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Key statements: – “All US bases should immediately be closed in the region, those bases will be attacked” – “We will obtain compensation from the enemy. If they refuse, we will take their assets to the extent we deem appropriate, and if that is not possible, we will destroy an equivalent amount of their property” …
Population barely changed, but SNAP doubled due to massive fraud https://t.co/MxEWwquS1I — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2026 SNAP didn’t double because population doubled.. it doubled because COVID policies expanded eligibility and boosted benefits. Fraud exists, but it’s not the main driver of that spike. — Squirrel Technologies 🥜🐿 (@squirrel_wallet) January 22, 2026
by Michael Did you know that U.S. households are carrying $1.18 trillion in credit card debt? Considering the fact that the average rate of interest on credit card balances is now over 20 percent, that is not good news at all. Sadly, most of the country is just barely scraping by from month to month in …
by Michael Why has hunger in America absolutely exploded during the past 4 years? And why are store closings in the United States on pace to set a brand new record high this year? A lot of people out there don’t want to admit that the U.S. economy has been crumbling for a long time. …
Japan Has More Than Doubled its Foreign Aid Budget in Just Five Years byu/plaev inInfographics
🚨 President Trump just DOUBLED DOWN on the Panama Canal “We're gonna take it back … they've TOTALLY violated the agreement.” LFG! pic.twitter.com/qgR5t5IHCG — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 31, 2025 Panamanian police on Friday fired tear gas and clashed with protesters angered by Donald Trump’s threat to take control of the Panama Canal, ahead of …
Electricity prices just doubled in California California caught in wild scandal screwing with residents electric bills, using Gavin Newsom’s California Public Utilities Commission to get away with sky high electric bills. Millions of California residents now paying the price.
US Consumer is in great Fucken shape bro pic.twitter.com/fUp6BbvBvw — Mr. Nice Guy (@financebro21) May 8, 2024 the stock is getting slayed https://t.co/SegvTm4MJn pic.twitter.com/XIvubC9pzS — Jack Farley (@JackFarley96) May 8, 2024 https://twitter.com/apex_simmaps/status/1788270933712781410 An analyst has identified a major issue in U.S. consumer spending: “phantom debt” from “buy now, pay later” platforms that goes unrecorded by …
Well I wonder why? And it’s not just Republicans neither. pic.twitter.com/zL8VgmlXoG — County MAGA (@ShaBacksTheBlue) March 29, 2024 WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more worried about legal immigrants committing crimes in the U.S. than they were a few years ago, a change driven largely by increased concern among Republicans, while Democrats continue to see a …
🚨BRICS DOUBLES OVERNIGHT Today, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Iran are officially members of BRICS. They join Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa as a formidable economic powerhouse, representing 29% of global GDP and 43% of global oil production.… pic.twitter.com/1TAn5JIZtW — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 1, 2024 ENERGY, CURRENCIES AND CHANGE. 🌎2024: …
Why ARE so many young people suffering heart attacks? Rates have DOUBLED in a decade among some under-30s as experts insist soaring obesity rates are to blame via dailymail.co.uk Heart attacks among young people in England are on the rise, MailOnline analysis shows. Cases in some younger age groups have almost doubled over the last …
by j_stars Right back to the lease levels before the price break-out in 2008 after which the price ran 6x. The lease rate is the cost for paper metal traders to borrow bars when they are called to deliver. Spiking rate indicates shortage.
via naturalnews: In the annual poverty report released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the country’s child poverty rate has more than doubled year-over-year, surging from 5.2 percent in 2021 to a distressing 12.4 percent in 2022. According to the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) of the Census Bureau, the expiration of pandemic-era programs primarily contributed to the …
by Chris Black You’d think the West would have stopped the sanctions when they realized they were actually helping Russia. But I guess they wanted to continue them to punish their own population…? “Sanctions harm Europe no less than Putin”: Britain admitted that the idea of defeating Russia with sanctions was crazy. “Sanctions hurt, but …
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