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California farmers must destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte closes its canneries and cancels more than $550 million in long-term contracts For many warm weather fruit lovers, the prospect of unlimited ripe and rosy peaches is mouth-watering. For Central California farmers, it’s more of a waking nightmare. To make ends meet, these farmers are …
Trump Jr. and Eric Trump-linked investors reportedly bought into a shell entity tied to a Kazakh tungsten mining project That project is backed by up to $1.6B in U.S. government financing through export and development agencies The initial investment reportedly happened before full public disclosure of the merger structure Additional share purchases reportedly followed after …
Next up: Gemini casually suggesting edits using your actual kids’ faces or auto-generating “memories” you never asked for. And you’ll still click accept because it’s “convenient.” Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live This is coming first to the U.S. before it rolls out everywhere else. Google assures that “bringing personal …
Pablo Galante Escobar, the head of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Vitol, warned the audience at the FT Commodities Summit earlier today that the “world is on borrowed time” and that the Gulf energy shock will develop into a food crisis unless LNG flows resume through the Hormuz chokepoint. “We are on borrowed time. Every …
Air Canada ordered to pay pilots who were denied religious covid vaccine exemption An arbitrator has ordered Air Canada to grant back pay to seven pilots denied religious exemptions from the airline’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy in a violation of the Canadian Human Rights Act. In a case of workplace religious discrimination, Air Canada placed …
🇺🇸 For the first time, American men will be automatically registered for the military draft starting in December. No more “forgetting” to sign up, the government will handle it for everyone aged 18–25. You can thank the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law… https://t.co/kRY8hhMse8 pic.twitter.com/29KqntOFVy — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 15, 2026
bro was right. Atlassian down 75%. HubSpot down 69%. Figma down 86%. Almost all of them down 30–70% from their 52-week highs. AI is literally eating software alive and repricing every company in real time. SaaS is cooked fr 😭 https://t.co/NsOxRTLLEp pic.twitter.com/Xk8QBCTJD3 — shirish (@shiri_shh) April 10, 2026 Anthropic's valuation just surged past OpenAI'sin private …
🚨🇺🇸 TRUMP THREATENS MEDIA OVER LEAK OF AMERICAN SOLDIER RESCUE IN IRAN “We’re gonna go to the media company that released it and we’re gonna say ‘national security. Give it up or go to jail.’” pic.twitter.com/ikyMWClZmT — NewsForce (@Newsforce) April 6, 2026
Hegseth: "We've been willing to lead, President Trump has led the entire time, but it's not just us. You might want to start learning how to fight for yourself." pic.twitter.com/kUPlO6UXpt — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 5, 2026
U.S. Alerts Goldman Sachs Paris After Iranian Group Threatens Terror Bombing https://t.co/IWPC2mksEg — zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 2, 2026 Five days after French authorities foiled a terror plot targeting Bank of America’s Paris headquarters, the threat environment facing U.S. financial institutions in the French capital appears to be worsening. New reporting from Le Parisien says Goldman Sachs’ Paris headquarters …
The Artemis II mission has begun. NASA’s lunar fly-around by four astronauts is the first trip to the moon in 53 years. The 32-story Space Launch System rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Artemis astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, …
Social Security is the nation’s largest social insurance program, making payments to approximately 75 million Americans every month. Yet the program faces an imminent funding shortfall. Social Security’s trust fund for retirement benefits may run out in 2032, which could prompt an across-the-board benefit cut, according to projections from the Social Security Administration and Congressional …
Israel, for the first time, is planning to propose to the Trump Administration the development of U.S. military bases on its soil, including the construction of new bases and the relocation of existing military bases in countries across the Middle East, senior officials tell… pic.twitter.com/nZVM65cGON — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 30, 2026
The legend returns and hes PISSED! Gerald Celente stopped by to discuss his predictions for the war with Iran.
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 …
Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts said are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran, in what appears to be the first instance in more than two decades of American forces using the weapons. Images of the land mines were posted on social media platforms by Dimitri Lascaris, …
DDR5 Memory Prices Have Seen a Significant Drop, Up To $100 Per Kit, But the Discounts Are Limited to a Few Vendors The memory industry is experiencing a ‘rollercoaster ride’ lately, following the unveiling of Google’s TurboQuant compression algorithm, which we’ll discuss in a bit. One of the more intriguing signs right now is that …
🚨 JUST IN: Steve Witkoff reveals the shocking things Iran told him BEHIND CLOSE DOORS "The Iranians have the 'inalienable right to enrich.' Then we heard they possessed enough 60% enriched material, 460 kilograms, to make 11 ATOMIC BOMBS." "They would not give up… pic.twitter.com/fLbdljJtT0 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 26, 2026 Special Envoy to …
by Michael We have reached an unprecedented moment in human history. If this war with Iran continues for an extended period of time, we will be facing the greatest energy disruption in human history and the greatest food production disruption in human history simultaneously. Many were hoping that Iran would agree to the Trump administration’s …
The U.S. Postal Service will charge an 8% fee on all package shipments to offset rising fuel costs from Trump's Iran war. This is the first time USPS has ever imposed fees for fuel costs. pic.twitter.com/e5AVQsUsaB — FactPost (@factpostnews) March 25, 2026 The @USPS is planning to levy an 8% surcharge on all package deliveries …
A major Ai feature/App couldn't survive the first quarter of 2026. So much for all white collar jobs being gone by 2028. Relax, idiots. — Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) March 25, 2026 So seeing the lawsuit filed by Baltimore on Tuesday, I feel that money wasn’t the only decision and these platforms will be found liable …
IRANIAN SOURCES SAY THEY WANT A FULL END TO THE WAR, NOT JUST A CEASEFIRE – FARS So they are negotiating. — The Rock Trading Group (@The_RockTrading) March 25, 2026 🚨 BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran doesn't accept ceasefire, says U.S. talks are illogical. Iran also says U.S. has stepped up efforts to secure a ceasefire. Source: …
🚨#BREAKING: ABSOLUTE PANDAMONIUM at the New Orleans airport this morning where the TSA security line stretched… …ALL THE WAY OUT INTO THE PARKING GARAGE!!!! WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS JUST TO GET ON AN AIRPLANE!!!! pic.twitter.com/Qs7ZnqpMYL — Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) March 22, 2026 AC
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Markets are reacting to a risk of a global LNG crisis, which is much worse than an oil shock. An oil shock is quickly solved by non-OPEC supply, alternatives, and flexible systems. LNG is only 15% of the total gas market but very tight in supply and much more challenging to… pic.twitter.com/vCf5mQJAA0 — Daniel Lacalle …
The right time to sell a stock is when EPS has peaked. Or will peak. $nvda pic.twitter.com/F0J5G4Srdq — tic toc (@TicTocTick) March 18, 2026
The U.S. doesn’t want you to know what De-Dollarization looks like in real time. Something strange is happening in the US Treasury market. pic.twitter.com/SA9Q5XqG6n — Vandell | Black Swan Capitalist (@vandell33) March 16, 2026 The backbone of petrodollar is the multi-decade agreement that all energy products are priced and traded in US dollar. Imagine if …
We have now entered the rampant buffoonery phase of this war. However, it appears that both sides are looking for an offramp without admitting as much. Trump has punted the Strait of Hormuz crisis to the rest of the world and Iran has said they will allow the rest of the world to pass through …
Something extremely dangerous may be forming in global markets, and most investors have not processed it yet because it happened while markets were closed. The escalation began when U.S. strikes reportedly targeted Kharg Island, the facility responsible for roughly 90 percent of Iran’s oil exports. At the same time, shipping activity through the Strait of …
Last time Trump tweeted about panican, market bottomed exactly on 4/7 last year. https://t.co/rsxZRa3V7Y pic.twitter.com/yyh8D8xB1t — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) March 14, 2026 Many don’t know that when RSI is the lowest, and markets are extremely oversold, this is when market is most ripe for collapse. Few. — tic toc (@TicTocTick) March 14, 2026