Troubling Financial Questions

US tech company Twitter is unprofitable.

Twitter has never made a yearly profit, and over the past decade it has actually lost more than 2 billion dollars.

Why is it investors support Twitter stock price.  Currently, Twitter has a market cap of 11.5 billion dollars.

How in the world is that possible?

How can a company that has never made a single penny be worth more than 11 billion dollars?

Twitter is never going to be more popular than it is now.  If it can’t make a profit at the peak of its popularity, when will it ever happen?

Twitter has never turned a profit, and for the first time since going public in 2013, it reported a decline in revenue from the previous year. Its revenue was $548.3 million, down 8 percent.
Net loss was $61.6 million, or 9 cents per share, compared with a loss of $79.7 million, or 12 cents per share, a year earlier.

Then, we have Netflix most recent earnings report for the period ending March 31, 2017 shows, yet again, negative Free Cash Flow of MINUS $422 million.

Not only is that a record loss, it’s 62% worse than in Q1/2016, and over twice as bad as Q1/2015.
Netflix just keeps losing more and more money. Netflix is losing money at a pace that is exceedingly difficult to imagine, yet investors absolutely love the company.
Currently, Netflix has a market cap of 68.4 billion dollars.

 Here are 14 more Major Tech Companies who are losing billions.

1. Snapchat: At $10 billion, fast-growing Snapchat is one of the world's most valuable private tech startups. Yet the messaging service generates little revenue -- let alone profits -- and it recently sparked privacy concerns.

 

2. Box: The online filing sharing company is poised to go public on Friday after a number of false starts. But Box recently revealed it suffered a $170 million loss in its latest year of results. 

 

3. Zynga: The fact Zynga (ZNGA) is trading roughly 75% below its 2011 IPO price shows just how hard it is to consistently churn out mobile games people actually want to play. 

4. Instagram: Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion back in 2012, but analysts say the photo-sharing app is unlikely to be profitable. Yet it could soon be in the black as users continue to flock to the service and advertisers start to latch on too. 

5. Amazon.com: Jeff Bezos has driven Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) investors crazy by investing so heavily in the company (see: drone delivery) that profits are wiped out. Yet it's tough to argue with Amazon's track record given its $138 billion market valuation. 

6. BlackBerry: The company helped invent the smartphone market but it clearly failed to keep up with it. While CEO John Chen has stopped the bleeding, BlackBerry (BBRY, Tech30) remains a shell of its former self. 

7. Pandora: After its shares skyrocketed in 2013, Pandora (P) has come back to earth as the music company grapples with huge content costs. 

8. Weibo: It's known as China's Twitter and just like the U.S. company Weibo (WB) is also unprofitable for now. 

  9. Zillow and 11. Trulia: Both are huge names in the online      

       house-hunting business and both Zillow (Z) and Trulia (TRLA) are unprofitable. Soon they'll also be under the same roof.

 

10. Sprint: The wireless company isn't just stuck in the red, it's wildly unprofitable. Sprint (S) is expected to lose $2 billion in its current fiscal year and another $1.2 billion next year. 

11. Square: Heavy investment in new products have kept Square unprofitable. But that didn't prevent the mobile payments startup from recently landing a $6 billion valuation. 

12. JD.com: The Chinese online retailer is unprofitable but JD.com (JD) is betting heavy investment will translate into profit-making market share gains. 

14. Sony: Easily the oldest company on this list, Sony (SNE) is on track for its sixth loss in seven years due to weak demand for its TVs and cameras. 

U.S. consumers are over 12 trillion dollars in debt, and despite the fact that corporate debt has doubled since the last financial crisis, and despite the fact that the federal government is 20 trillion dollars KNOWN US dollars in debt, the US public seem to be convinced that this irrational stock market bubble can keep inflating indefinitely.

 


Where is all the money flowing? It seems down a deep hole with no hope of return.   The last time the United States was in a deep depression it took a second World War to recover.  What do we see happening in Washington?  The War Hawks at the behest of the global bankers are pushing for a confrontation with Russia and Syria and by extension Iran.   The entire North Korea puppet show is nothing more then the US keeping the US public occupied with fear.  We could see a false flag used an an impetus to force the United States into another major global conflict. All for the purpose of consolidating global banking power at ANY cost.
 

From The National ANTIFA Front

A Day in the life of islam in America

 Three people are dead in a shooting spree in downtown Fresno, California today. The suspect was wanted in connection to the  fatal shooting of security guard Carl Williams at the Motel 6 in Fresno. Muhammad allegedly also tried to shoot a second security guard but was out of bullets, police say.

 

Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, shouted "Allahu Akbar" as police tackled him to the ground, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.

The victims appeared to be not random, Dyer said.

Shot Spotter detected the first gunshots around 10:45 a.m. Muhammad shot into a PG&E vehicle killing the passenger. The driver sped away and drove to Fresno Police headquarters.

Muhammad continued walking and opened fire at a local resident but missed. Shortly after, he encountered another resident and shot and killed that person.

He then continued to the area of Catholic Charities where he shot and killed a person in the parking lot.

 

Chief Dyer said Muhammad's Facebook account indicated that he "does not like white people", he also expressed anti-government sentiments. All victims of Tuesday's shooting were white, as well as the 4th person he shot at.

 

 

The Fall of Democracy in Turkey

Turkey’s move to abandon parliamentary democracy and adopt one-man rule fulfills a long-held dream of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who not only expands his powers, but also gets a chance to stay in office for another 15 years if the current referendum ballot count holds up.

The official Anadolu news agency said the country voted on Sunday 24.3 million to 23.2 million, a margin of 51.1 to 48.8 percent, in favor of a package of constitutional reforms. But the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) said it will challenge well over 1 million ballots which lacked the seal of the election oversight board.

If Erdogan prevails in the end the result will be a system under which there’s no prime minister, where the parliament will be weakened to the point of being a rubber stamp, and the judiciary will become still more subservient than it is already.  

 

The path to one-man rule—opponents talk of a “dictatorship”is the story of a politician with a gut instinct for gaining power who’s seized on every political setback that’s come his way in the past two years and turned it into an opportunity to advance his ambitions. It is the people of Turkey who will suffer at the hands of this madman who will do anything for power. We are seeing Turkey going backwards towards a muslim Caliph in everything but name.  

 

There are Turkish-Americans here in America who have contacted us here and asked us to begin coverage on what is happening in Turkey.  So, we will begin to report on the political diatribe and Democratic regressions happening in Turkey for the near future. 

 

1400 years of islamic history by a life long muslim

In 624, mohammed led a raid for treasure and slaves against a Meccan caravan, killing 70 Meccans. Between 630 A.D. and the death of mohammed in 632 A.D., muslims  on at least one occasion led by mohammed had murdered and conquered the bulk of western Arabia and southern Palestine through, at least, a dozen separate invasions and bloody conquests. These conquests were in large part disguised as holy wars or jihad. After, mohammed's death in 632, the new muslim caliph, Abu Bakr, launched islam into almost 1,400 years of continual murderous conquest and subjugation of all non-muslims through invasion and war, a role Islam happily continues to this very day.

islamic laws Christians and Jews were made subject to over the years:

• Christians and Jews could not bear arms Muslims of course could
• Christians and Jews could not ride horses  Muslims of course could could
• Christians and Jews had to get permission to build.   Muslims did not
• Christians and Jews had to pay certain taxes which Muslims did not
• Christians could not proselytize Muslims were forced to by sharia law
• Christians and Jews had to bow to their Muslim masters when they paid their taxes.
• Christians and Jews had to live under the law set forth in the Koran, not under either their own religious or secular law.

The total numbers of murders directly attributed to islam for the last 1,400 years is currently 669 million murders and COUNTING!  

80 million Christians killed by Muslims in 500 years in the Balkan states, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia.   Then, we have the slaughter of non-muslims by muslims in India with the official estimate is 80 million.   However, Muslim historian Firistha  wrote (in either Tarikh-i Firishta or  the Gulshan-i Ibrahim) that Muslims slaughtered over 400 million Hindus up to the peak of Islamic rule of India, bringing the Hindu population down from 600 mil to 200 million at the time.  In Africa an estimated death of about 120 million people dues to islam running a wholesale slave trade in Africa. Christians killed by islam is estimated at 120 million.  Buddhists have suffered 10 million and counting deaths due directly to islam. 

To those who say that islam is simply misunderstood is willfully ignorant of the truth.  islam is a malignant cancer on humanity.  

$400 Billion Broadband Scandal

The Book of Broken Promises goes from the 1990s through September 2014 and lays out all of the broken promises that were used to charge you more money for services you never got!

 

By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up. And though it varies by state, counting the taxes, fees and surcharges that you have paid every month (many of these fees are actually revenues to the company or taxes on the company that you paid), it comes to about $4000-$5000.00 per household from 1992-2014, and that’s the low number. 

 By year-end of 2010, and based on the commitments made by the phone companies in their press statements, filings on the state and federal level, and the state-based ‘alternative regulation’ plans that were put in place to charge you for broadband upgrades of the telephone company wire in your home, business, as well as the schools and libraries — America, should have been the world’s first fully fibered, leading edge broadband nation. 

 

 

In fact, in 1992, the speed of broadband, as detailed in state laws, was 45 Mbps in both directions — by 2014, all of us should have been enjoying gigabit speeds (1000 Mbps).

Instead, America is not number 1 or 2 or 5 or even 10th in the world in broadband.

 

 In 1993, Pacific Bell, California, said it would spend $16 billion by 2000 and have 5.5 million homes wired with fiber optics. Bell Atlantic controlled the East Coast states from New Jersey through Virginia and claimed it would spend $11 billion on 8.75 million homes by 2000, while Ameritech (which included Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin) stated it would have 6 million fiber optic lines by 2000. Some states, like New Jersey, would have 100% of Verizon New Jersey’s territory completed by 2010 with 45 Mbps services in both directions, while SNET (Connecticut) said it would spend $4.5 billion and have 100% completed by 2007. Ohio Bell, (now AT&T Ohio) claimed that 100% of schools and libraries would be upgraded to fiber by 2000. And US West, (now Centurylink) which controls many western states, like Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado or North Dakota, told the public, regulators and investors that it would start a major deployment of fiber optic services, adding ½ million households a year.almost every company filed to offer millions of customers services by 2000.

 Starting in 1991, there were discussions of whether the government should build these networks, but the phone companies who controlled the state-based utilities in every state, saw this as a new mountain of money and said — just give us a little more profit via deregulation.At this time, the companies’ wires were still monopoly controlled and the networks were closed to competition, so their profits were constrained to 12-14% a year. But, within literally a year after the laws were changed, the profits more than doubled to about 30%

 

 The Bell companies were also able to take massive tax write-offs. From 1993-1995, the companies took $25 billion in depreciation write offs. as the ink was dry on the new laws, the companies knew they would never be held accountable to fulfill these commitments to do these upgrades of the state utility networks; nothing was built, nothing was upgraded. At the end of 2004, America was to have 86 million households upgraded. And by 2004, the phone companies had collected about $200 billion from customers in excess phone charges and tax perks. Instead of upgrading the old, copper, legacy utility networks to fiber optics, ALL of the companies pulled a bait and switch and around 1998 or later, rolled out ADSL over these aging copper wires. It was slow and it was considered an inferior product.

 

Autism is NOT a disease

 What is a disease? A disease-label of any kind which has specific symptoms, a label is meant to make you think there is a specific condition.  Is autism a disease with specific condition?

The Answer is no, because the diagnostic test for autism does not exist. No physical test, no blood test, no saliva test, urine test, no brain scan and currently, no genetic assay.  Autism is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), as basically a list of possible behaviors. There is no defining diagnostic test. 

 
 
So, If a parent applies to the US federal vaccine court, for compensation, because her child was severely damaged by a vaccine, and if she or her doctor calls that damage “autism,” there is almost no chance the government will award her compensation. Because 'Autism' is NOT a disease.


 

Vaccines don’t cause autism because autism does not exist as a treatable condition.  Legally, however, if the parent says her affected child developed “encephalopathy”—a generalized term meaning a condition that adversely affects the structure or function of the brain due to a vaccine then the chances of receiving compensation increase. Can a parent of a neurologically damages child legally purport that a vaccine caused the encephalopathy?  Legally, yes, because the law is all about word games 


Because,  neurological disease-labels in the DSM have no specific and defining diagnostic test(s), the condition, such as, 'Autism' can not legally exist.  Yet, legally if the parent can proves a cause and effect from the vaccine to the neurological damage then the parent has legal grounds for compensation.  
 
 
It is KNOWN legally that vaccine(s) cause brain damage in a certain percentage of children.  This is why Federal law protects pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits by parents who claim that vaccines harmed their children.
The court ruled 6 to 2 that going before a special tribunal set up by Congress is the only way parents can be compensated for the negative side effects that in rare instances.
Isn't is AMAZING that federal regulators(Lawyers) and NOT Doctors are in the decision makers on whether vaccines are safe and properly designed.



Since there is ZERO conclusive evidence for the existence of autism as a specific condition. and there is ZERO defining diagnostic test the child's Parents (Plaintiff) cannot sue the vaccine makers.   However, vaccines cause a laundry list of neurological and brain disorders. Since, it is known that vaccine(s) are the cause of these damages, it the legal term should be labeled as VACCINE DAMAGE, and compensation should be awarded on that basis. 



The US government doesn’t want to admit that vaccines cause severe damage because the legal damages would be in the tens of billions. .So, the US government and the corporate lawyers utilize word games.

 

What, in real world action, causes neurological damage? A blow to the head, a fall, almost drowning in a pool, oxygen deprivation at birth, severe and long-term nutritional deficits, toxic pesticides, toxic medical drugs, and finally vaccines.


The vaccine makers use a shell game of names to disguise the neurological damages caused by vaccines.  Such, as  Fragile X syndrome, Asperger, Rett syndrome; Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Intellectual Disability, and finally autism(which is NOT an actual disease).
 If the parent plans to seek financial compensation for vaccine damage from the doctors and vaccine makers then it would be best to label the vaccine damage VACCINE DAMAGE, and forgo and allusions to 'Autism.'


This way the Neurological Vaccine Damage can be quantified and qualified by specific group(s) of nerve cells, nerve functions.  Which, cascades into neurological deficiencies resulting physical, sociological, and neurological impairment.

 
 
Corporate researchers funded by vaccine makers claim that vaccines do not cause autism, because there are children diagnosed with autism who have never been vaccinated. That assertion is a hoax. The label and the definition of autism are worthless, to begin with, because there is no specific test that invariably diagnoses autism as it does not exist as a specific disease. 



When a doctor tells a parent, “Your child has autism…”  He’s really stating that the child has suffered  neurological damage. The 'Catch all  label' for vaccine induced neurological damage is Autism.  The  vaccine makers, backed by the US government are legally keeping the parent a parent with a vaccine-damaged child from successfully navigating the vaccine court.  The vaccine court is essentially saying, “If you claim your child was damaged by a vaccine and call that damage autism,  the court will deny monetary compensation. This goes back to the fact that Autism is not a disease listed in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) by the AMA (American Medical Association) and as such in the court will arbitrarily decided that vaccines can’t cause autism because legally is does not exist. 
 



//jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/assisted with some info in the article.

Sweden Attacked Yet Again by muslim attacker...leaving only Swedish Victims

 

 

Last week in Stockholm, Sweden 4 people killed and 15 wounded in a truck attack perpetrated by a muslim immigrant. The muslim immigrant is 39-year-old Uzbekistan national Rakhmat Akilov, Rakhmat with murderous forethought drove his truck at high speed directly into a crowded area outside an upscale department store in central Stockholm on Friday. The four people killed included two Swedes, a British man and a Belgian woman.  

 

 

The Swedish police arrested the  man on Friday night after the attack, dragging him from his hijacked beer truck. The 39-year-old Uzbek whose Swedish residency application was rejected last year.  Police said the truck attack suspect was known as a member of islamic extremist organizations. 

 

So, the Swedish police knew that Rakhmat Akilov, a muslim extremist hates the west, hates Democracy, and hates the Swedish people.  So, instead of removing him and all those like him (muslim extremist) from Sweden the Prime Minister of Sweden gives a meaningless statement...Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said "the whole of Sweden" sympathized with the families and friends of the victims."  He might as well as said nothing. Why is it that the Swedish people do not wake up to the fact that they are in mortal  danger.  In 2015, a record 163,000 asylum-seekers arrived in the country; the highest per capita rate in Europe.  

 

 

When the birth rate of muslims in Sweden exceed the birth rate of natural Swedes it is only an inevitability that muslims will seize control of the Swedish govermment through sheer numbers at the voting booth.  Then, Sweden the once...'Most peaceful country in Europe' will be nothing but a memory.  

 

The US Dollar

The United States F35 Boondoggle

 

There are literally hundreds of critical performance deficiencies and maintenance problems for the USA's F35 fighter program.  It is believed that the F-35A's ability to succeed either as an air-to-air or an air-to-ground fighter is very low.

In an analysis of the report at the Straus Military Reform Project, list the following factors:

The problem with the wing design leaves the F-35 a challenge to fly at around the speed of sound: “All F-35 variants display objectionable or unacceptable flying qualities at transonic speeds, where aerodynamic forces on the aircraft are rapidly changing. Particularly, under elevated 'g' conditions, when wing loading causes the effects to be more pronounced, pilots have reported the flying qualities as extremely poor.

Further more the Electro-Optical Targeting System suffers from low resolution and short range. Which, means if pilots are trying to single out a ground target, they have to fly far to close to be able to deploy guided munitions. This eliminates stealth approach opening the pilot to ground fire. 

 

To over come the loss of stealth the use of the F35 cannon is recommended by manufacture.  The problem is currently the cannon does NOT work. 

To maintain its sleek radar profile, the F-35A has a door to conceal the gun.  Good idea, bad execution, because if the F35 open's it's cannon doors the wind drag forces the F35 out of it's flight path.  The developers say this is a software problem, the pilots say its a hardware issue.

 

 The F-35's software is a nightmare of code failures and patchwork. The most current F35 version, the December Block 3FR6 release, has MAJOR software issues, which could take a decade or more to iron out. . Add to that the cannon sighting problem, the “Air-to-Air Range Infrastructure” remains woefully behind schedule.

Even if the cannon were somehow usable, it's not much help in a ground support mission, because the F-35s can only load up with a couple of hundred rounds barely enough for 2-3 ground targets at best.

Flight testing “continues to be a source of significant flight failures. Most embarrassingly for the manufacturer there are fatigue problems in the tail; the arresting gear on the F-35A variant is good for one landing only (DID you get that the F35 which costs 110 MILLION per plane can only land once then must be repaired) 

Then, the F-35A and F-35C show excessively high air flow temperatures around the engine; and the horizontal tail overheats in a Mach 1.5 run, which is totally unacceptable for a 5th generation fighter.

 

The F-35C is also problematic when launched from an aircraft carrier: “Vertical oscillations during F-35C catapult launches were reported by pilots as excessive, violent, causing major physical discomfort to the pilots.