If Other Countries Give Fewer Shots, Why Can’t We Ask Why? Authored by Jack Hellner via AmericanThinker.com, By age 18, a child in the United States can receive roughly 30 to 75 total vaccine doses if they follow standard schedules and get annual flu shots. Fewer shots are needed because vaccines are combined. By comparison, in Germany, the Robert Koch Institute (via the Standing Committee on Vaccination, STIKO) recommends […]

‘Do What Israel Tells You!’ – Graffiti On USAF Jet Suggests Troops Think War Isn’t For America It only took two weeks of fighting for a majority of polled Americans to conclude that the war on Iran benefits Israel more than the United States. If comments from a prominent, former Navy SEAL and graffiti written in the dust of a US Air Force jet in the Middle East are any indication, many American service members are convinced their […]

Meta Flags Migration Searches… Then Offers UN Asylum Help Via Remix News, Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms have begun displaying targeted warning messages to users searching for news or information related to mass immigration, including terms such as “Ceuta.” The prompts caution users to “be careful when searching for migration info” and include a prominent link or button offering “help with moving to a new […]

“Generates A Number Of Risks”: UBS Warns German NatGas Storage Levels Alarmingly Below Seasonal Norms Following up on our “Winter Is Coming: Europe Faces Twin Diesel And NatGas Crunch” note earlier this month, which focused on Europe as a whole, UBS analysts focused on Germany’s natural gas inventories Monday morning and warned that levels are alarmingly low for this time of year, raising the risk of elevated prices and a renewed […]

Europe’s Looming Existential Crisis Authored by Kenneth Timmerman via American Greatness, Americans pay little attention to Europe, other than to sneer at the Euro-elites and bemoan the fecklessness of European leaders. I am guilty of both sins. Mea culpa. But I am also aware of the coming existential crisis facing Europe as a whole and the European Union quite specifically. It comes in several flavors, and all of them are […]

What’s Behind Trump’s Unexpected Favor To Kim Jong Un? Authored by Andrew Korybko, He might be flirting with a radical policy recalibration even if he soon changes his mind… Trump unexpectedly announced that the US will “substantially reduce” its participation in the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield large-scale joint military drills with South Korea that he was apparently unaware of till just recently and which began this […]

WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AI’s Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are $3 Trillion And Growing $1.2 Trillion Per Quarter More than two months ago, long before most Wall Street analysts had any clue that the bulk of the AI buildout commitments were diligently hidden in various off-balance sheet SPVs and other (perfectly legal) accounting gimmicks, we wrote a lengthy article detailing just that, and explaining why far beyond the $1 trillion […]

China’s YMTC Is Now World’s 3rd Biggest Flash-Memory Supplier With 14% Market Share Earlier today we reported that China’s highly touted DRAM memory maker CXMT recently surpassed Tencent to become China’s most valuable company. That may be just the start, because hot on the heels of the biggest Chinese IPO this decade, comes that “other” Chinese memory maker, Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC) which has now broken […]

Fake News, Part I: The Long History Authored by John Maxwell Hamilton via RealClearPolitics, In 1896, a daring journalist covering the Cuban revolution against their colonial masters crossed the Spanish lines three times to interview insurgent leaders. William Francis Mannix’s final trip into the Cuban interior was made at the request of the leader of the insurgent government, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt. El Presidente Cisneros […]

US Navy Destroyer Suffered 4-Day Power Outage In Sweltering South China Sea Large US naval battleships continue to suffer problems at sea. While there have been many headlines of late detailing the problems of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier connected to its extended deployment amid the Iran war, a separate warship is having serious problems in Pacific waters, quite apart from the crisis in the Persian Gulf. “A US Navy […]

Entering The Gates Of Lies: Unmasking The Climate Version Of Theranos Authored by Sydney Rodman via RealClearEnergy, One of President Trump’s campaign promises was eliminating climate scams. As net-zero climate policies fade into the shadows, another climate scam is biting the dust. Bill Gates’s daughter, Phoebe Gates, may not have her father’s entrepreneurial talent, but she, too, frequently peddles climate alarmism. Mr. Gates, […]

Police Attacked During Massive “Teen Brawl” At Wisconsin State Fair The establishment media commonly uses strategic phrases to hide or omit the truth behind certain uncomfortable situations.  Since the BLM era, journalists cannot simply describe a violent mob as a “black mob”, even if that description is generally true.  Today, one must say the words “teen brawl” in order to avoid any implications of race.  It’s a very similar […]

Deep Capture: The Administrative State’s Intellectual Origins Authored by Sofia Karstens via Brownstone Institute, Woodrow Wilson holds a distinction no other American president has: he earned a Ph.D., completing his doctorate in political science and history at Johns Hopkins University in 1886. That same year, he wrote an essay called “The Study of Administration,” later published in the inaugural volume of Political Science […]

Peter Thiel Makes $76 Million Bet On Argentina’s Top Shale Exporter Amid Milei Reforms Vista Energy SAB’s American depositary receipts are up 5% Monday on news that Peter Thiel’s hedge fund disclosed a $76 million stake in Argentina’s largest oil exporter. Thiel Macro LLC reported owning almost 1.2 million shares of Vista at the end of the second quarter, valued at about $76 million. This was the fund’s second-largest disclosed […]

Iran War Pushes Middle Eastern Airlines Towards $4.3BN Loss In 2026 Via Middle East Eye As the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran on February 28 2026, Iran struck back near US military installations in the Gulf, including in Qatar and the UAE. Several international airports were hit by Iranian strikes, including Dubai, the world’s busiest for international passengers, as well as Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Bahrain.  […]

Record Ground Beef Prices May Finally Be Breaking Consumer Demand Last week’s retail sales report provided fresh evidence that the K-shaped economy is buckling, with national average gasoline prices still printing above $4 a gallon and discretionary spending weakening. Consumer stress is now surfacing in the grocery aisle: as beef prices hover near record highs, Americans are beginning to trade down to cheaper proteins. Bloomberg […]

Charges Against Palisades Fire Arson Suspect Revised City News Service via The Epoch Times, LOS ANGELES – The man accused of setting a blaze that grew into the deadly Palisades Fire, the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history, is facing one less criminal charge, with federal prosecutors obtaining a revised indictment in the case. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is posed after his arrest on charges that he intentionally ignited the […]

Parents Are Paying Thousands For Sorority Rush Coaches SAAS is starting to mean sororities as a service. Parents are spending thousands of dollars on consultants to help their daughters navigate sorority recruitment at major Southern universities, turning rush into a process with its own coaches, preparation packages and, in some cases, five-figure services, according to Bloomberg. The consultants advise prospective new members, […]

The Never-Ending Cycle Of Taking Offense… Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, Americans should not fear the past… I remember the first time I came across a “trigger warning.”  I was on a university campus in the ‘90s, attending the first lecture of a new history professor.  As I perused her course syllabus, I was impressed with the reading list and organization.  Then I spotted an incongruous […]

Colombia Begins Mass Mobilization Against Terror Group As Moscow Warns Of New “Anti-Russia Provocation In Latin America” Trump-backed Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has wasted no time combating Marxist terrorist groups in a country that is part of the US-led “Shield of the Americas,” an initiative aimed at eliminating transnational drug cartels and preventing weaponized migration flows toward the US.  De la […]

Half Of Typical US Family’s Paycheck Swallowed By Housing, Childcare Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, Typical families in the United States spend half of their income on housing and childcare, according to a report released on Aug. 17 from the real estate platform Redfin. A man holds a baby outside a coffee shop in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Based on data from Redfin and childcare […]

Reddit’s Woke WNBA Forum Just Banned Sophie Cunningham’s Name Amid Trans Row The biggest unofficial WNBA fan forum on Reddit just made it nearly impossible to type the name of one of the league’s own players. On Sophie Cunningham’s 30th birthday, users trying to post a simple “Happy Birthday Sophie” on r/WNBA ran straight into an automated brick wall. The community doesn’t allow “Sophie” in post titles. Same goes for “Cunningham,” […]

Geopolitical Reality Has Ended The Rush To Renewables Authored by Rashid Hudain Syed via The Epoch Times, The world is quietly abandoning the fantasy that renewables alone can guarantee energy security. The U.S.–Israel war on Iran exposed how vulnerable the global economy remains to disruptions in fossil fuel supply chains. Any disruption in the Strait of Hormuz quickly affects global fuel prices, inflation, and energy costs […]

Rand Paul Goes To Fort Knox To Verify That US Gold Stockpile Still Exists In September 1974, amid public and congressional concerns, a high-profile inspection occurred at the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. In a rare exception to the “no visitors” policy, members of Congress and the press were invited in. This was followed immediately by a special audit conducted by the General Accounting Office (now the Government […]

“Both Parties Are Whirling Around The Drain Of Extinction…” Authored by Jim Kunstler, “A sane society cannot debate its way out of psychosis. It must diagnose the patient with lethal precision and restore the ancient boundary between the mad and the free.” – LHGrey on “X” Back in the days of sailing ships, a certain subtropical zone of the ocean became known as the “horse latitudes.” There, an eerie windless […]