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Foreign entities now own 40 MILLION ACRES of U.S. agricultural land

January 22, 2024 -

This is according to the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) report, titled "Foreign Investments in U.S. Agricultural Land," which was focused on pointing out ways in which the federal government checks foreign investor farmland purchases are flawed and how "enhancing efforts to collect, track and share key information could better identify national security risks." (Related: America's second-largest foreign owner of land is a CHINESE BILLIONAIRE.)

According to ...

‘Genetically engineered doomsday’: Bayer’s GMO soil microbes pose potentially serious agricultural risks

January 23, 2024 -

(Article republished from YourNews.com)

Bayer, in collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks, has been developing genetically engineered soil microbes, raising alarms about the potential for a catastrophic impact on agriculture. The concern is that these modified microbes could spread uncontrollably, leading to soil contamination on a scale that could significantly disrupt farming practices.

This initiative by Bayer is part of an effort to replace traditional fossil-fuel-based ...

Bidenomics in shambles: Microsoft cuts 1,900 jobs in gaming market

January 29, 2024 -

(Article by Graham republished from WLTReport.com)

Microsoft is joining a growing trend of large companies laying off employees.

The layoffs will see 8% of their employees cut.

Microsoft to begin mass layoffs

It has begun

The economy will break this year

— ?0HOUR? (@0HOUR) January 25, 2024

Fox Business shares more:

Amazon, Google and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have already laid off employees this year, as have banking titan ...

Massive government spending is keeping inflation high, warns market expert

September 05, 2023 -

Market expert Larry McDonald warned that America's fiscal situation will get worse without any change. "No one is calling them out," he said. "Washington is stepping on the gas – colossal deficit spending – and the brakes – with epic rate hikes – at the same time." (Related: DEBT BLOWOUT: US debt has soared $1.2T since debt ceiling suspension – and the Treasury expects to add another $1.5T by year's end.)

Despite the Fed's interventions raising borrowing costs from ...

Airbnb listing revenue COLLAPSES, driving fears of housing market crash

July 04, 2023 -

While in years past both Airbnb and VRBO would be seeing many additional stays across the United States this time of year, the opposite is happening now. Homeowners who rent out rooms and spaces are seeing dwindling interest, which is driving down prices for stays.

In popular destination cities like Phoenix, Ariz., and Austin, Tex., revenues per listing have dropped by nearly 50 percent, according to the most recent data from AllTheRooms, which compared Airbnb revenues ...

Apple bails out of EV market and shifts focus to AI

2 months ago -

The internal announcement was made on Feb. 27, shocking the nearly 2,000 employees involved in the project. The people who shared the news requested not to be identified because the announcement wasn’t public.

The decision was shared by Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, the vice president in charge of the project.

Williams and Lynch informed employees that the project will start winding down and that many employees on the car team will be ...

Forced prison labor is supplying renowned U.S. food giants with millions of dollars worth of agricultural products

February 16, 2024 -

Coming out of Louisiana State Penitentiary are unmarked trucks packed with cattle. AP report indicated that prisoners here are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher. The news outlet followed another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald's, Walmart and Cargill.

The ...

Worsenining commercial real estate market woes could spark a new banking crisis

2 months ago -

This year, around $929 billion in outstanding commercial mortgages will mature, the Mortgage Bankers Association reports. This is a staggering amount that equates to 20 percent of the $4.7 trillion outstanding debt overall. But with higher interest rates taking a huge toll on property values in the sector and many businesses relying less on office buildings as remote and hybrid work become more popular, the stage is set for a disaster.

The National Bureau of Economic Research ...

General Motors to bring back plug-in hybrids as EV market falters

February 13, 2024 -

This move was announced by CEO Mary Barra during the company's recent earnings call on Jan. 30. Before this call, GM was expected to ride on the success of the Chevrolet Bolt EV, the company's first all-electric vehicle launched in 2017 and billed as "America's most affordable EV."

The Chevy Bolt, as it is more popularly known, was described by auto enthusiasts as having the "distinction of beating the Tesla Model 3 to market" – with its tempting starting price at $26,500 ...

Ukraine’s barbaric Donetsk market attack kills 27 civilians, seriously injures 25 more

January 26, 2024 -

The latest tally was recently announced by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) head Denis Pushilin, who blamed the violent attack on the suburb of Tekstilshchik on the Ukrainian military. He said that the area had been hit by 155mm caliber and 152mm caliber artillery and that the shells had been fired from the direction of Kurakhove and Krasnohorivka to the west. "This again confirms [the West’s] direct involvement in the conflict and makes it complicit in the criminal acts ...

Chinese stock market loses BILLIONS in days following crash of snowball derivatives

January 24, 2024 -

Snowballs – named because of the potential "snowballing" accumulating gains for investors who hold them – are structured derivatives sold in China and Hong Kong that are tied to the performance of certain underlying indexes. They offer dividends to investors in the form of bond-like coupons but only as long as the indexes of the snowballs are tied to stay within certain predetermined ranges.

If the indexes rise above the top of the ranges, then a so-called "knockout" ...

Dr. Peter McCullough: COVID shots should be taken completely off the market

November 20, 2023 -

"We're seeing a disturbing continued trend of cardiac arrests in people who have taken the vaccine," said McCullough. "Now we have data from Nakahara in a human cardiac PET [positron emission tomography] study, showing that PET scans of the heart change in almost everybody who took the shot, at least for six months or longer, where the heart's metabolism changes."

"Of interest among those with a sore arm after the shot, there were more striking differences in the heart ...

America heading toward a housing market crash worse than the Great Recession

September 28, 2023 -

"This will be the greatest crash in the history of housing," warned financial expert John Perez, who predicted that, following the crash, average housing prices across the country could plummet by 50 to 70 percent, bringing prices down to pre-1995 levels. "This is going to be a wipeout like we've never seen before." (Related: Nearly 800,000 Californians behind on rent, with over $5B accumulated rental debts.)

Fannie Mae, a government-backed mortgage financing corporation, ...

Maddow MELTDOWN: Falsely claims AR-15 for ‘babies’ has hit the market

August 10, 2023 -

(Article by Nicholas Fondacaro republished from NewsBusters.org)

In reality, it was just another .22LR rifle that was designed to be used by parents to teach their young kids (not "babies" and "toddlers") about firearms and firearms safety. It was a level of ridiculousness that requires a tongue-in-cheek response.

Maddow began by shrieking about the rifle “specifically designed to be wielded by babies” as if it was made for an African warlord who was raising an ...

Democrats push to remove parasite hedge funds from housing market to improve affordability

December 19, 2023 -

Two bills proposed by Democrats this week would require all hedge funds with single-family homes in their portfolios to sell them all off within the next 10 years. The bills would also prohibit hedge funds from owning any single-family homes at all.

In case you have not noticed, housing in America has become just another "stock" that rich people are buying up and hoarding as assets rather than using as a place to live. This has not only driven up housing prices to unsustainable, ...

Unstable U.S. Treasury market experiences its worst day in the last six months

November 14, 2023 -

On the same day, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told reporters at the International Monetary Fund conference in Washington that another interest-rate hike aimed at curbing inflation is still possible, unleashing a surge in short-term yields.

Everyone has already been noticing the sharp rise in yields in recent months. In early October, the U.S. 10-year hit the highest yield level in 16 years, which is about five percent. Because of this, rate hikes by the Fed ...

Dr. Mercola files LAWSUIT against JPMorgan Chase for de-banking Mercola Market employees

August 23, 2023 -

Dr. Mercola sat down with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, to talk about what JPMorgan Chase, under the leadership of Jeffrey Epstein sympathizer and supporter Jamie Dimon, did to try to destroy his business.

"A few weeks ago, we received a letter to our business, and actually the CEO of our company, Steve Rye, and our CFO, Amy Lagaspi, who have both been with me for close to 20 years, and the letter was from Chase stating that they were giving us a month to take our funds ...

More potential coders hit the market as libsh*t sports site Deadspin goes under…

a month ago -

(Article republished from Revolver.news)

Staff at Deadspin just received an email informing them that the company has been sold to a European firm, and none of them will be retained.

(via @JulieDiCaro) pic.twitter.com/XxCYG0HI75

— Front Office Sports (@FOS) March 11, 2024

Ouch.

So @deadspin has been sold to European owners and every employee has been fired. pic.twitter.com/2RPpWd5OCD

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) March 11, 2024

Good riddance.

Remember ...

U.S. plans to file antitrust case against Apple for unfairly rigging iPhone’s market dominance

January 09, 2024 -

The lawsuit, which could be filed anytime during the first half of 2024, focuses on how Apple is using its control over its hardware and software to make it more difficult for consumers to leave and for rivals to compete.

Justice Department investigators are focusing on how Apple blocks non-Apple products from mixing with Apple tech while making the integration of Apple products with iPhone seamless.

Investigators are also focused on how Apple has blocked out ...

Calm before the storm: Treasury bills to flood market following sealed debt-ceiling deal

June 13, 2023 -

As per JPMorgan analysts, Wall Street traders fear that the roughly $850 billion in bond issuance was shelved until a debt ceiling deal was passed. Now that a deal has been reached, these hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bonds could return to the market in force, overwhelming buyers, jolting markets and raising short-term borrowing costs. They say the U.S. government could face borrowing at rates nearly six percent, up from 0.1 percent less than two years ago.

Some ...