If Britain Bans X, How Far Will It Go To Block Free Speech? Authored by Ted Newson via RealClearPolitics, In what appears to be a rolling back on free speech and citizen journalism, Britain is fast-tracking a law that will ban non-consensual intimate deepfake images. This is likely aimed at the social media site X.com after its AI assistant Grok allegedly generated inappropriate images. In the scope of the global news cycle and a […]

CIA Releases New Video To Encourage Chinese To Divulge ‘Truth About China’ Authored by Michael Zhung via The Epoch Times, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released a new video for Chinese citizens outlining nine step-by-step methods for establishing secure contact with the agency, according to a Jan. 16 post on X. […]

Seattle Ranks Second As Most Stressed And Burned Out U.S. City For Workers A new study ranks Seattle as the second most stressed and burned-out city in the U.S. for workers, behind only Atlanta, according to KIRO7. In a city full of professional “activists”, who could have guessed? The report by Compare the Market analyzed online searches related to job stress, including terms such as “work burnout,” “work depression,” […]

Human Evolution: ‘Our Ultimate Fate Comes Down To… Three Possibilities’ Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearScience, Everything around us seems to be changing at breakneck speed. Twenty years ago, smartphones were niche products. Twenty years before that, computers were clunky behemoths. Forty years before that, far more Americans traveled by train than by plane. Forty years before that, cars were just starting to supplant […]

FDA Removes Web Content Saying Cellphones Are Harmless – HHS Launches Study Without fanfare, the Food and Drug Administration has deleted multiple web pages asserting that cellphones are not dangerous. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, the move comes as the Department of Health and Human Services has begun a new investigation into potential health effects of cellphone radiation. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has […]

How The 1917 Virgin Islands Deal Is A Blueprint For Buying Greenland Authored by Dustin Bass via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), When Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before reporters on Jan. 7 to discuss the military operation that took place in Venezuela four days prior, he added another element of intrigue. He planned to meet with Danish officials this week to discuss purchasing the world’s largest non-continental island: […]

Nuclear Bunker Faces Final Days As Coastline Rapidly Erodes A nuclear bunker on the East Yorkshire coast is close to falling into the sea after decades of coastal erosion, according to the BBC. The structure near Tunstall, built around 1959 as a Cold War lookout post, was once more than 100 yards from the shoreline but is now dangerously exposed on the cliff edge. Local historian Davey Robinson, who has been filming the site, said: […]

How Expanded Obamacare Made Premiums Spiral, Americans Dependent Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, Congress responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by passing the American Rescue Plan Act in early 2021. This $1.9 trillion spending bill was intended to provide relief and spark an economic recovery. Among other provisions, the law expanded the availability of government-subsidized health care through the […]

Time To DOGE Baltimore: Top City Leaders Admit They Can’t Track Tax Dollars Flowing To Nonprofits Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s interview with Christopher Rufo last week highlighted that there is still unfinished business at DOGE, where fraud, waste, and abuse may account for as much as 10% of the total federal budget. We even joked that the scale of recent fraud uncovered in Democratic states could compel Elon Musk to return […]

“They’ve Totally Lost Control”; Trump Threatens ‘Agitators’ As Civil Unrest Soars In Minnesota Update: President Trump escalated his threat to use the Insurrection Act (as we detailed here) earlier today, warning that state and city officials “have totally lost control.” The origin of the chaos appears to be mostly manufactured and began hours after the legal observer was shot and killed last Wednesday: Minneapolis ICE […]

Rashida Tlaib Melts Down Over America  Democratic Socialist Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was triggered this week by a Homeland Security post on X featuring a B-2 stealth bomber overhead and a cowboy below, accompanied by the text in the center of the image that read: “We’ll Have Our Home Again.” “What does it evoke in you when you see this? Literally, when I see it, as a Muslim, as a Palestinian, as a child of immigrants, I see it as […]

US Foreclosures Up 14% In 2025; Florida Tops States Authored by  Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Home foreclosures across America were on the rise in 2025, increasing by 14 percent from 2024, with Florida experiencing the highest numbers in the nation. In its Jan. 15 report, property data and analytics provider ATTOM, said that 367,460 U.S. properties were involved with default notices, scheduled auctions, or bank […]

Biden-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Move To Withhold Minnesota Food Stamp Funds A federal judge on Jan. 14 stopped the Trump administration from withholding $80 million in administrative costs for Minnesota’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), ruling that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s tight deadline for reviewing the eligibility of 100,000 households was likely illegal. U.S. District Judge […]

To Combat Academic Fraud, Scholars Confront Hallowed Tradition Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, This is the fourth part of a series on the crisis in academic research and publishing. Read the first three parts here, here and here. The driving ethos of academia, “publish or perish,” is fighting for its life.  The requirement that scholars constantly publish or face academic ruin has been considered […]

New York Scammers Plead Guilty In $68M Adult Day Care Fraud Scheme Two scammers in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding the state’s controversial Medicaid home care program to the tune of $60 million.  Google Maps Manal Wasef and Elaine Antao, both 46, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Their scheme involved referring Medicaid recipients to two Brooklyn social adult day care centers and a […]

Trump, Schumer Hold Rare Meeting At White House To Discuss Gateway Tunnel Project Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) held a rare meeting at the White House on Thursday to discuss an array of issues. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 14, 2025. Madalina […]

Yoon Becomes First Sitting S.Korean President To Be Arrested, Convicted & Sentenced Once a sitting head of state, and now a convicted felon – and potentially much worse still to come: former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, after his dramatic fall from power and attempt to stay in office by declaring martial law in December 2024 – a move that plunged one of Asia’s most stable democracies into a brief period of chaos – is […]

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Denies DOJ Bid To Access California Voter Registration Rolls Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Jan. 15 dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) bid to access California’s voter registration databases, ruling that the demand for voter data from California Secretary of State Shirley Weber was “unprecedented and illegal.” In a 33-page decision, […]

Trump ‘Convinced’ Himself Not To Attack Iran, After Tehran Allegedly Canceled 800 Executions Update(1658ET): President Trump issued another somewhat bizarre Iran statement on Truth Social on Friday. He repeated the White House line that 800 executions that were scheduled and supposed to take place yesterday were halted in Iran. He even ‘thanked’ the Iranians for not carry out the supposed mass execution plan: “I greatly respect […]

Qatar Hired UK PR Firm To Edit Wikipedia Page: Report Amid ongoing US probes into Wikipedia over alleged bias and foreign manipulation, sometimes framed as “Wikilaundering,” a new report has found that a PR company linked to Keir Starmer’s communications chief has been accused of secretly manipulating Wikipedia pages to improve or neutralize clients’ public images. The allegations add another thorn in the side for Wikipedia as […]

Their “Democracy” Is Nothing More Than A Gigantic Engine Of Grift Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Act Now! “The more contradiction you carry, the more reality resists you. Because you’re fracturing the signal with every step.” – SightBringer on “X” Don’t be too surprised if sometime later this day, Friday, the president invokes the Insurrection Act to tranquilize the city of Minneapolis, since aerial spraying of […]

Dave Smith: “America First Means Non-Interventionism”; Republicans Debate GOP Schism Yesterday, in a special ZeroHedge debate on What Is America First?, libertarian comedian Dave Smith and conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza clashed over whether the slogan implies non-intervention abroad or a more assertive, national interest-driven foreign policy. Moderated by Judge Andrew Napolitano, the exchange cut directly to the fault lines […]

FTC Imposes 5-Year Ban On GM Disclosing Geolocation, Driver Data To Consumer Reporting Agencies Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized an order banning General Motors (GM) from disclosing consumers’ geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies for a period of five years, the agency said in a Jan. 14 statement. The FTC had filed a complaint […]

The Wrong Solution: AI Productivity, Employment, & UBI Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, It is expected that AI productivity increases will vastly transform the U.S. economy. Firms are utilizing AI productivity enhancements to automate repetitive tasks, and research and coding functions have already been implemented. The obvious problem is that when machines perform functions once done by humans, what are […]

LIS Technologies Launches $1.4 Billion Laser Uranium Enrichment Project In Tennessee LIS Technologies announced a $1.4 billion uranium enrichment project in Oakridge, Tennessee at the former iconic K-25 site, which until 1987 was a massive gaseous diffusion facility built for the Manhattan Project to enrich uranium-235 for atomic bombs. The company will set up shop on the 206-acre on Duct Island, which will be renamed to LIST […]