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Anonymous ID: 54b75d Dec. 31, 2024, 1:06 p.m. No.22264839   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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#27236 >>22263870

>>22263972, >>22263987, >>22264349, >>22264633, >>22264672, >>22264692, >>22263897 Anons reflect on The Ride into a new year

>>22263990 A Georgia state judge, Stephen Yekel, has taken his own life inside his courtroom

>>22264007, >>22264084 Ungar-Sargon: “Of Course Mass Immigration Raises The GDP, It Makes Oligarchs Unbelievably Wealthy.”

>>22264015 Today SpaceX Starlink Mission launched 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities

>>22264050, >>22264110, >>22264380 Woman lit of fire in Subway has Pharma connects

>>22264054, >>22264063 #OTD On This Date in Military History

>>22264058 Anti-scale riot fences go up around the US Capitol one week away from January 6 vote certification

>>22264164 Bill Gates will deliver your vaccine using genetically modified mosquitoes as “flying vaccinators"

>>22264172 MAN KILLED IN DC DUPONT CIRCLE FATAL STABBING

>>22264178 Puerto Rico Plunges Into Nationwide Blackout, Internet Connectivity Disrupted (video)

>>22264181 Steve Bannon Calls For A Moratorium On All Immigration.

>>22264198 Get ready for the 'New Year Comet': What to expect from Comet ATLAS

>>22264225 In under 48 hours 62 Amish have built 12 tiny homes for just over $300,000 in Boone NC

>>22264227 D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she had a “great meeting” on Monday with President-elect Donald Trump

>>22264252, >>22264253 Coolest space missions coming in 2025

>>22264285, >>22264292 Pentagon Appeals Court Upholds Plea Deals in Sept. 11 Case guilty plea hearing next week

>>22264357 The Pentagon has repatriated a Tunisian prisoner held from the day Gitmo opened, but never charged with a crime

>>22264384 Former Obama CIA Director John Brennan is now praising Trump’s incoming admin

>>22264414 BREAKING - China's Xi says 'no one can stop… reunification' with Taiwan

>>22264457 Ukraine Claims Its Drone Boat Shot Down A Russian Mi-8 Helicopter With A Surface-To-Air Missile

>>22264594 Ben Bergquam Calls For Immigration Moratorium Live From Sanctuary City San Diego

>>22264664 Man Claims the Drones Are Invading Wichita Falls, Texas

>>22264746 U.S. Soldier Indicted for Selling Stolen Phone Records, Including Those of Trump and Harris

>>22264748 FACT CHECK: The polio vaccine did NOT save 20 million children from paralysis over the past 36 years

>>22264770 Vladimir Putin cancels key event amid Ukraine conflict and UFO 'sighting' fears

>>22264832 #27236

 

#27235 >>22262814

>>22262840 Muriel Bowser, under investigation for corruption, says she’s met with President-elect Trump and wants to ‘MAKE DC GREAT AGAIN

>>22262846 PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP NEW TRUTH - REPUBLICANS, BE SMART AND TOUGH!!!

>>22262854, >>22262889 Trump endorses Johnson for speaker

>>22262882 Biden’s original plea deal with the 9/11 masterminds now in effect following court ruling. Their lives will be spared.

>>22262892 Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger on how his site went woke

>>22262915, >>22263012, >>22262930 'Three senior DOJ officials leaked non-public investigative information ‘days before an election'

>>22262945, >>22263022 JUST IN - Blackout: Puerto Rico without power on New Year's Eve

>>22262964 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

>>22263030 @elonmusk Government power needs to be restored to the people in America, rather than be held by an enormous, unaccountable bureaucracy!

>>22263031 US Home Prices Surge To 17th Consecutive All-Time High

>>22263068 Tom Homan Hits Jasmine Crockett with a Brutal Response After She Mocks Him on Immigration

>>22263131 Today in Q Post History we have 01 Delta

>>22263319, >>22263326 Happy Years Eve Day Anons

>>22263330 US CYBERCOM 2025 is here! We wish all of our teammates and followers a H a p p y N e w Y e a r ! ! !

>>22263425, >>22263428 ISRO's SpaDeX Mission A First Step For India To Set Up Its Own Space Station

>>22263503 Meaning of the Flag-Draped Coffin

>>22263559, >>22263667 Woman lit on fire by an illegal on the NYC subway ID'd as Debrina Kawam, 61, of Toms River, NJ

>>22263614 Tucker Carlson's Brigham Buhler interview

>>22263698 Elon Musk’s New ‘Kekius Maximus’ Identity on X Sparks Online Frenzy

>>22263721 Ron Mahan of Amarillo was wounded while serving in Vietnam, Finally Awarded Purple Heart

>>22263723 Sean Spicer H-1B Visa Poll Shows That MAGA Sides With Bannon Stance

>>22263797 Steve Bannon On H-1B Visa Fight: “Either Citizenship Means Something Or It Doesn’t.”

>>22263853 #27235

 

#27234 >>22261939

>>22262029 'First Buddy' Elon Musk has hunkered down at Donald Trump's exclusive Mar-a-Lago club as the president elect forms the agenda for his second term.

>>22262108 Microplastics found in multiple human organ tissues correlated with lesions

>>22262209 A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for certification will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2025

>>22262448 Nigel Farage's New Year Message

>>22262546 Disgraced ‘Today’ Show Anchor Matt Lauer Now Faces Allegations of Sheep Abuse

>>22262726 Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year's Eve

>>22262733 An incoming geomagnetic storm may mean a greater chance of seeing the aurora this New Year’s Eve.

>>22262739 A South Korean court on Tuesday approved an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been impeached and suspended from power over his decision to impose martial law on Dec. 3, investigating authorities said.

>>22262749 Conservatives are calling on the Liberal government to recognize exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González as president-elect.

>>22262753 Chinese Hackers Breached Workstations, Stole Documents, Treasury Department Says

>>22262756 Matthew M. Graves will step down shortly before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

>>22262801 #27234

 

#27233 >>22260790

>>22260799, >>22260824 San Miguel de Cozumel (might be something)

>>22260832 China didn’t hack us, the deep state is using it as a cover to bleach bit everything into oblivion before Jan 20

>>22260851 Silence is golden type vibes

>>22261208 2022 Elon: Assault rifles should at minimum require a special permit, where the recipient is extremely well vetted imo

>>22261210 The FBI has issued a formal warning to sports leagues about organized theft groups targeting professional athletes

>>22261246 Software engineer describes his experience with H1B

>>22261256 US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010

>>22261264 DATA: H1-B Visa ‘Caps’ Exceeded, 99.9% Approval Rate, Chain Migration Increasing

>>22261279, >>22261296 11 facts about Jimmy Carter that may surprise you

>>22261284 They're deleting Epstein info from Wikipedia

>>22261285, >>22261301, >>22261301 NYSE to close on Jan. 9 in honor of the late former President Jimmy Carter

>>22261288 Appeals court upholds $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict against Trump

>>22261291 Volkswagen has exposed the data of 800,000 owners of electric vehicles via a flaw in Cariad, its software subsidiary

>>22261295 ‘Infidel car burning festival’ kicks off early in France

>>22261307 Exceptionally well-preserved 1,500-year-old sword unearthed in Anglo-Saxon cemetery

>>22261322 Court rules Georgia lawmakers can subpoena Fani Willis for information related to her Trump case

>>22261469 Trump vows to give America’s tallest mountain its old name back, defying Obama change

>>22261605 Dough claim

>>22261673 Elon changed is name to Kekius Maximus

>>22261932 #27233

 

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>>22260776 #27232

>>22258219 #27229, >>22259038 #27230, >>22259945 #27231

>>22255647 #27226, >>22256590 #27227, >>22257440 #27228

>>22252711 #27223, >>22253555 #27224, >>22254333 #27225

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Anonymous ID: 4b2eb4 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:11 p.m. No.22264862   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264734PB

The gov warned us about UFOs for years, as a distraction,so what else are we missing that is more important than UFOs?

Anonymous ID: b12d14 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:11 p.m. No.22264867   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264847

>Fresh Dough

TYB

 

2119

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8chan/patriotsfight: 203

There was a time when our children stood at attention, put their hand on their heart, and in one UNITED voice, recited the PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

There was a time when STRENGTH and HONOR meant something.

There was a time when standing for our FLAG meant something.

There was a time when our history (heritage) was taught with PRIDE and RESPECT.

There was a time when respect was given to those who serve(d), bled, and died to protect and defend our GOD GIVEN FREEDOM.

There was a time when we were GRATEFUL.

There was a time when these UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, was UNITED.

There was a time when these UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, was UNITED UNDER ONE FLAG.

There was a time when, WE, THE PEOPLE, decided our future.

There was a time when, WE, THE PEOPLE, had a voice.

There was a time when, WE, THE PEOPLE, were UNITED and STRONG.

“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

It is time, WE, THE PEOPLE, reclaim what is rightfully ours.

MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL THOSE WHO DEFEND AND PROTECT HER AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

WE STAND TOGETHER AS PATRIOTS.

WHERE WE GOONE, WE GO ALL.

HOME OF THE BRAVE.

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Anonymous ID: 55f3eb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:12 p.m. No.22264872   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4910 >>5141 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

Three Senior DOJ Officials Caught Leaking Non-Public Investigative Details to Media Days Before Election, Inspector General Report Reveals

 

In a bombshell revelation, three senior officials at Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) were found to have violated internal policies by leaking sensitive, non-public investigative details to the media just days before an election, according to a report released by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on Monday.

 

The OIG launched its investigation after receiving complaints alleging politically motivated disclosures.

 

The leaked information, pertaining to ongoing DOJ matters, was shared with select reporters, resulting in two news articles containing confidential details.

 

The Inspector General’s investigative summary paints a damning picture of the senior officials’ actions. The report reads:

 

Findings of Misconduct by Three then Senior DOJ Officials for Violating the Department’s Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy; and by one of these Senior Officials for Violating the Department’s Social Media Policy

 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated an investigation after receiving allegations that actions by a litigating division were politically motivated and violated DOJ policies regarding disclosing information about ongoing matters.

 

The OIG investigation found that three then Senior DOJ Officials violated DOJ’s Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy by leaking to select reporters, days before an election, non-public DOJ investigative information regarding ongoing DOJ investigative matters, resulting in the publication of two news articles that included the non-public DOJ investigative information. The OIG investigation also found that one of these three then Senior DOJ Officials violated the Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy and DOJ’s Social Media Policy by reposting through a DOJ social media account links to the news articles.

 

The three Senior DOJ Officials were not employed by DOJ when the OIG contacted them for interviews and either declined or did not respond to the OIG’s interview requests. The OIG has the authority to compel testimony from current DOJ employees upon informing them that their statements will not be used to incriminate them in a criminal proceeding. The OIG does not have the authority to compel or subpoena testimony from former DOJ employees.

 

The OIG has completed its investigation and provided its report to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General and, because the report contained misconduct findings against attorneys, provided its report to the Professional Misconduct Review Unit for appropriate action.

 

The OIG also provided its report to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate alleged Hatch Act violations, for its consideration of whether the conduct of these officials violated the Hatch Act.

 

This isn’t the first time the DOJ has been embroiled in allegations of leaks.

 

According to the New York Post, in September, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) accused the DOJ and FBI of leaking information about a previously closed investigation into then-President-elect Donald Trump.

 

The investigation, related to alleged Egyptian funding of Trump’s 2016 campaign, was closed in 2020 due to insufficient evidence but resurfaced in an August 2024 Washington Post report, citing leaked court documents and confidential sources.

 

Grassley, a longtime watchdog of DOJ misconduct, has demanded that Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray preserve all records related to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump.

 

Grassley’s concerns stem from the DOJ’s past destruction of federal records, including those tied to the Mueller probe and Smith’s use of personnel involved in prior controversial investigations.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/three-senior-doj-officials-caught-leaking-non-public/

Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:16 p.m. No.22264895   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4911 >>5031

/PB

>>22264534

>7th grade Indians can do math better than 9th grade Americans

 

Indians can't even figure out fucking traffic laws, but these assholes want you to believe they're building the fucking Omnisphere Panopticon over there or whatever.

 

Fuck off loser. We can all see India is a diseased shithole covered in trash. That's why you all want to leave instead of fixing it.

Anonymous ID: 92fcbb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:18 p.m. No.22264903   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4956

NOW - Massive water pipe burst: Water supply is failing in several districts of Berlin on New Year's Eve.

 

https://truthsocial.com/@disclosetv/posts/113749268074516703

Anonymous ID: 55f3eb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:18 p.m. No.22264907   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:19 p.m. No.22264911   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5409

>>22264895

"I got a gold star in math class in a country covered in shit."

 

Cool story, retard, my ancestors crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a rickety boat 400+ years ago and tamed an entire continent.

 

But yeah, your math thing.

Anonymous ID: 752097 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:19 p.m. No.22264913   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4920 >>4953 >>5125 >>5141 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

Elon Musk’s Tesla Replaced Laid Off Americans with Foreign Workers on H-1B Visas

 

In the wake of Elon Musk’s fiery defense of H-1B visas, it has come to light that Tesla has replaced U.S. employees laid off earlier this year with foreign workers holding the very H-1B visas that Musk lashed out at conservatives for not supporting.

 

Electrek reports that according to reports from current and former Tesla employees, as well as data from the U.S. Department of Labor, the company has significantly increased its use of H-1B visas to fill positions left vacant by the layoffs of approximately 15,000 U.S. workers in April 2024. The layoffs affected every department but were particularly concentrated in Tesla’s operations in Texas and California, where the company has the largest number of employees.

 

H-1B visas are intended to allow US companies to hire foreign workers for “specialty occupations” when there is a shortage of qualified American workers. The visas are valid for three years and can be extended for an additional three years. However, the visa holder must maintain employment with the sponsoring company to retain their work status, otherwise they are required to leave the country. This arrangement has been criticized by some as giving employers excessive power over foreign workers and potentially leading to a form of modern indentured servitude.

 

Tesla alone requested over 2,000 H-1B visas during the period when it was laying off thousands of U.S. workers. This figure represents over three percent of the total H-1B visas available nationwide. According to the affected employees, many of those laid off were senior engineers with higher salaries, who have been replaced by more junior foreign engineers at lower pay rates. This practice has raised concerns about companies using the H-1B program to cut labor costs and displace American workers.

 

Elon Musk has recently been using his considerable influence to advocate for increasing the number of H-1B visas, arguing that there are not enough skilled workers in the US to meet the needs of companies like Tesla. However, this stance has drawn criticism from some of Musk’s conservative supporters, who view the H-1B program as a threat to American jobs.

 

When conservatives raised their voices against policies that harm U.S. workers, Musk lashed out at them via his X platform.

 

One X user on Friday stated, “Let’s optimize H1-B,” a reference to Musk’s belief that things that should not exist should not be optimized.

 

“The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” Musk raged in response to the X user. “Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”

 

Musk’s comment is a paraphrase of a line from the 2008 comedy film Tropic Thunder.

 

Proponents of H-1B visas like Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy claim that it is necessary to bring in skilled workers to fill gaps in the American workforce, particularly in specialized fields like engineering.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/31/report-elon-musks-tesla-replaced-laid-off-americans-with-foreign-workers-on-h-1b-visas/

Anonymous ID: 55f3eb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:19 p.m. No.22264914   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5141 >>5227 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714 >>5742

Biden Leaves St. Croix En Route to Camp David For Another Vacation – Biden Has Spent 575 Days – 40% of His Presidency on Vacation (VIDEO)

 

Joe Biden, the alleged president, left his latest taxpayer-funded vacation in St. Croix for Delaware where he will spend one night before heading to Camp David for another vacation.

 

Biden, 82, has spent 575 days – 40% of his presidency on vacation with no visitor logs.

 

The Biden family bilked taxpayers one last time on their way out the door.

 

WATCH:

 

Biden ends his taxpayer-funded vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands and leaves for Delaware, where he'll spend the night before heading to Camp David.

 

Biden has spent 575 days — 40% of his presidency — on vacation. pic.twitter.com/j3F2aLvfDV

 

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 31, 2024

 

According to analysis by The Daily Caller, Joe Biden spent a quarter of his final year in office on vacation or ‘working’ remotely.

 

The Daily Caller reported:

 

President Joe Biden spent nearly a quarter of his final year in office, 24%, in Delaware, at Camp David or in vacation spots, a Daily Caller review of White House pool reports showed.

 

Biden spent 89 full and partial days out of the White House in 2024, not counting days he was taking foreign trips for official business. The president’s time out of the office increased after he dropped out of the presidential race, spending a total of 46 full or partial days in Delaware, Camp David, St. Croix, Nantucket and California from August to the end of the year.

 

The Caller’s count includes the president’s current trip to St. Croix, which the White House has not released the end date of. In 2023, the president stayed until the second of the next year.

 

The count does not include one trip the president took to Camp David to prepare for the first presidential debate, during which he stayed out of the public eye for nearly a week. The Caller also did not count Biden’s trip to Delaware to recover from COVID-19, during which he also was not seen for a week and dropped out of the presidential race via Twitter.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/biden-leaves-st-croix-en-route-camp-david/

Anonymous ID: 000000 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:19 p.m. No.22264919   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/jimmy-carter-and-the-trilateral-commission/

 

The co-author, Professor Antony C. Sutton, passed in 2002 having authored 24 books during a distinguished academic career that included UCLA and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.”

Anonymous ID: 55f3eb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:22 p.m. No.22264930   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5141 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

Scott Jennings Unloads on Jimmy Carter on CNN – Gets REAL Honest About Carter’s Destructive and “Borderline Treasonous” Record In and Out of Office (VIDEO)

 

Former President Jimmy Carter passed away on Sunday. He was 100, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

 

Carter was born in Plains, Georgia on October 1, 1924.

 

Jimmy Carter had been in hospice care since February 2023. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, passed away in November 2023.

 

Jimmy Carter was last seen in October when he was wheeled outside to watch a military flyover in his backyard in Plains, Georgia to celebrate his 100th birthday. His son told reporters around this time that he was anxious to vote for Kamala Harris for president.

 

Since his death, reports on Carter were mostly respectful and ignored his disastrous record in and out of office.

 

But on Monday the 24 hour rule was over and Scott Jennings was ready to get real with his fellow panelists on CNN.

 

Jennings dropped the ultimate Jimmy Carter truth bomb on his fellow panelists.

 

Scott Jennings: He was a terrible President. That’s why he lost in a landslide after his one term. If it’s possible, I think he was even a worse ex-president because of his meddling in US foreign policy, because of his saddling up to dictators around the world, because of his vehement views, anti-Israel views, and more than dabbling in anti-Semitism over the years. He often vexed Democrats. Obama didn’t even have him speak at his ’08 Convention.

 

He put Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign policy box on a North Korea nuclear issue. I think he was a guy who had a huge ego and believed that he was uniquely positioned to do all these things, even after the American people had roundly and soundly rejected his leadership. I respect people who run for President and get elected President, but in his particular case, I think he, time and again, proved why he was never suited for the office in the first place. How much of it?…

 

…In the run-up to the Persian Gulf War, he wrote letters-Yeah, I know about this.to all of our allies and to Arab states, asking them to abandon their cooperation and coalition with the United States of America. If it’s not treasonous, it’s borderline treasonous. I hear what you’re saying about the humanitarianism, but when you’re an ex-president and you have served in that office, I think you have a duty to the United States and only to the United States. When he did that in other instances, to me, it showed that he cared more about his own legacy than he did about the country, and I think that is wrong.

 

Jennings must be proud of his efforts here. He posted the exceptional clip on his X account.

 

My thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s legacy last night on @cnn: terrible president, soundly rejected by the American people. Even worse ex-president, whose meddling in US foreign policy & virulent anti-Israel/anti-Semitic views must not be forgotten. Undermined US interests repeatedly. pic.twitter.com/kbBupU0K7O

 

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 31, 2024

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/scott-jennings-unloads-jimmy-carter-cnn-panel-gets/

Anonymous ID: f54d0e Dec. 31, 2024, 1:22 p.m. No.22264931   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264578(PB)

Vaccines have 500x the limits of foreign DNA recommended. Do you really think after the Covid mRNA fuckery, that big Pharma doesn't know their shit is causing Autism. Autism is caused by inflammation, it is an autoimmune disease triggered by foreign material in the child's body. The cure is a reset of the immune system, but that requires admitting they poisoned children for 30 years.

Forget about not being able to walk the streets, They'll be lucky that mobs of angry autism victims and parents don't drag them out and llynch them.

There will be a reckoning, This country may very well still collapse to be reborn.

Anonymous ID: 000000 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:22 p.m. No.22264933   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Suchir Balaji's Last Blood Crawl For Help

 

https://rumble.com/v64c0ng-suchir-balajis-last-blood-crawl-for-help.html

Anonymous ID: 000000 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:22 p.m. No.22264935   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Harvard Law sees lowest Black enrollment since 1960s- only 19 Black first-year students enrolled (comes after SCOTUS guts affirmative action)

>https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/us/harvard-law-black-students-enrollment-decline.html

no worries, the foreign student visa can fill the gap

Anonymous ID: 73f32a Dec. 31, 2024, 1:23 p.m. No.22264936   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264847

>(you) Are Here For The Habby News Year

tyb

 

Baker Leaves St. Croix En Route to Camp David For Another Vacation – Baker Has Spent 575 Days – 40% of His Bakering on Vacation

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:24 p.m. No.22264943   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4950 >>4955 >>5141 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

Tesla Employees work under threat of deportation

 

Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs earlier this year with foreign workers using H-1B visas, which CEO Elon Musk is now campaigning to increase.

 

Over the last week, Elon Musk has been promoting the increase of H-1B visas, which are used to bring foreign workers into the US for “specialty occupations.”

 

Qualified foreign workers need to be sponsored by a company to get the visa, which lasts three years, extendable to six years, after which the holder needs to reapply.

 

The visa holder must maintain employment at the visa sponsor to retain the work visa. The worker would have to leave the country if the employment ends for whatever reason. This has led to some criticism as it gives tremendous power to the employer and can lead to a modern version of indentured servitude.

 

While there are obvious benefits to bringing skilled workers into the US, people are divided on the issue because those workers are often paid less than US workers, putting negative pressure on compensation, especially in the tech industry, on top of the moral questions about holding visas over the heads of foreign workers.

 

That’s why the US Congress has mandated a 65,000 visa cap limiting the number of H-1B visas that can be issued each fiscal year, plus an extra 20,000 for foreign people coming out of graduate programs at US universities.

 

Tesla has been a big user of those visas, and its CEO, Elon Musk, has been using his newfound political influence to promote increasing the cap of H-1B visas. He received significant pushback from his new friends on the right side of the political spectrum in the US, who see this visa as being used to steal jobs from Americans.

 

He is quite passionate about the issue, to say the least.

 

To be fair, Musk didn’t come to the US on a H-1B visa. He came on a student visa, and later, his own brother admitted that they were illegal immigrants in the early days of launching their Zip2 startup in the US.

 

Tesla’s use of H-1B visas

Over the last few days, several current and former Tesla workers reached out to Electrek to reveal that Tesla ramped up its use of H-1B visas to replace US workers it let go during a wave of layoffs earlier this year.

 

We reported that roughly US 15,000 employees were let go at Tesla around April 2024. Every department was affected, but the layoffs were concentrated in Texas and California, where Tesla has more workers than anywhere else.

 

Current and former Tesla employees said that many of the laid-off US workers were replaced by foreign workers using H-1B visas.

 

These claims are backed by US Department of Labor data, which show that Tesla requested over 2,000 H-1B visas during the time it was laying off US workers (via Reddit).

 

https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-workers-with-foreign-workers-using-h-1b-visas-that-musk-want-to-increase/

Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:24 p.m. No.22264944   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4964

>>22264923

>Elon has gone full pepe.

>Less than 10?

 

He's trying to pump and dump a shitcoin that was created weeks before he changed his handle.

 

Jesus Christ, stop with the hero worship already, the election is over.

 

>https://x.com/Bayc364/status/1874026152723177970

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:25 p.m. No.22264950   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5141 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

>>22264943

Tesla layoff announcement from April

 

Tesla has announced layoffs of “more than 10%” of its global workforce in an internal company-wide email. We exclusively reported yesterday that Tesla was prepping a massive layoff.

 

For the last few months, it has looked like Tesla might be preparing for a round of layoffs. Tesla told managers to identify critical team members, and paused some stock rewards while canceling some employees’ annual reviews. It also reduced production at Gigafactory Shanghai.

 

Then, over the weekend, we heard rumors that these layoffs were about to happen, which came to us from multiple independent sources, as we reported on yesterday. The rumors indicated that layoffs could be as high as 20%, and in addition we heard that Tesla would shorten Cybertruck production shifts at Gigafactory Texas (despite CEO Elon Musk’s recent insistence that Cybertruck is currently production constrained).

 

Now those rumors have been confirmed – though with a lower number – in a company-wide email sent by Musk, which leaked soon after it was sent. The full text of the email is below:

 

Over the years, we have grown rapidly with multiple factories scaling around the globe. With this rapid growth there has been duplication of roles and job functions in certain areas. As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth, it is extremely important to look at every aspect of the company for cost reductions and increasing productivity.

 

As part of this effort, we have done a thorough review of the organization and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally. There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done. This will enable us to be lean, innovative and hungry for the next growth phase cycle.

 

I would like to thank everyone who is departing Tesla for their hard work over the years. I’m deeply grateful for your many contributions to our mission and we wish you well in your future opportunities. It is very difficult to say goodbye.

 

For those remaining, I would like to thank you in advance for the difficult job that remains ahead. We are developing some of the most revolutionary technologies in auto, energy and artificial intelligence. As we prepare the company for the next phase of growth, your resolve will make a huge difference in getting us there.

 

Thanks,

Elon

 

Additionally there are reports that some employees have already been locked out of system access.

 

While we don’t have an exact percentage, “more than 10%” means at least 14,000 employees will be laid off, as Tesla’s employee headcount is somewhere on the order of 140,000 total employees (Notably, Tesla’s headcount has not experienced as much “rapid growth” in recent years as it has in the past, making that line of the email ring somewhat hollow).

 

And we don’t know which specific teams will be most or least affected by Tesla’s layoffs, but two well-known Tesla executives are now missing the “Tesla-affiliated” badge on twitter – Drew Baglino and Rohan Patel.

 

(Update: It’s confirmed that both Baglino and Patel are no longer with the company)

 

Baglino was still listed as Senior VP of Powertrain and Energy on Tesla’s website for some time after the email went out, but has now been removed. Patel was Tesla’s Policy chair who has also served as an impromptu Tesla PR arm on twitter, commenting on news in the place of Tesla’s still incomprehensibly-nonexistent PR department.

 

The news follows a bad quarterly delivery report in which Tesla significantly missed delivery estimates, and had a rare year-over-year reduction in sales. While Tesla does not break out sales by geographical region, the main dip seems to have come from China, where Chinese EV makers are ramping quickly both in the domestic and export market.

 

Tesla will deliver its quarterly profits report next Tuesday, April 23. Analysts estimate that Tesla will still turn a profit of around 50 cents a share, down from 85 cents a share in Q1 2023.

 

In previous quarters, Tesla has guided for a “pause” inbetween growth phases, expecting that sales growth would be more modest until the release of next-gen vehicles like the ~$25,000 Model 2 (though Reuters recently reported that Musk wants to shift Tesla’s focus to a robotaxi model, which Musk denied just hours before announcing the robotaxi unveiling event).

 

Tesla’s layoffs come at a time when many other companies in the tech industry are laying off staff, in an apparent game of follow-the-leader while industry profits are still high.

 

https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/tesla-lays-off-more-than-10-of-its-global-workforce/

Anonymous ID: d10b62 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:27 p.m. No.22264955   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264943

 

>Current and former Tesla employees said that many of the laid-off US workers were replaced by foreign workers using H-1B visas.

 

Elon is full of poo.

 

Literally!

Anonymous ID: 55f3eb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:27 p.m. No.22264958   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264859

 

>>22264748 (You) FACT CHECK: The polio vaccine did NOT save 20 million children from paralysis over the past 36 years(PB)

 

missed the "H"

 

proper link:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-30-polio-vaccine-did-not-save-20-million-children-from-paralysis-36-years.html

Anonymous ID: 000000 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:30 p.m. No.22264983   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5005

Bill Gates Secures Millions in Funding to Chop Down BILLIONS of Trees to Fight ‘Global Boiling’

 

https://disswire.com/bill-gates-secures-millions-in-funding-to-chop-down-billions-of-trees-to-fight-global-boiling/

Anonymous ID: 576b67 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:30 p.m. No.22264984   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5073

BREAKING - Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Current H5N1 Bird Flu Strain May Have Leaked from USDA Laboratory

 

The McCullough Foundation study authored by epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher (

@NicHulscher

), investigative author John Leake (

@johnsearsleake

), and clinician Dr. Peter McCullough (

@P_McCulloughMD

), was just published after successful peer-review in the journal, Poultry, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences: Proximal Origin of Epidemic Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Clade 2.3.4.4b and Spread by Migratory Waterfowl

 

Our study presents strong evidence that the current HPAI H5N1 bird flu clade 2.3.4.4b outbreak is a result of laboratory leaks from the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia. A moratorium on gain-of-function research including serial passage of H5N1 is indicated to prevent a man-made influenza pandemic affecting animals and humans.

https://x.com/McCulloughFund/status/1855014976458834192

Anonymous ID: f19877 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:30 p.m. No.22264987   🗄️.is 🔗kun

December 31, 2024

8:15 PM EST

President-Elect Trump NYE Remarks at Mar-a-Lago

President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at his Mar-a-Lago New Year's Eve gala.

https://www.c-span.org/event/public-affairs-event/president-elect-trump-nye-remarks-at-mar-a-lago/429847

Anonymous ID: fdbb25 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:30 p.m. No.22264988   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5026

AAnons, what if Johson's job is to actually unite the lower level dems and gop into bipartisanship, setting up stage to take out higher ups on both side of the aisle?

 

This is why he is working deals with the dems and such, just an idea.

 

>nb4 shill comment

Anonymous ID: d38c5b Dec. 31, 2024, 1:31 p.m. No.22264990   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264953

 

I recall one of the legal cases against Trump (early summer iirc) where he was ordered to pay some obscene amount of money or they were going to start seizing his properties. He basically said he didn't have/couldn't secure the money. I posed the question then "I wonder if Elon will give/lend him the money?", because Elon was in the early stages of his MAGA shift at the time. Now I wonder if, in fact, Elon did help him out? It would make sense in respect to Elon's sudden shift into the MAGA inner circle.

Anonymous ID: 35152c Dec. 31, 2024, 1:31 p.m. No.22264991   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264964

These are all scams run by jusiets. The insurance industry is a scam. Catholics are mining bitcoin and crypto. They are all worthless and equivalent to fiat. Anyone buying digital currency is asking for enslavement and bankruptcy. The catholics are as bad as the zionists. Trump is a moran if he enacts any kind of digital currency. Elon needs to be abandoned, he is trouble.

Anonymous ID: 660c06 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:31 p.m. No.22264992   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264869

 

Terrifying 'quad-demic' alert as NHS top doctor warns UK is set for 'worst year ever' for flu - and predicts surge will get WORSE

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14239229/quad-demic-alert-NHS-doctor-UK-worst-year-flu.html

 

The UK is on track to face the worst year ever for flu amid spiralling infections, the country's top doctor warned today.

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:32 p.m. No.22264999   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5141 >>5286 >>5365 >>5453 >>5626 >>5714

Jimmy Carter Was a Terrible President — and an Even Worse Former President

 

The truth is that historians have not been harsh enough.

 

A popular narrative surrounding the legacy of Jimmy Carter is that as president he was a victim of unlucky timing that impeded him politically but that he excelled during his long post-presidential career. The reality is that he was a terrible president but an even worse former president.

 

Carter’s true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage. He left the country in its weakest position of the post–World War II era. After being booted out of office in landslide fashion, the self-described “citizen of the world” spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy and working against the United States and its allies in a manner that could fairly be described as treasonous. His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him.

 

A former governor of Georgia who had little charisma and national name recognition when he began campaigning for president, Carter ended up in the White House as a fluke. He presented an image as an honest, moderate, and humble southern Evangelical Christian outsider — an antidote to the corruption of the Watergate era. He also benefited from the vulnerabilities of the sitting president, Gerald Ford.

 

Once in office as an unlikely president, Carter spent his one and only term showing the American people, and the rest of the world, that he was not up to the job.

 

When he took the presidential oath in January 1977, the unemployment rate was a high 7.5 percent; when he left office in January 1981, it was just as high. Meanwhile, inflation, which was already elevated at 5.7 percent in 1976, the year he was elected, went up in each of his years in office, and reached a staggering 13.5 percent in 1980, the year he was booted out. The only year in the post World War II period in which inflation was higher was 1947, when the economy was booming and unemployment was minuscule. Put another way, to maintain the buying power that $100 had on the month Carter was sworn into office, you’d need $150 by the time he left the White House just four years later. Under Carter, gas prices doubled, and the supply became so scarce that Americans had to endure long lines at stations to fill up their tanks.

 

On the international stage, Carter showed weakness, and America’s enemies took notice. Rather than recognize the true nature of the Soviet threat, he preached the defeatist ideology of “peaceful coexistence,” and the USSR steamrolled into Afghanistan. Also under his watch, radical Islamic revolutionaries took over Iran, holding Americans hostage for the last 444 days of his presidency.

 

It is telling that the defining speech of his presidency was known as the “malaise speech,” in which he spoke not as a leader but as an essayist writing on the “crisis of confidence” in America. He observed: “For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.” As he built a legacy of scarcity, he criticized Americans for wanting plenty, lamenting that “too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.”

 

It should be no surprise that Ronald Reagan’s message of strength and optimism turned 1980 into a complete rout. Carter not only lost 489 electoral votes to 49, but he got trounced by ten points in the popular vote — even though an independent candidate, John Anderson, drew 7 percent.

 

Carter, who performatively carried his own luggage as president, tried to present himself as humble. But somebody actually humble would have taken the hint by the magnitude of his defeat. The real Jimmy Carter was stubborn and arrogant. He had plans for a second term, and he wanted to see them through despite the overwhelming rejection by the American people. So instead of stepping away, he spent the rest of his life simply pretending that he was still president and pursuing foreign policy goals even when it meant undermining the actual president.

 

The two most egregious examples of this came in his efforts to stop the first Iraq War and his freelance nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.

 

In his mostly sycophantic 1998 book on Carter’s post–White House career, The Unfinished Presidency, Douglas Brinkley gave a startling account of Carter’s behavior in the run-up to the 1990–91 Persian Gulf conflict.

 

Concerned by the looming threat of war after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, Carter pulled out all the stops — and then some — to try to thwart the president, George H. W. Bush. Carter’s efforts started off within the realm of acceptable opposition for a former president. He wrote op-eds, hosted conferences, gave speeches — all urging peace talks as an alternative to repelling Saddam with the use of military force.

 

But when that failed, he took things to an extraordinary level. Carter wrote a letter to the leaders of every country on the U.N. Security Council, as well as a dozen other world leaders, Brinkley recounted, making “a direct appeal to hold ‘good faith’ negotiations with Saddam Hussein before entering upon a war. Carter implied that mature nations should not act like lemmings, blindly following George Bush’s inflammatory ‘line in the sand rhetoric.’”

 

As if this weren’t enough, on January 10, 1991 — just five days before a deadline that had been set for Saddam to withdraw — Carter wrote to key Arab leaders urging them to abandon their support for the U.S., undermining months of careful diplomacy by the Bush administration. “You may have to forego approval from the White House, but you will find the French, Soviets and others fully supportive,” Carter advised them.

 

It is one thing for a former president to express opposition to a policy of the sitting president, but by actively working to get foreign leaders to withdraw support for the U.S. days before troops were to be in the cross fire, Carter was taking actions that were closer to treason than they were to legitimate peace activism.

 

Carter’s meddling was not limited to the first Iraq War or to Republican administrations. In 1994, there was a standoff between the U.S., its allies, and North Korea over the communist country’s nuclear program. The U.S. was floating the idea of sanctions at the United Nations. Over the years, Carter had received multiple invitations to visit North Korea from Kim Il-sung and was eager to fly over and defuse the situation with an ultimate goal of convening a North–South peace summit and unifying the peninsula. Begrudgingly, the Clinton administration agreed to let Carter meet with Kim as long as Carter made clear that he was a private citizen and that he was merely gathering information on the North Korean perspective, which he would then report back to the Clinton administration.

 

Without telling the Clinton administration, however, Carter flew to North Korea with a CNN film crew and proceeded to negotiate the framework of an agreement. He then informed the Clinton team after the fact, with little warning, that he was about to go on CNN to announce the deal. This infuriated the Clinton administration, and according to Brinkley’s account, one cabinet member called the former president a “treasonous prick.” To make matters worse, Carter then accepted a dinner invitation from Kim, at which point Carter claimed on camera that the U.S. had stopped pursuing sanctions at the U.N., which was untrue. Nevertheless, once Carter went on television to announce all this, Clinton felt completely boxed in, and he was forced to accept the deal and abandon sanction efforts.

 

Over time, it became clear that Kim had just used Carter to take the heat off, get economic relief, and buy time while still continuing to enrich uranium in violation of the agreement, which it withdrew from in 2002 after being called out for cheating. Within a few years, North Korea had built a nuclear arsenal. Carter’s effort at freelance diplomacy, in addition to advancing a foreign policy at odds with the administration, squandered a crucial window to stop North Korea from going nuclear.

 

When it came to unrealized ambitions, nothing frustrated Carter more than the Middle East. He was convinced that, had he been reelected, he would have been able to build on the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt and resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians — even though there were significant differences between the two conflicts. In 2003, he boasted to the New York Times, “Had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution.” It was quite a choice of words.

 

During the pro-Israel Reagan administration, Carter saw little opportunity to advance his agenda, but he perceived an opening when Bush took over. In 1990, he befriended PLO terrorist leader Yasser Arafat, and, Brinkley writes, “Carter began coaching Arafat on how to not frighten democracies by using inflammatory rhetoric: it was a strategy that would eventually lead to the Oslo Agreements of September 1993.”

 

Throughout the 1990s, Arafat pursued a strategy of talking peace to the world at large while working behind the scenes to continue terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. He was infamous for appearing moderate when speaking in English while fuming radically and inciting violence in Arabic. Throughout this time, he was being mentored by Carter, who not only advised him but even personally wrote a sample speech for him suggesting language to use that would allow him to more effectively gain sympathy from Western audiences. At one point, he went on a Saudi fundraising mission for the PLO at Arafat’s behest. Of course, Arafat had no interest in peace, which became crystal clear in 2000 when he rejected an offer of Palestinian statehood and launched a campaign of terror known as the Second Intifada instead.

 

Carter’s friendship with Arafat was part of a pattern in which he would chastise Israel in the most extreme terms while ignoring or minimizing the actions of terrorists and dictators whose enemies happened to be Israel. On a Middle East trip in 1990, he visited Syria to meet with Hafez al-Assad and had nothing to say about the brutal dictator’s violations of human rights, but then he went to Israel and blasted its human rights record as it was trying to form a government. Carter met with and embraced Hamas and, in 2015, the year after thousands of rockets were fired indiscriminately at Israel civilians, claimed that the group, which in its charter calls for the extermination of Israel, was the party actually committed to peace and that Israel was not.

 

In 2007, Carter published Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which was not only one-sided in its attacks on Israel but was filled with inaccuracies and distortions. At one point in the book, he invoked the story of Jesus to liken Israeli authorities to the Pharisees. In the first edition, he included a line in which he asserted that terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians were justified until Israel submits to demands: “It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.” While he claimed this line was a mistake, he defended the rest of his work and dismissed legitimate criticism as merely coming from Jews.

 

“Most of the condemnations of my book came from Jewish American organizations,” Carter said in an interview with Al Jazeera, in which he also claimed that Palestinian rocket attacks on Israelis were not acts of terrorism. In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, he further advanced old tropes of nefarious Jewish control. He complained that the pro-Israel lobby made it “almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine” and lamented that “book reviews in the mainstream media have been written mostly by representatives of Jewish organizations.” This wasn’t true, and, further, it means that he described all Jewish writers (such as Jeffrey Goldberg, who reviewed the book for the Washington Post) as representing “Jewish organizations.”

 

In a speech at George Washington University on the same book tour, he argued that the obstacle to peace was “a minority of the more conservative [Israeli] leaders who have intruded into Palestine and who are unfortunately supported by AIPAC and most of the vocal American Jewish communities.”

 

At the event, one student asked about the fact that 14 members of the Carter Center’s advisory board had resigned over the book, and Carter had a familiar response: “They all happen to be Jewish Americans; I understand the tremendous pressures on them.”

 

One of the members to resign was a close associate, Ken Stein, an Emory University professor who had spent decades at the center — as its first permanent director, and then as the Middle East fellow, during which time he traveled with Carter and took notes on their meetings with foreign leaders. In a blistering review for the Middle East Quarterly, Stein wrote, “While Carter says that he wrote the book to educate and provoke debate, the narrative aims its attack toward Israel, Israeli politicians, and Israel’s supporters. It contains egregious errors of both commission and omission. To suit his desired ends, he manipulates information, redefines facts, and exaggerates conclusions.”

 

Among the examples he gives is an account of a meeting Carter had with Hafez al-Assad, in which Stein was the notetaker. Even though Stein shared his notes from the meeting, Carter’s account of the same meeting in the book was manipulated to make Assad seem more flexible than he actually was.

 

Stein also included the revelation that “Carter’s distrust of the U.S. Jewish community and other supporters of Israel runs deep.” Stein recalled an interview he once conducted for his 1991 book in which Carter bitterly told him:

 

[Vice president] Fritz Mondale was much more deeply immersed in the Jewish organization leadership than I was. That was an alien world to me. They [American Jews] didn’t support me during the presidential campaign [that] had been predicated greatly upon Jewish money. . . . Almost all of them were supportive of Scoop Jackson — Scoop Jackson was their spokesman . . . their hero. So I was looked upon as an alien challenger to their own candidate. You know, I don’t mean unanimously but . . . overwhelmingly. So I didn’t feel obligated to them or to labor unions and so forth. Fritz . . . was committed to Israel. . . . It was an act just like breathing to him — it wasn’t like breathing to me. So I was willing to break the shell more than he was.

 

It probably didn’t help Carter’s mood that, in 1980, he received a lower share of the Jewish vote than any Democratic candidate since 1920.

 

In the coming days and weeks, there will be an effort to rewrite history and claim that the 39th president was underappreciated and that people have been too harsh on him. But the truth is that historians have not been harsh enough. One of the few silver linings that can be offered about Jimmy Carter is that, thankfully, he was too politically inept to be given the opportunity do even more damage.

 

https://archive.is/0ZEt9#selection-1087.0-1215.400

Anonymous ID: f54d0e Dec. 31, 2024, 1:32 p.m. No.22265001   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264949

Eruption off the Pacific Northwest Births an Island

Yellowstone Erupts and pushes up a new mineral with applicability to kickstart fusion energy

Jerusalem gets nuked and the true Temple Mount is found

Anonymous ID: d10b62 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:33 p.m. No.22265005   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5010

>>22264983

 

>Bill Gates Secures Millions in Funding to Chop Down BILLIONS of Trees to Fight ‘Global Boiling’

 

Who is this guy Gates think he is?

 

King of the Earth or something?

Anonymous ID: f19877 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:33 p.m. No.22265006   🗄️.is 🔗kun

December 31, 2024

5:00 PM EST

War Room With Steve Bannon PM Edition

Real America's Voice

https://rumble.com/v64moim-war-room-wth-steve-bannon-pm-edition.html

Anonymous ID: 7906ce Dec. 31, 2024, 1:33 p.m. No.22265007   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5263 >>5269

UK Truth Society

@uktruthsociety 23h

BREAKING

 

Prince Andrew is reportedly planning to leave the United Kingdom and seek refuge in Abu Dhabi as early as next year, with several of his friends suggesting he could "do a Harry" and relocate to the Middle East.

 

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/prince-andrew-british-duke-plans-to-move-to-uae-amid-espionage-allegations-royal-family-news-101734801434642.html

Dec 30, 2024 · 9:49 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/uktruthsociety/status/1873849009204514970

Anonymous ID: c760ce Dec. 31, 2024, 1:33 p.m. No.22265008   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Alexander Laurent - interview with a whistleblower

Links to unofficial english translations, tldr see pics

I will post the original german sources in a follow up post

 

This is a bit similar to Q. Q is mentioned several times but not in the way you might expect.

 

Interview 1

 

German version with english subtitles

>God is an AI - Interview 1 - Part 1 of 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/13

>The Apocalypse is planned - Interview 1 - Part 2 of 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/14

>Transhumanism - Interview 1 - Part 3 of 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/15

>Esoteric, Religions and Other Means of Control - Interview 1 - Part 4 of 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/16

 

English audio version without images

>God is an AI - Interview 1 - Part 1 of 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/301

>The Apocalypse is planned - Interview 1 - Part 2 of 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/302

>Transhumanism - Interview 1 - Part 3 of 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/303

>Esoteric, Religions and Other Means of Control - Interview 1 - Part 4 of 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/304

Anonymous ID: c760ce Dec. 31, 2024, 1:34 p.m. No.22265012   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Alexander Laurent - interview with a whistleblower

Links to unofficial english translations, tldr see pics

I will post the original german sources in a follow up post

 

This is a bit similar to Q. Q is mentioned several times but not in the way you might expect.

 

Interview 2

 

German version with english subtitles

>Quantum Entangled Space Travel - Interview 2 - Part 1

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/17

>We live within an OS - Interview 2 - Part 2

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/18

>Background of the Sun Cult - Interview 2 - Part 3

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/19

>Course of events of the forthcoming Apocalypse - Interview 2 - Part 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/20

 

English audio version without images

>Quantum Entangled Space Travel - Interview 2 - Part 1

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/305

>We live within an OS - Interview 2 - Part 2

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/306

>Background of the Sun Cult - Interview 2 - Part 3

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/307

>Course of events of the forthcoming Apocalypse - Interview 2 - Part 4

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish/308

Anonymous ID: 000000 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:36 p.m. No.22265023   🗄️.is 🔗kun

SFPD Confiscated Elon Musk AI Whistleblower's Laptop And Backup After Death

https://rumble.com/v646kd7-sfpd-confiscated-elon-musk-ai-whistleblowers-laptop-and-backup-after-death.html

Anonymous ID: c760ce Dec. 31, 2024, 1:36 p.m. No.22265024   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Alexander Laurent - interview with a whistleblower

Links to unofficial english translations, tldr see pics

I will post the original german sources in a follow up post

 

This is a bit similar to Q. Q is mentioned several times but not in the way you might expect.

 

Original sources in german and transcripts for reading

 

>Bitchute (german)

www.bitchute.com/channel/alexi-laurent/

>Book "Die Apokalypse Gottes - Eine Offenbarung"

files.catbox.moe/43sswp.pdf

>Telegram (german)

t.me/AlexanderLaurentOffiziell

>Telegram FAQ (german)

t.me/AlexanderLaurent_FAQ

>First interview transcript (german)

files.catbox.moe/b1iltc.pdf

>Second interview transcript (german)

files.catbox.moe/3zj3y6.pdf

>First interview transcript (ENGLISH)

files.catbox.moe/9g0v6k.pdf

>Second interview transcript (ENGLISH)

files.catbox.moe/qf1kws.pdf

 

>One of a few UNOFFICIAL channels with translated materials (this contains more videos, FAQs and more)

https://t.me/AlexanderLaurentEnglish

 

He also mentioned this information by Bill Ryan: "the anglo-saxon mission"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rw4z-rSwNjY

Anonymous ID: 35152c Dec. 31, 2024, 1:37 p.m. No.22265029   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5042

>>22265014

They are manipulating everything. Market doesn't dictate shit. They are manipulating solid metal prices and everything else. It's a giant ponzi scheme decentralized doesn't mean shit. It's based off fraud. A reset resets all currency and supposed crypto to no value.

Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:37 p.m. No.22265031   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5256 >>5315 >>5338 >>5400 >>5428 >>5485

>>22264895

 

Having read black magic texts extensively at this point, I'm here to give you good news.

 

What you mistakenly thought was "magic " this entire time was something you've been doing your entire life without knowing it, and it is in no way forbidden by the Bible.

 

The satanists merely classified it as "magic" to scare you aware from reaching your full potential, so I'm going to tell you the secret to so-called "greater magic."

 

IT'S JUST PSYCHING YOURSELF UP.

 

You know when you feel down and you listen to music or watch movie clips that inspire you to feel better?

 

THAT'S THE RITUAL. IT IS ALL PSYCHING YOURSELF UP.

 

The reason they don't want you to know that is that they don't want you to know that FOCUSING your self-psyche-up session LITERALLY HACKS REALITY IN YOUR FAVOR.

 

You've likely been doing this in a disorganized fashion for most of your life already.

 

Have you ever considered actually designing a ritual in advance to psyche yourself up to the point where you absolutely believe the things you are telling yourself are true?

 

Well then congratulations, you've practiced "greater black magic."

 

It's all a scam to keep you asleep and stop you from exerting your God-given human agency over what happens next in the story.

 

Don't except what happens next in the story.

 

YOU ARE A STORYTELLER MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.WRITEWHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN THE STORY.

 

Meme-magic is real

Anonymous ID: 000000 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:40 p.m. No.22265038   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5048

>>22265026

What does it matter even.

 

The Terrorists who did 911 are now hero's but all the unconstitutional laws they passed to catch the terrorists REMAIN.

 

Indefinite detention

patriot act

ndaa

aumf

smith mundt

cog

spying

REAL ID to FLY

FinCin can't carry $10k or be called terrorist

I doubt I scratch the surface of the Treason here.

Anonymous ID: 35152c Dec. 31, 2024, 1:41 p.m. No.22265046   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5055

>>22265014

What's going to happen, is brics which is backed by collateral will become more valuable then us dollar. Once this happens, the dollar will need to correct , which it will loose use 75% of its value or more. Crypto currency is based on your printed fake us dollar. Now you are bankrupt.

Anonymous ID: 000000 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:43 p.m. No.22265052   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5064

Zero Faith

sheriff

Courts

DOJ

SES

FBI

NSA

HHS

CIA

State Department

Congress

Media

Dual Citizens

Federal Reserve

US Department of Defense

FDA

FCC

FAA

USDA

Dept of Education

ATF

 

Most of this shit isn't in the constitution yet CHEVRON is supposed to fucking save us.

Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:44 p.m. No.22265059   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5087

>>22265044

>Did those black magic texts you "extensively" read mention anything about replying to yourself or Reddit spacing?

 

Only Tranime Baker is as concerned about "Reddit Spacing" as you appear to be.

 

More glam bullshit.

 

Begone demon.

Anonymous ID: ca55f2 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:44 p.m. No.22265060   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5065 >>5091

>>22264996

A day after Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100, CNN political commentator Scott Jennings tore into the 39th president’s legacy, calling him a “terrible president” with a “big ego” while accusing him of “dabbling in antisemitism.”

Anonymous ID: 576b67 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:45 p.m. No.22265064   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5071 >>5094

>>22265052

>USDA

Our study presents strong evidence that the current HPAI H5N1 bird flu clade 2.3.4.4b outbreak is a result of laboratory leaks from the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia.

https://x.com/McCulloughFund/status/1855014976458834192

Anonymous ID: cd12ff Dec. 31, 2024, 1:46 p.m. No.22265070   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22264466 LB LB LB

 

Dec 30, 2024, 10:01 AM

 

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113742374534233751

 

'We are the Party of COMMON SENSE.. Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!!!'

Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:47 p.m. No.22265076   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5083

>>22264996

>HATE CARTER = LOVE JEWS

 

No shit Sherlock.

 

Did you think you walked in on some kind of racial bigot party where we all suck each other's dicks while "honoring" them like you do at your house?

 

Fucking projection.

Anonymous ID: 51aef7 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:48 p.m. No.22265080   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Can't speak for anyone else but I'm trusting the plan. The fact that the shills are dogpiling on Elon tells me all I need to know, especially when they've abandoned their previous two focal points of division to use for their narrative.

Anonymous ID: 35152c Dec. 31, 2024, 1:48 p.m. No.22265084   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5103 >>5115 >>5137

>>22265055

Currency cannot be mined out of thin air like I said on a computer. Your cashing it in for us dollars which are essentially the same thing, worthless. It is fraud. Plain and simple. Decentralized has nothing to do with it. Your creating something from nothing. This is not how trade works.

Anonymous ID: 55f3eb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:50 p.m. No.22265094   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5106

>>22265064

>Our study presents strong evidence that the current HPAI H5N1 bird flu clade 2.3.4.4b outbreak is a result of laboratory leaks from the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia.

 

Based on a PCR test which is not a test.

There is no Bird Flu.

Everybody get scared and inject poison now.

Anonymous ID: 4b2eb4 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:50 p.m. No.22265099   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22262840 Muriel Bowser, under investigation for corruption, says she’s met with President-elect Trump and wants to ‘MAKE DC GREAT AGAINPN

 

Ok Anons, great thought experiment on how that conversation really went, write it down and let us know.My imagination of how Trump and Bowser are besties now.

 

First thing Trump says in his greeting: "It's so nice to speak with you Mayor Bowser, how is Donna Brazille doing these days?" What a lovely woman Donna is."

 

She doesn't know how to respond, but she does chit chat and Donna is great.

 

In my imagination:

All I hear and see, is a lot of really nice greetings and chit chat by Trump, and then the subtle insinuation in a very calm voice, with a few unobvious threats here and there. And I actually see her eyes looking like saucers and she is panicking at one point.

 

He calms her down by some compliments like "I know you tried to keep up DC, do you need help? Or can you do it yourself?" She immediately answers, we can do it, but the Bidan Admin said let the city go to hell and they forced me to allow crime to go unaddressed.

 

He didn't believe her story but he let her talk to calm down.

 

Once she calmed down, he asked more difficult questions and she willingly answered.

 

But the whole time, he was very polite with his subtle way of communicating the ideas he had that she has to accomplish. She tried at one point to get uppity, he addressed that as the CiC and President it's my job.

 

He asked for more details on what the Bidan Admin made her do, along with Pelosi, it was going on so long, Trump asked politely "would you send me a report of what anyone told you to do since 2016 to make things hard on me?"

 

She was confused at that point, he was so polite but threatening at the same time. But she promised "she had documented everything for her own defense, and will gather all of it in one day and send it to him."

 

He said, "thank you, you are so kind but I will send 3 Secret Service to your home and office to collect all of it at 10 am tomorrow. Will that work for you?"

 

After that,she agreed with everything he said, and she promised to follow up and do her fucking job in the first place!

 

She's been given her last chance.

 

She should thank God she has one more chance.

Anonymous ID: d31a57 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:50 p.m. No.22265101   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5131

>>22264552 lb

I think it's the Rockys (The Twin Tower, anti-population, Bros. with friends from overseas)

(Who knows but they are blood relatives from 19th c.?)

That's my vote.

certainly not the sheik in Gitmo;

there, way too long.

>>22264777

chek, look I started "fuckface"

Kekemis fame-fag stole it from me.

He has his own style of pepe; Maybe Grok drew it. Hope it improves.

>>22264780 lb

Seems like might be.

Slowly becoming aware.

What I noticed: things I said to them a long time ago; they didn't really hear it. They didn't hear it. They brushed me off.

Now when I say it, It's like they heard it for the first time.

They either don't remember. Or just brushed me off then, so that what I said then just "went by," and didn't stick. Whatever I had said before just had failed to register. I assume they just wrote me off as eccentric.

They were too busy with what they already knew.

Now some pay attention, even admire. And others start screaming TDS rants, bulldoze forced speech, like a schizo trait; Afraid to let me speak.

kekek

 

Remember the open source c1a files Q team pointed us to, to look at?

Anonymous ID: b47bcb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:51 p.m. No.22265107   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5319

Tren de Aragua gang members are rushing the Texas border and attacking Border Patrol agents with knives, tire irons and broken bottles before Trump takes office next month.

 

According to The New York Post, the Venezuelan gang members illegally entered the US through El Paso last week and attacked border patrol agents who tried to stop them.

 

An informant told law enforcement that the gangbangers are planning on breaking into the US every night at 3 am

 

Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gang members are mobbing border crossings at El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to break into the US — and have said they will attack border guards who try to stop them, according to a shocking Texas law enforcement memo leaked to The Post.

 

Last week, 20 of the Venezuelan gangbangers — armed with blades, tire irons and broken liquor bottles — tried to force their way into the US at a border gate, the missive from the Texas Department of Public Safety read.

 

Another attempt to break through is expected on New Year’s Day, the memo warned.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/tren-de-aragua-gang-members-mob-texas-border/

Anonymous ID: 8e30eb Dec. 31, 2024, 1:52 p.m. No.22265115   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265084

You don't get it Anon.

It's value comes from its scarcity and difficulty to acquire (like gold for example)…..

 

However as a currency it lacks the backing of a central authority, so ultimately its value is what someone else will pay for it (like art).

 

I don't and wont own it because it is dependent upon a functioning electronic infrastructure, and one might argue that you only really need non-government sanctioned means of payment when all such governments have collapsed, and presumably their electronic infrastructure with them.

Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:57 p.m. No.22265134   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5155

>>22265129

>Watch the fucking Presentation and stop acting like a fucking zionist fool

 

Watch my presentation and then hide yourself in the rocks of the Earth to await the wrath of God.

Anonymous ID: e63d38 Dec. 31, 2024, 1:58 p.m. No.22265141   🗄️.is 🔗kun

notables @ 255

 

#27237 >>22264847

>>22264872 Three Senior DOJ Officials Caught Leaking Non-Public Investigative Details to Media Days Before Election

>>22264913, >>22264943, >>22264950 Elon Musk’s Tesla Replaced Laid Off Americans with Foreign Workers on H-1B Visas

>>22264914 Biden has spent 575 days, 40% of his presidency, on vacation with no visitor logs

>>22264930 Jimmy Carter’s Destructive and Borderline Treasonous Record In and Out of Office

>>22264999 Jimmy Carter Was a Terrible President, and an Even Worse Former President

>>22265015 House Speaker Mike Johnson: Republicans can't waste any time

>>22265121 PF: Kazakhstan A320 headed into the US; haven't seen that before

#27237

Anonymous ID: 35152c Dec. 31, 2024, 1:59 p.m. No.22265146   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5164 >>5177 >>5191

>>22265127

This in lies the problem.

 

LII U.S. Code Title 15 CHAPTER 2A SUBCHAPTER I § 77q

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(a)Use of interstate commerce for purpose of fraud or deceit

It shall be unlawful for any person in the offer or sale of any securities (including security-based swaps) or any security-based swap agreement (as defined in section 78c(a)(78) [1] of this title) by the use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce or by use of the mails, directly or indirectly—

(1)to employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, or

 

(2)to obtain money or property by means of any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or

(3)to engage in any transaction, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon the purchaser.

 

the potential penalties are fines of up to $1,000,000 and up to 30 years in prison.

Anonymous ID: 55f3eb Dec. 31, 2024, 2:01 p.m. No.22265154   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5210 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

Sheriffs gear up to join Trump’s MASS DEPORTATION crusade

 

Elected sheriffs are poised to play a central role in President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plan, with many eager to collaborate with federal authorities to enforce immigration laws.

 

The plan, led by incoming border czar Tom Homan, emphasizes federal, state, and local partnerships, particularly through the revitalized 287(g) program, which allows local jails to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in identifying and detaining illegal immigrants.

 

Groups like the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) are championing the initiative, arguing that sheriffs' local knowledge will make deportations safer and more efficient.

 

While some sheriffs in blue states are willing to cooperate with ICE, others like San Diego Sheriff Kelly Martinez are refusing to comply, highlighting deep ideological divides and potential conflicts between federal and local governments.

 

The plan faces significant opposition in liberal cities like Chicago, setting the stage for legal and political battles over immigration enforcement, with potential long-term impacts on trust in law enforcement and the human costs of mass deportations.

Elected sheriffs are stepping up to the plate, ready to play a pivotal role in President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plan.

 

The incoming border czar, Tom Homan, has been dropping hints about a new era of federal, state and local cooperation aimed at deporting illegal immigrants. And sheriffs across the country are warming up to the idea, eagerly volunteering to be the workforce behind Trump's grand deportation scheme.

 

The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), a conservative group known for its staunch opposition to what it deems "unconstitutional" government intrusions, is leading the charge. Sam Bushman, CEO of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), sees this as a historic opportunity for sheriffs to join the federal government in a unified front against illegal immigration.

 

"Our nation wants a safe country and we've had enough crime," Homan declared during a stop in Texas. His words are ringing in the ears of sheriffs everywhere, fueling their resolve to crack down on illegal immigrants, especially those with criminal records or pending charges. The ultimate goal is to rid the country of what Homan believes are the primary sources of crime and violence.

 

Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff and CSPOA founder puts it bluntly: "Who in this country knows their counties better than the sheriff?” He pointed out that by leveraging the local knowledge of sheriffs, the deportation process can become safer and more efficient.

 

Trump's plan calls for the removal of nearly 11 million people who entered the country illegally since 2021. It relies heavily on the 287(g) program, a framework that allows local jails to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in identifying and detaining illegal immigrants.

 

This program, which was expanded under Trump's first term and later paused by the administration of outgoing President Joe Biden, is now set to be revitalized. ICE, with its limited manpower, will likely count on sheriffs to help fill the gap. The vision is to create a seamless pipeline of deportations, with ICE officers picking up detainees right from within jail cells rather than conducting risky and costly street operations.

 

In blue states like Maryland and Michigan, some sheriffs are willing to cooperate with ICE, albeit with caveats. Sheriff Dar Lief of Michigan's Barry County is a case in point. Despite his Democratic leanings, he supports removing violent criminals from the streets.

 

Highlighting the complex moral and legal implications involved, Lief asked: "Nonetheless, our governor here asked residents to take in illegal immigrants. Who are you opening up your house to?"

 

Far-left sheriffs refuse to cooperate with the incoming administration

However, not everyone shares this vision. Democratic San Diego County Sheriff Kelly Martinez has flatly refused to comply with a new county policy banning her department from working with ICE on immigration enforcement. Her defiance showcases the deep divides this plan will widen between the federal and local governments and within communities themselves. This move could be the last straw in a world where trust in law enforcement is already fragile.

 

 

 

 

more…

https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-30-sheriffs-to-join-trump-mass-deportation-crusade.html

Anonymous ID: 0d38d6 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:02 p.m. No.22265157   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5165

Happy New Year Anons!!! 2025 is going to be BIBLICAL.

 

As always shills N grifters please KYS you will forever be Treasonous seditious dogs who deserve zero clemency.

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:02 p.m. No.22265161   🗄️.is 🔗kun

World’s 500 Richest People Surpassed $10 Trillion in Wealth This Year

 

The world’s 500 richest people got vastly richer in 2024, with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang leading the group of billionaires to a new milestone: A combined $10 trillion net worth.

An indomitable rally in US technology stocks played a key role in turbocharging the trio’s wealth, as well as the fortunes of Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The eight tech titans alone gained more than $600 billion this year, 43% of the $1.5 trillion increase among the 500 richest people tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

But it was Musk — the so-called “first buddy” of President-elect Donald Trump after unprecedented support for his reelection campaign — who dominated the world’s wealthiest in 2024.

His close relationship with the incoming president helped increase the value of his companies, including Tesla Inc., SpaceX and xAI. That boosted his fortune to an unprecedented $442.1 billion, up $213 billion from the beginning of the year. The $237 billion gap between him and Bezos on Dec. 17 was the largest ever recorded between the first- and second-ranked names on Bloomberg’s wealth index.

Across the board, the world’s wealthiest benefited from a stock market that defied expectations in 2024. The S&P 500 Index gained 24% through Monday, powered by the small group of stocks dubbed the “Magnificent Seven,” including Musk’s Tesla, Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc. and Huang’s Nvidia Corp., which accounted for more than half of the stock benchmark’s performance.

Trump’s election win added to the gains: The S&P 500 hit a then all-time high on Nov. 6 in its best post-Election Day performance in history. The billionaires represented on the index gained a combined $505 billion in the five weeks following the election, 34% of the yearly total.

Trump’s victory also sparked a historic rally for digital assets, pushing Bitcoin above $100,000 for the first time. That especially boosted crypto billionaires: Binance Holdings’ Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, saw his wealth surge 60% to $55 billion. The net worth of Coinbase Global Inc. co-founder Brian Armstrong rose more than 50% to $11.1 billion.

The total value of the fortunes tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was $9.8 trillion at Monday’s close, down slightly from a Dec. 11 peak of $10.1 trillion following a post-Christmas selloff. Their wealth is similar in size to last year’s combined gross domestic products of Germany, Japan and Australia, according to data compiled by the World Bank.

 

Here are some of this year’s biggest winners and losers:

''Winners''

-Donald Trump: The president-elect’s fortune soared to record highs this year, boosted by the performance of his majority stake in Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. Despite reporting a $19.2 million loss last quarter, DJT, as the social-media company is known, gained 95% this year, to a current market value of over $7 billion.

-Jensen Huang: Nvidia CEO Huang has been one of the biggest individual winners of the AI boom so far, adding $76 billion to his net worth this year. Nvidia’s stock nearly tripled in 2024, and it became the world’s most valuable company for the first time in June.

Mark Zuckerberg: Despite a blockbuster $841 million antitrust fine from the EU and early-year hesitation from investors about the company’s multibillion-dollar AI push, the Meta CEO added $81 billion to his net worth this year as Meta stock gained nearly 70%.

-Chinese billionaires: Chinese billionaires, including Tencent Holdings Ltd. CEO Pony Ma, Xiaomi Corp. Chairman Lei Jun and Cambricon Technologies Corp. co-founder Chen Tianshi, added 14% to their fortunes in 2024. Their gains reversed three straight years of losses spurred by an ongoing property crisis and government clampdowns on powerful tech firms.

-Billionaires under age 60: The younger billionaires on the list grew their wealth more than twice as much as their older counterparts this year. Billionaires under 60 make up 27% of the index.

 

''Losers''

-French luxury billionaires: The fortunes of Bernard Arnault, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers and Francois Pinault, whose wealth comes from holdings in the luxury goods sector, took big losses in 2024. After years of pandemic-fueled gains, when luxury shopping supplanted spending on dining and entertainment, slowing sales — especially in the key Chinese market — cost the three billionaires a total of $71 billion.

-Colin Huang: Huang had the biggest wealth decline among Chinese billionaires. The e-commerce mogul behind Temu briefly became China’s richest person in August, but ended the year down $18 billion after a lackluster earnings report sent his company’s shares plummeting 29% in a single day.

-Ricardo Salinas: The chairman of Grupo Elektra SAB, a Mexican retail and banking conglomerate, lost more than half of his net worth in a single day after his company’s stock tanked following Salinas’ claims that he was scammed by a former financial adviser. Salinas announced he would be taking the company private last week.

-Carlos Slim: Slim, who has major stakes in Latin American businesses across the telecom, banking, construction and energy sectors, saw his net worth decline by $26 billion in 2024. His wealth was hurt by exchange rates — the peso fell about 20% after years of relative strength — and flagging markets after leftist candidate Claudia Sheinbaum’s June victory in Mexico’s presidential election.

-Pham Nhat Vuong: The Vietnamese mogul, who has holdings in property development, retail and health care, saw shares in his electric vehicle company Vinfast Auto Ltd. fall about 70% early in the year after losses widened and the market soured on its aggressive expansion plans. The stock has since recovered some ground, but the decline cost Vuong nearly half of his fortune.

 

https://archive.is/q4ey9#selection-1923.0-1955.155

Anonymous ID: 55f3eb Dec. 31, 2024, 2:03 p.m. No.22265167   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ford Motor Company deletes series of antisemitic X posts, says account was hacked

 

Ford Motor Company has deleted a series of antisemitic posts on social media platform, X, stating that the account was hacked.

 

Ford told Fox Business in a statement that the account was compromised and is investigating what happened.

 

"Our X account was briefly compromised and the previous three posts were not authorized or posted by Ford," the statement reads.

 

The messages that were deleted Monday included "Israel is a terrorist state," and "Free Palestine," according to the news outlet.

 

"Ford Motor Company must have been hacked by the Free Palestine movement," Democratic New York Rep. Ritchie Torres wrote on social media.

 

However, another use suggested the posts were intentional.

 

"Ford Motor Company was founded by an antisemite and Nazi sympathizer and it seems they’ve opted today to stay on brand," the user wrote.

 

https://justthenews.com/events/ford-motor-company-deletes-pro-palestine-anti-israel-posts-x-account

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:03 p.m. No.22265169   🗄️.is 🔗kun

World’s 500 Richest People Surpassed $10 Trillion in Wealth This Year

 

The world’s 500 richest people got vastly richer in 2024, with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang leading the group of billionaires to a new milestone: A combined $10 trillion net worth.

 

An indomitable rally in US technology stocks played a key role in turbocharging the trio’s wealth, as well as the fortunes of Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The eight tech titans alone gained more than $600 billion this year, 43% of the $1.5 trillion increase among the 500 richest people tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

 

But it was Musk — the so-called “first buddy” of President-elect Donald Trump after unprecedented support for his reelection campaign — who dominated the world’s wealthiest in 2024.

 

His close relationship with the incoming president helped increase the value of his companies, including Tesla Inc., SpaceX and xAI. That boosted his fortune to an unprecedented $442.1 billion, up $213 billion from the beginning of the year. The $237 billion gap between him and Bezos on Dec. 17 was the largest ever recorded between the first- and second-ranked names on Bloomberg’s wealth index.

 

Across the board, the world’s wealthiest benefited from a stock market that defied expectations in 2024. The S&P 500 Index gained 24% through Monday, powered by the small group of stocks dubbed the “Magnificent Seven,” including Musk’s Tesla, Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc. and Huang’s Nvidia Corp., which accounted for more than half of the stock benchmark’s performance.

 

Trump’s election win added to the gains: The S&P 500 hit a then all-time high on Nov. 6 in its best post-Election Day performance in history. The billionaires represented on the index gained a combined $505 billion in the five weeks following the election, 34% of the yearly total.

 

Trump’s victory also sparked a historic rally for digital assets, pushing Bitcoin above $100,000 for the first time. That especially boosted crypto billionaires: Binance Holdings’ Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, saw his wealth surge 60% to $55 billion. The net worth of Coinbase Global Inc. co-founder Brian Armstrong rose more than 50% to $11.1 billion.

 

The total value of the fortunes tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was $9.8 trillion at Monday’s close, down slightly from a Dec. 11 peak of $10.1 trillion following a post-Christmas selloff. Their wealth is similar in size to last year’s combined gross domestic products of Germany, Japan and Australia, according to data compiled by the World Bank.

 

Here are some of this year’s biggest winners and losers:

 

Winners

 

-Donald Trump: The president-elect’s fortune soared to record highs this year, boosted by the performance of his majority stake in Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. Despite reporting a $19.2 million loss last quarter, DJT, as the social-media company is known, gained 95% this year, to a current market value of over $7 billion.

 

-Jensen Huang: Nvidia CEO Huang has been one of the biggest individual winners of the AI boom so far, adding $76 billion to his net worth this year. Nvidia’s stock nearly tripled in 2024, and it became the world’s most valuable company for the first time in June.

 

Mark Zuckerberg: Despite a blockbuster $841 million antitrust fine from the EU and early-year hesitation from investors about the company’s multibillion-dollar AI push, the Meta CEO added $81 billion to his net worth this year as Meta stock gained nearly 70%.

 

-Chinese billionaires: Chinese billionaires, including Tencent Holdings Ltd. CEO Pony Ma, Xiaomi Corp. Chairman Lei Jun and Cambricon Technologies Corp. co-founder Chen Tianshi, added 14% to their fortunes in 2024. Their gains reversed three straight years of losses spurred by an ongoing property crisis and government clampdowns on powerful tech firms.

 

-Billionaires under age 60: The younger billionaires on the list grew their wealth more than twice as much as their older counterparts this year. Billionaires under 60 make up 27% of the index.

 

Losers

 

-French luxury billionaires: The fortunes of Bernard Arnault, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers and Francois Pinault, whose wealth comes from holdings in the luxury goods sector, took big losses in 2024. After years of pandemic-fueled gains, when luxury shopping supplanted spending on dining and entertainment, slowing sales — especially in the key Chinese market — cost the three billionaires a total of $71 billion.

 

-Colin Huang: Huang had the biggest wealth decline among Chinese billionaires. The e-commerce mogul behind Temu briefly became China’s richest person in August, but ended the year down $18 billion after a lackluster earnings report sent his company’s shares plummeting 29% in a single day.

 

-Ricardo Salinas: The chairman of Grupo Elektra SAB, a Mexican retail and banking conglomerate, lost more than half of his net worth in a single day after his company’s stock tanked following Salinas’ claims that he was scammed by a former financial adviser. Salinas announced he would be taking the company private last week.

 

-Carlos Slim: Slim, who has major stakes in Latin American businesses across the telecom, banking, construction and energy sectors, saw his net worth decline by $26 billion in 2024. His wealth was hurt by exchange rates — the peso fell about 20% after years of relative strength — and flagging markets after leftist candidate Claudia Sheinbaum’s June victory in Mexico’s presidential election.

 

-Pham Nhat Vuong: The Vietnamese mogul, who has holdings in property development, retail and health care, saw shares in his electric vehicle company Vinfast Auto Ltd. fall about 70% early in the year after losses widened and the market soured on its aggressive expansion plans. The stock has since recovered some ground, but the decline cost Vuong nearly half of his fortune.

 

https://archive.is/q4ey9#selection-1923.0-1955.155

Anonymous ID: 8755fe Dec. 31, 2024, 2:03 p.m. No.22265172   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5194 >>5274

Report: Elon Musk’s Tesla Replaced Laid Off Americans with Foreign Workers on H-1B Visas

Lucas Nolan31 Dec 2024

 

In the wake of Elon Musk’s fiery defense of H-1B visas, it has come to light thatTesla has replaced U.S. employees laid off earlier this year with foreign workers holding the very H-1B visasthat Musk lashed out at conservatives for not supporting.

 

Electrek reports that according to reports from current and former Tesla employees, as well as data from the U.S. Department of Labor,the company has significantly increased its use of H-1B visas to fill positions left vacant by the layoffs of approximately 15,000 U.S. workers in April 2024.The layoffs affected every department but wereparticularly concentrated in Tesla’s operations in Texas and California, where the company has the largest number of employees.

 

H-1B visas are intended to allow =US companies to hire foreign workers for “specialty occupations” when there is a shortage of qualified American workers. The visas are valid for three years and can be extended for an additional three years. However, the visa holder must maintain employment with the sponsoring company to retain their work status, otherwise they are required to leave the country. This arrangement has been criticized by some as giving employers excessive power over foreign workers and potentially leading to a form of modern indentured servitude==.

 

Tesla alone requested over 2,000 H-1B visas during the periodwhen it was laying off thousands of U.S. workers. This figure representsover three percent of the total H-1B visas available nationwide. According to the affected employees,many of those laid off were senior engineers with higher salaries, who have been replaced by more junior foreign engineers at lower pay rates. This practice has raised concerns about companies using the H-1B program to cut labor costs and displace American workers.

 

Elon Musk has recently been using his considerable influence to advocate for increasing the number of H-1B visas,arguing that there are not enough skilled workers in the US to meet the needs of companies like Tesla. However, this stance has drawn criticism from some of Musk’s conservative supporters, who view the H-1B program as a threat to American jobs.

 

When conservatives raised their voices against policies that harm U.S. workers, Musk lashed out at them via his X platform:

 

One X user on Friday stated, “Let’s optimize H1-B,” a reference to Musk’s belief that things that should not exist should not be optimized.

 

“The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” Musk raged in response to the X user. “Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”

 

Musk’s comment is a paraphrase of a line from the 2008 comedy film Tropic Thunder.

 

Proponents of H-1B visas like Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy claim that it is necessary to bring in skilled workers to fill gaps in the American workforce, particularly in specialized fields like engineering.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/12/31/report-elon-musks-tesla-replaced-laid-off-americans-with-foreign-workers-on-h-1b-visas/

 

He fucked himself bigtimeI wonder if DOGE will be overseen by someone trustworthy==, since Vivek and him aligned with the lie.

Anonymous ID: 01b414 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:04 p.m. No.22265174   🗄️.is 🔗kun

"Bird Flu" is the Rebranded Original Flu Bioweapon

It's Been "Found" in

California, Washington, Oregon, Pet food & Waste water

 

NOT ONE Healthy Person without co Morbidities has Died from "Bird Flu"

This is called Fearmongering & Foreshadowing

 

It has nothing to do with aw Virus & Everything to Do with Hindering Trump's Term

Anonymous ID: 73f32a Dec. 31, 2024, 2:04 p.m. No.22265181   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5200 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24

Pierre Poilievre just dropped a must-watch movie on Justin Trudeau—using Trudeau’s own words and actions. Hard to deny when it’s all real clips. The truth hurts, and Canadians deserve to see it.

 

11:48 AM · Dec 31, 2024

https://x.com/MarcNixon24/status/1874150679952142527

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:04 p.m. No.22265182   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

World’s 500 Richest People Surpassed $10 Trillion in Wealth This Year

 

The world’s 500 richest people got vastly richer in 2024, with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang leading the group of billionaires to a new milestone: A combined $10 trillion net worth.

 

An indomitable rally in US technology stocks played a key role in turbocharging the trio’s wealth, as well as the fortunes of Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The eight tech titans alone gained more than $600 billion this year, 43% of the $1.5 trillion increase among the 500 richest people tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

 

But it was Musk — the so-called “first buddy” of President-elect Donald Trump after unprecedented support for his reelection campaign — who dominated the world’s wealthiest in 2024.

 

His close relationship with the incoming president helped increase the value of his companies, including Tesla Inc., SpaceX and xAI. That boosted his fortune to an unprecedented $442.1 billion, up $213 billion from the beginning of the year. The $237 billion gap between him and Bezos on Dec. 17 was the largest ever recorded between the first- and second-ranked names on Bloomberg’s wealth index.

 

Across the board, the world’s wealthiest benefited from a stock market that defied expectations in 2024. The S&P 500 Index gained 24% through Monday, powered by the small group of stocks dubbed the “Magnificent Seven,” including Musk’s Tesla, Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc. and Huang’s Nvidia Corp., which accounted for more than half of the stock benchmark’s performance.

 

Trump’s election win added to the gains: The S&P 500 hit a then all-time high on Nov. 6 in its best post-Election Day performance in history. The billionaires represented on the index gained a combined $505 billion in the five weeks following the election, 34% of the yearly total.

 

Trump’s victory also sparked a historic rally for digital assets, pushing Bitcoin above $100,000 for the first time. That especially boosted crypto billionaires: Binance Holdings’ Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, saw his wealth surge 60% to $55 billion. The net worth of Coinbase Global Inc. co-founder Brian Armstrong rose more than 50% to $11.1 billion.

 

The total value of the fortunes tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was $9.8 trillion at Monday’s close, down slightly from a Dec. 11 peak of $10.1 trillion following a post-Christmas selloff. Their wealth is similar in size to last year’s combined gross domestic products of Germany, Japan and Australia, according to data compiled by the World Bank.

 

Here are some of this year’s biggest winners and losers:

 

''Winners''

-Donald Trump: The president-elect’s fortune soared to record highs this year, boosted by the performance of his majority stake in Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. Despite reporting a $19.2 million loss last quarter, DJT, as the social-media company is known, gained 95% this year, to a current market value of over $7 billion.

-Jensen Huang: Nvidia CEO Huang has been one of the biggest individual winners of the AI boom so far, adding $76 billion to his net worth this year. Nvidia’s stock nearly tripled in 2024, and it became the world’s most valuable company for the first time in June.

-Mark Zuckerberg: Despite a blockbuster $841 million antitrust fine from the EU and early-year hesitation from investors about the company’s multibillion-dollar AI push, the Meta CEO added $81 billion to his net worth this year as Meta stock gained nearly 70%.

-Chinese billionaires: Chinese billionaires, including Tencent Holdings Ltd. CEO Pony Ma, Xiaomi Corp. Chairman Lei Jun and Cambricon Technologies Corp. co-founder Chen Tianshi, added 14% to their fortunes in 2024. Their gains reversed three straight years of losses spurred by an ongoing property crisis and government clampdowns on powerful tech firms.

-Billionaires under age 60: The younger billionaires on the list grew their wealth more than twice as much as their older counterparts this year. Billionaires under 60 make up 27% of the index.

 

''Losers''

-French luxury billionaires: The fortunes of Bernard Arnault, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers and Francois Pinault, whose wealth comes from holdings in the luxury goods sector, took big losses in 2024. After years of pandemic-fueled gains, when luxury shopping supplanted spending on dining and entertainment, slowing sales — especially in the key Chinese market — cost the three billionaires a total of $71 billion.

-Colin Huang: Huang had the biggest wealth decline among Chinese billionaires. The e-commerce mogul behind Temu briefly became China’s richest person in August, but ended the year down $18 billion after a lackluster earnings report sent his company’s shares plummeting 29% in a single day.

-Ricardo Salinas: The chairman of Grupo Elektra SAB, a Mexican retail and banking conglomerate, lost more than half of his net worth in a single day after his company’s stock tanked following Salinas’ claims that he was scammed by a former financial adviser. Salinas announced he would be taking the company private last week.

-Carlos Slim: Slim, who has major stakes in Latin American businesses across the telecom, banking, construction and energy sectors, saw his net worth decline by $26 billion in 2024. His wealth was hurt by exchange rates — the peso fell about 20% after years of relative strength — and flagging markets after leftist candidate Claudia Sheinbaum’s June victory in Mexico’s presidential election.

-Pham Nhat Vuong: The Vietnamese mogul, who has holdings in property development, retail and health care, saw shares in his electric vehicle company Vinfast Auto Ltd. fall about 70% early in the year after losses widened and the market soured on its aggressive expansion plans. The stock has since recovered some ground, but the decline cost Vuong nearly half of his fortune.

 

https://archive.is/q4ey9#selection-1923.0-1955.155

Anonymous ID: ff84e1 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:05 p.m. No.22265183   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265069

 

He's freaking out because he compromised his CIA cover. Mr. Contractor. His companies only exist due to gov't subsidies and slave labor, and he showed his hand. His satellites are fucking CIA satellites and they are hoping we "follow the stars," and just blindly like him.

 

Our current baker is great for including the dissent against Monolith Musk (freemason CIA front), but for the last three days or so most bakers have completely censored ANY discussion on Musk and Vivek pushing thru H1B slave labor and undercutting Americans.

 

Elon most likely has dedicated employees at X who bake and post here constantly, and they're working overtime. Just watch, as we get closer to midnight, there will be less and less pro-Elon shilling.

 

All Elon's posts the last 24 hours have been condescending attempts at "look at me I'm just like you guys!!!" after literally telling Americans we are lazy and don't deserve to have jobs and we should be replaced.

 

Fuck Elon, Fuck Vivek.

Anonymous ID: 1f5796 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:05 p.m. No.22265184   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Americans will no longer allow foreigners to turn them into a minority in their own homeland, period.

If the people in charge insist on that, then Americans will engage them in Revolutionary War. It's as simple as that.

 

Dr. William Luther Pierce - Our Revolutionary Right

https://odysee.com/@CroMagnon1488:3/6175c5ed53f30fde12951660-h264-360p-(1):2

 

Elon has given the Revolution its “Let them eat cake” moment.

 

The question has become one of: "Do I want my daughter to have to hide inside at all times to avoid being raped by pajeets?" or "Can my son possibly get a job after college, because I'm being laid off for an H1B soon myself?"

The insulation from the decisions that the elite have made are disappearing from what remains of the middle class and now to portions of the upper class as well.

Anonymous ID: 35152c Dec. 31, 2024, 2:05 p.m. No.22265187   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5203

>>22265164

There are multiple statues that apply to interstate fraud, not just securities.

 

The main focus is here

 

1)to employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud

 

You cannot fabricate currency from a device including a computer. It's not collateral. I'm not gonna argue. You take your own risk.

Anonymous ID: ade36f Dec. 31, 2024, 2:10 p.m. No.22265210   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5230 >>5247 >>5286 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

>>22265154

Well fuck. Washington state changed the Sherrif position to an appointed position. Now we have a bunch of deputie scabs from other bullshit states that took the Vax. Seattle police is also fucked. Hired the police chief from Madison Wisconsin. Same place the trans chic shot up the school recently. Washington state has all the Hallmarks of being a front line. Maybe that ocean volcano will erupt and cleanse the coast. Better send U.S. Marshall's, drag them all to jail.

 

https://kingcounty.gov/so-so/dept/sheriff/about-king-county/about-sheriff-office/about-leadership-team

Madness of Wisdom ID: 03119a Dec. 31, 2024, 2:11 p.m. No.22265214   🗄️.is 🔗kun

MICHAEL that one about good girls die young and shes in a fast car? LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG BAD GIRLS DO IT WELL YOU KNOW

Anonymous ID: e2e0e8 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:11 p.m. No.22265218   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5222 >>5288

When is the state funeral?

Is joe and Jill going to the nogeration?

Is Kamala and Obama and big Mike going?

Is Nancy and chuck going?

Is the national guard gonna be there?

Anonymous ID: a245ed Dec. 31, 2024, 2:12 p.m. No.22265220   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265199

>State Department

<fiction

>Atlantic Council

<supranational group

>Jewish Zionist Narrative

<from where?

Anonymous ID: f54d0e Dec. 31, 2024, 2:15 p.m. No.22265236   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265022

Atlanta Skyline

 

They can't help themselves to repeat the same symbolic architecture over and over wherever they set up shop. Tunnels connect everything.

Anonymous ID: f27f8a Dec. 31, 2024, 2:15 p.m. No.22265238   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5244 >>5261

>>22265215

"stop all yer bitchin' back in the kitchen"

"well you've been on the rag, and all you do is nag"

 

Oooh, that song would never cut it by today's standards. Too misogynistic for this panzy generation.

Anonymous ID: d90d4a Dec. 31, 2024, 2:16 p.m. No.22265245   🗄️.is 🔗kun

JAG Arrests Justice Department Deep Staters On Christmas Eve

https://gazetteller.com/jag-arrests-justice-department-deep-staters-on-christmas-eve/

Anonymous ID: ff84e1 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:17 p.m. No.22265249   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265241

 

Elon is a satanist, pedophile, freemason, and CIA front. Trump helped draw him out and expose himself for the traitor piece of shit he is. Now he's backtracking and trying to pretend to be "one of us."

 

Fuck no, fuck Elon fuck Vivek.

Anonymous ID: 28d525 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:17 p.m. No.22265251   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5268

>>22265228

> in wartime situation

kek. ok you got me.

good luck parceling your properties for some bacon…in wartime.

but the gov't has probably confiscated them …since it's wartime and shit.

Anonymous ID: 001b76 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:18 p.m. No.22265254   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265206

He got there all legal-like; he's yours now! He wouldn't even let Saffers in on PayPal when he first made that so. We haven't got a use for him. No starlink here nor direct cell. he's got no loyalty to us!

Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:18 p.m. No.22265256   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5311 >>5315 >>5338 >>5400 >>5428 >>5485

>>22265031

 

Don't believe me?

 

Maybe you'll listen to this guy.

 

The black magic practitioners have had you under a "word-thinking" spell where you've avoided any practice that resembles a "ritual" because you assumed those were all forbidden in the Bible.

 

No, they are not.

 

Very specific magic practices; namely trying to tell the future without permission from God, communing with the dead, and using "glam" for negative purposes are forbidden.

 

The Bible does not forbid you from doing whatever you need to do in private in order to convince yourself that you are going to win.

 

CONVINCING YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE GOING TO WIN IS WHAT BIASES THE QUANTUM COINFLIP.

 

Stop letting these people tell you what is and is not an acceptable practice for accessing your own spark of human agency and simply look to the Bible to see if it's illegal.

 

If it is not illegal and it gets your head where it need to be, then ritual away Merrill. Merrill, ritual away.

Anonymous ID: d90d4a Dec. 31, 2024, 2:19 p.m. No.22265257   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5266

Military Leaks Confirm GESARA’s Plan: Tribunals in Full Swing, Tesla’s Free Energy, MedBeds, and the Emergency Broadcast System(EBS) Set to Liberate Humanity!

https://gazetteller.com/breaking-military-leaks-confirm-gesaras-plan-tribunals-in-full-swing-teslas-free-energy-medbeds-and-the-emergency-broadcast-systemebs-set-to-liberate-humanity/

Anonymous ID: 3a9231 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:22 p.m. No.22265272   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Anons, I apologize, the list of weird shit for 2024 did not get completed

 

KEK, I only did January.

 

The weird shit of 2024

 

January

 

1 - Miami Mall Aliens

2

3

4- Hawking's Midget Math

5 - Secretary of Defense MIAWOL for days

6- Dickless dude in Bass Pro Pond

7- 737 Door pops out

8

9- CNN defers Palestinian coverage decisions to IDF

10

11- Tunnel Jews

12

13

14

15

16- USA Today: there are no tunnel mattresses or highchairs

17- Andrew to take on the role of King as Charles recuperates

 

February

 

11- Kate MIA after coming home from two-week hospital stay

Anonymous ID: f27f8a Dec. 31, 2024, 2:22 p.m. No.22265273   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5283

>>22265261

Not saying anything's wrong with it. In fact it rocks, but it would piss a lot of people off today.

 

We need to go back to how things were. This whole "everybody's offended" shit is getting really old.

Anonymous ID: 00db6a Dec. 31, 2024, 2:22 p.m. No.22265274   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5291

>>22265172

>“The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B,” Musk raged in response to the X user. “Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”

 

Well Elon Happy New Year to your beloved H1B program. The hill you decided to die on. You weren't born in America and neither were your H1B friends. Never talk down to me faggot.

Anonymous ID: d90d4a Dec. 31, 2024, 2:24 p.m. No.22265281   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5363

Trump’s Military Alliance Prepares Global Med Bed Rollout for 2025 – Healing the World While Crushing the Deep State!

https://gazetteller.com/unstoppable-trumps-military-alliance-prepares-global-med-bed-rollout-for-2025-healing-the-world-while-crushing-the-deep-state/

Anonymous ID: f54d0e Dec. 31, 2024, 2:24 p.m. No.22265282   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265126

https://tribune.com.pk/article/29547/the-filthy-culture-of-bacha-bazi-in-afghanistan

 

How many US Politicians visited Afghanistan ?

 

Certainly not for the troops. Ever wonder why pur veterans come back fucked up ?

Anonymous ID: 175ae2 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:24 p.m. No.22265283   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5296

>>22265273

>This whole "everybody's offended" shit is getting really old.

Agree. Anon thinks the pendulum is starting to swing back in the other direction.

 

Let's see what happens.

Anonymous ID: d31a57 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:25 p.m. No.22265284   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265243

I love that.

"these people are stupid"

 

Check out the symbolism in this etching called "Gate to the Physics Garden, Oxford"

 

Seems there might have been degeneration, over some generations?

Closed system? Has inherent weaknesses?

That's why Elon took Twit?

Closed system will stagnate?

Anonymous ID: e63d38 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:25 p.m. No.22265286   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5309

notables @ 340

 

#27237 >>22264847

>>22264872 Three Senior DOJ Officials Caught Leaking Non-Public Investigative Details to Media Days Before Election

>>22264913, >>22264943, >>22264950 Elon Musk’s Tesla Replaced Laid Off Americans with Foreign Workers on H-1B Visas

>>22264914 Biden has spent 575 days, 40% of his presidency, on vacation with no visitor logs

>>22264930, >>22264999 Jimmy Carter’s Destructive and Borderline Treasonous Record In and Out of Office

>>22265015 House Speaker Mike Johnson: Republicans can't waste any time

>>22265121 PF: Kazakhstan A320 headed into the US; haven't seen that before

>>22265154 Sheriffs gear up to join Trump’s mass deportation crusade

>>22265181 Pierre Poilievre just dropped a must-watch video on 'little potato' Justin Trudeau

>>22265182 World’s 500 Richest People Surpassed $10 Trillion in Wealth This Year

>>22265210 Seattle mayor announces new police chief

>>22265173 Memes

#27237

Anonymous ID: 01b414 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:26 p.m. No.22265289   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Ivermectin & HCQ is Anti-Viral

Which means it works on all Viruses

 

Bird Flu

Covid

Flu

Are all Viral Bioweapons that Ivermectin & HCQ will work against

Bonus Point: they can't have EUA if there is a Treatment Available

Anonymous ID: b322e0 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:27 p.m. No.22265294   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5297 >>5302 >>5374

Just been thinkin' bout all the shit we've had to wade through the last eight years, and you know what I've noticed….

It's made us more alert

It's made us think more deeply on issues

It's made us be more reflective

It's made us come together noting how similar we all are

It's made us sharper and more discerning

But most of all it's made us even more American and proud to be true Patriot Americans!

 

God bless you all for allowing me to wade through all these eight years with you, I've grown with you and it's been an honor of a lifetime!

 

Thank God for God and His Grace and Mercy and Great Love towards us during this time! I pray for those we lost along the way and pray for those that still need more light in their lives!

 

=HAPPY NEW YEAR ANONS, LOVE YOU ALL!==

Anonymous ID: 187bbe Dec. 31, 2024, 2:28 p.m. No.22265300   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5324 >>5366

Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk want to increase.1/2Fred Lambert

| Dec 30 2024 - 8:43 am PT

 

Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs earlier this year with foreign workers using H-1B visas, which CEO Elon Musk is now campaigning to increase.

Over the last week, Elon Musk has been promoting the increase of H-1B visas, which are used tobring foreign workers into the US for “specialty occupations.”

Qualified foreign workers need to be sponsored by a company to get the visa, which lasts three years, extendable to six years, after which the holder needs to reapply.

The visa holder must maintain employment at the visa sponsor to retain the work visa. The worker would have to leave the country if the employment ends for whatever reason. This has led to some criticism as it gives tremendous power to the employer and can lead to a modern version of indentured servitude.

While there are obvious benefits to bringing skilled workers into the US, people are divided on the issue because those workers areoften paid less than US workers, putting negative pressure on compensation, especially in the tech industry, on top ofthe moral questions about holding visas over the heads of foreign workers.

That’s why the US Congress has mandated a 65,000 visa cap limiting the number of H-1B visas that can be issued each fiscal year, plus an extra 20,000 for foreign people coming out of graduate programs at US universities.

Tesla has been a big user of those visas, and its CEO,Elon Musk, has been using his newfound political influence to promote increasing the cap of H-1B visas. He received significant pushback from his new friends on the right side of the political spectrum in the US, who see this visa as being used to steal jobs from Americans.

He is quite passionate about the issue, to say the least: x pic

To be fair, Musk didn’t come to the US on a H-1B visa. He came on a student visa, and later, his own brother admitted that they were illegal immigrants in the early days of launching their Zip2 startup in the US.

Tesla’s use of H-1B visas

Over the last few days, several current and former Tesla workers reached out to Electrek to reveal that Tesla ramped up its use of H-1B visas to replace US workers it let go during a wave of layoffs earlier this year.

We reported that roughly US 15,000 employees were let go at Tesla around April 2024.Every department was affected, but the layoffs were concentrated in Texas and California, where Tesla has more workers than anywhere else.

Current and former Tesla employees said that many of the laid-off US workers were replaced by foreign workers using H-1B visas.

These claims are backed by US Department of Labor data, which show that Tesla requested over 2,000 H-1B visas during the time it was laying off US workers (via Reddit):

Again, there’s a cap of 65,000 visas for the entire US annually, and Tesla alone tried to get over 3% of them.

Tesla workers said that many employees let go were more senior engineers with higher compensation and they have been replaced with junior engineers from foreign countries at a lower pay.

Electrek’s Take

To be clear, I’m not taking a stance on H-1B here. It seems like there should be good uses for this visa, but it certainly can be abused. My goal is to share more information that could explain why Elon would want more of this visa for his businesses, and maybe not for the right reasons.

At the core, people see the problem of hiring workers from other countries who are willing to work for lower pay than US workers – taking jobs from Americans and putting pressure on overall compensation in the US.

There’s certainly value to the argument. Elon’s counterargument is that the US doesn’t have enough skilled workers, and he needs to hire people from other countries to compensate.

This argument also has some value, especially for specific sectors, like manufacturing engineering, which has become less popular in the US. (Not so, they were shipped overseas, there's millions in America that want their jobs back)

 

https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-workers-with-foreign-workers-using-h-1b-visas-that-musk-want-to-increase/

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:28 p.m. No.22265301   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

NFL dominates prime-time TV ratings for 2024 with Super Bowl drawing huge audience and MLB making big comeback

 

75 of the 100 most-watched telecasts over the past year were sporting events, including a record-breaking Super Bowl LVIII.

 

The NFL dominates the list, but there were positive signs for the MLB and NCAA women's basketball over the past twelve months.

 

The February Super Bowl showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers was a huge draw for audiences.

 

Millions of fans tuned in to watch the Chiefs win back-to-back Lombardi's, making it the most-watched US telecast in history.

 

An average of 120 million viewers viewed the game on CBS, with an average of 123.4 watching across all platforms.

 

Football bosses will be delighted to see 45 NFL broadcasts feature in the Top 100, per Variety.

 

You have to go down to No. 12 before finding a telecast not related to sports.

 

September's presidential debate, held by ABC, raked in 20.3 million viewers.

 

Also on the list are the Oscars, as well as four editions of CBS' 60 Minutes.

 

But otherwise, it was another year sports dominated our screens, with America's appetite for sporting drama seemingly at an all-time high.

 

All five MLB World Series games appear on the list, as neutral fans found themselves drawn to the Los Angeles Dodgers/New York Yankees matchup.

 

And for the first time, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship didn’t make the top 100, but the Women’s Championship Game did.

 

The WNBA has enjoyed a bumper year, with the success of rookies Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese driving ratings.

 

Further down the list, America tuned in for the Paris Olympics, where 19 installments made the cut.

 

And four out of five NBA Finals games were also included.

 

In the battle of the networks, it will be executives at NBC who will enjoy reading the list most.

 

The network led with the most slots with 38, up from 24 last year.

 

NBC's rise was driven by its primetime Sunday Night Football slot and stellar Olympics coverage.

 

Next was CBS with 25, then ABC with 12 entries.

 

Rounding out the list, Prime Video had 10, Fox Sports had nine, ESPN came in with five, and Fox News scored one.

 

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/13188749/nfl-prime-time-tv-ratings-super-bowl-mlb-nba/

Anonymous ID: f54d0e Dec. 31, 2024, 2:29 p.m. No.22265304   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265285

Sub standard wages has become the norm in corporate America.

 

Anyone dealing with H1B's knows you need one real American worker to oversee two of the cheapies, They are not that smart or productive.

Anonymous ID: 9889ef Dec. 31, 2024, 2:30 p.m. No.22265312   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5316

Operation Yeet the Jeet

 

I have decided that this might make an effective tool to go after H1-B visa bull with the aforementioned red text… still trying to figure out a meme for it though

Anonymous ID: ed94f6 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:31 p.m. No.22265315   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5338 >>5400 >>5428 >>5485

>>22265031

>>22265256

 

We all do this every day.

 

We create playlists.

 

We watch clips of old movies on Youtube that make us feel empowered.

 

Have you ever considered doing this as a MEDITATION?

 

Have you ever considered DESIGNING IT IN ADVANCE IN ORDER TO HACK WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW ABOUT YOUR OWN PSYCHOLOGY?

 

Because that's all that these "black magic" rituals all throughout history have been doing.

 

When you get right down to it, they don't even believe blood or death has power.

 

THEY BELIEVE THE WAY IT MAKES THEM FEEL WHEN THEY DO IT HAS POWER. AND THEY ARE CORRECT.

 

You don't need that shit, you have the Holy Spirit. You can just jam out in your underwear and reality hack better than any of these amateurs as long as you you use some proper objective psychological introspection to plan the process.

 

This, of course, requires actually knowing one's self. This is actually the real barrier to "magic," not some faggy "ritual."

 

None of this works if you are dishonest with yourself about who and what you are. The "ritual" has no power, the part of your subconscious where dreams are made has the power. That's what you are trying to access.

 

Little kid magic. It was never more complicated than that. Become like a babe and believe that anything is possible.

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:32 p.m. No.22265322   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5356 >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

Why do we drop a ball on New Year's Eve? The Times Square tradition, explained

 

On the evening of Dec. 31, as in many years past, millions of people around the world will stop what they're doing to watch a 12-foot, 11,875-pound crystal ball slowly descend a New York City flagpole to announce the start of a new year.

 

The Times Square ball drop has been a fixture of New Year's Eve since 1907, when the original wood and iron orb made its maiden journey. It remains a beloved tradition over a century and half a dozen ball redesigns later.

 

The storied ball has been lowered every year — except 1942 and 1943, due to lighting restrictions during World War II (which didn't stop crowds from gathering in Times Square).

 

The New Year's Eve celebration has grown to include a long roster of musical performances and corporate sponsorships, with onlookers returning to the streets in growing numbers after the COVID-19 pandemic forced it online in 2020.

 

It's even inspired offshoots around the U.S., with various cities dropping everything from a giant pine cone and an oversize pickle to a monster-sized Moon Pie and high-heel-riding drag queen.

 

But the Big Apple's big crystal ball has managed to stay at the center of it all. Here's a look at how the spectacle came about and how it's evolved over the years.

 

New Yorkers have celebrated New Year's in Times Square — the bustling intersection of Seventh Avenue, 42nd Street and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan — since it got its name in 1904.

 

That year, the New York Times moved its headquarters to the new Times Building (now known as One Times Square). The paper's owner, Adolph Ochs, successfully lobbied the city to rename the area, previously known as Longacre Square.

 

As legend — aka the Times Square District Management Association — has it, Ochs "spared no expense" throwing a New Year's Eve celebration to commemorate the headquarters' opening, with an all-day street festival and extravagant fireworks display.

 

The party was a smashing success, cementing Times Square's status as the place to ring in the new year. But two years later, the city banned the fireworks display.

 

Undeterred, Ochs looked for a way to outdo himself for the 1907-1908 event — and found it.

 

Ochs asked the Times' chief electrician, Walter Palmer, to come up with a New Year's Eve spectacle that didn't involve ashy firework debris raining down on revelers.

 

According to a 1965 piece in Newsday (Nassau Edition), Palmer was inspired by the clock on the downtown Western Union Telegraph Company building, which for decades had dropped an iron ball from its rooftop every day at noon.

 

That harkens back to a longstanding maritime tradition of ports dropping a ball at a specific time every day, allowing ship captains to precisely adjust their navigational instruments. Famous examples include England's Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. — both of which still lower balls daily (at 1 p.m. and noon, respectively).

 

Palmer devised an even bigger production, ultimately covering a 700-pound ball of iron and wood with 100 light bulbs to descend a pole that stood 50 feet above the 400-foot tower.

 

The ball was built by a young immigrant metalworker named Jacob Starr, whose company, Artkraft Strauss, would go on to lower the ball for most of the 20th century — a process that was done by hand using more than half a dozen men and a length of rope.

 

The New York Times detailed its debut on Dec. 31, 1907:

 

“At 10 minutes to midnight, the whistles on every boiler in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and the waters thereof began to screech. Tens of thousands stood watching the electric ball. And then — it fell. The great shout that went up drowned out the whistles for a minute. The vocal power of the welcomers rose above even the horns and the cow bells and the rattles. Above all else came the wild human hullabaloo of noise, out of which could be formed dimly the words: ‘Hurrah for 1908.’”

 

Interestingly, the final 10-second countdown didn't become part of the tradition until many decades later. As NPR has reported, it wasn't until the 1960s that some TV announcers started a countdown, and the Times Square crowd only joined them in 1979.

 

A lot has changed since that first ball drop, including the ball itself.

 

The original orb was replaced with a 400-pound iron ball in 1940. In 1955, it was upgraded to a 150-pound aluminum ball with 180 light bulbs. Red light bulbs and a green stem transformed the ball into an apple for the "I Love New York" campaign for seven years in the 1980s.

 

The ball got aluminum skin, rhinestones, strobes, and computer controls in the late 1990s, and its now-signature crystal triangles (courtesy of Waterford Crystal) at the turn of the millennium.

 

The ball was lowered by hand until the mid-1990s; now it is timed electronically using an atomic clock based in Colorado (but New York City's mayor and other special guests still get the honor of pushing the ceremonial button).

 

"My first year, we decided to go computer controls, electronic winch, tied into the atomic clock in Colorado and unfortunately the ball was about three seconds late … first screwup of 1996," Jeff Strauss, president of Countdown Entertainment, told member station WBGO in 2017. "Since then, I gotta say, we've been doing it really well."

 

On its 100th anniversary in 2007, the ball's incandescent light bulbs were replaced with LED lighting, allowing for more brightness and color capabilities. The following year One Times Square put its permanent "Big Ball" on public display, making it a year-round fixture.

 

The ownership and occupants of the 26-story building have also changed since the tradition began.

 

The New York Times relocated nearby in 1914, and sold its former headquarters to a developer in 1961. The Allied Chemical Company bought and renovated the building shortly after, and the office building changed hands multiple times over the following decades.

 

One Times Square is currently owned by real estate investment and management company Jamestown L.P., which in 2022 announced a $500 million plan to modernize the building into a "21st century visitor center for New York City," including a museum and viewing deck.

 

Construction is expected to end in 2025 — all the more reason to look forward to the new year.

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/31/nx-s1-5235245/new-years-eve-ball-drop-times-square

Anonymous ID: 187bbe Dec. 31, 2024, 2:32 p.m. No.22265324   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5332 >>5340

>>22265300

2/2

However, at Tesla and with Elon, the problem is much deeper than this.

 

The problem stems fromthe employer’s weight over the workers as a sponsor of their visas. Elon is famously hard on workers, andhe doesn’t like the traditional 40-hour workweek. He often pushes Tesla employees to work 60 to 80 hours per week. (Anons commentIt was odd that volunteers for DOGE had to commit to 80 hours a week. I've worked up to 65 hours a week of intense analysis of data and I couldn't do 80 hours for sure. The brain runs out of energy.)

 

Many Tesla employees have happily done this for years, and the main motivator has been thebelief in Tesla’s missionto accelerate the advent of electric transport in orderto curb climate change.

 

Some people still believe in this mission, but Elon has eroded it over the last few years by shifting focus on self-driving and advocating for removing EV incentives in the US.

 

It is becoming harder to make people believe that Tesla’s main goal is to accelerate the advent of EVs when its CEO is talking more about Tesla becoming “the most valuable company in the world” than its impact on climate change.

 

And let’s not forget thathe has spent a tremendous amount of effort and money over the last year to get deniers of the human impact on climate change elected.

 

But he has found another effective way to motivate workers to work harder and for longer hours: hold a visa over their head.

 

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H1B are primarily a vehicle for US corporations to get access to cheaper foreign labor with reduced labor protections. H1B workers always live under the threat of being deported if they lose their job, which forces them to be more compliant to their corporate masters while they're here. If we really cared about improving US workers' tech skills, we'd just spend money training and educating US citizens.

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The nature of the H-1B visa being attached to your employer puts tremendous pressure on the workers.

 

On top of it, Tesla, like many other companies using H-1B visas,tends to hire from countries where longer workweek are already the norm.

For example,India is already mostly on a 6-day workweek.

 

I don’t like to Tesla workers killing themselves working 80 hours per week, but if they do it passionately, by choice, for what they believe to be a great mission, it’s hard to argue against that. It’s their choice.

 

But if they do it because they want the “American dream” and they are afraid that getting let go will kill or slow down their chance of immigrating because they are in the country on a H-1B visa, that feels like exploitation to me.

 

https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-workers-with-foreign-workers-using-h-1b-visas-that-musk-want-to-increase/

 

Has this visa scam been responsible for the decline in birthrates for Americans?

Anonymous ID: f54d0e Dec. 31, 2024, 2:33 p.m. No.22265326   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265307

The enormous amount of cash sent back by Mexicans in Norte America to Mexico is staggering. Sending these workers back to Mexico will cause a full on recession in Mexico. No money supply.

Anonymous ID: 4cca30 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:33 p.m. No.22265327   🗄️.is 🔗kun

the shills are so stoopid they post "rituals are ok, go ahead and do as many rituals as you can" and then the next post "elon is a satanist, blah blah blah"

 

why are we so afraid of satanists? theyre stupid, incapable of compassion, always accusing everyone of shit they did cuz they scared of punishment

 

they are the most nervous, cowardly beings on this planet

 

the only power a ritual has is if the victim convinces himself they have a power over him which he means stoopid too

 

if we get caught be these cowards and tortured, theyre still still wake up the next morning here and being their stoopid selves, we will be in Elysium

Anonymous ID: 625230 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:33 p.m. No.22265328   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265306

The Jewish Alinsky tactic of trying to destroy America and humanity by opening borders to people who have none of the same values enter should stop. It's played out. They look stupid and it shows everyone how evil they are.

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:33 p.m. No.22265329   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5365 >>5626 >>5714

House Ethics Committee closes investigations into 4 members

 

The Ethics Committee did not find that fund misuse was intentional and unanimously decided to close the cases and declined to take further action.

 

The House Ethics Committee closed investigations into at least four members Monday for violating campaign finance rules.

 

The investigations involved Reps. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.), Wesley Hunt (R-Tex.), Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.), Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) and “other confidential matters that have been under review.” The committee declined to disclose further details on those cases.

 

The House panel found that, in at least some of those cases, “evidence that the Member’s campaign did not fully comply with the applicable standards relating to personal use of campaign funds, as well as reporting or recordkeeping requirements for campaign expenditures.” But the Ethics Committee did not find that misuse was intentional and unanimously decided to close the cases, declining to take further action.

 

House lawmakers cannot use campaign funds for personal matters, but the committee noted in its press release that existing rules under the Federal Election Commission are unclear and released updated rules on campaign expenses. Although the panel will not take disciplinary action, it did provide those lawmakers who were investigated with updated guidance and recommendations for their campaign spending.

 

Bishop was accused of allegedly misusing tens of thousands of dollars in official and campaign funds. The Office of Congressional Ethics, or OCE, referred Jackson to the committee in March, after finding evidence that his campaign committee had allegedly spent thousands of dollars at a private dining club called the Amarillo Club. OCE also referred Hunt in March over allegations that he used campaign funds to access a social club called the Oak Room. OCE referred Mooney to the committee in late 2021 for allegations over accepting a trip to Aruba.

 

In a statement, Jackson hailed the Ethics Committee’s conclusion as evidence that exonerated him from the charges, saying that he did not use funds for personal use.

 

“I am glad to put this ridiculous, partisan, and politically motivated matter behind me, and I am looking forward to working alongside President Trump to improve the lives of my constituents and all Americans,” he said.

 

The announcement comes on the heels of the public release of the Ethics Committee’s report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, which found evidence that he allegedly had sexual relations with a minor and used illegal drugs. Gaetz has denied all allegations.

 

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/30/congress/house-ethics-closes-investigations-00196146

Anonymous ID: 58a8f7 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:33 p.m. No.22265330   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5346 >>5374

>>22265306

And, this, fellow anons, is one of the many reasons why the Democrat brand has become toxic. They didn't think people would catch on.

 

They didn't think they had to hide their true agenda anymore.

 

They thought controlling the legacy media was enough.

 

They never counted on alt media and anons.

Anonymous ID: 3b4445 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:34 p.m. No.22265336   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5365 >>5404 >>5626 >>5714

Ken Cuccinelli II

@KenCuccinelli

Here's an H1B visa stat for you:

 

Last year, the top 30 H-1B visa employers laid off 84,556 people at the same time as they sought 34,414 new H1-B foreign workers. This includes firms such as @elonmusk's Tesla.

 

https://x.com/KenCuccinelli/status/1873823762149454180

Anonymous ID: 4cca30 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:35 p.m. No.22265339   🗄️.is 🔗kun

another sign of a satanist: they love to control, they covet power, its because they have no self control, and no power inside of themselves, they have to use others

 

that means we are up against lazy, good for nothings, managers basically

Anonymous ID: f54d0e Dec. 31, 2024, 2:35 p.m. No.22265340   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5353

>>22265324

All Plantations are built and prosper through slavery. Indentured workers is nothing new, H1Bs are the new indentured workers. Global Elite doing what they do best. Fuck the population of the country they are raping.

Anonymous ID: 58a8f7 Dec. 31, 2024, 2:37 p.m. No.22265346   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22265330

They went too far when they tried to normalize tranny child molesters and said they belonged in women's sports and locker rooms.

 

They screwed the pooch, big time.