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A Mexico City nightclub has gone viral for charging Americans a nearly $300 cover charge, while citizens from any other country pay just $20 for access, and Mexicans and other Latin Americans pay only $14. The Instagram announcement from the nightclub Japan in the Roma Norte neighborhood has been liked over 26,000 times and received …
Ukraine burns cash on expensive missiles against cheap Iranian clones flooding the sky. The Europe losing a war of attrition on purpose. 10k a year of drone interceptors when Russia is building 200 Shaheed clones a day is ~13% that drone’s production rate. 🤦♂️ https://t.co/mD1NH28n3C — Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 3, 2026
A Lebanese journalist was killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon where she had taken cover while reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah war. Her body was only retrieved from the rubble hours later, rescue workers said.
The World Ahead 2026 offers analysis, predictions and speculation for the coming year, whatever it might bring. Read our annual issue https://t.co/fBfcWGrRO5 pic.twitter.com/Wjxj7oe5z2 — The Economist (@TheEconomist) November 16, 2025
He literally ran on 'tax the rich, NOT you', now his 'last resort' is a 9.5% property tax hike hitting over 3 million regular NYC homeowners & renters to plug a $5.4B hole. the bill always lands on the middle class. pic.twitter.com/csS7ECi3Z7 — Bil@l Ahm@d (@bili_butcher) February 20, 2026
May the Lord bless and protect this man. The best thing Obama did… pic.twitter.com/km108bVcB2 — Ellen/SeaSandII (@EllenMomGUM) February 19, 2026
Germany doesn’t want to underwrite France’s chronic overspending. 🚨🚨🚨German Chancellor Merz has rejected French President Macron’s request for the European Union to issue bonds to pay for stuff France cannot afford. Germany doesn’t want to pay for free stuff for the French govt which is deeply in debt. Debt to GDP: Germany 65%France… pic.twitter.com/vcwO2elgnx — …
He's inciting violence to cover up his Somali fraud scandal. — Victor Castillo (@VictorC27464831) January 15, 2026 Something really, really, really bad is going on in Minneapolis, and the mayor and governor are risking everything to protect it. https://t.co/4YBWIWHmO2 — James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) January 15, 2026
View post on imgur.com 🚨 THIS is how People magazine decided to cover Scott Adams' death today. pic.twitter.com/ofO3MJOv1A — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 13, 2026 https://people.com/scott-adams-dead-dilbert-creator-was-68-11882012 View post on imgur.com
by Michael Global events are moving very rapidly now. If I keep adding more stuff to this article, I will never get it out on time. You are going to be shocked by some of the things that have just happened. It appears that the showdown in Iran between the protesters and the government is …
pic.twitter.com/3wmH048s8n — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) December 22, 2025
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: “When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.” –Louis-Ferdinand Celine AF REPLY: That is on point Allen. These European leaders are living in the past. Their history of previous imperial greatness has become the core part of a their view of their nation’s story about …
by Michael When you look at that cover, what stands out to you? To me, the fact that there are so many symbols relating to war really got my attention. There is a huge red tank on one side of the cover, and another huge red tank on the other side of the cover. At …
In our annual guide, we examine the important themes, trends and events that will shape the coming year. Explore The World Ahead 2026 https://t.co/l2KWBWNJRL Illustration: Andrew Rae pic.twitter.com/uhLxsUhbtr — The Economist (@TheEconomist) November 12, 2025
69.2% of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck. Read that again. 69.2% y’all. PYMNTS’ latest report shows 692 out of every 1,000 U.S. adults are barely keeping up. It was 68% in May👇 And now? 1 in 4 can’t even pay their monthly bills without falling behind. That’s 26.3%… https://t.co/b70z6N8KG6 pic.twitter.com/XR3EKuKEo0 — Amanda Goodall (@thejobchick) …
This is basically a stimulus plan dressed up as a rebate. The idea of using tariff money makes it sound like it’s paid for, but in reality it’s closer to a form of universal basic income. And the timing says a lot, the economy’s clearly showing cracks: job losses are starting, oil prices are falling …
View post on imgur.com Today's cover: Anti-ICE gunman Joshua Jahn’s sister shares criminal past — including weed bust https://t.co/NJq2BEBOAm pic.twitter.com/pn45h56vJ5 — New York Post (@nypost) September 25, 2025
Confirmation of source: https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2025-03-22 This is the latest edition of The Economist magazine. They are showing you what is coming. This is all leading to the mark of the beast. pic.twitter.com/d4FYaQGK7A — Truth Seeker (@_TruthZone_) March 20, 2025 Seems to be a theme…. View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com …
The 1985 discovery of the sunken RMS Titanic by American researchers was in fact part of a broader, covert US Navy mission aimed at testing a newly-developed deep-sea imaging system, the expedition’s head, Bob Ballard, has told CNN. In an article published on Monday, the media outlet quoted the researcher as saying how after an …
Tariffs are supposed to pay down debt and maybe fund a public dividend. President Trump claims, “We’re taking in so much money that we may very well make a dividend to the people of America.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-tariffs-going-enough-080300997.html Reality check: the federal deficit for FY2025 is $1.8 trillion. Tariff revenue? $80 billion. https://economicsinsider.com/us-federal-budget-2025/ That covers 4.4 percent …
When VIX is high, it’s time to buy. When VIX is low, it’s time to go defensive. Getting a bit frothy out there pic.twitter.com/6hw8vrENWh — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) July 26, 2025 Yes I thought Palantir $PLTR was super expensive at $50, now I just believe it’s astronomical levels of expensive at $160. The market …
“Europe’s not preparing for war—it’s preparing for collapse.” 🎯 “These elites [in France, Germany and the UK] aren’t gearing up for war with Russia because they care about freedom—they’re doing it because their grip on power is slipping, and fast.” “Their economies are breaking, the middle class is crushed, people can’t afford rent, food or …
Top Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey has been fired, raising serious questions about her role in the cover-up and her deep ties to the FBI establishment.
We’re now being told that there’s nothing to see here with Jeffrey Epstein. No client list. No other culprits. And he did kill himself. Here’s the latest on this story, and why I don’t buy the official narrative for even a second.
🚨BREAKING: Bill O'Reilly says Trump told him the rationale for NOT releasing Epstein files: "There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein's conduct. They maybe had lunch with him or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another."… pic.twitter.com/tS0budsnuW — Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) July 10, 2025 …
by Michael After four years of saying nothing about them during the Biden Administration, all of a sudden Democrats in Congress are extremely interested in the Epstein files. They smell blood, because they know that the cover up of the Epstein files has greatly outraged a very large portion of the population. So they are going to …
What’s happening now fits squarely within my thesis that Powell is using monetary policy not just to manage inflation, but as a geopolitical weapon of delay, designed to trap adversaries and force the world to bend to U.S. dollar hegemony. The recent stalling of a September rate cut isn’t just about economic data; it’s about …
by Michael I literally feel sick right now. After waiting for years for the truth about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation to come out, and after months of being promised that stunning new information would be released soon, now we are being told to forget the entire thing. The people that were brought in to …
Cherry growers in Yantai, Shandong, are facing heavy losses this year. Prices for cherries have dropped so drastically that they no longer even cover the cost of fertilizer. In fact, cherries are now cheaper than pork, so farmers would even save more money by feeding them to pigs. Around 50,000 kilograms of cherries remain unsold …
