Erdogan Slams US For Blocking Palestinian Leaders At UN; Belgium Sanctions Israel Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is fuming after the Trump administration blocked Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders from attending the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York scheduled for later this month. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas is not being issued a visa to enter US soil (along with his delegation), as retribution for […]

‘Worst-Smelling Man In Congress’ Announces His Retirement Via Headline USA, Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York says he will not run for reelection next year, according to an interview published Monday night by The New York Times. Nadler told the Times that watching then-President Joe Biden’s truncated reelection campaign last year “really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I […]

Putin Hits Back At Germany’s Merz: ‘Stoking Hysteria’ With ‘Unfounded Nonsense’ President Vladimir Putin while in China vehemently denounced and condemned Western assertions that Russia seeks to expand its special military operation into other European states. He described such statements and assumptions coming out of European officials as either a provocation or a sign of utter incompetence. He said this at a meeting with Slovak […]

Trump Must Finish Off The National Endowment For Democracy Authored by Roger Kimball via American Greatness, Writing elsewhere last month, I suggested that Donald Trump end the National Endowment for Democracy once and for all. Like most so-called “non-governmental organizations,” the NED is in fact an all-governmental organization. It depends absolutely on a subsidy from the state department, i.e., from the federal […]

Gold Hits New Record High As Dalio Fears Trump Stoking Imminent “Debt-Induced Heart Attack” The real ‘fear’ index – of fiscal folly – hit a new record high overnight following its breakout last week… Finally https://t.co/WYqQNRtc0U pic.twitter.com/oJV68H2DRj — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 29, 2025 …topping $3500 for the first time as hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into […]

Watch Live: Trump To Reveal New Space Force HQ Location  Watch Live: *   *   *    President Trump is preparing to announce the relocation of the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama. According to the Department of Defense, the announcement is scheduled for mid-afternoon. The Defense Department’s DVIDS website states that President Trump is scheduled to make a major […]

Large US Companies Are Going Bankrupt At The Fastest Pace Since The Global Financial Crisis Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Is the fact that large companies are filing for bankruptcy at the fastest pace in 15 years a good sign for the economy or a bad sign for the economy? I don’t even have to answer that question because all of you already know the answer. And as you will see below, other types of […]

US Revokes Taiwan Semi’s Waiver For China Shipments Of Chip Supplies Following Trump’s decision to take a 10% stake in Intel, many were wondering just how the US government could steer business and order flow to its latest startegic investment. Here’s how.  This morning the US revoked Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s (TSMC) authorization to freely ship essential gear to its main Chinese chipmaking base, curtailing its […]

Kraft Heinz Board Greenlights Breakup Into Two Public Companies “To Maximize Value” Kraft Heinz will split into two publicly traded companies, separating its faster-growing condiments and meals brands from the slower grocery products unit. One of the new entities will be called “Global Taste Elevation Co.,” with the spinoff expected to close in the second half of 2026. News of the split – effectively the unwinding of the Kraft […]

Markets, AI, & The Great Dumbing Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, With a NASDAQ and S&P 500 (narrowly driven by seven, mega-cap monopoly powers) enjoying a seemingly immortal ride North, all feels eerily normalized in the land of Wall Street Oz. Surfing the S&P Wave An entire generation of wide-eyed investors and a string of clueless policy makers have conditioned themselves (and others) to assume […]

Massie Calls For Repeal Of Gun-Free School Zones Act Following Minnesota School Attack Via American Greatness, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) has introduced HR 5066 the Safe Students Act which would repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, putting an end to what he calls “the default federal policy of making schools soft targets.” Massie’s push for repealing the Gun-Free School Zones Act comes on the heels of a […]

EU Says Von Der Leyen Plane’s GPS Was Jammed; Russia Blamed The GPS of the airplane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was jammed while she was en route to Bulgaria on Sunday, an EU spokesperson said on Monday, adding that Russian involvement is suspected. “We can indeed confirm that there was GPS jamming, but the plane landed safely in Bulgaria. We have received information from the Bulgarian […]

Trump To Award Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Highest Civilian Honor Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would honor former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Trump announced the award in a Truth Social post, calling Giuliani “the greatest mayor in the history of New York City” and “an […]

Democrat Judge Rules Trump Deployment Of National Guard Troops To Los Angeles Was Illegal A federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump violated a 19th century law when he mobilized 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 marines to Los Angeles in June. U.S. Marine Corps soldiers guard the Federal Building as hundreds of protesters gather in the street during the nationwide “No Kings” protest in Los Angeles […]

Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Goes Activist On Pepsi  Activist hedge fund Elliott Management has amassed a $4 billion stake in PepsiCo, as shares of the beverage and snack giant have declined by more than 24% from their peak in the summer of 2023. This comes as PepsiCo’s soda and food business units have been hemorrhaging market share to competitors. Elliott is one of the world’s most aggressive activist hedge funds. Founded […]

British Comedy Writer Arrested For Three Gender-Critical Tweets; Hospitalized As A Result Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An acclaimed comedy writer in the UK was arrested and thrown in a jail cell over three tweets that were critical of gender ideology, causing him to become extremely stressed and require hospitalisation. In a recent Substack post, Graham Linehan recounts his arrest at Heathrow Airport upon […]

US Manufacturing Surveys Surged In August As New Orders Jumped After tumbling in July, expectations for August’s US Manufacturing surveys were optimistic (with both ISM and S&P Global both expected to tick higher, though the former expected to remain in contraction). S&P Global’s US Manufacturing PMI rose dramatically from 49.8 in July to 53.0 in August (down very marginally from its preliminary print of 53.3) – the […]

Violence Is Back As A Tool Of National Policy By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank Flying Blind News broke yesterday that a jet carrying European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen had to land using paper charts after its GPS navigation systems were apparently jammed by Russia. Traveling to Plovdiv in Bulgaria, VDL’s jet apparently circled for an hour before the pilot took the decision to do things the […]

J.K. Rowling Completely Obliterated Her Critics With One Powerful Post Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Chris Columbus, director of the first two Harry Potter films, has declared that a reunion of the original cast is “never going to happen,” blaming J.K. Rowling’s controversial views on transgender issues. Columbus described the situation as “so complicated with all the political stuff,” noting that actors like […]

Nestlé Fires CEO Over “Undisclosed Romantic Relationship With Direct Subordinate”  Nestlé shares are lower in Switzerland after the company abruptly terminated its CEO, Laurent Freixe, for an undisclosed relationship with a direct subordinate. “The departure of Laurent Freixe follows an investigation into an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate which breached Nestlé’s Code of Business Conduct,” Nestlé […]

Futures Tumble As Yields, Dollar Spike; Gold Hits All Time High Following our warning that September tends to be the worst month for the S&P by a wide margin… September is by far the worst month for stocks in the broken markets (post QE) era pic.twitter.com/iEZxKja6Ui — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 1, 2025 … US equity futures are acting accordingly and tumble on the first trading day of the month, dragged lower as […]

“Quite Dangerous”: Gilt Yields Hit Highest In 27 Years As UK Budget Bungle Rattles Investors UK capital markets are creaking once again as investors’ confidence in the Starmer government is crushed amid concerns over the fiscal outlook. The yield on long-dated UK bonds rose to the highest since 1998… Source: Bloomberg …and the pound was pummeled… Source: Bloomberg …sparking a vicious circle whereby rising debt costs […]

White House ‘Very Optimistic’ Supreme Court Will Strike Down Tariff Ruling, Navarro Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Top White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said that an Aug. 29 court ruling that struck down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs would cause negative economic consequences, but he said he’s “very optimistic” that the Supreme Court will overturn the order. In a 7–4 decision, the […]

Tesla’s European Sales Slump Continues Into August Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Tesla’s sales slump in Europe extended into August, with sharp declines in key markets underscoring the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) maker’s struggles against rising Chinese competition and a consumer backlash against CEO Elon Musk. Fresh data from French car industry group Plateforme automobile show Tesla registrations down by 47.3 […]

Bessent: “We May Declare A National Housing Emergency In Fall” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Washington Examiner on Labor Day that the Trump administration may declare a national housing emergency in the coming months to address the affordability crisis. Bessent’s comments come just ahead of an expected interest-rate cut cycle, underscoring the administration’s urgent effort to address the affordability crisis, which […]