A Russian-US ‘New Détente’ Could Revolutionize The Global Economic Architecture Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It was explained in this analysis about “How A Rapprochement With Russia Helps The US Advance Its Goals Vis-à-vis China” that joint strategic resource investments after the end of the Ukrainian Conflict, particularly in energy and critical minerals, can assist the US in economically competing with China. […]

Watch: US Naval Forces Now Have Suicide Drones U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the 5th Fleet successfully tested a low-cost kamikaze drone from the deck of the USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32), an Independence-class littoral combat ship.   The test of the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) was completed in the Arabian Gulf region and marks a “significant milestone in rapidly delivering affordable and effective […]

The Crisis Of Disability In America Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The Bureau of Labor Statistics has an ongoing household survey to provide a snapshot of where we are in jobs and the labor market generally. This survey has usually proven to be the most accurate measure. Part of the survey includes questions concerning disability. It’s not about claims; it’s about answers to the following questions. Are you […]

Malaysia’s Johor State Emerges As Magnet For AI Data Centers Johor, in southern Malaysia, has rapidly become a major destination for data center investment—driven by two big forces: companies diversifying supply chains amid geopolitical tension, and a post–late 2022 surge in compute demand from generative AI that’s reshaping where Asian capacity gets built, according to Nikkei. What makes Johor especially attractive is its […]

Tennessee Governor Pardons Country Star Jelly Roll For Past Convictions Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee granted a pardon Thursday to Grammy-nominated country artist Jelly Roll for his previous criminal convictions, noting the musician’s journey from incarceration to advocacy and stardom. The pardon, one of 33 clemency actions granted by the Republican governor in light of the Christmas […]

China Says Region Closer To War Due To US Record Taiwan Arms Package China on Friday heaped more condemnation on Washington’s approving a record-setting $11.1 billion weapons package for Taiwan this week, warning that the deal risks turning the island into a “powder keg” and plunging the region into “military confrontation and war.” A significant amount of medium to long-range missile systems are part of the planned transfer, […]

Dumber, Sicker, & Poorer The chart below is a fascinating snapshot of the last 75 years in the demise of the American empire. As The Burning Platform’s Jim Quinn explains in his no-nonsense manner, there are currently 164 million people employed in America. About 34 million of those are employed part-time. When you understand the working age population is 275 million and your friendly number fudgers at the BLS declare 103 […]

California Expected To Defy Federal Pressure, And Reissue 17,000 Non-Domiciled CDLs By Rob Carpenter of FreightWaves California is expected to begin reissuing approximately 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses that the state had planned to revoke following federal enforcement pressure. The decision comes despite ongoing corrective action requirements from FMCSA and raises fundamental questions about federal […]

Justice Department Quietly Reverses Clinton-Era Rule On Immigrant Welfare Benefits For almost 30 years, a key part of America’s 1996 welfare reform laws has existed mostly on paper after the Clinton DOJ effectively nullified it with a loophole. Now, the Trump DOJ says it’s time to enforce those laws as Congress originally wrote them. Clinton signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. […]

Trump Halts Diversity Green Card Lottery After Brown, MIT Shootings Trace To Non-Citizen President Trump ordered the suspension of the U.S. green card diversity lottery after federal investigators said the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT nuclear scientist was a non-citizen who entered the country through the program. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in an X post late Thursday that, at […]

Reversing Alzheimer’s: The Forgotten Causes And Cures Big Pharma Buried Authored by A Midwestern Doctor via The Forgotten Side of Medicine, •Due to Alzheimer’s research focusing on a symptom of it (amyloid plaques), rather than its actual cause, Alzheimer’s has remained “incurable” for decades. •Rather than being a single disease, Alzheimer’s has multiple different subtypes (e.g., those due to insulin resistance, […]

Why Netflix Buying Warner Bros. Discovery Is A Bad Bet For Investors Authored by Mark Anthony of Forrester Research, Eaerlier this week, Netflix responded to the vast industry concerns about its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery from the likes of the Writers Guild of America and a who’s-who list of elected officials, including liberal ones like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, by stating that “the “deal is […]

Venezuela Vows To Defend ‘Homeland At Any Cost’ – Orders Naval Escorts Of Tankers Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez has said Venezuela would defend the “homeland at any cost” in response to President Trump’s declaration that he’s imposing a blockade on all “sanctioned” tankers entering and leaving Venezuelan ports. “We say to the US government and its president that we […]

Biden White House Coordinated Mar-A-Lago Raid Before Taking Conversations ‘Offline’ Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi, revealed that the Biden White House was actively “coordinating” with the Department of Justice regarding an FBI search for classified documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence – before the discussion later moved “offline.” In an interview with the New York Post, […]

DOJ Releases Epstein Files, And [REDACTED] Update (1756ET): What were you expecting?  The ‘long awaited’ Epstein files were released a few hours ago by the DOJ, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.  TL;DR – A solid collection of new pictures and files with massive redactions throughout, and no bombshells yet. Click into Nick Monroe’s thread of interesting shit if you’re curious: UGH fine. I have the day off […]

Mass Attacks: We’re On Our Own Authored by Mike McDaniel via American Thinker, The attacks at Bondi Beach, Australia and at Brown University remind us western democracies remain uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks, even terrorists armed with common firearms rather than the automatic weapons employed in the Middle East and other hot spots.  In Australia at least 16, aged 10-87, were killed and some 40 were wounded at a […]

Trump Admin Launches Retaliatory Strikes In Syria, Hours After Officially Repealing Sanctions Update (1700ET): Just hours after officially repealing sanctions on the country, the US military began a large-scale attack against Islamic State targets in Syria as the Trump admin retaliated for the death of three Americans last week. The Wall Street Journal reports that a U.S. military official said Friday that dozens of targets were […]

Timeline: The Sabotage Of The Clinton Foundation Investigation Authored by Techno Fog via The Reactionary, This week, Senator Chuck Grassley released Department of Justice and FBI records that provide a new look on how FBI and DOJ leadership sabotaged the investigation into the Clinton Foundation. These records, which include internal emails, summaries of high-level meetings and calls, and intelligence from confidential human […]

‘Patriot Games’: UFC Fight At White House To Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 18 that an athletic contest and a UFC fight will occur next year in honor of America’s 250th birthday. The “Patriot Games” will span four days, featuring high school athletes – a male and a female from each state and territory, the president said. He did not go into details as to what would be played […]

“No Arrests!” But More ‘Developments’… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The frantic ceremonies of Christmas shopping climax now. . . the stockings are hung by the chimney with care. . . and the republic judders into the darkest season of an evil era. You fear the one gift you have waited for lo these twelve months will not be delivered: the frog-marching of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Strzok, HRC, Mayorkas, Monaco, Rosenstein, […]

What Inflation Alarmists Missed In Their Warnings Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last couple of years, inflation alarmists such as Paul Tudor Jones, James Grant, and Jeff Gundlach have all said that inflation is returning with force. In different ways, they each stated that they would not own Treasury bonds due to the expectation that inflation would rise as the dollar declined due to the […]

Kevin Plank, Goldman Sachs Exit Any Further Development Of Billion-Dollar Ghost Town Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank, along with Goldman Sachs, is stepping away from further development of Baltimore Peninsula, formerly known as Port Covington, a 235-acre mixed-use waterfront redevelopment project in South Baltimore. Originally pitched as a 14-million-square-foot mini-city anchored by a new UA headquarters, a new report […]

Russia’s Oil Exports Face Delays As Tankers Take 70% Longer Route By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Oil tankers carrying Russian oil appear to be avoiding the fastest Black Sea route to the Turkish straits and travel along the Georgian and Turkish coasts to avoid drone attacks from Ukraine, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.  In recent weeks, several ships linked to Russia have been hit by Ukrainian drones […]

Centrus Energy Soars After Starting Commercial Uranium Enrichment Activity The long awaited buildout of Centrus Energy’s uranium enrichment facility is finally underway as the company announced this morning it has begun constructing new centrifuges to support commercial production of low-enriched uranium (LEU). LEU stock is surging as much as 14% on the news.  Why should anyone care though? We already have Urenco producing […]

Putin Identifies The Main Issue Which Will Settle Ukraine War In Year-End Q&A Russian President Vladimir Putin made clear during his annual end of year question-and-answer session in Moscow that the matter of Ukraine ceding land which Russia now controls is the heart of the issue when it comes to peace talks. The issue of territory gained, lost, to be ceded or not, remains the prime topic that must be considered, but it’s the […]