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Larry Johnson. US Navy on starvation rations. Where is the money going?

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Microsoft Word Now Contains Ads To Supercharge Your AI Experience Even If You Pay For It

Your $130 Microsoft 365 subscription now contains ads asking you to please upgrade to Microsoft 365 Premium so that you can use 'exclusive Copilot features'

 https://kotaku.com/microsoft-word-now-contains-ads-to-supercharge-your-ai-experience-even-if-you-pay-for-it-2000720203

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Trump claims costs fall while households already paid $606 extra on gas from Iran war

Why in hell do I get a post that looks like this.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-140553.png

Same result from a different source.

Gasoline$2.982 → $4.080 ▲+36.8% $43.40B

Diesel$3.670 → $5.362 ▲+46.1%  $36.04B

$606.36 per US household

Found this at the original source.

https://iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu/

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Maui local knocks out Democratic candidate with one punch after gun and knife threats on beach

  A Hawaiian man knocked out a Democratic congressional candidate with one punch after he allegedly threatened to shoot a woman at a Maui beach.

 Police say Kirill Basin, 40, became enraged after a 61-year-old man asked him to lower his music.

 Basin allegedly threatened to shoot the man’s wife and several bystanders.

 A local man seen approaching in the background confronted Basin, knocked him out, then calmly told him to stop threatening people.

 Police say Basin later pulled a knife and continued threatening people.

 When officers arrived, he allegedly threw the knife into the ocean.

 The same bystander swam out, recovered the knife, and handed it to police.

 Basin was charged with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening. Bail was set at $1 million.

 Police say he has also been arrested in other assault and property-damage cases since May, and several people have obtained temporary restraining orders against him.

 Sounds like another successful day connecting with voters on the campaign trail!

 Held on $1 million bail

  https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/maui-local-knocks-out-democratic-candidate-with-one-punch-after-gun-and-knife-threats-on-beach/

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FINANCIAL TIMES: The percentage of Americans aged 25–34 living with their parents has reached a record high

A record number of adult children under 35 in the U.S. are moving back in with their parents, either because they can’t afford homes of their own or because they want to save money amid the rising cost of living, according to a recent study.

In 2025, 25.2 million adults under 35 lived at home, according to Realtor.com, which found that the share of adults living with their moms and dads was higher than it was during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many of these adults moving back in with their parents are employed, but their wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. Among the 25- to 34-year-olds living at home, roughly 7 in 10 have jobs, the online real estate firm found.

 Today, retirement is less of a life stage and more of a fairy tale parents tell their kids to help them sleep at night. According to recent data, 42 percent of Americans over 60 believe they will literally work until they die. Far from being pessimistic, they are, in many ways, responding to reality. There are already a record 11.6 million Americans aged 65 and older still punching the clock. While corporate PR teams love to profile the occasional 72-year-old who greets people at Walmart, it’s a poor substitute for an honest assessment.

  https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/financial-times-the-percentage-of-americans-aged-25-34-living-with-their-parents-has-reached-a-record-high/

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At Least Ten Agitators Arrested In Madison As Filthy 'Autonomous Zone' Is Dismantled

“We saw you sent your pigs out too!”

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/least-ten-agitators-arrested-madison-filthy-autonomous-zone-dismantled

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Copper Tops $14,000 As US Stockpiling Drains Global Supply Ahead Of Trump's Tariff Call

The tightening is visible in the LME forward curve

 https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/copper-tops-14000-us-stockpiling-drains-global-supply-ahead-trumps-tariff-call

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