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It started small. A pill for seizures that quietly moved into everything else. Back pain. Hot flashes. Restless nights. One drug that keeps finding new problems to solve, even the ones it was never built for. “What do hot flashes, back pain, and insomnia have in common? Increasingly, they all lead to the same prescription: …
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are facing a dramatic and disturbing surge in death threats and violent attacks, new statistics from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) show. Death threats targeting ICE officers have skyrocketed an unsettling 8,000% in fiscal year 2025 — with sick thugs even putting bounties on their heads as they look …
The Fed’s expansion of the money supply inflates asset prices and stock portfolios, while eroding the purchasing power and standard of living of the bottom 90%. The top 10% of wealthy Americans now control 60% of the nation’s wealth America’s looming hunger crisis divides nation: 40 million to lose SNAP food aid amid government shutdown …
The CPI is a joke. With these data centers popping up everywhere electricity cost is exploding. How can you even take these reports seriously anymore? https://t.co/xGpXGI2aEP — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 24, 2025 Anyone that tells you inflation is falling is a gaslighting liar. pic.twitter.com/7dkK5Qn1md — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) October 24, 2025 JUST IN: 🇺🇸 …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, After a speech by Fed Governor Chris Waller in August, ADP stopped giving the Fed data. ADP vs BLS Private Payrolls – Month-Over-Month Lost Access The data in question is not the public data from which I produce monthly charts such as the lead chart. Rather, the Fed lost …
Bad money chased bad money today, while dusty data got more cloudy under government demolition, and even gold got dusted as the old standard, stammered. by David Haggith You’ve heard the expression, “throwing good money after bad;” well, today we had an example of throwing bad money after bad. President Trump has been throwing the …
Introducing the UN Digital ID… “The United Nations is ready to digitally transform how it deals with identity, with a system to streamline information sharing, daily workflows, access to platforms and buildings.” “All of your personal… medical, travel, security… and pension data in the palm of your hand.” “With blockchain and biometrics, the UN Digital …
Let’s get this straight: Trump shut down the government, so there’s no jobs report. But the data that’s still coming out? It shows his tariffs are tanking the economy. pic.twitter.com/kqxcXaCIP0 — Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) October 7, 2025 The economy is dead pic.twitter.com/28Msu8U1wn — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) October 7, 2025 Now the high end is …
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/ Electricity bills are going up around the US, but they’re rising even more sharply in areas located near data centers, according to an investigation into power costs by Bloomberg. The price of wholesale electricity has risen as much as 267% over the last five years in data center hot spots, according to the report, …
Governments are doing more than just changing travel rules. They are changing how they see people. The EU now requires Americans to give fingerprints, and there are more travel warnings about the US. This is not random. Trust between countries is breaking down, and borders are starting to feel like checkpoints to control people, not …
Newsom just signed SB53, forcing AI companies to submit detailed reports to California bureaucrats and creating new penalties for “noncompliance.” The state that can’t fix homelessness or keep the lights on now wants to regulate the entire AI industry. 32 of the world’s top 50 AI firms are California-based, giving Sacramento global control. Meta warned …
I can’t ever remember not getting a jobs report. Is this unprecedented if it happens? https://t.co/p4Um6ZIsEG — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 29, 2025 The federal government will stop producing key economic data if government funding elapses Wednesday, depriving policymakers and investors of crucial information amid deep concerns about the job market. If President Trump and …
He was in the middle of fighting a wildfire when ICE agents pulled him out. Rigoberto Hernandez, a trained firefighter with years of experience, was arrested mid-rescue in Washington state and held for nearly a month. There was no warning and no legal justification that stood. Just a man in uniform, detained while saving lives. …
Construction workers are swarming a small, rural Louisiana community as they race to build what will become one of the biggest data centers in the world. The drastic change is causing mixed feelings among locals. (AP video: Sophie Bates).
Tariffs will literally say differently in a few months — Jedi Knight ™ (@sirferrell2) September 22, 2025 Forbes: Since last year's election, the Trump family has nearly doubled its wealth to $10B, profiting from the presidency. This is pure corruption. pic.twitter.com/WBETMotGaG — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 22, 2025 The House is local election. National …
via WSB: The Fed claims to balance price stability with maximum employment. In practice, both pillars are built on sand: Job creation data is constantly revised downward… the latest BLS revision wiped out 911,000 jobs like a bad typo. The unemployment rate is essentially fan fiction. It counts gig workers, Uber drivers, OnlyFans creators, and …
The lights are still on, but keeping them that way is getting expensive fast. No one in charge wants to admit how bad it has become. Electricity in the average U.S. city now costs 18 cents per kilowatt-hour. That is a 35 percent increase in five years. Prices are rising faster than wages, faster than …
We have suspected it, and here is the data. It’s not misinformation what the „experts“ fight against, it’s information and data that challenge their left world view. Facts and data are the biggest enemy of the left ideology as they disturb their narratives. Anyone surprised? pic.twitter.com/E6aunFPwWn — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) September 16, 2025 1) …
by Martin Armstrong Thailand has become a test case for the use of biometric data in every facet of life. Facial recognition data is required for any single transfer above 50,000 baht (around $1,580), daily transfers above 200,000 baht, and any international transfers from personal accounts. All major Thai banks, such as Bangkok Bank, Kasikorn …
Corporate profits demand that suburban consumers subsidize the huge energy consumption of AI data centers byu/Boo_Randy_II ininflation
For those who struggle to understand what’s happening here, what the original “ AI cartel” $MSFT – $NVDA is trying to achieve is to attract Lenders so debt can be raised to purchase GPUs ( $NBIS will try to use this contract as a guarantee). I wonder whether they are finally… https://t.co/1zXQ9oQbZI — JustDario 🏊♂️ …
The new jobs numbers have been trending downwards for the last six months, or so. We are well into a recession at this point. Are we already in a jobs recession? Less than 50% of industries are adding workers the last 6 months. Numbers like this are only seen during recessions. pic.twitter.com/9J2H1FTyZr — QE Infinity …
Chinese cyber group Salt Typhoon may have stolen data on nearly every American. The cyberespionage campaign was global, affecting over 80 countries. Stolen data could let Chinese intelligence track targets via telecom networks—politicians, spies, activists.… pic.twitter.com/NiRZHTHBgD — Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) September 5, 2025 The hackers reportedly hit major telecommunications firms, transportation systems, lodging networks, government …
by alemorg With the current jobs report coming out with much lower amount of jobs than expected while declining for the past couple of months, on top of Trump’s BLS pick who wanted to cherry pick data or at least manipulate how it looks, on top of tariff impacts being felt just now since Trump …
So we’re all funding our eventual replacements?! Awkward. Energy Costs are Rising. Trump and Big Tech Are to Blame In a stunning statement last week, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Republicans are “going to get blamed” for soaring energy prices. I hope he’s right. On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump vowed to cut …
Something ruptured under the surface and the quiet around it feels louder than the break itself. At 05:45 UTC on Saturday, multiple subsea cables were severed in the Red Sea, triggering internet outages across Pakistan, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft called it a “service degradation,” but the phrase barely hides the scale of …
History shows (12 out of 12 times since 1947) when unemployment rises, it rises hard and it rises fast. This time will not be different. pic.twitter.com/aTzJEzO9He — Bob Hyneman (@BobhynemanUSA) September 6, 2025
One-third of the CPI data is now estimated. ONE THIRD. they're lying to you, and you don't even know it. pic.twitter.com/kZGhqyxvaS — Roberto Rios (@peruvian_bull) September 4, 2025 When data is not available, BLS staff typically develop estimates for approximately 10% of the cells in the CPI calculation. However, the share of data in the …
Seating Gates and Zuckerberg next to President Trump is shocking. These are men who have openly opposed him for years. Yet here they are, sharing a table, shaping the story of who holds influence in Washington. It’s really funny that 6 months in to Trump 2.0, the economy is barely hanging on by a string. …
The grid is snapping. Not metaphorically. Not slowly. It’s breaking under unrelenting pressure, pressure from machines that never rest, never blink, never care. Data centers are not a part of the future. They are the future’s parasite. And they are feeding on your power. “Electricity prices across the country rose at more than twice the …