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I HEARD THE NEWS TODAY THESE ARE NOT SATIRES. TRUMP AND HIS OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO PUT ME OUT OF BUSINESS!   President Trump has extorted over $200 million from large corporations and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs to build a ballroom onto the White House. It will hold 999 people.  The ballroom’s windows will be bullet-proof, which I think is a perfect symbol of the Trump presidency. The men who financed it will be invited to its inaugural dance “if I still like you.” Sounds like a bad gangster movie. Update on the ballroom. It will be twice as large as the White House. It will cost $400 million, four times as much as the original estimate. The names of the contributors are secret, probably to protect them from their stockholders. Right now it's just a big hole in the ground. A federal judge has ruled it can't be built without Congressional  approval. Its design contains a staircase that goes nowhere. President Trump has said the ballroom will be a symbol of his administra...

I HEARD THE NEWS TODAY, OY VEY The government of Greenland is putting the country up for sale. It will accept bids from any country or corporation. The reservation (minimum) price is $2 million per person, or $100 billion (the cost of 3 data centers), and distribute the money equally to its 57,000 citizens. Russia and China have expressed an interest, Russia to control the strategic Nordic region and China to strengthen its near-monopoly on rare-earth minerals. If sold, almost all residents said they intend to put their homes up for sale on Greenhouses.com and move to Denmark. A number of other countries are watching to see what happens. If Greenland is successful, they also intend to put their countries up for sale. For most countries of the world, even $1 million per person is substantially more than their residents could make in a lifetime. Some of the countries will probably be sold to corporations because of their mineral or oil resources. Invested at 5%, people from...