“Too Big To Rig”, Too Divided To Agree: Democrats’ Post-Landslide Agenda Fight Begins House Democrats are on track to hold somewhere between 251 and 268 seats, by CBS News’ estimate, up from 214 going into Tuesday. The size of that majority has opened a fight between the party’s centrists and its left over what the next two years are for, according to Axios interviews with more than a dozen sitting and incoming House Democrats.CBS […]

Could Nvidia’s Spy Scandal Force Jensen Huang To Resign? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe FinanceWell, this certainly wasn’t on anybody’s bingo card.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has found himself at the center of an extraordinary espionage controversy, following reports by FT and others that a Chinese businesswoman with whom he allegedly developed a close personal relationship (wink, wink) was recruited by Chinese intelligence.The […]

Ex-MAHA Insider Tells Rogan What Trump Didn’t Know About His Own White House Former senior White House advisor Calley Means says he had full White House approval for a federal look at how much sugar American children eat – until Trump’s former Chief-of-Staff Susie Wiles killed it.  White House chief of staff Susie Wiles listens as President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing an executive order reclassifying marijuana […]

Chaos In Riyadh: Aramco Skyscraper Hit By Missile Strike Three troubling developments emerged from the Gulf region on Sunday morning:An Aramco office building in Riyadh was damaged during a Houthi missile attack;Iran reported three oil tankers on fire in the Strait of Hormuz;US forces disabled a vessel in the Gulf of Oman amid surging regional tensions, less than a week after the US midterms.Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry confirmed […]

The Incoming Democrat Governor Of Texas Is Already Going After Elon Musk Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa (D-TX) has asked the state’s parks department to hold off on a proposed sale of state land to SpaceX until she takes office, contacting the department’s executive director before she is sworn in this January. The move puts part of Elon Musk’s expansion plans in South Texas on hold. Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa speaks after […]

Dave Chappelle Sparks Firestorm With Charlie Kirk Line At Madison Square Garden Comedian Dave Chappelle told a Madison Square Garden crowd this weekend that he has felt better “ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered,” a remark that has drawn fast condemnation from conservatives.“Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn’t say this publicly but…. I feel better.”- Dave Chappelle […]

The Inflation Hot Potato Authored by Connor O’Keeffe via Mises Institute,The 2020s have been a crazy decade in American politics.They began, of course, with one of the most chaotic and intense years in recent American history. After a global pandemic brought almost all aspects of life to a halt, cities erupted in nationwide riots for much of the summer, and a seemingly endless stream of scandals and stunts like the Hunter Biden […]

IRGC Says Three More Tankers Ablaze In The Strait Of Hormuz On Sunday Iran announced that three more international tankers are ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after presumably hitting mines in an ‘illicit’ transit area as Tehran continues to try and clamp down on passage under its protocol.”Since the early hours of this morning, three non-compliant tankers have exploded and caught fire while they were sailing in the illegal channel […]

PPI Vs CPI: Are Record Profit Margins About To Get Squeezed? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,The PPI vs CPI gap is the widest since 2022, and history says record profit margins are in the crosshairs…Key TakeawaysProducer prices rose 6.3% in the year to September 2026, the fastest pace since late 2022. Consumer prices rose 3.7%. That 2.6-point PPI vs CPI gap reflects costs companies are eating rather than […]

Drones Built To Look Like Birds Evaded Detection At Air Force Tech Exercise Authored by Patty Nieberg via Task & Purpose,A wing-flapping drone appearing to fly like a bird evaded sensor detection at a recent Air Force tech exercise in the Mojave Desert. Mimicking a crow in shape and profile, Ornadyne’s O1 launches during an evaluation during “Game of Drones” at Edwards Air Force Base, Sept. 17, 2026. Air Force photo by James […]

Could One Big Cold Snap Torch Hedge Funds’ Record US NatGas Shorts Meteorologists are tracking a potential cold blast across the eastern half of the Lower 48 next week, just as hedge funds’ short-only positions in US natural gas futures have surged to record highs. That crowded bearish positioning leaves the market vulnerable to a short squeeze if colder weather translates into stronger heating demand.The Commodity Futures Trading […]

The Economic Crunch Fueling Youth Protests From France To Much Of Europe Authored by Panos Mourdoukoutas via the Epoch Times,Protests that began in France have spread across much of Europe, drawing young people into the streets in growing numbers and unsettling investors watching for signs of political instability.What started as demonstrations over the cost of living, housing, and cuts to education and social services has broadened […]

The British State Now Behaves Like An Imperial Regime Ruling Over Competing Peoples Authored by David Betz and Michael Rainsborough via The Daily Sceptic,Despite spending much of the past half-century apologizing for the Empire, the British establishment is rediscovering its favorite method of rule. The old colonial district officer, accustomed to keeping the peace between rival communities, cultivating local notables and reporting […]

How Washington Think-Tanks Paved The Road To Serfdom Authored by James Bovard via Brownstone Institute,In the same way that medieval kings seized any excuse to invade neighboring countries, today’s politicians perennially seek pretexts to further invade citizens’ lives. And there is never a shortage of intellectuals who, like the courtiers long ago, assure their masters that God – or at least social science – blesses their […]

Feds Slap $50 Million Bounty On Tren De Aragua’s Top Three The Justice Department and State Department just announced rewards of up to $50 million combined for information leading to the arrests and/or convictions of Tren de Aragua’s three top leaders, according to a Justice Department release. The Venezuelan prison gang is designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization.The State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law […]

Leak Reportedly Exposed Netanyahu & Mossad Chief’s Plan To Attack Iran Before Israeli Election Via Middle East EyeIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad chief Roman Gofman sought to carry out an operation against Iran on the eve of Israel’s 27 October election, but the plan was thwarted after Washington was inadvertently alerted, Israeli media have reported. A report by Channel 12 said the proposed operation was […]

‘Super Intelligence’ Fraud Ring Impersonated CEOs And Lawyers To Steal $129 Million, Feds Say Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment Thursday charging three foreign nationals with using what they call “super intelligence” to mimic the voices and images of corporate chief executives and big-firm lawyers, and so talk employees at companies around the world into wiring about $129 million, according to the Justice […]

Inside CHIRLA’s Secret Voter Campaign Authored by Christopher F. Rufo, Kenneth Schrupp and Austen Hufford via City Journal,Since 2019, California has granted more than $100 million to a left-wing NGO called the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, or CHIRLA. The group has used those or other resources to fight deportations, address “hate incidents,” and craft what it calls “progressive policies.”CHIRLA and its […]

ICE Deported ‘Brian’ – Months Later He Was Back Fleecing Seattle Homeowners, And He’s One Of Dozens The bearded man in the cowboy hat who talked his way onto Seattle porches as “Brian” was, according to a KING 5 investigation, an Irishman ICE had already arrested in Boston and deported to Ireland on July 16, 2025. Five months later, the station reports, he was knocking on homeowner David Diedrick’s door. Via King5.com KING 5’s […]

Hegseth Authorizes National Guard To Use Military Vehicles, Boats, Patrol Cars In DC Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times,Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has issued new guidance authorizing the National Guard to use military tactical vehicles, dozens of patrol cars, boat assets, and other equipment to support law enforcement operations in Washington.The War Department confirmed the new guidance when asked about reports […]

Musk’s Starlink Is Building An Orbital Bypass As Undersea Cable Sabotage Threats Mount Undersea telecom cables are critical civilian infrastructure and are increasingly under threat. The wars in Ukraine and Iran have shown how civilian infrastructure can become easy targets. On Friday, the Financial Times, citing maritime intelligence firm Windward, reported that several Iran-linked vessels slowed or lingered over cable routes in […]

It’s The War, Stupid Authored by Sohrab Ahmari via UnHerd,An all-too common analytic error is to reduce complex problems to simplistic causes (sancta simplicitas, “holy simplicity”, as Nietzsche mockingly referred to this tendency, particularly among religious believers). But there is also the reverse error: a deliberate seeking out of complexity when simple explanations suffice.In the wake of the Democratic blowout in Tuesday’s […]

The Next Trilateral Talks On Ukraine Could Lead To A Grand Deal If Trump Has The Will Authored by Andrew Korybko via Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter,He just has to “creatively coerce” Europe and Ukraine through “plausibly deniable” means…Putin confirmed that the next trilateral Russian-US-Ukrainian talks will be held in Abu Dhabi from 10-11 November. Earlier that same day, Trump’s Special Envoy to Russia Jared Kushner published a […]

Ex-CIA Officer Says The Agency Delivered The Same Iran Verdict Three Times Before The War Former CIA officer John Kiriakou says the agency produced three separate national intelligence estimates before the Iran war began, and each one found that Tehran had no nuclear weapons program. He made the claim on the Nov. 6 “Intelligence Community Roundtable” edition of Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Judging Freedom, alongside Larry […]

Quo Vadis, AI? Study Suggests AI Use Makes Us Lazier And Less Intelligent Authored by Walker Larson via The Epoch Times,The Oxford word of the year in 2024 was “brain rot,” due to a 230 percent increase in usage of the term between 2023 and 2024. The moniker reflected a collective sense – already on the rise in 2023 – that our heavy use of digital technology has corroded our ability to think. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty […]