The Show Is Streaming Live At The Following Platforms (Show Will Be Archived For A Few Days):
- Variant News At dlive.tv: https://dlive.tv/variant_news
- Variant News On Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/variant_news
- Variant News On Trovo.live: https://trovo.live/variant_news
Topics For The Show:
Main Topic Title:
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- Small Businesses are not getting support. (* 15 minutes top)
- Key findings from PwC’s 10th Global Family Business Survey – North American insights
- Self-employed Canadians: Who and Why?
- https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-222-x/71-222-x2019002-eng.htm
- CA: Key Small Business Statistics — 2021
- Governments can help by bolstering access to capital, leveraging organizations that support entrepreneurs and modernizing outdated regulations.
- Funding – Culture, history and sport
- Self-employed US Statistics
- https://writersblocklive.com/blog/self-employment-statistics/ (9.5 million self employed in US – 2021)
- https://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2016/self-employment-in-the-united-states/home.htm (up to 2015)
- Small Business Statistics
- SBA defines a small business as 500 or fewer employees
- 30 million small businesses in US – 2021
- https://www.oberlo.com/blog/small-business-statistics
- Funding/Assistance for small business in US
- NYC Bans Gas Stoves
- How will restaurants survive?
- NYC’s Natural Gas Ban Is Now Law: What That Means for Clean Energy
- Natural Gas Ban is for new buildings and includes cooking stoves (restaurants?)
- https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2021/nyc-natural-gas-ban-law/733751
- Biden administration has mandated vaccines or testing for 100 employees or more
- Regulations have had economic consequences for mid sized companies
- Supreme Court has ruled on the Biden Vaccine Mandates for workplaces
- https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-supreme-court-rules-vaccine-mandates-osha-and-cms
- At the federal level why is Supreme Court Judge Sotomayor not getting the right covid related information?
- Justice Sotomayor
- Misinformation:
- Stated 100,000 children on ventilators due to covid.
- Humans are robots that emit toxins?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWwhpPey2fI&t=263s (start at 3:50)
- Misinformation:
- Many people have quit their jobs, how will this transition the economy?
- Loans hard to get across US/Canada?
- US Fed could raise rates 4 times (each quarter) in 2022 with more hikes in 2023?
- China Olympics
- Is there a CCP / Kazakhstan connection? Russia and CCP are battling for power in the region.
- Why Kazakhstan matters in China’s Belt and Road Initiative | DW News
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5_lFumUD0
- Russian troops might disrupt CCP’s ‘Belt and Road’ initiative in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan unrest: how will China’s economic interests be affected by the protests?
- What do the protests in Kazakhstan mean for China and its relationship to Russia, which has sent troops to the central Asian nation to crush the unrest?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5_lFumUD0
- CCP Olympics Covid Lockdown
- How Green Can The Olympics Be?
- Olympic Venues
- Olympic corporate partner ‘proud’ of sponsorship despite China’s treatment of Uyghurs
- International journalists prepare for espionage war at Beijing Winter Olympics
- Beijing Winter Olympics: A disaster for the environment? | DW News
- Why Kazakhstan matters in China’s Belt and Road Initiative | DW News
- How are companies working with China and CCP
- https://ground.news/article/intel-bends-knee-to-china-scrubs-all-mentions-of-xinjiang-forced-labor-from-letter_62a919 (grouped links)
- Is Google working with CCP on datamining and surveillance tech? Working on researching this for a future stream.
- China makes a show of opening up its Internet ‘Great Firewall’ for the Olympics
- Is there a CCP / Kazakhstan connection? Russia and CCP are battling for power in the region.
- Crypto – Kazakhstan Internet Blackout
- Russia has built network infrastructure to help turn off the internet at the country level. Was Russia involved in the internet blackout.
- Kazakhstan holds 18% of Bitcoin hash rate
- What is the long term future for Kazakhstan mining bitcoin
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kazakhstan-hashrate-drops-internet-blackout-123527782.html
- Jack Dorsey says Block is building a bitcoin mining system so that anyone can easily buy a rig
- Editorial – Climate Change: what is it? Should we be focusing on pollution? Semantics?
- Canuck:
- Call it Pollution, not Climate Change.
- Yankee:
- Climate Change regulation is starting to hurt small businesses. Large Corporations have the resources to accommodate climate legislation and are are using PR campaigns to make it seem like they are helping the climate. Why is there so much hysteria from a small percentage of the population? Is social media fueling the hysteria and making it harder to find solutions? US should look into fixing the power grid efficiently and harness nuclear power to stabilize the grid. More R & D need to go into alternative energy sources: fusion, solar, wind, water, etc…
Will there be more climate related regulation that will effect consumers in a negative way?
- Climate Change regulation is starting to hurt small businesses. Large Corporations have the resources to accommodate climate legislation and are are using PR campaigns to make it seem like they are helping the climate. Why is there so much hysteria from a small percentage of the population? Is social media fueling the hysteria and making it harder to find solutions? US should look into fixing the power grid efficiently and harness nuclear power to stabilize the grid. More R & D need to go into alternative energy sources: fusion, solar, wind, water, etc…
- Canuck:
- Small Businesses are not getting support. (* 15 minutes top)
Current Events and Bizarro News:
- Bizarro News