Wednesday, February 28
In The NEWS
Science & Technology - In partnership with Knightscope
> Mistral AI releases large language model Mistral Large and chatbot Le Chat; company aims to compete with AI leaders OpenAI and Anthropic by focusing on efficiency and lower costs (More)
> Escaped gut bacteria that make it into the retina may in part cause blindness and eye diseases previously thought to be inherited (More)
> Engineers demonstrate 3D-printed titanium structure with strength-to-weight ratio 50% greater than advanced metal alloys used in aerospace applications (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.4%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq -0.1%); Amazon joins 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Walgreens (More)
> Lord Jacob Rothschild, British banker, financier, and philanthropist, dies at 87; Rothschild was known for leaving his family's banking dynasty in 1980 to build his own financial empire in London (More)
> Boeing safety procedures fell short due to lack of communication between management and employees, Federal Aviation Administration panel finds; review comes after 2018-19 crashes that killed 346 people (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Michigan holds presidential primaries today; former President Donald Trump leads GOP race by double digits in recent polling (More) | Trump appeals $454M judgment in New York business fraud case (More) | Manhattan district attorney requests gag order on Trump in hush money trial (More)
> US House expected to deliver impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate as soon as this week; Democrats expected to seek to dismiss case (More) | Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel to step down March 8 (More)
> Hungary's parliament approves Sweden's bid to join NATO, clearing final hurdle for the country to become the 32nd member ofthe transatlantic military alliance (More) | Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was to be freed in prisoner swap between Moscow and the West before his death, according to reports (More)
SOURCE: 1440 News
Importance of 2024 Election
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If the stays the course:
- illegal immigration will continue
- our national debt will continue to increase
- illegal drugs entering from Mexico will continue
- crime and violence will continue
- people will continue to leave CA and NYC
- our education system will continue to decline
- college graduate will continue not to find jobs
- our country will continue to be severely divided
- our enemies will see us as weak
- our taxes will increase
- our economy will continue to grow slowly
- war on fossil fuel will continue
It is my opinion that neither Trump nor Biden should be candidates for the 2024 election... and, it does not really matter who are our candidates if it were not Biden and Trump, because this election boils down to Democrat versus Republican.
The Democrats want to stay the course...
The Republicans want things to change...
The American people, regardless of their political knowledge should be awarded the PRESIDENT that they deserve...
Americans have forgotten what happened on NINE ELEVEN and I think it is time that we need to be reminded that the rest of the world HATES US... Our allies tolerate us because of our money and all our nuclear weapons but they are not really our friends either.
All great empires FALL/DECLINE if you are a student of history and believe what you read... The USA is considered a great empire and I think its time is getting very near.
Tax Evasion by Millionaires
A version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.
The nation’s millionaires and billionaires are evading more than $150 billion a year in taxes, adding to growing government deficits and creating a “lack of fairness” in the tax system, according to the head of the Internal Revenue Service.
The IRS, with billions of dollars in new funding from Congress, has launched a sweeping crackdown on wealthy individuals, partnerships and large companies. In an exclusive interview with CNBC, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said the agency has launched several programs targeting taxpayers with the most complex returns to root out tax evasion and make sure every taxpayer contributes their fair share. READ MORE...
Tuesday, February 27
Materialism Matters
A short disclaimer before we read further: I’m a materialist. Materialism is a branch of philosophy to which the sciences, particularly the physical and life sciences, owe a lot. Materialism posits that the material world — matter — exists, and everything in the Universe, including consciousness, is made from or is a product of matter. An objective reality exists and we can understand it. Without materialism, physics, chemistry, and biology as we know it wouldn’t exist.
Another branch of philosophy, idealism, is in direct contradiction to materialism. Idealism states that, instead of matter, the mind and consciousness are fundamental to reality; that they are immaterial and therefore independent of the material world.
A lot of scientists and researchers don’t necessarily have a conscious philosophy, or else don’t consider philosophy to be particularly relevant to their day-to-day work. But by not having a conscious philosophy, scientists – like anyone else – can unconsciously pick up other philosophies and outlooks in the society around them. READ MORE...
WE, The People...
In other U.S. elections, candidates are elected directly by popular vote. But the president and vice president are not elected directly by citizens. Instead, they are chosen by "electors" through a process called the Electoral College. The process of using electors comes from the Constitution.
So, when you think you are voting for the President, you are not really... even though there is a lot of hoopla around presidential elections.
It is possible and has happened that the Electoral College does not elect the President who was elected by the popular vote.
If you did not pay attention to your civics lessons in high school, you do not know this.
Our founding fathers did not TRUST the general public as they are easily motivated and do not take the time to properly research political candidates. The Founding Fathers knew that WE THE PEOPLE would never really work when it came to Presidential elections.
Look at what has happened in this country leading up to the 2020 election... the Democrats created a FALSE NARRATIVE about Trump's collusion with Russia. IT WAS A LIE... but a majority of the people believed it to be true.
Our Founding Fathers knew that the general public was basically stupid and naive... the Electoral College was designed to compensate for that ignorance.
WE THE PEOPLE were just words on paper to make the naive people believe that they really had a say so in the US government...
GUESS WHAT? We have been fooled all these years and continue to be fooled.
Global Debt Hits New High
LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Global debt levels hit a new record high of $313 trillion in 2023, with developing economies scaling a fresh peak for the ratio of debt to their gross domestic product, a study showed.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), a financial services trade group, said on Wednesday that global debt surged by over $15 trillion in the last quarter of 2023 year-on-year. The figure stood at around $210 trillion almost a decade ago, according to the data. READ MORE...
Monday, February 26
US Coast Sinking Fast
Parts of the East Coast of the United States are sinking so fast it could threaten infrastructure, farmland and wetlands, according to NASA.
Some areas have seen a drop of more than 2 millimeters per year from 2007 to 2020.
Satellite data shows the two biggest changes are from Savannah to Myrtle Beach and off the coasts of Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Charleston is one of the fastest-sinking cities. It is more than 2 inches lower than it was in 2007, and that’s a big deal for a city that’s just 10 feet above sea level.
Because of that, the city is considering building an 8-mile seawall. READ MORE...
Illegal Immigration
Most ever state is asking the Federal Government to give them more money to deal with the illegal immigrant crisis...
Some states and cities want to treat illegal immigrants better than they treat their own residents, especially those that are poor and/or homeless...
Does this make any sense to you???
NOW... Biden, who blames the illegal immigrant crisis on TRUMP, wants to implement several Trump policies that he did away with immediately after he became president....
GO FIGURE???
- Illegal Immigrants are committing crimes
- Illegal Immigrants are draining resources
- Illegal Immigrants are trashing wherever they live
- Illegal Immigrants don't speak English
- Illegal Immigrants don't have skills
- Illegal Immigrants are lowering our quality of life
Yet, our federal government does nothing to stop them from coming across the border...
If you continue to vote Democratic this will continue to happen...
Microplastics Detected in Human Placenta Samples
A flurry of recent studies has found that microplastics are present in virtually everything we consume, from bottled water to meat and plant-based food. Now, University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers have used a new analytical tool to measure the microplastics present in human placentas.
In a study published February 17 in the journal Toxicological Sciences, a team led by Matthew Campen, PhD, Regents' Professor in the UNM Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, reported finding microplastics in all 62 of the placenta samples tested, with concentrations ranging from 6.5 to 790 micrograms per gram of tissue. READ MORE...
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