Poland’s Border Fortification Buildup Has Nothing To Do With Legitimate Threat Perceptions Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced last week that his country will build bunkers and trenches along its border with Russia and Belarus, which was followed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirming that security will be bolstered, including on anti-illegal immigrant […]

US Says Putin’s Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of ‘Desperation’ The Biden administration has reacted to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s significant cabinet shake-up announced Sunday, wherein Putin tapped Andrey Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specializes in economics, to move into the position of defense minister. Sergei Shoigu meanwhile has been moved to head Russia’s Security Council at the expense of […]

1000s Of Islamists Protest Against ‘Censorship’ After Calls For A Caliphate In Germenay Are Banned Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The Salafist group organizers claimed unfair censorship after strict conditions were imposed on Muslims calling for a caliphate in Germany and against anti-Semitic rhetoric… Thousands of Islamists took to the streets of Hamburg again on Saturday for what organizers called a “defense of […]

WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The World Health Organization (WHO) has watered down some provisions of its pandemic agreements ahead of the upcoming World Health Assembly on May 27. Critics in the United States, however, say the changes don’t do enough to address the concerns over the policy. Provisions in prior drafts of the WHO pandemic […]

South Korea Still Dominates The World With The Highest Density Of Robot Workers China’s huge investment in industrial robotics has made it one of the most automated nations on the planet in the space of just a few short years. As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, according to the latest study by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), the number of operational robots in China’s manufacturing industry reached a ratio of 392 […]

The Masked And The Super Masked Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), We live in an era of masks, only not the fun kind you might find at Carnivale in Venice, Italy. A pro-Palestinian protestor wears a keffiyeh on the West Lawn of Columbia University, in New York, on April 29, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images) Something considerably more sinister is going on. This era began, as almost all of […]

Which Countries Have The Highest Infant Mortality Rates? Infant mortality rates are generally regarded as the barometer of an overall population’s health. A higher rate indicates unmet needs of a population, especially with regards to food availability and sanitation. Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao visualized the top 15 countries with the highest infant mortality rates, according to 2023 estimates from the CIA World Factbook. […]

Go Nuts About Nuts To Help Keep Cancer At Bay Authored by Alexandra Roach via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In their many variations, nuts are a superfood praised as rich sources of minerals, vitamins, amino acids, proteins, and other bioactive compounds. (Pavel Kalenik/Unsplash) Chestnuts are champions for vitamin C, for instance. Pistachios contain the most vitamin A and potassium. Both are high in folic acid. Cashews enrich […]

Services No Longer Required: Which Jobs Are Most At Risk? Long before the emergence of ChatGPT and other AI tools threatening to take over our jobs, technological advancements have altered the way people work, making some occupations disappear, while others emerged. Did you know, for example, that people used to work as living alarm clocks before actual alarm clocks became a thing? “Knocker uppers”, as they were called, would […]

Oil – A Global Tax Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Few commodities wield as much influence in the intricate web of global economics as oil. Oil is pivotal in driving economic growth and development as the primary energy source for transportation, manufacturing, and countless other sectors. However, beneath its surface lies a hidden truth: oil can act as a tax on growth, imposing significant costs on economies […]

How Americans Feel About Federal Government Agencies Come election time, America won’t hesitate to show its approval or disapproval of the country’s elected political representatives. That said, feelings about the federal bureaucracy and its associated agencies are a little harder to gauge. Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao charts the results from an opinion poll conducted by Pew Research Center between March 13-19, 2023. In […]

Pressure On China Heightens As Capital Outflow Chokes Liquidity Authored by Simon Black, Bloomberg macro strategist, The latest money data from China shows its capital-outflow problem is worsening, pressuring policymakers to allow a further weakening in the currency. China released money and inflation data over the weekend. CPI and PPI were not great reading, but money supply data was even more downbeat: M2’s growth […]

UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over ‘Revised’ Gaza Casualty Data Since the start of the brutal Gaza conflict in the wake of Oct.7, a public ‘info-war’ has raged over the numbers of wartime casualties, especially on the Palestinian side. Something similar happened in the Syrian war, as well as in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war: either side’s true casualties became a matter of tightly guarded internal secrets on […]

Man Who Attacked Times Square Police Officers With Machete Sentenced To 27 Years Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge has handed down a 27-year prison sentence to the suspect who pleaded guilty to attacking a trio of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2022 in the name of radical Islamic extremism. A file photograph of a judge’s gavel. (Joe […]

“Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior” – Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices  Greedflation is a myth, and Democrats are well aware of this. However, they will never acknowledge that corporate greed isn’t the root cause of inflation, as greed tends to be constant in the economy. What changed is the overstimulation of the economy through failed Bidenomics, which involves spending $1 trillion […]

‘I Gave Up Shame Years Ago’: Clinton Denounces Trump For Doing What She Did In 2016 Authored by Jonathan Turley, “I gave up shame years ago.” Those words from actor John Lithgow appear to have been taken to heart by Hillary Clinton who has severed any sense of self-awareness or shame in her public comments. Lithgow, who played Bill Clinton in Broadway production of Hillary and Clinton, appears to have inspired the subject of […]

Pro-Israel PAC Guns For Massie – Did Speaker Johnson Encourage Attack? A prominent pro-Israel super PAC is gunning for Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, in retribution for his many recent votes against bills that advance Israel’s agenda in Washington. The group may have had some high-placed encouragement: Massie says House Speaker Mike Johnson recently threatened to sic the Israel lobby on Republicans who didn’t toe the […]

Will The Fed Lose Control? Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, According to new reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees, Social Security and a Medicare fund that pays for hospital expenses will both begin running deficits in 2035 and 2036. Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, Congress was too preoccupied spending billions more on military aid for foreign countries and banning […]

“Sand Volcano” Emerges In Central Florida Devo Seereeram, a Consulting Geotechnical Engineer and the owner of Devo Engineering has deemed the anomaly that has emerged in Central Florida to be a “sand volcano”.  The issue surfaced at a 300-million-gallon wastewater reservoir located west of State Road 429 in Apopka, near Golden Gem Road. This facility holds water intended for irrigating Apopka, Altamonte Springs, and nearby […]

Leftists Triggered By Trump Policy To Potentially Execute Child Sex-Traffickers Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Leftist outlet The Huffington Post is upset that Donald Trump has suggested that the death penalty should be extended to drug kingpins and child sex traffickers. In an article headlined “There’s A GOP Plan For An Execution Spree If Trump Wins The White House,” the outlet points to remarks Trump […]

Fast Casual Dining Foot Traffic “Plummets” Across New York-New Jersey As Consumer Cracks  The cost-of-living squeeze is crushing low-income consumers, so much that Goldman’s top consumer trader, Scott Feiler, recently pointed out that his desk is “getting bearish on consumer and our soft landing basket.” Days ago, Goldman analysts led by Bonnie Herzog provided clients with a fascinating list of corporate America’s warnings […]

Mayor Johnson Deepens Concerns About What Side He Will Be On If DNC Protesters Become Lawbreakers And Challenge Cops By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints Whose side will Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson be on if protesters become lawbreakers at the August Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and how will he direct police to respond? Concerns that Johnson will side with lawbreakers already are common, and Johnson’s  interview […]

Trump Tells Massive Crowd: “Day One” Executive Order Will Target Offshore Wind To Save Whales Former President Trump revealed at a large rally on Saturday evening in Wildwood, New Jersey, that if re-elected, he would sign an executive order on his first day in office to address offshore wind development along the East Coast.  Trump told a crowd of thousands that windmills are killing whales and fish. He pointed out that only a […]

Squeezed For Decades, America’s Working Class Is Finally Up Against The Wall Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The net result is America’s working class is up against the wall, maxed out. Let’s start by defining the working class in a meaningful way rather than by tossing around meaningless income metrics which implicitly suggest that exceeding some semi-arbitrary income bracket will magically lift a working […]

China’s Broadest Credit Metric Just Turned Negative For The First Time Since 2005 China has lots of economic problems (even if the market has been surprisingly generous in the past 4 months and allowed Chinese stocks to surge despite any actual economic rebound or recovery), but this is a new one. It is hardly a secret that for much of the past 15 years, and certainly in the aftermath of the Lehman collapse, it was China’s […]