A US Port In Pakistan Would Complete Its Pro-Western Pivot Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Pakistan has been pivoting towards the West since April 2022’s post-modern coup against former multipolar Prime Minister Imran Khan, with this trend accelerating since Trump’s return to power and his obsession with punishing India for not subordinating itself as the US’ largest-ever vassal state. Their rapid […]

Central Banks Now Hold More Gold Than US Treasuries Central banks have crossed a symbolic line: their combined gold reserves now exceed their U.S. Treasury holdings for the first time in nearly three decades. The crossover underscores a gradual diversification away from dollar-denominated securities and toward hard assets. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, tracks how these shares have evolved from the […]

Lesser-Known Breast Cancer Spreading Among American Women Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A subtype of breast cancer is on the rise among American women, with incidence rates highest among White females, according to an Oct. 7 peer-reviewed study published in the American Cancer Society’s (ACS’s) journal Cancer. A new study found that race-wise, White women had the highest incidence rate for […]

Where Americans Can’t Afford Healthcare If there are two issues that dominate America’s online discourse, they’re the soaring cost of housing and the even steeper price of staying healthy. The U.S. pours almost $13,000 per person into healthcare, yet average life expectancy is below nearly every other high-income nation. It’s a study of contrasts. As Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao notes, the country boasts of state of […]

Paper Chase: A Global Industry Fuels Scientific Fraud In The U.S. Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific researchers. It will not only write a scholarly paper for a fee but also guarantee publishing the fraudulent work in a respected journal.    It is one of many “paper mills” that have […]

America First? Hegseth Announces Qatar To Build Air Force Facility Deep In US Heartland Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just over a week ago delivered his America First rah-rah higher-military-standards and end-of-wokeness speech to some 800 Generals and Admirals gathered at Quantico. That’s all well and good – and a very welcome and refreshing break from the Biden era… but now he pivots to allowing the Gulf Arab country of […]

California Makes Euthanasia Law Permanent For Terminally Ill Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that eliminates the expiration date on the state’s End of Life Option Act, making ongoing access to assisted suicide for adults facing terminal illnesses permanent. Senate Bill 403, takes effect immediately, as it merely repeals a sunset provision in the Health and Safety Code […]

US Deploys 200 Troops To Oversee Gaza Ceasefire Deal More American troops to the war-ravaged Levant… but this time it is for peace, at least if all goes according to plan. Up to 200 US troops already based in the Middle East will be deployed to Israel to help oversee the ceasefire in Gaza, US officials say. The military apparatus or operations room which the US will lead will be known as the civil-military Joint Control Center […]

What Can We Do About The Agrarian Collapse? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Everywhere I go, people ask me: What can we do about all the farms we’re losing? Ted Fox feeds cattle on his farm near Osage, Iowa, on Aug. 9, 2014. Scott Olson/Getty Images The truth is, our local farms cannot survive without us. Supporting them isn’t optional—it’s essential. Go to farm-to-table dinners. Visit […]

Base-Jumpers, Squatters, & Illegal Activity: Yosemite Becoming The “Wild West” Amidst Government Shutdown Just over a week into the Oct. 1 government shutdown, Yosemite National Park has seen a surge of illegal activity — from BASE jumping off El Capitan to unpermitted ascents of Half Dome’s cables, according to SF Gate. “It’s like the Wild Wild West,” said John DeGrazio, founder of YExplore Yosemite Adventures. While […]

Social Contagion: Suicide Rates Among Gen Z Have Spiked Over Past Decade Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Suicide rates among Gen Z adults have unnaturally increased in the U.S. over the past ten years according to new figures. Axios Notes that there has been a 16.4 percent increase in suicides among the demographic between 2014-2024. The locations where the rise is most prominent, the report notes are in the […]

Pfizer Left COVID-19 Vaccine Data Out Of Submissions To FDA, Documents Show Data on how parts of a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine spread in the bodies of mice were withheld from regulatory submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a new comparison of those submissions and similar documents sent to Japanese regulators. Byram Bridle, who has a PhD in immunology and is an associate professor of immunology […]

The Hidden Crisis In Our Classrooms: Why Education Without Character Is Failing America Via the Complete Education Working Group at FTC Northern, Is there a problem with higher education in the United States?  College enrollment more than doubled between 1970 and 2010, but dropped 15 percent between 2010 and 2021. What does this mean for the high school student who is unsure about college? Fei Tian College Northern students and […]

Portland Leftists Plan ‘Laser Tag’ Attacks On Federal Aircraft Saturday Night As federal courts evaluate the propriety of President Trump’s attempts to deploy National Guard troops to Portland to protect federal assets and agents from radical leftists, those very same Antifa miscreants are openly promoting a coordinated laser attack on federal aircraft on Saturday night — a plot that promises to put lives in danger, but may also […]

Zelensky Says He’ll Push For Trump To Receive 2026 Nobel If Ukraine Gets Tomahawk Missiles Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that Ukraine would nominate President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he provides the country with Tomahawk missiles, a step that would mark a significant escalation of the proxy war and risk a major response from Russia. There’s already […]

Trump’s Gaza Peace Spillover: Investors Foresee End Of Red Sea Shipping Crisis The Iran-linked Houthis of Yemen appear to have halted their missile and drone attacks on Israel as the US-backed Gaza ceasefire has gone into effect Friday. There have not been any recent observable attacks since both sides agreed to accept Trump’s 20-point peace plan, with the Houthis now saying they are ‘monitoring’ the ceasefire and Israel’s […]

ANTIFA’s Mask Slips: Trump’s Roundtable Sends Shadow NGO Network Behind “Riot Inc.” Into Panic Submitted by Jason Curtis Anderson of One City Rising,  President Trump’s latest roundtable on ANTIFA wasn’t just a political statement — it was a long-overdue reckoning against rising far-left political violence. For years, journalists and citizens alike have watched America’s streets burn, our cities vandalized, and our law […]

Trump Signs Proclamation Reinstating Columbus Day President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Oct. 9 recognizing Oct. 13 as Columbus Day in honor of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. “Columbus Day, we’re back, Italians. We love the Italians,” Trump said after signing the proclamation at the White House. As The Epoch Times’ Aldgra Fredly reports, this marks a departure from President Joe Biden’s practice since […]

All-In For Civil War 2.0 As Democratic Party Grift-Machine Blows Up Authored by James Howard Kunstler, What Is Power For? “Ordinary judicial proceedings become impracticable when the people paid to execute federal law coordinate to prevent its execution.” – EKO on “X” Now, try to imagine Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (Jabba the Pritzker) as a Confederate general, his juddering bulk astride a panting war-horse, as he […]

Sebastien Lecornu Re-Appointed As French Prime Minister (A Week After Quitting) Update (1600ET): Leaving his decision to the last minute on a Friday night, President Emmanuel Macron reappointed Sebastien Lecornu to be France’s prime minister (less than a week after his stunning resignation plunged the nation into chaos), giving the centrist ally another shot at naming a new cabinet and getting a budget through a fractious […]

Musk’s Data Center Power Math: “Would Double U.S. Electrical Energy Output Per Year” Whether you read institutional commentary from the desks at Goldman, UBS, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, or others, all indications are that the growing power demand from AI chips in server racks has rendered air cooling obsolete, with liquid cooling now the premier choice. But the broader concern is that soaring power loads from data centers are […]

Greta Thunberg: The Patron Saint Of Performance Art Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance “Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” — Thomas Sowell Once upon a time, Greta Thunberg lectured a bunch of people who think they are important at a climate conference […]

BLS To Publish Next CPI Report On Oct 24 Despite Shutdown, Just Days Before Fed Decision The data drought is about to end (with some footnotes). The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which we reminded our followers some time ago is not just behind the monthly jobs report but also the various inflation updates… As a reminder, PPI and CPI (reporting next two days) are also under the BLS umbrella — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 9, […]

‘Substantial’ Government Layoffs Have Begun: Vought The White House has begun laying off a “substantial” number of government employees, OMB Director Russ Vought announced Friday on X.  Russell VoughtPhotographer: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg “The RIFs have begun,” Vought wrote, referring to reduction-in-force plans.  The RIFs have begun. — Russ Vought (@russvought) October 10, 2025 “Can confirm RIFs have begun and they are […]

Stocks Slammed, VIX Spikes As Trump Threatens “Massive Increase” In Tariffs On Chinese Goods US equity markets are tumbling following comments from President Trump threatening “a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese products” being imported into the US, accusing China of becoming “hostile” due to their export controls Additionally, Trump said he saw “no reason” to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping This […]