RFK Jr. May Revive Food Pyramid Focused On Whole Foods Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, will be releasing new dietary guidelines in December to reset America’s food supply chain away from toxic seed oils and highly processed foods toward real food, the kind our grandparents and parents ate many decades ago. Ahead of next month’s release, a new Bloomberg report on Thursday […]

New Heart-Kidney Syndrome Affects 90% Of Americans… And You’ve Probably Never Heard Of It Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly every American adult has a health condition that could lead to heart failure, yet nine out of 10 have never even heard of it. Now, the American Heart Association (AHA) is sounding the alarm on cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome, a newly defined cluster of […]

China Warns Citizens Against Travel To Japan Amid Serious Taiwan-Related Dust Up It’s no secret that Japan and China have had a long history of animosity, which at times appears to cool but at others flares up to intensity again. The past week has seen historic tensions explode to the forefront once again, resulting in China summoning the Japanese ambassador in Beijing to vehemently denounce some recent statements by Tokyo […]

The Swamp Got Bigger, Better Paid & More Secretive Since 2020 Via Open The Books, If you were told a business increased their staff headcount by 5% over four years but its payroll rose 24% over that time, all the while withholding the names of 39% of their staff, would you invest in that company? Unlikely. But that’s just what the United State government does, funded by taxpayer dollars and operating as if accountable to […]

Berkshire Builds $4.9 Billion Stake In Alphabet; Adds To Chevron; Sells More Apple And Bank of America With less than two months left until the Berkshire Hathway becomes just another company after the 95-year-old Warren Buffett exits as CEO at the end of the year, there is still some (waning) interest in what this massive long only fund with a record $382 billion in cash, is buying and selling, or as we recently discussed, mostly […]

US Agrees To $330 Million Sale Of Fighter Jets To Taiwan, Drawing Rebuke From China Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times, The United States agreed a $330 million deal for the sale of fighter jets and other aircraft parts to Taiwan on Nov. 13 in the first such deal since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, prompting anger from China. The announcement of the proposed arms deal follows last month’s […]

Secret US Memo Links Venezuela To ‘Chemical Weapons Threat’ It didn’t take long for the words Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, and chemical weapons to show up in the same US government national security memo. We’ve examined before various possible ‘justifications’ Washington might use for some kind of future military action on Venezuela, or even a full regime change operation. From Vietnam to Iraq to Libya, Washington is always looking […]

Waymo Launches First US Freeway Robotaxi Rides In California And Arizona Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Waymo has launched driverless robotaxi rides on freeways in the United States, a first in the country for autonomous ride-hailing services. A self-driving Waymo vehicle awaits passengers in Los Angeles on July 1, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times In a Nov. 12 announcement, the Alphabet-owned […]

Hegseth Announces New Military Campaign ‘Operation Southern Spear’ US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth late in the day Thursday announced a new major US military campaign, dubbed “Operation Southern Spear,” which he said was ordered by President Trump at a moment of unprecedented build-up of naval assets and troops in the southern Caribbean. “President Trump ordered action – and the Department of War is delivering,” Hegseth began in […]

5,000 Dead People Getting SNAP; 500,000 Getting Benefits Twice: Rollins Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a recent interview that the department found that 500,000 people are registered twice for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, while more than 5,000 deceased people have also been receiving the benefits. In an interview on […]

Chicago Mayor Asks The UN To Intervene In Trump’s Deportation Efforts Chicago’s Mayor, Brandon Johnson, has been an utter disaster for the Windy City since he took office in 2023.  Chicago is facing a $1.1 billion budget shortfall in 2026, a high unemployment rate and they had 44,840 licensed businesses operating in the area in 2024, which is fewer businesses than any year in the past decade. After declaring that his government […]

How Do Empires Fall? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Our Democray (I’m Sure) “How do empires fall? Not by war, but by unbalanced minds disconnected from reality.” – The Vigilant Fox on “X” By now, whenever you hear anyone invoke the phrase “saving our democracy,” that should be a signal that they are intent on destroying this republic, and with that, your natural rights to free speech, economic liberty, and public […]

The Nerve! DNC Union Furious Over A Five-Day, In-Person Work-Week Authored by Lincoln Brown via PJMedia.com, I have been employed at one job or another since high school. My first “real” job was as a busboy in a department store restaurant. Times were tough, so I had to pick up a part-time job after school. I’d get home from school, put on a pair of black polyester pants and a white shirt, both of which reeked of cooked food, […]

Trump Admin Rolls Back Biden-Era Restrictions On Alaska Oil And Gas Drilling Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration said Nov. 13 that it has finalized a rule rescinding Biden-era restrictions on oil and gas drilling in Alaska as part of efforts to strengthen U.S. energy security. The new rule, to be published in the Federal Register on Nov. 17, will revoke the measures imposed by the Biden […]

Democrats’ Epstein Email Dump Backfires As Trump Sets DoJ On Clinton, Summers, Hoffman, Et Al. Democratic political operatives initiated a coordinated propaganda attack centered on releasing Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and promoting a range of narratives targeting President Trump, including claims that he and Epstein shared a Thanksgiving dinner in 2017. The Trump team has since responded, with the Department of Justice and the FBI […]

Economic Reacceleration: A Contrarian View Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the past two weeks, we’ve addressed a persistent question: if the data signals weakness, why hasn’t the recession arrived? In “Slowdown Signals: Are Leading Indicators Flashing Red?” we examined the cracks forming beneath the economy’s surface. From deteriorating leading indicators to credit stress and cooling […]

Nuclear Plant In Southern Russia Taken Offline After Ukrainian Drone Attack Parts of the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in southwestern Russia were temporarily taken offline overnight after a cross-border drone attack from Ukraine, in a highly dangerous close-call for the nuclear site and its operators.  By morning, power was restored to all sections of the plant, head of the state nuclear agency Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, […]

Noem Awards TSA Staff $10,000 Bonuses For Working During Shutdown Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handed out $10,000 bonus checks on Nov. 13 to thousands of frontline Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers who stayed on the job during the federal government shutdown. About 47,000 agents who worked through the 43-day shutdown despite not getting paychecks will […]

Alibaba Falls After White House Memo Alleges Company Supports Chinese Military Targeting Of US Shares of Alibaba fell in New York around 1 p.m. EST after the Financial Times reported a White House national-security memo detailing newly declassified intelligence alleging the Chinese tech giant has been providing technological support to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the […]

Iran’s Elite IRGC Seizes Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz After a long period of relative quiet, the Strait of Hormuz is flaring up again as on Friday Iranian forces are reported to have seized a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker. This is a first in a long time, but the Iranians are saying it is a somewhat ‘routine’ instance of intercepting a ship for “smuggling fuel”, according to state IRNA. The Iranians are now claiming to be acting […]

Boeing Union Workers Approve New Contract, Ending 3-Month Strike Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, Thousands of Midwestern machinists who assemble military aircraft voted on Nov. 13 to accept a new contract with Boeing, bringing to an end three months of industrial action. The workforce had been on strike since Aug. 4 over demands for better wages and work schedules. District 837 of the International […]

Trump: Let In 600,000 Chinese Students To Prop-Up Universities Authored by Matt Lamb via TheCollegeFix.com, President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for flooding the country with 600,000 students from Communist China as a way to prop up colleges and universities. Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed Trump on his proposal, questioning whether it was in America’s interest to bring in so many Chinese students. The […]

Tucker Exposes Trump Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks’ Social Media History, The FBI Coverup, And More Strangeness Tucker Carlson has just released a deep dive into Donald Trump’s attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks – who both the Biden and the Trump FBI have been very quiet about since the July 13, 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.  In late September, Carlson’s team received an anonymous tip from someone who said they had […]

Breaking Burry Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance One major headline today is that Michael Burry, of The Big Short fame, is shuttering his fund, Scion Capital. In his letter calling it quits, he wrote: “Sometimes, we see bubbles. Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.” I’ve been around markets long enough to believe that short sellers are generally more objectively […]

Operation Affordability: Trump Prepares Tariff Cuts, Trade Deals To Lower Food Prices Ahead Of Midterms  President Trump’s Operation Affordability initiative kicked off this week, with the White House unveiling plans for tariff reductions and expanded trade ties with Latin American countries to boost imports of key food products. The goal: drive down supermarket prices ahead of the 2026 midterm election cycle to reverse darkening […]