US And UK Revolt Forces Basel To Rethink Brutal Crypto Capital Rules For Banks Authored by Ezra Reguerra via CoinTelegraph.com, Global bank regulators are preparing to revisit their most stringent crypto rules after the United States and the United Kingdom refused to implement them, a move that threatens to unravel the long-standing consensus of the Basel Committee.  In an interview with the Financial Times, Erik Thedéen, […]

“Increasingly Becoming No-Go Areas” – Violent Crime Explodes At German Train Stations Via Remix News, Exploding violence in Germany has long been tied to mass immigration, as the statistics clearly show, and German train stations are becoming another perfect illustration of this worrying trend. The number of violent crimes at Berlin central station in 2024 has tripled compared to 2019, which was the last year before the […]

Russian Spy Ship Breached UK Waters, Aimed Lasers At Military Pilots, Britain Says The British government issued a warning to Moscow on Wednesday, putting the Kremlin on notice over a Russian naval vessel allegedly having entered British territorial waters and aiming lasers at UK pilots. Defense Secretary John Healey accused the Yantar, a special purpose intelligence collection ship, of its second intrusion into UK waters this […]

Tea And Cocoa May Offset Health Risks Of Excessive Sitting Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We’re often advised to move more—whether through exercise or simply standing up—to counteract the adverse effects of prolonged sitting. But what if you could get the benefits of standing up simply by eating and drinking certain foods? The Epoch Times/Shutterstock New research from the University of […]

London Luxury Home Prices Plunge As Wealthiest Flee Ahead Of Tax-Hikes Asking prices for UK homes declined more steeply than expected in November, down 1.8% on a monthly basis – the biggest fall in prices for this time of year since 2012. Interestingly, alongside UK government budget anxiety, Rightmove pointed to “the decade-high number of homes available for sale” and resulting downward price pressure, mostly affecting the […]

Ukraine’s Corruption Scandal Might Pave The Way For Peace If It Takes Yermak Down Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, He’s Zelensky’s powerbroker so his downfall could undo the already shaky alliance between the armed forces, the oligarchs, the secret police, and parliament that keeps Zelensky in power, thus pressuring him into peace, especially if his warmongering grey cardinal is no longer pushing him to keep fighting. […]

UK Political Operative Imran Ahmed Of CCDH Should Be Prosecuted Before He’s Deported: Thacker Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, A British newspaper reported last week that the Trump White House aims to deport British political operative Imran Ahmed who runs the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a pro-censorship organization Ahmed founded in London several years ago with Morgan McSweeney, the chief of […]

Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real And It’s Driving Therapists Crazy The strange psychological anomaly first appeared in 2016 – Psychotherapists across the US and even Europe began reporting a sharp rise in patients with “anxiety” about the US elections and, specifically, a potential win by Donald Trump.  This “Trump Anxiety” was greatly exacerbated by the establishment media, which was relentless in their propaganda narrative […]

Treasury Sanctions Former Olympian Snowboarder Turned ‘Cocaine Kingpin’ The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Ryan Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned cocaine kingpin, now on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, along with nine associates and nine front companies spanning Mexico, Canada, Italy, and the UK. Wedding sits on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list and is […]

After Flip-Flopping Tantrum, Trump Signs Bill To Release Epstein Files Let’s review… On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release ‘the Epstein files’ – i.e. the list of powerful men who partook of Jeffrey Epstein’s network of sex-trafficked young women.  After a few months in office, a brave reporter asked Trump ‘hey what about those Epstein files you promised?’ – which drew a hostile response from the Commander-in-Chief. […]

Wanted Terror Suspect Entered U.S. Under Biden Admin, Got Commercial Truck License Federal officials say Akhror Bozorov, a 31-year-old wanted terrorist from Uzbekistan, illegally entered the US in February 2023, was released by the Biden administration, and later obtained both work authorization and a commercial truck driver’s license in Pennsylvania, according to the NY Post. He was arrested in Kansas this month while working as […]

DOJ Sues California Over Mask Ban, ID Rules For Feds The US Department of Justice has sued the state of California and its leading officials over two new state laws that make it a misdemeanor for local and federal law enforcement officers to wear face coverings on the job, which they use to prevent them from being doxxed by activists.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents form a defensive perimeter near an operations […]

China Intel Officers Offering Western Gov’t Insiders Cash For “Low-Level Information” Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, Chinese intelligence officers are offering Westminster insiders strikingly large sums of money for what looks like low-level political gossip – using “head hunters” on LinkedIn to offer paid “research tasks” – and effectively flooding Keir Starmer’s government ranks with inducements to betray the people of […]

Network Of California Democrat Party Insiders Under Investigation For Fraud Initial reports of an ongoing fraud investigation in Sacramento by the US Department of Justice revealed that Gavin Newsom’s former Chief of Staff, Dana Williamson, was being indicted on 23 felony counts.  Crimes include conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, filing false tax returns, and making false statements to the IRS. The […]

ICE Houston Sweep: 3,600 Criminal Illegal Aliens Arrested, Including 51 Child Predators Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump administration’s deportation surge is already producing major results. In Houston alone, ICE has arrested nearly 3,600 criminal illegal aliens in a single operation, among them 51 individuals with child-sex offenses and 67 convicted sex offenders. These arrests are directly tied to the […]

President Sheinbaum Says No Way To US Strikes On Cartels In Mexico Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has again sought to stand up to President Donald Trump, on Tuesday repeating her rejection of any possibility of US military intervention against cartels on sovereign Mexican soil. Trump has recently floated openness toward the possibility, and also Colombia, in exchanges with reporters related to the military build-up off […]

An Age Of Forgotten Infrastructure Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We are living in the most materially abundant moment in all of human history, yet most of us move through life unaware of it. Men work at the site of a condo tower under construction in Delta, B.C., on July 2, 2025. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck We turn on a faucet and clean water appears. We flip a switch and light fills a room. […]

One-Party-Rule Failure: Democratic Kings Own Maryland’s Epic Demise Maryland is facing severe economic difficulties under long-standing single-party progressive control at the state, city, and even some local levels. Democrats function as the political “kings” of Maryland, and their far-left policies have pushed the state into an epic decline – all while Democratic Gov. Wes Moore is at the helm of the rudderless ship.  Decades of […]

Heart Attack Risk Halved In Survivors Taking Tailored Vitamin D Doses, Researchers Say Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Researchers found that adult heart attack survivors who took specific vitamin D doses reduced their risk of developing another heart attack by more than half, compared with people who did not take the vitamin D dose. A man sits in a hospital waiting room in Irvine, Calif., on July 8, […]

Watchdog: Chicago Public Schools Blew Millions On Trips, Spas, And Overseas Travel A new investigation by Chicago Public Schools Inspector General Philip Wagenknecht shows overnight and travel spending in the district surged from about $300,000 in 2021 to nearly $8 million by 2024, according to WTTW. His report says some staff exploited the district’s “lax, vague, inadequate and unenforced” rules, leading to “exorbitant” […]

Trump Names Saudi Arabia A ‘Major Non-NATO Ally’ During MbS Candlelight Dinner Attended By Tech Moguls  Aside from a couple of hiccups involving exchanges with the press, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MbS) visit to the White House went well, after he came bearing massive gifts, especially a pledge for a whopping $1 trillion in US investment. During the Tuesday night candlelight dinner in his honor, which was attended by Elon […]

Ackman Floats “Immediately Actionable” Blueprint To Free Fannie And Freddie Bill Ackman thinks he knows what to do to finally resolve the 16-year limbo trapping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the mortgage-finance pillars that remain under federal control over a decade after the financial crisis. In a Tuesday presentation on X, the billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management outlined a three-step proposal he says […]

Venezuela’s Maduro Seeks ‘Face-to-Face Talks’ With Trump Officials  Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made clear early this week that he’d be willing to hold “face-to-face” talks with US officials and warned President Trump against starting a war with his country. “In the United States, whoever wants to talk with Venezuela will talk, face to face, without any problem,” Maduro said on […]

“GPUs Are Sold Out”: Nvidia Soars After Blowing Away Results, Projections In our preview of NVDA’s Q3 results, we said that “it’s not a question whether the company beats – they always do – but whether the “blowout” and the “smash” will be big enough to impress a market that has already priced in perfection, and beyond, for the GPU maker.” The market was impressed. Here is what NVDA just reported for Q3:  Adjusted EPS $1.30, […]

What We’ve Lost Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What we’ve lost are the foundations of a healthy standard of living / quality of life. Amidst the constant drumbeat of tech “progress” and grandiose “solutions,” it’s a useful exercise to ask: what have we lost in the past 40 years despite all the “progress” and “solutions”? Put another way: what did we have in 1985 that we no longer have, despite all the […]