World Must Spend $540 Billion Every Year Looking For Oil Just To Maintain Current Output With oil trading just above multi-year lows – despite mounting speculation of peak shale – pessimism on oil prices has never been greater, and earlier this week sentiment hit rock bottom after WTI managed money spec positions hit a record low, the clearest sign yet of what speculators think of the future of oil. And yet, this may prove to be […]

Israel Wants Permanent ‘Aerial Corridor’ Over Syria To Strike Iran Via The Libertarian Institute Tel Aviv’s primary objective in discussions with Damascus is to establish an aerial corridor over Syria so Israel can restart its war against Iran.  Axios reports that Israel presented the Syrian government, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, with a maximalist agreement that would establish a no-fly zone over Syria. Additionally, Tel Aviv […]

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Reminds Us Why We Hate The MSM On Wednesday, Disney-owned ABC fired now-former late-night talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel after he blatantly lied about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination – suggesting that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson was “MAGA.”  The left, which routinely relies on falsehoods to push coordinated narratives, freaked out in response – with pissy Reddit NPCs canceling their Disney […]

The Comfortable Collapse: How America Learned To Pretend Obesity Is Normal Authored by Joseph Varon via The Brownstone Institute, Walk into any American airport today and pause. Look around at the travelers waiting at the gate, the families queuing for fast food, the crowds rushing past. You are looking at a country that our grandparents would not recognize. In less than three generations, the very shape of the American body has […]

US Seeking To Regain Control Of Bagram Air Base In Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan: Trump The United States is actively working to regain control over Bagram Air Base in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, President Trump told reporters this morning in a joint press conference with UK PM Starmer in England. As The Epoch Times’ Ryan Morgan points out, U.S. forces relinquished control over the major air base in 2021, during the force […]

DOJ Sues Maine, Oregon Over Voter Registration Lists Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Justice (DOJ ) said on Sept. 16 that it is suing Oregon and Maine for failing to provide information on how their election offices maintain valid voter registration rolls. People waiting to register to vote for same-day voter registration outside of the Detroit Department of Elections headquarters in […]

Leading Hamas Official Targeted In Israel’s Qatar Strike Appears Alive & Well On Al Jazeera A top Hamas official who was directly targeted by Israel during its September 9 strike on a residential compound in Doha, Qatar has appeared on Al Jazeera for the first time since surviving the attack. Ghazi Hamad was one of the prime targets of the assassination attempt last week, but he appeared alive and well during the Al […]

VDH: The Murder Of Charlie Kirk Was Not A ‘George Floyd Moment’ Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Just days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the left is working overtime to hide the truth and create fantasies about his death. Specifically, leftists alleged that conservatives were going to “pounce” on the death to wage protests and boost radical agendas in the manner of what followed George […]

President Trump Announces Plan To Designate ANTIFA As A Terrorist Organization Antifa will be designated by the United States as a terrorist organization, President Donald Trump announced after midnight on Sept. 18 while visiting the United Kingdom. “I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump posted on Truth […]

‘Who Did Epstein Traffic Women To?’ House Oversight Grills FBI Director During Tense Testimony FBI Director Kash Patel appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Sept. 17, facing lawmakers’ statements and questions for five hours. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel arrives to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Sept. 17, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images Members […]

The Moral Decay Of Debt Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Debt has moral implications, and in denying this, we’re choosing a rendezvous with Nemesis Let’s start with a household analogy. A married couple have four fine children, and since expenses are higher than income, they borrow money in their children’s names to fund their lifestyle and investments. Once the offspring reach 18 years of age, the debt their […]

Escape From New York, 2025 Millionaire Edition Authored by Peter C. Earle via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), For decades, New York City prided itself on being the financial capital of the world. It’s a place where money, culture, and power converge. And yet, as has been seen in San Francisco, Chicago, and other locations around the United States, New York is experiencing a steady exodus of millionaires […]

Subprime Crisis 2.0? Red Flags Fly As Alleged Fraud Triggers Billion-Dollar Auto-Lender Bankruptcy Did a medium-sized canary just croak in the coalmine of consumer credit? While the world and his pet rabbit was avidly glued to the screens, hanging on every word from Fed Chair Powell, something happened in a name that few have likely heard of that could have a much greater impact on markets. After seeing its bonds rise week after […]

Welcome To Big Brother’s Digital Prison, Part I: Central Bank Digital Currencies Authored by Robert Williams via The Gatestone Institute, Globalist leaders are working at full speed to introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). A CBDC is a digital currency that is issued directly by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve in the US, the European Central Bank in the EU’s eurozone, and the Bank of England in the UK. A […]

Vitalik Buterin Finally Pushes Back After Weeks Of ETH Stalking Queue FUD Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has finally addressed some concerns over the lengthening Ethereum staking exit queue, which has now grown to 45 days.  His response came after Galaxy Digital’s head of DeFi, Michael Marcantonio, called the exit queue length “troubling” on X and compared it to Solana, […]

There’s Something Odd About Meta’s New Ray-Ban AR Glasses…  Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band on Wednesday, the tech giant’s first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in digital display. Introducing Meta Ray-Ban Display: A Breakthrough Category of AI Glasses https://t.co/NmeQmjm4DU pic.twitter.com/V1iHfwQKTH — Reality Labs at Meta (@RealityLabs) September 18, 2025 Oversized […]

DOJ Sues Maine, Oregon Over Voter Registration Lists Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ ) said on Sept. 16 that it is suing Oregon and Maine for failing to provide information on how their election offices maintain valid voter registration rolls. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement that both states had declined to cooperate with the department’s requests for unredacted […]

Trump Files Emergency Request With Supreme Court To Make Lisa Cook Fired Again The Trump administration filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from the central bank’s board while a lawsuit plays out in lower court over Cook’s ouster by President Trump last month.  The request comes after a federal appeals court in Washington DC rejected the […]

RFK Jr. Cannot Proceed With Overhaul Of Health Agencies, Court Rules Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on Sept. 17 declined to lift a preliminary injunction blocking a plan by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to overhaul the department in line with the Trump administration’s policy priorities. Attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia […]

Ben & Jerry’s Co-founder Resigns After Conflict With Unilever Over Activism Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand, has resigned from his role as the company’s brand ambassador after a public rift with parent entity Unilever. In an open letter posted on social media on Sept. 17 by his business partner, Ben Cohen, Greenfield said the […]

Britain Arrests 3 Alleged Russian Spies As Trump Visits  There is evidence of the continuing ‘spy war’ between Russia and the Western allies, and efforts to crack down on potential recruitment networks. British police announced Thursday the arrest of three people on suspicion of spying for Russia, including a 41-year-old man, 46-year-old man and 35-year-old woman, in the county of Essex, northeast of London. International media […]

Fed-dling While “Rome” Churns By Michael Every of Rabobank The Bank of Canada cut its policy rate 25bp to 2.50% as expected, largely attributing its decision to softer CPI data, a loosening labour market, and a more optimistic inflation outlook given PM Carney’s decision to repeal retaliatory tariffs on US goods. We are forecasting another 25bp cut in October and see the terminal rate at 2.25%. However, the risk to our view is […]

New Report Reveals Soros’ Open Society Funneled $80 Million To Pro-Terror Groups The White House opened the week by declaring war on the radical left and its dark-money NGO network in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s political assassination. President Trump and senior officials are zeroing in on George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) empire, which they say has sown years of chaos nationwide, with Trump even hinting at potential […]

Fetterman Blasts Democrat Colleagues For ‘Inciting Violence’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Democrat Senator John Fetterman has slammed his own colleagues in the Party, intimating that their rhetoric has incited violence and inspired the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Once again Fetterman is an outlier as practically the only Democrat to call out his own party for labelling anyone and everyone they disagree with as […]

Dead Cat Bounce Or Bottom? Novo Jumps On Ozempic Study As Goldman Weighs In Novo Nordisk shares jumped the most in 18 months in Copenhagen trading on Thursday after its diabetes wonder drug Ozempic beat Eli Lilly’s older drug Trulicity in a real-world survey of 60,000 Medicare patients with diabetes and heart disease.  The new study was revealed at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes conference in Vienna earlier […]