DHS Offering $3,000 To Illegal Aliens To Self-Deport As Part Of Holiday Deal Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering triple the amount of cash to illegal immigrants who willingly leave the United States through a smartphone app as part of a “holiday deal.” In this photo illustration, a phone displays the CBP Home App, on May 5, 2025. Oleksii […]

Zurich Has The World’s Most Expensive Cappuccino, Amsterdam The Cheapest Coffee is a daily ritual for millions of people around the world. Yet the price of a simple cappuccino can vary dramatically depending on where you order it. Local wages, rents, taxes, and currency strength all shape what consumers ultimately pay for their caffeine fix. This visualization ranks the most expensive cappuccinos among the 69 major cities covered […]

Germany’s Debt-Fueled Illusions: Merz Humiliated, Economy In Freefall Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The year 2025 ends for the slap-prone German Chancellor with a resounding smack in Brussels. After the failed raid on Russian assets at Euroclear, Berlin now turns its gaze to the hoped-for comeback of the German economy. Yet here too awaits the next bitter realization for naïve statisticians: wealth cannot be printed with debt. […]

Non-US Citizens More Likely To Have Devices Checked Tourists heading to the United States could soon have to disclose the past five years of their social media activities to authorities during the ESTA process. Where providing such information was previously only mandatory for longer-term visas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection have now submitted a new regulatory proposal to make it an essential part of short-term tourists and […]

New NATO Hub To Open In Romania, Doubling Weapons Deliveries To Ukraine Via Remix News, Starting in January 2026, a second NATO hub will begin operating in Romania, doubling the transit of weapons to Ukraine, including through the PURL (Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List) mechanism. Right after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a similar hub was opened in Jasionka, Poland, to serve as a key logistics center for all […]

US Mulls Sanctions On Spanish-Flagged Vessels Lately headlines have been filled with developments of the United States targeting Venezuelan-linked tankers, or sanctioning Russia’s so-called Shadow Fleet, or else intercepts of Iranian oil shipments on the high seas. Such country names on the receiving end of Washington’s punitive measures have become commonplace, but it is surprising to see the EU country of Spain pop up as […]

UK Govt Minister Steps In To Defend Met Office As Fake Temperature Scandal Escalates Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, In a couple of weeks’ time, the Met Office is likely to announce another ‘hottest year evah’ in the UK. The message will be broadcast faithfully by trusted messengers in mainstream media, keen to prop up the fading Net Zero fantasy, but greeted with howls of derision across social media. […]

There Are Over 8,500 Toxic Shipwrecks Across The Globe There are over 8,500 potentially polluting wrecks (PPWs) across the world’s ocean. These shipwrecks may hold as much as 20.4 million metric tons of oil and toxic substances, according to estimates. This graphic, produced by Visual Capitalist’s Cody Good in partnership with Lloyd’s Register Foundation, shows the global density of World War II wrecks. It uses data from Paul […]

Trump Deal Highlights Intensifying Global Competition For Fusion Energy Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (NYSE:DJT) have surged nearly 70% after the company agreed to merge with fusion startup TAE Technologies in a $6 billion deal. Under the terms of the deal, shareholders of each company will own roughly half of the combined entity on a fully diluted equity basis. […]

Rocking Around The Plastic Tree For some families, the search for the right Christmas tree is an annual event. For large shares of Americans and Brits though, this search may have ended a long time ago – the perfect tree already sitting safely in the attic or garage, ready for its glorious but fleeting return to the living room. As Statista’s Felix Richter reports, a new survey from Statista Consumer Insights shows, it’s a […]

Vance: “You Don’t Have To Apologize For Being White” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Vice President JD Vance announced Sunday the Trump administration’s decisive victory over the woke scourge of DEI, banishing it to where it belongs—the trash heap of failed ideas. Speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, Vance made it crystal clear: America is back to rewarding merit and hard work, not pandering to identity […]

MSM Stays Silent As Horrific Video Emerges Of Attack On 75-Year-Old Woman In Seattle Outside of local reporting in Seattle, corporate media outlets at the national level have entirely ignored the brutal attack on a 75-year-old woman by a repeat offender. The silence is telling and underscores how progressive criminal justice reforms continue to backfire spectacularly, enabling a revolving-door chaotic environment that releases […]

Despite Headwinds: Airlines On Track For A Record Year The global airline industry is on track to hit new revenue and profit records in 2025 and 2026. As Statista’s Felix Richter details below, according to the latest industry outlook from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), commercial airlines, including passenger and cargo airlines, are expected to surpass $1 trillion in revenue for the first time this year, […]

Instacart Scraps Variable-Pricing Experiment After Consumer Groups Warned Of Inflated Grocery Bills Authored byh Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Instacart said it is ending a pricing experiment that allowed different customers to see different prices for identical grocery items after consumer advocates said the practice could inflate grocery bills at a time when households are already struggling with high food […]

Malicious Actors Impersonating Senior US Officials, FBI Warns Malicious actors are impersonating government officials to secure sensitive information and steal funds, the FBI said in an alert on Dec. 19. “Activity dating back to 2023 reveals malicious actors have impersonated senior U.S. state government, White House, and Cabinet-level officials, as well as members of Congress to target individuals, including officials’ family […]

Military Jet Performs ‘Headbutt’ On Plane Intruding Into Mar-a-Lago Airspace Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft that violated restricted airspace over President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 21, military officials said. An F-15 fighter jet from the Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing intercepted a simulated […]

Holy Awakening Gains Momentum As Biblical ‘David’ Film Soars At Box Office A revival appears to be taking shape in the US, with a noticeable resurgence of religious interest among young men and women that emerged during President Trump’s “America First” campaign and intensified following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In our “Is A Holy Awakening Unfolding Across America” report in mid-October, we cited numerous research firms […]

Judge Green-Lights Secret Service Agent’s Retaliation Case Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, A federal judge has allowed most claims in a senior Secret Service agent’s lawsuit alleging a hostile workplace, retaliation, and discrimination to move forward despite Department of Homeland Security opposition, according to court documents.   Rashid Ellis, a 14-year veteran of the agency with expertise in drone […]

MSM Belatedly Details Syrian ‘Prisons Filling Up Again, Torture’ Under Jolani Regime More than a year after Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow, and some mainstream media outlets are finally taking a critical eye to the new Sharaa/Jolani regime and its human rights abuses, religious oppression, and war crimes. While the West and Gulf countries celebrated Assad fleeting the country for Russia in December 2024, with the al-Qaeda linked Hayat […]

State Department Recalls 29 Biden-Appointed Ambassadors Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The United States has recalled almost 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial roles. A sign for the State Department on the outside of the Harry S. Truman Federal Building in Washington on July 11, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images All of the ambassadors were appointed under President Joe Biden and are senior […]

Japan To Resume Operations At World’s Largest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Disaster Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Japan is set to resume operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant, marking a key development in the country’s return to nuclear energy almost 15 years after the Fukushima disaster. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)’s Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, […]

Mapping The Chances Of A White Christmas A white Christmas is one of those holiday experiences that feels universal—until you look at the weather history and actual odds of snowfall on Christmas Day across the United States. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows the historic probability across the U.S. of seeing at least one inch of snow on the ground on December 25, using data from the NOAA National Centers for […]

Watch Live: Trump Makes Announcement At Mar-A-Lago With Secretary Of War Pete Hegseth President Trump is scheduled to make a public announcement at 4:30 p.m. EST at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, alongside Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. *TRUMP’S 4:30PM ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY IS ON SHIPBUILDING: OFFICIAL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 22, 2025 No details have been released about the […]

“Power That Goes Unpunished Only Learns One Lesson: It Can Do Whatever It Wants…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Seeing Is Believing (Not) “…power that goes unpunished only learns one lesson: it can do whatever it wants.” – Roger Stone Has it occurred to you that the video footage of the hallway outside Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell that shows nobody coming or going around the hour that he “killed himself” could […]

Maduro Must Go, DHS Secretary Noem Says, Vows More Tanker Intercepts Washington is making clear – in case there was still lingering confusion in anyone’s mind – that we have entered the “Maduro must go” phase of looming regime change operations targeting Venezuela. A fresh Monday statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem makes clear that “We’re not just interdicting these ships, but we’re also sending a message […]