China’s BYD Is Only Real Contender To Tesla’s Global EV Market Share Dominance As of September 2024, Tesla retained the biggest market share among all battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sold worldwide in 2024, but only slightly. In 2023, Tesla’s share stood at 19 percent before dropping to 18 percent in first nine months of 2024, according to analyses by EV Volumes published on CleanTechnica. The competition is now hot on Tesla’s […]

Trump Envoy Speaks At MEK Conference On Regime Change In Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Keith Kellog, who will serve as an envoy for the Ukraine war in the incoming Trump administration, spoke at an event in Paris over the weekend hosted by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an organization led by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a cult that seeks regime change in Iran. Kellog said at the event that the […]

Yemen’s Houthis Target Israel Three Times In 12 Hours The Yemeni Houthi forces announced Tuesday that it targeted the Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv with a hypersonic missile. Israeli media also confirmed an attempted attack, which triggered emergency sirens across the central Israeli region: Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim an overnight missile attack on Israel, saying they had launched a “hypersonic ballistic […]

Washington Dems Propose Bill Banning Child Care Workers From Reporting Illegal Immigrants To Feds Despite Trump’s win in November and his inauguration in less than a week, Democrats aren’t letting go of the illegal immigration rope.  In fact, now, Washington Democrats have proposed a bill barring child care employers, including families, from reporting criminal illegal immigrants to federal authorities, even if suspected of […]

Stockman: Wildfires And The Hoary Hoax Of A Burning Planet Authored by David Stockman via The Brownstone Institute, Here they go again, blaming the wildfire catastrophe in Los Angeles on Climate Change when the actual culprits are the very politicians who never stop howling about what is a monumental hoax. In the first place, of course, the current raging California fires, like those which have periodically gone before, are […]

Visualizing All Of Canada’s Cancelled Energy Projects Authored by Omid Ghoreishi via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), While Canada’s resource sector was dealt a blow with the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit by the United States, Canadian officials are facing another challenge as Michigan’s governor tries to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline. A proposed tanker route out of Kitimat, B.C., related to the […]

Biden Throws Cuban Curve Ball Days Before Trump Enters White House In yet another curveball thrown by the Biden administration just days before President-elect Trump is to enter the Oval Office, Washington is removing Cuba from the state sponsor of terrorism list. “An assessment has been completed and we do not have information that supports Cuba’s designation as being a state sponsor of terrorism,” a Biden official said Tuesday. […]

FBI, DHS Warn Of New Orleans-Style Vehicle Ramming Attacks By Copycat Terrorists Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a public warning, raising concerns about potential copycat vehicle ramming attacks like the New Year’s Day incident in New Orleans that left 14 dead and dozens injured. “The FBI and DHS are concerned about possible copycat or retaliatory […]

Wildfire Woes: California Regulators Halted Palisades Fire Prevention Project to Save Rare Shrub California’s eco-regulators halted a critical wildfire prevention project near Pacific Palisades to protect an endangered shrub – only for that same area to be engulfed in flames during the Palisades Fire, the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history. Braunton’s Milkvetch (Astragalus brauntonii) In 2019, the LA Department of […]

2025: The Year The Federal Debt Bubble Bursts Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, I expect 2025 to be a year of profound transformation, where old paradigms are rendered obsolete. While nothing is certain, I think we can count on radical changes in 2025. Navigating new paradigms in finance, geopolitics, and energy will be crucial for investors. A primary focus in my research is to put together the pieces to […]

Thousands Of South Korean Police Attempt To Raid President Yoon’s Residence: Who’s In Charge? There is a standoff going on outside the presidential residence in Seoul as police seek to execute a warrant to arrest South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.  The standoff has ensued all day, also attracting crowds of protesters, in what began as a huge security operation in the predawn hours of Wednesday (local time). This is the second, […]

DoD Had Its Most Spendy Month Since The Bush Era Via Open The Books, The Department of Defense spent $79.1 billion on contracts and grants in September 2024, making it the military’s most expensive month for such purchases since 2008. Not since George W. Bush was president has the military funneled so much cash out the door so quickly. The dollar total includes $33.1 billion spent in the last five working days of September, […]

Fortress DC: Trump’s Inauguration Braces For The Worst With Troops, Drones, And Fences President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration could be the most militarized in U.S. history, according to a report released Monday. Citing U.S. officials, The Telegraph reports that nearly 7,800 soldiers will join approximately police officers to patrol Washington, DC during the “peaceful transfer of power.” The newspaper also […]

Melania Trump Says Transition To White House ‘Very Different’ This Time Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Incoming First Lady Melania Trump said in an interview that aired on Jan. 13 that the transition to the White House this time is different from the period following her husband’s first election victory. First Lady Melania Trump speaks to supporters at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Jan. 20, […]

The Great Agave Bust Unfolds As Tequila Oversupply Worsens Tequila inventories in Mexico have surged past half a billion liters, approaching the country’s annual production levels, as demand slows in key markets like the US. The oversupply crisis has translated into the second bust cycle for agave prices since the Dot Com crash 25 years ago. Mexico’s Tequila Regulatory Council shared data with Financial Times that showed the […]

Dear Democrats: This Time, You Can’t Blame The Republicans Authored by Sasha Stone via ‘Free Thinking Through The Fourth Turning’ substack, Six years ago on Medium, I wrote the following: The Republicans have systematically turned climate change into a partisan issue, you know, like abortion, and have done so to manipulate their gullible electorate into believing the lie that there is no such thing as man-made climate change. […]

Buffett Is Worrying, Should You? Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, has about $325 billion in cash, accounting for over a quarter of its portfolio – the highest percentage in over 30 years. The question begging an answer is, what is worrying Warren Buffett? We believe the answer is valuations. We have shared numerous charts over the last few months showing how valuations are on par or […]

Trump Affirms He’ll Meet Putin ‘Very Quickly’ After Inauguration US President-elect Donald Trump has unveiled plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin “very quickly” after being sworn in on January 20, he said in a Monday interview. He was interviewed by conservative news outlet Newsmax and was asked about specifics on his strategy to end the Ukraine war, to which Trump replied “there is only one strategy, and it’s up […]

“Brink Of Collapse”: New Report Details How MTA Has Put Its Riders On A “Fast Track To Ruin” While the MTA has yet another hand in your pocket with NYC’s new congestion tolls, taxpayers are getting even less from the mass transit service in New York, which is on the “brink of collapse” a new report says.  The city’s subway system isn’t just teetering—it’s already breaking down, according to a new report from […]

Trump Administration To Lobby Ukraine To Lower Age Of Conscription To 18 Years Old Submitted by blueapples on X On the heels of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President Of The United States, emerging news regarding a rapidly advancing ceasefire between Israel and Hamas offers an auspicious omen of his new administration’s forthcoming foreign policy. During his presidential campaign, Trump was replete with political […]

After Nuking Fact-Checkers, Dialing Back DEI, Zuckerberg Plans 5% Job Cuts At Meta One week after Trump’s longtime friend, UFC CEO Dana White, joined Facebook’s board, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg nuked “politically biased” fact-checkers from Facebook and Instagram in favor of a system similar to Elon Musk’s Community Notes on X and dialed back the company’s DEI unit, a new internal memo obtained by Bloomberg reveals that the […]

Visualizing America’s $1.7 Trillion Insurance Industry This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu, breaks down the total market capitalization of America’s insurance industry, using data from Companiesmarketcap.com. As of Jan. 7, 2025, UnitedHealth Group is the country’s most valuable insurance company, with a market cap of $473 billion. Data and Key Takeaways The data we used to create this graphic is listed in the […]

DeSantis Calls Special Legislative Session To Prepare For Trump Immigration Policies Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he is calling all members of the state House and Senate back to Tallahassee for a special session later this month to expedite the state’s legislative alignment to President-elect Donald Trump’s policies on illegal immigration. Florida Gov. […]

Special Session To ‘Trump-Proof’ California Postponed Amid Ongoing Wildfires A California special legislative session to counter the policies of the incoming Trump Administration, originally scheduled for Jan. 14, has been postponed. Staff from the office of Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, chair of the Assembly’s budget committee, confirmed on Monday that the postponement was due to the ongoing wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles […]

Biden Brags About “Handing Over” A Stronger USA Than When He Took Office Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Joe Biden has been completely eviscerated online for a post on X claiming that the country is stronger now than when he took office four years ago. Here’s what Biden, or more accurately his handlers, posted. Since Kamala and I took office, our nation has become stronger at home and in the world. America today […]