Is Narrative Warfare Driving Washington’s UN Pullback? Authored by Charles Davis via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary On a gray morning in Geneva, a human-rights advocate walks into the Palais des Nations and scans the room the way you’d scan a street corner for gang members in a hard neighborhood. Not for gangbangers, though; for “civil society.” For the suited delegates with NGO badges who film speakers a little […]

These Are The World’s 12 Largest Impact Craters A single asteroid strike can reshape a planet, and Earth’s history is marked by several cataclysmic impacts. This map by Julie Peasley for Visual Capitalist uses data from the Earth Impact Database to showcase the 12 largest confirmed impact craters on Earth, ranging from massive basin-forming events to relatively recent collisions. The World’s Largest Craters by Diameter […]

How A Bad Night’s Sleep Affects The Brain’s Cleaning System Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Most of us have experienced this: You stayed up a bit too late the night before, and although your body turned up to work, your mind was elsewhere. CLIPAREA l Custom media/Shutterstock Blanking out during the day is common for the sleep-deprived, and now researchers have found out why it happens. When […]

This Is Where Birth Rates Are Highest In The US Birth rates in the U.S. have been declining for decades, but that decline has hit some states faster than others. The projections in this visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, are from SmartAsset, who analyzed results from U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 1-Year American Community Survey. The number shown for each state represents births per 1,000 people, and is based […]

Florida To Make Gold & Silver Official Means Of Payment Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, The Florida legislature has begun to move legislation (HB 999) to enact their prior approval for gold and silver coins to be legal tender in Florida. This legislation will exempt gold and silver coins from sales tax in Florida. It also means that within Florida, there will be a means of payment independent of digital money created by […]

Goldman: Local Resistance Against Data Centers “Are Not Slowing Development” Fierce winter weather across the eastern half of the U.S. put the power grid, data centers, and electricity prices back in focus, especially in the Mid-Atlantic, where Washington, D.C., logged its longest freezing streak since 1989. Our review of Facebook, X, media coverage, and local officials’ comments suggests that the cold snap across the Mid-Atlantic […]

Suicide Bomb Rocks Pakistan’s Capital, Over 30 Dead & 169 Wounded Via The Cradle At least 31 people were killed and 169 others injured on Friday when a suicide bomber struck a Shia mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, Pakistani officials said, in one of the capital’s deadliest attacks in over a decade. The blast happened in the Khadija al-Kubra Imambargah mosque in the outskirts of Islamabad, with […]

“Tough Choices”: Grant Cardone Puts Private Jet Up For Sale During Bitcoin Crash Minutes after Bitcoin plunged below the $70,000 handle on Thursday evening, Grant Cardone of Cardone Capital told followers on X that, with “Bitcoin crashing,” he now has to sell his $75 million private jet. “Bitcoin is crashing so I have to say bye to the love of my life. Tough choices,” Grant Cardone posted around 7:32 p.m. ET, minutes after Bitcoin […]

China Bans Stablecoin Issuance By Foreign And Domestic Companies Submitted by Cointelegraph, The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the country’s central bank, and seven Chinese regulatory agencies published a joint statement on Friday banning the unapproved issuance of Renminbi-pegged stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). The ban applies to both domestic and foreign stablecoin and tokenized RWA issuers, according […]

Bessent Says Iranian Leaders Wiring Money Out Of Country ‘Like Crazy’ Lest anyone still entertain the idea that Washington conducts military interventions abroad for the sake of “democracy” or because it “stands with the people” or for “human rights” – we bring you Thursday’s testimony of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent before the Senate Banking Committee… U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Iran: We created a dollar […]

Why DeSantis Believes AI Needs Tight Regulation Now Authored by Nanette Holt & Natasha Holt via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As Florida lawmakers debate legislation in the state’s capital, Gov. Ron DeSantis is making an all-out push to a finish line. The 47-year-old Republican is in the last year of his second four-year term as governor, making him ineligible to run again. So he’s spending his political capital as […]

Rashida Tlaib’s Terror Ties Under Scrutiny In New Watchdog Report A damning new report from ISGAP Action has thrust Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) back into the spotlight, this time with allegations that extend beyond rhetoric and directly involve national security.  U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib outside the Capitol Building in Washington DC. on Oct. 18, 2023.Celal Gunes / Anadolu via Getty Images The nonpartisan group released […]

Don Lemon Brands JD Vance “Vile Human Being” And Fake Christian Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Don Lemon, still reeling from his arrest on federal civil rights charges for disrupting a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, has turned his ire on Vice President JD Vance.  Lemon labeled Vance a “vile human being” for refusing to apologize over a reposted tweet, while insisting HE is the real […]

Soaring Trucker Rejection Rates Suggest “Epic Year” For Drivers Trucking advocacy group American Truckers United set the narrative late last year that the Trump administration’s crackdown on fraudulent, non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that flooded US highways during the Biden-Harris regime era – linked to deadly crashes nationwide and the collapse in spot rates for mom-and-pop American truckers – was finally set to end […]

Las Vegas Neighborhood Rocked By Suspected Illegal Biolab Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), LAS VEGAS—Every morning, Raul Contreras rides his mountain bike along the quiet streets of northeast Las Vegas, passing tidy stucco homes and lawns that reflect a good quality of life. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Allan Stein/The Epoch Times, FBI, LVMPD via AP, Screenshots via The Epoch Times, Las Vegas […]

Cuba Ready To Negotiate With Trump, But Urges Dialing Down Of Pressure Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has offered to enter negotiations with Washington, but has made clear that this must happen “without pressure” – at a moment the Trump administration is seeking to economically strangle Cuba – even going so far as to openly tout the desire to see regime change. “Cuba is willing to engage in dialogue with the United States,” the […]

If You’re Free To Complain about Fascism, You Don’t Live In A Fascist Country Authored by Jenna McCarthy via Jenna’s Side, Many, many years ago—we’re talking decades—I got into a fight with a boy I’d been dating for (thankfully) not very long. I can’t even recall what the argument was about, but I’ll never forget his very last words to me: “God, you’re so stupid.” “There are plenty of insults you could fling […]

“Are We A Nation… Or A Market?” Heritage And Cato Square-Off In Right-Wing Think-Tank Infighting In last night’s ZeroHedge immigration debate, Simon Hankinson of the Heritage Foundation and David Bier of the Cato Institute offered sharply different policy prescriptions on the border, ICE, and H1B visas. A proponent of net subzero immigration, Hankinson emphasized national cohesion and first-world culture while warning against […]

“This Bread & Circuses Routine Is Looking Pretty Played Out…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Blood In The Water “Subversion works by importing an inverted moral frame and getting the target population to install it as its own conscience.” – Yuri Bezmenov’s Ghost on X Even in the deep-frozen fastness of midwinter, events and tensions surge, and America awaits . . . Bad Bunny! You perceive that there is some […]

Consumer Credit Smashes All Estimates As Monthly Credit Card Debt Unexpectedly Surges By Most In 2 Years 2025 closed with a surprising surge in consumer spending and retail sales, one which was unexpected since personal savings at the end of the year had just ground to a 3 year low… … which when coupled with stagnant earnings prompted the question just where did consumers get the money for December’s spending spree.  We now […]

Anti-ICE Applause: Jackson’s Disqualifying Moment Authored by David Manney via PJ Media, One thing we should never see is judges high-fiving criminals at parties; they enforce the law, not celebrate those who mock it. Neutrality demands distance from chaos, especially when robes hang in the closet. Attending events that trash law enforcement turns impartiality into a punchline. Blackburn’s Call for Probe Sen. Marsha Blackburn […]

Shocking Video: Grenade Tossed Into French Beauty Salon, Injures Six Absolutely horrifying footage on X shows a masked man tossing a grenade into a beauty salon in Grenoble, in southeastern France. Agence France-Presse reports that six people were injured. In Grenoble, authorities are investigating a grenade attack at a beauty salon that left six people with injuries, including a 5-year-old child. Western media outlets have […]

Trump Says He’s Still Looking ‘Seriously’ At Sending $2,000 Tariff Rebate Payments Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has said in a recent interview that his administration is still considering sending out $2,000 payments to Americans derived from his tariffs. During an interview with Trump on NBC News published on Feb. 4, host Tom Llamas noted that the president “floated the idea of $2,000 […]

Pam Bondi’s DOJ Is Sabotaging The Trump Coalition Authored by John Velleco, Executive Vice President Gun Owners of America, In November 2024, the American people decisively elected President Trump to a second term in office. After four intolerable years of controlled national demolition under the Biden autopen, the newly elected 47th President was poised to keep his promises and fulfill his mandate. President Trump had the […]

HGP Partners With Shaw To Deploy Navy’s Nuclear Reactors On Land HGP Intelligent Energy is partnering with the Shaw Group to deploy U.S. Navy submarine and aircraft carrier nuclear reactors at the DOE’s Paducah, Kentucky facility. Back in December, we covered their initial proposal to the U.S. government to utilize reactors from the Navy in an effort to find the quickest means of deploying new nuclear energy to support AI demand […]