Escobar: China’s Relentless Innovation Drive Is Reaching Fever Pitch Authored by Pepe Escobar, China’s innovation drive is reaching fever pitch in 2025. Let’s cut to the chase and focus on four crucial domains. 1.The Huawei Factor Huawei is already testing its first, self-developed EUV lithography machine capable of producing 3nm chips. Trial tests are going full blast at the research center in Dongguan, and mass […]

These Are The Car Brands And US Cities With The Most Drunk Drivers, New Study Shows Drunk driving remains one of the leading causes of traffic deaths in the United States, claiming an average of 34 lives every day — a total of 13,429 in 2023, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Nearly one-third of all road fatalities are alcohol-related. But as new data from The Suzuki Law Firm shows, the problem is […]

Trump Admin Considering ‘Portable Mortgages’: Top US Housing Regulator Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, The country’s top housing regulator said the Trump administration is considering another tool that could address America’s affordability challenges. “We are actively evaluating portable mortgages,” Bill Pulte, Federal Housing Finance Agency director, said in a Nov. 12 post on X, providing no further […]

Israel Seeks New 20-Year Defense Funding Deal With US “This is out-of-the-box thinking,” an Israeli official has been quoted in Axios as saying. “We want to change the way we handled past agreements and put more emphasis on US-Israel cooperation. The Americans like this idea.” The comment stems from what many on the American Right increasingly see as a very asymmetrical relationship based on Washington’s seeming longtime ‘blank […]

Food Stamps & The Federal War On Self-Reliance Authored by James Bovard via The Mises Institute, During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But the delayed payments had scant impact in part […]

Bondi Says Acting US Attorney Alina Habba Confronted, Property Destroyed Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Thursday that an individual allegedly tried to confront acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba and destroyed property. Alina Habba, with husband Gregg Reuben, is sworn in by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi as interim U.S. attorney for […]

State Dept Labels Four Antifa-Linked Cells As Foreign Terrorist Organizations As Fight Against Radical Left Goes Global The Trump administration expanded its crackdown on far-left violent extremist networks Thursday, as the State Department designated four far-left militant groups as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and announced plans to formally add them to the Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list next […]

Confronting Anti-Ellis Island Immigration Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S.—or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams. They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally. With the gradual […]

Underwater Mortgages Rise To 3-Year High Amid Cooling US Housing Market Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A new report from the Intercontinental Exchange shows that nearly 875,000 homeowners now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth—the highest level in three years—as softening home prices and elevated borrowing costs squeeze household finances. Townhouse for sale in Elkridge, […]

Pentagon Briefs Trump On ‘Military Options’ Against Venezuela For ‘Coming Days’ Probably this wasn’t the first time, but there is widespread reporting on Thursday that military options have been formally presented to President Trump by top Pentagon officials for operations against Venezuela, including including strikes on land. Reports say these options are for the “coming days”. Meetings at the White House are being held now that […]

How China Grabbed Nvidia Racks Through Secret Jakarta Loophole While President Trump reiterated earlier this month that he doesn’t want China getting its hands on Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips, a Chinese AI company has found a convenient loophole: Indonesia.  An investigation by the Wall Street Journal reveals that around 2,300 of said chips have been procured by said Chinese AI company – and has traced how “a chain of […]

Last US Penny Minted Shows Why Savers Need Bitcoin Authored by Vince Quill via CoinTelegraph.com, The last penny, nominally valued at $0.01, was minted by the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, marking the end of 232 years of new pennies being coined and circulated. US President Donald Trump directed the US Treasury to stop producing pennies in February, and the Treasury initially set a 2026 target […]

Swalwell Bares Fangs After Pulte Refers To DOJ For Criminal Mortgage Fraud Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is super pissed after Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte referred him to the DOJ for criminal prosecution over alleged mortgage fraud. Eric Swalwell and alleged Chinese spy, Christine Fang On Thursday, Swalwell lashed out, saying in a statement “As the most vocal critic of Donald Trump over the last decade […]

Trump Outlines Plan To Scrap “Stupid Obamacare”, Redirect Money To Americans Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Donald Trump delivered a game-changing pitch on healthcare during an address Wednesday, calling for a radical shift in how federal funds are distributed under Obamacare. Putting Americans first, Trump proposed redirecting massive subsidies away from wealthy insurance companies and straight into […]

Kim Kardashian’s Brand Skims Now Valued At $5 Billion After Goldman-Led Funding Round Kim Kardashian’s brand Skims has closed a major new funding round, raising $225 million at a $5 billion valuation, per Lauren Hirsch. The Goldman Sachs Alternatives–led round, with BDT & MSD Partners participating, underscores how far the brand has grown beyond its shapewear origins, according to DealBook. Founded in 2019 by Kim Kardashian […]

Who Really Owns America? The Banks, The Billionaires, & The Deep State Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the […]

First Casualty Of Power Bill Crisis? Pennsylvania Abandons Regional Carbon-Trading Market The worsening power bill crisis across the Mid-Atlantic region, a combination of nation-killing climate change policies colliding with surging load growth from data centers, has forced Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to sign legislation allowing the state to abandon the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The Pennsylvania legislature […]

ChatGPT’s Use Of Song Lyrics Violates Copyright, Munich Court Finds Authored by Vince Dioquino via Decrypt.co, Judges found GEMA’s claims valid, ordering OpenAI to cease reproduction and provide damages and disclosure. The court said GPT-4 and GPT-4o “memorized” lyrics, amounting to reproduction under EU copyright rules. The decision, not yet final, could set a major European precedent on AI training data. […]

US ‘Running Out Of Things To Sanction’ In Russia, Frustrated Rubio Admits Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made some fresh remarks to the press which reveal a deep irony while demonstrating the limited effectiveness of far-reaching anti-Moscow sanctions on the course of the war in Ukraine. The United States has nearly run out of effective targets for sanctions against Russia, he conceded in a frank moment Wednesday, coming soon […]

Newsom’s Former Chief Of Staff Indicted On Public Corruption Charges Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, was indicted by a federal grand jury on 23 charges related to public corruption, according to a Nov. 12 statement from the Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney Eric Grant alleged that Williamson, 53, of Carmichael, California, committed bank […]

Fetterman Hospitalized After ‘Ventricular Fibrillation’ Causes Fall Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was hospitalized on Thursday after suffering facial injuries from a fall during a walk near his Western Pennsylvania home.  According to a spokesperson, the Democrat Senator was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital “out of an abundance of caution.” “During an early morning walk, Senator Fetterman sustained a fall near his home in […]

Subprime Auto Delinquencies Worst In Over 30 Years Building on the theme of low-income consumers and young people burdened by debt and affordability woes, signs of stress are continuing to emerge across the subprime tier of the auto loan space. A new Bloomberg report on Wednesday, citing data from Fitch Ratings, showed that delinquency rates on subprime auto loans surged to their highest level since 1994, with 6.65% of subprime […]

Ugly, Tailing 30Y Auction Sends Yields Higher After yesterday’s mediocre, tailing 10Y auction, and with yields pushing higher today, prospects for the week’s final coupon auction, today’s $25BN in 30Y bonds, were not too exciting. Which is a good thing because the just concluded final refunding auction was quite disappointing.  The auction stopped at high yield of 4.694%, down from last month’s 4.734%, but it also tailed the When […]

FBI Director Says China Agreed To Curb Fentanyl Precursors Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, FBI Director Kash Patel said at a press briefing on Nov. 12 that during his recent trip to China, Chinese officials agreed to take significant steps to curb fentanyl precursor exports to the United States. “That was the sole purpose of my trip to China, to eliminate these precursors, and if successful, we would suffocate […]

“Chicagoans Do Not Want Us To Bankroll The Regime”: Chicago Will No Longer Buy Treasury Bonds Authored by Jonathan Turley, “It’s a bold statement, isn’t it?” Those words of Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin hardly capture the moment. Yesterday, Conyears-Ervin declared that her office would no longer invest in U.S. Treasury bonds to protest what she called the “authoritarian regime” of President Donald […]