Trump: Let In 600,000 Chinese Students To Prop-Up Universities Authored by Matt Lamb via TheCollegeFix.com, President Donald Trump doubled down on his support for flooding the country with 600,000 students from Communist China as a way to prop up colleges and universities. Fox News host Laura Ingraham pressed Trump on his proposal, questioning whether it was in America’s interest to bring in so many Chinese students. The […]

Tucker Exposes Trump Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks’ Social Media History, The FBI Coverup, And More Strangeness Tucker Carlson has just released a deep dive into Donald Trump’s attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks – who both the Biden and the Trump FBI have been very quiet about since the July 13, 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.  In late September, Carlson’s team received an anonymous tip from someone who said they had […]

Breaking Burry Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance One major headline today is that Michael Burry, of The Big Short fame, is shuttering his fund, Scion Capital. In his letter calling it quits, he wrote: “Sometimes, we see bubbles. Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.” I’ve been around markets long enough to believe that short sellers are generally more objectively […]

Operation Affordability: Trump Prepares Tariff Cuts, Trade Deals To Lower Food Prices Ahead Of Midterms  President Trump’s Operation Affordability initiative kicked off this week, with the White House unveiling plans for tariff reductions and expanded trade ties with Latin American countries to boost imports of key food products. The goal: drive down supermarket prices ahead of the 2026 midterm election cycle to reverse darkening […]

Walmart Board Names Successor As Long-Time CEO McMillon Steps Down Walmart shares moved lower in premarket trading after news that CEO Doug McMillon will retire on January 31, 2026. Still, he will remain on the Board until the next shareholder meeting and continue advising through 2027.  McMillon will be replaced by John Furner, 51, currently head of Walmart U.S., who has been with the company for more than 30 years, rising from […]

Letitia James Targets Condé Nast Over Firing Of Workers Accused Of Disrupting Workplace Authored by Jonathan Turley, New York Attorney General Letitia James has a long history of lawfare, pandering to her political base by targeting Donald Trump, the National Rifle Association, and others. Now, she is thrilling her base by promising to go after Condé Nast after the company fired four employees who had a confrontation with […]

Judge Denies Apple, OpenAI Bid To Dismiss Elon Musk’s Antitrust Lawsuit Authored by Vismaya V via Decrypt.co, A U.S. federal judge denied Apple and OpenAI’s motions to dismiss Elon Musk’s antitrust suit. The ruling allows X Corp. and xAI’s claims to proceed, with Judge Mark Pittman directing the case toward summary judgment rather than early dismissal. The lawsuit targets Apple’s exclusive ChatGPT integration into […]

Futures Tumble As AI Euphoria Goes Into Reverse It’s ugly out there. Futs are sharply lower on doubts about whether the Fed will cut interest rates again in December, as fear deepens about stretched AI valuations and the debt used to fund them. S&P 500 futures are down 1% at 8:00 a.m.ET following continued unwind of momentum/AI thematic + hawkish Fed digestion (Kashkari undecided on Dec cut yesterday makes 5 officials now […]

Judge Orders DHS To Release Hundreds Of ICE Detainees In Chicago Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled Nov. 13 that hundreds of illegal immigrants held by ICE in Illinois may be released on bond and ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to assess whether they pose any safety risk to the public. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the Northern District of Illinois issued the ruling […]

US Sanctions Strand A Third of Russia’s Crude Exports at Sea Submitted by Charles Kennedy of OilPrice Nearly a third of Russia’s current seaborne oil export potential is now stuck in tankers as the U.S. sanctions upend crude flows and Russia’s top buyers, China and India, are still struggling to assess the implications of the sanctions, according to JPMorgan.   “Russia’s oil exports are entering a new phase of […]

US Monitoring Russian Ship Operating In International Waters Near Hawaii Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, The United States Coast Guard is tracking a Russian military ship that was detected in international waters near Oahu, Hawaii, at the end of October, the agency announced in a statement on Thursday. The military branch said that, on Oct. 29, it detected the Russian vessel approximately 15 miles south of Oahu. […]

Oil Prices Soar After Ukraine Strike On Major Russian Export Hub Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Oil prices jumped in early Asian trade on Friday morning as markets responded to renewed Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure. A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, one of the country’s most significant oil export hubs, triggered renewed fears of supply disruptions. […]

Key Ocean Current Faltering, Raising Risk Of “Ice Age”-Like Cooling And just like that we’re free from climate hysteria and worried about a new “ice age”…Funny how that works, isn’t it?  A new study in Communications Earth & Environment warns that a key Atlantic current could near collapse within decades, potentially triggering an “ice age” scenario and major sea-level rise, according to the NY Post. The research, from […]

UAE-Based DP World Takes Control Of Syria’s Tartus Port In $800M Deal Via Middle East Eye Syria has formally handed over operations of Tartus port, the second largest port in the country, to the UAE-based logistics company DP World.  DP World officially commenced operations on Wednesday, months after signing a 30-year concession agreement worth $800m with Syria’s General Authority for Land and Sea Ports. The deal has been […]

EU Development Bank Boosts Funding For Ukraine Gas Supply Submitted by Michael Kern of OilPrice.com, The European Union’s development bank has decided to provide additional funds to Ukraine’s state energy firm Naftogaz to secure natural gas supply amid continued Russian attacks on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.  The European Investment Bank (EIB), the bank of the European Union, will extend a $147-million (127 million […]

German Chancellor Tells Zelensky Young Men Should Return & Defend Their Homeland At a moment the Zelensky government is suffering embarrassment and under a global spotlight for a wide-ranging corruption case related to the country’s struggling state energy sector, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has issued some unusually strong words directed at Ukrainian leadership. In televised remarks Thursday he revealed that he […]

The Next Phase Of Germany’s Nord Stream Investigation Might Further Worsen Ties With Poland Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Italy’s potential extradition of a Ukrainian suspect to Germany could lead to a highly publicized (and predictably politicized) trial that implicates Poland in this unprecedented attack on a fellow NATO ally. The Wall Street Journal recently published a detailed piece about “The Nord Stream […]

Escobar: China’s Relentless Innovation Drive Is Reaching Fever Pitch Authored by Pepe Escobar, China’s innovation drive is reaching fever pitch in 2025. Let’s cut to the chase and focus on four crucial domains. 1.The Huawei Factor Huawei is already testing its first, self-developed EUV lithography machine capable of producing 3nm chips. Trial tests are going full blast at the research center in Dongguan, and mass […]

These Are The Car Brands And US Cities With The Most Drunk Drivers, New Study Shows Drunk driving remains one of the leading causes of traffic deaths in the United States, claiming an average of 34 lives every day — a total of 13,429 in 2023, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Nearly one-third of all road fatalities are alcohol-related. But as new data from The Suzuki Law Firm shows, the problem is […]

Trump Admin Considering ‘Portable Mortgages’: Top US Housing Regulator Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, The country’s top housing regulator said the Trump administration is considering another tool that could address America’s affordability challenges. “We are actively evaluating portable mortgages,” Bill Pulte, Federal Housing Finance Agency director, said in a Nov. 12 post on X, providing no further […]

Israel Seeks New 20-Year Defense Funding Deal With US “This is out-of-the-box thinking,” an Israeli official has been quoted in Axios as saying. “We want to change the way we handled past agreements and put more emphasis on US-Israel cooperation. The Americans like this idea.” The comment stems from what many on the American Right increasingly see as a very asymmetrical relationship based on Washington’s seeming longtime ‘blank […]

Food Stamps & The Federal War On Self-Reliance Authored by James Bovard via The Mises Institute, During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But the delayed payments had scant impact in part […]

Bondi Says Acting US Attorney Alina Habba Confronted, Property Destroyed Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Thursday that an individual allegedly tried to confront acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba and destroyed property. Alina Habba, with husband Gregg Reuben, is sworn in by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi as interim U.S. attorney for […]

State Dept Labels Four Antifa-Linked Cells As Foreign Terrorist Organizations As Fight Against Radical Left Goes Global The Trump administration expanded its crackdown on far-left violent extremist networks Thursday, as the State Department designated four far-left militant groups as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and announced plans to formally add them to the Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list next […]

Confronting Anti-Ellis Island Immigration Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S.—or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams. They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally. With the gradual […]