EU Hosts Emergency Meeting Over Trump’s Greenland Tariffs, Germany Threatens World Cup Boycott Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clarified Trump’s positioning on Greenland overnight, stating that “we are not going to outsource our national security.” The elites of The European Union are not best pleased at Trump’s tariff threat (on some European allies that oppose the United States’ efforts to acquire Greenland) and immediately […]

Oil, Dollars, Gold, & Venezuela In A Nutshell Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Putting any kind of bow on the current headlines to conveniently explain or “wrap up” recent events in Venezuela would be a fool’s errand. The extraordinary mix, as well as polarized views, as to the personalities, policies, economics, military acumen, and even international legality of the entire saga makes consensus […]

Trump Wants $1BN Fee From States Seeking To Join Gaza Peace Board According to a Saturday Bloomberg report, the Trump administration is asking nations interested in holding a permanent seat on a proposed Gaza Strip “Board of Peace” to pledge at least $1 billion in funding. Bloomberg described that US allies and regional partners have already been briefed on the concept as part of wider diplomatic efforts to influence and direct […]

The Real Watches Of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Authored by Watches of Espionage,  Separating Fact from Fiction in Nicolás Maduro’s Watch Collection On the morning of Saturday, 3 January 2026, the United States Military conducted an interagency mission to capture and arrest Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. While the long term implications are still unknown and “analysis” has fallen along partisan lines, […]

Trump In First Suggests Iran Regime Change: ‘Time To Look For New Leadership’ The deadly unrest and protests in Iran have largely gone quiet, but White House pressure on Tehran has not. President Trump over the weekend for the first time in the two-week crisis called for the end of the Iranian Supreme Leader’s rule. His words came in an interview with Politico:  President Donald Trump on Saturday called for an end to Ayatollah […]

Rotation Continues As Markets Remain Bullish Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Sector rotation is this weekend’s 2026 Investment Summit. I am presenting at the conference as you are reading this. However, I would be remiss not to share a brief market update as we head into next week. The full newsletter will return next week. That said, U.S. equity markets delivered mixed performance last week. Major […]

The $134 Billion Betrayal: Inside Elon Musk’s Explosive Lawsuit With OpenAI Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft has evolved into a high-stakes dispute over whether OpenAI stayed true to the mission it was founded on or quietly outgrew it while relying on that original promise. Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages, a figure derived from an expert valuation that treats his early funding and […]

Ahead Of Mass Adoption Cycle: A Full Supply-Chain Breakdown Of Smart Glasses Smart glasses took center stage at CES 2026 in Las Vegas last week, highlighting a new generation of AI-enabled eyewear integrated with real-time assistants. In Meta’s case, the push is clearly toward affordability and mass adoption, positioning these glasses as everyday consumer electronics rather than super expensive niche hardware for elites. A lesson […]

UK Migrant Crime Surge: Foreigners Top 79% Of Theft Arrests, 40% Of Violent Suspects On Trains Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Foreign nationals accounted for 79 percent of all arrests for theft on trains in Britain last year, and 40 percent of all railway arrests, new data from British Transport Police has revealed. The figures were published as part of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by the Centre […]

Macy’s Closing Two Fulfillment Centers, Laying Off 1,000 Workers Macy’s will close its two fulfillment centers in Cheshire later this year, a move that will affect nearly 1,000 employees, according to a company notice released Tuesday and reported by WFSB.  The facilities on Knotter Drive and West Johnson Avenue will shut down. A small group of maintenance workers will remain through spring 2027 to assist with the closure, but […]

The Nascent ‘Islamic NATO’ Might Soon Set Its Sights On Somaliland Authored by Andrew Korybko, The Somali Defense Minister’s request for Saudi Arabia to replicate its South Yemeni campaign in Somaliland coupled with reports about those two’s and Egypt’s impending alliance that would thus de facto include their Eritrean ally strongly suggest that something big might soon be afoot. Reports have recently circulated about […]

Rape Ensues After Dutch Students Forced To Live With 125 Refugees In Woke ‘Integration’ Experiment Dutch students forced to live side-by-side with 125 refugees in a woke government plan to aid the refugees’ ‘integration’ were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, according to an investigation.  The experiment – held at Stek Oost located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam – placed a total of 125 […]

UK Mulls Under‑16 Social Media Ban Amid Rising Online ID Push Authored by Christina Comben via CoinTelegraph.com, The United Kingdom is considering new restrictions that could bar children under 16 from using mainstream social media platforms. The discussion builds on the Online Safety Act, which already requires services with minimum age limits to explain how they enforce them and to use “highly effective” age assurance […]

John Mearsheimer On The Iran Playbook According to a recent podcast appearance by geopolitical analyst and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer, the Arab Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia (the Gulf Cooperation Council) are increasingly behind the scenes pushing pack against those who advocate for regime change in Iran. This marks a serious potential de-escalation in what is a decades-long (or even centuries long) […]

Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane Authored by vittorio on X, Bill Ackman quote-tweeted a graph showing the partisan gap between young men and women almost doubled in 25 years. Political scientists & data quants have been telling us this for half a decade. Women have moved *radically* leftward, at a scale & speed with no modern precedent, while men have, on the whole, remained largely steady & […]

MSM Melting Down Over New Term For Liberal White Women In the days since Renee Good tried to run over an ICE agent in Minneapolis and was shot and killed by an ICE officer, the liberal media has found yet another offensive word to whinge over.  “The far-right has coined a new derogatory term for white women, which has gained traction following the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in Minneapolis […]

A Big Bet On Apprenticeships In A Frozen Labor Market Authored by Zach Boren via RealClearEducation, For the better part of a year, the Trump Administration said little about apprenticeships. Then, almost out of nowhere, it announced a $145 million funding forecast aimed at expanding Pay for Apprenticeship—one of the largest investments we’ve seen in years. That move matters because it follows a long gap between rhetoric […]

Iran’s Khamenei Says US, Israel Linked To Deadly Protest Violence: ‘Thousands Killed’ Iran’s streets have at this point been relatively calm for the last several days, after two weeks of large-scale protests rocked the country amid an ongoing economic crisis and Washington threatened to intervene by hitting government sites. When protests and unrest turned to riots and clashes with police, which in some locations resulted in deaths […]

Dr. Oz Says Minnesota Fraud Coverup Reaches ‘Highest Levels’ Of State Government Authored by Jack Phillips and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, revealed that health care fraud in Minnesota is more significant than previously known, according to his interview with EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,” premiering at 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 17. […]

Rashida Tlaib Melts Down Over America  Democratic Socialist Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was triggered this week by a Homeland Security post on X featuring a B-2 stealth bomber overhead and a cowboy below, accompanied by the text in the center of the image that read: “We’ll Have Our Home Again.” “What does it evoke in you when you see this? Literally, when I see it, as a Muslim, as a Palestinian, as a child of immigrants, I see it as […]

FAA Warns Airlines Of Military Activities In Central America, Eastern Pacific The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) urged airlines on Jan. 16 to exercise caution when flying over Central America and the eastern Pacific due to military activities and potential navigation interference. The FAA said it issued notices covering the airspace in Mexico, Central America, Panama, Bogotá, Guayaquil, and Mazatlán Oceanic Flight Regions, […]

CDC Quietly Rewrites Its Vaccine-Autism Guidance Authored by Maryanne Demasi via The Brownstone Institute, For the first time in a generation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has rewritten its official position on whether vaccines can cause autism. This is a change that could reshape one of the most politically charged and emotionally fraught debates in modern medicine. In a website update published on […]

DOJ Moves To Block Independent ‘Special Master’ From Overseeing Epstein Disclosures After campaigning on transparency regarding the Epstein files, President Trump became quickly defensive when asked about them shortly after taking office last year – which continued into July, when Trump clapped back at a journalist who asked about Epstein’s ties to a foreign intelligence agency, asking; “Are you still talking about Jeffrey […]

U-Haul’s Election Lesson Authored by Matthew Brouillette via RealClearPennsylvania, Pennsylvania is hemorrhaging residents and resources. And it’s been happening for years.  The recent U-Haul Growth Index shows that people are voting with their feet against Pennsylvania and other purple and blue states that have become inhospitable as places to live, work, and raise a family. And these out-migrators are heading to redder […]

Minneapolis “Now Crawling With National Guard” Amid Ongoing Protests Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mobilized the National Guard to support the Minnesota State Patrol and other local law enforcement during expected weekend protests in downtown Minneapolis. “We are staged and ready to respond. We are not deployed to city streets at this time,” Minnesota National Guard spokesperson Army Maj. Andrea Tsuchiya told CNN earlier, adding that […]