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China Plans Planetary Defense Test By Slamming Mach 26 Spacecraft Into Asteroid
China Plans Planetary Defense Test By Slamming Mach 26 Spacecraft Into Asteroid
A new paper under peer review by the Chinese-language Journal of Deep Space Exploration lays out an ambitious plan to crash a spacecraft at Mach 26, or 20,000 mph, into a near-Earth asteroid to test new planetary defenses.
The South China Morning Post reports that a team led by Li Mingtao, chief scientist for planetary defense at the China National Space Administration, is planning a mission even more ambitious than NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
That mission would...
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Jul 9, 2026 / Tyler Durden
"Deepening Dark Trend" Emerges On Hormuz As Ship Traffic Slows
"Deepening Dark Trend" Emerges On Hormuz As Ship Traffic Slows
The US military has struck Iranian targets for a second straight day, while Tehran has responded with ballistic missile and drone attacks targeting Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and even faraway Jordan. While our overnight wrap focused on the latest war developments, the focus here is what energy traders are watching most closely: vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Bloomberg cites new shipping data showing that the Hormuz chokepoint slowed to a near standstill on Thursday.
More color from the report:
Among larger vessels,...
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Aug 6, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Trump Signs Orders To Curb Birthright Citizenship, Target Birth Tourism
Trump Signs Orders To Curb Birthright Citizenship, Target Birth Tourism
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday that will restrict automatic citizenship to children born in the United States because of commercial birth tourism and several other factors.
One of the measures bans birth tourism, the practice of traveling to the United States on a tourist visa with the intention to have a child that is given automatic U.S. citizenship.
Trump called it “a big deal” and said during the signing ceremony that birthright citizenship has been made into a joke.
The...
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Jun 13, 2026 / Robert P. Murphy, Joshua Hendrickson, Alexander Salter
The Fed's Real Job: Propping Up Dollar Reserve Currency Status
Alexander Salter and Joshua Hendrickson argue that the Fed's actual institutional role is to backstop U.S. dollar hegemony.
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