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8b52e7 No.22324948
>>22324913
i know. it does not make sense unless they don't care.
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966fc9 No.22324949
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article298247913.html
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8b52e7 No.22324951
a super scooper just collided with a drone
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db7755 No.22324952
>>22324921
>>22324927
no standing armies or foreign belligerents
we will kill over this.
be advised. NOTICE TO AGENT IS NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL. NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL IS NOTICE TO AGENT.
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b05910 No.22324953
>>22324886
Boots on the ground, KEOCO tug of war (for the water), keep your headset on, the coil lamp looks like a electromagnetic coil?
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b6382d No.22324955
>>22324949
can't leave the knowing alive,,,
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6b21b1 No.22324957
Do you think PDJT knows Netanyahu is Illuminati?
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75219e No.22324958
What are the odds Trump will take Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal?
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2e229b No.22324959
>>22324942
yes, I remember their island in Fiji, another celeb hangout.
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10cabd No.22324961
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>22324830
Hit me with your best shot
Fire Away
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b6382d No.22324962
>>22324957
saving is ra el, for last.
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b49424 No.22324963
Mr. Biden: There is, in case you haven't noticed, there is global warming. It does change weather patterns.
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7e578c No.22324964
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3197f3 No.22324965
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f75e4e No.22324966
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play. >>22324942
Foretold long ago. Truth in movies lies in the MSM.
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76bd50 No.22324968
>>22324626
gravity rides everything
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bbaef3 No.22324969
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000000 No.22324970
In a constitutional republic, the people should not permit special interests to be involved in clandestine alliances for selfish benefits. These alliances diminish national security. They ignore the Constitution. They increase spending and taxes, contributing to our bankruptcy. They facilitate Federal Reserve mischief. They encourage a dollar run and empire. They promote wars - both military and trade. A few culprits: UN, IMF, WTO, NATO, World Bank, and others. The system cancels the right of the people to know who benefits from the power and profits generated by these policies. It should be abolished - and would be in a society that honors liberty and justice and rejects the principle of aggression.
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899619 No.22324972
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2e229b No.22324973
>>22324958
Greenland & Panama canal yes
Canada was to make Trudeau cry
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10ce19 No.22324975
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7449b3 No.22324976
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dd6516 No.22324977
>>22324842
Canadians use Trump and MAGA as pejoratives, they can go fuck themselves. The average Canadian has extreme hate for Trump and his supporters.
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db7755 No.22324979
>>22324970
so we killed them all. THE END.
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8b52e7 No.22324980
Sunday and Tuesday call for increased Santa Ana winds.
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10cabd No.22324982
>>22324957
And people make fun of Christians.
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b49424 No.22324983
Mr. Biden: I'm, quite frankly, proud of the job the local officials in California are doing. I've spent a lot of time with the governor and the mayor of Los Angeles, and others; they're doing everything that we ask of 'em, and beyond.
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b1c4a8 No.22324984
>>22324328
Amid Drought, Billionaires Control A Critical California Water Bank
Water prices are soaring in California’s Central Valley, where a quarter of the nation’s food is grown. As the West Coast’s megadrought worsens, one farming company has long been scrutinized for its outsize role in the arid region’s water supply.
Wonderful, the closely held company owned by billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick, can buy up huge amounts of water whenever it needs more. Most of the Resnicks’ water comes from long-term contracts and other water from land rights they have from the farms they own. Around 9% of the total water used by Wonderful is bought out on the open water market. While that’s not a huge amount of the water it uses, the company can outspend pretty much every other farmer in the region, which can influence water prices.
“Like all farmers, we occasionally need to purchase water for our crops,” a spokesperson for the Wonderful Co. said. “However, we prioritize water rights when purchasing farmland, thus most of our supply is not purchased on the water market. Based on this, we do not believe we have enough purchasing power to impact water prices.”
The Resnicks own more than 30,000 acres of almond orchards and 50,000 acres of pistachio orchards in California’s Central Valley.The Wonderful Co.
The water that the Resnicks use gets stored underground initially before the water is delivered to the roots of the Resnicks’ pistachios, almonds and pomegranate orchards. Specifically, it is stored in the Kern Water Bank, the most valuable water resource in a region critical to America’s fresh food supply. The water bank, which is a public-private partnership in which the Resnicks own a 57% stake, is a 32-square-mile recharge basin—which looks like floodlands from the street that essentially stores up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water (or 500 billion gallons) underground.
The Resnicks’ storage arrangement is controversial. “They have been banking water by using public and private dollars to corral a public resource. Because of their water rights and their wealth, they are insulating themselves from the drought,” says Char Miller, the director of environmental analysis at Pomona College. “Private capital has no problem with the drought, while the rest of us do. That’s one of the deep social divides.”
Miller points out that in the same counties where the Resnicks have banked water underground, there are marginalized communities, often made up of migrant farmworkers and immigrants, with little access to public water. “Water has to be brought in on trucks,” adds Miller, who wrote a book on a 1921 flood in San Antonio that spotlighted social inequality. “The power dynamics are essential to this story. The Resnicks are so dominant, and the disempowered communities are at the other end a scale that is tipped mightily against them. When we put the food on our plate, we rarely think about the hands that make it and the situation they are in. That’s an injustice of unparalleled proportion.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2021/09/20/amid-drought-billionaires-control-a-critical-california-water-bank/
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550fcd No.22324985
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98cb00 No.22324986
Jimmy Carter’s casket in transit through the Gatun locks of the Panama Canal.
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458f41 No.22324987
Foxtel: transactions you can’t trust, tax evasion you can’t ignore
While Rupert Murdoch’s pundits at News Corporation decry welfare bludgers and ‘Their ABC’, Foxtel gets a free ride on tax. Michael West consults the (actually independent) experts.
Sky News presenters regularly fulminate about Australian taxpayers funding the “Their ABC”, that taxpayer funded hotbed of woke “leftists”.
“What a hide!” thundered prominent Sky News commentator Prue MacSween at the government’s move last month to reinstate $83m in funding to the ABC which had been cut by the previous Coalition government.
“Middle class welfare!” thundered another who demanded the national broadcaster be sold off (while ignoring the rather obvious truth that privatising the ABC would crush the commercial broadcasters who are already struggling).
When it comes to the ABC, Rupert Murdoch’s desk-pounding pundits are all on the same page – they sing with one shrill voice about Their ABC and its lack of diversity of opinion.
Well here is one for their “News you can trust, opinions you can’t ignore” band of pundits to debate. Their own organisation is publicly funded by income tax evasion.
NXE level tax dodging
There are two things that Rupert Murdoch is renowned for not doing in Australia. One is delivering unbiased news; the other is paying corporate income tax.
In consultation with accounting and tax experts, MWM has peered into the shonky financial world of just one of media properties in this country controlled by the American billionaire. That is Foxtel, which owns Sky News Australia and which Rupert recently sold for $3.4B to British sports network DAZN.
On December 23, 2024, just as Santa Claus was conducting his last minute logistics for Christmas, News Corporation announced the DAZN transaction to sell Foxtel for an enterprise value which equated to more than 7x Foxtel’s earnings (EBITDA). The “T” for tax in this EBITDA calculation is … not really a thing.
The corporate entity which holds Foxtel, NXE Australia Pty Ltd (NXE), has been Foxtel’s head company since a corporate reorganisation during 2018 that folded in all Foxtel-related companies including Foxtel Sports Australia Pty Ltd. The sports rights is where the proverbial gold is in the Foxtel asset suite. Sky News not so much.
The financial statements of NXE for fiscal 2024 disclose a loss after tax of $96.3 million and net cash flow provided by operating activities of $247.7 million. The net cash flow was after interest and other costs of finance paid of $176 million.
Five years, zero tax
Foxtel appears to be good at generating operating cash flow and paying interest but not so good at making profit a taxable profit that is, a profit which is subject to income tax in Australia.
This may seem odd to the audiences of News Corporation in Australia who are subject to daily haranguing as to the ‘taxpayer funded ABC’ and assorted welfare bludging as it is not the income taxes of Sky or other Murdoch properties which fund these apparent legions of welfare bludgers.
According to Corporate Tax Transparency Data published by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), NXE, or Foxtel, has paid no income tax in any of the five years from 2019 to 2023.
An analysis of the accounts of Foxtel prepared for MWM (which is unlikely to be covered by the learned pundits of Sky News despite their avid sermonising about Australia’s national interest) shows that NXE has generated $14B of total income across this five-year period.
The total tax payable across this period however is $0. The average total income is $2.8B per year for this government mandated monopoly media asset, while the average tax payable is $0 per year. For 2023 the numbers are: total income $2.8 billion and tax payable $0.
My, my.
They have form. They managed to cream off $4.5B a few years ago by creating a soufflé of ‘goodwill’ (which is not cash) which magically transmogrified into cash they siphoned overseas.
MORE
https://michaelwest.com.au/newscorps-foxtel-welfare-tax/
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7449b3 No.22324989
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c9ea34 No.22324990
>>22324958
100% it's already done
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e1be8f No.22324991
>>22324818
what's with all the mask breathing faggotry
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7762b3 No.22324992
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b49424 No.22324993
Harris: We have to adapt to this changing climate.
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b6382d No.22324994
>>22324965
Their puppets are finally realizing who the true slaves are.
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000000 No.22324995
Americans don't want to colonize Canada, Mexico, Greenland or the Panama Canal. Americans want: -mass deportations -clean cities -free speech -Americanism over Globalism. It's that simple.
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15afef No.22324996
>>22324972
blast from the past
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bbaef3 No.22324997
>>22324934
They aren't bankrupt. They are a Land Bank
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b1c4a8 No.22324998
>>22324984
The Resnicks, who became wealthy after setting up a string of businesses in Los Angeles, such as a janitorial cleaning service, bought their first farmland in the Central Valley four decades ago as a hedge against inflation. They eventually transformed those acres into what’s now one of the biggest private farming operations in America, producing seedless lemons, Halo mandarins and wine. Wonderful says it’s the world’s largest producer of tree nuts, America’s largest citrus grower and biggest floral delivery service via Teleflora. It also sells Fiji Water and citrus pomegranate drink Pom. Altogether the company has about $5 billion in sales, and the Resnicks, who split their time between Beverly Hills and Aspen, are now worth a combined $8 billion.
Stewart and Lynda Resnick are agribusiness billionaires.
Half of American households now purchase Wonderful Co. products. The Resnicks own 175,000 farmland acres, with nearly 130,000 planted in California alone. Those crops consume an estimated 150 billion gallons of water a year, two thirds of that on nuts, which would be enough to supply San Francisco’s 875,000 residents for a decade. The Wonderful Co. says the estimate is high, but declined to comment further. For comparison, San Francisco uses about 70 billion gallons annually.
They wouldn’t have been able to create such an expansive farming operation without a sweetheart deal that gave them access to the Kern Bank. In 1994, some of Stewart Resnick’s most trusted advisors met with several leaders from southern California water districts and state water officials to broker negotiations, in what some critics have called secret meetings. In exchange for giving up some state water deliveries—which were already vulnerable to not getting delivered in drought times—the Resnicks’ Westside Mutual Water Co. and a group of five public water districts got public land and former farmland and oilfields with major water storage capacity.
The Resnicks’ response to criticism of their majority control of the bank is that they obtained it legally. They also say they have reinvested tens of millions back in programs for their workers in the Central Valley and the broader community, as well as environmental research. The Resnicks pledged $750 million to the California Institute of Technology for climate crisis projects in 2019.
As an asset, the water bank, theoretically, could be one of the hottest auction items of the next decade, one that only increases in value with temperature rise and climate change. Precipitation in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which Californians like the Resnicks rely on for water, is expected to drop by 40% over the next century. Some experts say it’s invaluable.
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15afef No.22324999
>>22324983
>they're doing everything that we ask of 'em, and beyond.
indeed
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b1c4a8 No.22325000
>>22324984
But let’s put a price tag on it.
In California’s Central Valley, where residential wells have been running dry for months and other producers are debating whether they should rip out nut trees, water prices have risen to as high as $2,000 an acre-foot. (That’s the standard measure for water: the same as the amount of water it would take to flood one acre with one foot of water. It’s the equivalent of 326,000 gallons of water.) As a price comparison, in nondrought times, water can sell for as low as $250 per acre-foot. On the high end, other farmers have sold their future water rights for $5,000 per acre-foot.
The Kern Bank says about one million acre-feet of water is currently stored, or roughly two thirds of its capacity, but water recovery is limited to about half of what can be added each year, or 240,000 acre-feet per year. In gallon terms, that’s 78 billion, and the Wonderful Co. doesn’t own all of it.
The range of what the bank could be worth is wide—at $250 per acre-foot, the value of the bank would be roughly $375 million, or about $200 million for the Resnicks’ 57% stake. At $2,000 per acre-foot, the value would be worth as much as $3 billion. That would mean a $1.7 billion water bank for the Resnicks’ controlling stake.
“The Kern Bank continues to be the absolute jewel of banking and recharge in California, bar none,” says Lois Henry, a Central Valley born and bred journalist who founded the nonprofit California water publication, SJV Water.
California recognizes water as a public trust resource, but it has also allowed deep-pocketed corporate interests to commandeer a lot of its water. Alexandra Nagy, California director of advocacy organization Food and Water Watch, says she is keeping an eye out for policies that could favor the Resnicks coming out of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. Newsom survived his recall with the Resnicks as a top donor, but he still has the potential to lose his reelection next year. He will have to deliver before then.
“Assets like this that were once in public control and now are in private control need to be returned to the public,” Nagy says. “Especially with climate change and in moments of drought, we need to see trends toward transparency. When we’re having a crisis, that’s when corporate interests take advantage and push their agenda the hardest.”
The water bank, the largest underground water storage facility in California, has been a critical asset for Wonderful over the decades. Climate change makes the Resnicks’ majority ownership of key water conservation infrastructure even more contentious. At this point, who else might be able to control this kind of asset, other than a billionaire?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2021/09/20/amid-drought-billionaires-control-a-critical-california-water-bank/
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d1bc2a No.22325001
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f75e4e No.22325002
>>22324935
Pay attention everyone. That's how you win.
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8b52e7 No.22325003
>>22324818
666 BBB 2+2+2=6
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c9ea34 No.22325004
>>22324991
Did you forget that period of reality? Where they told you a mask would block a virus, gave the nurses the same mask for a month at a time?
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7449b3 No.22325005
Biden: "Climate change is real…there is Global Warming…"
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000000 No.22325006
>>22324979
>so we killed them all. THE END.
You have not done anythin.
Put on the Dress and bring me a Bud Light.
I don't drink but you're FAKE and GAY
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db7755 No.22325007
>>22324972
As Gideon took his men to the water and tried them there, so we would bring your heart and conscience to the spiritual test which the subject may be understood to signify. Are you a self-indulgent Christian? The two terms have no connection with each other. If God discard the "fearful," will He retain the "carnal"? If He dismiss those who are so cowardly that they dare not enter upon a profession of His religion, will He bear with those who have the audacity to live in the disgrace of it? To affect to serve God one day and really to serve divers lusts and passions another; to pretend to be one of "Christ's Church militant here upon earth," and yet actually to make no resistance to the enemy; this is only showing that instead of being, as you profess, a soldier of Christ, you are in reality a servant of Mammon. Tell us not, ye that are thus carnally-minded, of any warfare that you are waging with the great adversary of souls. The fact is, that you are already taken prisoners by the enemy, you are already led captive by him at his will. But the active soldiers of Christ need refreshment, as Gideon's chosen band did; and they have it. What are the ordinances of Divine grace when blessed to the soul, but "times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord"? And now God says to Gideon, "By the three hundred men that lapped will I save Israel; and let all the other people go every man to his place." We hear no complaint from Gideon. When he is commanded to send the men away, he sends them one after another by the hundred and by the thousand; not knowing when God would stay His hand or say, "It is enough." This is faith, vital and practical faith. It is exactly that faith which the Christian is required to carry into the common transactions of life, and to act upon in the occurrences of every day: "The just shall live by faith." In the evil day he is to live upon it when God takes away the desire of his eyes, or the means of his present subsistence, or the outward helps which he has been accustomed to, and on which, perhaps, he has been leaning too confidently. When these are struck from under him, then the proof of his faith is that he can "trust in the Lord, and stay himself on his God." We are apt to tremble for the cause of the gospel around us when we see many depart and walk no more with Christ. But let those who remain think of the concern which their own souls have in the matter. Have some drawn back? The Captain of salvation says, "What is that to thee? follow thou Me." Is the number of the fearful or disaffected great, and is it increasing? No matter if it be twenty-two thousand. "What is that to thee? follow thou Me." Certainly it is our duty to use all the means which God puts in our power to strengthen our missionary ranks; but, nevertheless, when He is pleased from time to time thus to draft off, if I may so speak, the great men, and the strong men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men from our missionary host, it becomes us to look on with Gideon's patient faith and meek submission; to regard the mysterious dispensation as intended to make known that "the excellency of the power is of God, and not of us." Thus every death of a missionary will have a voice in it of encouragement as well as of warning from our God; and if we listen to it with the ear of Gideon's faith, it will tell us "The people are yet too many." And our answer should be, "Be Thou exalted, Lord, in Thine own strength: so will we sing, and praise Thy power."
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