Kathryn Cantrell

Southerner. Owned by Australian Shepherds. Lover of good thriller and crime fiction.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Steve Irwin was a classic.

We didn’t appreciate him enough until he was gone.

[Ken D Berry MD @KenDBerryMD]

This is real and has been going on for over a decade.

[BKactual @BravoKiloActual]

Podcast#499: Nepal Sherpa scandal, Italy quadruple arson homicide, India hotel fire disaster, China-N. Korea summit, Israel spying on U.S., Canada bounce house death, CA election update, UK guy caught on camera spraying his semen on female shoppers 🥴 https://t.co/zTAkcnJ4ba

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 6, 1944, a 56-year-old general with a secret walked onto Utah Beach under fire, armed with a cane and a pistol.

The secret: his heart was failing. He had hidden it from the army doctors so they wouldn't pull him from the mission.

His name was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Son of the President. He had begged three separate times to lead the first wave ashore at Normandy before his commanders finally said yes.

When his landing craft drifted 2,000 yards off course, every instinct said redirect the following waves to the correct zone. Instead, Roosevelt walked the beach himself, alone, under artillery fire, cane in hand, reading the terrain.

His verdict: "We'll start the war from right here."

He then stood on that beach and personally greeted every regiment that landed after him, pointing them inland, cracking jokes under shellfire, steadying 18-year-olds who had never seen combat. He did this for hours.

Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic act he had ever witnessed in combat.

His answer, without hesitation: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Roosevelt's son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, also landed at Normandy that same morning. He was named after his uncle, Quentin Roosevelt, who had been shot down as a fighter pilot over France in World War I.

Three generations. Three wars. One family.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. died in his sleep 36 days later. Heart attack. The thing he had been hiding finally won. He never learned he had been awarded the Medal of Honor.

He was buried at the Normandy American Cemetery.

In 1955, his family had his brother Quentin, killed in WWI, exhumed from where he fell in France and reinterred right beside him. Quentin is the only World War I soldier buried there.

Two brothers. Two world wars. The same French soil.

Their father had once said: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Both of his sons did exactly that.

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

Clearing up some actual misinformation:

The New World Screwworm does not pose a threat to raw or cooked meat, and consumers should not worry about purchasing meat throughout this crisis

The threat is to LIVE warm blooded animals, also including wildlife, pets and humans

Here is a link to information about information, symptoms, risk factors, how it spreads and prevention: https://t.co/UyPyogfSRN

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

We give Israel unprecedented access to facets of our government and electoral systems, enabling their overt influence over our foreign policy. Like any competent intel service, they take advantage of that access to further Israel’s agenda, at the expense of Americans.

Our entire relationship with Israel must be redefined—immediately. We need to be clear-eyed going forward and should treat them like a foreign country with different objectives than ours, because they are.

[Nard @Narddog4747]

America has lost ~$450 billion from outsourcing IT to India in the last 6 years alone.

I've worked through 15 different technology implementations for healthcare providers over the past 6 years. Small scale to enterprise level.

While the data is clear on the amount of foreigners that have been given US based tech employment, what it precariously omits is the enormous scale of reliance on offshored labor. This is an opaque process to most people, even corporate Americans don't understand what is actually happening.

Every single project I was involved in used Indian consultants. Scrum masters, data analysts, DevOps & SWEs, project managers - all Indian. The service team - call center reps, client managers, Their work was horrific and constantly needed micromanaging. It would take 6 Indians to complete a simple SQL pipeline for SFTP prep that an American dev could solo in half the time. Project documentation was atrocious, filled with grammatical errors making it largely undecipherable. Deliverables were always late.

Firms like Deloitte, Accenture, PWC, EY, Optum and Huron all have what PWC calls "acceleration centers" where these people are employed. Primarily in India, but also in Malaysia, the Philippines and Mexico. Massive corporate buildings that cram thousands of these people to do work that would require 1/10 of the amount of Americans.

I often wondered, why? The answer is simple - build a deliverable that (barely) functions but breaks enough to keep the client engaged long term. The money isn't in the project, but all the servicing behind it. Using offshore labor allows these companies to arbitrage labor cost exponentially, meaning massive profitability for shareholders.

Example:

A company pays Deloitte $400k to build a new inventory software system. After it’s live, they sign a 5 year support contract for $180,000 per year so Deloitte’s team fixes problems, updates it, and keeps it running. That turns a $400k project into $1.3 million total revenue for Deloitte over time.

But the devil is in the details.

Mostly all of development work for the inventory software is done offshore in India, where Deloitte’s developers cost the firm about $25k–$35k each instead of using American developers who cost $110k–$150k each.

In that same $180k per year support contract, Deloitte will use offshore teams in India (costing the firm ~$15k–$25k) instead of Americans (who cost ~$90k–$120k).

Every offshore hire means roughly $60k–$90k in American wages that never enter the U.S. economy.
Over 5 years that’s $750k–$1.2m+ in lost U.S. wages that will never enter the American economy, from one single project.

Scaling of this issue is imperative.

An estimated 150,000 projects have been completed by professional firms since 2020.

Low end: 150,000 × $750,000 = $112.5 billion

High end: 150,000 × $1,200,000 = $180 billion

However, these are only first order effects. If we account for second order (wages supporting local economy and everything downstream) we can conservatively estimate a 1x-1.5x multiplier so the real cost for America looks more like this:

Low end: $112.5B × 2.0 = $225 billion

High end: $180B × 2.5 = $450 billion

$35-70 billion per year on IT outsourcing alone.

Professional companies are expanding very rapidly on this front, largely through AI marketing slop to blissfully unaware boomer corporate executives, embedding their useless AI into their bread and butter - outsourced service model.

There are virtually no indicators that anyone will do anything about this.

[America First Legal @America1stLegal]

UC San Diego is looking for H-1B workers to come to America for REMOTE jobs paying hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

Were there really no American citizens qualified for these positions?

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

.@ICEgov lodged an arrest detainer the SAME DAY this criminal illegal alien was arrested for driving under the influence. That was the same day he was released by sanctuary politicians.  

In the sheriff’s OWN WORDS, he “probably would not” have honored the detainer because it was “just a DUI.” They knowingly set this violent criminal loose, and he slaughtered a two-week-old baby in cold blood, along with the infant’s mother and grandmother. 

California’s sanctuary politicians MUST STOP this deadly game. They CHOOSE every single day to release criminal illegal aliens back into our communities, directly endangering American families and creating more innocent victims.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

The Media Only Loves Us When We’re Dead: Part II

I’m not done with this "reporter" yet. And I won’t stay silent while the media drags warfighters who bled for this nation and are now trying to make it better.

I’ll be honest, I’m ashamed I didn’t look deeper into the story of @SeanParnellUSA sooner. The GWOT cuts too close to my own scars, so I looked away from the broader history. But not anymore.

Media scrutiny isn’t new. Even George Washington was mocked in print. But the latest attacks on Sean Parnell say far more about the press than they do about him.

So pause and remember where you were on June 10, 2006.

1. The most popular song was Hips Don’t Lie.
2. The top movie was Cars.
3. And Sean Parnell was leading 39 men through a mountain ambush by over 250 enemy fighters. He was wounded three times, and stayed in the fight. By the end of that deployment, 85% of his platoon had been wounded.

Funny how you only get one Purple Heart for taking three hits in one battle, but a thousand paper cuts from the press for doing nothing wrong.

So let me get this straight: guys like him are good enough to fight your wars, bury their friends, and carry the silence of it all for the rest of their lives, but not good enough to help fix the institutions that failed them?

Who better than them?

You think you're criticizing one man. But behind every name you recognize is a platoon’s worth of warriors you never will. Quiet. Steady. Carrying the same resolve that got them all home. And whether you realize it or not, the hopes of a generation of warfighters rest quietly on his and @PeteHegseth's shoulders.

You forget: the fire that forged these men didn’t burn them up, it tempered them. And here’s the part you never seem to learn:

If you keep mocking the warriors who came home and tried to lead, don’t act surprised when fewer of them show up next time. Why would they?

Or maybe that’s the media's goal? But it won't work.

Because in this country, it seems the only time the media honors them... is when they’re coming home in a box draped in the American Flag.

***Please share this widely to counter the harmful "media" narratives that exist to malign warfighters who bled in battle and are trying to make a difference.***

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: Leftist terrorists are ABSOLUTELY WINNING here outside Delaney Hall in Newark, and civilian staffers are getting NO SUPPORT as their cars are smashed

THIS IS A JOKE.

NATIONALIZE THE GUARD IF THE STATE REFUSES TO ACT

ICE agents and civilian staffers should NOT be subjected to this abuse. PERIOD.

[Kyle Seraphin @KyleSeraphin]

This post says you can't downsize Intel agencies because they would be too likely to become walk-in traitors to our enemies.

That sounds like a reason you should.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

This is the scene in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. They're smoking ISO, a new drug that's up to 20 times more powerful than fentanyl.

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

Google is planning to release 64 MILLION Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes into neighborhoods in Florida and California.

This is reckless, irreversible biological experimentation on American communities and our ecosystems — with no off-switch.

Florida recorded just 6 West Nile cases last year. The risk is negligible, yet they’re proceeding anyway. These altered mosquitoes could disrupt birds, bats, and entire food chains with consequences we cannot undo.

Enough of Big Tech playing God with our environment and our health.

Tell the EPA to REJECT this dangerous experiment. (Link in comments.)

Public comments close tomorrow, June 5th.

[Southern Mama @SouthernMB82]

I just want to make sure I fully understand the situation.

A foreigner immigrates to the U.S.

This foreigner then receives taxpayer-backed SBA loans only offered to immigrants.

Soon after, this same foreigner is then allowed to use the H-1B visa program to hire people from his homeland.

Meanwhile, Heritage Americans who want to start businesses aren’t even offered such loans and must also compete against foreigners for jobs.

This foreigner could have stayed in his homeland, started his business there, and hired his countrymen without needing to apply for work visas.

Yet, this foreigner comes here to take advantage of Americans with the help of our own government because our country is an economic zone for the world.

Do I have that right?

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

People who continue to blame New World Screwworm crisis on the Biden Administration need to stop

The Secretary has had 15 months to prepare a competent response, and despite what some are saying, the response has been lackluster and unserious

Let’s go over some facts:

In order to eradicate the NWS, we need somewhere between 500M-600M sterile flies produced WEEKLY, and we currently produce 100M weekly

There are current mechanisms and technologies that could be deployed IMMEDIATELY in order to produce those numbers that have been ignored by the USDA for the past 6 months

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) which oversees the NWS response is a disaster. There were some competent veterinarians interviewed during the transition willing to serve and reform the bureau who were blocked by the Secretary and her team. Instead they decided to retain the same director from the Biden Administration (ironic) who botched the response to the Avian flu

The tick rider program (people on horseback looking at wildlife and livestock in desolate areas) is completely disorganized, so the “surveillance” mechanisms that continue to be touted are not sufficient enough to detect these infestations in extremely rural areas in the timely manner required to combat this

On top of all this, producers in Texas are being pressured NOT TO REPORT potential cases, and if it wasn’t for some brave people reporting on this current case in LaPryor, it’s possible it would have been covered up

NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION NOW

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

He’s proposing a phasing out of direct subsidies in exchange for the US military doing even more for Israel

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵 THREAD: Shashank Joshi, a foreign think tank careerist, has a 16-year record of attacking US foreign policy... and now he's lecturing our military leadership on how to take the oath. Why does he still have a work visa?

He's an Indian national who arrived in April and is already the loudest critic of the Pentagon on social media.

The Economist's new Washington Bureau Chief — an Indian national on a visa who just arrived in April — went on a Canadian national security podcast literally titled "The Problem of America" and said this about US military operations:

"They have attacked scores of small boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean. They've killed dozens of people in a campaign that is, by most accounts, quite illegal and contrary to international law."

That's Shashank Joshi, @shashj . Defence editor turned bureau chief. Two months in the country and he's already built a 16-year paper trail calling American power "malevolent," "predatory," and "quite illegal" — while sitting on the advisory board of a UK think tank funded by the European Commission, BAE Systems, and the US State Department.

And he's now lecturing our military leadership on what it means to take the oath.

I have the receipts.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[Jobs.Now @JobsNowPR]

While entry level Americans citizens scrimp and save, F-1 visa holders are living high on the hog paying no FICA taxes.

Imagine being exempt from FICA…! What would you do with an additional ~7.5% each paycheck?

[Border Hawk @BorderHawkNews]

JUST IN: Border Patrol sources tell us agents are deploying to El Paso Sector to mitigate a "big uptick in crossings" into New Mexico

We've reported extensively from that region, where smugglers, illegal aliens, and cartel operatives exploited the wide-open border for years ⏬