Polymarket Cleared For US Adoption After CFTC Ruling, CEO Says Just weeks after Donald Trump Jr. invested in Polymarket and joined the advisory board, the crypto-based prediction markets platform – that rose to prominence during the 2024 presidential election – has reportedly been cleared to enter the United States. “Polymarket is the largest prediction market in the world, and the U.S. needs access to this important […]

IAEA Discovers Traces Of Depleted Uranium At Syrian Sites Bombed By Israel Via The Cradle The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has detected uranium traces in Syria during inspections of a site Israel destroyed in 2007, according to a confidential report circulated to member states this week. The samples, taken last year from one of three unnamed sites “allegedly functionally related” to Deir Ezzor, contained a large […]

Sick Leftist Audience Boos When Colbert Tells Them Trump Is Alive Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Canned talk show host Stephen Colbert’s leftist audience proved how demented and sick they are by loudly booing when Colbert addressed stupid online rumours of President Trump’s demise and lamented that the President “is very much alive.” Colbert stated “It’s great to be back with all of you. We were on […]

ConocoPhillips To Slash Up To 25% Of Workforce ConocoPhillips, one of the largest independent exploration and production (E&P) companies in the U.S., told employees earlier that it plans to reduce its overall workforce by around 25%. The announcement comes as U.S. economic data show signs of softening, such as the disappointing jobs figures earlier today, which have pushed the odds of a 25-basis-point interest rate cut later […]

Schumer, Jeffries Call For Bipartisanship To Avoid Government Shutdown Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Democratic leaders in the Senate and House are calling for bipartisanship to avoid a government shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), joined by Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) , speaks to reporters at the Capitol, in Washington on April 4, 2025. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Congress […]

New Card Data Shows Exactly Why Cracker Barrel Pivoted Back To Old Logo  Shareholders of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store learned very abruptly last month just how toxic wokeism – what many call the “woke mind virus” – has infected top levels of management, becoming a major liability for the brand and potentially threatening the very existence of the restaurant chain. CEO Julie Felss Masino’s attempt to strip the beloved […]

Appeals Court Allows EPA To Cancel $16 Billion In Climate Grants Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A divided federal appeals court on Sept. 2 ruled that the Trump administration may terminate $16 billion in grants to nonprofits intended to finance climate-related projects. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Subcommittee on Environment on Capitol Hill in […]

German Elections Thrown Into ‘Immense Chaos’ After Wave Of AfD Deaths Rises To Seven German elections in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia have been thrown into chaos ahead of a Sept. 14 election – after a spate of candidates for Germany’s right-wing AfD have died in recent weeks – with the total now at seven. And while local authorities say there is no evidence of foul play, officials are now scrambling to shred and […]

Labor Market Crosses Critical Threshold: For First Time Since 2021 There Are More Unemployed Than Job Openings Ahead of today’s JOLTs reported, which as usual lags the monthly jobs report (due Friday) by one month, markets were largely focused on it as an indication of whether and how big negative prior month jobs revisions would be (as a reminder, July and June saw the biggest negative 2-month jobs revision since Covid, prompting […]

Appeals Court Blocks Trump Deporting Illegal Venezuelan Immigrants Under Alien Enemies Act Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump had unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan illegal immigrants who were suspected of being part of a criminal gang. In a 2–1 decision, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a preliminary […]

US Factory Orders Dropped Again In July As Tariff Front-Running Hangover Lingers While US Manufacturing PMIs improved in August (after falling in July), today’s ‘hard’ data for US Manufacturing (for July) was expected to show another decline (after June’s large 4.8% MoM post-tariff-front-running drop). Headline factory orders fell 1.3% MoM (as expected) as the hangover from the massive tariff-front-running in May lingers, dragging […]

‘Unstoppable’: Xi Unveils Nuclear Triad In Military Parade Challenging West, Alongside Putin & Kim Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s massive military parade in Tiananmen Square marking the end of World War II, and attended by world leaders, mostly notably so-called ‘pariahs’ Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, hasn’t disappointed – and even elicited a quick response from President Trump. Chinese leader […]

White House Has Backup Strategy If Trump’s Tariffs Are Overturned: Bessent Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the White House has plenty of tools at its disposal to implement President Donald Trump’s global tariffs if the Supreme Court does not uphold his use of a 1977 emergency powers law. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters during a briefing at […]

EU Accelerating Toward Collapse: Merz, Draghi, And Lagarde Reveal Europe’s Crisis Path Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The Chancellor seems to have collided with reality during the summer break. Merz sees the German social system in deep crisis. Meanwhile, his political allies in Brussels are calling for an increase in the very dose of poison that is making Europe sick. Let’s be blunt: Large parts of the political elite have a […]

Hegseth To Narco-Terrorists: “Assets Gathering In Region” After Drug-Boat Blown Apart In Missile Strike Update (Wednesday Morning):  In a Fox News interview, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this morning that Tuesday’s military action against a drug-laden boat that departed Venezuela killed 11 Tren de Aragua militants, warning that this is “just the beginning.” 🚨 BREAKING: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says the […]

US Tariffs Top $31 Billion In August, A New Record High Authored by Victoria Freedman via The Epoch Times, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Sept. 2 in a post on X that tariff revenues exceeded $31 billion in August, setting a new record high. The Treasury’s latest Daily Statement showed $31.37 billion in tariff revenue as of Aug. 29, totaling $183.56 billion in the fiscal year to date. Bessent wrote on X: “Now […]

Futures Rebound As Google Jumps On Court Ruling, Bond Selloff Fades US equity futures are higher following a two-day slide, led by Tech with a favorable court ruling boosting GOOG (+5.7% pre-mkt) and lifting the Mag7 group. As of 8:00am ET S&P futures are up 0.5%, recovering most of yesterday’s losses; while Nasdaq 100 futs add 0.7%. In premarket trading, Mag7 names are all higher with AAPL (+2.9%) and TSLA (+1.7%) the notable […]

Bessent: “We May Declare A National Housing Emergency In Fall” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Washington Examiner on Labor Day that the Trump administration may declare a national housing emergency in the coming months to address the affordability crisis. Bessent’s comments come just ahead of an expected interest-rate cut cycle, underscoring the administration’s urgent effort to address the affordability crisis, which […]

The Quiet Rebranding Of CBDCs As “Digital-ID” Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Let’s call them for what they are: Social Credit systems. We know that “CBDC” stands for Central Bank Digital Currencies – and we have long held our hypothesis on what those entail (the TL;DR is that they will either launch as, or morph into, China-style social credit systems). We’ve seen an Executive Order expressly ruling […]

Pentagon Taps 600 Military Lawyers To Serve As Temporary Immigration Judges For DOJ  According to a federal government memo reviewed by The Associated Press, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the branches of the armed services to transfer up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, following an urgent request for assistance from the Department of Homeland Security. The […]

“I’m So F**king Sick Of Watching Politicians Get Rich While They’re In Office…”  Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Ilhan Omar: Preaching Socialism, Practicing Capitalism  I am so f**kng sick of watching politicians on both sides of the aisle get rich while they’re in office. But when politicians rail against millionaires and billionaires while quietly joining their ranks, it’s even worse, because it’s hypocrisy […]

Germany Says Russia Using ‘Disposable Agents’ To Conduct Sabotage The German government has launched a public campaign warning about Russian attempts to recruit so-called “disposable agents” through social media for espionage and sabotage, AFP reports. The accusation comes after years of a shadow war which has involved apparent tit-for-tat sabotage attacks and assassinations both in Europe and in Russia. Mystery fires have erupted, […]

Google’s Android Lockdown: Are You Really In Control Of Your Phone? Authored by Juan Galt via BitcoinMagazine.com, Android’s new rule requires all app developers to submit personal information to Google, even for apps outside the Play Store. Critics argue this threatens user freedom and ignores solutions… Android, Google’s mobile operating system, announced on August 25 that it will be requiring all app developers to […]

Was Greta Thunberg A Globalist Propaganda Weapon For years, globalists pushed “climate crisis” propaganda across Western countries, directly attacking the fossil-fuel industry in favor of unreliable “green” energy, while orchestrating a heist on the U.S. Treasury through climate legislation such as the Inflation Reduction Act that plowed billions into dark money-funded NGOs. There was a war on your mind, a war against humanity […]

German Union Demands Climate Policy U-Turn Submitted by Thomas Kolbe For far too long, entrepreneurs and employee representatives have silently accepted the ecological crash course of politics. Now, the chemical union IG BCE is demanding a shift in climate policy. Slowly, the penny seems to be dropping. A storm is brewing in Berlin. The faint rumble that barely drew attention weeks ago has now grown into unmistakable thunderclaps: […]