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by Michael It should be illegal for anyone to artificially modify the weather. That is something that we should all be able to agree on. Unfortunately, as you will see below, it has now come out that this has been happening all over the western half of the United States. In fact, cloud seeding operations were …
BREAKING: We are with hundreds of federal agents and military as a massive federal immigration enforcement operation is underway in the MacArthur Park area of the sanctuary city of Los Angeles, an area with heavy MS-13 influence. Mayor Bass has demanded raids stop, Feds respond… pic.twitter.com/g4osPOL6mr — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 7, 2025 Karen Bass …
REPORTER: What happened to 90 trade deals in 90 days? TRUMP: It's all done. 🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/qNEVZBim3q — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) July 8, 2025 We’re back to Liberation Day. What a completely useless and pointless merry go round. pic.twitter.com/ehS5JMIX0e — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) July 7, 2025
by confoundedinterest17 It’s Gov’t Gone Wild! That includes The House, Senate, President and Federal Reserve. The purchasing power of the US Dollar was $1004.4 on 1915-03-01. By 2025-05-01, the purchasing power fell to $31.1, a loss of 97%. Public debt since the last year of GW Bush, Obama/Biden (with a brief hiatus with Trump) rose …
Over 74,000 Canadians have died since 2018 while waiting for essential healthcare procedures, including at least 15,474 deaths in 2023-24 due to delayed surgeries and diagnostic scans, with Ontario reporting 378 deaths from cardiac procedure delays alone. Incomplete data suggests the true number may be higher, underscoring a critical issue with healthcare wait times in …
Over the past decade, Canada spent ~$11.2 billion on overseas gender initiatives under its Feminist International Assistance Policy, focusing on gender equality and women’s empowerment. This conservative estimate excludes billions more from gender-integrated projects. Critics, like the Fraser Institute, call it wasteful, while Trudeau’s government defends it as vital for economic recovery and social equity. …
Elon Musk didn’t mince words: “The dollar will be worth nothing if the US doesn’t do something about its national debt.” That wasn’t hyperbole. That was a warning. A new study confirms what many already feel in their bones. Most Americans can no longer afford even a minimal quality of life. Forget luxury. Forget comfort. …
by Michael Will the elite soon be able to order “designer babies” that are free from all genetic abnormalities and all genetic diseases because they have been created in a lab using “synthetic human DNA”? I realize that this may sound absolutely crazy to many of you, but we are dangerously close to such a …
by David Haggith And, yet, the picture gets worse still looking further forward, based on the labor-market conditions that are building as major trends so far. Just as I expected, the government’s report on jobs Thursday totally contradicted ADP’s Wednesday payroll data report. The stock market ignored the abysmal ADP report but then soared with …
It looks like tough times could be on the horizon. ADP just posted its first negative print since March 2023: private payrolls dropped 33,000 in June. The labor market is contracting. pic.twitter.com/0YlIHDNwSz — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) July 6, 2025 Something is happening in the banking system. The Fed's Primary Credit Facility is about …
by Michael Why does the U.S. just continue to get pummeled by historic storm after historic storm? We keep being told that what we are witnessing is “normal”, but there is definitely nothing “normal” about any of this. A couple of decades ago, it was extremely rare for the U.S. to be hit by a …
Developer behind ICE-tracking app tells Trump officials to “come get me” in bold First Amendment stand. 🚨 THREAD: ICE-Tracking App Creator DARES Trump Admin — “Look up the First Amendment.” Here’s the full story behind the viral video of Joshua Aaron, the developer who told Trump’s team to bring it on — and why it …
Dow faces major resistance at current level… Dow Jones. It makes sense for markets to sell off at current levels.(Major resistance) A 4% sell-off is nearly guaranteed.42,000 will act as major support; below that, it gets ugly. Hope this helps. pic.twitter.com/p09gxmJxXk — The Great Martis (@great_martis) July 5, 2025 $VIX August is seasonally the best …
Many homebuyers, investors, and realtors are now wondering – will these Fed Rate Cuts stimulate the housing market? And cause more homebuyers to come back to the market? In this video, Reventure Consulting analyzes the data on home price affordability and finds that the U.S. Housing Market is a long way off from being affordable …
Gold is rallying again. Spot gold has climbed back above 3,336 USD per ounce, recovering about 1.9 % this week, still down from its 3,500 USD peak in April. That rally sent GDX, the gold miners ETF, surging roughly 25 % year to date, outperforming bullion by about 2x. Volume has picked up, and institutions …
The market just hit a record and looks like it wants to go higher. But something ugly is brewing underneath. The S&P 500 hit 6214 on July 3, yet liquidity is drying up. Volume is fading. Breadth is deteriorating. And the Fed is boxed in. This time the cracks are real. The tariff wave is …
by Michael Americans still love hamburgers and French fries, but they sure are a lot more expensive than they once were. In fact, as you will see below, the price of ground beef in the U.S. has risen 16.2 percent during the last 12 months. No matter how you look at that number, it is …
by Michael All of a sudden, everyone is watching Japan. Could it be possible that the hundreds of earthquakes that we have been witnessing are leading up to a very destructive seismic event? Prior to the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that caused an absolutely devastating tsunami to slam into Japan in 2011, there were a number …
The wealthy have a clear financial incentive to promote or shape crisis-related policies that cause M2 money supply surges, as these typically boost asset prices (like stocks and real estate) and offer low-cost credit, disproportionately enriching them. In February 2021, the U.S. M2 money supply, encompassing cash, checking accounts, savings, and money market funds, skyrocketed …
The Tea Act of 1773, enacted by the British Parliament, aimed to address the financial struggles of the East India Company by allowing it to sell its surplus tea directly to the American colonies at a reduced price, bypassing middlemen. The act was not primarily designed to impose a new 2% tax but rather to …
As the technology sector faces a wave of layoffs, demand for H-1B visas, which enable U.S. companies to employ skilled foreign professionals in specialized roles, continues unabated. Microsoft, a dominant force in the industry, is reportedly set to reduce its U.S. workforce by approximately 9,000 jobs in 2025, following an earlier elimination of over 6,000 positions in …
What stock is this?! No pullbacks whatsoever.#toinfinityandbeyond pic.twitter.com/ZAXNjiraYe — Heisenberg (@Mr_Derivatives) July 3, 2025 CNBC: CBO says it'll add a trillion dollars to our public debt. How do you square that? BESSENT: If you turn up the growth projections to something like 3 percent, then the debt disappears pic.twitter.com/2R7Ith9chc — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 3, …
🇷🇺⚡Kiev is on fire. pic.twitter.com/cOSfREuhz8 — Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 (@Alex_Oloyede2) July 4, 2025 ❗️Trump ends 'ALL' arms to Zelensky 'All American weapons shipments, including shells & spare parts, halted' — Kiev officials to The Economist US Patriot missile system footage from NATO pic.twitter.com/cHGu7ilYYk — Paul White Gold Eagle (@PaulGoldEagle) July 3, 2025 Kiev the following …
Up to 70 percent threat hits allies, rivals… Who is getting fucked with 70% 💀 pic.twitter.com/hCxw1Kacji — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) July 4, 2025 Trump is about to nuke the Markets. https://t.co/yG3qRogIPR — The Great Martis (@great_martis) July 4, 2025 It’s probably nothin. https://t.co/SZWnUsFuAS pic.twitter.com/J8CWXewYUz — The Great Martis (@great_martis) July 4, 2025 $SPY EXTREMELY OVERBOUGHT. 5D …
The hype around the BBB budget bill has been building for weeks with traders and investors bracing for a sell the news reaction next week. The key question remains how deep the drop could be whether it will be a mild 1% pullback or a harsher 10% decline. The market rallied roughly 22% over the …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, “Healthcare” grift, graft, fraud and financialized skims / scams will bankrupt the nation. I’ve been writing about America’s healthcare system for 18 years, emphasizing two enduring themes: 1) our lifestyle is unhealthy, with predictable consequences and 2) healthcare as it is currently configured will bankrupt the nation all by itself. …
The UK’s National Health Service is showing signs of structural rot. Not just in funding, but in function. The latest Darzi investigation, commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care, laid it out in plain terms: the NHS is in “critical condition.” Waiting lists have ballooned from 2.4 million in 2010 to over 7 …
Cloudflare just flipped the switch on a new model for the internet. Starting July 1, 2025, every new domain using Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default. No scraping. No silent indexing. If an AI company wants access, it has to pay. That’s the core of Pay-Per-Crawl, a system now in private beta that lets websites …
Centene just pulled its 2025 earnings forecast. The numbers didn’t slip, they cratered. The company warned of a $2.75 per share hit, wiping out $1.8 billion in adjusted earnings. That’s not a guidance tweak. That’s a full retreat. The trigger came from updated morbidity data across 22 states, covering 72% of Centene’s ACA marketplace footprint. …
Ukraine’s military supply chain just hit a wall. The Pentagon froze shipments of key weapons to Kyiv, including Patriot interceptors, Stingers, and HIMARS rounds. The pause wasn’t announced. It landed without warning. Ukrainian officials summoned the U.S. chargé d’affaires in Kyiv on July 2 to demand answers. The Foreign Ministry said delays “will only encourage …