Diesel Crack Spread Madness Deepens As Jefferies Finds No Easy Exit From Russia’s Refining Crisis Refined-product markets have emerged as the epicenter of the global energy crisis, with commodity desks across Wall Street, including Goldman, Citi, Bank of America and Jefferies, warning that disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and Ukraine’s ongoing long-range drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure are converging into a perfect […]

President AOC’s First Term Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, The date is August 20th, 2032. We’re nearing the end of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first term as president. The wave of naive optimism that swept her into power has faded. But the damage is done. With a majority in both the Senate and House, the Democrats made big moves. First they eliminated the Senate filibuster. No more 60 votes needed to pass […]

Spain & The UK Lead In Football Fandom As Europe’s major football leagues return from their summer/World Cup break, fans in Spain and the UK are especially eager to get the ball rolling. In both countries, 78 percent of self-identified sports fans say they follow football teams or competitions – more than in Italy, Germany or France. Indeed, as Statista’s Felix Richter details below, the appeal football extends well beyond […]

A Call To Power: Islamic Leaders See Ballot Box As Path To Paradise Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations, The call to prayer is sounding across America. From Hamtramck, Michigan, to Paterson, New Jersey, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, rooftop amplifiers remind growing numbers of Muslim faithful five times a day of their duties with the Arabic message that “Allah is the Greatest! There is no god but Allah!” The […]

Turkey Issues Arrest Warrant For Netanyahu, Seeks Interpol Red Notice Turkey has escalated its anti-Israel actions, after months of denunciations connected to its Gaza, Syria, and Iran policies – and is once again taking things to new levels. The Erdogan government has just issued an international arrest warrant for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an investigation into Israel’s interception of an aid flotilla […]

Spanish Beach Stormed As Ceuta Chaos Spreads Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Dozens of military-age men leapt from boats onto packed tourist beaches in mainland Spain this week, sending holidaymakers scrambling for their belongings as the fallout from the Ceuta mass crossing continues to escalate. Footage from Cala del Barco near the exclusive La Manga Club in Cartagena captured the moment a large vessel packed with […]

What JPMorgan Saw Inside Tesla’s Fremont Factory As Humanoid Production Nears Retail flows across Asia remained heavily concentrated in newly listed, high-beta names, most notably Chinese robotics maker Unitree following its blockbuster Shanghai debut. The retail craze surrounding physical AI merely shows Beijing’s accelerating push to dominate the humanoid market. To close out the week, we pivot across the Pacific for a peek […]

Socialist Leader Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Affordability Pitch Masks “Guerrilla Class War” To “Bleed Enemy Dry” We have extensively profiled how communism is on the rise in America and how the Democratic Party has served as its primary vehicle into mainstream electoral politics. The Marxists in the Democratic Socialists of America have a platform that, in the long run, has very little to do with affordability but everything to do […]

Who Really Drives Global Terrorism? Internal US Govt Data Offers A Surprising Answer Authored by Larry Johnson via Sonar21.com Every administration reaches for the same line. Iran, we are told, is the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism — a claim now central to the case for war. It carries the weight of an official designation: Iran has sat on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism since January […]

“Fibermaxxing” Craze Forces Big Food Into Reformulation Cycle BNP Paribas analysts say Gen Z’s growing awareness of healthy, high-protein, high-fiber diets is accelerating a reformulation cycle across the Big Food industrial complex, as manufacturers race to make products more appealing to the youth and those on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.  In a report titled “Fiber Is the New Protein,” BNP analyst Joan Lim said the protein craze […]

Trained On 53 Million Pages: US Supercomputer-Backed Tool To Search Nuclear Reactor Data Authored by Aman Tripathi via Interesting Engineering, Nuclear power stations across North America have begun using a dedicated virtual system called NIVA. The software was created by Atomic Canyon in collaboration with the Electric Power Research Institute, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, and the Nuclear Energy Institute. Atomic […]

Russia Says Ready For ‘New Ideas’ From US On Ending Ukraine War The Kremlin has newly said it is ready for dialogue with Washington and open to ideas for ending the conflict in Ukraine, but still says it will not compromise on Russia’s core aims. A senior Russian diplomat has stressed that any future talks must align with President Vladimir Putin’s position. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stated in an interview published by […]

The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family’s Will To Reproduce Authored by Felix Yang via the Mises Institute, The total fertility rate needed to sustain a population is 2.1. Averaged over 2020-2024, South Korea’s stands at 0.78, Taiwan’s at 0.89, and Hong Kong’s at 0.79. Mainstream demography still treats these as cultural anomalies, when they are in fact the terminal readings of a century-long experiment in […]

Assistant U.S. Attorney Found Dead Inside Federal Building A high-ranking federal prosecutor was found dead inside a Southern California federal building on Wednesday, just hours after he was reported missing. Andrew Haden, Illustration via Wonderwall Andrew Haden, 48, the No. 2 official in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, was discovered in a vacant office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal […]

Wealth Exodus: Australians Flock To Property Investment Over Business Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times, Fewer Australians are putting their capital into businesses, with the drop most acute among the wealthy, new data from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) shows. Instead, more wealth is flowing into property. A food delivery worker waits to collect an order at a shop in the Sydney CBD in […]

US Treasury Classifies Hezbollah As Arm Of The IRGC, Not A ‘Stand-Alone’ Group The new US Treasury sanctions on Hezbollah unveiled Thursday do more than ever before in ‘legally’ classifying the Lebanese militant group as essentially an arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Treasury action – which is certainly not the first designation against the group – underscored that it operated in “service to the […]

Let Americans Keep The Savings They Find Authored by Wendy Barnes via RealClearPolitics, As candidates spend the coming months telling voters how they would transform American health care, they should not overlook reforms that could make care more accessible and affordable without requiring complex new government programs. Millions of Americans are already trying to make their health care dollars go further. They compare prices, […]

Buying May Not Beat Renting Until Retirement In Some Expensive Markets: Zillow Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, For a typical U.S. household, it can take decades to save for a home and reach the point where buying becomes cheaper than renting, with the timeline stretching into retirement in some expensive markets, according to an Aug. 20 Zillow report. A “for sale” sign is posted in front of a home for sale in San […]

Mobility Data Flashes Warning Sign Along Pakistan’s Iran-Linked Copper-Corridor AI-powered geospatial data platform xMap’s data scientist, Dana Harrison, asked in a LinkedIn post: “Can Mobility Data Spot Commodity Supply Risk Before the Market Does?” Harrison used location data from points of interest and human mobility data to focus on what she says are “changes in human movement” over recent months along Pakistan’s Chagai […]

Supreme Court Chief Justice Pauses Block On White House Ballroom Construction Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Aug. 21 said the Trump administration can proceed with construction of a new White House ballroom. Roberts, in a brief order, paused the preliminary injunction that had been entered by a U.S. district judge and upheld by a federal appeals court. The lower […]

The Push To Bring Back Recess Time In Public Schools Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Spencer Taylor describes his high school experience as a dark time, rife with detentions, suspensions, and over-medicated peers who acted up because they, too, couldn’t sit still in class all day. New students tour Nora Sterry Elementary School in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2025. There is a nationwide push to bring back or increase […]

Former Alabama Basketball Player Wins Defamation Suit Against NY Times Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, An Alabama jury ruled on Aug. 20 that The New York Times defamed ex-college basketball player Kai Spears when the newspaper falsely reported in 2023 that he was present during a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa. Kai Spears #32 of the Alabama Crimson Tide dribbles the ball during a practice session at State Farm Stadium […]

Trump To Flood US With 300,000 Tons Of Tariff-Free Ground Beef To Tame Prices Ahead Of Midterms With 74 days remaining until the midterm elections and average retail ground-beef prices hovering near $7 per pound, President Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday morning that his administration will temporarily waive certain tariffs on ground-beef imports. The move follows our Monday report highlighting signs that consumers are […]

Remember The Names Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . . it’s subversion and nothing about it is accidental. it’s a well worn playbook to use the democratic institutions of a high trust state to destroy a civilization.” – El Gato Malo on Substack An eerie quiet masks the panic rising among the many players in the long-running train of crimes carried out under color-of-law against the people of this country that […]

ICE Arrests 5 Suspected Child Predators In Undercover Operation Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested five suspected child predators during an operation in Omaha, Nebraska, between Aug. 12 and 14, the agency said in an Aug. 20 statement. (L–R) Bryan Dady, Jocsan Aparicio Santos, Logan Trigg, Law Eh, and Tillian Hutton were arrested for suspected sexual crimes […]