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Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Cloaking a fake “market” with artifice to maintain its asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income also cloaks its detachment from the real world. I often refer to the dynamics of self-correction and self-liquidation. Systems that use feedback to rebalance extremes are self-correcting: rather than accelerate as they approach a cliff, …
Iran Military News ☫ @IranMilitaryEN Strategic Assessment: The intensification of blind US attacks, which in some cases target civilian infrastructure such as airplanes or wheat silos in remote cities and have also damaged Iran’s industrial infrastructure, along with successive covert messages to start diplomacy with Iran, all of which have been met with Iranian indifference, …
Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE! We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!! President DJT …
JUST IN: 🇲🇾🇮🇷 Malaysia says its ships are passing through the Strait of Hormuz without paying any tolls to Iran. pic.twitter.com/ckJ18iwnBR — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) April 1, 2026 What caused oil to drop nearly $7 overnight? I can't seem to find a reason pic.twitter.com/uxYpVa6qjL — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) April 1, 2026
The United Arab Emirates is preparing to help the U.S. and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force, Arab officials said, a move that would make it the first Persian Gulf country to become a combatant, after being hit by Iranian attacks. The U.A.E. is lobbying for a United Nations Security Council resolution …
by Michael Should we be concerned about the large fireballs that have been flying through our skies in recent weeks? I have been writing so much about the war in the Middle East that I haven’t given this fireball swarm the attention that it deserves. Over and over again, people have been capturing footage of …
BREAKING: A foreign female journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday by unknown parties, the Iraqi interior ministry said. The kidnapped journalist holds a US passport, according to two Iraqi police sources. pic.twitter.com/uQNQc5TZ7m — Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) March 31, 2026 ‘The pursuit resulted in the interception of a vehicle belonging to the kidnappers, …
BREAKING: Poland refused to send Patriot air defense systems to the Middle East after a US request. pic.twitter.com/qsvnuta5RU — Current Report (@Currentreport1) March 31, 2026 Poland has rejected a US request to transfer Patriot air defense systems to the Middle East, Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Tuesday, March 31. According to Polish outlet Rzeczpospolita, …
Rep. Matt Gaetz on what he was told in a classified congressional briefing by a uniformed U.S. Army officer: “I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with …
Japan Engine Corporation (J-ENG) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have started onshore testing of a large, low-speed, two-stroke hydrogen-fueled marine engine. The test campaign, the first of its kind, marks the world’s first operation of a hydrogen propulsion system designed for large ocean-going vessels. The prototype engine, designated 6UEC35LSGH, completed initial hydrogen co-firing trials at J-ENG’s …
The question everyone should be asking themselves right now, this second, is why isn’t oil $130 per barrel? Today. Right now. When you look around the world, there are a lot of indications which strongly suggest crude is being drastically underpriced. A lot of it has to do with uncertainty, and I mean that in …
🎯 IBMs upcoming cut will be 10%+ at minimumSFDC will say aloha to 1000s they called “ohana”and much, much more there is a reckoning that is unavoidableit has little to do with AIand everything to do with hitting profitability forecasts watch🔮✨https://t.co/Lj1koQClPG — KiefinItReal (@KiefinItReals) March 31, 2026 Oracle has started one of the largest layoffs …
Trump says the U.S. will hit Iranian bridges that would take “15-20 years to rebuild.” Bridges are civilian infrastructure that millions of Iranians depend on daily. Destroying them doesn’t weaken the IRGC. It punishes ordinary people and makes postwar reconstruction exponentially harder. And if the pattern holds, Iran will retaliate by hitting bridges somewhere in …
Tensions in the Middle East have reached a critical level. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened major American technology and aerospace companies, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp-parent company Meta, Google and Apple, with an attack and urged the staff to evacuate their office in the region. The Iran’s multi-service primary force has said …
Full List of 57 House Republicans Who Voted for Kill Switch Technology Mark E. Amodei (Nevada) Don Bacon (Nebraska) Stephanie Bice (Oklahoma) Gus Bilirakis (Florida) Mike Bost (Illinois) Ken Calvert (California) John R. Carter (Texas) Tom Cole (Oklahoma) Mario Diaz-Balart (Florida) Neal Dunn (Florida) Chuck Edwards (North Carolina) Jake Ellzey (Texas) Randy Feenstra (Iowa) Randy …
Trump ordered to stop all construction on his glitzy White House ballroom https://t.co/9qz8R7FXED — Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) March 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge blocked Donald Trump on Tuesday from proceeding with construction of a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing, halting for …
Iran’s foreign minister confirmed messages have been exchanged with the US but flat out said there are no formal negotiations, while a US proposal sent through Pakistan still has no response. That tells you exactly where things stand, communication exists, trust does not. This is not progress, it is a holding pattern where both sides …
by Michael Most of the pre-packaged garbage that we are being sold in our local grocery stores is “Frankenstein food”, but even though this is widely known most of the general population just keeps gobbling it down anyway. This is something that I have been wanting to write about for quite some time. The major …
Elon Musk just told the world to stop training surgeons. Not slow down. Stop. Musk: “There’ll probably be more Optimus robots that are great surgeons than there are all surgeons on Earth.” The entire global surgical workforce. Redundant. Before a current med student finishes… pic.twitter.com/OuOv4VAEZe — Dustin (@r0ck3t23) March 31, 2026 Elon Musk has claimed …
Spring has sprung, which means seeds that were planted in late winter are starting to germinate. They’re hungry and will only grow to their full nutritional potential if they’re well fed. But that, apparently, isn’t happening, as fertilizer supplies are interrupted by yet another pointless Middle East war. The result? Global food shortages that might …
U.S. stocks spiked and oil dropped off today; But I don't get the reason for the optimism. What changed? What do the insiders know that we don't?pic.twitter.com/ehCQE7WPvD https://t.co/ouB6hne9sp — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 31, 2026 Look at a pic of my news feed and tell me how anyone is supposed to make sense of this? …
Social Security is the nation’s largest social insurance program, making payments to approximately 75 million Americans every month. Yet the program faces an imminent funding shortfall. Social Security’s trust fund for retirement benefits may run out in 2032, which could prompt an across-the-board benefit cut, according to projections from the Social Security Administration and Congressional …
Google just told the Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies industry it has less time than it thought to prepare for the quantum computing influence. In a whitepaper published March 31, Google Quantum AI researchers demonstrated that breaking the elliptic curve cryptography protecting bitcoin, ether and most major cryptocurrencies could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits on a …
Warren Buffett said Tuesday that he has not spoken to Microsoft founder Bill Gates “since the whole thing” with the Jeffrey Epstein files “was unveiled.” “I haven’t talked to him at all since the whole thing was unveiled,” Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box.” “I don’t want to be in a position where …
Farms and ranchers are having hard time selling in British Columbia because of the First Nations land claims the court rulings. Now Indigenous groups are telling perspective buyers that they won't endorse transfer of crown licenses for grazing. Despicable. pic.twitter.com/MoucgN1Ysk — Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) March 30, 2026 VICTORIA — It was billed as a “once-in-a-lifetime …
The headlines say the job market is holding up. The official numbers say unemployment is under control. But if you’ve been out there applying, you already know that something doesn’t add up. People with degrees, experience, and stacked resumes are sending out hundreds of applications and hearing absolutely nothing back. In this video, we’re getting …
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just dropped an UNEXPECTED take on Iran. “It’s much more important that this be successfully completed, than what the market does.” Dimon says the markets are unpredictable right now, but regardless, EVERYONE should be hoping for Trump to succeed in Iran. DIMON: “I think the market…you know, markets are unpredictable and …
Do you understand what just happened to Anthropic.. someone on their team ran a production build of Claude Code.. the compiler generated a .map file.. which is literally a blueprint that reverses the entire codebase back to its original source.. and then they published it straight to npm for the whole world to download.. it’s …
BREAKING: DDR5 memory prices crash up to 30% after Google unveiled TurboQuant. Google TurboQuant cuts AI memory usage to 1/6, raising concerns about memory demand. Memory prices are up 106% since 2024 lows, but are now falling. 32GB DDR5 on Amazon fell from about $490 to $379.99, while 16GB DDR5 fell from about $260 to …
That's it. I give up.. Donald Trump is a time traveler. 20/20 interview 1987. Wtf. pic.twitter.com/Q44GaCjIsI — Whiplash347 (@Whiplash437) March 30, 2026 2008… This aired in 2008. You don’t really know what you think you know. pic.twitter.com/KzB5jMYaPP — MrBanks💰 (@Mrbankstips) March 29, 2026 2010 El 16 de Febrero del 2010 Bill Ryan de Project Camelot …