Police Surround Iran Consulate In Paris Where Man Threatens To Blow Himself Up A major police and emergency response is ongoing outside the Iranian consulate in Paris on Friday, where a man is reportedly threatening to blow himself up in what’s possibly some kind of hostage standoff. Police are asking the public to avoid the area and say that security services’ intervention in the situation is imminent. “Service was interrupted on […]

Economic Warning From The NFIB Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) survey was an economic warning that departed widely from more robust governmental reports. In a recent analysis of small businesses, we discussed the importance those business owners play in the economy. “It is crucial to understand that small and mid-sized businesses comprise a […]

Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation While US futures are still modestly in the red, they are not only well off the worst overnight levels, but they are almost unchanged since yesterday’s close following a performative Israeli retaliation. which followed a performative Iranian attack, which appears to be the end of the story. For those who missed it, early on Friday […]

The Great Firewall: China Orders Apple To Remove WhatsApp, Threads From App Store The Cyberspace Administration of China asked Apple on Friday to remove Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China due to national security concerns. Signal and Telegram—two foreign messaging apps—were also removed from the Chinese App Store. The removal of the four apps comes as elites in Washington, DC, attempt to ban […]

Hard Money Heat Check Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance There are few things I like more about NBA basketball than when a player gets so hot that it seems as though they can’t miss a shot, no matter where they are shooting from. The legendary video game NBA Jam captured this beautifully, for those that remember. A “heat check” is when a hot player takes what would normally be a shot that’s borderline absurd because they […]

23andMe Saved From Collapse After CEO Floats Private Takeover   DNA-testing company 23andMe soared in the early cash session in New York on news that Anne Wojcicki, the CEO, plans to take the struggling company private after three years on the public markets. The company once sported a $6 billion valuation and has since collapsed to $235 million.  Wojcicki’s big announcement was made in a public filing late Wednesday. The […]

What Happened To Bitcoin? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before. Today, no one much cares about what came before, speaking of 2010-2016. They are only watching the upward price momentum and are thrilled for the increase in the asset valuation of their portfolio.  Gone is the talk […]

Albanian “King Of Instagram” Used Platform To Tell Followers How To Sneak Into Britain, Join The Drug Trade While we’re sure social media sites are busy moderating “misinformation” once again ahead of the all-important 2024 election, one influencer is using Instagram to give his followers tips on sneaking into Britain and making £6,000 a month working illegally in the drug trade. ‘You know there are a lot of brothers and sisters […]

Weak EV Market Dragged Down European Car Sales In March By Tsvetana Paraskova of Oilprice.com Europe’s new car sales fell in March for the first time this year, dragged down by a decline in electric vehicle (EV) registrations and the timing of the Easter holidays, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, ACEA, said on Thursday.    All new car sales in the European Union car market dropped by 5.2% year-on-year to […]

Markets Dump Then Rebound As Israel Retaliates To Iran In Oddly Toothless, Performative Response SUMMARY:  Iran says its nuclear facilities remain unharmed: Reuters Situation in Iran’s Isfahan is normal, no explosion taken place on ground: PressTV CNN: Two US oficials say Israel indicated they would not attack nuclear targets. US didn’t “green light” this attack. Unconfirmed: IRGC states that Iran will target Israeli nuclear […]

Swiss Watch Exports Crash In China & Hong Kong Fears of a luxury slowdown are materializing. New data from the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry shows that exports of luxury timepieces tumbled the most since 2020 as demand crashed in Asia.  Swiss watch exports dropped in March. Their value fell by 16.1% compared with the same month in 2023 to 2 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion). Cratering demand in China and Hong Kong […]

‘Israel Propped Up Hamas’: Fireworks Ensue During ZeroHedge Debate, Dennis Prager Says Atrocity Claims ‘Libel’ On Wednesday night, against the backdrop of the war in Gaza expanding to Lebanon and Syria, ZeroHedge held a debate to discuss the war in the Middle East. Debating that question and more at last night’s ZeroHedge debate were talk show host Dennis Prager and Newsweek opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon vs. Young Turks […]

Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won’t Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This is credible enough of a reason to justify a conventional NATO intervention in defense of Israel without giving Ukraine grounds to claim that there are double standards at play. Ukraine became jealous like never before after NATO members helped shoot down Iranian missiles en route to […]

Illegal UK Immigrant Who Protested With Sign Saying “Migrants Are Not Criminals” Pleads Guilty To Rape Of 15-Year-Old Girl Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, A Congolese migrant who had his deportation from the U.K. blocked by an airline’s cabin crew and previously campaigned outside a detention center with a sign that read, “Migrants are not criminals,” has pleaded guilty to raping a 15-year-old girl. Anicet Mayela […]

BRICS – The Project Of The Century Authored by Peter Hanseler via VoiceOfRussia.com, The Western media are prioritizing the Ukraine conflict, the green revolution and the woke revolution. In the shadow of this media coverage, BRICS is changing the world. We bring you the latest figures and place them in the current geopolitical environment. – An analysis.   Introduction One of the main topics of this blog is BRICS. We […]

N.Y. Gives Trump The Anne Boleyn Treatment Authored by Richard Porter via RealClear Politics, Jury selection is underway now complete in the case of The People of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, which alleges that the defendant lied to his own check register, and lied to the general ledger of his own company, when the invoice given to him by his lawyer was paid and recorded by someone else, and that the misstatement he […]

FBI Repatriates Revolutionary War-Era Firearms At Philadelphia’s Museum Of The American Revolution The FBI announced the return of several Revolutionary War-era firearms during a repatriation ceremony at Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution last week, according to CBS. These guns, stolen in the 1960s and 1970s from around Valley Forge Park, were recovered following a lengthy investigation involving the FBI’s Art Crime […]

“This Is Too Stupid For It Not To Be The Plan” Holter Hammers Globalist Agenda ‘Driving America Into A Brick Wall’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Back in February, when everyone was predicting a Fed rate cut, precious metals expert and financial writer Bill Holter said rates would be going up and not down.  Since that call, the 10-Year Treasury is up more than 30 basis points.  It closed today at 4.67%.  Now, Holter is […]

Moar Power: White House Considers Invoking “Unprecedented” Climate Emergency How best to grab power when there’s no convenient emergency to use as excuse? Invent one! That’s right: if you had ‘climate emergency’ on your ‘list of disasters to prompt mail-in balloting’ bingo card, you may soon be able to cross that square off. That’s because the Biden administration is reportedly renewing discussions “about potentially declaring a […]

Conservatives Call For House Hearing On Google Gemini Ahead Of 2024 Election Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, Conservative activists have been calling for the House GOP to hold congressional hearings regarding the threat of Google Gemini, Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) program, and its left-wing biases ahead of the 2024 election. As reported by Just The News, a letter signed by multiple conservative […]

Democrats Believe This Is Their Winning Strategy In 2024 Election Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Florida Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on April 1, upholding a 15-week abortion ban that was signed into law in 2022. The ruling paved the way for a six-week abortion ban to take effect on May 1. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) A second ruling on the same […]

‘China Is Xenophobic & Cheating’: Biden Ramps Up Anti-Beijing Rhetoric On Campaign Trail President Biden has ramped up his anti-China rhetoric on the campaign trail ahead of November, looking to grab headlines away from Trump while touring northern industrial states, and he has just called for major increases to some tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum products. “These are strategic and targeted actions that are going to […]

Top Military Official Lied About Jan. 6: Whistleblowers Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The secretary of the Army on Jan. 6, 2021, lied about multiple details regarding what unfolded as the U.S. Capitol was breached, National Guard whistleblowers said during a congressional hearing on April 17. Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy testifies to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on […]

Watch: Chasing Trump With an ominous soundtrack throughout, Chasing Trump is the very first documentary produced by American Greatness. The documentary does a deep dive into the backgrounds of the four prosecutors handling former President Trump’s various legal cases, making the case that they are all “politically corrupt”, and accusing them of trying to “get Trump” because they fear he will win the November 2024 US presidential […]

Watch: Biden Falsely Claims That WWII Uncle Eaten By Cannibals, Twice Joe Biden has always been a prolific liar and plagiarist, but on Wednesday he took things to another level. While attempting to disparage former President Donald Trump for ‘skipping out’ on a 2018 visit to a military cemetery outside Paris (when in fact the Navy made a ‘bad-weather’ call), Biden claimed that his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. “Bozey” Finnegan Jr., was […]