06-30-26 victor
spal, the thing is.. canada is a bit larger than the usa, but with far less people.. 40m vs 350m.
the 350m in the usa didn't just happen by accident.
the system has worked differently re immigrants.
now they want to change it after centuries?
if it was meant to slaves, as some argue, then it should have been clear that it was meant for such specifically, and with an expiration date.. and not be left open to interpretation centuries later.
sanchez recently passed a bill to regularize illegal immigrants..
but it has an expiration date: today, june 30th.
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06-30-26 victor
but.. but does the gop actually have the votes to pass some of these ideas before midterms? i doubt it.
the us congress is broken down, since many moons ago.
voter id?
immigration reform? etc
very low odds, i would think. |
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06-30-26 victor
Rick Scott
The Supreme Court has made its decision, now Congress needs to respond.
We need to make sure illegal aliens don’t come into our country and EXPLOIT our immigration system.
That means closing EVERY. SINGLE. LOOPHOLE.
I have a bill, the SAFE KIDS Act, to combat the exploitation of U.S. surrogacy laws for birthright citizenship.
I have been fighting visa-free loopholes in U.S. territories participating in surrogacy schemes.
We also need to codify President Trump’s border actions so a future Democrat administration can’t undo them.
We need to be voting on these EVERY WEEK until we provide the American people with an answer for this question. |
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06-30-26 spal
BTW the 2nd Ammendment comparison fails on its face
The 2nd Amendment protects an inherent, natural right to self-defense that existed before the government was formed.
The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause is a statutory political rule creating a legal status.
One an apple the other a watermelon ... ;) |
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06-30-26 spal
To treat a document written to integrate traumatized, emancipated American slaves as a permanent, borderless suicide pact that strips a nation of its right to define its own borders is the height of legalism over logic.
End of story. |
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06-30-26 spal
If a Chinese national flies to Canada on a tourist visa, gives birth in a Tim Hortons, and flies home, that child does not magically become a hockey-playing Canadian cultural asset.
The child is Chinese.
Only a system run by 'knaves in robes' could look at a geographic accident—a physical presence inside a restaurant or a hospital room—and declare that it instantly overrides thousands of years of ancestral allegiance, culture, and civic duty." |
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06-30-26 spal
| ... activist judicial gloss dressed up as piety. Am I clear? |
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06-30-26 spal
Roberts’ quote IS NOT a defense of the Constitution's text—it is a fanciful, historical re-writing of it.
The phrase "every free-born person" does not appear anywhere in the text of the 14th Amendment. The word "free-born" was a highly specific legal term used in 1868 to contrast emancipated slaves with those born free.
By using the phrase "every free-born person" in a modern context, Roberts is engaging in historical fan-fiction. He is taking a term meant to define repatriated American slaves and expanding it to include the child of an undocumented tourist who happens to give birth during a layover.
That is not original text; it is activist judicial gloss dressed up as piety. |
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06-30-26 spal
| Now try this in China or in Japan. There is more to citizenship than simple happenstance. Or is there something special about the water here. Give me a break. |
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06-30-26 spal
Carib - the constitution is just a man made document as is what you call the law. I don't buy any further dressing up and play acting here. It is not the word of god, immutable or immortal.
Anyhow I was not commenting on that. I was simply commenting on the bit of nonsense uttered around the recent decision by Roberts namely that citizenshipthat “the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.” The intent was simply directed at unfrachised slaves. It was actually to right a wrong at the time and in that context.
It does not nor should not mean that any child born in an Olive Garden restaurant is Italian. But by virtue of Roberts and his starry eyed "interpretation" of the founders here we are.
It is bad law.
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06-30-26 victor
Speaker Mike Johnson has once again lost a battle against hardline conservatives for control of his own House floor — and he has no clear way out.
A small group of GOP hardliners, led by firebrand Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, effectively seized the floor from Johnson this week, refusing to allow him to move on their own party’s priorities until Republican leaders come up with a plan to pass President Donald Trump’s federal elections overhaul bill.
By Tuesday afternoon, Johnson was forced into one of the most humiliating possible positions for a House speaker: He conceded he could not regain control of the chamber and instructed members to leave Washington early. It’s the second straight week that GOP leaders have had to scrap their plans, this time losing out on nearly an entire week’s agenda.
Many of Johnson’s members are fuming at the impasse. The House is not scheduled to return until mid-July — leaving just two more scheduled weeks of work before the August recess. And it may sink the GOP’s path to passing a tranche of Trump’s agenda this month — including billions in Pentagon funding for the Iran war — as Johnson and his team had planned.
The dispute between Johnson and his hardline members is amounting to an intense summertime clash that’s jamming up the House and spiking tensions in an already fractious GOP conference. Many Republicans now blame the hardliners — the dozen or so who blocked Johnson’s push on the floor to consider the annual Pentagon policy bill — for scuttling what could be their last big legislative effort ahead of the November midterms.
Multiple GOP sources told CNN it’s not clear how to resolve the weekslong standoff with Luna — who they believe has been relishing the media attention.
Even Johnson, the famously even-tempered speaker, was visibly frustrated by his own members derailing the GOP’s agenda on the floor.
“We have the smallest margin in US history. We’re nearing an election. People get very emotional about things, and sometimes they make irrational decisions,” Johnson said, referring to those hardline members. Hours earlier, he called Luna’s antics a “self-inflicted wound” for his party.
But Luna is undeterred by the criticism.
“The fact that I’m being singled out because I know procedure — I’m not stupid. I’m going to fight on behalf of the American people,” Luna said, vowing that she would back down on her floor protest if GOP leaders agreed to tack Trump’s voter ID and proof-of-citizenship measure onto the defense bill. “They’re saying they won’t, so now that you saw what happened on the floor.”
Johnson had previously insisted the House would remain in session for the next day and a half to unstick the floor. But some members were threatening to leave. Instead, within hours, Johnson was forced to cancel the rest of the week’s votes.
The problem for GOP leaders: Congress, in its current makeup, cannot pass the elections overhaul bill in the form Trump wants, lacking the votes even with GOP majorities in both chambers.
Luna and others have demanded that Senate GOP leaders take extreme steps, such as changing the chambers’ rules, to muscle through Trump’s priority. Senate GOP leaders have countered they also lack the votes to change the chamber’s rules.
Trump has publicly encouraged the GOP defectors to back down, without specifically calling out Luna. But those hardliners also know the president remains fixated on that elections bill and do not believe he is genuine in asking them to stand down.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie — a frequent Johnson critic who recently lost his primary bid to a Trump-backed challenger — said months of mounting frustration are now bursting into the open, in part, because some Republicans have nothing left to lose.
“I think people are past their primaries and are getting restless,” said Massie, one of the members who tanked Johnson’s procedural vote. “There are people who normally wouldn’t vote against the rule and are doing it.”
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06-30-26 carib
| Merlino: if my bank account had an additional couple of zeros (as is the case for a number of people) I would not mind helping MCM with a few millions myself. |
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06-30-26 victor
merlino, that's not a problem.. plenty of people support her, and are more than willing to pay for her expenses. nothing new.
same people who paid for her security back home. |
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06-30-26 Merlino
pidieron a María Corina Machado dar la vuelta cuando sobrevolaba Carolina del Norte en un vuelo privado desde Virginia hacia Curazao
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Who pays this private flight and in general her worldwide traveling? |
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06-30-26 victor
:-))
I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great Country of China, on their massive Birthright Citizenship WIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP |
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06-30-26 carib
The US Constitution, by design, is inherently rigid.
It takes more than a whim of a President or a congress majority to amend it.
That is why it survived 250 years with small adaptations.
And that is why the second amendment, clearly adopted when automatic weapons did not exist, still stands, even if it has crazy practical consequences, in my opinion.
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06-30-26 carib
SPAL: the text of the 14th amendment is quite explicit.
It does not matter if you or I agree or disagree with it, but it is the law.. until it is amended or legislation related to its implementation is duly adopted.
The Constitution is there to protect rights, set the rules for taking legal decisions, and protect citizens from abuse of power by the authorities.
There can be several perfectly reasonable and legitimate arguments for restricting citizenship to persons born from citizens or legal permanent residents, but you cannot change the Constitution by executive order, unless you opt for the North Korean governance model. |
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06-30-26 victor
Según el Wall Street Journal, funcionarios de la administración Trump pidieron a María Corina Machado dar la vuelta cuando sobrevolaba Carolina del Norte en un vuelo privado desde Virginia hacia Curazao, y ella obedeció; Marco Rubio le pidió posteriormente paciencia para preservar "la frágil relación de trabajo" con Delcy Rodríguez, mientras funcionarios de Trump expresaban en privado frustración por sus críticas al gobierno interino venezolano. Copa Airlines le negó después el embarque en Panamá por temor a represalias, y el espacio aéreo fue restringido mediante NOTAM oficial.
Por otra parte, de acuerdo a otro artículo de El Debate, la historia tiene más capas: Trump había dado inicialmente luz verde al regreso de Machado tras una llamada directa entre ambos — el presidente le había facilitado su número de móvil personal en un encuentro previo para que lo usara cuando lo considerase necesario — pero revirtió su decisión en cuestión de horas, dejándola varada y advirtiéndole que emitiría un comunicado desmarcándose si continuaba adelante con los planes.
El WSJ revela que la administración Trump ha priorizado la estabilidad, el acceso al petróleo venezolano y la cooperación en seguridad por encima de una transición democrática, y que ni Washington ni Delcy Rodríguez han fijado fecha para elecciones. Machado no menciona a Trump en su video desde Panamá pero tampoco se rinde: "haré lo que haya que hacer para encontrarnos allá." |
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06-30-26 victor
Ron DeSantis
This was not a decision on procedural grounds (ie, POTUS can’t do this through executive order but Congress could legislate it); it is a substantive decision that says the 14th amendment requires citizenship for those born to, among others, birth tourists or those unlawfully present in the country.
Will need either a constitutional amendment or a future court to overrule this.
Anyway you slice it, the decision is a major defeat. |
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06-30-26 victor
| carib, yes.. 95% chance at polymarket. |
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06-30-26 spal
It is sophisticated propaganda because it wraps a modern, radical interpretation of jus soli—one that allows temporary or unlawful presence to automatically trigger the highest prize of the state—in the constitutional robes of 1868.
It pretends to "keep a promise" to the Framers, when in reality, it is enforcing a loophole that the Framers explicitly stated they were avoiding.
We are governed by knaves in robes whose drollings pass for laws ... |
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06-30-26 spal
The 14th Amendment was written for one primary, existential reason: to overturn the infamous Dred Scott decision and guarantee that newly emancipated Black Americans were recognized as full citizens of the United States.
The rest is just sophistry ... albeit high minded and cute. |
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06-30-26 spal
The Romans understood that a civilization crumbles if citizenship is handed out freely without requiring any skin in the game.
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06-30-26 spal
Well the Pilgrims weren't immigrants - they were colonists (they were British Nationals).
The US did not exist in 1600's.
Jus solis was drafted into the constitution in 1787 ... anchor babies are very much a consequence and an abuse. |
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06-30-26 carib
Victor: SCOTUS just upheld the Constitution.
If one wants to change that rule, he should seek a constitutional amendment with the required majorities.
Without immigrants, the USA would be just have native americans (red indians) as citizens. Nobody asked the mayflower passengers for a passport.. |
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06-30-26 victor
| Birthright citizenship upheld: In a big loss for President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, striking down his executive order. Chief Justice John Roberts, calling citizenship “the right to have rights,” wrote for the court that “the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.” |
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06-30-26 victor
| Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices John Roberts (Bush) and Amy Coney Barrett (Trump) both rule against President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order. |
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06-30-26 panasonic
| Pilly doubled on my gld calls |
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06-29-26 pillz
Israel developing space lasers to attack above the Earth, Katz says
"As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability," said Katz.
https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-900854 |
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06-29-26 pillz
interesting how the press interpret gold ??
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Gold and silver prices fall amid fears of higher inflation due to the war in Iran
Mon Jun 29 17:48:36 2026 EDT
Gold and silver prices fell on Monday amid renewed tensions between the United States and Iran, which drove up oil prices and fueled inflation fears. |
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06-29-26 carib
Panas: I think Orban and Trump offered a profitable strategy:
1) win elections
2) consolidate power
3) treat public goods as your personal ones (but not in the sense of respecting them as if they were your own) |
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06-29-26 victor
Iran indicts Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, anti-regime journalists for ‘inciting’ January protests
Iranian authorities have issued an indictment against Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and several figures associated with the opposition broadcasters Manoto TV, which ceased operations a few weeks ago, and Iran International, accusing them of helping instigate the nationwide protests that swept the country on January 8 and 9 of this year.
Tehran Prosecutor Ali Salehi announced on Saturday night that the indictment had been issued, saying the case would be referred to court for trial within the coming days.
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06-29-26 carib
| Panas: good to see emirates cutting ties with terror.. |
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06-29-26 carib
Hungary’s new prime minister has accused Viktor Orbán’s former government of hiding a budget deficit that would have topped 8 per cent of GDP this year — more than double the declared target.
Péter Magyar said on Monday that Orbán’s public deficit targets for 2026 — first 3.7 per cent of GDP, then 5 per cent — bore little relation to the figures found by his government since taking office six weeks ago. Orbán’s own officials had assumed a 6.8 per cent shortfall, Magyar said, while new audits showed the deficit would have exceeded 8 per cent without a recent deal unlocking frozen EU funds.
“They lied to Hungarians,” Magyar said in a Facebook video.
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06-29-26 panasonic
| Spa, tech bouncing back, money is homeless otherwise. |
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06-29-26 panasonic
Savo, after Iran's nuclear program has been complete turned off, Israel will face strong political turmoil's, we'll have to wait and see.
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06-29-26 panasonic
Carib, me think betting on asymmetric wars went pretty wrong for Gulf States, who financed Hamas.
They never expected it was going to backfire way it did.
Tdy they are buying defense systems from Israel and joined effort to recover missing enriched uranium.
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06-29-26 savo
| pana i do not support any war..do not support hammas or any other terrorist organization.. my peer group is Israel hence my sympathy and support for it... but i do not believe a word that comes out of its current leadership..and hope for new people with new ideas to come in. |
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06-29-26 carib
Asymmetric conflicts exist.. irrespective of supporting or opposing them.
The problem is what to do about them.
My limited understanding of the middle east tells me that if the government of Iran stops meddling in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, etc.. the problem is mostly solved.
The counter argument is that if the iranian regime does that, it loses it's own reason of existing, and thus collapses (a very good outcome, btw). |
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06-29-26 victor
Rep. María Elvira Salazar
Solo un criminal impediría que los rescatistas lleguen a las personas atrapadas bajo los escombros.
Y eso es exactamente lo que es Diosdado Cabello.
El régimen de Delcy Rodríguez debe entenderlo con absoluta claridad: tiene que permitir el ingreso de toda la ayuda humanitaria que está llegando desde todas partes del mundo.
Dejen que los rescatistas hagan el trabajo que su gobierno es incapaz de hacer. |
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06-29-26 panasonic
| Savo, but you don't mention Hamas' roll in your posts, do you support asymmetric wars? |
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06-29-26 carib
Savo: it is obviously easy to disagree with any killing of innocent people.
But, in my experience, the perspective changes if you actually go to the middle east and see how things actually work there.
For easier reference, just read "From Beirut to Jerusalem".
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06-29-26 savo
| carib... i agree with your geopolitics but disagree with the killing of innocent people..the flattening of entire cities..or the invasion of foreign countries and destroying them because enemies of israel live there. That is what bloodthirsty vampires do and what satanist support. |
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06-29-26 carib
Savo: I think geo-politics and wars do not work on the basis of "rooting" for somebody or some party, and do not normally deal with "vampires" or "satanists".
If you are a believer, you can rest on the assumption that the dead will face their own karma in afterlife.
If you are agnostic, then one must support reasonable and effective conflict resolution mechanisms amongst the living.
In the case of Israel, the issue is ultimately simple:
if we recognise the right of Israel lo live in peace within secured and recognised borders, then we must recognize Israel right to defend itself against any party refusing to recognise such right.The remaining issue to solve, in relation to this, is the Ayatollahs regime in Tehran. remove that, and the rest can be sorted out, in my opinion.
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06-29-26 spal
NNBR
NN INC
4.32
(+56.75%)
When you're hot ... you're hot
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06-29-26 savo
"No hay lugar para 2 estados desde el rio hasta el mar, solo Israel. No me importa que lo que hago en Irán, Líbano, Siria, Gaza... sea mi muerte política, solo quiero la victoria de Israel y si tenemos que invadir Líbano y atacar con todas nuestras fuerzas, lo haremos"
https://x.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2071062069734977637
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06-29-26 savo
pana..fwiw..i do not root for the ayatollahs...i do not want anybody to bomb israel.. and i do not want israel to bomb anybody either with the support of the Satanist States and the Satanist Union.
I do hope though that the current bloodthirsty vampire organization leaded by NetanDracula is kicked out..and ends in some dark jail for the killing of innocent people. |
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06-29-26 victor
savo
Strategy Says It May Sell Up to $1.25 Billion of Bitcoin
Bloomberg) -- Michael Saylor's Strategy Inc. unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the financing model underpinning its Bitcoin strategy, giving itself broader powers to sell the cryptocurrency, buy back securities and preserve liquidity as it adapts to mounting pressure on the structure that fueled years of aggressive accumulation.
The company said it may sell up to $1.25 billion of Bitcoin to bolster its cash reserve and established two repurchase programs of up to $1 billion each for common and preferred shares. Strategy also said it would become more disciplined about issuing common equity, particularly when its shares trade at or near the value of its Bitcoin holdings. The common shares rose around 5% in pre-market trading.
"While there is more selling pressure on Bitcoin, it is definitely positive for the stock, and both the common and preferred shareholders, they are effectively saying we are going to sell Bitcoin to support shareholders," said Bohan Jiang, senior derivatives trader at FalconX.
Strategy's common and preferred shares have tumbled alongside Bitcoin, undermining the financing advantage that for years allowed Saylor to issue securities and plow the proceeds into ever-larger Bitcoin purchases. The selloff has increasingly raised questions about whether the self-reinforcing funding model underpinning the company's Bitcoin strategy can continue to function through a prolonged downturn.
Rather than relying primarily on issuing new securities to finance ever-larger Bitcoin purchases, the company is now giving itself greater flexibility to preserve liquidity, repurchase discounted securities and monetize Bitcoin when raising fresh capital becomes less attractive.
The board also established a policy of maintaining a minimum cash reserve equal to at least 12 months of expected preferred-stock dividend payments and interest expense. Strategy said its reserve now stands at $2.55 billion after selling common stock over the past week, and raised the dividend on its STRC preferred shares to 12%.
On Friday, a valuation metric that once underpinned the bullish case turned negative, showing that the company's financing advantage has evaporated. Strategy's mNAV — the ratio of its enterprise value, including debt and preferred stock, to its Bitcoin holdings — dropped below parity. The stock has dropped almost 80% in the past year.
The timing is especially significant because demand for Bitcoin has become increasingly reliant on institutional buyers such as Strategy. As concerns mount over the company's ability to keep raising capital on attractive terms, investors are reassessing not only Saylor's acquisition strategy but also one of the cryptocurrency's biggest sources of incremental demand.
At the start of June, Strategy disclosed it had sold 32 Bitcoin, its first sale since 2022. The amount was negligible relative to holdings worth approximately $51 billion, but the symbolism was significant. For years, Saylor built Strategy around a simple premise: raise capital to buy Bitcoin and do not sell it. The disclosure challenged that narrative and helped deepen a rout that sent the crypto world shuddering.
The move appeared designed to show that the largest corporate owner of the cryptocurrency was willing to use Bitcoin to support its dividend payout for its preferred obligations. Instead, it raised fresh doubts about the durability of the structure.
The perpetual preferred shares that Strategy began selling in 2025 had provided Saylor with a way to keep buying without punishing the investors who own the common stock. The price of the preferred collapsed to less than $75, well below the $100 par value threshold needed to avoid making the purchases unprofitable for Strategy.
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06-29-26 spal
| Panas I am 100% agreeing with you. |
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06-29-26 panasonic
| Spal, long term holder's thing, not an issue for day and/or for momentum traders. |
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06-29-26 panasonic
| Spal, tech is big part of indexes, without "growth" current P/Es will have to re-balance to a bigger participation of "value" making current P/E of S&P to adjust accordingly. |
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06-29-26 carib
Savo: Israel will have elections at the end of the summer, and most likely Bibi will be retired.
No such possible elections likely in Iran, Russia, Belarus or North Korea, where the actual evil vampire regimes rule by force.
Hopefully, in november the USA will also have mid-term elections producing changes. |
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06-29-26 carib
Delcy Rodríguez, the life-long socialist who the Trump administration backed to lead Venezuela following Maduro’s ousting, was heckled by survivors in Caracas, the capital, as she surveyed the rescue effort at a collapsed 22-storey tower on Friday.
“Get out,” they shouted.
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06-29-26 spal
NNBR
NN INC
3.92
(+42.21%)
Winner, winner, chicken dinner |
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06-29-26 spal
NNBR
NN INC
Add to Watchlist
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3.7050.945
(+34.24%)
It will of course cool off ... and then I go industrial size
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06-29-26 spal
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spal
35% cash ...
NNBR - turnaround ... likely.
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06-29-26 spal
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06-29-26 spal
value stocks can't do the job to sustain current valuation in indexes.
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Say that again. |
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06-29-26 panasonic
China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race
Clampdown on top U.S. artificial intelligence is fueling concern that Washington is handing Beijing a cyberwarfare advantage
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinese-ai-anthropic-mythos-cybersecurity-574b02c2
and we are in diapers on AI, they grow fast, very fast. |
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06-29-26 panasonic
| Savo, we definitely are in metaverse days, porn stars rooting for ayatollahs and Christians rooting for Iran to Nuke Israel (with all their holy sites). |
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06-29-26 panasonic
Big Tech’s AI spending spree risks ending in a prolonged “investment bust” that could rattle financial markets.
I concur, profit margins will be much lower than expected and value stocks can't do the job to sustain current valuation in indexes.
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06-29-26 savo
| carib.. some of those too..but in this occasion i was referring to the israeli vampires that accompany the chief bloodsucker. |
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