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The Treasury just declared the US insolvent. The media missed it The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in …
pic.twitter.com/hnUw7SVNh8 — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) March 24, 2026 Factcheck: Reports of Iranian openness come from unnamed sources, with no confirmed formal negotiations announced by both sides 🚨BREAKING: 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 There’s been quiet outreach between the U.S. and Iran Not full negotiations, but messages are being passed through intermediaries. Iran says it’s willing to listen, but …
Seriously, Which one is it? The news flow is ridiculous 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/y2U8P3dJ77 — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) March 23, 2026 US President Donald Trump believes the objectives of the war with Iran could be achieved through a deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said following a phone call with Trump. Netanyahu said in a video statement …
‼️ FERTILIZER PRICES NOW AT NEAR 4 YEAR HIGH—UP 44%. FOOD INFLATION IS COMING – 30% world’s fertilizer supply & 20% oil supply goes thru Hormuz. – It’s planting season now: Rising fuel & fertilizer costs will reverberate through economy & be felt in grocery stores this summer. pic.twitter.com/1pYuYw1fkp — Maine (@TheMaineWonk) March 22, 2026 …
Stock futures shot higher in a sudden move after President Donald Trump said the U.S. and Iran have held productive talks over the last two days and he was halting any strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures jumped 1,100 points, or 2.6% higher. S&P 500 futures jumped 2.7%, …
BREAKING: President Trump: There will be ‘total decimation of Iran.’ — Leading Report (@LeadingReport) March 22, 2026 🚨 Reports coming in NOW on extensive attacks on the COAST of Iran 🇮🇷 — in Bandar Abbas, BUSHEHR, Bandar Lengeh, and Qeshm Island. It is apparently US 🇺🇸 attacks to soften Iran's defense systems ALONG the Strait …
🇺🇸 U.S. B-52 Stratofortress en route toward Iran, reportedly carrying a full payload of 20 bunker-buster munitions. Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil. pic.twitter.com/7k2nui7QlS — Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) March 22, 2026
By Peter Reagan I’m going to start with something that sounds like good news. Most of the truly catastrophic things we worry about… never actually happen. That’s not just optimism – it’s human experience. As Mark Twain supposedly said, most of the terrible things in his life never occurred. But here’s the problem. The things …
NOW – U.S. Victoria Base in Baghdad, Iraq, struck by multiple drones and is now ablaze. pic.twitter.com/KDBQ6avpVn — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 20, 2026 💢 BREAKING | IRGC claims F-35 hit over central Iran; footage unverified Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its air defenses struck a U.S. F-35 fighter jet at around 2:50 a.m. over …
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Megyn Kelly: "Adelson (big donor) paid Trump hundreds of millions to push the U.S. into war with Iran."pic.twitter.com/oHXKVudnvA https://t.co/KExB6MvNd7 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 20, 2026
‼️🇺🇸Second Marine group moves toward the Middle East, according to reports. USS Boxer, USS Comstock, and USS Portland are heading to the Gulf. pic.twitter.com/aECA8xzvpg — Defense Intelligence (@DI313_) March 20, 2026 Three Navy ships carrying 2,200 Marines left San Diego earlier this week for a previously scheduled deployment to the Indo-Pacific, but two U.S. officials …
U.S. Gears Up for Ground Invasion of Iran: The U.S. is accelerating the deployment of approximately 8,000 additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East. In a show of rapid deployment, the USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group is arriving ahead of schedule with roughly 4,000 Marines and sailors. They will link up with the USS …
🚨HOLY FCK, WORLD WAR 3!!?? 🤯 🇾🇪 Yemen's “Ansar Allah” JOINS the Iran war against the U.S. and Israel. “This battle is the battle of the entire Ummah!” pic.twitter.com/8BFhfBSJ2f — JackTheRippler ©️ (@RippleXrpie) March 20, 2026 Multiple sources confirm the Houthis have publicly stated: They are aligning with Iran in the current war They consider …
BREAKING: President Trump warns that if Iran attacks Qatar’s energy sites again, the US — with or without Israel — will strike South Pars gas field with “unprecedented” force. 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/P9NLnCHhN9 pic.twitter.com/fGSBvHVSiQ — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 19, 2026
IF ISRAEL REALLY COMMANDS TRUMP TO SEND TROOPS IN HERE, IT’S GOING TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST MASSACRES OF US FORCES IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 🚨🚨🚨 Iran is NOT Iraq. Iran is NOT Afghanistan. This is a nation of 90 million people, mountainous terrain, and a military that has been PREPARING for this moment for …
Contrary to Trump’s statements, senior Israeli and U.S. officials said that the United States had prior knowledge of the Israeli strike and even approved it in an attempt to pressure Iran. After the Iranians retaliated against Qatar’s gas fields, Trump is now changing course https://t.co/V1TTCJQf66 — Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) March 19, 2026 "You just have …
ISRAEL JUST MADE THE SINGLE MOST DANGEROUS MILITARY DECISION OF THE ENTIRE WAR. AND NOBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEY JUST TRIGGERED. 🚨🚨🚨 Israel and the U.S. struck South Pars — the LARGEST gas field on the planet. But here’s what they either didn’t know or didn’t care about: South Pars is jointly managed by Iran AND …
Iran just hit 9 countries in a single night, including 7 of the wealthiest nations on earth This was Tehran’s answer to Israel striking the South Pars gas field, the world’s largest, earlier today. The most intense retaliatory barrage of the entire war, and Iran is now the only country on the planet simultaneously attacking …
According to CNN‑sourced reporting (carried by MSN and Caliber.Az), Iran is: Negotiating with eight countries Offering safe maritime passage through the Strait of Hormuz On the condition that oil transactions with Iran are conducted in Chinese yuan, not U.S. dollars Targeting countries outside the Middle East Exploring a broader strategy to regulate traffic through the …
Wholesale inflation is climbing faster than economists expected. Producer prices for final demand increased 0.7 percent in February, the largest monthly gain in seven months. Both goods and services contributed to the surge, pushing the overall index above forecasts and signaling that higher costs are moving through the supply chain. Prices excluding food and energy …
Fire on the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford Raged for Hours, Sailors Say – The New York Times The Ford is now entering its 10th month of deployment after arriving in the Middle East from the Caribbean. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/us/politics/uss-ford-fire-iran-venezuela.html 🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸 USS Gerald R. Ford is heading to Souda Bay in Crete for repairs …
A message from Iran pic.twitter.com/Q2wmEjsh1p — Hamad Mansoor (@drhammmad) March 17, 2026 European Nations Pull Their 'Anti-ISIS' Mission Troops Out Of Iraq https://t.co/p1zDrNOtgY — zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 17, 2026 Spain’s withdrawal follows a deadly drone strike Thursday on a French military base near Erbil that killed Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion and wounded several other …
Israel says it has killed the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani. It comes as Iran launches new rounds of attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East. Latest updates: https://abc7.com/live-updates/iran-war-live-updates-israel-steps-operation-lebanon-trump-says-countries-help-strait-hormuz/18721484/
Why the world’s most powerful navy can’t secure a 21-mile gap The Strait of Hormuz is only two shipping lanes wide. But here’s the thing… Iran lined both sides with decades of preparation: naval mines, mobile missile batteries on the coast, swarms of fast-attack boats, and cheap drones that don’t show up on radar until …
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 …
U.S. appeals court lifts block on Trump policy allowing fast third‑country deportations https://t.co/ldHVSRLuWs — Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) March 16, 2026 BOSTON, March 16 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday lifted a judge’s order that invalidated a Trump administration policy allowing for the rapid deportation of migrants to countries other than their own without …
Donald Trump has warned that Nato faces a “very bad” future if US allies fail to assist in opening up the Strait of Hormuz, sending a blunt message to European nations to join his war effort in Iran. The US president told the FT in an interview on Sunday that he could also delay his …
WASHINGTON AND ISRAEL ARE PLANNING ADDITIONAL MAJOR STEPS INSIDE IRAN THAT COULD ALTER THE COURSE OF THE WAR, ACCORDING TO THE BROADCASTING CORPORATION CITING ISRAELI SOURCES — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) March 15, 2026 *US PLANS TO ANNOUNCE COALITION TO ESCORT SHIPS THRU HORMUZ: WSJ *US PLANS HORMUZ COALITION ANNOUNCEMENT AS SOON AS THIS WEEK:WSJ *US …
🇺🇸🇮🇷The U.S. unleashed the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, the 30,000-pound bomb. A.K.A. the bunker buster. This thing is engineered to slam through up to 200 feet of the toughest reinforced concrete before turning "buried and safe" into a myth…pic.twitter.com/rCj8B6BvAM https://t.co/RE8Qb6to7q — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 14, 2026 Massive Ordnance Penetrator can smash through 200 feet of …
