Xi And Trump To Both Be Absent From G-20 Gathering In South Africa Chinese President Xi Jinping will skip next week’s G-20 summit in Johannesburg, a setback for host South Africa, which is already dealing with a boycott by US President Donald Trump, according to Bloomberg.  China’s Foreign Ministry said Premier Li Qiang will attend instead, without giving a reason for Xi’s absence, even though he joined the summit last […]

Leftist Berlin Mayoral Candidate Calls For Voting-Rights For All Migrants Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Left Party’s (Die Linke) newly-chosen lead candidate for next year’s state election has called to extend voting rights to all migrants living in the capital, including those who do not hold German citizenship. Elif Eralp’s remarks were delivered during a party strategy meeting on Saturday, where 163 […]

Was COVID Always A CIA Plot? Via The Brownstone Institute, According to newly released emails, the United States Intelligence Community, led by the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, held regular meetings with Dr. Ralph Baric, one of America’s leading coronavirus experts, since at least 2015.  Senator Rand Paul’s office has worked for years to obtain the documents.  Baric has been accused of […]

Chinese Firm Bought Insurer For CIA Agents As Part Of Trillion Dollar Spending Spree For years, Washington assumed that China’s outbound investment flowed mainly into developing economies hungry for infrastructure money. But as scrutiny tightens across the West, it’s becoming clear that Beijing’s financial reach extended far deeper into wealthy nations – and far earlier – than most policymakers realized. One early warning […]

The Road To De-Civilization: Inflation & The Moral Erosion Of Society Authored by Michael Matulef via The Mises Institute, Every major economic illusion begins with the corruption of a word. Inflation once meant popularly what it still means in truth—the artificial expansion of money and credit. But, over time, it has been redefined to describe its consequence rather than its cause. This deliberate inversion of language […]

How A Missed Train In 1876 Led To The Adoption Of Standard Time Authored by Gerry Bowler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In July 1876, Sandford Fleming, a Scottish Canadian engineer, was standing on an Irish railway platform fuming—he had misread his timetable, confusing a.m. and p.m., and as a result had missed his train. Spurred by this inconvenience, Fleming began thinking how a 24-hour clock would have made this sort of […]

Beijing Jumps Back Into US Soybean Market, Snaps Up 20 Cargo Loads After Abrupt Pause  After the Trump-Xi trade agreement cooled the tit-for-tat tariff war and opened the door for a more stable phase of negotiations, we’ve been tracking a series of agricultural twists and turns that can only be viewed as a rollercoaster ride:  ‘Signatures As Soon As Next Week’: U.S.-China Deal Close, Bessent Unveils Major Victory For American […]

Pennsylvania School District Using AI-Enabled Wi-Fi To Search Students For Firearms Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Pennsylvania school district is using artificial intelligence to keep guns off its campuses. But civil liberties advocates have warned that the technology could lead to mass surveillance and violation of constitutional rights. The entrance to Oliver Citywide Academy is empty after a […]

Ecuador Slams Door On Hosting US Military Base In National Referendum Ecuador just had a major vote which has gone some underreported in US mainstream media, given perhaps the current focus on the Venezuela crisis. The Latin American country held a referendum Sunday on allowing allowing the return of foreign military bases in the country. This was ultimately seen as a vote on allowing an American military presence, which the US […]

Federal Court Blocks Texas’s New House-Map Favoring Republicans Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times, A panel of federal judges in Texas has ruled that the state cannot use newly redrawn House maps aimed at securing additional seats for Republicans. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. […]

Maryland Gives $6M To Nonprofit Leader Who Owes Over $200K In Back-Taxes Maryland has awarded $6 million to We Our Us, a nonprofit led by Antoine Burton, who owes more than $200,000 in federal and state tax liens dating back to 2017, according to investigative reporting by Fox 45 Baltimore. The situation has renewed concerns about how officials vet organizations receiving major public funding. Gov. Wes Moore approved the $6.1 […]

TikTok Zombie Brain Rot Confirmed By Major Study Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A bombshell Griffith University study has validated a long suspected reality: short-form videos (SFVs) like TikToks and Instagram Reels are frying brains, slashing attention spans, and crippling cognitive endurance. Such content is turning a generation into scatterbrained zombies unable to tackle real-world complexities amid […]

Constellation Gets $1 Billion Loan From US Govt To Restart Three Mile Island One week ago we said that “hundreds of billions” of dollars are about to be loaned out to nuclear projects by the US government. Well, the first billion is about to be wired.  The Wall Street Journal reports Constellation Energy has secured a $1 billion federal loan from the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) to restart the Unit 1 reactor […]

Appeals Court Sides With CNN Over Trump Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A panel of appeals court judges on Nov. 18 upheld a ruling against President Donald Trump in a case he brought against CNN. Trump did not adequately show that CNN defamed him when it reported that he promoted what it described as the “Big Lie” when challenging results from the 2020 presidential election, judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals […]

Brazil’s Banco Master Collapses: CEO Detained, Regulator Shuts Lender Down Here’s one that might surprise some New York City voters: it turns out banks don’t seem to prosper under communism. For proof look no further than Brazil where authorities moved Tuesday to shut down Banco Master SA as federal police arrested six people — including CEO Daniel Vorcaro, according to Bloomberg. The arrests were part of a widening fraud probe. […]

Clintons Dodge Epstein Depositions As Trump Demands Total File Release Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Bill and Hillary Clinton have officially refused to comply with House Oversight Committee subpoenas ordering them to sit for depositions about their ties to financier to the elite and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) broke the news on Monday, stating “Bill and Hillary Clinton are […]

Senate Unanimously Approves Bill To Release Epstein Files Update (1730ET): Well that didn’t take long… The Senate has just agreed by unanimous consent to approve the House-passed bill to require the Justice Department to release all unclassified records and documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – upon receipt of the legislation from the House, only hours after the lower chamber voted 427-1 to approve it – […]

Japan Bond Yields Soar To Record, Slamming Door On Stimulus Just As Economy Implodes Amid Escalating China Clash Back in 2024, it was the story of the summer, but now with a relentless waterfall of news stressing traders – and that excludes the hourly blasts from Trump’s truth social account – it has become impossible to filter the firehose of newsflow, let alone trade it.  Which is why some may have missed the big store of the […]

Michelle Obama Says She Won’t Run Because America “Ain’t Ready” For A Woman Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Former First Lady Michelle Obama bluntly rejected calls that she run for office because America “ain’t ready” for a woman president.  Obama made the remarks Friday in a YouTube interview with actress Tracee Ellis Ross while promoting her new book, The Look. The interview touched on the first […]

NGO-Backed Groups Train To Obstruct Immigration Arrests In North Carolina It has been said over and over again the past few months:  Progressive activist groups sabotaging ICE operations are far too organized to be grassroots and always seem to know exactly where immigration authorities are going to show up and make arrests.  Someone is creating these mobs from thin air, training them, funding them and letting them off their leash […]

Adam Smith Vs The Engineers Of Utopia Authored by Mani Basharzad via CapX.co, Ha-Joon Chang recently wrote an article in the Financial Times criticising the state of economic education, which drew considerable attention. What went almost unnoticed, however, was a letter published in response. Surprisingly, one of the most prominent Austrian economists, Mario Rizzo, agreed with Chang. He wrote: “Recently, I had a chance to […]

After Gates Foundation Cuts Ties, Arabella Advisors “Ceases Operations,” Reemerges As “Sunflower Services” Nearly three months after the New York Times revealed that the Gates Foundation had decided to sever ties with philanthropic advisor Arabella Advisors, which engineered a sprawling “dark money” network of nonprofit entities, including the New Venture Fund (NVF), Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund, that […]

Texas Wants To Be Reimbursed For Biden Open-Border’s Cost Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Members of the Texas Congressional delegation are demanding the federal government reimburse the state for the $11.1 billion it spent tackling the Biden administration’s “open-border abdication.”  The lawmakers, including both senators and House members, made the request Friday in a three-page letter to Attorney […]

Two Ukrainians Working For Russian Intelligence Behind Unprecedented Rail Sabotage: Poland Claims Warsaw authorities have now laid official blame on the sabotage attack on Poland’s rail network which was uncovered Sunday, and could have led to the derailing of a train. As everyone expected, they are looking squarely at Moscow. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced Tuesday that an investigation at the scene points to […]

Emails Reveal Under Armor Urged Maryland To Buy Horse Farm After No Buyers – Will Gov. Moore Return Favor? The pattern emerging from Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank and his Maryland-based real estate ventures suggests mounting financial strain beneath the surface. This comes as UA shares have collapsed 48% year to date, trading near record lows, raising questions about Plank’s sudden need for liquidity.  In February, we noted that […]