Zelensky Pressured By Western Diplomats To Find ‘Plan B’ Ceasefire Track Amid Losses Headlines in major US outlets last week and this week point to some behind the scenes scrambling and a degree of panic among Ukraine’s Western backers. There is beginning to be acceptance that Kiev forces are losing the war, and that Moscow won’t quit until Putin sees the goals of the ‘special military operation’ through. The alternatives include […]

Meet The Hate-Crime Commissar Of New Normal Berlin Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, The column you are about to read is a “hate crime.” Or, rather, an alleged “hate crime,” as I believe my attorney would like me to put it. We’re still sorting that distinction out in criminal court. Or, rather, we are about to sort it out again, on September 30, in Berlin Superior Court. We already sorted it out once, […]

Germany’s Sick Pay Dilemma: Tesla Dangles Cash For Workers To Show Up As Absences Skyrocket Faced with a surge in staff absences, Germany’s employers are reaching for a new trick to get workers to clock in: a cash bonus for not calling in sick. Tesla, headed by CEO Elon Musk, is leading the charge – offering workers at its Berlin plant up to €1,000 (US$1,111) just to show up. The Tesla factory in Grünheide, Germany, pictured on […]

The Media Is Exaggerating The Impact Of Anti-Proxy War Posters In Italy Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, CNN headlined an article last week about how “Pro-Russian posters appear on billboards across Italy” as part of their ongoing campaign fearmongering about alleged Russian influence in the West. The posters themselves are innocuous though and simply call for an end to the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine. Some […]

US Secures Convictions, Guilty Pleas As CCP-Directed Spying Exposed Authored by Eva Fu, Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For years, Beijing has been deepening its hold on America, drawing intelligence from the U.S. government while silencing critics with the help of agents embedded in U.S. society. The United States is now hitting back—and seeing results, according to experts. Illustration by The Epoch Times, […]

Dalio Says 25, Gundlach 50, And To Dimon Whatever The Fed Does, Won’t Be “Earth-Shattering” We know that by now you are sick of discussions of tomorrow’s Fed rate cut – 25 or 50 or whatever… so here’s some more. With Wall Street strategists spent and exhausted, playing out game theory and Martingale scenarios about what the Fed could, should, may, or would do, the big guns have taken the mic and, as expected, they disagree. We […]

Is ISIS Back? Actually, It Never Left The Building Authored by Phil Gurski via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In the wake of yet another foiled ISIS-inspired terrorist plot, this one by a Canada-based Pakistani seeking to kill Jews in New York on the anniversary of last year’s Hamas attack in Israel, everyone is loudly proclaiming: “ISIS is back.” And yet, this analysis is wrong. A man stands in front of the ruins of a […]

Not Just ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’: Hillary Demands Criminal Charges For Americans “Engaged” In “Propaganda” Amid claims that Trump is a “danger to this country and the world,” Hillary Clinton – the original sinner of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’-propaganda – has called for anyone spreading “misinformation” to be criminally charged as a “better deterrence” ahead of the election. Specifically, the former Secretary of State told MSNBC […]

U.S. Coast Guard Encounters Russian Naval Vessels Near Alaska Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed an encounter with four Russian Navy vessels 57 miles from Point Hope, Alaska, on Sunday. The incident occurred during a routine patrol by the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton in the Chukchi Sea, according to a statement on Sept.16. The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL […]

“It Changes The Math”: Biden’s Tariff Crackdown Throws Amazon And Walmart’s Sneaky China Plans Into Chaos Under mounting pressure from Chinese retail giants like Shein and Temu, American behemoths Amazon and Walmart have been cooking up a scheme to dodge tariffs and slash costs – but a new move by the Biden administration might just rain on their parade. For months, these U.S. retailers have been quietly plotting to overhaul their […]

Constitution Day Reflections On America’s Founding Documents Authored by Matthew Riffe via RealClearWire.com, When it comes to celebrating Constitution Day, it may be considered atypical to think of the Declaration of Independence. After all, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were two separate documents authored 11 years apart, written for two very distinct reasons, and penned by different authors. Yet both […]

“Operation Beef Bandit”: Four Thieves Caught In Multi-Million Dollar Chain Of Food Heists Spanning 3 Years A ring of food thieves along the Jersey Turnpike has been caught and brought to justice this week. The suspects are all from Philadelphia, according to the Philly Voice, who reported that they “face multiple counts of conspiracy, criminal mischief, burglary and possession of stolen goods”.  The four people are connected to […]

Watch: Resident Of PA Manufacturing Town Exposes Reality Of Haitian ‘Great Job Replacement’ While Americans were hyper-fixated on the 20,000 Haitians the Biden-Harris administration dumped into Springfield, Ohio, through an expanded Temporary Protected Status program for migrants from the collapsed Caribbean nation, former President Trump shifted the conversation during a campaign rally last week to Charleroi, Pennsylvania.  […]

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Linked To Unusual Metabolite Levels: Study Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Researchers have identified 14 biomarkers that, if atypical at birth, may increase an infant’s risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS—a condition that has long puzzled doctors. morrowlight/Shutterstock The study evaluated over 350 infants who died from SIDS and compared them to over 1,400 […]

“End Of An Era”: Steve Cohen Steps Back From Trading At Point72 Hedge Fund Back in November 2020, when Steve Cohen completed his $2.4 billion purchase of the NY Mets, some joked that the purchase of the dismal baseball team, which according to many is the worst in the league, would eventually bring down the iconic hedge fund manager himself. In the end, while it may not have quite played out that way, the cynics were not that far […]

The Ruling Elites Create An Orwellian Reinterpretation Of Human Rights Authored by Wanjiru Njoya via The Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises depicts the aim of revolutionary socialism as: “to clear the ground for building up a new civilization by liquidating the old one.” One of the main strategies in liquidating a civilization involves dismantling its legal and philosophical foundations. This role is fulfilled by activists who […]

Secret Service Director Makes Cryptic Reference To Coming ‘Geopolitical Event, Kinetic Conflict’ That Could Endanger US Leaders What did the Secret Service chief mean by the below comments? Ronald Rowe Jr., the Secret Service’s acting director, when giving a briefing Monday from West Palm Beach, described the challenges of protecting Trump and lessons learned going forward. While critics have pointed out the glaring failures that […]

Election Interference? Elizabeth Warren Urges Fed To Cut Rates By 75bps… Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, A trio of Democrat Senators wrote Jerome Powell begging for a three-quarter point cut. Letter to Powell Here is the Letter to Powell from Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). We write today to urge the Federal Reserve (Fed) to cut the federal funds rate, […]

WTI Holds Gains As Cushing ‘Tank Bottoms’ Loom After API Reported Draw Oil prices closed higher today, with WTI rallying strongly up to test $72 (after falling to the lowest in more than three years last week as the Chinese economy showed more signs of slowing). “Speculation that China needs to go big on stimulus to support the economy have helped trigger buying from hedge funds, who last week held the most bearish view on oil in […]

Smoke And Mirrors: What Happens After Biden’s Economic Manipulations Disappear? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, There is a popular school of thought that believes most economic stability is purely psychological; that the health of the economy relies on the population NOT knowing the true state of things. In other words, “ignorance is bliss.” I partially agree with the premise but only under certain conditions. If […]

Would-Be Trump Assassin Said In Book That He Looks Forward To World War III Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man arrested on Sunday for allegedly trying to kill former President Donald Trump, said in a book he published in February 2023 that he looked forward to World War III and hoped he could burn down the Kremlin. “I do dream of the day that we cross over into Russia and march […]

Stocks & Bonds Sold Ahead Of Fed Decision; Crypto & Crude Surge Hot retail sales print and better than expected Industrial production data are not exactly what the doves wanted to see ahead of tomorrow’s big decision (25 or 50bps). Does this look like an economy that needs rate-cuts? Source: Bloomberg To complicate things further for traders, NikiLeaks (WSJ’s Nick Timiraos) said withholding a larger cut could raise […]

Minnesota Test Scores Remain Low Despite Walz Spending Billions Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, The Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.), has failed to improve average test scores in his state of Minnesota despite spending billions of dollars to try to improve the state’s education system. As the Daily Caller reports, Walz previously signed a bill in 2023 that aimed to […]

Age Of Rage: 26 Million Americans Believe Political Violence Is Justified Authored by Jonathan Turley, A poll released by the University of Chicago via the Chicago Project on Security and Threats offers a chilling account of the growing radicalism in America, particularly after the second foiled assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump, the poll found that 26 million Americans believe “the use of force” is […]

War Preparations Build After 9 Killed, 2700+ Wounded In Israel’s Pager Attack On Hezbollah Update(1445ET): Official Lebanese Health Ministry figures are that nine people were killed in the simultaneous pager explosions, including a young girl, and some 2,750 wounded. The Lebanese government has identified “Israeli aggression” as being behind the attack, while Hezbollah also says it holds Israel “fully responsible”. Israel has yet […]