European Commission Proposes Energy & Water Efficiency Disclosure Rules For Data-Centers Authored by Zachary Skidmore via Data Centre Dynamics, The European Commission (EC) has submitted a proposal to require data centers across Europe to disclose their energy and water efficiency metrics. The European Union (EU) aims to triple its data center capacity over the next five to seven years. This has raised concerns about the […]

China Ranked #1 In World At Math; USA 27th… How do math skills compare around the world? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, ranks participating countries and economies by the average mathematics scores of 15-year-old students in the most recent PISA 2025 study, published in September 2026. PISA assesses students in mathematics, reading, and science. Its mathematics assessment goes beyond memorizing formulas […]

BBC Memory-Holes Comedy Sketches That Satirized Racism Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The BBC has completely cut multiple sketches from 2006 comedy skit show That Mitchell and Webb Look after dumping the Bafta-winning series back onto its streaming service for its twentieth anniversary. The official line is that some of the old material no longer “works today.” What no longer works, it turns out, is comedy that […]

The State Of Democracy After eight consecutive years of declining scores, the 2025 EIU Democracy Index showed a stabilization of democracy around the world. In the latest edition, almost 75 percent of countries either saw their score improve or remain stable compared to 2024, as the global average score across 167 countries and territories improved slightly to 5.2 out of 10. You will find more infographics at Statista The […]

Flash In The Pan Already Burned Out: German Economy Loses Its Hormuz Boost Submitted by Thomas Kolbe That Was a Short-Lived Boom. After just a few weeks, the special economic effect of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has already evaporated, according to Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs. In its monthly report, the ministry states that energy-intensive sectors and companies in German industry benefited from a […]

Nordics Consistently Lead The World In Gender Equality For the 17th consecutive time, the World Economic Forum has named Iceland the most gender-equal country in the world. This is according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026, which was released earlier this week. Iceland is the only country to have closed its gender gap by more than 90 percent and one of only four economies that have consistently been in the top 10 since the […]

Iraqi PM Sets New June 2027 Deadline To Disarm Resistance Factions Authored by News Desk via The Cradle, (Photo credit: AFP)Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi announced a June 2027 deadline for the disarmament of the country’s resistance factions in comments released on 21 September, extending a previous deadline which had been set for the end of this month. Iraq PM sets June 2027 deadline to disarm armed militias —— Iraq’s […]

Kim Jong Un Touts Hypersonic Missile Test: ‘Incurable Headache’ To Enemies North Korea has continued to try and instill fear into Washington and Seoul, on Sunday firing two short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan. However, these were apparently new military toys in the arsenal, with state media touting “a new type of weapon” – which Kim Jong Un later described as capable of giving “the enemy an incurable headache and […]

Elon Musk Is Powering The American Renaissance Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Daily Signal, Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to the YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. There’s a lot of controversy about Elon Musk. His reputation took a big hit, remember, […]

China’s DJI Alone Dwarfs Entire US Drone Production Two active wars across Eurasia, intensifying resource nationalism, and an energy crisis are adding urgency to US efforts to reduce dependence on China. Concerns about a potential Chinese blockade of Taiwan reinforce the supply chain decoupling theme.  The proliferation of attritable drones and interceptors is reshaping the economics of warfare. Industrial capacity, production […]

‘Pausing’ Intensifies: OpenAI Unleashes Latest Model Minutes After Dario Dumps Magnum Opus Update (1417ET): Well, well, well… Anthropic’s new Opus launch went up around lunchtime in New York, and by early afternoon OpenAI had rolled out GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, halving prices yet again. GPT-6 Sol now costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, half the $4/$20 promo rate Anthropic matched earlier today. GPT-6 […]

A Septennial Analysis Of Pre-Collapse Macroeconomic Indicators Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, Walk through any downtown financial district in mid-September 2026 and you’ll see the same strange disconnect. Construction crews still raise glass towers. Restaurants at noon remain packed with expense-account lunches. Bespoke tailors on side streets measure suits for clients who haven’t yet noticed their foundations shifting. […]

New York Is Hemorrhaging Young People To Philadelphia New York continues to attract ambitious young people, but apparently it’s also getting pretty good at showing them the door. The metro area recorded the largest net loss of Gen Z residents in the country in 2024, with nearly 30,000 more young adults leaving than arriving, according to Census data analyzed by Redfin, according to the NY Post. Millennials were even more eager to […]

The West Might Soon Ramp Up Its Pressure On India To Distance Itself From Russia Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The US and France seem to be coordinating a concerted pressure operation against India… Popular Russian outlet Izvestia raised awareness of a paywalled Bloomberg report alleging that India might reduce its import of Russian oil, which was 45% of its total last month, to avoid US tariffs of up to 100% after […]

NYC Tossed Out Roughly 46,000 NYPD Civil Summonses Last Year Due To Errors New York City is throwing out tens of thousands of low-level summonses issued by the NYPD, with the department’s reliance on pen-and-paper ticketing contributing to the problem, according to Gothamist. Of roughly 98,000 civil summonses issued by police during the last fiscal year, about 46,000 were dismissed by the city’s administrative court system, […]

Pentagon Unveils New Testing Process For US Generals Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon is changing its process for promoting generals, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Sept. 22. Hegseth announced the new process, known as the Joint Warfighter Evaluation, in a video posted on X. Today, I am announcing the Joint Warfighter Evaluation. pic.twitter.com/F0JIfbmEKs — Secretary of War Pete […]

White House Cancels Coverage For 750,000 ACA Enrollees, Citing Fraud Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday that about 750,000 people on Affordable Care Act plans were never entitled to the coverage, and that pulling their subsidies will save taxpayers $2.2 billion. Mehmet Oz, who runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, stood with him. The savings number is an administration estimate. The Congressional Budget Office has […]

At Least 150 Killed In Yemen Within Two Days Amid Indiscriminate Saudi Air Campaign Authored by News Desk via The Cradle, At least 150 people have been killed in Yemen since Sunday as Saudi warplanes launch indiscriminate strikes across the country and clashes continue between Ansarallah-led forces and Riyadh-backed proxies. (Photo credit: Reuters)”The death toll from Saudi airstrikes, clashes, and artillery fire in the […]

California Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Strong El Niño Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sept. 21 as the state prepares for what he described as the strongest El Niño storm season on record. Newsom said the emergency declaration would allow state agencies to act more quickly for potential severe weather, including securing roads and critical […]

The Riots Never Came: Has The Protest Machine Stalled, Or Is It Regrouping Summer has ended without riots. In Part One, we examined whether Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s crackdown on NGOs was having an effect. We now revisit that question, examining the far-left groups and subversion networks involved in mounting a revolution against the U.S. The National Network on Cuba released a “National Rapid Response Plan” that […]

The Big State Monetary And Fiscal System Is Over Authored by Daniel Lacalle via dlacalle.com, In 2021, The Economist ran an entire number hailing “The Return of Big Government” as the end of the so-called – but inexistent in practice – “austerity” paradigm and the evidence that more spending and a big state was the solution to the post-covid world, delivering economic growth, social spending, and sustainability. In 2025, the same […]

Bessent Emerges As “AI Czar” Frontrunner Fresh off his recent spat with “Doomsday Dario”, whom he scolded for his apocalyptic essay (which was attempted regulatory capture in all but name) and warned that the US government will not serve as a “liability shield” to the frontier AI company,  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears to be one step closer to directly taking AI matters into his own hands.  According to Semafor, […]

Foreign Actors Disrupt 2 Colorado Water Systems: Governor’s Office Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Foreign actors gained access to computer systems at two small private water utilities in Colorado in late August, changing equipment controls before operators restored normal operations, according to the governor’s office. Ally Sullivan, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jared Polis, said the Colorado Department of Public […]

Man At Risk Of Losing $95,000 Plane For Transporting Unopened Six Pack Of Beer Takes His Case To SCOTUS The Supreme Court will consider whether Alaska went too far when it confiscated a pilot’s $95,000 airplane over an attempt to bring beer into a dry community, according to Yahoo News. The case dates to 2012, when longtime Alaska charter pilot Ken Jouppi agreed to fly a passenger from Fairbanks to Beaver, where alcohol was […]

Soros-Linked Political Groups Pour Millions Into Democratic Efforts Ahead Of Midterms Via American Greatness, Political committees tied to the Soros family have directed tens of millions of dollars to Democratic-aligned organizations during the 2026 election cycle, including a group spending heavily in Michigan’s closely watched U.S. Senate race. Democracy PAC and Democracy PAC II had distributed more than $40 million to […]