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WSJ: "The U.S. struck multiple bridges in Iran on Thursday in an effort to cut off supply routes to a port city and naval base in the Strait of Hormuz that Iran uses to attack ships and project power, according to a senior U.S. official. Several attacks on bridges were reported… — Steve Lookner (@lookner) …
by Martin Armstrong Bulgaria has now become the latest country to step away from Europe’s proxy war with Russia. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev announced that his country is withdrawing from the Western-backed “Coalition of the Willing,” making it clear that Bulgaria will no longer participate in initiatives centered on providing continued military and financial …
The head of the top US road safety agency cautioned autonomous vehicle developers in a letter Wednesday about what he called an “unacceptable” pattern of driverless cars interfering with the work of law enforcement and other first responders. “To state it bluntly: An AV that cannot safely interact with first responders is a danger to …
Servers alone already accounted for an estimated 7% of all commercial sector electricity in 2025. By 2050 that share climbs to between 22% and 33% across scenarios in the agency’s Annual Energy Outlook 2026, released in April. Server consumption could reach as high as 818 billion kWh by midcentury in the high-demand case. Standalone data …
This is not rich versus poor but literally 19 households versus rest including other wealthy people. Years of policy let asset bubbles reward only owners while regular folks deal with fallout. Wealth versus income comparison hides how gains come from passive holding not new work. Governments keep markets inflating for few while structural split leaves …
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE operations will only intensify despite the recent killings of two innocent men in Texas and Maine: “We’re turning up the heat on the streets.” pic.twitter.com/sp7Elmn05O — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 17, 2026
More than 850 wildfires are burning across Canada. Many remain completely out of control. Northern Minnesota is battling nine major fires of its own. The smoke has blanketed the Midwest and Northeast for a second straight day. Detroit. Minneapolis. Chicago. New York. Philadelphia. Air quality alerts now cover 17 to 19 states, stretching from Minnesota …
This real steel now UFC done robots take fighting jobs next. 200 plus global teams join fast show how low barrier create talent flood. Gold belt 1.44 million prize biggest in humanoid so far pull serious minds. Same T800 hardware mean performance gap 100 percent from code and tuning. Event generate real fight data for …
Apple reach 4.90 trillion market cap Nvidia sit almost same after 2.4 percent fall. Nvidia hold top spot since June 2025 Apple set reclaim first time since April 2025. Apple shares beat whole Magnificent 7 this year investors look beyond pure AI chip winners. Gap once 1.37 trillion in Nvidia favor August 2025 shrink to …
by Michael The cost of living has become absolutely suffocating for millions of Americans. For years, the bureaucrats in Washington have been feeding us numbers that show that the rate of inflation is low, but it is obvious to everyone that what they are telling us is simply not true. Many of the items that …
China playing smart by draining stockpiles and running Russian crude while West pays premium. They prop up their economy at our expense. This drop is temporary. When they ramp back imports oil will explode higher and hit everyone hard.
Legacy media is just the propaganda arm of the democrat party pic.twitter.com/PQTtC6Tayk — Stock Monkey (@Gamma_Monkey) July 16, 2026 Networks confirm they stream the address or run special reports instead of breaking into regular shows. Happened with recent Trump primetime talk too. They cite newsworthiness but avoid full preempt. White House announced speech on election …
Even as President Donald Trump boasts the U.S. “demolished” the Iranian military, Iran is continuing to flex its muscles having struck and damaged at least three American bases in the Middle East since the resumption of hostilities with the U.S. in early July, an ABC News analysis found. An ABC News analysis of satellite imagery …
FAFO delivered exactly right. Threaten the commander in chief and watch the cuffs come out quick. Florida congressional candidate and former marine William Upham “He [President Trump] is the enemy and must be kiIIed” pic.twitter.com/sCEZZ7uZQJ — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 15, 2026 MAJOR BREAKING William Upham has been arrested in Florida and charged for …
Trump Media confirmed a paid Truth API for institutional customers. The service launches August 1, 2026. Licensed customers get real-time access in milliseconds to posts from the platform’s top accounts, including President Trump. Regular users wait. CNBC, CNN, WSJ, Axios, and even Grok’s fact check all confirmed the announcement on the same day. Kevin McGurn …
A one month bounce in sentiment is not the same thing as financial health. The hard bankruptcy data show.. • 1,663 Subchapter V small business filings in H1 2026 • 1,107 filings in H1 2025 • 50% year over year increase • 2,446 Subchapter V filings in all of 2025, itself an annual record • …
WIRED writer eats processed junk protein diet then blames RFK Jr for getting sick. This kind of stunt shows how media twists things on purpose. Peak liberalism is just pretending not to understand… pic.twitter.com/2jf6DYCQMT — Todd Hickman (@Todd_Hickman1) July 15, 2026
Medicaid pays per enrolled beneficiary or service in adult daycares. Operators allegedly sign up thousands on paper then bill heavily. Kickbacks of a few hundred a month per senior add up fast when scaled. One facility allegedly billed millions while having far fewer actual visitors. Shirley says Korean and Chinese mafias run adult daycares and …
by Michael Targeting military assets isn’t going to wreck the global economy, but targeting key infrastructure could. The damage that has already been done to oil and natural gas infrastructure in the Middle East is going to take years to fully repair and rebuild. But so far the damage that has been done has been …
🇺🇸BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling for the end of property taxes across America. “You buy a home, you buy land… and then, you’ve been taxed many times. Is it your property, or NOT? Just for being on your property, you’ve got to write a check to the government every year?” pic.twitter.com/0ROmkzvEiY — THEWATCHTOWERS (@THEWATCHTOWERS) …
by Martin Armstrong Governments opened their borders and welcomed millions of Ukrainian refugees while the television cameras were rolling. Politicians competed with one another to demonstrate their compassion. Now that the war has dragged on for years, the tone has completely changed. Suddenly, humanitarian principles have collided with military reality, and military reality always wins. …
Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin An international team of scientists, including Yale researchers, has described a new Colobus monkey species inhabiting high forest canopies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is just the fifth new species of African monkey discovered in the past 75 years. The species, …
Goldman Sachs High-Beta Momentum Index down -24% month-to-date through first half of July, the worst performance since Apr 2009. Morgan Stanley Tech Momentum Index 17-day rate of change down -35%, worst ever recorded thru 27-year history. ‘Sam Altman will crash AI bubble.’ The AI bubble isn’t a result of any actual return on investment — whether that …
Hormuz shut and East Asia went straight for the reserves. Japan's biggest drawdown ever, a record 22.46M bbl pledge from Korea, 400M from the IEA – more than its five previous rescues combined. China stopped buying and sat on 1.24B bbl. Now it has to buy it all back. pic.twitter.com/wajcSqq1NT — Data Driven Stocks (@stockdatamarket) …
President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on more than a dozen of Trump’s speeches on the prediction market Kalshi, federal investigators with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to …
Time to limit outside money in American decisions. Aid and lobbying create conflicts of interest. VP JD Vance says Israel paying off people to derail war negotiations byu/DumbNeurosurgeon inLibertarian
Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC pledges another $100 billion to expand US chipmaking capacity HONG KONG (AP) — Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States. The latest commitment appears to bring the company’s total pledges for investment in U.S. chipmaking …
Eli Lilly will acquire psychedelic drugmaker AtaiBeckley for $2.8 billion up front, the company said Thursday, as momentum grows for using versions of the drugs as mental health treatments. The transaction gives Lilly access to AtaiBeckley’s experimental DMT-based drug that’s being studied in Phase 3 clinical trials for treatment-resistant depression. AtaiBeckley is developing several other …
Our Ancestors Didn't Store Water In Copper by Accident. 💧⚡️ Copper Has Natural Antimicrobial PropertiesAnd Has Been Trusted for Centuries.✨ Rediscover Ancient Wisdom:👉 https://t.co/nrTovKcpX1 pic.twitter.com/iTnkBsMUnN — vegastar (@vegastarr) July 15, 2026 Copper is the metal of Venus. In classical and alchemical tradition, copper is paired with the goddess of love, its symbol the same familiar …
