Middle East Conflict Tightens LNG Supply, Redirects Cargoes To Asia The shutdown of key gas export facilities in the Middle East is tightening global liquefied natural gas supplies, raising the risk of a deficit and pushing cargoes toward Asia as buyers compete for limited shipments, according to Bloomberg. Ras Laffan in Qatar — the world’s largest LNG export complex — has halted production, while shipping through the Strait […]

Italy Challenges EU Carbon Market: Hidden Tax Driving Industry Abroad Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Italian weeks in Brussels: Just days after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced a hardline migration policy, openly defying Brussels’ globalist open-border agenda, she delivered a second shock. At the start of the week, Italy’s Industry Minister Adolfo Urso called for the suspension of EU-wide CO₂ trading—or at least a […]

Greek Shipping Billionaire Capitalizing On Tanker Demand Surge, Deploying Five Vessels To Strait Of Hormuz Nothing like supply and demand and good ole’ price as a rationing mechanism… Greek shipping billionaire George Procopiou quickly moved to capitalize on the surge in tanker demand when war broke out, dispatching at least five vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, according to The Chosun Daily.  His move was driven by two […]

Starmer’s Mandelson Mess Explodes: PM Knew About Epstein Friendship Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Another day, another layer peeled back from the rotten core of establishment cronyism, as Keir Starmer faces a torrent of revelations about his handling of Peter Mandelson’s Epstein ties. With payoffs, lies, and deep state cover-ups on full display, this saga underscores how globalist insiders protect their networks at […]

China’s De-Dollarization Push Meets Washington’s Defense Of The Dollar Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For decades, the U.S. dollar has been the foundation of the global financial system. It dominates trade settlement, anchors central-bank reserves, and underpins international financial networks such as SWIFT. That status has given Washington enormous economic and geopolitical leverage. But from […]

Israel-Slamming GOP Candidate Dominates Youth Vote In Florida Governor Race In the latest indication of a sea change in US politics, a Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate who’s made opposition to US support of Israel a cornerstone of his campaign is winning the young-GOP vote by a wide margin. Combining social media savvy with oratorical flair, the Georgetown dropout-turned-investor and hedge fund manager is likely to […]

Large Study Shows High Caffeine Intake Linked To Reduced Dementia Risk Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A daily cup of coffee or tea may do more than wake you up – it could also help keep your brain sharp as you age. Coffee, like this? suwijaknook6644689/Shutterstock New research tracking hundreds of thousands of people over decades suggests that moderate caffeine consumption is linked to a lower […]

AG Bondi Moves To Secure Military Housing After Threats, Joining Other Trump Officials Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly moved into heavily guarded housing at a military base in the Washington area after receiving multiple threats. Several sources familiar with the situation say the threats came from drug cartels as well as political critics, prompting the relocation. Bondi joins a growing list of Donald Trump […]

AI Won’t Fix America’s Looming Debt Crisis Authored by David Youngberg via TheDailyEconomy.org, Last month, Congress sparred with the president over a partial budget, but with few real cuts, America’s slow march toward an epic debt crisis went on undeterred. With over $38 trillion in debt and interest payments exceeding defense or Medicare spending, one would expect lawmakers to confront reality and do the difficult […]

Moody’s Cuts New York City’s Rating Outlook Despite Mamdani Protests The only surprise is that the move came so late.  With New York City facing a historic fiscal crisis courtesy of its new mayor, late on Wednesday Moody’s lowered its outlook on New York City to negative, citing the “sizable and persistent” budget shortfalls it’s facing. The move, which usually precedes a ratings cut in the subsequent several months, came […]

Hudson River NJ-NY Rail Tunnel Faces New Halt Without Federal Funds Construction on the planned $16 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River could halt again within two to three months unless federal funding resumes, the project’s developer warned last week, according to Bloomberg. The project, led by the Gateway Development Commission, would build a new rail tunnel linking New Jersey and Manhattan for Amtrak and New Jersey […]

No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Driving Inflation Authored by Anthony Watts via ClimateRealism.com, In The New York Times (NYT) article “Is Climate Change Making Inflation Worse?,” writer Lydia DePillis suggests that extreme weather linked to global warming is quietly raising the price of everyday goods like food, electricity, and insurance. The framing is, at best, misleading and, at worst, flat-out false. […]

Watch: The Moment LA Street Mob Storms Luxury Apartments A group linked to a late-night street takeover forced its way into a luxury downtown Los Angeles apartment tower early Sunday, fighting with staff and leaving shattered glass and overturned furniture behind, according to police and video of the incident, according to the NY Post. The disturbance happened around 3 a.m. at the Circa LA Apartments on South Figueroa Street, the […]

Years After The Pandemic, Younger Students Still Have Far To Go In Reading, Report Says Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, Reading levels in early elementary school grades have remained fairly stagnant since the COVID-19 pandemic, a national education assessment and research organization revealed this week. A new policy brief from NWEA, formerly the Northwest Evaluation Association, says first- and second-grade […]

February Snapshot Of The Global Nuclear Industry While February saw continued volatility with uranium spot prices after they pulled back from barely breaking into the triple digit range in January, the other metric that remains flat as a board is the number of reactors currently under construction in the U.S. which stands at a solid zero. Reflected against the backdrop of China, as they added one additional reactor for a total of […]

Trump–Xi Summit Preview: What’s At Stake Authored by Sean Tseng via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit China from March 31 to April 2 for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. What was already shaping up to be a high-stakes meeting on tariffs, trade rules, tech controls, and Taiwan has become more complicated in the past few weeks. U.S. President Donald Trump (2R), flanked by Trade […]

Oil Soars As 2 Oil Tankers Explode In Persian Gulf, Iraq’s Oil Ports Stop Operations  Top headlines of conflict  Oil prices surge as two oil tankers are attacked and explode in Iraqi waters, forcing Iraq to stop operations at its oil ports and sending oil toward $100/bbl. ‘Largest wave of missiles since hostilities began’ launched into northern Israel by Hezbollah The US Navy said it was ‘too dangerous’ to escort […]

China-Based Copper Scam Leaves Cooling Firm With Fake Metal Thermal Grizzly CEO Roman “Der8auer” Hartung says his company recently fell victim to large-scale materials fraud while trying to source copper and aluminum for its cooling products, according to PC Gamer.  The company needs several tons of metal to machine components such as GPU water blocks. With copper prices rising and European supplies expensive, Hartung turned […]

The App Store Accountability Act Is A Privacy Nightmare Disguised As Child Protection Authored by Julio Rivera via American Greatness, Washington has discovered a familiar political trick: wrap a flawed policy in the language of protecting children and hope nobody reads the fine print. The latest example is the App Store Accountability Act, a bill championed by lawmakers who appear eager to regulate the internet without […]

Coffee King Howard Schultz Flees To Florida Hours After Washington Wealth Tax Passes House Yet another rich guy is fleeing their Democrat-controlled state over a new wealth tax. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, a huge liberal himself, announced that he’s moving from Washington state to Miami, Florida – hours after state lawmakers advanced a tax bill targeting residents earning over $1 million per year.  Schultz, 72, who […]

Ron Paul Fears The Dollar Will Be A Casualty Of The Iran War? Authored by Ron Paul, President Trump’s unconstitutional and unjust war against Iran is setting back his “affordability” agenda. The war has caused a big rise in gasoline prices. Among the related concerns is the hindering of the movement of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the only available passage for ships to transport oil from the Persian Gulf. The […]

Saudis Eye “Large Order” Of Ukrainian Interceptor Drones As Kill-Cost Missile Crisis Deepens Saudi Arabia is in discussions with a Ukrainian counter-drone firm to acquire low-cost interceptor drones designed to counter inexpensive IRGC kamikaze drones. The cost-exchange ratio remains highly unfavorable for the U.S. and its Gulf partners, who are using multimillion-dollar interceptor missiles against $20,000 drones. If the conflict […]

California Dreamin’ Isn’t What It Used To Be Authored by Kenin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, California’s elected Democrats can’t move beyond pandering. Gov. Gavin Newsom is fixated on reparations for African Americans, and the legislature’s Democratic Party majority is once again trying to divide Californians by race, sex, and gender orientation. In 1996, California stunned the nation when 55% of voters approved […]

“Risk Of Attack Is Too High”: US Navy Refuses To Provide Escorts To Ships Transiting Hormuz Strait One week after Trump announced that the US would cover insurance for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, and would provide them with US navy escorts, Reuters reports that the US Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, […]

Lame Duck RINO Thom Tillis Blocking Warsh’s Fed Confirmation Hearings Amid escalating U.S.-Israel military strikes against Iran, a separate battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to chair the Federal Reserve, according to CNBC. The key obstacle is Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who announced last year that he would not seek re-election one day after voting against advancing the […]