Japan Set To Restart Shimane Nuclear Reactor For First Time Since Fukushima Disaster The world continues to “warm” back up to nuclear, with the latest example coming out of Japan, where its Shimane nuclear power station in western Japan has been restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. Japan’s long-delayed restart of the 820 MW No. 2 reactor at the Shimane plant, shut down since January 2012, raises the […]

Extremist Groups Carry Out Revenge, Sectarian Killings In HTS-Controlled Syria Via The Cradle Extremist armed factions across Syria are carrying out executions of civilians and soldiers amid the chaos following the fall of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government. Al-Mayadeen reports on Tuesday that a video circulating on social media shows armed militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Al-Qaeda offshoot that […]

East Vs. West: A Global Dollar Dump Is Inevitable And The US Must Prepare Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In October of 2024, Russia hosted the annual BRICS Summit in the city of Kazan with the intent to show unity among developing nations and general eastern interests. The Kremlin, a target of severe NATO sanctions since the start of the war in Ukraine, has been effective in solidifying economic guarantees from BRICS […]

Here’s The Best Time To Buy A Christmas Tree Website Finder.com cited data from the National Christmas Tree Association showing that 43% of American households are expected to purchase a real tree this holiday season, with the average tree costing around $79.31—around $4 more than in 2023. 2020 marked a critical point in which artificial tree sales surpassed real tree sales for the first time.  Separately, data from […]

“They Will Take Away Your Kids” – Fascism Is Already In Place In The US Authored by Dr Gerry Brady via Boom Finance & Economic substack, “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” – Benito Mussolini, Fascist Dictator of Italy for 26 Years Marc Andreessen speaks with Joe Rogan – [warning – disturbing in the extreme] – the US government under Biden was […]

US Life Expectancy Ranking Will Drop To 66th by 2050, Study Says Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The United States is set to fall in worldwide life expectancy ranking by mid-century, with widespread obesity adversely affecting people’s health, according to a recent study. File photo of an obese person. Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images The peer-reviewed study, published in The Lancet on Dec. 7, […]

US Cattle Crisis Worsens As Nation’s Herd Size Continues Alarming Side Into Abyss America’s beef cow inventory has steadily declined over the last half-decade, reaching 64-year lows and signaling a deepening crisis across the cattle industry. As the cattle crisis worsens, consumers should brace for higher ground beef prices. The shrinking beef supply has pushed the nation’s herd size to its smallest level since 1961. With severe […]

NASA Finds Underground ‘City’ Hidden 100 Feet Below Icy Surface Via The Mind Unleashed, In the vast, icy expanses of Greenland, a place more synonymous with desolate, arctic landscapes than with the shadows of human history, NASA scientists have stumbled upon an extraordinary anomaly. Buried beneath a hundred feet of ice lies a remnant of a bygone era, originally hidden from the world above and shrouded in Cold War secrecy. […]

​​​​​​​Bean Mania: Arabica Coffee Hits New High, Cocoa Jumps To 7-Month High Cash-strapped US consumers should be deeply concerned about rising food inflation. It’s ‘stickier’ than ever as coffee and cocoa prices surge. Arabica coffee futures in New York hit a record high on Tuesday, driven by ongoing fears of a global supply crunch. Prices surged nearly 5% during the session, reaching their highest level in data […]

New York City Mayor Adams Working To Bypass City Council On Sanctuary City Law Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he is working to bypass the New York City Council to change the city’s sanctuary city law ahead of a meeting with the incoming Trump administration’s border czar. CBS News host Marcia Kramer asked Adams, a Democrat, about his pending meeting with President-elect […]

“Parasites Simply Had It Coming”: Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto Published Online By Journalist Update (1952ET): Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein released what appears to be Luigi Mangione’s manifesto. Klippenstein wrote on his website: “I’ve obtained a copy of suspected killer Luigi Mangione’s manifesto — the real one, not the forgery circulating online. Major media outlets are also in possession of the document but […]

Taliban & Hamas ‘Congratulate’ Syrian People & Julani After Assad Fall The hardline and extremist Islamic groups Hamas and the Taliban have been among the first regional entities to offer congratulations to the Islamist-led ‘rebels’ and the Syrian people after the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Afghanistan’s Taliban government announced the following on Sunday soon after al-Qaeda spinoff Hayat […]

China’s Oil Demand Could Peak In 2025 By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Oil demand in China, the world’s top crude importer, could peak as early as next year as the penetration of electric vehicles and LNG trucks is accelerating, state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) said on Tuesday. At this time last year, CNPC expected a peak in oil demand coming to China by 2030. Now, after a year of EVs and […]

Americans Are Driving Their Older Cars Into The Ground Americans, hit by inflation, higher interest rates, and supply-chain issues, are buying fewer new vehicles. The four-year average for annual sales is now 15.5 million, down from 17.7 million pre-pandemic, per the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The slowdown in new car sales might seem like good news for auto repair and parts companies, as older vehicles typically need more […]

Landlords Increasingly Faced With Squatters, Sometimes With Deadly Consequences Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A property manager in Phoenix says that dealing with itinerant “squatters” is one of the least pleasant parts of the real estate business. Sometimes, you can’t control what happens, Calvin Favata with Your Holdings told The Epoch Times. Rashaad Johnson, 29, had been renting a Your […]

Here’s How Manhattan DA Plans To Keep Trump Case Alive Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – who had a Biden DOJ plant in his legal case against former President Donald Trump – is trying to ensure his hush money case doesn’t vanish into thin air as Trump prepares for his return to the White House. According to court filings revealed Tuesday, Bragg’s office is fiercely opposed to dismissing the case outright but is open to […]

Hurricane Helene Recovery In North Carolina Town Fueled By Devoted Locals Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nestled in the mountains of Yancey County in western North Carolina, Burnsville looks like a town that might feature in a Norman Rockwell painting or a Hallmark Christmas movie. NuWray Hotel owners Amanda Keith, and her husband James Keith, provided meals to residents and volunteers in the […]

GM To Wind Down Cruise Robotaxi Operations General Motors is winding down its Cruise robotaxi division, according to a new report from Bloomberg.  GM’s exit from the market leaves Google’s Waymo and Tesla as the two main names in autonomous driving. The division “proved costly and full of reputational pitfalls” for General Motors, the report said. GM and Cruise will merge technical teams to focus on autonomous tech for future GM […]

Kroger-Albertsons Merger Blocked By Court In Latest Anti-M&A Farce By Biden Admin The Biden administration, desperate to make an impact somewhere, anywhere, in its final, dying days, has struck again. Just around the time we learned that Biden was set to finally kill the Nippon Steel of US steel, we learned that a federal judge had also blocked supermarket giant Kroger from acquiring Albertsons, siding with that anti-M&A […]

Opposition To Woke Progressivism Energizes Trump Coalition Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClearPolitics, In January, Republicans will gain undivided control of the federal government’s political branches. Yet President-elect Donald Trump’s comfortable 312-226 electoral-college victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and his narrow margin in the popular vote – 49.9% to 48.4% – do not constitute a landslide. […]

Elon Musk: “We Should Unwind” The NGO Industry Non-governmental organizations receiving taxpayer dollars are under scrutiny for misusing funds in shady operations. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, set to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have announced plans to investigate how taxpayer funds are funneled into NGOs.  Let’s begin with an exchange between Musk and Ramaswamy on X one week ago… “We need to […]

Nearly 4 Years Later, No Letup In Jan. 6 Prosecutions, Possible Pardons Or Not Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearInvestigations, Even as President-elect Donald Trump promised on Sunday to act “very quickly” on pardons for many of the protesters involved in the events of January 6, the Biden administration’s Justice Department is continuing to arrest and try people for actions that occurred almost four years ago while […]

Dalio Predicts Global Debt Crisis, Backs Bitcoin & Gold Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Billionaire investor Ray Dalio expressed concerns about a potential “pending debt money problem” in global finance and urged a shift toward hard assets like Bitcoin and gold. Dalio, the founder of one the world’s largest hedge funds, Bridgewater Associates, said he would invest in “hard money” like gold and […]

Treasury Yields Drop After 3Y Auction Tails But Is Otherwise Solid The year may be drawing to a close but the US needs to feed the government debt monster – which just hit a record $36.17 trillion – with more and more debt come rain, shine, Chritmas, New Years, etc, etc, and this week happens to have three coupon auctions on deck, the first of which just concluded. At 1pm, the US Treasury sold $58BN in 3Y paper, at a yield of […]

Elon Musk Jokes Bill Gates Could Go “Bankrupt” On Backfiring Short Tesla Bet The rivalry between two of America’s top billionaires, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, continued on Tuesday morning when Musk jokingly suggested on X that Gates’ alleged short position on Tesla might lead to his financial demise.  “If Tesla does become the world’s most valuable company by far, that short position will bankrupt even Bill Gates,” Musk wrote on […]