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Navy Reveals Major Shipbuilding Delays As Global War Risk Elevated  The US Navy released a rare assessment of its “shipbuilding challenges,” indicating that the first Columbia-class submarine, classified as the future cornerstone…

Wife Of Judge In Trump ‘Hush Money’ Trial Worked For AG Letitia James Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Lara Merchan, the wife of the judge presiding over…

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From The Recycling Bin To The Landfill: The Major Flaw In Plastic Recycling Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People may be putting plastic into recycling bins,…

CDC Releases Hidden Trove Of COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Reports Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released previously hidden…

How GPUs Are Disrupting High-Performance Computing Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, have moved beyond their original role of rendering video game graphics and are now used in a variety of high-performance computing…

Deep State Goes After Trump And Musk’s Financial Assets… Who’s Next? Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, Is America as we know it over? Are we in the middle –…

Before getting into the weeds, here’s the big picture baseline.  All documents and records created within the executive branch are created for the benefit of the head of the Executive Branch, the…

The move would cause “problems” for Paris, Russia’s defense chief has said The deployment of soldiers to Ukraine would be disastrous for France, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told his French counterpart,…

Trump Lawyers Reveal He Kept Classified Documents In Trump Tower Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Lawyers for former President Donald Trump revealed in new court filings that…

Washington and London are claiming Beijing sponsored a cybercrime campaign against them three years ago. Why did they wait until now? In March, the UK, in conjunction with the US and other…

Buzz-Free Drinking? The Rise Of Non-Alcoholic Beer As the brewing industry is still recovering from the aftershock of the Covid-19 pandemic, alcohol-free beer has become one of the bright spots in a…

Chicago Police Called To Illegal Immigrant Shelter Hundreds Of Times In 2023, Records Show Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times, Chicago police were called to an illegal immigrant shelter hundreds…

These Are The World’s Most-Populated Islands? The word “island” tends to bring up images of remote paradise – a brisk sea breeze, waving palms, and inviting beaches, all ingredients for an idyllic…

“Insane”: US Physicians Received Billions From Pharmaceutical And Medical Device Industry, New Research Finds Authored by Megan Redshaw via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. physicians received more than $12 billion in…

Pro-Palestine Group Attacks UK Defense Factory Producing F-35 Stealth Parts  The sudden influx of unvetted migrants from around the world into Western nations poses a significant national security threat. Leftist-corporate media outlets are ignoring…

The journalist wanted the Ukrainian leader to explain why the US should continue to fund his war efforts American journalist and political commentator Tucker Carlson has said that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky…

Jesse Watters ran a devastating segment last night on radical Judge Juan Merchan who silenced President Donald Trump from talking about his family’s financial ties to the current junk case he is…

Judge Rejects Trump’s Request To Delay ‘Hush Money’ Case Based On Presidential Immunity Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on April 3 denied…

Top US Egg Supplier “Temporarily Ceases” Operations At Texas Plant After Bird Flu Outbreak  The largest egg producer in the US has temporarily halted production at one of its facilities after bird…

New Report Details Horrifying Cost Of Fauci’s Failures Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, In the post-pandemic period of Covid, there’s now a concerted effort to comprehend and explain the…

China’s Plunge Protection Team Bought $6.8 Billion In Stocks In The Second Half Of 2023 By John Liu and April Ma, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists A new dataset is giving China investors…

“I Cannot Call Evacuation A Success”: New Details Emerge Of Afghanistan-Exit Chaos Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, New testimony from those who witnessed firsthand the confusion and chaos of the…

Russian lawmakers have called on international bodies and foreign parliaments to condemn attempts to disrupt March’s vote Washington led a coordinated effort aimed at interfering with the Russian presidential elections held in…

The Palestinian Authority has relaunched its bid to join the UN after a failed attempt in 2011 The Palestinian Authority (PA) has formally requested that it be admitted as a full-fledged member…

Kerry Stokes’ Channel 7 deleted evidence of their crimes, illegally publishing evidence from Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial, claims Channel 7 whistleblower Taylor Auerbach in an affidavit as per below.  From what I…

Jeff Bezos Buys His Third Mansion On Florida’s Exclusive ‘Billionaire’ Bunker Island Amazon founder Jeff Bezos just bought this third massive home on Florida’s exclusive Bunker Island, according to a new report from The…

New York’s Election Year Anti-Crime Strategy Too-Little, Too-Late, Critics Say Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times, Facing a critical election year and constant evidence of the progressive rollback of tough-on-crime…

Gold Closes At Record High For 5th Straight Day, Dollar Dumps As Bond Bloodbath Stalls Another mixed bag of data today – something for everyone – ADP showed better job gains than…

Apple Developing Robot As “Next Big Thing” After Dumping Electric Car Project After shocking its fans – and everyone else – with the recent decision to give up on developing an electric…

Saturdays Only For “People Of Color” At UC Berkeley Farm; Report Authored by Micaiah Bilger via The College Fix, Federal complaint accuses university of racial discrimination… A community farm run by the…

Biden Halts Attempts To Refill SPR As Oil Price Soars More than a year ago, we laughed at the thought that the Biden admin would actually follow through with its promise to…

Peter Schiff: Gold Is Telling Us The Fed Is Wrong Via SchiffGold.com, This week Peter returned from vacation, and he was just in time for a surge in the price of gold….

The killing of foreign aid workers in Gaza has reignited calls for a halt to supply of British weaponry The UK is facing renewed calls to stop exporting arms to Israel, following…

The organization reportedly warned that an invasion of Rafah would destroy any chance of a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Hamas war An Israeli attack on the Palestinian city of Rafah, located in…

The national economy has seen growth in industrial output, record employment and investments, Mikhail Mishustin has said The Russian economy is growing while becoming less and less reliant on oil and gas…

Watch: Chaos As Anti-Netanyahu Protesters Storm Israel’s Knesset Chaos broke out at Israel’s parliament the Knesset amid an ongoing multi-day protest led by hostage victims’ families which is being staged just outside….

Trump Leads Biden In 6 Of 7 Swings States, Pennsylvania Is Key Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Polls have narrowed but Trump is still in the sweet spot. An electoral map…

US Needs Ukraine As Anti-Russian Buffer Territory: Kremlin A top Kremlin official has accused the United States and its NATO partners of seeking to turn Ukraine into essentially a huge DMZ buffer…

The countries are looking to boost their strategic partnership, as previously outlined by their respective presidents Moscow and Tehran are working on the final version of a comprehensive new treaty, which they…

The Ukrainian president claimed that Moscow was planning to recruit 300,000 new soldiers by June Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s claim that Russia plans to mobilize 300,000 additional soldiers by the summer is…

Millions in Zimbabwe will face food shortages this year as a result of a severe drought, according to the government Zimbabwe declared a national state of disaster on Wednesday, as a severe…

Watch: Fed Chair Powell Says “Too Soon” To Claim Victory Over Inflation; Highlight’s Fed ‘Independence’ Fed Chair Powell is likely to hammer home the message that rate-cuts are coming but not just…

A Ukrainian drone strike near the Russian city of Elabuga has reportedly wounded a number of students from abroad A Ukrainian military drone strike near the Russian city of Elabuga on Tuesday…

Gold Vs. Bitcoin: The Winner Is… Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The ultimate competition to become the world’s dominant money will have only one winner. Anything else would amount to an…

The EU and US are strangling the Balkan country because they believe it’s too similar to Russia Modern international politics, as practiced by Western countries, sometimes take on a completely absurd character….

What Will The Fed Do When Trump Wins And Slams China With 60% Tariffs By Michael Every of Rabobank Have you got the energy? Yesterday, Bloomberg noted ‘Fears of 5% Yields Are…

A preteen boy who shot a classmate dead and injured two others was bullied, officers say Bullying drove a 12-year-old boy to shoot up his school near Helsinki, Finnish police said on…

Risk of US secondary sanctions forces banks in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to suspend financial ties and stop honoring Mir transfers The use of the Mir payment card, which operates through a Russian…

Moscow has demanded that Western countries investigate the organization and financing of terrorist activities targeting the nation Russia has sent official inquiries to the judiciaries of the US, Germany, France and Cyprus,…

Billionaire Steve Cohen Sees “Four-Day Work-Week” Coming… & More Golf (& QE) In one of his rare public appearances, billionaire hedge fund manager (and New York Mets owner) Steve Cohen told CNBC’s…

Pyotr Poroshenko hopes to win his country’s next presidential election, according to an interview Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has said that he plans to run in the country’s next presidential election,…

Inflation-Risk Latecomers Pile Into Silver Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, As gold makes new highs, speculators’ net longs in silver are jumping higher. Inflation and global growth risks – as well as demand…

WTI Dips After Surprise Crude Inventory Build Oil prices are extending gains to new cycle highs (WTI $86) ahead of the official inventory data (after API reported across the board draws). The…

Police in the West African nation say the incident is being investigated Ghanaian authorities announced on Tuesday that they are offering protection to a young girl who was married off to a…

The chief of the US-led bloc has reportedly suggested a five-year, $107 billion plan to provide Kiev with weapons Ukraine should be able to enjoy a stable stream of Western arms supplies…

A neo-Nazi-linked activist wants the town councilor fired for observing Russia’s presidential election The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations has demanded that a small-town councilor be fired for traveling to Russia to…

Disney Reportedly Has Votes To Defeat Peltz’s Trian In Proxy Fight; Musk Throws Support Behind Activist Investor  Walt Disney Co. and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger are set to defeat Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund…

WTF Is Going On With Services PMI Prices-Paid? Following the mixed picture on Manufacturing PMIs (ISM up, S&P Global down), but strong impulse in prices in both surveys; today’s Services PMIs offered…

Kiev is “leveraging” the recent Moscow terrorist attack in an attempt to sow discord, an official has told the newspaper Ukrainian information warfare specialists are using last month’s terrorist attack near Moscow…

Japan’s Lost Decades: Are We On The Same Path Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Back in 1989, Japan was taking over the world. The country’s economy had grown 6.7% in 1988….

Office Tower Vacancy Rate Hits Record High As Zombie Buildings Litter Skylines of Cities There are more dormant office towers in the United States than at any point since 1979, according to…

Lalzawmi Frankcom, one of seven World Central Kitchen volunteers killed in Gaza, is being mourned by her family in India Before venturing into Gaza as an aid worker, Lalzawmi (Zomi) Frankcom, 43,…

Auchan could face a heavy fine following an on-site inspection, the outlet has said Russian tax authorities could hit French supermarket chain Auchan with a fine of nearly $2 million over suspected…

America risks getting bogged down in “yet another forever war,” Republican Eli Crane has warned The US should end its financial support for Ukraine in its fight with Russia and instead focus…

The African nation’s president is outraged by Berlin’s move to ban the import of hunting trophies Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in a diplomatic spat…

The retailer is reportedly planning to ditch its self-service checkout systems that were designed to work without humans US retail giant Amazon has hired human workers in India to help its grab-and-go…

Bond Longs Throw In Towel As Upturn Becomes Undeniable Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Positioning in US Treasuries is becoming less long as the risk of persistently higher yields increases…

Anthony Blinken’s Jet Suffers “Mechanical Issue” At Paris Airport US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s aircraft experienced a “mechanical issue” at an airport in Paris on Wednesday, forcing the US delegation to…

Trump Declares November 5th “Christian Visibility Day” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a fiery speech in Wisconsin Tuesday, Donald Trump declared that November 5th, election day, is going to be…

ADP Employment Report Shows Wage-Growth Explode Higher In March Expectations were for a small increase in jobs added MoM in today’s ADP Employment Report, but instead we saw a sizable jump from…

Futures Drop As Rates Continue Rising With Brent Back To $90 US futures are down small with Tech underperforming and small-caps flat, as rates held at 4 month highs, and Brent is…

Army’s weakness prompted Kiev’s strikes on Russian infrastructure, senior officers tell The Guardian Kiev has no other option but to launch attacks inside Russia, including on oil infrastructure, as its army faces…

The airstrike was a mistake, officials have admitted, following global outrage and accusations of intentional targeting Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has described as a “grave mistake” the…

TSMC Shutters Some Chipmaking Plants As Quake Rocks Island Nation Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the leading contract chipmaker for Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., shuttered some of its chipmaking capacity and evacuated…

Rickards: Ukraine’s Starting To Get Dangerous Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, A lot of people seem to have forgotten about the war in Ukraine. That’s a mistake. Russia is slowly but…

The turn away from expansion, production and trade toward lending and speculation has precipitated decline for centuries One of the curious features of the American landscape is the fact that these days…

The Supreme Court earlier asked Baba Ramdev’s company Patanjali to stop dismissing modern medicine in its ads A company co-founded by a popular yoga guru has been found by India’s top court…

“Backlash Is Real”: DEI Exodus Gains Steam Across Corporate America Have we reached peak DEI stupidity?  Yes, we are well past the peak. As we explained in early March, “Both the DEI and ESG…

Is Hungary A Model For The American Right? Authored by Tamás Klein via The Mises Institute, In recent years, my homeland, Hungary, a small country in central-eastern Europe, has captured the attention of the…

Washington Post’s report about the alert is “hoax,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has rejected the Washington Post’s claim that the US alerted Russia…

House speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is accused of taking bribes of $135,000 when she was Minister of Defence South African parliamentary speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, is on the verge of being arrested on suspicion…

The military bloc is reportedly debating ways to institutionalize the arming of Ukraine against Russia NATO leaders are devising ways to limit Donald Trump’s potential leverage over Ukraine by ensuring the continued…

These Are The Countries With The Lowest Corporate Tax Rates The lowest corporate tax rates are known to be found in smaller countries to attract investment from multinational corporations and foreign firms….

Venezuelan farmer Juan Vicente Perez Mora has passed away two months before his 115th birthday The world’s oldest man, Juan Vicente Perez Mora, died at the age of 114 on Tuesday in…

A private university is under investigation for suspected organized criminal activity A private university in Poland and a number of its high-profile graduates have become embroiled in a corruption scandal involving bribery…

Many people want to avenge the massacre at the Crocus City concert hall, the Defense Ministry has said The Russian Defense Ministry has registered an influx of volunteers willing to sign up…

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was released from prison just days before last month’s election in Senegal, was sworn in as the country’s new leader on Tuesday Senegalese opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye,…

Anti-government demonstrators marched towards the prime minister’s residence, demanding immediate elections   Protesters clashed with Israeli police outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Jerusalem on Tuesday night as they called for…

Russian prosecutors are demanding that the US, Germany, France and Cyprus fulfill their obligations under international conventions The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has sent official requests and appeals from a group of…

US President Joe Biden ordered a pause on approvals of the sale of gas from new projects in January US officials are in talks about unfreezing approvals of new liquefied natural gas…

Evidence suggests that the Ukrainian government was behind last month’s concert hall massacre in Russia, a senior official has claimed The US refuses to consider potential Ukrainian involvement in last month’s terrorist…

Russian officials have confirmed that six minors died as a result of the Crocus City Hall massacre The deaths of six children have been confirmed in last month’s terrorist attack at a…

Officials in Moscow have said information about an impending attack was “too general” The US alerted Russia that the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow could be the target of a terrorist…

The Ukrainian president has signed a law reducing the minimum age of military draft eligibility to 25 years Twenty-five-year-old Ukrainian men are now eligible for the draft; on Tuesday, President Vladimir Zelensky…

Every NATO Country Already Has Troops In Ukraine, Estonia Says Estonia has long been no friend of Russia, and a leading anti-Moscow hawkish voice within the Baltics, and that’s why a fresh…

Escobar: The Sahel’s ‘Axis Of Resistance’ Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism – ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging…

Leaked Files From Transgender Association ‘Shocking’ And ‘Horrific’ Admission, Critics Say Authored by Brad Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A leaked video and documents exposing the inner workings of the…

China Is The World Leader In Battery Recycling As many countries around the world scramble towards a green transition, a new era of electric cars is being ushered in and with it…