Silver Will Remind Us: We Are Deeply Dependent On The Earth Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary We live in a world that has engineered distance between us and the physical limits our ancestors once lived inside of. The constraints that shaped generations before us—weather, harvest, transport, salt, fuel, season, strength, distance, labor, time—have been replaced by one dominant modern […]

U-Haul Growth Index: Newsom’s California Dead Last For Six Straight Years Moving company U-Haul has released its annual migration ranking, which continues to show a sustained outflow from high-tax, crime-ridden, Democrat-run states toward lower-tax states where law and order are cherished. Right off the bat, the report’s authors note that “Florida ranks 2nd for net gain of one-way customers; California last for sixth year in a […]

Wyoming Supreme Court Rules Abortion May Stay Legal Due To Obamacare Amendment Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court of Wyoming, on Jan. 6, ruled that two state laws banning the procedure and the availability of abortion medication were unconstitutional. A patient prepares to take a pill for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, on, Oct. 12, 2022. Charlie […]

EU Strategery Authored by T.L.Davis, The EU, so desperate to exert their dictatorial powers, to feel the exhilarating rush of adrenaline from smashing someone’s face with the butt of a rifle, has revealed itself. It is that rarest of all birds, both fascist and communist in its outlook on the world. Having been able to conquer most of Western Europe with a simple change in immigration policy it is heady with success, brazen and […]

The Truth About Venezuela Under Socialism, From Those Who Fled It Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), DORAL, Fla.—Zarai Maza survived a torched vehicle and a horrific car crash after peacefully protesting the Venezuelan regime, an unacceptable act in her home country, where speaking out could cost you your life or those of your family members. (L–R) Accountant Carlos Higuerey, human rights advocate Zarai […]

Why Trump Soured On Machado: It Has Nothing To Do With The Nobel Prize The fact that the Trump administration chose to anoint Delcy Rodríguez, who served as Nicolás Maduro’s staunchly loyal (or so he thought) Vice President, as the new leader of the country has left many wondering why he passed over Maria Corina Machado. Machado, as a longtime Venezuelan opposition and democracy activist, had made headlines last month when […]

Iran Signals ‘Pre-Emptive’ Action After Sen. Graham & Israel Threaten Khamenei’s Life Via The Cradle The Iranian military warned on 7 Wednesday that Tehran could potentially launch a pre-emptive attack on Israel in response to the escalatory rhetoric recently from both Tel Aviv and Washington. “Iran views the escalation of hostile rhetoric against the Iranian nation as a threat and will not leave its continuation unanswered,” […]

Senate Races To Resurrect Obamacare Subsidies – With New Caps, Fees And Fines Washington’s bipartisan dealmakers are inching toward reviving lapsed Obamacare subsidies – but this time with tighter strings attached. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-ME) A cross-party group of roughly a dozen senators is close to finalizing an agreement that would restore enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits that expired Jan. 1, according to negotiators […]

Death Toll Rises As Fighting Expands Between Syrian Army & Kurds In Aleppo Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, Fighting erupted between the Kurdish SDF and the Syrian Army today in the Aleppo Governorate, with the battle centering around a checkpoint in the town of Deir Hafer. At least seven people were killed in the course of the fighting, six of them civilians. A number of civilians were also reported wounded, though […]

Trump Warns NATO: Without America There Is No Alliance President Trump says that Russia and China “have zero fear of NATO” without the US being in the alliance, in a Wednesday Truth Social post, which comes not only as the White House says it intends to acquire Greenland – which has set up a diplomatic fight with European NATO allies – but also soon on the heels of the ultra controversial US military ouster of Venezuela’s Maduro. […]

US Expands List Of Countries Subject To Visa Bonds Of Up To $15,000 Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. State Department has expanded its list of nations whose citizens will be subject to visa bonds of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, adding 25 more nations, according to its website. The latest additions will bring the total number of nations to 38, according to the department’s […]

Mamdani’s Rich Kid Commie Tenant Advocate Starts Crying When Asked About Millionaire Parents NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly installed tenant advocate, Cea Weaver – a limousine liberal (socialist), popped out of her apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn Wednesday (a historically black neighborhood until people like Weaver priced out longtime residents) – only to start crying and run back inside when reporters asked her about her […]

Tim Walz Activates Emergency Operations Center, Alerts National Guard After ICE-Involved Shooting Sparks Protest Threat Update (1640ET): Gov. Tim Walz activated Minnesota’s Emergency Operations Center within hours of an ICE-involved shooting in south Minneapolis, as concerns grow that a coalition of left-wing activist groups could mobilize in the streets, evoking familiar and uneasy parallels to the unrest that followed the death […]

Donroe Doctrine: US Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker In Atlantic, Intercepts Dark-Fleet Ship In Caribbean Update (1014ET): “Donroe Doctrine” to clean up the Western Hemisphere was busy Wednesday morning, with the seizure of the Russian-flagged oil tanker Marinera (formerly Bella 1) in the North Atlantic, followed by U.S. forces seizing a stateless dark-fleet tanker in the Caribbean region. The seizure of Marinera is the headliner […]

Stablecoin Titan Tether Wants Gold To Be Used For Everyday Payments—Here’s How Authored by André Beganski via decrypt.co, In brief Tether introduced the term Scudo on Tuesday to represent 1/1,000th of a troy ounce of gold. The stablecoin issuer thinks the term could bolster gold’s use in payments. Tether issues a gold-backed token, XAUT, and holds nearly $17 billion worth of gold. Tether moved to establish a new unit of […]

Math Of A Debt Trap: Who’s Gonna Bail First – US, UK, Or EU? Authored by Alasdair Macleod via VonGreyerz.gold, Stagnating economies, together with high government debt loads, inevitably create funding crises and debt traps. Nowhere is this problem more destructive than for the fiat dollar. But it’s not just the dollar. Economies in the Eurozone and the UK have insufficient growth to support their colossal mountains of government […]

Watch: Migrant Chinese Trucker Caught With Trailer Load Of “Puffing Gas” For Teens Submitted by American Truckers United,  America’s interstate highways, the backbone of its economy and critical infrastructure, are increasingly traversed by an invisible fleet of truck drivers tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Through lax enforcement of non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs), Beijing-linked networks are […]

Russian Pundits, Military Bloggers, Are Angry: Maduro’s Capture Highlights Failed Zelensky Ouster Earlier we featured the headline Chinese Social Media Explodes: US Invasion Of Venezuela A ‘Template’ For Move On Taiwan – which featured Chinese Weibo users complaining that if Washington can quickly invade and remove the leader of a ‘nuisance’ government in its own backyard, then China can forcibly reunite Taiwan. There is a […]

UnsAIfe AI systems are moving from novelty to infrastructure. They write, code, search, and increasingly act on our behalf. That speed has put a spotlight on a harder question: how seriously are AI companies managing the risks that come with more capable models? This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, visualizes and compares the safety scores of major AI companies using data from the AI Safety Index published by […]

Immigration Agents Surge Into Minneapolis In ‘Largest Operation Ever’ Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has launched what officials described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever Tuesday in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, initiating the deployment of federal agents and officers in a crackdown tied to widespread fraud investigations allegedly involving mainly Somali […]

Trump-Defying Conservatives Shower Massie With Cash After President’s Latest Rant In a new iteration of a seemingly self-defeating tactic, President Trump’s latest social media rant against Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has triggered a deluge of contributions to the man Trump has targeted for a primary challenge in May. However, with three billionaires on his side, Massie’s challenger is building a formidable war chest, making this […]

Blackstone Craters After Trump Teases Institutional Ban On Single-Family Homes Shares in Blackstone cratered on Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced that he would be ‘immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes,’ and will be calling on Congress ‘to codify it. “For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream. It was […]

Pseudo-Recessions Authored by Victor Davis Hanson (get well soon) via American Greatness, As the 1992 campaign approached, incumbent president George H.W. Bush was seen as a shoo-in for reelection. The First Gulf War ended in 1991 with a spectacular U.S. victory at the head of a coalition that had expelled Saddam Hussein from Kuwait with few losses. For much of 1991, Bush’s approval ratings hovered between 90 and 70 percent. […]

Spot The Odd One Out: Life Expectancy Vs Healthcare Spending As Warren Buffett popularized: “Price is what you pay, value is what you get”. As Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins details below, just because someone pays the most, doesn’t mean that they extract the biggest payoff from a product or service. Today’s visual from Our World in Data that compares life expectancy with healthcare spending per capita hints at […]

US Service Activity Expands At Fastest Pace Since 2024, In Mirror Image To Manufacturing Slump It’s only fitting that two days after we got the weakest US Manufacturing ISM print in over a year, earlier this morning we got a diametrically opposite report from the Service sector, which according to the Institute for Supply Management expanded in December at the fastest pace in more than a year, fueled by solid demand growth and a […]