Why Exactly Did They Destroy The Border? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border? The Left typically “pounces” on anyone daring to suggest that the Biden administration had green-lighted illegal immigration to gain new constituents for agendas that otherwise were without broad public support. The Left smears critics of open borders as racist […]

Just When You Thought Obama’s Tower Of Doom Couldn’t Get Any More Ugly… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Barack Obama’s infamous Presidential Center in Chicago, already slammed as a dystopian “prison-like” monstrosity, has just received a bizarre new update that’s ignited widespread mockery online. The addition of disjointed words from one of Obama’s speeches has been dubbed “headache-inducing,” […]

Canada Announces Plan To Recruit Foreign Soldiers For Fast Track Immigration It’s a common theme throughout history – When governments go authoritarian, they often hire foreign soldiers in order to better control their respective populations or wage war on their neighbors.  The strategy is being implemented across Europe currently; with many nations taking in millions of third world migrants from Muslim nations and using targeted […]

Watch: GOP Releases Full Les Wexner Epstein Deposition The next day… The House Oversight Committee has released the full 5-hour deposition with Wexner, where he made a ton of hilarious faces and couldn’t recall lots of things.  🚨 BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee is releasing the FULL deposition video of Les Wexner from our Epstein investigation. No spin. The American people deserve to see the testimony for […]

Ethereum Foundation Lists ‘Quantum Readiness’ As 2026 Priority Authored by Ciaran Lyons via CoinTelegraph.com, The Ethereum Foundation has announced it is targeting faster transactions, smarter wallets, better cross-chain interoperability, and quantum-resistant security as its “protocol priorities” in 2026. In a statement published on Wednesday, the Ethereum Foundation outlined several goals, including continuing to scale […]

Trump Has A UFO Speech Ready To Deliver Documentary filmmaker Dan Farah appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast in November to promote his new documentary, The Age of Disclosure, and predicted that his film might force Trump to become the first world leader to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life publicly. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens soon after the film comes out — the sitting president has to step to the […]

California Planning To Sue Trump Admin Over Revised Child Vaccine Guidelines Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), California Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Feb. 17 that the state plans to take legal action against the Trump administration over the recent modifications to the childhood vaccine schedule. A man holds his 14-month-old son while he gets the MMR vaccine at a clinic in Lubbock, Texas, on […]

Whole Foods Ditching Its “Dystopian” Pay-By-Palm Biometric Payment Option Whole Foods Market is shutting down its palm-scan payment system nationwide, removing the devices from more than 500 stores by June 3 after shoppers largely ignored them. The chain, owned by Amazon, had pitched the feature as a frictionless way to pay. Instead, it became an experiment few customers embraced, according to The Daily Mail. The program, called […]

The Atlantic Busted Fabricating Dead Kid Measles Story Last Thursday, The Atlantic published a heart-wrenching story about an 11-month-old child who died of measles. Written in the second person from the perspective of a mother whose two unvaccinated children fell ill with the disease, the story is rich with personal detail; “You plant her on the couch with a blanket and put Bluey on the TV while she drifts in and out of […]

Teachers Are Fomenting Anti-ICE Hysteria Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, Employees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been busy lately, working to fulfill their mandate to remove undocumented immigrants. Perhaps the most controversial aspect of ICE’s activities is its alleged presence in public schools across the nation. But is ICE actually going into schools? Absolutely not. While there are […]

WTI Extends Geopolitical Risk Gains After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws Oil prices pushed higher Thursday on worries that nuclear talks between US and Iran might not avert a new conflict that could threaten supplies. “Oil is extending its gains, with Brent crude back above $70 a barrel… as fears of a military confrontation between the US and Iran rattled energy markets,” said Matt Britzman, senior equity analyst at Hargreaves […]

US Coast Guard Seizes $133.5 Million In Illicit Drugs Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Crew of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Cutter Seneca seized more than $133.5 million worth of cocaine and offloaded the drugs at Port Everglades, Florida, the agency said in a Feb. 13 statement. The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk (WMEC 913) and a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter flight crew conduct […]

Epstein Funded UCSD Study Of ‘Telepathic Autistic Savant’ Through Deepak Chopra Connection Jeffrey Epstein was connected with several notable scientists – funding leading research centers, including Harvard, where he donated $9 million, and MIT’s Media Lab, which he gave at least $7.5 million (and funneled another $1.2 million to investments under the control of the lab’s former director, Joi Ito). He was connected to Stephen […]

Epstein Ally Was Talking To Feds About Flip, Wanted $3 Million To Keep Quiet, Then Backed Off Deal French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel – whose network delivered new girls from around the world to Jeffrey Epstein on a regular basis, was prepared in 2016 to tell U.S. prosecutors what he knew about Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation. According to newly released files from the DOJ, the now-deceased Brunel’s lawyer was […]

Rep. Khanna To Force Vote On Iran War Powers: ‘Another Endless Dumb Foreign War’ Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said on Wednesday that he will force a vote on a War Powers Resolution meant to prevent President Trump from attacking Iran without congressional authorization, as required by the Constitution. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Khanna, and several other […]

New OpenAI Funding Round Could Top $100 Billion, Pushing Valuation North Of $850 Billion OpenAI’s private valuation could soon top $850 billion, as the first tranche of a new funding round is expected to raise more than $100 billion, giving the ChatGPT maker fresh powder for additional infrastructure spending and faster development of its AI tools, Bloomberg reported. People familiar with the fundraising told the outlet that the […]

Iran Will Be “Finding Out” Over Next 10 Days, Trump Says, But Asserts “Good Talks” Update(1021ET): As has become typical, President Trump is all over the place – his intentions ever more difficult to interpret – at a moment the media has highlighted Iraq war levels of military build-up in the Middle East with an eye on potential attack on Iran. On Thursday he oversaw the inaugural meeting in Washington DC of the Board of Peace […]

The US Must Be Confident It Has A Plan In Place To Lower Oil Prices Once It Strikes Iran By Michael Every of Rabobank Lots Of Xs Vs Lots Of Ys US vs. Iran: The media today talk of a “90% chance of war” and “as soon as Saturday.” We’ve long stressed there’s a high likelihood of a fresh US-Iran conflict, recent US logistics movements said soon, and an Axios headline yesterday refocused oil markets on it. The balance of […]

US Pending Home Sales Hit Record Low Despite Falling Mortgage Rates After plunging in December (biggest drop since COVID), US Pending Home Sales disappointed once again with a modest 0.8% MoM decline in January (+2.0% MoM exp). This left sales down 1.23% YoY… Source: Bloomberg This left the Pending Home Sales Index at a record low… Source: Bloomberg Mortgage rates continued to slide… so WTF is holding buyers back? […]

PJM Board Approves $11.8BN Transmission Expansion Plan By Ethan Howland Of UtilityDive The PJM Interconnection’s board last week approved $11.8 billion in baseline transmission projects, with Dominion Energy’s Virginia utility landing roughly $4.8 billion in those projects. The projects are part of PJM’s 2025 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan Window 1, which is designed to bolster grid reliability that is strained by […]

Bill Gates Pulls Out Of High-Profile Indian AI Summit As Epstein Fallout Accelerates The Epstein fallout continues to spread by the day, with billionaire Les Wexner saying he was “conned” by Jeffrey Epstein and insisting he “did nothing wrong” earlier this week, and with Prince Andrew (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) being arrested on Thursday morning over allegations that he shared confidential government trade documents with […]

US Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Worsens As Exports Slump Again In December For the second month in a row, US exports declined and imports rose in December, pushing the US trade balance significantly deeper into deficit. Imports rose (+3.6% vs +0.1% MoM exp) and exports fell (-1.7% vs +0.1% MoM exp) for the second month in a row… Source: Bloomberg Industrial Supplies appears to have seen the biggest shift in trade… Gold […]

Futures Slide As Iran War Risks Add To Growing AI Disruption Fears; Oil Surges Equity futures and global markets are lower, ending a modest rebound in US stocks as concerns about a possible war with US and simmering angst over AI dent the fragile optimism seen on Wednesday. Oil extended its rally after its best day since 2021. Tech and small caps underperform which to JPMorgan’s market intel desk “feels more like profit-taking […]

Initial Jobless Claims Tumble Back Near Multi-Decade Lows Despite the ongoing worsening trend in some labor market condition indicators – Payrolls revisions ugly, JOLTs are tumbling, Survey-based data showing jobs hard to get far worse than jobs plentiful – the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time fell to 206k (from 229k the prior week)… Source: Bloomberg That is back near multi-decade lows and at […]

US Is Rapidly Expanding Its Nuclear Supply Chain: It’s Not Nearly Fast Enough As we have repeatedly highlighted (most recently here), the much-hyped resurgence in US nuclear power is notable for one thing: the lack of actual new reactors. In fact, according to the latest Goldman Nuclear Nuggets monthly report, while China is currently building 38 new nuclear reactors – and both India and Russia have 6 reactors under construction – […]