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Showing posts with label The US Sun. Show all posts
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Friday, March 28, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
US Postal Service will not count Saturday as a transit day for packages starting April 1, adding an extra day, and some first class mail will experience delays
More here.
... Despite generating $79 billion in revenue in 2023, the USPS lost $6.5 billion. ...
In conjunction with DOGE, the USPS announced it would be cutting around 10,000 jobs by using an early retirement program. Select employees would be offered $15,000 for taking their retirement early - a move that’s expected to save the agency billions. ...
Monday, February 10, 2025
The cash consumer will pay the cost of the Trump-Musk penny-elimination gambit: Is it the harbinger of a coming cashless tyranny?
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| "The Amish have been galvanised to head to the polls and turn the battle ground red." |
The little guy voted for Trump, so naturally Trump is going to screw the little guy, the Amish in particular.
And not mentioned in the story below is the deep resistance to eliminating cash among the denizens of America's survivalist communities. They see this as a control issue, and a potential threat to freedom because you control the cash in your pocket, but not the digital currency in your account. Cross the authorities somehow, and your account can be wiped out with a keystroke.
We already have experienced lawful gun owners and gun businesses being de-banked over gun ownership, among other culture war issues contested by liberal elites using economic coercion.
Meanwhile The UniParty has devalued the 1913 dollar to three cents. If you've only got one, eliminating the penny means you've now got bupkis.
How does the observation go? It's always the Republicans who actually advance the liberalism which the people resist when the Democrats are in control.
Every. Damn. Time.
To the extent rounding up occurs more frequently than rounding down, cash consumers would be paying the price for the cost efficiency Trump and Musk are seeking, said Ajay Patel, a professor of finance at Wake Forest University School of Business. ...
. . . people at the bottom of the economic ladder will probably feel the penny pinch the most.
“The individuals paying for this benefit will be those who purchase products and services using cash and will continue to do so going forward because they are either unbanked or unable to access debit or credit cards or a digital wallet,” Patel said. ...
Laura Maike, of Burton, Ohio, notes that the Amish will feel the pinch right now.
“Here in Northeast Ohio’s Amish country, we still use pennies regularly,” Maike said of her area, which includes thousands of generally cash-using Amish. “How would this work for cash-only transactions? It would be impossible to give exact change as the purchaser or seller.”
More.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Idiotic US Sun calls US Senator J. D. Vance a state senator for Ohio
Here:
Vance currently is a state senator for Ohio and beat out many others for the position as Trump's running mate.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Monday, September 12, 2022
Dead Putin crony list, according to the US Sun
Ivan Pechorin, 39, fell off a boat
Ravil Maganov, 67, fell out a window
Igor Nosov, 43, stroke
Yevgeny Zinichev, 55, in the Arctic Ocean
Yuri Voronov, 61, in his swimming pool
Alexander Tyulakov, 61, noose around his neck
Leonid Shulman, 60, multiple stab wounds
Alexander Subbotin, 43, heart attack
Vladislav Avayev, 51, murder suicide
Sergey Protosenya, 55, hanged
Yevgeny Palant, 47, multiple knife wounds
Friday, May 20, 2022
That would be 113th Mr. Drudge, sir, you ignoramus
World's oldest man to throw 113rd birthday party!
And look what that links to:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5384415/elon-musk-gulfstream-g650er-private-jet-flight-attendant/
Friday night at The Drugged Report.
Friday, April 29, 2022
Everyone keeps lying about Putin saying he'll use nukes, the latest being Peggy Noonan of all people
From her irresponsible column, here:
Mr. Putin talks about nuclear weapons a lot. He did it again Wednesday: In a meeting with politicians in St. Petersburg, he said if anyone intervenes in Ukraine and “creates unacceptable threats for us that are strategic in nature,” the Russian response will be “lightning fast.” He said: “We have all the tools for this that no one else can boast of having. We won’t boast about it, we’ll use them, if needed.”
He’s talked like this since the invasion. It’s a tactic: He’s trying to scare everybody. That doesn’t mean the threat is empty.
There are signs the Russians are deliberately creating a historical paper trail, as if to say they warned us. On Monday Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the risk of nuclear conflict is “serious” and “should not be underestimated.”
No he doesn't. No he hasn't. And neither has Lavrov. Listen for yourself. It's Peggy who is supplying "the risk of nuclear conflict", not Lavrov. Lavrov is clearly referring to the dangerous increased rhetoric about the possibility of nuclear conflict, which is precisely the hysteria Peggy Noonan is engaging in. The Russians have been very circumspect. They don't actually use the terminology. They're not bluffing. They're beating around the bush to create uncertainty, to keep their enemies off balance.
Putin has never used the phrase "nuclear weapon" in any of these examples which have been reported in the press since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Putin's hypersonic capability is clearly in focus in his statements. He has them and the West does not. He's threatening to use them with conventional warheads against Western targets, which is bad enough. But nuclear warheads? That's what he wants us to think, to create fear. But he's never actually said it.
The nuclear talk is all Western hype, exaggeration, and lying. And Drudge is a major aggregator of such headlines. It's irresponsible and it must stop, because to continue it is to make the unthinkable, thinkable, and then actual.
Try exercising your free speech absolutism then, as your tongue vaporizes inside your mouth.
Meanwhile Peggy Noonan appears not to have considered that Putin has daughters, to whom he might really want to leave something other than smoking embers.
Hysteria has a way of blinding one to important facts.
NOONAN: Putin Really May Break the Nuclear Taboo in Ukraine!
Moscow warns 'do not underestimate threat of nuclear war'... ^
Putin test-fires 'Satan' nuclear missile... ^
Cronies 'flee to bunkers' in sign might turn nuclear... ^
UN Warns: Nuclear War 'Within Realm of Possibility'... ^
Putin actions trigger long-buried fears of nuclear war for generations of Americans... ^
Accused of Nuclear 'Terrorism'... ^
Putin nuclear threat part of new escalation policy... ^
Even Putin's generals look stunned after being ordered to put nuclear forces on 'alert'... Decree that shocked the world... ^
PUTIN WARNS HE'LL NUKE WEST ^
Nuke-capable missiles loaded onto subs... ^
NUKE BOMBER BUZZES UKRAINE... ^
POPE NUKE WARNING ^
ZELENSKY NUKE WARNING TO WORLD... ^
CIA Director: Nuke threat not taken 'lightly'... ^
Nuke Fears Stoked With Atomic Weapons Warnings... ^
Senators mull unthinkable: Vlad detonating nuke... ^
FEAR: More Putin Nuke Threats... ^
Likely More Nuke Threats... ^
PUTIN NUKE FEARS GROW ^
NUKE CONCERNS RISING ^
Nuke threat part of new escalation policy... ^
NUKE CRAZY! ^
ORDERS NUKE FORCES ON HIGH ALERT ^
ORDERS NUKE FORCES ON HIGH ALERT ^
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