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Biden declares inflation “over,” orders companies to lower prices

December 01, 2023 -

Prices are artificially high right now, Biden says, because companies are still holding onto the idea of inflation. Because inflation rates have slowed and some shipping costs have fallen, Biden wants companies to lower their prices immediately so Americans can afford to buy more.

"Any corporation that has not brought their prices back down, even as inflation has come down, even as the supply chains have been rebuilt, it's time to stop the price-gouging," Biden said ...

‘Literally impossible’: Trucking companies brace for California’s electric mandate

June 08, 2023 -

(Article by Travis Gillmore republished from TheEpochTimes.com)

Availability of electric semi-trucks is a concern, as is the price of the vehicles, the number of miles they can go on a charge, and the cost of maintenance and replacement parts, all of which currently remain unknown variables, according to industry experts.

“We need to know all of these things in order to plan,” Nelson Sibrian — owner of Sibrian Trucking based in Wilmington, California — told The Epoch ...

Congress orders telecommunications companies to clean up TOXIC lead cables

July 17, 2023 -

Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wrote in a letter to USTelecom, an industry group that represents telecommunications giants like AT&T and Verizon, that the telecom industry must act now to clear the ground of these cables to avoid a public health disaster.

"The telecommunications companies responsible for these phone lines must act swiftly and responsibly to ensure the mitigation of any environmental and public health effects," Markey said.

"The members of USTelecom ...

Over 55,000 companies shut down in France as country’s economy implodes

January 09, 2024 -

While the surge in closures is significant, the Bank of France emphasized that the level remains below the average annual bankruptcy filings recorded between 2010 and 2019, which stood at 59,342. The pandemic years saw a considerably lower number of business closures, almost half of the figures reported in 2023.

The report highlighted that the majority of closures in 2023 affected small and medium-sized enterprises. Businesses with less than 250 employees accounted for ...

Companies are reviving abandoned oil wells in Arkansas to mine lithium

July 24, 2023 -

Just recently, Magnolia Mayor Parnell Vann inspected three of these wells. He noted the squat blue spire of valves, bolts and pressure gauges attached to one of the wells – a telltale sign that someone is trying to revive it.

But companies in the area are no longer looking for oil. They are instead searching for lithium, a metal that is increasingly prized around the world as an essential ingredient in batteries of electric vehicles (EVs).

Exxon, a new player in ...

Greg Abbott denounces $708M lawsuit against bus companies transporting illegals to NYC

January 09, 2024 - Texas Governor Greg Abbott has denounced the $708 million lawsuit filed by New York City (NYC) Mayor Eric Adams against charter bus companies transporting immigrants to the city.The lawsuit, filed on January 4, claims that Texas has sent over 33,600 immigrants to NYC since August 2022. Cited as defendants in the lawsuit are the 17 charter bus and transportation companies used by Texas to transport the illegals: Buckeye Coach, ...

CASHING IN: Orders at world’s top defense companies soar amid geopolitical conflicts

January 08, 2024 -

According to 15 defense groups, including the largest U.S. contractors as well as United Kingdom's BAE Systems and South Korea's Hanwha Aerospace, the combined order backlogs were $777.6 billion, up from $701.2 billion two years earlier, or about a 10 percent increase. This is by the end of 2022, which is the latest for which full-year data is available. It continued into 2023 and in the first half of the year, when the backlogs stood at $764 billion driven by surging war risk ...

Corporate media controlled by PR companies that conspire to push leftist propaganda

May 18, 2023 -

In the name of fighting "misinformation" and "disinformation" corporate media outlets everywhere are censoring the truth and lying to the public, which industry-linked public relations (PR) firms are ordering them to do in order to continue receiving advertising dollars.

Everywhere you look, media outlets and their "fact checkers" are presenting a false narrative that behind the scenes is the product of a vast Censorship-Industrial Complex operation to keep the public in ...

Arizona and Texas to become hubs for EV, battery and semiconductor companies

May 04, 2023 -

LG Energy Solution has announced a $5.5 billion battery manufacturing facility near Phoenix, while Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is investing $40 billion to open the company's second chip plant in Arizona.

"We always had a technology-rich workforce, a lot of engineers here because of Raytheon, Honeywell, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin," said Steve Zylstra, CEO of the Arizona Technology Council, a statewide trade association for science ...

Automakers are recording your driving habits and feeding that data to insurance companies

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Many American drivers are beginning to notice that their car insurance rates are surging – including Kenn Dahl, 65, of Seattle, Washington. (Related: Car insurance rates hit highest levels in 30 years due to more accidents, higher repair costs, bigger medical bills and increased litigation.)

Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident.

So ...

U.S., Canadian AI companies COLLABORATE with Chinese experts to shape international AI policy

January 16, 2024 -

The AI companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, reportedly joined the discussions on mitigating technology risks and establishing global standards in Geneva in July and October 2023. The Geneva meetings, facilitated by the private mediation organization Shaikh Group, received support from the White House, the United Kingdom and Chinese government officials.

According to multiple sources, scientists and policy experts from leading North American AI organizations ...

Turkish parliament boycotts Coke, Nestle products over the companies’ alleged support for Israel

November 09, 2023 -

"The products of companies that support Israel will not be sold in restaurants, cafeterias and tea houses in the parliament campus," the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) said in a statement without naming the companies. Assembly Speaker Numan Kurtulmus reportedly decided to "support public sensitivity regarding boycotting products of companies who have openly declared their support for Israel's war crimes [and] killing of innocent people in Gaza," the statement added....

California’s “impossible” electric truck mandate could put logistics companies completely out of business

June 09, 2023 -

Under the new mandate, which goes into effect on January 1, 2024, all new trucks that are bought for servicing distribution centers, ports and rail yards must be zero-emission models.

One of the main concerns is the low availability of electric semi-trucks. Those that are available have very high prices, and many in the industry are concerned about the short distances they are capable of traveling on a charge. Trucks need to use dedicated charging stations, and the limited ...

Germany’s economic backbone at breaking point as millions of family-owned companies face bankruptcy

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Roughly three million family-run businesses have been reported to have seen critical investments in new technologies as unfeasible or not worth the trouble, due to stiff economic headwinds, elevated borrowing costs and a proliferation of red tape.

"The number of small and mid-sized German companies coming up for sale has been piling up for years," said Jens Krane, head of mergers and acquisitions at Commerzbank AG, which specializes in the type of businesses. "A combination ...

Several truck companies plan to completely ELIMINATE the use of human drivers this year

2 months ago -

After years of testing, Aurora Innovation Inc., Kodiak Robotics Inc. and Gatik AI Inc. claim that they are ready to get rid of safety drivers of trucks being guided by software and different sensors including cameras, radar and lidar, which send pulses of light that bounce off objects.

The three startups have already hauled cargo for big companies such as FedEx, Kroger, Tyson Foods and Walmart.

In an interview, Chris Urmson, co-founder and chief executive officer ...

House investigates carmaker Ford over its partnership with Chinese companies, citing national security issues

February 01, 2024 -

The House Select Committee on China (HSCC) is asserting that Ford plans to use technology and software from four Chinese companies, whose names are currently redacted. The said companies also supply the Chinese People's Liberation Army, China's Ministry of Public Security and North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Moreover, the HSCC claims that the four firms have direct ties to the ongoing genocide of Uyghur Muslims in China's western Xinjiang region.

HSCC Chair ...

In 2020, U.S. companies spent a whopping $8 billion on anti-white DEI propaganda

January 18, 2024 -

The resurfaced clip, which is circulating on X (formerly Twitter) – you can also watch it below – comes at a pertinent time when DEI is getting slammed in popular culture as a sham.

NBC reports, US companies spent $8 billion dollars on DEI programs in 2020.

The DEI grift creates a toxic racist workplace and simultaneously bankrupts the company. pic.twitter.com/wLnq5gAhth

— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) January 7, 2024

The episode of the Mehdi Hasan ...

FDA now requiring drug companies to be more transparent about side effects in ads

November 30, 2023 -

As you probably know if you have ever watched American television, drug advertising is everywhere. It would seem to be the lifeblood of both the general media and entertainment industries, which makes sense as prescription drugs are now a $1.3 trillion market.

While drug advertising up until now has required that drug companies present the side effects alongside the promotion, the rules have been loose in that most consumers miss the side effects amid all the pretty ...

NASA and private companies to launch BUSINESS on the MOON within the next decade

August 11, 2023 -

The Artemis missions aim to establish a sustained human presence on the moon, paving the way for future extraplanetary colonization and resource utilization. With a potential market value of over $100 billion, the moon is poised to become a hub of economic activity and commerce. "Definitely the moon is going to be a big business," stated Prachi Kawade, a senior analyst at NSR, a space market research and consulting firm.

NASA's ambitious endeavor has caught the attention ...

RIGGED: Having a good ESG score means NOTHING, analysis finds – all companies pollute the same

August 04, 2023 -

Scientific Beta, an index provider and consultancy group, discovered upon analysis that companies relying heavily on ESG metrics, including even just the "environmental" component alone, pollute just as much as companies that recognize ESG to be a scam.

Billions of dollars of investment money have been poured into a complete lie, in other words, because there is absolutely nothing legitimate about ESG. It is inequitable, antisocial, and based on poor governance and smokescreens....