REBUILD THE UNITED STATES!

  BY KEVIN POLICARPO China is gradually refining and improving its cyberwarfare capabilities that could shut down and hamper critical U.S. infrastructure including the U.S. power grid. Meanwhile, the U.S. is cutting back on spending for its cybersecurity infrastructure, reducing budgets for organizations and systems that are vital for U.S. cyberdefense. QUANTUM COMPUTING THREAT China is also...

BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS Geoffrey Hinton, a 2024 Nobel Prize winner, is now warning that AI is in the process of developing a super-intelligence capability that poses a threat to humans. He warns about the threat of mass-unemployment, increased cyber-attacks as well as biological warfare mounted by an AI technology run for profit and for military aggrandizement. In May 2023, Hinton announced...

Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “The rapidly increasing demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) models requires extensive server installation with sustainability implications in terms of the compound energy–water–climate impacts. Here we show that the deployment of AI servers across the United States could generate an annual water footprint ranging from 731 to 1,125...

By Stas Margaronis In 2018, Atanas Atanasov returned to his native Bulgaria from the United States, where he had worked for the National Cargo Bureau for more than a decade. He came back to work at the Port of Varna for Cargill, at their Ocean Transportation division. CARGILL Cargill, Incorporated, is a multinational food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, founded in 1865.  With...

  BY STAS MARGARONIS & KEVIN POLICARPO China’s growing naval superiority over the United States is the result of a concerted Chinese commercial and naval shipbuilding effort that the United States and the U.S. Navy chose to ignore while letting its commercial and naval shipbuilding capabilities and shipyards decline or disappear. SOUTH KOREAN INVESTMENTS One bright spot is the efforts by the...

  BY STAS MARGARONIS, Three Northern California ports - Redwood City, Richmond and San Francisco - reported that they are making headway in 2025 despite a more challenging trade and cargo picture. The Port of Redwood City has improved revenues despite a decline in tonnage, San Francisco has reported a resurgence in cruise ship volumes following downturns during the Pandemic and the Port of...

Kaiser Richmond (CA) Shipyard During World War II BY STAS MARGARONIS IN THIS REPORT: WILL SOUTH KOREA MAKE AMERICAN SHIPBUILDING GREAT AGAIN (MASGA)? GCAPTAIN REPORTS BAD NEWS ON SHIPBUILDING ROLE MODEL: SOUTH KOREA’S HYUNDAI SAMHO SHIPS ACT WORLD WAR II SHIPBUILDING MOBILZATION THE LIBERTY SHIP SHIPS FOR VICTORY KAISER AND BECHTEL SPEARHEAD SHIPBUILDING MASS-PRODUCTION U.S. CEDES ITS...

National Steel & Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) San Diego, CA displays an older and smaller shipyard lay-out than a new Chinese shipyard featured below   (PHOTO: NASSCO) “Commercial ships could carry merchant trade, but they could also carry logistical supplies for the military in wartime. Shipyards could build new ships for civilian fleets as well as the Navy, but they could also repair...

By Kevin Policarpo Cuts to NOAA’s personnel and operations by the Trump Administration have made the agency’s mission much more challenging as evidenced by charges that recent NOAA cutbacks may have delayed flood warnings in Central Texas. This, in turn, may have prompted a Congressional backlash so as to retore NOAA funding. Congressional members from both sides of the aisle have worked...

By Kevin Policarpo  With the number of high-profile airplane crashes in the U.S. since January 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is now under extreme pressure to rebuild the nation’s outdated air traffic control system. The FAA has estimated that the cost of upgrading the system will cost the federal government $35 billion through 2030.[1] On January 29th,  over the Potomac River...