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Stargazers are prepped for a double shadow transit on Jupiter starting at 9:58 pm et… Shadows of Europa and Ganymede will cross the gas giant’s cloud tops simultaneously… The moon Europa itself will be visible transiting the planet at the same time… Best viewing is expected in the Midwest and Western U.S. as Jupiter sits …
Foreign forces bomb host country troops to protect illegal shadow base. F**king outrageous. Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1 An Iraqi shepherd accidentally discovered a secret Israeli military base hidden deep inside Iraq’s western desert. The U.S knew about this base while Iraq did not know anything about it. Israel reportedly built the clandestine base before the war …
Private credit market hits $2 trillion with banks insurers and pensions dangerously tangled in. FSB warns the sector has never faced a real downturn and data is too patchy to track dangers. Bailey just admitted the shadow banking bomb is wired up and ticking. FSB warns in a new report that traditional banks, insurers and …
Internal “dogfooding” project designed to act on a user’s behalf across all life… Silicon Valley buzz calls it the “Altman Killer,” deep integration into Gmail and Docs… The “AI Agent” era is here, and it knows what you want before you do… The server room is becoming your personal Chief of Staff. Privacy is the …
The luxury icon reported EPS of €2.33, falling short of the €2.37 analyst target despite revenue hitting €1.85 billion… Maranello is fighting a “negative foreign exchange” hit from the Dollar and Yen, operating margins held at 29.7% as the ultra-rich demand more custom work… The stock is under pressure in Milan as Trump’s 25% tariff …
Kyiv’s drones struck a Karakurt-class missile ship overnight, the vessel is capable of launching Kalibr cruise missiles… Zelenskyy confirms the strike also took out a patrol boat and a tanker, the shadow oil fleet is taking direct hits… Satellite data shows massive hotspots at the Primorsk oil terminal, the joint SBU and HUR operation was …
The world’s most powerful predators are back behind closed doors at the ultra-secretive Bilderberg conference. With no press, no minutes and no accountability. Just bankers, billionaires, warlords, tech tyrants, and media gatekeepers deciding your future while you’re not invited. The agenda for Bilderberg 2026 has been released: •AI•Arctic Security•China•Digital Finance•Energy Diversification•Europe•Global Trade•The Middle East•Russia•Trans-Atlantic Defence-Industrial …
The 2008 parallels aren’t subtle anymore. Let me lay them out: ✓ Credit bubble reversing ✓ Shadow banks gating investor redemptions ✓ Forced asset sales to raise cash ✓ Collateral getting marked down (JP Morgan just did this) ✓ Oil shock driving prices toward $100 ✓ Central bankers focused on inflation, the wrong risk ✓ …
SoftBank just missed Wall Street Net Income estimates by 70% https://t.co/615qtOBOAZ pic.twitter.com/KlUrlbZfiM — JustDario 🏊♂️ (@DarioCpx) February 12, 2026 Meta is paying $6.5 billion extra in interest to keep $27 billion in AI infrastructure debt off its balance sheet. They’re using something called conduit financing, where a special purpose vehicle borrows the money, builds the …
Just in case you didn’t know, Google is shadow banning my site too. “SHADOW BANNED BY GOOGLE”: NICK SHIRLEY’S X ACCOUNT DISAPPEARED FROM RESULTS AFTER EXPOSING MINNESOTA FRAUD Nick Shirley says his official X profile has vanished from Google, even when you search his name directly. It apparently started after he publicly exposed fraud in …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, How much private credit has been put in place but isn’t in the official credit total is unknown and very likely unknowable. That means total systemic risk is also unknowable. Everyone wants to lend us money now, even though they’re not banks: the insurance company Progressive offered us a loan, …
How long before $250 trillion of hidden risk explodes in the financial system? World ‘blind’ to risks in booming $250tn shadow bank market The world’s top financial regulators have admitted they are blind to dangers lurking in the shadow banking sector. On Tuesday, the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a network of global watchdogs, said “severe …
The SBU (security service of Ukraine) has for the first time struck a tanker from Russia’s shadow fleet in the neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea. As a result of multi-stage operations in the neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the “Alpha” unit of the SBU struck the tanker QENDIL using aerial drones. At the …
On a warm night in August 2023, Oleksandr Kubrakov, then a senior minister in Ukraine’s wartime government, had just settled into a sleeper car on the eastbound train from Lviv to Kyiv when he got a call from the country’s main intelligence agency, the SBU. Its agents had deployed a set of naval drones in …
Russia is gaining territory in Ukraine at one of the fastest rates since the war began as peace talks stall. The Kremlin’s army seized 200 square miles of territory in November, up from 100 square miles the previous month, according to DeepState, a trusted Ukraine-based battlefield map. The speed of advance was approaching the fastest …
The collapsing collateral pyramid: When MBS replaces Treasuries in repo, the system is running out of AAA ammunition. This is exactly how the shadow collateral system breaks: •Treasuries = pristine •MBS = haircut-heavy, riskier •Agencies = dead middle •Everything below = nuclear waste If the Fed is now vacuuming up MBS to keep funding markets …
Booker’s public blowup isn’t just political theater; it signals a deeper breakdown in Democratic strategy. Fixating on Trump as the singular villain shows a party scrambling to define itself without a clear positive agenda. This obsession blinds them to growing voter fatigue and shifting priorities, especially among suburban and independent voters who want solutions, not …
Private Credit is where the next systemic financial risk is going to emerge from. Just a complete scam industry. Fake valuations. Pretending things are par when they are clearly not. Lending to garbage companies. And… it’s all being financed by debt from commercial banks (since banks can’t lend like this anymore after 2008). Private credit …
People keep saying time feels like it is speeding up. That days blur into weeks, weeks into months, and whole seasons vanish in a blink. They think it is something mysterious or cosmic, like the calendar itself is shrinking. But the truth is far simpler and much more disturbing. Time is not moving any faster. …
The Silent Banking Crisis: Understanding the $482 Billion Time Bomb U.S. banks are currently sitting on $482 billion in unrealized losses on their investment securities primarily long-dated Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities bought during the 0% interest rate era. This figure has jumped 33% in just the last quarter, making it the worst paper loss environment …
Some of the top Justice Department officials who were recently terminated are expected to testify publicly at a congressional meeting Monday. Liz Oyer, who was fired as U.S. pardon attorney last month, and Ryan Crosswell, who left the department’s public integrity section during the controversy surrounding its decision to drop the criminal corruption case against …
BREAKING: British Stormshadow cruise missiles start hitting Russian and North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region of Russia. This video shows Russian soldiers taking cover in an apartment as the British missiles fired by Ukraine start hitting targets near them. 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇷🇺🇰🇵 pic.twitter.com/3fPmov1SOV — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 20, 2024 BREAKING: Reports of Ukraine firing up …
Democrats are openly rejecting the democratic results of the election and are forming a shadow government to work against the will of the American voters. Worse than denial this is treason. https://t.co/wbrEKi4PIS — @amuse (@amuse) November 15, 2024 Democrats warned us that a Trump victory would signify the end of democracy as we know it. …
French billionaire Philippe Argillier claims he has four databases that will expose 38 individuals who run the "shadow government". Bill Gates is one of those 38 individuals. pic.twitter.com/R75JYlif6P — Not A Number (@myhiddenvalue) October 22, 2024
(Bloomberg) — South Korea is emerging as a closely watched weak link in the $63 trillion world of shadow banking. Real estate exposure has been showing cracks at home and abroad after interest rates rose, prompting financial firms including T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and Nomura Holdings Inc. to express concern about stress in shadow …
As tensions escalate between Ukraine and Russia, the UK announces a landmark €580 million military aid package to fortify Ukraine’s defenses and bolster European security, signaling unwavering support in the face of aggression. ⚡️The UK will send a big, new military aid package to Ukraine worth €580 million. It includes additional Storm Shadow missiles, 4 …
BREAKING: @FreeBeacon has obtained audio of a whistleblower privately warning Fani Willis in 2021 that her top aide was trying to misuse federal funds. Willis did not dispute the allegations. 56 days later, Willis fired the whistleblower and perp walked her out of the office. pic.twitter.com/YEkKIB2L5f — Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) January 31, 2024 Willis provided …
