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Energy titan Shell reports Q1 earnings of $6.9 billion, far exceeding analyst expectations of $5 billion… Climate campaigners and UK lawmakers attack the “obscene” windfall generated by the spike in global oil prices… The profit surge is directly linked to the Iran-Hormuz conflict which pushed Brent crude toward $120 in April… Shell’s stock rises in …
Scientists discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country.pic.twitter.com/EOPQXxwrde — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 3, 2026
Insane footage of the USS John Finn firing a barrage of 13 tomahawk missiles To put it into perspective, this firepower can destroy a 1,000,000+ sq ft giant mall (size of the Mall of America)pic.twitter.com/ENYy3pyEL0 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 14, 2026
Boaters off the coast of Lahaina, Hawaii, witnessed an incredible sight as a pod of whales breached the waters right near their vessel. pic.twitter.com/mnnchiKIi3 — ABC News (@ABC) March 10, 2026 The water at this harbor is so deep that even a humpback whale can breach out of it without being noticed beforehand pic.twitter.com/4zpxw9f4Ps — …
Auto giant Ford reported its worst quarterly earnings in four years on Tuesday, and a net loss of $8.2 billion for 2025, the largest yet since the 2008 recession. At least some of that is due to the $4.8 billion that the company’s electric vehicle division lost in 2025. Electric vehicle sales were battered, and …
by Michael The violent clashes that are causing so much chaos in the streets of our major cities aren’t going to stop. Tens of thousands of anti-ICE activists have already been recruited, and more are joining their ranks with each passing day. At this stage, the only thing that could put a lid on the volcano …
Only very large institutions can tap the overnight repo window at that scale. That means a major bank or a primary dealer needed the money. A regular hedge fund cannot walk in and take $25 billion overnight on top of $50 billion last week. That kind of access and size belongs to big banks that …
Bitmine buys 203,826K Ethereum over the last week and now own 3.2M total ETH. Tom Lee: “The crypto market saw one of its largest deleveraging events ever last week and this put downward pressure on ETH prices. Open interest for ETH sits at the same levels as seen on June 30th of this year (ETH …
Microsoft has signed a deal with Nebius, the firm that spun out of Russian internet giant Yandex last year, to get artificial intelligence (AI) cloud computing power for the next seven years that could be worth nearly $20 billion. The Microsoft-Nebius deal is worth $17.4 billion and will run till 2031 but the terms allow …
Oil giant ConocoPhillips is planning to lay off up to a quarter of its workforce, amounting to thousands of jobs, as part of broader efforts from the company to cut costs. A spokesperson for ConocoPhillips confirmed the layoffs on Wednesday, noting that 20% to 25% of the company’s employees and contractors would be impacted worldwide. …
FINLAND JUST TURNED SAND INTO A GIANT BATTERY Forget lithium – Finland’s new battery is a 13-meter tower filled with 2,000 tons of sand. It gulps down excess wind and solar energy, cranks the sand to 600°C, and holds that heat for months like it’s hoarding summer. Cheap, low-tech, and built to last – this …
A 220-mile-wide blob of hot rock is moving underground toward New York. Scientists call it the Northern Appalachian Anomaly. It sits 125 miles deep and drifts southwest at 12 miles per million years. That puts it on track to reach NYC in 10 to 15 million years. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/massive-mysterious-hot-blob-beneath-eastern-us-is-moving-toward-new-york-puzzling-scientists/ar-AA1JTCD0 It formed 80 million years ago. The …
The object now known as 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to enter our solar system. It’s clocking 37 miles per second, older than the Sun, and possibly 7 billion years old. Initial size estimates were off. It’s not 1 mile wide. It’s closer to 7. Some say 12. Others say 20. The Vera …
In 2012, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek asked whether the symmetry that arranges atoms in an ordinary crystal might also break in time, producing a structure that beats forever at its own pace. More than a decade later, researchers at Tsinghua University, working with theorists from Vienna University of Technology, have watched rubidium vapor settle into just …
The numbers came early. Stellantis dropped its unaudited first-half results on July 21. No waiting. No spin. The damage was too big to hold. Net loss landed at €2.3 billion. That’s $2.68 billion. Revenue fell to €74.3 billion. Last year’s first-half pulled €85 billion. That’s a €10.7 billion drop. The company suspended guidance in April. …
🚨 BREAKING: USAID has OFFICIALLY ceased operations, Secretary Rubio announces This was a TOP priority of @ElonMusk while he was at DOGE, even calling it a “CRIMINAL organization.” The Democrat slush fund for kickbacks and corruption is no more. pic.twitter.com/SKc4AlVywb — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 1, 2025 The U.S. Agency for International Development is no …
A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-powered software. They’ve been hired by the Department of Defense, the FBI, ICE, and even Wendy’s. Now DOGE will likely hire Palantir as well. We talked to a former Palantir employee, dug …
Joe Rogan, who regularly entertains conspiracy theories and cover-ups, created one of his own when he declared that scientists ‘would kill’ anyone who tried to prove that giants were real. On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast with TikTok personality Cody Tucker, Rogan brought up the theory that there was once an …
On Tuesday, May 13, multiple areas in Beijing were hit by a rare and extreme hailstorm, shocking residents and causing widespread damage. The hailstones that fell across the capital were unusually large, with some reportedly bigger than eggs, slamming into the ground. The channel lists such natural disasters as: 1) Geological emergencies: Earthquake, Volcanic eruption, …
by Michael Would having your brain connected to the Internet 24 hours a day be heaven, or would it be hell? Today, a very large portion of the population is seemingly glued to their phones or their computers much of the time. But soon implantable brain-computer interfaces will allow those people to stay connected to …
This won’t ever be paid back. It’s nothing but a giant Ponzi scheme at this point. https://t.co/1ok4LJIWZT — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) May 11, 2025 Gold scores highest weekly close in history 📈📈 pic.twitter.com/DOjfooThwz — Barchart (@Barchart) May 11, 2025 The U.S. dollar has lost 99% of its purchasing power since 1971 80% of all dollars …
On the afternoon of May 4, 2025, the city of Guangzhou was suddenly thrown into chaos by an unexpected bout of severe convective weather. What began as a sunny day quickly turned into a dramatic weather event, with egg-sized hail, violent thunderstorms, and fierce winds battering multiple districts.
🇺🇸 US savings rate 3.9% In Global Financial Crisis and Great Depression territory! Chart: @AugurInfinity pic.twitter.com/RehJc1YLSR — Alex Joosten (@joosteninvestor) May 4, 2025 Time it’d take them to run out of cash if they spent $1 million a day: Berkshire Hathaway: 951 years Apple: 364 years Alphabet: 261 years Amazon: 259 years Microsoft: 218 years …
APPLE BUSTED: JUDGE REFERS TECH GIANT FOR CRIMINAL CONTEMPT OVER FORTNITE BLOCK A federal judge just torched Apple for “willfully violating” a 2021 court order designed to open iOS to alternate payment systems. The court found Apple guilty of deliberately creating barriers to competition—and lying about it. The ruling even refers Apple to the DOJ …
In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet). The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed a couple of years later as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded. Such an exceptional event is thought to …
JUST IN: Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has said that it would invest $50 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, amid concerns about the impact of possible new White House tariffs on pharma goods from abroad. The investment will create more than 12,000 jobs, Roche said — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 22, 2025
by Michael The goal of the healthcare industry in the United States is to take as much money away from you as possible. I truly wish that I was exaggerating, but I am not. Can you guess which nation spends the highest percentage of GDP on healthcare? Without looking it up, you probably already know …
Chinese carmaker BYD saw a surge in revenue last year, a stock filing showed Monday, surpassing the $100 billion mark and beating rival Tesla as the electric vehicle giant accelerates its overseas expansion. The Shenzhen-based firm has emerged in recent years as the clear leader in China’s highly competitive EV market, which is the largest …
https://t.co/HW38yihWdv. Samsung CEO Han Jong Hee died of cardiac arrest at 63 @resilient333 @tulloch1978 pic.twitter.com/o0fhe1s5l6 — Johnny Yu 強尼大哥 (@RealJohnnyYu) March 25, 2025 https://twitter.com/_/status/1904328404708610552 Samsung Electronics has confirmed that its co-CEO, Han Jong-hee, passed away at the age of 63 due to cardiac arrest. Han was a key figure in Samsung’s consumer electronics and mobile …
by Michael Was there a time when humanity possessed technology that is even more advanced than we possess today? Using radar signals sent from two different satellites hovering high above our planet, a team of scientists has discovered that there are absolutely colossal man-made structures underneath the Giza pyramids in Egypt. These structures are far …