NatGas Futs Erupt As Arctic Air Invasion Penetrates Deep Into US South US natural gas futures erupted Monday morning as some of the coldest Arctic air of the Northern Hemisphere winter season poured into the eastern half of the Lower 48. Snow threats across the region are increasing through the end of the month. Average temperatures across Washington, DC, are plunging and could average around 10°F by the weekend. This cold blast […]

Greenland Is Very Nice… By Benjamin Picton, senior markets strategist at Rabobank If Mighty Ducks 2 taught me anything it’s that “Greenland is covered with ice, and Iceland is very nice.” While that might be a handy geographic mnemonic, for the purposes of US national security policy it is, in fact, Greenland that is very nice.. Over the weekend President Trump announced additional tariffs of 10% from February 1st – […]

Putin Offered Seat On Trump’s Gaza Peace Board, Kremlin Says Russia has been invited to take part in the new US-backed ‘Peace Board’ put forward by President Donald Trump to oversee post-conflict governance and reconstruction in Gaza, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced, in a somewhat surprising and hugely symbolic diplomatic move and overture. Peskov told reporters Monday that President Vladimir Putin had received an […]

FBI Announces $100,000 Reward After Government Vehicles Broken Into In Minneapolis Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI said it is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and capture of individuals who allegedly stole government property out of an FBI vehicle in Minneapolis, as it announced the arrest of one suspect. Federal immigration officers at the scene of a […]

Bayer Shares Surge After Supreme Court To Hear Roundup Appeal; Is The Decade-Long Bear Market Over? Bayer AG shares moved higher in European trading after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear its appeal of a Roundup verdict, raising new hopes the ruling could undermine thousands of related lawsuits over cancer risks. Last Friday, the Supreme Court said it would hear an appeal from Bayer, which petitioned the court last year. Bayer […]

Futures, Global Markets Sink, Gold Soars On Trump Tariff Threat Stocks sold off and gold hit a new record as trade tensions between the US and Europe erupted over Trump’s push to take control of Greenland (which we learn today is due to Norway’s snub of Trump for the Nobel peace prize). While US cash markets are closed for the MLK holiday, S&P futures dropped 1.1% and Nasdaq futures tumbled 1.4%, while Europe’s Stoxx 600 was […]

Trump To Norway: No Nobel, No Greenland? The Letter That Has Shocked Europe As news began breaking very early Monday of President Trump’s scathing letter to Norway over the country’s failure to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, some pundits and journalists immediately questioned whether it is real. But confirmation came soon after. In the letter addressed to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, Trump explained that he no […]

Chaos By Design Authored by Jerry Rogers via American Greatness, Over and over again, we’re told to be outraged. An individual is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He is later released. And before the facts can catch their breath, Democratic politicians and activist megaphones are already screaming ‘abduction’, ‘fascism’, and ‘state violence’. Cue the mob. Cue the cameras. Cue the chaos. It […]

Market Risk Returns As Tariff Shock Jolts Stocks; Goldman Maps Three Retaliation Paths Against Trump Over Greenland The Euro Stoxx 50 is down 1.5% on elevated volumes, while Nasdaq 100 futures are also lower amid overnight risk-off across Western markets. The selloff follows the latest trade escalation after President Trump said he would impose a 10% tariff on imports from eight European countries in retaliation for their […]

Kurds Withdraw From Syria’s Largest Oil Field As Jolani Forces Move In via Middle East Eye Kurdish-led forces pulled out on Sunday from Syria’s largest oil field as government troops expanded their control across large parts of the country’s north and east. Government troops drove Kurdish forces from two Aleppo neighborhoods following clashes last week, and on Saturday announced they had captured an area east of the city, as […]

Pornographic ‘Groomer’ Books On Prominent Display In Kids’ Reading Room At London Museum Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Books featuring graphic nudity and pushing contested LGBTQ+ ideologies are currently brazenly displayed in a children’s reading room at London’s Young V&A museum, sparking outrage from parents who see it as a direct threat to childhood innocence. One visitor branded the material “a […]

Germany Forces Lexus To Deactivate Remote Start With Over-The-Air Update Germany – whose chancellor just admitted they made a ‘serious strategic mistake’ chasing green unicorns when they shut down their nuclear plants – has just forced Lexus to deactivate the remote start feature which pre-warms an owner’s car so they don’t freeze their nethers off first thing in the morning in the winter. BILD reader Stephan P. from Berlin is […]

PCR: The EU Elite Have Banned European Democracy Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, In a democracy, the government in office cannot ban an opposing candidate from running on the grounds that the candidate would win and take the place of the current government. But that is what President Macron has done to Marine Le Pen. Le Pen heads the largest political party in France. She has been banned by a French court from holding office […]

Brits Hold Mass Protest Against Chinese ‘Super-Embassy’ In London Hundreds of people on Saturday rallied in London against Beijing’s controversial new “mega” embassy – days after the Daily Telegraph revealed that Chinese officials plan to construct secret underground chambers right next to some of Britain’s most sensitive communications infrastructure. British politician Kemi Badenoch, a leader of the Conservative […]

Trump’s Planned Mediation Between Egypt & Ethiopia Might Worsen Regional Tensions Authored by Andrew Korybko, Trump declared in a letter to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that he shared on social media that “I am ready to restart U.S. mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia to responsibly resolve the question of ‘The Nile Water Sharing’ once and for all’, adding in tacit support of Egypt’s position that “no […]

China Tech Boom Leaves Economic Malaise Behind By Jeanny Yu, Bloomberg Markets Live strategist and reporter Nearly a year after DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough rattled global markets, China is entering 2026 with a fresh wave of technological advances that are powering a stock rally, even as its economy remains fragile. Thanks to fresh progress in sectors from commercial rockets to robotics and flying cars, Chinese tech shares […]

Massive High-Velocity Coronal Mass Ejection Blasts From Sun, Earth Impact Possible In Days The Space Weather Prediction Center issued an alert Sunday afternoon after a powerful X1.9 solar flare erupted on the Sun, with the space weather event expected to produce an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME). Stefan Burns, a geophysicist and space weather forecaster, wrote on X that the X1.9 flare is “insane” and will produce a […]

Venezuela, Silver And Greenland: How The U.S.-China Power Split Is Reshaping the World Submitted by Thomas Kolbe America’s intervention in Venezuela is just days old, and the world seems unable to settle. The heated debate over Greenland’s future overshadows the main thread of a new world order emerging—one that is being decided between the U.S. and China. Europe, for now, is relegated to the role of a progressively anxious […]

One Chart Says Time To Reload On This Commodity The precious metals landscape in recent times has been nothing short of record-breaking. New highs in gold and silver, but some of that momentum has been blown off on Thursday after a softer tone from President Trump on Iran eased safe-haven demand. Platinum, palladium, and other metals, such as copper, also cooled today, but one strategic commodity has yet to move higher in the […]

Americans Report Surging Spirituality: 43% Say Faith Has Grown Amid National Revival Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Fresh data shows that 43 percent of U.S. adults have grown more spiritual over their lives, compared to just 11 percent who say they’ve become less so. This shift highlights a broader rejection of the moral vacuum left by ‘progressive’ policies, with Americans of all ages leaning into deeper faith […]

Housing Market’s Deep Freeze May Finally Begin To Thaw Realtors, mortgage lenders, and other industry professionals: if three years of depressed transaction activity have you thinking about exiting, it may be worth holding that thought for now. A new Goldman note suggests that policy maneuvering by the Trump administration could partially unfreeze the housing market in the upcoming selling season, potentially reviving some […]

Face Reality: Two-Party Politics Has Failed! Authored by John Halpin via The Liberal Patriot, National Politics Is A Graveyard It’s time to face reality: two-party politics has failed. Americans want more and better choices than the ones Republicans and Democrats currently provide. Whether the two-party system stands or gets radically transformed in the future remains an open question, however. As reported by Gallup, a […]

Catch-Up Contributions: Maximizing Your Savings If You’re Over 50 In 2026 And Beyond Authored by John Rampton Via The Epoch Times, If you’re over 50 and feel behind on retirement savings, you’re not alone—and you’re not out of options. There is a powerful tool that the government provides to help you close the gap: catch-up contributions. Ground Picture/Shutterstock This extra contribution is designed to help older workers […]

Trump To Unveil Plan Allowing Homebuyers To Use 401(k) Funds For Down Payments Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump will unveil a plan next week that would allow Americans to withdraw funds from their 401(k) accounts to use for a home down payment. A for-sale sign is posted in front of a home in Las Vegas, Nev., on Aug. 8, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images White House National Economic […]

NYC Socialists Prepare Mass Mobilization Of 4,000 Anti-ICE Army New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America are moving to train and mobilize more than 4,000 anti-ICE activists into “rapid response” units designed to interfere with federal deportation operations targeting criminal illegal aliens, according to a New York Post report. DSA’s effort to assemble a highly organized anti-ICE army of purple-haired leftists to impede […]