Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Newsom’s California: Delivery Drivers Now Being Accompanied By Armed Guards Due To “Crime Concerns”
July 8th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Things have gotten so utopian in the state of California, delivery drivers are being accompanied by armed guards due to “crime concerns” while out making deliveries. One company, Core Mart, has started hiring the guards to escort its drivers. Which means that somewhere, in a board room, it likely made more financial sense […]
Happy 4th of July
July 4th, 2024pic.twitter.com/aRvApwZKdr — cryptogon (@cryptogon) July 4, 2024 This video about Independence Day should be viral… pic.twitter.com/C6j6PNNHmT — Nashville Angela (@angelanashtn) July 4, 2024
Happiness
July 2nd, 2024Via: Steve Cutts:
State Farm Seeks Major Rate Hikes for California Homeowners and Renters
June 29th, 2024Absolutely nuts. Via: Los Angeles Times: State Farm General is seeking to dramatically increase residential insurance rates for millions of Californians, a move that would deepen the state’s ongoing crisis over housing coverage. In two filings with the state’s Department of Insurance on Thursday signaling financial trouble for the insurance giant, State Farm disclosed it […]
John Deere Laying Off Hundreds in Midwest Amid Production Shift to Mexico
June 29th, 2024Via: Fox Business: John Deere, the world’s largest seller of tractors and crop harvesters, has announced another wave of layoffs Friday, telling around 610 production staff at plants in Illinois and Iowa that they will be out of a job by the end of the summer, according to reports. … The company says it generated […]
U.S. Senator Says Ukraine Is “Sitting on $10 to $12 Trillion of Critical Minerals… The Best Business Partner We Ever Dreamed Of”
June 27th, 2024Via: Geopolitical Economy: A prominent US lawmaker has referred to Ukraine as a “gold mine”, insisting the West must maintain access to the trillions of dollars worth of critical minerals located in the country. “They’re sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine”, said Senator Lindsey Graham. “They could be the richest […]
Batteries as a Military Enabler
June 25th, 2024Via: War on the Rocks: The larger and more sophisticated the Chinese battery complex becomes, the more likely it is to secure technological advances in next-generation solid-state batteries that could revolutionize energy or transform military affairs. It could also leverage its existing industrial capabilities in lithium-ion batteries to scale deployments of unmanned and manned aerial […]
JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE AFTER PLEA DEAL
June 24th, 2024JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a… — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 24, 2024 […]
Microsoft Wants Fusion Energy for AI
June 21st, 2024Via: Washington Post: Microsoft is betting on an effort to generate power from atomic fusion — the collision of atoms that powers the sun — a breakthrough that has eluded scientists for the past century. Physicists predict it will elude Microsoft, too. The tech giant and its partners say they expect to harness fusion by […]
Not A Single American Has Received Biden’s High-Speed Internet Despite $42.5 Billion Funding In 2021: FCC Commissioner
June 19th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr slammed the Biden administration on Friday – writing on X that President Joe Biden has yet to connect a single American with high-speed internet. “In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans. Years later, it has not connected even […]
