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 […]

Trump Stuns Press In Defending MbS Over Khashoggi Murder, As Saudis Float $1 Trillion Investment Things were a bit rough during a Q&A with the White House press pool as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) was at the White House Tuesday. One ABC reporter asked MbS point blank what he’s for many years tried to avoid being asked – about the murder of  journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump was none too happy about the […]

Larry Summers Goes Into Hiding; Messages Sought Epstein’s Advice On Cheating With Daughter Of CCP Official In the latest blow to Democrats from the recent ‘Epstein files’ released by House Republicans, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced that he’s stepping back from public commitments after new documents reveal he was asking for Jeffrey Epstein’s advice on how to bang a female mentee behind his wife’s back.  […]

“Winter Comes In Like A Lion”: Meteorologists Warn Of Incoming Cold Blast   On X, meteorologists are citing new forecasts indicating a shift toward sustained colder-than-normal temperatures across the Lower 49 by late this month or early next month. If heating degree days begin to climb and model confidence strengthens around a significant cold blast, the setup would provide upside continuation for natural gas prices.  […]

“I’m Panicking WTF”: Cloudflare Outage Sparks Global Internet Chaos Update (1215ET): Cloudflare suffered a major internal service outage that disrupted multiple products globally and triggered widespread failures on major sites like X. The company says it does not suspect a cyberattack but acknowledges that errors, slow performance, and login issues are still occurring. A core fix has been deployed, but Cloudflare cautions that […]

Navigating The Curve: The Allure And Risks Of Long-Dated US Treasuries Authored by Mario Eisenegger via BondVigilantes.com, Compared to a year ago, the US Treasury curve has steepened considerably. While yields at the front end have dropped due to anticipated rate cuts, the long end of the curve has not budged. In fact, long-end bonds have sold off, giving bond investors the opportunity to lock in elevated yields. That’s […]

Sen. Graham Touts Movement On New Russian Sanctions Bill ‘With Trump’s Blessing’ Sen. Lindsey Graham announced Monday the Senate is taking up legislation that would sanction Russia’s trading partners, in order to ramp up the pressure on Moscow to end the war with Ukraine. The announcement came after President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday night the proposed legislation would be “OK with me” – which marked his strongest signal […]

AI “Circle Jerk” Rages On: Microsoft, Nvidia Invest $15 Billion In Anthropic Two months ago, when nobody was talking about the coming AI debt tsunami needed to bankroll trillions in data-center capex, and nobody was paying attention to Oracle’s CDS quietly blow out, and well ahead of the Bank of England’s AI valuation warning, we published “The Stunning Math Behind The AI Vendor Financing “Circle Jerk,” essentially laying out all […]