Beijing Wants Nvidia Out But China’s AI Developers Aren’t Ready China has spent years pouring money and political capital into building a homegrown semiconductor industry. Yet when its AI companies need to train their most sophisticated models, many still turn to Nvidia, according to South China Morning Post. The biggest obstacle may no longer be the chips themselves. It is everything developers have built around them. Nvidia’s […]

‘Wolves In White Coats’: 5 Key Takeaways From HHS Report On Alleged Pediatric Gender-Treatment Fraud Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A report released Aug. 13 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has shined a light on alleged fraud by health providers who performed pediatric gender procedures. The report, titled “Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud […]

The Decline Of Higher Education Continues Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com, During my second career teaching high school English, I noticed several darkly funny but disturbing trends in “higher” education.  They were fueled by three primary drivers: abandoning merit, the federal government taking over the student loan industry, and DEI hysteria. It was Barack Obama who federalized the student loan […]

‘Delusional’: Iran Fires Back At Trump’s Make ‘Hormuz Strait A Territory Of The US’ Ambitions Predictably, Iran has on Saturday issued a full-throated rejection of President Trump’s Friday evening words related to the status on the conflict and energy transit in the region. In a speech on New York’s Long Island, Trump introduced the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz a US territory. “After we finish defeating Iran, which is […]

Second Ceuta Border Invasion Attempt Underway As Military-Aged Migrants Mass Near Spanish Enclave Summary:  Second Ceuta Border Invasion Attempt By Sub-Saharan Africans Ilegals  Public Health Disaster Unfolds In Ceuta After First Invasion, Weeks Ago Hybrid Warfare Fears Mount As Migrant Flows Weaponized  Italy’s Schengen suspension with Spain will remain until security risks disappear Weaponized Migrant Flows: Spain’s […]

Ukrainian Drone Swarm Attack Obliterates Wildberries’ Largest Warehouse Near Moscow Ukraine launched one of its largest kamikaze drone attacks of the war against Russia on Sunday, with Russia’s Defense Ministry saying air defenses intercepted 822 Ukrainian drones overnight, including roughly 600 headed toward Moscow. Ukrainian long-range missiles and drone swarms have targeted high-value military assets and oil and gas […]

British Busybodies Flood ‘999’ To Report Neighbors’ BBQs After Stupid Government Alert Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Millions of phones across England and Wales blared a sudden siren on Friday evening as the government unleashed its emergency alert system over ‘wildfire risk’. What followed was a wave of neighbour-on-neighbour reporting that left fire services and police inundated with non-emergency calls about […]

How Americans Spend Their Time On Weekdays Vs Weekends The rhythm of American life changes significantly when the workweek ends. Weekends and holidays bring more time for rest, recreation, chores, and social connections. At the same time, work and education occupy a much smaller share of the day. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows how Americans aged 15 and older redistribute their time between […]

What To Expect From El Niño And La Niña? As a strong El Niño phenomenon is being predicted for the coming months, large parts of the United States can potentially expect a wet and stormy fall and winter. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, this is seen in data from the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University. You will find more infographics at Statista While El Niño […]

Why Are They Getting Free Sh*t? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A major British telecoms giant is supplying thousands of free SIM cards loaded with six months of data to a charity that hands them out to illegal migrants arriving in the UK via boats, it has been revealed. The charity Care4Calais has distributed more than 162,000 items to nearly 30,000 people, including 2,221 Vodafone SIM cards, 3,765 hoodies, 3,532 […]

Inside Five Years Of Taliban Rule Since US Chaotic Exit Via Middle East Eye Five years after the Taliban’s return to power on August 15, 2021, Afghanistan has transformed from a chaotic battlefield into a functioning but deeply authoritarian state. Foreign troops are gone, and fragmented opponents have failed to mount a significant challenge to Kabul’s centralized control. The movement has established a degree of internal […]

Where In The World Are The Beer Lovers? While many countries have their own special days to celebrate beer, one of the oldest alcoholic beverages known to humankind, International Beer Day is aimed at beer drinkers everywhere. Every first Friday in August, special events are held in bars and pubs around the world. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, some countries’ inhabitants might be more prone to celebrate than […]

How Much Money Should You Convert To A Roth Each Year? Authored by Javier Simon via The Epoch Times, A Roth conversion allows you to turn funds in a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA. As a result, you get to enjoy qualified tax-free withdrawals in retirement. And you avoid the required minimum distributions (RMDs) that may trigger major tax consequences for retirees. Roth conversions can deliver major tax benefits, but knowing how […]

The Massachusetts Abortion Law Could Backfire On Democrats Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey spent this week signing away one of the last hard limits on abortion in a state that already ranked among the most permissive in the country, and now even some of her own party’s lawmakers think she went too far. The Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act strips away the state’s statutory ban on abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy. […]

A Tour Of America’s Blue-topias Authored by Spyridon Andrews via the Abstract Truth Substack, I lived in Massachusetts for a number of years and even at one time owned a home there. The home was in a town called Cotuit, on the Cape, a small, pretty town that recalled the atmosphere of the television show Lost or the novel Lord of the Flies. There was an equivalent feeling of desolation and desperation and the strange notion […]

Trump: 9 Months At Sea For USS Lincoln ‘Not Nearly Long Enough’ President Trump shrugged off mounting concerns over the welfare of 5,000 sailors aboard the USS Lincoln on Friday, denying that family members were worried and telling reporters that nine months at sea was “not nearly long enough.” His remarks came on the same day that he promised an audience that he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory, and that higher […]

Are China’s Surveillance Exports Turning Nations Into Digital Dictatorships? Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, Is Beijing hoping to turn other authoritarian societies into digital Chinas? China’s rise as the world’s leading exporter of surveillance technology is yielding some disturbing results. Beijing’s surveillance export packages comprise an entire technological architecture that can give governments an […]

Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Judges? Authored by Matthew Andersson via AmericanThinker.com, There is growing interest in whether an “ai” or, artificial intelligence judge can make better rulings than a human one.   This is understandable as many legal decisions are either wrong or flawed in some critical way.   Partisan politics and “lawfare” also continue to corrupt the legal system to a degree that has […]

“Won’t Be Short-Lived”: JPMorgan Warns Next Global Food Crisis Could Erupt Next Year JPMorgan is the latest institutional research desk to warn that the next global food crisis may already be taking shape, driven by what its analysts describe as the “Five Ws”: War, Weather, Warehousing, Water, and Waste. In a new report titled Food Security Is National Security: A Compounding Storm, a team led by London-based senior global […]

Fauci In Hiding As ABC Censorship Bombshell Explodes Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Dr. Anthony Fauci just refused a private transcribed interview with Sen. Ron Johnson’s subcommittee. The same week, a former ABC News correspondent revealed that the network gutted a 2021 Wuhan lab leak investigation after the script was sent to Fauci for review. The pattern is unmistakable. Stonewall. Censor. Invoke privilege. […]

More Than Half Of Gen Z Investors Have Moved Money Into Sports Bets A growing share of young Americans is folding sports gambling into their long-term financial plans, according to new research from the investment platform Betterment. In an online survey of 1,000 U.S. retail investors conducted in late March and early April and released this week, 52% of Gen Z investors said they had shifted money originally set aside for stocks […]

Rage Politics: Hakeem Jeffries Will Take A Baseball Bat To The Supreme Court Authored by Jonathan Turley, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has struggled to pander to the mob to secure power in the midterm elections, including brandishing a baseball bat on social media to show his radical bona fides. With Democratic Socialists chanting “you’re next” when seeing Jeffries, he continues to struggle to stay in front of […]

Woke 2.0 Will Be Worse Authored by Spencer Klavan via AmericanMind.org, Readers familiar with Dr. Seuss’s classic, The Cat in the Hat, will remember the twin chaos agents Thing 1 and Thing 2. “‘These Things are good Things,’” the Cat reassures the children whose mother has inexplicably left them under the supervision of a fish. “‘They are tame. Oh, so tame! / They have come here to play.’” The Things briefly […]

Ukraine Hits Key Russian Space Facility With Flamingo Cruise Missiles Ukraine’s long-range drone attacks have frequently targeted military bases and oil refinery and energy sites of late, and more recently warehouses of major Russian online retailer Wildberries – but on Saturday a new target has been added: space facilities. Ukrainian forces have touted that they’ve struck the Progress Rocket and Space Center in Russia’s Samara […]

Somali Piracy Surges Amid Hormuz Blockade Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced hundreds of commercial ships onto longer routes around Africa, and Somali pirates are moving quickly to exploit the sudden increase in traffic off the continent’s eastern coast. Oil tankers MT Honour 25, MT Eureka and MT Asana were hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and off Puntland between […]