Zelenskyy Says He Had ‘Long And Substantive’ Phone Call With Witkoff, Kushner As Peace Talks Continue Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that he had a “long and substantive phone call” with his national security secretary Rustem Umerov, Ukrainian negotiator Andrii Hnatov, special envoy Steve Witkoff, and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who were gathered in South Florida. “I am […]

‘Twas The Night Before Fed Day… By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Maybe it was being in Europe, with a particular shout-out to Zurich for putting me in a holiday mood. Academy also has our holiday party this week, which I’m looking forward to, though I’m not sure why I thought guest hosting Bloomberg TV at 6am the next morning would be a good idea. Or maybe it was the daunting task of needing to write about something that […]

Barclays Asks: Netflix-Warner Bros Deal – Holy Grail… Or Poisoned Chalice? Senators, including Mike Lee, quickly flagged antitrust concerns after Netflix unveiled its $72 billion bid for Warner Bros. (film and TV studios, HBO, and HBO Max), signaling a high likelihood of congressional hearings in the near future. Hollywood insiders were sharply divided, while Wall Street analysts questioned the marriage of a digital disruptor […]

‘Fourth Reich’: Musk Strikes Back At EU ‘Tyrants’ After X Fine Update (1300ET): Elon Musk is not taking the outrageous fine from Brussels bureaucrats lying down, lashing out at EU officialdom for taking on Nazi characteristics and oppressing their own citizens’ best interests… The tyrannical, unelected bureaucracy oppressing the people of Europe are in the second picture https://t.co/j6CFFbajJa — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) […]

Biden, Who Swore He Was Fit For Another Term, Butchers America’s Name Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Former President Joe Biden resurfaced on Friday and stumbled through his remarks once again, months after insisting he was fit to serve another term and not too long after announcing he had stage IV cancer.  The 83-year-old former president mangled the country’s name as “Amerigotit” while delivering a […]

Russian Forces Advance As Ukraine Hit By More Than 600 Drone Strikes Overnight Russian forces made advances in Ukraine as U.S. and Ukrainian officials prepared for a third day of peace talks in Miami. Russia unleashed 51 missiles and 623 drone strikes on Dec. 6, which was observed as Armed Forces Day in Ukraine. Ukraine shot down 30 missiles and neutralized 585 drones in the attack, which targeted residential buildings, energy […]

California Agency Approves Water Management Plan Increasing Output Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has approved a revised plan for managing California’s Central Valley Project (CVP), with the goal of sending more water to farmers in the state An aerial view shows Friant Dam, which holds back Millerton Lake in Friant, Calif., on March 7, 2025. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo The […]

Denmark Cuts Ukraine Aid Nearly In Half Amid Corruption Scandal Denmark plans to scale back its military assistance to Ukraine next year, and the amount cut is being widely reported as a huge amount – up to almost half of what’s it’s been since 2022. According to Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the tiny northern European country has long stood out for its exceptionally high contributions that it made earlier in the conflict, […]

As The Year Ends, What Does 2026 Hold Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Markets opened in December with a surge in optimism as retail investors regained their “bullish spirit.” That improvement continues to build on the bullish case we discussed last week: “Seasonality, positioning, and trend still lean in favor of the bulls. December is historically one of the stronger months for equities, […]

Goldman Reveals Housing “Affordability Illusion” When Factoring Other Costs Affordability has surged into the news cycle and is almost certain to dominate the coming midterm election cycle. And when voters talk about “affordability,” they’re most concerned about the basic cost of living. Beyond food and healthcare, nothing hits harder than housing costs.  Goldman analysts led by Arun Manohar have some bad news on the […]

Climate Groups Falter, Bill Gates Recalibrates, But Al Gore Soldiers On Authored by Gary Abernathy of The Empowerment Alliance, It’s been an interesting few weeks on the climate hysteria front. Organizations associated with climate alarmism have recently found themselves engulfed in turmoil. Bill Gates has recanted earlier predictions of gloom and doom. But the Father of Climate Panic, former Vice President Al Gore, remains […]

Trump’s 3 Choices In Ukraine (A Win-Win-Win For Russia) Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, With the War in Ukraine now approaching its fifth year and possibly reaching a climatic stage, it’s timely to offer an overview of the situation. This overview has three vectors – the situation on the battlefield, the corruption scandal rocking Kyiv, and the prospects for the success of the Trump peace plan. The thread […]

Iran’s Executions Reach Decade High Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people between January and September 2025, the highest number of yearly death penalties conducted in Iran that Amnesty International has recorded in at least 15 years. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiat shows in the chart below, within less than nine months, the number of people executed by the regime has already surpassed last year’s grim total of […]

French Government Plan To ‘Label’ News Outlets Backfires Spectacularly Via Remix News, A few weeks back, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a new “media labeling” system, while also assuring citizens that this “media accreditation” will not include any sort of state-backed labeling.  Suffice it to say, these assurances have only stoked fears of an authoritarian creep into the media sphere.  Back in November, […]

Washington’s New National Security Strategy Details How Trump 2.0 Will Respond To Multipolarity Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Trump 2.0 just released its National Security Strategy (NSS). It can be read in full here, but for those with limited time, the present piece will summarize its contents. The new NSS reconceptualizes, narrows, and reprioritizes US interests. Focus is placed on the primacy of nations over […]

Indonesia Remains The World’s Most Generous Nation Started in 2012, Giving Tuesday, which takes place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is a day which aims to encourage people to do good. Described as “a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity”, the goal of Giving Tuesday is to encourage people to donate time or money or to use their voice for a good cause. While generosity may seem like a […]

Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat, Israel’s advocates inside the United States are growing […]

Americans Worry Most Among Developed Nations About Food Security Concerning nations surveyed in Statista’s Consumer Insights, Americans were among those most worried about food and water security. Indeed, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, while for most European nations, worry about the topic peaked during the coronavirus pandemic and the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, concern has remained elevated in the United […]

Out Of Sight: Following The Money Trail Of Missing Child Border Crossers Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, On the campaign trail, Vice President JD Vance repeatedly chastised the Biden administration for allegedly losing track of some 320,000 minors who had crossed the border unaccompanied. “Our government, under the policies of Kamala Harris, has lost thousands of innocent children to sex trafficking, to drug […]

Embarrassing: Canada Very Belatedly Removes Syria’s Ruling HTS From Terror List The fact that Syria’s head of state got his start working for ISIS, and was a founding member of Syrian al-Qaeda, continues to produce embarrassing headlines.  One full year after former president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown and fled to Moscow, Canada has very belatedly removed President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s militia group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham from […]

Zelensky ‘Systematically Sabotaged’ Ukraine Anti-Corruption Efforts, NYT Concludes  Via The Cradle Over the past four years, the Ukrainian government “systematically sabotaged” oversight of the country’s state-owned companies and weapons procurement processes, “allowing graft to flourish,” a freshly published New York Times investigation has revealed. The investigation details how the government of Volodymyr Zelensky sidelined […]

Where Are America’s Dry Counties? While the U.S. ended federal Prohibition in 1933, local restrictions on alcohol still persist across the country to this day. As Visual Capitalist shows in the map below, based on work by Wikipedia user Mr. Matté, many counties remain “dry,” banning the sale of alcohol entirely, or “moist,” allowing only limited sales. Where Alcohol is Still Restricted The data, crowdsourced from […]

General Flynn: Strategic Assessment Of Marxist-Style Color Revolution Targeting America Authored by Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), The American people have just taken their first full breath after surviving an attempt to smother the Republic through a Marxist-inspired cultural campaign carried out largely through the administrative state, media, academia, and politicized elements of the national security bureaucracy. Most citizens […]

CDC Advisory Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot Recommendation For Newborns The vaccine industrial complex is likely fuming this morning after a federal advisory panel voted to end the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B shot at birth. The vote marks a major victory for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” effort to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule amid […]

21 States Are At Risk Of Losing SNAP Funding Amid Fraud Investigation Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The federal government said it would withhold Supplemental Nutrition Aid Program (SNAP) funds for states that do not report user data.  The news came from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins earlier this week, following months of requests and investigations into […]