ICE Roundup Of Haitian Migrants Begins In Ohio It all started with complaints from residents in Springfield, OH that a surge of Haitian migrants was causing chaos and an odd disappearance of local wildlife and pets.  City officials and local companies where shipping the migrants in by the thousands and giving them jobs.  NGOs arranged for extensive handouts including housing, food and cash. Initially, all of this was done while […]

Your Grandfather’s Military Is Dead Authored by Byron King and Sean Ring via DailyReckoning.com, You may have already seen some of what I’m about to share in The Daily Reckoning. But given what we’re focused on here and the sheer amount of money now moving into this corner of the defense industry… I think it deserves a second look. The drone itself is only part of what’s happening here. Building a military around unmanned […]

Berkshire Adds Google, Delta, Trims BofA, Kroger As Abel Taps Into Record Cash Hoard While nowhere near as tumultuous as the transformational first quarter in Berkshire’s post-Warren Buffett era which saw over a dozen names rotated in and out, in the second quarter there were a few notable changes under Berkshire’s new CEO, Greg Abel.  In a quarter in which Abel spent a net $20 billion on other equities, and repurchased about […]

State Department Revokes Over 175,000 Visas Of Foreign Nationals Accused Of Crimes Via American Greatness, President Donald Trump’s State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas held by foreign nationals accused of crimes since the start of last year, officials said this week, marking one of the administration’s most sweeping efforts yet to remove dangerous individuals from the country. State Department officials […]

US Accuses Chinese Exporters Of Masterminding “Great Transshipment Scam” Back in mid-2025, when Trump’s renewed trade war with China was all the rage, we said that much of this was hot air and theatrics for the simple reason that many Chinese exporters would find easy ways to evade US tariffs thanks to “transshipments”, or using intermediary countries as fake points of origin … Why China exports tumbled to the US and rose […]

Democratic Party Committee Advances Resolution Demanding ICE Be Abolished Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, Democrats have edged closer to vowing to end Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Federal agents monitor protesters in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Portland, Ore., on Oct. 4, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times At its summer meeting in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 13, the […]

Investors Sue Selena Gomez Over Mental Health Startup Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Singer and actor Selena Gomez was sued Thursday by investors who say the “Only Murders in the Building” star committed fraud by failing to fulfill duties to build and promote her mental health startup. The plaintiffs invested nearly $1.2 million in Wondermind Global, which was launched in 2021 to help users improve their […]

Flock Blinks: Surveillance Giant Slashes Data Retention After 50 Jurisdictions Walk, Cams Destroyed Flock Safety, the startup that blanketed America in automated license plate readers (ALPRs), announced Thursday that it is dialing back its expansive platform. The company is significantly shortening its data retention windows, requiring police to justify every search, and allowing cities to block neighboring jurisdictions from […]

Forget CDOs, Meet CCOs: This Isn’t A Tech Cycle… It’s 2008 With Silicon In July, the appropriately-named ‘Groundbreaker’ website laid out a structural diagnosis that most of the market still refuses to confront: the AI boom is not a technology cycle. It is a credit-driven real-estate-like cycle whose financing architecture depends on the second derivative. Levels (backlogs, gigawatts, revenue, token usage) and the first […]

Influential Wife Of Anthropic CEO Pitched Post-Conviction Epstein On ‘Luxury Porn’ Company, And Claude Has No Idea Anthropic has filed confidentially for what could be the largest public offering in history. Yet, one of the most influential voices shaping its chief executive holds no official position at the company, appears in no regulatory filings, and has been quietly scrubbed from the internet. She also pitched a porn company […]

America Enters FAFO-Land: Election Sabotage & Blue-State Mutiny As Communist Jihad Escalates Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Things Get Spicy “The left are incompetent biotrash who purge everyone too attractive, too capable or too intelligent to uncritically accept their retarded worldview.” – Aimee Terese on “X” And so, all of a sudden, having failed to subvert or assassinate the president they abhor, and foil […]

Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead at 41 Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor who recently resigned amid controversy, has been found dead at the age of 41. Emergency services were called to an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, where Arday was discovered unresponsive. The London Ambulance Service arrived shortly after 3:00 p.m., deploying an ambulance crew, an advanced […]

Bessent: US Readies Economic Isolation Of Iran “Like The World Has Never Seen Before” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax Thursday night that the Trump administration will announce unprecedented economic measures against Iran next week, signaling that a sharp escalation in economic warfare is just ahead as negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remain stalled. The warning comes as Tehran-linked Houthi rebel forces […]

No Illegal Immigrants Released At Southern Border In 15 Months: CBP Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, U.S. Border Patrol in July released zero illegal immigrants from the southern border into the United States for the 15th straight month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in an Aug. 13 statement. Illegal crossings last month remained “historically low,” CBP said. Apprehensions of illegal […]

Energy Drinks Overtake Coffee As Gen Z’s Primary Caffeine Source Filippo Falorni, Citi’s lead US equity-research analyst covering beverages and household and personal-care companies, published his latest survey of 2,400 US energy-drink consumers, revealing a significant generational shift in caffeine consumption. Energy drinks, led by category giants Red Bull, Monster, and others, have overtaken coffee as the primary caffeine […]

US Lost 25% Of Its Reaper Drones In Iran War, Officials Estimate Amid a recent avalanche of media headlines warning of significantly depleted US weapons stockpiles, The Washington Post is out with another fresh report Thursday which sounds the alarm, this time over advanced drones. The US military lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the Iran war, American defense officials were quoted as saying. The same officials estimate […]

Kennedy Center Votes To Put Trump’s Name On Building, Close For Renovations Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, The John F. Kennedy Center’s board voted on Aug. 13 to close the venue for renovations and place President Donald Trump’s name on the building. “In its meeting today, the board voted to change the front of the ​building’s facade to read ‘The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts […]

FBI Seized Mark Walter’s Devices Months Before Record $12.5 Billion Lakers Sale Summary: Thursday: Yahoo Sports reporter Jack Baer said, “Mark Walter is reportedly facing a cash crunch.” Thursday: FT reports that the FBI seized devices belonging to Mark Walter last year as part of an investigation. Wednesday: Josh Kushner and Bob Iger stun the sports world with a record-shattering $12 billion Lakers takeover deal. FT Reports Has […]

Panama Canal Fees Hit Record As El Nino, Hormuz Crisis Choke Global Shipping Panama Canal transit auction prices have surged to record highs this summer as an intensifying El Niño and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz upend global shipping routes.  A Bloomberg report Friday morning said a supertanker paid a record $4.6 million at auction to bypass the growing queue and secure an earlier transit slot next week. The spike in […]

Boeing Unveils Cheap Radar Seeker Built From Off-The-Shelf Parts By Michael Scanlon of Defense News Boeing revealed an ultra-low-cost radar seeker Tuesday as this year’s Space and Missile Defense Symposium kicked off in Huntsville, Alabama, pitching it as a way to get missile guidance on more weapons for less money. Installed in the nose of a missile or bomb, the seeker locates the target and guides the weapon toward it. Seekers […]

“We Do Bad Things To Bad People”: Hegseth Unveils New Motto For Counter Cartel Coalition Via The Libertarian Institute  Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared that the new motto of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (ACCC) is “we do bad things to bad people.” “The new motto of the ACCC is ‘we do bad things to bad people.’ That’s the mentality I want to have inside this room,” he said on Wednesday. “Ultimately, we’re […]

Russia To Intensify Attacks On Sources Of Western Support In Ukraine: Lavrov At the end of June, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an unusual move declared the start of a 40-day intensified pressure campaign against Russia, designed to force Moscow to the negotiating table and agree on terms favorable to Ukraine to end the war. This was an effort seize on the momentum of repeat drone hits on Russian refinery and energy […]

‘I Shot Brian Thompson’: Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty To Federal Charges In UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing Luigi Mangione, the 28-year-old accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on Friday to the federal charges against him – admitting that he went to New York with the intent to kill Thompson. Luigi Mangione attends a pre-trial appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court on […]

“A Big Win Today”: Trump Cheers As Trade Court Upholds Shutdown Of $800 De Minimis Duty Exemption Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Court of International Trade on Aug. 13 upheld the Trump administration’s authority to end the de minimis exemption that allowed Americans to avoid paying duty on packages worth $800 or less. The court held in a new order that President Donald Trump had legal authority to […]

NATO Jets Shoot Down Drone Over Latvia, Which Blames ‘Russian Electromagnetic Warfare’ NATO jets have shot down another drone which spilled over into Baltic territory from the Ukraine war, Latvia’s defense ministry announced Friday. The fresh incident happened over eastern Latvian airspace on Friday. NATO “fighter jets have successfully shot down a foreign unmanned aerial vehicle that had entered Latvia as a result of Russian […]