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“Here is what you are seeing. The Tabulation Systems at the County level were hacked far in advance of the election. The hack was probably written into the code even before the code was installed. It will have a WHEN function and IF/THEN functions to have the machine force balance to a given outcome within a specific window of time. You could test the machines 1000 times before election night, and the result will be correct. If you run it during the time window, the force balancing will be turned on and regardless of inputs you will get a programmed output.
It is very simple to prove this. Take the two most outlandish precinct results from any county and just hand-count the ballots. They won't match the tabulation outputs. From what I am seeing, you will find 8-11% avg. shifts from Dem to Rep. Be sure to check heavy Red areas, easier to cover up a run up of the score. That was how it was done in Ohio vs. Kerry - GOP flips in already highly red areas. Now, why the Bomb-Threats? They were NOT to allow for hacker access. The programming was already in place, they were to break Chain of Custody and produce legal grounds to not trust a recount. Every place that GOT a bomb-threat is a place the courts will now have to consider the factual argument of whether the ballots COULD have been tampered with while the evacuations were going on. They weren't. But that is the argument the GOP will make to prevent recounts.
I used to appear on Lou Dobbs TV Show, back when he was at CNN and discuss hacking, including of voting machines. I helped get machines into researchers hands - every single one of them were shocked/horrified how simple hacking the machines was. But somehow, the public has refused to engage. Now that a full blown fascist takeover is underway, and they did it by hacking the tabulation machines as described, please engage. I will lend any expertise if asked, but be aware these people are sociopaths who will kill you, they have done so to others, so act accordingly.
And it was relatively easy. Perhaps 300-500 tabulators of 3 types with 24+ months of prep. You just saw 3000+ comms devices of 4+ types hacked with software and installed explosives. These were set off in waves and specific times to destroy Hamas. Same thing here. My personal record. A team of 4, 11 months total operation time, we hacked 500 Point of Sale CreditCard machines to install added tracking software allowing the units to work correctly while also creating traces to catch CC money laundering which the retailer was in on. Same thing as election 2024 And finally, let me say again, this is a simple, stupid, easy to prove hack. Hand Count most suspected 2 Precincts in each county. They won't match. And FWIW, I am currently working on a much harder hack larger in scale and much better executed. This election hack is just about political will.”
Photo above - ALL ENGINES HALT. Asteroid field ahead. Mr. Chekov . . . can you plot a course for the Enterprise around this thing?
First off, I have no personal animosity toward wind turbines. But then again, I don’t live near one. The current obsession is to put them offshore. Where snowflakes like me won’t be distressed by minced and diced birds plummeting to the ground. The only people who complain about offshore wind power are the ones who own shipping companies. Sites like the “Hornsea Wind Farm” cover 1,800 square miles. Might be tough for the 1,300 foot long “Ever Given” (the cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal for a week) to make it through - or around - an 1,800 square mile wind farm during heavy weather, eh?
Per the link below, Trump wants to stop offshore farms. But for the wrong reasons. He claims they kill whales. There ARE an unusually large number of dead whales washing up on shore, but nobody knows why, and wind farms aren’t the most likely culprit. See link below.
The wind turbine manufacturers – a lot of them are European and Chinese – are screaming bloody murder. They built a bunch factories based on the US government’s promises that we would buy and subsidize their giant pinwheels forever. Now those subsidies are in jeopardy.
Per the link, the total installed+under construction US wind turbine capacity is sufficient to meet the needs of 26 MILLION homes. Yeah, my mind was blown too. You’d think this would be enough, given all the nuclear, hydro, natural gas, solar, geothermal and other stuff we already have. Apparently not.
America’s demand for electricity is insatiable. Rather, I should say that the demand by AI companies, Bitcoin miners, and cloud operators is insatiable. If the US built 26 million new homes anytime recently, I must have missed it. Most of that juice is going to our tech oligarchs. To help juice up their profits. Google - which legally changed its name to Alphabet - earned $175 billion in profits in 2023.
Remember, Trump is only ranting about wind farms because they are government subsidized. Paid for with our tax dollars, or through trillions getting added to the US national debt. Depending on which politicians and bureaucrats you ask, you get different answers as to how wind farms are paid for.
Personally, I DON’T want trillions added to the national debt to install Dutch-made wind turbines in off the US coast, so that Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg can order a new 600 foot yacht whenever the impulse strikes them. Besides, one of those yachts is eventually going to wander off course on it’s way to Monaco's Formula One Grand Prix race, and knock over a of offshore turbines. And then we’ll have to pay up AGAIN, to replace the broken ones. Why not make big tech bear the costs of their own electricity, since they’re the ones gobbling it up at exponential rates? Don't stick on you and me, please.
I’m just sayin’ . . .
Trump has vowed to kill offshore wind in the US. Will he succeed?
According to Reuters: "Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 65.4% from the year's low of $38,505 it hit on Jan. 23."
Bitcoin is reaching new highs, it is a pioneer of blockchain fungible tokens, but it is not the last word. For one the proof of work required to mint it is financially and environmentally expensive. There is a limit on how many tokens can be minted, and it will be reached around 2040. The transaction costs are high, and the transaction frequency capacity is low. It is many times more volatile then other currencies like the USD, and stock indexes like the S&P 500.
However over time it has been a good long term investment, outcompeting most asset classes. It allows for decentralised transactions without an intermediary.
Etheruem is a competitor that offers FTs and NFTs and smart contracts. They have switched from proof of work to proof of stake, with lower financial and environmental costs. If you are looking to invest in cryptocurrencies there are many options.
I like the decentralised finance that the application of blockchain offers. Starting from cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, to NFTs to Smart Contracts to DAOs offered by Etheruem. You don't have to be an expert in mathematics or computer science to use cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based applications. You can start small by investing in fractional token, but be sure to keep your private key secure.
Reference: https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/bitcoin-rises-above-80000-first-time-2024-11-10/
Yes I know they wouldn't allow their margins to shrink, it's just a funny thought.
Imports of Agriculture products, computer chips and energy from the US are down considerably.
Title. I've seen this sentiment for years - Dems act like Obama's and Harris' policies/values are just as different as Obama's and Trump's, for example, when discussing why they like one democratic candidate and hate another. I'm curious why people think this, it seems like a fairly common belief among the left that there is no consistency among the democratic party's values and policies, even when administrations share the same economic advisors. What differences in economic policies explain this belief?
Writing a "Feel good American Politics" story (if you ever watched Dave (1993) it's a little similar. The not at all qualified main character has been tasked to pull the US economy out of the building on rot thing it has right now with increasing stock value and bubbling, but no actual income happening. His solution is to tax the stocks. And I do want a solution that would actually work, but I know nothing about macro-economics. it's one of those fields that will never actually help me because I am not rich enough for it to (budgeting and being financially forward thinking in microeconomics has proven to be a far more useful skill)
So, I am aware that Germany tried this, but they tried taxing unrealized gains as a realized source (money) which led to rapid liquidation to pay and avoid the tax. Could you in theory tax someone in stock/ source of the unrealized gain? such as the government taking 4% of someone's stock portfolio as a tax on it to be put into a bond/bundle that the government would then sell to make money? Would this even work as a economic practice?
And assume that it is technologically/legally possible. If the argument against it is "The government can't do that because it's against the law" the government could theoretically change the law so they could, and technology continues to improve.
I would like to hear everyone's opinions about this video
I absolutely cannot see the other side’s logic at all. I live in a southern state, and all I see are trump supporters, and I can’t help but think they’re uneducated and easy to brainwash. It’s honestly very frustrating. Do people just not believe in economists or?
Like even immigration— mass deportation would absolutely devastate our economy.
Taxes— Trump is giving the ultra-wealthy tax cuts, and we all learned in hs that trickle down economics doesn’t work.
Debt— trump increased our debt by historic amounts.
Inflation— It was caused by COVID. The U.S. recovered quicker than any other economy.
Like do people rlly just not think? Or are they rlly that pissed abt abortion?
We should have shortened the work week considerably when women entered the paid labor force, doubling the paid labor supply.
If Democrats had included this and other wildly popular and necessary proposals in their platform, maybe they wouldn't have wiped out so hard.
But such policies conflict with the oligarchic/plutocratic/kleptocratic desire for absolute control over the public and working class, so NO DICE!
This topic is being introduced to me in a construction sustainability course and I'm curious if anyone has the expertise to generate a hypothesis on what the market would look like if COVID had not happened.