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Non profit compansation should be capped; especially if that non profit receives government funds.No non profit employee should make more than the President of the US.Profit companies should repay any subsidies when they are profitable; taxpayers before shareholders. — LordRancid (@LordRancidPants) April 26, 2026
It just like the Boston big dig that sold safety upgrades then turned into a billion dollar sinkhole with nothing fixed. Taxpayers got stuck funding a luxury cougar bridge while their own roads fall apart. Gavin Newsom’s $114 Million Butterfly Bridge A Southern California overpass “for everything from monarch butterflies to mountain lions” is overdue …
China just made Silicon Valley’s entire AI industry look like a scam. The US government spent 3 years trying to stop China from building competitive AI. But this backfired HORRIBLY. Here’s what happened: Yesterday, a Chinese startup called DeepSeek released a new AI model called V4. It matches the performance of OpenAI and Anthropic’s best …
#URGENT THIS IS A FULL-BLOWN OIL SHOCK 14.5 MILLION BARRELS PER DAY — WIPED OUT. GONE. The Gulf isn’t just disrupted… it’s crippled. Crude production has COLLAPSED by a staggering 57% in April, and even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens, recovery won’t be quick. 💣 Goldman Sachs warns: “FULL RESTORATION COULD TAKE MONTHS.” Here’s …
Bonds do not move with stock prices like shares do. If the stock market crashes, Trump’s bond holdings (especially the many municipal bonds and U.S. Treasuries) should stay much steadier. The issuers — cities, states, school districts, or the U.S. government — still have to pay the same fixed interest on schedule and repay the …
یک شهروند ویدیویی به ایراناینترنشنال ارسال کرده و در توضیح آن نوشته که نیروهای عراقی وابسته به جمهوری اسلامی با پرچم آن کشور در خیابانهای تهران مستقر هستند. pic.twitter.com/m90bDh3MFP — ايران اينترنشنال (@IranIntl) April 24, 2026 The US State Department said it is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Hashim …
Tony (Al Pacino) and Manny (Steven Bauer) start working for Frank (Robert Loggia), where Tony meets Frank’s very attractive wife, Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer) for the first time. Scarface (1983): In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the …
Your taxpayer dollars at work. Eric Trump — the president's son — is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract byu/nitluck inNeoNews
Two armed guys with assault rifles hit a Brinks armored truck yesterday morning in Philly’s Tacony neighborhood. They got away with about 1.8 million dollars in cash.It happened around 9:45 a.m. on Torresdale Avenue right out in the open. They rolled up, robbed the truck, then jumped in a blue getaway car and vanished. No …
🚨 JUST IN: FBI Director Kash Patel has filed a $250 MILLION defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic after they published a story claiming Patel is regularly too drunk to go to go to work Good. Force that leftist rag into bankruptcy. “We HAVE to fight back against the fake… pic.twitter.com/XyFBNy4OKd — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April …
People in New York City who are looking forward to the city-owned grocery stores promised by the new democratic socialist (communist) Mayor Zohran Mamdani are going to be waiting for quite a while. Not only is the first new store going to cost upwards of $30 million in tax dollars, it’s not going to be …
During the war, the U.S lost one of its most advanced spy drones over the Strait of Hormuz: a $200 million MQ-4C Triton. It dropped from 50,000 to 10,000 feet in seconds after sending a distress signal, then vanished from radar. Why it matters: This thing is packed with America’s most classified radar and surveillance …
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The US stock market has added nearly $5 TRILLION in the past seven trading sessions. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 have now delivered 7 consecutive green candles. pic.twitter.com/mcr5zz9iIT — Bull Theory (@BullTheoryio) April 9, 2026 35,000x $SPY 4DTE puts; right before closing; for $1.8 mil pic.twitter.com/27jeA51ZYs — Michael Scott (Parody) (@spy4lyfe) April 9, …
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To transport $35 million in cash, it would typically require between 24 and 35 large suitcases, depending on how tightly the bills are packed and the size of the luggage used. Reports indicate that for several years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government permitted and encouraged the transfer of millions of dollars in cash. h/t …
🚨 Fetterman Drops a Bomb on Oprah: Senator John Fetterman just exposed how Oprah Winfrey allegedly tried to buy his vote on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” “She had her assistant approach me and offer me $20 million to vote against the bill,” Fetterman told the Senate Oversight… pic.twitter.com/pr2WhEx39P — GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE (@GOP_is_Gutless) March 31, …
Trump ordered to stop all construction on his glitzy White House ballroom https://t.co/9qz8R7FXED — Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) March 31, 2026 WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge blocked Donald Trump on Tuesday from proceeding with construction of a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing, halting for …
Trump is escalating pressure on Iran and using oil prices as leverage If no ceasefire happens, the U.S. and Israel could target Iran’s energy infrastructure, including oil wells, power plants, and Kharg Island. That’s the core of Iran’s economy. At the same time, Trump is setting a deadline linked to the Strait of Hormuz. Oil …
Bank of America just agreed to pay $72.5 million for helping Jeffrey Epstein traffic underage girls. The settlement dropped late Friday night. Buried under war headlines and protest coverage. Almost like they planned it that way. And this is literally the FOURTH major bank settlement tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. JPMorgan paid $290 million …
Reporter’s summation of today’s episode from Frontline Africa news podcast: Five things you should take away from this episode. The number one thing is that this is now a four-front war. Iran from the east, Hezbollah from the north, the Houthis from Yemen in the south, the Iraqi militias hitting American targets across the Middle …
We keep firing off multi-million dollar missiles to knock down $20k drones. Iran’s drones can be made in weeks, the missiles take months or more. It can take up to 2 years to build a Tomahawk, costing $3.6 million a piece, according to the report. Moreover, last year’s budget had included only 57 of them. …
Iran’s oil exports have not collapsed and are fetching much higher prices than before the war, handing Tehran handsome extra revenues from its crude, which is the only one unimpeded from transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Unlike all other Gulf producers, Iran is passing its oil through the Strait of Hormuz and its export volumes …
Iran’s reportedly gearing up big time if the U.S. invades. They say they can send out over 1 million fighters, with more people signing up across the Basij, IRGC, and army. Also warning they’ll push back if the U.S. tries to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while they keep it shut. Looks like they’re getting …
🚨🇺🇸 A New Mexico jury found Meta guilty of exposing children to sexual predators and just hit them with $375 million in damages. Meta is contesting it because of course they are…pic.twitter.com/cT9J8qsWSx https://t.co/UUmXJFw06x — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 25, 2026 Santa Fe, NM – In a historic victory for the New Mexico Department of Justice, …
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, – India’s Reliance Industries, operator of the world’s biggest refining complex, has purchased 5 million barrels of Iranian crude, days after the U.S. temporarily removed sanctions on the oil, three sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The Indian refiner bought the oil from the National Iranian Oil Co., two of the …
A trader made nearly $1 million since 2024 from dozens of well-timed Polymarket bets that correctly predicted US and Israeli military actions against Iran, according to an analysis shared with CNN. The bettor won a staggering 93% of their five-figure wagers about Iran, even though the events they predicted were unannounced military operations. The trader …
Iran now knows how big of a leverage the Hormuz is. It had never tested it before, now they know. This leaves Trump between a rock and a hard place. If he demands the peace now, it won’t be on the terms he wants. The other way is that he keeps escalating which erodes his …
SEN. ANGUS KING: We're shooting down $35,000 drones with $2.7 million missiles. The math simply doesn't add up. HOST: Why were we so unprepared? SEN. ANGUS KING: Great question. We should've learned from Ukraine — the war there has been drone-dominated for 3 years. pic.twitter.com/gRK2g9hPE6 — Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) March 21, 2026
The Trump administration will lift sanctions on Iranian oil stranded at sea under a one month license, while the president looks to seize Iranian nuclear materials. The pause, which applies to Iranian oil loaded on ships as of Friday and is set to end on April 19, comes as the White House tries to bring …
The Iran-US-Israel conflict is turning into an economic war as an oil tanker operator reportedly paid Tehran a $2 million fee for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is now charging “favoured” countries millions of dollars per oil tanker for safe passage, even as gasoline prices have crossed $8 a gallon in some …