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Friday, May 10, 2024

road-rage shootings,bad brokers,chip jobs,med debt,credit reports,SS benefits

 

How Govt wastes our money:                                                                       May 2024

Firm’s goal is the democratization of tax avoidance: plan for more wealthy tax avoiders

Biden put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel

2 million with TX Medicaid coverage were cancelled by state.

 

US probe finds widespread sexual misconduct at FDIC

Living Overseas; Paying Taxes

Trump’s Individual, Estate Tax Cut Renewal to Cost $4.6 Trillion: the kids will pay!

 

NASA wastes taxes: plan to build helicopters for Mars: can Congress stop plan?

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." – Albert Einstein

 

The total number of satellites in Earth's orbit hit 12,597: getting dangerous up there

Hazardous Products That Were Recalled This Week

Recall: Palmer Candy confections sold at Walmart, Target, Hy-Vee and Dollar General.

Recall: Some Planters nut products have been recalled over a possible listeria

Recall: Gold Medal Apple Juice because of elevated levels of inorganic arsenic

 

Regulator probe 6,813 Ocean SUVs emergency braking system activated inadvertently.

 

FL prohibits any municipalities from passing heat protections for outdoor workers: 100+

Road-rage shooting incidents have skyrocketed over the past decade

 

Eddy R Blizzard MD stole $1m victim’s retirement & legacy: promised better returns

Regulator fined SoFi for lack of control of client cash accounts: lost $2.5 ml; ID breech

Andrew Egber MD disbarred: possible theft of client funds; missed regulator hearing

 

Cigna Pressures Doctors to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly: many denial outcomes

Chime Financial caught: failing to give us timely refunds when accounts were closed. 

 

Williams-Sonoma caught falsely claiming products were "Made in the USA": fine

AstraZeneca Withdraws Its COVID Vaccine Worldwide, Citing Dangerous Side Effects

 

"Life Plan Communities" may cost you more than the contract says

 

Jobs

jobs.interestingengineering.com/

Few Americans are getting chips jobs now: Intel, TSMC, Micron need trained workers

 

Who owns your account now?

Why medical debt is still on your credit report: need multiple contacts to correct mess

Vanguard raises fees in brokerage accounts: matching other brokers

10 Best Investment Apps: depends on what you want to accomplish

Best & Worst Online Direct Banks: J.D. Power

Most credit reports have errors in credit history and personal data: check for free

 

Most Accurate DNA Test Kits, Ranked By Experts

Social Security Update Could Expand SS Benefits to Millions

 

 

What to do if you receive mail from the IRS: ask your preparer

 

Focus Financial Merges Buckingham Strategic Wealth With The Colony Group

Osaic purchased Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. and Lincoln Financial Securities

 

Under Trump government, college students may not be allowed to protest on campus

Textbooks are rewritten, purge liberals, and scorn democratic ideals in FL and Russia

Judge Cannon postpones documents case 'indefinitely': delay to 2nd term to dismiss case?

 

Smart Ways to Take Money Out of Retirement Accounts

Annual contribution limit for an individual is $4,300; with family it is $8,550.

 

Miracles:

Chemo can be brutal. This FDA effort aims to make it less so.

A specific genetic variant appears to play a significant role in a child’s becoming overweight  

Medicare and Social Security funding has been lengthened to 2036 due to market gains

Nanotechnology-based oral insulin may replace injections for diabetes 

 

CRISPR gene therapy improves vision in people with inherited blindness

New brain cancer vaccine reprograms immune system in successful human trial: glioblastoma

Liver’s reaction to seeing and smelling food may unlock new diabetes cure

 

Med-Gemini beats GPT-4, achieves 91.1% accuracy in medical diagnostics: in test phase

New antibody drug reverses Type 1 diabetes in groundbreaking experiment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lessons from successful investors

 

 

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?********ACCOUNTABILITY**************?

 

 

Like 1776, this period is a test of democracy—We rejected an "American fascist" once

 

 

The Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030

 

Parallels of this era in the past may hint at our future: democracy breaks apart legally

 

 

Jan 21 2010 Corpor­a­tions’ election-spending unlim­ited

Billionaires paid $881 million for votes in 2022 midterm elections

 

Nov 2020 Wealthy discredit election process

 

Nov 21 2020 Trump’s Plans for a Coup: criminal

 

Nov 21 2020: Trump plan: US Marshals seize voting machines

 

Jan 6 2021 Direct govt overthrow failed: guns & bombs were ready

 

Trump engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" to stop Biden

 

“I don’t f—ing care that they have weapons”

 

Trump was “detached from reality”

 

Trump used mafia-style intimidation on the defenseless

 

Trump still terrorizing election woman

 

Parscale: “a sitting president asking for civil war.”

 

Trump: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” 

 

GOP fascism: “RINO hunt armed; no bagging limit” J6 comm threat

 

January 6, 2021 “A date which will live in infamy”

 

Trump’s Supremes END personal rights & state laws except for weapons WMDs

 

Fascism: GOP to stop women leaving state for abortion

 

It’s not a court. It’s a junta: Two Americas

 

Trump: President Biden is 'enemy of the state'

 

Christian Nationalist Party (CNP) replaces GOP

 

Nov 8 2022 Trump’s “national revolution” failed

 

Nov 15 2022 Trump announces for 2024 to avoid lawsuits

 

Dec 3 2022 Trump: cancel Constitution rules so ‘I win’

 

Mar 11 2023 Pence straddles his place in history

 

Mar 31 2023 Trump indicted misusing election money

 

Apr 7 2023 One GOP guy decided which drugs we can use

 

Apr 9 Illustrated Anne Frank book removed by Florida school

 

Apr 21 Trump: “I am your justice”

 

May 9 Trump guilty of sexual abuse

 

Jun 8 Trump indicted by the United States of America

Violation of the Espionage Act

Conspiracy to obstruct justice

Making false statements 

 

Aug 1 2023 Trump indicted by the United States of America

Conspiracy to defraud the United States

Conspiracy to obstruct Congressional proceeding

Obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding

Conspiracy against right to vote

 

 

Attempted coup d'état by any other name: American fascism

 

350+ people have been sentenced to jail or prison.

 

 

Trump and His Gang Get the Mob Treatment

 

Aug 4  “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”

 

Mobster #1 Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years 

Mobster Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years

Mobster Ethan Nordean gets 18 years

Mobster Dominic Pezzola sentenced to 10 years

 

 

Aug 14 2023 Trump & 18 indicted by the State of Georgia

 

VIOLATION OF THE GEORGIA RICO (RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS) ACT SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT INIPERSONATIN PUBLIC OFFICER FIRST DEGREE

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE DOCUMENTS

FORGERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS

FILING FALSE DOCUMENTS

SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER

FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS

SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER

FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS

 

 

 

Aug 24 2023 The Don, Racketeer: GA jailhouse ‘mug’ shot his symbol

 

Oct 2 2023 Kelly on Trump’s staff, confirms Trump called our veterans/wounded soldiers, “suckers”

 

Don’t get pregnant in Idaho: if you have an emergency, doctors told to let you die

 

Dec 2023: Trump using Hitler language to scare us

 

“Wannabe Dictator” runs our House of “Representatives”

 

MAGA kills GOP: Trump kills Reagan’s GOP

 

Jan 15, 2024: “God gave us Trump” the white christians’ savior 

 

Christian nationalism can replace democracy?

 

MAGA rules the Republicans

 

Presidential Immunity “If we say a president can’t be included in a criminal law unless explicitly named, then that would bar the Senate from convicting him for high crimes or misdemeanors because that means that he’s not subject to the law at all,” Sotomayor said.

 

Jan 2025 Dictator pardons himself: his Supremes agree

 

Trump’s plans for America 2025-2028

 

 

 

 

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Miracles that made our world

 

Our Universe is a miracle

 

Light is both a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.

I don’t think that there is any such thing as a position or a velocity of a particle.

Everything (galaxies to stones) in universe made of subatomic energy ‘vibrations’

A subatomic ‘particle’ is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.

A ‘particle’ is an event; not an objective thing. This event is set of complex relationships.

New theory may finally unite Einstein's gravity with the quantum world

Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities

 

Mass–energy equivalence: E=mc^2.  At the smallest level; Everything is moving

Energy into matter: scientists converted light energy directly into matter in one step

In place of atomic lattice, light waves used to create an optical lattice with same geometry

Physics Nobel Prize: “entanglement” 2 particles share info instantly at a distance

Quantum mechanics violates local realism: two objects behave as single system at distance

New theory: no need for dark matter; dark energy: energy in universe due to erratic spacetime

 

“It may be that gravity and quantum mechanics are exactly the same thing,” Leonard Susskind

Gravity might induce the collapse of quantum vibrations into 1 quantum state—our world

Strange state of physics that allows energy to flow frictionlessly through a material. 

Bending light from extreme gravity reveals largest black hole so far

Curved SpaceTime: heavy masses and simultaneously quantum effects become visible

There is no TIME at this level because of force fields come and go in all directions. 

Universe expanding: events may not come together like they did before: created our time.

Our planetary system: rarest system: only 1% of all systems with same number of planets

 

dark energy may have eroded over time: we’re seeing hints of dark energy evolving

Stars fueled by the self-annihilation of dark matter might have been spotted for the first time by JWST

Inside protons, neutrons, it is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.

Gold made from neutron stars: collisions produce more neutrons:79 protons,118 neutrons

The proton is so complicated science still finds new energy entities/forces every year.

 

“Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.

New method to study systems with long-range interactions: previously puzzling experts

The electricity we use comes from the field around the wire not from electron itself.

 

Natural ‘missing law’ explain how universe evolved: functions increase in complexity over time

Scientists build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact: inside quantum computer

starts-with-a-bang/universe-expansion-not-accelerating/

Physicists knew black holes eventually disappear particle by particle. Now they think everything else does, too.

Astronomers discover raw materials for life are present all across the Universe: methyl cation

New Astrophysical Models: Earth’s Building Blocks Contained Water: metal oxides

 

 

IAN

973.746.2014

http://www.theinsidersguides.com/ 

Alerts available at http://dankeppel.blogspot.com/

No AI used in these comments

 

Friday, April 12, 2024

We gave Taiwan's TSMC $6.6 B for Arizona chip production

 

How Govt wastes our money:                                                                       Apr 2024

We only have a week to report our tax situation: pay some now—return can go later.

We gave Taiwan TSMC $6.6 B for Arizona chip production: TSMC already had $

Credit agencies fail to fix reporting mistakes, errors, false reporting, fake ID posts, etc

 

NASA wastes tax money to establish a long-term human presence on the Moon: why?

Local gov chatbot to help small business owners is dispensing bizarre advice: bad legal

Tax failure: 806 Billionaires Are Now Richer Than Half the Population Combined

 

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." – Albert Einstein

 

AARP: helpful correct information about your tax filing: avoid media sites

“Ghost preparers” encourage taxpayers to use tax credits/benefits they don’t qualify for. 

Hazardous Products That Were Recalled This Week

 

Dangerous "forever chemicals" found in nearly half of our drinking water

Plastic in Poland Spring, Fiji, Evian, Arrowhead, Ice Mountain and Crystal Geyser –

Recall: Ford recall 43,000 small SUVs: gasoline can leak from the fuel injectors: fires

 

L.A. CA tests sending unarmed people NOT cops to folks in crisis

 

Robert S Gleason KY sold client items that were excessive; not in best interest-suspended

Bogus tax avoidance: syndicated conservation easements, micro-captive insurance

Regulators check Morgan Stanley’s efforts to prevent money laundering by wealthy.

 

Boeing CEO got $33 million pay despite blowout and shortcuts due to his mistakes.

Presidential election now a $ million media battle: Trump raises $50 million one night

Biden uses campaign donations to pay his legal bills just like Trump

 

Putin stokes anti-Ukraine sentiment: false news, media posts, Congressional comments

Argentine judge: 20 nuns suffered abuse by archbishop & clergy for 20 years: no jail

 

Walmart has been overcharging us on groceries for years

"Junk" health insurance: companies provide inexpensive coverage with few benefits

NY County Republicans want an armed civilian militia: like CA, MI, NV, FL.

 

Jobs

jobs.interestingengineering.com/

 

 

Who owns your account now?

Skipping Meals and Working Overtime: Sacrifices We Make to Afford Housing

Scammers steal your home: Deed Fraud Is On the Rise

Making your retirement funds last longer: annuities are not the answer

Most of us fear outliving our money more than death: inflation, SS funding, etc

 

 

Best-In-State Hospitals 2024: your state’s best hospitals

How to raise or lower your vehicle insurance rate: myths busted

State Farm won’t renew 72,000 insurance policies in California,

 

Abortion entirely illegal in Arizona after the state Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law 

12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death.

 

Maximize Your Social Security Checks: know the rules to increase your benefits: couples

Study: 42% of us have withdrawn from our retirement savings early due to rising prices

How much are you paying your advisor: $265/m, $968/q, or $1,578/y; up 6.7%.

 

Miracles:

New Cancer Vaccine May Keep More Men From Dying Of Melanoma

Failure to get tests for early signs of Alzheimer’s

World record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe

 

Most Cancer Drugs Granted Accelerated FDA Approval May Not Work

Our society banned 4,240 books in 2023: fear of freedom in a “free” nation

 

 

 

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Lessons from successful investors

 

How we mess up the success of our portfolios

“Fidelity Reviewed Which Investors Did Best And What They Found Was Hilarious” was the headlines of an article in 2014. Can you guess what was hilarious? If you want good investment performance, forget you have an account. Yes Fidelity found that the accounts that did the best were those held by customers that were dead. In other words accounts that were left alone. Many studies show that we think too much and “buy high and sell low.” Emotions emerge as the great actor when it comes to investing for most of us. We read the financial environment all wrong.

Allow Buffett to be your advisor: https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffetts-Vanguard-Funds-Retirement/dp/1496148592

 

 

 

 

 

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********ACCOUNTABILITY**************?

 

 

Like 1776, this period is a test of democracy—We rejected an "American fascist" once

 

 

The Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030

 

Parallels of this era in the past may hint at our future: democracy breaks apart legally

 

 

Jan 21 2010 Corpor­a­tions’ election-spending unlim­ited

Billionaires paid $881 million for votes in 2022 midterm elections

 

Nov 2020 Wealthy discredit election process

 

Nov 21 2020 Trump’s Plans for a Coup: criminal

 

Nov 21 2020: Trump plan: US Marshals seize voting machines

 

Jan 6 2021 Direct govt overthrow failed: guns & bombs were ready

 

Trump engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" to stop Biden

 

“I don’t f—ing care that they have weapons”

 

Trump was “detached from reality”

 

Trump used mafia-style intimidation on the defenseless

 

Trump still terrorizing election woman

 

Parscale: “a sitting president asking for civil war.”

 

Trump: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” 

 

GOP fascism: “RINO hunt armed; no bagging limit” J6 comm threat

 

January 6, 2021 “A date which will live in infamy”

 

Trump’s Supremes END personal rights & state laws except for weapons WMDs

 

Fascism: GOP to stop women leaving state for abortion

 

It’s not a court. It’s a junta: Two Americas

 

Trump: President Biden is 'enemy of the state'

 

Christian Nationalist Party (CNP) replaces GOP

 

Nov 8 2022 Trump’s “national revolution” failed

 

Nov 15 2022 Trump announces for 2024 to avoid lawsuits

 

Dec 3 2022 Trump: cancel Constitution rules so ‘I win’

 

Mar 11 2023 Pence straddles his place in history

 

Mar 31 2023 Trump indicted misusing election money

 

Apr 7 2023 One GOP guy decided which drugs we can use

 

Apr 9 Illustrated Anne Frank book removed by Florida school

 

Apr 21 Trump: “I am your justice”

 

May 9 Trump guilty of sexual abuse

 

Jun 8 Trump indicted by the United States of America

Violation of the Espionage Act

Conspiracy to obstruct justice

Making false statements 

 

Aug 1 2023 Trump indicted by the United States of America

Conspiracy to defraud the United States

Conspiracy to obstruct Congressional proceeding

Obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding

Conspiracy against right to vote

 

 

Attempted coup d'état by any other name: American fascism

 

350+ people have been sentenced to jail or prison.

 

 

Trump and His Gang Get the Mob Treatment

 

Aug 4  “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”

 

Mobster #1 Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years 

Mobster Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years

Mobster Ethan Nordean gets 18 years

Mobster Dominic Pezzola sentenced to 10 years

 

 

Aug 14 2023 Trump & 18 indicted by the State of Georgia

 

VIOLATION OF THE GEORGIA RICO (RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS) ACT SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT INIPERSONATIN PUBLIC OFFICER FIRST DEGREE

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE DOCUMENTS

FORGERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS

FILING FALSE DOCUMENTS

SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER

FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS

SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER

FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS

 

 

 

Aug 24 2023 The Don, Racketeer: GA jailhouse ‘mug’ shot his symbol

 

Oct 2 2023 Kelly on Trump’s staff, confirms Trump called our veterans/wounded soldiers, “suckers”

 

Don’t get pregnant in Idaho: if you have an emergency, doctors told to let you die

 

Dec 2023: Trump using Hitler language to scare us

 

“Wannabe Dictator” runs our House of “Representatives”

 

MAGA kills GOP: Trump kills Reagan’s GOP

 

Jan 15, 2024: “God gave us Trump” the white christians’ savior 

 

MAGA rules the Republicans

 

 

Jan 2025 Dictator pardons himself: his Supremes agree

 

Trump’s plans for America 2025-2028

 

 

 

 

@

 

Miracles that made our world

 

Our Universe is a miracle

 

Light is both a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.

I don’t think that there is any such thing as a position or a velocity of a particle.

Everything (galaxies to stones) in universe made of subatomic energy ‘vibrations’

A subatomic ‘particle’ is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.

A ‘particle’ is an event; not an objective thing. This event is set of complex relationships.

New theory may finally unite Einstein's gravity with the quantum world

Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities

 

Mass–energy equivalence: E=mc^2.  At the smallest level; Everything is moving

Energy into matter: scientists converted light energy directly into matter in one step

In place of atomic lattice, light waves used to create an optical lattice with same geometry

Physics Nobel Prize: “entanglement” 2 particles share info instantly at a distance

Quantum mechanics violates local realism: two objects behave as single system at distance

New theory: no need for dark matter; dark energy: energy in universe due to erratic spacetime

 

“It may be that gravity and quantum mechanics are exactly the same thing,” Leonard Susskind

Gravity might induce the collapse of quantum vibrations into 1 quantum state—our world

Strange state of physics that allows energy to flow frictionlessly through a material. 

Bending light from extreme gravity reveals largest black hole so far

Curved SpaceTime: heavy masses and simultaneously quantum effects become visible

There is no TIME at this level because of force fields come and go in all directions. 

Universe expanding: events may not come together like they did before: created our time.

Our planetary system: rarest system: only 1% of all systems with same number of planets

 

Stars fueled by the self-annihilation of dark matter might have been spotted for the first time by JWST

Inside protons, neutrons, it is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.

Gold made from neutron stars: collisions produce more neutrons:79 protons,118 neutrons

The proton is so complicated science still finds new energy entities/forces every year.

 

“Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.

New method to study systems with long-range interactions: previously puzzling experts

The electricity we use comes from the field around the wire not from electron itself.

 

Natural ‘missing law’ explain how universe evolved: functions increase in complexity over time

Scientists build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact: inside quantum computer

starts-with-a-bang/universe-expansion-not-accelerating/

Physicists knew black holes eventually disappear particle by particle. Now they think everything else does, too.

Astronomers discover raw materials for life are present all across the Universe: methyl cation

New Astrophysical Models: Earth’s Building Blocks Contained Water: metal oxides

 

 

IAN

973.746.2014

http://www.theinsidersguides.com/ 

Alerts available at http://dankeppel.blogspot.com/

No AI used in these comments