Why No COVID Commission In The US? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, They were the hardest years of our lives, marked by the dissolution of rights, liberties, and hope. Sadness swept the land, as forced physical isolation and shattered civic life mutated toward mandates to wear masks and eventually to accept a new injection product. The liturgy of life fundamentally disrupted, we lost track of the passage of time and […]

US Has Been Conducting “Bomber Attack Demos” Buzzing Venezuela Once Per Week Another US B-52 bomber conducted a flight near Venezuela’s coastline earlier this week, according to flight-tracking data, continuing a pattern of regular bomber activity amid threated regime change action targeting President Nicolás Maduro. These flights have occurred at a rate of about once a week for over a month, and are meant as a very public threat […]

Why This Fear Of Deflation? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Certain myths survive from a period of trauma. They can be wholly incorrect and yet widely believed by nearly all living experts. The myth keeps moving from generation to generation and becomes doctrine, one which we dare not question for fear of contradicting the settled consensus. It so happens that “everyone knows” something that is entirely […]

OpenAI Needs To Fill $207 Billion Funding Hole By 2030: HSBC As the AI ‘circle jerk’ rages on, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will need to raise at least $207 billion more by 2030 to simply keep the lights on, according a new analysis by HSBC which takes into account recently disclosed megadeals with Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle.  Even with bullish assumptions that include 3 billion users, rapid subscription growth, […]

Connecting The Dots… Reveals A Dire Picture Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, […]

Two National Guard Members Shot Near White House, Suspect In Custody, Trump Says “Animal” Will Pay “Steep Price” Watch Live:  Update: The West Virginia governor has issued a strange backtrack after minutes prior announcing the guard members who were shot were “confirmed dead”. He now cites “conflicting reports” of their condition. A shooter is in custody. Hopefully they have survived. *  *  * AP News reports that two […]

Is A Trump UFO Bombshell Incoming? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Documentary filmmaker Dan Farah has boldly predicted that President Trump could be the first world leader to spill the beans on UFOs, dropping a “major announcement” about non-human tech and extraterrestrial intel—sparking feverish speculation: Is this engineered hype to divert from global flashpoints, or a seismic shift toward transparency?  […]

‘Seditious Six’ Democrats Freak Out Over FBI Investigation Democrats are losing it after the Trump administration opened an investigation into six Democratic lawmakers following the posting of a Nov. 18 social-media video in which they advised U.S. service members that they are obligated to follow lawful, not illegal, orders under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The video – featuring lawmakers with national security […]

Forged Letters, Luxury Lifestyle: Takeaways So Far From Trial Of Accused Chinese Agent And Hochul, Cuomo Aide Authored by Nichaolas Zifcak via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In the trial of Linda Sun, the former aide to New York governors who is accused of acting as a Chinese agent, the court has heard evidence that Sun forged the signature of Gov. Kathy Hochul, had close contact with Chinese consular staff, and purchased luxury […]

Were The Brits Behind Bloomberg’s Russian-US Leaks? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service warned earlier the same day as Bloomberg’s report that the Brits are hellbent on discrediting Trump in order to undermine his latest peace efforts for resolving the conflict from which they profit. Bloomberg shared what it claimed to be the transcripts of calls between Trump’s Special Envoy […]

Legal Cases Challenging Trump’s Agenda – Key Issues To Watch Authored by Stacy Robinson and Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A flood of litigation continues to hamper President Donald Trump’s agenda, with hundreds of lawsuits challenging his actions on gender issues, tariffs, immigration, National Guard deployment, and other matters. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times A […]

“It’s Utilities Versus Rent” – Data Centers Send Energy Prices Soaring The surge in data center construction to power today’s AI and cloud computing demands has sent electricity prices skyrocketing over the last few years. And, as Bloomberg reports, it is only getting worse. With electricity costs now as much as 267% higher compared to five years ago in some parts of the US, fingers are being pointed directly at data center […]

Why Are The Elites Moving Into High Security ‘Fortress Communities’ Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, The elite aren’t stupid. They can see that our society is coming apart at the seams all around us, and so they want to live some place safe. In fact, for many among the elite security has become the number one priority when choosing a new home. Unfortunately, the vast majority of us do not have the […]

Huge Explosion Kills 5 At Arms Depot In Idlib, Syria On Wednesday a huge explosion rocked the town of Kafr Takharim in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, killing five people and injuring nine others, according to regional sources. The blast and resulting large plume of smoke over the town unleashed immediate speculation that it could have been a US or coalition airstrike targeting terrorist entities. Israel has also frequently […]

JP Morgan Says Oil Prices Could Plunge Into $30s By 2027 Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, JP Morgan predicts the international crude benchmark, Brent, could drop into the $30s per barrel by 2027 due to an overwhelming market oversupply. Goldman Sachs forecasts the U.S. benchmark WTI Crude will average $53 per barrel in 2026 amid a 2 million bpd surplus and advises investors to short oil right now. The oil […]

Armed Robber Targets Sam Altman’s Ex-Boyfriend’s House, Forces Transfer Of $11 Million In Crypto Updated A thief barged into a house owned by Lachy Groom – a wealthy tech investor who once dated OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, tied up a victim, and made off with $11 million in Crypto Saturday evening in San Francisco, the NY Post reports. Sam Altman and Lachy Groom, attend the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in 2018 in […]

Rand Paul Warns Trump War In Venezuela Will ‘Fracture’ MAGA Movement Via The Libertarian Institute Senator Rand Paul said that President Donald Trump’s warmongering in Latin America could fracture the GOP.  “I think once there’s an invasion of Venezuela, or if they decide to re-up the subsidies and the gifts to Ukraine, I think you’ll see a splintering and a fracturing of the movement that has supported the President,” […]

Georgia Prosecutor Nukes Trump’s Election Interference Case That Fani Fumbled Less than two weeks after a Georgia prosecutor took control of the 2020 election interference case against President Trump and several allies (the one Fani Willis fumbled), the case has been officially dropped.  “Given the complexity of the legal issues at hand – ranging from constitutional questions and the Supremacy Clause to immunity, jurisdiction, […]

Strategy Unveils New Credit Gauge To Calm Debt Fears After Crypto Crash Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Michael Saylor’s Strategy is attempting to calm investor concerns about its balance sheet after the recent Bitcoin market downturn and a sharp pullback in digital asset treasury (DAT) stocks. Strategy, the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, has rolled out a new credit rating dashboard based on the […]

Schweizer Exposes DEI Fraud Machine Inside Federal Contracting Complex  Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and the investigative journalist who broke the Clinton Cash corruption story, has uncovered what may be one of the most brazen grifts operating inside the Capital Beltway. His new reporting exposes deep cronyism and corruption inside the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business […]

WTI Steady Near One-Month Lows Amid Peace Deal Talk, Record Crude Production Oil prices are steady this morning near one month lows, after a tempestuous few days swinging around Russia peace deal headlines. US President Donald Trump said “there are only a few remaining points of disagreement,” as he sent negotiators to more meetings, while the Ukrainian leader’s chief of staff said talks in Geneva had laid a “good […]

UBS: AI Mania Has More Fuel, Dubs GenAI The “Steam Engine Of The Mind” As chatter about an AI-driven market bubble grows louder across Wall Street, with nearly half of BofA’s Fund Manager Survey respondents calling the AI/data-center boom a bubble, UBS analysts are out with a note insisting there is plenty more bubble-blowing ahead.  UBS analyst Andrew Garthwaite wrote that his bullish target for the MSCI AC World is 1,090 by […]

Don’t Wear Slippers, Pajamas At Airport, Transportation Secretary Duffy Urges Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is asking Americans to dress “with some respect” while flying, as part of his campaign to restore civility to air travel. Travelers check in at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Nov. 25, 2025. Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images “Whether […]

Chicago Manufacturing PMI Plunges In November MNI’s Chicago Business Barometer Report came in dramatically worse than expected for November, printing 36.3 (the lowest since May 2024), well below expectations of 43.6 and the prior print of 43.8 Under the hood, it was all ugly:  Prices paid rose at a faster pace; signaling expansion New orders fell at a faster pace; signaling contraction Employment fell at a faster […]

Texas Becomes First US State To Buy Bitcoin For Its Strategic Reserve Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, On November 20, Texas became the first U.S. state to buy Bitcoin for its Strategic Reserve, acquiring $5 million at roughly $87,000 per BTC, according to Lee Bratcher, President of the Texas Blockchain Council. The purchase was made through BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) while the state […]