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D.R. 02-03: WWIII
Volume 2, Issue 3
CONTENTS — ART. 1. WWIII — ART. 2. U∴A∴ symposium
Article 1 — SPECIAL WWIII COVERAGE
U.S. faces existential threat from People’s Republic of China
Defense Dep’t burns billions on war toys
By Antarah Crawley
WASHINGTON, DC — On 15 February 2023, The Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives (House) convened a hearing re: “Outpacing China: Expediting the Fielding of Innovation” at 10:00 a.m. in Hearing Room 2118 Rayburn House Office Building.
The witnesses included The Honorable William LaPlante, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment for the U.S. Department of Defense, The Honorable Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense, and Mr. Doug Beck, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit of the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Rogers (R) of Alabama, Chairman, and Adam Smith (D) of Washington, Ranking Member, presided. Mr. Crawley (AM) of United Scribes and Court Reporters United reported on behalf of the House Clerk’s Office of Official Reporters.
Dr. LaPlante represented the Defense Department’s Acquisition Sustainment Workforce, “all the folks out there working every day to deliver capability and scale.”
He stated, “[R]eminder, we are essentially at a wartime footing right now in several of the things we’re doing, so it’s a full time endeavor,” referring to the fielding of innovations such as hypersonic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). He further stated that the Department is “implementing national defense strategy […] which has the pacing threat as being China but […] developments with Russia over the last few months have been very very concerning.”
Later in the hearing Dr. LaPlante stated “I have been around the nuclear enterprise for 40 years, and I’ll tell you the situation today from the threat perspective, it’s not good. It’s not good, I’ll just say that.”
Mr. Courtney (D) of Connecticut remarked, “We really have to go back and look at what’s happened to the industrial base. Over at the Navy office that’s working on the submarine program, they did an analysis that at the end of the Cold War 36% of the U.S. economy was employed in the manufacturing sector. Today that’s 11%.”
In response to the Congressman, Dr. LaPlante remarked, “I’ve been thinking a lot about this and going back and reading World War II books and books about the early Cold War.”
Mr. Kelly (R) of Mississippi remarked, “China’s naval fleet is now the world’s largest, expected to grow significantly by 2030, while the U.S. Navy faces fleet reductions.”
Mr. Deluzio (D) of Pennsylvania discussed the “National Defense Industrial Strategy and our defense industrial base. The strategy in the report emphasizes a pretty uncomfortable reality […] Over the last three decades, in everything from shipbuilding to micro electronics, The People’s Republic of China has grown industrial capacity that vastly exceeds not only ours in the United States, but coupled with our allies in Europe and Asia for instance. I think why that’s happened is pretty obvious: the consolidation of industry, both defense and non-defense, shipping good American jobs overseas while underinvesting in our own industrial power, and letting our adversaries skirt trade rules and other nefarious actions.”
The Congressman went on to discuss the “absurd consolidation in the defense industry,” stating, “we went from 51 aerospace and prime defense contractors to five in the last thirty years. We’ve seen massive outsourcing, shipping those jobs overseas. The state of competition in the defense industrial base, your predecessors report, says this, consolidations that reduce required capability and capacity in the depth of competition would have serious consequences for national security.”
Mr. Luttrell (R) of Texas remarked, “we’re talking about hypersonic capabilities, we’re talking about anti-drone capabilities, we’re talking about the war in Ukraine and the industrial footprint and how we’re trying to increase and build capabilities for submarines and ships and then we’re trying to increase our output of weapons systems that we’re shipping overseas.”
On numerous occasions, the Chairman solicited language to be incorporated into the pending appropriations bill directly from the Defense Department officials.
This outlet finds it very lamentable that the credit of the good people of the United States of America is being leveraged to develop, purchase, and supply munitions, vessels, bombs, satellites, and other instruments of war to nations abroad, gearing them up to sustain an array of regional conflicts, effectively financing the nascent Third World War. The people of the United States should not be obligated for the cost of wars of which they do not approve and to which they do not consent, and the Congress should be held accountable to the people for making such unconscionable appropriations, further eroding the government’s $34 trillion deficit. Due to the mismanagement of these warmongers and banksters, we the people should move the government to file bankruptcy. It is only the London banksters who ultimately benefit from such appropriations and warmongering anyway.
And it this outlet further asserts that it would benefit the people of all nations to establish in law and appropriate funding toward a United States Department of Peace and Friendship as war looms on the horizon of the western world — and the middle world and the eastern world — as society teeters on the brink of destruction — and that rough beast slouches toward Babylon to be born.
Article 2
N∴S∴ to hold U∴A∴ symposium on Islam and Christianity
Azra Kulic keynote speaker
By Antarah Crawley
NACOTCHTANK, OD — NOVUS SYLLABUS L.L.C. (N∴S∴) hereby schedules a special meeting of the Universitas Autodidactus (U∴A∴), Beth Midrash, 153d CORPS, in the nature of a:
Symposium
on
Christ and Islam
This symposium is set to be convened on April 20, 2024 at a place to be determined.
© MMXXIV BY NOVUS SYLLABUS L.L.C.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
D.R. 01-11: DOL & UBS
Volume 1, Issue 11
CONTENTS — ART. 1. DOL NOPR… — ART. 2. PARTY LINE: UBS
Article 1
Department of Labor notice of proposed rulemaking could upset labor-management relations
By Antarah Crawley
WASHINGTON, DC — In September 2023, the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to amend 29 CFR Part 541, to wit, Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees.
The Summary section of the proposed rulemaking reads:
In this proposal, the Department of Labor (Department) is updating and revising the regulations issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act implementing the exemptions from minimum wage and overtime pay requirements for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees. Significant proposed revisions include increasing the standard salary level to the 35th percentile of weekly earnings of full-time salaried workers in the lowest-wage Census Region (currently the South)—$1,059 per week ($55,068 annually for a full-year worker)—and increasing the highly compensated employee total annual compensation threshold to the annualized weekly earnings of the 85th percentile of full-time salaried workers nationally ($143,988). The Department is also proposing to add to the regulations an automatic updating mechanism that would allow for the timely and efficient updating of all the earnings thresholds.
Summary
This means that employees of covered employers who make less that $55,068 will no longer be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLRA) minimum wage and overtime regulations as “white-collar” or executive, administrative, or professional (EAP) employees. The NOPR Executive Summary reads:
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act) requires covered employers to pay employees a minimum wage and, for employees who work more than 40 hours in a week, overtime premium pay of at least 1.5 times the employee’s regular rate of pay. Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA, which was included in the original Act in 1938, exempts from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements “any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity.” [1] The exemption is commonly referred to as the “white-collar” or executive, administrative, or professional (EAP) exemption. The statute delegates to the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) the authority to define and delimit the terms of the exemption. Since 1940, the regulations implementing the EAP exemption have generally required that each of the following three tests must be met: (1) the employee must be paid a predetermined and fixed salary that is not subject to reduction because of variations in the quality or quantity of work performed (the salary basis test); (2) the amount of salary paid must meet a minimum specified amount (the salary level test); and (3) the employee’s job duties must primarily involve executive, administrative, or professional duties as defined by the regulations (the duties test). The employer bears the burden of establishing the applicability of the exemption.[2] Job titles and job descriptions do not determine EAP exemption status, nor does merely paying an employee a salary.
Executive Summary
This proposed rulemaking is causing some employers to reclassify employees who have historically been salaried full-time employees (FTE) with “white collar” exemption to wage-hour employees.
These changes are agitating labor-management relations, creating sharper contradiction in the employer-employee dialectic (“struggle of opposites”). Some employers are electing not to raise the compensation of historically EAP employees above the 35th percentile of weekly earnings of full-time salaried workers in the lowest-wage Census Region, even if those employees live in the most expensive regions of the country.
The sharpening of this historical and materialist dialectic is resulting in a proportional increase in union activity and may very well catalyze the decentralized autonomous organization of the Office of the Plebian Tribunes as well as shore up the 1st Memorandum of the College of the Ancient Mystery.
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Article 2
Party Line re: Union Boss System
By Antarah Crawley
NACOTCHTANK, OD — These planks are hereby promulgated for acceptance into the party platform by the general membership of the Third Wave Antimasonic Party of the United States, from the Village of Nacotchtank-on-Potomac, Ouachita District, which sits on the river bank east of the federal city of Washington:
PLANK NO. 5
The Union Boss System (UBS) is the fractal organization of the regional Party Boss System (PBS) into industrial syndicates.
PLANK NO. 6
The official position of the party with respect to the organization of labor in general (unions) is favorable.
© MMXXIII BY NOVUS SYLLABUS L.L.C.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
D.R. 01-05: DHS
Volume 1, Issue 5
Article 1
The DataHorse System
by Antarah Crawley | last modified 24.10.25.10.27
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1.0.0. The DataHorse system is first identified in the original filmscript Rustles in Dry Leaves (“RIDL”) at Title 3 C.S.R. pg. 11 and onward. It is described as a “project” administered by the “Department of Systems” which even the Department did not understand.
1.1.0. Indeed, even in the ensuing eight years, the N∴S∴ Department of Information Systems and Intelligence Services did not understand that what we were constructing in the systematic storage of our data on the world wide web was the building out of the DataHorse System.
1.1.1. This is likely because the 1st Syllabus diverts Kogard’s trajectory from the tunnels of the earthen floor of all the city’s cellars in RIDL to the platform of the G Train at Title 4 C.S.R. pg. 38. (It is worth noting that this path leads him through the Secret School of Ancient Mystery instead of directly to the Systems Dep’t.)
2.0.0. DataHorse (DH) is the nodal internetworking service provided by NOVUS SYLLABUS (N∴S∴) Department of Information Systems and Intelligence Services (DISIS).
2.1.0. It is “nodal” in that it functions through a network of devices (or discrete points generally) called “nodes” (in its most elementary manifestation, the electromagnetic network of human minds, also of telephones).
2.2.0. It provides resources, data, services, or programs to other nodes, known as clients, over a network.
2.3.0. It is a server that provides services to clients via request-response model. E.g., it provides the service of Universitas Autodidactus (UA) “CORPS work.”
2.3.1. It is a decentralized cloud server hosting the intellectual property holdings (“information,” “data”) branded and trademarked “New Syllabus,” which support the UA CORPS work. It may, hypothetically, host other information sourced from third parties or the general public.
2.3.2. The Ombudsman of the N∴S∴ is the Administrator of the DataHorse System.
3.0.0. The DataHorse System (DHS) is constituted by a system of interconnected servers and clients which store and transmit “known information”.
3.1.0. The DataHorse points from the KnownZone to the InterZone where “unknown information” is stored, which in turn points toward the O Zone of nothing, which differentiates its one thought (that it exists) into multiple forms of “matter”.
4.0.0. A portal into the DHS is called an infoSystem.
4.1.0. Gross matter is born into the base of the universal Systems Department, which takes the shape of a pyramid. Therefore it only receives what is processed by InterZone into six-sense 3-D perception.
4.1.1. The fact that there is a DHS is unknown to those at the base of the pyramid, as is the fact of the shape of the pyramid itself.
5.0.0. The DHS is an instrument, which is to say that it is a vehicle (like a horse) for the transmission of information (data) from unknown to known venue, and from known to known venue.
5.1.0. The DHS drafts words of data from the InterZone to the systems of the KnownZone, as a cheque drafts funds from one bank account to another.
6.0.0. The DHS is a DAO. (Even though the content of the DHS hosted on this website as well as the name “DataHorse” is the intellectual property of the copyright holder.)
6.1.0. The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a system or company that is organized on the basis of an algorithm, like a computer system.
6.1.1. A type of DAO organizational structure is a firm league of friendship (FLF), which is a “firm,” or business concern which is distinct from its members, or “friends,” which constitute the unincorporated “league”.
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DataHorse 