FEMA Still Paying $9,000 For COVID Funerals, Billions On Pandemic Payouts By Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities As the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) carries out widely-criticized responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, officials say the agency’s Disaster Recovery Fund is incapable of handling a third major storm. While some are circulating false accusations that disaster funds have been diverted to immigrants or […]

Canada Expels 6 Indian Diplomats For Alleged Involvement In Murder Of Sikh Separatist Via Middle East Eye Canada expelled six top Indian diplomats and consular officials on Monday, including India’s high commissioner, citing them as “persons of interest” in the murder of Sikh separatist figure, Hardeep Singh Nijjar.  In June 2023 Nijjar was assassinated by masked gunmen in Vancouver, British Columbia, after which three Indian […]

Home Prep Guide: What You Need To Last 2 Weeks In An Emergency Authored by Mikai Allbert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two hurricanes have barreled through the Southeast in just two weeks. Hurricane Helene thrashed North Carolina, while Hurricane Milton—the most destructive storm to hit the Tampa area in a century—left more than 3 million without power and at least 10 people dead in Florida. Illustration by The Epoch […]

73% Of Mexicans Own A Dog Data from a Statista Consumer Insights survey reveals that dog ownership varies greatly around the world. Where as many as seven in ten respondents said they had a dog as a pet in Mexico in a survey conducted between July 2023 and June 2024, under three in ten said the same in Sweden. You will find more infographics at Statista In the United States, around half of respondents said they owned […]

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, And Natural Approaches Authored by Mercura Wang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or just autism, is a neurological and developmental condition that affects social interaction, communication, learning, and behavior. It encompasses a range of conditions related to brain development. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can make those affected by it […]

US Threatens Israel With Arms Shipment Suspensions Over Spiraling Gaza Situation The Biden administration is said to be threatening to withdraw key aspects of US military aid to Israel if it doesn’t reign in the devastating humanitarian situation in Gaza. Like with prior such ‘warnings’ (this isn’t the first), the message seems more timed for the November election. Kamala Harris has wedded herself to Biden’s policies on Israel and […]

Where Trump And Harris Stand On China Policies Authored by Terri Wu and Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The next president will likely preside over one of the most consequential periods in the nation’s relations with communist China, an adversary that has the intention and capacity to displace the current U.S.-led world order. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock Eight in 10 Americans view […]

Questions, Outrage After Israel Attacks Northern Lebanese Christian Stronghold Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, On Monday, Israeli warplanes carried out an attack on a small apartment building in the northern Lebanese village of Aitou, in the Christian-majority Zgharta District. At least 22 people have been killed in the attack, according to the Lebanese Red Cross, which also wounded at least eight. There has been no […]

It’s Obvious Why Chicago Politicians Hate What Donald Trump Says About The City Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is in Chicago Tuesday for his latest campaign stop. While neither Chicago nor Illinois is in play this election, count on him to hit Chicago’s leadership hard for their many self-inflicted crises when he addresses the Economic Club […]

2024 Campaign: Too Much Negativity, Not Enough Policy With just three weeks until election day, a long and often tumultuous campaign is approaching the home stretch. For months the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden before her, has dominated the headlines, both in the U.S. and internationally, as no other election in the world draws as much attention as the U.S. presidential election. Given the length […]

India Plans $109 Billion Of Grid Investments To Boost Renewables By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com, India plans a massive upgrade and expansion of its power transmission system, expecting investment opportunities of $109 billion to support the integration of renewable energy sources and storage solutions, the power ministry has said. India’s new National Electricity Plan (Transmission) envisages the addition of hundreds of […]

Iranian TV Shows Quds Force Chief After Deemed ‘Missing’ For Two Weeks The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s (IRGC) Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, has been spotted at a military funeral in Tehran after not being seen for two weeks. US media reports earlier this month described that the general “has not been seen in public since Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a massive air strike on Beirut on Sept. 27.” On […]

Georgia Judge Rules County Officials Can’t Delay, Decline To Certify Election Results Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Georgia judge has ruled that county election officials must certify election results by the statutory deadline regardless of irregularities or suspected fraud. Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney in Atlanta on May 2, 2022. Ben Gray/AP Photo Georgia law requires county […]

Israel’s Supply Of Interceptor Missiles Under Strain Amid Daily Assaults Israel has been at war on several fronts for more than a year at this point, and is rapidly expending ammo and missiles, especially as it tries to shoot down what are now dozens of projectiles daily sent from Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. Hezbollah is estimated to have an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of rockets and drones of various sizes. Israel’s […]

Monkeypox: Evidence Of The “Pandemic Preparedness” Lie Authored by Clayton Baker via The Brownstone Institute, This article was co-authored by Brian Hooker, PhD and Heather Ray. “Pandemic Preparedness,” and the gain-of-function research that underlies it, operates under a grand deception, a big lie. The Biological Weapons Convention, which every major nation has signed, “prohibits the development, production, […]

Trump Pulls Ahead In Battleground States As of Oct. 14, 2024, polling averages aggregated by website RealClear Polling show that Republican candidate Donald Trump has caught up in battleground states ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November. Democratic contender Kamala Harris led her opponent by 0.3 percentage points only in the state of Wisconsin most recently. Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports that […]

IEA Sees “Sizeable Surplus” In Oil Market As Demand Growth Slows By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The oil market faces a sizeable surplus next year amid ample supply and slowing demand growth, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday as it further lowered its demand growth estimate for 2024. Global oil demand is set to increase by just 862,000 barrels per day (bpd) this year, amid decelerating consumption […]

“Skipping COVID Booster Could Reduce Your IQ”: Vax Propaganda Thrives At LA Times The LA Times is out with an opinion piece by two Yale professors who suggest that failing to get a COVID booster could reduce your IQ. Their argument: a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that COVID itself reduces IQ, which “suggests yet another reason to get the vaccine: It may protect your intellect.” Many […]

The Deep State And The 2024 Election Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The Deep State is the permanently entrenched bureaucracy that really runs a country. It is THE establishment. While the Deep State concept is commonly associated with the US government, many other countries have their own versions. Looking at what happens in those countries when an outsider comes to power can help us better understand […]

Crude Crashes, Tech Tumbles; But Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin Bid Quite a day… Headlines on Israel reportedly agreeing not to blow up energy facilities wiped a chunk of geopolitical risk premium off crude; the Empire Fed manufacturing survey crashed from multi-year highs, crushing the ‘no landing’ narrative; ASML’s dismal earnings and outlook wrecked the AI “insane demand” narrative; and LVMH poured cold water on the ‘consumer is […]

Trump Destroys Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief, Receives Standing Ovation In Chicago Former President Donald Trump sat down with Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait for an interview in partnership with the Economic Club of Chicago – where he knocked several tough questions out of the park, while starting – and ending, with a standing ovation. At the beginning of the interview, Micklethwait said Kamala Harris refused to appear […]

Judge’s Acceptance Of Donation From Michigan Secretary Of State Spurs Call For Ethics Probe Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Updated: 10/15/2024 Two Republican election integrity activists on Oct. 1 requested an investigation into a campaign donation received by a Michigan State Supreme Court justice from a PAC tied to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. The Hall of Justice building in downtown […]

Stagflation Odds Jump In Latest NY Fed Survey As Inflation Expectations Rise, Delinquency Fears Hit 4 Year High In recent weeks, we have discussed on multiple occasions (here, here and here) how in his desire to get Kamala Harris re-elected by rushing out a jumbo cut before November 5, Fed president Jerome Powell may have triggered the second coming of the Arthur Burns “galloping inflation” Fed, and sure enough recent inflationary […]

Rickards: This Is What Will Destroy The Dollar Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Janet Yellen gave a speech on Sept. 26 at the 2024 U.S. Treasury Market Conference in New York. The speech was largely about risks in the banking system and the market for U.S. Treasury debt. In a pre-speech interview with Politico, Yellen was asked about risks related to a smooth presidential transition in this election cycle. While […]

Cold Blob Invades Central & Eastern US As Proper Autumn Arrives For Millions  A cold front swept across the north-central US through the eastern half of the US late weekend into the early part of the new week. For readers based in the east and central US, Brrr! It’s a chilly morning as fall-like weather roars in, and it could get even chillier into Wednesday.  “Below average temperatures forecast across the central and […]