If, let us say, for renovation purposes you’ve ever folded back the wall of an old building, it is not uncommon or inconceivable to see an unanticipated collection of silverfish scurrying from exposure to renewed darkness and seeming invisibility. Like it or not it is a casualty of Nature that, contrary to the preference of the more “tolerable” and public components of society, there exists below the surface of even the most celebrated venues a thriving community of vermin, elements considered parasitic or despicable. I have heard it said that, so ingenious are these vermin, that forcing them from one resort only transfers them to another. As Mrs. Doreen Dougall knowingly commented years ago one sunny morning on the deck of her home on Ardenne Road in Kingston, Jamaica, one merely withstands a degree of occasional petty theft of necessities by the staff; it was part of the immutable and digestible character of subordinates, one which no amount of useless rhetoric or pontificating was ever likely to eradicate. Nor – more importantly – did the low level incrimination do anything whatever to contaminate the overall performance or expectation.
The recent enterprise of the American government to make itself great again has provoked many useful discussions, involving for example the commendable analysis of how to improve or create local manufacturing; or to strengthen the prohibition of crime. Tellingly however has been an absence of a predominant investment in the possibility of fashioning pathways to international agreements and cooperation. In the instance of its association with its vital trading partner Canada, the discussion was first reduced to indiscrete and offensive remarks about overtaking the country by force (albeit tranquillized by the assurance of initial economic measures only). The repercussions have been catastrophic for Americans, precipitating an unforeseen economic collapse from their erstwhile longstanding neighbours.
Similarly in a precipitous move to sweep the streets and the country of its much touted (though ill defined) vermin and infectious elements, the US government has hastily embraced categoric trade alternatives designed to obstruct interference from without. Significantly this ambition has been asserted before having established what if anything is to replace existing business routes, a failure which has since been recognized as forecasting inevitable adverse consequences, loss and expense for the American populace.
Sweeping the streets and other cosmetic ventures have the appearance of improvement (and there may well be occasional success in limiting or quelling the inescapable features of social impurity), but the agenda apart from its theatrics does little to advance the well being of the whole. Indeed it is remarkable in many instances that the mandate of law and order and economic reform is being overridden by blunt authoritarianism assisted by esoteric legal and constitutional entitlement which paradoxically has proven to threaten to destabilize the foundations of the country. The scope of alteration has transitioned from moderate and arguable renovation to outright destruction often involving as collateral those people and institutions that for years have formed part of the framework of the superstructure. This is not to mention the inutility of “cleansing” the country of its much needed seasonal employees whose survival is aligned with Nature’s annual shifts.
The process of purification of these “sweeping” changes to American society – though medicating the intolerance of a segment of the population – is on strict analysis prompted by meaningless and insignificant differences affecting the majority but which are perilous to a minority. Many of the US government’s preoccupations have addressed irrelevant identities with little if any impact on society such as the sexual preferences of members of the military or the use of a woman’s public washrooms by a female impersonator or transgender.
Service members supporting ICE will be performing case management, transportation, clerical functions, and logistical support – which may include data collection, fingerprinting, DNA swapping, and photographing of personnel in ICE custody.
In an effort to recover a semblance of ingenuity the US government has lately announced an investment in local technology. It is as yet an unassured project of success, first because the current source of investment is already on unstable footing; and, second because the foreign resource is so highly organized. There is never anything wrong with attempted change but it might have been more fruitful to consider instead international cooperative discussions with a view to evolving development.
New York (CNN) — The United States government is making an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, giving the Trump administration a roughly 10% stake in the struggling chipmaker, Intel and the president announced on Friday.
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the world’s largest dedicated chip foundry, manufacturing semiconductors for companies like Apple and Nvidia, and is headquartered in Taiwan. Founded in 1987, TSMC pioneered the “pure-play foundry” model, focusing solely on manufacturing rather than designing its own chips. The company holds a dominant market share due to its advanced technology, high-quality production, and massive scale, making it a critical player in the global semiconductor industry.
The proverbial “elephant in the room” is the current president of America, a gentleman riddled with reputed corruption and criminality, who many have speculated is only engaging in diversionary ambitions to escape his own more pressing personal liabilities which daily become more distant as his putative political sights broaden. The very real possibility of imprisonment of the president lingers if America is to readjust to its once democratic and all-inclusive model. Meanwhile the president has aligned himself (the unlikely candidate that he is by all accounts) with the far right Christian interest which itself is spooked by endless conspiracy theories. Add to this already distasteful mixture the unapologetic alliance with select wealthy businessmen and related interests. Once again there is nothing especially wrong with private goals but they do nothing to advance public goals. If government were to be consumed by private interests the nature of vermin changes.