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by Michael I am deeply saddened by what is happening to our country. America is reaching a boiling point, and it appears that we have entered a new era of civil unrest in which political violence will become the norm. At this moment in our history, we should all be denouncing political violence as loudly …
The final week of July 2025 is not a policy moment. It’s a collision of pressure points. The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates at 4.25% to 4.5% for the fifth straight meeting. The decision lands Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET. Trump’s push for cuts has intensified, with direct pressure on Powell and …
$SPY people believe that the 2007 Great Financial Crash was a large surprise (below) But it was anything but a surprise. The moving averages were textbook. Clear tests of support, followed by a rejection from below twice and then Lehmans collapsed. What sometimes clouds… pic.twitter.com/2LaGy1a0z3 — The Long Investor (@TheLongInvest) April 2, 2025 Tech and …
Lebanon says Israeli airstrikes kill at least 492, residents flee from south Israel’s military said it launched airstrikes against Hezbollah sites in Lebanon on Monday, which Lebanese authorities said had killed 492 people and sent tens of thousands fleeing for safety in the country’s deadliest day in decades. After some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges …
Hurricane Debby took advantage of the very warm (almost boiling) Gulf of Mexico to load up on tropical moisture. Now it will slowly crawl NNE over Jacksonville, FL and come close to GA/SC border into Tuesday. This will be a multi-day flooding situation. pic.twitter.com/SBypoIk2YC — Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) August 5, 2024
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1808298103428006164 Joe Biden has no idea what his policy is towards Taiwan. Biden says one thing, his Secretary of State says another. If I was Taiwan I’d be scared SCHIFFless!pic.twitter.com/Vk3dt56Blp — Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) July 3, 2024 Taiwan issues travel advisory after China vows to execute independence supporters The Taiwanese government warned its citizens not …
Moscow issued a stark warning of retaliation against British targets in Ukraine or beyond. The ominous threat came in response to remarks by British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, suggesting that Ukraine could use UK-provided missiles to strike deep inside Russian territory. In a dramatic escalation, Ambassador Nigel Casey was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, …
The Incredibly Ballooning US Government Debt Spikes by $1 Trillion in 15 Weeks to $34 Trillion. Interest payments threatening to eat up half the tax receipts may be the only disciplinary force left to deal with Congress. Is there a comeback from this? Economists widely regard the Clinton surplus to be more of a function …
“The triple point occurs where the solid, liquid, and gas transition curves meet. The triple point is the only condition in which all three phases can coexist, and is unique for every material. Water reaches its triple point at just above freezing (0.01° C) and at a pressure of 0.006 atm.” AC
Anchorage, Alaska has received over 25 inches of snow this week More snow this year than any other, I guess this is the new boiling pot. AC
July was hot — no doubt about it. And media reporting on the heat wave was a raging wildfire of global warming hype. But was it the worst-ever July scorcher, as the Washington Post, the Associated Press, USA Today, and others reported? According to a group of fact-checkers who dug through the reports, the weather didn’t live up to the hype. In fact, the July “Media …
Italy: Snowstorm in mountains with lowest temperatures on record in mid-summer 🥶 “Global boiling!!!”pic.twitter.com/4Jo3tUMvJn — Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) August 8, 2023 https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1688811438150684673
Australian politicians are losing their minds. “Billions of people dead by the end of the century” unless we address global boiling. pic.twitter.com/LU78nYg0rr — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) August 1, 2023 Never mind 60 years of failed doom day predictions that are always just a few years away that never happens. h/t Mason Firefly
by Chris Black I have lived long enough to see this progression: >1960’s/70s “Ecology” movement says we need to clean up pollution Ok, makes sense to me as a kid. >late 70s – “Ecology” isn’t moving the needle for Big Government enough anymore, so we move to “Global Cooling” scaremongering. >80s/90s – Cooling propaganda is …
