Britain’s grid came seconds from collapse. France sent 2 GW to keep the lights on

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𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗴 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿Britain's power grid hit its lowest frequency of the year at 49.656Hz, prompting a desperate call to France for emergency electricity. Spare capacity… pic.twitter.com/yV5eoQfdDQ — Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) August 2, 2026 On June 23, during a heatwave the UK grid frequency dropped to … Read more

Steve Forbes Issues New Dollar Warning

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By Peter Reagan Image CC BY-SA 2.0 via Gage Skidmore Your News to Know rounds up the most important stories about precious metals and the overall economy. This week, we’ll cover: Steve Forbes on gold, the dollar and purchasing power Bank of America’s “two economies” problem Whether Russia’s wartime gold selling is weighing on prices The … Read more

China’s Property Crash Spreads: 70 Million Jobless As Entire Industries Collapse

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China’s real estate industry supports more than 50 related sectors, including steel, cement, home appliances, furniture, building materials, renovation, finance, and logistics. At its peak, real estate and construction made up a significant part of the economy. In 2024, they accounted for about 13% of GDP combined and supported more than 70 million jobs.

WestJet flight attendants walk out. Hundreds of flights grounded. Passengers stuck across North America and beyond

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WestJet flight attendants began a strike on Aug 2 2026 after talks failed. Hundreds of flights cancelled, about 250,000 passengers hit. Affects Canada plus international routes including the US, Europe and Caribbean. This follows a 2024 WestJet mechanics strike, making it the second major labour action in roughly two years. Company offered wage hikes totaling … Read more

Capital One closed 300 Trump accounts after AML team flagged suspicious patterns

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LINK: https://t.co/HaCwFhZaSI — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 1, 2026 Capital One says Trump Organization accounts closed after AML review Capital One Financial (NYSE:COF) said it closed more than 300 Trump Organization-affiliated accounts after a months-long review by its anti-money laundering team, according to a court filing reported by Reuters. The filing represents the first time a … Read more

Florida condo crisis deepens as 2,500 buildings show structural deterioration

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More than 2,500 Florida condominium and cooperative buildings were flagged for Phase Two milestone inspections in 2024 and 2025, showing signs of structural deterioration, according to a report by the Florida Legislature’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA). Building officials reported a total of 54 condominium and cooperative buildings as “unsafe or … Read more

VIDEO: Multiple New Videos Out of Ceuta, Spain Show Things Have Not Returned to Normal – Many Were Fooled

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Central government numbers look clean. Local mayor and phones say otherwise. You cannot hide 10,000 people in a small city. Videos keep coming while officials talk about returns. 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez LIED to all of Spain. He said migrants had been returned. This is Ceuta right now: pic.twitter.com/xPxaujXwvw — Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) August 2, 2026 … Read more

Archaeologists found a 476,000-year-old wooden structure. No one knows who built it.

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“[We found] two interlocking logs joined transversely by an intentionally cut notch,” Barham and his colleagues wrote in a 2023 study published in Nature. “This construction has no known parallels in the African or Eurasian Palaeolithic.” Older worked wood does exist, with the earliest known example being a fragment of polished plank from the Acheulean site … Read more

GOLDMAN: CTAs could dump $185 billion of stocks this month if prices keep falling

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GOLDMAN SAYS $185 BILLION OF FORCED SELLING COULD HIT GLOBAL STOCKS THIS MONTH CTAs are funds that trade on price signals alone. Their programs buy when prices hold above set levels and sell when prices fall below them, regardless of earnings or news. Goldman’s current estimates: – $7.5 billion of global selling next week under … Read more

BILL MAHER: “Poor Spain, at the same time, they’re having horrible fires. Spain is the new California.”

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BILL MAHER: “Did you see what happened in Spain yesterday? 60,000 people in one day bum-rushed the border!” “Poor Spain, at the same time, they’re having horrible fires. Spain is the new California.” [Audience laughs] MAHER: “No, it is! The northern part is on fire, the… pic.twitter.com/fYv4G2vPDQ — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 1, … Read more

If you own Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia, and SoftBank, congrats. You basically own four different ways to bet on OpenAI.

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OPENAI IS GOING TO TAKE THIS ENTIRE MARKET DOWN WITH IT And you don’t have to own a single share to get hurt. What I’m about to explain should worry anybody who thinks they’re diversified: OpenAI is a LOAD-BEARING company. Pull it out and the whole structure comes down. They spent $17.2 billion on Microsoft … Read more

The dirty secret behind the EV revolution

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I came across a post from someone who spent 30 years in the auto industry, and it got me thinking. The public conversation about EVs almost always starts at the dealership. It almost never starts at the mine. One claim that caught my attention was this. Some life cycle estimates suggest an EV doesn’t offset … Read more