Sen. Cruz Urges DOJ, FBI To Investigate Whether Foreign Adversaries Are Behind Gaza War Protests In US Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has called for U.S. federal authorities to investigate whether foreign actors are promoting contentions within the United States, including recent protests over the war in Gaza taking place on U.S. college campuses and other venues around the country. During a […]

NOTAM Sparks Confusion Over Possible Russian Hypersonic Missile Test Off California Coast There’s been quite a stir on X as some users speculate that a NOTAM, or aviation notice to airmen, suggests a potential Russian Navy hypersonic missile test off the coast of Southern California. However, that’s not the case. According to The War Zone, the NOTAM is actually in anticipation of a Russian space booster splashing down in the […]

Drug Overdose Deaths Drop For First Time Since 2018 Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times, The rate of death by overdose declined in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years. Data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics show the decline mainly attributed to a drop in deaths from synthetic opioids, specifically fentanyl. The number of drug […]

Watch: Houthis Shoot Down A 4th US Reaper Drone Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis have announced that they have shot down yet another $30 million American military drone.  Footage is widely circulating of what appears to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone in Yemen, but the Pentagon has not yet confirmed.  Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree described that the drone was conducing “hostile actions” over Yemen’s […]

US Power Grid May Become Unreliable This Summer, Watchdog Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Parts of America could face difficulties in meeting electricity demand during the summer season, with renewable energy sources like wind and solar power posing a potential risk to reliable power supply, according to a report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The NERC report classifies […]

First Images Of American Taxpayers’ $350 Million Completed Gaza Pier  The Pentagon is ‘proud’… and so is the Biden administration. But the US taxpayer?… “Today we began delivery of aid from the temporary pier on to the beach of Gaza for further distribution to the people by our partners,” US Central Command announced Friday. “This unique logistics capability facilitates the delivery of lifesaving humanitarian aid enabling a […]

Santa Monica Homeless Man Slapped With Felony Charges After Dragging Jogger By Ponytail Authored by Sophie Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A homeless man in Santa Monica was arrested earlier this week after allegedly dragging a female jogger by her ponytail across a beach path in what the victim believes to have been a failed attempt at sexual assault. Malcolm Jimmy Ward, Jr., 48. (Courtesy of Santa Monica Police […]

25 Year Old BofA Analyst Dies Suddenly Of Cardiac Arrest While Playing Soccer At Industry Event A credit trader from Bank of America who was just 25 years old died suddenly on Thursday night while playing soccer at an industry event, a report by Yahoo/Bloomberg on Friday confirmed.  The credit portfolio and algorithmic trader, Adnan Deumic, reportedly “collapsed of a suspected cardiac arrest” and did not respond to medical […]

2 House Panels Clear Contempt Resolutions Against AG Garland Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorney General Merrick Garland appears at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on April 16, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Republicans on two House committees voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress on Thursday night despite President Joe Biden’s […]

China Unveils A Housing Market Bailout: Here’s What’s In It, And Why It Is Still Not Enough More than four years ago, when China first launched its latest “deleveraging” campaign targeted at bursting the country’s housing bubble in a controlled fashion, which coincidentally was the single largest asset for China’s massive middle class, we – and many others – said that this experiment was doomed and that all China is doing is […]

CBO Report Obscures Negative Impact Of ‘Bidenomics’: House Budget Committee Chairman Authored by Indrajit Basu via The Epoch Times, The chairman of the House Budget Committee has cast doubt on a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, which he says glosses over the failures of President Joe Biden’s economic policies. The White House has said its policies have led to economic growth “from the middle out and bottom […]

Texas Governor Pardons Man Convicted For Shooting Armed BLM Protester Defend yourself against violent BLM protesters and face an endless salvo of character assassination, not to mention potential prison time.  That was the message being sent by far-left activists and the establishment media from 2020 to 2023, specifically in their efforts to destroy the image of Kyle Rittenhouse and veteran Army Sergeant Daniel Perry.  In both […]

World’s #1 Golfer Tossed Against Car, Arrested In Kentucky — Calls “Very Chaotic Situation” The world’s #1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was arrested and taken to jail on several charges – including a felony charge of assaulting a police officer, after he tried to bypass a massive traffic backup to enter the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville Kentucky. Scheffler was set to tee off for his second round of the PGA Championship at 8:48 ET […]

Hezbollah Launches First-Ever Airstrike On Israeli Territory Via The Cradle Hezbollah launched the first-ever Lebanese airstrike on an Israeli target on Friday, using a never-before-seen drone for the operation.  “In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance, the Islamic Resistance attacked at 1:38 pm on Thursday the Metulla site, its garrison, and its […]

“The Economics Just Don’t Work”: Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs For the last year, we’ve been writing extensively about how high costs and low demand have made EVs uneconomical – and, as a result, unpopular to produce – for the auto industry. It turns out unionized employees extorting you on labor costs while the government mandates you produce a money-losing product isn’t a combination that leads to prosperity […]

Why The Dollar Will Lose Its Status As Global Reserve Currency Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com, By the early 400s, the Roman Empire was coming apart at the seams and in desperate need of strong, competent leadership. In theory, Honorius should have been the right man for the job. Born into the royal household in Constantinople, Honorius had been groomed to rule, practically since birth, by the finest experts in […]

America’s Dairy Cow Replacement Inventory Collapses To Two-Decade Low  The nation’s food supply chain remains under stress. We’ve been sounding the alarm on America’s beef cattle supply dwindling to the lowest levels in over half a century. Now, Bloomberg reports that dairy farms are pivoting breeding programs toward beef-on-dairy hybrids, capitalizing on the low beef herds amid last year’s crushing milk glut. However, this […]

Full Fifth Circuit Hears Arguments Over the Fate Of Texas’ Floating Border Wall Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The legal saga over the fate of a 1,000-foot floating barrier on the Rio Grande has entered a new phase. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last summer ordered the deployment of the string of giant orange buoys in the river near Eagle Pass. As a part of Operation Lone Star, the Republican governor’s signature […]

Jeff Currie, The Copper Bull: “Most Compelling Trade I’ve Seen In My 30-Year Trading Career” Jeff Currie, who led commodities research at Goldman Sachs for nearly three decades and now serves as the chief strategy officer of the energy pathways team at Carlyle Group, appeared on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots to discuss why copper is the best trade he has seen in his entire career. The drive towards electrification, whether that’s […]

NBC Animal Documentary Claims “This Is A Queer Planet” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, A documentary set to be broadcast by NBC asserts that we live on a “queer planet,” in which homosexuality is widespread in the animal kingdom and there are more than two genders. Yes, really. The documentary, set to be aired on June 6, features one “expert” stating, “Everything you were taught as a kid is […]

Paul Pelosi Hammer Attacker Gets 30 Years In Prison The man who snuck into the house of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in October of 2022 and attacked her husband Paul with a hammer at 2 a.m. has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. David DePape, 42, was convicted of assault and attempted kidnapping of a federal official last November following a week-long trial in San Francisco. The attack left Pelosi, now 84, in the hospital for six […]

The Decay Of Everyday Life Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So where does this leave us? We’re on our own. This month I’ve described what can be summarized as The Decay of Everyday Life: the erosion of the fundamental elements of everyday life: work, opportunity, social mobility, security and well-being, which includes civility, conviviality and a functional, competent social-political order. In other […]

US Banks Suffer $80BN Deposit Decline, Money Market Fund AUM Rise As Stocks Soar For the fourth straight week, money market funds saw inflows (+$16.4BN), pushing back towards record highs above the $6 trillion level – the highest level in a month – after the seasonal tax-related dip… Source: Bloomberg Retail investors have piled into money funds since the Fed began one of the most-aggressive tightening cycles in decades in […]

WHO’s Fascist F**kery: “Homicidal Racketeering Scheme Masquerading As Disease Prevention” Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “If the government can suspend your rights anytime it deems something is a crisis, you don’t have rights. You have permissions.”  – “Pismo” on “X” While our country sleepwalks through the deadly aftermath of the evil Covid-19 operation, the World Health Organization (WHO) […]

Dismal Data Sparks Dollar Dump – Everything Else Rips On Record Week US Macro Surprise data declined for the sixth straight week… to its weakest since January 2023… Source: Bloomberg But that ‘bad news’ prompted a run to record highs for risky stocks… Source: Bloomberg As the market seems to be completely discounting the collapse in soft survey data… Source: Bloomberg The bad news prompted rate-cut expectations […]