California Agency Approves Water Management Plan Increasing Output Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has approved a revised plan for managing California’s Central Valley Project (CVP), with the goal of sending more water to farmers in the state An aerial view shows Friant Dam, which holds back Millerton Lake in Friant, Calif., on March 7, 2025. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo The […]

Denmark Cuts Ukraine Aid Nearly In Half Amid Corruption Scandal Denmark plans to scale back its military assistance to Ukraine next year, and the amount cut is being widely reported as a huge amount – up to almost half of what’s it’s been since 2022. According to Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the tiny northern European country has long stood out for its exceptionally high contributions that it made earlier in the conflict, […]

As The Year Ends, What Does 2026 Hold Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Markets opened in December with a surge in optimism as retail investors regained their “bullish spirit.” That improvement continues to build on the bullish case we discussed last week: “Seasonality, positioning, and trend still lean in favor of the bulls. December is historically one of the stronger months for equities, […]

Goldman Reveals Housing “Affordability Illusion” When Factoring Other Costs Affordability has surged into the news cycle and is almost certain to dominate the coming midterm election cycle. And when voters talk about “affordability,” they’re most concerned about the basic cost of living. Beyond food and healthcare, nothing hits harder than housing costs.  Goldman analysts led by Arun Manohar have some bad news on the […]

Climate Groups Falter, Bill Gates Recalibrates, But Al Gore Soldiers On Authored by Gary Abernathy of The Empowerment Alliance, It’s been an interesting few weeks on the climate hysteria front. Organizations associated with climate alarmism have recently found themselves engulfed in turmoil. Bill Gates has recanted earlier predictions of gloom and doom. But the Father of Climate Panic, former Vice President Al Gore, remains […]

Trump’s 3 Choices In Ukraine (A Win-Win-Win For Russia) Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, With the War in Ukraine now approaching its fifth year and possibly reaching a climatic stage, it’s timely to offer an overview of the situation. This overview has three vectors – the situation on the battlefield, the corruption scandal rocking Kyiv, and the prospects for the success of the Trump peace plan. The thread […]

Iran’s Executions Reach Decade High Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people between January and September 2025, the highest number of yearly death penalties conducted in Iran that Amnesty International has recorded in at least 15 years. As Statista’s Tristan Gaudiat shows in the chart below, within less than nine months, the number of people executed by the regime has already surpassed last year’s grim total of […]

French Government Plan To ‘Label’ News Outlets Backfires Spectacularly Via Remix News, A few weeks back, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a new “media labeling” system, while also assuring citizens that this “media accreditation” will not include any sort of state-backed labeling.  Suffice it to say, these assurances have only stoked fears of an authoritarian creep into the media sphere.  Back in November, […]

Washington’s New National Security Strategy Details How Trump 2.0 Will Respond To Multipolarity Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Trump 2.0 just released its National Security Strategy (NSS). It can be read in full here, but for those with limited time, the present piece will summarize its contents. The new NSS reconceptualizes, narrows, and reprioritizes US interests. Focus is placed on the primacy of nations over […]

Indonesia Remains The World’s Most Generous Nation Started in 2012, Giving Tuesday, which takes place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is a day which aims to encourage people to do good. Described as “a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity”, the goal of Giving Tuesday is to encourage people to donate time or money or to use their voice for a good cause. While generosity may seem like a […]

Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat, Israel’s advocates inside the United States are growing […]

Americans Worry Most Among Developed Nations About Food Security Concerning nations surveyed in Statista’s Consumer Insights, Americans were among those most worried about food and water security. Indeed, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, while for most European nations, worry about the topic peaked during the coronavirus pandemic and the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, concern has remained elevated in the United […]

Out Of Sight: Following The Money Trail Of Missing Child Border Crossers Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, On the campaign trail, Vice President JD Vance repeatedly chastised the Biden administration for allegedly losing track of some 320,000 minors who had crossed the border unaccompanied. “Our government, under the policies of Kamala Harris, has lost thousands of innocent children to sex trafficking, to drug […]

Embarrassing: Canada Very Belatedly Removes Syria’s Ruling HTS From Terror List The fact that Syria’s head of state got his start working for ISIS, and was a founding member of Syrian al-Qaeda, continues to produce embarrassing headlines.  One full year after former president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown and fled to Moscow, Canada has very belatedly removed President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s militia group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham from […]

Zelensky ‘Systematically Sabotaged’ Ukraine Anti-Corruption Efforts, NYT Concludes  Via The Cradle Over the past four years, the Ukrainian government “systematically sabotaged” oversight of the country’s state-owned companies and weapons procurement processes, “allowing graft to flourish,” a freshly published New York Times investigation has revealed. The investigation details how the government of Volodymyr Zelensky sidelined […]

Where Are America’s Dry Counties? While the U.S. ended federal Prohibition in 1933, local restrictions on alcohol still persist across the country to this day. As Visual Capitalist shows in the map below, based on work by Wikipedia user Mr. Matté, many counties remain “dry,” banning the sale of alcohol entirely, or “moist,” allowing only limited sales. Where Alcohol is Still Restricted The data, crowdsourced from […]

General Flynn: Strategic Assessment Of Marxist-Style Color Revolution Targeting America Authored by Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), The American people have just taken their first full breath after surviving an attempt to smother the Republic through a Marxist-inspired cultural campaign carried out largely through the administrative state, media, academia, and politicized elements of the national security bureaucracy. Most citizens […]

CDC Advisory Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot Recommendation For Newborns The vaccine industrial complex is likely fuming this morning after a federal advisory panel voted to end the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B shot at birth. The vote marks a major victory for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” effort to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule amid […]

21 States Are At Risk Of Losing SNAP Funding Amid Fraud Investigation Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The federal government said it would withhold Supplemental Nutrition Aid Program (SNAP) funds for states that do not report user data.  The news came from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins earlier this week, following months of requests and investigations into […]

Newsom Pleads With Dems To Be More “Culturally Normal” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, California Governor Gavin Newsom is dishing out advice to his fellow Democrats: pretend to be normal while he plots a White House run. Newsom, who’s been eyeing a 2028 presidential bid after loser Kamala Harris’ electoral wipeout, took to the stage at The New York Times DealBook Summit in New York City, urging his party to […]

Ken Griffin Dumps Last Penthouse In Crime-Ridden Chicago Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin is on the verge of dumping his final piece of real estate in crime-ridden, far-left–controlled Chicago, and he hasn’t looked back since moving Citadel’s global headquarters to Miami. Bloomberg reports that Griffin’s penthouse at 800 N. Michigan Avenue, located in Park Tower, one of the premier luxury residential buildings along Chicago’s […]

Texas Law Allowing Ivermectin To Be Sold Over The Counter Goes Into Effect Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, A Texas law allowing ivermectin to be sold over the counter went into effect Dec. 4, but rollout appears slow as pharmacies wrestle with how to proceed. House Bill 25, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in August, allows pharmacies to sell the antiviral drug without a prescription. Ivermectin […]

The GRANITE Act: How Congress Can Strike Back Against Foreign Censors Authored by Preston Byrne, Please find below the draft text of the GRANITE Act, a bill I have offered to New Hampshire legislators for consideration for enactment in that state. It could serve as a template for a U.S. fightback against global censorship, if adapted for federal use. It doesn’t really require a ton of explanation. The gist is simple: the only […]

Generational Betrayal: HUD Reveals Biden Gave Illegal Aliens FHA-Backed Mortgages HUD Secretary Scott Turner told Fox Business on Friday that illegal aliens received federally backed mortgages during the Biden–Harris regime years. Turner characterized this as a significant policy failure by the previous administration and evidence of what he called misplaced priorities that favored illegals over American homebuyers. “You know, […]

Nearly Two-Thirds Of Americans Say College Degree Isn’t Worth The Cost: Poll Authored by Gabrielle Temaat via The College Fix, Nearly two-thirds of Americans don’t believe that a college degree is worth its price tag, according to a recent NBC News survey.   Sixty-three percent of registered voters said a four-year degree is “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large […]