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"I think there are only two ways to (achieve total victory in Iran). One way, which seems less realistic to me… is an invading army, Normandy-style invasion, or non-conventional weapons" Tal Ornan, formerly of Intelligence Unit 504, calls to nuke Iran, two nights ago on CH14 https://t.co/ybplVVgs2P pic.twitter.com/kLT3p3lEM8 — B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) March 23, 2026 Lol, …
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Pentagon just activated its first kamikaze drone unit, Task Force Scorpion, ready to strike if Trump orders action against Iran. These aren’t your dad’s drones. One-way, $35k each, autonomous, and built to swarm soft targets like missile sites and roads. Basically… https://t.co/ren5YRe7mm pic.twitter.com/AqPP3q2ouE — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 26, 2026
The Brown University shooter was dead for days before law enforcement found his body, according to the New Hampshire Chief Medical Examiner. Brown University shooter Claudio Neves-Valente was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside of a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday evening. Claudio Neves-Valente was a Brown University student and …
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 …
Real Estate Property Manager says property taxes are so high in New York City, even after raising rents to $3,200 per month he only nets $500 of profit off each unit “I finished the building, I got the tax bill, $26,000. Here I am 5 years later, it’s $40,000 a building Three families. So I …
the housing market in canada is incredibley expensive, I saw a house in a rural area about 10 mins out of town. A house in a 20 acres with five bedrooms, five bathrooms. THE asking price is 1.5 million dollars the real estate showed the mortgage of 7000 to 8000 a month, holy… — Up …
The Online Safety Act doesn’t ban criticism of illegal immigration It reclassifies unlawful immigration as “priority illegal content,” That’s not a label, It’s a trigger Platforms must assess risk levels for 17 categories of illegal content, Unlawful immigration is one of them, That means anything algorithmically adjacent, protest footage, satire, policy critique, gets flagged, Not …
Trump’s DOJ fired Adam Cohen, the head of the department’s drug trafficking and organized crime unit, in a brutal two-sentence memo. “The Justice Department on Thursday sent out a memo referencing Cohen’s task force, saying it would combine the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces with the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program. Together, the new entity …
The company also issued a full-year 2025 adjusted earnings outlook of $5.75 to $6 per share, which was in line with Wall Street’s expectations. But CVS did not provide a revenue forecast for the year. It caps off the first full quarter with David Joyner, a longtime CVS executive, as CEO of the troubled retail …
Luxury living in L.A. for the homeless. The Weingart Tower in Los Angeles, California, cost approximately $165 million to build, with each unit costing around $600,000: Funding The project was funded by Proposition HHH, which voters approved in 2016 to support housing projects. The state also provided $56 million in tax credits. Amenities The tower …
BRICS announces details of new global currency. by birchgold A new major currency will be hitting the world stage soon as BRICS – being the economic block of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and a growing number of non-western nations – is coming closer to officially launching its collective tender. Details of the currency, …
In downtown Los Angeles, the Weingart Center Tower has recently opened as a high-rise homeless shelter. Here are the key details: The tower comprises 228 studio apartments, 47 one-bedroom apartments, and three apartments for onsite managers. Each unit costs an estimated $600,000 and is funded by taxpayers. Residents will have access to amenities such as a gym, an art room, a music room, and …
April 2 (Reuters) – Intel (INTC.O), opens new tab on Tuesday disclosed deepening operating losses for its foundry business, a blow to the chipmaker as it tries to regain a technology lead it lost in recent years to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW), opens new tab. Intel said the manufacturing unit had $7 billion in operating …
Banks are pocketing real money by borrowing money from the Fed's newest backstop facility, which charges a lower rate, and then parking it at another unit of the Fed, which pays higher interest. Banks are borrowing record amounts from this new facility. https://t.co/0Yt4STWbb9 pic.twitter.com/UYElYhjQxa — Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) December 22, 2023 via Bloomberg: Banks borrowed …
“An incident has occurred with water leaking from the first reactor circuit into the second due to the switching of the fourth power unit of the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to hot shutdown mode, in violation of the licence conditions and Ukrainian nuclear energy operator Energoatom’s requirements. There was no radiological leakage into …