Strategic Demands & GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: #EarthScience News, from then to now … In the late 1960s we witnessed the beginnings of a modern environmental movement and we saw the science work of NASA-NOAA-USGS pioneering US efforts. From the initial Earth Science missions of NASA, planning purposefully set in motion the ongoing collection of Earth data
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A US ‘Diktat’ to France, Executive Order 14173
The surprises keep on rolling out from the new US president. The latest in a flurry coming from the president’s desk and his Sharpie Marker-signed pens arrives shortly before a promised Worldwide Tariff Plan
A Vengeful Moment in an Historic Time
In the US Department of Justice ‘Great Hall’, a US president speaks of vengeance and promises retaliation against perceived enemies. The president’s speech, following a cinematic entrance next to the new Attorney General, is captured in news reports across the nation and world
Broken Pledges, Rumbling War
Back in the 1990s with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union with its release of control over Eastern European nations, came a negotiation. This would eventually bring the world to today — and war in Ukraine. Let’s look more closely …
Banned Words (Are Books Next?)
As executive orders from Donald Trump emanate and spread throughout the US government and beyond, the type of government the US is attempting is coming into view. Banned words are being listed …
An Oval Office Meltdown
The screenshot/Google News record here captures a moment that will go down in history as a turning point. Scan the news headlines below and begin to sense what happened in the president’s office of the US White House …
King? President? What’s Next?
This week seems as if an old song played — “Back in the USSR”. The news of a US president echoing Russian geo-political disinformation was jarring, out of tune as it were, memories of times past. The world is turning and the turn to authoritarian disinfo is a clear and present danger
DOGE – Nuclear Oversight?
Two men @work, Trump & Musk. And Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump, 47th president of the United States, messages the nation on February 16, 2025 – He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.
Trump and the Nuclear Button
January 20, 2025 / Inauguration Day / Again the United States and nations of the world have a US President/Commander-in-Chief who has a penchant for threats accompanied by dis- and mis-information, “hell to pay” belligerent quotes and over-the-top, use-of-military threats. We should ask — What could possibly go wrong with this scenario? #SingularAuthority
Story of the Year
With a tip of the StrategicDemands.com hat to DisrupTV online, here’s an end of 2024 snapshot clip capturing what the VC world and CCP world are pursuing… full speed, top of mind. It’s no longer a Moore’s IC pursuit out in front of our world. We’re watching an LLM, machine learning race.
New “Normality’ between Russia and U.S.?
On 18 December 2024, the Russian News Agency TASS publishes an official announcement from the Deputy Foreign Minister, Serge Ryabkov that Russia is open to considering proposals from the United States aimed at restoring relations to “normality”
SpaceX, Starship, Starlink, Starshield… and Next Gen US Space Capabilities, Surveillance & Supremacy
As Elon Musk becomes a major player in the formation of incoming president Donald Trump’s administration, it’s time to take a moment in time and look at what Musk’s businesses bring to the Republican party’s commander-in-chief.
Missed Opportunities Led to Russia-Ukraine War
As the war in Ukraine moves into a tenth year of conflict and over a thousand days of a war Russia calls a ‘special operation’, the escalating war’s reality pushes new nuclear strategies and, as a new U.S. president comes on stage, Strategic Demands recalls a man who speaks of how we got here…
Trump Transitions Toward a New Term
With his re-election, the former US president begins his administration’s transition to his January 2025 inauguration. Among first announcements as a Commander-in-Chief included the selection of Pete Hegseth to head up the Department of Defense….
Election Day Thoughts
Once in a while a turn of phrase, a paragraph, a seminal thought, or a zeitgeist moment captures the temper of the times. Here, Semafor, in a memorable paragraph, places the US Election Day in focus and context. Semaforte. Yes, the US and world’s changing all around us…
November 5th, 2024, a Day to Remember
As the US prepares for Election Day, the consequences of the vote are drawing nigh. The election results, however they are reported and certified (certification itself looms in the days following the election), the nation will no longer be the same on November 6th… It is time to ask what is truly on the ballot. […]
Death of Yahya Sinwar in Gaza War — What’s Next?
News reports of the death of the Hamas leader began to leak out yesterday. Today more details are being revealed. One of his last acts, it seems, as Sinwar lay gravely injured by an Israeli tank shell explosion was… to turn toward a hovering drone monitoring him and throw a stick at it…
