Chinese Migrants Crosses US Through South Border
A startling number of Chinese migrants are entering the US through the southern border. In the past year, over 24,000 Chinese citizens have been caught crossing into the US from Mexico, despite the distance and difficulty. That exceeds the previous 10 years, according to government data.

They fly through Turkey to Ecuador, which doesn’t require a visa. Like hundreds of thousands of other Central and South American and other migrants, they pay smugglers to guide them through the hazardous jungle between Colombia and Panama to the US. Many surrender to border agents and request asylum. Most succeed, inspiring more tries. Chinese asylum seekers outperform others in immigration court. China rarely accepts them back, so they stay anyhow. A little-discussed issue in the polarizing immigration debate is that US officials cannot force countries to take back their residents. Usually not a problem. However, 12 countries are uncooperative, with China being the worst.

An administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal data said 100,000 of the 1.3 million Americans with final deportation orders are Chinese… (Continue to full article)

Bill Gates Calls Planting Trees to Improve Climate Change “Nonsense”
Despite his vast contributions to tackling climate change in his lifetime, billionaire philanthropist, Bill Gates has come under public scrutiny recently, for his views on planting trees.

In a recent interview with David Gelles, at the New York Times Climate Forward Summit, Gates referred to tree planting as a “less proven” tactic — even going on to call it “complete nonsense”.

When Gelles posed the statement, “Some people would even say that if you just plant enough trees, it could take care of the climate issue altogether”, Gates responded:

“That’s complete nonsense [chuckling to himself]… I mean, are we the science people or are we the idiots?“

Since then, the internet has erupted with backlash, citing Bill’s intent to be somehow tied to 2,100 acres of potato farmland he purchased in North Dakota… (Continue to full article)

Biden Allocates Billions Abroad as American Families Struggle and Domestic Aid Shortfalls
A recent analysis of U.S. foreign aid and federal spending trends has sparked debate over the Biden administration’s prioritization of foreign assistance over domestic economic challenges from all parties. The data reveals a stark contrast between substantial foreign aid and the growing economic struggles faced by many Americans.

Historically, the U.S. has been a leading provider of foreign aid. Notably, aid to Israel, adjusted for inflation from 1951 to 2022, totaled $317.9 billion, making Israel the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II. Meanwhile, in fiscal year 2023, the U.S. government expenditure reached $6.13 trillion, resulting in a significant budget deficit.

Amidst these figures, the Biden administration’s newly proposed additional security assistance package, allocating over $60 billion to Ukraine, has come under scrutiny. This proposal emerges at a time when Americans are grappling with rising living costs, including escalating gas prices and food costs, amid stagnant wages.

The financial strain is compounded by the estimated $150.7 billion annual cost of illegal immigration, as reported by FAIR, a burden that indirectly falls on U.S. taxpayers… (Continue to full article)

Bill Gates’s Relationship with Convicted Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Revolved Around a Global Health Investment Fund

Over time, Gates and JPMorgan established an investment fund that sought to profit from the development of vaccines and other health technologies. Epstein wanted a piece of the action, and Staley brought Epstein into the Gates partnership.

The Gates-JPMorgan partnership was called the Global Health Investment Fund (GHIF) and was created circa 2011. At the time, Staley managed the Epstein relationship for the bank, and Epstein was a valuable client who brought JPMorgan a lot of business. Epstein was an adviser to billionaires like Victoria’s Secret mogul Leslie Wexner and Wall Street legend Leon Black and the “family offices” which manage their fortunes. Wexner and Black deny any involvement in Epstein’s criminal activities.

The GHIF partnership brought in a host of other powerful investors, including The Pfizer Foundation, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, as well as entities funded by the governments of Sweden, Canada, and Germany. There would also be private support from “qualified individuals and family offices.”

The GHIF’s purpose was to give “individual and institutional investors the opportunity to finance late-stage global health technologies that have the potential to save millions of lives in low-income countries.” The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency committed to help offset any potential GHIF losses… (Continue to full article)

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Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where ‘machines can make all the food and stuff’ isn’t a bad idea
Technology may not replace humans, but it could make a 3-day work week possible — at least, that’s what Bill Gates thinks.

The billionaire joined Trevor Noah on his “What Now?” podcast in an episode that premiered on Tuesday. When Noah asked about the threat of artificial intelligence to jobs, Gates said there could one day be a time when humans “don’t have to work so hard.”

“If you eventually get a society where you only have to work three days a week, that’s probably OK,” Gates said.

There could exist a world where “machines can make all the food and the stuff,” and people don’t have to work a five day-plus work week to earn a living wage… (Continue to full article)

Gold prices are headed for all-time highs and could eventually hit $2,500
This Thanksgiving may call for a feast on gold as prices push towards all-time highs, according to Fundstrat’s Mark Newton.

In the past couple of weeks, gold futures have surged 3% and briefly breached a key psychological threshold of $2,000 per ounce on Tuesday.

In fact, Tuesday’s action marked the highest daily close of November, and any movement above $2,006.37 per ounce this week would make it the highest weekly close since the spring, the technical analyst said in a note Wednesday.

“This is quite positive technically, and I expect that gold has begun its push back to new all-time highs,” Newton wrote, adding that a move above $2,009.41 should lead to the $2,060-$2,080 range.

In follow-up comments to Business Insider via email, he said a breach of resistance at $2,080 would signal a “definite technical breakout,” which he expects to happen and quickly drive gold even higher… (Continue to full article)