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originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
Interesting... POTUS45's exclusivity contract with Truth social ends tomorrow... #55 tweet coming this weekend or next?
originally posted by: RookQueen
a reply to: nugget1
She absolutely dosen't. When Bill Was Gov. of Ar. they had a group of austic kids at the gov mansion. The Gov. is the direct "boss" of the state run facilty that cares for autistc people. She came outside where they were gathered and yelled "when are these retards leaving" (maybe not exact wording but she did call them retards.) I also know a gentleman who was assigned to her security detail and he absolutely hates her over what he has seen and her from her towards us backward ass hillbilly Arkansans....... I have also read that she couldn't pass the bar exam in CT. and had to come to Ar. where at the time was an easier exam to pass.
After announcing its first pause on interest rate hikes since March of last year, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told reporters that he’s keeping an eye on commercial real estate and watching the situation as it pertains to the banking system “very carefully.”
“There’s a substantial amount of commercial real estate in the banking system; a large part of it is in smaller banks,” Powell told reporters on Wednesday. “To the extent that it’s well distributed, then the system could take losses. We do expect that there will be losses, but there will be banks that have concentrations, and those banks will experience larger losses. So we’re well aware of that, we’re monitoring it carefully.”
Chair Jerome Powell offered a nuanced view Wednesday of how the Fed intends to address its core challenge at a time when inflation is both way below its peak but still well above the central bank’s 2% target: Give it more time, and maybe some help from additional interest rate hikes.
Fed Governor Christopher Waller and Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin both said Friday that additional rate increases are necessary to bring inflation down to the central bank’s 2% targe
The work-from-home trend has been taking its toll on office landlords and is now making its way through to banks’ commercial loan portfolios, leading some analysts to predict that more trauma could be on the way for regional banks this year.
The Trepp report highlighted several regional markets, such as San Francisco, where office sublease offers jumped 140 percent since 2020, and Los Angeles, where office vacancies hit a historic high of 22 percent. Available office space in Washington D.C. increased to 21.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023.
New York has been hit hard, as well. Office occupancy rates in New York City plummeted from 90 percent to 10 percent in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, but only recovered to 48 percent this year. Revenue from office leases fell by 18.5 percent between December 2019 and December 2022.
It’ll be years before we really understand the damage the pandemic did to the world,” Perot tells Fortune, adding that for one, “it broke the habit patterns of millions of people that used to go to work every day in a real office.”
All eyes are on the office sector, and as Fortune has previously covered, some say it’s already crashing. Fred Cordova, chief executive officer and founder of Santa Monica–based commercial real estate brokerage and consultancy firm Corion Enterprises, recently told Fortune that “what’s happening in the office sector is apocalyptical: We’re creating this huge class of zombie buildings, buildings that no one wants to put any money into because the capital structure is broken.
originally posted by: G005E
The chief accountant at Ukraine’s Burisma Energy, who offered to provide US authorities with damning evidence regarding financial crimes involving Joe and Hunter Biden, has been found dead before she could testify
This is my “shocked” face :-D
The White House’s clean energy advisor said climate change will usher in an economic transformation “on a size and scale never heard of in human history.”
John Podesta, a veteran Democratic strategist, joined the Biden administration in September to spearhead its implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act. When humanity looks back on this period in history, it will be seen as an inflection point in the climate crisis, White House advisor John Podesta said at the Bloomberg Green Summit in April. A Democratic strategist who joined the Biden administration last year as senior advisor on clean energy innovation & implementation, Podesta said climate change is ushering in “a transformation of the global economy on a size and scale never heard of in human history.”
“I lived through seeing the power of what the internet did, and what communications and information technologies are impacting,” Podesta said during an on-stage interview. “I think this is even more profound than that.”
Podesta, who has also served as a chief of staff to former President Bill Clinton and a climate advisor to former President Barack Obama, is now tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in the US last year. The IRA’s $374 billion in credits and incentives for carbon-free development makes it the country’s largest climate investment ever. One analysis found that, if fully implemented, the IRA will cut US greenhouse gas emissions 37% to 41% from 2005 levels. The Biden administration has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% from 2005 levels.
New artificial intelligence technologies can help end our period of record inflation, the head of the world’s largest asset manager argued on Wednesday.
Companies hope that generative A.I.—a category of tools that include OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT—could automate a large swath of knowledge work.
United Nations recently published three new Policy Briefs “to provide more detail on certain proposals contained in Our Common Agenda” – The UN Secretary-General’s vision for the future of global cooperation that will be decided at “The Summit of the Future” in September 2024. These briefings; A Global Digital Compact, Reforms to the International Financial Architecture and The Future of Outer Space Governance sets out a chilling course for our future.
Among the proposals are a new “apex body” in charge of the entire financial system that will “enhance its coherence and align its priorities with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” This could, according to Secretary-General António Guterres, be done through a “Biennial Summit between the Group of 20, Economic and Social Council, the Secretary-General, and heads of international financial institutions.”
A vital part of the agenda is also digital connectivity and the establishment of a Global Digital Compact. This can be described as a cybernetic organ, consisting of a digitally connected network of people, entities, devices, and things, that easily can be directed by those who run the system. In the Policy Brief it is for example explained how digitisation will help to achieve the global goals. The suggestions happens to be very similar to what World Economic Forum and PwC prescribed in their report Unlocking Technologies for the Global Goals in 2020. A Digital ID is a cornerstone in this work and is among other things seen as a way to reduce poverty.
But according to Rudy Giuliani, the executive is actually the wife of Burisma co-founder Mykola Lisin. Giuliani told Newsmax over the weekend that Lisin died under suspicious circumstances. He seemed to imply the businessman left the recordings to his wife, but she died before the FBI could interview her.
The FBI “followed up on none of the evidence I gave them,” Giuliani said. “I gave them one witness that any investigator would jump through hoops to go to. Gave them a witness who is a woman, who is the chief accountant at this crooked company Burisma.”
“She was the wife of the former owner, who died under suspicious circumstances. And she was willing to give up all of the offshore bank accounts, including the Bidens’!”
originally posted by: G005E
originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
Interesting... POTUS45's exclusivity contract with Truth social ends tomorrow... #55 tweet coming this weekend or next?
Ends on the “17th” you say?
I suppose I’ll keep an eye out for a certain tweet
Former President 0bama suggested the creation of "digital fingerprints" to help people identify the authenticity of news sources and differentiate between legitimate and false stories.
During an interview on CNN Audio's "The Axe Files," 0bama noted the increasing prevalence of deepfakes, saying he had seen them being used to target him with digitally manipulated videos and audio.
November 10th, 2021, Stew Peters posted an interview on Rumble[23] with Alley Carter, who alleges that she was trafficked and abused by multiple elite and powerful men and women, including Barack and Michelle Obama, the latter of whom she says is "a man." The video gained over 700,000 views in two years
How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.
The Ball Dynasty
The Ball family might not be a household name outside of South Carolina, but it is widely known within the state thanks to a descendant named Edward Ball who wrote a bestselling book in 1998 that bared the family’s skeletons — and, with them, those of other Southern slave owners.
Bombshell Development in Madeleine McCann Search
German cops were joined by Portuguese and British officers to help conduct the intense investigation, since the McCann family is from England, the toddler went missing in the Algarve region of southern Portugal and Brueckner is currently at a prison in the German city ofBraunschweig for a different case
During trial, evidence was presented that Webb was diagnosed with gonorrhea just days before the child was also diagnosed with gonorrhea. The prosecution’s case was aided, in substantial part, by the testimony of an expert in child abuse pediatrics. Taylor, the lead prosecutor in the case, successfully pushed back against the defense’s claims that the child could have contracted gonorrhea in a non-sexual manner
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Kenya face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Sodomy is a felony per Section 162 of the Kenyan Penal Code, punishable by 21 years' imprisonment, and any sexual practices (termed "gross indecency") are a felony under section 165 of the same statute, punishable by 5 years' imprisonment. On 24 May 2019, the High Court of Kenya refused an order to declare sections 162 and 165 unconstitutional. The state does not recognise any relationships between persons of the same sex; same-sex marriage is banned under the Kenyan Constitution since 2010. There are no explicit protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Adoption is prohibited to same-sex couples.
Transgender people have historically suffered discrimination, and there are no statutory provisions relating to transgender rights. However, there have been a series of court rulings in favour of transgender rights, such as the right to change the names appearing on legal documents. It is currently unclear as to whether these rulings constitute substantive law on the issue of changing legal gender.
Kenyan society is highly conservative, and a large majority of people hold negative views of LGBT people. Despite this, public support has slowly been growing and various organisations are working to protect and improve LGBT rights.