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The Panama Canal just restricted ship sizes for the first time in 2 years.

The official reason: El Niño.

El Niño moves the rain and Indonesia, India, Thailand, Australia, Central America, all dry out at once. Thats rice, sugar, palm oil, wheat and half the fresh produce aisle taking damage in the same season.

And its landing on a food system already bleeding. Since Hormuz closed, 3-4 million tonnes of fertilizer trade has been stalling EVERY month. US fertilizer ran at 75% of normal during planting season. Half the US was in drought by end of May.

And this El Niño is shaping up bigger…

NOAA confirmed it's officially active on June 11. Their models give a 63% chance it reaches "very strong"… the same class as 2015 and 2023. Peak expected around December.

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@yacineMTB Sociological and psychological engineering is quite a scary science…

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@stats_feed The “diagnosis” methods should be analyzed…

The world has always had stressful events why are the numbers all of a sudden growing so rapidly.

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@unusual_whales Even with the correction in the community note the stats don’t look too good…

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The unemployment rate is actually misleading. It only counts people who are in the job market actively searching. If you’re not applying for jobs, you don’t count. You’re invisible.

So the number everyone quotes is measuring the wrong thing.

Look at the US. Unemployment rate: 4.2%. Sounds amazing right? Now look at how many adults aged 25-54 are not working at all. Not students, not retirees. Prime working age.

19.3%.

1 in 5. And the official number says 4.2%.

Last month made it even more obvious. 507,000 fewer Americans working in June… and the unemployment rate went DOWN. Half a million people stopped working and the stat improved. Because they stopped searching, so they stopped counting.

And its not just America.

Italy just celebrated a record low unemployment rate of 5.1%. Meanwhile 25.6% of their prime working age population doesn’t have a job. A quarter of the country. Record low unemployment…

Türkiye: 8.5% official. Real number: 37.5%.

Even Japan and Germany, the most hardworking economies in the world, the real number is 3-4x the official one.
This data is public. Its published every single month in the same reports. Nobody talks about it because 4.2% is a better headline than 1 in 5.

Stop watching the unemployment rate. Watch the employment-population ratio. Thats the number that tells you how many people are actually working. And its been getting worse for 25 years.

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@Kalshi While headlines say the unemployment rate is decreasing 🤔

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The unemployment rate is actually misleading. It only counts people who are in the job market actively searching. If you’re not applying for jobs, you don’t count. You’re invisible.

So the number everyone quotes is measuring the wrong thing.

Look at the US. Unemployment rate: 4.2%. Sounds amazing right? Now look at how many adults aged 25-54 are not working at all. Not students, not retirees. Prime working age.

19.3%.

1 in 5. And the official number says 4.2%.

Last month made it even more obvious. 507,000 fewer Americans working in June… and the unemployment rate went DOWN. Half a million people stopped working and the stat improved. Because they stopped searching, so they stopped counting.

And its not just America.

Italy just celebrated a record low unemployment rate of 5.1%. Meanwhile 25.6% of their prime working age population doesn’t have a job. A quarter of the country. Record low unemployment…

Türkiye: 8.5% official. Real number: 37.5%.

Even Japan and Germany, the most hardworking economies in the world, the real number is 3-4x the official one.
This data is public. Its published every single month in the same reports. Nobody talks about it because 4.2% is a better headline than 1 in 5.

Stop watching the unemployment rate. Watch the employment-population ratio. Thats the number that tells you how many people are actually working. And its been getting worse for 25 years.

[Navigating Citizen @navingcitizen]

The unemployment rate is actually misleading. It only counts people who are in the job market actively searching. If you’re not applying for jobs, you don’t count. You’re invisible.

So the number everyone quotes is measuring the wrong thing.

Look at the US. Unemployment rate: 4.2%. Sounds amazing right? Now look at how many adults aged 25-54 are not working at all. Not students, not retirees. Prime working age.

19.3%.

1 in 5. And the official number says 4.2%.

Last month made it even more obvious. 507,000 fewer Americans working in June… and the unemployment rate went DOWN. Half a million people stopped working and the stat improved. Because they stopped searching, so they stopped counting.

And its not just America.

Italy just celebrated a record low unemployment rate of 5.1%. Meanwhile 25.6% of their prime working age population doesn’t have a job. A quarter of the country. Record low unemployment…

Türkiye: 8.5% official. Real number: 37.5%.

Even Japan and Germany, the most hardworking economies in the world, the real number is 3-4x the official one.
This data is public. Its published every single month in the same reports. Nobody talks about it because 4.2% is a better headline than 1 in 5.

Stop watching the unemployment rate. Watch the employment-population ratio. Thats the number that tells you how many people are actually working. And its been getting worse for 25 years.

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@moi_bahrain Let’s hope it doesn’t spiral out of control again…

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The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is under serious strain.

The trigger: U.S. officials say an Iranian one-way drone struck the M/T Kiku near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has not publicly claimed that tanker attack.

Washington responded with strikes on 10 Iranian military targets.

Iran’s IRGC has now claimed a separate missile and drone operation against U.S.-linked positions in Bahrain and Kuwait.

The escalation cycle restarts…

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The U.S. is sending $150 million in aid and hundreds of search-and-rescue personnel to Venezuela as humanitarian groups report more than 50,000 people remain unaccounted for following the twin earthquakes.

With roads, airports, and communications severely damaged, many of those reported missing may still be trapped, displaced, or unable to contact their families.

Rescue efforts continue.

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@sentdefender If this continues, it could become more than an anti-corruption drive. It would directly challenge many of the Iran-linked political and militia networks

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The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is under serious strain.

The trigger: U.S. officials say an Iranian one-way drone struck the M/T Kiku near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has not publicly claimed that tanker attack.

Washington responded with strikes on 10 Iranian military targets.

Iran’s IRGC has now claimed a separate missile and drone operation against U.S.-linked positions in Bahrain and Kuwait.

The escalation cycle restarts…

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The AI race is shaping into a cyber arms race…

After Anthropic’s Mythos raised alarms among governments over its cybersecurity capabilities, China’s 360 has unveiled Tulongfeng and Yitianzhen under its Yitian Tulong platform claiming Tulongfeng can match Mythos-level AI-powered vulnerability discovery.

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Another 6.8 earthquake rocks the Philippines as this now globally marks the 5th significant earthquake in the last 48 hours…

1) Mindanao, Philippines (M 6.8) - June 26, 2026, 9:34 PM ChST

2) Miyagi Coast, Japan (M 6.9) - June 25, 2026, 7:30 AM JST

3) Yumare, Venezuela (M 7.5) - June 24, 2026, 6:04 PM VET

4) Yumare, Venezuela "Doublet" (M 7.2) - June 24, 2026, 6:04 PM VET

5) Mendocino County, California, USA (M 5.6) - June 24, 2026, 8:10 AM PDT

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A student protest against education reforms turned violent in Brussels, Belgium.

Clashes with police near the central station as French-community schools were targeted.

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Canada Launches “AI for All” National Strategy

PM Mark Carney announced the five-year plan today in Toronto, aiming to boost AI adoption, create jobs, and strengthen sovereignty.

Key targets:

1) Raise business AI use from ~12% to 60% by 2034
2) Generate $200B in additional growth
3) Create 250,000 AI-related jobs + 90,000 placements for youth

Focus areas include national AI literacy training (1M students), a public supercomputer with clean energy standards, updated privacy laws, and support for key sectors like health and manufacturing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Source: Canadian Government

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Rystad warns US-Iran re-escalation could spike oil to $180 by August.

Top 5 commodities slammed:

1. Crude Oil
2. LNG
3. Fertilizers (food security risk)
4. Petrochemicals/plastics
5. Aluminum (biggest supply deficit in decades)

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UN liquidity crisis still escalating.

Back in late January, Secretary-General António Guterres warned of "imminent financial collapse" now reports say the UN could run out of cash for core operations by mid-August 2026 without urgent dues payments.

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Oil prices skyrocket over 8% with tensions back on the rise in the Middle East.

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The Sargassum Problem Is Getting Worse…

Pelagic (floating) Sargass seaweed is a brown algae with gas-filled “berries” that lets it drift freely and has formed the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. This massive transoceanic system stretches thousands of miles from West Africa across the tropical Atlantic to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

Since 2011, it’s become a recurring annual nightmare with 2026 shaping up as one of the worst on record with early and heavy arrivals.

Why is it getting worse?

Nutrient pollution: Excess nitrogen and phosphorus from agricultural runoff, Amazon/Mississippi river discharge, sewage, and upwelling fuel explosive growth. Sargassum now carries far higher nitrogen levels than in past decades.

Warmer oceans: Climate-driven higher sea surface temperatures hit the perfect “sweet spot” for faster reproduction and survival.

Ocean & wind changes: A major tipping point around 2009–2011 (linked to North Atlantic Oscillation shifts) altered currents and winds, trapping and sustaining Sargassum in the tropical Atlantic instead of the traditional Sargasso Sea.

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Today marked the resumption of direct shipping through the Strait of Hormuz… and a ship got hit the same day. 😬

The first cargo ship from China (MV KSL XINYANG, bulk carrier) docked at Umm Qasr Northern Port today, hailed as a major milestone for Iraqi trade, carrying ~30,000 tons of oil sector equipment and goods.

Direct Asia–Iraq routes (and regional services like MSC’s Gulf Shuttle calling Umm Qasr) had been heavily impacted or rerouted. This partial reopening was significant for lowering costs and restoring normal trade flows to Iraq.

This fragile progress risks being shut down again quickly.

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Panama-flagged MSC SARISKA V struck by possible Iranian drone/missile ~40nm off Umm Qasr, Iraq.

Significant starboard damage visible in circulating video.