Retirement Deadlines You Can’t Miss By December 31 Authored by John Rampton via The Epoch Times, As the year winds down, many people are thinking about holiday plans, family gatherings, and completing work projects. However, for retirees and those planning for retirement, financial deadlines carry a special urgency. Tax bills, retirement accounts, and even healthcare costs can be affected by some of these cutoffs. By missing them, […]

These Are The Largest Bodies Of Water In Our Solar System From the icy crusts of distant moons to the oceans beneath their surfaces, the solar system is teeming with hidden water. This visualization from Made Visual Daily, via Visual Capitalist, compares all known and estimated bodies of water in our solar system, including those beneath the surface, on a volumetric scale. The data comes from sources including USGS, NASA’s […]

UK Schools Locked Down In Secret “Pegasus” Pandemic Drills Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a eerie redux of 2020’s chaos, UK schools are being thrust into unannounced lockdown simulations under the guise of “pandemic preparedness drills”—with children herded into classrooms, doors barricaded, and parents left in the dark, sparking whispers of social engineering rehearsals for the next big scare. The […]

Economists’ Warning: Germany’s Costly Pension Package Must Be Scrapped Immediately Submitted By Thomas Kolbe Germany’s public pension system is under mounting pressure. Amid a deepening economic crisis, uncontrolled poverty migration, and a rapidly aging population, a shrinking workforce is being forced to shoulder an ever-growing burden. Meanwhile, the number of pension recipients continues to rise and has now smashed through […]

Foreigners Commit 44% Of Sexual Violence Cases In Italy, Half Of Gang-Rapes, While Only Representing 9% Of Population Via Remix News, Data from Italy’s Interior Ministry for 2024 shows that foreigners commit nearly half of all rapes, while only representing 9 percent of the country’s resident population. Specifically, the graph shows they are arrested in 44 percent of cases. Sexual Violence cases, Italy, 2024 […]

China Deploys World’s First Commercial Supercritical CO2 Power Generator China has activated what the South China Morning Post describes as the world’s first commercial power unit using supercritical carbon dioxide, or sCO₂, marking a notable step forward in clean energy technology. Developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation, the generator replaces traditional steam with high-pressure CO₂ to turn waste heat from […]

Does Germany Poses A Significant Non-Military Threat To Polish Sovereignty? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Its continued hegemony over Central & Eastern Europe threatens to further erode Poland’s already limited sovereignty, but this can be shattered with US support, though at the cost of subordinating Poland to Trump 2.0’s envisaged “Pax Americana” that would also impose limits on its sovereignty. “The […]

Escobar: The European Matryoshka Of Irrelevance Authored by Pepe Escobar, The EU/NATO combo cannot but play the role of pathetic yapping chihuahuas. That’s the price you pay for a matrioshka of supreme stupidity. No one ever lost money betting on the politically suicidal instincts of post-Orwellian EU – that acronym for a virtual Europe. Call them juvenile bipolar psychos or a bunch of yapping chihuahuas: no Jupiterian or […]

CDC Shuts Down Monkey Labs Amid Tuberculosis “Time Bomb” Fears The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will end all nonhuman-primate research conducted at its own facilities, marking the first time since the National Institutes of Health retired its chimpanzees in 2015 that a major federal health agency has fully shuttered an in-house monkey program, Science reports. Scene from “Project X” The decision affects roughly […]

Brazilian Ex-President Bolsonaro Placed In 12-sq Meter Jail Cell To Begin Sentence  Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered by the country’s supreme court to start serving his 27-year sentence, even as what could be a very lengthy further appeals effort carries on. He was convicted in September for plotting a coup, based on allegations he also cooperated with foreign influence, for not accepting the election […]

Japan Launches DOGE-Like Initiative To Cut Government Waste Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, Japan’s finance minister on Nov. 25 unveiled a plan to cut wasteful government spending, drawing parallels to the United States’ Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama arrives at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, on Oct. 21, 2025. Kim Kyung […]

Game Over DOGE: US Starts Fiscal 2025 With Record Budget Deficit, Shocking Interest Expense It was back in February, when we explained to Elon Musk why his strategy to shock the US government into spending “efficiency” through DOGE, while noble, is ultimately doomed to wit: “What Musk is doing in trying to streamline the govt is admirable but ultimately it will be Congress that decides the endgame. And there things are as status […]

Chinese Text-To-App ‘Vibe Coding’ Tool Went So Viral It Crashed Software engineers have been increasingly relying on AI to help with complex coding tasks, a practice known as “vibe-coding.” Stephanie Arnett/MIT Technology Review | Adobe Stock While vibe-coding has been largely limited to helping with portions of a project, Chinese developers have created an AI tool that converts text into a complete app.  The app, […]

Dead Cows Don’t Fart? Countries Raise Concerns Over Methane-Reducing Additive For Bovines Authored by Jonathan Turley, Scandinavian countries are moving to suspend the mandated use of Bovaer, a methane-reducing additive designed to reduce bovine flatulence. A contributor to methane pollution, cow farts were supposed to be reduced by the additive to reduce climate-harming pollutant. However, there are widespread reports of collapse, […]

HUD Launches Hotline To Crack Down On Crime, Illegal Immigrants In Public Housing Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner announced the launch of a new national hotline that allows public housing residents to report on criminals and illegal immigrants in HUD-funded housing. The hotline, 1-800-347-3735, can be used by residents to call the HUD […]

Trump Snubs Zelensky’s Urgent Meeting Request – Will Host Only When Final Deal Is Agreed To Update(1640ET): Trump’s latest comments on Ukraine peace progress suggest a direct meeting with Zelensky may not happen after all. The Ukrainians are pushing a face-to-face by Thursday, or at least this week. But President Trump is not going to meet with Zelensky until a deal is agreed to. Thus it appears the US president is serious about […]

FBI To Interview Lawmakers In “Illegal Orders” Video FBI agents are seeking to interview lawmakers who appeared in a video telling members of the military not to obey illegal orders, the lawmakers said on Nov. 25. The FBI contacted the sergeants at arms for the House of Representatives and Senate, requesting interviews with the lawmakers, Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), and Chrissy […]

A Looming Mexican Coup? Authored by Kit Klarenberg, On November 15th, incendiary protests engulfed over 50 cities across Mexico. The Western media has universally adopted the narrative disaffected local “Gen Z” sought to vent their righteous rage against the government, over corruption, and the administration’s purported ties to drug cartels. Footage of law enforcement clashing with demonstrators spread like wildfire, […]

DHS’s “Operation Red Sunset” Investigating Chinese Bitcoin Mining Giant Over National Security Concerns The Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation dubbed “Operation Red Sunset” into Bitmain Technologies, China’s leading Bitcoin mining equipment maker, over concerns its hardware could compromise U.S. national security, sources told Bloomberg. Power supply units for mining rigs made by Bitmain Technologies […]

AI Toys Pose ‘Unprecedented Risks’ To Infants And Children, Advisory Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Toys embedded with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots undermine children’s healthy development and pose unprecedented risks, according to a new advisory published by advocacy group Fairplay, which warned parents against buying AI toys for their children during this holiday season. The Nov. 20 […]

These Are America’s Most (And Least) Affordable Cities Today, Tupelo, MS is the nation’s most affordable city, where your dollar can stretch 21% further than the U.S. average. Similarly, several Southern cities have the lowest cost of living in the country, typically seeing smaller populations and more affordable housing. In contrast, New York and California continue to rank among the most expensive places to live. This graphic, […]

CAIR Sues Texas Over Terrorist Organization Designation Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a federal lawsuit against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after he designated the controversial Muslim advocacy group as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and a Transnational Criminal Organization. Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference in Austin, Texas, on […]

America’s Largest Teachers Union Is Doubling Down On Radical Left Ideology Recently obtained internal documents from the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the US, focus on training educators to become far-left activists in support of spreading woke propaganda to their students.   According to information gathered by a conservative non-profit called Defending Education, the NEA’s upcoming training at […]

DOJ Renews Bid To Have Court Unseal Epstein, Maxwell Grand Jury Materials Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) renewed its request on Nov. 24 to unseal grand jury materials related to the case of deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, following the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act last week. In a motion filed to a U.S. District […]

Housing Market Winter Deepens As Delistings Soar To Eight-Year High Building on our earlier housing-market note that “current conditions point to more persistent headwinds” across major metro areas, we now turn to new Redfin data showing a surge in delistings – a clear sign the market is slipping into year-end paralysis. According to Redfin’s report, roughly 85,000 U.S. homes were pulled off the market in September – a 28% jump […]