DOE Closes Massive $26 Billion Loan For Southern Co. Here comes more of those “Hundreds of Billions” So much capital coming to this space next 3 years https://t.co/ZwTB0C2CUU — zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 18, 2025 The DOE announced Wednesday that its Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) has closed a $26.54 billion loan package (the largest in the agency’s history) to two Southern Company subsidiaries. Georgia […]

‘I Did Not Have Relations With That Man, Jeffrey Epstein’: Bill Clinton Tries Ol’ Lewinsky Trick On American Public Former President Bill Clinton on Friday told lawmakers that he had no clue about crimes carried out by Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender who visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times while Bill was president, before letting Clinton fly on the ‘Lolita Express’ dozens of times.  “I saw nothing, and I did […]

AI Takeover Complete: Data Center Construction Surpasses Office Construction For The First Time On August 19, 2025 we published what we thought was “the most insane chart”, one showing that value of data center construction was about to surpass the value of office construction. We added that we would reach the intersection point within 6 months.  The most insane chart: value of data centers being built will surpass all offices in […]

Biden Admin ‘Invited’ Fani Willis To Get Lucrative Grant While She Prosecuted Trump Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, The DOJ under the Biden administration “invited” disgraced Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to apply for a generous taxpayer-funded grant as she prosecuted President Donald Trump.  The arrangement came to light after Willis referenced the grant in December 2022 […]

Altman Pitches Pentagon On Anthropic Alternative As WSJ Does Deep-State Concern-Trolling Over Grok As today’s 5PM ET deadline looms for Anthropic to militarize Claude AI for the Pentagon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman waded into the fray – telling staff on Thursday night that his company is working with the Department of War to see if their models can be used in classified settings in a way that maintains the same safety guardrails that […]

Kristi Noem Says DHS Staffers Put Spyware On Her Phone And Laptop To Record Meetings Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on Thursday that certain DHS staffers had allegedly installed spyware on her phone and computer, as well as on devices belonging to other political appointees. “You wouldn’t even believe what I’ve found since I’ve been in […]

Brutal: Democrats Walked Straight Into This Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A new advertisement from conservative group American Sovereignty hammers Democrats for staying seated during President Trump’s State of the Union call to prioritize American citizens over illegal aliens, using footage that lays bare their priorities. The ad, which dropped Thursday, features Trump stating, “If you agree with this […]

Pakistan Declares ‘All-Out War’ Against Afghanistan, Hundreds Dead In Overnight Clashes With Taliban Overnight, Pakistan launched airstrikes across Afghanistan, including targets in the capital of Kabul, soon after which Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif by Friday morning declared an “all-out war” between the two countries. Hours prior to the commencement of airstrikes and heavier clashes, Afghan Taliban forces reportedly […]

Justice Department Sues 5 More States For Refusing To Provide Voter Rolls Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The federal government has filed lawsuits against five states—Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and New Jersey—accusing local officials of failing to provide full voter registration lists as requested, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a Feb. 26 statement. “The Attorney General is […]

Iran Rejects US ‘Excessive Demands’ – But Next Talks Scheduled For Wednesday After the third round of indirect US-Iran talks held in Geneva on Thursday, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi – who was the chief mediator – cited “significant progress” – which echoed the generally positive assessment of the Iranian side. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi initially declared, “We reached agreement on some issues, and there are […]

Spanberger And Dems Lie About Gerrymandering Scheme Authored by Ben Cline via RealClearPolitics, Once you burn your credibility, it’s hard to get back. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger deceived voters and concealed her true leftist agenda to win the Governor’s Mansion last year. Now she and her fellow Democrats are lying to Virginians about a new gerrymandered congressional district map they placed on the ballot as a […]

MP’s “Strong” Quarter: Accelerated Production, Long-Term Agreements With Major Tech Companies MP Materials Corp. reported fourth quarter revenue of $52.7 million and net income of $9.4 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, yesterday reflecting a sharp year-over-year improvement driven largely by price floor protection under its agreement with the U.S. Department of War. Full year revenue rose 10% to $224.4 million as the company […]

‘Soft’ Data Soars To 2-Year Highs As Chicago PMI Smashes Expectations Market News International’s Chicago Business Barometer smashed expectations this morning, print 57.7 – the highest since May 2022 – and above the highest analysts’ expectation. This is the second straight month above 50 (signaling expansion) with new orders and employment surging (but prices also rising)… Prices paid rose at a faster pace; signaling […]

US Offers $10 Million For Capture Of Sinaloa Cartel Boss Brothers Following the Mexican Army Special Forces’ decapitation strike against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) by killing Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes – and, as we now know, with U.S. intelligence aiding the operation – the ongoing dismantling of the Mexican cartel command and control networks appears to be moving full steam ahead. On Thursday, the State […]

Jack Smith’s Secret Orders Targeting Patel And Wiles Should Alarm Us All Authored by Jonathan Turley, Former Special Counsel Jack Smith has long operated under Oscar Wilde’s rule that “the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”  Over the last few months, the public has learned of a wide array of secret orders targeting members of Congress, Trump allies, and others. Now, the Administration has learned that […]

OpenAI Secures Record $110 Billion Funding Round Backed By Amazon, Nvidia, & SoftBank OpenAI has closed a new funding round that could total $110 billion, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $730 billion pre-money and potentially putting it on course for an IPO in the second half of the year, according to a new Financial Times report. The three investors in the deal are Nvidia, Amazon, and SoftBank. People familiar with the deal say […]

US Begins Evacuating Some Embassy Staff In Israel ‘While Flights Still Available’ “Persons may wish to consider leaving Israel while commercial flights are available,” the US State Department announced Friday, signaling that US strikes on Iran could be imminent,. It provided confirmation the US government has begun evacuating “non-emergency” personnel from the embassy in Israel and their family members, citing “safety risks” amid […]

Surging Services Costs Spark Unexpected Surge In US Producer Prices In January US Producer Prices came in hotter than expected in January, with the headline PPI rising 0.5% MoM (vs +0.3% exp), higher than the revised +0.4% MoM in December. This left Producer Prices up 2.9% YoY (hotter than expected but below December’s +3.0%)… Source: Bloomberg Under the hood, we see a surge in Services costs (not tariff related) dominated the […]

Futures Slide As Renewed AI Disruption And Private Credit Fears Spark Selling The rollercoaster continues: US equity futures are in the red again, trading near session lows, and set to extend Thursday’s losses with as stocks underperform after yesterday’s spectacular plunge in the momentum trade as NVDA’s post record-breaking earnings/guidance plunge spooked markets that nothing is resolved about where AI goes next. As of 8:00am ET, […]

“Torn The Roof Off” British Politics: Starmer Stunned After Green Party Steals Labour Seat UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to reinvent his ailing Labour government with a leftwards pivot after the Green Party captured one of its House of Commons seats via a special election. The result underscores the recent fragmentation of UK politics and the disruption of long-held electoral certainties. It has “torn the […]

New Kansas Law Ends Transgender Activist Madness It’s a disturbing commentary on our times when the concept of men and women being required by law to admit their proper biological sex becomes headline news, but here we are.  For the past decade, transgender ideology (with zero basis in scientific reality) has surged to the forefront of our cultural zeitgeist.  Never before in the history of the western world has one tiny […]

Restoring Britain Authored by Laura Hollis via The Epoch Times, There’s a revolution brewing across the Big Pond. The British people were already fed up with the Labour government headed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. And then the man Starmer appointed to be ambassador to the United States—Peter Mandelson—was exposed as having a deep friendship with sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, even after Epstein was convicted on charges […]

Memory Crunch Will Spark “Tsunami-Like Shock” On Global Smartphone Shipments Readers have been briefed on the emerging global high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supply crunch, driven by soaring data center demand. We have tracked the progression of this theme for months through what seem to be almost weekly developments, ranging from notable institutional research desks and industry insiders to more recent warnings from electronics device […]

Trump’s FTC Takes Up The Fight Against Big Tech Wokeness Authored by Paul Bradford via American Greatness, For years, some of the worst actors in the tech industry were able to do as they pleased without fear of consequence. They could construct monopolies, censor conservatives, and promote wokeness as much as they wanted. But things are beginning to change with the Trump administration. Thanks to the efforts of the White House, […]

Chocolate Market Enters New Phase As “Double-Digit Raw Material Deflation” Eases Costs Cocoa prices have collapsed 75% from their 2024 peaks, and Goldman’s latest note points out that the worst of the cocoa shock for chocolate makers may finally be passing after being squeezed by soaring bean costs through 2023, 2024, and into the first half of 2025. This only suggests that lower chocolate bar prices at the supermarket could […]