Newsom’s Massive Fraud Scandal No One Is Talking About Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Everybody’s buzzing about that Minnesota Medicaid mess with Gov. Tim Walz. Some are even calling it the largest fraud scandal ever. If only. Blue-state fraud is undoubtedly a problem, and Walz should be held accountable if he did indeed look the other way. But what happened in the land of 10,000 lakes is tiny compared to the fraud in […]

Oil Heads For Worst Annual Loss Since COVID As US Crude Production Hits Record High Oil futures are gaining in early U.S. trade, but on track to end the year substantially lower. As Dow Jones reports, the unwinding of OPEC+ output cuts, along with higher non-OPEC production, fueled oversupply concerns in 2025, while U.S. sanctions and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, Russia-Ukraine and more recently Venezuela led to […]

Somali Americans Face Audits For Potential Immigration Fraud Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration is auditing immigration cases involving U.S. citizens of Somali origin to uncover potential fraud that might be grounds for revoking their citizenship, known as denaturalization. “Under U.S. law, if an individual procures citizenship on a fraudulent basis, that is grounds for […]

Trump Media Shares Pop After Announcing Digital Token Distribution With Crypto.com Trump Media shares are volatile this morning, popping before paring gains, after the company announced plans to distribute a new digital token to its shareholders through a partnership with Crypto.com, expanding the company’s push into blockchain-based shareholder engagement. Under the proposal, each ultimate beneficial owner of DJT stock is […]

The Final Battle?: Iran Protests Spread As Prices Surge, Currency Hits Record Low Various Iranian opposition channels on X, Telegram, and other social media have said ‘live fire’ has been used by Iranian security forces in ongoing crackdown efforts against the tens of thousands of citizen demonstrators who have taken over the streets of several cities and locales of the past days. Such allegations, especially hurled at elite IRGC […]

30 Numbers From 2025 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, 2025 has truly been a historic year. No matter which side of the fence that you are on, nobody can deny that we have witnessed seismic political changes over the last 12 months. Meanwhile, the AI revolution is transforming our lives in ways that we don’t even understand. But despite all of our advanced technology, […]

“Not White Supremacy To Investigate Fraud”: Citizen Journalists Flood Democratic Cities Citizen journalists are descending on corrupt, Democratic-run cities this week to investigate taxpayer-subsidized daycare centers, signaling a new form of crowd-driven oversight. Think of it as a localized DOGE-style effort aimed at investigating alleged welfare fraud linked to Somali communities and others who steal from taxpayers. As we […]

Bondi Vows To Hold Former Officials Accountable For ‘Government Weaponization’ Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a recent interview that she will continue to investigate officials in the Obama and Biden administrations over “government weaponization” after courts tossed federal charges against two high-profile figures. Attorney General Pam Bondi (C)speaks during a […]

Futures Flat On Last Trading Day Of 2025, Silver Slides Stocks are ending a third straight year of double-digit gains in subdued fashion as an expected seasonal rally fails to gain traction. Silver’s volatile ride extended to another session, with the metal tumbling after the CME hiked margins for the second time in three days. As of 8:15am ET,  S&P 500 futures fell 0.1% and well off session lows, after a stretch of […]

Silver Stumbles On (More) Margin Hikes, Export Restrictions As we detailed earlier in the week, the immediate catalyst for silver’s sudden slump was not a single factor but a multitude that cracked the massively overbought precious metal (including export restrictions, US and China margin hikes, ETF flows, etc). Many, including us, warned that during the holiday period, traders could experience bouts of extreme volatility given […]

Initial Jobless Claims End 2025 Near Record Lows The number of Americans filing for jobless claims for the first time plummeted last week to 199k – the lowest since the Thanksgiving week plunge and pretty much the lowest since Source: Bloomberg Sub-200k levels are rare and go back to 1969 lows… Source: Bloomberg Continuing jobless claims also dipped last week and is below the 1.9 million Maginot Line… Source: […]

Michael ‘Big Short’ Burry Reveals He “Is Not Short” Tesla “Big Short” investor Michael Burry revealed on X that he is not shorting Tesla stock, despite calling Elon Musk’s car, robotics, battery storage, and AI company “ridiculously overvalued” in a separate post. Early Wednesday morning, Burry posted on X about a prior credit default swap trade he made with Bill Ackman. In response, an X user asked, “Would you short Tesla here?” […]

ByteDance Plans $14 Billion Nvidia H200 AI Chip Buying Spree As Computing Demand Soars ByteDance plans to purchase 100 billion yuan ($14 billion) in AI chips in 2026, up from 85 billion yuan in 2025, with the bulk of spending directed toward Nvidia hardware, according to the South China Morning Post. The plan hinges on Beijing approving sales of Nvidia’s H200 GPUs in China. If approval is granted, Nvidia would need to scale up […]

DOE Orders Indiana Coal Units Totaling More Than 950 MW To Run Past Retirement Dates By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The U.S. Department of Energy on Dec. 23 ordered Northern Indiana Public Service Co., a division of NiSource, and CenterPoint Energy to continue running three coal-fired units in Indiana, totaling more than 950 MW, beyond their planned retirement at the end of the month. DOE contends that portions of the […]

The Brits Want The Poles To Contain Russia In The Baltic Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Polish Defense Minister announced in late November that his country will buy three A26 Blekinge-class diesel-electric submarines from Sweden as part of a deal estimated to be worth a little less than €2.5 billion. This comes just several months after their first joint exercise, which presaged closer cooperation against […]

Watch: Destroying Kamikaze Drones With Cheap Autonomous Turrets Kamikaze drones, particularly FPV and loitering munitions, have introduced a new dimension to modern warfare, as demonstrated in the Russia-Ukraine war and other active conflict zones globally. These low-cost, off-the-shelf systems are increasingly assessed as a credible threat to civilian targets in the Western world, as highlighted by a recent U.S. government threat […]

Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Just Played On Russia’s Doomsday Shortwave Radio Station X users are reporting that a mysterious Russian shortwave radio signal, nicknamed “The Buzzer” and informally known as the “doomsday radio station,” that has been continuously broadcasting since the late 1970s, has just transmitted the classical piece Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. UVB-76 is transmitted on 4625 kHz and is occasionally […]

How China’s Rare Earth Stranglehold Is Unleashing American Innovation Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The West may have found an unexpected way to chip away at communist China’s dominance in the production of critical minerals: extracting metals from oil wells, waste streams, and discarded electronics in an attempt to scale up processing technologies at home. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Jeff […]

“We Are The Free World Now” – Europe Declares War On Free Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the move by the Trump Administration against five leading figures in the European censorship movement, including Thierry Breton, the former European Union commissioner responsible for digital policy. The United States is finally responding to what is an existential threat to American values. It is worth […]

Latvia Hails Completion Of 175-Mile Fence Along Russian Border Latvia has finally finished building a long anticipated nearly 175-mile fence along its border with Russia, according to regional media on Tuesday, which cited the state-linked company responsible for managing the project. The fence cost an equivalent of nearly $20 million, and so at that price points to it being defensively minimal and low-tech, however […]

‘Bribes For Votes’ Scheme Uncovered In Ukraine Parliament Involves Members Of Zelensky’s Party Via Remix News, Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities have announced charges against members of an organized crime group that operated in the Verkhovna Rada. Among the suspects are five members of parliament from Volodymyr Zelensky’s party, reports Do Rzezcy. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special […]

The Lifespan Of A Country Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, It will be no secret to readers that more and more people are coming to the realization that the economic, political, and social problems in the world are becoming quite pronounced – worse than at any other point in their lifetimes. Increasingly, such people are turning to publications such as this one to find answers as to: (a) where it will all end; […]

Immigrant Truckers File Lawsuit To Stop 20,000 CDL Cancellations In California California’s Department of Motor Vehicles is facing a class-action lawsuit over plans to cancel nearly 20,000 immigrant truckers’ commercial driver’s licenses, a move plaintiffs say would cause widespread disruption, according to Fox News. The case was filed Tuesday by the Asian Law Caucus, the Sikh Coalition, and the firm Weil, Gotshal & […]

US Commits $2 Billion For Foreign Aid But Tells Agencies To ‘Adapt, Shrink, Or Die’ Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The United States and the United Nations have finalized an agreement that includes $2 billion in humanitarian funding and what the State Department described as radical reform to save Americans’ tax dollars while avoiding ideological projects. The finalized agreement supports the U.N.’s 2026 plan to […]

Hollywood Blamed The Fans For Their Failures And Now They Face Collapse In November, the entertainment media was energized by the news of potential studio mergers and a potential jump in content spending by Disney and Paramount.  The possibility of more cash flowing into productions was seen as a light at the end of a long dark tunnel for a film industry crushed by endless box office and TV streaming failures.  Maybe this new […]