Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,The Oracle of Omaha’s second banana has pronounced judgement on crypto.It was even more unhinged than previous attacks (“rat poison”), as Munger applauded communist China’s technocratic dictatorship as a sensible ideal we should be following here in…
If you had "Netflix partnering with GM" on your unlikely corporate tie-up Bingo card for 2023, you can now cross that square off.That's because last week it was announced that the streaming giant would be partnering with General Motors to get…
Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Facebook and Instagram have threatened to restrict or ban Project Veritas from their platforms, both owned by Meta, after a journalist confronted a senior YouTube official about the removal of a video…
After a US stealth fighter jet shot down the Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on Saturday afternoon, the reaction from Beijing abruptly changed from expressing regret to being defensive and outraged.China's Foreign Ministry published a statement on Sunday morning, stating its "strong…
Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The Biden administration’s new Department of Labor (DOL) rule allowing 401(k) managers to invest in Environmental Social Governance (ESG) funds will harm two-thirds of America’s retirement accounts, according to Kansas Attorney General…
If you were wondering whether or not Ford was going to embrace Rivian further as part of its plans to take on the EV market, it looks as though the answer is a resounding "no".That's because Ford sold almost all of…
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,What's truly valuable has no price and cannot be bought.If all investments are being cast into Treacherous Waters, our investment strategy must adapt accordingly. Once we set aside denial and magical thinking as strategies and…
It was like a scene out of Blues Brothers last week when thieves drove a car through the Vaughan Mills mall location about 25 miles northeast of Toronto, Ontario. Police are calling it "an audacious crime," according to New Market Today. The vehicle drove through…
By Jonathan Maze of Restaurant BusinessIf the economy is really heading for a recession, Starbucks customers sure aren’t acting like it.The Seattle-based coffee chain on Thursday said its same-store sales rose 10% in the U.S. Customers came in more often, as…
Update (1150ET):Reuters confirmed "internet outages and glitches" across Italy on Sunday. The problem appears to be an "international link." "An international interconnection problem impacting the service at the national level was detected. Analyses are underway to resolve the problem," a Telecom Italia (TIM)…
A FedEx cargo jet averted crashing into a Southwest Airlines commercial plane while attempting to land at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas. The FedEx jet, a Boeing 767, was cleared to land on the same runway early Saturday morning when a Southwest…
By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com,EU members have agreed to support a price cap level of $100 per barrel on Russian diesel sales to third-party countries, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Friday afternoon.The EU’s ban on Russian seaborne crude…
Authored by Didi Rankovic via ReclaimTheNet.org,The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) – started by the UK government to then in late 2021 become owned by Nesta, which describes itself as an independent charity focused on innovation – has a new report out.And while its authors…
Submitted by QTR's Fringe FinanceBy now you probably know the Chinese spy balloon that, for some reason, was allowed to traverse the entire United States despite us knowing about it days ago, has been shot down.Put simply, it was too little,…
Authored by Pat Fidopiastis via The Brownstone Institute,Between 2014 and 2019, US tax dollars were funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance. Given that US scientists have far more virology expertise than the Chinese, this begs an obvious question: what…
Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams,After decades of criminalization, Australia's government said Friday that it will legalize the prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for the treatment of two medical conditions, a historic move hailed by researchers who have studied the…
Authored by Julie Kelly via AmGreatness.com,As judges hand down one absurd sentence after another, one might be inclined to laugh at the absurdity of it all except, of course, it’s not funny...The Department of Justice carefully crafted the dramatic moment in…
Previous constant headlines of the Ukraine-Russia war were put on pause Friday into Saturday as the American public's attention and discourse got temporarily consumed by the bizarre Chinese 'spy balloon' saga, which grew more dramatic by the hour until it was…
Fears over the virus pandemic and social unrest in the last several years ignited demand for guns to unprecedented levels. Back then, the FBI's monthly background checks, part of the process to purchase a firearm, soared to new monthly highs. Now the…
Authored by Dan M. Berger via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The state of Florida is yanking the liquor license of an Orlando performance venue, saying the “Drag Queen Christmas” show it hosted in December was sexually explicit while being marketed to…
Brazil has unleashed anger from environmental activists around the globe after the government ordered the sinking of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean, a plan carried out on Friday.The "planned and controlled sinking occurred late in the afternoon” about…
Authored by Emma Suttle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),The term ‘superbug’ conjures images of bacteria with superpowers—able to evade the effects of the antibiotics given to destroy them. The prolific use of antibiotics is thought to be the cause, and…
Apple's Crash Detection feature is causing severe headaches for emergency dispatchers around ski resort areas. Skiers and snowboarders, with supported iPhone and Watch models, have been hitting the slopes this season and occasionally take a tumble. Their devices, packed with high-tech sensors,…
Authored by Kyle Anzalone & Connor Freeman via The Libertarian Institute,Washington and Manila are close to inking an agreement that would see four new American installations opened in the Philippines. The new sites are part of a US military buildup in…
In an internal memo posted on Thursday, JPMorgan warned that Israel presents a greater investment risk due to recent developments associated with the ascent of Benjamin Netanyahu's new government. “Israel’s local markets have seen a flareup in idiosyncratic risk, as increased geopolitical…
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for a new election in Harris County, Texas, after ballot issues were more widespread than officials had estimated them to be.An election worker sorts ballots in a…
Aggravated by the holdouts who keep wearing face masks despite mounting evidence that they're essentially useless against Covid-19? Maybe you should be a little grateful. According to findings published at Frontiers in Psychology, people who consider themselves less attractive are more likely to…
Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times,Snowpack levels in California continue to increase, after reaching their highest level in 40 years, after weeks of storms in December and January.But, water officials reported that with a dry forecast ahead, more is…
Last year the exodus out of the high-tax, high-crime Democratic strongholds of California, New York and Illinois continued, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors.In 2022, 343,000 people left the Golden State, while 299,557 left New York, and…
Authored by BTCCasey via BitcoinMagazine.com,Michael Saylor’s latest interview includes a blast at Western elites, specifically Charlie Munger.Munger recently penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled, “Why America Should Ban Crypto.” In it, he slammed cryptocurrencies, explaining that: “Such wretched excess…
Update (1600ET):US defense officials confirmed to Fox News an F-22 stealth jet fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder that brought down the Chinese surveillance balloon. The F-22 was based out of Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. NEW: senior defense official tells me an…
Amid calls from Ukrainian officials to ban all Russian and Belarusian athletes from the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic summer games, the White House has issued a statement saying it agrees with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) policy of allowing the two countries to…
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.usMy home state of Montana was recently featured in news feeds this week as the first to observe and identify what the US Air Force says is a Chinese spy balloon. The Chinese claim it is…
In 2019, comedian Bill Maher warned Americans "we are going to have to learn to live with each other or there will be blood."Almost exactly three years ago, the HBO host reminded the world that he was the only liberal pundit…
Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com,Below we look at Gold’s rise in a backdrop of more bond destruction in the public markets and more truth destruction in the war on inflation.No Recession Yet?As I argued in 2022, the much-debated and pending recession was in many…
One rare positive development amid the tragic darkness and death of the Ukraine war is that prisoner swaps have now become routine. Many dozens of POWs have been freed in the latest Saturday exchange, both sides have confirmed, with the Ukrainian presidency's…
Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com,Bitcoin has been likened to the platypus… which sounds like an odd comparison.The platypus is a strange duck-billed mammal with webbed feet and a furry body like a beaver. It has characteristics of birds, mammals, and…
The 2014 Interstellar clip when Matthew McConaughey landed his space crew on a vast plane of water on an inhabitable planet -- only to find out an unfathomably large wave was just ahead -- is what nightmares are made of.Here's the clip. A…
Authored by Finian Cunningham,The war in Ukraine is not just about Ukraine and Russia with the U.S. and NATO acting as seemingly benevolent supporters of Ukraine, as the Western media portray.The United States and its NATO allies are deeply involved in…
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via AmGreatness.com,Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions. Both…
Poverty is often associated with unemployment - however, millions of working people around the world are living in what’s considered to be extreme poverty, or less than $1.90 per day.Thankfully, the world’s population of poor workers has decreased substantially over the last few decades.…
The meteoric rise of ChatGPT has been a watershed moment for artificial intelligence as it enabled millions of users, regular people, to experiment with AI and witness its astonishing capabilities first-hand.And. as Statista' Felix Richter notes, while there are still limitations,…
Authored by Jackson Elliott via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Democrat and Confederate President Jefferson may have been unable to expel President Abraham Lincoln from the capitol, but Democrat delegate Eleanor Norton (D-D.C.) might.The Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park depicts a…
Authored by Lorenz Duchamps via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Eunice Dwumfour, a 30-year-old New Jersey councilwoman, was found dead outside her Sayreville home Wednesday evening in what officials believe was a “targeted” attack, authorities say.Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour. (Courtesy of Sayreville…
While questions about the housing market in general continue to swirl and as we anxiously await how much deflation we are in store for in the housing industry, at least one area is on an upswing: Brooklyn.This week it was reported…
Authored by Andrew Thornebrooke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),A covert overseas police station run by the Chinese regime in New York has been shuttered following a reported raid by the FBI.“The FBI has confirmed that the ‘overseas police station’ in…
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has fired off his first subpoenas of the new Congressional session.The recipients include Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, in order to get to the bottom of a…
Authored by Jack Bradley via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Authorities arrested 368 people and rescued 131 victims involved in human trafficking in a weeklong statewide multi-agency task force, announced Feb. 1.A massage parlor in Los Angeles County on Aug. 4, 2021.…
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early last year, talk of global recession has dominated the outlook for 2023.But, as Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld notes, high inflation, spurred by rising energy costs, has tested GDP growth. Tightening monetary policy in the U.S.,…
Authored by Jane Nguyen via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),OpenAI, the maker of chatbot ChatGPT, announced on Tuesday that it has released a new software tool to help detect whether someone is trying to pass off AI-generated text as something that…