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🚨 U.S. FARMERS SOUND THE ALARM: OUR LAND IS BEING POISONED 🚨 🔴 Across America, farmers are warning that their soil and water are being contaminated by “forever chemicals” — toxic compounds that never break down and accumulate in the food chain. 🧪 PFAS, sprayed on fields… pic.twitter.com/oQ7qTl4s3r — Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) May 26, 2025
Here’s a fact that will stop you in your tracks: Sears, which once employed more Americans than the US military, now has fewer stores than Starbucks locations in Manhattan. The company that built the American middle class is down to just 11 stores nationwide. Eleven. That’s the death of an empire. In just the past …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL-SA41hnOY The Golden Dome is a proposed U.S. missile defense system announced by President Donald Trump in May 2025. Inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome, this ambitious project aims to protect the United States from various missile threats, including ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles, by deploying a network of space-based and terrestrial interceptors. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/what-is-golden-dome-missile-defense-shield-2025-05-21/
Bank of America’s sitting on $700B in bonds bought at 1% yields in 2020. Those bonds are down ~40%, hiding $100B in losses. Meanwhile, the Treasury needs to refinance $9T and issue $2.5T in new debt this year. Foreign buyers like China are dumping Treasuries for gold. If Trump disrupts this debt recycling, we’re staring …
America is at high risk of blackouts because we decided to retire a bunch of power plants and replace them with solar and wind, right as demand for electricity started to rise. We are still on the same track as Western Europe, just a bit behind. pic.twitter.com/PediUBTWPk — Russ Greene (@GreenPlusAnE) May 15, 2025 A …
Almost everyone in the meantime… https://t.co/rNdMWR2GMR pic.twitter.com/8PYXNzaEFi — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) May 16, 2025 GLOBAL DURATION CRISIS: What the Spike in 30-Year Yields Is Really Telling You The alarm bells are ringing and they’re not coming from CPI prints or central bank speeches. They’re coming from the global bond market. Right now, 30-year government bond …
The problem with today’s news is not just what gets covered but where it comes from. A handful of big cities dominate the story, shaping the national conversation with a narrow and often skewed perspective. I’ve talked to journalists who admit they have little connection to everyday America. They live in bubbles, far from the …
The U.S. accounts for 42-45% of global pharmaceutical sales, not 74% – but the core truth remains: Americans pay 3x more for drugs than other nations. While we develop 43.7% of new medicines, Big Pharma's price-gouging turns life-saving treatments into luxury goods. The real… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) May 12, 2025
The newest edition of the Best States rankings features an Iowa slide, a South Dakota rise and a three-peat at No. 1. The best state in America is home to a diverse and resilient economy, smart students, low crime and a fairly healthy population. You could also say Utah – No. 1 in the Best …
In a generalized way, a nation’s economy is the single most important thing for its citizens. The global economy matters, too – in a general way. But not as much as our local economy. Think about it. If the economy is strong, more people are more likely to be able to easily feed and house… …
by Michael 2025 is going to be largely defined by whether there is a major war with Iran or not. If a verifiable deal with Iran can be reached that prevents Iran from producing nuclear weapons, I will applaud the Trump administration for pulling off the diplomatic coup of the century. But if negotiations fail, it …
This is a bus driver in Philadelphia He is documenting what it’s like on his bus route in Philly. America is seriously doomed if this is how our younger generations are allowed to behave pic.twitter.com/S1uTw79bci — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 30, 2025
Leading health experts have warned that the US is staring down the barrel of another pandemic as bird flu spirals out of control on US farms. So far, the H5N1 outbreak has affected nearly 1,000 dairy cow herds and resulted in more than 70 human cases, including the first confirmed death. The US poultry industry …
That’s such a huge amount of gold for any normal person. Today, it represents just shy of 10 years’ worth of the median personal income. If housing prices are going to crash, the dollar-to-house ratio will improve right along with the gold-to-house ratio. If your thesis is that the USD is going to hyperinflate, just …
by Michael If you are going to need anything made in China, I would buy it now while you still can. Many companies have already decided that it no longer makes any economic sense to import Chinese-made products into the United States because tariff rates are so high. As a result, there are certain things …
Global trade outlook is deteriorating: The World Trade Organization expects world merchandise trade to fall -0.2% in 2025, down from +2.7% growth expected at the beginning of the year. This would follow the +2.9% growth recorded in 2024. North American trade is set to be hit… pic.twitter.com/c6h7dlUv4h — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 23, 2025 …
by Michael These days, if you dare to suggest that the United States is a Christian nation or that it should be a Christian nation, you are likely to get viciously attacked. There are many voices on the left that have convinced themselves that America has never been a Christian nation and that it will …
How many of the 550bn$ of MBS holding “guaranteed” mortgages by Fannie and Freddie in $BAC books were structured on fraudulent mortgages and are about to be nuked? 👀 https://t.co/iTXUp3D0Cx pic.twitter.com/w4FIpug6fH — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) April 17, 2025 Builders can’t sell inventory as buyers vanish… Realtor pitch crumbles under economic reality… You know, I get …
Short the S&P 500 warns Bank of America 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/1zG9DliZfy — Barchart (@Barchart) April 14, 2025 Citigroup downgrades US equities to neutral from overweight. — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) April 14, 2025 #Breadth and #Momentum indicators are stretched to the downside. @sentimentrader pic.twitter.com/0Qsb8gdt6O — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) April 14, 2025 Foreign demand for US stocks pic.twitter.com/Whq8D1zc6p — …
The cost of living in America is making people give up because wages have not been keeping up with inflation and the spike and the cost of living. We have seen over the past five years. And the most recent consumer sentiment survey from the university of Michigan is confirming that people are giving up. …
Faced with the largest border security effort in US History, smugglers have figured out a new way to bring people into America without permission in a desperate ploy to continue making millions. Journalistic report on the causes and consequences of unlawful immigration. Journalistic report including news footage and commentary.
Bank of America recommends to sell the rip 🍀 — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) April 11, 2025 BLACKROCK CEO LARRY FINK SAYS WE ARE GOING TO HAVE MUCH GREATER EMBEDDED INFLATION IN THIS COUNTRY – CNBC — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) April 11, 2025 Inflation expectations remain well anchored… lol pic.twitter.com/P5obSDFctd — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) April 11, …
CHINA: Senator Moody is right. Since the Chinese Communist Party has enacted a law requiring all Chinese students abroad to participate in intelligence gathering, the United States should immediately stop issuing student visas to Chinese nationals. pic.twitter.com/9378kMXeMj — @amuse (@amuse) April 10, 2025 How bad is Chinese infiltration of America? This should concern all Americans. …
The reason why Trump paused tariff negotiations with the rest of the world is because he never expected the Asian Tigers ex-China to lower their trade barriers to ZERO. Now, If he makes an agreement to eliminate all trade barriers with Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia then… — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) April 10, 2025 That's the …
by Michael Do you remember the panic buying that we witnessed during the early days of the pandemic? It’s back, and I have a feeling that it is only going to intensify in the days ahead. As more Americans begin to realize that products made in China will soon more than double in price and …
Despite official claims that he committed suicide, CIA agents followed leads suggesting he had survived. A 1955 report includes a stolen SS photo that allegedly shows Hitler living under the name “Adolf Schrittelmayor” and relaxing with a friend on a beach in Colombia before reportedly leaving for Argentina. Argentina is now preparing to release government …
President Trump announces he'll be requesting a record-breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget. "$1 trillion, and nobody's seen anything like it. We have to build our military and we're very cost conscious. But the military is something that we have to build, and we have to be… pic.twitter.com/WkGoNrUytW — Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 8, 2025 What …
