and the growing complexity of raising children, numerous developments have contributed to the conditions surrounding modern reproduction.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast26 days ago in The Swamp
The Declining Birthrate: How Six Decades of Change Reshaped Marriage, Family, and Reproduction. AI-Generated.
Introduction: Understanding How We Got Here For much of American history, marriage and raising children represented an expected progression into adulthood. Young men and women generally married earlier, began having children earlier, and formed families within communities where religious institutions, extended relatives, neighbors, and established social expectations reinforced family life. The Baby Boom, extending from approximately 1946 through 1964, represented the culmination of a period in which relatively early marriage and larger families were common features of American society.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast26 days ago in The Swamp
Crunching numbers to turn us all into police informants
In the first part of this investigation into the “Miami lice sucking away our civil liberties” I suggested the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) was probably fairly satisfied with its relationship with Palantir, the National Health Service (NHS) less so – although still committed to a seven-year deal signed in 2023 – while British police authorities seemed to have some serious misgivings about the tech giant, however I harbour sneaky suspicions it’s just rhetoric to placate a fragile public perception of the surveillance monster.
By Steve Harrison2 months ago in The Swamp
Inside the belly of the beast also known as Palantir
Just guessing, but I figure I’m one of very few people from my generation who has not read J R R Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” or watched Peter Jackson’s cinematic adaptations of the epic created by the “father of fantasy”.
By Steve Harrison2 months ago in The Swamp
