‘Repatriate The Gold’: German Economists Urge Withdrawal From US Vaults Authored by Kate Connolly via The Guardian, Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts Germany is facing calls to withdraw its billions of euros’ worth of gold from US vaults, spurred on by the shift in transatlantic relations and the unpredictability of Donald Trump. Germany […]

Where The US Has Military Footholds In Europe Since the beginning of his second term one year ago, President Trump has escalated his public campaign regarding his plans for acquiring Greenland, framing the autonomous Danish territory as a “national security necessity” due to its Arctic location, while the island is also rich in untapped mineral resources. Trump’s rhetoric has ranged from offers to purchase the territory from […]

2026 Is The Year Of Balance Sheet Engineering In The Battery Storage Market By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com In the first quarter of 2026, the global energy storage market is no longer a playground for visionaries… it is a graveyard for the undercapitalized. The data is rough. As of March 2025, QuantumScape sat on $860 million in cash against a trailing twelve-month burn rate of $331 million. This 2.6-year window is the “valley […]

Trump Slams Davos Elites Over “Green New Scam” As Climate Crisis Narrative Falls Apart President Trump used his time at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to denounce the globalists’ disastrous “Green New Scam” policies that have caused degrowth in parts of the West and helped spark an energy crisis with soaring power prices. “You’re supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. Here in Europe, we’ve seen the […]

The AI Factor Behind Trump’s Power Play On China’s Oil Suppliers Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, Why is it so important to the Trump administration to take control of Venezuela and encourage the people of Iran to overthrow the Islamic regime? The link between the two is obviously oil. Of course, the strategy in Venezuela involves oil, but also includes restricting China’s influence in the Western Hemisphere, […]

Escobar: The Real “Rupture” In Davos Authored by Pepe Escobar, Whatever the barbarians may be potting, the fact that matters is that China is already deep into the next phase, where it is expected to replace the United States as the world’s primary consumer market. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci Davos 2026 was a demented kaleidoscope. The only […]

Visualizing The World’s 50 Most Powerful Militaries The recent U.S. operation against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro demonstrated that military power is not only about troop numbers or superior combat technology. With the successful extraction of Maduro and his wife from a military compound in just 2.5 hours, the extremely effective operation showed how far training, intelligence, and logistics go towards driving military […]

Lefty Protestor Bites Off Federal Officer’s Finger Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJMedia.com, It seems long past time for President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. In the chaos and violence following the death of an armed Minneapolis would-be terrorist shot while fighting Border Patrol, another protester has bitten off the finger of a federal officer. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary […]

Would Term Limits Make The DC Swamp Even Worse? Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities Though America is beset by increasingly bitter political divisions, there are two convictions that unite Americans across party and demographic lines. Large majorities are certain that Congress isn’t serving the interests of the American people, and that Capitol Hill would become far more virtuous with the imposition of term limits. Despite […]

House This Week Passed $839 Billion Defense Bill Bursting With Pork Authored by Alan Mosley via AntiWar.com, The House of Representatives on Thursday approved an $838.7 billion fiscal 2026 defense spending bill, moving one of the largest appropriations measures in US history toward final passage in the Senate. In a 341-88 vote that crossed party lines, lawmakers advanced the sprawling defense and related appropriations package, […]

Minneapolis Shooting Sparks Explosive Blame-Game Between Democrats And Trump Admin A 37-year-old anti-ICE agitator who was armed with a handgun was shot and killed by federal Border Patrol agents on Saturday morning during what the Department of Homeland Security described as a targeted immigration enforcement operation, sparking immediate political outrage and street protests. Border Patrol officers were conducting a targeted […]

Tehran Rejects UN ‘Protest Killings’ Resolution, Blasts Western Moralizing Iran has flatly rejected a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning what it described as the “violent crackdown on peaceful protests” by Iranian security forces, after two weeks of raging economic protests earlier this month, which also included a government enforced total internet shutdown. Following a closed-door session in Geneva on […]

Last Look At Snowfall Models As ‘Snowpocalypse’ Begins How Will This Weekend’s Mega-Storm Compare to the Winter Blasts of 2016 and 1996? Meteorologist Ben Noll says this weekend’s snowstorm could be similar to the Blizzard of 1996. For our more seasoned readers, 1996 was an unforgettable winter. Many younger readers, however, have grown up in snow droughts and years of corporate media narratives centered on Al Gore’s global […]

Duffy’s Nuclear Option Remains On The Table: California Could Lose Authority To Issue Any CDLs Authored by Rob Carpenter via FreightWaves.com, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just dropped what I’ve been calling the nuclear option. In an appearance on Katie Pavlich Tonight Thursday, Duffy made clear that withholding $200 million in federal funding isn’t the end of this fight. If California doesn’t come into compliance on […]

Left-Wing NGOs Transition To Targeting ‘Critical Economic Chokepoints’ In Minneapolis Left-wing nonprofit groups in Minneapolis appear to have moved beyond pressure campaigns targeting ICE agents and federal law enforcement, shifting from street protests/riots toward actions that may disrupt critical infrastructure on Friday. The apparent objective is to target economic chokepoints and critical infrastructure, a pressure tactic […]

Stablecoins: A Quiet Revolution In Finance Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, With geopolitics taking centre stage, the seismic tremors of Stablecoin activity go largely unnoticed. Stablecoins sit at a fascinating intersection of finance and technology. They promise the speed and programmability of cryptocurrencies with the price stability of traditional money. What began as a niche settlement tool for crypto […]

Newsom Announces California Will Remain In WHO Despite US Withdrawal California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that the Golden State will remain a part of the World Health Organization’s network, even though the Trump administration just completed the United States’ withdrawal from the WHO. “The Trump administration’s withdrawal from WHO is a reckless decision that will hurt all Californians and Americans,” […]

Niall Ferguson: How Trump Won Davos Authored by Niall Ferguson via X, There is a rapidly forming narrative in the European and liberal media that the Europeans “won Davos”: primarily by getting Trump to “de-escalate” his demand that the United States acquire Greenland from Denmark. This is a very wrong take. The reality is that Trump won Davos, hands down. And not only did he win it; he owned it. I have never before […]

Judge Orders Release Of Minnesota Church Agitators Nekima Armstrong, Chauntyll Allen A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of two Minnesota women who stormed a Minnesota church last Sunday after the FBI and Homeland Security agents arrested them on Thursday.  Nekima Armstrong (L) and Chauntyll Allen celebrate after a federal judge ordered them to be released. US District Judge Laura Provinzino (Biden) said that the […]

FBI Data Reveal Historic Uptick In Arrests Amid “Full-Scale Reset’ Of Agency Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, The first year of President Donald Trump’s second term saw historic reductions in violent crimes, while federal arrests soared by 100 percent, according to the FBI. The 2025 milestones were achieved as a result of a “full-scale reset of the FBI—operationally, culturally, and fiscally,” FBI […]

“Let Our ICE Patriots Do Their Job”: Trump Rages After Armed Suspect Shot By Border Patrol Dies Update (1430ET): President Trump has taken to social media to express his anger and frustration at the events in Minneapolis. Specifically, that the suspect was armed… and where were the police! “This is the gunman’s gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go – What is that all about? Where are the local […]

DHS Says 5-Year-Old Was “Abandoned” By Parents During ICE Operation In Minnesota Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Jan. 23 refuted reports that ICE agents detained a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota, saying the child was abandoned by his parents during an immigration enforcement operation. Columbia Heights Public School District had previously said that 5-year-old Liam Conejo […]

Shockwaves In Beijing: Xi Targets His Own Top General, Longtime Confidant, In Elite Purge Another significant military purge appears underway in China, as Saturday morning the West woke up to news that China’s most senior military officer, who is second only to Xi Jinping, has been put under investigation over alleged “grave violations of discipline and the law.” Gen. Zhang Youxia is a vice chairman of the Central Military […]

Trump Says Canada Will Face 100% Tariffs if It “Makes A Deal With China” Authored by Omid Ghoreishi via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump says Canadian goods exported to the United States would be hit with 100 percent tariffs if Canada makes a deal with China. “If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. […]

Larry Fink Says Public Has Lost Trust In Davos Elites And He Blames “Capitalism” The intrinsic fallacy behind the Davos conference and its supposed mission to “save the world” by molding international policy is easy to describe:  Davos is made up largely of the corporate elites, banking moguls and corrupt politicians that created the world’s problems in the first place, often deliberately in order to trigger chaos and gain […]