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  • Austin, Texas housing market collapsing. Mexicans saying no work, houses not selling.

    10/20/2025 8:46:17 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 42 replies
    Mexican customers on the street talk | 10-20-25 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
    Where I work in Austin, I deal with a LOT of Hispanic customers, primarily Mexicans. They have been telling me for some time that there is almost no construction work available. Today, two in a very short space of time said they have no work. Furthermore lemons, avocados, poblano peppers or other produce into the U.S. due to tariffs and are unloading tons of it on the side of rural highways for the locals to pick up for free. We are about to see major economic problems as the Trump Administration attempts to fix YEARS of problems caused by Godless...
  • The American debt machine is breaking: defaults surge as the illusion of stability collapses in real time

    10/11/2025 8:26:08 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 66 replies
    Citizen Watch Report Blog ^ | October 7, 2025 | Alex Mark
    The alarms aren’t just blinking anymore. They’re blaring. America’s debt-fueled consumer economy is starting to crack. Families who used to keep the stores and car dealers busy are now falling behind on payments. This isn’t some slow leak. It looks and feels like the early days of 2008, only deeper and faster. Car loans are a disaster. Credit cards are choking people. Home loans are sliding into trouble. Even those Buy Now Pay Later apps, sold as a way to “manage money,” are pulling people into digital debt traps. The question isn’t if the hit is coming. It’s how long...
  • Panic in the Bunker: Silver Hits $50 & COMEX-GPT Is Twitching

    10/09/2025 10:45:15 AM PDT · by appeal2 · 35 replies
    Rumble ^ | 10-9-2025 | Kerry Lutz
    The classic Downfall bunker meme gets a 2025 twist. Silver has smashed through $50, the short-side generals are panicking, and their trusted market-rigging AI — COMEX-GPT — starts glitching and twitching. Watch the mayhem unfold as the paper shorts crumble and the physical market takes control.
  • Orban warns EU of ‘collapse’

    09/09/2025 8:49:43 AM PDT · by delta7 · 18 replies
    Tore ^ | 8 Sep 25 | Torre
    The bloc might not survive without reform and an end to the Ukraine conflict, the Hungarian PM believes The EU is on the verge of collapse and will not survive beyond the next decade without a “fundamental structural overhaul” and disentanglement from the Ukraine conflict, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned. Speaking on Sunday at the annual Civic Picnic in Kotcse, Orban said the EU has failed to meet its founding ambition of becoming a global power and cannot handle current challenges due to the absence of a common fiscal policy. He described the bloc as entering a phase...
  • Chinese bridge collapse kills at least 12 construction workers, 4 others missing

    08/23/2025 8:27:23 PM PDT · by Libloather · 14 replies
    The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and left four others missing, state media reports said. Aerial photos from the official Xinhua News Agency show a large section missing from the bridge’s curved aquamarine arch. A bent section of the bridge deck hangs downward into the Yellow River below. Sixteen workers were on the bridge in northwest China’s Qinghai province when a steel cable snapped about 3 a.m. Friday during a tensioning operation, Xinhua said. Boats, a helicopter and robots were being used in the search for the...
  • Ghost Factories Are a Warning Sign for Green Manufacturing’s Future

    07/14/2025 1:04:59 PM PDT · by catnipman · 24 replies
    energy news beat ^ | 7/7/2025 | Clark Savage
    The promise of a green manufacturing boom, fueled by generous subsidies and ambitious climate policies, is unraveling across the United States and beyond. So-called “ghost factories”—abandoned or stalled clean-energy projects—are becoming a stark symbol of the challenges facing the green energy sector. From Arizona to Massachusetts, once-celebrated plans for battery plants, wind turbine factories, and solar component facilities are being scrapped or delayed, raising serious questions about the sustainability of Net Zero ambitions, the risk of deindustrialization, and the potential for fiscal collapse in green markets.
  • Consumer Sentiment Surges as Inflation Fears Collapse and Tariff Strategy Becomes Clear

    06/13/2025 9:08:38 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 5 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/13/2025 | John Carney
    Consumer sentiment soared in early June, rising for the first time in six months and posting its strongest monthly gain since January 2024, according to preliminary data released Friday by the University of Michigan. The university’s closely watched index of consumer sentiment jumped to 60.5 in the first half of June, up from 52.2 the prior month—a 16 percent gain that beat every estimate in a Wall Street Journal survey of economists. The expectations sub-index surged more than 21 percent, the biggest one-month gain since late 2023. The sharp rebound in optimism follows weeks of steady economic data, including soft...
  • Ukraine could collapse. What will that look like?

    05/28/2025 3:30:47 PM PDT · by EnderWiggin1970 · 35 replies
    Brussels Signal ^ | 5/28/25 | Rafael Pinto Borges
    A scenario European leaders would do well to consider, as Kyiv enters the Washington-sponsored peace process with profound frustration: with the White House determined to put an end to the war in Ukraine, the Europeans are telling Zelensky that no peace is necessary. The war can continue indefinitely, they say; and, if the Americans want out, Europe can still step in to fill the void. But Zelensky is foolish to believe that the Europeans will save him from the forces of reality. Europe, the last bulwark of the once-insurmountable pro-war consensus, is a continent of hawks without beaks. Ukraine cannot...
  • The Decivilizing of America

    05/12/2025 5:25:18 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 46 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 12 May, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson
    From secure borders to functioning cities, America is shedding the hard-won pillars of civilization—by choice, not chance—in a sweeping, top-down descent into disorder. Secure borders and stationary populations were considered the mark of emerging civilization by classical historians. In contrast to nomadism and constant strife over disputed territory, peoples who had clearly defined and protected borders ascended to statehood, maintained a distinct culture, and achieved greater prosperity and security. In contrast, what we suffered from 2021 to 2025 was unprecedented. It was an intentional administration effort to de-civilize the nation by destroying its borders—as if to return to the premodern...
  • Moral Anarchy Is Breaking Down American Civilization

    05/11/2025 6:06:03 AM PDT · by Rev M. Bresciani · 17 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | May 11, 2025 | Jeffrey Ludwig
    An article published last year ended with the following ominous sentences: “If the USA is unlikely to become once again an overwhelmingly Christian nation (and this seems to be the case), where will we turn for a new morality? Is it possible that we are now entering a century or so of moral anarchy?”
  • the second world - a tour of "you don't wanna go there"

    05/05/2025 8:33:06 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    bad cattitude ^ | 3 May, 2025 | EL GATO MALO (The Bad Cat)
    people are familiar with the common construct of “the third world.” they are also familiar with the idea of “the first world.” what’s interesting to me is the idea of how one becomes the other and the presumption of the causality and the pathways by which that occurs. it’s worth some exploration. worryingly, this is a topic on which i think most people’s intuitions and utopian hopes are hopelessly wrong to the point of being outright dangerous. in an attempt to clarify and circumvent such, i’d like to add a new construct to the list, that of “the second world”...
  • The West Eats Itself

    05/05/2025 3:56:17 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 24 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 5 May, 2025 | J.B. Shurk
    Western governments undermine elections, religious freedom, free markets, and free speech. The same Western leaders who speak endlessly about “protecting Democracy” continue to rig elections, outlaw political parties, and prosecute candidates. Germany has declared Alternative for Germany — now the country’s most popular party — an “extremist group” on par with domestic terror organizations. The European Union helped Marxist globalists in Romania invalidate a presidential election and ban the winner from office. France and Brazil have followed the U.S. example of bringing ludicrous criminal charges against popular anti-Establishment politicians, and while President Trump overcame the sham prosecutions targeting him, Marine...
  • Report: Iran’s Khamenei Persuaded to Talk to Trump for Fear Regime Would Collapse

    04/11/2025 9:00:52 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/11/2025 | Joel B. Pollak
    Iran’s so-called “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was reportedly persuaded to talk with the Trump administration about a new nuclear deal after being told by advisers that the regime could collapse if he did not. Khamenei had previously rejected talks with Trump. But with Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions, his military action against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen, and Israel’s destruction of Iran’s air defenses last year, Khamenei’s advisers appear to have believed that the regime was on the ropes. The New York Times reported Friday: Mr. Khamenei had publicly and repeatedly banned engaging with Washington, calling it unwise...
  • ‘This Is Life or Death’: American Mom-and-Pop Businesses Could Still Collapse as China Tariffs Climb; Want 90-Day Pause to ‘Save Christmas’

    04/10/2025 10:59:06 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/10/2025 | Joel B. Pollak
    Many small businesses are still threatened by the trade war facing the United States, even though President Donald Trump suspended most tariffs for 90 days. The escalating tariffs on China have halted imports — and manufacturing — for many American companies, including mom-and-pop stores and family-owned businesses that cannot easily shift production or sourcing to other countries. ‘This is life or death,” says Rick Woldenberg, the CEO of Learning Resources, a century-old toy manufacturing company that makes educational materials for thousands of American schools. Woldenberg told Breitbart News that the Trump administration’s tariffs on China — which hit 145% as...
  • Russia economy meltdown as oil prices crash 31% in fresh blow for Putin

    04/07/2025 6:46:57 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 19 replies
    Express UK ^ | 3/7/2025 | CIARAN MCGRATH
    Russia's economy is facing further turmoil as the price of its flagship Urals crude oil plummets to its lowest value since early 2023. On Friday, Russian Urals oil prices fell to about £43 per barrel ($53), with projections suggesting they could dip to £40 ($50) if the downward trend in global oil prices continues. -snip- The oil price crisis comes just as Russia faces rising domestic inflation, with everyday goods, such as food and fuel, becoming increasingly expensive. Ordinary Russians feel the impact, with the cost of basic goods, including bread, milk, and potatoes, rising dramatically. The country now finds...
  • Supreme Court to hear case on Louisiana redistricting dispute

    03/24/2025 7:42:07 AM PDT · by Racketeer · 12 replies
    WAFB ^ | March 21, 2025 | Stetson Miller
    WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case on Monday that challenges Louisiana’s congressional map after it was redrawn to include a new majority-black district. The case began years ago, when Louisiana’s state legislature drew a congressional map following the 2020 census. It included one majority-Black district out of the state’s six. The map was challenged because roughly a third of the state’s population is Black. “After years and years of litigation, the legislature was finally compelled to do the right thing and pass a map that provided black voters with a fair opportunity to...
  • Dark energy is weakening and the universe could (eventually) collapse, study says

    03/23/2025 4:42:09 PM PDT · by Twotone · 69 replies
    NPR ^ | March 20, 2025 | Chandelier Duster
    Dark energy, a mysterious force that scientists believe is behind the accelerated expansion of the universe, is weakening — which could result in the universe over the course of billions of years collapsing on itself, according to new research. An international group of more than 900 researchers studying the expansion of the universe presented their findings on Wednesday during the American Physical Society's Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, Calif. The scientists, who are collaborating on something called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) are studying the history of the universe's expansion out to 11 billion years in the past. They...
  • Technicolor, the iconic Hollywood visual effects giant, is on the verge of collapse after 110 years

    02/28/2025 3:31:15 AM PST · by Libloather · 36 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2/27/25 | Ariel Zilber
    Hollywood may soon need to bid farewell to a visual effects giant credited with bringing classic films such as “Gone with the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz” to full color. Technicolor, the 110-year-old company that pioneered color motion picture processes, told its employees this week that it has been unable to find emergency investments to keep the firm afloat. “Due to inability to find new investors for the full Group, despite extensive efforts, [Paris-headquartered] Technicolor Group has filed for Court ‘recovery procedure’ before the French Court of Justice to give a chance to enable to find solutions,” Technicolor Group...
  • Heavy snow leads to collapse of 26 buildings in New York county

    02/24/2025 6:40:08 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 39 replies
    NY Post VIA FOX ^ | 02/24/2025 | Emilee Speck, FOX Weather
    Feet of snow across parts of central New York caused more than two dozen homes and businesses to collapse under its weight, according to Oswego County officials. A lake-effect snowstorm started on Feb. 14 and did not let up until Feb. 19, piling feet of snow on roofs. According to the National Weather Service’s Buffalo office, the highest weekly totals included 79.1 inches in Palermo and 55.8 inches in Minetto. On Feb. 19, the city of Oswego had 20 inches of snow on the ground, the highest snow depth so far in February, according to the NWS.
  • Gavin Newsom rocked by blood-soaked crisis gripping bay area city... as furious residents beg for help

    01/18/2025 9:16:33 AM PST · by DFG · 44 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 01/18/2025 | Samantha Rutt
    A once quietly prosperous city in California's bay area has been gripped by a crime wave. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program has named the city of Vallejo, just 30 miles outside San Francisco, as having one of the highest crime rates in the state. The problem has become so bad that frustrated residents have started a petition pleading with Governor Gavin Newsom to increase the police presence in the area. 'As a resident of Vallejo, I am deeply concerned about the safety of my community. Vallejo is currently experiencing an alarming increase in crime rates,' Paula Conley, 55, wrote...