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by Michael Even if the Strait of Hormuz opened tomorrow, and that is certainly not going to happen, we are being warned that the economic impact of this war will be felt all the way through the end of this decade. A lot of energy infrastructure has already been destroyed during this war, and it …
https://twitter.com/steve_hanke/status/2026324205986361602 Factcheck: No. The claim misrepresents events. Supplies to Slovakia (nearly 100%) & Hungary (~70-80% Russian oil via this route) halted Jan 27 after Russian drone strike damaged Druzhba pipeline infrastructure in western Ukraine (Lviv/Brody area; Ukraine released photos of fires/damage). On Feb 23, Ukraine drone-struck a Russian pumping station (Kaleykino, Tatarstan) upstream on the …
You really shouldn’t give AI free rein to do anything it wants on your system. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reportedly suffered from a couple of outages due to misbehaving AI agents. According to the Financial Times, the most recent interruption happened in December last year, when its Koiro AI coding tool decided to erase …
via BananaFighter Just go to Youtube and search Midwest Safety, Police Activity, Police Insider, Code Blue Cam or EWU. You’ll see endless videos of situations exactly like the one that played out in Minneapolis. Criminals attacking cops in one way or another getting leveled. Should we feel bad because she was a mom or wife? …
BREAKING: Historic Vondelkerk Church in Amsterdam just burned to the ground on New Year’s Eve pic.twitter.com/fkpRsJgzLJ — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 1, 2026
https://twitter.com/TridentxIN/status/2006630989947445542 'They say the fire originated from birthday candles placed on champagne bottles' Will Godley discusses reports on the origins of the Swiss ski resort explosion which authorities estimate killed 40 people. pic.twitter.com/8YzmgwIQjj — GB News (@GBNEWS) January 1, 2026 CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them …
Please stop fighting for me. You party's fight for us is what caused this mess in the first place. pic.twitter.com/SpWvfNaTP4 — Bebe Rebozo (@dt1927915) October 9, 2025 Umm… 👇Dems in 2010: Obamacare will significantly bring down healthcare costs for everyone. Dems in 2025: We need to make healthcare more affordable. 15 years later, since the …
“Just a few years ago, reckless experiments overseas gave us a devastating global pandemic. Yet despite that worldwide catastrophe, many countries are continuing extremely risky research into bioweapons and man-made pathogens. We cannot afford another mistake like that. That is why I am announcing today that my administration will lead an international effort to enforce …
by Michael How do 911,000 jobs suddenly disappear into thin air? Can someone explain that to me? Throughout 2024, I wrote extensively about how all of the reliable numbers showed that economic conditions in the United States were deteriorating. But those that were skeptical of what I was saying would point to the employment numbers …
Jaguar Land Rover CEO Adrian Mardell will leave in December 2025 after three years as boss. The company’s new ad campaign dropped the Jaguar logo and showed models, not cars. Many people did not like it. A Jaguar Land Rover spokesperson said, “Adrian Mardell has expressed his desire to retire from JLR after three years …
$500 billion in damage… https://twitter.com/Kahlissee/status/1815422893120954786 https://twitter.com/Converseallowed/status/1936029246721323300
"The principle is so simple that a child can understand." Rep. Thomas Massie breaks down the true cause of inflation. "When you print five trillion dollars and you put it into the economy, you have diluted the value of the money." "We can say, well, eggs went up because feed… pic.twitter.com/ykE6syNSrk — Wide Awake Media …
China warned of potential "serious consequences" of Israel's attacks on Iran Friday, opposing any violation of the country's sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.https://t.co/yxF3CsrOO8 — William Yang (@WilliamYang120) June 13, 2025 BREAKING 🇮🇷🇨🇳🇮🇱🔥 China sends Missile, Aircraft and Drones fuel and assistance to Iran against #Israel. pic.twitter.com/3XLhdxQ6Nh — RKM (@rkmtimes) June 13, 2025 Iranian forces unleashed …
What caused all these things to skyrocket since 1990? byu/Admirable_Health_533 inconspiracy
https://twitter.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1908567682682675322 Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, believed that the Great Depression wasn’t caused by tariffs, stock market crashes, or any external force. It was caused by the Federal Reserve’s disastrous failure to manage the money supply. In fact, Friedman’s perspective on the origins of the Depression turns traditional …
Cell phone tower shut down at elementary school after eight kids are diagnosed with cancer https://t.co/Y5cHATGbNk — Dr Dave Cartland BMedSc MBChB Ex-MRCGP (@CartlandDavid) April 2, 2025 The affected students at Weston Elementary School in Ripon are all under the age of 10 They each have different types of cancer: brain, kidney, liver and lymphoma …
ATLANTA — A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company’s Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, according to attorneys representing the plaintiff. The penalties awarded include $65 million in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages, law firms Arnold …
BREAKING: CIA Whistleblower Comes Forward Former Intelligence Officer Claims Career Ending Injuries Caused By Foreign Directed Energy Weapon Leaked Defense Department Letter Acknowledges Injuries and Experiences “Are Real” “It’s a Cover Up…It Should Be Terrifying for All Americans.” Government Gaslighting 1:25 Foreign Adversary Likely Behind National Security Officials’ Havana Syndrome Injuries 2:40 High Powered Microwave …
by confoundedinterest17 We didn’t start the fire … The Fed and Biden/Harris did. And it is still burning. October STICKY core inflation is still up 4% YoY (year-over-year) Core CPI rose 0.3% MoM (as expected) which pushed it up 3.3% YoY (not even close to the 2% mandate)… Source: Bloomberg There has not been a single …
Milton Friedman: "The Federal Reserve intentionally caused the Great Depression" 1929 https://t.co/W1xfe4U3Go pic.twitter.com/sA3eJjrIek — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) September 13, 2024
The chaos was due to a defect in a single content update by Crowdstrike, a US-based cybersecurity firm used by Microsoft, the company shared at 5:30am ET. Crowdstrike assured the public that the outage was not caused by a cybersecurity attack and that it could take up to 36 hours to fix, analysts told DailyMail.com …
Tennessee boutique owner says giant Biden campaign sign above store caused sales to plunge, sparked ‘nasty’ threats https://t.co/hR9koW4OXQ pic.twitter.com/GYEKNqcASs — New York Post (@nypost) July 18, 2024 It’s a sign of the times. A Tennessee boutique owner wants landlords to remove a giant Joe Biden campaign banner from above her shop — saying it caused …
What would you do if you were on this flight? Screaming match breaks out on JetBlue flight after mom caused multiple delays by 'bringing too many kids with her' https://t.co/K9qB2zZx4o — 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 👑 𝙳𝚒𝚟𝚊™ (@1776Diva) July 4, 2024 pic.twitter.com/iOzr8UQdaY — The Agent of Ultra Magadonia (@UltraMAGA_Frank) July 4, 2024 h/t Dan
One hundred years ago, across the world, people were falling asleep uncontrollably. Not from a hard day’s work or a late night, but a disease known as ‘sleepy sickness’. Victims fell into a slumber so deep that those who caught it often didn’t wake for weeks, or even months, at a time. It was also …
Doctors are being warned that a lifesaving cancer therapy may cause new tumors to form in rare cases. In a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers urged physicians to ‘be on the lookout’ for unusual symptoms in patients who receive CAR-T therapy. Twenty-five people in the US out of around 30,000 have …
American taxpayers may soon be burdened with a staggering $32 billion bill for employment fraud, a crisis that has been attributed to the Biden administration. The enormous bill is partially blamed on Biden’s labor head, Julie Su, who served as California’s top labor official during the COVID-19 pandemic when most of the fraud payments were …
via notayesmanseconomics: A rise in energy costs is an especially big issue if you are an exporting manufacturer. The issue is in play for my subject of yesterday Japan, but when one thinks about it the classic case is Germany. We have been observing this for a couple of years now but it has taken …
