China spent years building a 1.2 billion barrel oil stockpile. Now it is using it to take control of the oil price.

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“During the worst oil crisis in years, the world’s top crude buyer cut imports by 40%, from 11.6 million barrels a day in 2025 to around 7 million by June. Its economy still grew 4.3% last quarter, so weak demand cannot explain it. This was deliberate. Traders now call China the OPEC of oil demand. … Read more

Now why would they do a thing like that

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Now why would they do a thing like that byu/w1ndyshr1mp inconspiracy The DOJ Press Release contains carefully crafted verbiage that is a wonder to behold: United States Attorney’s Office – District of Maryland – August 18, 2026 Former Senior NIAID Official Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic Excerpt (Bold and brackets added): Additionally, … Read more

Walmart may be a great company at exactly the wrong price

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Walmart just gave investors a strange combination of numbers. U.S. comparable sales grew only 2.6% in the latest quarter. That’s the company’s weakest U.S. comparable-sales growth in more than six years. Transactions grew just 1.5%. And investors hated it. The stock dropped sharply after the report. But then you look underneath the headline and things … Read more

Bond market going to burst stock bubble? The bond market is sending the same warning it sent in 1873

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via MarketWatch: When it comes to stock-market downturns, listen to the Bible. Even if one is coming, “of that day and that hour knoweth no man,” not even “the angels which are in heaven.” But one is surely coming, and the unraveling of the long-term bond market is raising the chances that one is imminent. … Read more

This Secret DSA Meeting Just LEAKED.

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🚨 The Family Must Go: DSA Panel Pushes Full-Scale Cultural Revolution “I want to perform abortions at a church before it’s all said and done.” “The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and the duration of the contract.” “Sex work and marriage… pic.twitter.com/DbHI2DWX6M — Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) August 2, 2025 Black … Read more

The same legal principle that overturned Bill Cosby’s conviction may now be at the center of Karmelo Anthony’s fight for a new trial.

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The plan from the start was to enter into a gentleman’s agreement and then leverage it for an appeal. This practice should be banned, and attorneys who engage in it should be disbarred. Gentlemen’s agreement at center of K. Anthony retrial push The fight over whether convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony should get a new trial … Read more

Iran’s president calls for END to war

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Masoud Pezeshkian told a doctors’ meeting on Friday the war with the US should end now while Tehran is “in a position of power and dignity.” He claims the world already sees Iran as the winner and America as the aggressor. Military bosses still threaten crushing responses to any new moves.

They are making a profit off the problem they created

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More than six million Americans have a food allergy, and peanuts are the third-most common allergen. And it doesn’t just impact those who can’t eat it: Because reactions can be deadly, peanut-free policies and other restrictions are common in places like schools and restaurants. But a Minnesota-based startup is developing a new “hypoallergenic” peanut that … Read more

They are reformulating the synthetic oils because they can no longer get the base oil from GTL plants in the Persian Gulf

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The label used to say “Made From Natural Gas” then it said “Made With Natural Gas” and now Pennzoil Platinum’s label doesn’t say anything about Natural Gas. Did Pennzoil change more than just the label? We can identify any changes just by running 3 lab tests. ICP, FTIR and PDSC. The ICP results will tell … Read more

The UK government is testing the limits of a Tax and Spend policy

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via notayesmanseconomics: It was kind of the new UK Prime Minister to so enthusiastically confirm one of my main economic themes yesterday afternoon/evening as this policy proposal appeared. NEW: Andy Burnham has privately agreed to reverse Keir Starmer’s cuts and increase international aid spending to 0.7% of GNI. (@PoliticsUK) This falls nicely into my argument … Read more

Shocking statistic — the American public would rather have a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood (44%) than a datacenter (15%)

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Shocking statistic — the American public would rather have a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood (44%) than a datacenter (15%) h/t @johnarnold pic.twitter.com/7cXdWsbmSN — Stock Talk (@stocktalkweekly) August 20, 2026 New Heatmap Pro poll from mid-August 2026. 44 percent support a nuclear power plant near where they live. Only 15 percent support a data … Read more

Citadel unloads $4 Billion of Situational Awareness’s bets

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Aug 21 (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s Citadel has shed more than 80% of bets from the original ​portfolio of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness that it recently purchased, according to ‌a letter to investors seen by Reuters on Friday. Situational, an AI-focused hedge fund run by former OpenAI researcher Aschenbrenner, sold the bulk of … Read more