Companies Required to Share AI Risks

President Biden on Monday will sign what the White House is calling a "landmark" executive order that contains the "most sweeping actions ever taken to protect Americans from the potential risks of AI systems."

Among them is requiring that artificial intelligence developers share their safety-test results – known as red-team testing – with the federal government.

"In accordance with the Defense Production Act, the Order will require that companies developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety must notify the federal government when training the model, and must share the results of all red-team safety tests," the White House says. "These measures will ensure AI systems are safe, secure, and trustworthy before companies make them public."  READ MORE...

Biden's Leadership

It turns out that going from America First to America Last has real world consequences.

President Joe Biden’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s approach to national security and foreign policy has created devastating harm to American interests abroad and our security at home.

Trump’s main goal was to prioritize our interests, thereby leveraging American power to deliver greater global stability, certainty and relative peace. Biden prioritizes multilateralism and globalism, reversing Trump-era gains and introducing increasing chaos, instability, uncertainty and conflict.

President Trump’s critics often complained his America First policies were damaging our alliances and rewarding our enemies. The exact opposite was true: like President Ronald Reagan before him, Trump delivered peace through strength. Biden has diluted American power, and as a result, our allies no longer trust us and our enemies no longer fear us. American weakness always invites the wolves, and the wolves have returned.

Let’s recall where we were just one year ago.

• The Trump administration had provided unwavering support to Israel and achieved historic peace agreements in the Middle East, agreements which cultivated economic and other cooperation that, in turn, is delivering enduring peace.
• It had successfully pushed back on China’s economic aggression, human rights abuses, and geopolitical adventurism in the South China Sea and Pacific Rim.
• It had successfully contained Russia’s expansionism and slowed the progress of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
• It had productive diplomacy underway to contain North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
• It had withdrawn from the catastrophic Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and was using its extensive sanctions authority to restrict Iran’s nuclear program.
• It had negotiated a plan for a managed, conditional exit from Afghanistan that would have secured us a continuing intelligence capability.
• It had realigned our relationship with our NATO allies, holding them to their promises of the alliance.
• It had successfully negotiated fairer, more reciprocal trade deals with China, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Japan, among others.
• It had begun to modernize and rebuild our military, left hollowed out by the Obama-Biden administration.
• It had largely solved the immigration issue through a more secure border and commonsense diplomatic agreements.

The Biden administration is hell-bent on reversing many of President Trump’s stunning achievements.  READ MORE...

Diesel Reserves Running Out

President Joe Biden is proposing a plan that would require fuel suppliers to maintain a minimum amount of diesel in their inventories this winter to stave off severe shortages and prevent extreme price hikes. However, it could create a demand surge and drive up already high prices, according to Bloomberg.

The plan would force diesel vendors to take supplies off the market which could cause short-term diesel demand to soar and drive up prices in the Northeast, where fuel shortages are most severe, according to Bloomberg. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated the East Coast’s fuel shortages as the region has become dependent on Russian imports due to the region’s constrained pipeline capacity.

“We also want to make sure there’s enough fuel in the United States,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said when asked about U.S. fuel exports to energy-starved Europe during an interview at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt. “It may not be a business choice that they make, but we’re asking, as the companies that are operating in America, to do what they are doing in other countries.”

The national average price of diesel is $5.31 per gallon and is $1.58 higher than it was in November 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The Midwest region’s wholesale diesel prices skyrocketed in July after pipeline operator Magellan Midstream Partners increased the minimum inventory levels for fuel held throughout its pipeline, according to Bloomberg.

The European Union (EU) required its member-states to fill natural gas storages to 80% of full capacity in order to prepare for potential winter shortages, according to the European Council press release. Europe is currently heavily reliant on U.S. oil and gas imports as Russia has continuously disrupted natural gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in retaliation to EU sanctions.

Americans who use heating oil (a form of diesel) will spend an average of $2,354 to heat their homes this winter which represents a 27% increase from winter 2021 and the highest price point in more than 25 years, according to the EIA.

The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

False & Misleading Information

Washington  --  CNN  --

President Joe Biden has been back on the campaign trail, traveling in October and early November to deliver his pitch for electing Democrats in the midterm elections on Tuesday.

Biden’s pitch has included claims that are false, misleading or lacking important context. (As always, we take no position on the accuracy of his subjective arguments.) Here is a fact-check look at nine of his recent statements.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment for this article.  READ MORE...

Fighting Child Poverty in America

It was heralded as a game-changer for America's social safety net. It dramatically reduced child poverty. But, last month, the enhanced Child Tax Credit — a kind of "Social Security for kids" — expired, and millions of American children sank back into poverty.

In March 2021, President Biden and congressional Democrats revamped the Child Tax Credit as part of the American Rescue Plan. They restructured it, so that parents could get a monthly check from the government. They increased the credit's size, allowing parents to claim as much as $3,600 a year per child, or $300 a month. And they made the credit fully refundable, so that even super-low-income families who don't pay much — or anything — in federal taxes could get it.

For those primarily concerned with ending child poverty, these changes were a resounding success. Scholars at Columbia University found they reduced child poverty by about 30%. Another study found the enhanced program cut household food insufficiency by 26%.

But President Biden's efforts to renew the credit have been thwarted by opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and congressional Republicans. They disliked how much the program cost and how generous it was, and they worried that it would encourage parents to stop working because it did not have a work requirement.

According to the Tax Policy Center, the beefed-up Child Tax Credit would cost around $225 billion per year (about $100 billion more per year than the original version, which is now back in effect). For context, that's less than a quarter of the annual cost of Social Security, about a third of the cost of Medicare, and about the same as the budget for the Department of Agriculture. A report from the Urban Institute finds that even with the enhanced Child Tax Credit, America spent only about 7% of its federal budget on kids in 2021 — and that is now projected to decline.

As for how many parents stopped working as a result of the enhanced Child Tax Credit, estimates range from about 300,000 to 1.5 million. There are about 50 million working parents in the United States, so even if we accept only the highest estimate, more than 97% of parents continued working after receiving the payments. That makes sense because 300 bucks a month is hardly enough for most families to live on.

The failure of Washington to renew the enhanced Child Tax Credit continues a long tradition in America: Our welfare system has long spent generously on the old, but it has consistently skimped on the young. While America spends about as much, or even more on the elderly than many other rich nations, it spends significantly less on kids. Among the almost 40 countries in the OECD, only Turkey spends less per child as a percentage of their GDP. It's a big reason why the United States has a much higher rate of child poverty than most other affluent countries — and even has a higher rate of child poverty than some not-so-affluent countries.

In a new paper, the economists Anna Aizer, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Adriana Lleras-Muney explore the reasons why the United States is such an outlier when it comes to fighting child poverty. While they acknowledge the reasons are varied and complex, they focus their analysis on one factor: American policymakers, influenced by economists, have dwelled much more on the costs of social programs than their benefits.  TO FIND OUT THE COST OF FOCUSING JUST ON COSTS, CLICK HERE...

Biden's First Year in Office

RESULTS:

Halted Keystone Oil Pipleline

Caused surge in gasoline prices

Reversed Trumps Executive Orders

Botched Afghanistan withdrawal

Caused supply chain problems

Could not Unite the US

Could not stop COVID-19

Could not stop illegal immigration

Could not stop Crime and Violence

Massive Government Spending

Caused structural inflation

Caused structural unemployment

Caused shut down of businesses

Caused shut down of Public School

Tried to mandate Covid Vaccinations

Increased RACISM in the USA

Achieved WORST ratings in first year

Insulted Ukranians with remarks about russia

Alienated NATO Allies

Alienated his own party

Hunter Biden Helps Chinese

An investment firm founded by Hunter Biden assisted a Chinese company in purchasing one of the world's richest cobalt mines from an American company for $3.8 billion - helping the conglomerate gain a massive share of the key metal used to make electric car batteries.

The president's son was one of three Americans who joined Chinese partners in establishing the Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Company, or BHR, in 2013.

The Americans controlled 30 percent of the company and made successful investments that culminated in aiding China Molybdenum purchase the Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine in the Congo from the American company Freeport-McMoRan in 2016, the New York Times reported.

The news comes after President Joe Biden had warned that China could use its dominance of mined cobalt to disrupt America's development of electric vehicles.

It also adds to the scrutiny Biden and his father have faced for his dealings with Chines and Ukrainian companies while Joe was vice president and later running for president.  READ MORE...

Hunter Biden

At some point in the coming weeks, hundreds of thousands of dollars will be funneled to the son of the sitting American president—and none of us will know anything about who sent the money, or where it originally came from, or why anyone chose to send it in the first place.


The transactions will nominally center on artwork created by Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son. After spending years working alongside post-Soviet oligarchs—work that complicated his father’s anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine—Hunter has tossed on a new hat as an emerging “artist.” CNN has reported that his debut shows—one in Los Angeles, another in New York—will be held in late September, though the dates haven’t been announced (which may be because of the scrutiny the sales have received). 

Whenever they happen, Hunter will make the transition from unqualified oil-and-gas adviser to budding Basquiat—and will offer his artwork to the highest bidders his gallery can attract. The sales have raised concerns that buyers will purchase the art to curry favor with the president, creating an ethics minefield for the White House.
Hunter’s artwork isn’t bad, per se. A certain base-level skill is evident in the paintings. Sebastian Smee, the Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic for The Washington Post, told CNN that Biden was comparable to “a cafe painter. By which I mean, you see a certain kind of art in coffee shops, and some of it is OK and a lot of it is bad, and sometimes it’s surprisingly good. But you wouldn’t, unless you were related to the artist, spend more than $1,000 on it.”


Unfortunately for the White House, the people about to profit from Hunter’s foray into the art world are anticipating far higher returns—and suddenly presenting the Biden administration with a new Hunter-related headache. Hunter’s gallerist, Georges Bergès, has said he’s expecting as much as $500,000 for some of the paintings. 

That’s a pricing echelon that would put Hunter, a person with no formal artistic training, “in the very top tier of emerging artists,” according to Artnet. (“The whole thing is very, very weird,” added Artnet’s Ben Davis, not least because the Bergès Gallery’s previous best-known client was Sylvester Stallone.) For his part, Hunter has been clear about what he’d say to those questioning the propriety of his shows: “Other than fuck ’em?”

As of now, the Biden administration appears caught between the appearance of something wildly untoward and the reality that there’s not a whole lot it can do about the situation. Hunter remains a private citizen and is allowed to sell his scribblings to whomever he’d like, regardless of the provenance of the funds and the buyer’s motivation. Attempting to untangle this Gordian knot of ethical concerns, the White House and the gallerist struck a deal in July. 

Although the full details haven’t been revealed, both CNN and CBS have reported a number of particulars. Per the agreement, Hunter will supposedly never know the identity of the buyers, or even of the underbidders. If you squint, you could see how such a deal would address the ethical concerns. After all, if Hunter doesn’t know who’s showering him with hundreds of thousands of dollars for his paintings, how could they ever get in his good graces?  READ MORE

Saluting Biden's Leadership

 

The Supreme Leader of the United States and her military forces is President Joe Biden...  who has been accused of NOT BEING RIGHT ON FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE LAST FOUR DECADES...

Be that as it may, our President Biden has accomplished the following in less that 10 months in office:

• Opened our borders to non stop immigration
• Spent so much money that it has caused inflation
• Slowed down our economic recovery after COVID
• Mandated COVID Vaccines
• Botched the Afghanistan withdrawal
• Caused our global allies to lose respect
• Raised taxes on everyone
• Censored the conservative voices
• Promoted Critical Race Theory and being WOKE
• Caused Americans to be more divided
• Failed on climate change

We have 3 more years of this clown and there is no telling what he has yet to accomplish...  and, this comment in tongue-in-cheek and is more surreal than bestowing praise...  and, what bothers me more than anything else about this country, is the fact that so many people we against TRUMP and did everything they could to remove him from office...

We have gone from BAD TO WORSE...

Blamin' Biden

 TO BLAME means to assign the responsibility to something or someone...

Our current President of the United States wants to blame everyone elsefor his failure of departure in Afghanistan but himself...  even though he has been quoted as saying, "the buck stops here..."

YES...  it is true that the State Department SCREWED UP

YES...  it is true that Military Intelligence SCREWED UP

YES...  it is true that the CIA Intelligence SCREWED UP

YES...  it is true that our Afghanistan Partners SCREWED UP

BUT...  the fact remains that our COMMANDER-in-CHIEF, who is the President of the USA, is ultimately responsible for EVERYTHING that happens on HIS or HER WATCH...

Not only is our current president responsible for the 13 American lives that were lost as the military was trying to evacuate Afghanistan, but our current president is responsible for the LOSS IN AMERICAN CONFIDENCE by all of the world leaders, especially Great Britain whose PARLIMENT unamiously voted NOT TO SUPPORT any further military operations with AMERICA as long as JOE BIDEN was president...

What an INSULT to America...

MORE IMPORTANTLY...  what message did our current president send to other world leaders who are not friendly with us...  like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, India, etc...  what impression do they have of AMERICA NOW?

I don't give a damn if a Republican or a Democrat is President because since 1960 nothing has really changed in the US of A and we have had many Presidents...  but, what I do care about is how the rest of the world perceives us as a GLOBAL LEADER...

Additionally, our global image and poor economic growth could cause the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to change the global currency of trade from the US dollar to the Chinese YUAN...

China's economy is growing faster than our economy

China's military is larger than our military

China's navy is larger than our navy

China's technology is growing faster than our technology

China owns 1/3 of all US National Debt

Our current President has laid the foundation for the USA to lose its global leadership status and respect...

OH YEAH....  forgot to mention that Afghanistan is THE NUMBER ONE BREEDING GROUND FOR TERRORISTS...

Living Under Taliban LAW

 

Taliban Law

As the incompetent Joe Biden sends 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to provide security for the evacuation of the American Embassy in Kabul, Americans are left wondering what will happen to the innocent women and children left to fend for themselves against an evil terror group that has no respect for women or children?

CNN, who failed to mention the disappearance of the Taliban and ISIS under President Trump’s leadership, sent a female correspondent to Afghanistan where she embedded herself with the Taliban to report back, apparently, on the Islamic terror group’s future humanitarian efforts.

CNN is so deep into pushing the radical Democrat Party agenda they don’t even see how foolish their repulsive propaganda appears to the everyday American.

In what can only be described as an either incredibly stupid or utterly naive moment, CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward, who is dressed from head to toe in a black burqa and headscarf, actually asked a Taliban leader in Afghanistan about the terror group’s plans to protect women’s rights, now that they’ve re-established control of most of Afghanistan (only 9 months into the Biden regime’s takeover of the White House).

Watch the incredible moment at the 4:24 mark: “A lot of people are concerned that if the Taliban takes power again, women’s rights will move backwards. How can you guarantee that women’s rights will be protected?” CNN’s Clarissa Ward asks. READ MORE

We Are Blessed Americans

 Americans should feel BLESSED that Joe Biden beat out Donald
Trump to become the current President of the US...

• We have a crisis with immigration
• We have a crisis with inflation
• We have a crisis with gasoline
• We have a crisis with cyber crime/hacking
• We have a crisis with Hamas
• We have a crisis with Russia
• We have a crisis with China's military escalation
• We have a crisis with systemic racism
• We have a crisis with defunding the police
• We have a crisis with illegal drug use
• We have a crisis with disabled veterans
• We have a crisis with healthcare
• We have a crisis with education
• We have a crisis with a DIVIDED America

Let me say it again, AMERICANS SHOULD FEEL BLESSED THAT JOE BIDEN IS OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT...

The real question here is:  DOES BIDEN HAVE THE MOUNTAIN OYSTERS TO TAKE ON RUSSIA, CHINA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND OUR OWN TECH GIANTS...  ALONG WITH THE INCREASING WEALTH DISPARITY BETWEEN WEALTHY AMERICANS AND EVERYONE ELSE???

My fear is that he does not have those mountain oysters...  nor does he have the rhetoric to unite the two parties which will continue to divide this country politically.

The Devil Came Out of Georgia

You would need to be half BRAIN DEAD if you do not know that Baseball's All Star Game was pulled out of Atlanta because the WOKE Mob believes that these new VOTING LAWS that the Georgia Legislature just recently passed are RACISTS...

Even President Biden said he supported moving the baseball game out of Georgia and along with President Biden Delta Airlines decided that they would use their corporate power to make Georgia regret what they did.

HOWEVER...

no one

not even the President of the United States

must have read the actual law because

everything that President Biden said on National TV about the law was a LIE...

What bothers me more than anything else is not so much that President Biden relied on advisors and still put his foot in his mouth but the CEO of Delta made his decision on something that was not true...  How many decisions has this CEO made during his tenure that was based upon data that was NOT TRUE...

It makes one wonder how the hell he got to be a CEO in the first place.

Atlanta may lose 100 million because of that game being moved...  but I am sure that Delta will be paying for it because the Governor is going to remove all of Delta's TAX BREAKS...  and, it is not going to be that easy to move Delta's HUB out of Atlanta and if they did...  where would they go?

Two things here are going to happen...  at least for me...

1.  I am going to stop flying on Delta

2.  I am going to stop watching MLB

Crisis At The Border

According to President Biden and further promoted by Biden's Press Secretary as well as most all the Democratic Leaders in Congress, the problem at the border is a DIRECT RESULT of former President Trump's initiatives and actions...

Aside from the fact that pointing the finger is not very Presidential, does it really matter who caused the problem???  The problem is in the lap of the current President and right now the crisis at the border is getting worse not better...

FIX THE PROBLEM PRESIDENT BIDEN...  

IT IS NOW YOUR PROBLEM... 

SO FIX IT...

Blaming one's predecessor is a chicken shit move to make...  each President has to deal with what their predecessor has done.  What is REAL here with Biden is the fact that in the first few days of his administration, President Biden completely reversed just about everything that former President Trump put into place...  That reversal makes it HIS PROBLEM...  not his predecessor...

Honest Politicians

We deserve honestly from our politicians, especially from the President of the United States...  I am not talking about past Presidents, because we all know that President Kennedy lied, President Johnson lied, President Clinton lied, President Nixon lied, and many Presidents withheld information from the public which in essence is a lie as well, but it not referred to as a lie...  just not telling the truth.

TODAY...

we have a President...  President Biden who says that the previous administration did not create the COVID Vaccine that his administration did...   not only is that a lie but President elect Biden received the COVID vaccine before his inauguration.  And, the irony about the lie is that he expects the mainstream media to push that narrative on his behalf.

President Biden says that his policies did not create in increase in illegal immigration but that the policies of the previous administration created this crisis at the border.  THAT IS A LIE AS WELL especially since the previous administration had closed the border and was building a wall.

President Biden said on the campaign trail that he would UNITE THE PARTIES but so far every bill that has passed through the Congress has had NO REPUBLICAN APPROVALS so nothing is actually being done to unite the two parties...  and, if the filibuster is eliminated, then the minority party will have NO VOICE AT ALL in the Senate as the Democrats will not any of their votes to pass legislation.

President Biden has been in office less than 100 days and has told THREE LIES to the American Public that mainstream media is not covering...