Alcohol Consumption In The US By The Numbers In the U.S., alcohol consumption remains widespread, with nearly half the population aged 12 or older reporting that they consumed alcohol within the past month. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, explores the scale of drinking behavior across America, including how many people drink, binge drink, or engage in heavier levels of alcohol use, using data from […]

Putin Might Soon Clinch A Large-Scale Labor Migration Deal With Modi Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin will visit India late next week to meet with Modi for their annual summit, the first time that the Russian leader will travel to India since the special operation began, his last one being in December 2021. Aleksei Zakharov, a Fellow at India’s esteemed Observer Research Foundation, published a detailed […]

Former NASDAQ-Listed Exec Sentenced To Life In Prison Over Murder-For-Hire Plot The First Assistant U.S. Attorney for Vermont announced that on November 24, 2025, Chief Judge Christina Reiss sentenced Serhat Gumrukcu, 43, of Los Angeles—formerly the “scientific founder”, “inventor” and largest shareholder of publicly listed Enochian Biosciences, which eventually became Renovaro—to life in prison for the January 6, 2018, […]

ZeroHedge Black Friday Sale Is Almost Over! After launching ZeroHedge store a year ago, we’ve been humbled by the overwhelming response. Between die-hard fans of IQ Biologix supplements, ZeroHedge gear, Rancher-Direct clean meats, hand-made knives, and more – your support is greatly appreciated.  So since everyone else on the planet is doing a Black Friday / Cyber Monday promotion, we did one too. Until Monday at […]

Escape Velocity: Why America’s 1963 Poverty Math Is Broken Authored by Peter Earle via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), In a recent analysis gone viral, financial blogger Michael W. Green traced how modern American families can earn anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 and still fall further behind. The argument is devastatingly simple: the mathematical parameters defining “poverty” are built upon a […]

China Factory Activity Contracts In Longest Stretch On Record As Economy Sinks China’s factory activity staged a slight improvement in November, but once again printed below the median estimate and extended its streak of declines to a record as the country’s economic slowdown deepens.  The official manufacturing PMI rose to 49.2 from 49.0 in October but remained below the 50 mark that separates growth and contraction for an […]

OPEC+ Confirms Plan To Pause Output Hikes In Q1 OPEC+ agreed to pause production hikes and leave oil output levels unchanged for the first quarter of 2026 at its meetings on Sunday as the group slows down its push to regain market share amid fears of a looming supply glut. Eight OPEC+ members have paused oil output hikes for the first quarter of 2026 after releasing some 2.9 million barrels per day into the market since April 2025, […]

USPS Built Mail System On Foreign Truck Drivers, Now Expects Special Treatment From Law Submitted by American Truckers United, When the Department of Transportation’s September 29, 2025 emergency rule exposed 200,000 fraudulently issued non-domiciled CDLs—many held by individuals with no legal work authorization—most of the trucking industry braced for a painful but necessary correction. The U.S. Postal Service did something […]

Tariff Revenue Surges To Record High Of $31.4 Billion In October Tariff revenues surged to $31.4 billion in October, setting a new monthly record as the Trump administration’s trade policies continue to remake U.S. trade flows and reshape the federal government’s balance sheet, according to newly released Treasury Department data. The Monthly Treasury Statement for October, published on Nov. 25, shows net customs duties […]

The Illusion Of Progress & The Pursuit Of ‘More’ Authored by Anthony Deden via Forum Geopolitica, The Illusion of Progress This essay was born out of revulsion to an accidental summer reading that paraded progress as virtue and private equity as its high priest. Every paragraph spoke the same pious language of “sustainable improvement,” “societal benefit,” and “longterm value creation,” as though leverage, […]

FDA’s “Profound Revelation”: COVID Shots Killed At Least 10 Children, Stronger Vax Rules Coming The Food and Drug Administration’s top overseer of vaccine policy on Friday told employees that at least 10 American children died “after and because of receiving” a Covid-19 vaccine. In a 3,000-word memorandum first reported by PBS, Dr. Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s vaccine division, also committed to implementing changes to the […]

South Park Roasts Americans Taking Saudi Money In Thanksgiving Special Via Middle East Eye The makers of the popular satirical cartoon show South Park turned their sights on Saudi Arabia in their latest episode, attacking American media personalities, politicians and sporting events for taking money from the state. Titled Turkey Trot, the episode starts with Mayor McDaniels convening a meeting with local businesses trying to […]

“The Whole Model Is Broken”: ‘Tech Mafia Wife’ Admits ‘We Were Klaus Schwab’s Useful Idiots’ When someone who used to be the queen of elite progressive philanthropy says the entire system failed – and may have been hijacked for something much darker – the world needs to hear it. As ‘Camus’ writes in a post on X, Nicole Shanahan – ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally […]

Trump Pushes To Reopen California Coast To Offshore Drilling Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, A draft federal plan proposes six offshore lease sales along the California coast, reversing decades of restrictions introduced after the 1969 Santa Barbara spill. California Governor Gavin Newsom, coastal states, and environmental groups vow legal and political resistance, calling the plan dangerous and “dead on […]

Is Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Investigation Turning Into A Rolling Coup? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Zelensky might be next after Yermak was just taken down unless he complies with Trump’s demands for peace, in which case it’s not unforeseeable that he too could be formally implicated in this scandal as the catalyst for a US-backed regime change carried out in collusion with his domestic allies. […]

Trump Rejects Maduro Request For Amnesty In Newly Disclosed Phone Call President Donald Trump has reportedly rejected Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s request for broad amnesty during a newly disclosed phone conversation last week, telling Maduro and his top advisers to drop their demands and swiftly exit Venezuela as US military pressure intensifies, which has lately included an order to halt all flights in the country’s […]

The Santa Rally Recipe: Fed Put In Full Force By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The market figured out a holiday recipe that works well: A Healthy Dose of Fed Puts. A Dash of Trade Hopes. A Smidge more Fed Puts because you can never have enough Fed Puts. In the past 5 trading days (including Friday November 21st): The Nasdaq 100 is up 5.7% (outpacing the “rotation” trade of the S&P 500 Equal Weight […]

NYT Torches Tim Walz After Somalians Scam Woke Minnesota For $1 Billion ‘On His Watch’ The NY Times has thrown Minnesota governor Tim Walz under the bus over a massive and sprawling fraud scandal that federal prosecutors say siphoned over $1 billion from the state’s social safety net programs – more than the entire state spends annually to run its Department of Corrections. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) The […]

Watch: Chevy Proves Woke Is Dead With New Ad Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Chevrolet’s new Christmas commercial “Memory Lane” has taken the internet by storm, racking up millions of views and an avalanche of praise for its simple, heartfelt storytelling that celebrates a traditional American family. There are no lectures, no forced diversity, just a mom and dad driving their 1987 Suburban to a snowy cabin […]

Kazakhstan Angrily Calls On Ukraine To Stop Black Sea Oil Terminal Attacks Kazakhstan is angrily denouncing and protesting the “deliberate attack” on critical energy transport infrastructure of the international Caspian Pipeline Consortium in the waters of Russia’s port city of Novorossiysk, after on Saturday a naval drone sent by Ukraine severely damaged one of its three loading points. Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry said on […]

Watch: TikToker Hands Out Vodka, Machetes To Mentally Ill And Homeless TikTok influencers push boundaries to stay visible and relevant in feeds. Some of the stunts have become so outrageous that these clout-chasing fools will do anything for views – even if it means jeopardizing public safety. The latest absurdity comes from TikToker PovWolfy, who in recent weeks has been handing out machetes and vodka bottles to the homeless […]

Rubio, Witkoff Meet With Ukraine Negotiators In Miami To Discuss Plans To End War Three key Trump administration officials are meeting with Ukrainian negotiators in Miami, Florida this weekend in a push to broker an end to the war Russia began with its 2022 invasion, while setting the stage for talks between Washington and Moscow planned later this week. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and U.S. […]

DC Terror Ambush Forces U.S. To Reckon With $14 Billion Afghan Evacuation Program That Imported Chaos The ex-CIA-linked Afghan national who gunned down one National Guard soldier and critically injured another (an ambush terror attack) blocks from the White House has finally forced a long-overdue reckoning over reckless immigration policies.  Afghans arrived in the U.S. through Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) and related […]

Race To The Bottom: White House Launches ‘Media Offenders’ Leaderboard Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump White House unveiled a scathing new website Friday, “Media Offenders,” complete with a “race to the bottom” leaderboard ranking outlets like The Washington Post as the worst for “false and misleading stories”—flagging everything from exaggerated Trump “sedition” claims to immigrant horror […]

VW Aims To Cut Development Costs In Half With New “Made In China” Car Volkswagen says it can build an electric car entirely in China at roughly half the cost of producing one in Germany, helped by quicker development, lower labor expenses, easier battery sourcing and a more efficient supply chain, according to FT. After heavy investment in its new R&D base in Hefei, which includes more than 100 labs for software, hardware and […]