State Department To Require Social Media Review For H-1B Visa Applicants Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. State Department announced on Dec. 3 that it will add an online presence review to the vetting requirements for all H-1B visa applicants and their dependents starting Dec. 15. H-1B visa applicants and their dependents will have to make their social media profiles public as of Dec. 15, according to the […]

Dumb AI, Golden Yuan, & Q-Day Comes Early: Here Are Saxo’s Outrageous Prediction For 2026 The future almost never arrives in straight lines. Whether its’ technology, culture, or politics, changes and evolution often come slowly from year to year. But then, suddenly, there is a lurch. Saxo’s Outrageous Predictions live in those lurches. They are not a house view or a forecast; they are low-probability, high-impact thought […]

Pentagon Deploys Its First Kamikaze Drone Squadron In The Middle East Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US Central Command announced on Wednesday that it was launching the US military’s “first one-way-attack drone squadron based in the Middle East” as President Trump’s Department of War continues to get further entrenched in the region. “CENTCOM launched Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS) four months after Secretary of […]

Dem Senator Warner Joins Seditious Chorus: “Military May Help Save Us” From Trump Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner has jumped aboard the Democrat bandwagon of undermining President Trump, declaring on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that “the uniformed military may help save us from this president.” The remark, captured in a clip shared widely on X, comes as leftists ramp up efforts to sow […]

Trump Orders Approval For Mini ‘Kei’ Cars To Be Built In America President Donald Trump, intrigued by the tiny “kei” cars he saw in Japan, announced plans to allow their production and sale in the US, according to Bloomberg. These ultra-compact vehicles are currently barred from US manufacturing because they don’t meet federal standards. “They’re very small, they’re really cute, and I said ‘How would that do in this […]

Model Collapse: The Entire Bubble Economy Is A Hallucination Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The conclusion that soaring asset prices mean the economy is strong is a hallucination that goes unrecognized because the entire financial system is hallucinating. Consider the data that the financial sector bases conclusions / decisions on (i.e. the data that the financial sector “trains” on) in a Bubble Economy […]

Clandestine Campaign To Defund ZeroHedge, The Federalist & Breitbart Traced To Kier Starmer Operation Very early into the COVID-19 pandemic, ZeroHedge suggested that a little-known Chinese lab in Wuhan might know something about the novel coronavirus sweeping the globe. As a result, and as you know, we were subject to an intense demonetization / deplatforming campaign that included getting kicked off of Twitter, PayPal, Facebook […]

Man Arrested In Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Case Identified As Brian Cole Update (1202ET): The man arrested in the Jan. 5, 2021 pipe bomb incident in DC has been identified as Brian Cole, according to Fox News.  The current scene outside the J6 pipe bomber suspect Brian Cole’s Virginia homepic.twitter.com/3CptZpuxsD — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 4, 2025 🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has surrounded a home in Woodbridge, VA where […]

Police ‘Will Not Cooperate With ICE Agents’: Minneapolis Mayor Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, As Minnesota anticipates more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) action in Minnesota—a state where many Somali immigrants are accused of defrauding welfare programs—Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the city’s law enforcement will not work with federal agents. “Our police officers are not ICE agents; […]

Jensen To Rogan: “Next 6-7 Years You Will See A Bunch Of Small Nuclear Reactors” Jensen “sign my tit” Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA and the man picking and shoveling the AI boom, was recently on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast discussing a wide range of topics, when he gave the nuclear sector the ultimate tailwind: the AI revolution needs small modular reactors (SMRs), something we have been saying for over a year.  When the […]

Maduro Describes ‘Cordial’ Trump Call As Senators Reintroduce War Powers Bill Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has very belatedly confirmed speaking with US President Donald Trump by phone late last month amid a huge US military buildup accompanied by Washington threatening war. The phone call was ten days prior, but Maduro on Wednesday said he decided to speak about his “cordial” call with Trump as he wished to avoid […]

USDA Will Withhold SNAP Funds From 21 States That Refused To Provide Data Via American Greatness, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says she will be moving to stop federal funding to 21 non-compliant states that have refused to provide data from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). In February, the Trump administration had asked all states to provide their SNAP data to the federal government as part of […]

Dollar General Soars Most In Six Months As Cash-Strapped Consumers Flock To Value Dollar General shares jumped the most in six months following a quarterly earnings beat and an upward revision to full-year guidance, reflecting continued momentum from value-seeking, cash-strapped consumers. Dollar General posted a strong quarter, with third-quarter EPS of $1.28, beating last year’s .89 cents and coming in well above the Bloomberg […]

In Case Of Emergency Break Rules By Michael Every of Rabobank Markets start the day mixed. Bad US ADP jobs data saw the old rule that this is bullish for rates, so stocks. By contrast, Australian household spending of 1.3% m-o-m (regardless of how many it covers) saw rate hike bets pick up, with the 3-year yield above 4% for the first time since January. This morning, China also set the daily reference rate for CNY significantly […]

“We Must Protect Volodymyr”: Leaked Call Shows European Leaders Conspiring Against Trump Peace Plan In a development that is not entirely surprising, European leaders are claiming that Washington is looking to “betray” Ukraine and President Zelensky during potential formal peace negotiations with Russia. “There is a possibility that the United States will abandon Ukraine on territorial questions without providing clarity on security […]

Why Tether Is Buying More Gold Than Many Central Banks, And What It Signals Authored by Dilip Kumar Patairya via CoinTelegraph.com, Tether purchased 26 tons of gold in Q3 2025, a larger quarterly acquisition than any reporting central bank. Its total holdings reached 116 tons, placing it among the world’s top 30 gold holders. Stablecoin issuers, sovereign wealth funds, corporations and tech firms are increasingly active in […]

US Durable Goods Orders Solid In September While ‘soft’ survey data has been a shitshow, ‘hard’ data has been stable (what little we actually had during the shutdown)… Source: Bloomberg Today we get more ‘catch-up’ data with Factory Orders and Durable Goods data for September. US Factory Orders disappointed, rising just 0.2% MoM (+0.3% exp) and slowing notably from the +1.3% MoM jump in August (and up 3.6% YoY)… Source: […]

Meta Shares Jump After Zuckerberg Prepares Deep Cuts To Metaverse Following Epic Flop Meta shares jumped the most in months after a Bloomberg report said Mark Zuckerberg is preparing deep cuts to the company’s metaverse ambitions. The metaverse, once pitched by Zuckerberg as the “next chapter of the internet,” has been nothing more than a colossal failure. According to Bloomberg, Meta executives have discussed slashing the […]

Sam Altman Quietly Tried To Buy A Rocket Startup To Compete With Musk’s SpaceX The relationship between the OpenAI cofounders, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, has devolved into X sparring and legal battles. As the conversation surrounding data center shifts to space, a new report specifies that Altman attempted to acquire a rocket company to compete with Musk’s SpaceX. The Wall Street Journal reports that Altman explored acquiring or […]

Treasury Boss Bessent Nukes NYT Hypocrisy Over Desperate Trump Health Smears Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered a brutal takedown of legacy media frauds Wednesday, calling out The New York Times for their shameless double standard on presidential fitness. Fresh off a three-hour cabinet marathon with President Trump, Bessent faced down a Times hack at their own summit and laid […]

‘No Hire, No Fire’ Economy Confirmed As US Jobless Claims & Hiring Plans Plummet With the spice flowing once again (post shutdown), initial jobless claims continue to signal no labor market pain at all… plummeting last week to 191k (the lowest since Sept 2022 and before that the lowest since 1969!!) Distortions around Thanksgiving likely skewed the reading, with California, Texas, and New York saw the largest drop in […]

Futures Rise, S&P Set For 8th Gain In 9 Days US equity futures rise, trading less than a percent away from a new record high amid signs of a leadership rotation with Big Tech not leading the bounce this time. As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq 100 contracts are higher by about 0.1% after climbing in seven of the past eight sessions and extend on Wednesday’s gains when bad news was good news as a soft ADP jobs report bolstered […]

Ex-Pornhub Owner Interested In Purchasing Lukoil Assets By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Austrian businessman Bernd Bergmair, former majority owner of Pornhub, has approached the U.S. Treasury about buying assets of Russian oil major Lukoil after the Trump administration sanctioned the company.  “Obviously Lukoil International GmbH would be a great investment and anybody would be fortunate to have the privilege of owning […]

Goldman Warns Copper’s Parabolic Breakout Lacks Stability Copper futures on the London Metal Exchange opened the week with a breakout to new record highs (see report). On Wednesday, we highlighted a Goldman note detailing the “circular melt-up” mechanics driving the move higher. By Thursday, a separate Goldman analyst was cautioning clients that the parabolic move above $11,000/ton is unlikely to last. At 6:30 ET, LME copper […]

Clear That ‘Something Behind The Scenes Is Breaking’ Holter Warns, We’re Headed For A Derivative Meltdown Authored by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com  Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter (aka Mr. Gold) said at the beginning of November that there was “more risk in the financial system now than any time ever.”   There are so many ways the system can break down it’s hard to keep track, but let’s […]