TORONTO, May 19, 2021 – Rumble, a video platform focused on helping millions of creators manage, distribute, and monetize their video content, welcomed the investment of Narya Capital, Peter Thiel and
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Colt Ventures.
“We couldn’t be more excited to welcome aboard investors that are aligned with our long-term vision. This investment is evidence that the market really desires competition and freedom of choice. These funds will help us launch our new cloud services, enhance our video platform, and help create the rails for a new economy that is desperately needed” said Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski.
In the past year, Rumble’s monthly viewership has grown from 1.6 million users per month to an average of 31 million per month in the first quarter of 2021 – an increase of more than 1,800%. This growth reflects the increasingly strong market recognition by both users and creators of Rumble’s differentiated value proposition. The investment will add considerable strength to Rumble’s ability to build upon this success.
Tag: economics
Elon Musk slams GoFundMe for bowing to Trudeau and CANCELING Freedom Truckers – while allowing BLM donations: Site refuses to return $9M and will instead distribute it to charities it deems fit as Canadian PM is branded a ‘dictator’
GoFundMe has canceled the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraiser for allegedly violating its terms of service
The crowdfunding platform announced Friday that they will be distributing the remaining funds to ‘credible and established charities chosen by the Freedom Convoy 2022 organizers and verified by GoFundMe’
The company said convoy donors have until February 19 to request a refund
The decision comes one day after Canadian leaders called on GoFundMe to detail how it would ensure donations weren’t being used to promote hate
Tesla CEO Elon Musk slammed the decision and accused GoFundMe of having ‘double standards’ because of its previous support for Black Lives Matter fundraisers
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Good on Musk. Notice the tide has turned strongly. Europe is backing off mandates and even California is. Trudeau and GoFuckYourself GoFundMe are deeply behind the eight ball, out on a limb in a howling storm, left holding a bag of wet shit. Trudeau, instead of manning up and accepting his mistakes, sicked the Ottawa cops on the truckers probably hoping to suck them down the drain with him. All the truckers have to do now is slow-walk whatever they do thus allowing time and impermanence to continue working in their favor. Omicron killed covid, Rogan killed covid, Malone and McCullough killed covid, time, the truckers, and truth itself killed the horrible pandemic response that murdered so many. Justin, the world is pulling the rug out from under your fat ass and loving every minute. You made yourself the global symbol of the defeat of “healthcare” authoritarianism. That’s fitting for a globalist such as yourself, and to your credit, actually worthy of the empty dramatist you are. ABN
Ancient trees vital to forest health
LISLE, Ill. (Jan. 31, 2022)—New research suggests that ancient trees possess far more than an awe-inspiring presence and a suite of ecological services to forests—they also sustain the entire population of trees’ ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
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And: American South emerged as Europe’s primary source of biomass imports
US is approaching the end of a SUPERBUBBLE caused by COVID stimulus and could now endure the largest markdown of wealth in its history, top investor Jeremy Grantham warns
Legendary UK investor Jeremy Grantham warned the US ‘superbubble’ that saw economic prosperity across all markets would soon pop
The GMO co-founder said the market could lose $35 trillion in value once the Federal Reserve begins raising interest rates
He said the blow would finally slay the ‘vampire phase of the bull market’ that survived COVID and rising inflation
The bull market is used to describe when prices are on the rise for a fixed period of time
Grantham blamed the Federal Reserve for encouraging the ‘superbubble’ as it lowered rates and raised optimism in the market throughout the pandemic
It comes as the Federal Reserve is set to meet next week with investors expecting news on an interest rate hike
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This looks like the next act after the two-year covid assault. ABN
Biden Administration Confirms Canadian and Mexican Truck Drivers Must Show Vaccination Passport Beginning Tomorrow
…The bottom line is both shortages and higher prices. Canada will feel it the worst; however, U.S. stores will feel it also. The inflation this will drive will be on top of existing price pressure. We have been warning since October, prices will increase, and shortages will be impactful.
The retail food stores have been reflecting the majority of the price increase from government COVID policy. This vaccine mandate will make those price increases more as transportation costs will increase again. However, the second route for fresh food delivery, “food away from home“, will suffer the majority of this price increase. Restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, bars and institutional settings (hospitals, nursing homes, etc.) will see significant increases in their food costs.
A perfect storm has been created by policy.
Energy policy has driven up oil, fuel, packaging and gas prices. Transportation costs have skyrocketed. Emission regulations have driven up port costs and delayed transportation fracturing the supply chain. Vaccine mandates have hit the manufacturing and processing sectors. Legislative policy and COVID spending have artificially inflated the economy. Monetary policy has devalued the dollar and driven even higher inflation.
A tenuous economy cannot take these self-inflicted wounds…. and it’s about to get worse.
Into this hurricane of stagflation, the fed is going to raise interest rates. The stock market could lose half its inflated value. The NASDAQ is already responding to the storm clouds. Employment is going to start getting really sketchy. Congress will eventually announce their remedy, which will be more spending – and the dollar gets worse.
All of this was avoidable.
None of this is caused by COVID-19.
All of this is caused by Joe Biden’s economic, financial, monetary and legislative policy.
The people behind Joe Biden are laughing….
…Biden has no idea.
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The elite know we know
THE FED GOES FOR IT: Digital Dollars to be “highly significant innovation”
“The introduction of a CBDC would represent a highly significant innovation in American money,” says The Fed in its much-anticipated report on the possible issuance of a U.S. digital currency.
The 35-page discussion paper on a government-backed coin makes no firm conclusions on whether (making it clear it did not “favour any policy outcome” at this point) it should be issuing a CBDC, but instead solicits feedback (as Powell had previously explained would be its purpose).
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It’s not the ideas I fear but those proposing them and those who would oversee them. The track record of that group could not be more dismal. ABN
CHINA: Over 4.3 million small & medium businesses shuttered in 2021; live-stream sales offer recompense for some but also cannibalizes remaining small businesses; massive unemployment worsens
Mike Yeadon and Reiner Fuellmich: The evidence for premeditated murder
Dr Zelenko: “With the collapse of the world economy and fiat currency… they want to create a cryptocurrency-based financial system that is controlled and manipulated by a few people… This is a brilliant mechanism for human enslavement”
We Have Less Than Two Weeks to Finalize Preparation
I do not know how better to emphasize the points other than to be direct and brutally honest. Sometimes you just have to call the baby ugly. The window to prepare for the incoming crisis of our lifetime is now down to two weeks. Hopefully, that is specific enough.
As we have discussed on these pages, the interventionist policies and regulations from the people creating the COVID response (writ large) have been fubar from the beginning. {Go Deep} When they shut down the restaurants and hospitality sector (2020 lockdowns), the advisors and bureaucrats triggered a cascading series of events inside the food supply chain {Go Deep}.
Every policy implementation since then has made matters worse {Go Deep}
Adding to the supply chain and inflation crisis, in about a week the vaccine mandate and subsequent commercial passport means 30,000 cross border truckers are about to get shut down from operating between the United States and Canada.
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Is China facing a food crisis? Grain hoarding and food imports among other signs indicate food shortages ahead
“It is a highly illiberal notion to believe that there is a group of experts out there who have the truth and your only duty is to listen to them… and if you don’t you’re not only hurting yourself but you’re hurting your fellow human beings and therefore you should be punished”: Donald Boudreaux
From Carrefour to Wal-Mart, international retailers are leaving China/Why do they fail?
Exit Nord Stream 2, Enter Power of Siberia 2
“We need long-term legally binding guarantees even if we know they cannot be trusted, as the U.S. frequently withdraws from treaties that become uninteresting to them. But it’s something, not just verbal assurances.”
And that’s how Russia-U.S. relations come to the definitive crunch – after an interminable series of polite red alerts coming from Moscow.
Putin once again had to specify that Russia is looking for “indivisible, equitable security” – a principle established since Helsinki in 1975 – even though he no longer sees the U.S. as a dependable “partner”, that diplomatically nicety so debased by the Empire since the end of the USSR.
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