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UK Officials Are Keeping A List Of Brits Who Question Government Policy
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,The British state is compiling a list of people who criticise its own counter-terror...
Russia Expels Hungarian Diplomats In Stunning Break With Orban Era
Over several years of the Ukraine war, Russia and various European countries have escalated their diplomatic war - amid parallel...
Defunct US-Russia Arms Control Talks Should Have Started ‘Yesterday’: Kremlin
There are two familiar trends related to the Ukraine war which have persisted. The White House is still reportedly trying to get...
Europe’s Housing Crisis Is An Immigration Crisis, Berlin Data Confirms
Via Remix News,In a system that rejects mass immigration, the population can fall, opening up room for cheaper housing, lower...
Counter-ISIS Mission In Iraq Comes To An End
Authored by Patty Nieberg via Task & Purpose,The U.S. military-led mission to counter the Islamic State in Iraq has officially...
Hegseth Reveals “AutoWarCom” As $74 Billion Drone Splurge May Ignite This Stock
Beyond nuclear, the "powering up America" theme, AI, and the more recent "own the bottlenecks" theme, we have also outlined...
Australia’s Tobacco Taxes Have Fueled A Massive Black Market For Cigarettes
One lesson governments never seem to learn is that when taxes push the legal price of something high enough, a black market will...
“The Cycle’s TXU?”: Paramount’s Record Bond Offering Craters Before The Ink Is Dry
On Monday we flagged that September was shaping up as the worst month for junk since 2022. We also noted that Paramount's $12.4...
Why Congress Should Restore The Monetary Veto
Authored by Sean Fieler via RealClearMarkets,American democracy prides itself on being "of the people, by the people, and for the...
Trump Sees Likely Iran Link In FlyDubai Attack, Vows ‘Very Hard’ Response
It hasn't taken long at all for Israeli and US officials to strongly suggest a link between Wednesday's scary FlyDubai security...
Cotton Calls For Military Supply Chain Security Review After F-35 Parts Diverted To Hong Kong
Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times,Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked the Department of War on Sept. 29 to review security...
Waste Of The Day: IRS Enforcement Delayed
Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,Americans underpaid their taxes by an estimated $696 billion in 2022,...
Tennessee Man Who Recorded Police Sues After Eight Armed Officers Raided His Home
A Tennessee man has taken legal action against the Kingsport Police Department after a yearslong criminal case that began with him...
What Zohran Mamdani Could Learn From His Father
Authored by Peter Jacobsen via The Daily Economy,Before Zohran Mamdani burst onto the scene of NYC politics with promises of cheap...
Cantor: Almonty “Moving Seamlessly” Into Production As Korean Tungsten Mine Becomes Western Lifeline
Cantor Fitzgerald metals and mining analyst Matthew O'Keefe provided clients on Tuesday with an update on Almonty Industries,...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn Sues Former Special Counsel Jack Smith
Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times,Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday sued former special counsel Jack Smith and...
NANO Nuclear Buys The One Thing You Can’t Speed Up: A Fuel-Cycle License
Ask anyone in the nuclear business what holds up the "renaissance" and you won't hear much about reactor physics. You will hear...
Global Crop Prices Log Biggest Quarterly Jump Since Ukraine Invasion As Sticky Inflation Hits Grocery Bills
The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index (BCOMAGSP) posted its largest quarterly gain since Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, as...
Drug 10 times stronger than fentanyl claiming lives in the US
By Mike McRae New Atlas Opioid epidemic has a new threat. A synthetic opioid up to 10 times stronger than fentanyl is attracting...
Opposite What You’re Told, Markets Don’t Wait For The Fed
Authored by Shahid Islam via RealClearMarkets,Financial commentary often makes monetary policy sound mechanical. The Federal...
Futures Rise As 10Y Yields Pull Back From 24 Year High
The disconnect continues. With 10Y yields rising as high as 5.34% - a new 24 year high - before easing back US equities remain...
The Data Center Boom Faces Mounting Obstacles
By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive,The U.S. data center boom has entered a new, contradictory phase.On the one hand, both data center...
Tennessee Botches Execution: Inmate Still Snoring After Two Doses Of Pentobarbital, Hauled To Hospital
The State of Tennessee spent Wednesday trying to carry out a death sentence it has had on the books for thirty years, and ended the...
US Warns Europe: Release Emergency Diesel Supplies Or Face Export Ban
US Warns Europe: Release Emergency Diesel Supplies Or Face Export Ban The refined products crisis remains unresolved as the...
Central Banks Cannot Fix The Sovereign Debt Bubble
Authored by Daniel Lacalle via dlacalle.com,Global investors spend a great deal of time worrying about an alleged artificial...
16 U.S. Trucking Companies File For Bankruptcy In Less Than A Month As Diesel Prices Soar
Diesel prices have exploded over the past month, creating another major cost shock for an industry that was already operating on...
‘Sensitive Security Situation’: Israeli Army Chief Abruptly Cancels Trip To US
Via The CradleThe Israel military's Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has canceled a planned trip to the US due to a "sensitive security...
“Zero Hormuz”: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Readies Tens Of Billions To Turn Fujairah Into Hormuz Bypass
On March 3, just days after the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran, when most of the market was still busy pricing the closure of...
The Disastrous UK Disability Signal That Corroborates The US Data!
Authored by Ed Dowd: Beyond the Narrative via Substack,The Disability Signal Across the AtlanticOn August 11 I wrote US...
Brazil Election Polls Too Close To Call, But Polymarket Gives Bolsonaro Clear Lead
Brazil's presidential race is entering the final stretch ahead of Sunday's first-round vote. HSBC strategists led by Nicole Inui...
Ken Griffin Pledges Record $3 Billion To Carnegie Mellon, With $2 Billion Going To Miami
Mamdani wants New York’s billionaires to cough up more money. Maybe he should call Florida and ask how they’re getting them to hand...
Uranium Term Prices Hit A Record… So Why Is Nuclear Getting Nuked?
If you only looked at the price of the fuel, you'd think the nuclear trade has never been better. Long-term uranium prices are...
Trump Hails End of US Military Mission in Iraq
The U.S. military announced Wednesday that it completed the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq, ending a 12-year mission to fight...
Protection Orders, Gun Training, And 3D Printing Laws Among Gun Bills Signed By California Governor
Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times,California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of 10 gun bills into law that he...
Benchmaxxed: Google’s New Gemini 4 Aces SAT, Struggles With Actual Job, “Skeptical Employees” Admit
After a year in which Google's AI roadmap resembled a Waymo stuck in a roundabout, the search giant on Wednesday finally unveiled...
To Build Golden Fleet Frigate Fast, Two Shipyards Are Needed
Authored by Brent Sadler & Chase Ouellette via RealClearDefense,In 1798, while at war with France, an exasperated British Lord...
Newsom Signs Laws Banning Shock Gloves And Taxing Immigration Detention Centers
Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times,California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 21 bills on Sept. 29 aimed at limiting federal...
Massive Gas Pipeline Blast Rocks Damascus Suburbs – 2nd Suspected Sabotage This Week
A huge explosion has rocked a Damascus suburb area on Wednesday evening (local), in what could be the second act of suspected...
Trump’s $200BN Korean “Investment” Is A Gas Plant With No Customers, Eight Reactors With No Sites, And A Pipeline Seoul Calls A “Future Discussion”
A week ago, we wrote that South Korea had finally found a home for the first slice of the $350 billion it promised Trump: a $22.3...
“Seek Higher Ground Now”: A Near Dam Failure In New Mexico Was Just The Warm-Up For A Record El Niño
A flood-control dam in southern New Mexico came close enough to failing Tuesday that the National Weather Service ordered people...
WATCH: JD Vance scorches James ‘Talafreako’ over description of the Virgin Mary
Quotes Senate candidate calling failure to affirm a child's gender identity as 'abusive' By WND Staff In a Wednesday campaign rally, Vice...
Navy Awards Boeing $20 Billion Contract For Next-Generation Fighter
Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times,Boeing has secured a contract worth more than $20 billion to develop the U.S. Navy's...
Trump Unveils $15B Steel Giant as Carney Auctions Canada for Parts
This midweek update contrasts two investment stories. By Promethean Action On Monday, President Trump announced a $15 billion Mesabi...
‘Existential threat’: 4 organizations unite in plan to ‘address the Islamification’ of America
Growing presence of Muslims in the United States 'is a scaled threat to Western civilization' By Bob Unruh WND Islam's teachings confirm,...
California Governor Vetoes DUI Bill Redefining ‘Drive’ To Include Using Autopilot Under The Influence
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Sept. 27 that would have added people using autopilot features in their cars after...
Hegseth To Cut Top Generals, Admirals ‘By 20%’ Amid Ongoing Pentagon Shakeup
Via The CradleUS Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is due to announce plans to reduce by 20 percent the number of positions reserved...
Argentina Threatens UK With Court Action Over Falklands Oil Drilling
Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com,Argentina will sue the UK unless it suspends an oil drilling project off the coast of...
Google Challenges EU Orders Requiring It Reveal AI, Search-Engine Information To Rivals
Google parent Alphabet on Monday took Brussels to court over two European Union orders that would force the search giant to open...
Europe Races To Contain Energy Crisis With Patchwork Measures
Via Remix News,European governments are racing to blunt a fuel shock that even some analysts now refuse to forecast, as Brent crude...
How Do You Say “What The Actual F**k” In French?
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,Paris Fashion Week is no longer in the business of clothes. It is in the business of...
Midair Horror: FlyDubai Pilot Reportedly Stabbed, Israeli News Says Incident Treated As “Full-Fledged Terror Attack”
Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv abruptly diverted to Saudi Arabia earlier today after a reported fight between the...
Bernstein Puts Timeline On When EU Rearmament Supercycle “Goes Boom”
Readers by now know how we've laid out the looming rearmament supercycle in the West colliding with the "own the bottlenecks"...
87 Foreign Cruise Ship Employees Removed For Possession Of Child Abuse Material
Federal authorities have now pulled 87 foreign crew members off cruise ships under Operation Tidal Wave, a Customs and Border...
French President Macron’s Approval Rate Hits Record Low As Fuel Crisis Worsens
Via Remix News,The popularity of French President Emmanuel Macron and his prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has plummeted due to...
NATO Condemns Russian ‘Nuclear Rhetoric’ Amid Kaliningrad Row
NATO has called out what it dubs 'desperate' rhetoric on the part of the Kremlin which invokes potential use of strategic forces,...
Congress Ordered An Annual Accounting Of Terrorism; The Counting Has Stopped…
Authored by David E. Firester via RealClearDefense,On May 1, 2026, the State Department released the 2024 edition of the Country...
Justice And Justices’ Investments Should Be Blind: The Alito Controversy Raises Persistent Problem On The Court
Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org,Yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from one of the...
Sarah Huckabee’s Tone Deaf Political Ad And The “Young White Man Problem”
America has a young white man problem, or at the very least, most popular media, corporate advertising and even political...
Moscow Closes The Door: How Putin & Lavrov Hardened Russia’s Line On Ukraine In Ten Days
Authored by Larry C. Johnson via SonarIntelligence (Sonar21),In mid-September, the Kremlin was signaling that negotiations could...
US Working To Close Visa Loophole For Chinese Visitors: Homan
Authored by Frank Fang and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times,The Trump administration is taking steps to prevent Chinese nationals...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Paying Illegals $575 To Become ‘Organizers’… And US-Born Residents Are Excluded
Boston taxpayers are funding a program that teaches immigrants how to organize, lobby city officials and advocate for political...
Mystery Explosions: Syria’s Recovering Gas Network Keeps Getting Sabotaged
Syria has reported at least two acts of major sabotage against its gas infrastructure in six weeks, and it raises questions over...
Waste Of The Day: Trips To Tiki Bar, Nightclubs
Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,It's no wonder that California's infamous high-speed rail line has more than...
UAE’s Next $25 Billion Bet On India Includes Energy Sector
Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,The United Arab Emirates has expressed intent to invest another $25 billion in...
The Industrialization Of Fraud: How Global Scam Farms Are Evolving To Target Your Wealth
Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Financial fraud has morphed into a massive, highly organized global...
DoorDash Agrees To Fork Over $130,000,000 After Admitting It ‘Screwed Up’ By Not Paying Workers
Jack McGeever Daily Caller Photo Illustration Emily Dulla DoorDash agreed Tuesday to pay New York City $131.5 million after an...
Oil Slides As Qatar Touts ‘Talks’ Again; Iran Struck Large Crude Tanker Overnight
Iran is said to have struck a Very Large Crude Carrier in the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday, signaling what will likely be the...
Group To Sue New York Over Union-Backed “Hit-Job” Law
Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics,A national worker-rights group plans to go to federal court Monday to block a New...
Education Department Scraps Biden-Era Title IX Gender Identity Protections
Via American Greatness,The Education Department announced Monday that it has formally rescinded the Biden administration's...
Memphis Violent Crime Plunges Under Trump Task Force
By Nicole Weatherholtz Newsmax Violent crime has plunged in Memphis one year after President Donald Trump launched a federal crackdown...
Tesla Patents “Electric Fan Car” Weeks Before Roadster Reveal
The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Tesla an "Electric Fan Car" patent less than three weeks before the Tesla...
Russia’s Drones Zero In On Ukraine’s Data Centers, Mobile Providers
The Russian defense ministry on Tuesday indicated that it attacked and struck two military cargo vessels in the Black Sea as well...
Elon Musk Makes A Move On The Banks
Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times,When Elon Musk took over Twitter, fired four out of five employees, and rebranded...
Pinky Promise | zh
By Molly Schwarz, cross-asset macro strategist at RabobankIran is feeling some of the economic pressure of Bessent’s “Operation...
Oura Shelves $2.2 Billion IPO Despite Strong Demand As Listing Delays Mount
Smart ring maker Oura has shelved its planned US IPO, becoming the latest high-profile company to postpone a listing amid mounting...
Tether Says It Helped Freeze $550M In Iran-Linked USDT This Year
Authored by Felix Ng via Cointelegraph,Stablecoin issuer Tether said it helped authorities freeze nearly $550 million in...
EU Eyes Methane Rule Retreat As Energy Crisis Deepens; IEA Floats Another Emergency Oil Dump
The European Union is considering postponing methane emissions requirements for imported oil and gas to help boost energy supplies,...
Dutch Doctors Euthanize Two-Year-Old Toddler In First Case Of Its Kind
A doctor in the Netherlands euthanized a toddler in what officials said is the country's first case involving a child under 12, and...
UK Pride Group “Captures” A 1,000-Year-Old Castle
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,They called it "Capture the Castle." Not a picnic. Not a concert. Capture.On Saturday...
British Schoolkids Told To List Only The Positives Of Mass Migration
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,Children as young as seven are being sat down in British classrooms and told to list...
Where Robots Do The Most Housework
Over the past two decades, domestic robots like robot vacuums and lawn-mowing robots have evolved from gimmicks for tech lovers to...
The Hidden Mechanism Behind Washington’s Control Of Iraq’s Oil Money
Via Middle East EyeFor more than two decades, Iraq's oil wealth has passed through a financial system centered thousands of miles...
Leaked Anthropic IPO Prospectus Shows $42BN Net Loss, $518BN In Unfunded Spending Commitments, And $20BN In Cash
When Anthropic confidentially submitted its draft S-1 to the SEC back in June, it was clear there were many shocking numbers in the...
The Rising Drone Threat: Why Our Critical Infrastructure Has Become Dangerously Exposed
Authored by Mike Adams via NaturalNews.com,The era when America's above-ground infrastructure could be considered safe is now over....
OpenAI Scraps Planned Release Of “Deceptive” New Model As Rogue Agents Force Unprecedented Rollback
Days after we detailed the unprecedented freezing of OpenAI's top models following a disastrous breach where autonomous AI agents...
Iranian National Sentenced To 18 Months For Smuggling US Technology To Iran Via China
An Iranian national was sentenced to 18 months in prison for smuggling parts intended for military sonar to Iran through China.More...
US Cattle Slaughter Plunges 16% In A Day As Immigration Crackdown Guts Kansas “Golden Triangle” Workforce
A heightened wave of federal immigration enforcement in southwest Kansas has sent a shockwave through the U.S. beef supply chain,...
Data Center Backup Power Contributes To Health Risks: Report
By Robert Freedman of UtilityDiveFederal regulatory changes impacting enforcement of on-site backup generator emissions are...
Suspects Accidentally Set Themselves On Fire During Seattle Fuel Theft Attempt
The free market responds to rising gas prices in many ways...Two suspects in Seattle appear to have discovered one of the more...
More Hospitals Are Being Bought By Private Equity; Here’s How It’s Changing Healthcare…
Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times,There's a greater than one in 10 chance your hospital is owned by...
“De-Globalization Endgame”: Deutsche Bank Warns Historic Copper Squeeze Could Ignite 50% Rally
London copper prices are near record highs at the start of the week, reinforcing the supercycle commodity bull-cycle thesis former...
Trump Announces Largest Ever US Steel Plant
The president joined leaders from Mesabi Metallics to reveal the news from the White House on Monday. Travis Gillmore The Epoch Times...
Boeing Extends Losses After FAA Delays 737 Max 10 Approval Over Software Glitch
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has been on the job for two years and over trhe weekend, we got reports that he may be facing yet another...
Meta Could Face Billions In Penalties After New Mexico Facebook Verdict
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable for tens of millions of violations of the state's consumer protection law, potentially...
“We Can’t Do Any Planning”; Dallas Fed Manufacturers Uniformly Negative
As we await a maelstrom of Level 1 macro data this week, you could be forgiven glancing wistfully at this morning's Dallas Fed...
California’s Newsom Signs Memecoin Ban And Calls It ‘The Opposite Of Trump’
Authored by Omkar Godbole via CoinDesk,President Donald Trump has made millions from memecoins, but politicians in California don't...
Bessent Begs Fed For Mercy
If you wanted a textbook example of a central bank trapped between a geopolitical rock and a stagflationary hard place, welcome to...
Poll: Third of Dems ‘Positive’ With Trump Assassination, Majority Back Coup
A recent survey of Democrat voters reveals striking levels of support for unconventional and extraconstitutional methods of removing...
Trump Admin To Focus More On Northern Border Security Over Next 2 Years: Homan
Authored by Timothy Frudd and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times,White House border czar Tom Homan plans to put more focus on...
Starship Moves Closer To Commercial Service With Successful Next-Gen Starlink Deployment
Summary:SpaceX stock up half a percentStarship Inches Closer To CommercializationSpaceX Deploys V3 Starlink Satellites for the...


































































































