Epstein Cover-Up Deepens; FBI Officers Raise Alarm Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Fresh Justice Department files reveal a frantic document destruction operation at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan just days after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death, adding fresh fuel to suspicions of elite protection and deep state obstruction. This latest bombshell, drawn from a Miami Herald analysis of thousands of […]

Iran Says Talks With US Are ‘Fake News’ After Trump Threatens To ‘Just Keep Bombing’, Wants Hormuz To Be ‘Jointly Controlled’ Summary Trump announces “productive” talks with Iran, “postpones” military strikes for 5 days Iran Foreign Ministry + Parliament speaker say no talks have happened, after Trump said “speaking with a top person in Iran”, says will “just keep bombing” if Iran talks fail Trump says Hormuz will be […]

Amid Shortage Fears, ASP Isotopes Completes Drilling For Helium Project Ahead Of Schedule Shortly after we posted a breakdown on the incoming helium supply disruption from Qatar for our premium subscribers, ASP Isotopes announced that they had completed the well drilling required for Phase 1 of the Renergen Helium Project approximately four months ahead of schedule. The achievement marks a key operational milestone at the Virginia […]

OpenAI Lures Private-Equity Firms With 17.5% Guaranteed Returns As AI Rivals Race For Enterprise Deals OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is offering private-equity firms a more generous financial package than rival Anthropic as the two artificial-intelligence companies court buyout shops to create joint ventures aimed at raising fresh capital and accelerating the rollout of enterprise AI products. To lure PE firms, OpenAI is […]

Key Events This Week: PMIs, Productivity And Consumer Sentiment As has become customary for Monday, we have seen a dramatic surge in risk assets (3rd Monday in a row) on what at least superficially appears to be de-escalation after Trump announced strikes against Iran’s power plant would be delayed by 5 days as a result of talks with Iran, talks which at least Iran’s domestic news sources have so far denied. And the market lurches […]

“The Numbers Are Shocking”: California Faces Scrutiny Over Hospice Fraud Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, posted an Instagram video this week detailing ongoing fraud among hospice and health care facilities in Los Angeles County. Investigations have focused on Los Angeles County, where officials said state regulators did little to stop […]

“Far-Right” AfD Party Makes Historic Gains In German State Elections Only a year ago, the AfD was the target of an orchestrated media smear campaign, not to mention leftist government attempts to ban the party from elections.  The same tactics have been used to stifle conservative and nationalist movements across Europe, but these movements are proving to be resilient.  The latest Le Pen success story in France’s small town areas […]

Supreme Court To Decide If Federal Ballots Received After Election Day Are Counted Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on March 23 will hear Mississippi’s appeal against a lower court ruling striking down its law counting ballots received after Election Day. The counting of ballots received after Election Day has become an increasingly contentious political issue in recent years. Those who […]

Nearing Psychological Gas Price Level Where Consumers Drive Less The latest AAA data show the national average price for regular gasoline at the pump is now just four cents below the politically sensitive $4-a-gallon mark. This month’s surge in retail fuel prices (gasoline and diesel) marks the largest increase on record and is delivering a nasty shock to the pocketbooks of cash-strapped consumers. Bonnie Herzog, managing director […]

Mamdani’s Tax Fantasy Is Already Failing Somewhere Else Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Last week I wrote that Zohran Mamdani is a f***ing moron has proposed a new estate tax that is not really aimed at billionaires but at ordinary New Yorkers whose so called wealth is largely tied up in the homes they spent decades paying off. That argument may have sounded abstract to some readers, like a warning about unintended […]

Iran Phones Russia Immediately On Heels Of Trump’s Announcement Of US-Iran Talks Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held talks with Sergei Lavrov quickly on the heels of President Trump early Monday having claimed Washington and Tehran had “very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities” – as the war is in its fourth week. Moscow appears to be moving to position itself as a […]

“We Are Deeply Saddened”: OnlyFans Owner Leonid Radvinsky Dead At 43 The billionaire owner of adult content platform OnlyFans has died after a long battle with cancer, according to Bloomberg, citing a statement from the company. Leonid Radvinsky died at the age of 43, according to the company, which added, “We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leo Radvinsky. He passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer.” […]

IEA Head Warns Iran War Sparked Energy Crisis Worse Than 1970s Oil Shocks, Ukraine Fallout The head of the International Energy Agency intensified his apocalyptic warning about the global energy crisis, stating early Monday that the US-Israel war with Iran has sparked a shock far greater than the twin oil crises of the 1970s and the turmoil from the war in Ukraine combined. US-Israeli Operation Epic Fury has entered its fourth […]

Gold’s Biggest Fire-Sale In 43 Years: Perception Vs Opportunity Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, If you are new to gold, or if you are a speculator in gold (or even worse, a levered speculator in gold), you are likely asking yourselves what in the “H. E. double tooth-picks” just happened to gold? It lost over 9% in the futures market in a single session and saw its worst week of price declines since February […]

Musk Plans To Appeal After Jury Finds Him Liable To Twitter Shareholders Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal jury on March 20 found tech billionaire Elon Musk liable for misleading Twitter shareholders by driving down the social media platform’s stock price months before acquiring it for $44 billion in 2022. The decision follows a civil class action lawsuit filed by Twitter investors in […]

Passenger Jet Collides With Vehicle At NYC’s LaGuardia, Killing Pilot And Co-Pilot An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 regional jet operated by Jazz Aviation collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) late Sunday night at 23:40 ET, instantly killing the pilot and co-pilot. There were approximately 76 people on board. BREAKING: Several injuries after Air Canada plane and firetruck collide on runaway at […]

European Court Denies Appeal Of Parents Seeking Custody Over Their Kids In Religious Freedom Case Authored by Jonathan Turley, In Sweden, a Christian couple is going through a nightmare that captures the growing bias and targeting of religious families in Europe. Daniel and Bianca Samson have been fighting to regain custody of their daughters since 2022 after the government cited their regular church attendance and faith as […]

NYC Congestion Toll Linked To Rising Subway Ridership A report from the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee suggests that congestion pricing in New York City is increasing subway use, according to Bloomberg. The policy charges most drivers a $9 toll to enter parts of Manhattan, encouraging some commuters and leisure travelers to shift from driving to public transit. Data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority shows […]

Half A Million Balsa Trees Illegally Logged In Amazon Rainforest Every Year To Feed Global Wind Turbine Demand Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, Over half a million balsa hardwood trees are being illegally logged in the Amazon rainforest every year to feed the massive demand for wind turbines in many parts of the world. Balsa is a lightweight but strong wood that is commonly used in the core of giant turbine blades. […]

Joe Kent Makes Genuine Plea To Trump: “Address The Israeli Issue” Recently-resigned director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent told antiwar.com editor Scott Horton that a narrow window for de-escalation still exists, but only if Donald Trump is willing to confront what Kent repeatedly described as the core constraint on U.S. strategy: Israel. “I think he’s got to address the Israeli issue first and foremost… […]

Iran Threatens To Destroy Region-Wide Infrastructure As Trump’s 48-Hour Ultimatum Ticks Down, Mass Casualties In Southern Israel Summary Iran vows regional and US infrastructure will be “irreversibly destroyed” in response to Trump’s 48-hour timeline to open Hormuz or else Iranian power plants will be obliterated. Iran announces imposition a $2 million transit fee on ‘non-enemy’ ships wishing to transit strait. […]

‘Become MPs To Protect Your Homeland!’ – Alarm Bells In Spain As Moroccan Diaspora Seeks Political Mobilization Via Remix News, Spain is facing mounting concern over the long-term consequences of years of large-scale Moroccan migration, as warnings grow that a sizable and increasingly organized community could begin to exert coordinated political influence. Official figures cited by La Región show that nearly 900,000 Moroccan […]

Countdown Begins: Former Central Bank Advisor Warns Food-Price Shock Could Hit “Within 6 To 9 Months” Alexandra Prokopenko, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and a former advisor at the Bank of Russia, warned on X that the near-shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered an energy shock that risks morphing into a “slower, more consequential story”: fertilizers. “A near-shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz is triggering […]

One War & Five Scenarios To End It Authored by Amir Taheri, With the war between the Israel-US duo and the Islamic Republic in Iran entering its fourth week, two questions are asked in policy circles across the world. The first is: how long will it last? The answer is: how long is a piece of string? Which means: because no one knows, no speculation is warranted. The second question may be beyond a journalist’s bailiwick: […]

French Election: Socialists Secure Paris, LePen’s Populists Make Historic Local Gains Marine Le Pen’s National Rally delivered its strongest performance ever in French local elections on Sunday, capturing dozens of municipalities and installing an ally as mayor of Nice – while socialists predictably held onto key urban centers, including Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille.  NR celebrates in 2024 The results of the second-round […]