Author: bradcheap82

One thousand three hundred eighty-eight days after the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump appeared to tacitly admit that he lost to Joe Biden.Almost four years of denials gave way to one seemingly innocuous throwaway line, made while Trump held a press availability Thursday about immigration issues near a stretch of wall on the Arizona side of the U.S.-Mexico border.Holding up a printed copy of a graph that purportedly shows migrant encounter stats at the southern border, and which was on display the moment he was the target of an assassination attempt at a July rally in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, Trump…

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The Justice Department on Friday filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, a property management software provider, alleging it enabled a collusion among landlords to inflate rents for millions of Americans. The complaint claims the Richardson, Texas-based company and its competitors engaged in a price-fixing scheme by sharing nonpublic, sensitive information, which RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software used to generate pricing recommendations. The company replaced competition with rent coordination to the detriment of renters across the U.S., according to the suit, monopolizing the market through its revenue management software which was used by landlords to set rent costs. The DOJ is joined by the attorneys…

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The European Union needs more immigration to boost economic growth amid the birth rate decline among native populations, a top central banker has claimed. Fabio Panetta, the governor of the Bank of Italy and a member of the European Central Bank Governing Council, argued that more migration is essential to bolster the economies of the EU as their populations age, such as in his home country of Italy. “Measures that favour an influx of foreign legal workers constitute a rational response from an economic point of view,” the central banker said, according to Bloomberg. “The entry of regular migrants should be…

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Support trulyindependent journalismFind out moreCloseOur mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. Before he died this week, French film icon Alain Delon once suggested he wanted his beloved sheepdog Louba buried with him. To the relief of animal lovers around France, Loubo will be allowed to survive.Delon, an internationally acclaimed and prolific actor and producer, died Sunday, aged 88, and will be buried on Saturday at his family home in Douchy, south of Paris.He was quoted in a…

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It’s understandable, even thematically fitting, that the new Netflix teen comedy Incoming looks up to Superbad like a younger brother idolizing his cool older siblings. Superbad may not itself be about the cool kids, but in terms of one-wild-night teen comedies, it’s just about the funniest and best-made version we’ve seen so far this century—something for any comic filmmaker to admire. So when Incoming rips it off, it’s hard to sustain much ill will. In fact, quite the opposite: The movie’s aspirations earn it a line of credit that it may not actually deserve.Reversing the vantage of Superbad’s about-to-graduate seniors,…

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Support trulyindependent journalismFind out moreCloseOur mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda.The US Secret Service has reportedly placed multiple agents on leave, including agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office, in the aftermath of an assassination attempt against Donald Trump.Their leaves comes as the agency’s internal affairs division continues to investigate how a 20-year-old gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle was able to fire at the former president during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13,…

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Donald Trump has said he would be honoured to receive the endorsement of Robert F Kennedy Jr if the independent presidential candidate decides to drop out from the race.Mr Kennedy’s campaign said earlier this week that he would address the nation on Friday 23 August in Arizona, where he will talk about “the present historical moment and his path forward.”Ahead of the announcement, Mr Trump responded to reports that RFK Jr would endorse him after dropping out of the race.“I have a lot of respect for RFK Jr, I’ve known him a long time,” he said.“There are rumours that he…

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As the tourism world continues to expand, sustainable tourism is no longer optional but a necessity. Tourists are urged to assess their travels’ ecological impact on the various countries they visit. Similarly, countries have to ensure that their policies and legal frameworks are robust enough to withstand the booming tourism industry.The future of sustainable tourism in South Africa is jeopardised by numerous threats, emphasising the urgent need for legal frameworks. These threats include (but are not limited to) trophy and irresponsible hunting; township tourism which fails to focus on local development; waste management; unfair trade for local businesses; environmental preservation;…

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” This is not merely an issue of bureaucracy; it is a failure of monumental proportions with implications for all citizens.” – Willie Aucamp MP Please find attached English and Afrikaans soundbites by Willie Aucamp MP. The admission from Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) that it allowed serious flaws to enter the 2022 Census data, is a national scandal that strikes at the heart of our socio-economic planning. Census 2022’s integrity has been compromised to such an extent that data related to income, employment, mortality and fertility will not be put in public domain even after the Census cost South Africa…

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