You got no fear of the underdog, That's why you will not survive!
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Pixel Pete retweeted
In February 2014, the editor of Foreign Affairs (Gideon Rose) bragged about how the US was taking Ukraine while Russia was distracted by the Olympics
- For all the talk about "choosing" the right side, only 20% of Ukrainians were then in favour of NATO membership
Pixel Pete retweeted
BREAKING: US Pending Homes Sales collapsed -7.3% in September, to their lowest level on record in data going back to 2001.
The West saw the steepest decline of -9.2%, while sales in the South, the biggest home-selling region, fell -8.2%.
The housing market is frozen.
Pixel Pete retweeted
In 2021, I published "Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia," arguing that Europe could respond to multipolarity in two ways: 1) Adjust to the new distribution of power by diversifying economic connectivity and abandoning Cold War bloc politics; or 2) Resist and attempt to restore the collective hegemony of the political West by subordinating national interests and scaling back other partnerships, even as the US would predictably pivot to Asia (demand more from Europe, and offer less). Unfortunately, rationality does not prevail, as a powerful ideology has intrinsically linked liberal democracy to hegemony. It is not even possible to have open discussions about the dilemmas Europe faces, as any dissent threatens liberal hegemony. The consequence is that Europe is destroying itself by refusing to adjust to multipolar realities.
Niccolò Machiavelli: Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be, and are ruined.
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Pixel Pete retweeted
US electricity prices are skyrocketing.
The average price of US residential electricity has risen +11% since January 2025, to 19.6 cents per kilowatt-hour in August 2026, near an all-time high.
Average prices during the first 8 months of 2026 were +40% higher than in the same period of 2019.
The largest increase in residential electricity prices over this period was in Maine, at +90%, followed by California and New York, at nearly +70%.
This comes as the AI boom is intensifying electricity demand, with data centers requiring enormous amounts of electricity to power thousands of chips and cooling systems.
A 1-gigawatt data center can consume as much electricity as 800,000 homes.
As a result, wholesale electricity prices in areas near significant data center activity surged by as much as +267% between 2020 and 2025.
The AI revolution is driving a surge in electricity demand, and households are increasingly feeling the cost.
Pixel Pete retweeted
In Spanish:
Santa Fe (New Mexico) means holy faith
Albuquerque is named after the Spanish Duke of Alburquerque
Nevada means snow
Las Vegas is meadows
Florida is named after La Florida, or the flowery one
Los Angeles is “the angels”
California is actually from Spanish literature but is derived from Khalifa in Arabic, meaning “caliph” or leader. Note the closeness to Caliphate lol
San Diego, San Francisco, San Antonio, are Spanish Catholic saints.
Sacramento means sacrament
Colorado means colored with a red tint
Texas is Tejas, named by Mexicans from the Cado Native American word taysha
El Paso is “the pass” referring to the mountain pass along the Rio Grande (big river)
I could go on…
Trump will stay busy renaming and making the U.S. basic and boring like the food without ethnic spice. Pretty fitting for this administration. 🤡
Pixel Pete retweeted
Not enough people know this: in practice, the IMF is controlled by the US.
The US is the only country that has de facto veto power at the IMF because the biggest decisions require an 85% supermajority of total voting power. The US' vote share is 16.5%
This was by design, and the supermajority threshold was actually moved in 1978 so that the US vote share would continue to give the country veto power.
We should not see the IMF as an organisation that serves global development.
We should see is as an organisation that serves mainly Western interests — and, above all, US interests.
Pixel Pete retweeted
"If Warren looks at a balance sheet over time, let's say he looks at 10 successive balance sheets, he can reconstruct what the income statement and the cash flow statement look like from that document."
Chris Davis on a skill he has watched Warren Buffett use, and why focusing on earnings alone can leave you missing part of the business.
Pixel Pete retweeted
This story is extremely important:
A whistleblower revealed that Brazil's far-right Bolsonaro family dynasty met with Meta to discuss US plans to interfere in Brazil's election, to prevent Lula from winning.
Lula's Facebook and Instagram accounts were censored a few days before the first round of the presidential election.
This had a huge impact on the election, because Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which are all owned by Meta, are the most popular apps in Brazil, and are hugely influential all across Latin America. (Jair Bolsonaro's son Flávio was declared the winner of the first round of the vote, by a narrow margin.)
Meta later admitted that Lula's accounts had been restricted, but it claimed that this was supposedly due to a "technical error"...
The whistleblower who disclosed this is Nadia Beller, a Bolivian journalist who was almost killed by hitmen hired by Fernando Cerimedo, a far-right Argentine political operative who oversees election interference, bots, and disinformation campaigns.
Cerimedo is closely linked to the US government and has worked for pretty much every right-wing leader in Latin America. He was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. and members of the Bolsonaro family, and he received an award at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida a few months before he was arrested for the failed assassination attempt against Beller, his pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Link here: panamericandispatch.org/p/na…
Pixel Pete retweeted
Decent leading indicator of a major financial crisis...
5 OF THE LARGEST TEN BANKS IN THE US HAVE NOW ENTERED A BEAR MARKET TERRITORY.
Bank of America: -23.5%
Wells Fargo: -20.1%
Goldman Sachs: -24%
Morgan Stanley: -24%
Capital One: -25%
Along with this, the KBW Nasdaq Bank Index has dropped 15.6% from its peak and has hit a 5-month low.
Historically, bank stocks peak before the recession, and if this decline continues, it'll be a sign that there's a lot of trouble ahead for the US economy.
Pixel Pete retweeted
Embajador de Israel en México: "Los mexicanos son el país mas antisemita del mundo" 😭😭😭😭
Los mexicanos: 😎🕺🪩🇮🇱🚫
Pixel Pete retweeted
Some people don't understand why Marco Rubio is so extremely pro-colonialist, because he is technically of Cuban descent.
But it's important to understand that Rubio does NOT see himself as Cuban. He constantly emphasizes that he is of Spanish (and Italian) descent.
In his latest speech in Greece, in which he again heaped praise on Western colonialism, Rubio proudly described himself as "a great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain".
He heroized European colonialists Hernán Cortés and Christopher Columbus.
Rubio does NOT see his family as Cuban; he sees his ancestors as European colonialists who temporarily lived in Cuba (as wealthy, light-skinned elites who supported the right-wing US puppet dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista), before re-settling in Florida.
This, in fact, is exactly how many conservative, pro-imperialist elites in Latin America see themselves, by the way.
There are still useful idiots out there who deny that the US is an empire.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio just gave another explicitly pro-colonialist speech, boasting that the US is a "continental empire".
He proudly identified the origins of the US empire in the colonization of North America. He totally erased the Indigenous peoples who lived there, referring to it as an "open and wild land" at the time of colonization.
Rubio waxed poetic on the "American frontier spirit", with no mention of the millions of Native Americans who died in the largest genocide in human history.
Rubio also praised the genocidal colonialists Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortés.
Rubio traced the origins of the US empire back to Alexander the "Great", whom he heroized for "conquer[ing] the entire known world". The US empire has tried to do exactly the same, on top of many millions of corpses.
(This is the official transcript of Rubio's speech: state.gov/releases/office-of…)
Pixel Pete retweeted
1/ 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia could be on the brink of a major economic crisis. If this crisis bites, it will quickly spread to the US Treasury market and may precipitate a financial crisis in the United States and the rest of the world. 🧵
Pixel Pete retweeted
If Maduro and his wife deserve 20 years each for outlandish, unproven torture claims, how many years does George Bush deserve for this?
Following an FBI investigation with our interagency partners, this morning ousted President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro is now charged by superseding indictment with one count of Conspiracy to Commit Torture — also charging former First Lady of Venezuela Cilia Flores de Maduro with one count of Conspiracy to Commit Torture and one count of Narcoterrorism.
As alleged in the indictment, the Maduro regime subjected over a dozen American citizens to torture while held in custody of the Venezuelan government - including drugs, electrocution, sexual assault, and more. They will now answer for their crimes.
These charges follow the historic law enforcement operation proudly supported by this @FBI in January, which arrested Maduro and executed one of the most daring FTOCs in US history, returning him and his wife to the United States - an operation which required months of coordination, detailed planning, and seamless execution across multiple components of the federal government led by the Department of War.
Today’s charges reflect the commitment from this FBI and this Department of Justice to accountability, the rule of law, and the protection of U.S. national security.
Thank you to @NewYorkFBI who brilliantly led this investigation with our partners.
-DKP🇺🇸