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A man with 14 prior arrests was freed and now a young woman is dead. The judge who turned him loose faces nothing. No trial. No review. Nothing. This is not justice. This is permission for predators to keep hunting. If the people who hold the keys feel no fear the streets never get safer. …
by Michael Are we defined by what we do? For so many of us, our identities are tied to our occupations. For example, when I worked in the legal field many years ago so many of my colleagues took great pride in being able to say “I’m a lawyer” when they were asked about their …
And yet they keep also laying off people too: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-tech-layoffs-2025-surge-in-us-amazon-microsoft-meta-slash-thousands-of-jobs-check-full-list-of-companies-affected/articleshow/123735499.cms H1-B visas are only granted if the companies are unable to find workers for that field. But the US has robust STEM education, indeed it’s all anyone has talked about for the last 20 years – there are absolutely enough domestic CS graduates for tech companies …
The end of an era is arriving quietly but with consequences that will ripple across millions of households, leaving families, roommates, and casual users suddenly exposed to rising costs, fractured convenience, and a creeping erosion of the sharing culture Amazon once allowed. On October 1, 2025, Amazon will terminate the program that permitted Prime members …
It’s 2025 and the American middle class is dead. Completely gone. And we’re acting like this is fine. The country we grew up believing in doesn’t exist anymore. The promise that hard work gets rewarded? That’s over. Millions of Americans are living in conditions that would make third-world countries feel sorry for us. The average …
When even McDonald’s customers are tapped out, that signals the consumer engine is failing. This is what the end of a credit cycle looks like. ‘The peasants who eat at our restaurants are struggling to afford breakfast.’ pic.twitter.com/k5DEMa95ZQ — hammy (@hammyXBT_) September 7, 2025 McDonald’s pushes to end tipped wages and calls for higher federal …
So we’re all funding our eventual replacements?! Awkward. Energy Costs are Rising. Trump and Big Tech Are to Blame In a stunning statement last week, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Republicans are “going to get blamed” for soaring energy prices. I hope he’s right. On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump vowed to cut …
Something ruptured under the surface and the quiet around it feels louder than the break itself. At 05:45 UTC on Saturday, multiple subsea cables were severed in the Red Sea, triggering internet outages across Pakistan, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft called it a “service degradation,” but the phrase barely hides the scale of …
Imagine if Biden did this to Florida during Covid to enforce lockdowns. This sets an extremely dangerous precedent which will used be democrats against us after next election. Trump’s base is splintering. Megyn Kelly: “You can’t just send the National Guard into random cities…It very clearly is not constitutionally permissible. He cannot do it.” pic.twitter.com/GjXdvE3yRA …
by Martin Armstrong Following the meeting, which was attended by Zelensky, the Petit Napoleon Macron, pushing to conquer Russia, said that 26 countries – including the UK and France – have pledged to deploy troops in Ukraine as a “reassurance force” in the event of a ceasefire. They know what they are doing. This is …
The United States faces an economic fault line few are willing to stare at, yet the cracks are widening visibly under policies that appear deliberately reckless, with consequences that could cascade across every sector of daily life and national finance, destabilizing supply chains, investment confidence, and ordinary household budgets simultaneously. President Trump has warned that …
The idea that the U.S. housing market is finally responding to buyers is a lie engineered to mislead. Beneath small price shifts and stagnant mortgage rates, the system is still structured to preserve inflated valuations, restrict liquidity, and trap both homeowners and prospective buyers. Reports that suggest softening prices or easing rates are not signs …
Worldwide, central banks now own more gold than U.S. federal debt. With $37T in debt, waning demand for our government’s debt and rising borrowing costs, the dollar’s decline is accelerating – and gold demand is soaring… By Peter Reagan There’s a saying in Washington: Deficits don’t matter. That line might work in speeches, but the rest …
by confoundedinterest17 Not exactly the Guns Of August. More like a wet cap gun firing. The jobs report for August showed only 22k jobs added. U-3 unemployment rate rose to 4.3%. U-6 unemployment and part-time rose to 8.1%. Total private jobs added was 38k while manufacturing jobs added was down -12k. Government jobs dropped -16k. …
The madmen of the planet like Bill Gates and all his Tech Bros like Sam Altman are in a race to see how fast they can takeover the planet using AI and Robotics. In the process, humanity will be exterminated. Trump, strangely, is all in for the AI Takeover. There are no guardrails on AI …
When the government gets involved they usually make the situation worse. Student loans 90+ days delinquent have exploded higher to heights never seen before. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/student-loan-delinquencies-are-on-the-rise-heres-why-184802465.html 12.9% of student loans are now in serious delinquency, the highest rate ever recorded. https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2025/20250513 The New York Fed admits the spike came from resuming reporting after a five-year pause. …
Rates going to start tumbling like 2008. Maybe because the smart money knows that houses are insanely overpriced, and the loss of FedBux "value" when Housing Bubble 2.0 implodes is going to be stupendous byu/Boo_Randy_II inWallstreetsilver Mortgage Demand is 34% below pre-pandemic norms, 55% below the pandemic peak and lower than 2008-2012 crash byu/Altruistic_Horse4104 inREBubble …
Donald Trump didn’t just buy bonds in 2025. He soaked entire sectors: gas districts, school boards, hospital authorities, municipal utilities, in positions that turn federal policy into profit. Every rate shift, every regulatory adjustment now feeds directly into his wealth. Policy and portfolio are fused. CNBC reports nearly 700 transactions, including bonds from Meta, T-Mobile, …
I miss George Carlin: “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and …
Harvard raised tuition to $75,538 and continues charging students to wash their clothes, not out of necessity, but out of a refusal to stop extracting. The laundry system was revamped this fall, introducing a third-party app that forces students to preload $10 just to avoid extra fees, turning a basic chore into a financial hurdle. …
Global confidence in the dollar is already fragile. Any serious move into gold signals that investors no longer trust Washington to manage debt or preserve purchasing power. This is more than a market event. It is a warning that the financial system is teetering on the edge and a crisis could ignite at any moment. …
Thomas Massie publicly identified billionaire John Paulson in Epstein’s black book during a Newsmax interview. He said: “Let me give you the name of one of the billionaires who’s running $2 million of ads in my district since I started this effort. His name is John Paulson. He’s a hedge fund manager and a major …
When people or institutions prioritize speculative investments like stocks, crypto, or even luxury assets over basic needs like housing, it signals excessive optimism or detachment from fundamentals. When fundamentals are ignored, corrections come fast and brutal. This was actually the top of $NVDA pic.twitter.com/36DPLBvvyw — PeloSwing🎯👸🏻 (@PeloSwing) September 5, 2025 $NVDA looking quite heavy here …
Confirmation of source: https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2025-03-22 This is the latest edition of The Economist magazine. They are showing you what is coming. This is all leading to the mark of the beast. pic.twitter.com/d4FYaQGK7A — Truth Seeker (@_TruthZone_) March 20, 2025 Seems to be a theme…. View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com …
Trump's tech dinner wasn't networking. It was a $1+ trillion auction where billionaires bought American policy. All while 5 Indian CEOs sat at the table as their homeland faces 50% tariffs. The most expensive meal in political history just redrew global power lines 🧵 pic.twitter.com/SoMUFoBRn7 — Shawn Chauhan (@shawnchauhan1) September 5, 2025 Tim Cook 80% …
by Michael A major eruption of just one of the Earth’s supervolcanoes would have the potential to produce a long-term “volcanic winter” and a horrifying global famine in which hundreds of millions of people would die. So should we be alarmed that several of those supervolcanoes appear to be waking up simultaneously? In recent months, I …
President Trump is pushing to restrict U.S. tech outsourcing to Indian companies, aiming to redirect jobs back to domestic workers while simultaneously challenging global labor flows. This policy forces U.S. firms to reconsider contracts, adjust costs, and restructure operations, creating pressure at the same time it opens opportunities for local hiring. Peter Navarro called for …
Gold is signaling the government is failing, and bonds are saying we are in a recession while the government is failing. Yes they are. Gold saying the gov is retarded, bonds saying we are in recession and the gov is retarded. — TrustDansCharts (@DizzleTheRizzle) September 5, 2025 This really has to be the dumbest recession …
The First Amendment protects speech, but only from U.S. government action, not from private companies, not from your boss, and not from foreign governments. It applies to everyone physically in the U.S., citizens, tourists, even undocumented immigrants, but its shield only works against federal, state, and local government attempts to censor, punish, or restrict speech, …
The globalists haven’t abandoned their “Great Reset” scheme. Brandon Smith of alt-market.com speculates that, while Trump’s tariffs disrupt globalism, could they also accelerate the very crisis globalists need to impose their vision? By Brandon Smith The news feeds are buzzing this week over the recent meeting between Russia, China and India at the Chinese port city of …