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'Betrayal': Internal Pentagon Spat Emerges Over Leaked Middle East Deployment Plans
'Betrayal': Internal Pentagon Spat Emerges Over Leaked Middle East Deployment Plans
A number of US military top generals have taken the rare step of formally registering warnings to Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth over potential plans for a new phase of strikes against a non-compliant Iran.
The warnings reportedly emerged through the Secretary of Defense Orders Book, which enumerates the availability of US military resources and force posture around the world - with direct input from American regional commanders.
via Reuters
The book is typically published twice a month, but this time it was...
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"Regime Must Be Relegated To Dustbin Of History": Florida Congressman Erupts After Cuba Attacks U.S. Speedboat
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Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez blasted the Cuban regime shortly after news hit the wires that Cuban border guards aboard a vessel had fired on and killed four people and injured six on a U.S.-linked speedboat off Cuba's north coast. The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. did not specify the exact timing of the incident in its X post.
"The dictatorship in Cuba has just attacked a boat from Florida & murdered those on...
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Crisis Comes Closer: Social Security's Projected Insolvency Moved A Year Earlier
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Continuing a trend of increasingly dismal projections, Social Security's trustees have revised their prediction of when the massive benefit program's trust fund will run out of money, moving it to the fourth quarter of 2032, sooner than last year's projection that the money will run out in 2033. They attributed most of the the change to declining fertility rates and immigration, along with tax reductions included in Trump's 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
When the trust fund runs...
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May 13, 2026 / Tyler Durden
WTI Holds Gains Despite Biggest SPR Drawdown In 45 Year History, Production Jumped
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Oil prices are higher this morning (extending its 8%-plus surge of the last three days) as Middle East tensions simmer and global stockpiles shrink at a record pace.
WTI topped $103 and Brent crude traded near $108 a barrel, erasing its retreat earlier on Wednesday, after the IEA said global observed oil inventories declined at a rate of about 4 million barrels a day in March and April.
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