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A highlight from Who Is Worse? Blackrock Or The Catholic Church (Biggest Money Cartel In History)
"Are you ready to wage a war without end against you? Are you ready to wage that war armed with nothing but bottomless poverty? I didn't think so. In that case, stop talking bullshit. And get yourself some shoes, because the air in here is unbreathable. Money corrupts, and that's not news. Today, it's Black Rock, Vanguard, and State Street. But not too long ago, there's an entity that held even more power than those multinational conglomerates. We're going to take a step back in time to the Catholic Church of the Renaissance and learn how it basically controlled everything it touched and how the game has stayed pretty much the same through the 21st century. We may just find similarities to how banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite wield political power today. Let's get it. Now, before you get your commenting fingers twitching about how I'm being mean to Catholics, know that I'm just talking about a political institution 500 years ago. I'm not talking about Catholicism as a religious practice or the church today. You do you when it comes to religion. This is America. Okay, now let's get back to the Renaissance. One big similarity the old school church has with our tradfi overlords is the emphasis on secrecy. Both institutions are shrouded in mystery. No one really knows their entire net worth or their intentions. Well, other than maintaining the status quo so they can rake in as much money as possible, both the Catholic Church and the banks have covered up scandal and corruption time after time so they can continue business as usual. Back in Da Vinci's time, there are all sorts of rumors of popes and other church officials not exactly keeping up with the Christian morals they were preaching. There is abuses of all kinds, incest, orgies, mistresses, bribery. We're not even talking about the polycule. You name the sin, the Renaissance popes were probably doing it. There is even a pope who supposedly drank children's blood. And that same corruption seems to be rampant within the banks and hedge funds in modern times. JP Morgan was found to be handling the payments between Epstein and the people he was trafficking with. In fact, the number of billionaires with connections to Epstein are startling. What were you doing on the island? And we'd probably hear more about similar corruption and scandals within Black Rock, Vanguard and State Street if they didn't own basically every news organization in the US. But we'll get to that a bit later. For now, the big boys just pay a lot of fines for doing bad things. And that brings us to the first tool you need if you want to control everything. Here's a hint. It's all about the money. Have you ever heard the phrase, money is power? Well, I'm pretty sure the Renaissance Church invented that concept. Most economists reckon the wealth of the modern day Catholic Church is actually immeasurable due to all the priceless artwork, artifacts and the money laundering going on. And the reported $30 billion net worth is still high despite countries going through a Protestant Reformation during the Renaissance and subsequently reclaiming church lands. So just imagine how much land and property the church owned back when Catholicism was the only thing on the Christian menu. Although it's really hard to know for sure just how much cash the pope was raking in during the Renaissance, economists estimate it would be a little over $40 million annually in today's terms. And remember, this income doesn't include the land or artwork they're receiving as gifts or claiming by force. This gave the pope the kind of capital countries are usually playing with. And thus, the church had the same power as monarchs. Some would argue even more. And folks, we may have ditched the funny tights and corsets or maybe you have, but we have the same kind of issue today. Vanguard, Black Creek and State Street manage almost $20 trillion, which is almost more than the U .S.'s GDP. And not only do they control more wealth than most countries in the world, those hedge funds are also managing wealth for countries, which creates a vicious, incestual cycle of corruption. Back in 2016, Forbes reported that the wealth gap is worse today than it was in the Middle Ages. And that's not very hard to believe when we know the top 1 % holds 15 times more wealth than the bottom 50 % of America. And during the COVID lockdown, the 10 richest billionaires doubled their fortunes, while 160 million people fell into poverty. So how did both the uber wealthy of the modern day and the ancient Catholic Church amass this kind of wealth? Well, the church had millions of people tithing 10 % of their income. Doesn't this sound a bit like the interest we pay banks on loans and banking fees? And 10 % is nothing in comparison to the types of interest we pay just to exist in the modern world. The highest credit card is over 30%, and most of us are paying somewhere in the 20s. And because the Fed is raising rates, other borrowing is getting more expensive, too. Student loan rates have increased, and taking out a loan to buy a home is nearly impossible these days because rates have almost tripled. mortgage rates haven't been above 6 % since the housing crisis in 2008. And yet, somehow, it's only us plebs who are paying these kinds of rates to borrow money. The corporations like BlackRock and JP Morgan take out loans with nearly 0 % interest. In fact, the wealthier you are, the less banks deem you as a risk. So you get the best rates. But in reality, this turns into a vicious cycle where the hyper wealthy hoard more money and the poor can't afford to borrow. Right now, the average interest for a personal loan is between 6 % and 36%, where the average interest for businesses is 2 % to 13%. Interest is leveraged against the average American the same way the Catholic Church used to leverage Ursary Usury is the practice of charging interest, and it used to be the biggest sin you could commit. But the church got creative with how it weaponized usury. It didn't go after wealthy banking families like the Medicis, who supplied the church with gifts and managed church money for free. The church conveniently cracked down on the practice so that the lower classes wouldn't have access to the extra capital that would give them the opportunity for upward mobility. It's wild how the past is so similar to our present. Why do you think day traders and TradFi have to keep at least $25 ,000 in their accounts? Supposedly, it's to protect the poor from the volatility of the market. But the way I see it, it's just another method of keeping smart people from changing their economic circumstances. And who do you think pressured the SEC to create that law in the first place? I'm willing to bet it was a giant money manager like State Street, Vanguard and BlackRock. They would like to have a monopoly on trading and hand all of us regular Joes a measly little 0 .01 % or whatever the bank interest is these days. I say no. And I want more than a toaster. And speaking of monopolies, the Catholic Church had a monopoly on salvation during the Renaissance, so people couldn't exactly go around negotiating that 10 % tithing rule or what exactly counted as a sin. It's really similar to how we can't really negotiate modern prices in this supposedly free market. The monopoly aspect is something the church and our wealthiest modern day corporations have in common. Look at the bank failures recently. Despite Jamie Dimon claiming the smaller banks are good for our financial ecosystem, Chase was very quick to gobble up the banks that went under. If we weren't there already, we're scarily close to a bank monopoly. Another way the Catholic Church made money was selling indulgences to rid the nobility of their sins. The Renaissance nobility were up to some shady things too and needed to be seen as moral so they could stay in power. The most corrupt nobles could buy a spot in heaven by donating land or commissioning artwork. Doesn't this feel a lot like government subsidies and contracts for major corporations? Hey, you want to look like you support green energy? Give Elon Musk millions to play with. Oh sure, Blackstone, we'll subsidize your billion dollar debt with taxpayer money because it makes us look like we're stimulating the economy. No problem. Another modern means of absolution is corporations using carbon credits to pay off their climate sins. This is how companies like Exxon have a higher ESG score than Tesla. They know who's palm to grease. Another great way to amass incomparable wealth is to be able to claim yourself as tax -free. If you can pull that off, it's an amazing feat. Just ask the NFL. Throughout history, the Catholic Church found ways to skirt taxation by the state and that practice is alive and well today. Do you think Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are paying income taxes? I hate taxes. You hate taxes. We all hate taxes. But in our current society, we pay them. And it's a little more than unfair that the wealthiest among us are acting like they're tax exempt. Both the mega wealthy and the Catholic Church of the Renaissance controlled education and access to information. So kind of like mind control. The church kept their religious texts in Latin to keep the masses from being able to access it themselves. We already talked about how they also chose a lot of their sins to maintain the status quo in social hierarchy. It's a sin if you don't hit the like button. Similarly, corporate lobbyists have forced the government to slash education funding. That combined with other factors have made tuition exorbitantly high. We already talked about the student loan issue. Most people can't even afford college anymore. And if you take your education into your own hands by trying to stay up to date on news and media, you'll quickly realize almost every media company is owned by major corporations who have BlackRock and Vanguard as their primary investors. So you can't always trust what they're telling you because they have an agenda to stay in power. That's why it's hard to find information on the full extent of the corruption of the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard. I'm sure many reporters have pitched stories that have been shut down by the shady higher -ups. But here at BitBoy Crypto, we're proud to bring you the content that can't be bought by dark Wall Street money. Finally, that brings us to the third way the church and finance sectors control the world. It's not what you know, but who you know. And you know me. And I know you know that I know you. Political wheeling and dealing. And if that doesn't work, position your family members in places of power. Every royal court and government had pupil ambassadors that would ride back and forth through the Vatican and other church lands negotiating with church officials. That sounds a lot like a very early version of a lobbyist to me. And because as the head of the church, the pope had immense power, he was able to recommend marriages, which usually involved installing a member of his family at a high position. Pope Alexander VI married his daughter, Lucretia Borgia, off three different times. He simply annulled her first marriage when her husband was no longer politically advantageous and the Borgias may or may not have been responsible for murdering Lucretia's second husband. Pope Clement VII married one of his family members, Catherine de Medici, to the future king of France, which was a helpful political alliance during a time fraught with Protestant uprisings. This should all sound very familiar because the majority of our politicians, no matter the political party, have familial or social ties to banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite. There are so many examples of this, we can't list them all, but here are a few to sink your teeth into. George W. Bush had an uncle who provided discreet banking services for people in Washington, DC, and his brother Jeb also worked in banking before politics. Then you have the Clintons, whose son -in -law is an investor at a Texas private equity firm. Trump is friends with all sorts of sketchy billionaires across the globe. And look at Jared Kushner. And then you have Biden, whose son Hunter has been a hedge fund principal, venture capitalist, private equity fund investor, and painter. And now we have even more of Jamie Dimon's shenanigans. He doesn't have enough power running the largest bank of America. He's thinking of going into politics? And remember, guys, political corruption is like an iceberg. The evidence we have is just the tip due to how good they are at covering their tracks. And the Renaissance pope's habit of just making princes is exactly what our financial overlords do today. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor out of nowhere, and Pope Alexander VI made one of the sons he had with his official mistress, a prince who supposedly inspired Machiavelli's The Prince. I don't think he inspired the artist, though. BlackRock and the likes are making princes, too. This is where we get into the modern day campaign financing, where it costs millions to be democratically elected prince. In 2016, only 158 families controlled 50 % of campaign financing. Our biggest banks spend millions on campaign financing for Republicans and Democrats every year, and that's just the money they actually report. There's a bigger, more illicit pool of dark money that controls politics. And if you think they're spending billions on these politicians just to be nice, think again. Nobody spends something for nothing. Billionaire Bernard Schwartz is quoted as saying, I don't ask politicians to do what I say. I want them to hear me when I have a problem. And according to Vanity Fair, BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink loved to go around saying that he told Washington what to do. Doesn't all this sound a bit like the Catholic Church saying, Well, you technically can do what you want, but if you don't do what I say, your soul will spend eternity in a very hot, not -so -nice place. You don't want to know where that poker goes. And now we get to number four on our list. It is better to be feared than to be loved. Also known as scare tactics. If the immense wealth, information control, and political corruption wasn't enough to scare the living daylights out of you, the Renaissance Catholic Church took it to a whole other level. The way the church portrayed hell through artwork and story was absolutely terrifying. Of course you're going to do whatever the Pope says to save yourself from eternal damnation. And the banks and hedge funds do this too. Make sure you have an IRA because if you aren't getting our measly 5 % every year, how will you possibly be able to retire? Don't worry, that number barely covers inflation on a good year. And if you don't buy things with credit cards or open a car loan and pay his interest, you won't have credit to buy a house later. And finally, this one's my favorite, guys. If you don't bail us out, the entire world will explode. We're too big to fail. And now we get to the final element you will need to succeed at controlling everything. Drum roll, please. Military power. Plato said, All wars are fought for the sake of getting money. And folks, he was probably right. The Pope would also deem certain wars holy and approve military actions. When Henry VIII left the church, the Pope excommunicated him and told his people that rising up against him was holy because he'd gone against God. Pope Alexander VI issued the Enter Saterra, which authorized Spain and Portugal to colonize, convert and enslave the Americas. And sometimes the Pope would even command armies himself. Did you know the Pope raised and commanded the army that was responsible for the Crusades? So I guess that we can be thankful that the hedge funds and banks haven't started raising their own armies. But then again, why would they when they have the entire government under their thumb and they could spend the free time bathing in gold? Today, massive corporate institutions lobby in favor of warfare because it benefits them financially. Corporations have made billions from the war in Ukraine and the Iraq war was conceived to financially benefit oil companies and their investors. Just look how much BlackRock has invested in military weapons. $56 .74 billion. And you can't tell me they don't have a financial interest in the military industrial complex. That was a lot of info, guys. And I'm impressed you stuck with us for this trip down History Lane. I don't want to leave you on a gloom and doom note, however. Here's the bright side, folks. The Protestant Reformation did come as a reaction to the Catholic Church's corruption and power. And hundreds of years later, the church is still powerful. Nowhere near as powerful as they were during the Renaissance. We have the same opportunity to throw off the yoke of the banks and hedge funds that control our current financial system and government. That's where crypto comes in. No matter how much they try to manipulate the market, they can't control our gains, especially when we think long term. Do your research. Find out who the biggest investors are in the companies you buy from and patronize smaller businesses. Take your business or credit unions instead of feeding the pockets of the giant banks. Really question what politicians are telling you and push for campaign finance reform. This is a potential future where we all are free. That's all I have for you guys. DZ out.
The Cryptoshow - blockchain, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and decentralization simply explained
A highlight from #460 5 Crucial Factors on your path as an Entrepreneur
"Welcome to The Crypto Show, your podcast for everything around crypto, blockchain, bitcoin, and more. Here is your host, international blockchain expert, serial entrepreneur, and investor, Dr. Julian Hasp. Good morning, everyone. I have the honor to open the stage today and talk to you a little bit about the past couple of years, a rollercoaster ride that we've been having at the entire Gate Group. I wanted to share maybe the five key kind of learnings that I had out of this entire time. Out of a time where we built a company from scratch, part of that company was self -funded, part of the company was externally funded. We bought out our entire investors. So right now the Gate Group is owned 50 -50 by myself and my Singaporean co -founder. I've been in Singapore now for seven years. I'm originally from Austria and Europe, and our company is in the tech sector. To be a bit more specific, it's in the cryptocurrency sector. Any of you in the cryptocurrency investor sector here? None? The lessons I want to share actually have nothing to do with crypto. They are more applicable actually to everything else. Our company today, we're about 200 people. The company was valued at about $3 billion about one and a half years ago. Since then, obviously with the economic downswing, definitely the valuation also went down. We know this quite specifically because we actually wanted to go public one and a half years ago and had to pull back a bit from that goal. I really want to share those stories from myself and my co -founder Yuzhen from scratch. Starting in a cafe, in a coffee shop, and really going all the way to 200 people. What are the difficulties, what are the things to do, and what are the things to watch out for? For us, obviously COVID was a massive, massive, really a speed up to everything. Not only in the business side, when people always ask me and say, what did you do during COVID? I always tell people, we went into COVID with a small company and zero kids. We came out with a big company and three kids. So I always tell people there wasn't much else to do during COVID other than work and spend time with your partner. And and family business and everything really changed over those past years. So it's an exciting journey. There are a lot of struggles. And at the end, that's what, in my opinion, makes it so worthy. So to start, I think the very first lesson, and that's such a key lesson, whenever you start is you need to have some rules of engagement. And that's not only the business, I think it's also in a personal relationship. It's what everything you do, you should have this with yourself. For us, and I think this is so counter to most things today in society. We, at the beginning, when you're really small, you need to be very exclusive. Meaning, you need to be very clear on who is this initial group of people that you want? Who do you not want? I think there's no list that's so important. And for example, for us, starting when we thought, so Jusen is the technical co -founder and I'm more the business marketing person. For us, it was very clear to understand who are the people that we needed. And obviously, we needed on the engineering side, we needed help on the legal side, we needed help on the compliance side. So we knew all these things that we wanted, but then the question is always, who do you not want? And for example, we were very clear that we didn't want people from compliance or we didn't want people from legal who come from the typical large banks. Because we wanted to disrupt the banks, we didn't want to become like a bank. And this was so important because at the beginning, and this was just during a cycle where crypto became super popular again, we had a lot of applications from very, very skilled, very talented compliance officers and legal officers from traditional banks. And at first glance, you would love to hire these people because it makes so much sense. And they said they're willing to take a salary cut, they're willing to do so many things. But we knew that maybe the culture fit there, where who did we want to disrupt was very different to maybe how these very talented people would see this. There was a lot of these rules where I think a no list makes it extremely difficult or extremely important to sometimes make mistakes. And I think actually the no list can be more important than a so -called yes list. For us, one of the very simple rules we always had was we do not want to make decisions based on authority. We want to make decisions based on the person who actually has the best ability to make that decision. It has nothing to do with the title or with anything. And there was this early where we had a very, very, very young engineer in the company. Young by age, young in the company, inexperienced. I think in most other organizations, such a person would have very little to say or very little to do. And this person noticed that we had a potential weakness in how we structured a marketing promotion. And he spot a way how this could be exploited. And it could have been exploited not from a technical level, not from a personal data protection level, but more from a financial perspective because it would have allowed customers to cycle funds and really re -inject the benefit from a marketing promotion that we wanted to do. And everyone, I think at the table initially was like, I think the initial gut feeling was, what do you know? You've been in this company so new, you don't have the experience. And we were at these discussions and then suddenly, you know, we all stepped back and said, no, no, no, no. We don't make decisions here based on seniority or how long you've been in the company. Let's hear everyone out based on the actual data and based on the actual facts. And we gave this person a chance to really kind of present the data how someone could actually exploit that financial, that marketing promotion. And I mean, I don't know if anyone else, a customer would have actually spotted it, but it was so important in that early, very vulnerable stage to have the right people who really are willing also to speak up and really are willing to help and save us. And I think that's what so many organizations do differently, especially at the beginning where they say, yes, that's what we want to have. But at the end, that's something that they don't really execute on. These rules of engagement, so important. Step number two or lesson number two, it's always something that people, in my opinion, push a bit later. And that is actually something that a book coach had told me. I wrote a book in 2015 called 25 Stories I Would Tell My Younger Self. And I wrote it just for myself. It was like a bit of self -therapy kind of. And at that point, I had a book coach who helped me with the writing, and he gave me one tip that stuck with me. And that says, start selling the book with the first page you write. And that actually only allowed me to get that book to become a bestseller. And I sold hundreds of thousands of copies of that book, not because the book was so well written. I actually don't think I'm such a good writer. It's because I really used that lesson well in selling that book from the very first page. For us, when we started our company, I took that lesson again. I think so many people think always the main issue is finding a good product. But I tell you another thing. I know so many people, so many companies have a really good product, and they struggle selling their products or marketing their product. Actually, marketing and sales can be so much harder than finding a product. And I know there's always the story out there, the good products sell themselves. They don't. The best companies out there have the best marketing and best sales schemes. And so what we did from the very first day. So when we said, let's start a company in a crypto space, the very first thing we did was we started marketing for it. At the beginning, obviously, we didn't have a product. So what did we do? Well, we built educational content around this. We built curiosity around it. We educated people. And I think whatever you build today, whatever you do today, there's always an educational factor. There's always an explanatory factor. There's always something how you can add value to the customer and thereby attract these customers to you. Before we launched our very first product, we had over 10 ,000 people in the database to love. As soon as you go live with your cryptocurrency product, we would love to use that. And our very first service was actually a very niche service, which is those that don't understand cryptocurrency. Well, this may sound like a lot of jargon. It was a staking service. So a very, very niche, huge broad service, not an exchange or a trading service. It was a staking service. And we went live. We instantly had thousands of customers, our product. And I think that the reason I put this as number two is because some people always put this last. They always think they need to raise funds first. They need to have a product first. They need to have a idea first. I really believe it starts having a great partner first. And partner is like very, very important. You need to have that kind of time horizon. And then you need to start building a community and you need to build a customer base as early as possible. Now, for those of you that have a transition in your job, maybe you have this existing customer base. But for me, I'm actually a medical doctor. I come out of a tall field, wanted to get the chain space for building a medical blockchain startup. Couldn't do it, had no ability and transition into finance space, which is then cryptocurrencies. And that's where this lesson comes in of building a community, building a customer base first. That's why I put it as second and not at the very end, where when you talk to most people, what you do if you want to have a strategy or you want to build something, you always put marketing very at the end of sales. And I think actually it should almost start before you even work on the product. Just like what my book coach always said, start the selling with the first page you write. I think this is so crucial. Point number three is all around building that product that has... Find a product with a very clear product market fit. Now, this sounds so easy and many, many people talk about this. And here are two things I truly believe about this. The first thing about building a product with a really strong product market fit is you need to have this initial intuition in what the product is that your customers want. You are not going to be able to test all those things. You need to have some intuition about it. It may be an itch that you want to scratch yourself. It may be something that you have experienced a lot. Maybe you don't experience it for yourself, but you see a lot of other people having this. But you need to have some intuition that this is what's needed in the market. Don't be too scared about having too many competitors because many times people always feel, oh, there's a competitor doing this already. I don't know, there's a competitor for anything. For the largest companies, there's always a competitor. Obviously, you don't want to get into a space where you have thousands of competitors. But it doesn't matter if you have one or two or three competitors. So when we got started, it was all around getting cash flow on your cryptocurrencies. Until that point, until 2017, 2018, it was all about speculating on crypto. It was all about buy crypto, hope the price goes up, and hope it doesn't go down and you manage to sell at the right time. And using it myself, we've been in the crypto space for a very long time, almost 10 years now. So we were one of the lucky ones who got in very, very early. And we had seen those speculative bubbles over and over again. And then we realized, you know, we got so lucky so many times getting in and out at the right time, at some point, our luck is going to run out. And we are in this situation, like many others, who, you know, want cash flow on your crypto, just like in real estate. Sure, it's one thing to buy real estate, hope it appreciates, and then get out at the right time. But it's also, you just buy the real estate and you get rental income, rental income, rental income. And up until that point, not much was done to provide cash flow on your cryptocurrencies. And so when we started with this in 2019, there were other companies who kind of dabbled in this direction as well, but not many. But we heard this all the time when we spoke to customers or to friends or employees. They said, yeah, but isn't there this company ABC in the US? Isn't there this company Singapore doing this as well? And some might get discouraged from this. But for us, it was always, okay, how can we build a product that our customers are going to want to be want to have this product market fit? And then you try to reiterate over it by testing it on your customers. So there's a big, big difference how I believe most people teach you how to do this. You need to have an initial intuition on the product, and then you work with your customers to improve it. But the initial leapfrog idea has to be something that you need to have an intuition on. Here's a very great lesson I've read from Jeff Bezos several times. So I definitely know this is true. And you're probably going to find these clips yourself. And I just want to give you this lesson. When Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had this intuition. It's a pure intuition that he thought people want to have books, and they don't want to buy them in bookstores. They want them to be shipped to them. And this was an intuition. Now, you're going to have this about your own product. And then Jeff Bezos asked himself and said, what are the three absolutely non -negotiable qualities that my service has to be like so that customers are going to want to use this today, tomorrow, in five years, or in 10 years? So what's going to be this inevitable truth that's not going to go away? And you can think about this. Like, what do you think about Amazon is going to be something that is not going to go away? Today, tomorrow, in five years, or in 10 years? And he came up with those three things. And I want to give him his three things, and then I'm going to give you that same answer to the questions that we thought about our product. So he said, people are always going to want more variety. I imagine cannot a world where people say, sure, show me, like, let me buy fewer books on your website. They will always go to a website that has a bigger variety. Now, obviously, you need to find your way through the jungle that's key with the algorithms. But that's a really, really key kind of lesson. The second thing, customers will always want the best price. He says, if the same quality, same delivery, same so on, I cannot understand a world where people are willing to pay more for something. Makes a lot of sense. And the last thing, they want super fast delivery. Makes also sense. So those three things are going to be relevant today, tomorrow, in five years, and in 10 years, because that's what people want. They want as many books as possible to choose from. They want the best price, the fastest delivery. Makes a lot of sense. So these are the key criteria that he built his product offering. Now, I asked myself the same thing. If people invest in crypto, and I want to be successful in this, what is the product having like today, tomorrow, in five years, or in 10 years? What's not going to change? And so I thought, okay, the first thing that people want, especially in financial space, especially in crypto, is they need to have trust. They need to be able to trust us. And then I asked myself, how am I going to do this? And I said, the easiest way to build trust is via transparency.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Biden's Katrina Moment
"Hey everybody's and the Charlie Kirk show what's going on in Maui we examine this from every possible angle. We're missing something We're not getting the full truth. We try to figure out what it is. It's terrible. What's happening and the slow Lackluster response it's been really telling Become a member members dot Charlie Kirk dot -com. That's members dot Charlie Kirk dot -com as always You can email us freedom at Charlie Kirk dot -com and subscribe to our podcast Text your friends to subscribe and get involved a turning point USA at TP USA dot -com that is TP USA comm starting high school or college chapter today at TP USA comm that is TP USA comm sort of high school or college chapter today at TP USA Comm buckle up everybody here we go Charlie. What you've done is incredible here Charlie Kirk is on the college campus I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk Charlie Kirk's run in the White House folks I Want to thank Charlie's an incredible guy his spirit his love of this country He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created turning point USA We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries destroyed lives And we are gonna fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here I Brought to you by the loan experts. I trust Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific mortgage at Andrew and Todd comm We say America first often on this program, what does that mean? That means that our concerns should be prioritized by our leaders full stop We reject the anthem of neoliberalism of caring about other countries problems while our own country burns Interestingly I have used that sentence quite often our own country is burning our country is burning our country is burning Well literally our country has been burning the last week the beautiful island of Maui One of the the jewels of America It's burning now how the fire started we're gonna speculate. I don't think it's that actually that helpful At this point it might have been arson it was probably human involvement 85 % of massive fires are Human caused was it somebody that was trying to start the fire or not We'll find out as time goes on But what's interesting is that the reaction to the fire has been awfully perplexing. We were told it was no big deal We're showing some of the b -roll right now on screen. This looks like this looks like Pearl Harbor, and I'm not making a joke That looks like Pearl Harbor people in the water it looks like something out of a dystopian apocalypse film and It got worse this weekend as all of a sudden the quote -unquote metaphorical and literal dust settled we realized that the entire southwestern part of the island of Maui Basically looks like Dresden This is catastrophic damage Unfathomable Death toll we don't even know I mean we they're speculating a couple dozen people dead, but no no no It's gonna be a lot more than that. They're saying a thousand people are missing It's beyond comprehension So first let's just be very clear We need to be in an active mode of helping any way we possibly can our fellow Americans These are our fellow Americans, and I'll be honest I've not seen much about FEMA or federal response, and I have a theory about this And it's not it's not a theory that's going to make anybody feel good. I have not seen this massive federal action There are already 96 people confirmed dead Now Maui is home to a lot of different people the oligarchs of our society Jeff Bezos Oprah Winfrey Jimmy Buffett Marc Benioff from Salesforce Howard Schultz from Starbucks Now let me be very clear. There's a lot of People are saying Oh Oprah started the fire Oprah did not start the fire, okay? Just people didn't email me. I think Oprah started the fire. I don't think she started the fire. I'm not a fan of Oprah however if Oprah's property would have been burning I guarantee you the federal response would have been way swifter That I can guarantee you but putting that aside the The tragedy is real, but let's go back to one of our favorite questions that we ask on this program It's an old Latin phrase and it offers clarity We bono who benefits and That's a really sick question isn't it because no one should benefit from Fires that destroy entire islands there should be no beneficiary of Scorched earth, but if you remember tiny dancer Rahm Emanuel Former chief of staff to Barack Hussein Obama who became mayor of Chicago He famously said you can never let any crisis go to waste the response to this fire feels as if it's been slow motion and it reminds me of Dancing in the streets Hugging people saying it was racist to even call that you know the Chinese New Year remember Nancy Pelosi and we went from 0 to 100 on kovat not a big deal to this is the biggest deal Almost allowing it to spread on the homeland so far Remember when Donald Trump stopped travel to China.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Is Elon Musk A Bitcoin HERO Again?
"If you use the four -year cycle, that means November -ish, October -ish, we would just be hitting $60K. So I don't know if we can go from $60K to doubling in two months or, you know, I think we're closer to $60K at the end of 2024. I like Bitcoin. You like Bitcoin? I like it. Alright, we do have a $4 .99 Super Chat from Corey. Cheers! Just put $2K into XRP and Algo. Love the channel. Alright, I feel pretty good about that two years from now. But if it's in the red a month from now, don't blame me. Blame that guy. Alright, no, we're kidding. Alright, Twitter partners with eToro to let users trade stocks, crypto as Musk pushes app into finance. Now, again, Elon has denied these rumors, but it looks like starting Thursday, he'll give users the option to buy and sell stocks and other assets, the company told CNBC exclusively. Maybe Elon is more rejecting the idea of the everything. But this is a rare partnership deal for Twitter since he took the reins as CEO. He's made it his mission to call it the super wrap here. They'll allow him to access stocks, crypto, and other financial assets with the partnership eToro. And with that, the cash tags will be expanded to cover far more instruments and asset classes, an eToro spokesperson told CNBC. eToro is founded in Israel in 2007, and it's an online brokerage that allows users to buy and sell stocks, cryptocurrencies, and index funds. Do you own any index funds? I might buy my first mutual fund. I don't know anything there. What's interesting here is going to be who ends up winning this battle. And you know, in the article, first of all, the first thing we should mention is the source of this information is a kind of sketchy one. We talked about him yesterday. It's Semaphore. We know Elon does not like Semaphore. He's one of the ones that outstid Semaphore when it comes to the situation happening with the Binance and now the U .S. government ordeal. But they are the ones breaking this news this morning. And they reference eToro and Robinhood because these would be the only two options at the moment unless Elon builds a brand new platform. These are the only two that would offer what's being rumored that they're going to do. And I have a question for the audience. I mean, a question for you too, Deezy. Which would you prefer him to use, eToro or Robinhood? They have their pluses, they have their minuses. I can't get over Vlad looking so much like a vampire. I'm just going to go with eToro off that very baseless and auspicious reason. Do you know the fees on eToro for crypto? I haven't. I've never used eToro, so I could not tell you what the fees are like. I bought Dogecoin once in my life. I went and got eToro to do so. eToro on crypto charges one percent for every buy and every sell. That's pretty rough. Now, I'm assuming there's a maximum, though, too, right? No, just blatant. You're confirming if it's a million dollar buy, it's 10K. At least you're confirming that. There's no on their website. Coinbase has the levels of like, if you buy this much, it's different. I think it's a $25 maximum. It just says one percent across the board. OK, one percent. Corey, he's going for the two years from now outlook. All right. All right. We have a video Elon posted in the wee hours of the night. This is about seven hours ago, maybe six hours ago. Let's play that thing. Do we have sound? Oh, yeah. I mean, he's just kind of chatting. Hang on. This is Elon having a good time. Here we go. Surprisingly cheap ceilings. Really? Hey, guys, you're on to welcome. He curls at forty five. All right, let's see. Not a hundred pound weight, Mike Kilmer. He's he's curling Zuckerberg's weight, right? Me, swelling of forty five. He did it pretty easily. Yeah. So there you go. Maybe he's working out, folks. Do you think Elon's working out? It looks like a video feature is working better. I think he is. I think he is. All right. Better than the sort of eight. All right. Now, yeah. Elon, he's he's definitely one of the the main memers of the Internet. Here we have a little graphic one app to rule them all as the X, you know, looks pretty close to the eye of Sauron. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. All right. Well, what are your thoughts on the super app? Would you like to have a super app in America or do you like, you know, everything kind of being separated? So it's less worry of a all out attack, less points of danger. Fair point. You know, when you spread it out, there's there's a little more security with that. But just think about the ease it would be to do everything on the one place. And I want it. If there's anyone out there that I believe that can get this done. It is Elon Musk. And if the rumors are true, because again, right now we're kind of in a wrestling match is is Elon actually doing this platform thing that everyone's like, he's starting his claim to be that one one site. That's the end all be all of everything he says before. He thinks that X could take 50 percent of all the financial actions within the next couple of years. I'm like, basically, that's insane. He's capturing the West. Yeah, that's how I read that. We chat is going to capture the right. He's probably not going to be able to make any serious headways within China. You know, they've chosen WeChat. They have backdoors and WeChat. Of course, the CCP is heavily involved in all WeChat encryption issues or lack thereof. And so I think he's going to try to have the super app of the West. Yeah. Now, Chad, who do you think is going to win? Is it going to be Jeff Bezos? Is it going to be Elon Musk? I think it's going to be one of those two. I think Mark Zuckerberg might really try once we have the Ray Ban ocular. You know, he's going to try to take over with the AR angle. I think by then it might be too late. And we're all just going to kind of be used to sending money with our phone. Do you really want to send money with your glasses and you're like touching the air like send Tim 20 bucks or the burrito? You know, I don't know. I think people just rather do beep boop boop and then send it with their phone. We're going to briefly interrupt this. I just want to give a special shout out to our sponsor, Steak. Big shout out to Steak. We love it. Elon does have the walrus move advantage, just saying. I mean, that is a tough move to beat. It's going to be I mean, it's a serious move. It's up there with like rear naked chokehold and the figure four leg lock, I believe, and the torture rack. It is up there with all those. Yeah, I'm betting on Elon between Elon and Zuck, although Zuck is very, very capable manager, obviously capable CEO. I think Elon is just a little bit more capable. And I think he gets the the the changing shifts of culture a lot better than Jeff Bezos. Here's my Jeff Bezos impression. That's a funny joke. Ha ha ha ha. And it's just it comes off a little unnatural. And Elon just seems a little bit more real. It seems like a more real human being. Elon would use the Elon would be in a fight with with Zuck and he'd do the oil check. OK, yeah, I can see that those who don't know the wrestling oil check is, you know, you're putting the finger, you know, dipstick check in the oil. Folks, it's like in Free Guy. Great movie. Great movie. All right. Let's move on and talk about Bitcoin. Most people want to talk about Bitcoin. Kelly Boy like the torture rack reference as Lex Luger, I believe. All right. Bitcoin whales accumulate. All right. That's two wrestling references. No more. Don't worry. Bitcoin whales accumulate. Fifty nine point two percent of circulating supply data shows. So the whales have 60 percent of all the corn post analysis revealed that a relatively small cohort of addresses is amassing a considerable amount of the currency circulating supply with a total of fifteen thousand addresses, each holding over one hundred collectively commanding eleven point five million coins. What is important to realize here? There's a lot of centralized exchanges. So you take out Binance wallet, you take out Coinbase wallet, you take out eToro wallet, you take out Jack's blocks, eight thousand Bitcoin wallet. Then it starts to look a little bit more decentralized. But, you know, a lot of people are OK holding their Bitcoin on a centralized exchange. I wouldn't recommend doing it in any serious, you know, heavy manner, any high percentage manner. But a lot of people like the convenience. I you know, I have a OK amount on Coinbase. I'm not going to chastise you for that. It's worth noting that the total number of addresses created on the chain has recently surpassed the one billion mark. Although out of these addresses, those with the balance are only around 45 million. Those most created addresses do not currently have a balance on them. Moreover, London based banking and financial services firm Standard Chartered has suggested that the price of Bitcoin could surge to 50K this year and then could breach 120K by 2024 is close. And another major bullish price prediction for Bitcoin. I don't know if we're going to go that high. If you want to, you know, rewind four years, December 2020, we just hit new all time high. We just hit 20K. If you use the four year cycle, that means November ish, October ish. We would just be hitting 60K. So I don't know if we can go from 60K to doubling in two months or, you know, I think we're closer to 60K at the end of 2024. What's your year in 2024 price prediction? Yeah, I know it's you know, you probably need to think about it a little bit more. I'm throwing it out there. 69K. Yeah. Well, the first thing I'll say is 50K is not going to happen in 2023. Barring we find out about Bitcoin ETFs within the next couple of weeks. That's probably the only thing left that would be able to pump it that high. And even that I don't think would do it. Those things take a while before the real money comes in. End of 2024, I think there's a decent chance that before the end, we might double top of that 69, maybe set a brand new all time high. But if we're asking December 31st, I don't know. Like I think we'll be wrestling close to that area, but I think it'll be a little lower. All right. Will you watch Zuck Musk cage match? 70 % are saying yes. All right. Bitcoin holdings on over the counter desk decline. 33 % OTC desk balances are widely considered a proxy for institutional activity. Still, caution is warranted when drawing conclusions. Those held in addresses tied to the OTC market. If you don't know, the OTC market is a whale wants to buy a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin. He doesn't go into an exchange and clear the order books where his first Bitcoin is $2 ,000 cheaper than his last Bitcoin. He's going to go to over the counter person who wants to sell a billion dollars Bitcoin. And they don't want the first Bitcoin they sell to be $2 ,000 more expensive than the last Bitcoin they sell. So they have aligned incentives. And so they'll meet in a park with some briefcases, you know, they'll sit down with the newspaper. I don't I don't think it works that way. They meet in a hotel lobby in Dubai, and then they like open up their balances, and then they do it that way. It just makes it where, you know, they settle on a price and they don't impact the markets too much with these large, large purchases. As of Thursday, the so -called OTC balance stood at 5 ,000 Bitcoin or about 150 million of the market cap. And that's a 33 % slide from the one year high of about 7 ,600 Bitcoin at the end of June. So that's going to fluctuate. High volume traders and institutions typically deal with OTC desk to avoid affecting the market price of the asset. For that reason, activity is said to reflect the behavior of large, sophisticated traders. In the past, some analysts have associated upticks and downticks in OTC desk balances with miners' intentions to build, run down their coin stash there. So just something to watch out, but I wouldn't worry too much just yet, just because it's down 33%. Really not too much when you're comparing it to the all -time high for the year there.
Mark Levin
Jeff Bezos Hires Investment Firm to Consider Bid on Commanders
"Now what Amazon likes by the way just say Bezos wants to buy the Washington football team mister bodson So he owns the Washington compost Don't find job there Bunch of morons in the paper's going under Now he wants to own the I guess the commanders who command nothing but the commanders So the guy's buying up everything he can in and around Washington D.C. You should see these Amazon I don't even know what to call them These buildings it's not just Amazon it's like 80% of all Internet travel you should look at these buildings and loud and county Virginia My home county Used to be Acre after acre after acre of these football size buildings without windows Can you imagine how many computers are there mister producer Enormous And I think to myself why are they all in one place
The Dan Bongino Show
Axios: Rich Conservatives Fund New Media Universe
"Rich conservatives fund new media universe Keep in mind they had no problem at all with their homies like Jeff Bezos and others and the LinkedIn guy what is in Reed Hoffman or whatever I was confused him in a Netflix guy the Reed Hastings and whatever they have no problem at all but left these really rich lefties controlling those companies It's only when rich conservatives And by the way many of them are libertarians are conservative Start to produce free speech platforms that they freak out So they go in to talking about how new investments and free speech that they put in quotes Are starting upend the media landscape But here's what they say why it matters Because many of today's conservative media moguls are both rich and politically active My gosh immediately hang them by the toenails Get rid of them What trouble that could cause rich politically active Keep in mind too the difference between air our sights and theirs liberals are welcome on our sides 'cause we believe in free speech You are not welcome on theirs
Mark Levin
Economic Adviser Heather Boushey Blames Bad Economy to Ukraine
"Keen is a host on Bloomberg today As opposed to Bloomberg yesterday And he has on his program The White House economic adviser Heather Boucher Now they have all these ideological no names as economic advisers Have you noticed that But here's Heather Boucher Cut 8 go The president over the weekend said this My message to the company's running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple This is a time of war and global payroll Bring down the price you were charging at the pump's reflect the cost you're paying for the product and do it now Jeff Bezos came out and tweeted the following I'm sure you read it Inflation is far too important a problem for The White House to keep making statements like this You see the straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics I'm not going to accuse you of the latter I want to talk about the former Where's that messaging coming from The president has made clear that his number one goal is delivering for the American people We are in a time of crisis We are an eternal you're shipping our oil to communist China You moron Go ahead President or allies we are supporting the Ukrainian people Congress is engaged in this effort both such as nothing to do with supporting the Ukrainian people and I'm fed up with this Your policies your war on our energy system came long before defending the Ukrainian people And I support strongly defending the Ukrainian people Why are you blaming the Ukrainian people Go ahead Important priority And one of the consequences is this high price of oil because of global trends And the answer is important Everyone Heather everyone in the nation wants to know the answer to the question mister Farrell just asked you which is who is advising the president on shockingly naive price
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: A Good Sign of Free Speech Is Allowing Someone to Disagree
"Why is it that a Saudi prince Vanguard and all of the really angry unhappy people on television are going from not caring at all about Elon to a straight ten out of ten to try to prevent him from buying Twitter and turning it into a free speech platform. Well, this is why. Cut 89 Elon Musk explains this. Listen to it yourself. And a good sign as to whether there is free speech is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like. And if that is the case, then we have free speech. And it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like. That is a sign of a healthy functioning free speech situation. And we don't have that right now. Donald Trump is not on Twitter. I'm not on Twitter. People have tried for years to get me off Twitter. And we've been suspended. Donald Trump has been banned. So here's how it works. Jeff Bezos can buy The Washington Post, Elaine pal jobs is able to run the Atlantic, Bill Gates can dictate global health policy, but Elon can't buy Twitter. It's because Twitter really has become a place where the most consequential ideas and mostly journalists get their stories and it's the top of the tributary. It's the beginning of the downstream effect. Is that if you are able to have a free and open Twitter, it will then open and liberate the conversations in op eds, it'll open and liberate the conversation in newspapers, Tucker Carlson, beautifully put it. It's where elite opinion is
The Dan Bongino Show
Charlie Gasparino: How Is Elon Musk Financing His Twitter Bid?
"I mean it's kind of silly to speculate but it does affect Tesla I mean I sincerely doubt he's got 30 billion of liquidity sitting in a local Chase Manhattan bank When they say cash deal they don't mean like suitcases full of cash obviously How does he finance this Is it kind of what other people's money do or what's he doing I mean listen if you're worth on paper what is he worth 200 billion Yeah more Yeah more You'd be surprised how many how many banks are lining up to lend you money It is currency I mean I don't think the money is not the issue here The issue here is and by the way he could convert some of the stock He's that just looked it up 265 billion Got it so sick Yeah yeah They made the world right now I don't know about band of the world These riches America Jeff Bezos at one 76 then Bill Gates at one 31 So we're talking a billion A million He used to be a lot of money It was like the it but now it's billion
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Should Elites Treat Their Country?
"Treat their country? How should the people in charge of their country and the economic elites or in cultural institutions or in the movies or in any form of power? How should they treat their country? Well, a hundred years ago, Carnegie Mellon and chase, they were some of the wealthiest people ever in the history of the planet. Now there is no doubt that they were powerful and that they had wealth, but they used that wealth largely to try and preserve America, build hospitals, libraries, build YMCAs, build things that actually helped the well-being of the nation. They wanted a strong America. Now, over the last couple of years, a common lament from this program has been the fact that the people who are in charge of our country, the wealthiest people, are involved in this pattern of self hatred. They're engaged in this relentless pattern of not doing what's best for the country of engaging in ideas for the World Economic Forum, the suppression of free speech, woke ideology, the suffocation of the individual, we have talked about how people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and George Soros and the Google people and the Louis Vuitton guy. They seem to be so fixated on using their unlimited wealth to do things that actually hurt the cause of liberty. Not help the cause of liberty. That hurt the strength of America and weaken America. This has seemed to be almost overwhelming, especially the last couple of years. We've been complaining about how AstraZeneca Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna. They cooperate with Fauci and the FDA and Bill Gates and it seems like the elites have it all figured out. That they always have each other's back and basically the only thing that we have left is the truth, which matters and common everyday people fighting for that. We felt outnumbered and for good reason. We turn around and we
The Eric Metaxas Show
87-Year-Old Pat Boone Has Two New Films Coming Out
"You are starring in a movie, or do you say you're starring or your costarring? I mean, I met your coach star. You have a lead role in a movie. With Eric close, wonderful actor, Tanya christiansen. And even with a cameo appearance with Tom layman, the great pro golfer, and so yeah, I'm in high cotton. Am I in this film? No, we couldn't afford you. And why am I even promoting this junk? Scrap this whole thing. No, listen, I've never been in a film. You've been in so many films that it's just astonishing to me that you give out your age publicly these days. Yeah, I'm 87, I'll be 88 in June, which is not far off. And I've got two movies, well, ones on Amazon Prime, which has not had distribution. I'm asking Jeff Bezos if he would possibly put a couple little promos in there. So people with no miracle in the valley is on Amazon Prime. Miracle in the valley. Is that cool in the valley? It was caught. It was called boonville redemption first, and I think I told you about that, but it was another title, so you scratched it. Out of your memory. I scratched. Okay, but the film that's coming out now is called the Mulligan. Obviously, it's about golf. That's why I wanted to ask you how many years have you been playing golf? Well, yeah. I mean, it doesn't do me any favors to say that I've been playing 70 years, and I'm still no better.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Pete Davidson Is Headed to Space
"Have you heard this? The Stanley live cast member who hasn't been on the show in three weeks. Pete Davidson's going to space. He'll take part in the next spaceflight operated by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, rocket company, he's taking off march 23rd. That's coming up. It'll be the fourth human flight on Blue Origin's new shepherd rocket. Davidson will be joined by 5 other passengers, mainly business leaders who would otherwise not give a shit about him or care who he is, but will now all ask him what it's like to bang Kim Kardashian.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Truck Driver Ed Durr Defeated New Jersey's Most Powerful Lawmaker
"When I saw the story. Did anyone watch the live stream last night that I was doing? I don't think I've laughed that hard my entire life. When I just saw this, I was flipping through social media and I couldn't control myself when I saw this story of this truck driver from southern New Jersey who spent a 153 total dollars on his campaign. $153. And as of right now, the election is about to be called in certified. He's about to beat the second most powerful person in New Jersey, the head of the Senate presidency in New Jersey by 2000 votes, right? And so and by the way, this is not even about Republican or Democrat. It's not about any of that, right? It's about wait a second time out. Like, what? And so I did some digging into this, right? I was like, okay, who is this guy, right? Is he a son of Jeff Bezos or like, you know, is he part of the Rockefeller family or was he born with some sort of birthright and so you look at this guy and his name is Durer, right? And yeah, you could laugh at the name, whatever, but you look into it. It's like if you were to have central casting of like what the normal American was. Now, some of you guys might not remember the 2000 was it 16 or 2012 president presidential debates of that guy that wore that like red sweater? Do you remember that? Then bone, right? Thank you. Guys, remember that, maybe not as before your time. It's like, I just want to give that guy a hug, right? He's just wants what's right for the world. So few people like that anymore. It seems in public life. And so this guy Eddie decides to do the ultimate David and Goliath type exercise. Now, I don't know how I'm gonna do my best to describe this to you. The guy he was running against is the head of the Senate of New Jersey, okay? It's untouchable. An example would be like if a random candidate decided to run up against Chuck Schumer, okay? That's just or a random candidate would just be like, I'm gonna run against Nancy Pelosi. This guy runs the state of New Jersey. Now, he was to give an idea, he's been an elected office since 2004. Some of you were born in 2004, okay? I know I know that because I actually just talked to someone that was literally born in 2006, not even born. And so this guy has run the state of New Jersey. He runs the entire political apparatus and machine. And so when you start to look into it, you're like, all right, how did this guy make it happen? So you look at his campaign receipts are like, did he get a big contribution from the pharmaceutical companies? Spend a $153, $85 of which was spent at Dunkin Donuts. And the remaining $70 was spent on flyers and materials and so they said, what was your grand strategy? He's like, I just kind of showed up and asked people for their vote. And so he was conducted in an interview last night. The first thing he said is like, I have no idea what's going on, right? The first thing he says, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn express last night, but no, I'm kidding. But all of a sudden you read deeper into this and this is an important thing is he ran because he was so disgusted and he was so upset that he is a truck driver continually kept this economy opening and keep going and he just felt continually insulted by the people in charge.
Planet LP
Episode 32: Top Five LPs From 2001 ...John's #4
"Years old. it's survivor from destiny's child and i will tell you why because i'm glad you asked. This album has some of the rock to that. Maybe you wouldn't expect me to be as a rock guitarist to be. You know jumping towards this particular album but the title track survivor. Which you've heard on the radio. A lot is a great fine crafted pop song with beyond say and and the team there providing that three part vocal delivery they do so well there was a it was a michael jackson tribute tv show. That came out in two thousand one when destiny's child was kind of a relatively new act and they did a live version of boot delicious. Which with real guitars at three guitar players and drummer and you know porn section. And they of course the beginning of that song has that stevie nicks edge of seventeen a guitar part that they lifted but they played it so raw. Live and i remember watching beyond say looking at michael jackson taunting in nevada to boot. Alicia vol bang right adam. And he's kind of taken aback. Oh beyond say it but it was. It was powerful. And all i can say is. I didn't have the album until i saw that particular cut of that special with destiny's child doing booty leashes and i thought this song pretty rock. It's it's a rock and song. Yes it's a dance song assets movement or whatever you want to say but there's a rock sensibility to it. That made me love the band and of course gone onto become a huge beyond say fan she just an amazing artist in totality. But this shows her some of her rock and best and if you followed her career at all you've seen like when she's done live shows vegas residencies whatever. She has a full band four guitars full. Everything and generally they're mostly female. She hires musicians to back her up on tour. So there's just too much not to like about this record survivor from destiny's child my number full
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Bezosism: The Way Amazon Uses Tech to Squeeze Performance out of Workers
"You think your boss is watching you at work. Monitoring your every move well if your manager is a series of cameras sensors and algorithms. Then you're not wrong. And that may also mean you work at an amazon fulfillment center. The company known for the detailed tracking of packages and user. Information is also tracking the movements of workers at its warehouses looking to precisely measure efficiency and increase productivity wall street. Journal's tech columnist christopher mims calls this bazo schism named after amazon founder jeff bezos. He's got an upcoming book about it called arriving today from factory to front door why everything is changed about how and what we buy any joins me now. Hi christopher hay zoey. Thanks for having me so christopher you coined the term bazo schism. What exactly does that mean so. Basis ism is the combination of sensors and software to measure. How well somebody is doing their job. And then use software which has of course logic or an algorithm in it which was defined by an engineer. Somewhere to then tell that worker okay. You're doing a good job or you're not doing a good job or you need to be doing this differently. And so bazo. Schism or management by algorithm or management by software. At the end of the day it is just about creating a set of rules and then handing it to a machine to enforce those roles so the person's boss is software. Okay can you tell us about some of those metrics. That amazon is gathering maybe give an example of how one of them works so the primary metric is just the rate at which somebody is doing something so the amount of time it takes them to complete any of the relevant tasks picking items off the shelf scanning them. Dropping him in a bin is their rate. So it's a very basic metric. It measures the one sort of performance. That bams on really cares about
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Are Amazon's Algorithm Bosses Coming to Your Workplace Next?
"You think your boss is watching you at work. Monitoring your every move well if your manager is a series of cameras sensors and algorithms. Then you're not wrong. And that may also mean you work at an amazon fulfillment center. The company known for the detailed tracking of packages and user. Information is also tracking the movements of workers at its warehouses looking to precisely measure efficiency and increase productivity wall street. Journal's tech columnist christopher mims calls this bazo schism named after amazon founder jeff bezos. He's got an upcoming book about it called arriving today from factory to front door why everything is changed about how and what we buy any joins me now. Hi christopher hay zoey. Thanks for having me so christopher you coined the term bazo schism. What exactly does that mean so. Basis ism is the combination of sensors and software to measure. How well somebody is doing their job. And then use software which has of course logic or an algorithm in it which was defined by an engineer. Somewhere to then tell that worker okay. You're doing a good job or you're not doing a good job or you need to be doing this differently. And so bazo. Schism or management by algorithm or management by software. At the end of the day it is just about creating a set of rules and then handing it to a machine to enforce those roles so the person's boss is
The Charlie Kirk Show
Republicans Should Not Embrace Cutting Taxes for the Mega Rich
"One thing that i could critique the republican party for a lot actually over the last decade is that we never should have embraced this belief that we should just cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country. I'm all for cutting taxes for business owners and entrepreneurs but quite honestly jeff bezos parties going to defend people that use their resources in their assets to actively try to usurp and undermined. The united states of america like no way we should stand for a vibrant and strong american middle class. The american way of life is this. And we've lost this that you should not have to have both the mother and father in the workforce to be able to sustain a middle class family that it should be optional. If the woman wants to on the workforce but there should be jobs available and the social contract should warrant that of just. The man wants to work that they can support a middle class family of four to five children. That used to be the american promise. Now what happens is people either. Have less chiller right. Because they can't sustain it or the woman goes in the workforce. if that's a decision of yours phenomenal. it should not be mandatory. Because what ends up happening. Is they have to farm out. The kids to daycare ends up happening. They have to go in debt because they can't sustain it and the entire cycle of destruction of the middle class way of life starts to go
The Ten News
Space Tourism Blasts Off
"The world has been buzzing about space lately as more and more rockets take off from our planet but the latest launches aren't from governments or organizations that you used to like nasa instead. Several billionaires and their companies have gotten into a bit of a space race on july first richard branson who owns space company. Virgin galactic became the first person to get to space in a rocket that he funded cool ends on july twenty first amazon founder. Jeff bezos flew a few miles higher than branson and a rocket called new shepherd nice. Each flight was about ten minutes long. Both virgin galactic and bezos company. Blue origin have stated that. They're looking to popularize space tourism. But right now they're charging big bucks for the privilege. Virgin is currently charging two hundred fifty thousand dollars a seat and while blue origin. Tickets aren't opened for the public to buy yet. One of bazo seat meets ponied up. Twenty eight million dollars for the first ride. These flights represents a new era for space travel. But they've also been controversial. Critics have questioned the amount of money being spent on this endeavor instead of donating to causes and solving problems here on earth especially in the midst of a pandemic but besides being joyrides for the rich and famous experts. Say that these space vehicles could one day have something to offer the science world. Scientists who want to conduct experiments in low. Gravity haven't been able to go aboard flights at all. The ships are unmanned bummer. That could change in the future scientists. Hope that they could study questions. Like how living things respond to the move from. Gravity to
News 96.5 WDBO
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on News 96.5 WDBO
"When are we going to be walking on the moon again? Darryl, When you talk to the experts at NASA, what do they tell the politicians? So we're still aiming for 2024. That's the date that we put out. Um a couple years ago. Is it ambitious? Yes. It's aggressive. Yes. Um, but this is this is big Brian. Going back to the moon is huge. And yes, we did it before. But now technology has advanced so much that we're now taking new technologies and implementing them into this rocket and spacecraft. They are going to help us. But we also need to understand how they're going to perform. So right now inside the vehicle assembly building, we have the space launch system Rocket. It is stacking Brian right now. It's got a core stage two side boosters. We just put the interim cryogenic propulsion stage, which that's the stage is going to push this all the way to move. We just put that on top. The next step is to initially put the Orion capsule on the top. We're going to send that capsule around the moon on a test flight. Either late this year or early next year. Get back all that data, make improvements, make some changes and then look for a test flight with astronauts a year after that flight, and then the hope is by the third flight. That we put astronaut boots on the moon in 2024 brings its space. It's hard schedule may slip, but but that's at least what we're targeting. In this moment. That's good. Can you imagine what the video quality we're going to have now? Compared to the 19 sixties? It's going to almost feel like we're there. Darryl. Thanks so much. Yeah, we'll talk to you next week after Jeff Bezoza does it all right? Sounds good. Come down and see us again. Absolutely, Darryl. Thank you, Darryl. Nail launch commentator for NASA. As knowledgeable as he gets back in a moment, Uh, find out if there is indeed more to know,.
710 WOR
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on 710 WOR
"That's exactly what Hunter Biden ha time for than thank you very much time from the news at 8 30 from job are like a morning show. All right, Michael Eric Adams going to be at the White House today for a meeting with President Biden. They're going to talk about gun violence. Adams telling ABC's this week they have to address the underlying causes. I was city and country. We have become a place where all we do is wait downstream and pull people out. 30% of our inmates in prison are dyslexic. So if we just do dyslexia screening in up screen, we could prevent some of the crime that we're looking at downstream. Who knew who knew that if you could just treat dyslexia, crime would go down. Amazing. There you go. That's it. That's it. That's that's unique. That's it. Yeah, Yeah, two unique. Okay, Adam says if elected, public safety is going to be his primary focus. Well, he's got a lot to focus on because it was a violent weekend in the city again During a 14 hour stretch. Three people were killed, seven injured. In addition, the death included a 30 year old boy in the Bronx. He was just shot gunned down at a cafe that could be gang related former President Trump criticizing his former attorney general Bill Barr, during a speech at the CPAC convention. Trump says bar refused to back his claim The election was rigged because he was afraid of being impeached. Trump said. Hey, I got impeached twice, and I didn't change. In fact, I got worse. Billionaire Richard Branson calls it magical. He completed a trip to the edge of space in his own spacecraft. He says This was 17 years in the making, and he said, it's something he's always dreamed of. Mission completed nine days before Jeff Bezoza will test down his own spacecraft and go into a space. New York state's positivity rate has climbed above 1% 1st time That's happened since the middle of May. Officials blame the delta variant and do we need a booster shot fighter things we do, It's going to make the case to U. S. Health officials today. But Dr Anthony Fauci details ABC s this week. He doesn't think the third dose is needed Yet, even though the CDC and the FDA correctly said right now we don't feel you need to boost it. That doesn't mean that we're not very, very actively, following and gathering all of this information to see if and when we might need it. And if and when we do We'll have everything in place to do it. Let me ask you a question. Is he in favour of a third shot or not? Let me uh I don't know. I wasn't I wasn't listening. That's fine. He pardon? Oh, I was famous. The fate has happened. No, no, no, we this morning and I was preparing. I was preparing for our next guest. I was. I'm true. A full disclosure. We have a great guest coming up and I was just doing a little reading about Let me ask you this. Let me I played again. Only 19 seconds is in favor of the third shot, even though the CDC and the FDA correctly said right now. We don't feel you need a booster. That doesn't mean that we're not very, very actively following and gathering all of this information to see if and when we might need it. And if and when we do, we'll have everything in place to do it. Perfect sense. I mean, Oh, yeah Sense right now. We don't need it and to quote Lenin or limb They're studying the situation to make it determination, That's all. Uh, this is why, like Joe, this is why let me circle back sake, because they say absolutely nothing. Yeah, A lot of words with no message. Finally here. Remember all those perks they had to encourage people to get vaccinated, cash free college free alcohol. It Turns out, none of it worked. Boston University studied the issue in town, buddy. You think it's funny that people don't want to get vaccinated job really after them? I think it's a personal choice. Lynn, Look at Don't you know what or I did not want to get vaccinated. I did not want to. I don't like vaccinations. Are you did it because you have half a brain. I did it because well, because I probably couldn't see my grandkids if I didn't. So that wasn't a factor. I may not have gotten it. Anyway. So Boston University studied the issue and found there wasn't a significant increase in vaccinations because of all the incentives Now, they said, the lotteries Where you got a million dollars that had a limited value. But they said the money could have been much better spent. 100%. Alright. Thanks, Joe. Coming up next Governor Cuomo has lost the support of the transit Workers Union will have the President of the Union John Samuelson with us to tell us why coming up next I'm burning body with U W O r traffic..
600 WREC
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on 600 WREC
"That's Jeff Bezoza, the founder and CEO of Amazon and the richest person on Earth, and I'm Jason del Rey As a reporter who's covered Amazon for the last six years. I've noticed that when I talked to Amazon employees They all start to sound a lot like basis. There is this obsession with obsession, obsessive compulsive focus on the customer and delight. Customer delight. Delight the customer. It's Amazon Speak. It's their way of saying their number One mission is to make customers' lives better. But is that intense focus? Always a good thing, or does it come at a cost? This is land of the Giants, a podcast about the biggest tech companies of our time, how they got their power what they're doing with it and how they're changing our lives in the process. Our first season is called the Rise of Amazon. We find out from Amazon executives exactly how much they know about us. So what we find is that Customers who watch a movie that they love. They buy more tied. They they just do. We talk to CEOs, which strong feelings about the way Amazon does business. It's rope a dope. They're playing with you until the time they come in with the knockout punch. And if I with them, Oh my God! Are they a retail, their data management company. We learn about Amazon's impact on small communities when they move in, and when they leave, you know when they told me they were closed. You know, I think it was. Oh, my God Driving home. I'm thank you. So, what am I gonna do in January when they called and we asked the question of our time Is Amazon. Too powerful too big, you know, and we just don't want to be the United States of Amazon. We just really don't blend.
AP News
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on AP News
"Tropical Storm Elsa is moving off the coast of Cuba and could bring heavy rain later to South Florida. John Cangelosi is at the National Hurricane Center. We do think that will actually make an official landfall somewhere. In either somewhere near the Tampa Bay area, or a little further north, near the Big Ben region of Florida. It was news to the new Afghan commander there. But U. S forces have left Bagram airbase in Afghanistan after we receive some rumor that The Americans left the background. General Mayor Asadullah Kordestani says they discover the Americans departure more than two hours after they left Bagram. Pandemic restrictions on travel between Canada and the US began to loosen today for some Canadians and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said plans to totally reopen the border would be announced over the next few weeks. Authorities are investigating the cause of an accident over the weekend that killed a boy and a popular boat ride and in Iowa amusement park adventure land. Amazon founder Jeff Bezoza has officially stepped down as CEO of the company. He started out of his Seattle garage in 1995 Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon's cloud computing business is replacing him. This is a P news. Tomorrow, the Cannes Film Festival in France, delayed from May to July will finally opened its doors for its 74th edition. It will mean an influx of much needed tourism to the city of Cannes, whose businesses have suffered under a strain of coronavirus restrictions. And so Komei is manager of new. It's nice to still open and after I hope in September and October, the Covid will not B bucks again. And we just want to walk. There will be no empty seats between mask. Festival goers come A can't wait for this pandemic to be over. We want to take off this mask. Charles, reshape with the LA Majestic Hotel says the pandemic has hurt business a lot. We lost all the international conventions,.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Bezos will stay on as executive chairman of the company, but his longtime deputy, Andy Jassy, will handle day to day responsibilities at Amazon. NPR Tech reporter Bobby Allyn joins us now to explain the significance of this transition, and we should note that Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters. Hi, Bobby. Hey, what's up, Elsa? Okay. So remind us. Why is Jeff Bezoza stepping away now as CEO? Bezos founded Amazon 27 years ago in a garage in Bellevue, Washington, and this was a time remember when e commerce was in its infancy and frankly, many people that back then or even afraid to buy things online with credit cards. Obviously, a lot has changed since then, and Amazon is now the largest online retailer right in Bezoza, as we know it's the richest man on the planet, but, yeah, Beso says he now wants to take a back seat. So he's still going to have pretty sizable power at the company as executive chairman. But now he's going to focus on side projects like climate change philanthropy and his rocket company, Blue Origin. Speaking of in two weeks, Bezoza and his brother Mark will be blasting off to the edge of space in one of those very rockets. Yeah, um, I talked to Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone about this bezoza transition. He's written two books on Amazon. And so, look. I mean, this is someone who is obviously out to pursue his passions, have adventures and enjoy the extravagant wealth without compunction that he has accumulated, so I do think he'll be drifting further and further away from Amazon. Literally into space. Well, what do we know about bezoza? His replacement, Andy Jassy, tell us more about him. Yes, Jesse has long been bezoza Protege. He joined the company in 1997. And until today, Jesse was the top executive of Amazon Web services. It's the company's very, very profitable cloud computing arm. But he's very different than bezoza. I mean,.
KOMO
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on KOMO
KOMO
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on KOMO
"Egg in Swiss Crescent Bacon egg in Swiss Crescent and honey butter Chicken biscuit are all just two for $4. Whether today headed for a high of 81 sunny by afternoon, but some clouds to start your day well Saturday and Sunday Sunshine a few clouds on Sunday but highs both days around 80 right now in downtown Seattle, Cloudy and 62. The billionaire space race is heating up as we hear from a B C's Geo Benitez just weeks before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos his history making launch into space, Richard Branson now says he's going to do it. First with his Virgin Galactic space flight Unity 22 astronaut there is there one Richard Branson. Will be evaluating the customer spaceflight experience. It will be the company's first fully crewed spaceflights. Branson will be joined by two pilots and three other mission specialists. Virgin Galactic spacecraft launches from beneath a custom carrier airplane before being shot to the boundary of earth and space, reaching supersonic speeds within eight seconds. Fire fire The window to launch opens July 11th just nine days before Jeff Bezoza launches with his brother and two others aboard Blue origins, New Shepard to see the Earth. From space changes you It changes your relationship with this planet with humanity. It's one Earth one of the seats on that flight selling at auction for $28 million for an 11 minute flight to the edge of the atmosphere and on Thursday bases, announcing that 82 year old Wally Funk Will be his honored guest on that flight. She underwent astronaut training in the sixties but never flew to space. Now, she tells bezoza what she'll say.
NewsRadio KFBK
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"They are big fed meeting tomorrow to determine what to position the Fed is going to take moving forward on interest rates and monetary supply. Elon Musk says that Tesla will accept Bitcoin once again if minors can clean up their act a little bit and use green energy to mine. Those Bitcoins and the price of Bitcoin jumping about 12% today, up to that $40,000 level. And if you wanted to fly to space, the first ticket to fly with Jeff Bas owes went for about $28 million this weekend, so that lucky auction winner will fly with Jeff Bezoza and his brother mark on a spaceship or Russia say a rocket ship. To outer space. Kanye West highly anticipated the Easy Gap line launched last week, and the first item, which was a bright blue puffy jacket sold out in a matter of hours for $200. And that will be sent off later this fall and checking in with the real time numbers here. The Dow off 6/10 1% 34,000 to 61 S and P 500 lower by a quarter of 1% of 2 4037 Tech Heavy NASDAQ trading higher today of 3/10 1% 14,001 10. Gold off by three quarters. 1% of $13.18 67 announce oil continued to climb 71 31 a barrel the 10 year bond yield 1.49%. All right, John, Thanks so much. Here's Kitty O'Neil. Hey, guys will just like you this morning this afternoon. We are going to be monitoring all the traffic and see what kind of problems and issues we may be having with the highway. 99 shutdown. Okay. All the fears of doom and gloom have not materialized. I know that's a good thing. Okay. Monday, June 14th time for what year? What happened? And Albert Parnell. What do you have? Yes, the first year I have year 18 76, And that's one of the first MLB player baseball player to hit for a cycle. It was George Hall from the Philly Athletics or Philadelphia. Explain to me what a cycle is. So you hit a single, a double a triple and a home run in one game. That's a cycle the hard to do. Yeah, OK, Yeah, It's hard to hit a baseball this in general. It's hard to hit a single for guys. I'm one of those. You that's a swing at everything. That's why I was never good at baseball. I don't really understand the strike zone. Oh, no, you didn't compute in my brain. The next year I have is year 2013. And that's when the U. S government charged NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the espionage Act, uh, where now? He's in a Russia. Russia. Yeah, Russia Grant him asylum. Alright. Putin friends? I don't know if your friends the next year I have here in 2015, and that's when Jurassic world became the first film to make $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend. Was the world before Park. Yes, No. After after. Yeah. Jurassic Park and Jurassic World dress part was like in the nineties. Nothing's ever as good as the original. Yeah, that's true. Mhm. I agree with you on that in the last one I have is the year 1980. So what? You know humans that is magic and band member Mark Kelly Poser. Uh, today's his.
Newsradio 700 WLW
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Save then I mean, that sounds great for Jeff Bezoza, and you're never going to feel that Dent. But where do you start drawing the line there right, And I think that's also problematic. Hey, Joe and Chillicothe E. Thanks for checking in your on the Scots lunch. Oh, hi. How are you today? I'm good. I'm good. We got buddy. Well, I was going to you know, I don't know. Just something's on when people don't pay tax like your samba so sudden. That it if they could find a way to make that tax. They're not paying invested. Like you know, you have Jeff Bezoza didn't pay Take take 200 million. There's a lot more, but they he had to take 200 million and have even in the road after him, but a bunch of torn up roads called the Jeff Bezos wrote. Somewhere where it's reinvesting where he could take that money. But you know, you can make a case and say he is reinvesting right? Because if you hold stock if you hold ownership positions in, I'm sure Bezoza owns more than just Amazon, obviously, um, that he's out there invested a lot of things that you technically Oh, I mean, I technically own ownership, I guess of Amazon if I have Amazon stock, right, maybe very, very, very small portion, but still Have invested that money. That's what this is your taxing that investment. Um before it's some sort of gain is even realized. That's I don't know. How do you measure that? I agree, but it was on his case not to knock him. But he thought, you know, blowing out small business, not investing in the communities. But in a spaceship thing. You know if he took all the money, you know if he charges as much a ride that donated all that money to NASA. Mhm now that that's not necessary a tax write off, but he's making more money, which is fine as an entrepreneur, but you know, but as a salesman when I used to sell insurance if I bought clothes, I could write off part of my clothes because The star that paid the tax on the their sales. I got you things like that. So there's some ways you can Make Part of that right off have to go towards something. Something is Mike. You're reinvesting it in the communities. I'm sure his accounts would say. I mean, look, how much money do they spend in in Kentucky? How much money they going to spend in Westchester build their hub there, right? Yeah, Yeah, yeah. What should they already are? So Hey, thanks for call. Appreciate it. You bet. Yeah, I think maybe another way to look at this two man is is All right, well, I viewed the altruism aside. But remember, read the interview, but jet basis I think they were talking. They talked to his of all people, A girl, a long term high school, Or maybe this is college girlfriend or whatever. And, um, she said his entire being is about was about then and it is now and it's P has this thing about getting outer space. So you know, we tend to look at this is a rich man's file. It's like, okay, we've got guys here that are worth $150 billion worth billions and billions of dollars. You can't even fathom that kind of money They're worth. And so now they're just going to go. Well, I'm going to take some of this money and $150 billion. Who cares? You know if it costs me 100 of that billion, I still got 50 built whatever. I'm still in outer space. Nobody can do that. And it's a bragging thing. I'm not so sure. Because the bezels thing to me it's just the whole thing was. He has been so fascinated with outer space. Saying, This is the most important thing he's ever done going outer space, the most important thing even bigger than Amazon or anything. Now, given the benefit of doubt for a second. This is not just some rich guy buying something that no one else can have. He has been obsessed about this since a very early age, right And now he's an older man. He's middle aged, and he's gonna take blue origin his company on July 20th and go to outer space. So on that notion about taking this money and then you know, should be forced to reinvestment reinvested. In a way. Isn't that what this is now? Think about the American Space program. Think about the space race and what came out of that stuff that we use today we take for granted today. You know, started with Tang. And now now, you know, refrigeration, all these crazy things and modern premise that we use in our daily life. We don't think about a lot of this stuff came from what the space program. Because they had to do What Solve a problem. Okay, We've got a problem here. How do we solve that problem? And there's countless things that the space program has led us to that we use a daily basis made our lives arguably better. Some have been lifesaving, and it's because of the space program. So if you are now commercializing this for travel, What does that mean? Think we're doing the same thing now are we gonna do We need new tang. No, we don't need new Tang. But when you when you do something a bit different, and that is making this commercially viable now, the sudden we start, okay. Can we monetize space travel? Can we Are we going to? I don't know. Develop a space colony. A, uh Intergalactic hotel, something along those lines that may come out of it. It seems kind of frivolous and trivial. But now all of a sudden, it's okay. We have people that can travel and live beyond our own. Atmosphere here and outer space. And I don't think you know as much as we talk about this being Oh, he's worth all this money and He's just doing this for kicks because he's got nothing else to spend his money on. These guys spend money and outer space because he's bought everything here. Yeah, but I think it also improves the lie for a lot of just average people to down line, maybe probably generations from now, But you know what I'm saying is anytime you push the envelope like that, and this is commercial space travel. Things are going to change. Things are gonna have to be developed that we have no idea what we're going to be used in application in the years and decades and generations to come. I I don't think you can really put a price tag on that. So any spending his own money? Let's keep in mind. This isn't taxpayer money. This isn't NASA doing this. This is his money that he earned there is wealth. Um, So, yeah. You know, when we start talking about this Well, the class warfare thing Propublica has drummed up with, you know the rich don't pay taxes. Well, they don't pay income taxes, and there's a reason why They We don't tax wealth is because if you look at it, largely wealth is an investment in what other people's stuff. And someone may develop something that is just groundbreaking, right? And you buy stock in a company whether maybe it's a drug company, right? What? You're largely vilified these days. Maybe you're helping curing cancer. I don't know. But there's probably a reason why we do that, because we want to incentivize people to invest, take their money and put it another vehicles because it makes things better. But you know when they cut when you come out and say that it's a myth that everyone pays their fair. I don't think anyone ever said they pay their fair share. We know that the wealthy have been getting around the tax code because you can hire a lot of people to do that. That's part of the system. That that's a bug, right? Large corporations paying zero can tax is in a given year. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of reports of very lower zero corporate tax. But you kindly kind of in this report ignored that that came from businesses largely spreading their losses out from the previous year, right? Or taking advantage of research and and tax incentives and things like that. That by the way, you know when you talk about incentivizing through tax breaks doing stuff. Well, you know, that's our lawmakers. Heck, we do that here in Cincinnati, right tax incentives for building places and putting things up downtown. Those are provisions in the tax code that are Passed through bipartisan support..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Will have tea with Queen Elizabeth today. After the G seven summit. The president and first lady will visit the queen at Windsor Castle, where the royal family has lived for nearly 1000 years, Buckingham Palace says Upon arrival, The Bidens will be given a royal salute by the Queen's guards and the U. S national anthem will be played. After leaving Windsor Castle. President Biden will go to Brussels for a NATO summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin is laughing off the question asking whether he should be considered a killer. He did so in an interview with NBC News that will air on Monday, President Biden was asking march if he thought Putin was a killer. And responded, I do. The Russian president says he faces quote attacks from all kinds of angles and steered clear of criticizing Biden. The two leaders will meet on Wednesday in Geneva. Putin expressed a willingness to work with President Biden. Topics expected to come up at the meeting include cyber attacks in America, Syria's civil war, election interference and Russia's aggression toward Ukraine. I'm Jim Forbes. A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit from Texas hospital workers over demands they be vaccinated. The workers lawsuit against Houston Methodist claims Federal law prohibits employees from being required to get vaccinated without full FDA approval of covid vaccines. The vaccines, which had been approved so far are for emergency use only. The judge's ruling says Texas state law only protects workers from being fired if they're forced to commit a crime. Someone has paid $28 million to blast off with Jeff Bezoza on a rocket ship. The winner will fly on the Amazon CEOs rocket blue origin on a space voyage next month. Bids for the seat reached $20 million within four minutes of the auctions start. I'm Cameron Fairchild Democrats are taking aim at Big Tech. Five new antitrust bills have been introduced in the House seeking to rein in Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google, Rhode Island, Democrat David Cicilline issued a statement saying unregulated tech monopolies Have too much power over the U. S economy, he argued. Legislation will help level the playing field. I'm Brian shook. Amazon is expected to top Wal Mart as the nation's biggest retailer in 2022. Analysts at JP Morgan say the prediction is based on Amazon's rapid expansion into new categories such as grocery and apparel. The report also notes strong growth of third party sales and the rapid rise in Amazon Prime subscribers which now number more than 200 million. And the online retail giant expanded its share of the U. S. E commerce markets in nearly 40% in 2020, as more Americans relied on Amazon to deliver the goods during the pandemic. I'm Matt Matt Johnson, the dog Meme is breaking the record for the most expensive non fungible token ever sold. News outlets. Report The iconic member, the Shiba Inu from the early 2010 sold as an N F. T on Friday for about $4 million. N. F. T S R digital collectibles that are encrypted as the original. The owner of the dog took Asato put the N F T up for auction on Zora Tuesday before it was purchased using the Cryptocurrency. The theory in Seto is the owner of the N F T. Because it was his original photo of his dog, Bo. So it took on a life of its own and became the dog meme Over a decade ago, I'm Lisa Taylor, a U. S Capitol police officer will be honored at a major league baseball game. Lisa G. Reports, officer Eugene Goodman will throw out the first ceremonial pitch when the Nationals host the Mets on June 18th. Goodman protected lawmakers during the riots on the capital on January six by leading an angry crowd away from the Senate floor. The Senate leader awarded Goodman the congressional gold medal. I'm Cameron Fairchild, and I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg News Room. President Joe Biden, wrapping up at the G seven summit in Cornwall, England, briefed the global press at the end of his visit when reporter asked him if the G seven was too soft on China. President. Biden said there were at least three key areas where the leaders agreed to take steps to address issues with China. The G seven explicitly agreed to call out human rights abuses in Xinjiang and in Hong Kong. Explicitly to two coordinated common strategy to deal with China non market policies of undermine competition that agreed, and that's underway now how to do that? Three to take serious actions against forced labor, uh in solar, agriculture and the garment industries because that's what's happening. G seven leaders meeting in England discussed a host of other subjects, including Russia, climate change and sending one billion doses of covid 19 vaccine to poorer nations. That's something critics say needs to be greatly increased. G seven nations backed away from plants to set a target for making sure most new cars sold are greener vehicles, instead pledging only to speed up efforts to move away from combustion engines. Group of five Democrats and five Republican senators say they have reached a deal on infrastructure $1.2 trillion Now that bill has more than Republicans wanted to spend unless than the president wanted. It also pays for this with no new taxes. Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York says this proposal waters things down too much, and I think the argument that we need to make here is that It's worth going it alone if we can do more for working people in this country, Ocasio Cortez was interviewed on CNN Global News 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700, journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm Suzanne Oh, Palmer. This is Bloomberg. This is master's in business with Barry RedHawks on Bloomberg Radio. My special guest this week is Brad Stone. He is the senior executive editor for technology at Bloomberg News. Previously, he was the business week writer covering Tech in Silicon Valley. And before that he was the tech correspondent for The New York Times. And Newsweek. He is the author of four books, including the Everything Store, Jeff.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This is Bloomberg Radio. Now a global news update. Russian President Vladimir Putin is laughing off a question asking if he should be considered a killer. Jim Forbes is more he did so in an interview with NBC News that will air on Monday. President Biden was asked in March. If he thought Putin was a killer and responded, I do. The Russian president says he faces quote attacks from all kinds of angles and steered clear of criticizing Biden. The two leaders will meet on Wednesday in Geneva, A six and an eight year old are rushed to Cincinnati Children's Hospital in critical condition after Saturday night shooting that also injured two adults. The two men that were shot were said to have sustained non life threatening injuries. So far, no arrests have been announced. And since Sunday, police are still investigating, and it's just the latest in a series of mass shootings over the weekend. Three people are dead. At least six people were shot in Cleveland. One suspect has been arrested in Austin, Texas, after 14 were shot there. A woman was killed, nine others wounded in a shooting in Chicago. Down to Savannah, Georgia, where one person is dead, Eight others injured. Among those hurt two and 13 year old. And four adults and a four year old were shot in Dallas. Grand totals at least five people dead, more than three dozen wounded and six mass shootings. Federal judges, dismissing a lawsuit from hospital workers over demands that they get vaccinated. It's the first federal ruling over the issue since the pandemic began, more than 100 workers sued Houston Methodist claiming federal law prohibits employees from being required to get vaccinated without full FDA approval of Covid vaccines. The vaccines approved so far have been done so under emergency use. Only. The judge dismissed the argument, saying the law does not apply to private employers. The judge ruled Saturday that Texas State law only protects workers from being fired if they are forced to commit a crime. I'm Bill Trapero. The new space race isn't between superpowers. It's between billionaires. Cameron Fairchild reports Jeff Bezoza announced he will join paying customers when the first crewed flight of the Amazon founders Blue Origin travels to the edge of space. July 20th a day later, Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson says He's considering a test flight to the edge of space on the Fourth of July weekend. I'm Cameron Fairchild and then You'il holy pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia is limiting foreigners. Saudi Arabia restricted the pilgrimage, known as the hajj, to citizens and residents, only setting a cap to about 60,000 pilgrims as a response to Covid 19. Ministry said Saturday. Those who wish to participate in the holy ceremony must be free of chronic disease be vaccinated and between the ages of 18 and 65. America's favorite B is back. The spelling bee Children from across the country began participating in the preliminary round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. More than 200 spellers showcase their skills and competitions first ever hybrid virtual and in person competition. The final rounds of this year's competition will be held in person at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida on July 8th. The New York Police Department is searching for a man who stole a woman's car that also contained her dog in the back seat. I shook Bala reports, officials say the 73 year old victim was in the driver's seat of her red Honda. Just after one P.m. on June 5th near Mill Avenue in Mayfair Drive in Brooklyn. The suspect opened the door pulled her out of the car jumped in and drove off. One week later. The woman's toy poodle, Luna, is still missing with no sign of the car, either. Police have released images of the suspect, and there are Asking anyone with information to call crime stoppers at 805 77 Tips A shock Paula reporting. I'm Bill Trapero. And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom New York State is nearing President Joe Biden's goal of 70% of adults receiving at least one dose of the Covid 19 vaccination by July. 4th Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday reported a state number of 67.2% receiving at least one dose. Governor also reported a seven day average positive chest rate of 70.44%, among the lowest in the U. S. New York lawmakers passed a bill to allow a third option for a person's gender on official documents. We get more about that from Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. People who do not specifically identify as either male or female would be able to mark their gender as X. Lawmakers in the New York State Assembly passed this bill Friday. The bill has already passed the state Senate and the Gender Recognition Act now heads to the desk of Governor Cuomo. If signed, it would allow transgender intersex and non binary people in New York to alter their gender on state documents and other identification, so it matches their gender identity. Denise Pellegrini Bloomberg radio. The skyrocketing price of shipping goods across the globe may hit your pocketbook sooner than you think. With upwards of 80% of all goods trade transported by sea, you can look for higher prices for nearly everything this as global markets are already bracing for a rise in inflation. You can thank, soaring demand, a shortage of containers, crowded ports and too few ships and dock workers. Karim Ida is a senior investment advisor at Bank of Singapore. He's in the camp that thinks rise in inflation won't last because we're expecting a lot of the other factors to be temporary, as well. As you know, for example, the shortage of goods and because of the reopening to go back to pre covid levels eventually. That's why we see installations still anchored around the 2% target of the fact. IDA was interviewed today on Bloomberg Daybreak Middle East Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg Quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts and more than 120 countries. I'm Susanna Palmer, This is Bloomberg. This.
News Radio 1190 KEX
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on News Radio 1190 KEX
"Harper drew some attention this week when he was spotted at a gas station in his home state dressed like this Whoa! Looks like gas isn't the only thing Tom has been pumping. I think it's time for the Senate to step aside because this is obviously the world's most deliberative body. I got to say the most shocking part. This is that someone with a camera said, Hey, that older gentleman standing with his nips to the wind next to a 2000 and one Chrysler town and country kind of looks like Delaware Senator Tom Carper. I'm getting 75 cents from TMZ. So Stephen Colbert's talking about this picture that Sean gave me. So he is standing there, You know, they hadn't even have struck me. No, I'm not. I don't care what you drive, but it does add to it that he's he's standing next to his $10,000 minivan, a US freaking senator shirtless next to his old minivan. While he's filling up with gas. He thinks I'll You know I'll take a catch a couple of raise so he takes off his shirt and stands over on the sunny side where the van is in the sun. And just stands there with his chest out. He's like supposed to be like 70 years old. I mean, it be weird if he were 40, but like a 70 year old man making sure he catches you know, extra three minutes of sun while I'm gassing up the minivan could either stand here for three minutes or I could get some sun. Thank you Get my tan on. I could get dark. Wow, right on the street across from the Home depot. So he's a U. S senator. Obviously not worried about being spotted or identified or anything. That's odd behavior. It's just odd. It's harmless. Probably a little vitamin D while I'm out just multitasking. What's good point people would think it was weird if I did it If there was a picture of me like I'm getting gas and you see me take, you know I'm getting I look at my watch. I look at the tank and I take off my shirt. Go stand in the sun like this for a while, like a cat. Finding a beam of light through the window, right, let alone a U. S. Senator. It makes you wonder whether he's got a screw loose honestly, doesn't it? So movie past the idea was your bottom movie pass. And then for 9 95 months you could go to as many movies as you wanted. This was legit. One of the greatest times of my life. I had so much fun with movie pass well, and like I said, I bought one for my son and I remember at the time were discussing how can they possibly make this work that the math doesn't work launched in 2011? Geez, was that long ago movie past gained more than three million subscribers. Way more than expected. During the 2017 promotion, offering any movie any theater any day for 9 95 a month. That's when you jumped on it. Hush on. Yeah, I was in it. That's pretty cool. If if I would back when I could go to movies, any movie any theater any day for 9 95 a month so clear wind, So this was at the time when theaters were struggling, and their their business plan was, essentially, we're going to buy the tickets at full retail. And once we go to the movie chains and show how much traffic we are driving We will be able to negotiate down a better price point in the future. The movie chains eventually said No. They were not going to negotiate and they essentially went bankrupt. Which is what leads to a lot of this. Yeah, we get the fun parts coming up, so there are 450,000 most active users. We're really going to a lot of movies. And so this was the finances on this. We're not working. Because movie pass was having to pick up the tab for those tickets, right? They were paying full retail when I would pay the $10 month subscription. And then every time I went to a movie on the back end, they were essentially just paying full retail and then hoping, which was roughly how much do you suppose, on average? Uh, those tickets 12 bucks. Maybe. So they were losing money on every single transaction. So they started doing things where your password word word wouldn't work on purpose. Or you couldn't. If you went to reset your password, you couldn't you get network fail, you know, And I wondered about that with other companies. So many times now I'm even more suspicious. Now that we've got documented evidence that a company does it. It was like Facebook's thing. So you can you can get out of Facebook. You can quit your Facebook account, except you go to the account, and every time you go and try to get out of it, it's always you know, not available at this time or Busy truth, traffic or something like that. So movie pass would do that. Yeah. Network fail try again later. So when you run into that with the company, they might be doing it on purpose. Wow. Wow, that's funny. Yeah, it is. Well, they saw. I mean, like Amazon. You remember what a joke it was that Amazon lost money year after year after year. Will it ever turned a profit? What is Jeff Bezoza thinking? Well, I figured, OK, Yeah, we'll build it will renegotiate will make a mint, but it didn't work. And it clearly, never could I die, I thought but anyway You need to reset your password. Why do I need to reset your password? The guy from colonial gas company by the way, the pipeline colonial pipeline. He got grilled by the Senate yesterday, and he said, I had a complicated password. Senators were trying to claim that he had an easy password like Colonial 123 or something. He said. No, we had a complicated password. Alright, the layout so I just I just learned some really interesting.
TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"And other people. And The judge. Gave her a sentence that PBS says was near the top of the range in federal sentencing guidelines. The judge called her actions illegal and wrong and said they made our country less less safe. And she had worked for the federal government. And then served as an adviser to the head of the intelligence division at the financial Crimes Enforcement Network. It's known as Finn Sin, and then When banks filed suspicious activity reports with the Treasury Department. She saw them and gave them to the media. And now she's getting six months in in prison. So First thing is whoever gave this I r s information to propublica. I sure hope they find out who it is. Obviously, Propublica is not going to tell him but The government figured out who leaked those banking reports to Buzzfeed. So maybe they can figure this thing, too. And then hopefully whoever that is, will go to jail for a good long time. Because this is pretty outrageous. But anyway, let's just talk about the policy aspect of it for a minute. They go through, and they talk about how Jeff bazaars didn't pay any taxes in any federal and federal income taxes in 2000 and seven They talk about? He did the same in 2011. Ellen must pay no federal income tax in 2018. Michael Bloomberg did it. Soros did it. Carl Icahn did it. Even Warren Buffett paid almost no income tax, which is kind of interesting. Considering he's the guy who always talks about how he should pay more income tax. Um So you know, this is England. This is a pretty crazy scene, though, when you have people getting Getting tax documents from rich people and Telling the public. Here's the thing they are talking about. Federal income tax but comparing it to the growth in these people's net worth. Right. So Warren Buffett has a massive amount of stock in Berkshire Hathaway, which is, uh, sort of combination insurance company and holding company. And they own big, big chance of chunks of big, big companies they own. You know, American Express and Coca Cola and they own a railway. And they only look I mean, I don't mean they wouldn't all of American Express and Coca Cola, but they've got big pieces. Obviously, Jeff Bezoza owns a huge amount of Amazon. Bloomberg owns his own company. Which is private. Elon Musk owns a lot of Tesla and on and on and on. So what the what these people are doing. These propublica people is they are comparing the Income taxes paid. To the growth in their net worth. The growth in their net worth, and then they're saying Well, if you compare the income tax that they paid to the growth in their network, they paid some very small percentage in tax. But if you actually just compare it to income, they didn't pay a very small amount. Actual reported income, Jeff Bezoza reported 4.2 billion Paid 973,000,020 something percent in tax. Warren Buffett reported. 125 million in income paid about 24 million in tax just under 20% in tax. Elon Musk reported 1.5 billion in income. Paid 455 million in tax that's close to 30%. What they're doing is a joke..
TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on TalkRadio 630 KHOW
"Powering the comeback. You can power the come back to find a vaccine near you. Call 877 CEO via ex CEO. That's 877 c o v A X CEO. It's the Dan Caplis Show afternoons. 4 to 6 launches pass that put some regulation on the marijuana industry. But the real headline should be pulled us in. The Democrats killed the part that would have put limits on highly dangerous high potency. THC. Why do they put the drug dealers ahead of the kids join me at four? I just got a It's got a call from my wife a couple minutes ago. So what's the next door neighbor's phone number? I said, I'll get it. What's going on? Said, Uh, an intruder just came in our backyard. I yelled at him and he ran into the neighbor's backyard and I need to call the neighbor. Just tried to call my wife back, but she didn't answer him. Maybe she I think she called the police to. Um Hmm. Interesting. He's probably lucky I wasn't home. Uh, I'm a pretty good shot. Uh, anyway, hopefully the police will get him told my wife to go lock the doors case Anything is open, and I assume the neighbors are home. I don't know if he's a good shot, or she She's a doctor. I doubt she's a good shot, but you never know. Mm. It's a little scary. You see these stories on, you know, next door. This website. You know about next door, neighborhood stuff and people report all the time and sometimes post pictures. I should. I should have asked Kristen if she got a picture. Well, I'm sure she didn't If the guy Was spooked when she yelled at him, but We need to get some get pictures of these people and posted and then You know? Make sure that they found in a river somewhere. I know. I know. It's not nice to pollute the river like that. Shannon. I know. It's Yeah, but it's easier than a landfill. Someone wants to come into my house and take my stuff. Uh, homey. Don't play that. All right. Well, I'm going to check with my wife in a little bit. I think everything's okay. And she said that person ran into the next yard already, and she called the police. So I think we'll be fine. All right. Let's talk about this. Uh Talk about this tax stuff for a minute or a couple of minutes, so I'm going to quote from propublica dot org, which is the website of the organization that has all this stuff. They say Propublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezoza, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth, sometimes even nothing. Now you will recall. Actually, that Gosh, what was this woman's name? Just about a week ago, and I didn't talk about it on the show, actually, but just about a week ago and I'm gonna see if I can find it. There was a woman. Who was sentenced for Releasing. I think it was I r s information. No, I know what it was. I know what it was. It was banking information. She released to the media banking information that she thought maybe seemed a little suspicious or something. But it was all you know, kind of anti Republican. Um and I don't remember. How long she was sent to sent to jail for or if it was just probation or whatever. Here, let me see if I can find this real quick cause this was like, literally within the last week. Um Alright, Here we go. This is from business Insider. A former Treasury Department official was sentenced to six months in prison last Thursday for leaking tens of thousands of pages of confidential financial documents to Buzzfeed news. Basically what she leaked was was banking reports. And she leaked banking reports related to people who are being investigated in Robert Mueller's probe of foreign interference in US elections. So she released to the media reports about Paul Manafort..
710 WOR
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on 710 WOR
"You know, they just decided to walk away. So what now? Justin Kapito said she was offering a robust package and was probably hoping to get a dozen Republicans to support at the White House says Biden will now look to win support from individual Republicans. Was Biden able to walk away without any help? Hilarious, Michael? You should really since you're on the radio. You should try talking without eating. I mean, you know, finish what you're reading and then talk. That's just a little bit of radio advice If I know you do to the papers He had to take advantage of the moment. I know he may have had something in his mouth. But you know that was inappropriate comment at that moment, really, which was a singer cabinet land. It's called Leah and like any Republicans are going to go along with anything, he says. Really, the way it works. The Romney there's always Mitt Romney. Oh, yeah, That's Susan Collins. You can get old in college. Yeah. Listen, Murkowski. Yeah, There's a group of them out there. Alright, local politics Jack Cinderelly going to take on Governor Murphy In November, The former Assemblyman won the Republican primary for governor easily as to getting 49% of the vote. Unlike his other Republican opponents, this guy distance himself from President Trump. In the race for Mayor Eric Adams says he's going to skip tomorrow night's Democratic debate so he can go to a vigil for Justin Wallace, that young kid killed in Queens. His Democratic opponents accuse him being afraid to answer tough questions and some tough questions coming for Governor Cuomo. He's being investigated for possibly retaliating against his accusers. Washington Post has witnesses have been asked about how Cuomo and his aides Responded to the sexual harassment allegations. One of the issues is why former aide Lindsey Boylan's personal filed Happened to be leaked to reporters. Flynn, You've got a thought on that one. Uh, no. I'm still trying to figure out how Biden walked away. I don't know if you needed help or not stroking. I'm telling you, it doesn't matter what Cuomo does. Land is going to vote for him, You know? Absolutely. It's not. You know, we go over this every day. Whatever. Fine, Whatever you say, Michael. Okay. Lynn. Is there a Republican you could support Well, I love Rob Astorino comes on the show all the time. But you would never vote for him High May let's see what happens. Really? Can we have a campaign? Maybe there can be a debate. Do we have to announce today who were voting for a year? No. November doesn't Don't worry. We know you're voting. We know what he doesn't worry about it. Let your okay The Biden administration investigating how tax information from several of the world's richest people was leaked. I know how. Um there was a report in Propublica that said they had obtained IRS documents showing the likes of Jeff Bezoza, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Len Burman have legally avoided paying income photo. I'm sorry. Lynn was not on the Bloomberg It was Bloomberg. It wasn't uh, you're alright. What qt pi Joey they But all these guys are all the money pay, no income tax. What's going on here? What's going on Your right. Someone's got to pay for infrastructure. Yeah, Somebody better be so anyway. Jen Circle back sake, told reporters she's not going to comment on the specifics, but She did say in broad terms. These people need to be paying more. So I suspected the Biden administration like this. They leaked it. No question about it. Sure, Yes, no, of course they did. Because this is all part of that. We got to raise taxes on everybody, and this is part of the strategy to To make up for practice. Trump never released his taxes. So let's release everybody else's I get it. Is that legal? And is that fair? Of course not. Would you like your taxes leaked? How do you feel about that Next question? Have you ever been New York? If I was president? I would do release my taxes unlike that former, by the way, all right. I don't want to get Don't get me clear he goes. Come on, lad. Come on, head explode. Come on, like crazy. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it in the next spot. Okay. Okay. I'll think in the next spot about this guy used to be president. Alright up next Len is going to explode because whenever he hears the word, Trump He goes completely around the bend, and there's a new poll out in the race for mayor. We have.
AP News
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on AP News
"To addressing more than 150 threats to life top figures in some 300 crime groups have been implicated, leading to the arrest of more than 800 people. Propublica and a check of tax records of the 25 richest people in the country found that Jeff Bezoza paid no income tax in 2000 and seven and 2011 Tesla founder Elon Musk s income tax bill was zero in 2018 and George Soros went three straight years without paying. I'm Tim Maguire. Coronavirus update. I'm Ed Donahue with Than a P news minute Stocks finished mixed. The Dow down 30 points President Biden down a vaccination goal set for the fourth of July. But Dr Anthony Fauci says that won't be the end of the story. We want to reach 70% of the adult population. By the Fourth of July. I believe we can. I hope we will and if we don't, we're going to continue to keep pushing. CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky says the seven day average of coronavirus cases is a little more than 13,000. This represents yet another decrease of nearly 30% from the prior seven day average. But most importantly, a 94% decrease from Covid 19 cases since January of this year and the first time that the seven day average of cases has been less than 15,000. And since March, 27th 2020, a former pharmacist in Wisconsin, Steve Brandenburg, was sentenced to three years in prison for ruining more than 500 doses of vaccine. I'm Ed Donahue. AP News.
WTVN
"jeff bezoza" Discussed on WTVN
"Radio 6 10 wt Viet, You know, I don't know if I'm really is shocked about this. As you know, the more I thought about it. About this report that, uh, you know, Jeff Bezoza and Elon Musk are among billionaires who basically have avoided paying federal taxes legally, I might add. Look the way I feel about this is the way I felt about it when they tried to hang the president on this, and by the way, how did Trump stay out of this article? I'll tell you how he pays taxes, unlike the mainstream media tried to paint him. You know as somebody who doesn't. That's how he stayed out of this article because he's not mentioned at all here because as soon as I saw many of the uber rich pay next to no income taxes, the headline I thought, Oh, We're probably going to see Donald Trump's name in this well, he's not 25 richest Americans have paid less than taxes than many others do report has revealed billionaires like Bezoza and Elon Musk. They're able to avoid paying federal taxes in certain years, according to the report. Bezoza paid no income tax in years, 2000 and seven and years 2011. And Elon Musk. Of course, the Tesla founder avoided paying income tax itself in 2000 and eight And again, the 25 richest Americans paid less taxes. And many others do, um, overall. So the thing that I again the most shocking part of this for me as I see that and I go look, they've got a team of people around them that are going to keep that they're not going to Willie Nelson. It They? They've got too much at stake here even a few years ago. As far back as these go, they got too much at stake. These guys are not dummies there surround themselves with the people who are going to make sure That they take care of this. I think the most shocking part is that Trump somehow stayed out of this article. But then again, he paid taxes, so he's not going to be mentioned in this at all. Uh, And we'll.