Buy Now, Pay Never? Klarna’s Losses Double As US Consumers Fall Behind On Payments In an absolute shocker that you’ll never believe (unless you read ZeroHedge) – Klarna, the Swedish financial technology firm known for its “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) offerings, reported a sharp increase in losses for the first quarter, driven by a rise in consumer defaults and economic unease in the United States. The company posted a net loss of […]

80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them Via Remix news, Due to France’s drug trafficking crisis, a large majority of French are in favor of the army being deployed into disadvantaged neighborhoods in problematic neighborhoods in France, including 80 percent of women. According to a CSA poll conducted for CNews, Europe 1 and JDD, 76 percent of French people overall want the army called in to […]

After Billion-Dollar Bullion Gain, Meet The Chinese Trader Betting Big On Copper Following Moody’s late-Friday downgrade of the U.S. government’s top credit rating, gold futures were bid Sunday evening into early Monday morning as investors sought safe-haven trades. However, we shift our attention to a Chinese trader whose highly profitable precious metals trade has recently pivoted toward copper, where he has established a sizable […]

Greenland’s Mineral Wealth Could Pave Way To Independent Future Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, Taatsi Olsen knows what it takes to start searching for minerals in Greenland. In a warehouse on the outskirts of the capital, Nuuk, he walked through the nuts and bolts of mining exploration in the cold, sparsely populated country: walls of tools and harnesses and small trailers flown to remote sites by helicopter, […]

Third Arrest Made After Ukrainian National Charged With Firebombing PM Starmer’s Home A third man has been arrested in connection with a series fires at properties linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, after earlier this month there were a series of blazes which appeared to target him or assets owned by him.  The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command has been leading the investigation, after starting May 8, […]

British School Kids Are Being Taught Black People Built Stonehenge Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, British schoolchildren are being taught that Stonehenge was built by Black people. Yes, really. Research by the think tank Policy Exchange uncovered one book that makes this claim, Brilliant Black British History is being used widely in schools. The drive to decolonise history curriculums has ‘gone too far’ […]

Atlanta Remains The World ‘s Busiest Airport In 2024, global air travel hit 9.5 billion passengers— a five billion increase since 2021. Together, the 10 busiest airports transported 855 million passengers, or 9% of traffic globally. While air traffic has finally surged past pre-pandemic levels, it is not without its challenges of staffing crises, tech outages, and aircraft incidents. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

‘De-Brexit’? UK PM Starmer Accused Of “Surrender” As Britain Pens New Agreement With Brussels Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The United Kingdom and the European Union have reached a wide-ranging agreement aimed at expanding cooperation across key areas such as defense, energy, migration, law enforcement, and youth mobility — a deal that critics argue is a flagrant rowback on Brexit. Announced following the U.K.–EU […]

The 3 Pillars Of The American Idea Authored by Robert Curry via RealClearWire.com, Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding.   Expand the number of core ideas under consideration to three and you get unalienable rights, self-evident truths, and free market economics. You could call them the three pillars of the American Idea. These three pillars are the direct gifts to […]

Bribery Charges Sink Retired Admiral In Navy Ethics Scandal Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, once the Navy’s second-highest-ranking officer, was convicted Monday on bribery and related charges, marking the first time in history that a four-star U.S. military officer has been found guilty of committing a federal crime while on active duty. Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, 62, of Coconut Creek, Florida Burke, 63, of Coconut Creek, Fla., […]

How Long Can Lies & Control Supplant Reality & Free Markets? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, The facts of a surreal yet broken (and hence increasingly controlled and desperate) financial system are becoming harder to deny and ignore.  Below, we look at the evidence of control rather than the words of dishonest policy makers and ask a simple question: How long can lies supplant reality? The Great […]

Iran Clarifies That Nuclear Talks Will Fail If US Pushes Zero Enrichment Last week, a top Iranian nuclear official floated the possibility that the Islamic Republic would be willing to given up enriching uranium in return for full sanctions relief from Washington. But amid ongoing negotiations, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has produced something more official, firing back at Washington on Monday for recent Trump admin statements […]

What Joe Biden’s Cancer Can (And Should) Teach Us About The Media Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Last night the news broke that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer, which has already metastasized to his bones. The conversation has gone in two predictable directions. On the one hand you have the predictable “out pouring of support” from fans of Team Blue, “liberal” […]

DOJ Charges New Jersey Democrat With Assault, Impeding Law Enforcement At ICE Facility Protest New Jersey Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver has been charged with assault and impeding law enforcement for her actions during a protest outside a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Newark, New Jersey earlier this month. During the protest McIver could be seen screaming at and pushing federal agents, saying “I touch […]

India Says China Provided Intelligence To Pakistan During Border Clashes Via The Cradle China provided direct logistical and intelligence support to Pakistan during the recent 15-day border conflict with India, marking a significant escalation in Beijing’s involvement in South Asia’s most volatile rivalry, Bloomberg has reported. According to Ashok Kumar, director general of the Center for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), a […]

Alarming Graph Reveals US Beef Industry Is “Hijacked By Chemical Pushers”  The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement is gaining steam as a disruptive force in helping to rescue the nation’s deteriorating food supply chain and public health. It marks a clear inflection point from decades of dependency on ultra-processed foods and pharmaceutical giants profiting from Americans’ imploding health over the last […]

The WHO Cannot Be Saved Authored by David Bell and Ramesh Thakur via The Brownstone Institute, As humans, we commonly consider ourselves, our beliefs, and our work of particular importance. It is not surprising, then, that when we form institutions, those within them seek to promote the institution’s relevance, expand their work, and centralize decision-making within their own ‘particularly important’ group. Few want to […]

ZH At The White House: Epstein, Clinton Body Count & Proxy Wars ZeroHedge White House correspondent Liam Cosgrove was in the “new media” seat during Monday’s press briefing, where he asked several questions related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, the ‘Clinton body count,’ and whether the US will continue funding proxy wars overseas. Proxy Wars We then asked about the US funding proxy wars overseas. “The president has made […]

Historic Women’s College Gives Honorary Degree To Rachel Levine (A Man) It is an interesting kind of horror that modern academia, an environment where objective facts should be most revered, has instead become an environment where objective facts are most reviled.  The complete denial of biological reality within the western academic community is an enduring source of social disruption.  Their continued promotion of gender fluid […]

Marx’s Economic Forecasts: Over 150 Years Of Failure Authored by Richard Fulmer via The Mises Institute, From atop the flawed foundation of the Labor Theory of Value, Karl Marx made a series of predictions about capitalism that time has proven incorrect. Among these are the immiseration of the masses due to capital accumulation, chronic overproduction, capitalist-driven imperialism, and the inevitable rise of monopolies. […]

House Republicans Press Harvard For Transparency Over Alleged Ties To Chinese Military Woke elites running Harvard University into the ground faced fresh controversy on Monday morning as House Republicans launched a formal inquiry into the school’s reported ties with foreign adversaries, citing serious national security and ethical concerns. The House Select Committee on China, joined by the House Committee on Education and […]

Don’t Take The Black Pill Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, What kinds of attitudes do you bring to the prospect of political and social change? The answer matters more than we think. Those with hope and passion for improvement tend to win the day, especially if the other side merely wallows in grievance and despair. This is true for writers and intellectuals too. We are all trying to find our way through in a […]

Vance Abruptly Cancels Israel Visit As IDF Expands Gaza Operations More friction between Israel and the United States has come to light Monday as Vice President JD Vance has canceled a planned official trip to Israel due to the expansion of Israel’s military operation in Gaza, according to a senior US official cited in Axios. The report emphasizes that “The US official said Vance made the decision because he didn’t want his trip […]

Top FDA Official Discloses She Never Received COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official said on May 15 that she never took a COVID-19 vaccine due to concerns about biodistribution. Dr. Sara Brenner, the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner, said during an event in Washington that she did not receive any of the COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. […]

A Third Of Russell 3000 Energy Companies Trade Below Book Value Looking at Berkshire’s mindblowing $350 billion cash stash… … one would think that there is nothing in the market that a value investor would find attractive. One would be wrong: almost half of all mid- and small-cap oil and gas stocks in the US are now trading below their book values. That’s the highest level since the pandemic. And according to Bloomberg, […]