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Why was I not born in another country to altogether different parents where the opportunities before me were limited?
Why was I not given a choice of parents, birth locations, and ethnic heritage?
In looking at these questions, none of us have been given a choice as to whether we wanted to be born or not.
So...
our lives begin without the choice of FREE WILL and yet, if you are a Christian, you are taught that God gives you free will, but again, wants you to give up that free will to follow HIS WILL.
IF...
We do not have a say so in our own birth, do you really think we have a say so in how the rest of our lives are lived or for that matter how we live for the rest of ETERNITY???
FOCUS: I would like to say a word or two about the mayor race in NYC.
Personally, I support the STAR TREK concept which is predicated upon pure socialism, but it is too far in our future to grasp as far as reality is concerned.
The USA already has an abundance of socialism... anything labelled public is considered socialism.
I am all in on taxing the wealthy, eliminating tax shelters but that depends on action from Congress that I do not believe will ever happen.
Mamdani is a socialist, not a Democratic Socialist but a full-fledged socialist. Part of me wants him to lose and part of me wants him to win.
My winning side is winning because I want New Yorkers and the rest of the US to see once and for all, if socialism by Mamdani will work!!!
I don't think it will, but I am just a nobody with an opinion... therefore, let's give Mamdani a chance to prove himself right or wrong, so we can finally put to bed this idea that socialism is better than capitalism because it helps the people more.
Trump lowers tariffs on China, which agreed to pull back some rare earth restrictions. The developments came as the president concluded his trip to Asia with a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a military base in Busan, South Korea. President Trump told reporters on board Air Force One that he halved the 20% tariffs levied on China due to its role in fentanyl production, bringing the overall tariff rate on Chinese goods to 47% from 57%. Following the meeting, China’s commerce ministry said it would enact a one-year suspension of some rare earth export controls, but did not mention dropping its requirement for export licenses for seven kinds of rare earth minerals and the magnets made from them, which have been snarling manufacturing in the US and Europe. A comprehensive trade deal between the US and China was not announced. Earlier in the day, Trump said a trade deal between the US and South Korea was “pretty much finalized.”—HVL
Big Tech had a big earnings day. Meta, Microsoft, and Google’s parent company Alphabet all reported earnings yesterday, with investors watching to see whether their massive AI expenditures are paying off. Meta’s stock slumped in after-hours trading, despite it reporting record revenue for Q3, as it revealed expectations that AI infrastructure spending would grow significantly next year, plus a significant one-time tax hit. Microsoft unveiled plans to spend big to double its data center capacity, and it also fell in extended trading. But Alphabet’s stock rose, even though it too upped its anticipated capital expenditures. The company raked in more than $100 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, and its cloud unit’s revenue grew 34% year over year. Amazon and Apple will announce their earnings today.—AR
Microsoft suffered a cloud outage. As if reporting earnings didn’t make for a stressful enough day at Microsoft HQ yesterday, starting at about noon ET, Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service experienced an hourslong outage that impacted workplace productivity software Microsoft 365 and workplace distractions Xbox and Minecraft. The company said the outage—which caused disruptions to businesses globally, including Alaska Airlines and Vodafone—was likely triggered by an “inadvertent configuration change.” Azure is the second-place player with about 23% of the cloud infrastructure market. It trails Amazon Web Services (32%), which had its own major outage last week.—AR
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