IMF Calls For Economy-Crushing Carbon Restrictions That Dwarf COVID Lockdowns At the height of the covid lockdowns and mandates a massive portion of the global economy was shut down, leading to supply chain instability, huge job losses and a stagflationary crisis.  However, climate change propagandists argued that the event was actually a positive for the planet when it was revealed that emissions fell by 5.4%.  They asserted that […]

Market Forecasts Are Very Bullish Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A Holiday Rally Is Likely Last week, we discussed the impact of the Trump Presidency on the financial markets based on expectations of tax cuts, tariffs, and deregulation. Since then, the “Trump Trade” went into full swing, pushing the markets higher; however, as we noted, that the trading had gotten a bit ahead of itself, and we saw […]

Chinese Defense Minister Rebuffs Austin’s Request For Military Talks Over Taiwan Support China’s military has once again blamed Washington for the breakdown of talks, with the Chinese Defense Ministry blasting US support to Taiwan as the reason for Chinese defense chief Dong Jun rebuffing a direct request for dialogue from US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin this week. Both leaders were in Laos for meetings with Southeast Asian […]

The Home-Based Battery Storage Fantasy Authored by Jonathan Lesser via RealClearEnergy, According to a recent article published in The Conversation, installing millions of storage batteries distributed through the grid — in homes, businesses, and local communities – coupled with wind and solar generation, can avoid investments in new transmission infrastructure. But unless installing those batteries is accompanied by physically […]

Trump Taps COVID-Contrarian, Staunch Public Health Critic Makary For FDA In another appointment with potential to shake up the federal health regime, Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Martin Makary to lead the Food & Drug Administration. Makary, a Johns Hopkins University pancreatic surgeon and author of three New York Times bestsellers, has been critical of the government’s role in health care. The role requires Senate […]

Democrats Need Their Own Donald Trump Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, There may be five stages of grief, but there’s usually just one when it comes to political defeat – pretend to soul-search, then carry on as if nothing happened. In the wake of Donald Trump’s clearcut victory on November 5, Democrats and their media allies acknowledged mistakes were made, but their mea culpa sounded more like humble […]

Justin Trudeau Watches Taylor Swift While Riots Erupt in Montreal Riots erupted overnight in parts of Montreal after pro-Palestinian, anti-NATO protesters clashed with police officers, smashed windows of businesses, and even set vehicles ablaze in the downtown area.  Canadian English-language daily newspaper The Gazette, also known as the Montreal Gazette, reported that the protests coincided with the 70th Annual Session of […]

Expelliarmus!: HBO Delivers Blow Against The Anti-Rowling, Anti-Free Speech Movement Authored by Jonathan Turley, This week, HBO delivered the corporate version of the Expelliarmus or disarming curse for the long-standing cancel campaign targeting “Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling. We have been discussing this campaign against Rowling, a feminist who has opposed transgender policies that she views as inimical to the rights […]

AI’s Insatiable Appetite For Energy Threatens Ireland’s Grid By Haley Zaremba of Oilprice.com Ireland is set to become the next country to face a major threat to its power grid due to the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence. Dublin has emerged as the heart of Europe’s data center hub, and hyperscale cloud providers have quickly become a pillar of the country’s economy. But powering the data centers that house the cloud […]

German Lutheran Church Bans AfD Members From Committees, Calls Party ‘Anti-Human’ Germany’s Lutheran Church will now exclude members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from any leadership positions due to the party’s politics. Remix News. Liz Heflin reports that The Evangelical Church of Central Germany, which serves most of the provinces of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, and smaller parts of the provinces of […]

Great Britain Cracks Down On “Non-Crime Hate” Speech, Including Playground Taunts Authored by Jonathan Turley, In my book, The Indispensable Right, I discuss how free speech is in a free fall in Great Britain, where officials continue to crack down on an ever-widening array of viewpoints. Some of these actions are designated as “non-crime hate” but are still the subject of law enforcement actions. According to the Daily […]

Former NATO Spokesperson Says Europe May Need To Spend 5% Of GDP On Defense A former NATO spokesperson has said members of the 32-nation bloc may need to spend 4 or 5 percent of their GDP on defense in the coming years, especially if the United States pulls back on its commitments under President-elect Donald Trump. The Epoch Times’ Chris Summers reports that Oana Lungescu, who worked at NATO between 2010 and 2024, told a Royal […]

Berlin Teachers Sound Alarm Over Educational Crisis Caused By Multiculturalism By Thomas Brooke of Remix News Teachers at the Friedrich Bergius School in Berlin’s Schöneberg district have issued a stark warning about escalating issues they say are exacerbated by the city’s approach to mass immigration and integration. In a seven-page letter to the district council, the staff described an environment of increasing […]

Make Army Futures Command Great Again Authored by Michael McInerney via RealClearWire, When President Trump takes office in January, his Army Secretary will need to refocus and re-energize the Army while eliminating bureaucratic waste. Among the many complex tasks ahead, one move is simple and clear: return Army Futures Command (AFC) to the purpose it was created for during the first Trump administration. Restore its authority, […]

Who Is Stockpiling Anti-Personnel Mines? After authorizing Ukraine to use ATACMS long-range missiles on Russian territory Sunday, the outgoing Biden Administration has announced that it will be sending anti-personnel landmines to the country. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, the U.S. and Russia are non-signatories of the International Mine Ban Treaty and are among the world’s largest stockpilers of anti-personnel mines, […]

Flood Of Chinese Goods Into North America Earns Mexico “Backdoor” Label By Riley Donovan of The Epoch Times Amid the threatening specter of tariffs and trade tensions after Donald Trump’s re-election, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says all premiers are aligned in calling for Mexico to be kicked out of the Canada-U.S. free trade deal because it functions as a “backdoor” for Chinese goods. “If Mexico won’t fight transshipment […]

Trump Names Billionaire Scott Bessent As Treasury Secretary After Trump appointed Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary and Kevin Warsh was clearly being groomed as Powell’s replacement at the Fed, it was just a matter of time before the most important appointment in the Trump admin was made. That happened late on Friday when president-elect Donald Trump nominated Scott Bessent to lead the Department of the Treasury, ending days of […]

Seattle EV Drivers Panic For Charging Stations After Bomb Cyclone  A “bombogenesis,” commonly known as a “bomb cyclone,” pounded the Pacific Northwest earlier this week with destructive winds and torrential rain. At higher altitudes, heavy snow and strong winds unleashed blizzards. This once-in-a-decade storm caused widespread power outages across the Seattle metropolitan area, leaving electric vehicle owners in a panic. At the […]

Heat Is Radiating From A Huge Mass Under The Moon Via The Mind Unleashed, The Moon, often seen as a cold and lifeless neighbor, holds secrets that continue to intrigue scientists and stargazers alike. Its surface, marked by craters and barren plains, gives little hint of the mysteries beneath. But recent discoveries have revealed something extraordinary: a massive heat-emitting feature buried deep within the lunar crust. This […]

“Volvo, The Anti Jaguar” While pronoun-wielding Jaguar Managing Director Rawdon Glover went on damage control on Friday, appearing in an interview with corporate media after the iconic British sports car manufacturer obliterated its 90-year legacy with a cringeworthy 30-second ad posted on X, Guillaume Huin, McDonald’s senior marketing director, took to X to praise a “fucking fantastic” Volvo ad produced by Hoyte van Hoytema, the […]

Building Frenzy In The South China Sea – Who Is Fortifying Islands? Countries surrounding the South China Sea have built more than 90 military outposts in around 70 locations in the highly disputed area, at times turning semi-submerged reefs or plain rocks into inhabitable islands in an attempt to establish control over the territory. This is according satellite images analyzed by the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the […]

Finding Shelter From Monetary Racketeers Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, Henry Hazlitt said that to cure inflation, stop inflating, but surprisingly, most economists and politicians don’t want a cure. They believe a little inflation is not only good, but necessary. According to this view the real boogeyman is deflation—“a general decline in prices,” per Ben Bernanke—and government’s monopoly […]

These Are The World’s 10 Most Powerful Supercomputers According to the latest supercomputer ranking from TOP500, El Capitan is the world’s most powerful system, capable of achieving 1,742 petaflops. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu visualizes the performance and power consumption of the world’s top 10 supercomputers. Data and Key Takeaways The data we used to create this graphic is listed in the table […]

Pennsylvania County Official Apologizes For Controversial Comments On Ballot-Counting Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The commissioner of a Pennsylvania county at the center of a weeks-long ballot-counting controversy issued an apology on Wednesday after the state’s Supreme Court ruled to block the counting efforts. Bucks County Commissioner Dianne Ellis-Marseglia speaks during a board meeting in […]

US Declares Opposition Leader Who Lives In Spain As Venezuela’s President-Elect Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared on X that Edmundo González won the Venezuela presidential election several months ago. It is unclear if Washington’s position will make a difference as González lives outside Venezuela.  On Tuesday, Blinken posted, “The Venezuelan people spoke […]