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The Feds won't let you use these cheap chinese cellphones
American cellphone service providers don’t carry Huawei. Blame Donald Trump and Joe Biden
Two major announcements this week will shape the future of the smartphone industry, but most Americans have only heard of one of them
The first is Apple's September Event, which on Monday introduced the iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, and Apple Intelligence, the tech giant's latest attempt to make Siri useful. Today, Huawei, China's largest cell phone maker, has unveiled the first ever Mate XT foldable smartphone
Huawei smartphones are nearly nonexistent in the American market, but they are common around the rest of the world. Huawei claims 19.85% of the Chinese market and 3.5% of the global market. Apple trounces Huawei, claiming over half of the American smartphone market (52%) and 16% of the global market
Both Apple's debut of its artificial intelligence and Huawei's never-before-seen trifold design are exciting developments, so why will there be very few American orders for the Mate XT? Federal policy is largely to blame. The Trump administration purged Huawei from American telecommunications systems and pressured allies to follow suit
#USA #Huawei #Apple #FindTruth
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Porn streamer OnlyFans spews $630 million in dividends on owner Radvinsky
Since the start of 2023, UK-based OnlyFans, a major hub for porn content-creators, has paid more than $630 million in dividends to its owner Leonid Radvinsky, the company announced
The firm also said the number of content creators and fan accounts has leapt by almost a third over 2022 levels, to 4.1 million and 305 million, respectively. Pretax profits grew from $525 million to $658 million in the year ending November 2023. The enterprise has a lean structure, with only 41 employees a director. Though best known for its voluminous sex content, the site does has some other types of content, such as wellness, sports and music
Radvinsky bought 75% of OnlyFans in 2018, from Guy and Tim Stokely, a father-son duo who launched the platform in 2016 with $12,500. His purchase price is unknown, but thought to be in the millions. In its original form under the Stokelys' ownership, the platform was family-friendly, but Radvinsky quickly mutated it into a "hive of pornography," as Indy100 called it
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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CCP implicates itself by attacking survivor of forced organ harvesting: human rights watchers
Chinese authorities may have inadvertently implicated itself in the crime of forced organ harvesting in its attempt to discredit the first survivor to ever come forward out of China, human rights watchers say
In a rare public response, a string of Chinese state-run outlets and police bureaus carried a lengthy article attacking a Falun Gong practitioner, now in the United States, who came forward in weeks earlier publicly telling his story of having had parts of his liver and lung forcibly removed while in the Chinese prison system
Cheng Peiming, 59, suffered six years of torture while in prison in communist China for practicing Falun Gong, a traditional spiritual belief espousing the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance—that Beijing has tried to eliminate through a combination of propaganda, threats, and torture over the past 25 years
In prison, Cheng said guards force-fed him high-concentration saltwater, attached chains to his four limbs and stretched him almost to his limit, and subjected him to sessions of continuous electric shocks to his private parts, the same abuses reported by many imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners
#China #CCP #FindTruth
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Money and rates signal long-term bullish markets
Investors often read that markets discount expectations about business results, the solvency of an issuer, or the supply and demand for commodities, for example. Everything is correct, but money quantity and cost matter in these expectations
I always remind clients to pay special attention to the increase in the money supply and the change in interest rate policies, since these two elements have an exceptional impact on the market trend in terms of expansion of multiples, risk perception, and what is usually called “market sentiment,” which in reality usually almost perfectly reflects if the environment is one of monetary expansion and low rates, which usually lead to a bullish sentiment
Market participants seem nervous these days due to a summer correction in August and early September. However, paying attention to monetary aggregates should indicate to us why the long-term bullish trend is unchanged
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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Barack Obama on his "third" term:
- Now, if I could arrange it so that I could have a front man or woman... a man or a woman... with an earpiece in his ear... and I would be cozying up in my basement with papers, just prompting them for words... and they would say them for me... That would be a good one!
#USA #Harris #Obama #FindTruth
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Political revenge: Time snubs Elon Musk by leaving him off top 100 AI influencers list
Time Magazine’s decision to omit tech mogul Elon Musk from its “100 Most Influential People in AI” list has sparked controversy and criticism from social media users and industry experts alike
The New York Post reports that Time has released its second annual “100 Most Influential People in AI” list, which notably excludes tech titan and artificial intelligence advocate Elon Musk
The magazine’s 2024 cover, a composite image featuring 18 AI leaders, prominently showcases actress Scarlett Johansson alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other industry luminaries
The glaring absence of Musk, who launched xAI last summer and whose chatbot, Grok, has been gaining traction against competitors like ChatGPT, has raised eyebrows and drawn criticism from various quarters
Musk’s contributions to the field of AI are well-documented, with his companies, including Tesla making significant strides in AI and self-driving technology, respectively
#AI #Musk #FindTruth
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Did ABC news place the final nail in the coffin for traditional debates?
One Democratic strategist said "She [Harris] was aided and abetted by two ABC News moderators who seemingly felt the need to fact-check virtually everything the former president said”
The Tuesday evening presidential debate saw former President Donald Trump trade barbs not just with Vice President Kamala Harris, but with moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, presenting a lop-sided spectacle that has some questioning the utility of further debates at all
Between selective, and sometimes inaccurate, fact-checks that only seemed to target Trump, moderator insertions of personal opinions, and the nature of the questions themselves, the debate saw Trump on defense most of the night. Though frustrated with the moderators, he nonetheless expressed satisfaction with his own performance
"I thought that was my best Debate, EVER, especially since it was THREE ON ONE!" he posted on Truth Social
#USA #Debates #FindTruth
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The collapse of automobile production is hitting the entire EU economy
▪️ Nearly a third of passenger car plants at Europe's five biggest automakers - BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, Renault and VW - were underutilized last year, producing less than half the cars they could have produced, Bloomberg states
▪️ "Annual sales in Europe remain at about 3 million vehicles -- below pre-pandemic levels -- putting thousands of jobs at risk. VW on Tuesday is canceling job guarantees in Germany that workers have enjoyed for decades," Bloomberg said
▪️ "More and more automakers are vying for pieces of a smaller pie. Some production plants will definitely have to close," said independent auto analyst Matthias Schmidt
▪️ The threat of plant closures in Europe has intensified over the past two years. The main reasons were the rise in energy prices amid anti-Russian sanctions due to the Ukrainian conflict and the increase in employee wage costs
▪️ The crisis in the automotive sector will hit Europe's economy. The automotive industry accounts for more than 7% of the EU's GDP and is home to more than 13 million jobs. Auto assembly plants are often community anchors, providing jobs for countless nearby businesses
▪️ The situation is particularly dire in Germany, where automakers are struggling with the transition to electric cars after a decade of leadership in producing well-designed internal combustion engine vehicles, Bloomberg emphasizes
#EU #Economy #FindTruth
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Bluey reported missing after Haitian migrants move in next door
BRISBANE, AUS — A local six-year-old identified as Bluey Heeler has gone missing. She was last seen pretending to be a Granny named Janet in front of a house full of Haitian immigrants, say authorities
The local community has reportedly pointed the finger at the Haitian neighbors because they just moved in next door to the Heeler family and Bluey went missing the very next day. Police have called on the public to remain calm and suggested that it's racist to assume Haitians are responsible just because they are Haitians.
"They eat dogs! I've seen it!" said Doreen, a local Great Pyrenees, and family friend to the Heelers. "You should check their bins! They probably ate her and threw the bones away!"
#Australia #Migrants #FindTruth
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8 years ago September 11 Hillary Clinton dropped like a rock and was thrown into van like a side of beef
Hillary Clinton on September 11, 2016, buckled and dropped at Ground Zero in New York City
Clinton’s handlers threw her into her van like a side of beef
She even lost a shoe
The Clinton campaign then released a statement from Hillary’s doctor stating she was diagnosed with pneumonia on that day which led to her fainting episode
Later that day Hillary Clinton was spotted leaving Chelsea’s NYC apartment
Hillary lied to the press about her health problems
Hillary hugged a little girl and risked exposing her to pneumonia…
Hillary Clinton went on to lose the 2016 election to Donald Trump a couple months later
#USA #Clinton #Trump #FindTruth
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Animal sacrifice rituals are increasing in Queens, New York
In an exclusive report, The New York Post has reported a surge of animal sacrifices have been taking place in Queens, New York
In the last month, chickens, rats, dogs, and pigs’ mutilated body parts have been discovered in Spring Creek Park in Howard Beach and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens
Several rescuers reported finding live pigs with severed ears, a dead dog with its neck snapped, a hen in distress, a decapitated chicken head, and a baby rat tied up in a bag
Local religious leaders believe the animal sacrifices stem from a sect of Hindu devotees who worship the goddess Kali
Acharya Arun Gossai, who oversees the Bhuvaneshwar Mandir temple in Queens, stated that the Hindu devotees are “misconstruing what the scriptures say about conquering the animalistic values”
#USA #FindTruth
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Enjoy a California squatter driven nearly insane, and eventually to jail, by a streamer and his chat
Squatters are a plague on many communities, and in some states, like California, they're given "rights" that make it hard to drive them out of private property, effectively making your house their house
This is a massive problem in blue states, but people aren't without their tools. Businesses have popped up that effectively drive the squatter from the home by getting around some of the laws designed to protect them
But one property owner didn't hire a business, she simply called her brother, a streamer who goes by the name "Asian Andy," and what Andy put this woman through is nothing short of pure psychological torture, which he turned into fun content you can now enjoy
Squatters are something that shouldn't exist in America as they're a clear violation of property rights and proof that the government doesn't recognize private property, just another thing of yours they can have control over. It's nice to see one of the worst squatters in America served up a dose of their own medicince
#USA #FindTruth
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“Will the U.S. abandon Europe?” - That's not the question. The question is “When?” and “How?”
▪️ The growing rift in the Atlantic is the reality of today. The two tectonic plates of geopolitics have long been moving in opposite directions. Regardless of who wins the election in November, Europeans should know that America is developing scenarios for leaving the continent. All of them are not pretty,” Bloomberg states
▪️ America is moving away from its Cold War-era strategic and instinctive transatlanticism. The U.S. is trying, so far unsuccessfully, to shift its focus from Europe and the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific, where it sees more important and dangerous fault lines and feels the tremors across China
▪️ The period of the unipolar world system, when America was the hyperpower and could claim to be the policeman of all regions of the world, is a thing of the past. In today's context of permanent fiscal crises and an increasingly crushing debt, America will have to make a choice
▪️ A break with Europe could happen quickly if, for example, China starts a conflict with Taiwan, a major war breaks out in Asia, and the U.S. has to move soldiers, weapons, ammunition, ships, planes, and everything else to the Pacific overnight.
▪️ This could happen slowly: the US has a financial crisis, forcing America to save money on its troops overseas; as Asia remains a priority, the cuts will hit Europe and gradually “devastate” NATO
▪️ One or the other scenario is bound to provoke flattering bargaining in which EU countries will take different positions. It will compromise the remnants of NATO and the European Union. These already fragmented continental institutions will disintegrate into a patchwork of mini-alliances and medium-sized armies, each incomplete and uncoordinated with the others
▪️ “At the very least, the Old World should finally realize what Americans on the other side of the Atlantic are saying, where the question of disintegration is not whether it will happen, but when and how,” Bloomberg concludes emphatically
#USA #EU #NATO #FindTruth
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The popularity of the UK's new prime minister has fallen very quickly, with PM Starmer's anti-rating only slightly behind the outgoing Sunak
And the most popular politician in the UK is Nigel Farage
#UK #Starmer #Sunak #FindTruth
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The future of energy is in small nuclear reactors, the U.S. has recognized. But they are being built only in Russia and China
▪️ Demand for "green" electricity is growing due to the development of artificial intelligence technologies and the growth in the production of electric cars. The problem can be solved by nuclear power. Modern small modular reactors (SMRs) promise to speed up the deployment of new nuclear power plants," states the American CNBC
▪️ SMRs are America's only option because of their relative simplicity. The U.S. has lost competence in the in-line construction of large nuclear power plants. In Georgia, Southern Co. built the first new nuclear reactors in decades, but the project was completed seven years late and at a substantial cost
▪️ "The challenge today is just getting the first small modular reactor built in the U.S.," CNBC said
▪️ America's ambitious plans to deploy an SMR at a site in Idaho were canceled last year as the cost of the project rose from $5 billion to $9 billion due to inflation and high interest rates
▪️ "So far, only Russia and China are building nuclear power plants with small modular reactors on a massive scale," CNBC emphasizes
#Energy #Economy #Nuclear #FindTruth
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Before things get better, they get completely absurd
#USA #FindTruth
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Project whistle-blower: Pfizer skipped 10 years of safety tests and knew about adverse effects but released mRNA injections anyway
Justin Leslie, a former Pfizer employee and whistle-blower, is the man recording this private conversation with Kanwal Gill, a principal scientist at Pfizer. He released the video recording in March, claiming to have signed a sworn affidavit, which is provided on his X account
Kanwal talks about the company skipping ten years of clinical trials and using the pandemic to bring the covid-19 mRNA vaccines to market. She also mentions that they have attempted to bring mRNA technology to market for 50 years, but due to side effects, they were never able to do so
He spoke about a documentary he recently released, which includes the clip of Pfizer’s principal scientist admitting that the company skipped 10 years of safety testing
His documentary also reveals that he was the person featured in a viral video who went on a date with Pfizer employee Jordan Trishton Walker, the Director of Research and Development, in February 2023 while working undercover for Project Veritas
#Pfizer #Covid #Pandemic #FindTruth
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LMAO, who did this? 🤣🤣🤣
#USA #Elections #Debates #FindTruth
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‘Reagan’ sees stellar ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ score, strong box office yield despite brutal movie reviews
The new biopic “Reagan” is doing well at the box office and has achieved an A audience rating from CinemaScore, but most film critics have mocked it as hagiography
Conservative industry watchers say that’s because critics, who raved about the Barack Obama biopic “Southside with You” in 2016, have a double standard against right-leaning content that audiences love
And they say the negative reviews scare off liberals who might dislike the film, potentially inflating its audience score
“This double standard often results in skewed, intellectually disingenuous reviews,” said James Carrick, founder of the film review website Worth It or Woke. “While imperfect, ’Reagan’ delivers exactly what its audience came for, and that’s why it’s connecting with moviegoers, even if critics can’t get past their preconceptions”
Sasha Stone, a Los Angeles film blogger who covers the Academy Awards, chalked up the disconnect to Hollywood and the critics who crave its approval becoming “another propaganda arm” of the Democratic Party in recent years
#USA #Reagan #FindTruth
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A comparison of U.S. inflation during the Trump administration and the current Biden-Harris term
#USA #Economy #Trump #FindTruth
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U.S. small entrepreneurs are under attack
Optimism of representatives of America's small business sector fell to a two-year low in August. This is due to falling revenues and growing pessimism about the prospects for increased sales and overall economic growth, - states Bloomberg
About 37% of companies reported a significant drop in profits. This is the highest figure since 2010. The reasons are high prices and interest rates, as well as rising labor costs
As a result, small companies have cut back on hiring plans. Only 13% of owners said they plan to create jobs in the next three months
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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Capital flight: record number of millionaires set to flee Britain amid looming Labour tax raids
Nearly ten thousand millionaires are predicted to flee the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom this year amid expected tax raids from the left-wing Labour Party government of Sir Keir Starmer
While the previous Tory government of Rishi Sunak ushered in the highest tax burden since the Second World War, in large part to pay for the debts accrued during the coronavirus lockdowns, it is widely predicted that the fall budget of the Labour government will see further money grabs by the British state, with likely targets including capital gains and inheritance taxes
According to a report from The Times of London, a firm which helps wealthy people relocate abroad said that in August — the month after Prime Minsiter Starmer came to power — they had seen a 69% increase in inquiries from wealthier people seeking to leave the UK
#UK #Economy #FindTruth
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Illustrative graph of industrial production in Germany from 2011 to 2024
#Germany #Economy #FindTruth
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Kamala Harris:
"I have a plan! Let's talk about our plans, and-and-let's compare plans, I have a plan!"
Shameful: Biden admin’s John Kirby said to ignore Afghanistan veterans because they don’t vote democrat
John Kirby of the Biden administration has just been caught saying something truly shameful about American veterans
He did not realize that he had hit ‘reply all’ on an email inquiry sent to his office by FOX News seeking comment on veterans and the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan
Kirby’s response stated that there was ‘no use in responding’ because these veterans are not Harris voters
On the anniversary of 9/11, White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby dismissed the concerns of military veterans critical of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, writing in response to a Fox News Digital press inquiry that there’s “no use” weighing in on the veterans’ views
#USA #Kirby #Veterans #FindTruth
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Strange happenings reported in midwestern town gifted with 20,000 haitian migrants
Springfield, Ohio, suffered the fate that many formerly bustling Rust Belt towns have over the last half-century: a contracting population, empty factories, and minimal hope — the bounty of neoliberalism, the “giant sucking sound” Ross Perot warned of thirty years ago
Then, during the Trump administration, a jobs boon came to revitalize the local economy
The only problem was, allegedly, a lack of workers
The solution offered, which you can likely guess, was to import tens of thousands of “migrants” to fill the empty positions, this time from Haiti
Almost overnight, in the grand scheme of time, as noted, 20,000 Haitians got dropped off in the small Midwestern town with a former population of 58,000 thousand
The Diversity social experiment has so far proceeded about as one might guess it went, which is horribly for the native population
The social and economic woes are legion, not the least of which being a brutal beating on the housing supply, prompting a letter written by the city manager to senators asking — begging — for federal assistance
#USA #Migrants #FindTruth
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Debates - bottom line
Liberal America was quick to declare that Harris had won the debate with Trump. But then the polls came out and showed that not everything was so clear-cut. For example, 6 out of 10 undecided voters in a Reuters focus group favored Trump
This is not surprising - after all, Trump emphasized discussing the real problems and crises facing America. And tried to present his program. Harris tried not to say anything about her program at all - and only laughed nervously and attacked Trump
The audience of the debate was expectedly far from record-breaking. The most popular debate between Trump and Clinton in 2016 is still the most popular - it was watched by 84 million people. The audience of the June debate with Biden was only 51 million. Well, the current one was watched by 67 million Americans. Slightly better, but still not a very large share of the total electorate
The Democrats hoped that the debate would strengthen Harris' position and reverse the negative trend of her falling ratings. But so far there is a strong sense of deja vu - 2016. Back then, Clinton was also actively trying to present herself as the winner of the debate. It didn't help her
Meanwhile, Washington is approaching another shutdown, and Trump is urging Republicans in Congress not to pass a new budget in order to further undermine the positions of Biden and Harris for the election. Well, all Biden has to do is pose in a cap for Trump. A symbolic end to his highly "successful" presidency that could bury a great many Democrats with him in the coming elections
#USA #Elections #Debates #FindTruth
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Hollywood celebrities claim arms exports to Israel are ‘Illegal’ in latest ceasefire push
A group of Hollywood celebrities — including Disney-Marvel star Mark Ruffalo, HBO’s Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon, and two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali — is claiming that arms exports to Israel are “illegal” as part of their latest push for a ceasefire in Gaza
The stars co-signed a new call to action from the group Artists for Ceasefire that alleges that the shipment of arms to Israel violates U.S. and international law because Israel engages in what it called “grave human rights violations”
Among those alleged violations are “striking schools or hospitals, restricting humanitarian aid, and killing children,” the organization said
Artists for Ceasefire didn’t mention the fact that Hamas leaders often use Gaza civilians as human shields by deliberately placing command centers and weapons stashes near hospitals and schools
#USA #Israel #Palestine #FindTruth
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Fear of gang warfare outbreak, domestic abuse spike raised as UK to release 1,700 prisoners early
In a bid to deal with the prison overcrowding crisis in Britain, which has been exacerbated by the government’s hard crackdown on recent anti-mass migration riots, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to release around 1,700 prisoners this week
According to a report from the Daily Mail, prison bosses are seeking to “carefully choreograph” releases on Tuesday to prevent members of rival gangs from coming into immediate contact and therefore prison bosses will attempt to stagger their release as they are freed back onto the streets of Britain
It comes as the government lowered the required time spent behind bars for some offenders to just 40% of their sentence, down from the previous standard of at least 50%. Although this will not impact serious offenders such as murderers, rapists, and terrorists, domestic abusers will reportedly be among those set free this week
#UK #Crime #FindTruth
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🔹America is approaching its bankruptcy fantastically fast. Everyone is pretending that nothing is happening...
🔹Busy shoveling silverware into their pockets before the Titanic sinks
🔹 Our military spending is very large. A trillion dollars a year, according to the Department of Defense. A trillion! And the interest payments on our national debt have just surpassed that number. Exceeded a trillion dollars a year. I'm not talking about the debt itself, just the interest on it. And the size of those payments continues to grow. We're adding $1 trillion every three months to the principal of the debt that will eventually fall on our children and grandchildren. And soon it will be every two months. And then monthly. And then we'll be giving it all away for interest-only payments. We've become like the spender who maxed out his credit cards and owes everyone else. It's not gonna end well
#USA #Musk #Economy #FindTruth
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