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Worst nightmare caught on camera pic.twitter.com/gWq9Io4cOC — Crazy Clips (@crazyclipsonly) February 20, 2024 Jan 24, 2024. facility on Roi-Namur island The US military’s Pacific base encountered waves that caused significant damage. Located on the island of Guam, the naval base experienced the effects of powerful waves that battered the coastline, leading to structural damage and …
Interest payments on $34 trillion US national debt will exceed DEFENSE spending this year – as legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones says a ‘debt bomb’ set to go off in US Interest payments on the US national debt will eclipse defense spending in 2024, grim new projections show. Federal debt is at a historic high, …
by confoundedinterest17 According to mythology, Hades made King Sisyphus roll a huge boulder endlessly up a steep hill in Tartarus. Unfortunately, the modern day version of Sisyphus is the middle class pushing a boulder endlessly up a steep hill while the top 1% (the elite class) horde more and more wealth. An example of the Sisyphus economy? …
by Moccasin Ranger $100 used to be the total, when we really stocked up or picked some extras. Prices started climbing and we trimmed the extras, it hit $120-130. At $150 we started bitching. A month ago it hit $180. Hell it may have only been two weeks since we hit $180. Today it was …
Across the globe, the story is much the same, with each central bank facing its unique set of challenges. The United States is wrestling with stubborn inflation and a labor market that’s surprisingly robust, leading traders to second-guess the Federal Reserve’s stance on easing up anytime soon. Meanwhile, the euro area, having narrowly dodged a …
The Internal Revenue Service’s request (IRS) that taxpayers report any income they might have received through illegal activities such as dealing drugs has gone viral on social media, with users joking about the unlikely demand. “Don’t forget to report your income from illegal activities and stolen property as you’re doing your taxes this year,” one …
Jessica Burbank and Robby Soave react to Robert F Kennedy Jr’s allegations of a double standard in the 2024 race.
Shocking video shows the moment a woman slapped a tourist, for no apparent reason. News 4’s Erica Byfield reports.
The cost of eating at McDonald’s has skyrocketed in recent years. With BigMacs now costing as much as $18 in some cities like Darien, CT. The result is that people with lower incomes have stopped going to McDonald’s, with their CEO reporting a drop in attendance from those making less than $45,000 per year. Does …
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary ripped into what he called “loser” New York and vowed to no longer invest in the state, when asked about a New York court’s $355 million verdict against former President Trump last week. “This award, I mean, just leaving the whole Trump thing out of it and seeing what occurred …
ATTENTION: Housing defaults have just hit the highest levels since 2013 This is now starting to look scary pic.twitter.com/IP2J3mCYHs — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) February 18, 2024 Home prices just saw the largest year-over-year decline, dating back to 1964: https://t.co/kn2vAsyI15 — Reef Insights (@ReefInsights) February 20, 2024 Na pic.twitter.com/eBLQWa1HGM — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) February 20, 2024
via Mike Shedlock On average, the economy looks OK. But averages are misleading. Several large groups of people are struggling. They all have one thing in common. Case-Shiller home price index, CPI rent index, and the index of hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers. Who’s Unhappy? Those looking to buy a home but cannot …
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has reversed a plan to give abandoned luxury Harlem a condominium complex to migrants after significant community outcry. “Adams’ change of heart came during a surprise appearance at a St. Nicholas House Resident Association meeting packed with dozens of residents furious over the city’s plan for a building development …
BREAKING: Michigan State is now asking residents to house illegals in their homes. How long until this becomes mandatory? Where do the illegals go when there’s no more room in public housing facilities yet thousands more people are still coming daily? BREAKING: Michigan State is now asking residents to house illegals in their homes. How …
NEW: Elon Musk announced (via X Spaces) that the first human implanted with Neuralink's brain chip has made a full recovery. The patient is able to control a mouse using only their thoughtspic.twitter.com/6VCZmXrS35 — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) February 20, 2024 Michael Jackson telling his monkey Bubbles to sit down in sign language. pic.twitter.com/QU3PGqflLb — Historic …
In 2018, as well as when running for President in 2020, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) constantly claimed that people were working “two and three part-time jobs” to keep up with payments, and that is why the unemployment rate was low. People say unemployment is down, and boy I’m glad to hear that unemployment is down, …
‘Stanford Medicine study identifies distinct brain organization patterns in women and men Women’s and men’s brain patterns differ Peer-Reviewed Publication STANFORD MEDICINE A new study by Stanford Medicine investigators unveils a new artificial intelligence model that was more than 90% successful at determining whether scans of brain activity came from a woman or a man. …
@NYCMayor is giving out debit cards to illegal immigrants up to $10,000 each in taxpayer money with no ID check, no restrictions and no fraud control.Why are we distributing untraceable global cash to unidentifiable people in droves? https://t.co/TTAp7cIFGg — Manhattan Mingle (@ManhattanMingle) February 20, 2024 The New York Post reports: Inside Mayor Adams’ migrant debit card …
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Monday the difficulties his army is facing at the frontlines due to delays in military foreign aid and diminished morale following their defeat in Avdiivka. The Ukrainian military is also grappling with severe deficits in their arsenal, specifically artillery, air defenses, and long-range weapons, that are not being balanced …
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Officials have asked Gov. Maura Healey to send in the Massachusetts National Guard to stop violence and address security concerns at a troubled high school in a city south of Boston, some school committee members said Monday. Four of the seven members of the Brockton School Committee backed the National Guard …
https://twitter.com/_/status/1759924430266921310 Yesterday, Yulia Navalnaya said that Putin killed her husband and she promised to share how it was done.Mrs Navalnaya announced that she will continue her husband's cause and will fight against Putin's regime for Russian future. While Alexei Navalny was in prison and alive,… https://t.co/1FgjxGM81n pic.twitter.com/FPENK9rQe6 — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) February 20, 2024 And …
A Washington, D.C., man whose lottery ticket matched the posted winning numbers of a Powerball drawing online last year has filed a $340 million lawsuit seeking the money he says he won. But the lottery company claims he didn’t win anything, saying the numbers he saw when he checked his ticket on the Powerball website …
BREAKING: Illegals ass*ult NYPD officers in the Randall’s Island migrant housing facility pic.twitter.com/VjsG0iX3f5 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2024 The last group who asaulted officers were let out that week with low bail amounts. What’s stopping more of them from committing the same crime? — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2024
After numerous Nevada voters saw irregularities in their voter history on Sunday, the secretary of state’s office said it has identified the issues and is fixing them, according to a statement Monday evening. The office learned Sunday there were possible technical issues relating to Nevadans’ voting history for people who did not participate in the …
CNN's Fareed Zakaria says America’s crumbling infrastructure is an “expression of Democracy.” “That makes them messier, and dirtier, and sometimes chaotic.”pic.twitter.com/JdJ0JQplAt — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 19, 2024 https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1759655532582084986
Traditionalist patriotic party, the Alternative For Deutschland is making headway in its mission to halt Germany’s decline. After a Berlin court ordered the repeat elections in select districts, the Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support from the September 2021 vote. On Sunday, 550,000 citizens were able to vote, amounting to a fifth of the …
