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Oil prices rose Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNBC that Lebanon must be demilitarized. West Texas Intermediate futures gained nearly 2% to $95.43. International benchmark Brent crude advanced more than 1% to $97.54 per barrel. “We have to disarm Hezbollah and we have to demilitarize Lebanon,” Netanyahu told CNBC’s Sara Eisen in …
There is a major health alert out of Thailand regarding an Ebola outbreak in the Congo with over 1000 cases reported. They are already starting strict quarantine procedures at the ports. This is a massive mess that is not getting nearly enough attention. U.S. Embassy Thailand Health Alert (June 2, 2026): Ebola Screening Location: International …
I don't even understand how restaurants do this. First of all the money is the servers. That's the law. I keep hearing these stories of large tips and businesses freaking out. I don't get it. She should sue and we all need to boycott Olive garden — candace S. Taylor (@candaceSTa18566) June 2, 2026
Chasing “hot” IPOs right after they debut is one of the most reliable ways for retail investors to lose money. The hype, FOMO, and early gains often reverse quickly as lock-up periods expire, reality sets in, and fundamentals are scrutinized. To push it a further, about three in five IPOs, roughly 60%, delivered a negative …
REPORT: The first AI-run government is closer than anyone realizes, and New Zealand is preparing to eliminate nearly 9,000 government jobs to make way for it. What begins as a promise of efficiency could end with machines making decisions that once required human judgment, discretion, and accountability. Supporters say bloated bureaucracies need to be cut. …
Yup!!!! Looks good right? 😜 pic.twitter.com/MZ9UnGQ1z5 — Right is Still Right 🇺🇸 (@fedupMolly17) June 2, 2026 Some people are just that stupid — Jum (@JesterJum) June 3, 2026 Ironic isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/j2LLre1zTM — L1b_hunt3r 🇺🇸 (@Deplorablepaul4) June 3, 2026
She's saying Trump lied. Bring it out. Have Congress investigate. She's implying Trump to be part of the pedophile ring. Prove it, and you democrats can have a real reason for impeachment. I think she's full of shit. If he was guilty, Biden, Obama, and Clinton would of used this. — Sherry Evans (@SVE1380) June …
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 US and Iran exchanged strikes overnight — here's what actually happened. CENTCOM moved first: disabled oil tanker M/T Lexie heading for an Iranian port, then struck Qeshm Island under "self-defense." Iran hit back on 3 fronts: ▪️Container ship MSC Panaya disabled▪️US… pic.twitter.com/30Gnx07Y8X — Sputnik (@SputnikInt) June 3, 2026 Both airport workers and passengers were …
JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 President Trump confirms he called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu "fucking crazy" during a heated phone call. pic.twitter.com/AvavKF2DWB — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) June 3, 2026 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump confirms he told Netanyahu "you're f*cking crazy": "I did. I always get angry. I was a little bit perturbed at him, constantly fighting with Lebanon. At …
Source: repair.org Big tech just lobbied hard against a new state-level bill that would have finally let us fix our own hardware. It’s infuriating, they want us to just toss our $1,000 devices the second a battery dies or a screen cracks. They’re trying to own our stuff even after we’ve paid for it. Data …
🚨 BREAKING: Fox News confirms the Pentagon is committing international piracy. The US Navy fired Hellfire missiles into the engine room of a commercial ship simply for navigating the Gulf. Trump administration boasts about disabling 6 civilian vessels. Pure state war crimes! pic.twitter.com/kt5scrbl2g — Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) June 3, 2026 U.S. forces disabled a Botswana-flagged …
European banks are doing something that looks irrational. The European Central Bank is increasingly likely to raise its short-term policy rates again. Oil prices are still elevated. Energy costs are feeding into headline inflation. ECB officials keep coming on hawkish. And normally, if you believe short-term rates are going higher, the last thing you’re going …
by Michael U.S. households are being financially squeezed at a level that we have never seen before. I have often said that we are in a long-term cost of living crisis that never seems to end, and that is not an exaggeration at all. Just about everything has been getting more expensive in recent years, …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The AI boom shares all the risk profiles of previous speculative manias but lacks society-wide benefits while generating fast-metastasizing negative consequences and costs. The idea that the current bubble in AI data centers is an echo of the railroad-construction bubble of the 1870s is appealing–but only half-right. The completion of …
A homeowner on North Carolina’s Outer Banks relocated their beachfront house farther inland to avoid it collapsing into the ocean, a fate that has already claimed several neighboring homes. pic.twitter.com/KxDCHYjSmR — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 2, 2026 A homeowner (in the Buxton/Rodanthe area) spent up to $300,000 to physically move their large oceanfront house approximately 150 …
Iranian ballistic missiles fly overhead, a car crashes, and surface-to-air missile interceptors launch in a crazy video of tonight’s attack by Iran against Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. pic.twitter.com/JAoVrytEDo — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 2, 2026 Iran is heavily retaliating against Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraq after U.S. attacks resumed. pic.twitter.com/htspwyLpDB — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) …
by Michael I wasn’t sure if I should write about this, but I decided to go ahead and do it anyway. Normally, in my articles I try to focus on verifiable facts that nobody can dispute. But in this case I am going to address rumors that Iran is threatening to detonate a nuclear weapon …
A new Executive Order expands Treasury action against financial activity tied to illegal immigration, human smuggling, and welfare fraud Border enforcement moving beyond crossings and checkpoints Bank accounts, money transfers, and financial networks now part of the pressure campaign Assets linked to criminal activity can be frozen or seized under federal authorities Supporters see a …
Combined stockpiles tracked by the LME, CME Group, and the Shanghai Futures Exchange would cover global supply for less than five days, according to Bloomberg calculations. That’s the lowest level of cover of the six main metals traded on the LME, and represents a major shift for an industry that’s historically been plagued by oversupply. …
A world-renowned reporter is sounding the alarm after embedding herself in the upper echelons of the artificial intelligence industry and discovering that Silicon Valley elites are desperately scrambling to develop a digital “God.” Karen Hao, a former reporter for MIT Technology Review, is raising red flags about the artificial intelligence industry after spending years investigating …
A research team at The World Institute of Kimchi investigated the adsorption capacity of a kimchi-derived lactic acid bacterium, Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656, against polystyrene nanoplastics (PS-NPs). The study was published in the journal Bioresource Technology. Under standard laboratory conditions, strain CBA3656 showed a high adsorption efficiency of 87%, comparable to that of the reference strain …
JOLTS (job openings) were an absolute disaster today. Came in at 7.6 million openings vs 6.866MM expectations. Keep whistling by the graveyard 🪦 pic.twitter.com/K8nADMveH7 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) June 2, 2026 Job openings surged to 7.618 million — a big jump of +731,000 from March and the highest level in nearly two years. Hires dropped …
Oh really? So what’s going on in Wyoming? I just paid more than ever to fill my gas tank today….. — Beyond the Fence Line with Joseph Kibler (@joseph4wy) June 2, 2026 We have to bring down the cost of renting, Americans can’t afford it This man went to look at a 1 bedroom apartment, …
Largest ‘floating city’ to carry 80,000 people and circle the globe every two years The vast vessel would house residents, visitors and crew in a self-contained community complete with schools, a hospital, shops and leisure venues. A futuristic proposal for a mile-long floating city capable of housing tens of thousands of people has been revived, …
Neurobots—xenobots with neurons—show self-organized nervous systems and enhanced behaviors, revealing new insights into how biology builds functional structures. In 2020, researchers at Tufts University developed tiny living structures known as xenobots using frog cells. These microscopic organisms could move through water, repair themselves, and even gather loose cells to form new xenobots. Scientists at Tufts …
A viral WallStreetBets post argues the market has moved from buying AI to buying the fear of missing AI “Invest everything in AI or be left behind” That mindset alone is making some traders nervous Data centers, chips, memory, cloud capacity… money still pouring in But questions getting louder around the companies actually selling AI …
KIEV HAMMERED by 4 missiles in under 60 SECONDS — zero interceptions Bright fireballs and massive smoke plumes erupt across city pic.twitter.com/MdinhzxovJ — RT (@RT_com) June 2, 2026 At least 22 people killed and over 130 wounded across Ukraine. In Kyiv alone, multiple residential buildings, a kindergarten, and civilian infrastructure were hit. Explosions and fires …
Carney in 2025: 85% of goods are exempt form Trump tariffs, we have the best deal of any nation …..2026? The recession is caused by the Trump tariffs. — Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) June 2, 2026 They are going to study TDS one day. Carney played Canadians so perfectly with it. People are utterly obsessed with …
