Stocks Set To Post Fresh All Time High As Tech Euphoria Returns Futures are fractionally higher, as they have been much of this supercharged week which pushed stocks to new all tim ehighs, amid quiet news flow this morning. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.1% after the index closed at a record on Thursday. Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 0.2%, with the tech benchmark set for a 1.2% gain in the week. Momentum darling Sandisk […]

Unusual Machines Jumps After Trump Slaps 100% Drone Tariff In “Hard Decoupling” From China Shares of drone makers AeroVironment and Aevex, and “pure-play” drone-parts company Unusual Machines, are higher in premarket trading Thursday after the Trump administration signed a proclamation imposing tariffs of as much as 100% on imported drones and components, part of a broader effort to decouple the nation’s drone supply chain from […]

Saudi Oil Fleet Increasingly Going ‘Dark’ Due To Houthi Blockade Via The Cradle Yemen’s maritime blockade on Saudi shipping has pushed the kingdom’s crude exports off the radar in the Red Sea, with tankers forced to turn off their tracking signals to avoid attack and every recent cargo loaded at Yanbu sailing “dark,” Reuters reported on Wednesday. Saudi export volumes can no longer be independently verified as a result of the […]

Only 3% Of Americans Trust AI “A Great Deal” With Their Money – But One In Five Are Using It Anyway A new Gallup survey finds a wide gap between the financial advice Americans say they trust and the advice they actually take. Just 3% of Americans say they have “a great deal” of confidence in artificial intelligence to help manage their money – while about 30% express “a great deal” or “some” confidence. Moreover, roughly one in […]

English Village Will Have Six Migrant Men To Every Woman Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A quiet North Yorkshire village of roughly 600 people is set to be flooded with around 1,200 single adult male asylum seekers at the nearby disused RAF Linton-on-Ouse base. Local women would be outnumbered six to one. Labour MP Rachael Maskell has raised the alarm over the plan, which forms part of the government’s wider push to […]

Is AI Good For The US Labor Market And Bad For Europe’s? France’s unemployment rate has been climbing steadily over the past eighteen months to the highest level in five years, with unemployment increasing across all age groups. The US, by contrast, has stayed essentially flat and near multi-decade lows over the past few years. While there are multiple factors driving both country’s economic progress (or lack of it), Apollo’s […]

The Delusional Premises Of Woke Greens Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, While the burgeoning democratic socialist movement is getting a lot of attention in advance of the 2026 midterm elections, a parallel dimension of wokeism quietly continues to advance. For now, the Trump administration has attenuated its most extreme threats, but its institutional support is unwavering, and its slow progress is unrelenting. The […]

“Skies Are Changing”: Northrop Grumman Unveils Chain Gun To Defend Critical Infrastructure From Drone Swarm Attacks Our view of the missing air-defense layer around data centers and other critical infrastructure emerged in late January, roughly one month before the US-Iran conflict, when we published “Explosion in AI Data Center Buildouts Will Demand Next-Gen Counter-Drone Security.” That theme was validated shortly after the war […]

Decommissioning Spending In UK North Sea Hits Record High Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Decommissioning remained a major activity across the UK North Sea in 2025, with industry spending hitting a record-high of £2.6 billion, or $3.5 billion, the North Sea industry regulator said in a report on Thursday. Well-decommissioning remains the single largest component of forecast decommissioning expenditure on the UK […]

Where Child Poverty Is Highest (And Lowest) In The OECD Child poverty rates vary widely across OECD economies, ranging from less than 5% in Finland to nearly 30% in Costa Rica. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Melissa Garside, ranks OECD countries by the share of children ages 0–17 living below the poverty line in 2023. The poverty line is defined as half the median household income of the total population, meaning the […]

The Great Decline Of Britain Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain’s streets are rotting in plain sight. Road signs coated in years of grime, pavements choked with weeds, blocked drains, overflowing bins and potholes have become everyday features of life in what was once a first-world country. Local authorities, funded by rising council tax, routinely fail to deliver the most basic maintenance. Ordinary people – […]

Total Freedom Vs Total Slavery & The Race For AI Supremacy Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The introduction of AI into popular consciousness and everyday usage has been rather disappointing, for the most part. And by that I mean, we’re not seeing any spectacular benefits to the presence of AI while the negatives keep piling up. At best, AI represents an advancement for information structuring; a much faster way […]

Meet The Red State Corridor Behind America’s Top Boomtowns The two top-ranked boomtowns in the United States lie less than 80 miles apart on the same stretch of Texas interstate, turning a single highway into one of the nation’s most potent engines of population and economic expansion. New Braunfels ranked second and Georgetown first in a SmartAsset study that examined more than 400 cities with populations of at least 65,000. Both […]

Anthony Fauci And The Collapse Of Scientific Authority Authored by Jason Locasale via The DisInformation Chronicle, Today’s guest essay comes from Jason Locasale who looks at academia’s embrace of authority over scientific data and evidence to preserve narratives and protect those in power. Anthony Fauci is now facing intense scrutiny. His diaries, emails, and testimony have raised fundamental questions about what he knew, what […]

US Sending Fresh Carrier To Relieve Over-Extended USS Lincoln Amid Reports Of Sailor Burn-Out Below we’ve detailed the immense strain placed on the long-deployed USS Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has been the main floating naval hub of operations amid the Iran war. The past weeks have seen growing US media coverage of the immense strain placed on the some 5000-member crew, and given the typical port calls have been nearly absent […]

Babylon Bee Sues New Mexico Over Restrictions On AI Satirical Posts Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, The Babylon Bee, a satirical online publication, is suing the state of New Mexico over a law that bans artificial intelligence-created misrepresentation of political figures and issues, including satire and parody, in the months leading up to an election. (L-R) Timothy Head, executive director of the Faith & […]

US Creates New ‘Multinational’ Attack Drone Task Force Amid Iran War & Lessons Learned In Ukraine Compared to what Ukraine and Russia are learning in the context of their grinding years-long war, the Pentagon is a bit late in putting together comprehensive drone swarm battle plans and tactics, but it seems to be the clear direction of future conflict spaces. On Thursday US Central Command unveiled that it is officially […]

State Department Launches Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, The Department of State on Wednesday announced the existence of a task force that has already revoked hundreds of visas from foreign nationals accused of exploiting U.S. immigration laws. Migrants, including a pregnant Haitian woman seeking to give birth in the United States, are apprehended by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in […]

The “Big Tent” Dilemma: Marxist Hasan Piker Pleads With Democrats For Help, But Will They Answer Senior Democratic leaders appear to have converged on a common messaging strategy as Republicans intensify an information operation portraying the party as hijacked by socialists and Marxists.   Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Abigail Spanberger and others have repeatedly described the Democratic Party as a “big tent” when […]

India Eyes Two New Sites To Expand Strategic Oil Reserves By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com State-controlled Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) is finalizing feasibility studies for two new strategic petroleum reserves facilities as the world’s third-largest crude oil importer looks to boost its energy security. ISPRL, a government-owned special purpose vehicle, is finalizing a feasibility study for a facility […]

Outrage As Texas Schools Bus Kids To Mosque So They Can “Experience Islam” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Outrage has exploded as public school students in Texas were loaded onto yellow school buses and driven straight to an Islamic center so they could experience Islam ‘up close’. The organizers could barely contain their excitement. In their own promotional video, they celebrated how the kids showed up and […]

11 Charged In Immigration Scheme Involving Over 1,000 Sham Marriages Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged 11 people with allegedly helping foreign nationals, primarily Chinese nationals, to obtain green cards through a marriage fraud scheme, according to an indictment unsealed on Aug. 12. The people behind the alleged scheme were all naturalized U.S. citizens originally […]

Putin’s First Ever Visit To Japanese-Claimed Islands Provokes Outrage In Tokyo Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made a provocative visit to the far-eastern Kuril islands for the first time ever. Japan immediately lodged a “strong” protest given it also has long claimed the territory, resulting in an avalanche of denunciatory headlines in Japanese press. Putin held a meeting there “on ensuring the security of Russia’s […]

Violent Crime Rate Drops In Major US Cities Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, A new report shows that violent crime dropped in many of the United States’ largest cities during the first half of 2026, and there was a more than 17 percent decline in the number of homicides. A Major Cities Chiefs Association survey, which gathered data from 66 of the largest cities in the United States, was released on Aug. 5. It […]

“No Rock Left Unturned”: Tether Completes Independent Audit Of Reserves With KPMG Stablecoin giant Tether has announced that KPMG U.S. completed the first independent audit of its reserves after years of struggling to get a Big Four accounting firm to do so. The San Salvador-based company, which issues the largest stablecoin in existence, USDT, said the audit was “the largest inaugural financial audit in history.” Tether […]