Chinese Oil Firms Turn To Iran To Replace Venezuelan Crude Via The Cradle China’s teapot refiners are buying discounted Iranian crude to replace the loss of supplies from Venezuela following Washington’s violent takeover of the South American nation’s oil, Reuters reported Monday. “The drawdown of Iranian oil held in storage is making up for the drop in Venezuelan supply to the world’s largest crude importer,” the news agency […]

Former UK Cabinet Minister Accused Of Leaking Bombshell Financial Data To Epstein Former U.K. Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson – who was fired last September from his new role as ambassador to the United States due to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein – is facing mounting political and legal pressure following disclosures that he may have shared market-sensitive government information with Epstein during the global financial crisis. Keir […]

Europe’s Russian Gas Ban Is Set To Trigger New Wave Of LNG Tanker Demand Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, The European Union’s plan to ban LNG imports from Russia will prompt a surge in demand for LNG carriers to the tune of 30 new vessels, a senior Vortexa analyst said ahead of the LNG Qatar gathering that starts today. According to Ashley Sherman, senior LNG analyst at the company, if the EU sanctions leave currently […]

Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0? …May Involve Russian Drones With Crosshairs On US Homeland A Russian military-focused Telegram channel, Rybar, published an assessment that warned President Donald Trump’s gunboat diplomacy and the re-posturing of the U.S. Department of War toward the Western Hemisphere could generate drone threat risks to the US Homeland “Given how the Americans are acting now, the main question is not whether the […]

Governments Can Fix Money Fast. Here Is Why They Will Not Do It… Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The markets have been rocked by news of a possible intervention to control the Japanese yen slump, after it reached a forty-year low relative to the US dollar. Fixing the yen and any other fiat currency is simple: Implement an Austrian approach; eliminate constant deficit spending and monetization of government outlays; and implement […]

US-Sanctioned Russian Military Transport Plane Touches Down At Cuban Airfield In a development which sounds reminiscent of the most dangerous moments of the Cold War, a Russian military cargo plane has been observed landing in Cuba, just as Havana is in Washington’s regime change crosshairs. The Ilyushin Il-76, operated by the government-linked airline Aviacon Zitotrans, is reportedly under US sanctions as it has a well-documented […]

Polish President Pushes For Aggressive Move To Nuclear, Bypassing LNG Amidst ‘Geopolitical Turmoils’ Via Remix News, Polish President Karol Nawrocki is prioritizing nuclear power in the Polish energy mix, avoiding the transitional inclusion of gas, with the government focused on building the first nuclear power plant in Lubiatów-Kopalin. Before his trip to Davos, Nawrocki had met with entrepreneurs to discuss Poland’s […]

Witkoff Set To Meet Iran Envoy In Istanbul For Rare Direct Nuclear Talks At this point it it seems clear that President Trump is not quite ready to order a major attack on Iran, after last week threatening to do so, and weighing military options. Instead, Washington and Tehran could be inching back toward direct contact. US envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are expected to meet on Friday in Istanbul to […]

“Advocating Genocide”: Musk Slams Far-Left Spanish MP’s Demand 500,000 Illegals Be Made Citizens For ‘Population Replacement’ Via Remix News, Irene Montero, a politician from the far-left, pro-immigration Podemos party, is arguing that after granting amnesty to 500,000 illegal immigrants, the Sanchez government should now make them Spanish citizens and amend the law to allow them to participate in elections. She specifically […]

It’s Time To Accept That Civil War 2.0 Has Already Started Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In July of 1917 as the fires of WWI raged across Europe, the Russian city of Petrograd was facing its own special turmoil in the form of a large scale Bolshevik insurgency. Up to 500,000 protesters, agitators and provocateurs had entered the city from across the country, many of them armed. They took over large swaths of the […]

Watch: Russian Soldiers Surrender To Gun-Wielding Robot; Humanoid Warfare Nears Video footage circulating on X from the Ukrainian front shows a Droid TW-7.62 ground robotic system, roughly half the size of a Mini Cooper, forcing the surrender of three Russian troops during an active military operation. The incident suggests that war robots are rapidly maturing, moving beyond support and logistics into offensive roles. Futurism […]

America At 250: The Words That Helped Ignite A Revolution Authored by Gene Pisasale, via RealClearWire, “… a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy …. To the evil of monarchy we have added hereditary succession … the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves … the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity.” – Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” On […]

Revolving Green Door: Former Biden Officials Landed Jobs With Environmental NGOs After Funneling Money To Them As the Trump administration’s Department of Energy moves to wipe out over $83 billion in “Green New Scam” loans and conditional commitments approved in the final months of the Biden administration, a new analysis reveals that not only did the rush to spend accelerate right after Biden’s disastrous June 27, 2024 […]

Clintons Bend The Knee To Comer, Agree To Testify In House Epstein Inquiry Just hours after Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) rebuffed Bill and Hillary Clinton’s attorney’s last-ditch conditional offer, the former president and former secretary of state appear to have acquiesced and agreed to key demands from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee to testify about Jeffrey Epstein in a closed-door deposition. The initial […]

Israel Surrenders To The Truth: Admits 70,000 Killed In Gaza Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities Throughout the Israel Defense Forces’ post-Oct 7 war on Gaza, the State of Israel and its collaborators and sympathizers around the world have ridiculed the alarming death toll maintained by Palestinian health authorities, dismissing the count as a gross exaggeration aimed at maliciously demonizing Israel. Now, after more than two […]

Musk’s SpaceX Combines With xAI At $1.25 Trillion Valuation Confirming earlier reports, late on Monday Elon Musk said SpaceX has acquired xAI, a deal that combines his powerful rocket-and-satellite business with his artificial-intelligence startup that is facing steep competition. SpaceX confirmed the deal Monday, posting a memo Musk sent out about the arrangement on its website.  The deal gives SpaceX a valuation of $1 trillion, […]

UAE Firm Bought 49% Of Trump-Linked Crypto Startup For $500M: WSJ Authored by Amin Hagshanas via Cointelegraph, A UAE-backed investment vehicle quietly agreed to buy nearly half of World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency startup linked to President Donald Trump, just days before he returned to the White House, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Aryam Investment 1, an Abu Dhabi entity backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin […]

California Plans “Mileage Tax” To Bleed Citizens For Even More Cash Lawmakers in the California State Assembly have moved to direct the Transportation Commission to prepare a study on the effects of a road charge for delivery to the legislature.  A road charge is a program that imposes fees based on the number of miles each citizen drives over a specified period, and is designed to offset gas tax losses from the wider use of […]

Border Czar Homan Says More Than 145,000 Illegal Immigrant Children Located Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, U.S. authorities have located more than 145,000 illegal immigrant children who were previously unaccounted for under the Biden administration, border czar Tom Homan said on Jan. 30. Homan said the findings came as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, and the Health and Human Services […]

The Arrest Of Don Lemon: Journalists Cannot Also Be Activists The line between journalism and activism has become excessively thin in the past ten years, and the problems associated with this trend are numerous.  Media figures have long leaned toward the liberal side of the political spectrum; liberal bias among journalists is nothing new.  However, direct participation in an activist insurgency to help it or lead it or […]

Have Fiat Money, Will Tyrannize Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask instead what your country has been doing to you and is likely to keep doing to you for as long as it can buy with fiat money the votes of a majority.” – Gary North, “History Revisionism – High Priests of Woodrow Wilson’s Covenant” Gary North’s article focuses […]

“All In” On AI: Deutsche Bank Says Tesla No Longer Just A Car Company Deutsche Bank’s latest note argues that Tesla Inc. is no longer mainly a car company, but a long-term bet on artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomy. In the report, Edison Yu and his team of analysts at Deutsche say that after Tesla’s latest earnings, any doubt about its direction is gone, describing the company as now “all in on Physical AI.” The […]

The Circular Firing Squad: Staffers At CNN And CBS Denounce Efforts To Restore Balance Authored by Jonathan Turley, The decline of American mainstream media has long been obvious, with public trust and revenues plunging. Some companies are responding with the novel idea of restoring objectivity and neutrality to coverage. For years, news organizations have essentially written off half of the country. However, as news […]

Clinton Judge Goes On Unhinged Rant In Order Releasing Illegals In a country now run by activist judges who get to decide the ‘will of the people,’ a Clinton-appointed US District Judge has just written quite the screed. Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, the father of Liam Ramos, left, is being detained with his son in Texas after being arrested by federal immigration authorities. (Obtained by Columbia Heights Public Schools; […]

Bezos’ Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism To Focus On The Moon Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Blue Origin decided to shift its focus from the edge of space to the Moon. The company announced on Jan. 30 that it was pausing all of its suborbital commercial flights on its reusable New Shepard rocket for no less than two years in order to focus more resources on delivering a crewed lunar lander to NASA in time to meet […]