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Serious question: How did we supposedly sink all of Iran’s Navy and they still control the Strait of Hormuz? 🤪 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) March 26, 2026 Trying to figure out what this even means. If they are so obliterated then why do they control the Strait of Hormuz? Meanwhile futures are plummeting and there …
BREAKING: Iran has “tightened control” over the Strait of Hormuz and is now demanding detailed crew, cargo, and voyage information from ships seeking safe passage. Details include: 1. Approvals for ships seeking to pass through the Strait of Hormuz are being handled by the IRGC 2. Tolls to pass through have hit $2 million, mainly …
President Donald Trump floated joint control of the Strait of Hormuz and suggested he didn’t know who was currently leading Iran when responding to a reporter on Monday morning. Trump spoke to journalists on the tarmac of Palm Beach International Airport as he departed Florida after spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago and was asked by …
FAA announces a GROUND STOP at Newark airport after an air traffic control tower there was reportedly evacuated! This is just hours after the deadly collision at LaGuardia airport Sunday night. This means “two of the three major New York airports are shut down.” pic.twitter.com/BizuxggNw5 — Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 23, 2026 5-hour …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Fixing all this doesn’t scale. What scales is the spread of uncontrollably harmful consequences. When something scales faster than it can be absorbed or controlled, the resulting extremes break the system. That’s the problem of asymmetric scaling. Let’s take a current example: the malicious use of AI and the runaway expansion …
Benjamin Netanyahu has now released a second "proof of life" video showing him still in control of the Israeli government. The video shows him interacting with small crowds of Israelis outdoors. Netanyahu says, "We're following the instructions and guidelines exactly, and… pic.twitter.com/9SmAlzwUDi — Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) March 16, 2026 Just in: Iran's new Supreme …
The Fraud is out of control. America has become an economic zone to be pilfered rather than a beloved country Those of us with WWII vet grandparents feel ill that this is what’s become of what they fought for — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) March 13, 2026 Seriously, all of them with the last name Patel?! …
🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Israel said forget the plan and torched 30 Iranian fuel depots The U.S. found out mid strike, basically. Their official response to Israel? “WTF.” Yeah, literally “WTF.” America is worried hitting civilian infrastructure just makes Iranians angrier and rally behind the… https://t.co/QuWRT4Zf3P pic.twitter.com/C3KWHNQ1vG — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 8, 2026 If Trump doesn’t …
All of our media and government institutions are compromised and can no longer be trusted to govern. The end is near. — HK Guns (@HkGuns) February 24, 2026 🔥 BREAKING 🔥 Ghislaine Maxwell’s SISTERS 😳 Ghislaine Maxwell's Sisters are Literally In Control Of All The FBI Computer Systems, Including National Security & Epstein Files. Christine …
More than half of teenagers in the United States use artificial intelligence tools for help with their schoolwork, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. Fifty-four percent of students ages 13 to 17 said they had used a chatbot like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot for tasks like researching school assignments or …
Exactly. California’s homelessness crisis is a masterclass in bureaucratic failure. The state dumped $3.75B into Project Homekey, but a 2024 audit found zero tracking of outcomes—no clue if people stayed housed or relapsed. Meanwhile, developers like Shangri-La Industries… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) February 22, 2026
They stripped the title so the headlines would read “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested” instead of “Prince Andrew arrested.” Damage control for the brand. Charles signed his statement as “Charles R” instead of going through Buckingham Palace — distancing the Crown as fast as legally possible. The palace saw this coming and got their ducks in a …
Fox News: “Will Israel take control of all of Gaza?” Netanyahu: “We intend to.” This is what it was always about. It was never about anything else. pic.twitter.com/A6v9qIkQiz — ADAM (@AdameMedia) February 16, 2026 🇮🇱 Israel once poured cement on water springs used by Palestinians. This is what the MEDIA IS HIDING! pic.twitter.com/BCRRRm23Hm — Nadira …
A sewer line breach in Maryland has dumped millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River. President Trump says Governor Wes Moore and local authorities failed to request emergency help, and he is directing the federal government to take full control of the cleanup. 🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces FEDERAL TAKEOVER after Maryland …
5 largest U.S. cities don’t have enough money to pay bills. At the end of fiscal 2024, all five cities didn’t have enough money to pay their bills despite having balanced budget requirements. In order “to claim their budgets were balanced, as is required by law in the five cities, elected officials” didn’t include “the …
President Trump referred to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) as a “moron” at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday. “He’s an automatic no. No matter what,” Trump said, referencing Massie’s opposition to past legislation pushed by the president and other Republicans. “If we did welfare reform, if we did the greatest thing in the …
Despite Trump's ambitions, the odds of the U.S. acquiring any part of Greenland are declining. 21% chance.https://t.co/GGe6isYEMg — Polymarket (@Polymarket) February 2, 2026 US still seeks takeover of Danish Arctic island, Greenland’s PM Nielsen says Greenland mental health survey reflects anxiety over US pressure Neilsen calls situation ‘completely unacceptable’ COPENHAGEN, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Greenland …
Agreed in principle during talks between US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Davos, the proposal would reportedly designate US base zones as American territory, allowing military operations, intelligence activity, and even access to rare earth minerals without Danish approval. While Trump hails the idea as a major national security win, …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, Those in charge of narrative control are suffering from the delusion that they’re making sense. Everything is under control until it isn’t. The name of the game in controlling the populace is narrative control, the current term for setting the context, priorities and agenda so the populace complies without being …
by Michael What we have witnessed on the streets of Minneapolis this week has been absolutely stunning. It was once such a beautiful city, but now it has been transformed into a war zone. For more than a decade, I have been relentlessly warning my readers that civil unrest would be one of the core elements of the …
Trump’s new defense plan quietly creates a National Guard “response force” trained for crowd control and civil unrest, deployable in all 50 states by April 2026. Let that sink in. This isn’t preparation to leave office.It’s preparation to consolidate power. pic.twitter.com/iEimuHdpn4 — Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 14, 2026 The National Guard is building a “quick …
Here’s why the U.S. took control of Venezuela byu/TonyLiberty inFluentInFinance
The US launched a half-hour-long “special military operation” in Venezuela on Saturday morning that culminated in Delta Force’s capture of President Nicolas Maduro. Several military sites were bombed, US helicopters flew freely over Caracas in a surreal display of the US’ aerial supremacy, and there were reportedly no US casualties. The US’ “special military operation” …
People have to wake up to the radicals hijacking the Left https://t.co/toyne1dttC — The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole) January 1, 2026 Chuck Schumer: “Our ultimate goal is to get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here. " Zero question what they want to do. pic.twitter.com/iulg1LjH38 — Western Lensman …
Back in October, foreigners sold a massive $61.2 billion in LT UST assets, the most since April. While that may sound like the “sell America” and Treasury rejection narrative from the summer, it’s actually proof that the Fed’s bank reserves are irrelevant. Remember October? Repo rates soaring. Use of the Fed’s repo facility skyrocketed. Cockroaches …
This is the quiet part they don’t shout about. Every post, every prompt, every meme you make is now free game for them to feed into AI, forever, everywhere, without a dime to you. They can yank your account, block your content, and you can’t join forces with anyone to fight it. The small print …
Air Traffic Control Union vs Oil Prices🇺🇸 byu/CashmereBuffalo inwallstreetbets “Air traffic controller here in the states. In my off time I enjoy researching economic data. Recently discovered my union has aligned our contracts with historical bottoms in oil prices (really bad for us). These guys would have beaten any trader in the world… One of …
LOL… inflation is not out of control pic.twitter.com/vAwfWcdQV8 — Dan_TheSPEAR_Man (@theSPEARmethod) December 3, 2025
Regional banks now hold almost one-third of all U.S. commercial mortgages and a majority of non-owner-occupied CRE, and “latent distress” is about 4X larger than what current delinquency rates imply.🧵 CRE: ~ $4.8 T Consumer debt: $5.58T (auto: $1.66T, Student loan: $1.65 T) 1. Chief Risk Officer of a regional bank admitted on the call …
Give me an example of a successful implementation of socialism. I'll wait. — Rantus (@RantusMaximus) November 26, 2025 None of those are actually socialist countries, they're capitalist with domestic socialist policies. And most of their socialist policies are failing now that they have massive third world immigration. — Rantus (@RantusMaximus) November 26, 2025 One of …