Macron’s AI Clown Show: Europe’s Digital Dilemma Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The European Union has lost its place in the global race for artificial intelligence. In a single tweet on platform X, France’s President Emmanuel Macron inadvertently outlined the convoluted situation while simultaneously revealing his personal emotional fragility. The leading representatives of the European Union like to present themselves as […]

Amid Saber-Rattling, Iran Touts Economic Benefits To West If Nuclear Deal Reached Days ahead of another round of talks with US negotiators — and on the heels of more saber-rattling by the Trump administration — Iran is touting the potential mutual economic benefits of a deal that would terminate the West’s long-running sanctions regime against the second-largest and second-most-populous country in the Middle East.   “For the […]

Germany’s Elites Demand “Location Patriotism” As Green Industrial Policy Unravels Submitted by Thomas Kolbe As social glue and as a bond tying the individual to a higher purpose of existence, patriotism has acquired a dubious reputation in Germany after decades of culture war. The United Left has succeeded in amalgamating this binding and integrating cultural ferment with the historical catastrophes of National Socialism, […]

Hillary Clinton Breaks With Party Line, Admits Mass Migration Is “Disruptive & Destabilizing” After U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke earlier on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, where he said the U.S. and Europe “belong together” and argued for a stronger West, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who served under former President Barack Obama, appeared on a panel later that afternoon and made […]

These Are The Countries Buying (And Selling) The Most Gold Since 2020 As gold prices surged more than 230% since 2020, central banks around the world launched one of the largest gold-buying waves in modern history. For many countries, bullion became more than just a hedge—it became a strategic reserve asset amid rising geopolitical tensions, currency volatility, and growing efforts to diversify away from the U.S. dollar. Yet […]

India Might Soon Replace Russian Oil With Venezuelan At Scale After All Authored by Andrew Korybko, A new US license is being interpreted as prohibiting Venezuelan energy companies from transactions with China among other countries, which if true, could lead to India purchasing the 642,000 barrels of oil per day that China imported on average last year and thus halving its import of Russian oil. RT drew attention on social […]

Mercedes-Benz Recalls Nearly 12,000 Electric Vehicles, Says Battery Packs Could Ignite What happens when spending $70,000 to signal virtue with your fancy EV goes wrong? FIRE!  Mercedes-Benz USA has announced a recall of 11,895 electric vehicles due to potentially faulty cells in the automobiles’ high-voltage battery packs that could lead to a fire, like what happened in front of a MBZ dealer in Malaysia in 2024 – though […]

‘No Prospect’ Of European Governments Preventing Civil War, Warns British Army Colonel Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Major unrest looms as political leaders kick the can down the road on immigration and integration failures, according to a seasoned military expert. Retired Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, has issued a stark warning about the trajectory of social cohesion […]

Munich, 2007: The Day The West Was Told ‘No’ Authored by Gerry Nolan via The Islander They like to pretend it came out of nowhere. They like the bedtime story: Europe was peacefully humming along in its post-history spa — open borders, cheap energy, NATO as a charity, Russia as a gas station with a flag… and then, one day, the barbarian kicked the door in for no reason at all. That story is not just dishonest. It’s […]

The “Swipe Era” Has Forever Reshaped How Couples Meet Tinder forever changed the landscape of online dating when it introduced the swipe function in 2012: left to pass, right to like. The result was a gamified experience that felt frictionless and addictive. Other dating apps copied it, and then the “swipe era” ignited. Before that, online dating was mostly on boring websites, like Christian Mingle and Farmers Only, that felt […]

The Biggest Bait-and-Switch War Of The Century Authored by Jim Bovard A few presidencies ago, Washington politicians used boundless political and intellectual chicanery to drag America into a ruinous war. Thousands of Americans died and scores of thousands of Iraqis perished due to the official myth of Saddam Hussein as the twentieth hijacker. Last November, Axios published new damning information on the role of Saudi government […]

Bastards, Worldwide Across much of the world, long-standing norms around marriage and family formation are changing. In many countries, having children outside of marriage has become increasingly common, while in others it remains rare. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows countries ranked by the share of children born outside of marriage using the latest available data from the OECD Family Database. […]

After Years Of Border Crisis, Small Texas Town ‘Back To Mayberry’ Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—The chaos caused by millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the southwest border under the Biden administration left scars on this border town. Samira Bouaou; Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times ​The constant high-speed chases, buzzing helicopters, screaming […]

“You Ought To Be In Jail”: Senator Unloads On Minnesota AG Ellison Over Fraud Scandal During a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing this week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) confronted Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. The Missouri Republican exposed Ellison’s ties to the Feeding Our Future scandal, where fraudsters stole $250 million in federal child nutrition funds.  Hawley didn’t hold back, […]

How Deep Is The Deep State? Authored by Roger Kimball via American Greatness, How deep is the deep state?  That’s a question I have thought and written about a lot.  I had something to say about it recently at The Spectator on the occasion of Abigail Spanberger’s recent election as governor of Virginia. It saddens me to report that every time I think I have taken the measure of the Leviathan that is the deep state, new […]

EVs Become New Affordability Play: Buy Used, Three Years Old, Save 50% Electric car affordability remains out of reach for many consumers because these vehicles still cost more than petrol-powered cars, with average transaction prices for a new EV in August 2025 at about $57,000. Still, some buyers want EVs and are turning to the used car market. Bloomberg reports that the used EV market saw about 89,000 vehicles change hands in […]

The Least Laid Generation In History: Gen Z Is Ghosting Sex… And The Implications Are Huge Authored by Scott Pinsker via PJMedia.com, So, barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew Honey, why don’t we get drunk and screw? – Jimmy Buffett, Why Don’t We Get Drunk (and Screw) It’s not just sex: Alcohol consumption has dropped by 54%, with youth (18 to 34) drinking falling ANOTHER 9% just between 2023 and 2025. […]

Trump Admin Launches Investigation Into Texas’s Muslim-Only Community Project Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is investigating entities involved in a planned Muslim housing development in Texas due to concerns the initiative may have engaged in discrimination based on religion and nationality, the department said in a Feb. 13 statement. HUD’s probe will […]

Leftists Install Unauthorized Sirens Across LA To Warn Illegals Of ICE Raids Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Radical leftists in Los Angeles’ Highland Park neighborhood are installing unauthorized sirens to alert illegals when ICE agents are nearby, creating a city-wide network to sabotage federal deportation efforts. This brazen move highlights the escalating desperation of open-borders agitators, who are […]

Moscow Repels Another Large-Scale Ukrainian Drone Attack, Flights Briefly Grounded Russian officials are describing a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeting the capital of Moscow on Sunday. While not the first time, such aerial assaults so deep in Russian territory have remained somewhat rare. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Sunday afternoon that Russian air defenses intercepted 13 drones headed for the capital, as regional […]

The AI Transition: Even Dinosaurs Weren’t Stupid Enough To Create Their Own Extinction Event By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities A Bridge Too Far? The AI TRANSITioN? Last weekend we discussed Molotov Cocktails, Volatility, Stability, & Faux Liquidity. In a nutshell, it was about: The transition from one steady state to another steady state can be volatile. A rules-based world, dependent on trade, to a ProSec-based world […]

Pentagon Gaming Out “Sustained, Weeks-Long Military Campaign” Against Iran Which Could Open Pandora’s Box The Pentagon is preparing for a “sustained, weeks-long military campaign” against Iran if President Trump gives the green light, according to fresh reporting in Reuters which cites two US officials. The scenario under review envisions a far broader conflict than last June’s 12-day war, when the US and Israel launched strikes on […]

As Demand Grows, US Nuclear Energy Industry Faces Looming Crunch In Reactor Fuel Supply Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, The Department of Energy (DOE) has invested billions in incentivizing domestic production of enriched uranium for the commercial development of advanced nuclear reactors, including $2.7 billion issued last month to three companies to build centrifuges and processing plants necessary to produce fuel […]

Border Patrol Fired Army Lasers At Party Balloons, Forcing El Paso Air Traffic Shutdown On Wednesday, after the FAA suddenly shut down airspace over El Paso, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the unsettling move was prompted by a “cartel drone incursion,” and assured Americans that “the threat has been neutralized.” However, that shutdown, which impeded everything from commercial air traffic to medevac helicopter […]

“This Alliance Has To Look Different Because The World Looks Different”: Rubio Expands On Historic Speech In Munich Authored by ‘sundance’ via The Last Refuge, Marco Rubio appears for an interview with John Micklethwait of Bloomberg News. The interview was pre-scheduled as a follow up to the rather historic speech in Munich at the security conference. Within the interview {video and transcript below} Rubio expands on the baseline […]