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@porterstansb Nice thanks! I know most of it but I learned new details. As Sears' catalog the first version on online shopping.

RCA was the original AI stock. On July 1, 1920, at the explicit request of the United States Navy, four corporations signed a cross-licensing agreement that pooled every significant radio patent in American hands: General Electric (which had absorbed American Marconi at the Navy's direction), Westinghouse Electric, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the United Fruit Company. The last name on the list is the unexpected one. United Fruit had developed a patent on a tropical-band radio system used to coordinate banana shipping fleets between Central America and New Orleans. That patent turned out to cover techniques essential to commercial broadcasting. The underlying technology that made the radio possible — the vacuum-tube amplifier, the continuous-wave transmitter, the superheterodyne receiver — was developed at General Electric, Westinghouse, and AT&T over the previous fifteen years. The entity that would manufacture sets, operate stations, and sell broadcast time was the newly created Radio Corporation of America. GE owned 30 percent. Westinghouse owned 21 percent. AT&T owned 10 percent. United Fruit owned 4 percent. Owen D. Young, vice president of General Electric, was its chairman. James Harbord, a retired Army major general, was its president. On the night of July 2, 1921, Jack Dempsey knocked out the French light-heavyweight champion Georges Carpentier in the fourth round of a heavyweight title fight at Boyle's Thirty Acres, an outdoor arena in Jersey City, New Jersey. The official paid attendance was 80,183 — the largest gate in boxing history to that point. But three hundred thousand people heard the fight live – via the radio. They sat in their homes and listened to a transmission broadcast from a temporary 1.5-kilowatt station operating under the call sign WJY, set up nine days earlier in a shed in Hoboken by RCA’s 30-year-old commercial manager, David Sarnoff. The signal was also carried by wire to amplifier shacks in eight cities, where it was rebroadcast to crowds gathered in armory halls, hotel ballrooms, and theaters from Boston to Pittsburgh. In the 1920s, broadcast infrastructure grew on a trajectory no industry had ever matched. In December 1921, the U.S. Commerce Department recognized 29 licensed broadcasting stations. By September 1922, the count reached 510. By October 5, 1922 — ten months later — there were 546. The hardware to receive the signal kept pace with the growth in stations. American radio set sales went from $60 million in 1922 to $358 million in 1924 to $650 million in 1928. By 1929 the United States manufactured 4.4 million radio receivers — one for every six American households — generating $843 million in factory wholesale revenue, a fourteen-fold expansion in seven years. Vacuum tube production — the core component, the equivalent of the GPU in today's AI build-out —were dominated by RCA's Harrison, New Jersey plant, by Westinghouse's East Pittsburgh works, and by GE's Schenectady operation. Together those three facilities produced more than 80 percent of all licensed vacuum tubes manufactured in the United States during the 1920s, employing approximately 12,000 workers at peak. On September 9, 1926, RCA created the National Broadcasting Company — two networks, 24 affiliate stations linked by AT&T telephone lines, programming syndicated from a single master control room in New York. In 1928, the Columbia Broadcasting System launched in competition with 16 affiliate stations. By 1929, NBC had absorbed approximately 100 affiliates across its Red and Blue networks. Advertising revenue — a category that had not existed in 1921 — reached $40 million in 1929. In January 1929, RCA acquired the Victor Talking Machine Company, the largest manufacturer of phonograph records and home phonographs in the world, for $154 million in stock. The acquisition turned RCA from a radio set manufacturer dependent on Westinghouse and GE production into a vertically integrated entertainment conglomerate that wrote the programs, made the records, broadcast the signal, sold the receiver, and collected royalties on every patent involved at every step. RCA was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on October 1, 1928. Eight years after Dempsey-Carpentier, RCA was the most heavily traded stock in the United States. It generated $182 million in gross income from radio set sales, broadcast advertising, music records, and patent royalties. RCA dividends totaled $5 per share. And, at its high, the stock traded at $114.75, after a 5-for-1 split. The pre-split equivalent was $568. The 1922 starting price had been $1.50. About a month after RCA made its all-time high, on Monday, October 28, the Dow fell 13 percent. On Tuesday, October 29 the Dow fell another 12 percent. By the end of two trading days, the index had lost 23 percent of its value. By November 13, the Dow stood at 198.69, down 48 percent from the September peak. The decline did not stop in November. It continued for thirty-two more months. The Dow reached its trough on July 8, 1932, at 41.22 — down 89.2 percent from the September 3, 1929, peak. RCA traded that day at $2.625, down 98 percent. Nothing had changed about the technology or its incredible value to Americans. By 1940, there were 765 licensed broadcasting stations operating in the United States, reaching 28 million American homes with radio receivers. RCA thrived. David Sarnoff became its third president on January 3, 1930, three months after the crash, and ran the company for the next 41 years. In 2025, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and Nvidia have constructed a similar arrangement around large language models — pooling capital, sharing customer commitments, cross-investing in OpenAI and Anthropic. The technology is real and incredibly valuable. It will change our lives in ways we cannot yet imagine. But it will, almost certainly, wipe out an entire generation of investors. Read this to learn what's coming and how to survive, financially. amazon.com/dp/B0GYZPBCMS

@RT_com Privet! If you want to ditch the U$ dollar you need to stop pricing things in U$ dollars. Remember: It's like getting a divorce and not giving up your ex's last name. Gold works, or even SDRs for pricing.

Your visit is already a success, during your visit we signed a lot of joint documents and agreements — President Xi Jinping to President Vladimir Putin ‘Your visit yielded good results, it shows the historic scale of the relations between our countries’

@fteconomics Hi! Was it ever out? It has been part of the IMF basket for a decade. What'$ your point?

America needs to put the renminbi back on the international agenda ft.trib.al/x69KA4G

@JrMiningGuy Hi Kai. It looks my old backyard, boarder state with Nevada? I don't know the new name, it used to be called Molycorp. Happy trails to you.

I love road trips … I didn’t expect to be driving past America’s rare earth processing solution against China today —> Mountain Pass 🇺🇸 #mining #rareearths

@lucifer5670 Thanks for the video. Now is possible to trace the complete genetic evolution of Angelina Jolie.

이 기묘하게 생긴 물고기는 놀랍게도 가상의 존재가 아니라 지구상에 실제로 살아 숨 쉬는 진짜 물고기임. 이름은 '붉은입술부치(Red-lipped batfish, 학명: Ogcocephalus darwini)'라고 하며, 주로 에콰도르의 갈라파고스 제도 인근 깊은 바다 모래바닥에 서식하는 녀석임. 마치 빨간 립스틱을 짙게 바른 듯한 강렬한 입술이 가장 큰 특징인데, 과학자들은 이 붉은 입술이 이성을 유혹하거나 같은 종끼리 알아보기 위한 용도일 것으로 추정하고 있음. 더 재미있는 건 이 물고기는 수영을 잘 못한다는 사실임. 가슴지느러미와 배지느러미가 다리처럼 진화해서, 영상에 나오는 것처럼 바다 밑바닥을 아장아장 '걸어 다니는' 독특한 생태를 가지고 있음.

@One_Way_Home Hello! Last year I ended a relationship with a beautiful Chinese, because she refused to have a conversation with me outdoors. I knew that the tech was limited to indoor-greenscreen. The tech has evolved a lot in one year. Good bye long distance relationships.

Well this is concerning…

Hi, the Fed Tic-data is out. This is interesting because it reflects the first week of the Epstein Fury Operation & the pending closing or Hormuz: Who sold US treasury bonds? Japan sold 3.8%; China sold 5.9%; Saudis sold 6.7% and UAE sold 4.8% ($105B sold) ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-cente…

@afshinrattansi @NewOrder_TV Hello Afshin, It is now a Mexican Standoff.

'Trump is DESPERATE to end this and declare VICTORY against Iran. Netanyahu is desperate to keep him from doing it.’ —Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on New Order @NewOrder_TV

@SputnikInt Привет, президент Путин! С уважением: Если 🇷🇺 и 🇨🇳больше не используют доллар для торговых операций, то прекратите использовать и доллар США для сравнения. Например: в 2000 году объем торговли между 🇨🇳 и 🇷🇺 составлял 10 миллионов унций золота, а сегодня — 44 миллиона унций.Лучше?

🚨🇨🇳🇷🇺 Putin addresses the Chinese people ahead of his visit to Beijing Russia-China relations have reached an unprecedented level — based on mutual trust, win-win cooperation, and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, Putin said. Key achievements as of 2026: 🔸 Bilateral trade has long surpassed $200bln 🔸 Mutual settlements now conducted almost entirely in rubles and yuan 🔸 Mutual visa-free regime introduced 🔸 Cooperation through BRICS and the SCO helps tackle global and regional challenges 💬 "The close strategic relationship between Russia and China plays a major stabilizing role in the world," Putin stressed, adding that the two states seek peace and universal prosperity without allying against anyone.

@FranceskAlbs Ciao! Congrats! I have my own case pending in federal court, I am looking for reporters to publish my recent discovery of the Pauper-Slaughter-Pipeline in federal court. "PSP" is when federal courts routinely dismiss cases from paupers, or plaintiffs without representation. Ciao.

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me! As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest". Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far. Together we are One.

@CrimeLdn What is going on? They stopped selling birth control in the U.K.?

Meanwhile, in London 😅

@RealRickRule Hello Mr. Rule, I don't have to wait until 2030, I've been in a Dollar Tree Diet for decades. I know: * Artificial Meat, * Artificial chocolate, * Artificial Cheese, and * Artificial Butter.

Sir, eat what you like, I'll do the same. Deal?

@mog_russEN Privet, I know what Trump read; in fact, I got a copy. 议程： 1）讨论停止与伊朗的战争 2）讨论 “EPSTEIN FILES” 的公开 3）讨论第三个任期是否违反美国宪法 4）讨论出售国债

🚨⚡️ SPOTTED: Trump caught sneaking a peek at Xi Jinping's private notebook during a Beijing banquet while Xi stepped away! 🤣

@ArcadiaEconomic Congratulation Chris! You just became an ASS, American Sarcastic Society member. A membership entitles you to free gasoline anywhere, not really! As a member you know I was being sarcastic. TЯUMP has always been the same, he's attacking reporters like he did Rosie O'Donnell. Ciao

I think it’s Trump‘s ability to bring people together and lift them up that makes him so special. I had been struggling with the symptoms of TDS, but now I think I understand why so many intelligent people worship every word he says. It’s almost like he’s a modern day Dale Carnegie. I mean… it’s hard to say this isn’t exactly how you would want your children to grow up and act. So I take back everything I said about him, and will spend the next 2 1/2 years dedicating my life to trying to change legislation so he can just be emperor for eternity. Because obviously the two term limit was created before we had leaders this fantastic, and this is simply what the country needs👍

@maneco1964 Hello Mario! How does that work? Hypocrisy sounds too Greek, so the U.S. invented a new synonym; the U.S. politicians call it "Pragmatism." For instance, the U.S. wants to spread democracy except in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE and Jordan.

@ricwe123 Hi! I always remember Clytemnestra's plot when I see the red carpet. The preamble of Agamemnon's death returning from Troy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clytemnes…

China understands how easily Trump can be dazzled by spectacle. They roll out choreographed parades, red carpets, and lavish ceremonies because they know he mistakes flattery for diplomacy. He will come back praising Xi as a "great friend" and bragging about how well he was treated, while the actual substance of his visit amounts to absolutely zero.... 😂😂😂

@Partisan_12 Since ancient times, we all know we need to sacrifice a virgin for the gods to bring the rain. The U.S. has very few virgins that's why it relies on well water and the Colorado River. [sarcasm is an art one day, I hope to master]

Trump explaining the reason why he started a war with Iran.

@Sputnik_India "FOX BREAKING NEWS: China is burning their own cars, and refuse to use water to put out the fire. FOX: fair and balanced, we report you decide!"

🚨🇮🇳🇷🇺 Sovereignty WINS: Lavrov sends powerful message to India ahead of his visit 👇 🔸Russia guarantees it will fulfil all energy supply agreements to India in full, no matter the unfair competition. 🔸The collective West has launched a full-scale war against any nation that dares to pursue a truly sovereign foreign and domestic policy. 🔸They’re using dirty tactics to stop countries buying cheap Russian oil — forcing them instead to buy expensive American oil and LNG. 🔸India has stood firm: "India has firmly and repeatedly stated that it will determine for itself the quantities in which, and the suppliers from whom, it purchases energy resources." 🔸India, Russia and China have a special mission to help stabilise the Eurasian continent and the wider world. 🔸BRICS is the perfect platform to push for solutions on Iran — and endless global crises are being used to distract from the urgent need to resolve the Palestinian question. Source: RT India

@siriomerenda Questo è maltrattamento di anziani, per favore date a quest'uomo un po' di zuppa e un cuscino, ha superato l'età pensionabile.

Trump oggi nello studio ovale... criticava Sleepy Joe e diceva "non mi vedrete mai dormire in pubblico" poi ogni pomeriggio continuamente cala la palpebra svegliato solo quando lo chiamano... in che mani siamo #Trump #Iran #GolfoHormuz #11maggio

@duane2020a @ArcadiaEconomic @swanson_cu68697 @JamesGRickards I don't judge. I invest.

@bsandy1212 @ArcadiaEconomic @swanson_cu68697 @JamesGRickards BRICS is a cartel of thieves. If there is a BRICS who will enforce the trade laws? That used to be the US strength, everyone would be treated fairly in the US trade courts. With BRICS? China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa? Sure...

So to prevent a government that’s allegedly ‘crazy’ from having access to nuclear weapons, a vile man who has clearly demonstrated that he’s batshit crazy is threatening to nuke them… Do I have that about right?