Convicted Terrorist Who Plotted To Bomb British Consulate Now Standing For Election In UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Shahid Butt, a 60-year-old Muslim activist with a conviction for conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen, is now gunning for a seat on Birmingham City Council.  Yes, really. Convicted in 1999 and sentenced to five years in a Yemeni prison, Butt was found guilty of forming an armed […]

UBS CIO Americas: AI Remains “Underhyped And Underappreciated” Building on Goldman analyst Brian Singer’s comparison of the AI data-center buildout to the U.S. shale boom, where AI remains in the early “appraisal phase” of the innovation cycle, a stage historically most bullish for infrastructure spending and equity multiple expansion, fresh commentary earlier this week from UBS CIO Americas reinforces the view that bubble […]

Brussels Versus Washington Authored by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), For years, Europe has tried to convince itself that it could regulate its way to technological greatness. Instead of becoming a technological powerhouse, it produced rules, many rules, with effects now extending far beyond its own borders. In 2026, those rules are colliding head on with an American president who […]

Five Insights Into The Trilateral Russian-Ukrainian-US Talks Authored by Andrew Korybko, Russia’s agreement to this format represents a significant policy shift. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the second round of the trilateral Russian-Ukrainian-US talks in Abu Dhabi will be held on 1 February. There haven’t been many leaks from the first round so observers can only speculate about the subject and […]

Venezuela Unveils Amnesty Bill For Mass Release Of Political Prisoners  Venezuela’s US-backed and CIA-installed interim president Delcy Rodriguez has unveiled a sweeping amnesty bill that could pave the way for the release of hundreds of detainees, in a first major political move since former President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were ousted and whisked off to New York earlier this month. “We have decided to push ahead with a […]

Will He, Won’t He ‘TACO’ On Iran? Authored by Alastair Crooke via LewRockwell.com, As so often these days, a decisive attack on Iran – comes down in the final analysis to Trump’s psychology, and his need to dominate the attention of everyone around him. He understands that for however much his maximalist pronouncements look — and are — crazy, they nonetheless do usually default to a ‘strong man image’. Trump’s […]

Explosion In AI Data Center Buildouts Will Demand Next-Gen Counter-Drone Security Despite trillions of dollars slated for global data center buildouts, power grid upgrades, and other artificial intelligence infrastructure expansion through the end of the decade, there remains very limited investor discussion about the next-generation physical security architecture required to defend these increasingly critical and high-value […]

SCAM Act Introduced To Revoke Citizenship Of Migrants Who Commit Fraud, Serious Felonies Via American Greatness, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) has introduced the Stop Citizenship Abuse and Misrepresentation (SCAM) Act that would strip citizenship from individuals who commit serious crimes within 10 years of their naturalization. According to Schmitt, the legislation would expand the grounds for beginning the denaturalization […]

Dear ICE Protestors: We Need To Talk… Authored by Jenna McCarthy via Jenna’s Side Rocks, Dear ICE Protestors, It’s been a rough few months out there. You’ve shown up. You’ve resisted. You’ve rallied. You’ve organized. You’ve made signs. So. Many. Signs. You’ve launched illegal fireworks, damaged property, blocked traffic, broken the law, bashed in windows, assaulted agents, and berated scores of strangers […]

US Warns Iran Over Weekend Live Fire Drills Close To American Forces Iran’s military starting Thursday issued a warning to ships at sea that it planned to run a drill starting this weekend which is to include live firing in the Strait of Hormuz, potentially disrupting traffic through a waterway which sees 20% of all the world’s oil pass through it. This prompted a US warning in response, given US forces are also in the region – but […]

New SNAP Work Requirement Rules To Start Feb. 1 In Multiple States Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epcoh Times, The new work requirements to gain or continue eligibility for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will start being implemented in several U.S. states beginning Feb. 1. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in July, instituted new work requirements for […]

Huge Verdict Could Destroy ‘Gender Transition For Minors’ Industry A jury on Friday found a psychologist and a surgeon liable for malpractice after they convinced a 16-year-old girl to lop off her breasts. This marks the first medical malpractice case involving a detransitioner to reach a verdict – and it has huge implications.  Fox Varian, who identified as transgender at the time, was awarded $2 million in damages – which […]

Bitcoin Crashes To Nov 2024 Lows Amid $1.5 Billion In Levered Liquidations In an otherwise quiet session – as one would expect for a Saturday, certainly the algos would – starting early this morning there has been concerted pressure to sell into the bitcoin spot price following yesterday’s Warsh-inspired rout which repriced bitcoin from 88K to 84K, pressure which grew into a liquidation firehose just after 9am ET and especially at […]

Mainstream Expectations: Hope Vs. Potential Risk Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Mainstream expectations, those from Wall Street, economists, and corporate strategists, have congealed around a bullish economic outlook for 2026. Most forecasts project stronger economic growth, with contained inflation, and continued investment in technology and capital expenditure. As such, many institutional investors […]

Palmer Luckey One-Shots Jason Calacanis Over Epstein Ties The beef between Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and Silicon Valley angel investor Jason Calacanis goes back nearly a decade – when Calacanis joined a media circus slamming Luckey for a $10,000 donation to a pro-Trump group in 2016. The donation sparked widespread backlash among Silicon Valley’s liberal elite, and resulted in calls to boycott Luckey’s Oculus VR (which he […]

Iranians Seal Windows & Store Food, Water As They Prepare For Attack Via Middle East Eye As night fell on Friday, a tense sense of dread settled over Iranians at home and abroad, with rumors of an imminent US military strike took hold across Iran. “I kept waiting for it to hit. I couldn’t sleep until morning. I was waking up and straining to hear any sound of explosions. Let’s see what happens tonight,” Milad*, a […]

Latest Epstein Release Catches Goldman’s Top Lawyer In Massive Lie Earlier this month the Wall Street Journal reported that there was an internal debate at Goldman Sachs over whether to get rid of General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler over her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.  Kathryn Ruemmler, Jeffrey Epstein Ruemmler, a former White House attorney for Obama, told Goldman execs when they hired her in April 2020 that the […]

Seattle Mayor Directs Police To Track And Document ICE Enforcement Activities Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Seattle Mayor Katie B. Wilson announced a series of steps on Jan. 30 in response to a potential surge in federal immigration enforcement, directing local police to track and document activities by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and barring agents from city property to conduct […]

Putin Envoy Dmitriev Back In Miami For Talks, Which Seem To Be Going Nowhere President Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in Miami this weekend where he held another round of talks with an American delegation. The discussions started early Saturday morning, after Dmitriev confirmed his arrival, writing on social media simply, “Back in Miami”. The talks follow a round of meetings held on January 23-24 in Abu Dhabi […]

Federal Judge Refuses To Block Trump’s ICE Surge In Minnesota Authored by Jacob Burg and Troy Mayers via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Jan. 31 denied Minnesota’s emergency request to block the Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of federal agents to the Twin Cities in a large-scale immigration enforcement operation. In her ruling Saturday morning, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez wrote that the […]

The US Economy In A Nutshell: A Few Winners, Everyone Else Loses Ground Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Maybe this arrangement isn’t as stable and sustainable as the winners imagine. Here’s the US economy in a nutshell: corporate/state concentrations of financial, market and political power are the winners, and everyone outside these fortresses is losing ground. The Wall Street Journal is generally viewed […]

Activist Judge Blocks Key Parts Of Trump EO On Verifying Citizenship To Vote A federal judge on Friday blocked key provisions of President Trump’s executive order that requires proof of US citizenship for voter registration.  Signed on March 25, Executive Order 14248 directs the Election Assistance Commission to require in its national mail voter registration form that voters provide documentary proof of US citizenship, such […]

Over 185,000 Americans In The South Remain Without Power After Ice Storm Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, Over 185,000 Americans were without power nearly one week after a deadly winter storm swept through two-thirds of the country. States that faced ongoing power outages included Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas. The northern part of Mississippi had the most outages with nearly 80,000 utility customers […]

Connecticut School Cancels Event With Education Secretary Over Political Pressure Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have long discussed how educators are instilling viewpoint intolerance in students from the earliest grades. The latest example is the cancellation of a visit to McKinley Elementary School in Fairfield, Connecticut, by Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. The students had the opportunity to speak and interact with […]

Latest Epstein Emails Reveal Bill Gates Slipped Wife Antibiotics For STD He Got From Russian Hookers Democrats thought that the firehose release of Epstein files would “finally” bring down Trump. Instead, not only is that not happening (one can argue the latest batch of docs further cements Trump’s claim that he had distanced himself far enough from Esptein in recent decades as this admission from Epstein himself to his favorite […]