This Was A Major Red Flag In 2008, And Now It Is Happening Again! Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, The alarms are getting even louder each week.  It has become exceedingly clear that the U.S. economy has entered a crisis that is similar to what we experienced in 2008 and 2009, and a lot of people are really starting to freak out.  For those that cannot see the stunning parallels between the Great […]

First Home Depot, Now Target Reports Soft Demand  At the start of the week, Goldman’s top consumer specialist Scott Feiler pointed out this would be a “very important week” for earnings across the consumer sector. Home Depot set the tone on Tuesday by cutting its full-year outlook as big-ticket spending and home-renovation demand continue to fade. Now, the next major earnings report just hit the tape, and it’s delivering […]

Dutch Retreat: Beijing Wins Control Fight Over Nexperia After Chip Shipments Squeezed The Dutch government has fully withdrawn its emergency powers over chipmaker Nexperia, returning control to Chinese parent Wingtech and ending the tense standoff that had led Beijing to halt key automotive-chip shipments, Bloomberg reported. If tensions persisted, this would’ve sparked snarled automotive supply chains worldwide. The reversal […]

‘Europe Is Persecuting Christians’ Via Spiked  Free speech is under serious attack all across Europe. To criticise the sacred cows of the progressive worldview – from transgenderism to immigration and even Islam – is to invite a knock on the door from the thought police. The recent, harrowing trial of a Finnish parliamentarian reveals how it is often Christians who find themselves in the firing line. Päivi Räsänen has spent […]

Senate Unanimously Approves Bill To Release Epstein Files Update (1730ET): Well that didn’t take long… The Senate has just agreed by unanimous consent to approve the House-passed bill to require the Justice Department to release all unclassified records and documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – upon receipt of the legislation from the House, only hours after the lower chamber voted 427-1 to approve it – […]

Newly-Leaked Emails Expose A Legitimate LGBTQ Mafia Presence At The BBC Authored by Olivia Murray via AmericanThinker.com, If we’re lucky, the BBC may soon cease to exist. As you may have already heard, President Trump’s threat to sue the outlet for an edited speech that was grotesquely distorted and then aired in a documentary has increased from $1 billion to $5 billion—in the wake of Trump’s threat, BBC released a […]

Witkoff, Zelensky, Erdogan To Meet In Turkey In Effort To Revive Peace Talks Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced he is going to Turkey Wednesday in order to try and revive negotiations with Russia toward reaching a settlement to end the war. US special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to be there for the talks, which would see Turkey play mediator, as it did during short-lived talks in the opening months of the […]

Like “Helping An Alcoholic By Sending Another Crate Of Vodka”: Orbán Blasts Brussels Over EU Funding Ukraine Via The Libertarian Institute Ukraine will need over $150 billion from its Western backers in 2026 and 2027. The President of the European Commission admitted there were no easy options.  In a letter to the leaders of the European Union, Ursula von der Leyen argued it was essential for the bloc to plug Ukraine’s $157 […]

EU Launches Cloud Antitrust Probes Into Amazon, Microsoft What would Europe be without a mountain of regulations aimed at curbing free speech and privacy?  Attendees at Amazon.com Inc. annual cloud computing conference walk past the Amazon Web Services logo in Las Vegas, Nev., on Nov. 30, 2017. Salvador Rodriguez/Reuters File Photo The European Commission (EC) on Monday launched three separate investigations into Amazon and […]

Syria Has Put A Big Western Flag In Its Gas Patch, Less Than Year After Assad Overthrow Authored by Julianne Geiger via OilPrice.com, Syria has just put a big Western flag in its gas patch. The state-owned Syrian Petroleum Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with ConocoPhillips to develop existing gas fields and hunt for new ones, in a bid to drag the country’s power sector out of wartime ruin. Damascus says the deal […]

Xi And Trump To Both Be Absent From G-20 Gathering In South Africa Chinese President Xi Jinping will skip next week’s G-20 summit in Johannesburg, a setback for host South Africa, which is already dealing with a boycott by US President Donald Trump, according to Bloomberg.  China’s Foreign Ministry said Premier Li Qiang will attend instead, without giving a reason for Xi’s absence, even though he joined the summit last […]

Leftist Berlin Mayoral Candidate Calls For Voting-Rights For All Migrants Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Left Party’s (Die Linke) newly-chosen lead candidate for next year’s state election has called to extend voting rights to all migrants living in the capital, including those who do not hold German citizenship. Elif Eralp’s remarks were delivered during a party strategy meeting on Saturday, where 163 […]

Was COVID Always A CIA Plot? Via The Brownstone Institute, According to newly released emails, the United States Intelligence Community, led by the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, held regular meetings with Dr. Ralph Baric, one of America’s leading coronavirus experts, since at least 2015.  Senator Rand Paul’s office has worked for years to obtain the documents.  Baric has been accused of […]

Chinese Firm Bought Insurer For CIA Agents As Part Of Trillion Dollar Spending Spree For years, Washington assumed that China’s outbound investment flowed mainly into developing economies hungry for infrastructure money. But as scrutiny tightens across the West, it’s becoming clear that Beijing’s financial reach extended far deeper into wealthy nations – and far earlier – than most policymakers realized. One early warning […]

The Road To De-Civilization: Inflation & The Moral Erosion Of Society Authored by Michael Matulef via The Mises Institute, Every major economic illusion begins with the corruption of a word. Inflation once meant popularly what it still means in truth—the artificial expansion of money and credit. But, over time, it has been redefined to describe its consequence rather than its cause. This deliberate inversion of language […]

How A Missed Train In 1876 Led To The Adoption Of Standard Time Authored by Gerry Bowler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In July 1876, Sandford Fleming, a Scottish Canadian engineer, was standing on an Irish railway platform fuming—he had misread his timetable, confusing a.m. and p.m., and as a result had missed his train. Spurred by this inconvenience, Fleming began thinking how a 24-hour clock would have made this sort of […]

Beijing Jumps Back Into US Soybean Market, Snaps Up 20 Cargo Loads After Abrupt Pause  After the Trump-Xi trade agreement cooled the tit-for-tat tariff war and opened the door for a more stable phase of negotiations, we’ve been tracking a series of agricultural twists and turns that can only be viewed as a rollercoaster ride:  ‘Signatures As Soon As Next Week’: U.S.-China Deal Close, Bessent Unveils Major Victory For American […]

Pennsylvania School District Using AI-Enabled Wi-Fi To Search Students For Firearms Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Pennsylvania school district is using artificial intelligence to keep guns off its campuses. But civil liberties advocates have warned that the technology could lead to mass surveillance and violation of constitutional rights. The entrance to Oliver Citywide Academy is empty after a […]

Ecuador Slams Door On Hosting US Military Base In National Referendum Ecuador just had a major vote which has gone some underreported in US mainstream media, given perhaps the current focus on the Venezuela crisis. The Latin American country held a referendum Sunday on allowing allowing the return of foreign military bases in the country. This was ultimately seen as a vote on allowing an American military presence, which the US […]

Federal Court Blocks Texas’s New House-Map Favoring Republicans Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times, A panel of federal judges in Texas has ruled that the state cannot use newly redrawn House maps aimed at securing additional seats for Republicans. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. […]

Maryland Gives $6M To Nonprofit Leader Who Owes Over $200K In Back-Taxes Maryland has awarded $6 million to We Our Us, a nonprofit led by Antoine Burton, who owes more than $200,000 in federal and state tax liens dating back to 2017, according to investigative reporting by Fox 45 Baltimore. The situation has renewed concerns about how officials vet organizations receiving major public funding. Gov. Wes Moore approved the $6.1 […]

TikTok Zombie Brain Rot Confirmed By Major Study Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A bombshell Griffith University study has validated a long suspected reality: short-form videos (SFVs) like TikToks and Instagram Reels are frying brains, slashing attention spans, and crippling cognitive endurance. Such content is turning a generation into scatterbrained zombies unable to tackle real-world complexities amid […]

Constellation Gets $1 Billion Loan From US Govt To Restart Three Mile Island One week ago we said that “hundreds of billions” of dollars are about to be loaned out to nuclear projects by the US government. Well, the first billion is about to be wired.  The Wall Street Journal reports Constellation Energy has secured a $1 billion federal loan from the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) to restart the Unit 1 reactor […]

Appeals Court Sides With CNN Over Trump Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A panel of appeals court judges on Nov. 18 upheld a ruling against President Donald Trump in a case he brought against CNN. Trump did not adequately show that CNN defamed him when it reported that he promoted what it described as the “Big Lie” when challenging results from the 2020 presidential election, judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals […]

Brazil’s Banco Master Collapses: CEO Detained, Regulator Shuts Lender Down Here’s one that might surprise some New York City voters: it turns out banks don’t seem to prosper under communism. For proof look no further than Brazil where authorities moved Tuesday to shut down Banco Master SA as federal police arrested six people — including CEO Daniel Vorcaro, according to Bloomberg. The arrests were part of a widening fraud probe. […]