Major Israeli Strikes On Lebanon As Beirut ‘Days Away’ From Disarming Hezbollah Via The Cradle The Israeli army carried out several attacks on south Lebanon on Sunay, hours after Beirut said that the disarmament of Hezbollah in the southern Litani River area is “days away” from completion. An Israeli drone struck a car in the southern town of Yater. Minutes later, Israel bombed a motorcycle around 300 meters away from the targeted […]

Trump Announces $1.3 Billion In Sales Of ‘Gold Card’ Visas Since Dec. 10 President Donald Trump announced Dec. 19 that his administration has sold more than $1.3 billion worth of “Trump Gold Cards,” a new immigration program offering expedited residency to high-skilled foreign talent, with proceeds going toward paying down the national debt. In remarks to the press, Trump said that sales had exceeded $1.3 billion and described […]

Rubio’s Stark Warning: Europe Risks Wiping Out Shared Culture Of Western Civilization Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has fired a direct shot at Europe’s globalist trajectory, warning that unchecked mass migration and erosion of core values could shatter the “shared culture” binding the West together—and weaken ties with America. Echoing the Trump administration’s National […]

The $117 Trillion World Economy In One Giant Visualization America’s $30.6 trillion economy is greater than China, Germany, and Japan combined, with real GDP set to rise 2% this year. In comparison, India’s economy is projected to grow 6.6%, among the fastest rates across the world’s largest economies. It is only surpassed by Ireland, as frontloading of exports is expected to expand GDP by a striking 9.1% in 2025. This […]

German Govt Signals “Challenging Years” Of Austerity Ahead While Spending Billions On Ukraine & Immigration Via Remix News, The German government is signaling times of austerity are ahead for Germans, with German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) even saying there could be years of belt-tightening. Klingbeil, a member of the far left SPD, is preparing the German public for a period of financial hardship, even as the […]

Can The Dark Ages Return? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via VictoreHanson.com, Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece. But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, liberty, freedom of expression, self-critique, and free […]

Burnt-Out US Air Traffic Controllers Rerouting Their Careers To Australia In a year in which they endured chronic understaffing, 60-hour weeks, uneven shifts and even having to work without a paycheck for a stretch, many US air traffic controllers are re-evaluating their careers, with a growing number chasing happiness on the other side of the world — in Australia.  According to a Wall Street Journal report on the phenomenon, […]

2 More Heritage Foundation Board Members Resign Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), WASHINGTON—Two more members of conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation’s Board of Trustees, Shane McCullar and Abby Spencer Moffat, resigned Dec. 16, citing concerns over the organization’s direction and approach to combating anti-Semitism. Exterior view of the Heritage Foundation building in Washington, D.C., […]

Rand Paul Calls Partial Release Of Epstein Files A ‘Big Mistake’ For Trump During an interview on ABC’s This Week with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky delivered a blunt warning about the administration’s handling of the Epstein records, echoing concerns raised by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has been relentless on the issue. Massie forced the release vote and has accused Attorney General Pam Bondi […]

DOJ Seeking Appeals On Dismissals Of Criminal Cases Against James Comey, Letitia James Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is appealing the dismissal of a pair of criminal cases against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey, according to new court documents filed on Friday. (Left) New York Attorney General Letitia James leaves the […]

Where People Trust Each Other Most (And Least) In The World This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows the share of people across 25 countries who believe that “most people can be trusted,” offering a snapshot of how trust varies around the world. The data for this visualization comes from the Pew Research Center. It is based on nationally representative surveys of more than 37,000 adults conducted in […]

Somali ‘Medicaid Mogul’ Accused Of Looting Maine Taxpayers, Family Allegedly Put Bounty On Reporter If you thought the alleged Medicaid fraud in Minnesota by Somalis, which federal prosecutors say could reach $9 billion, was insane, wait until you read the latest report from The Maine Wire: the head of a local nonprofit is accused of lashing out at a local journalist over an investigation, while members of his family allegedly put a […]

AI, CEOs, Yields, And Peace Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, AI largely drove the show last week on the risk front. We started poorly, as Blue Owl pulling out of a future Oracle deal triggered some fears. But we finished the week strong as Micron had a solid beat, alleviating many concerns (a nice, soft CPI print helped matters too). This flip-flopping back and forth on the AI story fits well with last week’s […]

California Faces Fuel Disaster As Refineries And Gas Stations Shut Down The Democrat crusade to divert blame for the stagflation crisis triggered during the Biden Administration led them down a path of economic lies.  The central theme of their narrative was that corporations were “price gouging” consumers and inflation was actually a product of “corporate greed.”  In reality, helicopter money and dollar devaluation during the […]

Pentagon Fails Audit For 8th Consecutive Year Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon has failed to pass a full financial audit for the eighth year in a row. Congress initially mandated annual independent audits across the Department of Defense in 2018. In that time, the department has failed to pass a single full audit. The Department of Defense—also known as the Department of War—lists $4.65 trillion in […]

Minnesota AG Faults Carmakers For Thefts Instead Of Criminals Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison came under fire for blaming two car manufacturers for a surge in vehicle thefts across the state, with critics arguing the problem stemmed from lenient, soft-on-crime policies instead.  The backlash followed Ellison’s framing of a multi-state settlement, in which […]

Hunting Season: US Forces Target Third ‘Dark Fleet’ Tanker Near Venezuela Update (1610ET):  It’s hunting season for U.S. forces off the Venezuelan coast, in international waters, as gunboat diplomacy ramps up with the pursuit of yet another sanctioned oil tanker. AP News spoke with a U.S. official on Sunday who said Coast Guard forces were pursuing a “sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela’s illegal sanctions […]

Tulsi Gabbard Sounds Alarm On Radical Islam Weeks After Rubio Warns Of Western Invasion News trends surrounding radical Islam have surged in recent weeks amid a series of alarming developments across the West. From the Afghan national who killed one U.S. National Guard troop and severely injured another near the White House, to a terror attack in Australia, and mounting threats against Christmas markets across Europe, the West […]

“Dollar Store Obama”: House Oversight Chair James Comer Torches Hakeem Jeffries Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer isn’t backing down from his probe into the massive Somali-led fraud draining Minnesota’s social services, slamming Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for shielding the scandal with personal attacks. With federal investigations now revealing losses […]

From War ‘On’ Silver To War ‘For’ Silver Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, You know Steve Quayle as a renowned radio host, filmmaker, book author and archeological dig expert. Most people do not know that Quayle has four decades experience in the gold and silver markets. Quayle says the exploding record high prices for gold, and especially silver, are signaling big trouble brewing for the financial system. Are prices rising […]

Jim Beam Shuttering Kentucky Distillery, Halting Production, For 2026 One of Kentucky’s largest bourbon producers will halt whiskey production at its main Clermont site for 2026. Jim Beam plans to pause distillation at the James B. Beam campus in Happy Hollow beginning Jan. 1 while investing in site enhancements, according to the Lexington Herald Leader. “We are always assessing production levels to best meet consumer demand […]

Citizens In Eastern Ukraine Will Not Be Allowed To Vote, Zelensky Says President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that Ukraine and Washington are in talks about holding elections, after earlier this month he much belatedly said while under pressure from Trump that he’s ready to allow national elections, so long as they can be done fairly and freely. Zelensky indicated current discussions also hinge on the US and other partners […]

DHS Locates Nearly 130,000 Unaccompanied Missing Children, Says Noem Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services have located over 129,143 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children whom the prior administration had lost track of, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a Dec. 19 post on X. “Too many of these children were exploited, […]

Delaware Supreme Court Reinstates Musk’s Record-Setting 2018 Tesla Compensation Plan The Delaware Supreme Court has reinstated Elon Musk’s 2018 CEO compensation package from Tesla, reversing lower-court rulings that had twice voided the award and bringing an end to a yearslong legal fight over one of the largest pay packages in corporate history, according to CNBC. In a per curiam decision issued Friday, the court ruled that […]

Bitcoin’s Quantum Debate Is Resurfacing & Markets Are Starting To Notice Authored by Shaurya Malwa via CoinDesk.com, What to know: The majority of Bitcoin developers argue that quantum computing does not pose an immediate threat to the network, with machines capable of breaking its cryptography unlikely to exist for decades. Critics express concern over the lack of preparation for quantum threats, as governments and […]