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>>22265733

>DOUGH

TYB

Happy New Year!

TYB

>>22265733

tyb

>>22265733

TYB

Tell me you anon without telling me!

DogeDesigner

@cb_doge

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I asked Grok to generate an image of Elon Musk looking into a mirror.

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1874206564829323478

>>22265722

chkt

tyb

>>22265733

tyb

>>22265761

The FBI arrested a Virginia man on gun charges after finding the largest cache of 'finished explosives' - including pipe bombs - in his home. 

The record stockpile described in court documents includes 150 explosives discovered in suspect Brad Spafford's 20-acre farm, where he lives with two young children.

'Unsecured' pipe bombs were found in a backpack and a bedroom and devices marked as 'lethal' were found in a barn on the property. 

The explosives were found during a search of Spafford's property in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, located near Norfolk about three hours from Washington, D.C.

A neighbor who alerted authorities said Spafford would use photographs of President Joe Biden for target practice at a shooting range, and that he blew off three fingers on his right hand while working with a homemade explosive.

The suspect said 'political assassinations should be brought back.'

Following the first attempt on Donald Trump's life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, he told the neighbor he 'hoped the shooter doesn’t miss Kamala,' according to a report on the documents and a report in the Springfield Times. 

The neighbor also said Spafford spouted a bizarre conspiracy theory that 'missing children in the news had been taken by the federal government to be trained as school shooters.' 

Spafford was arrested on charges related to the improper registration of a weapon. Authorities often bring a lesser charge to detain a suspect and then build a case later.

READ (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14240193/fbi-uncovers-biggest-explosives-cache-arrests-suspect-URL.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490) | XPOST (https://x.com/dotconnectinga/status/1874236995544756325?s=61&t=BdBkJAWYzheOiIIylkbO1g)

>>22265733

TYB

>>22265733

Tyb

Xi vows inevitable reunification with Taiwan

The Chinese president has advocated the One-China principle in his New Year address to the nation

Chinese President Xi Jinping has once again stressed the importance of the One-China policy regarding Taiwan, saying reunification with the island is an unstoppable process.

Self-rule was established in Taiwan by nationalist forces after their defeat in the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Only a handful of nations currently recognize it as independent, and most, including Russia, share Beijing’s stance that the territory is part of China.

“The compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. No one can break our family bonds, and no one can stop the historical trend of national reunification of the motherland,” Xi said in a televised speech.

The head of state stressed that the process is inevitable, and that people on both sides “should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”

While the US officially adheres to the One-China policy, recognizing Taiwan as part of China, it simultaneously engages in military cooperation with the government in Taipei, provoking indignation from Beijing.

The Chinese government has repeatedly denounced US arms sales to Taipei, accusing Washington of fomenting tensions over the region.

China has staged several rounds of large-scale military drills in recent months. Last month, Xi identified the Taiwan issue as among the key boundaries that the US must respect in order to maintain a balanced relationship between Washington and Beijing.

China’s Foreign Ministry previously said US support for Taiwan violates earlier commitments under the August 17 Communiqué from 1982, in which Washington pledged not to pursue a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan, and expressed its intention to gradually reduce arms sales over time.

https://www.rt.com/news/610234-xi-inevitable-reunification-taiwan/

>>22265733

TYB

#kekiusmaximus

Flynn Epoch Times Porn Bots need to go!

That list has porn bots attached to negative comments in the subs!

>>22264458 PB

The CIA exported experiments to Canada when they recruited Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, creator of the "psychic driving" concept, which the CIA found interesting. Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and reprogramming the psyche. He commuted from Albany, New York to Montreal every week to work at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University, and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 (US$766,936 in 2024, adjusted for inflation) to carry out MKUltra experiments there. The Montreal experiments research funds were sent to Cameron by a CIA front organization, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and as shown in internal CIA documents, Cameron did not know the money came from the CIA.[74]: 141–142 

In addition to LSD, Cameron also experimented with various paralytic drugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced comas for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were often carried out on patients who entered the institute for common problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered permanent effects from his actions.[74]: 140–150  His treatments resulted in victims' urinary incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents and thinking their interrogators were their parents.[75]

During this era, Cameron became known worldwide as the first chairman of the World Psychiatric Association as well as president of both the American Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Cameron was also a member of the Nuremberg medical tribunal in 1946–1947.[74]: 141 

Motivation and assessments

His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist William Sargant at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Sutton, who was also involved in the Secret Intelligence Service and who experimented on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage.[76]

In the 1980s, several of Cameron's former patients sued the CIA for damages, which the Canadian news program The Fifth Estate documented.[77] Their experiences and lawsuit were adapted in the 1998 television miniseries The Sleep Room.[78]

Naomi Klein argues in her book The Shock Doctrine that Cameron's research and his contribution to the MKUltra project was not about mind control and brainwashing, but about designing "a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources'. In other words, torture."[79]

Alfred W. McCoy writes, "Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Dr. Cameron's experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method",[80] referring to first creating a state of disorientation in the subject, and then creating a situation of "self-inflicted" discomfort in which the disoriented subject can alleviate pain by capitulating.[80]

Secret detention camps

In areas under American control in the early 1950s in Europe and East Asia, mostly Japan, West Germany and the Philippines, the CIA created secret detention centers (Black sites) so that the U.S. could avoid criminal prosecution. The CIA captured people suspected of being enemy agents and other people it deemed "expendable" to undertake various types of torture and human experimentation on them. The prisoners were interrogated while being administered psychoactive drugs, electroshocked and subjected to extremes of temperature, sensory isolation and the like to develop a better understanding of how to destroy and to control human minds.[3]

Revelation

In 1973, amid a government-wide panic caused by the Watergate scandal, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed.[81] Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MKUltra impossible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

>>22265795

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a2f3d4,ab4ea1,a638f5,a40442,acd27a

If some asshole tried to fool me who donated to my campaign I would collect 1 million dollars from 100 ceos and and pay back their donation and tell them to fuck off..

Happy 25th Y2K Anniversary Anons!

Anon was a software engineer at the time. Had to check system routines (date/time, etc) in old DEC VAX/VMS program that our customers were still using. In FORTRAN, of course. Anon also took out extra $$ from ATM and filled gas tank up just before the end of the year. Crazy. KEK

Y2K: 4 things people thought would happen on New Year’s 25 years ago

https://www.fox13news.com/news/y2k-anniversary-computer-date-millenium-bug-archive-videos-news-reports

- Widespread fears about Y2K led to significant preparations by governments and corporations.

- Concerns included potential power outages, financial disruptions and even catastrophic failures in air travel and nuclear systems.

- When the new millennium arrived, only minor technological glitches were reported.

When the clock struck midnight to ring in the year 2000, the turn of the century had begun - though many were fearful the world would be in chaos.

Here is a look back, 25 years later, at Y2K and how the U.S. transitioned into the new millennium:

What was Y2K?

Will the world’s computers be on time when the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, 2000? This archive package from February 1998 shows how governments and corporations were prepping for Y2K.

Also known as "the millennium bug," Y2K stood for the Year 2000 bug and encompassed all the ways a computer could malfunction when the year changed from 1999 to 2000.

The concern was that computers wouldn’t know how to process the date correctly, since the machines functioned using two digits for the year. Experts weren’t sure if the computer would read "00" as 1900 or 2000, or get confused and shut down altogether.

For several years leading up, corporations - as well as the federal and local governments - spent millions to help programmers figure out what would happen to computers once the new year hit.

Here are some new year’s worst-case scenarios that were predicted:

Power would go out

From generators to matches to dried foods, emergency preparedness items were a hot commodity ahead of the turn of the century. This archive package from October 1999 takes us to an exposition in California.

People were fearful that computer glitches could trip traffic signals or elevators, and, at the least, were preparing for major power outages.

News reports from the end of December that year showed long lines at supermarkets, and empty shelves where emergency items were bought out. Generators also were completely sold or rented out.

Y2K preparedness conventions also ramped up, selling supplies such as hunting traps and nonperishable foods, and offering survivalist courses.

Money would disappear

Before the turn of the century even hit, people were reporting problems with ATM cards and credit cards that were issued with a double zero expiration date. ATMs were updated and retailers upgraded their machines, but that left many to wonder what other digital banking aspects could be affected.

For example, some theories included interest from certificates of deposit could be wiped away, retirement accounts would disappear or pension or social security checks may not be disbursed.

There were reports of some people withdrawing large sums of money from their bank ahead of the holiday.

Planes would fall out of the sky

Y2K spooked travelers from flying on New Year’s Eve in 1999. This archive package takes us to a calm and quiet LaGuardia Airport that night.

Other theories affected air travel, and some were afraid planes might fall from the sky or would crash because air traffic control was failing.

People avoided travel, and many airlines canceled flights around the holiday because seats weren’t selling. Several news outlets reported from major airports on New Year’s Eve, which were calm and empty.

Nuclear bombs would detonate

A more extreme theory that, of course, proved untrue, was that electronics controlling nuclear bombs would fail, resulting in detonations across the world.

Y2K reported problems

So, what did happen as the clock struck midnight around the world on New Year’s Eve 1999? Not a whole lot.

A handful of minor problems were reported in various countries, mostly technological glitches that involved dates and record-keeping.

In the U.S., the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives could not register new firearms dealers for five days because their computers failed to recognize dates on applications, according to an archived Los Angeles Times report. But overall, the massive effort to prepare seemed to pay off.

Happy New Year Anons!

Have a great 20225!

dear Q, hope you are in good spirits and health, wherever you are

love

>>22264930 Scott Jennings: Jimmy Carter’s Destructive and Borderline Treasonous Record In and Out of OfficePN

Here's the video of Jennings on Carter

https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1874062472384307315

I hope he keeps his job after thiskek

1:59

Ans confiscate their satellite network under antitrust issues.

Kek

>>22265795

>>22265798

https://www.apartments.com/the-ingraham-apartments-los-angeles-ca/cwdvq1e/

>>22265733

tyb

>>22265759

>a strident critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign

>>22265796

NXIVM (/ˈnɛksiəm/ NEK-see-əm) was a cult led by Keith Raniere, who is now a convicted racketeer and sex offender.[3] NXIVM is also the name of the defunct company that Raniere founded in 1998, which provided seminars ostensibly about human potential[4] and served as a front organization for criminal activity by Raniere and his close associates.[3]

NXIVM was based in the New York Capital District and had centers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.[5][6] The subsidiary companies of NXIVM engaged in recruitment based on the multi-level marketing model and used curricula based on teachings ("tech") of Raniere known as "Rational Inquiry".[7] Courses attracted a variety of notable students, including actors and children of the rich and powerful.[8][9] At its height, NXIVM had 700 active members.[10] Alarmed by Raniere's behavior and NXIVM's practices, former members and families of NXIVM clients spoke to investigative journalists and described the organization as a cult.[11][12][13][14] In 2017, former NXIVM members revealed damaging information about Raniere and NXIVM to The New York Times; that information included the existence of a NXIVM-connected secret society called "DOS" in which women were branded, made to record false confessions, and made to provide nude photographs for blackmail purposes.[15]

Following the New York Times exposé, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York investigated the organization, and in 2018 brought criminal charges against Raniere and other NXIVM leaders and participants containing allegations of sex trafficking, forced labor, visa fraud, and wire fraud.[16][17][18][19] All defendants except Raniere pleaded guilty.[20][21][22][23][24] Raniere was tried in 2019. Prosecutors revealed a decades-long pattern of grooming, sexual abuse of girls and women, physical and psychological punishments against dissenters, and hacking and vexatious litigation against enemies.[25][26]

On June 19, 2019, Raniere was convicted on the top charge of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy as well as several other charges and was sentenced to 120 years imprisonment.[3][27][28] Following Raniere's conviction, the Department of Justice seized ownership of NXIVM-related entities and their intellectual property through asset forfeiture.[29] Defendants Clare Bronfman, Nancy Salzman, and Allison Mack were given lesser prison sentences,[30][31][32] and defendants Lauren Salzman and Kathy Russell were each given non-prison sentences.[33][34] Since Raniere's conviction, he has continued to direct a small set of loyal members from his prison cell, encouraging continued recruitment.[35][36]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM

MKUL. TRA

NXIVM

MN

KX

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LM

IBM

HAL

833

Mar 03, 2018 11:42:23 PM EST

Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 9dc69f No. 544501

Reality is labeled as conspiracy.

You are MADE TO FEEL crazy.

You are told to obey.

You are SHEEP to them.

Pawns to be sacrificed.

REMEMBER, WE ARE WINNING, DO NOT TRUST WHAT YOU READ.

MIND WARFARE.

UP IS DOWN.

LEFT IS RIGHT.

BOOM.

Q

мuн аск.

>>22265822

>When we will ever learn???

If the few months before each election, the (r) candidate learns all about it

Then after the election, the people learn all about it…

Then there's 3.5 years of distractions…

Rinse & repeat?

тнеrе sтıłł ıs no ваn

втw

sмđн

>>22265413 (lb-N), >>22265597 (lb-N)

>Georgia judge Stephen Yekel shoots himself dead inside courtroom on last day in office

Perhaps Stephen Yekel caught wind of the criminal investigation(s) into the Georgia Judicial Branch and moar. . . .

I expect we'll see many moar judges remove [THEM]selves or get removed from the bench by law enforcement officials (civilian and military) very soon.

It's tempting to feel bad for [THEM] when they so publicly take the coward's way out, but the harm that [THEY] have willfully and knowingly inflicted on the citizenry is incalculable, and that is why we lawfully fight, fight, fight [THEM] and shall never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever give up.

>>22265812

>>22265676 lb

>>22265733

tyb

>>22265817

>Jennings unloads

The flag will be ironed & tight though.

Whatever political bullshit.

And yes the CIA made his presidency hell.

>>22265841

>>22265733

tyb

>>22265845

>And yes the CIA made his presidency hell.

but but he lost by 10%

Yeah. Every day, the CIA media was like DAY 376 OF THE HOSTAGE CRISIS

While literally HW Bush was maintaining it.

HW Bush should have hanged for that alone

>>22265733

tyb and chekd

>>22265846

>>22265846

>>22265733

TYB

o7

HAPPY NEW YEAR ANONS

2025.

Let's have a Q drop!

>>22265796

>>22265826

The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation CONFINNED by then-FBI Director James 8. Corney in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:

2943

Mar 03, 2019 6:17:55 PM EST

Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4c2e9e No. 5488382

Did Kevin set his ALARM?

4686

Sep 13, 2020 12:32:54 PM EDT

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: a4f814 No. 10630891

>>22265864

>>22265860

the drive-by media

>>22265733

tyb

>>22265871

Did Kevin set his ALARM?

>>22265796

>>22265826

>>22265733

TYB & HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Years

>>22265875

Gotta love how Tom Homan thinks.

kek

Welcome to lonely Point Nemo, Earth's dumping ground for derelict space junk

Point Nemo, the loneliest and most remote expanse of ocean on Earth, is where spacecraft go when they die.

This spread of water, 34 times larger than France, has been used as a dumping ground for space vehicles since 1971. An estimated 263 decommissioned spacecraft, including the Russian space station Mir, have been deliberately brought down and sunk here.

In 2031, the International Space Station, in orbit since 1998, will join them. It will rest about 13,000 feet down, deeper than the wreck of Titanic.

The South Pacific region, the farthest point in the ocean from any land, is named after Captain Nemo, the captain of the submarine Nautilus from the 1870 Jules Verne story “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Nemo is Latin for “no one” or “nobody.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/12/18/point-nemo-spacecraft-graveyard-iss/76942195007/

Breaking News

Elon & Vivek outsource DC departments to Mumbai call centre.

>>22265862

>2025 is a lot sooner than SOON ever was.

absolutely sage

How a $12.98 T-Shirt Is Made in America - at a Profit

Walmart aisles are piled high with goods this holiday season, but one item sticks out: cotton T-shirts that were made in America and cost $12.98.

The U.S. is awash in a sea of cheap imports that has destroyed much of the domestic apparel industry. In 2023, less than 4% of the apparel purchased in America was made here.

Seeking to turn the tide, Donald Trump imposed tariffs in 2018 on Chinese imports during his first term as president and has proposed additional tariffs on all imports in his second term, including items from neighboring Canada and Mexico.

But it wasn’t tariffs that made the $12.98 shirt economically feasible, says Bayard Winthrop, the chief executive and founder of American Giant, the U.S. apparel company producing them. It was Walmart’s heft—and guaranteed orders.

The country’s biggest retailer—and importer of consumer goods—pledged in 2013 to buy more items that were made, grown or assembled in the U.S. In 2021, Walmart increased its goal and promised to spend billions more each year through 2030. More than half of Walmart’s sales come from groceries, most of which are produced domestically.

Winthrop said that without Walmart acting as a backstop by committing to buy a predetermined number of shirts over time, American Giant’s suppliers wouldn’t have had the confidence to make the investments in automation and other upgrades that drove down production costs. A Walmart spokesman confirmed that the retailer essentially signed noncancelable purchase orders.

The T-shirt project brought together what Winthrop has called “strange bedfellows.”

Born in Greenwich, Conn. and a descendant of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop started out on Wall Street as an investment banker before moving to San Francisco and the apparel industry. He started American Giant in 2011 to re-create the soft, thick Champion sweatshirts and flannels of his youth.

“There are a million things that I disagree with Walmart about,” Winthrop said. “American Giant is premium and made in America. They are mass market and global.”

But on a 2023 podcast, Winthrop praised Walmart’s American-made program, telling the host, “You might think on the face of it that I’d be an anti-Walmart person, but boy do I value a company like that that is taking a stand.”

The podcast made the rounds of Walmart executives, who invited Winthrop to the company’s Bentonville, Ark., headquarters for what would be the first in a series of discussions that would last around six months.

“If you had asked me a year ago if I could make a T-shirt in the U.S. for $20, I’d say no way,” Winthrop said. American Giant sells T-shirts on its website and in a handful of retail stores for $40 to $60.

The company buys yarn that is grown, spun, dyed and sewn in the U.S., contracting with suppliers mainly in the Southeast. It also owns a cutting and sewing facility in Middlesex, N.C., and is part owner in another sewing facility in Los Angeles, which was opened specifically to make the Walmart T-shirts.

How did it get the price down? By automating parts of the process to keep labor costs low, American Giant was able to compete with countries like Vietnam and China where workers are paid a fraction of the U.S. minimum wage.

“You can make almost anything here, as long as it doesn’t require lots of labor,” Winthrop said.

Unlike some other industries that have become highly mechanized, there are limits to automation in apparel. For the most part, fabric is still sewn by humans.

To fulfill Walmart’s order for hundreds of thousands of shirts, American Giant and its partners hired 75 people to staff the Los Angeles sewing facility. The company and its suppliers also spent $1 million on machinery designed to make production faster and more efficient. It also tweaked the design.

To arrive at the $12.98 price, American Giant sifted through data provided by Walmart that forecast how many shirts it could expect to sell at various prices. “We could then go to our partners and say, ‘Depending on pricing, we’re either going to sell 10 T-shirts or 10,000 or a million,’” Winthrop said.

The T-shirts arrived in 1,700 Walmart stores in time for the July 4 holiday. They were up against other 100% cotton T-shirts selling for half as much. Those shirts didn’t have any American emblems. Walmart bars suppliers from using the term “American Made” or the American flag on products that aren’t made in the U.S.

Now, American Giant is making 100% cotton sweatshirts for Walmart that will arrive in stores in January and sell for $38.98. A similar-looking pullover hoodie with a front pocket that American Giant sells to its own customers retails for $148.

Despite the success of American Giant and a handful of other apparel companies that have figured out how to produce domestically without losing their shirts, it is unclear how much Americans care about buying products made in the U.S.

The opening of borders ushered in a golden era of ever-lower prices for American consumers and fatter profits for manufacturers who chased cheaper labor in offshore locales. With the uptick of inflation in recent years, budget-minded shoppers have become even more price conscious.

“People say they prefer American made but they often don’t put their money where their mouth is,” said Neil Saunders, who tracks the retail industry as managing director of research firm GlobalData.

Despite tariffs and other efforts by the Trump and Biden administrations to bring back manufacturing, 23 U.S. textile plants have closed in the past 18 months, according to the National Council of Textile Organizations.

Winthrop said he is starting to get more inquiries from big brands—who are drawing up battle plans in case the new round of tariffs go into effect—asking, “Can you make this for us?”

Still, he has plenty of meetings like his recent one with an executive for a large American retailer, who couldn’t name a single U.S. factory or vendor.

“If little old me can spin up a big program for Walmart,” he said, “a big brand with all of its muscle should be able to do something similar.”

https://archive.is/ZMPqc#selection-6083.0-6095.143

Can an anon explain this to me?

'Check the 'DECLASS ON' date anons:

Classified By: 2476680

Derived From: NSA/CSSM 1-52

Declassify On: 20411231

2041 DEC 31

This has been declassified 22 years earlier than it should have been. What does that tell you?

Archive and save.

Will become extremely important.

Q

How a $12.98 T-Shirt Is Made in America - at a Profit

Walmart aisles are piled high with goods this holiday season, but one item sticks out: cotton T-shirts that were made in America and cost $12.98.

The U.S. is awash in a sea of cheap imports that has destroyed much of the domestic apparel industry. In 2023, less than 4% of the apparel purchased in America was made here.

Seeking to turn the tide, Donald Trump imposed tariffs in 2018 on Chinese imports during his first term as president and has proposed additional tariffs on all imports in his second term, including items from neighboring Canada and Mexico.

But it wasn’t tariffs that made the $12.98 shirt economically feasible, says Bayard Winthrop, the chief executive and founder of American Giant, the U.S. apparel company producing them. It was Walmart’s heft—and guaranteed orders.

The country’s biggest retailer—and importer of consumer goods—pledged in 2013 to buy more items that were made, grown or assembled in the U.S. In 2021, Walmart increased its goal and promised to spend billions more each year through 2030. More than half of Walmart’s sales come from groceries, most of which are produced domestically.

Winthrop said that without Walmart acting as a backstop by committing to buy a predetermined number of shirts over time, American Giant’s suppliers wouldn’t have had the confidence to make the investments in automation and other upgrades that drove down production costs. A Walmart spokesman confirmed that the retailer essentially signed noncancelable purchase orders.

The T-shirt project brought together what Winthrop has called “strange bedfellows.”

Born in Greenwich, Conn. and a descendant of the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop started out on Wall Street as an investment banker before moving to San Francisco and the apparel industry. He started American Giant in 2011 to re-create the soft, thick Champion sweatshirts and flannels of his youth.

“There are a million things that I disagree with Walmart about,” Winthrop said. “American Giant is premium and made in America. They are mass market and global.”

But on a 2023 podcast, Winthrop praised Walmart’s American-made program, telling the host, “You might think on the face of it that I’d be an anti-Walmart person, but boy do I value a company like that that is taking a stand.”

The podcast made the rounds of Walmart executives, who invited Winthrop to the company’s Bentonville, Ark., headquarters for what would be the first in a series of discussions that would last around six months.

“If you had asked me a year ago if I could make a T-shirt in the U.S. for $20, I’d say no way,” Winthrop said. American Giant sells T-shirts on its website and in a handful of retail stores for $40 to $60.

The company buys yarn that is grown, spun, dyed and sewn in the U.S., contracting with suppliers mainly in the Southeast. It also owns a cutting and sewing facility in Middlesex, N.C., and is part owner in another sewing facility in Los Angeles, which was opened specifically to make the Walmart T-shirts.

How did it get the price down? By automating parts of the process to keep labor costs low, American Giant was able to compete with countries like Vietnam and China where workers are paid a fraction of the U.S. minimum wage.

“You can make almost anything here, as long as it doesn’t require lots of labor,” Winthrop said.

Unlike some other industries that have become highly mechanized, there are limits to automation in apparel. For the most part, fabric is still sewn by humans.

To fulfill Walmart’s order for hundreds of thousands of shirts, American Giant and its partners hired 75 people to staff the Los Angeles sewing facility. The company and its suppliers also spent $1 million on machinery designed to make production faster and more efficient. It also tweaked the design.

To arrive at the $12.98 price, American Giant sifted through data provided by Walmart that forecast how many shirts it could expect to sell at various prices. “We could then go to our partners and say, ‘Depending on pricing, we’re either going to sell 10 T-shirts or 10,000 or a million,’” Winthrop said.

The T-shirts arrived in 1,700 Walmart stores in time for the July 4 holiday. They were up against other 100% cotton T-shirts selling for half as much. Those shirts didn’t have any American emblems. Walmart bars suppliers from using the term “American Made” or the American flag on products that aren’t made in the U.S.

Now, American Giant is making 100% cotton sweatshirts for Walmart that will arrive in stores in January and sell for $38.98. A similar-looking pullover hoodie with a front pocket that American Giant sells to its own customers retails for $148.

Despite the success of American Giant and a handful of other apparel companies that have figured out how to produce domestically without losing their shirts, it is unclear how much Americans care about buying products made in the U.S.

The opening of borders ushered in a golden era of ever-lower prices for American consumers and fatter profits for manufacturers who chased cheaper labor in offshore locales. With the uptick of inflation in recent years, budget-minded shoppers have become even more price conscious.

“People say they prefer American made but they often don’t put their money where their mouth is,” said Neil Saunders, who tracks the retail industry as managing director of research firm GlobalData.

Despite tariffs and other efforts by the Trump and Biden administrations to bring back manufacturing, 23 U.S. textile plants have closed in the past 18 months, according to the National Council of Textile Organizations.

Winthrop said he is starting to get more inquiries from big brands—who are drawing up battle plans in case the new round of tariffs go into effect—asking, “Can you make this for us?”

Still, he has plenty of meetings like his recent one with an executive for a large American retailer, who couldn’t name a single U.S. factory or vendor.

“If little old me can spin up a big program for Walmart,” he said, “a big brand with all of its muscle should be able to do something similar.”

https://archive.is/ZMPqc#selection-6083.0-6095.143

Elon crushing on Trump

>>22265900

>How a $12.98 T-Shirt Is Made in America - at a Profit

nice

>>22265881

for the past 8 years it's been enough just doing night-shift.

>>22265733

>Thunderstruck

tyb

>>22265742 (lb)

>Let's be honest he spent 90% on vacation even in DC.

Anon wood say that is understood for most logical thinking humans.

It all goes back to the handlers.

How did we let this happen. Fuck me Georgie.

God bless us in this new year.

>>22265904

>>22265909

>>22265887

glowniggers are trying to meme. how cute

>>22265892

Directed energy weapons are up and no one

is saying a word.

Catherine Herridge

@C__Herridge

·

38m

CIA whistleblower on Directed Energy Attacks.

“It fries your brain. Fries the circuits, fries the software.”

“I was paid for my brain. I was paid for my ability to write well and to write for the president…I can't do that anymore…And that's one of the hardest parts.”

https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1874235945299697891

>>22265890

Ukrainian border agency posts photo of soldier wearing Nazi symbols

A picture of a soldier with a Nazi eagle on his uniform has appeared on the Ukrainian Border Guard Service’s official Facebook page

The development did not go unnoticed on social media, with many commenters under the border guards’ post questioning the agency’s choice of a model to pose in the picture. “Why are you posting a [picture] of a fighter with Nazi symbols on the official page?” one commenter asked.

https://www.rt.com/russia/610249-ukraine-border-guard-nazi-symbols/

>>22265759

>there's going to be a MASSIVE PUSH for MAGA to ABANDON THIS PLATFORM COMPLETELY and move to Truth Social.

I don't see it, Brian.

>>22265846

Another self proclaimed journalist piecing together the MSM crash site trying to stay relevant.

Aurignacian horse sculpture from Vogelherd Cave, Germany

https://mhk2.biblioclub.ru/page-212.html

https://www.donsmaps.com/vogelherd.html

>>22265819

>>22265913

Can you include Epoch Times massive Advertising and marketing budget for promoting ALL QAnon MEDIA AND ASSOCIATED ACCOUNTS

Based on the provided X posts and related web results, The Epoch Times has indeed allocated a significant portion of its budget towards advertising and marketing, particularly to promote content that aligns with or directly supports conspiracy theories like QAnon. Here's a detailed look:

- Advertising Expenditure: According to the provided context, The Epoch Times has spent considerable amounts on advertising. Specifically, between 2019 and 2021, its revenue increased by 685%, reaching $122 million in 2021. This growth was partly fueled by its advertising strategy, especially on social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube, where it spent millions on ads. After being banned from advertising on Facebook for violating policies, The Epoch Times shifted its focus to YouTube, spending over $1.8 million on ads since May 2018, some of which promoted conspiracy theories including QAnon.

- Promotion of QAnon Content: The Epoch Times has been directly involved in promoting QAnon-related content through its various media outlets and associated accounts. For example, the web series "Edge of Wonder" produced by NTD, an affiliate of The Epoch Times, has spread QAnon conspiracy theories. The paper has promoted this content through dozens of Facebook posts and has been involved in creating content that supports these conspiracy theories, as seen in the mention of their video ads and the involvement of their employees in QAnon-related media.

- Marketing Strategy: The marketing strategy of The Epoch Times includes leveraging social media to target audiences interested in conservative and far-right content, which often overlaps with QAnon supporters. They've utilized targeted social media advertising to reach Trump's most ardent supporters, significantly increasing their visibility and subscriber base. This strategy was particularly effective during the Trump administration, as The Epoch Times catered to his base by promoting conspiracy theories like Spygate and QAnon, which resonated with this audience.

- Associated Accounts: The Epoch Times operates a network of news sites and YouTube channels, which have been instrumental in disseminating QAnon-related content. The involvement of figures like Steve Bannon, who produced a documentary with NTD, and the presence of QAnon-promoting shows like "Edge of Wonder" indicate a coordinated effort to promote these narratives through various affiliated accounts.

- Financial Backing and Controversies: The financial backing of The Epoch Times, with its revenue increasing dramatically during the Trump era, has been somewhat mysterious, with former employees suggesting funding from wealthy Falun Gong practitioners. The recent indictment of its CFO, Bill Guan, for money laundering related to a $67 million scheme, adds another layer to the financial operations behind these advertising efforts, suggesting possible misuse of funds which could have been redirected towards marketing campaigns promoting controversial content.

To summarize, The Epoch Times has invested heavily in advertising and marketing, with a significant portion of this budget used to promote QAnon media and associated accounts. This has been achieved through extensive social media campaigns, the production of conspiracy theory-laden content, and the operation of multiple media outlets that cater to a similar audience, all contributing to their growth and influence within specific political and conspiracy theory circles.

References:

- for information on The Epoch Times's advertising shift from Facebook to YouTube after being banned.

- for details on the financial growth of The Epoch Times and its marketing strategies during the Trump administration.

- for context on the financial controversies involving The Epoch Times.

New Year’s celebrations in China

Meanwhile in Jersey

I taught I saw a drone

>>22265934

and yet the "whistleblower" somehow "knows" it's Russia

just like bush neocon erik prince with blackwater tries to blame russia for attacks with remote wespons 'havana syndrome'

Fake. Lies.

>>22265772

Elon really wants to be one of us, doesn't he?

The richest man in the world wants to be anon.

>>22265938

>>22265940

>>22265935

NO WEIRD STUFF WITH KIDS

>>22265968

>>22265949

>https://www.donsmaps.com/vogelherd.html

35 000-Year-Old Mammoth Sculpture Found in Germany

>>22265939

showing difficult facts is crucial.

just like "they're eating the cats" - we must share these difficult truths

>>22265936

>>22265967

Yes, but also using these key people that catturd mentioned because they’re Flynn’s DigitalSoldiers™️

Dan Scavino gave AC/DC 1343 as confirmation

>>22265812

>Have a great 20225!

I'm with you a hunerd and 20225%.

Happy New Year, Anon.

>>22265976

>>22265980

>They got the haarp fired up and making big weather swings.

yeah big freeze coming

>>22265984

>>22265980

>They got the haarp fired up

…Dude, what?

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings

>>22265974

>>22265950

>>22265854

VP GHWB tried to whack President Reagan.

George H.W. Bush knew the family of the man who shot Bush’s then-boss Ronald Reagan, in 1981. With the shooter now freed, it’s time, finally, to take a closer look.

Why did George H.W. Bush and his cabinet determine that John W. Hinckley Jr. — the man who in 1981 tried to kill the newly inaugurated President Ronald Reagan — was a lone nut, and no conspiracy, foreign or domestic, was involved? How did they arrive at this conclusion just five hours after the shooting, without any thorough examination?

And why won’t the Federal Bureau of Investigation release its documents on the shooter?

Hinckley, who was released from a federal psychiatric facility on August 5 after 35 years, remains a mystery, and that’s the way the government prefers it. Among the documents the Bureau withholds are those that reveal organizations linked to him — and the names of his associates.

One noteworthy individual will not even acknowledge knowing of Hinckley beforehand, someone associated with the shooter’s family, and an even longer history of dissociation — George H.W. Bush.

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/bush-angle-reagan-shooting-still-unresolved-hinckley-walks/

>>22265913

What question did you ask?

Please post it, none of this came from the name term.

Here's the answer for just the term as you falsely presented.

Also screenshot so you know it's not fake ass bullshit, like yours is.

Kekius Maximus

8 posts

16 web pages

Kekius Maximus is a playful persona adopted by Elon Musk, combining meme culture with historical references. This persona was notably used when Musk changed his name on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to "Kekius Maximus" and updated his profile picture to Pepe the Frog, a popular internet meme. This action led to significant attention, both for its humorous intent and for its impact on cryptocurrency, particularly the memecoin named $KEKIUS, which saw a 500% surge in value following Musk's name change. The meme itself is a fusion of Pepe the Frog and the character Maximus from the movie "Gladiator," highlighting Musk's engagement with internet culture and his influence on meme coins. This move by Musk showcases how his actions can drive trends in digital and meme culture, as well as in the crypto market.

The name change and the use of Pepe the Frog, a character designed by Matt Furie, originally from the comic "Boy's Club," signify Musk's embrace of internet meme culture, which has evolved to be used in various contexts online since its creation in 2005. Pepe the Frog has become a symbol in internet culture, often associated with expressions of emotion or humor. Musk's choice to embody this meme in his persona reflects his playful interaction with his audience and his influence within digital culture.

Musk's persona as Kekius Maximus has also been tied to discussions about cryptocurrency, with the $KEKIUS memecoin seeing a substantial increase in trading volume and market cap following his name change, indicating Musk's influence extends into the crypto markets as well. His engagement with meme coins like $KEKIUS shows his continued interest in the intersection of technology, internet culture, and finance.

Additionally, Musk's actions have sparked discussions and reactions, ranging from amusement to concern over potential associations with controversial groups due to Pepe the Frog's history. This reflects the broader impact of his online presence, where his influence can both entertain and provoke varied responses.

Musk's adoption of the Kekius Maximus persona was part of a trend where he fuels meme culture on X, blending his public image with internet phenomena, which in turn impacts markets like cryptocurrency, particularly meme coins. This trend highlights how Musk's online antics can have surprising real-world effects.

>>22265990

imagine how cold it must be in north Iceland

(https://spaceweather.com/)

>>22265942

https://www.uaf.edu/news/archives/news-archives-2010-2021/turning-aurora-switch-haarp.php

>>22265769

Hamas open to limited hostage release ahead of Trump's inauguration

The estimated date for the release of the limited amount of hostages in Gaza would be around Trump's inauguration on January 20, the report said.

A senior official involved in hostage negotiations has said that Hamas may agree to a brief deal that would see a limited amount of hostages released as a gesture in preparation for Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States at the end of January, according to an exclusive Saturday evening report by N12.

The estimated date for the release of the limited amount of hostages in Gaza would be around Trump's inauguration on January 20.

The source involved in the talks said that discussions are currently underway on an outline for a limited deal, despite previous foreign reports of a broader hostage release deal that would be completed in phases, N12 noted. The Israeli source also stated that details, including the number of hostages expected to be released as part of it, are prohibited from publication.

The Prime Minister's Office issued a response to the N12 report, denying the entire thing.

"The report this evening by N12 that claims that there are current negotiations for a limited hostage deal as a 'gesture' for the United States is a complete lie," the statement said.

Trump: "All hell to pay if hostages aren't released"

At the end of last month, US Senator Lindsey Graham said that President-elect Donald Trump wants a hostage deal before his inauguration. “Trump is more determined than ever to release the hostages and supports a ceasefire that includes a hostage deal. He wants to see it happening now," he said. “I want people in Israel and the region to know that Trump is focused on the hostages issue.”

A few days later, Trump said, "If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY," in a post on Truth Social.

Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, warned earlier this month of consequences if the hostages are not released.

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-835204

>>22265938

>>22266000

>tried to whack

Yeah I guess so. Not a lot of good info, but what we do know is weird. I think in general the murder is done in the car or in the hospital. There was a big fight in the car about which hospital to go to. Some say the choice saved his life.

Hinckley was a pathetic patsy, being so obviously close to Bush.

>>22265919

>>22266004

https://x.com/DanMcCaughan/status/1874221924295073985

>>22265985

>>22266014

>>22265916

SpaceX lands on Mars

>>22265994

>>22265967

>>22266022

picrel

>>22265919

>>22266023

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1874213263996837938

>>22266031

>>22265916

kek

>>22265980

>Northern lights tonight in the upper 48

3rd time in 1 year.

Never happened before in my lifetime

Must be global warming

…CCP working overtime?

>>22265993

>>22265974

>>22265919

>city's

intentional misspelling to seem like a retard

joanes is a fucking shill of the worst type

>>22266046

muh zeroes.

>>22265998

Prince Philip - Wired by Indians (DEI)

>>22266036