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by Martin Armstrong The financial press is celebrating reports that traders are betting shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could begin returning to normal by August. Oil prices have fallen sharply on hopes of a U.S.-Iran agreement, and prediction markets are assigning better-than-even odds that vessel traffic will recover during the second half of this …
New outbreak of Ebola kills 65 in eastern DR Congo Africa’s top health agency has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province. Around 246 cases and 65 deaths have been reported, mainly in the gold-mining towns of Mongwalu and Rwampara, said the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention …
Trump: "We may stop by Cuba after we're finished with this" pic.twitter.com/Jt2xR5MmPp — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 19, 2026
People who hire illegals are even more to blame for the problem of illegal immigration, if there’s no work, then they’d just go home. She should be fined to the maximum extent of the law, and then be charged with felony theft. h/t Doom Monkey
JUST IN — 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump: I don't want us to return to Iran every two years – that's why the job needs to be finished — UK Report (@UK_REPT) March 11, 2026 $SPY is dropping AH, you better pay me tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/wydNw3gwto — JLoc (@JohnLoc18) March 11, 2026 BREAKING: Two oil tankers have reportedly …
2,000 federal agents deploying to Minneapolis in immigration crackdown, fraud probe The Trump administration has begun a massive deployment of hundreds of Department of Homeland Security agents to the Twin Cities area as it escalates its federal crackdown amid a widening fraud scandal in Minnesota, multiple law enforcement officials familiar with the plan told CBS …
The hosts of The View just admitted they’re going on hiatus—while new White House comments and plummeting ratings have fans questioning if the show’s ever coming back.
This can’t be real. If it is, then we’re finished as a society. — Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 15, 2025
The job market for actors and actresses is finished. Why would a producer deal with all of the drama and expense when they can use AI? Disney is not going to risk a $400 million budget on an actress like Rachel Zegler when they can just use AI.pic.twitter.com/BARsdSI5DJ — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) June 2, …
A Virginia man was arrested after federal authorities found a cache of homemade explosive devices, some of which were marked as “lethal,” at his home, marking the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history, officials said. Authorities took Brad Spafford into custody Dec. 17 at a farm in Smithfield, about 29 …
Everybody knows that something is going terribly wrong with the U.S. economy. Government officials and the media can no longer fool the population saying that things are getting better, because behind their manufactured numbers and lies, there is a harsh reality we’re all seeing with our very eyes. We don’t need them to tell us …
It appears whatever Trump and Musk did, it struck a chord as the conglomeration of the mainstream media rose up as one to villify it… pic.twitter.com/tf87iebMdN — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2024 Collection of the negative headlines from the Trump x Elon spaces pic.twitter.com/0lyQdygytt — Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) August 13, 2024
McDonald’s along with Burger King, Wendy’s, Subway, and many other fast food restaurants are making a last ditch effort to provide cheap meal deals temporarily to get customers back in the store. But how will this help them in the long run if people are only coming to buy these cheap deals and nothing else? …
U.S. Banks finished the year with almost $400 billion of unrealized losses on held-to-maturity assets pic.twitter.com/1JV7N8UCqe — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) April 25, 2024
"It just started and we ain't finished!" A #BLM protester threatens more mass looting after Philadelphia Police made arrests of looters in downtown. Video uploaded by @OSiiNT: pic.twitter.com/NvTjGW9m7L — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 27, 2023 The excuse for all this? A Philly judge dropped the manslaughter charges against a cop who shot a driver. Bodycam …
by china-golden She may have a point here. I don’t think China is “finished” however.
View post on imgur.com Rapper 50 Cent has doubled down on the decline in the quality of life in Los Angeles following a series of brazen smash-and-grab robberies in shopping malls. On Sunday, he wrote on Instagram: “I told you LA was finished. they are gonna have to lock the doors, appointment only. SMH,” in …
Guest Post by Alasdair Macleod via goldmoney.com Last week in my Goldmoney Insight, I analysed the rationale for a new gold backed trade settlement currency on the agenda of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg on 22—24 August. This article is about the consequences for the dollar-based fiat currency regime. There is strong evidence that planning …