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The U.S. economy shrank at an annualized pace of 1.6% in the first quarter, reflecting a deeper contraction than previously reported. The Bureau of Economic Analysis's third and final estimate of first-quarter GDP released Wednesday morning showed a 1.6% annualized drop in economic growth to start 2022, more than the 1.5% previously reported and which was expected by economists, according to estimates from Bloomberg. Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBh1px-7erM Belarusian strongman/Putin-puppet Lukashenko in briefing to military commanders reveals Moldova is Moscow's next objective.

The S&P 500 extended gains from the regular trading session on Tuesday. The Nasdaq outperformed, with technology shares climbing as Treasury yields paused after a recent run-up. The benchmark 10-year yield eased back from its highest level since November 2019. .... But an otherwise strong set of earnings results has helped underpin stocks in recent weeks, with the S&P 500 pacing toward a third straight weekly gain. Aggregate S&P 500 earnings per share (EPS) are currently exceeding consensus expectations by 6% so far for the latest quarter, according to Bank of America's update Tuesday. S&P 500 earnings are tracking toward...

By Jeffrey Dastin and Paresh Dave (Reuters) -Google research manager Samy Bengio on Tuesday said he is resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices. Though at least two Google engineers had earlier resigned in protest of the dismissal of artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Timnit Gebru, Bengio is the highest-profile yet to depart. Google and Bengio did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Bloomberg earlier reported the news. A distinguished scientist at Google, Bengio spent about 14...

Moved my 401Ks from Stock Index Funds to Bond Index Funds To Protect From China Joe.

The cruise industry received another blow on April 9, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended its initial No Sail Order a further 100 days, pushing the potential resumption of the cruise industry’s operations until late July. But the cruise industry seems to think this rule doesn’t yet apply to them just yet. Instead, the three major lines are continuing to advertise their intent to resume cruising well before late July. Furthermore, the industry’s trade group CLIA argued in a statement on Friday that the CDC is unfairly “singling out the cruise industry, which has been proactive in...

The city of St. Petersburg in Florida is to gain an exciting new public space. The St. Petersburg Pier will be redesigned as a hybrid pier-park accommodating a variety of outdoor activities and facilities for entertainment and public events. The Pier-Park is located in the city of St. Petersburg in Florida, US The Pier-Park will retain the inverted pyramid that already exists The Pier-Park will have a large welcome plaza The Pier-Park will be a redevelopment of the existing St. Petersburg Pier Although unusual, the pier-park concept is not unprecedented. New York's planned Pier 55, for example, is designed to...

SRDJA TRIFKOVIC: THE WEST WILL PAY DEARLY FOR THE DEVASTATION OF CHRISTIANITY. ISLAM HAS A WILD APPETITE. The post-Christian, liberal and egalitarian democracy of the West was trying to neutralize the influence of Islam right up to the tragic events of September 11 in the United States. Washington’s strategies of foreign policy were playing up to the geo-strategic ambitions of the Muslims, throwing the small Christian nations (the Serbs, the Greek Cypriotes today, the Bulgarians and the Greeks tomorrow) to be torn to pieces by the Islamites. They were hoping to pay themselves off in the eyes of the Islamic ...

Linux clusters, which network multiple processors together to form a unified and more powerful computing system, are becoming a major technology in the bioinformatics industry. Universities, government labs and commercial entities now boast Linux clusters of dozens, if not hundreds of these processors or "nodes" for the explicit purpose of gene sequencing, proteomic research, or drug discovery and development. A node within a Linux cluster is the basic unit of processing. Typically, it is a server or workstation dedicated to processing information to aid in the massive amounts of number crunching involved in biotech research. With information being processed at ...

Microsoft Corp. is striking back at a growing movement seeking to switch computers in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of Parliament, over to the open-source Linux operating system. Kurt Sibold, chairman of the board of the software giant's German subsidiary Microsoft GmbH, accused the initiators of a pro-Linux petition of smearing the reputation of his company. "What you are achieving by supporting this campaign is public discrimination, accusing our products and services of being undemocratic and an obstacle to democracy," he wrote in an open letter to signatories of the online petition, known as www.bundestux.de. The petition campaign was launched ...

The American public has traditionally enjoyed the ability to make convenient and incidental copies of copyrighted works without obtaining the prior consent of copyright owners. These traditional "fair use" rights are at the foundation of the receipt and use of information by the American people. Unfortunately, those rights are now under attack. In 1997, motion picture studios, record producers, book publishers and other content owners came to Congress with a simple proposition: Give us a law that will stop pirates from circumventing technical protection measures used to safeguard copyrighted works, and we will release all sorts of exciting new content ...

MCSEs: We are all idiotsDate:11/5/01 11:44:36 AM As we watch our economy slide effortlessly down the road to a solid recession Introduction:     As we watch our economy slide effortlessly down the road to a solid recession, the IT and airline industries are fiercely competing for the coveted 'most jobs cut' award.  As a response to this and to last year's enormous .com bust, technical institutes, universities, community colleges and seminars that made it their mission, starting a few years ago, to quickly and efficiently pour additional 'qualified' people into the then undermanned  and rapidly expanding IT workforce have ...

Bubonic plague fear after US cyclist dies By Ben Fenton in Washington (Filed: 23/07/2001) DOCTORS in America are investigating the death of a cyclist from a suspected case of bubonic plague. The unnamed 28-year-old man was cycling near the airport in Colorado Springs about two weeks ago. Soon afterwards, he fell ill and died within a few days. Plague was not suspected until the body of a prairie dog, or gopher, was found and analysed at the same spot this weekend. It was found to have died of the plague that killed tens of millions of people during Black Death ...

2000 Darwin Awards Nominee Confirmed True by DarwinDrunken teens dare dive down trash chute. Man trashed. (14 July 2000, Canada) It was a dare that Sheldon, 25, will literally never take again. He and a group of friends found themselves at a Calgary apartment after an evening spent at a local bar. It was there that a joking challenge was issued. "Who wants to ride the in-house water slide?" The slide was actually a garbage chute. Sheldon volunteered, tumbled into the opening, and his subsequent headlong slide beat the standard elevator service down to the first floor. An unforgiving trash ...

In what should have been an evening of decision by the electorate, the nation was forced once again to look into the teeth of the dirty little secret in American politics; organized voter fraud. Among thoughtful observers of politics it is rather apparent that the Democrat party, often through alliances with organized crime, has had the ability to affect the outcome of local and national elections for many years. The most recent large example of this was the 1996 California 46th Congressional race between Robert Dornan(R) Loretta Chavez(D). Despite substantial and credible evidence of voter fraud, including documented episodes of ...

Surprise! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Vladimir, happy birthday to you. Yooohooo...whippeeee...woooohoooo....************************************************************************************** LENIN LENIN (Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich (also used other pseudonyms such as V. Ilyin, K. Tulin, Karpov and others). Born: 22nd April 1870 in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk). Organizer of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and founder of the Soviet state, he continued the revolutionary teaching of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Born in the family of a public-school inspector. His elder brother Alexander, a member of the "People's Freedom" movement, was sentenced to death in 1887 for participation in preparations for ...

-Photographic evidence seized from counter-revolutionaries.

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