Another maybe goofy question. Were those photos of the plan in flight taken by another plane? It seems the perspective is from the air.
Military escort?
Bagster
Posted on 04/30/2018 7:01:38 PM PDT by ransomnote
Plane appears to be taking off apparently from San Jose (no landing gear down) ... as far as what’s on the pallets ... hmmm
Plane appears to be taking off apparently from San Jose (no landing gear down) ... as far as what’s on the pallets ... hmmm
Hmmmm. Maybe pallets of corrupted Iphones built by evil Chinese spy people?
So it’s not Hong Kong, but Bay Area then???
May have something to do with the fact Apple products from China are banned due to privacy issues.
Who knows.....
Yep....it’s not a bug (to the ChiComs), it’s a FEATURE!!!!
Another maybe goofy question. Were those photos of the plan in flight taken by another plane? It seems the perspective is from the air.
Military escort?
Bagster
Bay Area I think.
Apple took the GOP tax cut and turned it into a $100 billion stock buyback
Apple’s latest earnings report shows it’s a huge winner in the Republican tax cut bill, and so are its shareholders.
By Emily Stewart May 2, 2018, 12:00pm EDT
Apple just announced a stock buyback equal to the size of Ecuador’s GDP, thanks to the Republican tax cut bill.
In a quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, the Cupertino, California-based company said it would put in place a new $100 billion share buyback program and increase its quarterly dividend by 16 percent. It’s no coincidence that Apple is a major beneficiary of the GOP tax cuts — its effective tax rate (the amount it actually pays) has dropped by about 10 percent between this year and last, and it’s saving an estimated $47 billion on taxes on profits earned overseas as well.
Of the multiple major buyback announcements companies have made since the tax bill was passed in December, Apple’s is by far the biggest. But there have been others as well: The tech conglomerate Cisco in February said it would put an additional $25 billion toward a stock buyback. Troubled megabank Wells Fargo in January announced about $22 billion in buybacks. Pepsi announced a $15 billion buyback, Amgen and AbbVie $10 billion, and Google’s parent company Alphabet $8.6 billion.
Stock buybacks occur when companies repurchase shares of their own stock. That leaves remaining shareholders with a bigger chunk of the company and increases the earnings they reap per share. Buybacks have become increasingly popular in recent years and have boomed in the wake of the tax bill.
By June, Apple will have delivered $210 billion in buybacks to its shareholders since 2012, and it is now earmarking an additional $100 billion. It’s also upping its dividend to 73 cents per share from 63 cents.
Apple is returning more cash to shareholders than any company ever, the Financial Times’s Robin Wigglesworth wrote on Tuesday. By the summer, it will have given back more than the market value of all but 20 of the biggest publicly traded companies in the United States — bigger than Verizon, Mastercard, Coca-Cola, and Disney.
What a mystery. Call Scooby and the gang on this one.
Seems like Apple should be very grateful to The Donald then, eh? That could pay the white hats dividends some kinda’ way.
Looked like pallets or iran cash to me
Maybe Trump negotiated for China to take Apple iphones - trying to reduce the trade deficit = and this is the first shipment.
Q
Am having a great deal of trouble keeping eyes open. Why can’t Q work in our time zone ? Lol
Bagster
Keep peeling the onion! MOAB coming, could come from FreeQs skinning the onion in front of the WW! MAGA!
I believe it’s ‘the reckoning’ WWG1WGA !
You shouldn't have spent all that time crackin' on the Injuns, HM. That's what you get.
;)
Bagster
*Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer
.......THE “ DEEP STATE ” AT WORK!
Michael Avenatti is the attorney for Stormy Daniels, the supposed mistress of Donald Trump. Whether she is or not, is another story, however, I looked up the bio of Michael Avenatti and within his bio it reads:
“While in college and later in law school, Michael worked at a political opposition research and media firm run by Rahm Emanuel (who later became White House Chief of Staff and is presently the Mayor of Chicago ). During his time there, Michael worked on over 150 campaigns in 42 states, including multiple gubernatorial and congressional campaigns (i.e. Joe Biden’s U.S. Senate Campaign).”
Now, you don’t suppose anyone from the Democratic Party is behind all this do you? Like Obama and his organization, Organizing for Action??? Nah, probably not!!
I’m out. I’ll check tomorrow to see what it all means. Night FreeQs.
You’re all good company!
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