Gaza Tent Cities Under Water Amid Deadly ‘Catastrophic’ Storm Via Middle East Eye At least 11 Palestinians have died in storm-hit Gaza from cold and collapsing buildings within the last 24 hours. Two children – nine-year-old Hadeel Hamdan and an infant, Taim Khawaja – died from cold in Gaza City on Friday, according to medical sources. Another child, eight-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar, died in Khan Younis on Thursday after […]

Flight Tracking Data Appears To Show US Fighter Jet Over Venezuelan Airspace The flight-tracking website Flightradar24 reports that a U.S. military F/A-18E Super Hornet (RHINO51) entered Venezuelan airspace near the country’s northern coast just moments ago. It appears RHINO51 switched off its transponder. More than 113,000 Flightradar24 users tracked the aircraft. The U.S. military has not confirmed that the fighter jet […]

UBS Outlines Three Reasons For Sober Revolution Crushing Spirits Market There are just thirteen days until Christmas. Friends and family are gathering; eggnog, spiked with bourbon, dark or spiced rum, or cognac, is flowing, and Christmas music fills homes, restaurants, and bars, blaring from speakers tuned to holiday playlists. But this Christmas season, like the last few, the spirits market in North America is extraordinarily weak […]

Border Tsar Homan Announces Investigation Into Rep. Omar: A Case For Fraud Or Defamation? Authored by Jonathan Turley, This week, the lingering allegations over the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) took an ominous step when Border Tsar Tom Homan publicly acknowledged that the government is looking into the matter. Rep. Omar has long denied that she married her brother to gain his entry into the United States, but the […]

This Elderly Man Gave Away His Gold After Fake US Marshal Called. He Isn’t The Only One. Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), SHOW LOW, Ariz.—The coin shop owner had seen his share of hefty deals, but this call caught him off guard. An elderly man from nearby Snowflake, Arizona, wanted to purchase gold coins valued in the tens of thousands. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock The next day, when […]

What The Top 1% Richest Americans Pay In Taxes Across The US This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, uses IRS data from 2022 analyzed by SmartAsset to show how much the richest people contribute to income tax revenue. Where the Top 1% Pay the Largest Share of Taxes The table below includes each state’s share of income taxes paid by the top 1% and the total amount of income tax they paid. Wyoming leads the […]

Lefty ‘Consumer’ Watchdog Group Bought & Paid For By Big Pharma Via American Greatness, The National Consumers League is America’s oldest consumer advocacy organization and a group trusted by the left, especially, to stand up for consumers’ interests. But according to a review of its tax filings by the Washington Examiner, it has also become part of a web of astroturf groups shilling for the corporate interests of […]

AI Is A “Supersonic Tsunami”; Musk Bullish On Global Trajectory It has been a month since Elon Musk and Joe Rogan spoke, but, as ‘Camus’ pointed out this week, this seven-minute exchange, buried in the middle of a three hour conversation, could very well be one of the most important conversations of the decade. Musk laid it out bluntly: AI is a “supersonic tsunami” already erasing every purely digital job—coding, emails, […]

Snow Threat For Mid-Atlantic I-90 Corridor This Weekend Ahead of next week’s return to global warming, thank you, Al Gore, for listening to our prayers in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast after weeks of below-average temperatures that felt like the Arctic. A weekend snowstorm is set to blanket the region with accumulating snow. The NWS Weather Prediction Center published a new snowfall forecast for a weekend winter storm that […]

Newsom’s ‘National Model’ For Homeless Wracked By Fraud Authored by Ana Kasparian via RealClearInvestigations, Gov. Gavin Newsom has made reducing the homelessness crisis in California a top priority, saying the scale of the state’s efforts is “unprecedented” and calling for the continued expansion of his signature effort – Project Homekey – that has already cost $3.75 billion.  But in a state with more than 181,000 […]

Leaked Video: Woke Elite College Held “Disgusting” Sexual Orientation Performance Amherst College, proudly one of America’s wokest institutions, has once again outdone itself in the name of “sexual respect.” A group of traumatized students claim they were effectively coerced into a mandatory orientation spectacle where student performers humped under blankets, moaned theatrically, and pelted the audience with condoms “like […]

Ex-NY Aide Did China’s Bidding To ‘Get Rich’, Prosecutor Says In Closing Arguments Authored by Nicholas Zifcak & Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Linda Sun, former aide to New York governors, did Beijing’s bidding to enrich herself and her family, prosecutors said in closing arguments on Dec. 10 after a month-long trial. Linda Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, depart from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern […]

Can Anyone Believe Anything? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The fire consuming you is the fire that tempers.” – EKO on “X” ‘Tis the season to be flummoxed. Now you see what it’s like when all authority is suspect and nobody can believe anything. The question, of course, is how much of that is engineered by interested parties. . . and who are those parties? There’s the legion of monied orgs and foundations […]

Social Justice Gone Wild: Oklahoma BLM Leader Indicted On Fraud, Money Laundering Charges A federal grand jury has unsealed a 25-count indictment against the leader of the far-left Marxist group Black Lives Matter in Oklahoma City over allegations of wire fraud and money laundering. Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52, served as Executive Director of Black Lives Matter OKC (BLMOKC). As Executive Director, Dickerson had access to […]

Trump Signs Order Cracking Down On ‘Politically Motivated Agendas’ Of Proxy Advisors President Donald Trump on Dec. 11 signed an order directing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to review rules on proxy advisors, saying they wield influence that “prioritize radical political agendas over investor returns.” Trump’s order directs the SEC to conduct a review and potentially revise or rescind any rules, guidance, […]

Russia Retaliates: Turkish-Owned Cargo Ship Attacked At Ukrainian Port Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has warned against the ongoing escalation of the war on maritime shipping in the Black Sea, after on Friday serious damage was sustained by a Turkish-owned vessel during a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk, in Odesa oblast. The ministry confirmed that a ship operated by a Turkish company is on fire. At least […]

OCC Says 9 Big Banks Took Part In ‘Inappropriate’ Debanking Practices Via American Greatness, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has released a report saying that the nine largest lenders in the U.S. made “inappropriate distinctions” that it used to restrict services among certain customers. Following the signing of an executive order by President Donald Trump in August of this year, the OCC began […]

Wall Street Eyes Lithium As Battery Storage Demand Poised To Spark New Upcycle Commodity desks at Goldman Sachs, UBS, Citigroup, and Bernstein all see lithium demand poised to surge after the electric vehicle boom-and-bust cycle. This time, however, the growth engine is not EV batteries. Instead, analysts point to energy transition systems, such as the rapid buildout of energy storage batteries on power grids, as the next pillar of […]

Tech Companies Should Curb ‘Sycophantic And Delusional’ AI Outputs, Attorneys General Say Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorneys general from 42 states and territories wrote to tech giants on Dec. 9, warning them to do more to protect people—particularly children—from what they called “sycophantic and delusional” outputs from their generative AI-powered chatbots. OpenAI’s ChatGPT app […]

Oracle Shares Rebound After Denying ‘Delays’ Update (1300ET): Oracle shares are rebounding strongly (and helping the overall market) following a denial of Bloomberg’s earlier report. Oracle told Reuters there are no delays to sites required for contractual commitments with OpenAI and that all milestones remain on track. Oracle additionally said site selection and delivery timelines were established in close coordination with […]

Americans Could See Up To $2,000 Tax Refunds Next Year: Bessent Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that working Americans are set to get “very large refunds” next year as tax cuts that were enabled in the Republican-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act are set to go into effect. The top of a form 1040 individual income tax return for 2005 atop a stack on the same at […]

Russian Central Bank Sues Euroclear As EU Tries To Ram Through Assets Seizure In what could prove a well-timed preemptive attack and shot across the bow, Russia’s Central Bank (CBR) announced Friday it has initiated legal action against Euroclear, one of Europe’s largest securities depositories, which is holding 185 billion euros ($217 billion) of Russia’s frozen sovereign assets. The CBR has filed a lawsuit against the […]

What To Know About Trump’s New ‘Gold Card’ Visa Program Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, Applications opened on Dec. 10 for the Trump administration’s new Gold Card program that expedites visas for wealthy individuals. The program, initiated by President Donald Trump, will fast-track those whom the administration believes will be an asset to the United States economy. Here’s what to know about the […]

Green Rush Reloaded: Pot Stocks Soar On Trump Push For Rescheduling Update (1155ET): Pot stocks soared earlier today after news broke that President Trump is considering directing his administration to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. Trump has reportedly discussed the idea with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, and industry insiders, including Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers and […]

Belgium Gets Cold Shoulder Ahead Of Russian Asset Confiscation By Molly Schwartz, Cross-Asset Macro Strategist at Rabobank The Cold Shoulder Tensions remain high as Russia and Ukraine fail to reach a ceasefire agreement, even as U.S. pressure mounts. One key demand in Russia’s 20-point proposal is a full Ukrainian withdrawal from the Donbas region, a condition that runs counter to President Zelenskyy’s policy of refusing to […]