You don't think the same services exist to pump a stock? Promotion services are exponentially more avaialble than stock hating services. In fact there's more of a financial incentive to pump than to short. There are unlimited gains to be had from a stock rising but the best a short can do is double their money and that's only if the stock drops all the way to zero (with potentially unlimited losses if the stock increases). The folks blaming the short boogey man have no clue how markets work. Their susceptibility to that is direct evidence of their general ignorance and why they are targeted by these get rich quick stock schemes in the first place.
No one is claiming that cars haven't been produced or that rockets haven't flown. The problem is with Musk's lies about volume and the amount of public funding he's squandered in the process, not to mention his self-dealing that's being uncovered now (SolarCity).
By the way there aren't loading Tesla's on rail at their Freemont factory (even though there is a rail hub onsite). For some incredulous reason they are loading them on trucks to be delivered to trains elsewhere. The least efficient way possible. Because Musk is a genius or something.
$4.9 billion in subsidies as of three years ago, and still counting.
"Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times. The figure underscores a common theme running through his emerging empire: a public-private financing model underpinning long-shot start-ups."
Solarcity is winding down now, by the way. He hid his ownership interest and then had Tesla shareholders bail him out by acquiring it. Now they are on the hook for Solarcity's billions in debt coming due in a few months.
Or any mining team from the past 100 years. The world, especially Thailand needs Elon Musk's expertise in this!
"Thailand is one of the leading producers of tin, gypsum, feldspar and cement in the world. Other mineral resources of the country include coal, natural gas and petroleum. The country also has abundant reserves of zinc, iron, gold and copper." https://www.azomining.com/Arti...
Blaming Musk skeptics on short-sellers is not a good look. Cult-like, in fact. Short sellers aren't the ones making Musk a liar, he's done that all by himself.
Thai Navy divers and a specialist rescue team from the UK are the ones who found them. Now Musk wants to ride in on his white horse with the media in tow.
Where does his Twitter account and PR department contacting Bloomberg fit into that protocol. Interesting that they chose an investment site to leak this to.
I wish someone could explain how they actually got in there in the first place. Even before it flooded it seems like a tough place to get too. Who led them there and why? Is he facing any punishment?
"Today, 70 percent of all Pakistanis are inbred and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30 percent (Jyllands-Posten, 27/2 2009 "More stillbirths among immigrants"). A rough estimate reveals that close to half of everybody living in the Arab world is inbred. A large percentage of the parents that are blood related come from families where intermarriage has been a tradition for generations.
A BBC investigation in Britain several years ago revealed that at least 55% of the Pakistani community in Britain was married to a first cousin. The Times of India affirmed that “this is thought to be linked to the probability that a British Pakistani family is at least 13 times more likely than the general population to have children with recessive genetic disorders.”
The BBC’s research also discovered that while British Pakistanis accounted for just 3.4% of all births in Britain, they accounted for 30% of all British children with recessive disorders and a higher rate of infant mortality. It is not a surprise, therefore, that, in response to this evidence, a Labour Party MP has called for a ban on first-cousin marriage.
Medical evidence shows that one of the negative consequences of inbreeding is a 100 percent increase in the risk of stillbirths. One study comparing Norwegians and Pakistanis shows the risk that the child dies during labor increases by 50 percent. The risk of death due to autosomal recessive disorders -- e.g., cystic fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy -- is 18 times higher. Risk of death due to malformations is 10 times higher. Mental health is also at risk: the probability of depression is higher in communities where consanguine marriages are also high. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of mental and physical retardation and schizophrenic illness.
And then there are the findings on intelligence. Research shows that if one’s parents are cousins, intelligence goes down 10-16 IQ points. The risk of having an IQ lower than 70 (criterion for being "retarded") increases 400 percent among children from cousin marriages. An academic paper published in the Indian National Science Academy found that “the onset of various social profiles like visual fixation, social smile, sound seizures, oral expression and hand-grasping are significantly delayed among the new-born inbred babies." Another study found that Indian Muslim school boys whose parents were first cousins tested significantly lower than boys whose parents were unrelated in a non-verbal test on intelligence."
" -provide cash, housing, and/or living-expenses assistance
-help you apply for government benefits and services (such as an Social Security card, refugee travel document, health care, and food stamps)
-enroll you in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes
-offer job-training classes, counseling, and job placement services, and
-provide you with psychological counseling." https://www.nolo.com/legal-enc...
$2500/mo in cash, food stamps and housing allowances. That's more than poor citizens get.
Where does he mention any race in his comment? It is no secret that inbreeding is a serious problem in many third world countries these "refugees" are coming from. Marrying first cousins is actively encouraged in Islamic cultures and has been for many generations (arguably leading to many of the societal problems they are fleeing).
There is much science confirming that inbreeding leads to dramatically higher rates of medical problems , birth defect and aggressive anti-social behavior. This is disastrous to countries offering free healthcare and lack the police states necessary to deal with it as well as greatly diminishing the quality of life of those native cultures and their citizens paying for it.
By definition these folks don't have any papers or documentation (i.e. undocumented). How do you prove they are telling the truth or lying? That's the problem with the virtue-signal mentality, you will get overrun by those abusing your kindness.
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Wild hyperbole like that is why fewer and fewer people take the Left seriously about anything any more.
You don't think the same services exist to pump a stock? Promotion services are exponentially more avaialble than stock hating services. In fact there's more of a financial incentive to pump than to short. There are unlimited gains to be had from a stock rising but the best a short can do is double their money and that's only if the stock drops all the way to zero (with potentially unlimited losses if the stock increases). The folks blaming the short boogey man have no clue how markets work. Their susceptibility to that is direct evidence of their general ignorance and why they are targeted by these get rich quick stock schemes in the first place.
There's a flip side to that. If Musk rolls on in his white horse and any of those kids end up dying he's going to get the blame (right or not).
No one is claiming that cars haven't been produced or that rockets haven't flown. The problem is with Musk's lies about volume and the amount of public funding he's squandered in the process, not to mention his self-dealing that's being uncovered now (SolarCity).
By the way there aren't loading Tesla's on rail at their Freemont factory (even though there is a rail hub onsite). For some incredulous reason they are loading them on trucks to be delivered to trains elsewhere. The least efficient way possible. Because Musk is a genius or something.
https://www.trainorders.com/di...
$4.9 billion in subsidies as of three years ago, and still counting.
"Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times. The figure underscores a common theme running through his emerging empire: a public-private financing model underpinning long-shot start-ups."
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
Solarcity is winding down now, by the way. He hid his ownership interest and then had Tesla shareholders bail him out by acquiring it. Now they are on the hook for Solarcity's billions in debt coming due in a few months.
Or any mining team from the past 100 years. The world, especially Thailand needs Elon Musk's expertise in this!
"Thailand is one of the leading producers of tin, gypsum, feldspar and cement in the world. Other mineral resources of the country include coal, natural gas and petroleum. The country also has abundant reserves of zinc, iron, gold and copper." https://www.azomining.com/Arti...
The best experts in the world haven't figured it out yet... Sounds like a job for Elon Musk and his Twitter machine!
The best in the world are already there. Musk is just chasing a spotlight he saw.
My "beef with Elon" is that he lies a lot to pump his stock and that an awful lot of tax dollars are spent inflating his ego.
Miners and tunnel diggers have been doing that successfully for more than a century.
Musk knows about as much about underwater cave rescue as you or I. The difference is we aren't pretending to so we can get more press coverage.
Blaming Musk skeptics on short-sellers is not a good look. Cult-like, in fact. Short sellers aren't the ones making Musk a liar, he's done that all by himself.
The US Navy is actually assisting. They aren't tweeting about it either.
Thai Navy divers and a specialist rescue team from the UK are the ones who found them. Now Musk wants to ride in on his white horse with the media in tow.
Where does his Twitter account and PR department contacting Bloomberg fit into that protocol. Interesting that they chose an investment site to leak this to.
I wish someone could explain how they actually got in there in the first place. Even before it flooded it seems like a tough place to get too. Who led them there and why? Is he facing any punishment?
Then why not just help instead of Tweeting and then having his PR people contact the press about it?
The site that portrayed Bill Gates as a Borg for years?
Musk seems absolutely desperate for any kind of good publicity. Shameless.
You have got to be kidding...
"Today, 70 percent of all Pakistanis are inbred and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30 percent (Jyllands-Posten, 27/2 2009 "More stillbirths among immigrants"). A rough estimate reveals that close to half of everybody living in the Arab world is inbred. A large percentage of the parents that are blood related come from families where intermarriage has been a tradition for generations.
A BBC investigation in Britain several years ago revealed that at least 55% of the Pakistani community in Britain was married to a first cousin. The Times of India affirmed that “this is thought to be linked to the probability that a British Pakistani family is at least 13 times more likely than the general population to have children with recessive genetic disorders.”
The BBC’s research also discovered that while British Pakistanis accounted for just 3.4% of all births in Britain, they accounted for 30% of all British children with recessive disorders and a higher rate of infant mortality. It is not a surprise, therefore, that, in response to this evidence, a Labour Party MP has called for a ban on first-cousin marriage.
Medical evidence shows that one of the negative consequences of inbreeding is a 100 percent increase in the risk of stillbirths. One study comparing Norwegians and Pakistanis shows the risk that the child dies during labor increases by 50 percent. The risk of death due to autosomal recessive disorders -- e.g., cystic fibrosis and spinal muscular atrophy -- is 18 times higher. Risk of death due to malformations is 10 times higher. Mental health is also at risk: the probability of depression is higher in communities where consanguine marriages are also high. The closer the blood relative, the higher the risk of mental and physical retardation and schizophrenic illness.
And then there are the findings on intelligence. Research shows that if one’s parents are cousins, intelligence goes down 10-16 IQ points. The risk of having an IQ lower than 70 (criterion for being "retarded") increases 400 percent among children from cousin marriages. An academic paper published in the Indian National Science Academy found that “the onset of various social profiles like visual fixation, social smile, sound seizures, oral expression and hand-grasping are significantly delayed among the new-born inbred babies." Another study found that Indian Muslim school boys whose parents were first cousins tested significantly lower than boys whose parents were unrelated in a non-verbal test on intelligence."
There are dozens of neutral citations for every single claim in that passage here: https://pjmedia.com/blog/the-p...
Asylum seekers immediately receive:
" -provide cash, housing, and/or living-expenses assistance
-help you apply for government benefits and services (such as an Social Security card, refugee travel document, health care, and food stamps)
-enroll you in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes
-offer job-training classes, counseling, and job placement services, and
-provide you with psychological counseling."
https://www.nolo.com/legal-enc...
$2500/mo in cash, food stamps and housing allowances. That's more than poor citizens get.
Where does he mention any race in his comment? It is no secret that inbreeding is a serious problem in many third world countries these "refugees" are coming from. Marrying first cousins is actively encouraged in Islamic cultures and has been for many generations (arguably leading to many of the societal problems they are fleeing).
There is much science confirming that inbreeding leads to dramatically higher rates of medical problems , birth defect and aggressive anti-social behavior. This is disastrous to countries offering free healthcare and lack the police states necessary to deal with it as well as greatly diminishing the quality of life of those native cultures and their citizens paying for it.
And no, Islam is not a race.
You've obviously never had a job. The employee fills out a W4 form when hired that specifies how much is withheld.
I honestly can't tell sarcasm any more on this site. They Left has jumped the shark that badly.
By definition these folks don't have any papers or documentation (i.e. undocumented). How do you prove they are telling the truth or lying? That's the problem with the virtue-signal mentality, you will get overrun by those abusing your kindness.