We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
Dig on USAID #1 Vendor which is the World Bank Group
https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/results-and-data/budget-spending/top-40-vendors
Top 40 Vendors
USAIDworks with a diverse group of partners worldwide. Following is a list of the top 40 vendors, based on amounts obligated. (Data is current as of November, 2014.) Please visit ForeignAssistance.gov to view detailed transaction data.
Vendor Name FY 2014
1WORLD BANK GROUP2,051,451,215.97
2 WORLD FOOD PROGRAM 1,482,417,197.00
3 CHEMONICS 501,697,892.98
4 P F S C M 389,233,980.00
5 FHI 360 351,378,922.26
6 UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND 299,704,499.00
7 JOHN SNOW, INCORPORATED 285,510,939.85
8 DAI WASHINGTON 262,402,692.38
9 MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH, INC. 245,683,554.43
10 JHPIEGO CORPORATION 219,477,936.09
11 ABT ASSOCIATES INC. 216,992,854.57
12 R T I INTERNATIONAL 207,619,327.94
13 CRS.ORG 206,369,402.89
14 MERCY CORPS 196,784,225.67
15 GAVI ALLIANCE 175,000,000.00
16 WHO / OMS 163,170,668.00
17 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION 154,002,795.81
18 TETRA TECH ARD 153,503,372.25
19 ACDI/VOCA 142,284,590.00
20 INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES GROUP LTD. 137,736,270.09
21 P S I 132,499,067.65
22 SAVE THE CHILDREN 125,954,645.34
23 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS 122,971,079.00
24 IRC AND PARTNERS 122,390,490.55
25 AECOM INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. 118,032,255.18
26 UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CO., LLC 115,178,945.33
27 CREATIVE ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, INC. 114,315,264.78
28 UNAIDS JOINT UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMME ON HIV/AIDS 112,010,452.00
29 INTERNATIONAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT, INC. 111,532,142.15
30 MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, INC. 105,097,266.17
31 JSI RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE,INC. 103,892,523.00
32 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE 100,116,921.00
33 CONSORTIUM FOR ELECTIONS & POLITICAL PROCESS STRENGTHENING 89,965,953.67
34 FHI DEVELOPMENT 360 LLC 84,598,113.07
35 PACT 81,389,064.08
36 WORLD VISION, INC. 81,288,667.44
37 GLOBAL COMMUNITIES 80,740,523.92
38 USAID Support to Power Transmission Expansion & Connectivity 76,700,000.00
39 WORLD FOOD PROGRAM 74,055,902.79
40 DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP 69,632,923.35
Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
Included ...
My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
