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Senators press Zuckerberg over Facebook’s impact on youth mental health
From thehill.com
2021-08-04 12:39:38
Excerpt:
Top lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee’s consumer protection panel are pressing Facebook to release internal research on the impact of its products on youth mental health as the company presses ahead with plans for a platform geared toward children.
U.S. delisting Chinese companies is ‘inevitable’: Carson Block – Yahoo Finance
From au.finance.yahoo.com
2021-08-04 13:36:04
Excerpt:
Muddy Waters Capital Founder and CIO Carson Block joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the crackdown on U.S.-listed Chinese companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhl9i6GEjRo
How alternative power can make farm equipment sustainable, Auto News, ET Auto
From auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com
2021-08-05 02:41:00
Excerpt:
In this process of transformation, electric tractors, robots and hydrogen fuel cell equipment are being looked at as alternatives to make agriculture sustainable. The role of farm equipment powered by alternative sources is getting bigger.
The DNC machine, with all of the vast near-monopolistic powers of society and culture and state at their disposal, can’t keep Biden up in the polls. A new poll has Joe Biden drop ten points in job approval overall from last June, down to 52 percent. The number of people who believed the economy was right on track dropped from 49 percent to 43 percent.
Across the board, Joe’s polls are sliding as his mask keeps sliding and the machine can’t keep pushing the mask back up again.
Biden’s Job and Economy Approval Ratings Drops in Two Polls
From legalinsurrection.com
2021-08-03 20:30:13
Mary Chastain
Excerpt:
The Hill reported that Biden’s approval sits at 52% in the latest Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll.
He lost ten points from June when 62% of the respondents approved of his job.
Congress, Republican, and Democrat approval ratings also took a hit.
The latest approval ratings come in as the country sees an uptick in COVID-19 cases:
That resurgence has put the coronavirus pandemic back at the top of the list of voters’ concerns, according to the poll. Thirty-six percent say that COVID-19 is the most important issue facing the country, a 6-point increase from June when jobs and the economy topped the list of concerns.
If an antitrust lawsuit is correct, Google and Facebook may have been involved in some ad price fixing that may have been going on between the two companies starting back in 2014.
Google accused in suit of fixing ad rates with a Facebook deal
From www.livemint.com
2021-08-03 23:01:35
Excerpt:
Alphabet Inc.’s Google was accused in an antitrust lawsuit of giving itself the edge in online advertising by cutting a cozy deal with Facebook that gives the social network an advantage in virtual auctions which determine whose ads appear where.
The deal has allowed Google to retain its dominance in online advertising while keeping other advertisers on the sidelines and limiting revenue for online publishers, two Massachusetts companies claimed in a proposed class-action lawsuit.
A so-called header bidding system devised in 2014 enabled publishers to direct a user’s browser to solicit real-time bids from multiple exchanges, not just Google’s, according to the complaint. Facebook initially embraced the system, but as part of a 2018 deal with Google, it agreed to limit its program in return for preferential treatment in Google’s ad business, the Massachusetts companies claimed in the complaint, filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court.
Apple appears willing to work with the Chinese Communist Party while it uses its resources to moralize to Americans at home, and throw its weight behind DNC-agenda items, over and over and over again. Meanwhile, overseas, Apple gets cozy with the Communist Party of China, the CCP, a party that will arrest you and potentially execute you for being a homosexual or someone who doubts the government.
Apple Said to Work With Chinese Suppliers for iPhone 13 Series
From gadgets.ndtv.com
2021-08-04 05:17:48
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Apple is working with more Chinese suppliers to produce its latest iPhone handsets, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper said on Wednesday, as a tech feud stemming from a trade war with the United States prompts Beijing to strengthen domestic firms.
Luxshare Precision Industry is set to build up to 3 percent of the upcoming iPhone 13 series, and two firms it acquired last year will supply key components and parts for the latest iPhone devices, the paper said, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Lens Tech will supply metal casings and Sunny Optical Tech Group will supply rear camera lenses, the paper said on its website, with BOE Tech Group also supplying components.
The CDC has uniltaterally declared an eviction moritorium effective for 60 days in light of the spiking of the Covid-19 Delta varient. The moritorium covers areas that are considered at high levels of infection rate.
U.S. announces 60-day moratorium on evictions in areas with high COVID-19 levels
From www.cbc.ca
2021-08-03 08:11:49
Reuters
Excerpt:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday announced a new 60-day moratorium on residential evictions in areas with high levels of COVID-19 infections, after having rejected an earlier push by the White House.
The order applies to about 80 per cent of U.S. counties that have substantial or high COVID-19 community transmission rates and covers about 90 per cent of the U.S. population.
“The emergence of the delta variant has led to a rapid acceleration of community transmission in the United States, putting more Americans at increased risk, especially if they are unvaccinated,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement.
“This moratorium is the right thing to do to keep people in their homes
PGC – The battle for supremacy is long from over among the most powerful in our lands, and in our time they come from two primary sources of real power, the halls of the mega international corporations and the halls of the most powerful governments of the world.
The corporate international powerbase is something never before seen in human history, and it offers those seeking controlling power maybe better ways to get there than the state model did, yet their power relies in large part on the willingness of the host countries to protect them from violent action should the people it serves ever come to such a point in thie relationship with it.
We are seeing these Vehicles of Power dance around each other, even as they work together in certain areas, in areas in which they both see competition being eliminated. Even as Amazon, for instance, is getting hit by a fine of nearly $1 billion by the EU, it will still work with the EU to assure no new competition to its model gets to form, or exist long after it forms. In exchange, the EU gets data as well, intelligence.
I don’t need the papers to prove my point, just a simple understanding of the reality of power to deduce the nature of the dance we are seeing going on around the world.
Amazon operates at levels that affects the very security of nation-states now. Imagine what would happen in America, for instance, if Amazon deliveries just suddenly stopped. It would cause quite a stumble in the flow of commerce.
For all one can imagine, this fine thing was built into the Amazon model well in advance and everyone knew well ahead of time the tribute they would offer to continue to co-exist in this uneasy alliance, where both sides are looking for ways to secure their model as being the more signficiant source of real power in a land that submits to its governing authority claims.
Amazon Slapped with Record Fine for Violating EU Data Privacy Rules
From www.insurancejournal.com
2021-08-03 05:20:21
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Amazon.com Inc has been hit with a record $886.6 million (746 million euros) European Union fine for processing personal data in violation of the bloc’s GDPR rules, as privacy regulators take a more aggressive position on enforcement.
The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) imposed the fine on Amazon in a July 16 decision, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday.
Amazon will appeal the fine, according to a company spokesperson. The e-commerce…
Amazon might yet have to come to terms with unions within its ranks, if the NLRB has their way.
NLRB decision recommends new union election at Amazon warehouse in Alabama
From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-08-02 20:39:16
Jay Greene
Excerpt:
The recommendation will now move to the NLRB’s regional director in Atlanta, which oversaw the election, to issue a ruling. That decision could take several weeks, the agency has said. If the regional director upholds the recommendations, the earlier election results would be set aside and a new election would be called.
Over the weekend, the Internal Revenue service made a change to its definition of “broker” that creates a much broader potential for someone to be defined as a broker than before. This is significant given the language in the DNC infrastructure bill that hopes to regulate cryptocurrency regulators. With the broadening of the term broker by the IRS, the bill, in its current form, would give the IRS significant regulatory authority in how the Federal government handles cryptocurrency.
How language in the infrastructure bill could roil the crypto markets
From www.cnbc.com
2021-08-03 05:38:57
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The cryptocurrency industry is lobbying hard this week against language in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill proposal that could choke a vast amount of the crypto ecosystem.
Language in the bill would require crypto brokers to report customer information to the Internal Revenue Service. More importantly, over the weekend it broadened the definition of what’s considered a “broker” to anyone “responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person” which doesn’t exclude miners, software developers, stakers and other individuals in the crypto economy who don’t have customers.
“The language gives a lot of power to define what should be included in the reporting requirement,” Oppenheimer analyst Owen Lau. “It says any person who is responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person – which can mean anything. If I transfer bitcoin for you, then it can mean I become a broker.
