Attorney John and Nisha Whitehead cited the ruling of Judge Terry Doughty, who said that the U.S. has entered “an almost dystopian scenario,” warning that “the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’” Per left-leaning CNN: “Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of the social media company Meta, said in a letter to the House Judiciary committee on Monday that his teams were “pressured” by the Biden White House to censor some content around the Covid-19 pandemic.” Also per CNN:

In his letter to the judiciary committee, Zuckerberg said the pressure he felt in 2021 was “wrong” and he came to “regret” that his company, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, was not more outspoken. Zuckerberg added that with the “benefit of hindsight and new information” there were decisions made in 2021 that wouldn’t be made today.

As this report with analysis will reveal, Mark Zuckerberg, in testimony to the House Committee on the Weaponization of Government, recently admitted that his firm felt pressured by Biden Administration officials to censor content that would normally not have been removed by Facebook’s content moderation policies. This raises issues about politics and free versus coerced or censored speech. Also, given the power of platforms like Facebook, Google, and other social media giants, marketing and even everyday messaging are subject to being elevated or eliminated based on someone else’s agenda. Its demonstrably un-American. Consider what left-leaning Senator Bernie Sanders (VT-DS) said during his presidential campaign.

Our constitution’s First Amendment explicitly protects the free press because the founders understood how important journalism is to a democracy. More than two centuries after the constitution was signed, we cannot sit by and allow corporations, billionaires, and demagogues to destroy the Fourth Estate, nor can we allow them to replace serious reporting with infotainment and propaganda.

More on Sander in Part III. That’s why the framers of the Constitution made the First Amendment a protection of free speech, freedom of the press, and the right to religious and political liberty.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Part I of this report will be the op-ed by John and Nisha Whitehead, posted below. Whitehead cites remarks from the left, right and legal sources in his column on this topic.

Part I provides a report on the same topic focusing on what Facebook’s co-founder Zuckerberg said and reactions to it.

Part III will provide additional information with more analysis and commentary.

Part IV will be our Daily Business News on MHProNews market report.

Part I

Technofascism: The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users

By John & Nisha Whitehead| August 27, 2024

“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability… Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the officials’ wishes, and many users who expressed disapproved views about the pandemic or COVID–19 vaccines were ‘deplatformed’ or otherwise injured.”—Justice Samuel Alito, dissenting in Murthy v. Missouri

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has finally admitted what we knew all along: Facebook conspired with the government to censor individuals expressing “disapproved” views about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zuckerberg’s confession comes in the wake of a series of court rulings that turn a blind eye to the government’s technofascism.

In a 2-1 decision in Children’s Health Defense v. Meta, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit brought by Children’s Health Defense against Meta Platforms for restricting CHD’s posts, fundraising, and advertising on Facebook following communications between Meta and federal government officials.

In a unanimous decision in the combined cases of NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice, the U.S. Supreme Court avoided ruling on whether the states could pass laws to prohibit censorship by Big Tech companies on social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.

And in a 6-3 ruling in Murthy v. Missouri , the Supreme Court sidestepped a challenge to the federal government’s efforts to coerce social media companies into censoring users’ First Amendment expression.

Welcome to the age of technocensorship.

On paper—under the First Amendment, at least—we are technically free to speak.

In reality, however, we are now only as free to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook, Google or YouTube—may allow.

Case in point: internal documents released by the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government confirmed what we have long suspected: that the government has been working in tandem with social media companies to censor speech.

By “censor,” we’re referring to concerted efforts by the government to muzzle, silence and altogether eradicate any speech that runs afoul of the government’s own approved narrative.

This is political correctness taken to its most chilling and oppressive extreme.

The revelations that Facebook worked in concert with the Biden administration to censor content related to COVID-19, including humorous jokes, credible information and so-called disinformation, followed on the heels of a ruling by a federal court in Louisiana that prohibits executive branch officials from communicating with social media companies about controversial content in their online forums.

Likening the government’s heavy-handed attempts to pressure social media companies to suppress content critical of COVID vaccines or the election to “an almost dystopian scenario,” Judge Terry Doughty warned that “the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”

This is the very definition of technofascism.

Clothed in tyrannical self-righteousness, technofascism is powered by technological behemoths (both corporate and governmental) working in tandem to achieve a common goal.

The government is not protecting us from “dangerous” disinformation campaigns. It is laying the groundwork to insulate us from “dangerous” ideas that might cause us to think for ourselves and, in so doing, challenge the power elite’s stranglehold over our lives.

Thus far, the tech giants have been able to sidestep the First Amendment by virtue of their non-governmental status, but it’s a dubious distinction at best when they are marching in lockstep with the government’s dictates.

As Philip Hamburger and Jenin Younes write for The Wall Street Journal: “The First Amendment prohibits the government from ‘abridging the freedom of speech.’ Supreme Court doctrine makes clear that government can’t constitutionally evade the amendment by working through private companies.”

Nothing good can come from allowing the government to sidestep the Constitution.

The steady, pervasive censorship creep that is being inflicted on us by corporate tech giants with the blessing of the powers-that-be threatens to bring about a restructuring of reality straight out of Orwell’s 1984, where the Ministry of Truth polices speech and ensures that facts conform to whatever version of reality the government propagandists embrace.

Orwell intended 1984 as a warning. Instead, it is being used as a dystopian instruction manual for socially engineering a populace that is compliant, conformist and obedient to Big Brother.

In a world increasingly automated and filtered through the lens of artificial intelligence, we are finding ourselves at the mercy of inflexible algorithms that dictate the boundaries of our liberties.

Once artificial intelligence becomes a fully integrated part of the government bureaucracy, there will be little recourse: we will all be subject to the intransigent judgments of techno-rulers.

This is how it starts.

First, the censors went after so-called extremists spouting so-called “hate speech.”

Then they went after so-called extremists spouting so-called “disinformation” about stolen elections, the Holocaust, and Hunter Biden.

By the time so-called extremists found themselves in the crosshairs for spouting so-called “misinformation” about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines, the censors had developed a system and strategy for silencing the nonconformists.

Eventually, depending on how the government and its corporate allies define what constitutes “extremism, “we the people” might all be considered guilty of some thought crime or other.

Whatever we tolerate now—whatever we turn a blind eye to—whatever we rationalize when it is inflicted on others, whether in the name of securing racial justice or defending democracy or combatting fascism, will eventually come back to imprison us, one and all.

Watch and learn.

We should all be alarmed when any individual or group—prominent or not—is censored, silenced and made to disappear from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram for voicing ideas that are deemed politically incorrect, hateful, dangerous or conspiratorial.

Given what we know about the government’s tendency to define its own reality and attach its own labels to behavior and speech that challenges its authority, this should be cause for alarm across the entire political spectrum.

Here’s the point: you don’t have to like or agree with anyone who has been muzzled or made to disappear online because of their views, but to ignore the long-term ramifications of such censorship is dangerously naïve, because whatever powers you allow the government and its corporate operatives to claim now will eventually be used against you by tyrants of your own making.

As Glenn Greenwald writes for The Intercept:

The glaring fallacy that always lies at the heart of pro-censorship sentiments is the gullible, delusional belief that censorship powers will be deployed only to suppress views one dislikes, but never one’s own views… Facebook is not some benevolent, kind, compassionate parent or a subversive, radical actor who is going to police our discourse in order to protect the weak and marginalized or serve as a noble check on mischief by the powerful. They are almost always going to do exactly the opposite: protect the powerful from those who seek to undermine elite institutions and reject their orthodoxies. Tech giants, like all corporations, are required by law to have one overriding objective: maximizing shareholder value. They are always going to use their power to appease those they perceive wield the greatest political and economic power.

Be warned: it’s a slippery slope from censoring so-called illegitimate ideas to silencing truth.

Eventually, as Orwell predicted, telling the truth will become a revolutionary act.

If the government can control speech, it can control thought and, in turn, it can control the minds of the citizenry.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s happening already.

With every passing day, we’re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship, violence, corruption, hypocrisy and intolerance, all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security, tolerance and so-called “government speech.”

What we are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them.

Seventy-plus years after Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 depicted a fictional world in which books are burned in order to suppress dissenting ideas, while televised entertainment is used to anesthetize the populace and render them easily pacified, distracted and controlled, we find ourselves navigating an eerily similar reality. ##

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His latest books The Erik Blair Diaries and Battlefield America: The War on the American People are available at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org. ###

Part II From the Daily Signal to MHProNews.

News

Zuckerberg Says Biden-Harris Admin Pressured Facebook to Censor Content

Bradley Devlin | August 27, 2024

The Biden-Harris administration pressured Facebook to censor content on its platform relating to COVID-19 and other major stories, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed in a Monday letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Nevertheless, Zuckerberg admitted Facebook’s culpability in censorship that took place on the platform. “Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.”

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:

1. Biden-Harris Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans.

2. Facebook censored Americans.

3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024

Zuckerberg’s letter comes a year after Meta, Facebook’s parent company, complied with documents requests from the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into private and public sector online censorship. According to Zuckerberg, the committee has procured thousands of documents and dozens of interviews from company employees over the course of the probe.

The Meta CEO then pivoted to another notable example of online censorship; namely, the censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story on the eve of the 2020 presidential election. “In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and [Ukrainian energy giant] Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election,” Zuckerberg claimed.

When the New York Post released the Hunter Biden laptop story, Facebook “temporarily demoted it.”

Looks like Mark Zuckerberg has joined the ranks of the crazed conspiracy theorists who claim that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor dissent during Covid.

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 27, 2024

“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” Zuckerberg continued. “We’ve changed our policies and process to make sure this doesn’t happen again—for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.”

The Facebook founder affirmed in the letter, “Our platforms are for everyone—we’re about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way. As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety.”

Kara Frederick, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center and who formerly led Facebook’s Global Security Counterterrorism Analysis Program, has her doubts. Though “his [Zuckerberg’s] instincts are less evil than his actual decisions,” Frederick claimed that Zuckerberg “is coming out in this conveniently timed way because he knows he will face no consequences for his platform’s eager acquiescence to government demands to censor Americans’ speech.”

I am pleased to see Mark Zuckerberg coming clean about pandemic propaganda pushed onto Facebook by government.

We are not being told the truth about many things. https://t.co/vQ4d8NvRqJ

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) August 27, 2024

“This is ultimately a deflection from how the platform operates to silence conservatives as we speak,” citing Facebook “‘mistakenly’ labeling the photo of Trump defiantly raising his fist in the air during his assassination attempt as ‘misinformation.’”

In a statement to Fox News, a White House spokesperson seemed to double-down on the Biden-Harris administration’s censorship efforts. “When confronted with a deadly pandemic, this administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety,” the spokesperson said. “Our position has been clear and consistent: We believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present.”

Part III – Additional Information with more MHProNews Analysis and Commentary 

In no particular order of importance are the following on the subject of freedom of speech and the importance of access to a range of information.

1) Senator Sanders (VT-DS) said in an op-ed to the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) the following:

Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right, which is why today’s assault on journalism by Wall Street, billionaire businessmen, Silicon Valley…

[Joseph] Pulitzer said that journalism must always “oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.”

…Real journalism is different from the gossip, punditry, and clickbait that dominates today’s news.

…Real journalism requires significant resources. One reason we do not have enough real journalism in America right now is because many outlets are being gutted by the same forces of greed that are pillaging our economy.

For example, two Silicon Valley corporations—Facebook and Google—control 60 percent of the entire digital advertising market. They have used monopolistic control to siphon off advertising revenues from news organizations.

…The negative effects are predictable: according to a working paper by researchers at Notre Dame and the University of Illinois, when newsrooms are hollowed out, overall costs to taxpayers rise, because there are fewer reporters scrutinizing government transactions. A study published by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, a non-partisan forum, found that, despite millions of Americans struggling to survive, budget-strapped “newsrooms have not turned their attention to poverty.”

The negative effects are predictable: according to a working paper by researchers at Notre Dame and the University of Illinois, when newsrooms are hollowed out, overall costs to taxpayers rise, because there are fewer reporters scrutinizing government transactions. A study published by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, a non-partisan forum, found that, despite millions of Americans struggling to survive, budget-strapped “newsrooms have not turned their attention to poverty.”

…And news outlets owned by Disney and Jeff Bezos may happily tout Disney films and Bezos’s plans for space exploration, but we cannot count on them to consistently and aggressively cover workers’ fight for better wages at Disney- or Bezos-controlled companies. In fact, in one instance, we saw that The Washington Post, which Bezos owns, tried to punish a reporter because he spoke out for better wages at the newspaper.

We need to rebuild and protect a diverse and truly independent press so that real journalists can do the critical jobs that they love, and that a functioning democracy requires.

…I have long opposed media consolidation, and was one of only 16 members of the US House to oppose the disastrous 1996 Telecommunications Act, which accelerated consolidation. In my administration, we are going to institute an immediate moratorium on approving mergers of major media corporations until we can better understand the true effect these transactions have on our democracy.

…For example, two Silicon Valley corporations—Facebook and Google—control 60 percent of the entire digital advertising market. They have used monopolistic control to siphon off advertising revenues from news organizations.

…when it comes to Silicon Valley, [as president] I will appoint an Attorney General as well as Federal Trade Commission officials who more stringently enforce antitrust laws against tech giants like Facebook and Google, to prevent them from using their enormous market power to cannibalize, bilk, and defund news organizations. Their monopoly power has particularly harmed small, independent news outlets that do not have the corporate infrastructure to fight back.

2) Of course, in an apparent de rigueur move, Sanders slammed then-President Donald J. Trump (R) several times as ‘a threat to democracy’ and a ‘threat to journalism.’ There is a case to be made that Sanders op-ed on journalism and big tech could be a case study on paltering and so-called “true lies.” But the items in the pull quotes above would, on a stand-alone basis, likely draw cheers from many on the right and from Trump himself. So, these “progressive” and leftist positions from self-described Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) as a leftist presidential candidate pointed to the great harms of consolidation, including media consolidation and the power of big tech over news and views. There is common ground between many on the left and right in the pull quoted statements above.

3) There frankly were numerous editorial and strategic reasons why MHProNews opened the new year with our popular and always relevant report on Shadows of Liberty and its transcript. Shadows was largely interview clips by left-leaning figures and journalists expertly knit together with narratives and illustrations.  The full-length version of the video included in the post below would likely draw cheers from liberals as well as a conservatives. It should be required reading/viewing for junior high, high school, and undergraduate college students at each of those stages of life. When Sanders stressed the importance of an independent media that holds the powerful to account, that is something that people across the left-right spectrum should and could often agree with.

4) We have known for over a century the power that mass media has in a population. Woodrow Wilson (D), previously an educator, was hardly the first to use the power of media to forge his efforts. Going back to the revolution by the American colonists against the British Crown, small independent presses that turned out flyers played a key role in mobilizing a population that was not all in favor of breaking with England.

5) In manufactured housing, there is an array of publications and bloggers that are largely aligned with the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) ‘party line.” While they make bold claims about being the biggest and best, the fail to share any traffic details. So, the only information available is from what MHInsider previously shared and what sources like SimilarWeb and Webalizer provide. Based on known information, it is entirely possible that the traffic on MHProNews exceeds the traffic of the MHI website, the actual readership (a.k.a. visits) of MHI supported MHInsider, the ManufacturedHomes.com blog, quarterly MHReview, and bloggers like George Allen (see post below). This month, MHProNews appears to be headed to another record for readership (visits and pageviews) for the past year. Why? The case can be made that the reason is the content that exposes topics that others in MHVille trade media can’t or won’t tackle. We take on the fact-based topics that others ignore, downplay, or problematically-report.

A solution to bad or inaccurate information in a truly free society is to combat it with accurate information that is free to operate in the marketplace of reporting and ideas.  Who said? Among others, largely leftists thinkers and journalists like those shown below. In manufactured housing, most of the drivel and eye candy published by others beyond MHLivingNews and MHProNews by those in the MHI orbit are demonstrably self-serving for their own agenda. The Bernie Sanders critique above applies.

Real journalism is different from the gossip, punditry, and clickbait that dominates today’s news.

…

One reason we do not have enough real journalism in America right now is because many outlets are being gutted by the same forces of greed that are pillaging our economy.

For example, two Silicon Valley corporations—Facebook and Google—control 60 percent of the entire digital advertising market. They have used monopolistic control to siphon off advertising revenues from news organizations.

6) MHProNews has long sourced reports and items from across the left-right media divide. A case can be made that too many on the left, political, or liberal side of the world do not challenge or test their notions by authentically seeing what people and sources on the right have to say. No less a figure than Barack Obama identified that as a kind of silo, two entirely different world views, two entirely different understandings of reality.

7) We are now within the last 10 weeks of the election day on November 5, 2024. It would be too harsh to say that left-leaning media never challenges the Democratic narrative de jour. It would be too harsh to say that all they do is provide misinformation as some on the right claim. But without the close nexus between Democrats and much of the mainstream media and big tech, there is an evidence-based case to be made that Kamala Harris (D) and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz (MN-D) simply would have no chance for beating the Trump-Vance ticket.  What Zuckerberg has essentially said is that the truth and/or opposing views were squashed because they did not fit the Democratic narrative de jour. There are plenty of studies and reports that support these notions. In an article on the financial-news site ZeroHedge entitled:

This Is Not Capitalism

Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute said the following.

1. Governments have become a main customer of tech and media platforms, instilling an ethos of political deference and cooperation, resulting in surveillance, propaganda, and censorship. …

all these institutions became faithful servants of an emergent corporatist empire.

Now they are full cooperators with the censorship-industrial complex, while the few outliers like Elon Musk’s X and Rumble are facing enormous pressure to conform and get on board. The CEO of Telegram has been arrested simply for not providing a backdoor to Five-Eyes governments, while NATO nations are investigating and arresting for the act of posting disrespectful memes. Digital tech is the most notable and thrilling innovation of our times and yet it has been browbeaten and distorted into a main tool of state power.

In pondering the following, consider the implications of regulatory capture in manufactured housing.

2. The US has a medical cartel that works with regulatory agencies and official institutions to impose poisons on the public, charge outrageous prices, cooperate with business cartels to block alternatives, and promote addiction and ill health.

Or this:

3. The US has an educational system that is mostly government-funded, blocks competition, forces participation, wastes students’ time, and pushes a political agenda of compliance and indoctrination. Public schooling in the US has late-19th century origins but the compulsory features came many decades later, alongside bans on teen work, and this later mutated into state-funded universities that enlisted ever larger shares of the population into the system, eventually saddling several generations into vast debt that cannot be paid. The families seeking alternatives end up paying many times over: through taxes, tuition, and lost income.

with the above in mind, Antonio, who self-identified as a black parent, called into Vince Coglianese WMAL show about 4:55 PM 8.27.2024. Antonio said he was thankful for what he has learned in the past year by listening to WMAL. He said it is hard to talk about politics with other people. He felt many blacks had been duped by slanted media coverage into being supporters of Democrats. Becoming a parent with a school age child was also part of his wake-up experience, Antonio said. More on Antonio and potentially millions of more like him, further below.

Next from Tucker’s article on ZeroHedge from the Brownstone Institute on “This is Not Capitalism.”  Again, think of this on both the obvious level of what this means for our society and the implications that this has for MHVille too.

4. Agricultural subsidies that build vast industries that crush smaller farming and capture the regulatory apparatus and foist bad food on the public. …When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, and so many others, speak about a public health crisis in the US, the food system from production to distribution plays a large role, which in turns feeds the medical cartel mentioned above.

Note that entirely independent of the thoughts of RFK Jr., MHLivingNews provided an award-winning documentary on that very subject and others in the video collection posted below.  One of those should link to this full-length version of the acclaimed Shadows of Liberty, but food and farming are explored in the collection below. It is much too misunderstood.

8) Still from Tucker’s column is the next topic.

5. A wildly complicated and confiscatory system of taxation that punishes wealth accumulation and blocks social mobility in all directions. 

MHProNews has previously reported that Trump coyly floated the notion of ending the income tax and replacing it with tariffs and other mechanisms. That is examined in the report linked below, keeping in mind that a century and more ago the federal government used to be financed largely by tariffs.

6. Fiat paper money floating exchange rates (born 1971) give the government unlimited funds, create inflation and currencies that never rise in value, and provide foreign central banks investment capital to make sure international accounts never settle. …

7. The court system invites extortionist litigation and can only be fought with deep pockets. …

8. A patent system that grants private industry production cartels and stops competition for everything from pharmaceuticals to software to industrial processes. …

9. As for authentic property rights, they are weaker than ever and can be overridden or even abolished with the stroke of a pen, such that not even landlords can evict tenants or small business can be open for business. …

10. A bloated federal budget supports 420+ agencies that lord it over the whole of commercial society, ballooning up compliance costs for entrepreneurs and creating vast uncertainty about the rules of the game. …

9) Our system has been rigged in a convoluted, complex fashion that fails to deliver on its promises.  For those who haven’t seen it yet, see the R rated, but insightful rant by George Carlin.

10) Besides the array of left-leaning sources that MHProNews explores, we have certain sources on the right that are routinely worth the time for providing insights others may not offer.  Among them?

• Breitbart.com
• ZeroHedge.com
• DailySignal.com
• Newsmax.com
• WND.com
• DailyTorch.com
• CenterSquare.com
• WMAL.com is routinely playing in the background between 5 AM into the early evening M-F. For those who want to get a better grasp of the authentic, vs. the propaganda version, of the worldview of conservatives and constitutionalists, listening to those stations. If someone spends, as Antonio said, some time daily reading or listening to such sources, you may have your world-view evolve.  It may cause someone to change their pattern of voting.

11) To be clear, there have been plenty of times (for example) that conservative media carried the water for the Bush-Cheney (43-R) Administration, for example, in the run up to the costly in blood, treasure and limbs Middle Eastern wars. But so did most left-leaning media. Independent media is important, as Sanders said. Breitbart, for example, routinely cites left-leaning sources. It is not the caricature that some on the left have painted it to be. WND was, they say, targeted by Google and others in the left-leaning big tech world for elimination by demonization and by limiting them in their search results. While it is leaner than it was in 2015, they still publish daily and present insights others in media may miss. When censorship is being deployed, it should make the curious more interested in what is being censored.

12) Senator Sanders had a point about enforcing antitrust laws and blocking mergers. But to show how the slight of hand of paltering, deception and misdirection can be done, consider the following. For most of the past 12 of the past 16 years, it is Democrats that routinely share the views of Sanders who have been in charge. The consolidation of America has continued. The fallout in media has continued.  The antitrust case against Google was launched by – wait for it – the Trump Administration and was continued by the Biden-Harris era DOJ.

13) It is entirely possible for Democrats Harris-Walz to win the 2024 election. If they do, it will arguably be because not enough in the left-leaning media pressed the obvious questions and topics, such as this. If Democrats Obama-Biden operated the federal government for 8 years, and now Biden-Harris have operated the federal government for about 3.5 years, that’s 11.5 years out of the past 15.5 years that their party has been in control.  Why is it that the same problems that they said were issues when Obama-Biden ran for office are still problems today?  It is no surprise that Bush-McCain-Romney era Republicans oppose Trump-Vance. What is a surprise is that former Democrats like Robert F. Kennedy Jr and former 4 turn congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-D) have openly endorsed Trump due to threats to free speech from the left, the threats to peace from the left, and the threats to personal freedom from the left.

14) MHProNews has been reporting for years what still Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton (MA-D) recently said in an interview.

15) Various forms of manipulation and propaganda are so pervasive that in 2022 Merriam Webster made “gaslighting” the word of the year.

16) The “Rich Men North of Richmond” are not exclusively, but they are demonstrably, mostly Democrats.  There are Democratic voters working in the offices of Republicans in Congress.  There are reasons why the federal bureaucracy must be reformed.  We don’t have a literal ‘uniparty,’ but there is plenty of evidence that Democrats and their donor class backers have inserted themselves into education, information, and in various levels of government to a degree that limits the influence of limited government thinkers.

17) Regardless of what Mark Zuckerberg recently said, he and Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Larry Fink and others largely backed Democrats and have for years.  To the points raised by Sanders, he ignores that it was during the Obama-Biden administration that social media giants had extraordinary influence and access to the White House. Meaning, Sanders has identified legitimate issues but then fails to point out how members of the party he caucuses with (i.e.: the Democratic Party, where he chose to run for president multiple times) allowed or even fostered the policies that Sanders says he laments. It has been described as one of the oldest tricks in the book. Accuse your rival of doing what the opposition itself are doing.  The Russians have done that, Communists, and Nazis have done that, and Sanders and other Democrats have done that too.  There is a reason why “Wall Street is Worried” about a Trump victory. It is because the insiders know that Trump has figured it out.

18) The “Weaponization of Government” is hardly new. This has been going on for decades, it isn’t merely a 21st century problem.  Shadows of Liberty made it plain that this dates back decades too.  Marine General Smedley Bulter said he was the enforcer for Wall Street, and that was approaching a century ago.

19) Let’s say it one more time, because it merits emphasis. Editorially, there are things that Trump is doing in 2024 that our management would disagree with. That said, Trump was once a Democrat. Elon Musk describes himself as a moderate Democrat. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a lifelong Democrat before he felt that the Democratic Party insiders rigged the system to keep him from being able to successful run in his own party. Trump has been indicted dozens of times, including more indictments recently. Those indictments are from Democrats in alignment with the Democratic party apparatus which colludes with much (not all) of big business, big media, big tech that RFK Jr. and others on the left and right have decried.

Note that leftist attorney turned journalist Glenn Greenwald was blowing the whistle during the Obama-Biden (D) years via the Edward Snowden revelations. There are more honest journalists across the political spectrum than some admit.

20) To Greenwald’s and Kennedy’s points that the ruling system doesn’t just oppose Trump, it opposes anyone who challenges them, Kennedy, Greenwald, Musk, former Rep Gabbard, Naomi Wolf, and others have been smeared even though they are on the left. This didn’t start with Obama-Biden, it was already in operation years before. Trump successfully challenged the Bush wing of the Republican Party in the 2015-2016 race. Oprah Winfrey videos can be found on YouTube where she is celebrating Trump who she – as a loyal Democrat – now decries in favor of  the party’s selection of Harris-Walz. If Big Tech and Big Media were exposing these things on a routine basis, Harris Walz would still get millions of votes, but they would have no chance of winning.

Zuckerberg is one of the American Oligarchs. “Zuck” is, per mainstream sources, linked to big government on several levels. The 2024 election is less about Democrats vs. Republican than it is about freedom vs. severe limitations on our God-given and constitutionally protected rights.

21) Malcom X said decades ago that if some black votes for Democrats they are betraying their race and have been duped. Our nation witnessed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (D) (1963), Malcom X (1965), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 1968) and Robert F. Kennedy, SR (D) (June 1968). “Although the assassinations left us stunned, we grew up at a time when it was common for children to believe that we lived in the greatest country on earth and that being an American was something special to cherish,” said professor Carol Swain recently. Dr. Swain is a longtime Democrat that left the party as her understanding of history grew.

The video below featuring Dr. Swain has had over 10 million views.

22) The Kennedy family is hardly pure. There is an evidence-based argument to be made that the slain President John F. Kennedy obtained the White House through potentially illegal methods. That said, RFK Jr., who is also an imperfect man with plenty of skeletons in his closet, as “Bobby” himself admits, is correct in saying that his father and uncle were involved in pushing for rights that are today being trampled. It remains to be seen if Kennedy-Trump-Musk collaborating is sufficient to overcome the Democratic-Big Business-Big Media-Big Tech machine. But Kennedy had a point when he said that Democratic insiders installed Harris without getting a single vote by actual Democratic Party primary voters. As Chris Plante on WMAL often says, “the Democratic Party isn’t” [democratic]. Plante says, as did Dr. Swain, that Democrats are the party of the Confederacy and the KKK. Plante points out that Jim Crow laws were passed by Democrats. Without Republican votes, the civil rights and voting rights acts would not have become law.

23) MHProNews is editorially for free enterprise, and authentic and honest uses of capital vs. crony capitalism or corrupt capitalism. What has increasingly been operating is a system that is best accessed by the wealthy which leaves out most others. But in order to govern, they need millions of voters every election cycle to install their preferred candidates.

Attorney John and Nisha Whitehead cited:

“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability… Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules that better conformed to the officials’ wishes, and many users who expressed disapproved views about the pandemic or COVID–19 vaccines were ‘deplatformed’ or otherwise injured.”—Justice Samuel Alito, dissenting in Murthy v. Missouri

Based on some of their writings, they are not necessarily Trump fans, but they have shown in the above in Part I that the current system threatens our rights as Americans.

Looks like Mark Zuckerberg has joined the ranks of the crazed conspiracy theorists who claim that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor dissent during Covid.

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 27, 2024

I am pleased to see Mark Zuckerberg coming clean about pandemic propaganda pushed onto Facebook by government.

We are not being told the truth about many things. https://t.co/vQ4d8NvRqJ

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) August 27, 2024

Trump-Vance challenges that dynamic. Kennedy and Gabbard are among those who have openly decided to support them, as has Elon Musk. Time will tell, but there are reasons to think that the system could be successfully challenged again this year by Trump as it was in 2016. Stay tuned, and the market report follows.##

Part IV

Our Daily Business News on MHProNews stock market recap which features our business-daily at-a-glance update of over 2 dozen manufactured housing industry stocks.

NOTICE: following the TPG deal with CAPREIT, TPG has been added to our tracked stocks list below.

This segment of the Daily Business News on MHProNews is the recap of yesterday evening’s market report at the closing bell, so that investors can see-at-glance the type of topics may have influenced other investors. Our format includes our signature left (CNN Business) and right (Newsmax) ‘market moving’ headlines for a more balanced report.

The macro market moves graphics below provide context and comparisons for those invested in or tracking manufactured housing connected equities. Meaning, you can see ‘at a glance’ how manufactured housing connected firms do compared to other segments of the broader equities market.

• In minutes a day, readers can get a good sense of significant or major events while keeping up with the trends that may be impacting manufactured housing connected investing.

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – 8.27.2024

• Kelce brothers hit ‘New Heights’ with $100 million podcast deal
• Founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov delivers a keynote speech during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on February 23, 2016.
• Kremlin tries to calm fears over security of Telegram after arrest of founder Durov in France
• If you don’t have easy access to your own bank’s ATMs near where you live, you may rely on nearby retailers who offer cash-back services to get money from your own account.
• Paying money to get your own cash: Some big retailers charge for cash-back requests, federal agency finds
• New York City was among the top five most rent-burdened places in America during the second quarter.
• Housing affordability in America is finally improving. Not so much in these cities
• A Stop & Shop grocery store in Brooklyn.
• Stop & Shop will join other major chains and stop selling cigarettes
• IBM China System Center logo seen in Beijing Zhongguancun Software Park also known as the Chinese Silicon Valley.
• IBM is the latest Western firm to retreat from China
• Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov delivers his keynote conference during day two of the Mobile World Congress at the Fira Gran Via complex in Barcelona, Spain on February 23, 2016. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world’s largest communication companies, the show runs from the 22 to 25 February.
• A Russian Elon Musk with 100 biological children: Meet Pavel Durov
• Mark Zuckerberg says Meta was ‘pressured’ by Biden administration to censor Covid-related content in 2021
• Martin Shkreli, former chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, exits court in New York, on Wednesday, October 4, 2023.
• Martin Shkreli ordered to give up all copies of one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album
• Remarks by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell fueled a rally on Wall Street after he said on August 23 that the “time has come” for the US to start cutting interest rates.
• Dow closes at new record high on rate cut rally: Here’s what’s next for Wall Street
• com to refund $8.5M to customers for its ‘deceptive’ practices, FTC says
• Apple is expected to debut the first generative AI iPhone at its September 9 event
• What to know about Telegram, the messaging app whose CEO was arrested over the weekend
• Detention of Telegram founder sparks debate about free speech and criminal activity online
• Red Lobster is closing another 23 restaurants. Here’s where they are
• Walmart recalls Great Value apple juice sold in 25 states due to elevated arsenic levels
• Mortgage rates are falling. Here’s what you should know before buying a new home
• Western airlines were excited about returning to China after Covid. But not anymore
• Finally, America’s housing market is starting to loosen up. But it’ll be a bumpy road back
• Americans set to spend a total of $39 billion on back-to-school shopping this year
• A reenergized Democratic campaign surges to convention ratings win over Republicans
• It’s never been harder to be Mister Softee
• Seafood towers, endless Honey Deuces and $100,000 suites: How the US Open lures in high-rollers and celebrities

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Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – 8.27.2024

• Special Counsel Jack Smith Drops New Trump Indictment to Keep Election Case Alive
• S. prosecutors obtained a new indictment in the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution. The new indictment dropped allegations that Trump sought to pressure the U.S. Justice Department in his bid to overturn his election defeat, an apparent effort to keep the prosecution alive after the high court found that Trump could not be prosecuted for that conduct. [Full Story]
• Israeli Military Rescues Hostage Abducted in Hamas’ Oct. 7 Attack
• IDF: Soldier Injured in Hezbollah Aircraft Attack
• Pascrell Successor Likely to Also Be Pro-Israel
• WH’s Kirby: US Would Defend Israel in Iranian Attack
• Study: College Students Afraid to Admit Jewish Faith
• IDF: 90% of Hezbollah Sites Struck Sunday Were Near Civilians
• US: Israel-Hezbollah Exchange Reduced Escalation
• Anti-Israel Vandalism Hits Cornell as Fall Semester Opens
• Pentagon: Israel Still Faces Threat of Attack by Iran, Proxies
• Israeli Strike Kills 5 Militants at West Bank Ops Center
• Israel Says Strikes Dealt Hezbollah ‘Crushing Blow’
• Tlaib Rips DNC for Overlooking Palestinian Voices
• Newsmax TV
• De La Cruz: Dems Want Illegal Immigrants as Voters
• Robert Wilkie: Biden’s Israel Talks ‘Election-Year Gambit’
• Calley Means: Institutions Profit off Sick Kids
• Gov. Patrick: Texas Rejects Dem Voter Tactics
• Van Orden: No One Held Accountable for Afghanistan
• Kari Lake: Biden-Harris Admin Lost Migrant Kids
• Abe Hamadeh: Dems Emboldened to Change Debate Rules
• Darin Gaub: Traceable Data of Trump Shooter ‘Suspicious’
• Karoline Leavitt: Trump With Gold Star Families; Harris MIA
• Newsfront
• Trump Adds RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard to Transition Team
• If former President Donald Trump wins back the office in November, he has already signaled he will add two former Democrats to his transition team…. [Full Story]
• Related Stories
• Trump Vows to Launch Space National Guard If Elected
• Trump Team Blasts Harris, Media Over Wall Flip-Flop
• Dow Ekes Out Record Close as Focus Turns to Nvidia
• The S&P 500 ended higher and the Dow barely managed to braek another [Full Story]
• Task Force on Trump Shooting Expresses ‘Concerns’
• The bipartisan task force investigating the attempted assassination [Full Story]
• Ruddy: Ratings Soar, Pre-IPO Plan Gets Big Response
• Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy appeared on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” touting the [Full Story]
• RFK Jr., Cornel West Approved for Ballot in Wis.
• The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted Tuesday to keep Robert F. [Full Story]
• First Jan. 6 Rioter to Enter Capitol Gets Over 4 Years
• A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol [Full Story]
• Pascrell Successor Likely to Also Be Pro-Israel
• As Democrats in New Jersey’s 9th District begin working around the [Full Story]
• Trump: Agreement Reached With Harris on Debate
• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday afternoon [Full Story]
• Reports: Ukrainian Forces Attacked Russian Border Post
• Russian Telegram channels with links to the security services said on [Full Story]
• Related
• Russia Accuses US of Aiding Ukraine in Kursk Incursion
• Report: Russian Forces Take Control of Eastern Ukraine Village
• Deadly Russian Strikes Pound Ukraine for 2nd Day
• NFL Expected to Vote for Private Equity Ownership
• The owners of the National Football League are expected to allow some [Full Story]
• Anti-woke Backlash Is Just Getting Started
• Confronting Bud Light and Harley-Davidson for advocating LGBT rights [Full Story] | Platinum Article
• Related
• US Firms Tweak Diversity Policies as Backlash Mounts
• Justice Jackson ‘Prepared’ for Election Challenges
• Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told CBS she’s prepared [Full Story]
• Florida: Say Bye to Your Car Insurance Bill if You Live in These Zip Codes
• Trump Campaign Rejects GOP Rep’s Venue Warning
• The House Republican leading the investigation into the attempted [Full Story]
• Poll: More College Students Afraid to Admit Jewish Faith
• Almost half of current and former college students say they rarely or [Full Story]
• OSHA Probes 2 Deaths at Delta Maintenance Shop
• The U.S. workplace safety agency said it is opening an investigation [Full Story]
• Warren: Trump ‘Really Afraid’ of Kamala Harris
• Former President Donald Trump is “really afraid” of Vice President [Full Story]
• Ipsos Poll: Trump’s Edge on Economy, Crime Slips
• Donald Trump’s advantage over Kamala Harris on the economy and crime [Full Story]
• Zuckerberg: Biden Pressured Meta to Censor COVID Info
• Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said senior officials in the Biden [Full Story]
• Leonard Riggio, Force Behind Barnes & Noble, Has Died
• Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the [Full Story]
• Heritage Action Using Proposed Gender Law as Gauge
• Heritage Action for America is using the Defining Male and Female [Full Story]
• H. Adult Dies From Mosquito Triple E Virus
• A New Hampshire resident who tested positive for the mosquito-borne [Full Story]
• Alaska Air Guard Exempt From Staffing Directive
• Alaska’s Air National Guard will be exempt from staffing changes [Full Story]
• Harris Ad Promotes Housing Plan
• Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday released a new campaign ad [Full Story]
• Harris Team in Conflict Over First Interview Plans
• Three weeks ago, Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris told [Full Story]
• DNC, Ga. Dems Sue State Election Board
• The Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Georgia [Full Story]
• Related
• Texas Lt. Gov to Newsmax: Dem Voter Tactics Won’t Succeed in Texas
• Texas Scrubs 1.1M Ineligible People From Voter Rolls
• Decision Desk HQ: Harris Has 55% Chance to Win
• A new forecast by The Hill/Decision Desk HQ gives Vice President [Full Story]
• Newsom Weighs Bill Mandating Colleges Hire Illegals
• The Democrat-held California state Legislature passed a [Full Story]
• Trump Vows to Launch Space National Guard If Elected
• Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promised to create a [Full Story]
• Trump Team Blasts Harris, Media Over Wall Flip-Flop
• Vice President Kamala Harris, in an attempt to move toward the center [Full Story]
• Iran’s Supreme Leader: Open to Nuke Negotiations With ‘Enemy’ US
• Iran’s supreme leader opened the door Tuesday to renewed negotiations [Full Story]
• Trump Campaign: Harris Team Like ‘Whiny Schoolchildren’
• Donald Trump’s presidential campaign blasted Vice President Kamala [Full Story]
• More Newsfront
• Finance
• NFL Expected to Vote for Wildcard: Private Equity Ownership
• The owners of the National Football League are expected to allow some private equity firms to buy up to a 10% stake in a team, CNBC reported Tuesday…. [Full Story]
• Nissan Brings Value With Its 2024 Rogue Crossover SUV
• Drug Price Controls Underperform, Unworkable
• 11% Who Don’t Own a Home Say Now Is Time to Buy
• US Yields Climb as Investors Reconsider Recession Risks
• More Finance
• Health
• Why Airplane Cabins Are So Cold
• Bring a sweater or sweatshirt in your carry-on when traveling by plane to be prepared for a chilly flight. Jay Robert, a senior cabin crew member, says airplane cabins are kept cold to ensure your health and comfort. Robert tells HuffPost that essentially the pilot controls…… [Full Story]
• Zepbound Now in Single-Dose Vials at Half the Price
• Kids’ TV Shows Ads for Junk Food Down 95%
• Automated Insulin Device Approved for Type 2 Diabetes
• Noisy Neighborhoods Raise Heart Attack Risk

 

 

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APO = Apolo Global Management – bought Inspire Communities

BAM = Brookfield Asset Management – owns and invests in manufactured home communities (MHCs).

BLK = BlackRock – conglomerate has investments in firms and operations involved in manufactured housing.

BRK-A = Berkshire Hathaway – includes outright ownership of Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage Corp, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, other manufactured home industry linked firms (MHC brokerage, suppliers, etc.).

BX = Blackstone – Blackstone Group LP has made its first big bet on manufactured housing by buying a portfolio of communities sold by Tricon Capital Group Inc.

CDPYF = Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust – also has manufactured home communities (MHCs).

CIGI = Colliers International Group Inc. – The Manufactured Housing and RV Group “We Assist Owners and Investors with Disposition, Acquisition, and Financing for Manufactured Housing Communities and RV Parks.”

CG = The Carlyle Group – has manufactured home communities investments.

CSGP = CoStar Group – is commercial real estate’s leading provider of information, analytics and online marketplaces. They acquired listing service Homes.com.

CVCO = Cavco Industries – manufactured home and other factory-built housing production, retail, finance, insurance.

ECNCF = ECN Capital Group – includes manufactured home lender Triad Financial Services.

ELS = Equity LifeStyle Properties – includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs), but also RV and marine slips holdings. Also has captive manufactured home retail operations, and parent to Datacomp/MHVillage.

FGF = FG Financial Group – FG Communities “Owns and Operates Growing Portfolio of Manufactured Housing Communities.” KEY = KeyCorp – manufactured home community financing and manufactured home single-family mortgage financing.

KMMPF = Killam Apartment REITs- (includes manufactured home communities (MHCs).

LCII = LCI Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (RVs, housing, etc.).

LEGH = Legacy Housing – produces manufactured homes, tiny houses, retail, and captive finance operations.

LPX = Louisiana Pacific Corporation – components for the manufactured home industry and others (housing, etc.).

MHC-UN.TO = Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).

MHPC = Manufactured Housing Properties – land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs).

MMI = Marcus and Millichap – commercial real estate brokerage services that include land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs).

NOBH = Nobility Homes – produces and offers captive retail, financing, and insurance services for HUD Code manufactured homes and modular homes.

PATK = Patrick Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (RVs, housing, etc.).

SKY = Skyline Champion – produces and offers captive retail, financing, and insurance for HUD Code manufactured homes and modular homes.

SUI = Sun Communities – includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs), but also RV and marine slips holdings. Also has captive manufactured home retail operations.

TPG = TPG includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs) among a broader basket of investments.

UMH = UMH Properties – includes land lease manufactured home communities and captive manufactured home retail, leasing, and financing operations.

UFPI = UFP Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (housing, etc.).

• • • NOTE 1: Chart above of manufactured housing connected equities includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry finance lender.
    • NOTE 2: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
    • NOTE 3: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
    • Note 4: some recent or related reports to the REITs, stocks, and other equities named above follow in the reports linked below.
    • Note 5: Gifts of Sight and Insights, What’s in Store for 2024? Including 2023 Year End Reflections, manufactured homes, manufactured housing, mobile homes, MHVille, USA Snapshots, Manufactured housing industry year in review 2023.

 

2023 …Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21^st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory-built housing industry suppliers.
· LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
· AMG, CG, and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses. For insights from third-parties and clients about our publisher, click here.

 

 

2022 was a tough year for many stocks. Unfortunately, that pattern held true for manufactured home industry (MHVille) connected stocks too. See the facts, linked above.

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• Note 1: MHVille means manufactured housing industry, MHVille also means artificially smaller manufactured housing (MH) industry,
• Note 2: Manufactured housing, building, factories, retail, dealers, manufactured home, communities, passive mobile home park investing, suppliers, brokers, finance, financial services, macro-markets, manufactured housing stocks, Manufactured Home Communities Real Estate Investment Trusts, MHC REITs.
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  APO, Apollo Global Management, BAM, Brookfield Asset Management, BLK, BlackRock, BRK-A, Berkshire Hathaway, BX, Blackstone, CDPYF, Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, CIGI, Colliers International Group Inc, CG, The Carlyle Group, CSGP, CoStar Group, CVCO, Cavco Industries, ECNCF, ECN Capital Group, ELS, Equity LifeStyle Properties, FGF, FG Financial Group, FG Communities,  KEY, KeyCorp, KMMPF, Killam Apartment REITs, LCII, LCI Industries, LEGH, Legacy Housing, LPX, Louisiana Pacific Corporation, MHC-UN.TO, Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), MHPC, Manufactured Housing Properties, MMI, Marcus and Millichap, NOBH, Nobility Homes, PATK, Patrick Industries, SKY, Skyline Champion, SUI, Sun Communities, UMH, UMH Properties, UFPI, UFP Industries.

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