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Yeah, it's a mess today. Wasn't great yesterday either.
Biden at the UN calling for a 2 state solution.
He can stick it where the sun doesn't shine
On Fidelty this morning:
Factbox-Qualcomm's potential bid for Intel turns the spotlight on their products
REUTERS 7:18 AM ET 9/24/2024
Symbol Last Price Change
QCOM 165.96down 0 (0%)
INTC 22.56down 0 (0%)
TSM 174.76up 0 (0%)
MBLY 13.35up 0 (0%)
QUOTES AS OF 04:00:00 PM ET 09/23/2024
(Reuters) - Qualcomm(QCOM) has approached the once-dominant chipmaker Intel(INTC) for a potential buyout, turning the spotlight on the portfolio of products these chip companies have to offer.
A deal would unite Qualcomm's(QCOM) mobile-focused Snapdragon line with Intel's(INTC) dominant PC and server chip divisions, creating a semiconductor powerhouse.
Here are some of the areas where Qualcomm(QCOM) and Intel's(INTC) product lines would come together:
PROCESSORS
Intel (INTC) dominates the PC processor market with its Core series, which is widely used in desktops and laptops, while its Xeon series chips, designed to handle demanding workloads, are extensively used in servers and workstations.
Qualcomm (QCOM) is a leader in mobile chips, producing Snapdragon processors that are widely used in smartphones and tablets.
Intel (INTC) also produces Atom processors for low-power devices, while Qualcomm(QCOM) has been expanding into laptop processors with its own compute platforms.
MANUFACTURING
Intel (INTC) fabricates its chips in-house at company-owned facilities called "fabs," located in various parts of the world.
Qualcomm (QCOM) does not make its own processors but has partnered with contract manufacturers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co(TSM) and Samsung Foundry for chip production.
CHIP ARCHITECTURE
Intel (INTC) primarily uses the x86 computing architecture, which is standard in desktops, laptops, and servers.
Qualcomm (QCOM) relies on Arm Holdings' processor architecture, which powers smartphones and targets low power consumption. Computer code built for x86 chips will not automatically run on Arm-based designs.
Intel (INTC) has previously explored developing Arm-based chips, and software solutions are available to facilitate some compatibility between x86 and Arm architectures.
AUTOMOTIVE BUSINESS
Qualcomm (QCOM) also has a growing automotive business, focusing on technologies like connected cars, infotainment systems, and advanced driver-assistance systems.
Intel's (INTC) chips are used in vehicles, powering infotainment systems, digital instrument clusters, and more. The company's advanced chips for cars support AI features like generative AI and camera systems that monitor drivers and passengers.
Intel (INTC) also owns a majority stake in Mobileye Global(MBLY) and recently confirmed that it would not divest its majority stake in the self-driving tech firm.
(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese and Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)
Kunstler:
Wheezing Past the Graveyard
"The Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency." — Tom Luongo
James Howard Kunstler
Sep 23, 2024
Pre-blog Note: My regular website, kunstler.com, remains down, but we’re making progress toward recovery. Like so much else in American life these days, this episode remains shrouded in mystery. Thank you for your patience and support!
Today’s blog, Monday Sept 23
What could go wrong? Probably more than you might imagine. We have just turned the corner into autumn. Now, things get serious, even gravely dark. America has never been so into dancing skeletons and morbidity. The small-town yards are filling up with inflatable signifiers of hell and death. Don’t you wonder what all this signifies besides good old family fun? The zeitgeist maybe having a little sport with us, you think?
We are chiefly preoccupied with our badly dysfunctional self-governance, of course, and the method for periodically revising it, which we call an election. Nobody has confidence in the process, which has acquired so many layers of absurd, needless complexity for the sole purpose of perverting the outcome that every lawyer in the land will have a hefty guaranteed annual income in the probably futile effort to sort it out come November 6. There is your hell-scape, with overtones of death on a pale horse. . . and all. Chaos. . . riots. . . anarchy. . . civil war.
The threat of World War Three may have abated for the moment, but in a peculiar and disconcerting way, viz. a coup in the executive branch. The gadfly Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, long ago chief-of-staff to Sec’y of State Colin Powell, reports that the Pentagon has cancelled “Joe Biden,” that is, taken him out of the decision-loop for anything. Well, you ask yourself, how is it possible he had even remained remotely close to any decision-loop this long, in any case, given the problem of his obviously broken brain? But now, it is unofficially official: just eat your mint-chocolate ice-cream and shut up, and let Dr. Jill run those “cabinet meeting” photo ops.
According to Col. Wilkerson, Sec’y of Defense Lloyd Austin told the “president” to his face that there will be no flinging of US-supplied long-range missiles from Ukraine “deep into Russia,” as the neocon-infested White House has been chattering about endlessly. Wiser heads deep in the DOD HQ have decided the matter. Lump it, if you must, Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan. The Russians’ “red-line” on such a caper is so wide you can see it from the International Space Station — that is, if you’re an astronaut marooned up there due to combined NASA/Boeing incompetence. . . but that’s another story.
Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was all revved up for the missile operation and flew to Washington for a one-to-one meet-up with “JB” to get the go-ahead. The Brits are avid for another World War. The last two went so well for them that they kissed their vast empire goodbye. Now they want to kiss goodbye their sceptered isle itself, which has almost no economy left and is overrun by cultural hostiles who are not into Shakespeare. The Brits’ floundering government is a posse of monomaniacs fixated on defeating Russia which, at this point in history, is like a dormouse (Glis glis) facing down a brown bear (Ursus arctos).
“Joe Biden,” reportedly “furious” at losing his executive power, was constrained to tell Mr. Starmer that the missile strike op was off, which left the UK PM miffed that he had crossed the ocean for no reason. Who knows, the Brits are so nuts these days that perhaps they’ll try to pull it off on their own. Mr. Zelensky, the no-longer-elected leader of Ukraine was begging them to try it because Ukraine has nothing left. NATO as a whole really has nothing left, either. Not much of a combined military, scant munitions left in the cupboard, and no will to wage war among the depressed citizens of its member nations.
There is nothing left except to come to terms on a settlement that will leave Ukraine not a member of NATO. The entire affair has been a humiliation for NATO and America, especially for the “Joe Biden” management team (whatever it actually consists of these days). The longer they refuse to engage in talks, the less of Ukraine will be left as a sovereign entity — having proven to the world that its sovereignty rests solely on its capacity to be used as a catspaw by the American neocon / intel blob. You’re reminded that for seventy years prior to 2014, Ukraine was not a problem for anyone until we made it a problem on-purpose — our purpose being idiotic and malicious — and Ukraine could, in theory, revert to not being a problem for anyone again. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
The neocon / intel blob’s other catspaw (domestic version), candidate Kamala Harris, is promising all kinds of good things “when [she] is in-office.” For some reason, nobody on The New York Times’s enormous staff of Ivy League germinated journalist-geniuses has informed Ms. Harris that she is actually in-office now, and has been since 1/20/2021. Why no good things for us plebes all these many months? No rainbows, unicorns, tax cuts, or ten-pound blocks of government cheese? Nothing but a disintegrating dollar, floods of savage mutts crossing the border and landing everywhere from Springfield, Ohio, to Nantucket, and endless raging bullshit about fighting “misinformation” — i.e., any idea that contradicts the Democratic Party’s agenda for assisted national suicide.
Ms. Harris’s gaslight-powered campaign has lost its loft in recent days, its most newsworthy event being last week’s cuddle hour with America’s official Care-Bear, Oprah. . . because, you see, there is nothing left except to pander to the emotional void induced by Woke-ism in the desperately needy minds of X-million voters of the birthing-person persuasion — especially among those unhappy souls who never got around to the birthing. Ms. Harris’s loathsome accessory, Tim Walz, has performed so discordantly that the campaign had to hang him in a closet somewhere, along with all his assorted skeletons, and lock the door. As ever, October surprises await: monsters, demons, ghouls, shrieking ghosts, the walking dead, and all the paid-up minions of the teachers’ union.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/wheezing-past-the-graveyard
There sure are some strange goings on with this stock. Opening trade 7069 shares @ $3.23.... next trade $3.42.
Once fully exposed, there's at least a possibility of it being approached. Problem is, if at all, it will be well after this critical election.
Only 90 thousand, or so:
And here is,
— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) September 19, 2024
the State of Nevada,
CONSPIRACY DAY NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Sen. Lankford:
• 42,000 people voted more than once,
• 1,500 resurrection of the dead,
• 19,000 didn't live in Nevada,
• 8,000 voted from a non-existent address,
• 15,000 registered to a commercial… pic.twitter.com/QUpA1XzCPQ
Carl Higbie for moderator!
Trump taking the stage.
Oh thise heartless Trumps... NOT:
A story from the past
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 20, 2024
This man went to the same school as Trump years ago
When his dad died young, Trump’s father privately went to their mother and paid the full tuition for him and his 2 siblings pic.twitter.com/3dWHQjBtsM
Their own testimony reveals their lies:
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) September 20, 2024
Transcripts HIDDEN BY THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION reveal @realDonaldTrump DID, in fact, notify top Pentagon officials of his desire for the National Guard to be deployed on January 6th, 2021.
GENERAL MARK MILLEY, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: “(January… pic.twitter.com/RGSPIrnsZY
I'm voting for staking them to a fire ant mound.
Take a guess, you can't be wrong.
They keep showing clips of the Kamala/Oprah gathering on NewsMax. What a complete imbecile!
So, is Oprah a communist? I think maybe so. The elites make out pretty well in that system.
That's a good question Larry! Not that I'm aware of.
It's an interesting plant. They are native to south Asia and south pacific tropics. Typically, they would attach to a tree, but would not feed off the host. The roots are all air roots that reach out to get sun and nutrients out of humid air. The pot is specifically for orchids and is full of holes to drain off rain water. Though the roots like to be wetted, they don't tolerate staying wet and need to dry out between rains. There is nothing in the pot but air roots, which, as you mentioned grow out, up, down, and every other way. As I previously mentioned, it likes sun, which is unusual for orchids. I situated it under the live oak tree so it gets about 2 hours of high-noon sun. I read where the sun is what encourages new blooming.
The bloom stalk has about nine buds on it. I'll post another picture when it is fully blossomed.
I stand corrected on my statement of yesterday because Trump sure did tell the Jewish groups gathered yesterday what to do... And rightfully so.
He talked about only getting 25% of the Jewish vote in 2016, which he understood because he was an unknown.
Then he talked about all the things he did for Israel (Abraham accords, capital to Jerusalem, Golan Heights, cancelling Iran nuclear deal) that only gained him 5 points of support to 29%.
Finally he talked about current polls only showing 40% support.
He finished by saying any Jew who voted for Harris should have their head examined.
His message was strong, but respectful and seemed to be very well received by both audiences.
Took a quick trip to Costco wearing my Trump/Vance tank top (Hulk Hogan version). At least ten people commented positively and many others gave me a thumbs up. One guy chanted Trump, Trump, Trump and another chanted fight, fight, fight.
This is definitely Trump country!
WidePoint mention posted on Fidelity:
ProMIS Neurosciences And 2 Other Stocks Under $5 Executives Are Buying
BENZINGA 9:17 AM ET 9/19/2024
Symbol Last Price Change
WYY 3.46down 0 (0%)
PMN 1.24down 0 (0%)
EMMA 0.016down 0 (0%)
QUOTES AS OF 04:10:00 PM ET 09/18/2024
The Dow Jones index closed lower by over 100 points on Wednesday. When insiders purchase or sell shares, it indicates their confidence or concern around the company’s prospects. Investors and traders interested in penny stocks can consider this a factor in their overall investment or trading decision.
Below is a look at a few recent notable insider transactions for penny stocks. For more, check out Benzinga’s insider transactions platform.
WidePoint
The Trade: WidePoint Corporation(WYY)CEO Jin Kang bought a total of 1,000 shares at an average price of $3.50. To acquire these shares, it cost around $3,499.
What's Happening: On Aug. 14, WidePoint(WYY) posted a second-quarter GAAP loss of 5 cents per share.
What WidePoint Does: WidePoint Corp (WYY) is a provider of Technology Management as a Service (TMaaS) that consists of federally certified communications management, identity management, interactive bill presentment and analytics, and Information Technology as a Service solution.
ProMIS Neurosciences
The Trade: ProMIS Neurosciences, Inc.(PMN) 10% owner Michael S Gordon acquired a total of 93,223 shares at an average price of $1.25. To acquire these shares, it cost around $116,880.
What's Happening: On Aug. 29, ProMIS Neurosciences(PMN) filed for resale from time to time of 56.5 million common shares of the company by selling stockholders.
What ProMIS Neurosciences Does: ProMIS Neurosciences Inc (PMN) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on generating and developing antibody therapeutics selectively targeting toxic misfolded proteins in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple system atrophy (MSA).
Emmaus Life Sciences
The Trade: Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. (EMMA) Director Seah H. Lim acquired a total of 20,000 shares at an average price of $0.04. The insider spent around $800 to buy those shares.
What's Happening: On Sept. 10, the company said net revenues for the six months ended June 30 were $7.9 million, down from $17.5 million in the year-ago period.
What Emmaus Life Sciences Does: Emmaus Life Sciences Inc (EMMA) is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development, and commercialization of new treatments and therapies predominantly for rare and orphan diseases.
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I'll let you know if they post it up on Rumble with the last 5 intact.
It was a good Gutfeld. Kat, Tyrus and Emily were beside themselves with excitement.
I think it's just Trump's way. He rarely tells people directly what to do, but instead plants the seeds of persuasion by pointing out the problem. Just my thoughts as I've studied his methods.
It's a travesty that folks with so much on the line don't take the time to vote.
posted on Fidelity:
Remark AI Successfully Optimized on Intel Architecture
PR NEWSWIRE 9:00 AM ET 9/17/2024
Symbol Last Price Change
MARK 0.086down 0 (0%)
INTC 20.91down 0 (0%)
QUOTES AS OF 12:00:00 AM ET 09/16/2024
LAS VEGAS , Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Remark Holdings, Inc.(MARK) , a leading provider of AI-powered computer vision analytics, smart city, and smart agent solutions and a member of the Intel Partner Alliance , today announced that Remark AI's Smart Safety Platform (SSP) has been successfully optimized for the Intel Architecture.
Introduction to the Smart Safety Platform
Remark AI's Smart Safety Platform (SSP) is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence solution designed to meet the evolving needs of businesses across various industries. By harnessing the power of AI, Remark AI's Smart Safety Platform offers unparalleled efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, enabling organizations to drive innovation and achieve competitive advantages. Key features of the platform include AI-driven video analytics, customizable real-time alerts and notifications, and scalable integration with existing infrastructure, each tailored to enhance operational workflows, data analysis, and decision-making processes.
Optimization on Intel Architecture
To maximize performance and efficiency, Remark AI's Smart Safety Platform has been meticulously optimized for Intel Architecture, leveraging the advanced capabilities of OpenVINO. This optimization ensures that Remark AI's SSP fully utilizes the underlying hardware, resulting in faster processing times, reduced latency, and increased throughput for AI workloads.
The optimization process involved utilizing OpenVINO, which was applied to critical components of the Smart Safety Platform. These enhancements allow the solution to take full advantage of Intel's(INTC) powerful CPUs, and GPUs, making Remark's platform not only more efficient but also more versatile across different deployment scenarios.
Remark AI's Smart Safety Platform has been optimized on the 4th Gen Xeon scalable process with flex 140 GPU, which is renowned for its robust performance and reliability. The 4th Gen Xeon and flex GPU supports an extensive ecosystem of tools and libraries that further streamline the development and deployment of AI solutions, making it an ideal choice for Smart Safety Platform.
Yeah, nothing to see here, move along.
Kunstler:
Beep Beep!
Woosh. . . !
James Howard Kunstler
Sep 16, 2024
Pre-blog Note: My regular website, www.kunstler.com, has been down more than a week. We’re frustrated trying to get straight answers from the host company, only vague references to “a hardware problem.” We begin to suspect that the Three-letter boys might have seized the server unit my website lived on. We’re still standing by on developments. For now, the blog is here for you on Substack, every Monday and Friday. Thanks for your support through this travail.
Lest we forget where this came from:
This will go down as the defining moment of the Biden presidency. His fists balled, his face a mask of rage, his voice bellowing, Biden would use the bully pulpit to spew such deranged and hateful rhetoric that a would-be assassin would repeat it verbatim. pic.twitter.com/fCUiYrfdug
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) September 16, 2024
JD demonstrates the brilliance of Trump selecting him as a running mate:
Yesterday, Donald J. Trump nearly lost his life. An armed gunman waited for him in the bushes. He brought a go-pro camera to record it. A secret service agent spotted the barrel of a gun through a fence and shot at the gunman. The gunman fled. He was caught. And now we slowly…
— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 16, 2024
Come to University of Chicago and get mugged (expand it to read some frank free speech):
At my college, the University of Chicago, it’s inevitable that black people will mug students at gunpoint this school year—because it happens every year. Last year more than a dozen students were mugged. One student had a gun pointed at her head while walking on campus at 3:00… pic.twitter.com/rwX3AJYftN
— Daniel Schmidt (@realdschmidt) September 16, 2024
Shameful FBI:
The FBI visited my house today for free speech acts they knew were not crimes.
— Jeremy Kauffman 🦔 (@jeremykauffman) September 16, 2024
You can see the shame on their faces.
This is the Democratic regime manifest. pic.twitter.com/RldC0JWMsx
And the R's of the past are now Never Trumpers.
I have two worries.
What will happen if Trump wins?
What will happen if Trump doesn't win?
Exactly what happened with me.
I wonder who these "Sources" were that tried to mislead the Post with the "Nothing to see here" narrative?
Sorry for being paranoid, but there are just too many strange things happening.
They sure had this story wrong.
Just speculating here...
I've seen a few statements about Butler where it was said that it was a good thing that the shooter attempted a head shot at Butler. Otherwise, they theorized that had he aimed at center mass, Trump would be dead. Call me crazy, but I wonder if trump is wearing body armor and this is an attempt to get any future attempts away from his head.
I know I was stating the obvious, but when they saw the DEI SS hires show up prior to Butler, huge alarm bells should have gone off. Sorry if that's a bit like blaming the victim, but Trump's staff needs to be better than this. The deep state is a formidable foe!