After 30 years McDonald’s decided to leave Russia for good. How will this impact Russia…. well, that’s detailed on video (but who the heck cares?). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuPZTlWG-Ic It is not surprising that American food chain restaurant made this move in Russia’s current situation and political choices in the last few months. They closed 850 restaurants for good and decided to sell their restaurants to the local buyer removing their brand, name, and menu. McDonald’s opened their first store in Moscow in 1990 after the Cold War tensions, symbolizing the will for cooperation between the two countries, per report. “It is impossible…
Author: Frank Bojazi
Last month, white students at the University of South Carolina’s College of Social Work met for a “White Students Accountability Group” meeting to explore their “role” in racism. Turning Point USA got an internal email that promoted an hour-long online session for students on April 26 and said that spaces were still available. The goal of the gathering, according to a screenshot from the event description, was for social work pupils to “recognize both their role to and obligation to eradicate racism in our professional and everyday life.” “Use your voice, power, and privilege to affect change in your classrooms,…
Before buying Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk is believed to have informed financiers that he will cut executive compensation and monetize tweets to make the company more lucrative. Musk is alleged to have given the promise to banks before obtaining financing to purchase the company, which was unveiled on Monday. According to a filing, Twitter now spends around $2.9 million on cash and stock incentives to board members. The firm’s top executives, on the other hand, earn significantly more every year and may face salary cuts, as reported. Despite the fact that CEO Parag Agrawal only took over in…
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy delighted in a “flood of employment applicants” from competing for asset management after launching a new fund to take on big businesses. Ramaswamy, a former pharmaceutical CEO who quit due to dissatisfaction with corporate wokeness, just started Strive, an asset management firm located in Ohio that would invest in firms that follow an “excellence capitalism” strategy. Strive will encourage enterprises in its portfolio to pursue increasing profits for shareholders rather than supporting “stakeholder capitalism” and other progressive perspectives. Ramaswamy remarked on Twitter that “excellent” candidates are already contacting him, per report. Ramaswamy tweeted, “Really loving the stream…
President Biden’s recent claim that his initiatives had helped to lower the federal debt was debunked by CNN’s news source Daniel Dale, who revealed that one specialist informed him that the Democrat’s position was “almost bizarro world” in its misunderstanding of the issue. In a speech on Wednesday, Biden remarked, “Let me remind everyone again: I lowered the federal debt.” “I adore hearing my Republican friends speak about the deficit. In my first year in government, I’ve saved $350 billion.” Despite harsh condemnation from Republican legislators, Biden made the remark while praising his administration’s economic performance, which he claims has…
The Russian government has suffered a number of setbacks as a result of the conflict in Ukraine. Moscow has had nothing to celebrate in terms of displaying competent military power, from the loss of its Slava-type ship Moskva in April to the notorious 40 miles long Russian army convoy holdup outside Kyiv early in the conflict. A Russian T-90M a new and unique main combat tank has been wrecked on the ground by Ukrainian forces, according to photographic evidence. On May 4, The Kyiv Independent’s defense system correspondent Illia Ponomarenko posted a photo on Twitter that purports to show the…
Although Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter hasn’t been finalized yet, the new-to-be owner is keeping busy by kicking around ideas for potential changes to the platform. His latest idea is to charge corporations and governments to tweet. “Ultimately, the downfall of the Freemasons was giving away their stonecutting services for nothing. Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users,” Musk tweeted. For now, there’s no commitment to this plan, as is often the case with the world’s richest man, but it does fit in with what we’ve previously heard about Musk’s ideas…
An “a–hole” who “looks like s—” were the words used by Hunter Biden for former President Bill Clinton in a 2016 email exchange and he took aim at multiple Clinton aides in 2015 emails with his longtime business partner Eric Schwerin and Delaware’s now-chief deputy attorney general, Alexander Mackler. Schwerin shared a video clip of Clinton in an email thread with Hunter Biden and Mackler, who was deputy counsel to Vice President Joe Biden at the time, in the April 8, 2016 exchange. The clip showed that during a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign event in Philadelphia the former president clashed…
Boston took a 9-0 loss handed to them directly from the United States Supreme Court who ruled unanimously that the city violated a Christian group’s freedom of speech by not flying their flag outside of the city hall. This 9-0 court decision overturned a previous case from a lower court, specifically Shurtleff vs City of Boston, in which the city’s flag-raising program would grant requests from private groups to fly their flag outside of city hall, but Boston rejected the request from a man named Harold Shurtleff. He’s the man who organizes a Christian group, and they wanted to fly…
A Texas man wearing a cowboy hat in his Twitter profile picture has offered Elon Musk 100 acres of free land if he moves Twitter business from San Francisco to Texas. After Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, people like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have invited Musk to bring the business to Texas, but it seems like the man in the cowboy hat might be making an offer Musk may not refuse. The man’s name is Jim Schwertner and he’s the president and CEO of Schwertner Farms. His offer to Musk was very simple. He said, on Twitter: “Elon Musk,…
Ari Melber, presenter of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” performed a monologue on Monday in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and efforts to solve the social media platform’s censoring past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSW9m8wxVc Musk’s Twitter takeover, according to Melber, may result in one party’s candidates being blacklisted or even “secretly” restricting the reach of certain postings, which Musk has been working to correct. “It’s true that if you’re a democracy such as the U. S., where they used to restrict media and claim Rupert Murdoch can’t have too many local TV stations and newspaper articles in one city,” Melber explained.…
Elon Musk decided to purchase Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) for $44 billion in cash, transferring control of the social media platform used among millions of people and world leaders to the world’s richest person. It’s a turning point for the 16-year-old firm, which evolved to become one of the world’s most important public squares but now confronts a slew of obstacles. Elon, a self-described “freedom of expression ideological purist,” has mocked Twitter’s censorship. He desires Twitter’s system for prioritizing tweets to be made public, and he opposed giving advertisers too much control on the platform, as reported. Political activists believe that…
The Supreme Court rejected a local group’s request to stop one of the nation’s top high schools from utilizing a new admissions method that it claims discriminates against Asian Americans. The admissions method at Thomas Jefferson High School for Technology and Science in Fairfax County, VA, just outside of Washington, D.C., was modified two years ago with the proclaimed aim of expanding student diversity. The school no longer makes students take multiple standardized tests, write an essay, or acquire recommendations from teachers. Applicants must have passed a challenging load of middle school classes with a good grade-point average under the…
Conservatives responded positively to Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter, a major social media site that they have long accused of systematically censoring their opinions. The internet billionaire and the world’s wealthiest man completed the purchase after an 11-day whirlwind that featured resistance, then resignation from the San Francisco-based platform’s board of directors. Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, has long expressed his desire to make Twitter, where he has 80 million followers, private so that it may act as a public forum for free expression, per a report. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) tweeted, “Free speech is making a comeback.”…
Black Lives Matter is being heavily criticized for buying a six million dollar mansion with donation money, with many people saying it’s wasting the money when there’s real people in need – except there are some people who don’t seem to have a problem with the lavish purchase. Even the co-founder has dismissed accusations of wrongdoing. In 2020, when Kulia Petzoldt first learned of George Floyd’s death, she took her teenage daughter to protest alongside a mass of people demanding justice in Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. Petzoldt, who is white, grew up around different cultures, and she said that…
Leaked Audio – Twitter Company-Wide Meeting Addressing Elon Musk’s Takeover shows some employees may have been freaking out after the buyout. WATCH and LISTEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=robxIZwJQUg WATCH the second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja3cPPL3lks Back in April, James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, was banned from Twitter. With Elon Musk taking over, there may be a chance for James to bounce back. However, it appears he doesn’t need or rely on the Twitter platform to make waves with his latest videos. As previously reported in April on his ban: “Twitter permanently banned James O’Keefe Thursday. The Project Veritas founder spent the preceding days…
Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO, said that he witnessed CNN trying to cause conflict during the Ferguson, Missouri riots back in 2014, so he knows that the far-left network promotes false news reporting. MUST WATCH VIDEO: Yahoo Finance Live’s Julie Hyman and Brian Sozzi discuss Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s take on the company’s board of directors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VsfLkoZG0o “Even @CNN sometimes sell false news. I know this from covering Iraq events in 2019. People need to understand every media is prone to either mistakes or deliberate corruption. Do your own investigation before believing what they’re selling you,” said a tweet…
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis targeted Disney to strip their special self-governing status amid a feud over a controversial law said to protect young children from controversial topics in elementary school. Must Watch Video: The Republican-controlled Florida Senate voted to strip The Walt Disney Company of the special status granting it self-governing privileges in Walt Disney World and the surrounding areas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XgPycKBxNM The Florida senate voted to repeal the law that allows Walt Disney World to operate their own private government over the properties in the state, according to CBS News. DeSantis, an ascendant GOP governor and potential 2024 presidential…
Two female prisoners at a women-only prison in New Jersey have become pregnant from a transgender inmate. WATCH THE VIDEO: Kara Dansky reacts to incidents at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, NJ on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S6uutxdKX8 Here’s what the news report said about it: Two female inmates becoming pregnant at a women’s prison in Central Jersey obliterates the “trope” that “transgender women are women,” a women’s rights activist said Tuesday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Kara Dansky of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign was reacting to news out of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, New Jersey where…
41%, of the math textbooks that were sent for approval were rejected, the Florida Department of Education announced, because they did not meet the state’s new standards. MUST WATCH VIDEO: 54 textbooks submitted for the state of Florida’s approved list have been rejected by the Florida Department of Education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlaRqlaRNk4 The department claims that the books were rejected because they contained prohibited topics, such as Critical Race Theory. The department’s release stated: “Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics,” per reports.…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already rejected a seat on the board of Twitter and has now offered to buy 100% of Twitter in hopes to make it private and unlock its full potential. Musk has a 9.2% stake in Twitter and his offer to buy the platform was for $54.20 a share on Thursday. WATCH the news video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3mX_ZmY72E Here is what Elon Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor, as disclosed in a new SEC filing. “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech…
Consumer prices in the United States climbed 8.5 percent from a year earlier in March, setting a new 40-year high, according to the Labor Department. WATCH the news video on high inflation explained: The Price Index, which determines the value of a basket of goods and services, increased by 1.2 percent in March after rising by 0.8 percent in February, indicating that inflation picked up last month. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy expenses, increased by 6.5 percent over the previous year. Gas prices rose 18 percent in March to a record-high average of $4.33 a gallon, accounting…
Walmart’s latest push to recruit for and retain its private fleet of about 12,000 drivers are six-figure salaries and a 12-week training program. WATCH the video announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6dn-LT1ws0 According to spokesperson Anne Hatfield, $87,500 was how much an average driver at Walmart made by now in their first year. Hatfield said that there were seventeen drivers who have graduated from the training programs in Sanger, Texas, and Dover, Delaware. She added that Walmart picks up the cost of earning a commercial driver’s license, which can be $4,000 to $5,000, and pays drivers hourly while they train. She also said that…
A college freshman is being hailed as a hero for calling out CNN while asking Brian Stelter a question pertaining to disinformation. This took place at the Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy conference at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. WATCH what he says to Brian Stelter during the video: Here’s what the young man, who said his name was Chris Phillips, asked the CNN host, essentially calling out CNN and ruining Brian Stelter: “My question is for Mr. Stelter, you’ve all spoken extensively about Fox News being a purveyor of disinformation but CNN is right up there…