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So there is an immediate freeze, no exceptions, on all federal grants and loans. Over the last 12 months, grants worth about $20bn have been awarded, not just to research institutes, but also small businesses, of the sort Mr Trumpf would like to encourage. These companies are at the very cutting edge of science, and the more cutting edge it is, the riskier. About 60% of new medtech never makes it to the market, mostly due to the companies running out of cash. And after a few years of some record private investment in medtech, that money has dried up in the last year. What does this have to do with AI. Well, about 70% of products in development as a result of these loans are in the areas of digital health, in vitro diagnostics and diagnostic imaging. The supporters of Stargate say the initiative will transform healthcare, by finding a cure for cancer, and allowing country doctors to better treat patients (ie telehealth). Digital Health; AI used in clinician support Apps (eg. better diagnose cancers), or increasingly, for disease treatment (FDA Appls used to improve mental health). IVD; AI is now being used to better interrogate genetic test results, to identify cancer markets, and thus cancer risk, as well as markers of inherited disease. Digital Imaging; AI is transforming image analysis. Without AI, 50% of mammograms are read incorrectly, resulting in women going without a cancer diagnosis, or, women undergoing unnecessary surgery when there is no cancer. With AI, one system improved accuracy to 70%. AI is going to improve diagnosis of colorectal and prostate cancer, which will likely affect the majority or readers here. Also going to be essential to identify new drug targets to treat Dementia, given nearly everything in the pipeline has failed so far. There is an obvious contradiction between a President saying he wants AI to succeed, and a President actively encouraging business failure and avoidance of risk. Of course private investment will continue to go into Medtech, but its increasingly risk averse, avoiding the most innovative technologies, preventing transfoormation of healthcare, which is needed as Western populations age. China though is positively encouraging medical innovation. 10 years ago, Chinese medtech was basically Western transplant factories. Top tier hospitals had the same gear as any Western hospital, lower tier hospitals, not so. Now its transformed. The Chinese government accelerates approvals of Chinese medical technologies (same way the FDA acceleratate De Novo approvals for US companies). And there is some guinely cool and innovative stuff coming out of that country, once a fresh set of eyes looks at a problem. The effect of suspending grants means these little companies will quickly run out of cash (the grants and loans are usually stage payments, so anyone getting a grant in the last year or so is directly affected). First they can't pay their suppliers, then they have to let go of staff. Finally, they shutter the company, and the banks try and sell the IP to whoever wants it, usually not in the US. Even if Trumpf gets his arse into gear in a few weeks, it'll be too late for some of these companies. The effects will spread in the economy, to the suppliers, to the CROs running clinical trials, to the regulatory companies handling the paperwork for FDA approvals etc. Its strange, because didn't he run for President on the basis he was a briliant businessman looking out for the little guy? The suspension of payments like this is something I normally associate with socialist governments, who tend to be suspicious of small business and rather have money going into public services.

Someone is importing about $3bn of something from Russia to the US. And the tariffs aren't paid by Russia, but paid by the importers, with the cost passed on to their customers. Russia was still selling enriched uranium to the US in October 2024. And gas turbines. Massive decline from 2022 to 2023, as expected. I suspect what is being exported now is "inelastic"; despite higher shipping costs, there are no alternatives. So slapping on a tariff now will make no difference.

It seems that some of the Z apologists have not read the article. The article describes alleged delivery of: 120x Koksan Self Propelled Howitzers: 170mm system, first entered service in 1978. 65km range, it was deployed to counteract the US deployment of tactical weapons. The range enables it to hit Ukrainian positions with relative impunity. While Ukraine does have effective long range weapons, these are in limited supply, and Ukraine is preferring to reserve these for strategic targets, such as refineries, gunpowder factories, troop marshalling areas etc, to wear down Russia's ability to sustain its war of aggression. 120x 240mm MLRS systems: These will be the mostly the M1985 systems, built around an Isuzu truck chassis, but also updated M1991 pieces. 60km range. Unguided, so not that accurate. But thats not their purpose. These willb e area denial systems. If its is 120 pieces, this is over half of DPRK's fleet. 150 KN-23 Short Range SSM: Broadly comparable to the Iskander-M, and first introduced in 2018. 500-600km range. With the Internal Navigation System, accurate to within 200m, but the Russians will be using this with satellite guidance, with accuracy 100m or better. Some apologists want to downplay these weapons, and portray them as backward. While they might not be cutting edge, they still go bang and kill people. They also outrange the pieces that Ukraine has.

Was it so silly. Thus is the first Leader in history that the entire world knows what shape of penis he has. That beats any Presidental medical exam. Thought there is a Prime Minister who rogered a severed pigs head for a laugh. You better hope it wasn't a conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theories nearly always have an element of truth coupled around misunderstanding and outright mistruths. Eg there was concealed evidence about JFK's killing, COVID vaccines did cause harm. The Steele report claims to be based on 4 sources, none of whom knew who they were talking to. Of course, it might have been made up in Steele's kitchen, but unlikely. He runs a successful business based on corporate intelligence gathering, where there is an element of trust. Or Steele himself was a victim of a FSB misinformation campaign, which worked. A conspiracy theory would have been the whole world knowing for years that Trumpf was a collosal perve, but that wasn't the case. Of course I know that Trumpf is a collosal pervert from his own lips (Billy Bush tape). Everything else; the groping, the paying of a pornography actress for sex, is just the gravy.

I think there are some people who will support whatever nonsense he says. He might come out tomorrow and say he's taking on a husband for himself and that he now wants to be referred to as Donella, and they'll express what a jolly good idea that is, and that they supported transgenderism all along. There is a parallel with Vlad though. Putin is now looking at the world through the optics of the 1850s. This deranged lot want to do the same. The one chink of light from all this is, ironically James Vance. I reckon he's playing a waiting game to invoke the 25th Amendment, and get the old fart carted out, just letting him hang himself through increasingly deranged statements, such as the latest one to clear out Gaza. Electioneering aside, Vance does have an interesting background. I quite like the investments he's made into fetal stem cell research for instance, marrying a Hindoo, liking a good curry. Bet his fans don't realise that. But he needs to lose the beard. Makes it look like he's hiding a double chin.

We gave you a country, dolt. I don't hate America. I have many many friends there. They are Republicans, but not like you. Peop-;le like you have ruined America for many, including many Americans. Once, America was an admired country, so the extent that France sent you a mahoosive statue. Now your President wants your country to be only feared. Mexicans beat Texans and Americans at the Alamo.

I'm not worried about Trump. I'm discussing with an alleged American Neo-Nazi (you might be a Russian though) full of self loathing and too much time on his hands (you are a prodigious poster on this forum. You don;t have anything else in your life but a forum to gnash your loose dentures on). Your Leader, over many years, has repeatedly referred to Hannibal Lectar iat his political rallies. He recently clarified what he meant. Hannibal Lectar was a fictious cannibal. Trumpf pointed out, in an interview, that he knew individuals who were like Hannibal Lectar were coming to Amerika. Puerto Rico is mentioned because I wanted it to be mentioned. You have no right to dictate to me. Its a realted topic because its about Trumpf's desire for a 51st State to expand his territorial ambitions, and his acolytes lapping it all up. You don;t want to talk about Puerto Rico because you don't regard Puerto Ricans as real Americans. You are the madman who wants to pay every Greenlander $1 billion by 2028. I've had enough debating with your type.. Foxtrot Oscar and out.

How did Amerika do against a third world nation wearing old tyres for shoes? Amerika lost. You were there, probably. And remember the Alamo.

The stupidest idea of 2025 got stupider. 1916 US-Denmark Agreement https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1917/d881 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/26/greenland-denmark-keir-starmer-donald-trump-arctic-maga-us/ Under treaty agreement, if Denmark ever offered Greenland for sale, first refusal would go to the United Kingdom. This is the basis of the US recognition of Danish sovereignty. And people sayt Trump isn't a Putin plant. Putin couldn't have a better friend, ever since he had Trump filmed urinating on prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.

Trump is proposing to ethnically cleanse Gaza; everyone to leave, depopulate the entire area. Its ok if he pays each resident some compensation, maybe $1 billion each.

A shill for China or a shil for an American Nazi. What's the difference? You want to establish a hegomony in the Arctic Ocean through military conquest or bribing people to betray their country. America turned from being a backward nation of religious extremists thanks to Slater the Traitor. Without that, you will still be at home, eating turnips, and burning witches. Remember, the AI project you are jacking off to is being bankrolled not by hardworking American capitalists, but by Arabs. You know, the semi-literate Bedu who through sheer chance are sitting on a lake of the black stuff. What religion are they? Ah, Islam, mostly of the Salafist/Wahabist type. They didn't get rich through Western Capitalism. What does the end of an AI war look like? Not good really. The late Jame Lovelock, the greatest scientist since Isaac Newton, was right about everything in life. Before he passed, he had this to say on the upcoming Novocene. What's your price to turn. Everyone has a price (according tou you).

Why don't you want Puerto Rican people to be treated equally to other Americans? You are suddenly very keen to incorporate Northern European people into your New America, but noticeably reluctant to include anyone with a Southern European, African or South American heritage No its not. You didn't need it before. You don't need it now. Denmark is not threatening you. FYou are making up threats. You are paranoid. Forcibly incorporatinga country weakens your safety. This is what Nazi Germany found out. The Greenlanders are Danish. Greenland receives subsidy from the Crown. This is a lie you have made up. This is like that American politician who went to Northern Ireland and prodded a soldier in the chest moaning at him to "go home". The squaddie, with a thick Larne accent replied "I am home, now feck off, with yer". Alaskan Natives haven't become rich like the Dubai Arabs. The ASRC is notoriously corrupt, p[erating through nepotism. But you like that, because you voted for King Trumpf and his clan of never-do-wells. Fecked up ypour acronym; do you mean ANCSA ANCLA? Too many acronyms to give you a sham intellect. I guess you don't mean the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa . Basically, you want the General Custer approach; get the Greenlanders to sell out for a few proverbial beads and bottles of whisky. If America really wants it, it needs to offer Denmark fair compensation, like a US state or two. Not Puerto Rico though. I would go by square miles of land. Greenland is 837 thousand square miles. America should give Greenland the same in American soil. If Trump offered up California, Oregon, Washington State, the US will be getting a bargain, plus Donald Jr is assured of the 2028 election given the loss of people who won't vote for him anyhow. You are sounding like a Nazi. This is Hitler's justification of taking over Czechoslovakia and Poland. Lunatic statement. Native Americans never dot a billion each from the Federal government. Instead they got disease, cheap whiskey anf genocide. Time to pay your debts. The Ferryman is waiting for you. You think Greenlanders will get a billion each by 2028, Besides that being complete <deleted>, I say thats the offer of a conman. That's a low ball number. If the US government is offering every Greenlander $1bn by 2028 as way of compensation for stripping them of their land, nationality, vote, language, identity, just like you did to the Red Man, I say you need to pay them each $100 billion. Would you become a card carrying Mao tunic wearing, Running Dog member of the CCP if if Jack Ma gave you $5 million tomorrow? And if not, how much would it take to sell out your country for another? But you are not addressing my central charges. Why are you more interested in America's North Western border, rather than America's sourther border. Is this because you want your country to invade Europe next, and Greenland is a stepping stone to that? Your leader is telling you everyday literally hordes of cannibals are waiting for you in Mexico, so why are you worried about a few Danes? The Greenland idea is a stupid idea. The only reason you are trying to justify this 21st Century act of Lebensraum is because you are in love with Donald Trump. Lovers do this.

You say that. Its a reason he often expresses, but doesn't follow through. What happened when Finland became a NATO member? He pulled units from the Finnish border to reinforce his forces in Ukraine. https://frontnews.eu/en/news/details/35176 In some ways, the collapse of the USSR was bad for him, because he lost his KGB job beating the crapola out of East German dissidents. He's obsessed about a "New Russia"; its racial. He views Russians in racial terms, ie the Rus. He's schooled up on Czar Nicholas I who he wishes to emulate. He wants to "reunite" slavic (Rus) peoples, because they are dying out (the demographic projections are sobering; Russian minorities will cease being minorities, unless Putin an add more Slavs). Add he is an acolyte of Dugin. Yeltsin's reaction to the election of PUtin, and the reinstatement of the Soviet anthem; "Its reddish" Putin and Hitler are similar. Both were energised a perceived injustice, which lead to a break up of the old order. But both also hated the old order. Hitler, an Austrian, believed in a strong Germany, but hated the Kaiser. He and his followers had a fairytale view of German history, through Teutonic Knights and Volk (Himmler even had a round table at his castle). Putin wants the USSR back but without the communism, collectivisation, equality of races. For hi the Rus are top, and other people serve them. Hence conscription is strongest among minorities, because they are expendable. He has a fictionalised idea, like Hitler, of his own history. The fall of the USSR was not a disaster. It was one of the last wrongs to be put right following the Great War. And yes, the next wrong to put right is the end of the Russian Federation, so Putin is right on that score. Russian people should have their own country, Russia. It will still be a big country. As Russian people, they will have a better sense of identity, rather than Dugin's Eurasian nonsense, and happier for it. All the old Empires have gone, Russian one next.

Sorry, but deployment of a military, even if there was no opposition, actually costs your taxpayer. Soldiers do not work for free. Fuel isn't stolen. Vehicles need maintenance. Even for Hitler, invading Poland for Lebensraum cost him dearly. Its a puzzle why the US just doesn't make Mexico American. The population overwhelmiingly wants to be Gringos; His Excellency Presidente King Trumpf of the Kingdom of Florida keeps reminding us. There is a lot more economic activity in Mexico than there will ever be in Greenland. It has beach resorts the Seppos love. Illegal immigration solved forever. Puerto Ricans are already Americans, making them a State takes just a Sharpie scribble. Diitto US Virgin Islands, Guam. He could do a quick show of hands around the Caribbean, and likely get most buying in. Denmark is a NATO member. The US should not discount the possibility of nuclear armed NATO members comng to Denmark's aid. They won't win, but no one wins a nuclear exchange. Its, of course, utterly ridiculous. The Americans elected a man who's veins literally bleed yellow. He was too afraid to serve his country when called upon. His Great Grandfather was too afraid to serve his country when called upon. His dad rinsed the US during WW2. And now he's acting like the Big Man. Sure, the Danish army couldn't do much to stop the Americans, but they'll do their best. As US servicemen who served alongside them in Afghanistan would attest. Pro-rata, the Danes had the highest casualties among NATO, including US, troops. They'll take some of them down. They'll make America bleed. Heck, even little Grenada, armed with just a few shotguns, managed to take out 19 Yankee soldiers, cripple another 150 of them. A handful of Japs did a real number on rough tough Marines. I assume you are not a Yankee Prick-Braggard. Most Yanks I know are much more sensible than this. . If America really has turned into a country that wants to conquer the world, I suspect I might think Alexandr Dugin is onto something when he says America and its people should be destroyed, erased from history. But I know that's not the case. Its just the Neo-Nazi puppet masters wanting that.

They didn't steal it from anyone. The Danish-Norwegian government never relinquished their claims from when Erik the Red discovered an uninhabited land (which is proven through archeology). Portugal stole it for a while, but the Danes-Norwegians got it back.

I assume, from reading your many posts, that you identify as Anglo-Saxon. The peoples some Russians believe need to be cleansed from the earth (seriously, there is a whole ideology devoted to wiping out all British, Americans (yes, they are a bit colo(u)rblind), Australians and New Zealanders, because the world would be a better place without us. Putin is an adherant of this post-communist ideology (started by a Soviet dissident)). So you are very enthusiastic about extending statehood, even before a vote, to a country where the majority are the Angles from the bit of the word Anglo-Saxon. But you are notably less enthusiastic about honouring the majority wishes of Americans, who happen to be Hispanic, in Puerto Rico, who have voted for full statehood. There is a word for that. Lastly, you are either ignorant of geography and the demographics of the mostly blond haired people you want to be the New Americans, or you were poor at maths at school. You want the US government to pay each Greenlander $1 billion each, as a price worth paying. There are 57,000 Greenlanders. So you need to find USD57,000,000,000,000. $57 trillion. The US government's budget is less than $7 trillion, and your lot think that's too much, hence the clapping like seals when Musk announces DOGE. But you are willing to increase that by 700% or so to get some rock and ice, on the off chance, provided we don't get a collapse in the Gulf Stream, you can strip mine it for the rare earth metals for the electric cars you don't want, needed as part of the action on climiate change that you don't believe in anyhow. OK. The $57 trillion accomodation at Nuuk is most welcoming.

The original Greenlanders came from Iceland, Norway, 300 years before those invading Alaskan colonists. The Paleo Inuit died out/abandoned Greenland almost 1000 years before Erik the Red, when he arrived in 986. There is no sign of them in the present populaton. The Thule invaders/illegals from Alaska, didn't arrive until the 14th Century, whereupon they found a bunch of brickhard Norsemen already living there. They had battles, killed each other, but eventually the Norseman won. The Norsemen gave many words to the world. One of them was berserkr, to denote a warrior off his tits on narcotics going on a rampage wearing a bearskin.

There is a matter of semantics there. Norsemen colonised Greenland two centuries before the Inuit. Denmark colonised Greenland in the 18 Century, making them colonisers and natives simultaneously. Ultimately none of us are natives, because we all came out of Africa.

You cracked it. Trump is playing Risk. I never wanted Kamchatka.

Does it work like that. Region A votes to secede from Country X, votes to join US, US automatically lets them in. So where is Puerto Rico in this? They are actual US citizens. In the 2024 US Elections, 58% of Puerto Ricans voted in favour of Statehood. 52% voted for it in 2020. But then Trump suggested that the US offer Denmark Puerto Rico in exchange. Denmark should make a counter offer, because this is how Trump thinks; Greenland for one of the US States that Trump doesn't want, like California. Californians who want to remain American are free to relocate to Greenland and start a new life on the ice shelf eating raw fish and walrus meat. In the new Danish province of Californien, the provincial capital is moved to the pretty town of Solvang, previously known as the Danish Capital of America. Remaining Californians earn Danish citizenship, and with that visa free travel to the EU. Naturally all trade barriers are dropped. Californians will feel very comfortable as Danes. Danes are almost embarassingly fluent at English. In the natural subsequent negotiations, Denmark settles for Florida, after rejecting Nebraska. Evacuations of frightened Villagers to neighbouring luxurious resort town of Bayou La Batre*, Alabama, start in the morning. *The movie Forrest Gump lies. Its an inbred dump, with the main feature being the state liquor store.

That's not how DNA tests work. To identify someone from their DNA you either have to have their DNA already in a database, or have DNA from a relative to compare against. The deceased would not have had a sample on any UK dataset, unless she had previously been convicted of a crime. What has improved is sensitivity. When the body was found, it was described as being in an advanced stage of decomposition; it was summer. The descriptions photo taken by the unfortunate hillwalker who didn't notice the corpse in the stream behind him suggests it might have partly disarticulated (coming apart). At the time, a DNA sample would have been retained, and clothing stored. The body had apparently no signs of injury that could have lead to death. Though I see mention of a spiral fracture to a finger, which has been suggested as being consistant with a struggle. That fracture would have been noted in any post mortem at the time. When the case was reviewed, that seems to be when information about the body having possibly been placed there, by use of a 4WD vehicle. What won't be divulged publicly is if improved techniques were able to identify the presence of DNA from a third party.

https://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/news/north-yorkshire/news/news/2023/02-february/north-yorkshire-polices-lady-of-the-hills-case-heads-to-thailand/ One wonders about his grown up children. His stepson (the Thai lady's son) lives in the UK, daughter lived with him in Thailand, and his other son is in China.

Once you understand the current investment in AI going on over the last half decade, you realise that half a trillion isn't that much. The Moon Landings were funded by government. Project Stargate has zero government money, just a pledge by government to step aside. AI needs training dataset, very big datasets. It gets that largely from government handing over essentially public property. And America did it largely with Nazi scientist knowhow. They were lucky that they captured the right scientists.

Its (upto) $500bn pledged by American and Arab investors over the next 5 years. Musk is probably right that its not enough, The press releases are promising to cure cancer with this. They also came up with a bizarre telehealth application that will enable rural docotrs to understand how top city doctors treat patients. Er, they already do this. Its called Google (or your favourite search engine). Whoever came up with this doesn't understand medical malpractice law, which restricts what doctors want to do for fear of being sued. This is why treatment guidelines exist. Follow the guidelines, and even if the patient dies, you can't be blamed, as you did your best. Do something different, well, you're on your own in the Court. The numbers invested in AI is vast. I have a vested interest in this. In the last 5 years, US Companies have raised about $400 bn in investment in AI technologies. There are similar numbers elsewhere. And that's just healthcare. The $500bn is cross-sector, mainly to build infrastructure. Say there is $100 bn set aside for healthcare. Its a decent amount, but not transformative in the way portrayed. Like any of these transformative projects, such as the Manhattan Project, Roosevelt's March of Dimes, The Human Genome Project, Operation Warpspeed, for Project Stargate to succeed, it need public money, not just an elected official turning a blind eye to regulation. There is going to be conflict coming up among American concservatives soon in healthcare. Currently the market is infected with unregulated healthcare Apps, powered by AI. Some are good, many are not. The FDA, itself created because of mistakes when the first polio vaccines were produced, is in charge of regulating medical and therapeutic products in the US. With AI, they are facing a similar challenge to when genetic tests first appeared in the 1980s. Back then, the FDA didn't really understand these tests, and couldn't keep pace. So they decided, back then, that a competant lab could be trusted to understand how to do the tests, and understand what the results mean, so introduced "CLIA waived" tests, so that innovative breakthroughs wouldn't be held up with red tape. Sounds a good idea, right, trust the experts. 40 years on, the labs are performing tests that they don't understand the results of, and the testing companies now are trying to shortcut the doctors with direct to consumer tests. Its a mess. Not wanting to repeat this, the FDA wants to be more careful with AI. It needs congressional approval to allow the FDA, ie the Federal government, to access the medical records of all Americans, in order to test the efficacy of these new Apps. The Prize is great; a potential transformation in medicine, but is the price worth it? In dystopian fiction, when governments get hold of citizen biometrics, it usually doesn't end well. Now, that's fiction, and plenty of politicians in the US these days seem to base their world view using fiction. The EU is losing out on AI Healthcare innovation because EU regulators are very keen to protect the medical records of EU Citizens. This hobbles companies with smaller training datasets compared to competitors in, say, China. AI success in healthcare is largely dependant on which country is willing to monetize their population's health. The UK does this quite well, given the NHS holds the world's largest single healthcare system medical record repository. For healthcare, AI cannot be a nationalist pursuit. It needs global cooperation, to prevent malevolant actors pursue their own agendas. Thats why the Human Genome Project was international; to sequence the human genome, so no one country would own the sequence. The US missed a Leadership opportunity. It could have lead an effort to harness the benefits of AI for all mankind, instead its gone for the short term profit direction. People complain about "Big Pharma", that it doesn't have the interest of patients at its heart, and that's partly true. Before WW2, the Pharmaceutical Industry didn't really exist. Your medicines came from chemical companies. But then WW2 came, and the plans to liberate Europe. The Allies wanted penicillin, lots of it, in time for Overlord. The Americans awarded the contract to a few quite small companies, Abbott, Pfizer, Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb, all now among the biggest corporations in the world. They never looked back.

https://theins.ru/en/news/278003 Oil spills are naturally terrible for marine life, wherever they happen, and marine transport remains quite a hazardout occupation anywhere in the world. The Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 were part of a series of tankers called Volgoneft tankers, built in the 1970s. The name gives their purpose away. They were built to primarily transport oil down the Volga river to the Sea of Azov. They were capable of short sea shipping provided the chop was no more than 2 meters. For exporting oil, they were fine for doing ship to ship transfers within the relatively benign Sea of Azov. Ukrainian mining of the Kerch straits, plus Russia's increasing need to export whatever oil it can has lead to a change in shipping habits, leading to these old, decrepit ships to take risks on open seas. The risk of not exporting the oil outweighs the risk of losing the cargo. Before 2024, only one of these ship types broke apart on open seas, and that was in 2007. This is one of a number of signals that all is not well with the Russian economy. Putin remains the master strategist.