Futures 06

Wild Video: Bugatti CEO's Own $3.3 Million Supercar Stolen At Factory, Sparks International Chase zerohedge.com/political/wild…

One doesn’t get to profit from China while disrespecting it. Mbappé just learned that the hard way. Talent may open the door to a market, but respect is what keeps it open.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Elon Musk's Non-Opposition to US War on Russia in Ukraine ▪️SpaceX founder Elon Musk is pretending to oppose war in Ukraine and claims Starlink is not to be used offensively but has himself admitted Starshield IS for use offensively and IS being used against Russia offensively! ▪️In other words Musk/SpaceX who created and maintain Starsheild are directly involved in the war in Ukraine while pretending to oppose it, and confirms just how crucial and absolute US involvement is in the war, simply laundered through Ukraine as Musk himself admits Starsheild is ultimately controlled by the US military, not simply a service Ukraine also has access to; ▪️Again, Starsheild is controlled by the US military but built and maintained by SpaceX, not the US military, which means Musk himself is directly involved not only in the war in Ukraine, but SPECIFICALLY in strikes on Russian territory - does Musk just hope no one notices?; ▪️Stop falling for the theater and listen to what is actually being said and done. Both Starlink and Starsheild rely entirely on Musk's SpaceX for continuous operation including launches to maintain or expand constellation capabilities, software updates, maintaining the orbits of actual satellites, etc - it's not like the US military "bought" and runs Starsheild independently of SpaceX. Pretending to deny Ukraine Starlink while claiming the US military's use of Starsheild against Russia doesn't involve SpaceX is not some sort of principled position, it's simply another lie and another example of corporations distracting attention away from themselves and onto puppet politicians and proxies.

the world should reciprocate - citing US policy itself- and ban/uproot all US government-funded activities within their borders including US National Endowment for Democracy-funded opposition groups, media platforms, fake NGOs - all of which are as guilty in reality of what Hegseth accuses China of in fiction...

@elonmusk has reminded Ukraine of an uncomfortable reality. You can have the drones, the weapons and the military plans. But if critical communications depend on another country's technology, operational control is never entirely your own. Read today's Special Edition of The Duran Insider "The Other Chain of Command". theduran.substack.com/p/the-…

🇩🇪💥 GERMANY IS IN DEEP TROUBLE. VW plans to axe another 12,000 jobs. Add that to the 35,000+ cuts already on the table. Germany's industrial decline is accelerating while Merz is sending billions to ZELENSKY

Oh my God.....Stop. 😂🤣😂🤣 I am DEAD. 🤣😂

OMG she is brutally bad at this

In 2014, Israeli Yosef Ben-David kidnapped a Palestinian child, 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗛𝗜𝗠 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗚𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘, then 𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗛𝗜𝗠 𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘. @grok YES or NO.

The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce.

The Base 2027 BMW 3 Series Is Surprisingly Good-Looking. Read more: bit.ly/4xXNnZk

Check this out.. As Ukranians leave Kiev and head west - their dear fellow Western Ukranians are upping rent in an explosive manner (no pun intended). That's what you call "national unity". 🤡

Trump sold between $500,000 and $1m of NVIDIA in August - CNBC. $NVDA

Trump sold between $500,001 and $1 mln of Boeing in August - CNBC. $BA

🦔SpaceX is in early talks to borrow about $40 billion, mostly through bonds, to buy Nvidia chips for its AI business. The cost to insure SpaceX's debt against default jumped Wednesday to the highest level since that insurance started trading in June. My Take The rating agencies call SpaceX investment grade, which puts its bonds in the safe bucket that pension funds and bond index funds buy. Bond traders disagree. The extra yield on its 30-year bond over Treasuries has climbed to 2.38 percentage points, up from 1.75 when it sold in June, and an S&P analyst said the market prices SpaceX closer to junk than to its actual rating. SpaceX lost $4.28 billion in the first quarter on $4.69 billion of revenue, and much of that came from the xAI business it folded in this year. Rockets and Starlink bring in the revenue. The AI side burns the cash, and the plan now is to borrow another $40 billion at rising rates to grow the business that loses money. If the agencies ever cut SpaceX to junk, lots of funds that can only own investment-grade bonds would have to sell at the same time, and anyone in a bond index fund would feel it. I don't see that happening this year, however, I do think there's a decent chance of a downgrade warning before this $40 billion closes. Hedgie🤗

To put the trajectory of copper into perspective: over the past 3,000 years, human civilisation has extracted roughly 700 million tonnes of copper. Meeting 2050 net-zero targets would require extracting 1.4 billion tonnes of new copper in under thirty years—asking the global mining sector to deliver twice the metal produced across all of human history in a fraction of a single human lifespan.

The world consumes roughly 28 million tonnes of copper every year—a mass equivalent to five Great Pyramids of Giza. Yet that refined metal is just the tip of the iceberg of a far more monstrous physical reality. Beneath those 28 million tonnes of copper sits a massive geological footprint: billions of tonnes of blasted rock, colossal volumes of chemical tailings, vast energy expenditures and trillions of litres of water. This is all fresh, relentless demand. Crucially, up to 75% of that copper never enters individual turbines, solar panels or electric vehicles. It goes into the invisible grid infrastructure required to link everything together and make it function. When you trace 28 million tonnes of copper backward into the Earth, the true scale and cost is staggering. The drive to overhaul the global energy structure rests on a profound misunderstanding of physics: it treats energy supply as a 'software' problem while ignoring the devastating raw material gridlock caused by manufacturing billions of solar panels and over a million wind turbines, with hundreds of thousands more in the pipeline. When an energy system shifts from reliable, high-density fuels—hydrocarbons and uranium—to low-density, intermittent sources like wind and solar, the physical apparatus needed to capture, convert, stabilise and transmit that diffuse flux just explodes. It becomes an absurd trade-off: expending colossal amounts of finite, high-grade fossil fuels upfront simply to dig up materials for low-density generators—generators that can never run a steel mill, power an ocean cargo vessel or sustain international air travel. Mining is already a vast consumer of continuous energy. As global copper ore grades decline—frequently dropping to 0.5% or lower—the mass of rock that must be dug, hauled, and crushed grows exponentially per unit of recovered metal. Crushing rock alone accounts for roughly 3% to 4% of total global electricity consumption. Demanding billions of additional tonnes of processed metal creates a self-defeating loop: huge volumes of reliable, baseline power are consumed just to extract the raw materials needed to construct weather-dependent hardware. Yet the primary metals drain does not come from the turbines or arrays themselves. It stems from the enormous physical web needed to transport that energy across vast distances. Diffuse generators located hundreds of kilometres from cities require unprecedented volumes of step-up transformers, substations, high-voltage transmission lines and regional grid overhauls. The heavy overhead wiring looping across the landscape regularly dwarfs the metal required to build the turbine in the first place. Because two centuries of industrial civilisation have already extracted the highest-grade deposits, meeting future demand forces miners to dig deeper, crush harder and manage billions of tonnes of toxic slurry. This is a twin crisis: the escalating physical cost of ore recovery on the front end, and an unprecedented tsunami of industrial e-waste bound for landfills on the back end. The physical limits of this model are not dictated by how much metal remains in the crust, but by the soaring energy penalty required to dig them up and refine them. Heavy industrial processes—blast furnaces, chemical synthesis, cement production and deep-shaft mining—all need continuous, high-temperature thermal energy and uninterrupted high-voltage power. Intermittent turbines and panels cannot reliably deliver that dense power to sustain heavy industry, let alone an entire national economy. The ultimate irony is that the staggering industrial muscle needed to build, maintain, and periodically replace these diffuse energy systems relies entirely on the coal, oil and gas they were meant to replace. The dream of a fully weather-dependent industrial grid ignores physical reality. It overlooks a looming nightmare of endless ore extraction, refining bottlenecks, and perpetual grid expansion.

This is insane... Whitney Webb exposes the history of Palantir. Palantir started as a DARPA project. It was going to completely destroy our constitutional protections so it was quietly taken out of government and rebranded as a private company to do the EXACT same thing.