USAID And The Architecture Of Perception Authored by Josh Stylman via The Brownstone Institute, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long portrayed itself as America’s humanitarian aid organization, delivering assistance to developing nations. With an annual budget of nearly $40 billion and operations in over 100 countries, it represents one of the largest foreign aid institutions in the world. But […]

Iran ‘Incredibly Weakened’ By Over 200 US Strikes On Houthis: White House The White House on Tuesday declared that Iran has been “incredibly” weakened as a result of the Pentagon operation against Yemen’s Houthis which was renewed on March 15 by President Trump and his national security cabinet. Immense controversy has ensued in the wake of ‘Signalgate’ which involved discussions of war planning with Atlantic journalist Jeffrey […]

Russian Arctic LNG 2 Project Resumes Gas Processing By Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com Arctic LNG 2, the processing and export facility that was billed as Russia’s flagship LNG project, has gradually resumed gas processing after months of hiatus, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing industry sources and satellite images. Arctic LNG 2 has been under U.S. and EU sanctions since last year, and the project hasn’t been able to […]

Democrat-Backed Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race (Update 2210ET): According to multiple outlets, Democrat-endorsed Susan Crawford has won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, beating Republican-endorsed Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in US history. Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford. Getty Images The campaigns and their supporters spent more than $81 million, and […]

Rolling Risk: Unvetted Migrants Behind The Wheel Of Big Rigs Threaten US Safety & Security Leaders of a trucking advocacy group are sounding the alarm, claiming that the American Trucking Association (ATA) advised the federal government during the Biden-Harris administration to issue hundreds of thousands of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to non-citizens—many of whom reportedly cannot read or write English. […]

FBI Weaponizes Background Checks To Enforce California Gun Ban Submitted by Gun Owners of America, When you go to a gun store to buy a new gun, you can expect a few things to happen.  First, some paperwork.  Second, you can expect to have to pass a background check before leaving with your gun.  And third, you can expect that the gun store will keep a record of your purchase for as long as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, […]

China’s Role In US Fentanyl Crisis Directed By Regime Leadership, Expert Says Authored by Terri Wu & Olivia Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tensions have been simmering between the United States and communist China as the two countries escalate tariffs on each other’s imports. Meanwhile, Beijing’s rhetoric has become increasingly confrontational. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, John Fredricks/The […]

Indian Refiners Seek Alternatives To Russian Oil After Trump Tariff Threat Indian oil refiners have started looking for alternative supplies of crude after President Trump threatened secondary sanctions on Russian energy exports if Moscow refuses to sign a ceasefire deal for the Ukraine. Bloomberg reported that companies such as Bharat Petroleum Corp. and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. were looking for oil cargoes from the Middle East, […]

“There Will Be No Negotiating”: Tesla Firebombing Suspect Hit With Federal Charges, Faces 20 Years In Prison Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice has filed federal charges against a suspect in connection with a firebombing attack on a Tesla dealership in Loveland, Colorado. Cooper Frederick. Larimer County Sheriff’s Office Cooper Frederick, 24, faces federal charges related […]

Houthis Say They’ve Downed 16th Reaper Drone After Trump Warned ‘Real Pain Yet To Come’ On Tuesday the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, claimed that they shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was flying over Yemen. “Our air defenses successfully shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Maarib Governorate, using a suitable, locally made missile,” […]

Large Overnight Israeli Airstrike On Beirut Kills Hezbollah Official & Bystanders  Just before 4am local time, while much of the city was sleeping, Beirut was pounded by another large-scale Israeli airstrike, reportedly targeting a Hezbollah official who was among four killed in the attack. A woman was slain in the attack too, according to Lebanese health authorities. Top floors of a multi-story building were decimated in the […]

McMahon Threatens Newsom Over Transgender Athletes Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had plenty to say since launching his podcast earlier this month with a splash, breaking from Democratic Party orthodoxy and agreeing with MAGA organizer Charlie Kirk that allowing biological males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports is “deeply unfair.” In the last week alone, Newsom […]

Hollywood Claims Rachel Zegler Is “An Icon” Despite Epic Snow White Bomb Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years you’re probably familiar with the controversy surrounding the “wokification” of Disney and their constant attempts to inject leftist activism into their media products.  Disney’s cult-like dogma played a considerable role in the rise of the anti-woke movement and ultimately the fall of Hollywood, […]

Jim Quinn: Prophets, Nomads, & A Fourth Turning Accelerating Towards A Bloody Climax Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of […]

212,268 Pounds Of Egg Products Potentially Containing Bleach Recalled Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Hundreds of thousands of pounds of egg items are being pulled off the market, citing the potential presence of an “unapproved substance,” according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Recalled liquid egg products. USDA Michigan-based Cargill Kitchen Solutions is recalling […]

“They Were Literally Michael Jacksoning Him”: Incredible Details Of Biden’s Decline Emerge Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Wild details of Joe Biden’s rapid cognitive and physical deterioration have emerged in a new book, as it is revealed that handlers were trying to cover up signs of Biden’s physical decline with make up. Excerpts have emerged from a new book by entitled “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle […]

Fifty Achievements In Fifty Days Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Many friends of mine are frustrated at what they consider slow progress from the Trump administration. Whatever the pet issue, they want results now, and are otherwise ready to declare failure or betrayal. This is a reflection of the high hopes of the incoming administration. There was never a way to keep up. That’s why we should take a few […]

The Best And Worst Performing Assets Of The “March Meltdown” And “Queezy Q1” The first quarter was an incredibly tumultuous period for markets, with the S&P 500 posting its biggest quarterly decline since 2022.  The main driver of the market volatility according to DB’s Jim Reid, was an aggressive round of tariffs, as President Trump launched measures going well beyond his first term, with reciprocal tariffs still looming on […]

“Evil People”: Organized ‘Bankrupt Tesla’ Group Tied To Formerly USAID-Funded Disinfo Queen On Tuesday morning, former Biden administration “disinformation czar” Nina Jankowicz repeatedly refused to disclose who’s funding her new gig – the ‘American Sunlight Project’ – which cropped up after a stint at the USAID-funded UK-based Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) – for which she registered as a foreign agent while serving as […]

Repeating 2022? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In last week’s post, “Is the correction over?” we wrote about the potential for a rally back to the 200-DMA. However, the failure of that test increased short-term concerns. As we noted in that post, there were early indications of buyers returning to the market. To wit: “The chart below has four subpanels. The first is a simple price momentum […]

Mercedes May Abandon U.S. Entry-Level Market In Trump Era As President Trump’s long-anticipated reciprocal tariff deadline approaches tomorrow, early signals suggest that the global trading system may soon undergo disruptions and structural shifts. These changes eventually set the path for the administration’s ‘America First’ trade agenda to flourish and raise barriers for foreign automakers seeking to access the U.S. market. In […]

AI Program Refuses To Generate Image Of Muhammad Due To ‘Credible Threat Of Violent Backlash’ Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, AI program ChatGPT refused when asked to generate an image of the Prophet Muhammad due to what it asserted was a “credible, historically demonstrated” threat of a violent backlash. A user quizzed OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot as to why it wouldn’t create a depiction […]

“Maryland Father” Or MS-13 Migrant Gangster. Which Is It, MSM? Left-leaning corporate media unleashed another info war against the Trump administration after The Atlantic published an overnight story titled “An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison.” However, the struggling outlet behind “SignalGate” conveniently omitted a key detail in the headline: the deported migrant held a “prominent role in […]

Trump Says Nothing ‘Off The Table’ In Obtaining Greenland Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump said over the weekend that he has “absolutely” had real discussions about annexing the semiautonomous Danish territory of Greenland. Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, with the domes of the Thule Tracking Station in northern Greenland on Oct. 4, 2023. Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau […]

USDA Paid To Study Queer Farmers, Latinx Masculinity, More On Taxpayer Dime Authored by Casey Harper via The Center Square, U.S. taxpayers have shelled out tens of thousands of dollars in recent years to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for research on LGBT issues, the kind of funding now under scrutiny by the Trump administration. The research relies on conducting interviews – in one case for $373 per Zoom call – to […]