San Diego Sues CNC Milling Technologists, Alleging They’re Flouting California ‘Ghost Gun’ Laws Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, The San Diego County government is suing the manufacturer of a computer numerical control (CNC) machine, alleging that it is being used to manufacture unserialized firearms parts. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the county by the gun-control legal advocacy group Giffords Law Center, […]

These Are The 20 Countries Most Indebted To China In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu ranked the top 20 countries by their amount of debt to China. These figures are as of 2022, and come from the World Bank (accessed via Yahoo Finance). This dataset highlights Pakistan and Angola as having the largest debts to China by a wide margin. Both countries have taken billions in loans from China for various infrastructure […]

McMaken: The FBI And CIA Are Enemies Of The American People Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson sat down for a three-hour-plus discussion on the Joe Rogan Show last week, covering everything from UFOs, to religion and artificial intelligence. But perhaps the most important topic they covered was the insidious and dangerous role played by the US regime’s intelligence agencies in […]

Amidst Staffing Shortage, Merced County’s Sheriff Is Often Sole Officer To Respond To Calls Merced County California’s Sheriff is officially sounding the warning bells. Sheriff Vern Warnke, who has worked in the county’s office for 45 years, is officially declaring a public safety crisis, according to a new report from Yahoo and the LA Times. Why? Because he’s often finding himself the only person available to respond to calls. In […]

China Bulls Beware: Credit Markets Flash A Warning By Ye Xie, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Chinese stocks have been on a stealth bull run, but the renewed market optimism may be built a shaky foundation — especially when it comes to credit. The MSCI China Index has climbed 24% from its lows in January. The Hang Seng Index has also recovered, so much so that its 9% gain this year is on par with the Nasdaq […]

PA Man Who “Didn’t Even Make Over $100,000” Gets $34.6 Billion Tax Bill Barry Tangert, of Mount Joy, Lancaster County got the shock of his life after filing his taxes this year, when the PA Department of Revenue sent him a tax bill for more than $34 billion. The number was so huge that it didn’t even fit on the bottom line of the bill he was sent. To be exact, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue that said he owed the state […]

Ex-CNN Host Chris Cuomo Reveals COVID Vaccine Injury: “I’m Sick Myself” Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former CNN host Chris Cuomo said in a recent news segment that he is suffering from a health condition after he received a COVID-19 vaccine. Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo attends the 12th annual CNN Heroes tribute in New York on Dec. 8, 2018 (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Mr. Cuomo made the revelation […]

Boeing’s Day Just Got Worse: First Crewed Launch Of Starliner Spacecraft Scrubbed Update (2120ET): Its not been a great day for Boeing. After a wave of whistleblowers and a new FAA probe, the planemaker has abandoned its plans for its first crewed launch of the Starliner spacecraft “out of an abundance of caution,” just two hours before planned takeoff. ULA Launch Director Tom Heter III has made the decision to the launch team […]

Illegal Immigrant Crisis Stings Border Town In Unexpected Way Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Benny Rodriguez, an 80-year-old grandfather of seven, beams as he points to faded photographs on the wall and proudly narrates the story of Eagle Grocery, a family-run business since 1939. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times) It withstood a fire in 1948. It […]

41% Of Americans Think Civil War Likely By 2029, Some Say Sooner Amid Chaos  Americans have been stunned by the Democratic megadonors funneling money into Marxist groups, sparking mass chaos across colleges and universities nationwide as risks are mounting that ‘BLM-style’ riots could spill over into city streets this summer. Law-abiding Americans have taken notice of radical left-wing policies pushing this nation further into […]

Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Locations By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Theft and complaints are taking a toll on self-checkout. Now, Walmart wants you to pay $98 a year for Walmart+ for the self-checkout privilege at some stores. Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts The Wall Street Journal reports Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts to Curb Irritation and Theft Attention, shoppers: Retailers are […]

Mapping The Number Of AI Startups By Country Amidst the recent expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu visualized data from Quid (accessed via Stanford’s 2024 AI Index Report) to highlight the top 15 countries which have seen the most AI startup activity over the past decade. The figures in this graphic represent the number of newly funded AI startups within that country, in the time period […]

Mass Arrests In NYC As More Than 1,000 Pro-Palestine Protesters March To Met Gala The NYPD has begun arresting people after more than 1,000 pro-Palestine demonstrators marched through upper Manhattan towards the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is hosting the star-studded Met Gala. As protesters marched down 5th Avenue towards the event, blocking traffic, cops stepped in at the East 79th Street Transverse at Central Park and […]

Panama Elects New President Who Vows To Shut Migrant Trail, Restore Economy Voters in the Republic of Panama on Sunday elected a new president who has vowed to sever a key segment of the Latina American migrant trail that leads to the United States while restoring the country’s reputation as an investment destination.    “We’ll promote a government that’s pro-investment, and pro-private enterprise,” said Mulino in his […]

Confidence In Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low By Megan Brenan of Gallup With Americans less optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy than they have been in recent months and concern about inflation persisting, their confidence in President Joe Biden to recommend or do the right thing for the economy is among the lowest Gallup has measured for any president since 2001. But Biden is not alone in facing a skeptical […]

Five Simple Policies To Reset America’s “Rigged” Health System   Calley Means, a one-time consultant for big food and pharmaceutical companies in the Washington, DC, swap and now the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables tax-free spending on food and exercise, has outlined on X five simple policies the federal government can implement to correct the “rigged system” that has contributed to the nation’s obesity crisis.  […]

DHS Shuts Down Expert Group That Denied Hunter Biden Laptop Story Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration has agreed to shut down a national security experts’ group as part of settling a lawsuit accusing the group of being politically biased in favor of Democrats. On Sept. 19, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group to provide advice on […]

Key Witness Says Trump Did Not Personally Ask Him To Carry Out ‘Hush Money’ Payments Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 6, 2024. (Peter Foley/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) A witness in former President Donald Trump’s New York […]

How Ridiculous? Blade-Less Swiss Army Knife Debuts As Weapon Laws Tighten  In a world that is fracturing into a multipolar state, with risks of world war erupting in either Eastern Europe or the Middle East, continued threats of conflict in the Pacific, and the migrant invasion across Western countries, the company behind the iconic half-century-old fold-up tool, the Swiss Army Knife, will soon debut a blade-less version because […]

House Panel Calls To Defund Federal Agencies That Stonewall Congressional Probes Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are calling for budget cuts to federal agencies that refuse to cooperate with lawmakers’ investigations, warning that failure to discipline agencies that deny oversight-related requests risks setting a dangerous precedent for stonewalling future […]

Al Jazeera’s Israeli HQ Raided By Police After Netanyahu Called It “Hamas Mouthpiece” On Sunday the offices of Al Jazeera in Jerusalem were raided by Israeli police, after the Knesset voted unanimously voted to ban the Qatar-based news network. The Israeli order effectively shuts down all Al Jazeera broadcasts in Israel and the West Bank. To implement the ban, authorities confiscated equipment at the channel’s Jerusalem HQ inside […]

The Militia Used As An FBI Front Group In 2020 Is Again Proliferating On Facebook Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The tech publication Wired reported Thursday that the Three Percenter, or III%er, militia is again proliferating on Facebook ahead of the 2024 presidential election. A car passes Facebook’s new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. / PHOTO: AP The Three Percenters are a national […]

Tyson Foods Warns Low-Income Consumers Are Cracking Under Inflation Storm Tyson Foods, the second-largest producer of animal protein globally, plunged the most in one year after cautioning that heightened inflation is severely impacting its working poor customers, leading them to reduce their purchases of ready-to-eat products from its brands. This ominous warning comes one week after McDonald’s and Starbucks warned that […]

Israel Moving Forward With Rafah Ground Offensive Summary:  Hamas claims to accept ceasefire, hostage deal while Israel says ‘This isn’t what we agreed to’ Bombardment and air strikes on eastern Rafah Over 50 targets hit as IDF prepares for ground operation President Macron warns against ground op Civilians warned to evacuate. Tens of thousands of flyers dropped Biden phoned Netanyahu to urge against […]

The Washington ‘Blob’ Seems “Ready To Wreck The Republic To Save Themselves” Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Prisoners of Themselves “Ok, let’s be clear. If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the ‘deep state’, what is?” – Jeffrey Tucker You realize, don’t you, that the gross misconduct of government officials from RussiaGate on down to the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan has amounted […]