Sam Altman Quietly Tried To Buy A Rocket Startup To Compete With Musk’s SpaceX The relationship between the OpenAI cofounders, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, has devolved into X sparring and legal battles. As the conversation surrounding data center shifts to space, a new report specifies that Altman attempted to acquire a rocket company to compete with Musk’s SpaceX. The Wall Street Journal reports that Altman explored acquiring or […]

Treasury Boss Bessent Nukes NYT Hypocrisy Over Desperate Trump Health Smears Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered a brutal takedown of legacy media frauds Wednesday, calling out The New York Times for their shameless double standard on presidential fitness. Fresh off a three-hour cabinet marathon with President Trump, Bessent faced down a Times hack at their own summit and laid […]

‘No Hire, No Fire’ Economy Confirmed As US Jobless Claims & Hiring Plans Plummet With the spice flowing once again (post shutdown), initial jobless claims continue to signal no labor market pain at all… plummeting last week to 191k (the lowest since Sept 2022 and before that the lowest since 1969!!) Distortions around Thanksgiving likely skewed the reading, with California, Texas, and New York saw the largest drop in […]

Futures Rise, S&P Set For 8th Gain In 9 Days US equity futures rise, trading less than a percent away from a new record high amid signs of a leadership rotation with Big Tech not leading the bounce this time. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 contracts are higher by about 0.1% after climbing in seven of the past eight sessions and extend on Wednesday’s gains when bad news was good news as a soft ADP jobs report bolstered […]

Ex-Pornhub Owner Interested In Purchasing Lukoil Assets By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Austrian businessman Bernd Bergmair, former majority owner of Pornhub, has approached the U.S. Treasury about buying assets of Russian oil major Lukoil after the Trump administration sanctioned the company.  “Obviously Lukoil International GmbH would be a great investment and anybody would be fortunate to have the privilege of owning […]

Goldman Warns Copper’s Parabolic Breakout Lacks Stability Copper futures on the London Metal Exchange opened the week with a breakout to new record highs (see report). On Wednesday, we highlighted a Goldman note detailing the “circular melt-up” mechanics driving the move higher. By Thursday, a separate Goldman analyst was cautioning clients that the parabolic move above $11,000/ton is unlikely to last. At 6:30 ET, LME copper […]

Clear That ‘Something Behind The Scenes Is Breaking’ Holter Warns, We’re Headed For A Derivative Meltdown Authored by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter (aka Mr. Gold) said at the beginning of November that there was “more risk in the financial system now than any time ever.”   There are so many ways the system can break down it’s hard to keep track, but let’s […]

European Carmakers Surge After Trump Rolls Back Fuel Rules European automaker shares rose sharply on Thursday after President Donald Trump moved to roll back U.S. fuel economy limits established under Joe Biden, according to Reuters. The administration framed the proposal as a way to lower consumer costs by making it easier for companies to sell gasoline-powered vehicles. By mid-morning, Porsche shares were up more than 5%, […]

America’s Great Build-A-Thon Comes With A Price Tag Authored by David Parsons via BondVigilantes.com, The United States is on the brink of an industrial transformation that could redefine its economic trajectory. Inward investment is surging, driven by a wave of new manufacturing plants, onshoring and reshoring initiatives, and a parallel boom in data centre and power generation construction. This is not incremental change; it is a […]

Victor Davis Hanson Proclaims “The End Of Climate Change” Decades of ‘consensus’ around so-called climate catastrophe are now running into new economic, technological, and geopolitical realities. Mix in AI and its unprecedented demand for large-scale electricity generation, and we have a global climate conversation that demands to be reckoned with. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down how the foundations of decades of “green […]

80% Of Milan’s Predatory Crimes Are Committed By Foreigners, Police Chief Warns MPs As Olympics Looms Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Eighty percent of Milan’s predatory crimes are committed by foreigners, Police Commissioner Bruno Megale told a parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday, outlining what he described as the city’s most pressing public-order challenge. Speaking before the commission on suburban issues, […]

Macron Wants To Go Full “Ministry Of Truth” With Draconian Censorship Grab French President Emmanuel Macron is facing fierce pushback from conservative voices within France over his renewed drive to grant the state sweeping new censorship powers, Barron’s reports. On Friday, Macron once again raised the alarm about so-called “disinformation” spreading on social media, insisting that parliament grant authorities the ability […]

The “Community Of Central Asia” Could Reduce Russia’s Regional Influence Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Central Asian Republics (CARs) fall within Russia’s “sphere of influence” for historical, economic, and security reasons. The first stems from their shared history under the Russian Empire and USSR, the second from the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in which Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan participate, […]

German Army Launches Major Security Probe After 20,000 Rounds Stolen From Civilian Truck In Unsecured Parking Lot Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Approximately 20,000 rounds of Bundeswehr ammunition were stolen from a civilian transport truck after the driver parked overnight in an unsecured industrial-area lot near Burg, outside Magdeburg, the German defense ministry confirmed on Monday. The incident, first reported […]

How Obama Paved The Way For Trump’s Venezuelan Killings Authored by Jim Bovard The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama. In his 2017 farewell address, […]

Japan’s Sanae Takaichi Seeks To Ease Deepening Row With China, Reaffirms Taiwan Status Quo Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi finally appears to be backing down amid recent escalating punitive measures imposed on Tokyo by China in the areas of trade, diplomacy, and tourism. Beijing has been dialing up the pressure for weeks, after the new prime minister nearly a month ago told Japanese parliament an attack on Taiwan by the […]

China’s Real Estate Collapse Sends Local Debt To Record $18.9 Trillion Almost 20 years ago, when the Lehman/AIG collapse and the ensuing global financial crisis sent the world into a brief but acute depression, it was China’s massive debt-fueled growth dynamo that kick started the world economy and lifted the globe out of what would have been a lost decade – if not worse. The one trade off to this historic kickstart: China ended up […]

New Chilling Theory Reveals ‘Blackmail’ Threat Posed By Afghan Refugees Last week, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem revealed that Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man accused of shooting two National Guard troops in Washington, DC, last week, killing one and leaving the other severely wounded, was likely radicalized in the United States after being allowed in this country under the Biden Administration’s Operation Allies […]

What To Know About The ‘764’ Online Predator Network And The Federal Crackdown Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are attempting to crack down on an online predator network known as “764,” as online exploitation of vulnerable groups increases. In this photo illustration, the TikTok app is seen on a phone in New York City on March 13, 2024. Michael M. […]

GOP Divide Deepens Over Venezuela: Ron Johnson Says “Get Rid of Maduro” While Rand Paul Calls It “Offensive War Of Choice” Authored by Liam Cosgrove, Tensions are brewing within the Republican party over the Trump administration’s stance on Venezuela – with some populist conservatives like Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) supporting all out regime change in the South American country, while Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has explicitly rejected […]

The Washington Post’s Attack On Veterans’ Integrity Authored by William Taylor via RealClearDefense, On the eve of Veterans Day, a moment meant for gratitude and reflection, The Washington Post doubled down on its campaign against those who have served, accusing America’s Veterans of feigning mental health injuries as a means to secure disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The article, one in an […]

China Debuts First Locally Built GE-Designed Gas Turbine China has launched its first power plant using an advanced gas turbine manufactured domestically, marking a major step toward reducing dependence on foreign technology amid a global equipment shortage, according to Bloomberg. China Energy Investment Corp. commissioned the Anji Power Plant, which operates two GE-designed turbines of roughly 400 megawatts each. Bloomberg […]

The Link Between Transgenderism and Autism Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Chloe Cole grew up a tomboy, was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by age 7, and referred for autism screening by age 17. Chloe Cole, who began transitioning at age 12 and now regrets surgically removing her breasts, holds testosterone medication used for transgender patients in Northern […]

Billions Spent By One-Party-Rule Maryland Democrats With Little Oversight The one-party rule of ‘Democratic Kings’ in Maryland continues to reveal an optically displeasing truth about these leftist activists masquerading as competent politicians, who are anything but, and their epic mismanagement of state finances has only occurred because of limited oversight into their radical agendas. Fox Baltimore reports that a state […]

US Data Center Power Demand Could Reach 106 GW By 2035 By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive Summary: U.S. data center power demand could reach 106 GW in 2035, BloombergNEF said Monday in one of the more aggressive load growth estimates to date. The U.S. had about 25 GW of operating data centers in 2024, Bloom Energy said earlier this year. BloombergNEF’s latest forecast is 36% higher than its previous prediction, released in April. […]