🇺🇸 Just a friendly reminder that Oracle’s debt-to-equity ratio is ~520%.

Amazon’s near 50%. Microsoft ~30%. Google’s even lower.

At some point you have to wonder, how long can Oracle afford to keep this up?

You can’t finance the future forever on borrowed money.

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇪🇻🇪❗️ — US President Donald Trump told US Special envoy Richard Grenell to cease all diplomatic efforts with Nicolás Maduro and any outreach to the Chavista regime.

During a meeting with military personnel, Trump called Grenell last Thursday and told him to completely suspend the efforts.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪💊 — White House spokesperson on whether Trump will send troops to Venezuela on the "Phase 2" of action against the Cartel of the Suns network:

“I will not go into specific proposals considered by the president; but we have been very clear that Maduro is illegitimate.

Trump has taken unprecedented tough actions to end the drug trafficking”.

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🥇📈🚀GOLD Futures surpassed today for the first time in history $4000/oz, reaching a new All Time High at $4014.6/oz!

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🇧🇩🤝🇨🇳 — NEW: Bangladesh is nearing completion of a $2.2 billion agreement with China to purchase 20 J-10CE multirole fighter jets.

➡️ The deal includes training, maintenance, and spare parts, with deliveries set to begin in 2027.

📝The new aircraft will boost the Bangladesh Air Force’s capabilities with AESA radar and PL-15 beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles.

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🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 — The Trump administration announced it will transfer tariff revenue to the Women & Children Food Program to ENSURE it doesn't run dry during the Schumer Shutdown.

📝 Over 6 million rely on this program for healthy food assistance, & they almost suffered because of Democrat-led Shutdown of the Government

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🇻🇦❌🤓📰 — Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV shuts down reporter who tried getting him to comment on National Guard troops being deployed to Chicago.

🤓 Reporter:

"President Trump has sent 400 National Guard troops to your city, Chicago..."

🗿 Pope Leo:

" Yes. I prefer not to comment at this time about choices made, political choices within the United States."

🔗 Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg)

🇨🇴🏳️‍🌈📝 — The Minister of Women and Equality of Colombia is (or used to be until September 15) Juan Carlos Florián Silva, a Gay Porn Actor, HIV-positive whom formerly worked at Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders NGOs

With His resignation, another man, Charlotte Schneider, is set to asume his post

🇹🇭❌🇨🇳👺 — On October 6, during a major operation, Thai cyber police raided a Chinese apartment in Bangkok and seized illegal communication equipment used for fraud, including devices that emit fake mobile signals.

➡️ According to Thai Royal Government, the apartment tenant was a 36-year-old Chinese national named Zhang, who rented the place but did not actually live there.

➡️ Police discovered over 50 mini computers in operation inside the apartment, equipped with mobile phone SIM cards, suspected of being used to illegally set up cellular signal networks and communication systems, potentially intercepting network data or fabricating servers and routers to evade detection.

➡️ A total of 137 items were seized and have been sent for technical appraisal.

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — ⭐️ Rybar Asia:

"Operation "Decapitation": how are the Chinese preparing for a conflict over Taiwan?

As the potential conflict date in the Taiwan Strait approaches, more and more alarms are being raised in the information space about it. Most often, this is done by Taiwanese media, but now the Japanese media are joining in.

The publication "Sankei Shimbun" published a satellite image from the well-known training ground in China. It shows models of Taiwanese government buildings.

The last time satellite images were published was in 2020. Over the past five years, the Chinese have not been idle — the section of the training ground with Taiwanese buildings has increased threefold.

🖍At the military base, models of the Taiwanese parliament and one of the Ministry of Defense buildings have appeared, and the construction of a mock-up of the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been completed. There are also a couple of new structures, including an underground tunnel connecting the model of the presidential palace with the parliament.

🚩The buildings are needed to practice operations of "decapitation", that is, the elimination of the island's military-political leadership during a potential conflict. They are also ideal for psychological impact — especially when footage of exercises at the training ground gets into the public domain, as it did in 2015.

❗️Of course, conducting such exercises does not yet mean that a conflict in the Taiwan Strait is inevitable. But the Chinese are actively preparing for it, paying special attention to immersing servicemen in the realities of combat operations. This means that engineering work will not end with the already built models.

High-resolution map"

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