Trump Is Ready To Blockade Iranian Ports for “Months” As Oil Prices SPIKE To Highest Since 2022
While United States President Donald Trump prepares to blockade Iranian ports for many more “months”, the price of oil spikes to its highest since 2022. The price of Brent crude oil rose to $126 on Thursday. As Fuel Prices Poised to TRIPLE, EU Mulls Rationing Gas Across Bloc Monday This […]
Economy
The Global Oil Crisis Just Escalated To A New Level And U.S. Farmers Are Planting The Fewest Acres Of Wheat Since Records Began In 1919
Every single day that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the damage that is being done to the global economy is getting even worse. But the full consequences of the global oil crisis that we are facing will not be felt for a while because nations all over the globe […]
Empire
Trump Is Ready To Blockade Iranian Ports for “Months” As Oil Prices SPIKE To Highest Since 2022
While United States President Donald Trump prepares to blockade Iranian ports for many more “months”, the price of oil spikes to its highest since 2022. The price of Brent crude oil rose to $126 on Thursday. As Fuel Prices Poised to TRIPLE, EU Mulls Rationing Gas Across Bloc Monday This […]
Activism
Founding Felons: Jefferson Would Be on a Watch List Today—You Might Be Next
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”—Benjamin Franklin Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not government overreach, endless war, corruption, surveillance, […]
Health
UK Healthy Life Expectancy Plummets
People living in the United Kingdom will be spending fewer years in good health as “healthy life expectancy” plummets. The UK is going backward compared to most other “wealthy” countries. Healthy life expectancy (HLE) in the UK has fallen by about 2 years, to just over 60 years for both […]
Tech
The EU is pushing “Driver-Monitoring Cameras”. Here’s why.
From July of this year, every vehicle registered in the European Union will be required to have driver-monitoring cameras in place. That’s not every new car manufactured, but every car newly registered [1]. The “Advanced Driver Distraction Warning” (ADDW) cameras are designed to monitor driver behaviour for signs of potential distraction, and […]
Crypto
Prediction markets are ditching the ‘casino’ label to become a regular part of how people track the news
A new report from Bitget and Polymarket reveals that prediction markets are evolving into a $240 billion industry driven by retail users who are trading more frequently on everything from crypto to politics. What to know: Prediction markets are shifting from one-off bets tied to major events into platforms driven […]
Podcasts
War Could Be Imminent & Why Iran’s Retaliation Could End Gulf Oil – Patrick Henningsen with Danny Haiphong
The signs are indeed worrying. We discuss the imminent escalation in the Iran war planned by Netanyahu and the Trump Administration, and how Iran is responding to the military and diplomatic games being played by the US-Israeli regime. And what Americans are still slow to understand: the geopolitics of the […]
Solutions
Why We’re Helpless When Things Break Down
Only then do we realize that by optimizing profit and efficiency, we’ve also optimized systemic failure. In my essay AI, Money, Human Nature and the Problem with Problems, I refer to boundary conditions but didn’t offer a thorough explanation of the role this concept plays in understanding not just how the world works but more […]