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Largest ‘floating city’ to carry 80,000 people and circle the globe every two years The vast vessel would house residents, visitors and crew in a self-contained community complete with schools, a hospital, shops and leisure venues. A futuristic proposal for a mile-long floating city capable of housing tens of thousands of people has been revived, …
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Saudi Arabia and Kuwait lift restrictions on US military use of their bases & airspace. US now considers restarting 'Project Freedom' effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz this week, WSJ reports. pic.twitter.com/fF5ZRI9SZM — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) May 7, 2026
Aimen Dean @AimenDean Having spoken to a senior Saudi official about the NBC article regarding Project Freedom, I honestly think the article completely misunderstood what actually happened because it was written almost entirely from a US perspective rather than from a GCC perspective. First of all, contrary to the impression being created, the GCC were …
Strait of Hormuz escort mission paused after Monday’s naval bloodbath… White House citing “tremendous military success” and “great progress” on a final settlement… Hundreds of tankers still bottled up, blockade of Iranian ports stays in force… The guns are quiet for now, but the fuse is still burning. A 48-hour window to see if Tehran …
The “neutral and innocent” fleet started moving at sunrise, Trump has ordered the Navy to “guide” vessels from dozens of nations past the Iranian threat today… Tehran is still reviewing the 14-point peace proposal, the Foreign Ministry says it won’t end the nuclear program just to lift the siege… Gas prices hit $4.45 a gallon …
Following his rejection of the latest peace terms from Tehran, President Trump announced on Sunday that the U.S. will launch “Project Freedom” tomorrow morning, its a unilateral military operation to “guide” trapped commercial vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz. #BreakingPresident Donald Trump said the US will begin guiding some ships that aren’t involved in …
Reporters Without Borders: Global media freedom in “Severe” freefall… Only 1% of world population now lives in countries with “Strong” press freedom… Shadow over the Web: Russia creates “Censorship Council” to purge domestic internet… China mandate: Commercial drone owners in Beijing must now register with police… In 2002, 20% of the world lived in a …
On their 27-hour flight to a sanctuary, they kept checking in on each other the entire time 🥰 Watching animals experience freedom for the first time will always hit us right in the heart 💘
by Martin Armstrong In 1935, Roosevelt introduced “The Social Security Act,” which passed in Congress. However, the act was described as “Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance.” At first, the Act covered only industry and commerce. It was later extended to include farm operators in 1955. The SS tax was to be 3% of income …
What the EU Is Doing Digital Services Act (DSA): Enacted to combat illegal content, disinformation, and algorithmic manipulation. It requires platforms to remove flagged content quickly, share data with regulators, and disclose moderation practices. Chat Control Proposal: A controversial plan to scan private messages for child abuse material, which critics say could undermine end-to-end encryption …
It’s astonishing that the public believes a Japanese man in a basement created an algorithm that was accepted and listed for mass speculation. The elite devised a covert method to transfer substantial amounts of money unscrupulously, tainted amongst the chaos.. Consequently, the SEC was compelled to remain silent. S.A.T.O.S.H.I: Secure Autonomous Transaction-Oriented System Hyperledger Innovation. …
It's all fun and games until the banks accelerate your loans when times get tough. — Dirty Birds (@DirtyBirdFlow) October 13, 2025
George Orwell's most famous work, 1984, provides a warning about the suppression of freedom of thought and expression. https://t.co/xGz8Y2CJAQ — Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 18, 2025 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-praises-george-orwell-united-kingdom-state-visit-free-speech-crackdown-2131675?ut President Donald Trump praised the British novelist George Orwell at the state banquet at Windsor Castle on Wednesday amid growing concerns over a crackdown on free speech. “A fifth …
Kirk’s death tore through everyone. People couldn’t stop crying. The response hit like a second shock, fear spread faster than grief. Institutions pounced on anyone who showed the “wrong” reaction. Feeling anything became dangerous. Silence turned into the only shield. The system is hunting people. Nobody is safe. A teacher in South Carolina posted, “Thoughts …
The walls are closing in. Britain in 2025 isn’t a democracy. It’s a proving ground. A government that arrests comedians, forces digital ID cards, and bans teenagers from energy drinks isn’t experimenting with policy. It’s experimenting with obedience. “Sir Keir Starmer told the Cabinet he would be ‘exploring options’ around the concept [of digital ID …
“Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison, who has written local legislation to end ‘immoral’ and ‘unethical’ property taxes, said that the predictions of sky-high sales taxes to make up for lost revenue were overstated… ‘They don’t want to upset cities, counties and school districts that are getting rich, hand over fist, taxing Texas citizens out of …
Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes now wears a new label in Washington: sanctioned for human rights abuses. The U.S. government accuses him of abusing power to silence dissent, targeting Americans through secret court orders that pressured major social media companies to ban voices critical of the regime. His judicial overreach includes authorizing pre-trial …
President Trump’s flagship legislation is now hanging by a thread. The “Big Beautiful Bill” cleared the Senate on July 1 after a 26-hour vote marathon, but it did so with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance. That alone signals trouble. The bill now returns to the House, where the revised version is triggering …
Mike Johnson didn’t offer a handshake. He gave a guarantee. In private, he told his own party he would carve $1.5 trillion in spending cuts into Trump’s domestic agenda package. That was the price. The commitment was locked. April 2025. Not ceremonial. Binding. Now look at the paper. The reconciliation bill passed. The cuts didn’t. …
Speaker Mike Johnson is also privately telling GOP fiscal hawks that he’s pushing Senate Majority Leader John Thune to add back in hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts the Senate dropped, according to two people with direct knowledge of the conversations. But fiscal hawks have been skeptical the Senate will comply. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/29/congress/house-gop-leaders-watch-senate-anxiously-as-they-work-to-secure-votes-00432288 Republican …
They tell you America’s broke. That we can’t afford healthcare, can’t fix the schools, can’t house the homeless, can’t pay decent wages. Every election cycle, both parties argue about scraps like there’s nothing left. But the truth is, every year the American people hand the federal government over $4.9 trillion. That’s not loose change. That’s …
#StackDiddler is a perfect representation of what is wrong with the Bitcoin community. Once apon a time Bitcoin was about stateless, permissionless, decentralized digital cash with a promise of empowering the individual to have a more self-sovereign hyper-individualist future. -> https://t.co/V0PlaIapXc — Sold At The Top (@soldatthetop) April 16, 2025 Bitcoin was a great experiment …
When Martin Lee, leader of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party and the city’s best-known politician, spoke on the night Britain handed the colony to China, he pledged to fight for a democratic future. “The flame of democracy has been ignited and is burning in the hearts of our people,” he said. “It will not be extinguished. …
Scholz openly limiting free speech by labeling dissent as “extreme” exposes hypocrisy. Censorship disguised as values undermines the very freedom Europe claims to protect. NOW – Germany's left-wing Scholz says to Elon Musk that Germany's and Europe's "freedom of speech" is not for "extreme right positions." pic.twitter.com/WyfDZFvSIk — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 21, 2025
The purpose of giving Nye (who is not in fact a "science guy") this award was so that when he is mentioned in the media going forward he can be referred to as "Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Bill Nye" – how dare you question Nye, he's a PMF winner. https://t.co/Tfv1QfBNYL — William A. Jacobson …
The Medal of Freedom is for those who strengthen America, not those funding its collapse. Yet George Soros—who’s spent $40M installing left-wing DAs pushing pro-crime agendas—is being honored. Soros-backed prosecutors govern areas covering one-fifth of Americans. Meanwhile, crime soars in places like Philly, LA, and Chicago. His billions also fund activist media to spin his …
Finally a Democrat who speaks truth !! Jeffries: "We will fart hard for the freedom to vote." pic.twitter.com/KtWqEasvZr — Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 3, 2025 “(We will fight) to make the American dream possible,” Jeffries exclaims. “We will fart hard…for the freedom to vote!” h/t Dosha
George Soros has funneled over $32 billion dollars to Democrats and their causes through his foundation. Meanwhile Democrats are worried about the $250M Elon Musk spent to help Republicans. Call me after Elon dumps $32B into the GOP and then we can talk. pic.twitter.com/vyqSlKhs1z — @amuse (@amuse) January 4, 2025 Joe Biden was like, “who’s …
“We are working to consolidate freedoms of the press and expression that were severely restricted” in areas controlled by the former government of Bashar al-Assad, said the minister, Mohamed al-Omar, after Islamist-led rebels on December 8 ended more than five decades of rule by the Assad clan. Syria’s ruling Baath party and the Assad family …
This is a guest on Joe Rogan. Insider speaks out again : ) Drones over the country as well. h/t Orangutan