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Alt - Zero Hedge - 3 hours ago

Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization

Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute, Apple builds and sells iPhones. I happen to own one of the older models, for the same reason I own a last-legs older model car. What if Apple could skip the build part and sell only the phone? The money saved would be an enormous boost to its bottom line. And if Apple passed the savings onto customers I could conceivably afford to upgrade. Where would the phones come from? From a bookke...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 3 hours ago

World's Largest Refiner Says China's Oil Demand "Very Likely Peaked Last Year"

World's Largest Refiner Says China's Oil Demand "Very Likely Peaked Last Year" One of the most understated stories of 2026, and the reason why oil (and gas) aren't trading at persistently nosebleed levels (ignore diesel for the time being), has been China's unexpectedly weak oil demand. And while there has been much speculation surrounding the reason for this chronically weak oil demand, ranging from an accelerated - and offsetting - SPR drain, to a dramatic economic slowdown behind...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 4 hours ago

DOJ To Deploy 1,000 Election Monitors For Midterms

DOJ To Deploy 1,000 Election Monitors For Midterms The Justice Department is preparing to send a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places for the 2026 midterms, the largest deployment of its kind in the agency's history. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general who runs the Civil Rights Division, gave the number to Bloomberg last week and the figure alone tells you how central "election integrity" has become to this administration's second-term agenda. This is not u...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 4 hours ago

Japan Power Prices Surge To Highest Since 2023

Japan Power Prices Surge To Highest Since 2023 By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Japan’s nationwide day-ahead electricity price soared by 20% in one week to settle on Monday at the highest level since January 2023, as gas supply disruptions from the Middle East and an intense heatwave pushed up prices and consumption.   The day-ahead power price in Japan has jumped to $0.16 (25.18 Japanese yen) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on Monday, per data from the Japan Electric Power Exchange ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

Inside China's Humanoid Robot Boom: What BofA Analysts Saw On The Ground In Beijing

Inside China's Humanoid Robot Boom: What BofA Analysts Saw On The Ground In Beijing China put its humanoid robotics industry on full display last week with a series of technological, commercial, and capital-markets milestones. Beijing first hosted the 2026 World Robot Conference, followed by the five-day World Humanoid Robot Games, while Unitree capped the week with a blockbuster IPO. Bank of America analyst Ming Hsun Lee attended last week's 2026 World Robot Conference and provide...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

Michigan's Energy Abundance Is On The Ballot

Michigan's Energy Abundance Is On The Ballot Authored by Samantha Fillmore via RealClearEnergy, It is indisputable that energy is the lifeblood of every civilization. We are reminded of that truth daily at the gas pumps and when it's time to recharge the latest iPhone. Another indisputable truth is that the availability and affordability of energy are as delicate as the fiber-optic cables that supply our homes with Wi-Fi. We are living out that truth in real time between the ong...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

Your Tax Dollars At Work: San Fran Shelter Workers Accused Of Hiding Cop Shooter

Your Tax Dollars At Work: San Fran Shelter Workers Accused Of Hiding Cop Shooter Two employees at a San Francisco homeless shelter funded through city contracts have been arrested for allegedly helping a suspected cop shooter hide from police, according to the New York Post. The case stems from a May 31 confrontation near the Bay Bridge involving 36-year-old Norris Reed III. Authorities say what began as an attempted traffic stop escalated into a pursuit, ending when Reed’s vehicle...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

"Operation Economic Outcast" Begins: Bessent Warns Countries Helping Iran Face Expulsion From Dollar System

"Operation Economic Outcast" Begins: Bessent Warns Countries Helping Iran Face Expulsion From Dollar System Summary Bessent Unveils "Operation Economic Outcast" Against Iran  Pakistan enters diplomatic push: Pakistan's army chief reportedly traveled to Tehran after Trump urged him to help reopen Iran talks. Iran threatens new tanker action: Tehran blacklisted 45 vessels and warned of further Hormuz attacks. US readies sweeping sanctions: Bessent is preparing a sweeping economic ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Massachusetts Citizenship Rule At Center Of Alleged Voter-Impersonation Case

Massachusetts Citizenship Rule At Center Of Alleged Voter-Impersonation Case Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, After federal prosecutors charged a Chinese man for registering to vote and casting a ballot under his former landlord's name, experts are questioning Massachusetts' verification processes. A voter fills out his midterm-election ballot in Boston City Hall on Nov. 8, 2022. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images Yupeng Sun, a Chinese national living in Andover, al...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

TotalEnergies CEO Reveals Cost To Move A Supertanker Through Hormuz

TotalEnergies CEO Reveals Cost To Move A Supertanker Through Hormuz The crisis-driven dislocation across Gulf oil markets has positioned French energy giant TotalEnergies SE as an early mover, capitalizing on heavily discounted Persian Gulf crude priced at $50 to $60 a barrel and moving it through the highly contested Strait of Hormuz. CEO Patrick Pouyanné revealed at the Norwegian energy conference on Monday that transiting the waterway now costs roughly $20 million per supertanker...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

Regulation: Protecting Incumbents And Suppressing Competition

Regulation: Protecting Incumbents And Suppressing Competition Authored by Hal Snarr via Mises Institute, A previous article attributed widespread airline service failures not to individual carriers but to government interventions sold as consumer protections. Through a web of intricate regulations and controls, the state restricts entry, grants shared monopoly privileges to approved carriers, and creates what Rothbard calls a state-enforced cartel. The result is an illusion of comp...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

US Scraps September Korea Marine Drills In Wake Of Iran War Strain

US Scraps September Korea Marine Drills In Wake Of Iran War Strain Fresh on the heels of President Trump controversially ordering scaled-down US-South Korea military drills last week, there are emerging reports of more canceled plans for joint exercises. South Korean and American force were going to hold large-scale maritime drills focused on amphibious landing exercises in September, but Seoul has said the Pentagon had to back out related to constraints due to Iran war deployments...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

Supreme Court Backs Trump's Mail-In Ballot Overhaul

Supreme Court Backs Trump's Mail-In Ballot Overhaul The Supreme Court sided with President Trump over his plan to use the Postal Service to impose broad new restrictions on the distribution of mail ballots. Over the dissent of the court's three liberal judges, SCOTUS' ruling means that the Trump administration can move forward with a proposal for DHS to compile state-specific lists of people it believes are eligible to vote in the Democratic-led states that had challenged the pla...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

DEI Refuses To Die

DEI Refuses To Die Authored by Kenin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, Although the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws dating back to 1866 prohibit nearly all racial preferences, most Americans oppose these preferences, and Donald Trump was elected vowing to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) - progressives won't give up. Their race-obsessed thinking reduces America to intersectional classifications of oppressed and oppressor. This addled ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

Our World 'Is Coming Apart Now... In Astounding Ways'

Our World 'Is Coming Apart Now... In Astounding Ways' Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Cookery For All “We’re only cooked if we accept it.” - Blaine Holt on “X” They don’t call economics the dismal science for nothing. It has been noted - since Thomas Carlyle minted the term in 1849 (objecting to the emancipation of black slaves on Britain’s colonial sugar plantations as a harm to productivity) - that attempts to manage the billion-footed transactions of human beings always...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting

Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A U.S. appeals court has entered a judgment in favor of James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, and a Project Veritas reporter. A split panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judges said on Aug. 21 that a district court judge had erroneously kept in place $130,000 in damages against O'Keefe over an undercover operation t...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

Iran Airs Video Claiming Barron Trump Being Spied On, Offers $10 Million Bounty On His Head

Iran Airs Video Claiming Barron Trump Being Spied On, Offers $10 Million Bounty On His Head Update(1900ET): While it was largely Israeli media's Ch.14 which first called attention to the "Where to kill Barron Trump" clip, the short video does appear to be a creation of Iranian state media. It is indeed authentic. It is currently featured at the Tehran-based Tebyan Cultural Institute's official Persian-language homepage. The institute is highly visible in Iran (more here), and is af...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

"I Hope It Gives A Really Good Lesson Going Forward": 'Pollster' Prakash's License To Lie

"I Hope It Gives A Really Good Lesson Going Forward": 'Pollster' Prakash's License To Lie Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, In this political season, there is one question that needs no poll: Rahil Prakash is a liar. The other thing we know is that he will likely get away with spreading fake polling results. Lies can be protected speech under the First Amendment and, while Prakash would not likely want to take a popularity poll, he is unlikely to face legal consequen...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

The Great Walkback: Sam Altman Admits He Was Wrong On AI's Economic Timeline

The Great Walkback: Sam Altman Admits He Was Wrong On AI's Economic Timeline For three years, Sam Altman has pitched the imminent, wholesale disruption of the global economy. This week, staring down the barrel of an IPO - based on a business model that's actively being 'wholesale disrupted' by China - the OpenAI chief executive quietly admitted he got the timing wrong. Appearing on David Senra's Founders podcast, Altman conceded that the economic upheaval he forecast following GPT-4...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Gold: From DC's "Enemy" To Its Last Hope?

Gold: From DC's "Enemy" To Its Last Hope? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, As headlines from the Iranian “conflict” continue to leave the world guessing as to what, if any, military, political and financial solutions lie ahead, we can at least know this much: The approaching autumn looks a bit scary. A Market Fall in the Fall? The macro setting for our collective transition from summer to fall in 2026 is marked by rising yields across the western yield curve,...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

Nvidia Informs Hyperscalers About Incoming Price Hikes As Memory Costs Soar

Nvidia Informs Hyperscalers About Incoming Price Hikes As Memory Costs Soar The AI infrastructure buildout boom could soon enter another inflationary wave.  Nvidia's largest hyperscaler customers face sharply higher costs next year, with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems expected to jump in price as surging memory costs ripple through the chip stacks. Bloomberg cited sources familiar with Nvidia's new pricing regime, indicating that hyperscalers will see a 15% increase in p...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

Mole Men Return? Weird Manhattan Manhole Crew Spotted At 4AM

Mole Men Return? Weird Manhattan Manhole Crew Spotted At 4AM Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The manhole people are back. Early Saturday morning, just after 4 a.m., a group was filmed exiting a manhole in Manhattan. The footage, captured and shared by independent New York photographer Viral News NYC, shows the individuals climbing out of the street in the dead of night once again. The manhole people are back . They were spotted at 4 am in Manhattan exiting anothe...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

Jet-Fuel Price Shock Hits Airlines As Raymond James Cuts Estimate Across Coverage, Warns Of JetBlue Bankruptcy Risk

Jet-Fuel Price Shock Hits Airlines As Raymond James Cuts Estimate Across Coverage, Warns Of JetBlue Bankruptcy Risk As we've told readers, and as former Goldman commodities guru Jeff Currie explained last week, the energy crisis is not necessarily in Brent or WTI supplies, but in refined-product markets, given the diesel crack spread's jump above $100 a barrel last week. Early Monday, the spread was trading around $94. The secondary effects of a global refined-products crisis are b...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

What Will Burst It: Ed Dowd Warns AI Is The Biggest Bubble Of All Time

What Will Burst It: Ed Dowd Warns AI Is The Biggest Bubble Of All Time Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com made a name for himself during the dot com bubble.  It was not because he was telling people to buy, it was because he was telling investors to get out before it all blew up.  Dowd saved people a lot of money by sidestepping a crash.  Fast-forward to today, and Dowd sees the same bubble signs...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Tanker In Red Sea, As Bab el-Mandeb Transit Is Up Slightly

Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Tanker In Red Sea, As Bab el-Mandeb Transit Is Up Slightly Yemen's Houthis on Monday targeted the Saudi oil tanker Amzan in the Red Sea off Yanbu with a ballistic missile and drones, the Iran-aligned militant group announced. Soon after initial reports emerged, Saudi Arabia confirmed the attack, with Saudi shipping company Bahri stating that its Amzan vessel was involved in a hostile incident in regional waters. Yahya Saree, the military spokesman for th...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Los Angeles City Council Entertains Call For Homeless Masturbation and Hookup Centers

Los Angeles City Council Entertains Call For Homeless Masturbation and Hookup Centers Authored by Monica Showalter via AmericanThinker.com, What's this strange proclivity from the left to provide the dregs of society with the same accommodations as those who pay their bills? What on earth did I just listen to Is this real life ? pic.twitter.com/m8Va9OBcGl — IET 17 (@Inevitably_17) August 20, 2026 This is what passed for governance at the Los Angeles City Council last week: "I'd...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Key Events This Week: Jackson Hole. Nvidia Earnings And Core PCE

Key Events This Week: Jackson Hole. Nvidia Earnings And Core PCE As we start a new weeks, the upward pressure on long-end bond yields from last week has shown initial signs of easing. Indeed, the 30yr Treasury yield is down -5bps overnight to 5.22%, whilst the 10yr yield is down by the same amount to 4.69%. That’s been supported by an announcement by the Treasury to CNBC that some/all of the cash in the Treasury General Account may be used to fund buybacks (bringin the US ever close...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

Saylor's Strategy Launches 'USD Cash' Pool After $2 Billion Raise, No BTC Buys

Saylor's Strategy Launches 'USD Cash' Pool After $2 Billion Raise, No BTC Buys Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public company holding Bitcoin, raised about $2 billion through common stock sales last week while making no new Bitcoin purchases. The Bitcoin treasury company sold 18.26 million MSTR shares between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23 through its at-the-market (ATM) offering program, according to a Monday filing with the SEC, adding a new pool of cash to its balance-shee...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

Newsom Signs 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' To Stop Investigations Into Immigration 'Service' Provider Fraud

Newsom Signs 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' To Stop Investigations Into Immigration 'Service' Provider Fraud Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Saturday expanding privacy protections for immigration service workers, despite warnings that the measure could chill investigative journalism and face First Amendment challenges. Assembly Bill 2624, dubbed the "Stop Nick Shirley Act" by Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, expands C...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

"We Don't Need Canada": Loonie Limps Lower As Trump Unleashes (More) Tariffs

"We Don't Need Canada": Loonie Limps Lower As Trump Unleashes (More) Tariffs "Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years," wrote President Trump in his latest social media outburst, laying out his tariff torrent against Canada. "Their ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products has made life impossible for these great American Patriots, and has long created a 60 Billion Dollar Deficit between our two Countries. Not sustainable, and NOT ANYMO...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

Nano Nuclear Energy Signs Commercial Framework With Tillman To Enable Nuclear Power For Data Centers

Nano Nuclear Energy Signs Commercial Framework With Tillman To Enable Nuclear Power For Data Centers Regular readers are aware that one of our biggest concerns with the AI supercycle, and the entire AI arms race between the US and China, is that when push comes to shove, not only is there mounting grassroots opposition to data center build out across the US but, more importantly, the US is badly lagging China when it comes to the rollout of much needed energy to power the hundreds o...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

Texas Governor Floats Prosecution Of Airports Over Muslim Foot-Washing Fountains

Texas Governor Floats Prosecution Of Airports Over Muslim Foot-Washing Fountains Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, made his second push in two weeks to halt the Muslim foot washing facilities at his state's airports on Friday. "DFW [Dallas Fort Worth International Airport] stopped plans to install additional Islamic wudu washing facilities after I threatened to withhold state grants to entities operating these airports," Abbott wr...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

Gold Jumps, Curve Flattens On Report Treasury To Tap Trillion-Dollar TGA To Fund Bond Buybacks

Gold Jumps, Curve Flattens On Report Treasury To Tap Trillion-Dollar TGA To Fund Bond Buybacks Having seen yields rebound from their initial decline following the upping of Treasury (long-end) buybacks to 'at least $4BN' per operation (and increased its total planned operations), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent jawboned late last week about his 'bigger toolkit' and 'asymmetric information' in an attempt to further strengthen the 'Treasury Put'. Unfortunately for him, the market (v...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

Le Pen Poised To Win French Elections? New Poll Shows Commanding First-Round Lead

Le Pen Poised To Win French Elections? New Poll Shows Commanding First-Round Lead Summary: Polymarket Odds And New Polls Show Le Pen Leading France's Presidential Race New polling shows Marine Le Pen defeating every tested runoff opponent Nomura says markets increasingly favor the "fiscally prudent" right over the reckless left Nomura sees Europe lurching right during an 18-month election cycle France's Le Pen Leads French Presidential Race Early Monday, we previewed a Nomura ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

Israel Creates Fake Think Tank In Likely Attempt To Dupe AI Chatbots

Israel Creates Fake Think Tank In Likely Attempt To Dupe AI Chatbots Authored by Nick Cleveland-Stout via Responsible Statecraft, At a glance, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy looks like a new think tank dedicated to Israel/Palestine. The organization churns out think-tank style reports on questions such as "Does AIPAC Use 'Dark Money in Elections?" and "Is Israel Carrying out a Deliberate Campaign of Starvation in Gaza?" A banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

Rial Hits Record Low As Bessent Readies "Economic D-Day" Assault To Isolate Iran

Rial Hits Record Low As Bessent Readies "Economic D-Day" Assault To Isolate Iran In the coming hours, the Trump administration is expected to unveil a sweeping campaign to economically isolate Iran and its trading partners, with China likely the primary target. The escalation is designed to force Tehran back to the negotiating table, as its only leverage - the Strait of Hormuz - appears to be quickly eroding. Commercial ships are now transiting the newly opened, US military-supervis...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Interior Department Approves Colorado River Water Reductions In 3 States

Interior Department Approves Colorado River Water Reductions In 3 States Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, The Department of the Interior will cut the amount of water it allocates through the Colorado River to Arizona, Nevada, and California in 2027 and 2028. The cuts were signed off by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Aug. 21 as part of the department's 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines for the Colorado River, which provides water to over 40 million people, gen...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Study Finds 152 Polymarket Wallets Likely Exploited Military Secrets For $8 Million In Gains

Study Finds 152 Polymarket Wallets Likely Exploited Military Secrets For $8 Million In Gains A new study has concluded that 152 Polymarket wallets may have profited from access to secret information about military action, with other wallets copying the insiders' bets. The patterns raise red flags about foreign adversaries' potential exploitation of insiders' profit-seeking to anticipate American strikes.   Released on Thursday by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC), the 29-p...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

Europe Dodges A Rhine Crisis For The Worst Possible Reason

Europe Dodges A Rhine Crisis For The Worst Possible Reason Authored by Natalia Katona via OilPrice.com, Rhine freight from ARA to Karlsruhe has surged from €45/t to €215/t as Kaub remains below the 77-cm threshold needed for normal commercial traffic. The squeeze is disrupting 3.1 million t/y of ethylene capacity and product movements from the 320,000-b/d Miro refinery. Europe is avoiding a deeper crisis only because crackers are running at around 70% and fuel demand is weak. T...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

"Seeds Of Political Change": Nomura Sees Europe Lurching Right, And Markets Are Fine With It

"Seeds Of Political Change": Nomura Sees Europe Lurching Right, And Markets Are Fine With It Europe is entering an 18-month election cycle that could accelerate the continent's shift toward populism, with high-profile elections scheduled this year in Germany and Sweden, followed by France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Poland in 2027. The much-needed political realignment reflects mounting public backlash against progressives in Brussels after years of uncontrolled mass migration ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

Clean Energy Spending Tracking Toward Record $180 Billion In 2026

Clean Energy Spending Tracking Toward Record $180 Billion In 2026 Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, U.S. utility-scale battery storage has reached 52 GW after three years of 70 percent average annual growth, with 8.3 GW of that added in the first six months of 2026 alone. Clean energy capital spending hit $74 billion in the first half and is on pace for a record $180 billion this year, even after the rollback of federal incentives. Grid operators have another 54 GW queu...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

Anti-Social Media

Anti-Social Media Social media may have been built to connect people, but entertainment and diversion now appear to be its main draws. As Statista's Felix Richter reports, according to Statista Consumer Insights, nearly half of U.S. respondents say entertainment is an important criterion when it comes to social media, ahead of passing time and communicating with friends and family. You will find more infographics at Statista Among young adults aged 18 to 29, the social dimensio...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

Israel DM Orders IDF To Escalate Demolitions In Southern Lebanon

Israel DM Orders IDF To Escalate Demolitions In Southern Lebanon Authored by Jason Ditz via Antiwar.com, A week after ordering the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prepare for a "long-term stay" in occupied southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz has now also ordered them to escalate the rate at which they're destroying what is being framed as "Hezbollah infrastructure" across the south. The issue with this is the same as it's been throughout the war, that Israel's definitio...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

MAGA, The DSA, and The Politics Of No Competition

MAGA, The DSA, and The Politics Of No Competition Authored by Katherine Gehl via RealClearPolitics, Despite the narrow loss by Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong in the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary last week, DSA candidates have prevailed in primaries this year from Maine to California. The Democratic Party establishment believed it dodged a bullet in Wisconsin, but this threat is not going away any time soon. The roots of the radical left's success were seeded al...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Evergrande Founder Gets Life But Homebuyers, Suppliers Bear The Costs Of China's Property Collapse

Evergrande Founder Gets Life But Homebuyers, Suppliers Bear The Costs Of China's Property Collapse Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, The sentencing of China Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison has brought a legal reckoning for one of the country's most spectacular corporate collapses. However, for hundreds of thousands of homebuyers, investors, and other creditors, the ruling does little to resolve the financial losses left behind by the property giant. Xu...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Has Trump Turned The Tables On Iran - Or Is Another Round Of War Coming?

Has Trump Turned The Tables On Iran - Or Is Another Round Of War Coming? Authored by Trita Parsi via Antiwar.com, reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi's Substack. The Trump administration believes it has turned the tables on Iran. Washington assesses that the rerouting of maritime traffic through the Omani corridor, combined with a global shift away from Persian Gulf oil, has reduced the effectiveness of Tehran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz. At the same time, the U.S. blo...

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Assassination Sing-A-Long: Hasan Piker Mocks The Murdered Charlie Kirk To Cheering Crowd

Assassination Sing-A-Long: Hasan Piker Mocks The Murdered Charlie Kirk To Cheering Crowd Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, We have seen protesters on the left around the country mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, even reenacting his murder. Hate traffickers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. It is all shocking and depressing, but none reached the level of Hasan Piker leading a huge crowd in mocking Kirk and his faith. Before he was mur...

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The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty"

The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty" Authored by Almonty Industries CEO Lewis Black [emphasis our own],  Plenty to delve into with this edition: a stockpile order nobody can fill, two factory shutdowns that should be on your radar and the awkward truth about how few tungsten projects will ever produce a single tonne. It's a busy one. In we go. Cash in hand but no one's selling Earlier this year America's strategic stockpile did something that s...

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Wary Of Backlash, Pro-Israel GOP Senate Hopeful Asks AIPAC Not To Spend On His Behalf

Wary Of Backlash, Pro-Israel GOP Senate Hopeful Asks AIPAC Not To Spend On His Behalf With Israel's standing in the United States crumbling, America's leading pro-Israel organization has become a focal point of anger among those who think the US government is putting Israel's interests ahead of America's. Political candidates have started seizing on this, attacking opponents who are backed by that group -- AIPAC. So for, that's largely been a phenomenon in the Democratic primaries, ...

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The Teaser Period: Why The AI Boom Is Hitting A Reset Wall

The Teaser Period: Why The AI Boom Is Hitting A Reset Wall Having laid out, in July, the structural diagnosis that most of the market still refuses to confront: the AI boom is not a technology cycle. It is a credit-driven real-estate-like cycle whose financing architecture depends on the second derivative; the appropriately-named 'Groundbreaker' website has just dropped his next insightful note on what may be the trigger for the market to wake up to the ugly reality beneath the surf...

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Elon Musk's Huge Midterm Investment Widens GOP's Money Advantage

Elon Musk's Huge Midterm Investment Widens GOP's Money Advantage Republicans already have a significant financial advantage heading into the 2026 midterm elections, but Elon Musk is preparing to spend up to $200 million to give them an even bigger boost. Wired reports that officials with knowledge of Musk's plans said the range could still change, and that he intends to direct much of that money toward voter-turnout operations in the cycle's most competitive races, with the Texas Se...

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What Makes A Great Entrepreneur? Lessons From The Greats

What Makes A Great Entrepreneur? Lessons From The Greats Authored by Rainer Zitelmann via RealClearMarkets, What personality traits distinguish successful entrepreneurs? This question has occupied academic research on entrepreneurship for decades, with scholars examining the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurial success. When we want to understand or recognize something, we often do so by making comparisons. About 200 years after the birth of Christ, the Gr...

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Trump Accuses BBC Of Turning Defamation Case Into 'Jan 6' Investigation

Trump Accuses BBC Of Turning Defamation Case Into 'Jan 6' Investigation Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge to reject the BBC's attempt to subpoena three members of his family as part of discovery in his defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. Trump's attorneys filed a memorandum Aug. 21 opposing the BBC's request for permission to use alternative methods to serve subpoenas on Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, a...

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Temporary Protected Status Ends For 13 Nationalities

Temporary Protected Status Ends For 13 Nationalities Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, A court on Aug. 18 effectively ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the last of 13 nationalities that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targeted during President Donald Trump's second term. In total, more than a million foreign nationals living in the United States with such deportation protections are now up for removal. The 13 countries included Haiti, Syria, Yemen, ...

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Karmelo Anthony Request For New Trial Denied After Disturbing Revelations

Karmelo Anthony Request For New Trial Denied After Disturbing Revelations The narrative of the innocent black kid standing up to "white bullies" is falling apart.  Karmelo Anthony, age 19, was convicted in June 2026 of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf (who was also 17 at the time) by fatally stabbing him in the chest during a confrontation at a high school track meet in April 2025.  A Collin County jury sentenced him to 35 years in prison. Anthony claimed self-defense; arguing t...

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WHO Says Pandemic Determinations Can Be Made Without 'Evidence Of Illness'

WHO Says Pandemic Determinations Can Be Made Without 'Evidence Of Illness' Authored by Jon Fleetwood via Modernity News, The World Health Organization (WHO) says evidence that a person is actually sick is not required for a "laboratory-confirmed" human influenza infection with "the potential to cause a pandemic" to trigger mandatory international reporting. "Evidence of illness is not required for this report," WHO states in its latest Influenza at the Human-Animal Interface ass...

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The Fed Owns Over 50% Of All Bonds Maturing Between 10 And 15 Years From Now

The Fed Owns Over 50% Of All Bonds Maturing Between 10 And 15 Years From Now Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Treasuries, Treaties, and Treatises Let’s start with Treasuries. We laid out the approach we would take if we were Warsh last weekend in Warsh’s Mark Antony Moment (a play on coming to “bury” inflation, yet having quite the opposite effect, at least in terms of interest rate policy).  After Bessent’s “attempt” to drive bond yields lower, we analyzed the poss...

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Did Canada Just Sign Its Own Economic Death Warrant?

Did Canada Just Sign Its Own Economic Death Warrant? Canadian Prime Minister and WEF globalist Mark Carney has been a disaster for Canada since he entered office.  There were many critics who believed the Trudeau regime could not be topped in terms of self destructive behavior, but one could easily argue that Carney is far more dangerous and far more devious. This week the Canadian government abandoned a nearly finalized trade deal with the US in the final hour of talks, leaving ma...

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Tehran At The Crossroads: Iran's Civilian Leaders Call For Peace Amid Crippling U.S. Blockade

Tehran At The Crossroads: Iran's Civilian Leaders Call For Peace Amid Crippling U.S. Blockade Iran's top civilian officials are publicly urging an end to the ongoing conflict with the United States, exposing a deepening internal rift as they attempt to rein in hardliners who champion continued resistance. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in southern Tehran, Iran, Janu...

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Azerbaijan Sues CNN Over Story On Cooperation With Israel In War On Iran

Azerbaijan Sues CNN Over Story On Cooperation With Israel In War On Iran Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a novel (and highly dubious) lawsuit filed in Delaware by the nation of Azerbaijan against CNN for a story claiming that it was cooperating with Israel in attacks on Iran. Republic of Azerbaijan v. CNN, Inc. borders on the legally frivolous, but it is likely politically advantageous to show Iran that it contests the allegations. In its Complaint, Azerbaijan details the de...

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The Great Burrito Debate And The Uncomfortable Solution To Inflation

The Great Burrito Debate And The Uncomfortable Solution To Inflation Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Recently one of the most important debates in the history of conservative discourse raged across the internet, with sides deeply divided and solutions rare or nonexistent. This debate went largely unnoticed by the rest of the country but it regards the deepest underlying foundations of our economic future. I am speaking, of course, about the “Great Burrito Debate” of 20...

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Death Of Europe's Industrial Base: VW CEO Set To Announce 50,000 Job Cuts

Death Of Europe's Industrial Base: VW CEO Set To Announce 50,000 Job Cuts Europe's industrial demise has become impossible to ignore. The continent's automotive manufacturing base is being hollowed out by high energy costs, regulatory pressure, and a flood of cheap Chinese electric vehicles, with Germany, once Europe's industrial powerhouse, emerging as the epicenter of this terrible decline. Germany's largest manufacturer by revenue is Volkswagen Group, whose CEO, Oliver Blume, is...

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Alfalfa Sprouts Linked To Bacterial Infections In 15 US States

Alfalfa Sprouts Linked To Bacterial Infections In 15 US States Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A total of 55 people have been infected with E. coli and Salmonella across 15 states in an outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Fresh homegrown Alfalfa or Lucerne Medicago sativa sprouts in white bowl. Courtesy of the CDC Of those 55 people, 46 were infected with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, or STEC, seven with Salmonell...

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Taiwan Tech Insiders Warn Beijing's Germanium Squeeze Is Hitting Production

Taiwan Tech Insiders Warn Beijing's Germanium Squeeze Is Hitting Production Nikkei Asia reports that China is restricting or delaying exports of germanium- and quartz-based materials to Taiwan, creating "painful supply-chain bottlenecks" across the island's key aerospace, semiconductor, and optical companies. The supply disruptions reinforce the urgent need for the US and its allies to accelerate supply-chain decoupling and secure alternative sources of critical materials. Beijing'...

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Turkey and Israel On Brink Of Military Clash After Netanyahu Ordered Strikes On Syrian Airbase

Turkey and Israel On Brink Of Military Clash After Netanyahu Ordered Strikes On Syrian Airbase At a moment of the ongoing Iran conflict, Israel and Turkey are escalating their competing claims and rhetoric over Syria, to the point that full-blown war is being threatened. NBC writes of the irony of two American regional allies on the brink: "A pair of key American allies, an attack on a strategic military base and an intense election campaign: The United States has been scrambling t...

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Spain's Pools Hit By Disgusting 'Brown Challenge' TikTok Filth

Spain's Pools Hit By Disgusting 'Brown Challenge' TikTok Filth Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spain's peak summer season has been disrupted once again by a revolting viral trend that has forced the closure of swimming pools and waterparks across the country, leaving families stranded and facilities scrubbed clean at public expense. At PortAventura World's Caribe Aquatic Park on the Costa Dorada this week, lifeguards evacuated both the adult and children's pools aft...

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Escobar: How Trump Tried To Bribe The Head Of The IRGC

Escobar: How Trump Tried To Bribe The Head Of The IRGC Authored by Pepe Escobar, Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes. Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” And we bribe. A Transition Protocol source, as we revealed live, is unequivocal: The President of the United States – despite having “won” the war on Iran countless times, at least in the Vociferation stakes – made a major attempt to induce IRGC Commander-in-Chief G...

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When The Rule Of Law Fails

When The Rule Of Law Fails Authored by Madge Waggy, What follows emerges from seventeen months of examination into procedural collapses, constitutional erosions, and institutional betrayals that have accelerated beyond the capacity of conventional reportage to capture. Sources include former jurists who resigned rather than participate in predetermined outcomes, law enforcement officials who documented unlawful commands, and archival materials that reveal pattern precedents for con...

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Family Structure Determines Kids' Success In School More Than Race Or Income, Researchers Say

Family Structure Determines Kids' Success In School More Than Race Or Income, Researchers Say Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, While universities debate whether to skip standardized admissions tests and the University of Michigan waives first-term grades for some incoming students, new research suggests that relaxing standards might not be the best way to help kids who are struggling in school. A science teacher works with her students at a high school in Homestead, ...

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For Decades, The United States Ignored Latin America. All That Changed Under Trump.

For Decades, The United States Ignored Latin America. All That Changed Under Trump. Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, In a pre-dawn raid in January, Delta Force soldiers burst in on a sleeping Nicolás Maduro, capturing the Venezuelan leader wanted on U.S. narco-terrorism charges. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Public Domain The dramatic end of Maduro's control over a country emblematic of left-wing politics underscored Latin America's shift...

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IRS Announces 7 Percent Interest Rate For Overpayments And Underpayments

IRS Announces 7 Percent Interest Rate For Overpayments And Underpayments Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Internal Revenue Service has announced interest rates for tax underpayments and overpayments for the fourth quarter of 2026, keeping them at 7 percent for individual taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service in Washington on Jan. 6, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times When taxpayers do not pay taxes, penalties, and other charges on time, the IRS charges ...

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"They Can't Define A Woman": Bill Maher Says Democrats "Opened The Door" With "Crazy" Cultural Issues

"They Can't Define A Woman": Bill Maher Says Democrats "Opened The Door" With "Crazy" Cultural Issues Bill Maher says Democrats are still paying a political price for cultural positions that leave voters thinking the party has "lost their minds." The 'Real Time' host argued that Republicans have benefited from Democrats continuing to focus on cultural issues where, in his telling, much of the country believes the party has gone off the rails. Bill Maher MOCKS Democrats for the "c...

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Fauci's Lawyers Set Up Legal Defense Fund

Fauci's Lawyers Set Up Legal Defense Fund Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s lawyers have created a fund for people to donate for his legal expenses. The fund “has been established to help pay the costs of the ongoing legal representation of Dr. Fauci,” according to its website. Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, testifies before the Senate Committee...

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Treasury Bars Scammy ESG Funds From Trump Accounts, Citing Left-Wing 'Political Activism' Concerns

Treasury Bars Scammy ESG Funds From Trump Accounts, Citing Left-Wing 'Political Activism' Concerns The Treasury Department is moving forward with rules that would exclude investment funds built around scammy, globalist environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria from Trump Accounts. Fox Business reports that under the newly proposed framework, qualifying indexes would need to track broad segments of US or global equity markets using objective financial criteria, rather t...

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Waste Of The Day: Millionaire Mortgages

Waste Of The Day: Millionaire Mortgages Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, The Department of Agriculture's Section 502 loan programs help low-income families buy homes with mortgages that don't require a down payment. But in 2013, an investigation by Reuters found dozens of millionaires took advantage to purchase vacation and rental homes. Though the millionaires later repaid their loans, the program as a whole covered $500 million in losses from defaults in...

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Portable 1MW Kaleidos Microreactor Secures Critical Nuclear Fuel Deal Through 2030s

Portable 1MW Kaleidos Microreactor Secures Critical Nuclear Fuel Deal Through 2030s Authored by Aamir Khollam via Interesting Engineering, Radiant has secured a long-term source of nuclear fuel for its Kaleidos microreactor, removing a potential supply hurdle as the company prepares the system for deployment. Kaleidos transportable nuclear reactor delivery.Radiant Nuclear Standard Nuclear will fabricate TRISO fuel for Radiant under an agreement covering planned Kaleidos deployment...

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What Florida Students Have Been Mandated To Learn Will Make Leftists Lose It

What Florida Students Have Been Mandated To Learn Will Make Leftists Lose It Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Florida is doing what no blue-state classroom dares: forcing students to confront the actual body count of communism instead of romanticizing it. Starting this fall, every public school student from sixth grade onward will receive mandatory instruction on the history and evils of communism under standards signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The curriculum ...

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Tehran Says US Sanctions Are 'Declaration Of War' On All Nations, Urges Global Revolt

Tehran Says US Sanctions Are 'Declaration Of War' On All Nations, Urges Global Revolt Tehran has on Saturday further addressed the new Trump-Bessent plan of long-term economic 'strangulation' and isolation, which in the US Treasury Secretary's words seeks to "collapse" the Iranian government with the "toughest sanctions in history." This of course means that Washington will have to at the same time pressure other nations that do business with Tehran to immediately cease, which could...

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Beyond The Ban: Why Embracing AI Is Essential For Higher Education

Beyond The Ban: Why Embracing AI Is Essential For Higher Education Authored by Kent Ingle via RealClearEducation, Rather than fearing generative tools or treating them as mere compliance threats, higher education must train students to master AI as an exponential multiplier for innovation, career success, and national prosperity. Generative artificial intelligence is vastly more prevalent, sophisticated, and accessible today than it was even six months ago. Today's incoming stud...

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"Stop Gaslighting Me!": Florida Socialist Who Beat Vindman Gets In Shouting Match With Democrat Party Chair

"Stop Gaslighting Me!": Florida Socialist Who Beat Vindman Gets In Shouting Match With Democrat Party Chair As regular readers know, establishment Democrats have been freaking out over the rise of socialist candidates - whose policy positions are virtually identical, except the socialists are getting elected saying the quiet part out loud - giving the game away.  On Tuesday, Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon beat Russiagate hero Alexander Vindman in a shocking double-digit primary w...

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Nation's Largest Cattle Group Slams Trump's Tariff-Free Beef "Undercutting" US Ranchers

Nation's Largest Cattle Group Slams Trump's Tariff-Free Beef "Undercutting" US Ranchers Summary:  National Cattlemen's Beef Association Slams Trump Admin Trump To Flood US With 300,000 Tons Of Tariff-Free Ground Beef To Tame Prices Ahead Of Midterms National Cattlemen's Beef Association Slams Trump Admin The National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) responded to President Trump's move to import 300,000 tons of tariff-free ground beef to stabilize prices ahead of the midterms i...

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Court Reduces $50 Million Judgment Against Alex Jones Over False Sandy Hook Hoax Claim

Court Reduces $50 Million Judgment Against Alex Jones Over False Sandy Hook Hoax Claim Authored via Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A Texas appeals court on Aug. 21 drastically reduced a judgment owed by Infowars host Alex Jones, shrinking the amount from $50 million to around $6 million, over his commentary falsely calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut a hoax. Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems LLC, appealed the multimillion-dollar settlement af...

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Canada-US Trade War Erupts, Setting New 50% Tariffs On Canadian Goods

Canada-US Trade War Erupts, Setting New 50% Tariffs On Canadian Goods US-Canada trade negotiations collapsed at the 11th hour, just before the midnight deadline, triggering 50% tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods (under a never-before- used Section 338 provision of the Tariff Act of 1930) and prompting globalist-aligned, China-sympathizing Prime Minister Mark Carney to promise an equivalent response. "Tonight, Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the ...

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Normal Interest Rates: What The Debt Panic Gets Wrong

Normal Interest Rates: What The Debt Panic Gets Wrong Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A 5% long bond isn’t the crisis, it’s the receipt, and the fifteen years when money was free did far more damage to growth than normal interest rates ever will. This past week, two charts crossed my desk, arguing the same thing from opposite ends. The Kobeissi Letter flagged that U.S. borrowing rates just hit their highest level since 2007. Then, my friend and colleague,...

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President AOC's First Term

President AOC's First Term Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, The date is August 20th, 2032. We’re nearing the end of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first term as president. The wave of naive optimism that swept her into power has faded. But the damage is done. With a majority in both the Senate and House, the Democrats made big moves. First they eliminated the Senate filibuster. No more 60 votes needed to pass most legislation. Now a simple majority will do. The polit...

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Spain and The UK Lead In Football Fandom

Spain and The UK Lead In Football Fandom As Europe’s major football leagues return from their summer/World Cup break, fans in Spain and the UK are especially eager to get the ball rolling. In both countries, 78 percent of self-identified sports fans say they follow football teams or competitions - more than in Italy, Germany or France. Indeed, as Statista's Felix Richter details below, the appeal football extends well beyond dedicated sports audiences. You will find more infog...

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A Call To Power: Islamic Leaders See Ballot Box As Path To Paradise

A Call To Power: Islamic Leaders See Ballot Box As Path To Paradise Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations, The call to prayer is sounding across America. From Hamtramck, Michigan, to Paterson, New Jersey, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, rooftop amplifiers remind growing numbers of Muslim faithful five times a day of their duties with the Arabic message that "Allah is the Greatest! There is no god but Allah!" The so-called "adhan" is just one sign of how Islam is transfo...

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Turkey Issues Arrest Warrant For Netanyahu, Seeks Interpol Red Notice

Turkey Issues Arrest Warrant For Netanyahu, Seeks Interpol Red Notice Turkey has escalated its anti-Israel actions, after months of denunciations connected to its Gaza, Syria, and Iran policies - and is once again taking things to new levels. The Erdogan government has just issued an international arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an investigation into Israel's interception of an aid flotilla for Gaza, which happened in mid-May and involved ov...

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Spanish Beach Stormed As Ceuta Chaos Spreads

Spanish Beach Stormed As Ceuta Chaos Spreads Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Dozens of military-age men leapt from boats onto packed tourist beaches in mainland Spain this week, sending holidaymakers scrambling for their belongings as the fallout from the Ceuta mass crossing continues to escalate. Footage from Cala del Barco near the exclusive La Manga Club in Cartagena captured the moment a large vessel packed with predominantly North African males in their late te...

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Who Really Drives Global Terrorism? Internal US Govt Data Offers A Surprising Answer

Who Really Drives Global Terrorism? Internal US Govt Data Offers A Surprising Answer Authored by Larry Johnson via Sonar21.com Every administration reaches for the same line. Iran, we are told, is the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism a claim now central to the case for war. It carries the weight of an official designation: Iran has sat on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism since January 19, 1984, the longest-running designation currently on the bo...

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"Fibermaxxing" Craze Forces Big Food Into Reformulation Cycle

"Fibermaxxing" Craze Forces Big Food Into Reformulation Cycle BNP Paribas analysts say Gen Z's growing awareness of healthy, high-protein, high-fiber diets is accelerating a reformulation cycle across the Big Food industrial complex, as manufacturers race to make products more appealing to the youth and those on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.  In a report titled "Fiber Is the New Protein,” BNP analyst Joan Lim said the protein craze ignited by GLP-1 adoption has been coined "fibermaxxin...

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"Fibermaxxing" Craze Forces Big Food into Reformulation Cycle

"Fibermaxxing" Craze Forces Big Food into Reformulation Cycle BNP Paribas analysts say Gen Z's growing awareness of healthy, high-protein, high-fiber diets is accelerating a reformulation cycle across the Big Food industrial complex, as manufacturers race to make products more appealing to the youth and those on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.  In a report titled "Fiber Is the New Protein,” BNP analyst Joan Lim said the protein craze ignited by GLP-1 adoption has been coined "fibermaxxin...

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Trained On 53 Million Pages: US Supercomputer-Backed Tool To Search Nuclear Reactor Data

Trained On 53 Million Pages: US Supercomputer-Backed Tool To Search Nuclear Reactor Data Authored by Aman Tripathi via Interesting Engineering, Nuclear power stations across North America have begun using a dedicated virtual system called NIVA. The software was created by Atomic Canyon in collaboration with the Electric Power Research Institute, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, and the Nuclear Energy Institute. Atomic Canyon collaborated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory...

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The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family's Will To Reproduce

The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family's Will To Reproduce Authored by Felix Yang via the Mises Institute, The total fertility rate needed to sustain a population is 2.1. Averaged over 2020-2024, South Korea's stands at 0.78, Taiwan's at 0.89, and Hong Kong's at 0.79. Mainstream demography still treats these as cultural anomalies, when they are in fact the terminal readings of a century-long experiment in administrative intervention. The standard explanatio...

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Assistant U.S. Attorney Found Dead Inside Federal Building

Assistant U.S. Attorney Found Dead Inside Federal Building A high-ranking federal prosecutor was found dead inside a Southern California federal building on Wednesday, just hours after he was reported missing. Andrew Haden, Illustration via Wonderwall Andrew Haden, 48, the No. 2 official in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California, was discovered in a vacant office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building, officials said. The county Medical Examiner's O...

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Wealth Exodus: Australians Flock To Property Investment Over Business

Wealth Exodus: Australians Flock To Property Investment Over Business Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times, Fewer Australians are putting their capital into businesses, with the drop most acute among the wealthy, new data from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) shows. Instead, more wealth is flowing into property. A food delivery worker waits to collect an order at a shop in the Sydney CBD in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 15, 2026. George Chan/Getty I...

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US Treasury Classifies Hezbollah As Arm Of The IRGC, Not A 'Stand-Alone' Group

US Treasury Classifies Hezbollah As Arm Of The IRGC, Not A 'Stand-Alone' Group The new US Treasury sanctions on Hezbollah unveiled Thursday do more than ever before in 'legally' classifying the Lebanese militant group as essentially an arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Treasury action - which is certainly not the first designation against the group - underscored that it operated in "service to the Iranian regime under the command of Iran’s Islamic Revoluti...

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Let Americans Keep The Savings They Find

Let Americans Keep The Savings They Find Authored by Wendy Barnes via RealClearPolitics, As candidates spend the coming months telling voters how they would transform American health care, they should not overlook reforms that could make care more accessible and affordable without requiring complex new government programs. Millions of Americans are already trying to make their health care dollars go further. They compare prices, explore alternatives to insurance, and choose lowe...

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Buying May Not Beat Renting Until Retirement In Some Expensive Markets: Zillow

Buying May Not Beat Renting Until Retirement In Some Expensive Markets: Zillow Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, For a typical U.S. household, it can take decades to save for a home and reach the point where buying becomes cheaper than renting, with the timeline stretching into retirement in some expensive markets, according to an Aug. 20 Zillow report. A "for sale" sign is posted in front of a home for sale in San Marino, Calif., on Sept. 6, 2023. Frederic J. Brown/AFP ...

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Mobility Data Flashes Warning Sign Along Pakistan's Iran-Linked Copper-Corridor

Mobility Data Flashes Warning Sign Along Pakistan's Iran-Linked Copper-Corridor AI-powered geospatial data platform xMap's data scientist, Dana Harrison, asked in a LinkedIn post: "Can Mobility Data Spot Commodity Supply Risk Before the Market Does?" Harrison used location data from points of interest and human mobility data to focus on what she says are "changes in human movement" over recent months along Pakistan's Chagai copper-gold corridor, home to Saindak and the massive Reko...