Trump Arrives In Davos After Air Force One Electrical Issue Sparked Brief Delay President Trump’s trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos was briefly delayed after Air Force One returned to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, shortly after departure due to a minor electrical issue identified on the 747. Flight crews did not declare an emergency or squawk 7700, indicating the situation was precautionary. Real-time aircraft tracking […]

World Cup Lift: Goldman Forecasts Retailers’ Potential Bounce From The ‘Beautiful Game’ Believe it or not, the 2026 FIFA World Cup is just five months away, spanning 11 stadiums across 11 U.S. metro areas. Expected foot traffic trends suggest meaningful pre-event demand for fan gear, such as jerseys, hats, and jackets, at nearby sporting goods retailers as the tournament kicks off in early June. Goldman Sachs Managing Director […]

Despite Mass Protests, UK Approves Controversial Chinese Mega-Embassy In London Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Despite a weekend protest, the UK has approved plans for a new, significantly expanded Chinese embassy in central London, ending a planning dispute and overriding objections from local authorities and lawmakers who raised national security concerns. An exterior view of the proposed […]

De Beers Cuts Diamond Prices, Botswana Warns Of Prolonged Slump De Beers, the world’s largest diamond mining company, has warned of a prolonged downturn in the gem industry after cutting prices for the first time since 2024. Botswana is the epicenter of De Beers’ diamond production, and declining output alongside falling prices is set to put significant pressure on the southern African nation’s finances. On Monday, Bloomberg News […]

“Rich Kids Of Iran” Flee To Turkish Nightclubs Amid Deadly Crackdown On Protesters: Report The children of Iran’s political and military elite are back in the spotlight for their opulent lifestyles amid reports that they fled the country to party in Turkish nightclubs, even as the regime’s security forces carry out its deadliest crackdown on nationwide protests in years, the New York Post reports. Anashid Hoseini, a model and […]

German Chancellor Merz Admits Shutting Down Nuclear Energy Production Was A “Severe Strategic Mistake” Via The Last Refuge, Germany has a severe electricity shortage and cost problem, and it’s getting worse. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently made the admission that shutting down the German nuclear power reactors was a “severe strategic mistake.” “To have acceptable market prices for energy production again, we […]

“Naive To Think We’re Not At War”: Latvia’s Central Banker Warns Europe On Russia Latvia’s central bank governor, Martins Kazaks, has warned European leaders against downplaying the danger posed by Russia, describing in a fresh interview the European Union is already “at war” with Moscow and must be ready for further escalation, particularly in its financial systems. This is raising eyebrows at the Kremlin, but many Russian […]

Ukraine Is Defending Itself With Money Europe Doesn’t Have Authored by Ian Proud, The ugly truth is that an end of the Ukraine war may have as devastating economic and political consequences for Europe as its continuance… Ukraine already faces a $63 billion U.S. dollar funding shortfall in 2026 and I would be surprised if this figure doesn’t increase if the war continues. Ukraine’s massive fiscal splurge is driven by two […]

Escobar: Empire Of Chaos, Plunder, & Strikes In Panic Of Being Evicted From Eurasia Authored by Pepe Escobar, The whole planet is somehow convulsed by neo-Caligula’s latest scam: because he did not get his “peace” Nobel from Norway, part of his megalomanic narcissist revenge is to bag Greenland from Denmark (in Empire-speak, who cares? These Scandinavians are all the same anyway). In neo-Caligula’s own words: “The […]

Watch: Creepy Guy Trains Crows For Months To Attack MAGA Hats A man styling himself “biz_dave” on Threads claims to have orchestrated what can only be described as the Resistance’s most feather-brained gambit yet: training crows to pilfer red baseball caps in service of opposing President Donald Trump. Naturally, this has elevated him to something approaching sainthood among the online Resistance. Dave claimed that the operation […]

Australia Passes New Bills For Tougher Gun Control And Anti-Hate Speech Laws Authored by Naziya Alvi Rahman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Australian Parliament has passed two new bills that will set up a national gun buyback scheme, and attempt to combat anti-Semitism and hate speech in response to the Bondi terror attack. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Jan. 19, […]

US Antimony Strengthens Domestic Supply Chain With Montana Mill Purchase United States Antimony Corporation announced this morning that it has completed the acquisition of a fully operational critical minerals flotation facility in Radersburg, Montana, strengthening the company’s domestic processing footprint for antimony and other strategic minerals. As a reminder and as we noted late last year, UAMY operates the only two […]

CBS Finally Airs Updated ’60 Minutes’ Report On US Deportations To Salvadoran Prison Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), CBS’s “60 Minutes” finally aired its report on the Trump administration’s deportations, more than a month after the segment was taken down from the program’s lineup. Guards stand outside a cell block at the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on April […]

Putting A Stake In Stakeholder Capitalism Authored by Terrence Keeley via RealClearWorld, The 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum convening in Davos on January 19-23 will be the first without its founder, Klaus Schwab. WEF’s new organizers should use the occasion to distance themselves from Schwab’s worst ideas: stakeholder capitalism, ESG investing and the net-zero energy paradigm. Stakeholder capitalism is a […]

“Out Of Touch”: Marylanders Fume As Gov. Moore Prioritizes Building Energy-Hungry ‘Sphere’ Amid Power Bill Crisis Marylanders are raging at left-wing Governor Wes Moore, accusing him of fast-tracking a massively power-hungry Sphere entertainment venue near Washington, DC, while working-class households across the central part of the state are drowning under crushing electricity bills. “So this Governor spends money he doesn’t even […]

Pakistan To Send Chinese Warplanes To Libyan Faction Under Gen. Haftar via Middle East Eye Pakistan has sealed a deal worth over $4 billion to sell military equipment, including warplanes jointly built with China, to General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army, according to a report by Reuters. The deal could significantly alter the military balance of power in the oil-rich North African country, where Haftar rules over the […]

Fauci & Collins Brushed Off ‘Impressive’ Data For COVID Natural Immunity Newly released emails reveal that senior Biden administration health officials privately grappling with research suggesting recovery from Covid-19 infection provided stronger protection than vaccination alone – at the very moment the federal government was preparing sweeping vaccine mandates in 2021. (from l) Bill Gates, former NIH director Dr. Francis […]

Trump Says ‘Agitators’ In Minnesota Church Should Be Jailed, Wants Broader Investigation Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump said that people who stormed a Minneapolis church over the past weekend should be jailed, while calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate two local Democratic politicians. President Donald Trump speaks during the “Great, Historic Investment in […]

“Extraordinary Times”: Ted Cruz Predicts Iran, Venezuela, & Cuba Could All Fall Within Six Months The world may be approaching a turning point not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union. At least, that’s what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) predicts. Appearing on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Cruz said the globe is on the brink of a historic realignment, predicting that three long-standing anti-American regimes […]

Democrats Are Trying To Weaponize The 25th Amendment Again, And It Won’t Work After spending nearly four years pretending that Joe Biden was fit for office, congressional Democrats are now calling for President Trump to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment after he linked his pursuit of Greenland to being snubbed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. In that text, sent Sunday, Trump told the Norwegian leader he no longer […]

Maybe It’s Time For Conservative Patriots To Rally In Minneapolis Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us For years we knew it was coming: Civil War 2.0. It’s not as if the establishment has been subtle about their intentions to erase conservatives and liberty minded people from the American epoch. I remember during the Obama years, the narrative was repeated daily that conservatives are a “backwards remnant” of the old […]

Lululemon Yanks Leggings Over “See-Through” Concerns When Bending Over Lululemon Athletica yanked its new Get Low training apparel line from its North America e-commerce website just days after launch, following customer complaints that the leggings were see-through. “The Get Low line has officially been pulled. The leggings are absolutely see-through when you squat or bend over (in every colorway). You can bring them into any […]

The Reckoning On Immigration Is Here Authored by Alex Berenson via Unreported Truths, The easy part is over. Americans wanted the borders closed. For decades, the legacy media and politicians in both parties ignored that wish, claiming the United States had to accept and support an endless flood of illegal migrants. The disconnect between average people and elite opinion was so obvious that academics wrote papers about it. […]

Leftists Call For Political Purge Of MAGA If They Return To Power You might have thought it wasn’t possible, but leftist activist rhetoric has become even more unhinged than usual in the past month as ICE agents try to do their lawful jobs in Democrat controlled sanctuary cities like Minneapolis.  During the Obama Administration, ICE carried out millions of deportations of illegal aliens without a peep from progressives.  […]

Netflix Craters On Disappointing Guidance, Stock Buyback Pause It was already an ugly quarter for NFLX shareholders who have been caught in a painful takeover battle for Warner Bros Discovery which has hammered the stock. And it only got uglier moments ago when Netflix reported Q4 earnings which came in solid, along with record subscribers for 2025, but it was the company’s disappointing guidance due to higher program […]