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Alarm-Reporting Watchman There May Be So-Called “Forever Chemicals” in as Much as Half of the Nation’s Tap Water
HNewsWire: The study by the U.S. Geological Survey tested for the presence of 32 types of PFAS from samples taken from 716 locations—269 private wells and 447 public supply—across the nation from 2016 to 2021. Based on these samples, USGS researchers determined by modeling that, on average, at least one PFAS is detected in about 45 percent…
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CEO Of Worldcoin Says “Something Like World ID Will Eventually Exist… Whether You Like It Or Not”
Right now, it’s about those who voluntarily surrender their biometric data and receive “small sums” in Worldcoin in return for signing up to the World ID scheme. But if Open AI CEO Sam Altman has anything to say about how Worldcoin, a project within his company, develops – everyone who wants to use the internet will eventually…
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Crime Pays: Goldman Strikes $2BN Deal With DoJ To Avoid All Charges Tied To 1MDB
Goldman Sachs is reportedly on the cusp of settling one of the biggest criminal cases involving a Wall Street bank since the financial crisis: According to a Bloomberg News report published late Monday evening, the Vampire Squid has reached a tentative agreement with the DoJ to pay more than $2 billion in penalties – a figure that…
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USDA Crop Report Shocker Sends Corn Futures Surging
Chicago corn futures surged 8% in the last two sessions after a massive reduction to the U.S. government’s acreage estimate reported Reuters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) crop report on Tuesday showed farmers planted 92 million acres of corn in 1H20, which was a huge miss in expectations and 5 million acres below the USDA’s March forecast of 97 million acres.…
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“Watershed” Moment: Is Gold Signaling Stocks Now On “Shaky Footing”?
I rarely discuss financial markets these days. Although I pay attention, it’s not in the obsessive manner I did a decade ago. I mainly keep my eyes out for potential big macro turning points, and if I see something interesting in that regard, I try to share it with readers. This means I might not mention markets…
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Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: The Tsunami Begins, But You Knew That…
If we can stop him, we shall prevent the collapse of Western Civilization. No pressure.” – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows In the first issue of the Civil War Weather Report, I put together ten steps to a new civil war. I did not expect that on the one year anniversary of that first report we’d move from step…
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“It’s All Bullsh*t” – 3 Leaks That Sink The COVID Narrative
In recent days a series of leaks across the globe have further shown the “official line” on coronavirus does not hold water… The science of the coronavirus is not disputed. It is well documented and openly admitted: Most people won’t get the virus. Most of the people who get it won’t display symptoms. Most of the…
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Snyder: It’s Much Worse Than You Are Being Told
For a long time I warned that our economic bubble would burst and that we would plunge into a nightmarish economic collapse. Now it has happened, and it turns out that fear of COVID-19 was the “black swan event” that triggered the collapse. The ironic thing is that COVID-19 is not even close to the worst thing…
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Small Business Guarantees Are A Bucket Of Moral BS Fraud
The coronavirus Small Business Relief program is a bucket of first come first serve moral fraud. The New York Times says Small-Business Relief Effort ‘a Mess’ The Hill says Small businesses still struggling for loans even as $100B is approved The Trump administration has approved roughly $100 billion of the $350 billion allocated for emergency loans to…
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