This Polycrisis Is Unique Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, When understood as a wave, the current Everything Bubble is not sustainable. The problem with predictions based on the past is the analogies we discern are interpretations which means if we like one interpretation more than the alternatives, we stretch the present crisis and past crises to fit our preferred interpretation. Two round pegs pounded into […]

Allies Balk As Trump Pushes Joint Military Action To Reopen Hormuz – Iran Says No Ceasefire On Table Summary: Trump declares ‘victory’ while simultaneously urging coalition help: President Trump claimed the US has “essentially defeated Iran” and vowed “we will finish the job,” while pressing NATO allies and other countries to join a naval coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran rejects ceasefire and signals […]

Bessent: Any Delay In Trump-Xi Summit Would Be Due To “Logistics,” Not China’s Failure To Help Police Hormuz Update (0800ET):  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined CNBC TV to counter narratives from U.S. MSM outlets overnight that claimed President Trump would delay the Xi summit later this month if Beijing did not help form a naval coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “If the meetings are delayed, it wouldn’t be delayed […]

Sector Watch: The Energy Security Pivot Accelerates Authored by Boredom Baron via Substack, Four sectors demand specific attention this week, and the supply chain dynamics within each are more nuanced than the headlines suggest. Logistics and Transportation face existential cost pressure, but the picture is bifurcating exactly as I suggested it would. The Denmark story, with the government begging citizens to “please, please, […]

Supply Chain Layoffs Spread Across Warehouses, Factories And Rail Terminals By Noi Mahoney of FreightWaves A wave of layoffs across U.S. supply chains — from EV battery plants and auto parts factories to warehouses and rail terminals — has affected nearly 4,000 workers in recent weeks, according to company announcements and WARN filings across multiple states. Recent WARN filings and company announcements show job cuts across […]

Sleepless In Sweden Recent data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey casts light on the prevalence of sleeping problems in different countries, affecting more than a third of respondents in 25 out of the 32 populations surveyed. You will find more infographics at Statista Respondents were asked if they had experienced a sleep disorder in the 12 months prior to the survey. Additionally, Statista’s Felix Richter notes that […]

“Entirely Demonic”: Catherine Austin Fitts Warns Financial Tsunami Coming Because Of Programmable Money Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), publisher of “The Solari Report,” has been pushing gold (and silver) as an investment for the past few years.   The record high price, even though both have come down in price a bit, has proven her right–again.  Now, there is an overpowering change […]

Where The Super Rich Reside According to the Forbes World’s Billionaires List of 2026, many of the world’s richest people are citizens of the United States. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz shows in the following chart, the country counted 989 billionaires per the list’s last release Tuesday. This is far ahead of the second-ranked country, China (with 610) and third-placed India with 229. You will find more infographics at […]

German Police Raid AfD Lawmaker’s Home Over Years-Old Social Media Posts Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Police and prosecutors in Munich carried out searches on Friday morning at the private residence and Bavarian State Parliament office of AfD lawmaker René Dierkes, reportedly in connection with alleged insults and social media posts dating back several years. Dierkes, 34, who represents the Munich-East constituency […]

Nordic Nations Rank Among Happiest & Wealthiest In The World Does money buy happiness? The world’s richest countries generate staggering income per person. But when it comes to life satisfaction, some of the wealthiest nations fall surprisingly short. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, compares GDP per capita (PPP), based on IMF data, with happiness scores from the World Happiness Report, which asks […]

Berlin Youth Center Hid Girl’s Gang-Rape By The Usual Suspects To Avoid ‘Typical Muslim’ Label Via Remix News, A Turkish-Kurdish schoolgirl is said to have been groped by nine boys of Arab descent in the back room of a Berlin youth center in Gropiusstadt, Neukölln. It then came out that she was raped in November, in the youth center garden. A scandal has erupted after it was reported that the youth center staff did not file a […]

Echoes Of Iraq: Mainstream Media ‘Deja Vu’ Over Framing Of The War On Iran Via Middle East Eye “Why we should go to war” ran the headline of a Guardian article in February 2003 by the commentator Julie Burchill. In it, she explained to the Guardian’s liberal readers why a pro-war attitude in the run-up to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s invasion of Iraq should be welcomed.  “If you really think it’s […]

Alaskans Carry The Most Lifetime Credit-Card Debt Of All Americans, Iowans The Least The average American accumulates nearly $400,000 in credit card debt over their lifetime. But the total varies significantly depending on where people live. In some states, the typical lifetime total exceeds $450,000, while in others it sits closer to $320,000. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Tasmin Lockwood, based on data from JG Wentworth, […]

White House Denies Tucker Carlson CIA Spy-Op Update (2250ET): ‘Top admin officials’ tell Axios’ Marc Caputo that this is fake news;  2/2 Specifically, I’m told 1) there’s no CIA investigation of Carlson 2) In his meeting, the two politely disagreed, & Trump held to his position Iran was a threat & didn’t mislead him Said one source: Trump “wasn’t participating in an op.” — Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) March […]

The Singularity Is A Step-Function Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Ratcheting Ourselves Through the Inflection Point Ray Kurzweil always framed the Singularity as a moment — some techno-rapture threshold humanity would stumble through like a portal in a video game. One side: regular civilization. Other side: incomprehensible machine superintelligence. Roll credits. About a year ago I put out a Bombthrower piece […]

What COVID Policy Did To Doctors Who Refused To Stay Silent Authored by Joseph Varon via the Brownstone Institute, The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between them. Intensive care units became Covid wards. Monitors glowed in dark rooms while ventilators pushed air into failing lungs. Nurses, shrouded in protective gear, moved quietly. Families were absent—barred from […]

Yet Another Tech Titan Flees California For Texas The exodus of Silicon Valleytitans from California is gaining momentum as the state weighs a proposed wealth tax aimed at billionaires, including potential levies on unrealized gains, a measure that has stirred significant concern in the tech sector. Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick revealed this week that he relocated from California to Texas last winter. BREAKING: @travisk says […]

Slow Progress Pushes Trump Admin To Talk With Westinghouse Rivals In a stunning pivot that could upend Westinghouse’s monopoly-in-progress, the Trump administration’s Department of Energy is quietly shopping for alternatives to Westinghouse’s AP1000 flagship reactor. According to Canary Media, high-ranking DOE officials have held recent talks with executives from GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) and South Korean diplomats […]

Now They Are Actually Admitting That There Is A Massive “Gravity Hole” Underneath Antarctica? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of the American Dream blog, For decades, we were told to ignore any of the strange reports that we were hearing about Antarctica. Experts assured us that nothing unusual was going on and that there wasn’t anything to be concerned about. Of course we couldn’t go investigate for ourselves, because […]

Will This Make Chicago Safe? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An ultimatum issued by the Trump administration has pushed the Chicago Transit Authority to unveil a beefed-up security plan, threatening to yank federal funding unless the agency tackles the rampant crime plaguing its trains and buses. This move comes after a string of brutal attacks exposed the failures of soft-on-crime policies in the Windy City. The […]

Sen. Mike Lee: We’ve ‘Turned Kind Of A Corner’ On The Save Act Last week, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he will not sign any new legislation until the Senate passes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, calling it his top priority ahead of the midterms.  The SAVE Act, introduced in January by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), requires proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote […]

Bessent Leads Trade Talks With China In Paris Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit Ahead of the upcoming Trump-Xi summit, China and US have begun a fresh round of trade talks to set the stage for the main event.  Trade negotiators led by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng held talks in Paris on Sunday to map out plans for a leaders’ summit later this […]

Energy Secretary Directs Oil Company To Resume Operations In California, Citing National Security Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, Energy Secretary Chris Wright on March 13 directed the Texas-based oil company Sable Offshore Corp. to restore operations in water off southern California. Wright invoked the Defense Production Act to restore the company’s Santa Ynez Unit and Pipeline System near Santa Barbara to address […]

Trump Administration Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee From TikTok U.S. Deal The Trump administration is poised to receive roughly $10 billion in payments from investors involved in the recently completed transaction to take control of TikTok’s U.S. operations, delivering an unusual financial windfall tied to the government’s role in keeping the popular social-media platform active in the United States. ByteDance is the Chinese […]

French Municipal Elections Provide Early Test For Le Pen’s National Rally Ahead Of 2027 Presidential Race Takeaways France held the first round of municipal elections on Sunday in nearly 35,000 municipalities, serving as an initial indicator of political momentum ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) is seeking to expand its limited local presence, with ambitions focused on southern cities […]