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Consumer sentiment hits all-time low… Borrowing costs reach 2007 highs… The “temporary” inflation trap explained… 61% of Americans said they had to cut back on groceries https://t.co/lv4IA7FhPJ — The Straits Times (@straits_times) May 23, 2026 The American housing market in 2026 locked an entire generation out of ownership and trapped an older one inside payments …
1.5 million Californians just signed a petition to tax the state's 200 billionaires 5%.. one time.. to fund hospitals, schools and food programs.. they needed 875,000 signatures.. they got nearly double.. and California's own governor is fighting against it.. the billionaires… https://t.co/feNGqbxb7x pic.twitter.com/CK657jI9b3 — Tuki (@TukiFromKL) April 27, 2026 Just like France’s wealth tax that …
“As a 30-year law enforcement officer who has investigated hundreds of shootings, been involved in shootings, and is an expert in this field, I will debunk @krassenstein ’s narrative and lies. 1) The agent was legally attempting to detain the suspect as she was breaking the law and not complying with officers’ commands. The agent …
French startup Ÿnsect shot into the spotlight when “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. touted its merits on the “Late Show” during Super Bowl weekend 2021. Now, nearly four years later, the insect farming company has been placed into judicial liquidation — essentially bankruptcy — for insolvency. The company’s demise is hardly a surprise, as …
THE IMPOSSIBLE JUST HAPPENED The world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder is now worth less than its Bitcoin. Stop and read that again. Strategy holds 650,000 Bitcoin. Worth $55.9 billion today. Its market cap: $45.7 billion. Wall Street is valuing the company at negative $10.2 billion. This is not a drill. This is the first sustained …
“Liquiditists” should make note of the situation in Japan. You cannot print Wealth! This is the exact situation which Keynes avoided to answer: “What happens when you have stimulated the economy over and over and rates reach Zero?” His answer: “In the long run we are all dead”. Fact is… we will now see what …
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities on Tuesday carried out a cloud-seeding experiment over smog-choked New Delhi in an attempt to induce rainfall and clear the city’s toxic air, which has sparked anger among residents. A plane sprayed chemicals into clouds over some areas of the Indian capital to encourage rain and wash pollutants from …
The new 'Police Free Zone' in NYC should be an EMS free zone as well.https://t.co/UZfJpKLUAD pic.twitter.com/ruGt0A0KPg — NYC EMS Watch (@NYCEMSwatch) October 18, 2025 A notoriously violent two-block stretch of Brooklyn is fighting crime — by not calling uniformed cops, The Post has learned. A sliver of Brownsville in the NYPD’s 73rd Precinct was transformed …
The hurt in his eyes when he realized the dems were so hateful. That reminds me of my son, who did something really stup*d. He wore a MAGA hat and a Trump t-shirt to the Harris rally and a Harris hat and a Harris t-shirt to Trump’s rally. When he came back from Trump’s rally, …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did something unusual last week: he told the truth about the Federal Reserve. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Bessent accused the Fed of conducting what he called a “gain-of-function” experiment in monetary policy. The analogy is deliberate and damning. Just as lab-made viruses can escape their confines and wreak havoc,… …
A Florida lawmaker is pushing to eliminate homeowners associations in the state after calling them a ‘failed experiment’. HOAs have been stirring up controversy in Florida, where residents are becoming frustrated with steep fees, strict rules and rigorous enforcement. As tensions continue to rise, State Rep. Juan Carlos Porras (R-Miami) is fighting to abolish HOAs …
China’s grand experiment with the digital yuan is spiraling out of control. Citizens are rejecting it, merchants are ditching it, and the government is panicking. The very currency that was supposed to give Beijing total financial control is being pushed back by the people. And now, a wave of economic distrust is spreading fast. What …
Labour’s deliberate policy of opening the UK to mass immigration added over 3 million people to the population, while nearly 1 million British citizens left, citing a country they no longer recognized. This wasn’t an accident—it was a calculated political strategy to reshape Britain and “rub the Right’s nose in diversity,” as former Labour insider …
“The projects” I’ll NVR forget the old starret city in Brooklyn. Literally a war zone Jimmy Carter had made some law, that when you build new residential communities builders had to include a section minimum 10 public housing units or something like that. Can’t recall but I’m close . (My dad was in that line …
Not just Britain, this happened across all Western countries.
https://twitter.com/EngagingTopics/status/1801720889341526492 h/t Hyper Star
The long-awaited report into the infected blood scandal will be released on Monday. Colin and Jan Smith, whose beloved son died aged just seven, hope it will lead to some accountability and help shed light on why so many innocent lives were lost. Colin Smith carries a small suitcase into the dining room of their …
by Chris Black Well, that escalated quickly. I guess we’re just going to cancel the utopia? How can you have a utopia that arrests people simply for living on the streets in tents and shooting up fentanyl in front of children? It’s fascism. The Guardian: Oregon lawmakers have moved to reintroduce criminal penalties for the …
Chinese scientists have discovered never-before-seen viruses lurking on a tropical island — and warned they could infect humans. Researchers tasked with preparing the world for future pandemic took almost 700 samples from rodents living in Hainan, just off China’s southern coast. Eight novel viruses — including one belonging to the same family as Covid — …
China's social credit score experiment gains momentum Now, if a person with a low rating calls you, your phone emits a siren instead of the usual ringtone. Then there is a voice reminder that a conversation with this subscriber will lead to a decrease in your score. 🚨🚨🚨 🔊 pic.twitter.com/qnTexLGe9o — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) …
🚨Breaking: Swiss National Bank issues CBDC on Switzerland's exchange🚨 "This is not an experiment. It is real money equivalent to bank reserves, testing real transactions with market participants," Chairman T. Jordan The pilot project is intended to be for a "limited time"😉😏 https://t.co/YnlzAWEzfU — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) June 26, 2023 SNB to launch a wholesale CBDC …
“My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign, and throughout my Presidency, will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism on our country…to poison our children and our people with chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs, to strip mine …
