The fiscal year to date (from Oct 1, 2021 to Jan 31, 2022) deficit dropped to $259 billion.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Thursday, February 10, 2022
What is MDM?
Misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation make up what CISA defines as “information activities”. When this type of content is released by foreign actors, it can be referred to as foreign influence. Definitions for each are below.
Misinformation is false, but not created or shared with the intention of causing harm.
Disinformation is deliberately created to mislead, harm, or manipulate a person, social group, organization, or country.
Malinformation is based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.
Foreign and domestic threat actors use MDM campaigns to cause chaos, confusion, and division. These malign actors are seeking to interfere with and undermine our democratic institutions and national cohesiveness.
As COVID-19 spread around the globe, mis-, dis-, and malinformation (MDM) spread as well. COVID-19-related MDM activities seek to undermine public confidence and sow confusion. COVID-19 has demonstrated that a rapidly evolving event creates opportunities for adversaries to act maliciously. It also shows that rapid evolution of accurate information makes older, dated information a potential catalyst of confusion and distrust as well. The MDM team supports the interagency and private sector partners’ COVID-19 response efforts via regular reporting and analysis of key pandemic-related MDM trends.
Source: https://www.cisa.gov/mdm
See also: https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-february-07-2022
The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence.
Question: What about the First Amendment? Has the constitution been suspended because of Covid?
Update:
This looks very entertaining:
https://www.cisa.gov/resilience-series-graphic-novels
CISA has made two comic books explaining what MDM is. The titles are: "Real Fake" and "Bug Bytes".
Friday, February 4, 2022
The National Debt hits $30 Trillion
On 1/31/2022, the National Debt hit $30 Trillion.
Let's look at the previous milestones:
12/16/2021 $29 Trillion
3/31/2021 $28 Trillion
10/1/2020 $27 Trillion
6/9/2020 $26 Trillion
5/5/2020 $25 Trillion
4/7/2020 $24 Trillion
11/7/2019 $23 Trillion
2/11/2019 $22 Trillion
3/15/2018 $21 Trillion
9/8/2017 $20 Trillion
I started this blog many moons ago because I was worried about the skyrocketing debt. One of my first blog entries, on June 20, 2010, complained that the national debt was excessive at $13 Trillion.
What is the doubling-time of the debt? It was $15 Trillion on 11/15/2011. So about 10 years. So we can expect the National Debt to hit $60 Trillion on about 2/1/2032.
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