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Picture selling your house to live on a cruise ship for the next 15 years. Two years in, the ship docks in Cambodia and the company tells everyone to get off.
That just happened to about 200 people. And at today's fuel prices, the $120,000 they paid for a cabin covers as little as 15 months of fuel.
The ship is the Villa Vie Odyssey. It was built in 1993, sat in storage through Covid, and a Florida startup bought it for about $13 million. Their pitch was simple. You buy your cabin up front, starting around $120,000, you pay a monthly fee starting at $1,750 a person, and the ship sails around the world nonstop for 15 years.
The trouble started way before anything went wrong. The company says fuel was running about $1,800 per cabin per month before this year. So someone living alone in a cheap cabin was paying less each month than it cost just to fuel the average cabin, and that's before you feed anybody, pay 156 crew, or fix anything on a 33-year-old ship.
Then the Iran war kicked off in February and fuel went through the roof. In parts of Asia the company says it's now $6,000 to $8,000 per cabin per month.
And it gets worse, because a ship burns about the same fuel whether it's packed or half empty. The Odyssey can hold 650 passengers. It pulled into Cambodia with 203 on board, so the fuel for all those empty cabins was getting covered by the people who actually showed up.
If you were on the ship, you could probably feel it coming. One resident told the AP they'd been hit up for fuel money every two to four weeks. When a company that sold you a fixed price starts passing the hat that often, it's usually running out of road.
Now the company says it'll spend 60 days working on a "restructuring and recapitalization." If you paid six figures up front for years of service that just stopped, that phrase should worry you, because people who prepaid usually end up near the back of the line behind the lenders.
Most of these folks were promised 15 years on that ship, and they got a little over two.
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After watching this, I'm just amazed it took Microsoft so long to lay off 60,000 staff
Writer: Ian
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Harvard admitted fewer African and West Indian immigrants, often used as stand-ins for Foundational Black Americans, and white supremacists are cheering. Plot twist: white admits dropped too. 🤦🏿♂️
🚨#BREAKING: Black student enrollment at Harvard has fallen nearly 50% since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in 2023, dropping from 18% to just 9.3% of incoming freshmen.
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These Zionists were 3 of the single most famous real estate agents in New York and Miami.
For 20 years they drugged and raped at least 70 women.
Guess who they represented?
@JaredKushner & @IvankaTrump.
Israeli-American brothers sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for serial sex trafficking
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Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander—three brothers from a prominent Israeli-American family who once dominated high-society real estate and security circles in New York and Miami—were each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday for sex trafficking, conspiracy, and multiple counts of sexual abuse.
Presiding US District Judge Valerie Caproni delivered the sentences in a Manhattan courtroom following an emotional, hours-long hearing where more than a dozen survivors delivered harrowing impact statements detailing years of systemic abuse.
During the five-week trial, federal prosecutors laid out evidence demonstrating how the brothers exploited their immense wealth, high social status, and Israeli-American background ties to lure women to luxury properties—including estates in the Hamptons and international locations such as Tel Aviv—before drugging and violently assaulting them while incapacitated.
While Tal and Oren operated elite luxury real estate brokerages, their twin brother Alon worked as an executive at their family’s security firm, utilizing their network to shield their predatory conduct.
Judge Caproni firmly rejected the defendants' late assertions of innocence and unconvincing appeals for mercy, describing their actions as "monstrous" and likening them to "sadistic, misogynistic sexual predators."
The landmark sentencing marks a dramatic downfall for the brothers, who maintained their defiant stance even as victims confronted them directly in court. Federal prosecutors had pushed for life sentences, citing the profound psychological trauma inflicted upon more than 70 victims who came forward to investigators.
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Charlemagne is a suspected pedo his words and actions means nothing in the FBA community. Just like this Haitian tether so-called apology it doesn’t mean 💩 either. Anyone casting him in a movie will get cancel as well. FBA will not accept nor forgive disrespect any longer.
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She is an Ethiopian-Sudanese woman not a Black American. Immigrant vs Immigrant. Bet she was filtering money toward Afro immigrants and their community. This is immigrant vs immigrant. Africans vs Africans
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The “Black Community “ is only referring to Black Americans.
It does NOT include African and Caribbean immigrants.
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Netanyahu may yet lose, but the fact that he is this close to being re-elected after carrying out a genocide tells you all you need to know about Israel and its Jewish people.
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You can guarantee that Abdul El-Sayed will prioritize his own people, which is something "Black" politicians never do.
"Black" politicians will fight with all their might for someone like him, or a Caribbean, or an African, or a Hispanic, or an Indian who will prioritize their own people and immigrants as a collective before they lift one policymaking pen to help Foundational Black Americans.
Ayanna Pressley on why hesitant black Michigan voters should vote for Abdul El-Sayed:
"The people who mean us harm are all working together. So the people being harmed need to all work together. Somebody who has experienced the discrimination of islamophobia, in my opinion, is better positioned to challenge anti-blackness, to challenge antisemitism, to confront white supremacy, and this moment, it demands truth tellers."
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Yup and they are intentionally not saying she is African. No Black Americans aren’t going to get involved in these immigrant fights with each other
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Nothing to do with Black Americans. This woman is Ethiopian-Sudanese. Immigrant vs. immigrant
Mamdani tries to oust black female leader of city's racial equity commission after she publicly criticized the admin trib.al/M5OFhHm
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If we do not pass laws to punish companies who put Foreigners before American Workers, this country is done.
LEAKED: MICROSOFT'S CLOUD + AI CHIEF TELLS EMPLOYEES "WE WANT TO BRING MORE TALENT INTO THE UNITED STATES."
That is Scott Guthrie in his division's internal AMA, two days after Microsoft offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees and a week after the US Gov’t suspended their PERM filings.
He told visa and green card holders Microsoft will "continue to sponsor" them.
He said Microsoft is "working with the US administration to get clarity," and "we're not sure that everyone's looked at the right data."
