Authored by Madalina Vasiliu via The Epoch Times,Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers militia group, was found guilty by a jury on Nov. 29 of seditious conspiracy connected to the events on Jan 6, 2021.One co-defendant, Kelly Meggs, was also found guilty of…
Several months ago, we mocked the ridiculous idea spawned by some of the "best and brightest" progressives currently cogitating and advising the 80-year-old in the White House, according to which even as Biden was actively steamrolling US energy companies by vowing…
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),A gun control bill that would ban “assault weapons” likely does not have enough votes to make it to President Joe Biden’s desk, Democrats said on Nov. 27.“I’m glad that President Biden…
The United States is considering transferring new longer-range rockets to Ukraine which are capable of striking targets 100 miles away, despite the Biden White House previously shutting the door on the possibility, citing worries that long-range systems could strike inside Russian…
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans this week said that Apple’s alleged threat to remove Twitter from its App Store warrants congressional investigation.“That would be a huge, huge mistake, and it would be a…
Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a massive new airport in Riyadh as part of the kingdom's ambition to diversify its economy so its fortunes aren't solely determined by the price of oil. In announcing the plan, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Nina Jankowicz, who briefly served as the Biden administration’s “disinformation czar,” has registered as a foreign agent of a nonprofit organization based in the United Kingdom.Nina Jankowicz testifies before the House Intelligence…
Despite economic uncertainty, pension funds saw relatively strong growth in 2021, and as Visual Capitalist's Jenna Ross details below, the world’s 100 biggest pension funds are worth over $17 trillion in total, an increase of 8.5% over the previous year.This graphic uses data…
You may know billionaire Robert F. Smith, 59, founder of private equity giant Vista Equity, as the richest black man in the U.S with a net worth of $8 billion.Robert F. Smith is the richest black man in the US with…
Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist,China’s risk of slipping into “debt deflation” will be the longer-term driver of its asset markets even after the country finally manages to exit its Covid Zero policy. A much weaker yuan remains likely as one…
Thanks to deeper than expected discounts, Cyber Monday set new records yesterday - with online retailers pulling in $11.2 billion in sales, a 5.1% jump over 2021 when $10.7 billion of sales were recorded, according to figures from tracking firm Adobe…
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),A county in Pennsylvania that didn’t have enough paper ballots on Election Day failed to certify the results of the Nov. 8 midterms by the Nov. 28 deadline.County officials recount ballots in…
The uncrewed Orion capsule, the centerpiece of NASA's historic Artemis I mission, reached its farthest distance from Earth on Monday, breaking the record for the maximum distance a spacecraft developed to carry humans has ever traveled.The space agency tweeted that Orion…
Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Bahamas Attorney General Ryan Pinder took to the podium Sunday night to defend his country’s securities regulators against “inaccurate allegations” by the U.S.-based legal team, led by veteran work-out attorney John Ray…
US-approved weapons deliveries to Taiwan have been considerably delayed and slowed throughout the course of the nine-month long Ukraine war, despite the US having approved some $20 billion total in arms sales for the self-ruled island since 2017. In October, Defense News cited…
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,Every year Merriam-Webster picks a word to capture the culture of a moment in time. The choice is based on the frequency and quantity of search as well as the departure from the norm.…
The supply chain pressures that drove up US inflationary pressures at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic are rapidly waning as global trade comes to a crawl. On Monday, Goldman Sachs published its proprietary supply chain tracker that showed "weekly bottleneck scale…
Authored by Kelly Song via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Protests demanding an end to COVID lockdowns broke out in the center of Shanghai on Sunday, following outrage over an apartment building fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, that killed 10 people on Thursday.People sing…
The prominent Canadian fashion and home decor retailer Simons is coming under fire for glorifying suicide as a marketing ploy. The company recently produced and released a three-minute film which celebrates the planned assisted suicide of Jennyfer Hatch. More recently, after the project was completed, the Canadian Broadcasting…
Flip-flopping headlines from OPEC+ leaks and China COVID restrictions prompted a volatile day in crude markets today but WTI ended higher.OPEC+ does “not like contango and that is what has raised market expectations of deeper cuts,” Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at…
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),NBC News correspondent Miguel Almaguer has not appeared on the air since a Nov. 4 report on details surrounding the attack targeting Paul Pelosi last month was retracted without explanation.Illustration: ZeroHedgeAlmaguer is…
By Philip Marey, Senior US Strategist at RabobankDerailing supply chainsYesterday, market sentiment was undermined by street protests against zero covid policy in China. Most European stock markets declined and the Euro Stoxx 50 lost 0.68%. Then in the US the S&P500…
Iranian soccer coach Carlos Queiroz of Portugal is the longest-serving manager in the history of the Islamic Republic's national team, but ahead of the much anticipated and charged rivalry pitting Iran vs. USA in a match set to kick off early afternoon…
Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Elon Musk said Monday that Twitter’s internal files on the company’s “free speech suppression” will be revealed “soon,” raising expectations that light will be shed on the circumstances around Twitter’s censorship of the…
The headline consumer confidence signal from The Conference Board was expected to worsen for the second month in a row in November and it did, sliding from 102.5 to 100.2 (weakest since July). While Expectations dropped from 77.9 to 75.4, sentiment…
Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times,The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors voted to certify the November midterm general election results despite angry voters claiming the county mishandled the election—if not rigged it.“It is what it is,” said District 5 board member…
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,It's not just the price of oil that matters: how much disposable income consumers have left to buy more goods and services matters, too.The Oil Curse (a.k.a. The Resource Curse) refers to the compelling ease…
After tumbling for the first time since 2012 in July, Case-Shiller's 20-City Composite Home Price index was expected to drop for the third straight month in September (the latest data available) as mortgage rates soared, crushing affordability; and it did, with…
On the heels of a major tumble in German PPI last week...Did European inflation just peak pic.twitter.com/8L7eCpOV5Q — zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 21, 2022Germany's headline CPI just fell 0.5% MoM (notably worse than the 0.2% decline expected) - its biggest monthly decline…
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,After 12 years of a liquidity-fueled, Fed-induced bull market, are the markets set to start another “secular” bear market? In an interview with the Financial Times, Boaz Weinstein, founder of Saba Capital Management, suggested such.“There isn’t a rainbow at the…
And just like that, sentiment has turned on a dime... or rather a yuan.One day after global stocks and commodities tanked following a weekend of violent protests swept across China, Beijing appears to have learned its lesson and overnight Chinese government…
Update (1134ET): After Chinese health officials announced an accelerating move to vaccinate older people against Covid-19, a sign the world's second-largest economy could be reopening after disastrous zero Covid policies, a new report says the metro area around the world's largest iPhone…
By Simon White, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and commentatorA signal based on the manufacturing indices compiled by the regional Fed banks indicates a recession next year. However, positive cyclical equity data suggests one is not imminent, while stock indices are not…
With oil tumbling ahead of the grueling 2023 recession, the last thing OPEC+ and (bullish) oil traders wanted to see is even more supply coming on line, and yet that's precisely what the a core gulf hub is proposing. According to…
Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,Sweden’s newly elected center-right government is proposing to amend existing migration laws to change permanent residency given to migrants to temporary permits, local media reported on Friday.The coalition agreement was signed by the Moderate party,…
Having seen waves of extreme over-reactions to Elon Musk's take-over of Twitter - and demands for all sorts of censorship being reinstated - we have seen an armada of virtue-signaling among advertisers pulling their spending from the free-speech platform.Following demands from…
The Israeli Air Force has unveiled that this week it will conduct its largest joint aerial drills in years with the US Air Force, which involves a highly provocative mock mission to take out Iranian nuclear sites. The Jerusalem Post details based…
Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,The low-emission zone in central London, within which motorists are charged £12.50 (€14.56) per day for driving the most polluting vehicles, is set to be extended to cover the whole of London, the city’s left-wing…
Good thing the UK recently "war gamed" emergency plans to deal with energy shortfalls because a collapse in wind power has skyrocketed electricity prices, and network operator National Grid Plc might ask homes and businesses to reduce power use on Tuesday. Some…
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,Moroccan football fans celebrated their World Cup win over Belgium by staging chaotic riots in numerous different European cities.Diversity continues to be a strength.Morocco beat Belgium 2-0 in Group F yesterday, which many regarded…
In its relentless pursuit of virtue-signaling hills that it is willing to die on within minutes, several months ago the EU had a brilliant idea: let's implement a toothless oil price cap on Russian oil exports, one which actually has zero…
Authored by Pepe Escobar,There’s another Special Military Operation on the market. No, it’s not Russia “denazifying” and “demilitarizing” Ukraine – and, therefore, it’s no wonder that this other operation is not ruffling feathers across the collective West.Operation Claw-Sword was launched by…
Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory,Everyone is going to hate this column. Musk worshipers are going to hate it because I’m going to blaspheme against Elon Musk. Musk demonizers are going to hate it because I am not going…
Calls for government intervention to prevent a rail strike in early-to-mid-December became louder Monday, with more than 400 state and national trade groups asking the majority and minority leaders of Congress to prevent a rail strike that would disrupt the flow…
Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times,Gloom is always annoying and almost never the best response to even the most upsetting developments. It’s always psychologically better and a more efficient response to negative facts to try to design around them…
A senior Department of Energy official was charged with felony theft after stealing a piece of luggage from the Minneapolis airport in September - shortly before taking a leave of absence.Sam Brinton, a gender-fluid nuclear expert who in 2015 defended underage…
Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com,Below we are reproducing a post from Ukraine Telegram, along with an assessment from Colonel Douglas Macgregor. A long-standing military colleague sent the material to Macgregor, who deems it to be authentic.One thing that is striking…
Readers have been well-informed that the global energy crisis is finally coming to America this winter as energy bills soar. The latest sign of soaring power costs is a warning from New York's grid operator. In a press release, New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)…
Authored by Alan Dershowitz via The Gatestone Institute,The City of San Francisco is a state actor that is constitutionally prohibited from disqualifying job applicants on the basis of race. That is precisely what occurred here, despite the phony claim that Arntz…
Despite only until recently having no military to speak of at all based on post-WWII disarmament, Japan's defense ministry is hinting that it could soon equip its submarines with long range missiles, regional media reported Monday.Japan's armed forces are "considering acquiring…