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The outgoing administration has pledged to introduce more restrictions before Donald Trump takes office in January   The US is planning to impose new sanctions on Russia in the final days of…

The president’s pardon for his son covers any and all crimes that he may have committed in the last decade The extraordinary legal breadth of the pardon granted to Hunter Biden by…

Erdogan Backstabs His Way Into Center Of Middle East Conflict Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan just had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Nov….

Scholz In Surprise Ukraine Visit Inspects Kamikaze Drones, Unveils $680M New Arms Package German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a surprise visit to Kiev on Monday, which marked his first trip to Ukraine in…

Kiev’s battlefield death toll is much lower than the 80,000 reported by the Wall Street Journal, the country’s leader has said Ukrainian losses in the conflict with Russia are far below the…

Lawmakers have concluded that the virus emerged from a research center in China, while accusing officials of spreading misinformation Covid-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, the US Congressional…

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, saying that if they are not freed before he is sworn into office for…

Laying the groundwork for uncomfortable discussions is never easy. However, sometimes the best approach is to cite examples and then expand. Here’s two factual examples. ♦ EXAMPLE FACT #1 – In December…

New Delhi claims that Islamabad is growing its capabilities at sea at the cost of peoples’ welfare Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi has acknowledged Pakistan’s “surprising” naval expansion in cooperation…

“This was no small thing, to restore a republic after it had fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may have been…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

Macron is such a transparent weasel.  He knows he cannot openly travel to Mar-a-Lago to talk about Ukraine, so he invites Mar-a-Lago for a pre-inauguration state visit to come to him under…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley had a meeting with incoming Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi earlier today.  Mrs. Bondi promises to make everyone proud.  WATCH: . Posted in Dept Of Justice,…

Stephane Dujarric has commented on Kaja Kallas’ refusal to rule out Western troops being deployed to the country The United Nations discourages all sides involved in the Ukraine conflict from escalation, the…

Escobar: Trump May Be ‘Oreshniked’ On Ukraine Even Before He Gets To China Authored by Pepe Escobar, With Oreshnik now entering the picture, everywhere the Hegemon will try to harass China they…

Mexico Stops 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Tariff Threat Days after Donald Trump announced that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States,” or…

Japanese ‘Human Washing Machine’ Uses AI For When You’re Too Lazy To Wash Your Own Ass As if obese redundant piles of American protoplasm, to borrow George Carlin’s phrase, weren’t already stagnant…

US Market Valuation: One For The History Books By Damien Cleusix of the Quantastic World substack Executive Summary This analysis presents a sobering outlook for the S&P 500, arguing that it is…

The Failure Of COP29: Does The “Green Agenda” Have A Future? Authored by Raphael Machado, Following the conclusion of the multilateral climate conference COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the atmosphere is one…

Education: The Global Challenges Facing Schools A new report by Ipsos on global attitudes towards education and schools has highlighted the breadth of issues that affect different systems around the world. More than 1,000…

Biden-Linked Delaware Judge Rejects (Again) Musk’s ‘70%-Shareholder-Approved’ $56 Billion Pay-Package Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick has once again sided against Elon Musk… After ruling against the billionaire in July 2022 when he tried…

Pakistan: Slow Motion Train Wreck Authored by Eric Margolis via EricMargolis.com, Pakistan is the world’s most important Muslim nation. It has 251 million people, nuclear weapons, the world’s sixth largest armed forces,…

NATO Chief Warned Trump ‘Bad’ Ukraine Peace Deal Is A ‘Dire Threat’ To US, Europe NATO’s new secretary-general is trying to talk tough ahead of Donald Trump taking office. Surely he knows…

De Beers Pulls “Last Resort” Price Cut As Diamond Price-Floor Crumbles  A new report says the collapse in rough diamond prices has prompted the world’s largest producer to implement broad price cuts. …

What Is The Administrative State? Authored by Roger Kimball via American Greatness, Last week in this virtual space, I wrote that Donald Trump would make a renewed effort during his second term to dismantle…

Enron Is Not “Back” There was a lot of chatter on Monday morning about defunct Enron rising from the ashes after an X account named “Enron” posted, “We’re back. Can we talk?” We’re…

Nearly One In Five US Teens Experienced Depression Last Year One of the reasons governments are moving to restrict teenagers’ access to social media is the fear of its harm to mental health. As…

The armistice took effect last Wednesday, following 14 months of hostilities Lebanon’s Hezbollah has reported it struck back against alleged Israeli ceasefire violations for the first time since the fragile truce took…

Cartels Demand Higher Border Crossing Fees After Trump Victory Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, Drug cartels and other human trafficking groups have begun demanding higher fees for illegals seeking to…

Debanked: The Financial Suppression Of Bitcoin Businesses Must End Authored by Colin Crossman via BitcoinMagazine.com, “We can’t live in a world where somebody starts a company that’s a completely legal thing, and…

Iran-Backed Iraqi Militias Pour Across Border Into Syria To Bolster Assad Widespread reports, including observers on the ground, have indicated that Iran-backed Iraqi militias have been pouring across the border into eastern…

Yes, Mexico Knows Exactly What It Is Doing Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, President-elect Donald Trump recently had a “talk” with newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about the…

Georgia’s partially on fire, but this is not 2003 and the US and EU may find things rather more difficult this time A ‘color revolution’, as we define it, is a mass…

Kiev has redefined the objective of its incursion into Russian territory Ukrainian troops fighting in Russia’s Kursk Region have been given orders to hold out until the new US president is sworn…

Special Counsel Rejects Hunter Biden’s Pardon, Files Scathing Rebuke In Court Case Last night Hunter Biden’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss his California tax fraud case after Joe Biden issued a…

“They Must Be Eating Xanax Like Tic-Tacs…” – The Blob Has A Migraine Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “It’s a beautiful thing to watch the Biden family destroy the Democrat Party.” –…

“Cold Weather Fails To Persist” Across Lower 48 Could Stall NatGas Rally Goldman’s Thomas Evans distributed a note to clients this morning highlighting that the latest weather models show the Arctic cold blast, in…

The prohibition would supposedly improve the living conditions in cities and protect youth against tobacco Russian MP and head of the State Duma Sports Committee, Amir Khamitov, has suggested banning people from…

Kiev has resorted to crude slogans to reject any idea of peace talks Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ruled out any negotiations with Russia, sending a crude message to Moscow during a joint…

The Democratic Diaspora: Liberals Seek Safe Spaces After Democracy Prevailed In 2024 Authored by Jonathan Turley, Democrats who campaigned on the need for “joy” and “saving democracy” are strikingly unjoyful about the results of…

Trump Warns Hamas Of “Hell To Pay” If Hostages Aren’t Freed Before Inauguration It’s no secret that President-elect Donald Trump is firmly in support of Israel, despite that after a year of…

If Cash Is King, Is The King Dying? Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, Much of the world is at a pivotal stage in the future of money. If the…

The incoming US president has demanded that the Palestinian militants free all of their hostages before his inauguration US President-elect Donald Trump has warned that there will be “all hell to pay…

The outgoing president believes there is one law for others and another for himself, according to his one-time aide US President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter was not a…

Salome Zourabichvili has already praised universities for mobilizing students against the government Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has called on the country’s schools to back pro-EU protests, after hundreds of university lecturers expressed…

Washington has restricted the export of a broad range of chipmaking tools and software to China China’s Ministry of Commerce has vowed to take “necessary measures” to safeguard its interests after the…

US Bitcoin Reserve Is Possible, But Not Without Downsides Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, During his 2024 election campaign, United States President-elect Donald Trump made many crypto-related promises, including establishing a…

Ankara has said it backs Damascus but thinks “legitimate opposition” needs to be heard Ankara is committed to the territorial integrity of Syria and wants the conflict there to be resolved in…

Sullivan Touts ‘Massive Surge’ In Arms To Ukraine With 50 Days Left In Biden’s Term National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan took to the Sunday news shows where he boasted that the White…

Oil Producers Block Binding UN Treaty To Curb Plastics Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, A small group of major oil-producing countries, including the leaders of the OPEC+ alliance – Saudi Arabia…

What can we expect from the ‘bromance’ of the two billionaires? It’s often said that a king is shaped by his entourage. This saying may be as old as time itself, but…

The minority cabinet in Paris is trying to squeeze a budget vote between the Popular Front and National Rally French Prime Minister Michel Barnier could face a no-confidence vote by Wednesday in…

The Russian president has postponed the international sporting event scheduled for the summer of 2025 or 2026 until further notice Russian President Vladimir Putin has postponed the World Friendship Games – an…

The presidents of Russia and Iran have expressed “unconditional support” for Damascus in its fight against terrorists Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the conflict in Syria with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian…

Great Thanksgiving Pilgrimage: Sunday Was “Busiest Day Ever For TSA” US airlines are trading slightly higher in the early cash session after new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint data revealed that Sunday marked the…

Trump’s Threats Against BRICS Are Based On False Premises Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin doesn’t hate the dollar and actually wants Russia to once again be able to use it…

The protests come amid company plans to close factories and drastically reduce its workforce Tens of thousands of Volkswagen (VW) workers are taking part in strikes at plants across Germany on Monday…

Young people have become more concerned with issues like climate change and human rights, according to Harry Ferguson Western intelligence agencies are struggling to recruit fresh blood as younger generations have started…

Syrian & Russian Forces Step Up Air Raids, Slowing Jihadist Advance Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday spoke by phone with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in talks that focused on the…

Moshe Yaalon once supported the occupation of Gaza, but now accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of “ethnic cleansing” Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of plotting the “ethnic…

Rabobank: Biden’s Pardon Risks Further Erosion Of Confidence In The US Government By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Pardon? US stocks rose in shortened trading on Friday, with both the…

Senator Ron Johnson appears with a very excited Maria Bartiromo to discuss the possibility of Kash Patel taking the lead role in the FBI. As Senator Johnson notes in the interview, bringing…

At the COP29 conference, countries of the region highlighted their commitment to energy transition and the complexities ahead In November, the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, hosted COP29, a landmark event that served…

Trump Victory Sparks Renewed Optimism In Manufacturing Surveys While Services surveys are soaring, Manufacturing continues to stagnate (below 50) despite a serial improvement in US Macro ‘hard’ data. However, November saw a…

Key Events This Week: Payrolls, Powell, PMIs And More As we start a new month, it is set to be a busier week after the lull of Thanksgiving, with a lot of…

The bloc is now the main divisive force in Europe, a member of Russia’s Federation Council believes The European Union has morphed into an “aggressive political bloc” and a “war union,” the…

Sixteen defendants have been handed lengthy prison terms A court in Moscow Region has sentenced 16 people to various prison terms for their roles in what is believed to be the largest…

SMCI Soars After Special Committee Finds ‘No Evidence Of Misconduct’; Fires CFO Super Micro Computer said an external review of its business found no evidence of wrongdoing and that the company will…

Intel CEO Pet Gelsinger Retires, Stocks Jumps Back in April, when Intel stock was in freefall and yet still about 50% higher than where it is today, we said that it was…

Musk Pushes Again To Block OpenAI’s “Illegal” Conversion To For-Profit Model Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, Elon Musk filed another motion to block ChatGPT-creator OpenAI from converting to a for-profit enterprise,…

Russia, Iran, North Korea and China are working together, the EU’s new chief diplomat has claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s influence in global affairs is growing, new EU foreign policy chief Kaja…

Romanian Officials Want Election “Redo” – Claim Russian Interference After Right Wing Candidate Win When the will of the public starts to work against the designs of the progressive establishment, they lie…

Beijing is willing to aid Damascus to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian has said China is “deeply concerned” about developments in Syria, where jihadist militants launched…

Ferrari’s Commitment To ‘Diversity And Inclusivity’ Called Out For Supreme Hypocrisy Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, People responded to Ferrari bragging about its commitment to ‘diversity and inclusivity’ by pointing…

However, a top security official in Manilla has conceded that the Russian sub has every right to sail through Filipino waters Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has described the reported presence of…

The country’s military is facing high desertion rates and a shortage of fighting-age men at the front Any major public event in Ukraine can be raided by conscription officials looking for potential…

The teenager was only arrested after authorities learned of plans to stage an attack in the coming weeks, Bild and Der Spiegel have reported German authorities allowed a teenage terrorist suspect to…

Barring “Last Minute Miracle”, French Govt Faces Imminent No-Confidence Vote France’s benchmark yield spreads have come off the day’s wides after the latest headlines show the government may have made a further…

Algeria appears to have firmly set itself on the road to achieving economic sovereignty In September, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced that by the end of 2025, his country aims to achieve…

Futures Flat, Dollar Jumps As French Political Turmoil Returns Futures are lower to start the new month as the US Dollar pushed higher, partially in response to Trump’s mandate that BRICS drop…

Slovakia has alerted Hungary that “an organized group” is operating near the Druzhba pipeline, Magyar Nemzet has reported National security authorities in Hungary are investigating a possible sabotage plot targeting the Russian…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has referred to the US president’s decision regarding his son as “American internal affairs” The Kremlin has refused to comment on US President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his…

Paris has lost almost all of its footholds on the continent, Thierry Mariani has said Chad’s termination of a military agreement with France and Senegal’s impending expulsion of French troops is a…

Three staff from Beijing’s diplomatic mission in Lithuania have been declared personae non gratae China’s foreign ministry has strongly condemned Lithuania’s move to expel three of its diplomats and warned of “countermeasures,” in a statement…

A service was held in the village of Pesky just outside of Donetsk Russian troops have taken part in a prayer service at a church in the village of Pesky that had…

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares Abruptly Quits Over “Different Views” With Board  Stellantis NV Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares has abruptly resigned from the automaker, citing ‘different views’ with the board of directors,…

Roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets has been frozen by Ukraine’s backers as part of sanctions against Moscow The West will not return any of the Russian sovereign assets frozen…

Winners And Losers Of Black Friday 2024 By Daphne Howland of RetailDive, Despite the push to move up the holiday season to ease the constraints of one of the shortest shopping windows…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has warned that the US president-elect’s warning will only accelerate desire to abandon the dollar Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, has weighed in on US President-elect Donald Trump’s weekend threat…

Russia will provide support to Syria to stabilize the situation in light of the terrorist offensive, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia will continue to support Syrian President Bashar Assad as his…

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed an “orange revolution” is being attempted in the former Soviet republic The anti-government protests currently taking place in Georgia can be compared to the 2014 Western-backed Maidan…

The terrorists’ foreign backers aim to weaken the country and sow sedition across the region, Tehran claims The jihadist offensive in Syria was launched in coordination with the US and Israel, Iranian…

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Which Is The Most Worrisome EU Country Of Them All? Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Renewed concerns of European fragmentation: France’s economic and political struggles… Source:…

Visualizing The Survival Rate Of US Businesses Over The Last Decade During the pandemic a record number of Americans turned entrepreneurs – sending new business applications to soaring heights. But everyone knows running a…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited the Russian leader to visit New Delhi in 2025 for their next bilateral summit Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India next year is already being…

Peter Schiff: It’s Time For Downward Revisions Via SchiffGold.com, On Saturday, Peter took to his podcast to cover last week’s economic news and political events. In this episode, he discusses rumors of…

The arrangement would require Ukraine to recognize Russian gains, the country’s leader says Ukraine will not relinquish its claim to Russian territories that belonged to Kiev before 2014 as a precondition for…

China To Shun Iranian Oil On Mounting Trump Sanction Fears After years of abusing Iranian sanctions and flooding China’s economy with cheap Iranian oil, China’s larger independent refiners are set to shun…

The Indian capital is bracing for a new wave of agitation as farmers demand support and fixed minimum prices for crops The Indian capital witnessed heavy traffic jams and increased security on…

President Joe Biden has issued an executive grant of clemency (pardon), “For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the…