The Unsettling Truths The Epstein Files Reveal About Power And Privilege Authored by Patrick Keeney via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The public fixation on the Epstein files has settled, predictably, on the most lurid elements of the story. This is understandable. Sexual exploitation, particularly of the young, is among the most corrosive of crimes, and the scale of Epstein’s abuse, as well as the apparent indifference of […]

Germany, France Hold Secret Talks On Continental Nuclear Shield In Pivot From US Has Europe really embarked on a nuclear reset, rethinking its US-led deterrent architecture? For the first time since the Cold War, major European capitals are openly debating the need for an independent nuclear deterrent – an emerging theme on clear display this week at the Munich Security Conference. We’ve reported before that the turning point came […]

Stolen Land At The Grammys: How Hollywood Groupthink Threatens Democracy Authored by Patrick Keeney via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary Among the consolations of youth is the certainty with which one holds beliefs about the world. There is comfort in the conviction that one’s moral bearings are firmly set, that one’s understanding of complex questions is not only sincere but also correct. The world appears legible; […]

WhatsApp & YouTube Blocked In Russia, Telegram Throttled As State “Super-App” Falters The West has been calling Russia’s ever-tightening internet regulations on its citizenry a “digital Iron Curtain”. Already over a period of months and years of the Ukraine war, various popular US-based social media apps have been throttled and even banned, but this week things have escalated with YouTube and WhatsApp being blocked in Russia: […]

Amazon’s Ring And Google’s Nest Unwittingly Reveal The Severity Of The U.S. Surveillance State Authored by Glenn Greenwald via Substack, That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly growing to the point of ubiquity has been demonstrated over the past week by seemingly benign events. While the picture that emerges is grim, to put it mildly, at least Americans are again confronted with crystal clarity over how severe this has become. […]

Tim Walz Demands Federal Government Foot Bill For Minnesota’s ‘Recovery’ From Anti-ICE Riots Last month, President Donald Trump sent Homan to Minnesota to personally oversee immigration enforcement operations and end the chaos, after ICE and CBP officers shot two protesters and the situation began to spiral out of control. Soon after, Homan successfully convinced Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to allow local law […]

US-Controlled ATACMS Missiles Deployed In South China Sea, 10km Off China’s Mainland Authored by Drago Bosni Mere days after the US-backed government in Taipei launched the so-called Joint Firepower Coordination Center (JFCC), defined as “an enhanced firepower coordination effort in close cooperation with the United States”, multirole sources have confirmed that the Chinese breakaway island province of Taiwan is deploying […]

CIA Releases Video To Recruit Spies In China Amid Xi’s Top Brass Purge The CIA rolled out a new recruitment video Thursday aimed squarely at prying open cracks inside China’s military establishment – already as a Xi CCP purge of top military officials has been underway, according to Reuters. This latest video features a “disillusioned mid-level Chinese military officer” pitching other officers in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) […]

India Explores Gas Power Boost To Stabilize Grid During Peak Hours By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com, India considers boosting the run rates of its gas-fired power plants during evening peak hours to support the grid amid the surge in renewable power generation, India’s Power Secretary Pankaj Agarwal said on Friday.   “For the last three years we have been studying whether gas plants can run for eight hours in the […]

“Low Profile” Doomsday Nuclear Bunker Hits Market, Just 3 Hours From DC Continuing our coverage of privately owned nuclear bunkers for sale, we generally find Cold War-era underground sites clustered in the Midwest. However, a recently listed bunker in the hills of central Pennsylvania sits roughly a three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., and New York City, offering a rare Mid-Atlantic bug-out option. Coldwell Banker real estate […]

When It Comes To Climate And Energy, Let’s Retire The Politics Of Fear Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In the latest example of the scare tactics favored by climate change alarmists, it was announced last month that 2025 “was the third-warmest in modern history, according to Copernicus, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service,” as reported by NBC News. A light display created […]

From Border Incursions To Stadiums: Counter-Drone Systems To Protect World Cup Games Whether the brief shutdown of El Paso airspace was driven by a reported U.S. military directed-energy counter-drone weapon or what senior U.S. officials characterized as a Mexican cartel drone incursion remains unresolved at the moment. Our assessment is that, with FIFA World Cup matches just months away, the Trump administration is racing to […]

FBI Warns Of Romance Scams Ahead Of Valentine’s Day Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Love is in the air, but it might be too good to be true for some hopeful romantics searching for love online, according to the FBI. A woman holds a phone displaying the TikTok app, in this file photo taken on Aug. 11, 2024. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times The FBI warned dating app surfers ahead of Valentine’s […]

Hamptons Real Estate Surges To New Highs As 2026 Rental Demand “Strong As Ever” The Hamptons is once again in the spotlight as one of the country’s hottest luxury real estate markets. Known for its beaches, upscale villages, and sprawling estates, this stretch of Long Island has seen home prices climb to record levels. At the same time, summer rentals for 2026 are being booked far earlier than usual, showing that demand for the […]

Mainstream Media Silent As Alleged Hate Crime Hoax Leads To Major Civil Award Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a major verdict out of Texas where a mother and an attorney were ordered to pay millions for perpetuating an alleged hate crime hoax that was eagerly spread by the mainstream media. Asher Vann, a minor at the time, was labeled a racist maniac who tortured SeMarion Humphrey, his black classmate, with other […]

NYPD Told To Stop Ejecting Homeless From NYC Subways Due To Freezing Temperatures NYPD officers were ordered to stand down on enforcement in the subway system during last weekend’s deep freeze, halting removals and holding off on cracking down as windchills dropped below zero, according to ABC. “We put a complete stop to all ejections, even people who could potentially be causing problems in the subway system,” said Alex Crohn, […]

Midterm Palpitations Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races. Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered substantial midterm losses in Congress. Polls show Trump suffering an average 11-point negative unfavorability […]

You Can Buy Love… (But It’s Never Been More Expensive) U.S. adults will spend a record $29.1 billion on Valentine’s Day this year, according to estimates published by the National Retail Federation. You will find more infographics at Statista”>As Statista’s (ironically named) Valentine Fourreau reports, this is up from last year’s $27.5 billion, with U.S. shoppers planning to spend $200 on average per person, up […]

“An Astonishing Sign Of Cultural Decay…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Sure, Take That Time-Out “Crisis is when brittleness meets shock. “ – Yuri Bezmenov’s Ghost on X By shutting down the government for a minimum of ten days supposedly over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Wile E. Coyote Democratic Party is about to blow up another Acme bomb in its mangy muzzle. I will tell you why. […]

Somali Fallout: US Treasury Will Pay Snitches Up To 30% On Fraud, Money Laundering Prosecutions On the heels of all that Somali fraud in Minnesota, the US Treasury Department on Friday launched a new portal where people can report suspected fraud, money laundering and sanctions violations.  Snitchin’ Bubbles from The Wire According to officials, tips should be submitted with supporting documents. “FinCEN’s Office of the […]

Brazil Proposes National Bitcoin Reserve, Targets 1 Million BTC Over Five Years Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Brazilian lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to create a national Strategic Sovereign Bitcoin Reserve, known as RESBit, proposing the gradual acquisition of one million bitcoins over five years.  The bill, presented by Federal Deputy Luiz Gastão (PSD/CE), outlines a comprehensive framework to […]

Trump Plans Venezuela Trip, First U.S. President Visit Since Bill Clinton President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House on Friday afternoon that he plans to visit Venezuela, but offered no details or timeline. If it happens, it would be a historic trip, coming as Venezuelan oil flows accelerate under tighter U.S. oversight. “I’m going to make a visit to Venezuela… We haven’t decided [when],” Trump told reporters, […]

Leftist Vandals Again Hit Chicago Mural Of Murdered Ukrainian Iryna Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Chicago mural honoring Iryna Zarutska, the innocent Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death in cold blood on a Charlotte light rail train, has been vandalized again—just two weeks after its unveiling. This latest defacement underscores how deranged leftists will go to any lengths to suppress reminders of the deadly […]

The Bigger Problem That The Tim Walz NGO Scandal Has Exposed Authored by Edward Woodson via American Greatness, The Minnesota nonprofit fraud scandal, now expected to cost taxpayers more than $9 billion, is being dismissed by many as an isolated failure. However, this is far from the case, and writing it off as such would be a colossal mistake. What it actually revealed is a broader problem in the Swamp—that institutions […]

Two Philadelphia Men Admit To AI-Assisted $3.5M Housing Aid Scam In Minnesota This will be the first of many AI scams of its kind, we predict… Two men from Pennsylvania admitted to repeatedly flying from Philadelphia to Minneapolis to exploit Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program, stealing about $3.5 million, according to prosecutors. Authorities say they used artificial intelligence to forge records and […]