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Deep in the green hills of eastern Congo, the mining site at Rubaya hums with the sound of generators. Thousands work to extract strategic minerals essential for the production of phones, batteries, and other modern technologies. Despite the mine’s takeover by rebel forces, for the men working little has changed.
by Michael A supervolcano that covers 77 square miles is being shaken by one earthquake after another, but we are hearing very little about this in the United States. A full-blown eruption of the Campi Flegrei supervolcano in southern Italy could potentially cause a volcanic winter that would absolutely devastate global food production and result in …
April to June 2008: There was a brief dip in expectations as some believed the worst might have passed and markets slightly stabilized. — Citizen Watch Report (@Citizenwatchrep) May 13, 2025 Once again, the #recession never came. Economists and markets spent much of the past year bracing for a downturn—citing rate #hikes, inverted #yield curves, …
The U.S. accounts for 42-45% of global pharmaceutical sales, not 74% – but the core truth remains: Americans pay 3x more for drugs than other nations. While we develop 43.7% of new medicines, Big Pharma's price-gouging turns life-saving treatments into luxury goods. The real… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) May 12, 2025
The world is arming itself at the fastest rate since near the end of the Cold War, according to a new report, as major wars rage in Ukraine and Gaza and military tensions spike from Europe to Asia. The 9.4% year-on-year rise to $2.718 trillion in global military spending in 2024 is the highest figure …
It may sound like a morning radio show bit, but the organizers of the first-ever “sperm race” wouldn’t be surprised if the competition was included in the 2028 Olympics.
The price of bitcoin, big macs and inflation will all trend linearly over 50 years and these trends won’t be affected at all by half the world’s wealth being funneled into a volatile asset that can’t be scaled. h/t Octagonal_Octopus
In a world fixated on the race for superior artificial intelligence (AI), Chinese scientists have cracked the code to memory speeds once deemed impossible – with a device smaller than a grain of rice. Researchers at Fudan University on Thursday unveiled “Poxiao”, or Dawn, the fastest flash memory ever created, which can erase and rewrite …
🇨🇳CHINA BUILT THE WORLD’S TALLEST BRIDGE IN 3 YEARS – THE WEST IS STILL FILING PERMITS The Huajiang Canyon Bridge is about to crown itself the tallest bridge on Earth at a jaw-dropping 2,051 feet – towering over One World Trade Center and leaving the West in the dust. Built in… pic.twitter.com/9HLdj5M2fD — Mario Nawfal …
BREAKING: The world's 500 richest people lost $500 billion this week, which is the largest ever recorded by Bloomberg. The only one who made money? Warren Buffett. pic.twitter.com/aPM7VwhEp1 — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 6, 2025
Bitcoin to Blockchains, to NFTs, to Web 3.0… it’s time to find out if it’s really all the hype or just part of one of the greatest scams in human history.
🚨🇯🇵 JAPAN UNVEILS URANIUM BATTERY TO REPURPOSE RADIOACTIVE WASTE Japan’s Atomic Energy Agency has developed the world’s first uranium-based rechargeable battery. Using depleted uranium — a byproduct of nuclear fuel enrichment — the prototype demonstrated stable charging and… pic.twitter.com/yqInQKkyeB — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 22, 2025 Uranium battery prototype could utilize 16,000 tons of Japan’s …
The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Ben Norton explains how the military-industrial complex profits from war.
China has unveiled the world’s first mobile 5G base station, which, after passing rigorous tests, is now poised for deployment on the battlefield. Jointly developed by China Mobile Communications Group and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), it can provide unprecedented high-speed, low-latency and extremely secure and reliable data exchange services to at least 10,000 users …
In a major development, satellite imagery analysis has revealed that China is developing a laser fusion research facility in Mianyang, a city in the southwestern region of the country. The scale of this facility is about 50 percent bigger than the US National Ignition Facility (NIF), which is currently the world’s largest inertial confinement fusion …
Today, we’re announcing two historic firsts. The Royal Mint launched a new addition to its lineup of gold Britannia coins, an uncommon 1/3 oz gold coin. And Birch Gold Group is the only Gold IRA company that has them! By Phillip Patrick If you’ve heard me speak on Steve Bannon’s War Room or The Ben Shapiro Show, you …
He still does these, in case you're wondering. This is from two days ago. pic.twitter.com/O12U2gTMKf — Corporate Absurdity (@ConsoomerLs) December 22, 2024 * Original Full Reaction: Actual Reaction Starts at 3:47: * Original trailer without reaction: Superman | Official Teaser Trailer h/t dr0id
According to the Ulster Institute for social research, Japan has the highest average IQ in the world. With an average score of 106.48, it finished 0.01 ahead of Taiwan. Four other Asian nations — Singapore, Hong Kong, China and South Korea — made up the top six. It’s the second successive year that Japan has …
If the deal goes through, the merged group has the potential to deliver revenue of 30 trillion yen ($191.4 billion) and operating profit of more than 3 trillion yen, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said. Discussions are set to conclude in June 2025. Nissan’s strategic partner, Mitsubishi, has been offered the chance to join the new …
A recent discovery has drawn attention to a deposit containing about 1,000 metric tons (1,100 US tons) of high-quality gold ore. If ultimately proven true, this massive find would make it the largest gold deposit on Earth The news has turned heads around the world, considering that such a find could influence global markets, local economies, …
Bitcoin to Blockchains, to NFTs, to Web 3.0… it’s time to find out if it’s really all the hype or just part of one of the greatest scams in human history.
The US government secretly controls roughly one-half of the funding for the world’s largest investigative journalism network, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a joint investigation by Mediapart, Drop Site News, Il Fatto Quotidiano, and others has revealed. The probe also found that the US exerts veto power over OCCRP’s leadership and editorial direction. …
China believes it has found the world’s biggest gold deposit, with reserves estimated to be worth more than $80 billion. Chinese state media said that a gold ore deposit site with supposed reserves of more than 1,000 tonnes at a depth of 2,000 meters had been located in the Wangu goldfield in Pingjiang County in …
Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark- and it’s not the livestock flatulence. The unchecked mass migration is not the only failed Globalist policy that Eutrope has embraced – there is also the ‘Global warming’ hoax that ushers in a slew of crippling policies that is slowly destroying the continental economies. Few countries are …
China has activated the world’s most advanced hypergravity machine, aiming to deepen scientific understanding. The system, featuring the largest hypergravity centrifuge, will be able to produce forces thousands of times stronger than Earth’s gravity. The Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) is located in Hangzhou, the capital of eastern China’s Zhejiang province. https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-900-times-earth-gravity-132859960.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsERUq89EWU
The world’s most technologically advanced country could take days to count votes in certain states. I don’t think there is any question as to why people question the integrity of elections with waits like this going on. h/t JayMoSpo
SYDNEY—A 5.48 metre (18 ft) Australian crocodile that held the world record as the largest crocodile in captivity has died, a wildlife sanctuary said on Saturday. He was thought to be more than 110 years old. Cassius, weighing in at more than one ton, had been in declining health since Oct. 15, Marineland Melanesia Crocodile …
NVIDIA and Elon Musk’s xAI are ramping up their colossal supercomputer, Colossus, to an unprecedented 200,000 Hopper GPUs—doubling the current 100,000 GPU setup in a scale never before seen. Leveraging NVIDIA’s advanced Spectrum-X Ethernet networking for seamless data throughput and zero packet loss, Colossus has already set records, becoming operational in just 122 days. As xAI’s …
