Suicidal Empathy Is Another Front In The CCP’s Hybrid War Authored by Stu Cvrk via The Epoch Times, The theory of suicidal empathy is gaining increasing currency among people who are deeply concerned about the apparent fracturing of Western civilization, particularly American culture. Suicidal empathy can be defined as excessive or misdirected compassion expressed by individuals or groups that prioritizes short-term emotional […]

Vegas Casino To Accept Canadian Dollars At Par In Bid To Lure Northerners Back To Sin City Las Vegas casino owner Derek Stevens is offering Canadian visitors a major incentive by accepting Canadian dollars at par with U.S. currency at his three downtown properties—Circa, D Las Vegas, and Golden Gate—through August 31, according to Bloomberg. Because the Canadian dollar currently trades at about 1.38 to the U.S. dollar, the […]

Russia’s Planned Revival Of RIC Is Unlikely For Three Reasons Authored by Andrew Korybko, The Sino-Indo rapprochement is still in its infancy, their territorial disputes remain unresolved, and India is under lots of pressure from the US nowadays. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared during his first press conference of the year that Moscow wants to revive the Russia-India-China (RIC) format.  In his words, “[RIC] […]

Meet The Man Who Bought $1 Billion In Physical Silver Before The Rally The precious metals complex resumed its upward trajectory overnight. Shortly after the US equity cash open, silver surged above $100 per ounce for the first time on record, while gold approached the $5,000 per ounce level. As Rick Privorotsky, head of Delta One at Goldman Sachs, noted to clients earlier, flows suggest some speculative participation, but the […]

Obama’s Fingerprints All Over Investigations Of Trump And Clinton Authored by Paul Sperry via American Greatness, In the run-up to the 2016 Democratic Party convention, FBI Director James Comey gained access to at least eight thumb drives containing large volumes of former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s sensitive State Department emails—as well as some from President Obama—that appeared to have been compromised by foreign […]

China Has Officially Overtaken Tesla In The Global EV Race Chinese automakers, led by BYD, are rapidly reshaping the global electric-vehicle market and challenging long-established brands such as Volkswagen, Toyota, BMW—and even Tesla, according to the Wall Street Journal. Once dismissed by Western buyers, Chinese EVs are now gaining wide acceptance. “These Chinese cars look fantastic,” one shopper said while browsing a BYD […]

‘Saving The Family’ Should Start With Sound Money Authored by Jeffery L. Degner and Thomas Savidge via TheDailyEconomy.org, In the opening week of 2026, several scholars at the Heritage Foundation published a special report titled “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years.” This 168-page document covers myriad policies that negatively impact the American family and proposes solutions to those […]

The EU-US $800BN Postwar Ukraine ‘Prosperity’ Plan Which Should Outrage MAGA Ukraine is now begging the EU and US for $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years at a moment its prospects on the battlefield look no better than a year ago. This reportedly includes an ask of $800 billion for “reconstruction” and $700 billion for “military purposes”. Politico is reporting Friday that EU leadership has circulated a confidential document to […]

AI-Induced Cultural Stagnation Is No Longer Speculation − It’s Already Happening Authored by Ahmed Elgammal, via The Conversation Generative AI was trained on centuries of art and writing produced by humans. But scientists and critics have wondered what would happen once AI became widely adopted and started training on its outputs. A new study points to some answers. In January 2026, artificial intelligence researchers […]

In Humiliating Retreat, Starmer Forced To Pull Chagos Bill After Trump Backlash Trump wins again – or rather, Europe caves again. On Friday UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was forced into an abrupt and humiliating retreat after his plan for the Chagos Islands detonated backlash in Washington. Starmer had been preparing to ram the controversial legislation through the House of Lords on Monday, only for the bill to be yanked late […]

With Control Of Virginia, Democrats Go Into A Tax And Regulatory Frenzy Authored by Jonathan Turley, In the last election, Democrats again campaigned as moderates, including Abigail Spanberger. Once in control of the Governor’s mansion and the legislature, however, Virginia Democrats have moved quickly to fulfill the worst stereotype of a tax-hungry, economy-crushing party. The Democrats introduced an array of new taxes on […]

New Gig Economy Job: Train AI That Replaces You A Bay Area startup called Mercor has hired tens of thousands of white-collar contractors for temporary work, training artificial intelligence to perform the very jobs many of them once held, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. In effect, these white-collar workers are being paid to accelerate their own obsolescence by feeding and perfecting models for chatbot makers, such […]

Crypto Takeaways From Davos: Politics And Money Collide Authored by Yohan Yun via CoinTelegraph.com, While geopolitical tensions and the Greenland standoff set the tone at Davos 2026, crypto resurfaced as a secondary but consequential theme. US President Donald Trump used a few minutes of his Davos speech to double down on his ambition to turn the US into the world’s crypto capital and voice support for crypto-friendly […]

Horton: “Zionism Ultimately Is The Achilles Heel In America First” Last night, ZeroHedge hosted Scott Horton and former Trump NSC chief of staff Fred Fleitz for a wide-ranging discussion on the question: How successful has President Trump’s foreign policy agenda been so far in his second term? Much of the exchange revealed shared criticism of post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy’s belligerence towards Russia. Horton and Fleitz […]

The Case Against Declaring Artificial General Intelligence Authored by Lewis Liu via CityAM.com, Today’s AI systems fail badly in out-of-distribution scenarios, as shown by their inability to interpret real-world geopolitical crises. Large language models reflect the ideological biases of their creators, undermining claims of neutral “general” intelligence. The real economic opportunity lies in tightly governed […]

“Sleeping On The Job”: DC Opens Medicaid Investigation Following Nurse And Aide Neglect Claims D.C.’s inspector general has opened an investigation after complaints surfaced about home health nurses and aides allegedly sleeping while on duty, following a News4 I-Team report that included hours of video showing caregivers appearing to sleep overnight, according to NBC. The investigation stems from the account of Damon Brooks, a […]

DHS Says Mahmoud Khalil May Be Sent To Algeria Authored by Arjun Singh via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said on Jan. 21 that Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at the center of the Trump administration’s deportation battles, may be removed to Algeria. Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who leads the department’s Office of Public Affairs, made the […]

Watch: Convicted Minnesota Scammer Says Walz, Ellison Were Aware Of $250M Fraud The media has been giving quite a lot of attention to Aimee Bock, the head of a Minnesota nonprofit at the center of the largest pandemic relief fraud in the nation’s history – which she now says Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison had to have known about. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform […]

Davos Is Dead: Western Civ Has Suffered Enough… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Up In Smoke “This is how tyranny looks in the modern world. It arrives dressed as dialogue, consensus, and expertise. It is imposed by people who sincerely believe they are doing nothing at all.” – DataRepublican Davos — The World Economic Forum (WEF)— is toast. Trump, Bessent, and Lutnick exposed the wretched org of overcompensated […]

Trump Says US ‘Armada’ Moving Towards Iran Via Middle East Eye US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is sending an “armada” towards Iran, threatening Tehran against resuming its nuclear program. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One after returning from meetings with world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said Washington was closely monitoring Iran as US naval assets moved into the region. “We have a lot […]

Here Come Humanoid Robots: Industry Makes Clear Pivot Toward “Dedicated-Purpose” Commercial Deployments Goldman analyst Jacqueline Du published her field trip notes after speaking with six C-level management teams at robotics companies across Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen in recent days. The companies she met with include Unitree, Mechmind, Fourier, LimX Dynamics, UBTech, EngineAI, Paxini, and Orbbec. “Overall, we see the […]

Homeland Security Seeks To Restrict Immigrants From Relying On Welfare Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to change a rule that determines eligibility for permanent residency—commonly known as a green card—based on whether an applicant is considered a “public charge,” someone who is likely to depend primarily on public benefits. That […]

The Next 10 Days Of Winter: The Worst In 40 Years Across The US Submitted by @RyanMaue, A meteorologist’s main purpose: keep you alive, and marked safe.✅ There is nothing we can do to stop this epic week of weather, and believe me, I have been trying to find silver linings or rays of sunlight. So, the best preparation is fresh, accurate, and expert information from trusted sources. While every new weather model run (alphabet […]

Trump Touts “Total And Permanent” Access To Greenland, While Nobody Has Any Clue What’s In The Deal Trump said on Thursday he had secured “total and permanent” US access to Greenland in a deal with NATO, whose head said allies would have to step up their commitment to Arctic security to ward off threats from Russia and China.  News of a framework deal came as Trump backed off tariff threats against Europe and ruled out taking […]

US Homicide Rate Plummets To 125-Year Low, Group Reports Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Crime rates continued to fall in 2025, with homicide rates expected to drop to about 4.0 per 100,000 residents, “the lowest rate recorded in law enforcement or public health data going back to 1900,” according to a new report published by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) on Jan. 22. Based on an analysis of crime […]