Is AI The False Savior Of A Hollowed-Out Economy? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What nobody seems to notice is all the incentives for deploying AI are perverse… The real story of the US economy isn’t about AI, it’s about an economy that’s run out of rope. AI is being hyped not just by promoters reaping billions of dollars in stock market gains, it’s being hyped by the entire status quo because it’s […]

Indian Officials Call For Intervention After US Blocks Foreign Trucker Visas Two weeks ago an illegal alien truck driver of Indian origin reportedly killed three people after making an illegal U-turn on a Florida turnpike.  It’s not the first time such negligence has occurred on the part of migrant drivers but this particular event struck a nerve, causing a public uproar and bringing all foreign trucker visas into question. After […]

Sen. Mike Lee: Racist & Anti-American Messages At Smithsonian “Indefensible” Via American Greatness, President Donald Trump, has sent a letter to the Smithsonian Institution and other museums, requesting a “comprehensive internal review” and calling for the removal of divisive or partisan narratives ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is applauding the president’s call to […]

Graham Threatens Tariffs, Travel Sanctions On Norway Over Boycott Of IDF, Caterpillar Senator Lindsey Graham has blasted and threatened Norway twice in the last 24 hours, soon after the Scandinavian country’s $2 trillion wealth fund – which springs largely from energy resources – announced it is divesting from Caterpillar over concerns the Israeli military has been using its bulldozers to violate human rights in Gaza and against […]

Another Narrative Busted: Bolton Investigation Began Under Biden Authored by Sundance via The Last Refuge, For several days the media has been saying the Trump administration FBI targeted John Bolton, hence the FBI raid on his home and office.  However, the New York Times now outlines how the investigation into John Bolton began during the Biden administration and picked up speed after they received access to his email information […]

As Good As It Gets? DNC Moves To Sell Crazy To An Over-Stocked Nation Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Democratic National Committee (DNC) appears to be doubling down on crazy in Minneapolis this week with calls to pack the Supreme Court and other extremist priorities. For voters who have repeatedly shown that they want to move to a more moderate center, you are left like Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets when his character, […]

Lisa Cook Claims It Was All A “Clerical Error” – And This Is The Nevertrump Activist Judge Who Will Decide (Update: 1532ET): A Biden-appointed federal judge who defied a Supreme Court ruling earlier this month has been ‘randomly’ assigned to the (Biden-appointed) Lisa Cobb case, after the Federal Reserve Governor filed a lawsuit challenging her Monday firing by President Trump. Her complaint doesn’t deny the underlying allegations […]

The Chart Baltimore Democrats Hope You Never See Leftist Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s refusal to accept National Guard assistance from the federal government has left many Baltimore residents baffled, given the city’s multi-decade violent crime crisis under failed Democratic Party leadership.  While Moore recently took a victory lap touting a supposedly “record low” homicide rate, everyone who lives in the metro area knows the […]

Judge Says Kilmar Abrego Garcia Cannot Be Deported Until October Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, El Salvador native Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the target of numerous deportation efforts by the Trump administration, cannot be deported until at least early October, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, at a hearing on Wednesday, extended an Aug. 25 order that blocked his deportation while courts […]

UK, France, Germany Initiate UN Snapback Sanctions On Iran Over Nuclear Program France, Germany, and the UK have submitted a letter to members of the UN Security Council announcing they are triggering the “snapback” mechanism to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran, Axios and others are reporting Thursday. These are past sanctions which had been suspended under the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal, which the US unilaterally pulled out of in April […]

DHS Proposes Revamp Of Student And Exchange Visas, Citing Fraud And Abuse Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Aug. 27 posted a draft version of proposed changes to temporary visas for overseas students and exchange visitors. The proposed changes—posted in a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register officially dated Aug. 28—look to establish a fixed visa period […]

Bolton Probe Focuses On Emails Obtained By Hostile Foreign Spy Service At least one dimension of the federal investigation of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton focuses on personal emails of his that were obtained by a foreign government spy agency — with those personal emails said to have contained classified information, the New York Times has reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the probe. The […]

US Natural Gas Consumption To Hit New Record In 2025 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Natural gas consumption in the United States is forecast to increase 1 percent and set a record of 91.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) on average in 2025, according to an Aug. 25 statement from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA expects “natural gas consumption to increase across all sectors except for […]

Ugly 7Y Auction Tails, Sees Lowest Bid To Cover In Over A Year A stellar 2Y, a solid 5Y and a dismal 7Y auction: that about sums up this week’s coupon issuance.  Moments ago, the US treasury completed the week’s final auction when it sold $44 billion in 7Y paper in what was an ugly auction.  Starting at the top, the high yield was 3.925%, the first sub-4% coupon auction since last September. It also tailed the When Issued 3.922% […]

Russia Sinks Ukrainian Navy Vessel In First Successful Sea Drone Operation Russia is not just making steady gains on land of late, but at sea as well. On Thursday Russian and Ukrainian media described that Russia attacked and destroyed Ukrainian Navy vessel, killing one crew member and injuring several others, “Efforts to address the aftermath of the attack are ongoing. The majority of the crew are safe, and the search for several […]

Ether ETFs Capture 10x More Inflows Than Bitcoin In Last 5 Days Spot Ether exchange-traded funds are selling like hot cakes in the US, attracting more than 10 times the inflows of their spot Bitcoin counterparts over the past five trading days.  Since Aug. 21, spot Ether ETFs have seen a whopping $1.83 billion in inflows, while Bitcoin funds took only a 10th of that with $171 million, according to CoinGlass.  The latest […]

CDC Director Susan Monarez Ousted In Vaccine Policy Clash With RFK Jr.; Four Top Officials Quit In Leadership Crisis  Department of Health & Human Services announced on X late Wednesday that Susan Monarez, the first Senate-confirmed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is “no longer director of the CDC.” Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We […]

The Firing Spree Continues By Philip Marey, senior US strategist at Rabobank, The 10 year US treasury yield has fallen back to 4.22%, after peaking at 4.31% on Tuesday, so the impact of President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook has remained modest. Meanwhile, Trump is continuing his firing spree. On Wednesday, he first fired Robert Primus, a member of the Surface Transportation Board, the regulator of the railroad industry, […]

Bartov Vs. Morris: Is It Genocide? Is Israel defending itself – or executing a calculated genocide? That’s the question on deck tonight at 7 pm ET, live on ZeroHedge’s homepage and X. Two heavyweight historians—Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Brown University, and famed Israeli historian Benny Morris—will go head-to-head. The moderator: Mario Nawfal, the journalist with 2M+ […]

D.C Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Sandwich-Throwing Former Justice Employee Authored by Jonathan Turley, In 1985, Sol Wachtler, the chief justice of New York’s Supreme Court, famously said, “Any good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.” Perhaps, but it appears that indicting someone for throwing a ham sandwich may be tougher than it would appear. A grand jury has reportedly refused to indict Sean […]

“I’m Tired Of Being Trans” – Minneapolis Shooter Confesses “I Wish I Never Brain-Washed Myself” The transgender mass shooter who carried out a horrific attack on Christians at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, killing two children and injuring 17 others before taking his own life, wrote in a dark, troubling manifesto posted online that he was “tired of being trans,” according to a New York Post report. “I […]

EU, UK Diplomatic Missions Hit In Russia’s 2nd Largest Assault On Kiev Of War At least 18 Ukrainians have been killed, with the casualty figure expected to rise, after Russian missiles and drones targeted residential neighborhoods in Kiev early Thursday, which President Volodymyr Zelensky has decried as demonstrating Moscow’s contempt for ongoing efforts to forge peace talks. However, the Kremlin has blamed stalled talks on […]

Psaki, Minneapolis Mayor Eviscerated For Mocking Prayers Following School Shooting Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A horrific school shooting was carried out in Minneapolis Wednesday by yet another clearly deranged individual identifying as transgender. While conservatives offered thoughts for those killed and injured, including two young children, leftists immediately jumped straight to their default reactions, […]

US Pending Home Sales Stick Near Record Lows In July The choppy performance of the US housing market continued in July with pending home sales falling 0.4% MoM (worse than the 0.2% MoM rise expected). However, this print managed to push sales up a medicore 0.25% YoY (its best annual gain since Nov 2024)… Source: Bloomberg Which left the total pending home sales index hovering near record lows… Source: Bloomberg Buyers […]

Washington Mayor Credits Federal Surge For Drop In Crime, Backs Trump’s Infrastructure Request Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said on Aug. 27 that crime has decreased since President Donald Trump deployed National Guard troops to the city and took federal control of the local police department. Bowser told reporters during an update on the enforcement surge that she and her […]