CEO Of Crowd-For-Hire Company Calls For Transparency In Who Funds Demonstrations Via American Greatness, The CEO of Crowds On Demand is urging members of Congress to pass a Transparency In Political Demonstration Act (TPDA) that would require greater transparency in groups that hire demonstrators for events around the country. Adam Swart wrote a letter to Congress on November 11, calling for more transparency in who is hiring […]

BBC Edits Trump; Trump Still The Villain Authored by Jenna McCarthy via Jenna’s Side Substack, “Sure, we misquoted him. But now he’s weaponizing our mistake!” Remember that fateful January day when the sitting President of the United States ordered all his angry, disappointed supporters to rush down to the Capitol—where they were busy certifying his opponent’s stolen Electoral College victory—and fight like hell? I […]

Germany Marches Toward Reinstating Military Conscription, Starting With Fitness Database Under US pressure to bolster its armed forces so as to deter supposed Russian aspirations to invade NATO countries, Germany is moving toward reinstating military conscription, with the initial steps centering questionnaires and medical exams that will feed a database detailing each young man’s fitness, aptitude and willingness to serve. The plan […]

New Facial Recognition Vans Rolled Out For Use By 7 More UK Police Forces PA Media via The Epoch Times, A new fleet of facial recognition vans are to be rolled out by seven police forces across the UK in an expanded pilot programme. A police officer views a camera feed from inside a live facial recognition (LFR) van. Andrew Matthews/PA The Metropolitan Police, South Wales Police and Essex Police have been using the facial […]

US, Switzerland Reach Tariff Deal That Lowers Duties, Stokes Investment The United States and Switzerland have reached a trade deal under which Swiss imports to America will be subject to a reduced 15 percent duty, officials said. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC on Nov. 14 that the administration had “essentially reached a deal” with the Swiss government after months of negotiations in the context of […]

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 […]

Germany’s “Council Of Economic Experts” Calls For Higher Inheritance Taxes, And Bows To The State Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In its latest annual report, Germany’s Council of Economic Experts — once regarded as a market-oriented corrective to government excess — has presented what can only be described as a courtesy opinion. Rather than challenging the political status quo, the five “wise men” largely echo Berlin’s own […]

Friday Night Meltdown: Trump Yanks MTG Endorsement, Mocks Massie’s Remarriage After Wife’s Death Capping a week in which he faced a coordinated blitz by Democrats and allied journalists working to implicate him in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump had a social media meltdown Friday night, lashing out at two GOP representatives who both enjoy deep national support among conservatives. Trump withdrew his endorsement of […]

Climate Circus COP30: Capital Bazaar And Moral Rejuvenation Submitted by Thomas Kolbe From November 10 to 21, the latest climate summit, COP30, is taking place in Belém, Brazil — a global stage for fighting what is labeled the “climate-damaging gas” carbon dioxide. Germany has sent a 170-member delegation to participate — ostensibly to “save the planet,” but more realistically to distribute German taxpayers’ money […]

Deep In The Fourth Turning: The Darkest Hours Are Before The Dawn Via Gold and Geopolitics Substack, Foreword I first thought to write this as a multi-part series, but I finally decided to group everything together as it wouldn’t do justice to this article. There’s a lot to unpack when discussing the ongoing societal changes, and I feel I barely touched on anything but the essence of that. Even then, standing at more than 6000 […]

Russia Still Open To Trump-Backed Peace Talks, But Ukraine Must Open Door: Kremlin Clearly the status of US efforts to find peace in Ukraine have stalled to the point of dying, following the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska back in August. Since then attacks on energy sites by both warring countries have only intensified. The White House in the meantime unleashed its latest round of sanctions targeting Russia’s two state oil majors […]

Major American Fast Food Chain Moo-ving To Popular ‘New’ Milk Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake announced in a Nov. 13 alert on X that it is changing its milk and chocolate milk to A2 beginning Dec. 1. A sign for the Steak ‘n Shake chain restaurant in Middletown, Del., on July 26, 2019. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Steak ‘n Shake said the shift was due to A2 being […]

Humanoid Robot Roundup: Auto Industry Poised To Lead First Wave Of Adoption In last week’s “Humanoid Robot Roundup” report, we provided readers with additional color on Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot following the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas. Limited production of Optimus has already begun at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory, with plans to scale production next year. In this week’s robotics roundup, we […]

Anti-Abortion ‘Word Game’ Referred To Aussie Authorities For Investigation Authored by Naziya Alvi Rahman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A fundraising “game” created by prominent anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe has sparked political backlash in South Australia. Joanna Howe speaks to supporters of an abortion law reform gather on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide, Sept. 25, 2024. AAP Image/Matt Turner It has […]

Consumers Ditch Restaurants For Groceries As Budgets Break  Goldman analysts led by Christine Cho attended the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference (RFDC) in Las Vegas earlier this week. The conference drew restaurant executives and founders, franchisees and multi-unit operators, private-equity investors and lenders, industry consultants, and other stakeholders across the broader restaurant ecosystem. Cho and her team […]

Bipartisan Congressional Report Finds CCP Manipulates Global Mineral Prices Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A bipartisan congressional report published on Nov. 12 revealed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manipulates critical minerals markets to further its global ambitions. A worker at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd, which makes lithium batteries for electric cars […]

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 […]