@#6 ... Now do Gulf of America ...

Why?

How is that relevant?

Apologies for the dual post. :(

I am multitasking this evening.

Now, there's this aspect ...

More from the article ....

... Some U.S. health regulators who review medical devices and tobacco products for safety and efficacy are struggling to meet deadlines mandated by Congress due to Trump administration layoffs, three scientists working on the projects told Reuters.

On Thursday, the government said it will cut jobs across health agencies, including 3,500 at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a follow-on to earlier layoffs.

Two of the scientists who work at the FDA said they had been assigned around double the number of new product applications for review since their colleagues were fired in February. They requested anonymity for fear of professional repercussions.

They said they were instructed to shelve other work, including oversight of other reviewers and providing early feedback on planned product applications before they are submitted for approval review.

One scientist at the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products said the center had delayed starting new applications while staff worked on existing submissions, some with reviews that must be completed within 180 days under U.S. law. Several tobacco-related research projects have also been canceled, he said.

"We have 180 days to complete those (existing) reviews, and we're not going to come anywhere close to that. It's just not going to happen," the scientist said.

The agency's tobacco center is currently reviewing high-profile projects including one from Philip Morris International (PM.N)
, opens new tab that seeks approval for a new iteration of its heated tobacco device IQOS.

A Philip Morris spokesperson said the average wait time for a tobacco-product application is closer to 700 days than 180 days.

The FDA did not respond to a request for comment. ...

Can you say, ~Pres Trump is selling the sovereignty of Ukraine?~

I knew you could.

More from the article ...

... President Donald Trump's administration is demanding the "right of first offer" on investments in all infrastructure and natural resources projects under a revised partnership deal with Ukraine, according to a draft of the document obtained by Bloomberg News.

If accepted, the partnership agreement would bestow enormous power on the US to control investments into Ukraine in projects including roads and railways, ports, mines, oil and gas and extraction of critical minerals. It would represent an unprecedented expansion of US economic influence in Europe's largest country by area just at the time when it's attempting to align with the EU.

The agreement would grant the US first claim on profits transferred into a special reconstruction investment fund that would be controlled by Washington. Crucially, the document states that the US regards the "material and financial benefits" provided to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 as its contribution to that fund.

In effect, this would mean the Trump administration would compel Ukraine to pay for all of the US military and economic support provided since the start of the war before Kyiv received any income from the partnership fund. ...

@#29 ... He's concerned that Mike Waltz's empty congressional seat may be vulnerable and he has a razor-thin minority in Congress ...

Wait... what????

Pres Trump has said he had a "mandate." (do I really need to cite articles for this?)

What has happened to that "mandate?"

OK, this song popped up on a playlist here ...

@#19 ... I don't want to talk to you no more ...

So, your current alias seems to admit that is has nothing besides ad hominem attacks.

Good to know.

Pres Putin using the word "cooperation?"

What have those he has "cooperated" with had to give up to receive that "cooperation?"

.... and ....

So what?

Yeah, that may be a reply.

But then there is this ...

More from the article....

... Arctic sea ice forms and expands during the dark, frigid northern winter, reaching its seasonal high point in March. But in recent years, less new ice has formed, and the accumulation of multi-year ice has steadily declined.

The maximum sea ice level for 2025 was likely reached on March 22, measuring 14.33 million square kilometers (5.53 million square miles) -- below the previous low of 14.41 million square kilometers set in 2017.

"This new record low is yet another indicator of how Arctic sea ice has fundamentally changed from earlier decades," said NSIDC senior research scientist Walt Meier in a statement.

"But even more importantly than the record low is that this year adds yet another data point to the continuing long-term loss of Arctic sea ice in all seasons." ...

@#35 ... Thanks to Perpetually Pissed Pete, the Houthis now know we have intelligence on the ground who KNEW the leader was going into his girlfriend's place. ...

Bingo.

Can you say "sources?"

I knew you could.

OK, now the Houthis know that we knew the Houthis leader was going to his girlfriend's place.

My guess is that the Houthis are now doing some major intelligence back-tracking.

For starters, who did that girl-friend talk to?

Exposing possible intelligence sources is a major problem.

@#19 ... Due process to the extent that the committee members who put them in prison ...

Please be specific here.

What committee put who in prison?

Specifics will be helpful.

thx.

@#5 ... Also referred to as ID-10-T ...

I have to say, I've not seen that before.

OK, after a Duck-Duck-Go search, I see it as ...

ID10T

Yeah, it is spot on.

:)

Reminds me of ...

So... it seems the Art of the Deal says, ~we don't care about Democracy or Freedom, but we just want a transactional benefit? And we will sell your sovereignty to Pres Putin to attain that goal?

Am I reading this correctly?

More from the article ...

...President Donald Trump's administration is demanding the "right of first offer" on investments in all infrastructure and natural resources projects under a revised partnership deal with Ukraine, according to a draft of the document obtained by Bloomberg News.

If accepted, the partnership agreement would bestow enormous power on the US to control investments into Ukraine in projects including roads and railways, ports, mines, oil and gas and extraction of critical minerals. It would represent an unprecedented expansion of US economic influence in Europe's largest country by area just at the time when it's attempting to align with the EU.

The agreement would grant the US first claim on profits transferred into a special reconstruction investment fund that would be controlled by Washington. Crucially, the document states that the US regards the "material and financial benefits" provided to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 as its contribution to that fund.

In effect, this would mean the Trump administration would compel Ukraine to pay for all of the US military and economic support provided since the start of the war before Kyiv received any income from the partnership fund. ...

@#2 ... The biggest security hole in any corporation is the employees. ...

Absolutely.

Back in the day, when I was in IT, the cute saying at the time was ...

The biggest possible security breach is between the chair and the keyboard.

@#33 ... I leave it to the professionals to judge what should and should not be. ...

And, who does your current alias consider to be the "professionals" in this, I'll say, event?

... "I look more towards National Security than obsequious loyalty to the Trump administration."

No, you don't. You buy whatever the mainstream media tells you hook, line, and sinker. ...

That's not quite correct.

I look towards truth and substantiated evidence (and that reminds me, didn't I ask your current alias for evidence a few comments ago? What's it got?).

When MAGA starts working in truth, I will start echoing their comments.

... Your questions pre-supposes that secrets have been discussed in this latest media hoax. ...

Actually, no.

My questions asks, based upon the cavalier attitude of those in the conversation on the insecure Signal app, was this the only conversation on this insecure app?

Or were there other conversations that sought to bypass laws that Executive branch conversations must be preserved.

Oh wait, is that yet another law that may have been broken here?

OK, maybe this was on Sec Hegseth's mind at the time ...

More from the OpEd ...

... You know how IT admins are always warning employees about best practices for security? They're always mandating which apps to use, which to avoid and which devices can safely connect to corporate networks.

You know why they do that? To keep idiot workers from going rogue and endangering corporate data and secrets.

Case in point: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who's under fire this week for -- and it's almost too stupid to be true, but it is -- setting up a high-level chat using Signal for top National Security officials to discuss a military attack. And then somehow, some way, a journalist -- Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the liberal publication The Atlantic -- was invited to join the secretaries of State and Treasury, the director of the CIA, and the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, for the discussion.

Now, I like serious spy shows. Give me Gary Oldman as George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Solider Spy to keep me on the edge of my seat. But I can't watch those now, because the real world has gotten so stupid I can no longer suspend my disbelief.

I still have trouble believing what Hegseth and company did. So does Goldberg: "I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal, [the popular, secure messaging service] about imminent war plans. I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president."

Believe it. Goldberg was added to the Houthi PC small group. The virtual group's purpose was to talk about planning a military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Goldberg wasn't asked if he wanted to be involved; he was just added. If there was a group administrator, he or she paid no attention whatsoever to what they were doing. ...

@#22 ... But rather entertaining for a deflection from the embarrassment that MTG is. ...

Bingo.

... Isn't she the perfect representation of MAGA? So... perfect! ...

Apparently so.

@#8 ... but it's all perspective and personal experiences. ...

Exactly.