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• RFK Jr., who is being crushed by the media in his run for president as a Democrat, spoke out on the media’s inherent financial conflicts of interest long before he announced his candidacy. It’s a message you won’t want to miss.
• The latest corporate giant to get stung by a woke tweet is one that might surprise you. Why? Because it’s a gun-manufacturing company.
• FBI whistleblowers say one of America’s biggest banks was happy to share its customers’ information with the corrupt federal agency when those customers were J6 protesters.
• And hotels are filling up in New York City, but not with the kind of people the city’s Democrat mayor wants to see paying a visit.

All these stories and more when the Worldview Financial Report begins, right now!

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Good evening and welcome to the Worldview Financial Report.

Ever wonder why media companies are so consistently biased? All you have to do is follow the money.

That’s exactly what attorney and now presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did, and he spoke about his findings in an interview that we dug out from last year, back in July 2022. 

Take a look.

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https://rumble.com/embed/v1lbwy0/?pub=rze3r

There you have it. Anderson Cooper makes $12 million a year and $10 million of that comes from Pfizer, RFK Jr. said. So Cooper’s boss is not CNN. His boss is Pfizer.

That’s a message more Americans need to hear.

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Well, the fallout from the Bud Light, Miller Lite woke ad campaigns continues to catch corporate PR directors in its snare.

Earlier this week, the Germany-based gun manufacturer Heckler & Koch did the unthinkable… they sided with Miller Lite’s dystopian feminazi “woke” ad in a series of now-deleted hysterical tweets from the female lead on their marketing team.

H&K inserted themselves into the “woke beer wars” by showing support for Miller Lite’s cringeworthy feminist campaign against the use of “sexy women” in product promotions. H&K praised Miller Lite for their decision not to employ sexy “bunnies” in their beer advertisements, which came across to many as trashing men. 

The backlash was swift and harsh, prompting HK to promptly delete the four tweets. However, that didn’t halt the flood of angry messages. So the gun maker went one step further and issued one of the most creative apologies we’ve seen — a refreshing approach considering the emotional and hysterical tone of the earlier tweets.

SHOW TWEET

https://twitter.com/HecklerAndKoch/status/1658959377632559104?s=20

The creative apology seems to have smoothed things over for many folks.

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The Epoch Times reports that whistleblowers told Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee that Bank of America gave January 6-connected bank records to the FBI without customers’ knowledge or consent.

In their testimony, whistleblowers claimed that the FBI had become “enveloped in politicization” and made several claims of “serious abuses” over an extended period of time.

Among those abuses, whistleblowers said that Bank of America had transferred information to the FBI on transactions that took place in Washington on January 6, 2021. Customers were not informed of this data transfer.

Those who used their Bank of America accounts to purchase a firearm were reportedly bumped to the top of the list handed over to the FBI.

In a report released on May 18, Republicans revealed whistleblower testimony from retired FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill, who made the allegations.

Hill testified that the datamining included transactions made between January 5th and January 7th, 2021.

“The Bank of America, with no directive from the FBI, data-mined its customer base. Specifically, they targeted transactions made in Washington or nearby counties in Maryland and Virginia.”

Investigators asked Hill, “It’s anyone who used a Bank of America either debit or credit card to conduct a transaction?”

“Right,” Hill replied. “Any transaction. To buy a hot dog. Doesn’t matter.”

Hill then confirmed that those who had purchased a gun “at some point in time, any time” were bumped to the top of the list given to the FBI.

“This list was provided without any legal process to the FBI?”

“Correct,” Hill replied.

“So my understanding of the [FBI Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide] and amateur assessment based on law is that, you know, if a citizen sees a crime in commission, there’s nothing wrong with injecting that and opening up a case. But, to my knowledge, using a debit card in the District [of Columbia] does not provide adequate predication for the investigation of a crime.”

He alleged that “there was no legal process asking for [the information]” and that Bank of America had acted entirely on its own accord.

Hill also said that the flag for firearm purchases wasn’t limited to purchases made in Washington and the surrounding area but applied to any firearm purchased anywhere at any point in time using a Bank of America account.

That’s a big wow, because it’s exactly the relationship between government and banks that we saw play out in Canada during the trucker’s freedom rally.

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According to a Wall Street Journal report, zero interaction with employees during a transaction no longer guarantees freedom from the moral quandary of how much to tip.

Prompts to leave 20% at self-checkout machines at airports, stadiums, cookie shops and cafes across the country are rankling consumers already inundated by the proliferation of tip screens. Business owners say the automated cues can significantly increase gratuities and boost staff pay. But the unmanned prompts are leading more customers to question what, exactly, the tips are for.   

Ishita Jamar, a senior at American University in Washington, D.C., who has noticed more self-serve tip cues at restaurants she frequents, told the Journal: 

“They’re cutting labor costs by doing self-checkout. So what’s the point of asking for a tip? And where is it going?”

Tipping researchers and labor advocates say so-called tip creep is a way for employers to put the onus for employee pay onto consumers, rather than raising wages themselves. Companies say tips are an optional thanks for a job well done.

Businesses “are taking advantage of an opportunity,” says William Michael Lynn, who studies consumer behavior and tip culture as a professor at Cornell University’s Nolan School of Hotel Administration. “Who wouldn’t want to get extra money at very little cost if you could?” 

Square, whose technology powers many iPad point-of-sale machines, says tipped transactions were up 17% year-over-year at full-service restaurants and 16% at quick-service restaurants in the fourth quarter of 2022.  

But travelers checking themselves out for already expensive bags of chips at the airport say a request for an additional dollar or two feels egregious. Many are saying no thanks to the tip prompters.

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Trends Journal reports that the central bank of the African nation of Zimbabwe has issued a solid gold coin intended to shore up its failing currency and “expand the value-preserving instruments available in the economy.” It’s also meant to smooth the transition to a new digital currency.

The coin sales had totaled as much as 25 billion Zimbabwean dollars through March and “aided the dissipation of domestic inflationary pressures,” the bank said in a recent statement.

Beginning in November, the gold coins will be redeemable for the country’s new digital currency that is backed by gold in the central bank’s reserves.

Zimbabwe produced about 35 million tons of gold last year, much of which was bought by the central bank.

Gold equaled its record price of $2,072 per ounce earlier this month. 

The value of Zimbabwe’s coin is tied to the official value of Zimbabwe’s currency, which has been sinking like the Titanic in recent months.

Zimbabwe uses both its own dollar and the U.S. dollar as domestic currency.  Zimbabwe’s official exchange rate is 1,000 of its dollars for one U.S. dollar, but the black-market rate recently reached 2,200.

Zimbabwe blends the two currencies to tally its official inflation rate, which was most recently gauged at 87 percent. 

To beat down inflation, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has set its interest rate at 140 percent.

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Scott Shepard, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, presented a proposal at the Home Depot annual shareholder meeting on May 18th that would require the company's board of directors to rescind the “2022 Racial Equity Audit” proposal and reject any discriminatory practices at the company.

Racial equity audits do not benefit the woke companies that conduct them. They are designed to embarrass the companies who elect to conduct them into hiring more minorities such as gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, etc., and there is no evidence to suggest that such audits increase shareholder value, the Free Enterprise Project said in a press release. 

The 2022 proposal essentially admits as much, as the evidence cited for the audit focused on Home Depot's philanthropic and political donations.

According to Shepard:

“In responding to the 2022 proposal, the executives and directors magnified their problems and risks by failing to use a neutral third-party auditor that embraces diversity and inclusion of thought and analysis. Such an auditor would include legal scholars and communities embracing wide views of equity-based discrimination, including that all Americans have the same civil rights as all other Americans - none can be discriminated against by race, ethnicity, sex or orientation, even if they belong to groups companies or woke activists deem ‘non-diverse.’”

“Instead, Home Depot's third-party appears to have excluded analysts who believe, with the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, that ‘the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discrimination on the basis of race,’” added Shepard. “That's also the position of the Fourteenth Amendment, which does not include a secret Section Six declaring that ‘all of the foregoing can be ignored if you're discriminating in favor of groups you've honored with the label diverse.’”

Such an audit is far beyond Home Depot's fiduciary responsibility that requires the company to make decisions to maximize the return on shareholders' investment. To the extent that Home Depot hires, promotes or trains on the basis of any metrics other than merit, it violates its fiduciary duties, Shepard said.

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John Kerry would love for farmers to stop farming, reports Zero Hedge.

Kerry is Joe Biden’s special presidential envoy for climate change. He warned that the world can't tackle climate change without first addressing emissions from agriculture, and he wants to send the U.S. down the same road to disaster that his globalist buddies tried to do in the Netherlands, which is a top-three global exporter of food, and that makes the globalists angry. They want less food to be produced on an Earth that’s desperately in need of more food.

Kerry is part of this club of insanity.

He noted that agricultural production is responsible for roughly one third of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions and argued that reducing those emissions must be “front and center” in the quest to defeat global warming. 

If defeating global warming means killing off half or more of the Earth’s inhabitants, Kerry is fine with that. He would cheer it on.

Kerry made his insane, evil remarks at the Department of Agriculture's AIM (Agriculture Innovation Mission) for Climate Summit in Washington, D.C.

Zero Hedge writer Tyler Durden comments:

“The attack on farming by Western leaders is beyond shocking. It is criminal, treasonous. For his part, Kerry neglected to mention that, though agriculture is purportedly responsible for roughly 33% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions, it is undeniably responsible for the sustenance — and continued existence — of 100% of the world's roughly 8 billion people.”

He further writes:

“In places like Minnesota, the Democrat party is — and has long been — known as the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, or DFL. It is time to take the ‘F’ out of ‘DFL.’ Given its job-killing policies, the ‘L’ should be removed as well.  I propose that these letters be replaced by ‘TG,’ for transgender. It would be more accurate to refer to today's Democrats as members of the DTG Party. It may sound like a bit of a niche brand, but to be fair, it is also the party of idiots, globalists, entitled whiners, freedom-deniers, and wealthy wannabe tyrants. In this day and age, that is a pretty big tent.”

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CoinTelegraph.com reports that Apple has restricted company usage of the widely popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT over fears its sensitive data could be compromised.

A report by The Wall Street Journal revealed that an internal document to Apple employees had banned the usage of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and similar AI tools while the company was developing its own AI technology.

According to the document, the iPhone developer is concerned about workers using the programs and exposing confidential company information. 

It also mentioned a restriction on GitHub’s AI tool Copilot, a Microsoft-owned application that automatically writes software code.

This internal ban comes after the ChatGPT app debuted for iOS in the Apple app store on May 18. 

The new app is currently available for iPhone and iPad users in the United States but intends to expand to additional countries “in the coming weeks,” along with an Android version coming soon.

And it’s not just Apple that is restricting the use of these chat bots.

On May 2, Samsung sent out an employee memo banning the use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. 

In Samsung’s case, the policy followed an incident of Samsung staff uploading a “sensitive code” to the platform.

Samsung told employees who use such applications on personal devices not to upload any company information or they could face “disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.”

In addition to Samsung and Apple, companies including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have also banned the internal use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

Many companies banning employee usage of AI chatbots are also in the process of creating their own applications. Back in early May, Apple CEO Time Cook said that the company plans to “weave” AI into all of its products.

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Time now for our Worldview Financial commentary.

Joe Biden says the border is under control and illegal crossings are actually going down, not up. But the facts speak otherwise. Just look at New York City, whose mayor says its economy is being crushed by the out-of-control migrant influx.

New York City is melting down economically as tourism is in shambles and hotels are filled up at taxpayer expense. 

Nearly half of hotel rooms in New York City today are filled with newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens, living rent-free at the expense of local taxpayers, the city’s Democrat Mayor Eric Adams says.

Listen to him vent his anger on Joe Biden.

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https://rumble.com/embed/v2lj3q8/?pub=rze3r

Since the spring of last year, nearly 70,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of New York City — many bused from Texas by Republican Governor Greg Abbott. The figure represents a fraction of the millions of border crossers and illegal aliens who have been released into the United States interior or successfully crossed the border.

For months, Adams has been giving out lucrative contracts to the city’s powerful real estate industry which is housing tens of thousands of migrants in hotels. Most recently, for example, New Yorkers are set to foot an annual $75 million bill to put up border crossers and illegal aliens in Manhattan’s iconic Roosevelt Hotel.

Last week, Adams said nearly half of the city’s hotel rooms are now filled with border crossers and illegal aliens, calling waves of illegals into his city an “onslaught” that officials are struggling to deal with and demanding President Joe Biden spread out new arrivals to towns and cities across the U.S.

Adams said:

“Almost 50 percent of those hotel rooms are taken up by migrant asylum seekers that we are paying for. So instead of monies coming from people who are visiting us and spending in our tourism, in our Broadway plays, instead of them using those hotels, we are using those hotels.”

Adams noted that the cost of illegal immigration to New Yorkers, who are paying about $5 million every day to deal with the issue, will far exceed $4.3 billion when lost tourism money is factored in.

He added that,  “When I take a hotel offline and use it for migrants, then we are not getting those residual impacts. So there’s the $4.3 [billion], which is going to be higher, I believe.”

Last week, Adams said 4,200 border crossers and illegal aliens arrived in New York City with more than 900 arriving in a single day. In total, he said the city is having 13 to 15 migrant buses arrive every day.

So much for “the border has been stabilized.” Biden is lying. No surprise there.

That does it for this edition of the Worldview Financial Report. Thanks for tuning in, and for supporting this viewer-supported broadcast.

Until next time, I’m Brannon Howse. Take care.

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