Watch: Last Blinken Presser Overshadowed By Chaos As Journalists Dragged From Briefing Room Blinken’s final news conference Thursday, which came hours after the announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, was a bit of a disaster given no less than two journalists were forcibly removed from the US State Department briefing room. First, veteran journalist Sam Husseini was accused of ‘heckling’ the outgoing top US […]

Newsom Does Damage Control After Awkward ‘Trump-Proofing’ Ploy Via Headline USA, California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined a handful of Republican governors this week in ordering his state to fly the U.S. flag at full height on Inauguration Day, despite President Joe Biden’s order to keep government flags at half-staff because of the death of former President Jimmy Carter. Flags at the U.S. Capitol and state buildings across […]

Trans City-Councilor Takes Month Off To Recover From Being Misgendered A trans Massachusetts city councilor is taking a one-month leave of absence, citing feelings of being unsafe after allegedly being “misgendered” by the mayor and another councilor, and being referred to as “it” by a third city official.  The soap opera starring that councilor, Thu Nguyen, erupted at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Worcester, Massachusetts city […]

Mexico’s Tijuana Declares Emergency In Anticipation Of Mass Deportations Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The city council in Tijuana, Mexico, a border city located 20 miles south of San Diego, unanimously passed an emergency declaration on Jan. 13 to allocate city funds for the anticipated arrival of deportees from the United States after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump made mass […]

CBO Projects US Debt To Soar By $24 Trillion Over Next Decade, And Then It Gets Much Worse… The Congressional Budget Office may claim it is apolitical and/or bipartsian, but in reality they have few reservations in throwing under the bus any politician(s) that are not viewed as part of the establishment inner circle, and “kitchen sink” them with all the accumulated financial troubles that have piled up in the US. That politician […]

Joe Biden: An Assessment Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Power is the capacity to compel loyalty and obedience, under conditions of duress. Authority is the capacity to inspire loyalty and obedience, under conditions where free will obtains” – Aimee Terese You’re aware, I’m sure, that a lot of people thought “Joe Biden” was being play-acted in the White House over his four years there by a series of look-alike […]

Fake Dues: CNN Found Guilty In $5M Defamation Case As CBS Mulls Settlement In Trump Lawsuit Fake News has had a bad couple of months. Last month, ABC News agreed to a $15 million settlement with Donald Trump after anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly lied about Trump being “liable for rape” in a civil case. Parent company Disney agreed to contribute the $15 million to Trump’s presidential foundation or museum, and pay $1 […]

Xi Expresses Hope For Reset In US Relations Under Trump In “Very Good” Call: TikTok, Trade, Taiwan Discussed Incoming President Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, three days before his inauguration Monday. Tensions between Washington and Beijing have only escalated since Trump was last in the White House, and the Pentagon and US intelligence have named China as a top global threat. Still, Trump hailed […]

“Neo-Nazi Madness”: Stanford Law Professor Publicly Rebukes Zuckerberg And Drops Him As A Client Authored by Jonathan Turley, As lawyers, we often take a series of steps to protect the interests of our clients when it becomes necessary to sever or end representation. The dropping of a client can have a damaging impact on the reputation or standing of a client. That is why it was surprising to see Mark Lemley, a Stanford law […]

“Hoover Had The Largest Peacetime Deficits In US History”; Economists Debate Money And The State “He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.” – James Garfield From economic history to in-depth analysis of today’s financial plumbing, last night’s MMT Vs Austrian debate assessed the roles of debt and currency within the State. In the Austrian corner was Bob Murphy, senior fellow at the Mises Institute. […]

The LA Fires: The ‘Social Contract’ Is Nonsense, And No One Is Coming to Save You Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Possibly one of the most inane phrases ever uttered about modern governments is Oliver Wendell Holmes’s oft-quoted phrase stating that “taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” This reflected the naïve view, often pushed in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, of the so-called […]

Houthis To Halt Red Sea Ship Attacks If Gaza Truce Holds For the first time since attacks in the Red Sea began in 2023 in response to the Israeli military onslaught in Gaza due to Oct.7, Yemen’s Houthis have signaled they will stop their attacks if the new Gaza truce and hostage exchange deal holds. Houthi leader Abdulmalik Al-Houthi in his first announcement since the impending truce, which is expected to take effect Sunday, said […]

Rogan Blasts “Disgusting, Creepy” Gavin Newsom For Doing “Little Dance” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Joe Rogan unloaded on California governor Gavin Newsom during an episode of his podcast, calling him “disgusting” for smiling, dancing, and acting excited to talk with speculators about developing on the land where people’s homes are burning down. Rogan played the now viral clip of Newsom bobbing his […]

Illinois Poised To Become Even Worse Authored by Laurie Higgins via American Greatness, As if America needed any more proof that Democrat-ruled Illinois is the worst state in the union, that Democrats don’t care about the suffering of women and children, and that Democrats have no interest in the common good, Illinois Democrats have announced that they will be proposing legislation to “decriminalize sex work.” In other words, […]

The Magic Of China’s Ridiculous GDP: It’s An Input, Not An Output By Stefan Koopman, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank An Input, Not An Output China just hit its 2024 growth target, as it always does. According to Bloomberg, an “11th-hour stimulus blitz” and “some export boom turbocharged activity” were required to get it over the line, but here we are. Gross domestic product rose 5.0%, exceeding forecasts of 4.9% […]

Trump Orders Inauguration Moved Indoors Due To ‘Dangerous Conditions’ President-elect Donald Trump has ordered Monday’s inauguration to be moved indoors. In a post to Truth Social, Trump said that the weather forecast, including “the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows.” “There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” Trump’s post continued, […]

Treasury Secretary Yellen’s Computer Among 400 Other Systems Hacked By China In one last masterstroke of incompetence on her way out the door, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has had her computer hacked by China. We don’t really care about the integrity of the U.S. economy, we just hope to God there’s no nudes to leak. Chinese hackers who breached the Treasury Department were focused on “sanctions, international affairs and […]

“For God’s Sake, Pay Your Fair Share” – Delusional Biden’s ‘Exit Interview’ Goes Exactly How You Would Expect Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, One day after delivering his farewell address, President Joe Biden sat down for the last interview of his term. The Oval Office interview, which was recorded earlier in the evening on Jan. 16, saw the outgoing president in a friendly exchange with MSNBC host Lawrence […]

Arrested LA Arson Suspect Says He Just “Liked The Smell Of Burning Leaves” Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell said this week that an arson suspect who was arrested Tuesday in Pacoima told police he had started small fires because he “liked the smell of burning leaves.” Police detained a suspect around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday after a citizen extinguished a fire and held him near Glenoaks and Van Nuys boulevards, […]

Cuba Begins Releasing Prisoners Following Biden Announcements Hours after President Biden removed Cuba from a blacklist of nations that sponsor terrorism (and rolled back a raft of sanctions implemented by Donald Trump during his first presidency that have contributed to the communist-run island’s worst economic crisis in decades), Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel said Cuba would “gradually” release 553 prisoners from its jails […]

Authorities Preparing For “Worst Case Scenarios” Ahead Of Trump Inauguration Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Authorities in Washington DC are scanning for “nuclear irregularities” while the Secret Service preps for “worst case scenarios” as security preparations kick into high gear ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. Trump will be sworn in for his second term in office on Monday, […]

Supreme Court Refuses To Save TikTok As Shutdown Looms Update (1010ET): The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the ‘divest-or-ban’ law that threatens to shut down TikTok as early as this weekend if its parent company, ByteDance, does not divest from Chinese ownership. The ban-or-sale law, which will take effect on Sunday, passed in April with bipartisan support and was signed by President Joe Biden over national security concerns […]

FBI Nukes DEI Office, Trump Demands “All Records To Be Preserved” Fox News confirmed on Thursday that the FBI has shuttered its Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI). Shortly after the announcement, President-elect Donald Trump called for “all records” related to the woke unit of the federal agency to be preserved. The move comes amid a broader rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across corporate America […]

The Everything Bubble Suddenly Feels Unstable Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance This one is a “must read” if you ask me. One of my favorite investors that I love reading and following, Harris Kupperman, has offered up his thoughts on the Fed and markets for 2025. Harris is the founder of Praetorian Capital, a hedge fund focused on using macro trends to guide stock selection. Harris is one of my favorite follows and I find […]

Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Gaza Ceasefire Deal After It’s Signed In Doha Despite that Thursday night the hostage release-ceasefire deal which is to end the war in Gaza was already signed in Doha, there’s still been some final government approval hurdles on the Israeli side. Israel’s security cabinet has issued its formal approval, but now the deal moves to the full cabinet for final discussion and vote, expected to be held […]