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The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the main contractors chosen for the first phase of its ambitious Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program.
This program is designed to develop a means of distributing energy wirelessly around the globe through airborne power transfer. First dreamed up by Nikola Tesla almost 100 years ago, if successful, this would be the most significant change to energy transfer since the first rollout of electrification almost 150 years ago.
According to DARPA, the first phase of the POWER program will be conducted by three teams led by RTX Corporation, Draper Laboratory, and BEAM Company. These teams will compete to design and develop the optical power relays needed for it to work. The program goals include demonstrating the key components of a resilient, speed-of-light energy network.
This project has the potential to advance power beaming by orders of magnitude, which could radically reshape society’s relationship with energy,” said Dr. Paul Jaffe, who leads the POWER program at DARPA. “A wireless energy web could unlock power from new and diverse sources, including from space, and rapidly and reliably connect them to energy-starved consumers," he added. In order to accelerate progress, POWER's phase one will showcase the optical energy relays through pods attached to existing aircraft airframes in preparation for further testing in phase 2.
AS banks undergo a digital transformation, three JPMorgan Chase bank branches in one state have prepared to close their doors.
These closures come as the banking industry grapples with a pivotal moment, raising questions about the future of brick-and-mortar banking in an era dominated by online transactions and mobile apps.
JPMorgan - the arm of the bank conglomerate tasked with asset and wealth management, investment banking, and corporate banking - is set to shutter its own locations.
JPMorgan is not alone - four other major banks are set to shutter a location in Washington in the next few months.
Bank of America, Wells Fargo, US Bank, and Umpqua Bank all filed paperwork to shutter locations in the state.
The brick-and-mortar closures come as banks and depositors turn to more digital formats.
Banks are undergoing an evolving landscape of financial services.
The US has seen more than 1,100 bank branches close this year, according to Crowdfund Insider.
The closures come as bank executives try to find a balance between in-person operations and digital, app-based transactions.
PNC Bank executives announced plans to automate 60 percent of its branches by 2026.
Bank of America also said many branches would close - but the bank found in private studies that a smattering of storefronts can help the brand's image.
Gotcha
The Plaintiffs wanted a temporary injunction to STOP this activity as their case moved to trial. Judge Terry Doughty granted them expedited limited discovery and deposition to get the information they needed to prove a temporary injunction was warranted
am probably 70/30 on how this panned out, but the details are important. The government asked that if the court should rule against them, they put a stay (pause) on the order for 10 days so that they could appeal it to the SCOTUS. The 5th did that, so the ruling they just laid down is PAUSED for 10 more days while the government attempts to write to the SCOTUS convincing them that they SHOULD be able to force social media companies to censor you. Chew on that for a minute.
Only a week ago, Zhongzhi Enterprise Group Co. attracted little notice within China and was almost unheard of everywhere else.
Now, the secretive shadow banking giant has become the latest symbol of financial fragility in an $18 trillion economy where confidence among investors, businesses and consumers is rapidly dwindling.
Pressure is building across China’s financial markets given a slew of disappointing economic data, renewed concerns about the property sector and the unfolding crisis in the shadow banking system. Investors are calling for more aggressive easing by Beijing as the incremental policies have so far failed to revive confidence.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the United States is closely monitoring China's economic challenges. Concerns have arisen due to China's economic slowdown, alongside recession threats in Europe and high inflation affecting global demand for Chinese products.
China faces a variety of both short and longer term global challenges, economic challenges that we've been monitoring carefully," Yellen told reporters in New Delhi, ahead of a two-day G20 summit.
The US House of Representatives China committee plans to hold a Taiwan war game with financial and business executives in New York on Monday, in an effort to raise awareness about the risks attached to Americans investing in China.
Mike Gallagher, the Republican head of the panel, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, its top Democrat, will lead the delegation, according to a person close to the committee.
The war-game participants include representatives from investment banks, in addition to current and former executives from pharmaceutical companies and retired four-star US military officers. The committee declined to name the financial executives who will participate.
The war game would consider the economic implications of a conflict between the US and China over Taiwan. In April, the lawmakers took part in a Taiwan war game on Capitol Hill that raised questions about whether the US and its allies were doing enough to prepare for sanctions on China and an economic war with Beijing in the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan.
Following meetings with Apple chief executive Tim Cook and Disney boss Bob Iger earlier this year, Gallagher told the FT that Hollywood and Silicon Valley executives were underestimating the odds that China would attack Taiwan
In August the panel accused BlackRock and MSCI of “unwittingly funding” groups that develop weapons for China’s People’s Liberation Army, compromising US national security.
Roger Robinson, former chair of the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said the China committee should build on its “visionary investigation” of BlackRock and MSCI.
Forget TikTok—China is leapfrogging America in the arms race to command the Metaverse, an evolving frontier where our personal data is the treasure, and national security hangs in the balance. Remember when we thought our defenses were foolproof? This new arena raises questions that not only expose our military vulnerabilities but also demand urgent scrutiny from a public blissfully ignorant of the stakes.
The Metaverse is increasingly a militarized space, far from the public eye and the scrutiny of an under-informed media. It’s becoming the ultimate sandbox for asymmetric warfare, integrating 3D imaging, augmented reality (AR), and AI to create an advanced toolkit for military planning. Forget needing an entire floor at the Pentagon for operations; the Metaverse offers the same functionality on a simple laptop.
She’s been selling her stocks, drinking all day….lots of ice cream and smear campaigns..so she can sit out there getting richer everyday, while ignoring her district while you do what she’s says and it’s a damn shame….what Trumps gonna do…to people like her and people like youP Nanny's Debut.
She’s 83. She’s been in political office since 1981. She’s helped to destroy San Francisco and the country. These corrupt geriatrics cling to power at all costs. Enough.
It is obvious that Peru is key.
The Peruvian Air Force (FAP) has recently announced a groundbreaking agreement signed in April with the National Commission for Aerospace Research and Development (Conida) and the United States Space Command. This landmark collaboration has opened the gateway to ambitious projects, including the construction of a spaceport and launch sites for space vehicles in Peru.
‘gateways to space,’
the Paita desert in Piura holds significant promise as a potential ‘space door.’
surge in global space gateways
proximity to one of the nation’s most vital ports.
We have written before of strange disappearances connected to bizarre white mists. There are many theories as to those particular encounters, one of which that they were evidence of the existence of portals. However there are many other incidents that lean towards portals being all around us, and many theories as to whether they are the result of natural phenomena, or manipulation of time and space by beings from other dimensions
Exploring my complex relationship with higher dimensional beings and my quest for personal growth and spiritual understanding
Specifically, the energies of Sirius and this gateway are focused on soul embodiment, abundance, harvest, and fertility.
In cases of madness, there is often a dark, sordid secret behind the weird behavior that presents outwardly. In the group madness provoked by Hillary Clinton’s loss, the dirty secret was that she had actually bought the Democratic National Committee in 2016, meaning the machinery that runs the party. She used lavish contributions to the Clinton Foundation to accomplish that. And Hillary along with her foundation — and husband Bill, who had been reduced by late career misadventure to a kind of political fashion accessory — had committed any number of grave crimes against our country over the years, especially during her service as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State. Think: Skolkovo… Uranium One…. In 2016 Hillary used her ownership of the DNC to underhandly de-rail the likely Democratic primary winner, Bernie Sanders, from being nominated.
It’s Official.
All Assets Deployed.
The Q Team is Going Home.
This Has Been A Battle Between Good and Evil
Where The Good Has Triumphed Through Release of The RV.
Sometimes You Just Have To Be Done.
Not Mad.
Not Upset.
Just Done.
In the early 2000s, there was a string of execution style murders in a large Midwestern city. The cases were never “solved.”
“Rest in peace Mr. President (JFK), through your wisdom and strength, since your tragic death, Patriots have planned, installed, and by the grace of God, activated, the beam of LIGHT. We will forever remember your sacrifice. May you look down from above and continue to guide us as we ring the bell of FREEDOM and destroy those who wish to sacrifice our children, our way of life, and our world. We, the PEOPLE.”
Prayer said every single day in the OO.
JFK – Secret Societies.
Where we go one, we go all.
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