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That’s right … more than 4. All headed near. At approximately between the end of September all the way through to mid-November. Some are saying there are more on their way too. Something weird is definitely going on! I have a network of people who are doing different areas of research, got this update this …
Beneath the noise of campaign slogans and media distractions, a serious shift is underway, one that shakes the heartbeat of corporate reporting and forces space for long-term thinking. Donald Trump did not float a suggestion. He issued a command. He bypassed regulators, skipped committees, and posted the demand directly on Truth Social. He told the …
“Wknd thought: Very Long Thread on System Liquidity Some see a raging bull market. I see a system exhausting every last bit of available liquidity for one final dance. Those who argue bullishness on solvency (pointing to high aggregate household wealth or strong asset-to-margin-debt coverage) miss the point. Credit Suisse had a CET1 ratio of …
Violence getting worse. Anyone stand against system, they in danger. People not safe. Speak out, you can get hurt. Politics and ideas make people attack each other. Media protect the ones start it. No one take real responsibility. Ordinary people live in fear, don’t know who can talk, who survive. Danger is not far, it …
Economy is in LATE CYCLE. Recession is building, and the market is about to confront the limits of manipulation and policy. The fraud in the financial system is even more rampant today 😡 The whole thing is RIGGED much like 2008 in some ways. pic.twitter.com/xB1exGyhWa — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 9, 2025 https://x.com/INArteCarloDoss/status/1965416983782195242 When gold …
SP 500 returned 3% total from 2020-2025 when measured in gold. When measuring in dollars it returned 80%. Measuring in dollars is like measuring in Monopoly money Irony is gold is not a recession hedge (long bonds are). It is a system hedge. — Mr. VIX (@yieldsearcher) September 8, 2025 Silver is ripping and the …
A man with 14 prior arrests was freed and now a young woman is dead. The judge who turned him loose faces nothing. No trial. No review. Nothing. This is not justice. This is permission for predators to keep hunting. If the people who hold the keys feel no fear the streets never get safer. …
Two bacteria working in harmony show powerful antitumor effects. The approach could transform treatment for immunocompromised patients. A research team led by Professor Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), working in collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. and the University of Tsukuba, has created a pioneering bacterial therapy for …
🇩🇪 German welfare state 'can no longer be financed' — Merz. — World of Statistics (@stats_feed) August 24, 2025 The German welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Friedrich Merz said on Saturday. The chancellor argued for a fundamental reassessment of the benefits system as spending continues to soar past last year’s record of €47bn …
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Every cat's dream: a timely, clean, and efficient subway system. — LeeGStringer (@Helpful_Shadow_) August 17, 2025
“ Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been living inside a hot, less dense region, and that there may even be a strange cosmic channel connecting …
Holy Shit guys the Times is hiring Redditors pic.twitter.com/pXLrBylFGX — GBR (@GayBearRes) August 10, 2025 Sam Altman says Gen Z are the “luckiest kids in history” thanks to AI. That’s not optimism. That’s propaganda. “I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history.” — Sam Altman, August 2025 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/sam-altman-says-gen-z-are-the-luckiest-kids-in-history-thanks-to-ai-despite-mounting-job-displacement-dread/ar-AA1KfWxE He made the claim …
Kamala Harris just said the system is broken and she’s “still in the fight” and then confirmed she’s quitting politics in the same sentence. “I'm always going to be part of the fight.” “Recently I made the decision that I just don’t want to go back in the system.” pic.twitter.com/JBtJIrLeKY — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August …
It looks like tough times could be on the horizon. ADP just posted its first negative print since March 2023: private payrolls dropped 33,000 in June. The labor market is contracting. pic.twitter.com/0YlIHDNwSz — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) July 6, 2025 Something is happening in the banking system. The Fed's Primary Credit Facility is about …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, “Healthcare” grift, graft, fraud and financialized skims / scams will bankrupt the nation. I’ve been writing about America’s healthcare system for 18 years, emphasizing two enduring themes: 1) our lifestyle is unhealthy, with predictable consequences and 2) healthcare as it is currently configured will bankrupt the nation all by itself. …
The cost of living in the US is rising every year while the government calls for the Fed to cut rates and spend $5 trillion more dollars. Americans face inflation that eats into their paychecks. Families spend nearly $950 more every month to keep up. Food prices climbed 72% since 2020. Auto insurance is 41% …
Palantir just signed a $100 million contract with The Nuclear Company. The deal runs five years. The mission is to build NOS, a Nuclear Operating System. A real-time, AI-driven software platform designed to run the construction of nuclear reactors from the ground up. The system will live on Palantir’s Foundry stack. It will track parts, …
The political arena today is a wasteland. There are no heroes left to speak of. What remains is a parade of self-serving opportunists who have long abandoned any semblance of principle or vision. Their only mission is to cling to power, no matter the cost to the country. It does not matter to them that …
Hong Kong’s pension funds are preparing to slash their holdings of U.S. Treasuries if Washington loses its last remaining AAA credit rating. The move, driven by strict local regulations, could trigger a wave of forced selling, adding pressure to an already fragile bond market. The city’s HK$1.3 trillion ($210 billion) Mandatory Provident Fund system operates …
Data privacy activists, many of whom are supporters of President Donald Trump, are expressing anger and disbelief following reports that his administration had advanced plans to create a national citizen database with technology firm Palantir. The White House has reportedly contracted Palantir, a Colorado-based analytics company co-founded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, to assist in …
They never meant for you to understand the tax code. That’s not a flaw. That’s the feature. It’s a system designed to keep ordinary people tangled in forms, deadlines, and fear, while the powerful move quietly through loopholes, shelters, and carveouts you’ll never see. The Internal Revenue Service stands like a monument to this engineered …
There’s currently a MASSIVE scandal going on at the FBI. Nefarious elements within the FBI manipulated the case management database, aka “Sentinel”, which allowed select agents to conceal evidence pertaining to cases by keyword. This “prohibited access” function essentially gave Deep State agents the ability to cover up information about any case they wanted. In …
San Francisco’s public high schools are making a dramatic shift in grading policy, allowing students to pass with scores as low as 41 percent. The initiative, part of a broader “Grading for Equity” movement, has sparked intense debate among educators, parents, and students. This policy raises serious concerns about academic standards and college readiness, with …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, But all bubbles pop, and there are no tricks left to fund both the greed of the few and the needs of the many. Every society / economy is a distribution mechanism that distributes: 1. Gains 2. Losses 3. Risk 4. The costs of securing the sources of gains. As …
He has full insurance, he says he was “very careful” to choose an in-network doctor who then recommended bloodwork. He just got the bill. It’s $12,315.58 “You all are not going to f*cking believe this — every single one of our health insurers are greedy, blood sucking f*cking parasites.” “This country sucks. Everything about it …
