Russell Brand Found Guilty As ‘Only Three Rapes’ Defense Fails Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault, three days after his barrister asked jurors, “Why is it that only three rapes in 10 years?”The 51-year-old comedian was convicted at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday of one count of rape and three of sexual assault, the Telegraph reported. The rape conviction relates to a young fan Brand met after one of […]

The Bank Tied To Paraguay’s President Just Collapsed, And Depositors Are In The Streets Paraguay’s central bank seized Ueno Bank on Tuesday, locking an estimated 3 million customers out of their money and setting off street protests and an impeachment bid against President Santiago Peña. The central bank’s board voted unanimously late Monday to put the digital lender into “resolution,” the regulator announced, after Ueno’s solvency […]

Life After AI: Where The Money Is Now Moving Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceAs I write this Thursday morning, Dow futures are green while Nasdaq futures are down roughly 0.5%. It’s a small but interesting divergence, and one that supports something I’ve been predicting for a while now: a rotation away from speculative technology and AI-related investments and toward established businesses with more predictable earnings and […]

Iran Carves Out Strait Of Hormuz Exemptions For China, India, Iraq, Qatar In a significant albeit underreported development for global energy, and for the US-Iran standoff in the Persian Gulf, Iranian parliament has this week announced it is exempting several key trading partniers from its oil transit restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz.The move was first unvieled Tuesday by Ahmad Hayat-Moghaddam, Vice Chairman of the Iranian […]

How The Historic Blue Tsunami Could End In Tears For Democrats Democrats are celebrating one of their biggest midterm victories in decades, but their historic triumph could come with a nasty political hangover. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, right, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of New York Anadolu via Getty Images file The party’s sweeping gains in Tuesday’s elections delivered a major rebuke to […]

“Neither Does It Seem To Be The Last”: Bank Of England Hikes For First Time Since 2023, Sees Inflation Near 5% For the first time in 1,190 days, the Bank of England has raised interest rates.On Thursday the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee voted 8-1 to lift Bank Rate by 25bps to 4.00%, the first hike since August 3, 2023, when the BoE topped out at 5.25%. And the lone dissenter was no dove: external member Catherine Mann wanted a […]

Truist Slaps Nike With Sell Rating As Jordan Franchise Implodes Nike’s rally from roughly $34 a share in October to above $40 by midweek has done little to ease Wall Street analysts’ skepticism about its turnaround strategy.Earlier this week, UBS analyst Pilar Rocafort told clients, “It’s still not time to buy Nike.” Truist Securities reinforced Rocafort’s caution on the stock in a note Thursday morning, downgrading the shares to […]

‘Low Hire, Low Fire, Low Inspire’: Claims Hit 57 Year Lows, Sentiment Still Sucks, And Payrolls Are Next Another week, another print showing that American employers still refuse to fire anyone in any meaningful numbers. Initial jobless claims remain parked near multi-decade lows, plunging to 189k this week (after recent weeks in the mid-to-high 190,000s), confirming that the ‘low fire’ half of the current labor market is intact. […]

Hakeem Jeffries Claims Impeachment And Getting Even With Trump Aren’t Priorities House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told reporters Wednesday morning after Democrats swept the midterms and won majorities in the House and Senate that no House Democrat has raised the subject of impeaching President Donald Trump with him. Jeffries speaks during a press conference (Credit: Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images) “I haven’t had a single […]

Futures Split As Blue-Wave Chip Purge Enters Day Two; Oil Rebounds, BoE Hikes US futures are mixed, with the Nasdaq lagging as the post-midterm rotation out of chipmakers and the AI complex enters a second day, after the Democratic sweep raised fears of a data center backlash, Qualcomm tumbled on a weak forecast and the Kospi crashed almost 6%, while oil rebounded modestly from Wednesday’s plunge and the BoE hiked rates for the […]

Brent On Track For Worst Week Since COVID, But UBS Warns Bears: “Fundamentals Still Provide A Floor” Brent crude futures are on track for their largest weekly decline since the week ending April 24, 2020, during the early COVID-19 pandemic era, on the prospect that a Democratic sweep could end the US-Iran conflict.UBS energy expert Dominic Ellis wrote in a note earlier that the collapse in crude’s war risk premium reflects the […]

Epstein-Linked Billionaire Just Sued The Congressman About To Run The Oversight Committee Billionaire Leon Black filed a federal defamation suit Wednesday against Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, accusing him of lying about Black’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, seeks $7.25 million in compensatory and punitive damages and a jury trial, […]

Rheinmetall Crashes Most In Months After Guidance Cut (Again) On Military Ramp-Up Risk Rheinmetall AG shares plunged the most since late June in European trading after the German defense manufacturer slashed its annual sales forecast for the second time in months. Berenberg analysts pointed out that “Weapon & Ammunition drives most of the guidance cut.”The company, which makes tanks and armored vehicles, artillery, ammunition, […]

‘Digital ID Checks For All’: Ofcom’s Plan For UK’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Puts Adults In The Age-Check Line Too Privacy campaigners have argued for months that this is where an age ban ends up. In March, Big Brother Watch titled a post “A social media ban for under-16s = digital ID checks for all” and argued that because the alternatives are intrusive and unreliable, ID would be required in many millions of cases. “All of the […]

After Mamdani, Los Angeles Is Next: Socialist Nithya Raman Projected To Oust Karen Bass On a night Democrats swept the midterms, Los Angeles moved further left than anyone in the party establishment wanted. Decision Desk HQ projected Wednesday evening that City Councilmember Nithya Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has unseated Mayor Karen Bass, which would make her the first socialist elected mayor of the […]

US Suspends South Africa, Rwanda From Key African Trade Program Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times,U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Nov. 2 that Washington will suspend South Africa and Rwanda from its duty-free trade program for sub-Saharan Africa, citing failures on trade barriers, corruption, governance, and human rights.”President Trump found that the governments of Rwanda and South Africa are engaging in […]

Prison Time For Discussing The Great Replacement? French Left-Wing Lawmakers Push For Draconian New Law Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix News,In the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Trappes, the left, including the mayor of Trappes, is pushing to criminalize discussions of demographic change, the “Great Replacement” theory, or “remigration.” If they succeed, French people and politicians could face up to three years in prison […]

Sequoia Capital Shutters London Office As Silicon Valley’s VC Giants Pull Back In a troubling sign for European capital markets, Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, is shuttering its London-based office after roughly six years of operation.”This is not about the team; they are excellent. We simply don’t see the need for a local presence,” Sequoia wrote in an X post.The venture capital firm said it […]

Cyberattack Targets French Blood Bank Fridges Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times,A cyberattack against the refrigerator systems of France’s public blood service was thwarted on Monday, officials have said, the incident coming after supermarkets across Europe reported that their cooling equipment was targeted by hackers.The French Blood Establishment (EFS) said in a Nov. 3 statement that one of its refrigeration […]

Brace For A Decade Of Pain, Warns Britain’s IFS The Institute for Fiscal Studies says Britain is on course for the weakest decade for household income growth on record after Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget, which the think tank judged unable to change the country’s economic path. The IFS published its response on Oct. 28, a day before director Helen Miller took questions at a webinar.The Telegraph reported that the IFS expects […]

COVID-Dissident Doctor Arrested For “Insulting” Berlin Mayor Authored by John Rosenthal via The Daily Sceptic,A German doctor who rose to prominence during the Covid period for his criticism of the Covid-response measures has been arrested in Berlin in connection with “insults” of Berlin’s outgoing Mayor Kai Wegner. Paul Brandenburg, who has several social media channels and a podcast, has previously been the target of numerous […]

Germany Pledges More Winter Aid To Ukraine As Kremlin Says Europe Has No Seat At Abu Dhabi Talks German Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised Ukraine more air defense and energy support before winter at a Berlin press conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week, but announced no new weapons package. Merz said “two things are important before the coming winter: air defense and the energy sector,” in the Chancellery’s […]

Trump’s Legacy Will Ultimately Be Determined By The Outcome Of The Third Gulf War Authored by Andrew Korybko via Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter,The Democrats retook control of Congress in an electoral bloodbath that decimated the Republicans during the midterms. Many had predicted that this would happen, and it’s not because of the Canadian meddling that the White House recently drew attention to or any other countries’ related […]

Virginia Now Protects Third-Trimester Abortion With Doctor’s Note Virginia voters on Tuesday approved Amendment 1, writing a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” into the state constitution. The Associated Press called the race at 9:01 p.m. Eastern with the measure ahead 60.7% to 39.3%, with about 63% of ballots counted.The new Section 11-A of the Bill of Rights, as published by the Virginia Department of Elections, covers […]

Going Postal On The GOP? Kansas Mail Carrier Charged With Stealing Thousands Of Letters A federal grand jury in Wichita indicted a rural route carrier on Election Day for stealing 4,404 pieces of mail, nearly 400 of them political mailers that were all for Republican candidates or Republican-affiliated PACs, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.Kelly R. Cram, 59, of Baxter Springs, was […]