Israel Dominates Claude AI Usage Around The World New data from Anthropic reveals where its Claude AI chatbot is gaining the most traction worldwide. While Israel tops the overall ranking, the United States leads among countries with at least 10,000 Claude conversations, scoring 3.69x on the index. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Tasmin Lockwood, maps which countries use it the most relative to their working-age […]

European Nations Pull Their ‘Anti-ISIS’ Mission Troops Out Of Iraq Spain has quietly pulled its special forces out of Iraq after deteriorating security conditions made it impossible to continue operations safely, the Spanish Ministry of Defense confirmed Sunday. Spain currently has about 300 troops deployed in Iraq as part of the US-led coalition against ISIS. The Special Operations Task Group had been training Iraqi […]

“I Am Extremely Disappointed In Donald Trump” – AfD Co-Leader Warns Of WWIII Via Remix News, The co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Tino Chrupalla, is actively voicing his disapproval of the American and Israeli war against Iran. He has gone so far as to warn that the war could lead to a third world war and indicates that Trump has broken his campaign promises by launching the war. “I am extremely disappointed […]

Jerusalem Braces For Unrest After Wartime Closure Of Al-Aqsa Mosque Through Ramadan Via Middle East Eye Israel is set to keep Al-Aqsa Mosque closed through the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr and beyond, Middle East Eye has learnt. Sources familiar with the occupied East Jerusalem mosque’s affairs said Israeli authorities informed the Islamic Waqf, the body responsible for administering the site, of the decision in recent […]

China Directly Mediating Between Pakistan & Afghanistan After Weeks Of War There’s actually another hot war in the Middle East which has been raging, quite apart from the Iran-US-Israel war. Pakistan and Afghanistan have been engaged in a tense border conflict for weeks at this point. The Associated Press on Monday described the latest developments in the following: Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Monday accused […]

Longtime Oil Exec Worked For CIA, Helped Oust Maduro: Report Authored by Ken Silva via HeadlineUSA, The Wall Street Journal published a story Sunday about a longtime Chevron executive secretly working for the CIA—including by providing intel in the leadup to the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. According to the Journal, the former Chevron executive, Ali Moshiri, worked for the CIA as an informant since Hugo Chávez […]

Voter ID Has Massive Public Support: Why Is Congress Standing In The Way? The “controversy” in the US over voter ID requirements is an entirely fabricated affair, and a primary source of obstruction is the very government supposedly elected to represent the public will.  That is to say, the only people that don’t support the SAVE Act are politicians, and some of them claim to be conservative. Roughly 80% of all adult Americans […]

The Prosthetic Principle: AI As Cognitive Infrastructure, Not Cognitive Authority Authored by Bryant McGill via substack, Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a thinking instrument—a layer of cognitive infrastructure through which humans write, model, reason, and explore ideas. Yet most debates about AI safety, alignment, and moderation miss a deeper architectural question. The central issue is not simply what these […]

DOE Unleashes $500M To Break China’s Grip On Critical Materials The DOE’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity for up to $500 million for advancing its strategy to develop secure domestic sources of critical minerals and battery materials. The aim is to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers that have long dominated these markets. This marks the third round of funding […]

Parents – Not Schools – Must Be In Charge Of Their Children Authored by Keri Ingraham via The Epoch Times, Earlier in March, the U.S. Supreme Court had to step in and reaffirm the basic reality that parents, not schools, must be the primary decision-makers for their children. In the Mirabelli v. Bonta ruling, the Court determined that the California law, which barred schools from telling parents about their child’s claimed gender […]

AAA National Average Gas Price Soars Most On Record AAA (American Automobile Association) reports that the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline has surged nearly 25% so far this month, putting it on track for the largest monthly increase on record, even surpassing the May 2009 spike, unless the Middle East conflict is resolved quickly. This consumer fuel-price shock is coming at about the worst possible moment: […]

Obama’s Presidential Center Seeking 100 Unpaid Volunteers To Staff Lavish Facility Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, Former president Barack Obama’s foundation has announced that it will be launching its lavish $850 million presidential center in Chicago in June and is seeking unpaid volunteers to help staff the facility. That may seem on brand for a former president who has made volunteerism a central tenet of […]

Russia’s Rumored Telegram Block Appears Underway As Outage Reports Surge Reports are flooding in from across Russia that Telegram is suddenly going dark, fueling speculation that the Kremlin may already be testing a nationwide block ahead of a rumored planned crackdown next month. “Over the last 24 hours, Telegram has effectively stopped working through some providers if you are using Russian IP addresses,” tech sector observer […]

Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks RFK Jr’s Appointees To Vaccine Panel Authored by Stacey Robinson via The Epoch Times, A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on March 16 that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. illegally appointed 13 new members to an influential vaccine panel beginning last June. Biden-appointed district Judge Brian Murphy also blocked that panel’s guidance memo revising the childhood immunization schedule and […]

SEC Preparing Proposal To Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement Very soon,10-Qs may be a thing of the past. The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing a proposal to eliminate the requirement to report earnings quarterly and instead give companies the option to share results twice a year, the WSJ reports citing people familiar with the matter. In preparation for the proposal – which could be published as soon as […]

US Cities Face Water Stress Amid Crumbling Infrastructure Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, Across large swaths of the United States, drought conditions and the explosion of data centers have brought renewed attention to the future of the water supply. But the biggest concern may be something local governments have known about for years: aging pipes and other decaying infrastructure that could threaten supply even […]

North Korean Operatives Infiltrating U.S. Companies Through Remote Tech Jobs North Korean operatives are quietly working inside U.S. companies through remote technology jobs, funneling millions of dollars back to Pyongyang and potentially gaining access to sensitive corporate systems, according to investigators and U.S. officials, according to NBC News. The scheme relies on workers posing as American job applicants using stolen […]

The Greatest Risk For The Global Economy Is Stagflation Driven By Governments, Not Oil Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The current oil price forward curve shows that the current global energy shock may be significant but short-lived. The forward curve presents a steep disinflationary trend to $80 per barrel by the end of 2026. Markets are discounting a short war with limited impact on supply but immediate ripple effects on markets […]

“We Got A War Going On”: Trump Requests Trump-Xi Summit Delay By “A Month Or So” Summary: Trump asks for delay of “a month or so” for Trump-Xi Summit China and US end trade talks Bessent notes that any delay would be due to “prosecuting war” *  *  * Update (1700ET): President Trump said he had requested China delay a summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for about a month, saying it was important for him to […]

Armor-Piercing Ammo Metal Up 557% As China Chokes Supply, War Demand Surges Tungsten, used in missiles, tank rounds, armor-piercing ammunition, and some smaller-caliber munitions, has surged in price over the last year as China curbed exports and global supplies tightened. This is a major concern, as multi-front conflicts – from the Middle East to Eastern Europe – are depleting interceptor missile supplies. Bloomberg cites new […]

“…The Entire Internet Has Doomer Fatigue” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “I can tell the entire internet has doomer fatigue.” – Catturd on X The mysterious financial repo markets – which practically no one outside of banking understands (and even some banking insiders don’t) – started showing some signs of stress recently (forward rates spiking: 1Y1Y SOFR has risen nearly 50 bps in two weeks, signaling growing concern […]

Trump Says ‘War Won’t Be Over This Week’,Iran Denies Talks Taking Place; Pentagon Confirms 200 US Casualties Summary: The Pentagon confirmed Monday some 200 US service members have been wounded in the Iran war. Trump says ‘I don’t think so’ when asked if war will be wrapped up soon, notes ‘not this week’, reiterates military campaign continuing in full force, main efforts to Iran’s threat to shipping Iran has rejected […]

Guess What Ireland’s President Said About St. Patrick’s Day… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Irish President Catherine Connolly marked her first St. Patrick’s Day in office with a message that reframed Ireland’s patron saint as a symbol for open borders and ‘global citizenship’, urging the Irish to embrace migrants amid ongoing surges in arrivals that have sparked nationwide tensions. In […]

Nvidia Shares Pump & Dump After CEO Jensen Expects “At Least” $1 Trillion In Revenue By 2027 Summary:  CEO Jensen began discussing all things AI around 1520 ET. CEO Jensen said the data center AI opportunity will grow from half a trillion dollars to $1 trillion by 2027. CEO Jensen said, “Computing demand has increased by 1 million times in the last two years.” A graphic on screen indicated that 60% of the […]

Cuba Suffers “Total Disconnection” Of Power Grid; Trump Says Deal With Havana ‘Pretty Soon’ Summary: Cuba’s National Electrical System suffered a “total disconnection” on Monday afternoon. Trump said on Sunday that he expects a U.S.-Cuba deal very soon. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel admitted on Friday that talks between Havana and Washington are underway. Cuban fuel supplies are dangerously low amid Trump’s […]