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MovieSuggestions and TelevisionSuggestions Will Not Be Blacking Out
2023.06.08 16:19 Tevesh_CKP MovieSuggestions and TelevisionSuggestions Will Not Be Blacking Out
I've had a few people reach out to ask what we're doing about the proposed Black Out. Welcome to my TEDTalk.
For those unaware, there has been an outcry for subreddits to Black Out in protest. The latest cause is due to Reddit wishing to charge exorbinate fees for 3rd Party Apps; this mostly effects the various Mobile Browsing Apps such as Apollo, Baconreader and Reddit is Fun.
I do think that it is within Reddit's right to charge for their usage, just like how I have to pay for my electricity bill based off of usage.
I do not think that the amount they're wishing to charge is reasonable. I do think that is intentional.
I do think that the decision to begin charging 3rd Party Apps such exorbinate fees has been analyzed by Reddit as being worthwhile to move forward, despite how much upset it will cause. The inciting incident is Reddit becoming a publically traded corporation, which means it will be on the Stock Market for Billionaires to play with with their imaginary money.
By being able to be bought and sold, Reddit, as an American company, now needs to base their ideology on American Capitalism whose philosophy is based off of cancer cells: infinite growth, consequences be damned. By going public, Reddit is now obligated to their fiduciary duty to become as profitable as possible and thus the plan to cut off 3rd Party Usage is for the following reasons:
First, 3rd Party Usage has been identified as a cost centre and are therefore compelled to eliminate it; they've even gone ahead and found a way to turn the usage into a profit centre.
The second, is that the AI Limited Language Model warfront has heated up and it appears Reddit is cross at having the LLMs be trained on their users without them getting a slice of the pie.
I believe that is where many Reddit users are confused towards their purpose. When you go to the movie theatre to be entertained, you need to spend money. When you come to Reddit, you aren't paying money. Don't you find that incongruous? Reddit users aren't customers, we are the product. Our data is what companies are selling.
Shutting down 3rd Party access means that Reddit's evaluation will go up. The farmer cares not of his cow's complaints.
Each previous protest with subreddits shutting down has been unsuccessful. The only change that has been made is that Reddit instituted the Moderators Code of Conduct which includes a section that if a subreddit goes dark in protest, the moderators will be removed. For those unaware, Movie Suggestions has a sordid past with piracy. Before I came onboard, the subreddit had been quarantined to clean up its act. A subreddit that has been quarantined is close to being shutdown by the Administrators.
My personal preference regarding piracy would be to provide safe sources rather than the virus laded scourges most comments suggest but that is neither here nor there. When I was given the keys to Movie Suggestions, I spent the first few years trying many ways to get ahold of an Administrator to give guidance on how strict we need to be. The Administrators did not respond. I came to terms with benign neglect.
If we were to shut down in solidarity, for a cause that I do not see us winning for reasons outlined above, I can easily see having the subreddit shut down and possibly having the entire Mod team wiped. And despite calling for a few extra hands for over a year, with few volunteers stepping forward, who knows the quality of people Reddit will install as replacements. If they decide to let the subreddit come back.
So no, I don't think a Blackout will be useful. I am going to wait and see.
Like treating cancer, there can be no half measures. A little bit of chemo, as a treat, isn't going to cut it. The cancer needs to be excised for treatment to be successful. If Reddit truly goes to shit, then I'd make sure to nuke the subreddit, lock it and walk away.
Instead, I recommend you look for alternatives to Reddit. We've gotten complacent with our content aggregates and now we're paying the price. From an AskReddit a few days ago, I learned of a few. tildes.net and lemmy.ml have both been likened to Reddit-likes, they seem very niche. The Something Awful forums are still going strong and with an initial sign up fee of $10, you can be sure to be treated like a customer instead of a cow; the fee also cuts back on spammers, trolls and children. There's also perverts who recommend this thing called 'Touch Grass' or 'Go Outside' but that's ridiculous. From my own neck of the woods, last I heard about the Great Canadian Outdoors is that we were exporting pollution to New York City. I think Deakin's Blade Runner 2049 look is nifty.
Or if someone can give me the millions needed to make my own Profit-Sharing Reddit, with Blackjack and Hookers, that's fine too. I mean, if they can fart up Truth Social and have idiots use that, it can't be too difficult, right?
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For those unaware, there has been an outcry for subreddits to Black Out in protest. The latest cause is due to Reddit wishing to charge exorbinate fees for 3rd Party Apps; this mostly effects the various Mobile Browsing Apps such as Apollo, Baconreader and Reddit is Fun.
I do think that it is within Reddit's right to charge for their usage, just like how I have to pay for my electricity bill based off of usage.
I do not think that the amount they're wishing to charge is reasonable. I do think that is intentional.
I do think that the decision to begin charging 3rd Party Apps such exorbinate fees has been analyzed by Reddit as being worthwhile to move forward, despite how much upset it will cause. The inciting incident is Reddit becoming a publically traded corporation, which means it will be on the Stock Market for Billionaires to play with with their imaginary money.
By being able to be bought and sold, Reddit, as an American company, now needs to base their ideology on American Capitalism whose philosophy is based off of cancer cells: infinite growth, consequences be damned. By going public, Reddit is now obligated to their fiduciary duty to become as profitable as possible and thus the plan to cut off 3rd Party Usage is for the following reasons:
First, 3rd Party Usage has been identified as a cost centre and are therefore compelled to eliminate it; they've even gone ahead and found a way to turn the usage into a profit centre.
The second, is that the AI Limited Language Model warfront has heated up and it appears Reddit is cross at having the LLMs be trained on their users without them getting a slice of the pie.
I believe that is where many Reddit users are confused towards their purpose. When you go to the movie theatre to be entertained, you need to spend money. When you come to Reddit, you aren't paying money. Don't you find that incongruous? Reddit users aren't customers, we are the product. Our data is what companies are selling.
Shutting down 3rd Party access means that Reddit's evaluation will go up. The farmer cares not of his cow's complaints.
Each previous protest with subreddits shutting down has been unsuccessful. The only change that has been made is that Reddit instituted the Moderators Code of Conduct which includes a section that if a subreddit goes dark in protest, the moderators will be removed. For those unaware, Movie Suggestions has a sordid past with piracy. Before I came onboard, the subreddit had been quarantined to clean up its act. A subreddit that has been quarantined is close to being shutdown by the Administrators.
My personal preference regarding piracy would be to provide safe sources rather than the virus laded scourges most comments suggest but that is neither here nor there. When I was given the keys to Movie Suggestions, I spent the first few years trying many ways to get ahold of an Administrator to give guidance on how strict we need to be. The Administrators did not respond. I came to terms with benign neglect.
If we were to shut down in solidarity, for a cause that I do not see us winning for reasons outlined above, I can easily see having the subreddit shut down and possibly having the entire Mod team wiped. And despite calling for a few extra hands for over a year, with few volunteers stepping forward, who knows the quality of people Reddit will install as replacements. If they decide to let the subreddit come back.
So no, I don't think a Blackout will be useful. I am going to wait and see.
Like treating cancer, there can be no half measures. A little bit of chemo, as a treat, isn't going to cut it. The cancer needs to be excised for treatment to be successful. If Reddit truly goes to shit, then I'd make sure to nuke the subreddit, lock it and walk away.
Instead, I recommend you look for alternatives to Reddit. We've gotten complacent with our content aggregates and now we're paying the price. From an AskReddit a few days ago, I learned of a few. tildes.net and lemmy.ml have both been likened to Reddit-likes, they seem very niche. The Something Awful forums are still going strong and with an initial sign up fee of $10, you can be sure to be treated like a customer instead of a cow; the fee also cuts back on spammers, trolls and children. There's also perverts who recommend this thing called 'Touch Grass' or 'Go Outside' but that's ridiculous. From my own neck of the woods, last I heard about the Great Canadian Outdoors is that we were exporting pollution to New York City. I think Deakin's Blade Runner 2049 look is nifty.
Or if someone can give me the millions needed to make my own Profit-Sharing Reddit, with Blackjack and Hookers, that's fine too. I mean, if they can fart up Truth Social and have idiots use that, it can't be too difficult, right?
2023.06.08 15:51 neoengel I'm working on a project documentating the spectacular downfall of a fast food franchise. Their own records of what they did to me and others were used against them in proceedings to seize all assets.
So much of what the franchise administration and top management did ultimately was the cause of their demise, which also made front page news.
This is a bit long and reworked from a prior retelling - definitely a satisfying outcome to see abusive ownership/management get theirs. TLDR at bottom.
Over twenty years ago my life and plans that I had to stay in my hometown were drastically uprooted and found myself moved to another city. Pounding the pavement almost every day looking for work wasn't getting me any results and would from time to time find myself relaxing at a cheap diner and reading a complementary newspaper... and there it was a job opening for an assistant manager for an expanding well entrenched fast food franchise in town.
So I called and basically set up my own interview (one of many more omens I seemed to have missed) and tadaa got the job. About 4 or so months in I started seeing clues that I should have picked up on that this operation had some serious issues. That started when they had a custom built location created in the city's more desirable west end closer to the university and they made so many mistakes causing needless delays, to top it off the restaurant district manager was driving the small bobcat front loader while teenage new hires who have never experienced physical labour were laying grass sod, on the sidewalk. Not hiring capable crew for the work required was the least of the concerns that I managed to miss, overlook or otherwise dismiss... also note that the owner and his head office was based a 4 hour+ drive north and for all intents and purposes was an absentee to his own operation.
For a two year period, I personally witnessed the following;
I kept doing my best and upper management still complained and told me I have all the tools I need to do things better, on the same day the deep fryer caught fire again. I want to call what they did gaslighting for how inadequate I was made to feel when also they kept ignoring my pleas for them to do things right including hire competent maintance services. Despite my best efforts, pleas and other attempts at pointing out serous problems with equipment and logistics, it was on deaf ears.
Another omen that I missed was that the locations in owner's town and base of operations got shut down, but hey he was a professor of business at the local university... more on that later.
The day came when served a paper saying I was the squeaky wheel, and I got greased - the wagon was rolling on without me. Initially it sucked, a day off to myself and I started feeling better and chatting with friends had them saying I should've said something earlier when I told them of the terrible things people experienced there and how much it violated so many laws. A week later I was working a better job with better people I kept in touch with, in a few months I'd leave that industry and that city behind as family needed my help at their home. I would also take solace in realizing it seemed I was the only manager that left who wasn't dealing drugs, stealing or carrying on other questionable acts.
Life went on and got much much better, even getting licensed in a trade that includes investigating employment violations, using my skills to prevent others having to experience what I endured and/or seek appropriate remedy has been very fulfilling.
Some years pass, and it's Halloween 2007, I find myself back for a friend's party in the city where those terrible franchises are run... or as I was to abruptly find out were run. Prized mall location, closed. West end location, abandoned. Original place I started, closed with pending construction nearby. Signs posted in windows are for a multinational holding company, mall staff say the location there is under renovations. I call bs, owner was adamant about running 24hour operations and wouldn't close down like this - and All of his franchise locations are shut down. After some discrete inquiries and getting as far as I'm willing at the time, I reach out to local newspaper with what I found and the contradictory information been thrown about from various sources. Along with the recent finds I share my documentation and experiences which makes both the reporter and I wonder how that franchise even lasted that long.
About two weeks later around mid November it's front page news about how corporate SEIZED all the assets and locations of the franchise owner in August 2007. The reason, many of the same problems I warned the franchise owner and his admin about! Their own files recording their misdeeds were also used against them in proceedings.
Assets seized totaled about $10 million.
To highlight even more of the shadiness of the owner and his operation, when legal notices were served, the owner told frightened workers it's a mistake and to ignore it and keep working... and then, shortly later, about 200 people were out of work and wondering about getting paid. From gathered files and reporting on civil proceedings, junior managers were shocked to open letters saying the business locations were being shut down, and the owner was trying to reassure otherwise. The owner filed an injunction against the asset seizures, but that was aborted - probably because their own records documenting how they conducted operations and treated (see mistreated, and worse) employees (re: prior examples listed above of wrongful/illegal punishments).
I sat back and laughed a bit. I felt horrible for the workers, but I was also told they were compensated by corporate as part of the proceedings. Later on I would go on to speak with another worker who told me that prior to the franchise getting shut down, the very same assistant of the owner who harassed and yelled and snapped at me and other employees broke even more laws. This so-called operations manager at head office was recorded threatening the worker and telling her to return to work when she was off on workers' compensation! For those unaware up here, that's a serious offense and pretty much on brand for how they ran their now terminated business. I'll admit to making an honest error or two while working for that franchise, but holy hell I'd never conjure committing blatant wrongs and unlawful acts like they did on the regular and with what they probably thought they could get away doing with impunity - it's safe to say that a pattern of dishonesty, abuse, and incompetence can have a high price tag as it did here.
A few years back a buddy I kept in touch with showed me the owner's LinkedIn account, instead of accepting responsibility for his involvement with the franchise time period cited in news article he fraudulently claimed to be involved in government consulting instead... account got suspended. Petty? Maybe... providing some well needed accuracy to LinkedIn? Definitely.
TLDR, I get hired by crappy restaurant franchise and somehow allow myself to join in their descent without realizing how terrible they are even after so many blatant labour, privacy, health and safety law violations. Get fired after speaking up countless times warning them about same stuff corporate would cite as reasons a few years later to seize all franchise assets totalling about $10 million from shady AF owner and have that make front page news.
An ongoing project continues onward going through records and talking to witnesses, unknown in what media format it will finally take, but the journey has certainly been an interesting advenure. Thank you for reading.
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This is a bit long and reworked from a prior retelling - definitely a satisfying outcome to see abusive ownership/management get theirs. TLDR at bottom.
Over twenty years ago my life and plans that I had to stay in my hometown were drastically uprooted and found myself moved to another city. Pounding the pavement almost every day looking for work wasn't getting me any results and would from time to time find myself relaxing at a cheap diner and reading a complementary newspaper... and there it was a job opening for an assistant manager for an expanding well entrenched fast food franchise in town.
So I called and basically set up my own interview (one of many more omens I seemed to have missed) and tadaa got the job. About 4 or so months in I started seeing clues that I should have picked up on that this operation had some serious issues. That started when they had a custom built location created in the city's more desirable west end closer to the university and they made so many mistakes causing needless delays, to top it off the restaurant district manager was driving the small bobcat front loader while teenage new hires who have never experienced physical labour were laying grass sod, on the sidewalk. Not hiring capable crew for the work required was the least of the concerns that I managed to miss, overlook or otherwise dismiss... also note that the owner and his head office was based a 4 hour+ drive north and for all intents and purposes was an absentee to his own operation.
For a two year period, I personally witnessed the following;
- general manager (my boss) smoking in office and food prep area even after being told repeatedly to stop
- harassing phone calls to people from owner's assistant when health department visited the above location and cited the blatant health violations
- deep fryer catching fire and disciplining/terminating employees for calling fire department.
- the above mentioned owner's assistant at the up north head office writing up employees with disciplinary action for breaking non exisent company policy and making it visible to everyone before that person even saw it for a non existent policy. ... and then dismissing their actions as an oopsie even though this was yet another blatant law (privacy laws) violated by them.
- disciplinary action against hourly wage employees that don't attend unpaid meetings on their days off, this is also a blatant violation of our provincial law that I should have looked up, internet access wasn't something I had then as we all do now.
- that's just stuff off the top of my head that I personally experienced. Upper level managers were fired after stealing substantial amounts of money, at least one of whom who was vocal in his dismissal of my concerns of how bad things were - he was finally fired after he came in after hours and submitted multiple fraudulent refunds on the new debit machine. While I was a manager there, a long prolonged pattern emerged of multiple managers along with regular staff quitting suddenly and outright no-showing leading me and others to routinely do 16 hour shifts to cover absences - somehow we were lead to believe this was somehow normalized.
I kept doing my best and upper management still complained and told me I have all the tools I need to do things better, on the same day the deep fryer caught fire again. I want to call what they did gaslighting for how inadequate I was made to feel when also they kept ignoring my pleas for them to do things right including hire competent maintance services. Despite my best efforts, pleas and other attempts at pointing out serous problems with equipment and logistics, it was on deaf ears.
Another omen that I missed was that the locations in owner's town and base of operations got shut down, but hey he was a professor of business at the local university... more on that later.
The day came when served a paper saying I was the squeaky wheel, and I got greased - the wagon was rolling on without me. Initially it sucked, a day off to myself and I started feeling better and chatting with friends had them saying I should've said something earlier when I told them of the terrible things people experienced there and how much it violated so many laws. A week later I was working a better job with better people I kept in touch with, in a few months I'd leave that industry and that city behind as family needed my help at their home. I would also take solace in realizing it seemed I was the only manager that left who wasn't dealing drugs, stealing or carrying on other questionable acts.
Life went on and got much much better, even getting licensed in a trade that includes investigating employment violations, using my skills to prevent others having to experience what I endured and/or seek appropriate remedy has been very fulfilling.
Some years pass, and it's Halloween 2007, I find myself back for a friend's party in the city where those terrible franchises are run... or as I was to abruptly find out were run. Prized mall location, closed. West end location, abandoned. Original place I started, closed with pending construction nearby. Signs posted in windows are for a multinational holding company, mall staff say the location there is under renovations. I call bs, owner was adamant about running 24hour operations and wouldn't close down like this - and All of his franchise locations are shut down. After some discrete inquiries and getting as far as I'm willing at the time, I reach out to local newspaper with what I found and the contradictory information been thrown about from various sources. Along with the recent finds I share my documentation and experiences which makes both the reporter and I wonder how that franchise even lasted that long.
About two weeks later around mid November it's front page news about how corporate SEIZED all the assets and locations of the franchise owner in August 2007. The reason, many of the same problems I warned the franchise owner and his admin about! Their own files recording their misdeeds were also used against them in proceedings.
Assets seized totaled about $10 million.
To highlight even more of the shadiness of the owner and his operation, when legal notices were served, the owner told frightened workers it's a mistake and to ignore it and keep working... and then, shortly later, about 200 people were out of work and wondering about getting paid. From gathered files and reporting on civil proceedings, junior managers were shocked to open letters saying the business locations were being shut down, and the owner was trying to reassure otherwise. The owner filed an injunction against the asset seizures, but that was aborted - probably because their own records documenting how they conducted operations and treated (see mistreated, and worse) employees (re: prior examples listed above of wrongful/illegal punishments).
I sat back and laughed a bit. I felt horrible for the workers, but I was also told they were compensated by corporate as part of the proceedings. Later on I would go on to speak with another worker who told me that prior to the franchise getting shut down, the very same assistant of the owner who harassed and yelled and snapped at me and other employees broke even more laws. This so-called operations manager at head office was recorded threatening the worker and telling her to return to work when she was off on workers' compensation! For those unaware up here, that's a serious offense and pretty much on brand for how they ran their now terminated business. I'll admit to making an honest error or two while working for that franchise, but holy hell I'd never conjure committing blatant wrongs and unlawful acts like they did on the regular and with what they probably thought they could get away doing with impunity - it's safe to say that a pattern of dishonesty, abuse, and incompetence can have a high price tag as it did here.
A few years back a buddy I kept in touch with showed me the owner's LinkedIn account, instead of accepting responsibility for his involvement with the franchise time period cited in news article he fraudulently claimed to be involved in government consulting instead... account got suspended. Petty? Maybe... providing some well needed accuracy to LinkedIn? Definitely.
TLDR, I get hired by crappy restaurant franchise and somehow allow myself to join in their descent without realizing how terrible they are even after so many blatant labour, privacy, health and safety law violations. Get fired after speaking up countless times warning them about same stuff corporate would cite as reasons a few years later to seize all franchise assets totalling about $10 million from shady AF owner and have that make front page news.
An ongoing project continues onward going through records and talking to witnesses, unknown in what media format it will finally take, but the journey has certainly been an interesting advenure. Thank you for reading.
2023.06.08 15:34 Financial-Stick-8500 $BMBL agreed to pay $18M to shareholders to settle lawsuit over misleading during its SPO
In September 2021, Bumble filed with the SEC a Registration Statement for the Company's SPO.
The registration statement didn't forget to mention 1.7B likes (over the course of 6 years) and 42M monthly active users in Q32020.
But it did not include the following information:
To settle claims and avoid further litigation Bumble is going to pay shareholders $18M in cash. Any investor who has traded $BMBL could be eligible for part of that money. You can calculate the payout and file for compensation here. (also you can prepare the documents yourself and send them to the settlement administrator's address)
Obviously 18M not gonna make up for investors' losses, but this kind of corporate misconduct needs to be regulated.
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The registration statement didn't forget to mention 1.7B likes (over the course of 6 years) and 42M monthly active users in Q32020.
But it did not include the following information:
- Bumble had actually lost tens of thousands of paying users during the quarter;
- Paying users had been more reluctant to sign up for the Bumble app during 3Q21 because of the recent price hike for paid services on the app;
- A number of paying users were leaving the Badoo app due to problems arising from Bumble’s transition of its payment platform
To settle claims and avoid further litigation Bumble is going to pay shareholders $18M in cash. Any investor who has traded $BMBL could be eligible for part of that money. You can calculate the payout and file for compensation here. (also you can prepare the documents yourself and send them to the settlement administrator's address)
Obviously 18M not gonna make up for investors' losses, but this kind of corporate misconduct needs to be regulated.
2023.06.08 12:52 Chico237 #NIOCORP~ SCANDIUM OXIDE, GREEN HYDROGEN & BLOOM ENERGY in the news! & more....
 | June 7, 2023~Bloom Energy, Perenco to Deploy Solid Oxide Fuel Cells in the United Kingdom~Bloom Energy, Perenco to Deploy Solid Oxide Fuel Cells in the United Kingdom Business WireThe Bloom Energy Server® platform, to be delivered in late 2023, will be installed at Wytch Farm in Dorset, England, the largest onshore oil field in western Europe, where it will be used to support Perenco’s baseload requirements. (Photo: Business Wire) SAN JOSE, Calif. & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) has signed an agreement with Perenco to install 2.5 megawatts (MW) of Bloom’s solid oxide fuel cells at a site in England. Perenco is a leading independent hydrocarbon company, producing 500,000 BOE of oil and gas per day from its operations in 14 partner countries. The Bloom Energy Server® platform, to be delivered in late 2023, will be installed at Wytch Farm in Dorset, England, the largest onshore oil field in western Europe, where it will be used to support Perenco’s baseload requirements. The agreement marks the first deployment of Bloom fuel cell technology in the United Kingdom. “This is an important step that will demonstrate how our solid oxide fuel cell technology supports the resilience and sustainability goals of our energy-intensive clients,” said Tim Schweikert, Senior Managing Director of International Business Development at Bloom Energy. “Perenco has always been a pioneer in innovation and long-term investment in the countries where we operate,” said Benoit de la Fouchardiere, Perenco CEO. “Today’s announcement is another important step as we continue to reduce our emissions wherever we work. We look forward to a successful initial deployment at Wytch Farm and to then expanding the use of the technology into other global operations sites.” The agreement with Perenco is another major step in Bloom’s expansion in Europe, following the recent sales agreement for northern Europe with Elugie, a marketing partnership agreement with Telam for Spain and Portugal, and energy platform sales to Cefla and Ferrari in Italy announced in 2022. For more information about the Bloom Energy Server, see https://www.bloomenergy.com/technology/. JUNE 6, 2023 ~Westinghouse and Bloom Energy Sign Letter of Intent to Accelerate Zero-Carbon, Large-Scale Hydrogen Production in the Nuclear Industry~Bloom Energy - Bloom Energy Demonstrates Hydrogen Production with the World’s Largest and Most Efficient Solid Oxide ElectrolyzerCRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. & SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 6, 2022 – Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation (NYSE:BE) today announced that they have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry. Westinghouse and Bloom Energy will jointly develop an optimized and large-scale high temperature integrated electrolysis solution for the nuclear industry. With the ability to operate 24/7 and provide high-quality steam input, nuclear plants are well-positioned to utilize electrolyzer technology and produce substantial quantities of clean hydrogen with minimal disruption to current, ongoing operations. “Through this collaboration, we are committed to delivering an economical solution for large-scale hydrogen production in the nuclear industry, which further supports the path to net zero carbon emissions,” said Pam Cowan, Westinghouse President of Americas Operating Plant Services. “We are proud Westinghouse has turned to Bloom and our solid oxide technology to supercharge the clean hydrogen economy,” said Rick Beuttel, vice president, hydrogen business, Bloom Energy. “Solid oxide technology is well suited for nuclear applications, efficiently harnessing steam to further improve the economics of hydrogen production. High temperature electrolysis is already garnering attention and accolades as a cost-effective and viable solution to create low-cost, clean hydrogen, which is critical to meeting aggressive decarbonization goals.” Global demand for hydrogen and its emerging applications is projected to increase tenfold or more by 2050, surpassing the current infrastructure for producing and delivering hydrogen. As hydrogen usage expands from traditional industrial uses to the fuel of a clean future, the need to produce it in larger quantities and from low- and zero-carbon sources is clear. The hydrogen produced in nuclear plants can be utilized to serve many industries such as renewable fuels production, oil and metals refining, ammonia synthesis, mining operations, and mobility in sectors such as heavy trucks, buses, and even air travel. The companies also are well positioned to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s developing hydrogen hubs. About WestinghouseWestinghouse Electric Company is shaping the future of carbon-free energy by providing safe, innovative nuclear technologies to utilities globally. Westinghouse supplied the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor in 1957 and the company’s technology is the basis for nearly one-half of the world’s operating nuclear plants. Over 135 years of innovation makes Westinghouse the preferred partner for advanced technologies covering the complete nuclear energy life cycle. For more information, visit www.westinghousenuclear.com and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. About Bloom EnergyBloom Energy empowers businesses and communities to responsibly take charge of their energy. The company’s leading solid oxide platform for distributed generation of electricity and hydrogen is changing the future of energy. Fortune 100 companies around the world turn to Bloom Energy as a trusted partner to deliver lower carbon energy today and a net-zero future. For more information, visit www.bloomenergy.com. MAY 7, 2023~World’s largest solid oxide electrolyzer begins producing hydrogen~World’s largest solid oxide electrolyzer begins producing hydrogen (hydrogentechworld.com)Bloom Energy has begun generating hydrogen from the world’s largest solid oxide electrolyzer installation at NASA’s Ames Research Center. This high-temperature unit produces 20–25% more hydrogen per MW than commercially demonstrated lower-temperature electrolyzers such as PEM or alkalinehttps://preview.redd.it/r9j9ub5zur4b1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=8de4ed62233ef7c13a523b704dc0d2708068d3f2This electrolyzer demonstration showcases the maturity, efficiency and commercial readiness of Bloom’s solid oxide technology for large-scale, clean hydrogen production. The 4 MW Bloom Electrolyzer™, delivering the equivalent of over 2.4 tonnes per day of hydrogen output, was built, installed and operationalized in a span of two months to demonstrate the speed and ease of deployment. “This demonstration is a major milestone for reaching net-zero goals,” said KR Sridhar, Ph.D., Founder, Chairman and CEO of Bloom Energy. “Hydrogen will be essential for storing intermittent and curtailed energy and for decarbonizing industrial energy use. Commercially viable electrolyzers are the key to unlocking the energy storage puzzle, and solid oxide electrolyzers offer inherently superior technology and economic advantages. Bloom Energy, as the global leader in solid oxide technology, is proud to share this exciting demonstration with the world: our product is ready for prime time.” The current demonstration expands on Bloom’s recent project on a 100 kW system located at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), which achieved record-breaking electrolyzer efficiency. In the ongoing project, 4,500 hours of full load operations have been completed with a Bloom Electrolyzer™, producing hydrogen more efficiently than any other process – over 25% more efficiently than low-temperature electrolysis. The INL steam and load simulations replicated nuclear power conditions to validate full capability of technology application at nuclear facilities, and the pilot results revealed the Bloom Electrolyzer producing hydrogen at 37.7 kWh per kg of hydrogen. Dynamic testing conducted at INL included ramping down the system from 100 percent of rated power to 5 percent in less than 10 minutes without adverse system impacts. Even at 5 percent of rated load, the energy efficiency (kWh/kg) was as good or better than other electrolyzer technologies at their 100% rated capacity. These results will be presented at the Department of Energy’s Annual Review Meeting in Washington DC on 7 June 2023. Dr. Ravi Prasher, CTO of Bloom Energy, said: “The amount of electricity needed by the electrolyzer to make hydrogen will be the most dominant factor in determining hydrogen production cost. For this reason, the efficiency of the electrolyzer, the electricity needed to produce a kilogram of hydrogen becomes the most critical figure of merit. This 4 MW demonstration at the NASA Ames Research Center proves that the energy efficiency of our large-scale electrolyzer is similar to the small-scale system tested at INL highlighting the strength of our modular architecture. The electrolyzer product is leveraging the Bloom platform knowhow of more than 1 GW of solid oxide fuel cells deployed in the field and providing approximately 1 trillion cumulative cell operating hours. The same technology platform that can convert natural gas and hydrogen to electricity can be used reversibly to convert electricity to hydrogen. With Bloom’s high-efficiency, high-temperature solid oxide electrolyzers, we are one step closer to a decarbonized future powered by low-cost clean hydrogen.” April 5, 2022 ~Scandium emerges from the shadows~Scandium emerges from the shadows - MMTAhttps://preview.redd.it/r50wjw0vvr4b1.png?width=343&format=png&auto=webp&s=d2a2670c3411f9f5f915be5856236c16c3e938ad Scandium has long been considered an “if” metal. If only it were available in quantity, it could transform aircraft production and fuel consumption. If only it were available in quantity, it could speed the emerging hydrogen economy. If only it were available in quantity, it could accelerate the rollout of 5G technologies. And so on.The view has been that scandium could be used in numerous large-volume applications, if only supplies were sufficient to meet the potential demand. Manufacturers regularly cited a lack of sufficient scandium supply as the reason why they did not roll out new uses and products containing scandium.After a near-mythic role in the 1980s (as a strengthening agent in aluminium alloys deployed in the last generation of Soviet MiG fighter aircraft and even, reputedly, in ballistic missile nosecones), scandium entered the banal in the 1990s, in sporting goods and, bizarrely, hand guns. Bloom Energy turned the tide starting around 2010, with its introduction of fuel cells based on scandium-stabilised zirconia ceramic electrolytes. Bloom has grown rapidly and now represents perhaps 80% of the world’s annual consumption of SCANDIUM, a paltry 25t or so of oxide in 2021.And yet, despite these rickety foundations, SCANDIUM consumption is poised to grow dramatically in the next decade, buoyed by new sources of supply and sustained by demand-side innovation.The supply sideLet’s start with supply. Until about 2018, most scandium was supplied as a by-product in China and Russia, from uranium and titanium processing. Since then, however, much has changed.First, Sumitomo Metal Mining built and has now commissioned a scandium recovery circuit at its Tagano Bay nickel high pressure acid leach (HPAL) plant in the Philippines. This plant recovers scandium oxalate for processing into oxide (and probably into scandium-zirconium oxide particles destined for Bloom Energy) in Japan. The plant recovers 7-8tpy of scandium oxide and when commissioned increased global supply by around 40%. Capital costs were perhaps US$5M/t of scandium oxide. Second, the Chinese integrated titanium producer Lomon Billions has established a 20-30tpy scandium oxide facility with the potential to increase to 50tpy. The company estimates up to 100tpy of scandium oxide are available in its titanium plants using the sulphate process. Third, in 2021, Rio Tinto commenced scandium recovery from its Sorel Tracy plant in Québec, Canada. The pilot plant can supply 3tpy of scandium oxide and cost US$6M. The site has the ability to supply an estimated 50-60tpy of oxide based on current raw material feed. Finally, UC Rusal has both commissioned a 3tpy pilot scandium oxide plant, recovering scandium oxide from red mud deposits, and also commenced marketing and selling a range of scandium alloys (branded “ScAlution” alloys) that boast enhanced performance at low (typically 0.1%) concentrations of scandium. Plus, it is not only Rusal that has pioneered low-scandium alloys. In the USA, Eck Industries, a specialist aluminium casting house, is commercialising cerium-based alloys in which scandium, again at low loadings, could provide additional strength as well as much reduced post-cast processing requirements. Looking further out, there are numerous scandium projects in development, many of which should come into production around the middle of the decade, thanks to two parallel forces. The main driver for scandium, as for so many minor metals, is vehicle electrification. There are multiple operating and development projects utilising HPAL technology to recover and separate nickel and cobalt in laterite deposits, many of which can in principle recover scandium. While the moral of Tagano Bay is that for existing plants retrofitting can be costly and low yield, there are emerging projects in Australia that are designing scandium recovery into their circuits alongside nickel and cobalt. The potential output of scandium can range from 50-100tpy or more, depending on the project. The second driver is the heightened concerns over supply chain security for critical metals. In the EU this has led to the “ScaVanger” programme to recover scandium from titanium waste streams. In the USA, red mud scandium recovery as well as by-product scandium stand to benefit. The demand sideThe demand side is a little more complicated but nonetheless extremely positive. Bloom’s power generation business continues to grow and has surely been reinforced by severe power disruptions in the past three years in California and Texas. Moreover, Bloom has now received initial approvals for maritime power generation (IMO regulations are forcing seagoing vessels to reduce dramatically their sulphur emissions, and Bloom can facilitate this change), and Bloom is also developing its technology to run in reverse, so to speak, as a generator of hydrogen. Critically, Bloom in the past five years has managed to bring its system costs and performance under control, removing any technology-related going-concern issues.Scandium is also a strong candidate for RF antennas able to support 5G frequencies. A typical high-end cell phone may require 100 RF filters, and in the 5G frequency range, scandium aluminium nitride is being used as the active material in these filters (called “bulk acoustic wave,” or “BAW” filters). Aerospace is a third area of application, and while commercial aviation likely remains years away from broad use of scandium alloys, near-term use in space and autonomous aircraft is an avenue for strong potential growth of scandium alloys. The cost to place 1kg in orbit has dropped dramatically but is still of the order of US$1,000/kg, so any system weight reductions can be extremely valuable. Electric vehicles (EVs) also offer the potential for large volumes of scandium demand. Weight reduction is the obvious reason. Lux Research has estimated a 1kg weight saving in an EV will be worth US$5 in 2030. But a second consideration is overall product cost. Scandium can reduce or potentially even eliminate the need for post-casting heat treatments, which can in some instances double the cost of an as-cast part. Thus the savings from the use of scandium alloys, especially at low scandium loadings, can be large. In addition, as EVs shift to heat pumps in their HVAC systems, scandium can support the implementation of aluminium radiators without adding substantial system volume (as discussed by CM Group in its 2018 scandium report). Naturally, there are other opportunities for scandium. Achieving a robust aluminium alloy able to perform at 300°C could displace large amounts of titanium, and Eck’s alloys are closing in on this goal. Maritime applications, especially in the military arena but also in autonomous vessels and ferries, could embrace scandium thanks to its greatly enhanced anti-corrosion impact in aluminium. Passenger jets are also a market that is likely to happen at some point. Most important, perhaps, is the fact that well financed firms have entered the market and are able to supply up to about 100tpy each. Supply at this level is all-but-certain to create demand, and in turn this should stimulate new supply. Scandium’s chicken-and-egg problem, in which lack of supply held back demand that in turn held back supply, has been reversed, with growing (and reliable) supply poised to stimulate actual demand, that in turn will pull through new supply, and transform scandium from “if” to “when”.JANUARY 2023 National Defense Act Calls out NIOBIUM & TITANIUM & SCANDIUM & the need to establish a U.S. Industrial Base for the Supply & Processing of ALL!https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20220711/CRPT-117hrpt397.pdSCANDIUM PAGE # 246 Briefing on the Establishment of Domestic Scandium Processing Facilities in the United StatesThe committee believes the United States industrial base for the supply and processing of the critical mineral scandium has significant vulnerabilities. The committee also believes that the United States should seek to eliminate dependence on Chinese and Russian sources of scandium, with support from allies and partners. Accordingly, public and private sectors should cooperate closely to establish scandium processing facilities in the United States. Therefore, the committee directs the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to provide a briefing to the House Committee on Armed Services not later than May 1, 2023, on public and private sector activities, working with allied nations, to establish scandium processing facilities in the United States, especially facilities based on more efficient, cleaner, and less energy intensive technologies. This briefing will also include how these processing facilities will help the United States reduce dependence on and compete more effectively with China and Russia. MAY 2023 ~Exploring global supply and demand of scandium oxide in 2030 ~ (NIOCORP is Mentioned!)Exploring global supply and demand of scandium oxide in 2030 - ScienceDirecthttps://preview.redd.it/lokhkunrzr4b1.png?width=174&format=png&auto=webp&s=f4f4c27d6227cfe5eb054751a217d712fe2f0e81 Incorporation of scandium in materials has environmental benefits across multiple industrial sectors, particularly in decarbonization of energy. One pathway to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions is to generate electricity using hydrogen or synthetic liquid fuels, which are more efficient than combustion engines and easily used in co-generation of electricity and heat (IEA, 2019). The functional technology is a fuel cell. A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) produces electricity by oxidizing an energy carrier. The standard SOFCs produced by Bloom Energy are refrigerator-sized and input liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons (methane or biogas) to produce 100 kW of power. These cells process natural gas, biogas, or hydrogen to generate electricity with higher efficiency; up to two times higher compared to a gas-fired power station with efficiency of only 33–48% (Deepika et al., 2018). They are typically used to produce electricity and heat on-site for large buildings (Bloom Energy, 2021a). Currently, SOFC producers (e.g., Bloom Energy) utilize yttrium-stabilized zirconia and a scandia-stabilized zirconia in electrolytes; however, there are benefits of utilizing scandium over yttrium. Use of scandia-stabilized zirconia increases electro-conductivity and decreases operation temperature, resulting in higher efficiency and reliability (Deepika et al., 2018; Laguna-Bercero et al., 2009). Spurred by carbon reduction and global renewable energy initiatives, Bloom Energy is expanding its partnership worldwide (Bloom Energy, 2020, 2021b), resulting in increased demand in the SOFC market and scandium oxide required to produce SOFC boxes (Weinstein et al., 2018). Scandium also has potential for light-weighting (alloys), which is important for improving fuel economy as it requires less energy to transport lighter materials. Currently, transportation contributes 27% to total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and 14% globally (EPA, 2022; IEA, 2022b). The Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards require vehicle manufacturers to continuously increase fuel efficiency (NHTSA, 2022). One approach is through light-weighting by replacing conventional aluminum alloy parts in vehicles with scandium alloys, potentially reducing 10% of vehicle mass and thus 6–8% of emissions (Joost, 2012). Given that the United States passenger vehicle emissions were 3.2 gigatonnes in 2020, this would translate to 0.2–0.3 gigatonnes of reduction (IEA, 2022a). In the United States, the Build Back Better agenda mandates 50% of new vehicles in 2030 must be EVs (The White House, 2021). To push emission reductions further than electric vehicle adoption, light-weighting should be considered. If legislation mandated regulation like Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for EVs, there will be further reductions in energy demand. Lighter scandium alloys serve to reduce energy demand from transportation, which directly aids to mitigate climate change induced by automobiles. Another example of light-weighting is for commercial airplanes. The bionic partition structure is a wall partition between crew members and passengers, which also serves as an emergency stretcher and foldable seating for crew members (Airbus, 2016). Current commercial airplane's partition structures are bulky and heavy, weighing approximately 63 kg (Lau, 2016). Airbus and AutoDesk collaborated and successfully produced a 30 kg bionic partition structure using Scalmalloy®, a proprietary aluminum-magnesium-scandium alloy (APWORKS GmbH, 2015; Rhodes, 2015). Replacement of 4 conventional partition structures per A320 plane in commercial aircraft with Scalmalloy® structures could save up to 465,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year (Airbus, 2016). Despite scandium's potential role in meeting future sustainability goals, historically and currently, scandium is under-utilized because of its low supply and high cost due to its nature as a by-product. Prices of scandium oxide ranged from $3,800–5,000 per kg from 2013 to 2020 (Gambogi, 2017, 2020, 2021), placing scandium among the most expensive elements in production. High prices and low supply are due in part to its production as a co-product - production is dependent on the demand of other primary metals it is mined with. For example, when there is an increase in scandium demand and price, supply does not respond instantaneously because producers need to increase production of the primary products. This leads to price volatility. Scandium oxide is produced as a co-product due to its sparse concentration in ore, which makes it uneconomical to mine alone. It has been extracted as a co-product with iron ore, other rare earths, titanium, and zirconium in China; uranium in Kazakhstan and Ukraine; apatite (phosphorus) and uranium in Russia; and nickel in the Philippines (Gambogi, 2021). The global production of scandium oxide was 14–23 tonnes (15–25 tons) per year in 2020 (Gambogi, 2021), which was small in comparison to 220,000 tonnes (240,000 tons) of global rare earths oxide per year (Cordier, 2022) and 68 million tonnes (75 million tons) of aluminum per year (Lee Bray, 2022). Scandium appears to continue as a co-product in the future, for the most part. Mining companies expect scandium to be a minor co-product from mining other metals such as nickel, cobalt, titanium, niobium, etc. (Clean TeQ Holdings Limited, 2018; NioCorp Superalloy Materials, 2019; Platina Resource Limited, 2021; Wang et al., 2020). There is one exception in New South Wales, Australia by Scandium International Mining Corporation, whose primary product is scandium oxide (Scandium International Mining Corp, 2020). For consumption, SOFCs by Bloom Energy are the main scandium oxide consumer with 74% of total global consumption (CM Group, 2018). A typical Bloom Energy server box of 100 MW contains 13–15 kg of scandium oxide and costs $700,000–800,000 in 2010 (Ecclestone, 2020; Jenkins, 2010). Before subsidies, Bloom Energy servers cost approximately $0.14 per kilowatt-hour of electricity compared to $0.10 per kilowatt-hour of retail power price on the U.S. national grid (Helman, 2020). Although sufficient and reliable supply play an important role in other sectors (e.g., SOFCs, commercial aerospace), price is crucial in adoption in other sectors (e.g., sporting goods, beverage cans). Abstract continues.... NIOCORP MANAGEMENT ON Jan. 31st, 2023, ~What were they doing in D.C. for 4-Days?~ "Working with White House officials on critical minerals issues. This Administration is working hard to help support environmentally responsible critical minerals projects like NioCorp’s Elk Creek Project in the great State of Nebraska. "~ https://preview.redd.it/bb87n8zfwr4b1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9eba677e221dd23bafaabeb826ac059b7fc6835 MAY 25th 2023 ~NioCorp Demonstrates Higher Niobium Recovery Rates New Processing Approach Demonstrates the Ability to Make More Niobium per Tonne of Ore, Produce a Higher Purity Product, and Potentially Address New Markets with Different Niobium Productshttps://www.niocorp.com/niocorp-demonstrates-higher-niobium-recovery-rates/Potential New Forms of Niobium Products and Potential Markets NioCorp’s new process approach, which incorporates a chlorination step to improve niobium and titanium separation and purification, also has demonstrated NioCorp’s ability to potentially produce three different niobium products: (1) ferroniobium; (2) niobium chloride; and (3) niobium oxide.NioCorp had previously planned to make ferroniobium, which is used by the steel industry to produce high-strength low-alloy steel alloys. Those alloys are used in the construction, automotive and transport, aerospace and defense, oil and gas, and other industries. Niobium is a $3.3 billion per year global market but is currently served by only three major niobium producers in two countries.Niobium chloride would likely be converted by NioCorp into niobium oxide, but niobium chloride is also used in glass and ceramic manufacturing.Niobium oxide is critical to multiple applications, including niobium-lithium-ion batteries, superalloys, superconducting applications, capacitors, specialized optics, and many others. Its use in niobium-lithium-ion batteries is considered by current niobium producers as one of the fastest growing prospective global niobium markets https://preview.redd.it/mv11q5ekwr4b1.png?width=250&format=png&auto=webp&s=a85e56f24ba311287811a0ad0188e40ca9cc2f20 MAY 26th 2023~NioCorp Demonstrates the Ability to Potentially Double Projected Titanium Recovery Rates for the Elk Creek Projecthttps://www.niocorp.com/niocorp-demonstrates-the-ability-to-potentially-double-projected-titanium-recovery-rates-for-the-elk-creek-project/Demonstration Plant Shows New Recovery Process May Double NioCorp’s Titanium Production per Tonne of Ore as well as Produce a Higher Purity Product that May Command Higher Market PricesCENTENNIAL, Colo. (May 26, 2023) – NioCorp Developments Ltd. (“NioCorp” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:NB) (TSX:NB) is pleased to announce that it has successfully demonstrated an ability to potentially double the recovery of titanium from each tonne of ore the Company expects to mine at its Nebraska-based Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project (the “Project”), once project financing is obtained and the commercial plant is constructed. The new process is expected to produce a purer form of titanium that may command a higher price than is assumed in NioCorp’s June 2022 feasibility study for the Project (the “Feasibility Study”). NioCorp’s demonstration plant in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, has shown that the Company’s new and improved recovery process can likely achieve an 83.7% rate of overall titanium recovery to final product. This compares to a 40.3% titanium recovery rate in NioCorp’s previous process approach. This new result points to a potentially large increase in the amount of titanium that NioCorp can potentially produce at currently planned rates of mining MAY 29th 2023~NioCorp Launches Phased Approach to Commercial Production of Made-in-America Aluminum-Scandium Master Alloyhttps://www.niocorp.com/niocorp-launches-phased-approach-to-commercial-production-of-made-in-america-aluminum-scandium-master-alloy/AMES LAB COLLABORATION IN 2019! NioCorp Partnering with Nanoscale Powders LLC to Explore the Possibility of Establishing the First US-Based Mine-to-Master-Alloy Vertically Integrated Production of the High-Performance MaterialNioCorp’s Potential Commercial Production of Al-Sc Master Alloy Could Launch Prior to the Company’s Planned Production of >100 Tonnes/Year of Scandium Oxide at its Proposed Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project in Nebraska and Would Use Scandium Produced at the Elk Creek Facility as well as From Other SourcesChina Now Dominates the Scandium World, but North America is Now Positioned to Emerge as a “Leading Scandium Producer,” says NioCorp CEO MAY 29th 2023~ Jim/NIOCORP respond to question on recent Scandium News Release above:What comes to mind right off the bat is:*A)"How is this Scandium AlSc master Alloy different than what Niocorp produced with IBC & AMES laboratory???"*Response:"It is a different process that will be utilized. "*B) Will this be a Patentable approach now moving forward? in conjunction with Nanoscale???*Response:" Yes and yes. But we do not discuss the details of intellectual property matters except as required by law"(\****This is very interesting indeed because a few years back Niocorp was not interested in patenting any such materials!)**C) IS NIOCORP still engaged with IBC, AMES & OTHER ENTITIES in regards to Scandium Alloy production & uses moving forward? and with the New Niobium & Titanium oxides as well!!!! *Response: "We are focusing on our partnership with Nanoscale on the production of AlSc master alloy, but we engaged with a number of parties on various elements of our scandium-aluminum master alloy business development. We are not working with IBC on niobium or titanium product development efforts."(****SOUNDS LIKE OTHER COLLABORATIONS ARE ONGOING WITH POSSIBLE PRIVATE & GOVERNMENT ENTITIES?? OFF-TAKE AGREEMENTS & SO MUCH MORE! 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2023.06.08 11:07 throwaway173882 [Buying] Buying used car from a friend and question about Kelly Blue Book
Friend is selling a 2016 Lexus IS 200t with roughly 135k miles for $12,500. She's buying a new car and wants to get slightly above or equal to trade-in value. Car has had 1 owner before her. In Southern California for reference.
Seems to be under the low end of the Kelly Blue Book private party range value. Assuming it doesn't have any issues and passes a mechanic inspection, is this a no-brainer?
Is it rare to find a car under KBB private party range value that doesn't have large issues?
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Seems to be under the low end of the Kelly Blue Book private party range value. Assuming it doesn't have any issues and passes a mechanic inspection, is this a no-brainer?
Is it rare to find a car under KBB private party range value that doesn't have large issues?
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2023.06.08 09:59 A_horse_a_piece77 "Yesterday's Soccer Mom Is Today's Domestic Extremist": A Guide To Surviving The Culture
 | Author and conservative commentator Peachy Keenan is sick and tired of yesterday's soccer mom being treated as today's "domestic extremist", in public discourse by media gatekeepers and government officials alike—and all the while parents are sheepishly and too easily abdicating their natural role as captains and defenders of the household. submitted by A_horse_a_piece77 to DoorCountyALT [link] [comments] https://twitter.com/KeenanPeachy/status/1666121050567110656 https://preview.redd.it/kdnwwyvt1r4b1.png?width=790&format=png&auto=webp&s=7afed3bdff34a513a8b78f22fe5e37368066ecad "They like to make us, the normal people, the moms and dads of America into extremists. But if you look around it's pretty easy to see who the real extremists are," Keenan told Harris Faulkner on Fox prime time Tuesday night. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6328922595112 She is calling for a back to the basics while writing from deep behind 'enemy lines': southern California. "Parenting is not a game. There is no do-over. You are all that stands between your small charges and the roiling storms ahead—and the band of purple-haired nonbinary pirates that’s about to storm the deck." Keenan has written a new handbook of sorts, or a practical guide to winning the culture war and protecting your family from the ravings of "Childless weirdos have taken over every institution we look to for guidance on how to raise good citizens..." You can find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Extremist-Practical-Winning-Culture/dp/1684513529/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Domestic+Extremist%3A+A+Practical+Guide+to+Winning+the+Culture+War&s=books&sr=1-1 Keenan holds nothing back in the following blistering commentary from her book [emphasis ZH]: It has become only too clear what this absence of parental authority has wrought. Truly insane people have taken over the American education system, Big Pharma, and Big Tech. They know the best way to reach the Final Solution of the American family is to focus on young, impressionable minds. We are enjoying the fruits of their labor now: an explosion of teen depression and suicide, an epidemic of children who are confused if they’re boys or girls, and an incredible 40 percent of Gen Z reporting that they are some letter in the ever-expanding alphabet soup known as LGBTQ+.https://preview.redd.it/q8pbczeb2r4b1.png?width=722&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb9352ba054a4f428fe4c11fad712f52188e5bfc https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1666257317120323585 Who are the real extremists? The below is an excerpt from Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, by Peachy Keenan, with permission of the author. The book is now available from Regnery. https://www.regnery.com/9781684513529/domestic-extremist/ * * * You had a baby? Look at you—you’re the captain now! Or are you? The words on a poster taped to a teacher’s classroom door at a New Jersey public school expose the precarious corner American parents have been painted into. “If your parents aren’t accepting of your identity, I’m your mom now.” The poster featured a drawing of a mama bear tending to her bear cubs, who are each painted the color of a different LGBTQ flag. Parents, I have bad news. You’ve got competition. Someone posted a job listing looking for a new authority figure in your house, and they hired everyone who applied. Lots of other adults, most of them unpleasant strangers, would like to raise your children for you—or at least get your children to hate you. This may already be happening—and you’ll be the last to know! All your hard work to keep creeps, perverts, and kiddie-sniffers away from your kids may get reversed in an instant when you’re not looking. Some parents are okay with this. They can barely handle “adulting” themselves and are thrilled not to make any tough parental decisions. Abdicating their natural role as master and commander of the household is lazy, but it’s a defensive posture. They live in terror of accusations from other parents of “closed-mindedness,” or worse, being a prude. American parents have either forgotten their innate, God-given authority over their household or surrendered it in the face of relentless pressure over many years from the outside. Just as millennia of trickling snowmelt can hollow out mighty granite mountains and turn them into canyons, a half-century of unchecked influence by feminists and far-left progressives have chipped away at the role of parents in their children’s lives. What is left is a barren wasteland, a valley of shadows, where mothers and fathers have been reduced to nothing more than the oldest dependents in the house. Your job as a parent is not easy, but it’s simple: feed, nurture, love, and protect. In the face of life-and-death danger—say, an escaped tiger or an ax-wielding lunatic—probably 100 percent of parents would risk their lives for their children, even die, without hesitation. So why are so many reluctant to defend their children from less obvious, but equally dangerous, scenarios? You can tell when you’re about to be trampled by elephants. It’s trickier when the trampling is invisible and being committed by a young teacher with peace stickers on xe/xer’s car. I’ll grant that having pro- nouns in your bio is not quite the same red flag as cruising a playground in a car with no door handles on the inside, but it’s still a red flag parents need to fear. People who manage to produce offspring are too often seduced into voluntarily surrendering their authority over them. They allow various “experts” to hold sway over their kids. Exhausted and confused, they willingly hand their kids off to the local public school teachers’ unions, the DEI struggle-session facilitators, the storytelling drag queens, and the sex-education consultants who arrive at school with teaching props, including wholesome kid-friendly items like dildos and anal lube. Above: School hangs poster that says, \"I'm Your Mom Now\" https://sanzi.substack.com/p/school-hangs-poster-on-the-door-that They all share a common goal: to dilute your authority and increase their own. They aim to groom America’s children from birth to become compliant consumers of all they wish to sell them: bespoke genders, any-term abortion, strictly enforced racial hierarchies, a lifetime of therapy, prescription drugs, and whatever political and social ideology they choose to upload into their brains. God forbid you are the only parent at your school who keeps your fifth grader home on Share Your Favorite Sex Toy Day. What will people say? Allow me to remind you gently: it’s your job to steer the ship, avoid icebergs, prevent scurvy, and stave off mutinies. Parenting is not a game. There is no do-over. You are all that stands between your small charges and the roiling storms ahead—and the band of purple-haired nonbinary pirates that’s about to storm the deck. Sexualized Early and Often Imagine being the only one at the PTA meeting who stands up and objects to your second grader studying detailed diagrams of adult genitalia, or your middle schoolers instructed on how to grant consent to anal sex. (These are real sex ed guidelines introduced in New Jersey public schools in 2020.) Your choices are stark: assert your authority over your children and get called a bigot or go along with the madness and let them take your child to places you don’t want them to go. How bad is it? Bad enough that Tiara Mack, a “reproductive justice advocate” and “child sex educator” running for state senator in Rhode Island tweeted this in 2021: “Really excited for the house sex ed bill hearing later today. Teaching comprehensive, queer inclusive, pleasure-based sex ed was a highlight of my time teaching.” This is who wants to talk to your six-year-old about how to “pleasure” themselves and their partner! The first step in any cult, or any abusive relationship, is to get the victim to sever ties to their outside friends and family. Maybe you’ve seen this happen to people you know. They suddenly change their phone number, delete their social media, and have a new friend now—one that has them spellbound. Once children come to believe their mom and dad are clueless bigots and racists who are holding them back from being who they are, the cult leaders own them. Government-run public schools have accomplished “regime change” in America and transformed us, slowly, from a society centered around the family, where the schools work for the parent, into a society centered around government employees, where families are required to supply the raw goods for the teachers’ unions to mold as they see fit. Year after year, their assembly lines have been left unsupervised to churn out freshly minted graduates. These graduates move on to college, where their high school indoctrination is hardened and polished by professors. The end product is a citizen who will go to his grave believing a set of Ministry of Truth–approved lies: “whiteness” is intrinsically evil, abortion is health care, there are dozens of genders, America was founded on racism and must be dismantled, marriage is oppressive and bad for women, children hold you back, and unchecked sexual “exploration” with a variety of partners of every gender is the surest path to emotional happiness. Sane people have a terrible choice to make: exercise parental authority over what their children are taught and risk financial ruin, social blackballing, and permanent cancellation—or allow their kids to be turned against them. When a teacher or government official replaces the parent as the ultimate authority in the child’s life, all bets are off. Educators know that any adult with the authority to influence a child has the power to expose said child to any radical or extreme ideas they want. To them, you are the extremist if you don’t think young children need to learn about sex and gender dysphoria yet. You are the extremist if you question a teacher or school administrator’s choice of books to read or lessons to teach. You are an extremely racist extremist if you’d rather not force a five-year-old to feel bad about the color of his skin and apologize for it. In California, students in middle school can ask their school to change their names and genders in the school computer system, and the school is not permitted to inform the parents. The school authorities and the teachers are legally allowed to conspire with eleven-year-olds in sixth grade to induct them into a cult and keep it secret. Literally “it’ll be our secret,” a classic groomer move. These government educational bureaucrats may not drive window-less vans and carry dirty magazines and candy bars to lure young boys (although let’s be honest, some do), but they are even more dangerous. Any parents who send a child into an environment like this, either knowingly or blindly, are forfeiting their authority over their kid. The Regime’s child-catchers are prowling the locker rooms and cafeterias looking for lost, confused pre-teens to cart off to Pleasure Island, where they can get transformed into donkeys without their parents’ consent. I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney is working on a new version of Pinocchio where he asks the Blue Fairy to turn him into a real girl. Parental Surrender Too many sentient adults seem to simply wait for a new update to the operating system to decide what to do with their kids. They unquestioningly accept the Current Parenting Thing, the rancid gruel served up as “education” at the local public school. They surrender their kids to the authorities, in all their forms: teachers, principals, pediatricians, drag queens reading stories, social media influencers, YouTubers, Disney, Netflix, TikTok, the Kardashians—anyone who is credentialed as a “kid expert” or “important” now holds more sway over American kids than their own mothers and fathers. “Who am I to tell my kids how to behave, or what to learn, or how to think about the world? I’m just a random person who had a baby. I made plenty of mistakes in my life. How can I possibly ask my children to obey me?” This is why we can’t have nice things. This is why healthy toddlers were kept in COVID masks for two years while they sat in sandboxes alone, outside, in rain or sleet. This is why you see massive brawls happening at middle schools, where kids punch their own teachers. This is why children are indoctrinated into the cult of trans, coached and groomed to say their pronouns, to switch genders, to explore various “sexualities” and “identities.” This is why mothers pimp out their own children as “drag kids” and put little boys in princess dresses and post the photos on Instagram while thousands of likes wash over them. This is what abdicating the parenting throne looks like. Childless weirdos have taken over every institution we look to for guidance on how to raise good citizens, and no, I’m not talking about Catholic priests. It has become only too clear what this absence of parental authority has wrought. Truly insane people have taken over the American education system, Big Pharma, and Big Tech. They know the best way to reach the Final Solution of the American family is to focus on young, impressionable minds. We are enjoying the fruits of their labor now: an explosion of teen depression and suicide, an epidemic of children who are confused if they’re boys or girls, and an incredible 40 percent of Gen Z reporting that they are some letter in the ever-expanding alphabet soup known as LGBTQ+. Everywhere, in every way, the fertile, fallow minds of children are being terraformed by people who identify as “fur baby” parents. I wouldn’t let fur baby parents walk my dog, let alone educate my eight-year-old. Authority Atrophied This is why you must exercise your parental authority early and often. You must speak up! “No, I don’t want you to ask my teenage son if he’s comfortable with his gender during his doctor visit.” “No, you can’t wear your sister’s Elsa dress to school today, because boys don’t wear dresses, now get in the car and never ask me that again.” “No, you can’t buy those shorts that display the entire lower half of your rear end.” “No, you can’t have a TikTok account, and if I find it on your phone, say goodbye to the phone.” Parental authority makes you the heavy in the house and the bouncer at the door. Pull on your big boy pants and lay down the law, or the law is going to lay down all over you. Peachy Keenan is author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War. |
2023.06.08 09:59 A_horse_a_piece77 "Yesterday's Soccer Mom Is Today's Domestic Extremist": A Guide To Surviving The Culture
 | Author and conservative commentator Peachy Keenan is sick and tired of yesterday's soccer mom being treated as today's "domestic extremist" in public discourse by media gatekeepers and government officials alike—and all the while parents are sheepishly and too easily abdicating their natural role as captains and defenders of the household. submitted by A_horse_a_piece77 to WisconsinUs [link] [comments] https://twitter.com/KeenanPeachy/status/1666121050567110656 https://preview.redd.it/078zp8gv1r4b1.png?width=790&format=png&auto=webp&s=f57ec8ab475fb228079af0757d6b906c49ec1b8a "They like to make us, the normal people, the moms and dads of America into extremists. But if you look around it's pretty easy to see who the real extremists are," Keenan told Harris Faulkner on Fox prime time Tuesday night. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6328922595112 She is calling for a back to the basics while writing from deep behind 'enemy lines': southern California. "Parenting is not a game. There is no do-over. You are all that stands between your small charges and the roiling storms ahead—and the band of purple-haired nonbinary pirates that’s about to storm the deck." Keenan has written a new handbook of sorts, or a practical guide to winning the culture war and protecting your family from the ravings of "Childless weirdos have taken over every institution we look to for guidance on how to raise good citizens..." You can find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Extremist-Practical-Winning-Culture/dp/1684513529/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Domestic+Extremist%3A+A+Practical+Guide+to+Winning+the+Culture+War&s=books&sr=1-1 Keenan holds nothing back in the following blistering commentary from her book [emphasis ZH]: It has become only too clear what this absence of parental authority has wrought. Truly insane people have taken over the American education system, Big Pharma, and Big Tech. They know the best way to reach the Final Solution of the American family is to focus on young, impressionable minds. We are enjoying the fruits of their labor now: an explosion of teen depression and suicide, an epidemic of children who are confused if they’re boys or girls, and an incredible 40 percent of Gen Z reporting that they are some letter in the ever-expanding alphabet soup known as LGBTQ+.https://preview.redd.it/8qucazob2r4b1.png?width=722&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2798bd1cdba17e1eb875dad8784bb2893bc2330 https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1666257317120323585 Who are the real extremists? The below is an excerpt from Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, by Peachy Keenan, with permission of the author. The book is now available from Regnery. https://www.regnery.com/9781684513529/domestic-extremist/ * * * You had a baby? Look at you—you’re the captain now! Or are you? The words on a poster taped to a teacher’s classroom door at a New Jersey public school expose the precarious corner American parents have been painted into. “If your parents aren’t accepting of your identity, I’m your mom now.” The poster featured a drawing of a mama bear tending to her bear cubs, who are each painted the color of a different LGBTQ flag. Parents, I have bad news. You’ve got competition. Someone posted a job listing looking for a new authority figure in your house, and they hired everyone who applied. Lots of other adults, most of them unpleasant strangers, would like to raise your children for you—or at least get your children to hate you. This may already be happening—and you’ll be the last to know! All your hard work to keep creeps, perverts, and kiddie-sniffers away from your kids may get reversed in an instant when you’re not looking. Some parents are okay with this. They can barely handle “adulting” themselves and are thrilled not to make any tough parental decisions. Abdicating their natural role as master and commander of the household is lazy, but it’s a defensive posture. They live in terror of accusations from other parents of “closed-mindedness,” or worse, being a prude. American parents have either forgotten their innate, God-given authority over their household or surrendered it in the face of relentless pressure over many years from the outside. Just as millennia of trickling snowmelt can hollow out mighty granite mountains and turn them into canyons, a half-century of unchecked influence by feminists and far-left progressives have chipped away at the role of parents in their children’s lives. What is left is a barren wasteland, a valley of shadows, where mothers and fathers have been reduced to nothing more than the oldest dependents in the house. Your job as a parent is not easy, but it’s simple: feed, nurture, love, and protect. In the face of life-and-death danger—say, an escaped tiger or an ax-wielding lunatic—probably 100 percent of parents would risk their lives for their children, even die, without hesitation. So why are so many reluctant to defend their children from less obvious, but equally dangerous, scenarios? You can tell when you’re about to be trampled by elephants. It’s trickier when the trampling is invisible and being committed by a young teacher with peace stickers on xe/xer’s car. I’ll grant that having pro- nouns in your bio is not quite the same red flag as cruising a playground in a car with no door handles on the inside, but it’s still a red flag parents need to fear. People who manage to produce offspring are too often seduced into voluntarily surrendering their authority over them. They allow various “experts” to hold sway over their kids. Exhausted and confused, they willingly hand their kids off to the local public school teachers’ unions, the DEI struggle-session facilitators, the storytelling drag queens, and the sex-education consultants who arrive at school with teaching props, including wholesome kid-friendly items like dildos and anal lube. Above: School Hangs poster on the door that says, \"I'm Your Mom Now\" https://sanzi.substack.com/p/school-hangs-poster-on-the-door-that They all share a common goal: to dilute your authority and increase their own. They aim to groom America’s children from birth to become compliant consumers of all they wish to sell them: bespoke genders, any-term abortion, strictly enforced racial hierarchies, a lifetime of therapy, prescription drugs, and whatever political and social ideology they choose to upload into their brains. God forbid you are the only parent at your school who keeps your fifth grader home on Share Your Favorite Sex Toy Day. What will people say? Allow me to remind you gently: it’s your job to steer the ship, avoid icebergs, prevent scurvy, and stave off mutinies. Parenting is not a game. There is no do-over. You are all that stands between your small charges and the roiling storms ahead—and the band of purple-haired nonbinary pirates that’s about to storm the deck. Sexualized Early and Often Imagine being the only one at the PTA meeting who stands up and objects to your second grader studying detailed diagrams of adult genitalia, or your middle schoolers instructed on how to grant consent to anal sex. (These are real sex ed guidelines introduced in New Jersey public schools in 2020.) Your choices are stark: assert your authority over your children and get called a bigot or go along with the madness and let them take your child to places you don’t want them to go. How bad is it? Bad enough that Tiara Mack, a “reproductive justice advocate” and “child sex educator” running for state senator in Rhode Island tweeted this in 2021: “Really excited for the house sex ed bill hearing later today. Teaching comprehensive, queer inclusive, pleasure-based sex ed was a highlight of my time teaching.” This is who wants to talk to your six-year-old about how to “pleasure” themselves and their partner! The first step in any cult, or any abusive relationship, is to get the victim to sever ties to their outside friends and family. Maybe you’ve seen this happen to people you know. They suddenly change their phone number, delete their social media, and have a new friend now—one that has them spellbound. Once children come to believe their mom and dad are clueless bigots and racists who are holding them back from being who they are, the cult leaders own them. Government-run public schools have accomplished “regime change” in America and transformed us, slowly, from a society centered around the family, where the schools work for the parent, into a society centered around government employees, where families are required to supply the raw goods for the teachers’ unions to mold as they see fit. Year after year, their assembly lines have been left unsupervised to churn out freshly minted graduates. These graduates move on to college, where their high school indoctrination is hardened and polished by professors. The end product is a citizen who will go to his grave believing a set of Ministry of Truth–approved lies: “whiteness” is intrinsically evil, abortion is health care, there are dozens of genders, America was founded on racism and must be dismantled, marriage is oppressive and bad for women, children hold you back, and unchecked sexual “exploration” with a variety of partners of every gender is the surest path to emotional happiness. Sane people have a terrible choice to make: exercise parental authority over what their children are taught and risk financial ruin, social blackballing, and permanent cancellation—or allow their kids to be turned against them. When a teacher or government official replaces the parent as the ultimate authority in the child’s life, all bets are off. Educators know that any adult with the authority to influence a child has the power to expose said child to any radical or extreme ideas they want. To them, you are the extremist if you don’t think young children need to learn about sex and gender dysphoria yet. You are the extremist if you question a teacher or school administrator’s choice of books to read or lessons to teach. You are an extremely racist extremist if you’d rather not force a five-year-old to feel bad about the color of his skin and apologize for it. In California, students in middle school can ask their school to change their names and genders in the school computer system, and the school is not permitted to inform the parents. The school authorities and the teachers are legally allowed to conspire with eleven-year-olds in sixth grade to induct them into a cult and keep it secret. Literally “it’ll be our secret,” a classic groomer move. These government educational bureaucrats may not drive window-less vans and carry dirty magazines and candy bars to lure young boys (although let’s be honest, some do), but they are even more dangerous. Any parents who send a child into an environment like this, either knowingly or blindly, are forfeiting their authority over their kid. The Regime’s child-catchers are prowling the locker rooms and cafeterias looking for lost, confused pre-teens to cart off to Pleasure Island, where they can get transformed into donkeys without their parents’ consent. I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney is working on a new version of Pinocchio where he asks the Blue Fairy to turn him into a real girl. Parental Surrender Too many sentient adults seem to simply wait for a new update to the operating system to decide what to do with their kids. They unquestioningly accept the Current Parenting Thing, the rancid gruel served up as “education” at the local public school. They surrender their kids to the authorities, in all their forms: teachers, principals, pediatricians, drag queens reading stories, social media influencers, YouTubers, Disney, Netflix, TikTok, the Kardashians—anyone who is credentialed as a “kid expert” or “important” now holds more sway over American kids than their own mothers and fathers. “Who am I to tell my kids how to behave, or what to learn, or how to think about the world? I’m just a random person who had a baby. I made plenty of mistakes in my life. How can I possibly ask my children to obey me?” This is why we can’t have nice things. This is why healthy toddlers were kept in COVID masks for two years while they sat in sandboxes alone, outside, in rain or sleet. This is why you see massive brawls happening at middle schools, where kids punch their own teachers. This is why children are indoctrinated into the cult of trans, coached and groomed to say their pronouns, to switch genders, to explore various “sexualities” and “identities.” This is why mothers pimp out their own children as “drag kids” and put little boys in princess dresses and post the photos on Instagram while thousands of likes wash over them. This is what abdicating the parenting throne looks like. Childless weirdos have taken over every institution we look to for guidance on how to raise good citizens, and no, I’m not talking about Catholic priests. It has become only too clear what this absence of parental authority has wrought. Truly insane people have taken over the American education system, Big Pharma, and Big Tech. They know the best way to reach the Final Solution of the American family is to focus on young, impressionable minds. We are enjoying the fruits of their labor now: an explosion of teen depression and suicide, an epidemic of children who are confused if they’re boys or girls, and an incredible 40 percent of Gen Z reporting that they are some letter in the ever-expanding alphabet soup known as LGBTQ+. Everywhere, in every way, the fertile, fallow minds of children are being terraformed by people who identify as “fur baby” parents. I wouldn’t let fur baby parents walk my dog, let alone educate my eight-year-old. Authority Atrophied This is why you must exercise your parental authority early and often. You must speak up! “No, I don’t want you to ask my teenage son if he’s comfortable with his gender during his doctor visit.” “No, you can’t wear your sister’s Elsa dress to school today, because boys don’t wear dresses, now get in the car and never ask me that again.” “No, you can’t buy those shorts that display the entire lower half of your rear end.” “No, you can’t have a TikTok account, and if I find it on your phone, say goodbye to the phone.” Parental authority makes you the heavy in the house and the bouncer at the door. Pull on your big boy pants and lay down the law, or the law is going to lay down all over you. Peachy Keenan is author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War. |
2023.06.08 08:55 ALincoln16 List of groups who voiced their support or opposition to the A's stadium bill in today's Special Session.
Support:
Southern Nevada Building Trades Unions
Communication Workers of America
Laborers Union
Culinary Union
MGM
Vegas Chamber
Teamsters
Nevada State Pipe Trades
Jim Gibson, Clark County Board of Commissioners
Nevada Resort Association
Henderson Chamber
Nevada Contractors Association
Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce
IBEW Local 357
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525
Sheet Metal Workers and Railroad Transportation Workers
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Heat and Frost Insulators Local 135
Iron Workers Local 443
Operating Engineers Local 12
Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 711
Professional Firefighters of Nevada
Latin Chamber of Commerce
Nevada State AFL-CIO
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Oppose:
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Battle Born Progress
One APIA Nevada
Americans for Prosperity
Planned Parenthood Votes Nevada
Alameda (Calif.) Labor Council
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Southern Nevada Building Trades Unions
Communication Workers of America
Laborers Union
Culinary Union
MGM
Vegas Chamber
Teamsters
Nevada State Pipe Trades
Jim Gibson, Clark County Board of Commissioners
Nevada Resort Association
Henderson Chamber
Nevada Contractors Association
Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce
IBEW Local 357
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525
Sheet Metal Workers and Railroad Transportation Workers
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Heat and Frost Insulators Local 135
Iron Workers Local 443
Operating Engineers Local 12
Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 711
Professional Firefighters of Nevada
Latin Chamber of Commerce
Nevada State AFL-CIO
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Oppose:
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Battle Born Progress
One APIA Nevada
Americans for Prosperity
Planned Parenthood Votes Nevada
Alameda (Calif.) Labor Council
2023.06.08 08:45 ALincoln16 List of groups who supported or opposed the A's stadium plan during testimony during the Special Legislative Session today.
Support:
Southern Nevada Building Trades Unions
Communication Workers of America
Laborers Union
Culinary Union
MGM
Vegas Chamber
Teamsters
Nevada State Pipe Trades
Jim Gibson, Clark County Board of Commissioners
Nevada Resort Association
Henderson Chamber
Nevada Contractors Association
Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce
IBEW Local 357
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525
Sheet Metal Workers and Railroad Transportation Workers
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Heat and Frost Insulators Local 135
Iron Workers Local 443
Operating Engineers Local 12
Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 711
Professional Firefighters of Nevada
Latin Chamber of Commerce
Nevada State AFL-CIO
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Oppose:
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Battle Born Progress
One APIA Nevada
Americans for Prosperity
Planned Parenthood Votes Nevada
Alameda (Calif.) Labor Council
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Southern Nevada Building Trades Unions
Communication Workers of America
Laborers Union
Culinary Union
MGM
Vegas Chamber
Teamsters
Nevada State Pipe Trades
Jim Gibson, Clark County Board of Commissioners
Nevada Resort Association
Henderson Chamber
Nevada Contractors Association
Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce
IBEW Local 357
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 525
Sheet Metal Workers and Railroad Transportation Workers
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Heat and Frost Insulators Local 135
Iron Workers Local 443
Operating Engineers Local 12
Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 711
Professional Firefighters of Nevada
Latin Chamber of Commerce
Nevada State AFL-CIO
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Oppose:
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
Battle Born Progress
One APIA Nevada
Americans for Prosperity
Planned Parenthood Votes Nevada
Alameda (Calif.) Labor Council
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2023.06.08 04:24 Various-Mess-2853 Joining UA local 342
Good morning, afternoon or evening,
I plan on joining local 342 as a pipe fitter out of California Bay Area. What is the work this time of year (summer) for first year apprentices?
How does OT look like as well?
There are a lot of refineries in my area and I get different answers from different trades like IW, carpenters and electricians.
Thank you all for your insight.
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I plan on joining local 342 as a pipe fitter out of California Bay Area. What is the work this time of year (summer) for first year apprentices?
How does OT look like as well?
There are a lot of refineries in my area and I get different answers from different trades like IW, carpenters and electricians.
Thank you all for your insight.
2023.06.07 22:27 strabosassistant Essay [v0.9 2 of 2] Pitchforks to an Android Fight: How A.I. destroys the class power balance
Part 2 of 2: All constructive criticism is welcome and the more specific, the better.
Bringing a pitchfork to an android fight
This leaves the ruled with the sole strategic deterrent of their collective potential for violence. The deterrent is twofold:- Their potential as agents of coercive violence on the part of intra-class competitors
- Their collective power as a ‘mob’ or mass movement that if necessary can overwhelm through numbers (a la Bastille)
Privileges and special treatment are often accorded to members of the same class in external societies with matching institutions of legitimacy. These privileges can even hold in wartime where either special treatment during capture or prohibitions against shedding ‘royal’ or ‘noble’ blood set class members apart from the ruled populace of either society.
This irrevocability of status limits the ability of a class to neutralize rogue members. Even if rejected by other class members, rogue members are often able to still garner support internally and externally based on their claim to legitimacy as in the case of James Francis Edward Stuart.
This inherent instability results in the courting of the ruled by competing members of the ruling elite as agents of violence. It can be as gross as the direct financing of the Clodian and Milonian gangs by Caesar and his opponents or the actual bidding war for the Roman Imperial purple by Didius Julianus. Or it can be as professional as purchasing the services of condottieri during the Italian city-state conflicts. The commonality is gathering enough of the ruled to bludgeon other members of the ruling elite into submission.
The 20th century saw the beginning of the end for hereditary institutions of legitimacy. The Chinese and Russian Communist revolutions as well as the ascent of Nazism in Germany represented the rise to power of ideologies that were fatally antagonistic to the aristocracy) and royalty. The post World II breakup of the British Empire - especially in India - saw the removal of more hereditary rulers as former colonies coalesced into independent modern nation-states. Even the former imperial leader saw radical institutional shakeups. The Labour Party’s victory in the 1945 elections started Great Britain’s transition from hereditary legitimacy as well culminating in the House of Lords Act 1999 and its following updates. In less than 100 years, a substantial portion of humanity transitioned their institutions of legitimacy and the basis of ruling elite power.
The end of elite intra-class conflict
Modernity has seen the irrevocable legitimacy of birth and descent replaced with the conditional legitimacy of intellectual compliance with the ruling elite’s philosophy or ideology. This phenomenon is most easily discerned in the Soviet Union, Communist China and other formecurrent Communist countries.Elites were subject to constant surveillance and purged for even small infractions of ideological deviation. Surveillance was pervasive - so pervasive that in East Germany it was estimated that there was one Stasi (secret police) informer for every 6.5 citizens. Once identified as deviants, purged members were de-legitimized prior to removal in tightly controlled trials where ‘extracted’ confessions were presented as damning evidence of ideological nonconformity. This ‘delegitimization’ was so effective that popular uprisings on behalf of purged members were/are virtually nonexistent. With no legitimate claim or access to energy in the system, the purged members are rendered powerless to raise groups of the ruled to save them.
In Western Europe and the vast majority of the Anglosphere, credentialism is the preferred institution of legitimacy and can be revoked unlike inherited nobility or spiritual superiority. Credentialism (nominal meritocracy coupled with ideological compliance) forms a framework of class control slightly less punitive, yet every bit as pervasive as the Communist regimes.
In a credentials-based system, the institutions that bestow credentials - such as elite universities - represent a significant chokepoint of control over ruling elite members.
Attendance has its privileges. In the United States, Ivy League and Ivy League plus graduates are overrepresented in the upper echelons of US government, business and non-profit institutions. Currently 8 out of 9 US Supreme Court justices are graduates of just two law schools: Yale and Harvard Law. 4 out 5 of the last US Presidents graduated from Ivy League schools.
However, despite representation as a ‘meritocracy’, admission to and attendance at these institutions are not contingent solely on merit. The most obvious exceptions being legacy preferences and affirmative action. Legacy preferences and affirmative action are non-merit criteria for admission that enables ruling elites to play gatekeeper and prefer members of their class or preferred candidates for addition to the class.
Less obvious though is the implied ideological conformity to become a member of these credential granting institutions. During the 1950s and 1960s, the whiff of Communist sympathies could blacklist an individual from these institutions. In present times, differing views on gender, race, immigration or even ‘lack of personality’ can bar an individual from admission, cause rescission of admission or expulsion from these credential granting institutions. Earned credentials can be revoked for academic disagreement if it buts against the class consensus as is the case in California where disagreement with the ‘consensus’ over COVID now allows medical license revocation.
Technology makes possible the ubiquitous yet decentralized class policing to maintain conformity in the West. Stray comments from years in the past during literal childhood are now grounds for exclusion or ‘cancellation’. Social media and cancel culture allows class coordination in real-time with everything captured on phones and immediately shared on Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram to generate instant class outrage and cancellation - all without recourse to a government institution. There’s no longer a need to ‘eliminate’ someone when a bot can post inciting content that results in the loss of credentials, employment and social status for the problematic individual.
Whether the punitive Communist system or the slightly less punitive yet every bit as controlling Western system, the revocable nature of legitimacy in both systems enables modern elites to resolve intraclass disputes without having to resort to mass violence. Expulsion from the institutions of legitimacy is possible without death and can be instantaneous since unlike birth-descent legitimacy which only ends upon death, removal of a credential or Party membership doesn’t require the individual to be found, seized and killed. A few keystrokes and boom! - virtual death.
This ease and swiftness of delegitimization means class dissidents are less likely to be able to garner and maintain enough popular support necessary to violently contest for supremacy.
While beneficial to the ruling class, this removes participation in the informal violence of intraclass conflict within the ruling elite as a path of advancement or accommodation for the ruled. The ruled are no longer needed to maintain the intra-class balance.
We need pitchforks. Lots of pitchforks.
The ruled populace’s sole remaining leverage is to act as members of the formal security institutions of the society such as the armed forces or law enforcement.The structure of the armed forces mimics the same control structure as other social institutions with the officers corps overpopulated with members of the ruling elites and the bulk of recruits from the other strata of society.
In the US, the bulk of the enlisted recruits - 80% - 90% of the total - are from households under $100k annual income. With an average income of slightly over $50,000, these recruits’ household incomes are significantly below the top 10% annual income average of $173,000 .
Doing the bulk of the fighting and dying has meant that the ruled populace has enough strategic value to the ruling elite as violent counterbalances to external elites that accommodations in energy distribution and class membership are a grudging but recurring feature of political history.
There’s a roughly direct relationship between conflict severity and the level of accommodation. The violent global paroxysms of the 20th century (WWI, WW2, the Korean War) saw the advent of socialized medicine), the GI Bill and other concessions throughout Western Europe and the Anglosphere. The Cold War saw the further growth of the welfare state in the societies of the West as well the advent of a series of development/aid programs directed towards the developing world. The ruling elites of the West and the Communist bloc competed with accommodations to shore up their popular support domestically and globally in case of another world conflict that might be nuclear and apocalyptic in nature.
The Vietnam War represented the beginning of the end of this type of popular accommodation in the United States. The usual inequities of socioeconomic status vs combat exposure were hyper-magnified as college and health related exemptions allowed many scions and aspiring members of the ruling elite to avoid the conflict altogether.
This left the armed forces composed of draftees - disproportionately from the lower socioeconomic classes - commanded by the few volunteer members of the ruling elite. The results were disastrous. Social justice protests, McNamara’s Morons, ‘fragging’ and other disciplinary and performance issues - caused by the imbalanced force structure - proved such a toxic stew that the US moved to an all-volunteer force in 1973.
The move to a professional army removed the need for broad-based popular consent to ensure force cohesion during conflict (or so the theory went). And with the decreased need for broad-based support, the US ruling elites began to contract the post-World War accommodations and welfare-state.
First to suffer was veteran treatment as the soldiers exposed to Agent Orange were denied compensation and care for the myriad health problems resulting from their exposure. The 1980s saw the beginning of the end for The Great Society welfare state and culminated with the ‘end of welfare as we know it’ being signed into law by President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Offshoring began in the 1980s and accelerated with NAFTA and China’s accession to the WTO. This coupled with the Reagan-Bush-Trump tax cuts further eviscerated the middle class which typically provides the bulk of armed forces recruits.
Initial impacts on operational readiness appeared during the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and the second Gulf War but were ameliorated by extended and repetitive use of reserve forces. However, recruiting has plummeted across the board and the soldiers that fought the last three American conflicts are aging out of service eligibility. In 2022 and 2023, it is projected that all branches except the Space Force will have failed to meet recruitment goals.
The likelihood that new recruitment techniques will improve the situation are grim as the Army estimates that only 23% of the 17-to-24 year olds in the US would even qualify as recruits. The other 77% are unable to pass the basic armed forces entrance exam or are too overweight/obese to meet minimum fitness requirements.
A shrinking pool of recruits has not impaired the ruling elites’ willingness to engage in armed conflict to achieve their geopolitical goals. Currently, the United States and its NATO allies are engaged in a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. The United States, Taiwan, Australia, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines stand on the verge of conflict over Taiwan and access to the South China Sea.
All of the actors in these brewing or ongoing conflicts are experiencing some degree of demographic decline with severe population declines projected for Russia, Ukraine, China, South Korea, Japan and much of Europe. The United States is projected to be buoyed by immigration however the native birth rate has already plummeted below replacement levels.
This leaves the ruling elites with the confounding situation where the current economic and political institutions they control have ennervated the ruled populace to the point it impairs their ability to project power externally. Rebuilding the middle class that provides the bulk of recruits would necessitate major structural changes that would greatly lessen their class’ control and at least a generation of time for enough children to be born to erase the recruitment deficit.
Reversing 40-years of rigged economic and political policy alone would represent a Herculean task. But couple this with natural class resistance to any loss of control egged on by the psychopathy of the class leaders, the necessary changes are improbable to the point of impossible.
With no change and conflicts on the immediate horizon, the ruling elites have one solution left to them to replace the dispossessed recruitment pools of the middle class - artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons.
Move over humans. It’s time for something scarier.
A.I. powered weapons offer a number of advantages over human combatants. Not only does A.I. already demonstrate tactical superiority against human opponents in simulation, but its unique nature is particularly appealing to the ruling elites.Without conscience or kinship ties or moral safeguards, the A.I. soldiers will pursue any objective regardless of the dubious nature of the orders. History would have been markedly different if A.I. soldiers had been present in the Soviet Union during the hardline coup against Gorbachev or available to the Arab rulers during the Arab Spring. Implementing Asimov’s Laws of Robotics would be foolhardy in a combat android but even if implemented, the noted problems of AI control could result in unintended casualties.
Additionally, as non-humans, casualties no longer equal declining morale in the armed forces and society as a whole. The Vietnam War demonstrated the impact of seeing body bags of soldiers returned home. During the Afghanistan, Gulf and Iraq wars, this type of footage was banned (until 2009) to stop the type of social unrest that occurred during the Vietnam War when the public was faced with the direct cost of conflict. It is doubtful that humans will see injured or killed A.I. soldiers in the same empathetic light as they do human casualties. Risky missions start to have acceptable loss levels and this change enables more aggression on the part of ruling elites.
But the greatest advantage of the new A.I. soldier is that there is absolutely no need for accommodation by the ruling elites to the ruled populace to maintain their base of power. A newer, remorseless and completely obedient purveyor of violence is now available to the ruling elite. It makes no demands beyond bare functioning and feels no emotional remorse for immoral acts.
These A.I. soldiers that are capable of maintaining the developed world’s strategic parity to the global masses’ numbers can be also used internally to quell any possible dissent or mass movement. A.I. generally offers unlimited potential for surveillance and internal class discipline but coupled with advances in robotics, it will offer an ethics-free physical enforcer to combat protests like Sri Lanka, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. There are no repercussions available for the A.I. soldier since they have no personhood or control so even the spotty administration of ICC justice isn’t a deterrent. Already law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles, New York and other jurisdictions are deploying robotic dogs - which is eerily reminiscent of the usage of attack dogs by oppressors through history. An A.I. soldier that was used for similar purposes would have no fear of punishment or injury or fear at all unlike the officer or even the dog in past situations.
Attempts to control this new technology and A.I. soldiers are manifesting in calls for A.I. regulation and licensing by the ruling elites of the US and Western Europe. The potential for positive change through a human-A.I. partnership is tremendous and widespread availability has the potential to provide the ruled populace with substantial technical and economic advancements without the overhead of the ruling elite. Citing the danger of extinction by A.I. while simultaneously continuing development of the technology highlights how disingenuous the call for regulation is by the ruling elites. In reality this is a call to restrict any dangers presented to their institutional control of education, finance and healthcare as well as their monopoly of violence within society.
The future is grim for the ruled populaces of humanity. At a time that technology could power the solutions to climate change, economic collapse and space exploration, the technology is being evolved and restricted to prop up the ruling class’ domination. And with no bargaining chips left - whether as producers or gangs or soldiers - the real extinction crisis may not be for humanity as a whole but for the ruled.
Appendix: A Classical Case of Control
Pre-Marian reforms
In the pre-Marian reform Roman Republic, strict divisions were made between patricians )and plebeians with severe restrictions on political and religious participation placed on the plebeian class. Military service was strictly limited to property owners to ensure that the landowning class maintained a monopoly on violence. A credo of tribal superiority ranking Roman -> Latin -> Italian -> non-peninsulars was embodied legally in tiered political membership of Citizen -> Latin Rights holder -> Foreigner. Membership was zealously policed by officials called censors who were initially exclusively patrician.The patricians of Rome were successful in maintaining their monopoly of power until a series of secessio plebis (Latin: withdrawal of the commoners or secession of the plebs) or general strikes by the plebeian class forced the patricians to cede some power, privileges and land to the plebeian class. Faced with complete economic standstill, a series of accommodations were made to maintain the viability of the power structure itself.
This cession of power was largely illusory though. While technical class distinctions were removed, the old patrician class and the wealthiest of the plebeian class merged through co-option and intermarriage to form a new nobility that enforced their new collective will through property qualifications restricting political participation.
This new nobility fought any further accommodations to middle and lower classes such as the Gracchan, Marian and Livian reforms. The brothers Gracchi and Livius Drusus) were killed and Marius died in the middle of a civil war with Sulla and his noble adherents.
Conquest and the resulting ubiquity of slavery destroyed any further economic leverage the lower classes had. With literally millions of slaves now cheaply available, laborers, craftspeople, shopkeepers and domestic employees were dispossessed of their livelihoods as slaves replaced them in their jobs. Small landholders were driven off their farms and into the urban stews as the treasure of conquest inflated the price of real estate astronomically.
Post-Marian reforms
The Marian reforms left one avenue for the lower classes - the military. As the rich and powerful (Marius v Sulla, Pompey v Caesar, Augustus v Antony) fought each other for supremacy within their own class, the poor were courted with numerous concessions and bonuses to serve as soldiers for the powerful.While always at the whim of the commander (barring assassination) who was always a member of the ruling class, military necessity served as a check on the ruler's ambitions. Armies need soldiers and another ambitious member of the same class could always bribe or recruit soldiers with better terms to topple the current leader. A degree of class balance was a necessity to preserve the power structure.
For those who couldn’t or wouldn’t join the army, panem et circenses (bread and circuses) dulled the need for rebellion. Gladiator games, free food distributions and occasional money distributions maintained a docile subsistence-based population that remained fairly quiescent until the late Western Empire despite depredations by the landed elite and nobility.
The system despite all its inequities suffered along for multiple centuries until external pressures and the depredations of the nobility overwhelmed the economic and military capacity of the Empire and resulted in its fall in 476 CE. But it’s important to note that the system wasn’t overthrown from within but overwhelmed from the outside.
2023.06.07 22:11 NewMaintenance7096 Anxious about returning to work
I was laid off in March this year and have been a stay at home mom since while I have been looking for work. It’s SO hard to find something that now ticks all of the boxes and is worth being away from my child for.
I have found being home with my 18 month old way more exhausting than when I was working and juggling everything but I also LOVE it and feel like I have a much stronger bond with her than I ever did before. I actually would prefer to stay home and try and set up a small business (probably a pipe dream) but life is expensive and I feel bad leaving my husband to support us, especially when we live in Southern California where cost of living is very high.
I have an interview for a job that ticks most of the boxes after months of being ghosted by recruiters, and this position sounds promising but I just feel a sense of dread about leaving my daughter. The thought of having to rush her to get ready in the morning and whisking her off to daycare before racing to work is daunting to me now.
Not sure where I’m going with this, just a vent I guess. I just wish I could be home with her more and be more of a present parent, I just feel more and more frustrated at our way of life sometimes and wish things could be a little more simple.
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I have found being home with my 18 month old way more exhausting than when I was working and juggling everything but I also LOVE it and feel like I have a much stronger bond with her than I ever did before. I actually would prefer to stay home and try and set up a small business (probably a pipe dream) but life is expensive and I feel bad leaving my husband to support us, especially when we live in Southern California where cost of living is very high.
I have an interview for a job that ticks most of the boxes after months of being ghosted by recruiters, and this position sounds promising but I just feel a sense of dread about leaving my daughter. The thought of having to rush her to get ready in the morning and whisking her off to daycare before racing to work is daunting to me now.
Not sure where I’m going with this, just a vent I guess. I just wish I could be home with her more and be more of a present parent, I just feel more and more frustrated at our way of life sometimes and wish things could be a little more simple.
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- Governing Law. These Official Rules and the Contest, and any action related thereto, will be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, federal arbitration law and the laws of the State of California without regard to conflict of laws provisions. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in Section 11 “Dispute Resolution and Arbitration” the exclusive jurisdiction for all Disputes (defined below) that you and Sponsor are not required to arbitrate will be the state and federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California and you and Sponsor each waive any objection to jurisdiction and venue in such courts.
12. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
(a) Mandatory Arbitration of Disputes. We each agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to this Contest and these Official Rules or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof or participation in the Contest (collectively, “Disputes”) will be resolved solely by binding, individual arbitration and not in a class, representative or consolidated action or proceeding. You and Sponsor agree that the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of these Official Rules, and that you and Sponsor are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action. This arbitration provision shall survive termination of these Official Rules.(b) Exceptions. As limited exceptions to Section 11(a) above: (i) we both may seek to resolve a Dispute in small claims court if it qualifies; and (ii) we each retain the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief from a court to prevent (or enjoin) the infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property rights.
(c) Conducting Arbitration and Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (the “AAA Rules”) then in effect, except as modified by these Official Rules. The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879. A party who wishes to start arbitration must submit a written Demand for Arbitration to AAA and give notice to the other party as specified in the AAA Rules. The AAA provides a form Demand for Arbitration at www.adr.org. Any arbitration hearings will take place in the county (or parish) where you live, unless we both agree to a different location. The parties agree that the arbitrator shall have exclusive authority to decide all issues relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability and scope of this arbitration agreement.
(d) Arbitration Costs. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA Rules, and we won’t seek to recover the administration and arbitrator fees we are responsible for paying, unless the arbitrator finds your Dispute frivolous. If we prevail in arbitration we’ll pay all of our attorneys’ fees and costs and won’t seek to recover them from you. If you prevail in arbitration you will be entitled to an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses to the extent provided under applicable law.
(e) Injunctive and Declaratory Relief. Except as provided in 11(b) above, the arbitrator shall determine all issues of liability on the merits of any claim asserted by either party and may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party’s individual claim. To the extent that you or we prevail on a claim and seek public injunctive relief (that is, injunctive relief that has the primary purpose and effect of prohibiting unlawful acts that threaten future injury to the public), the entitlement to and extent of such relief must be litigated in a civil court of competent jurisdiction and not in arbitration. The parties agree that litigation of any issues of public injunctive relief shall be stayed pending the outcome of the merits of any individual claims in arbitration.
(f) Class Action Waiver. YOU AND SPONSOR AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, if the parties’ Dispute is resolved through arbitration, the arbitrator may not consolidate another person’s claims with your claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. If this specific provision is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Dispute Resolution and Arbitration section shall be null and void.
(g) Severability. With the exception of any of the provisions in Section 11(f) (“Class Action Waiver”), if an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction decides that any part of these Official Rules is invalid or unenforceable, the other parts of these Official Rules will still apply.
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2023.06.07 18:24 NASDQplayer97 Patents Filed and Holding Company Formed for AI Powered Drone Surveillance, Inspection and Monitoring Systems; Commercial Applications with International Clients Including the US Air Force: EPAZ
un 06, 2023 (AB Digital via COMTEX) -- - Cloud-Based Software Specialized for Applications to Corporate Clients, Higher Education and Government Institutions.
- Marketing ZenaDrone 1000, AI Technology Totally Autonomous Drone, Surveillance, Inspection and Monitoring Solution.
- Filing for Series of AI Patents on Drone and Battery Technology.
- Formed Galaxy Batteries Inc. to House EPAZ Intellectual Properties for Battery Technology.
- AI Prediction Gained Interest from Native American Tribes After Presentation in at RES 2023 in Las Vegas.
- Low-Cost Augmented Reality Glasses for On-Site Remote Assist Product.
- Negotiating for Deal on up to 100 ZenaDrone 1000s for Operations in Ireland.
- ZenaDrone 1000 Displayed at 2023 AERO in Germany.
- Method of Transporting Lifesaving Blood for Military Troops in the Field Using ZenaDrone 1000 to be Tested with the US Air Force Overseas.
Epazz, Inc. (OTC EPAZ) is a leading cloud-based software company that specializes in providing customized cloud applications to the corporate world, higher education institutions and the public sector. The EPAZ Epazz BoxesOS™ v3.0 is a complete web-based software package for small and midsized businesses, Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies and higher education institutions. EPAZ BoxesOS™ provides many of the web-based applications organizations would otherwise need to purchase separately. Other EPAZ products include DeskFlex™ (room-scheduling software) and Provitrac™ (an applicant-tracking system). EPAZ is also upgrading the AI technology of ZenaDrone 1000 to increase its global reach across industries.
The EPAZ ZenaDrone 1000 is a totally autonomous drone, surveillance, inspection and monitoring solution. The drone comprises innovative software technology, along with compact and rugged hardware that was engineered for industrial uses in military, construction, agriculture, surveillance, search and rescue and customizable applications. This EPAZ multifunctional unmanned aerial vehicle has garnered positive reviews from several industries, especially the military, agriculture, oil and gas, wildfire management and civil engineering industries. It is also equipped with machine learning systems, multispectral sensors and AI technology. EPAZ ZenaDrone uses the data captured from its cameras to create a 3D interactive environment.
In the coming year, the goal of the EPAZ ZenaDrone is the enhancement of its AI capabilities, which include autonomous navigation of unmapped terrains, deep learning algorithms for various actions and dual-use features to accommodate commercial and military drone applications. Learn more about ZenaDrone here: https://www.zenadrone.com/.
EPAZ Has Formed Galaxy Batteries Inc. to Hold Its Intellectual Properties for Battery Technologies
On May 23rd EPAZ announced the company has formed Galaxy Batteries Inc. to house its intellectual properties for battery technology. EPAZ has been working on special battery technologies for high-powered devices and aircraft. EPAZ is in the process of filing patents for its battery technology and believes, in the future, Galaxy Batteries could become an independent company.
Many of the projects EPAZ is working on require the high-powered batteries needed to run highly specialized devices. EPAZ recently launched galaxybatteries.com to use as its battery technology subsidiary.
EPAZ AI Prediction Has Gained Interest from Native American Tribes After the RES 2023 Presentation in Las Vegas
On May 16th EPAZ announced its ZenaDrone 1000 has gained the interest of Native American tribes after the RES 2023 held in Las Vegas during April. EPAZ attended the trade show to share how the ZenaDrone 1000 can provide services for search and rescue, firefighting, cargo delivery, and land surveys.
EPAZ is scheduling demos for the U.S. Military, NATO partners, Irish farmers, the German police force, the German rail, and Native American tribes. The EPAZ ZenaDrone’s expanded facility will have the capacity to manufacture over 30 drones per month once the facility is fully in production. EPAZ will be shipping the production drones to customers around the world and hiring more staff to accommodate the increased demand.
EPAZ Filing a Series of AI Patents for Its Drone and Battery Technology
On May 9th EPAZ announced that the company is in the process of filing a series of artificial intelligence (AI) patents for its drone technology. EPAZ has already received two patents for its drone technology, and two other patents are under review with the US Patent Office. EPAZ has also filed for international patents.
EPAZ has developed a new process for increasing the flight time of its holdings, ZenaDrone 1000, which innovatively provide an opportunity to file for new patents. Furthermore, the process requires a custom battery management system that uses AI to monitor and analyze the fight characteristics of the ZenaDrone 1000.
ZenaDrone 1000 is a heavy lift drone requiring special configuration. EPAZ uses AI to track current flights and analyze previous flights to understand how to improve the drone's flight times.
The EPAZ ZenaDrone 1000 team will use predictive AI analytics and predictive modeling -- a type of analysis that employs methods and resources -- to create predictive models and forecast future outcomes based on acquired data. Predictive analytics refers to a method rather than a specific technology, and it uses techniques including machine learning algorithms, sophisticated mathematics, statistical modeling, descriptive analytics, and data mining. EPAZ will prioritize upgrading the ZenaDrone 1000's AI technology to increase its global reach across industries.
Low-Cost Augmented Reality Glasses for On-Site Remote Assist Product
On May 4th EPAZ announced that the company has developed low-cost Augmented Reality Smart Glasses call Stacklens. EPAZ Stacklens are durable and comfortable augmented reality glasses as well as smart glasses for its holdings in Tillerstack’s onsite remote-assisted product.
Stacklens will be under $400 per pair of glasses, while other competitors are selling their glasses for over $2,000 per pair. EPAZ decided to develop its own glasses because it caused sticker shock for customers and potential customers in Europe who wanted to use the technology and because the glasses sold by a third party cost too much. Now, with EPAZ Stacklens, these organizations will be able to use innovation technology at a low cost, allowing the company to win more deals.
On-site remote-assisted glasses can be used by technicians in the field to fix complex machines, such as HVAC, industrial machines, and water and waste pipes. Additionally, we have seen interest in using the technology for aircraft maintenance. EPAZ plans to continue to improve the technology for use with ZenaDrone 1000, a First-Person View Smart Glasses product with augmented reality technology.
EPAZ has submitted a proposal to the armed forces to use the technology in the field. The company has received feedback from the United States military about using First Person View Smart Glasses with ZenaDrone 1000.
Negotiating With Non-Dilutive Financer for Drone as a Service Operations for up to 100 Drones; Irish Government Minister Visited ZenaDrone’s Ireland Office
On May 2nd EPAZ announced that Ossian Smyth, minister of state at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform of Ireland, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, visited the EPAZ ZenaDrone offices in Dublin, Irelan. Also, EPAZ is negotiating with a financing institution for a deal to purchase up to 100 ZenaDrone 1000s for drone as a service operations in Ireland.
The non-dilutive financing terms would receive a purchase order for up to 100 drones. These EPAZ drones will be used in Ireland for establishing drones as a service operation. ZenaDrone will manage and service these drones for Irish farmers, businesses and government agencies.
Minister Smyth had the opportunity to see a ZenaDrone 1000 and meet EPAZ Irish team to discuss how ZenaDrone can greatly affect the lives of Irish farmers, businesses and government agencies. If ZenaDrone closes on the financing deal, Irish farmers will have access to advanced precision agriculture drones for monitoring plant health and spraying weeds.
EPAZ ZenaDrone 1000 Displayed at 2023 AERO in Germany Leads to Multiple Demonstrations with NATO Partner Countries Defense and German Law Enforcement and Rail Line
On April 26th EPAZ announced that the ZenaDrone 1000 was showcased at the AERO General Aviation Convention in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on April 19-22nd. This showcase has led to multiple demonstrations scheduled with NATO partner countries, multiple law enforcement departments, and a large rail line in Germany.
The EPAZ team at ZenaDrone Germany had a successful debut at Aero, meeting with top organizations to discuss how ZenaDrone 1000 technology can solve their problems with inspections of railways, reducing the use of helicopters and providing critical support to NATO troops. ZenaDrone met with German UAV regulators about setting up beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations in Germany. EPAZ ZenaDrone is already ahead of the game by applying beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations in Ireland, which uses the standards of the European Union via the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. Once EPAZ ZenaDrone receives final approval for beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations in Ireland, ZenaDrone will receive approval in Germany within 10 business days. In the meantime, flight demonstrations will be held in Northern Germany to allow personnel to fly the drone themselves and understand how it fits within their operations.
New Method of Transporting Lifesaving Blood for Military Troops in the Field Using ZenaDrone 1000; Will be Tested with the US Air Force Overseas
On April 24th EPAZ announced that the company is developing a new container to provide data for the military to transport blood to troops in the field. The container will ensure the blood is safely transported and will transmit all information regarding how the blood was used.
EPAZ ZenaDrone has been invited to work with the U.S. Air Force at an overseas base to test the ZenaDrone 1000 platform under battlefield conditions. In addition, the U.S. Marine Corps is interested in using ZenaDrone 1000 in its real-life situations.
For more information visit: www.epazz.com
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- Marketing ZenaDrone 1000, AI Technology Totally Autonomous Drone, Surveillance, Inspection and Monitoring Solution.
- Filing for Series of AI Patents on Drone and Battery Technology.
- Formed Galaxy Batteries Inc. to House EPAZ Intellectual Properties for Battery Technology.
- AI Prediction Gained Interest from Native American Tribes After Presentation in at RES 2023 in Las Vegas.
- Low-Cost Augmented Reality Glasses for On-Site Remote Assist Product.
- Negotiating for Deal on up to 100 ZenaDrone 1000s for Operations in Ireland.
- ZenaDrone 1000 Displayed at 2023 AERO in Germany.
- Method of Transporting Lifesaving Blood for Military Troops in the Field Using ZenaDrone 1000 to be Tested with the US Air Force Overseas.
Epazz, Inc. (OTC EPAZ) is a leading cloud-based software company that specializes in providing customized cloud applications to the corporate world, higher education institutions and the public sector. The EPAZ Epazz BoxesOS™ v3.0 is a complete web-based software package for small and midsized businesses, Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies and higher education institutions. EPAZ BoxesOS™ provides many of the web-based applications organizations would otherwise need to purchase separately. Other EPAZ products include DeskFlex™ (room-scheduling software) and Provitrac™ (an applicant-tracking system). EPAZ is also upgrading the AI technology of ZenaDrone 1000 to increase its global reach across industries.
The EPAZ ZenaDrone 1000 is a totally autonomous drone, surveillance, inspection and monitoring solution. The drone comprises innovative software technology, along with compact and rugged hardware that was engineered for industrial uses in military, construction, agriculture, surveillance, search and rescue and customizable applications. This EPAZ multifunctional unmanned aerial vehicle has garnered positive reviews from several industries, especially the military, agriculture, oil and gas, wildfire management and civil engineering industries. It is also equipped with machine learning systems, multispectral sensors and AI technology. EPAZ ZenaDrone uses the data captured from its cameras to create a 3D interactive environment.
In the coming year, the goal of the EPAZ ZenaDrone is the enhancement of its AI capabilities, which include autonomous navigation of unmapped terrains, deep learning algorithms for various actions and dual-use features to accommodate commercial and military drone applications. Learn more about ZenaDrone here: https://www.zenadrone.com/.
EPAZ Has Formed Galaxy Batteries Inc. to Hold Its Intellectual Properties for Battery Technologies
On May 23rd EPAZ announced the company has formed Galaxy Batteries Inc. to house its intellectual properties for battery technology. EPAZ has been working on special battery technologies for high-powered devices and aircraft. EPAZ is in the process of filing patents for its battery technology and believes, in the future, Galaxy Batteries could become an independent company.
Many of the projects EPAZ is working on require the high-powered batteries needed to run highly specialized devices. EPAZ recently launched galaxybatteries.com to use as its battery technology subsidiary.
EPAZ AI Prediction Has Gained Interest from Native American Tribes After the RES 2023 Presentation in Las Vegas
On May 16th EPAZ announced its ZenaDrone 1000 has gained the interest of Native American tribes after the RES 2023 held in Las Vegas during April. EPAZ attended the trade show to share how the ZenaDrone 1000 can provide services for search and rescue, firefighting, cargo delivery, and land surveys.
EPAZ is scheduling demos for the U.S. Military, NATO partners, Irish farmers, the German police force, the German rail, and Native American tribes. The EPAZ ZenaDrone’s expanded facility will have the capacity to manufacture over 30 drones per month once the facility is fully in production. EPAZ will be shipping the production drones to customers around the world and hiring more staff to accommodate the increased demand.
EPAZ Filing a Series of AI Patents for Its Drone and Battery Technology
On May 9th EPAZ announced that the company is in the process of filing a series of artificial intelligence (AI) patents for its drone technology. EPAZ has already received two patents for its drone technology, and two other patents are under review with the US Patent Office. EPAZ has also filed for international patents.
EPAZ has developed a new process for increasing the flight time of its holdings, ZenaDrone 1000, which innovatively provide an opportunity to file for new patents. Furthermore, the process requires a custom battery management system that uses AI to monitor and analyze the fight characteristics of the ZenaDrone 1000.
ZenaDrone 1000 is a heavy lift drone requiring special configuration. EPAZ uses AI to track current flights and analyze previous flights to understand how to improve the drone's flight times.
The EPAZ ZenaDrone 1000 team will use predictive AI analytics and predictive modeling -- a type of analysis that employs methods and resources -- to create predictive models and forecast future outcomes based on acquired data. Predictive analytics refers to a method rather than a specific technology, and it uses techniques including machine learning algorithms, sophisticated mathematics, statistical modeling, descriptive analytics, and data mining. EPAZ will prioritize upgrading the ZenaDrone 1000's AI technology to increase its global reach across industries.
Low-Cost Augmented Reality Glasses for On-Site Remote Assist Product
On May 4th EPAZ announced that the company has developed low-cost Augmented Reality Smart Glasses call Stacklens. EPAZ Stacklens are durable and comfortable augmented reality glasses as well as smart glasses for its holdings in Tillerstack’s onsite remote-assisted product.
Stacklens will be under $400 per pair of glasses, while other competitors are selling their glasses for over $2,000 per pair. EPAZ decided to develop its own glasses because it caused sticker shock for customers and potential customers in Europe who wanted to use the technology and because the glasses sold by a third party cost too much. Now, with EPAZ Stacklens, these organizations will be able to use innovation technology at a low cost, allowing the company to win more deals.
On-site remote-assisted glasses can be used by technicians in the field to fix complex machines, such as HVAC, industrial machines, and water and waste pipes. Additionally, we have seen interest in using the technology for aircraft maintenance. EPAZ plans to continue to improve the technology for use with ZenaDrone 1000, a First-Person View Smart Glasses product with augmented reality technology.
EPAZ has submitted a proposal to the armed forces to use the technology in the field. The company has received feedback from the United States military about using First Person View Smart Glasses with ZenaDrone 1000.
Negotiating With Non-Dilutive Financer for Drone as a Service Operations for up to 100 Drones; Irish Government Minister Visited ZenaDrone’s Ireland Office
On May 2nd EPAZ announced that Ossian Smyth, minister of state at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform of Ireland, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, visited the EPAZ ZenaDrone offices in Dublin, Irelan. Also, EPAZ is negotiating with a financing institution for a deal to purchase up to 100 ZenaDrone 1000s for drone as a service operations in Ireland.
The non-dilutive financing terms would receive a purchase order for up to 100 drones. These EPAZ drones will be used in Ireland for establishing drones as a service operation. ZenaDrone will manage and service these drones for Irish farmers, businesses and government agencies.
Minister Smyth had the opportunity to see a ZenaDrone 1000 and meet EPAZ Irish team to discuss how ZenaDrone can greatly affect the lives of Irish farmers, businesses and government agencies. If ZenaDrone closes on the financing deal, Irish farmers will have access to advanced precision agriculture drones for monitoring plant health and spraying weeds.
EPAZ ZenaDrone 1000 Displayed at 2023 AERO in Germany Leads to Multiple Demonstrations with NATO Partner Countries Defense and German Law Enforcement and Rail Line
On April 26th EPAZ announced that the ZenaDrone 1000 was showcased at the AERO General Aviation Convention in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on April 19-22nd. This showcase has led to multiple demonstrations scheduled with NATO partner countries, multiple law enforcement departments, and a large rail line in Germany.
The EPAZ team at ZenaDrone Germany had a successful debut at Aero, meeting with top organizations to discuss how ZenaDrone 1000 technology can solve their problems with inspections of railways, reducing the use of helicopters and providing critical support to NATO troops. ZenaDrone met with German UAV regulators about setting up beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations in Germany. EPAZ ZenaDrone is already ahead of the game by applying beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations in Ireland, which uses the standards of the European Union via the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. Once EPAZ ZenaDrone receives final approval for beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations in Ireland, ZenaDrone will receive approval in Germany within 10 business days. In the meantime, flight demonstrations will be held in Northern Germany to allow personnel to fly the drone themselves and understand how it fits within their operations.
New Method of Transporting Lifesaving Blood for Military Troops in the Field Using ZenaDrone 1000; Will be Tested with the US Air Force Overseas
On April 24th EPAZ announced that the company is developing a new container to provide data for the military to transport blood to troops in the field. The container will ensure the blood is safely transported and will transmit all information regarding how the blood was used.
EPAZ ZenaDrone has been invited to work with the U.S. Air Force at an overseas base to test the ZenaDrone 1000 platform under battlefield conditions. In addition, the U.S. Marine Corps is interested in using ZenaDrone 1000 in its real-life situations.
For more information visit: www.epazz.com
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2023.06.07 16:45 monkeyshinenyc “The Street” posted this lovely hype video and hype article.
 | -GameStop Q1 Earnings: Another Net Profit Could Make the Stock Go Parabolic On June 7, the video game retailer will announce its first-quarter earnings. Will GameStop report a net profit for the second consecutive quarter? submitted by monkeyshinenyc to Superstonk [link] [comments] -Analysts expect GameStop's Q1 2023 earnings to be weak but to show 77% growth year over year, along with a 1.4% decline in revenue. -Cost-cutting and inventory improvements are key to GameStop's potential Q1 profitability. -Short squeezes and DRS-registered shares may boost GME, as well as boost the sentiment of retail investors. What to Expect Ahead of GameStop's Q1 Earnings Analysts expect GameStop (GME) - Get Free Report to report weak earnings for the first quarter (Q1) of 2023. They're forecasting an average loss-per-share of 12 cents — which would still mean earnings growth of nearly 77%, compared to last year. As for revenue, Wall Street expects GameStop to report figures close to $1.36 billion, which would represent a slight decrease of 1.4% year over year. As usual, GameStop did not provide guidance for Q1. However, the company's management has been emphatic about cutting costs — especially in Europe — and targeting profitability for 2023. Renegotiating better terms with suppliers and vendors and acquiring full-console cycle allocations are other initiatives in the company's plans to meet its long-term profitability goals. So if GameStop does report another consecutive profitable quarter, it will be due to the reduction of the company's selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) costs and inventory management — rather than to an unexpected surge in company revenue. In the previous quarter, when GameStop reported a net profit of $48.2 million, SG&A expenses — a key to profitability — decreased from 23.9% to 20.4% of sales. The company also enjoyed a good inventory write-down, with GameStop reporting $682.9 million in inventory, versus $915 million a year earlier. Thus, because revenue expectations for Q1 remain roughly in line with what GameStop reported last year, the company's continued cost-cutting initiatives may be key to net profitability. -Why GameStop Could Go Parabolic Last quarter, GameStop caught bears off-guard by reporting earnings per share (EPS) of 16 cents. Analysts had predicted the video game retailer would post a loss per share of 13 cents. GameStop's unexpectedly profitable quarter caused GME shares to soar about 50% after the earnings announcement. Last quarter, one of the few analysts covering GameStop, Wedbush's Michael Pachter, provided a $6.50 price target for GME, with an "Underperform" rating. Pachter claimed that shares were "at trading levels that are disconnected from the fundamentals of the business due to irrational support from some retail investors." Although GameStop shares are still trading 40% higher than they were before the previous earnings release — and 73% above the Wedbush analyst's target — Pachter has reinforced his bearish thesis for Q1 earnings and left his price target intact. Holiday sales largely contributed to GameStop's fourth-quarter net profit — making it questionable whether the video game retailer can pull off that feat for the second quarter in a row. But if GameStop does report a net profit in Q1, it will be a catalyst for the stock's retail investors to drive share prices higher. Currently, short sellers hold about 21% of GameStop's outstanding shares. As demand for shorting the stock has reduced dramatically since March, borrow fees for GME have dropped from 40% to 7.6%. But because the company continues to attract short sellers, these fees may increase. With the stock outperforming the S&P 500 by about 30%, GME shorts will likely accumulate mark-to-market losses this year. This, combined with high borrow fees, will likely result in a short squeeze. -Update on DRS Numbers Besides a potential second consecutive quarterly net profit, GameStop's shareholder base is looking forward to another piece of information: the number of GME shares registered with Computershare, the company's transfer agent. In recent quarters, GameStop investors have increasingly registered their shares directly with Computershare via the Direct Registration System (DRS). With this service, shareholders do not need to hold shares through a broker. In addition to giving holders the autonomy to have their shares registered in their name, recording shares through the DRS also reduces short sellers' ability to borrow GameStop shares. That is because, unlike brokers, transfer agents cannot lend shares to short sellers. Since the third quarter of 2021, GameStop has disclosed the number of shares registered with the transfer agent in the quarterly filings. GameStop's shares registered with transfer agent (in millions) DM Martins Research, data from company's filings In the most recent annual filing, 76 million GameStop shares were registered with the transfer agent. Considering the size of GameStop's float, about 25% of all GME shares outstanding are held beyond brokers and banks. Does this affect the stock's trading volume? Yes. If you look at GameStop's trading volume history, it is clear that there has been a decline in activity since May of last year. See below: GameStop's monthly trading volume since 2022 Data from Yahoo Finance, chart compilled by author It is impossible to say with certainty that GameStop's recent volume drop is due to investors using the transfer agent to keep their shares away from short sellers. But, we can say that if GameStop reports that more shares have been registered through the DRS, retail shareholders could send the stock higher. (Disclaimers: this is not investment advice. The author may be long one or more stocks mentioned in this report. The article may contain affiliate links, but these partnerships do not influence editorial content.) Credit: GAMESTOP CORPORATION BY BERNARD ZAMBONIN Co-producer of The Street's financial channels: Apple Maven, Amazon Maven and Wall Street Memes. Researcher and operations manager at DM Martins Research. AROUND THE WEB |
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- 新闻1： China Stocks Too Cheap to Ignore for JPMorgan Asset, Invesco
JPMorgan Asset Management is adding more Chinese shares to its portfolio on bets that the market’s inexpensive valuation and the government’s support for the economy will bolster returns. Invesco Asset Management Ltd. is overweight the stocks, and favors top tech names such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd.
The optimism shows some market veterans are wagering on a revival even as Wall Street banks from Morgan Stanley to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut their forecasts for key Chinese equity indexes. Hopes are mounting that policy makers will deliver more stimulus to shore up growth, after authorities asked the nation’s biggest banks to lower deposit rates.
Looking at “where the valuations are today, it is probably good to go a bit overweight,” Ayaz Ebrahim, JPMorgan’s emerging market and Asia Pacific equities portfolio manager, said in a Bloomberg TV interview. “From a more neutral position we have been adding again.”
Geopolitical risks and an underwhelming economic recovery have turned Chinese equity gauges into global underperformers, with the MSCI China and the Hang Seng China Enterprises indexes both falling into bear markets in recent weeks.
While pessimism remains dominant, some are sensing a bottom. Authorities were said to have asked the nation’s biggest banks to lower their deposit rates for at least the second time in less than a year, marking an escalated effort to boost the world’s second-largest economy. The government is also mulling a new property support package, according to an earlier report.
Ebrahim stressed that the market is inexpensive, given the government has taken steps to improve business and consumer confidence. On earnings-based valuations, the HSCEI index is trading below its five-year average, and is at a 6% discount to its one-year forward projected book value, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
While there has been some delay in the economic recovery, the market is “looking at 18%-19% earnings this year and about 15%-16% next year and is cheap,” Ebrahim said. “It is basically trading low, near book, and earnings are still coming through.”
For Invesco, Chinese firms offer “pretty good value and earnings in some areas,” with companies such as Alibaba and Tencent focused on delivering shareholder returns, said Tony Roberts, who manages the Invesco Pacific Fund (UK).
‘Too Cheap’
The Invesco fund has been overweight Chinese equities since January 2022, with the stance reflecting its position in both China and Hong Kong shares, according to Roberts. The vehicle increased its holdings in Alibaba this year as the shares weakened, and the stock accounts for around 2.3% of its total holdings, he said.
“You have just a general discount because US-China tensions are very high at the moment, so I think that also gives us an opportunity in China,” Roberts said in an interview. China’s big tech companies such as Alibaba and Tencent are “just too cheap.”
The Invesco fund has returned 8.9% over the past three years to beat 93% of its peers, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It had £240.7 million ($299 million) of assets as of end-April, its factsheet showed.
JPMorgan Asset, according to Ebrahim, went overweight on China after the lows of the third quarter last year and subsequently booked some profits to turn neutral as economic indicators continued to disappoint.
Ebrahim is hopeful about Chinese consumption even though recent data show the recovery has weakened. Manufacturing activity contracted again in May, while home price growth slowed after a pickup earlier in the year. In the latest sign of economic gloom, China’s exports fell for the first time in three months in May.
He added that his firm is looking at shares of component manufacturers and those tied to domestic spending. He prefers smaller stocks over larger peers.
--With assistance from Shen Hong, Yvonne Man and David Ingles.
Businessweek
- 新闻2： Citi CEO commits to China expansion, Beijing says
HONG KONG/BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) - Citigroup's (C.N) Jane Fraser said the U.S. bank will continue to expand its Chinese business, China's new financial regulator said, during her first visit to the country since becoming CEO.
As Beijing pushes to attract more foreign capital, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) said that Fraser held a meeting on Monday with its head Li Yunze.
The NFRA said in a statement on Wednesday that Fraser and accompanying executives said they are "fully confident in China's economic and financial growth" and Citi "will play to its strength and continue to expand its business in China".
The CEO also held meetings with Citi staff and clients, which include some of the largest U.S. multinational companies with presence in China, a Citi spokesperson said.
Fraser's first trip to China since taking up the CEO role in March 2021 follows a visits by JPMorgan's chief Jamie Dimon last week and by other global financial executives in March.
Most of the CEOs who have visited China this year have been reluctant to publicly express enthusiasm for growing their Chinese business, as they tread a fine line between showing commitment to China and not antagonizing the United States.
International companies are finding it harder to operate as tensions between the U.S. and China have risen. Sequoia said on Tuesday it plans to spin off its Chinese business as part of wider changes at the U.S. venture capital giant.
Citi, which offers corporate and institutional banking, global markets, wealth businesses and other banking services in China, started winding down its retail banking business in the country in December due to a global strategy shift, a move set to impact about 1,200 local staff.
Li told Fraser that China will open up its financial sector further. Citi is in the process of getting approval to set up a securities brokerage in China, having submitted its application in late 2021.
China's municipal governments and business officials have been trying to attract foreign direct investments through their trips overseas since late last year as they scramble to hit growth and employment targets.
Reporting by Beijing newsroom and Selena Li in Hong Kong; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Shri Navaratnam and Alexander Smith