Prominent Personalities Sign Letter Seeking Ban On ‘Development Of Superintelligence’ Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, Hundreds of people, from conservative commentators to prominent tech executives, have signed a letter seeking a ban on “the development of superintelligence.” This year, leading technology firms such as Google, Meta Platforms, and OpenAI have accelerated efforts to build artificial intelligence […]

Pentagon Orders Carrier Strike Group To Join SOUTHCOM Operations Near Venezuela Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has on Friday ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the US Southern Command area of responsibility, joining what is already an unprecedented US military build-up in the southern Caribbean off Venezuela.  And so after nine attacks on alleged narco-smuggling boats, it looks as if the strikes on cartels will only […]

Gen Z’s Grim Economic Prospects Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The generation of young people just starting out in their careers faces an uphill battle unlike anything confronted by their parents and grandparents. For them, the promise of the American Dream is elusive at best. Everything is more expensive. The job market is frozen for pay for which they were hoping. Industry is changing so fast that […]

Rising D.C. Uncertainty Hits “Stressed” Homebuyers, Dining Demand The government shutdown has now entered its 23rd day, after the Senate on Wednesday once again failed to pass a House-approved funding bill – the 12th such attempt. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon led a marathon speech on the Senate floor that lasted nearly 23 hours. Republicans and Democrats continue to battle for narrative control. This time, polling data […]

Watch: Fetterman Continues To Slam His Own Party Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Democrat Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has once again openly criticised his own party over the ongoing government shutdown, intensifying discussions about a potential primary challenge against him in 2028.  Filming a video in front of the U.S. Capitol, Fetterman bluntly states “Hi, here we are and our government remains closed. And I […]

Atlanta At The Center Of Nationwide Boom In Rental Application Fraud Atlanta has become the center of a nationwide boom in rental-application fraud, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. With average rents for two-bedroom apartments nearing $2,000 a month—well above what many locals can afford—some renters are turning to fake documents and fabricated financial details to qualify for luxury apartments. Social media has […]

Congress Takes A Page From Louisiana: The Case For An American Energy Renaissance Authored by Cameron Sholty via RealClearEnergy, When Louisiana enacted Act 462 earlier this year, it did more than redefine “green energy.” It redefined leadership. Under Governor Jeff Landry’s direction, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to recognize natural gas and nuclear power as a clean, affordable, and reliable energy source […]

‘Chexican’ Narco-Financier Ran New York Fentanyl Cell With Mexican Operatives, US Indictment Shows Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper,  Newly unsealed U.S. government filings reveal that Zhi Dong Zhang — an alleged global fentanyl kingpin with reported ties to Chinese diplomats in Canada, accused of supplying precursor chemicals and laundering funds worldwide for Mexico’s Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels — […]

Passing $38 Trillion: Austrians Versus Keynesians On The Sovereign Debt Crisis We’ve surpassed $38T in debt, and we’re still no closer to balancing the budget. Instead, Republicans want to add another $2T in deficit spending, while Democrats want to add $3T. Where does it end? https://t.co/SMfFjMm3sJ — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 23, 2025 With U.S. debt blasting past $38 trillion, the question isn’t if the reckoning […]

Let’s Shut Down The IRS Authored by J.B.Shurck via AmericanThinker.com, What if the federal government shut down and nobody cared?   I know what you’re thinking: How can we possibly survive without millions of government bureaucrats micromanaging our lives?  Is life even worth living if some self-important cubicle king isn’t putting me on hold before demanding that I resubmit the revised Form K-12.6.2 of the updated rules […]

“Suitcases Filled With Dollars”: Venezuela Reportedly Propped Up America’s Radical Left To Sow Chaos U.S. military developments in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela, are ramping up this week. Two additional narco-terror drug boats were destroyed with guided missiles, and there was news overnight that two Rockwell B-1 Lancer supersonic bombers entered Venezuela’s ADIZ before switching off their transponders in what […]

Reality Vs Garbage: Has AI Already Lost The ‘I’ Part Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations.” – The Singularity Hub on “X” Which is to say, there is Reality, and then there is every other cockamamie aggregate of simulation pretending to represent Reality, i.e. garbage. How many millions among us already […]

Shocking Moment U-Haul Truck Attempts To Ram California Coast Guard Checkpoint Hours After Anti-ICE Protests A dramatic video surfaced on X overnight showing what appears to be an attempted ramming attack by a deranged driver in a U-Haul truck at a military checkpoint at Coast Guard Base Alameda in California. KPIX photojournalist Rick Villaroman captured the moment when a man dressed in all black, wearing safety glasses and a […]

Latest Harvard Enrollment Data Show Drop In Black Students, Uptick In Asians Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting racial preference in higher education admissions, the nation’s oldest university is reporting a decline in undergraduate black student enrollment. Harvard University, in a profile of the Class of 2029 released today, noted that black American students make […]

Canada Pulls Plug On $75M Anti-Tariff Info War Against Americans After Trump Terminates Trade Talks Update (1454ET): Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that the $75 million informational campaign targeting Americans will pause on Monday. This means the television commercials in which Canada attempted to persuade Americans on trade policy will come to an end. America’s neighbors to the north screwed around and found out the […]

Hegseth Announces Another ‘Narco-Boat’ Attack After Trump Insists No Declaration Of War Needed The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats near Venezuela are growing, and War Secretary Pete Hegseth has just announced another one Friday morning, which marks the third such attack this week, after two boats were destroyed on the Pacific side of Latin America earlier this week. “Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the […]

Pavlovian Bidding Up Of Equities By Michael Every of Rabobank High Hopes US and European equities closed higher yesterday, oil prices rose more than 5%, the Dollar gained, 10-year Treasury yields lifted by 5bps and Bitcoin rose slightly following news that President Trump will pardon Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Equity markets were buoyed by an announcement from the White House that Presidents Trump and Xi will meet next […]

Mamdani Scores 11th Hour Endorsement From Hakeem Jeffries Despite Democrats repeatedly blaming progressives for hijacking the 2024 election and swinging the party too far to the left, it seems they’re unwilling to learn from their mistakes, since they never make any (according to Democrats with knowledge of their infallibility). On Friday, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) gave a last minute endorsement to Zohran […]

Anonymous Donor Gives $130 Million To Cover Shortfall In Troop Pay During Shutdown Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on Oct. 23 that an anonymous donor has sent the federal government a $130 million check to cover the shortfall in military troop pay during the ongoing government shutdown. “He called us the other day and he said, ‘I’d like to contribute any shortfall you have because of […]

Canada’s Economy Will Not Survive A Prolonged Trade War With The US The ongoing trade war between the US and Canada barely registers on the radar for most of the American public, largely because it doesn’t affect their wallets in any significant way.  However, on the Canadian side of the border, the economic conflict dominates headlines and discussion.  Average Canadians face significant uncertainty and Canada’s export markets are […]

US Opens Trade Probe Into China’s Phase One Commitments Before Trump-Xi Talks U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced moments ago that the U.S. has initiated a Section 301 investigation into China’s implementation of the Phase One trade deal, a deal that has been out of public focus since President Trump’s first term. This development comes less than one week before Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to […]

‘Cooler’ Than Expected CPI Data Leaves Fed On Track For Rate-Cuts With vol markets fully clenched, this morning’s much-anticipated CPI print (no matter how full of guesstimated data) is sure to prompt an initial flurry of trading activity but as we detailed in our preview, absent some major outlier, is likely to be mostly irrelevant with rate-cut expectations now fully pricing in 2 x 25bps cuts for the rest of the year. As a […]

Garland Personally Ordered Anti-Trump Arctic Frost Probe Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, A newly declassified memorandum confirms that the FBI’s anti-Trump Arctic Frost probe was requested by FBI Director Chris Wray and personally approved in 2022 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, the two top officials in the Biden DOJ.  The memorandum—written by Wray and addressed to Garland on April 4, […]

Hungary Has Good Reason To Be Enraged About Poland’s Ruling On The Nord Stream Suspect Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish Judge Dariusz Lubowski ruled against extraditing a suspect in the Nord Stream attack to Germany on the grounds that this act of sabotage occurred in the context of a “just, defensive war”, Germany doesn’t have jurisdiction over the international waters in which it occurred, and the […]

Watch: Modular Energy Pioneer Nano Nuclear Begins Drilling First Reactor In Illinois US modular nuclear technology pioneer, NANO Nuclear Energy, is hosting a milestone ceremony today at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to mark progress on the research and prototype development of its KRONOS MMR Energy System, a micro nuclear reactor. The ceremony is being live streamed on the company’s website here (or click on the image […]