Post-Maduro Venezuela Wants Its $4BN In Gold Back From England Venezuela wants its gold back. And now with Maduro having been removed and Caracas being essentially a puppet of Washington influence and interests, it has a much better chance at this than ever before. Venezuela’s government and opposition are teaming up to wrest back $4 billion in gold bullion currently locked in the Bank of England’s vaults, according to a Friday […]

Racist Plan For Berlin’s ‘Blacks-Only’ Swimming Pool Day Canceled Over ‘Safety Concerns’ Via Remix News, A planned event at the temporary publicly funded “Volksbad” pool in front of Berlin’s Volksbühne theater has been canceled following an alleged surge of online hostility and threats. The initiative, organized in collaboration with the association Each One Teach One (Eoto), was set to reserve the public bath exclusively […]

China Copies America’s Futuristic “Sub-Second Detect-To-Fire” Anti-Drone Swarm Dome Gun China appears to have replicated a next-generation counter-drone system we first covered in mid-July. The system uses a multi-barrel hemispherical array that reduces much of the latency associated with conventional turrets, shortening the sensor-to-shooter engagement cycle. Beijing’s apparent interest reflects the design’s potential as a […]

War On Rowling Continues (Sans Facts) Authored by Christian Toto via American Greatness, Journalists love to ask two questions spun from the same unhinged premise. Do you support trans women in women’s sports, and do you agree with author J.K. Rowling’s “anti-trans” views? The former bullies athletes for passing Biology 101. The latter targets the Harry Potter author at every possible turn. We’re seeing both in action of late. […]

North Korea Rages At Upcoming US Drills: “Rehearsal For Aggressive War” North Korea has issued a severe warning over the upcoming joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea, characterizing it as a rehearsal for an aggressive war and that it is is ready to respond. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry described Friday that these planned drills look different, and will be more dangerous, compared to all prior ones of […]

It Was Destroyed In Just Days… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, In a matter of days, once-pristine beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been reduced to open-air dumps and disease-ridden camps occupied by thousands of illegal migrants who refused to leave after the mass invasion from Morocco. Locals describe feces, urine, garbage, and makeshift shacks covering the sand. Contagious illnesses are spreading. […]

Escobar: The New Great Game, Revisited Authored by Pepe Escobar via ‘Geopolitics Prime’ substack, It took only a few Yemeni missiles on Saudi refineries to wake up “leadership” vectors of the Ummah; not over 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the death cult. The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan remains a puzzle. Or dodgy sub-standard theatre – complete with photo ops and sparse intel […]

Where The World Is Burning In 2026 As of August 1, 2026, wildfires and landscape fires have burned 112.3 million hectares of land across the globe, an area roughly the size of South Africa. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Sofie Gilbert, uses data from the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) via Our World in Data to show where that burning is concentrated in 2026 as of August 1. The data includes prescribed […]

All ICE Enforcement Officers In Maine Equipped With Body-Worn Cameras, Sen. Collins Says Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Friday that all Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Maine have been given body-worn cameras and trained how to use them. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents walk outside the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, Calif., on July 27, […]

Forget Reminding Young People About ‘Boat People’: South America’s Rejection Of Socialism Is Happening In Real Time Andy Laperriere, Piper Sandler’s head of US policy research in Washington, wrote in a note on Thursday that explained both parties are moving left on economic policy as populist measures gain support across the political spectrum. His big-picture view is that “hard-left and socialist candidates” are damaging the […]

Judge Drops Case Against 6 Nevada Republicans Accused Of Falsifying 2020 Election Result Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Six Nevada Republicans, who were accused of submitting a certificate falsely declaring President Donald Trump had won the state’s 2020 presidential election, will not face a trial after a judge dismissed the case against them on Aug. 13. Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald walks on stage before […]

Trump’s DOJ Will Reportedly Support End Of National Firearms Act After 92 Years Why do Americans protected by the 2nd Amendment still need to get permission and approval from the ATF to have a rifle with a barrel under 16 inches, or a particular brand of stock, or a suppressor that, in most cases, doesn’t silence a firearm at all but simply makes shooting it easier on a person’s hearing?  Why, for 92 years, have citizens had to […]

House Committees Detail Harvard Ties With Chinese Entities In New Report Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A report released by House committees on Aug. 13 alleged that Harvard University prioritized financial ties over American national security and received more than $600 million from China, the most of any U.S. university. Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on March 29, 2026. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times The […]

Russia Admits Renewed Petrol Shortages After Recently Claiming Situation Was Stabilized Russia has shut down one major refinery at Orsk, around 800 miles from the front line, for six months after it came under drone attack this week. It has also suffered more terminal outages due to continued attacks on a vital Black Sea energy port. “Crude oil exports from Russia’s Sheskharis terminal at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were […]

Patriots Won’t Let Communists Take America Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,  Meet at the Liberty Tree… This chapter in American history could be titled, “The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery.” Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the U.S. Congress.   Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has been brought […]

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 […]