The Marine Corps That Should Have Been Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearPolitics, Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen’s Houthis from slinging missiles at shipping in the Red Sea. The difference is simply geography. The […]

FBI File On Jeff Bezos’ Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed What’s not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon’s supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. Years later, DARPA developed the internet and spurred breakthroughs in high-speed networking, voice recognition, and internet search.  One year […]

Rural Western North Carolina Community Protests ‘Covert’ Plans For EV Battery Plant Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of residents in western North Carolina are protesting their county board’s lack of transparency over furtive moves to welcome an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing the residents believe would pollute their waters and ruin their scenic countryside. A view of the […]

Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An “F”   Billionaire investor and Duquesne Family Office Chairman & CEO Stan Druckenmiller slammed Bidenomics and warned the Federal Reserve and federal government “misdiagnosed Covid and thought it was — we were going into a depression.” Druckenmiller has been irritated by the massive fiscal spending by the federal government, which we outlined last year as a “stealth stimulus” […]

Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America’s Gardens Authored by Sina McCullough via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As spring gardening approaches, a new contender has entered the fray—the genetically modified (GM) Purple Tomato. Unlike its GM predecessors, the GM Purple Tomato is not destined solely for the fields of commercial agriculture—it has made its debut in the backyards of home gardeners across the […]

F-22 Stealth Fighter Suffers “Mishap” At Savannah Airport  Isn’t it remarkable that while the military-industrial complex, neoconservative warmongers, and radical leftists in the White House seem to push for further conflict in Eastern Europe without even a hint of suggesting peace negotiations with Russia, some of America’s most advanced military jets are unfit for combat? The latest example comes from Savannah/Hilton Head […]

Trump Is A Rorschach Test For The Body Politic Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It is no secret that Donald Trump is a hot wire that either fires up the imagination of voters or fries the brain. For those of us who experience Trump as a Promethean bringer of enlightening fire to the dark barren fields of modern politics, it is hard to fathom the reaction of those who are terrified of him. We just say they have […]

Trump Classified Document Trial Postponed Indefinitely Days After ‘Mishandled Evidence’ Bombshell One day after postponing a filing deadline in Donald Trump’s classified documents case, Judge Aileen M. Cannon has postponed the whole thing indefinitely. In a Tuesday decision, Cannon vacated (canceled) Trump’s May 20 trial date, and wrote that setting a new date given the enormous stack of pre-trial matters would be “imprudent.” […]

7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Over the past several decades, America’s culture has been transformed at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking.  When I was growing up, I was convinced that I believed in a shared set of national values that most other Americans also embraced.  But in our day and age those values have been discarded and […]

WTI Dips After API Reports Across-The-Board Inventory Builds Oil prices ended the day flat today (after touching the lowest level in almost two months on news reports said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak indicated OPEC+ could move to raise crude production). Novak told Russia’s Interfax news agency that the possibility of increasing oil production within the OPEC+ framework was still being analyzed. “It always […]

Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they’re withdrawing from the competition en masse. The world has changed over the past two generations in ways that don’t fit the heavily promoted narratives of “growth” and “progress.” The “growth” and “progress” narratives hold that everything is getting better in every […]

‘Clothes Off, Bra On, Missionary Position’: Stormy Goes Into Specifics During Trump Trial Testimony Update (1400ET): Daniels went into further detail about her alleged encounter with Trump, testifying that at one point she went to the bathroom in a hotel room and emerged to find Trump waiting for her in his underwear. “He was just up on the bed like this,” she said, pulling her leg up to her waist on the witness stand. She […]

Kashkari & Consumer Credit Curtail Stock & Bond Gains Another quiet macro day (although an ugly picture was painted late on by the unexpectedly weak revolving credit increase – potentially signaling a US consumer who really has hit their limit). Some FedSpeak wiped a little lipstick off the early pig’s squeeze higher as Kashkari seemed to offer both sides some hope (but it spoiled the fun with the ‘we could hike’ line): […]

Pfizer Stock Hit After Boy Dies Of Cardiac Arrest During Gene Therapy Trial Stock in Pfizer dropped on Tuesday after a young boy receiving experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy died during the trial. According to STAT News, Pfizer has yet to determine exactly what happened or how the boy died Pfizer has confirmed that the boy suffered cardiac arrest, and is pausing crossing over patients in its randomized […]

Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High After several months of wild swings in US consumer debt, culminating with last month’s jump in credit card debt to a new all time high despite record high credit card rates, in March households finally hit a brick wall because according to the latest consumer credit data published by the Federal Reserve moments ago, in the last month of Q1, total […]

New Star Wars Animated Series Features A ‘They/Them’ Jedi Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Disney+ is taking more flak for crowbarring a them/them character into its latest Star Wars series. The animated show Tales of the Empire, is made up of six shorts, with one of the episodes featuring a non-binary Jedi. In a scene below, the they/them agrees to surrender to an Inquisitor, a character that hunts Jedi, just as […]

One Third Of Stanford Students OK With Violence To Shut Down Speech; Report Authored by Samantha Swenson via The College Fix, More than one third of Stanford University students say using physical violence to stop a speech is acceptable in at least some circumstances, according to a new report. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression conducted the survey after federal Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech on campus […]

Title IX Rule Change On Gender Triggers Lawsuits From 15 States Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration and advising schools to ignore the new federal Title IX changes that expand sex discrimination protection to students who identify as the opposite sex, or transgender. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock, Alejandro […]

Biden Ready To Use SPR Again If Oil Prices Rise Several weeks after we reported that – very unsurprisingly – the Biden admin had halted its laughable attempts to refill the SPR as oil prices soared (having missed its entire window to do so when WTI was trading in the low $70s), we speculated that it may be only a matter of time before the senile president decides to start draining the strategic reserve all over again to keep gas […]

Stellar 3Y Auction Stops-Through Thanks To Jump In Foreign Demand The first refunding auction of the quarter just concluded when the Treasury sold $58BN in 3 Year paper, unchanged from last month’s size and matching the previous record high hit during the covid crisis. The auction priced at a high yield of 4.605%, up from 4.548% in April, but while that auction tailed by 2bps, today’s auction stopped through the When Issued 4.608% […]

Florida Becomes First State To Ban ‘Fake Meat’ Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida’s governor has signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law to officially ban lab-grown meat, in a bid to protect the Sunshine State’s cattle industry and its residents. Lab-grown meat is presented in the Disgusting Food Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 6, 2018. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images) Florida […]

TikTok Sues US Government Over ‘Forced-Sale’ Or ‘Ban’ Law As was promised and expected, TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance have sued to challenge the new US law, arguing that the law is unconstitutional. The New York Times reports, citing a petition the company provided, that the company alleges the new law violates users’ First Amendment rights, by effectively removing an app that millions of Americans use to share their […]

Biden Withholds Shipment Of Boeing-Made Precision Bombs From Israel Over Rafah Offensive Update(1212ET): We noted earlier that Israel’s Rafah ground offensive currently in progress constitutes a glaring instance of Netanyahu’s willingness to blow past Biden’s ‘red line’ which was repeatedly verbalized in the last weeks and months. It now appears that Biden is ready to belatedly get ‘tough’ (or at least keep up the appearance of […]

Zelensky Assassination Plot Foiled, Two Colonels Arrested, Ukraine Intelligence Says The Ukrainian government and intelligence services are claiming that a major assassination plot targeting President Volodymyr Zelensky has been thwarted. The plot also allegedly aimed to take out other top military and political figures. Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) unveiled the plot Tuesday in announcing the detention of two colonels […]

“Oooh! Rate Cuts!” vs. “Oh! Not Rate Cuts” By Michael Every of Rabobank “Oooh! Rate Cuts!” vs. “Oh! Not Rate Cuts” Markets are their own happy story this morning as “Oooh! Rate cuts!” is again the meme du jour. But back in the real world it’s “Oh! Not rate cuts.” Yemen’s Houthis say they can now hit the Eastern Mediterranean as well as the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. If all three and Suez are out of bounds for […]