From Fringe To Mainstream: The Rise Of The BJP In India Voters in India are getting set to head to the polls in what has been dubbed the world’s biggest election. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to vote and to determine whether 73-year-old Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will rule the nation…
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Calif. Democrats Tout Ties To Criminal Leniency Group
Calif. Democrats Tout Ties To Criminal Leniency Group Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The mayors of California’s three biggest cities have rankled some progressive activists in recent months by joining a wave of fellow Democrats renouncing once popular initiatives to defund the police, reduce sentencing, and undertake other criminal justice reforms amid deep concerns…
‘Like Toys, Not Drones’: Iran Continues Mocking Israel’s Attack As Contrasting Narratives Emerge
‘Like Toys, Not Drones’: Iran Continues Mocking Israel’s Attack As Contrasting Narratives Emerge Iran has continued mocking Israel’s limited attack which happened in the early hours of Friday morning. In a fresh interview with NBC, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian dismissed much of the initial reporting in the West concerning the strike, which appeared to…
Contracts Between US Universities, China Total More Than $2 Billion: Investigation
Contracts Between US Universities, China Total More Than $2 Billion: Investigation By Micaiah Bilger of The College Fix Report comes amid concerns about CCP’s influence, human rights violations… American universities have entered more than $2.3 billion in contracts with China in the past decade amid on-going concerns about the influence of its communist government on…
Securities Analyst Jobs In China Are “Permanently” Disappearing
Securities Analyst Jobs In China Are “Permanently” Disappearing The days of million dollar analyst jobs in the securities industry in China look to be all but gone. That was the topic of a new Bloomberg article last week which detailed exactly how the industry is “retrenching after years of expansion”. Bloomberg’s description of the industry’s cutbacks…
Amid Budget Shortfall, San Francisco Reexamines Tax Burden On Big Businesses
Amid Budget Shortfall, San Francisco Reexamines Tax Burden On Big Businesses Authored by Brian Back via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Facing mounting budget woes this election year, as spending far outpaces revenues, the City of San Francisco is scrambling to reform its infamously large and complex tax burden on business. Several San Francisco companies…
“First Real Image” Of Chinese Supersonic Drone Attached To Bomber
“First Real Image” Of Chinese Supersonic Drone Attached To Bomber Aviation observers have spotted a supersonic unmanned aerial vehicle under the fuselage of a People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) bomber, Defense Blog reports. The new drone can conduct strategic aerial reconnaissance across southeast Asia. Images of the WZ-8 reconnaissance drone attached to a Xian H-6 bomber…
“First Real Image” Of Chinese Supersonic Drone Attached To Bomber
“First Real Image” Of Chinese Supersonic Drone Attached To Bomber Aviation observers have spotted a supersonic unmanned aerial vehicle under the fuselage of a People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) bomber, Defense Blog reports. The new drone can conduct strategic aerial reconnaissance across southeast Asia. Images of the WZ-8 reconnaissance drone attached to a Xian H-6 bomber…
Lord Of The Lies: A Pediatrician’s Take On The Latest Child Gender-Transition Research
Lord Of The Lies: A Pediatrician’s Take On The Latest Child Gender-Transition Research Authored by J. Edward Les, MD, via The Epoch Times, Last week’s release of the Cass Review brought to memory the old jingle: “Liar, liar, pants on fire; your nose is longer than a telephone wire.” Commissioned four years ago to probe…
Lord Of The Lies: A Pediatrician’s Take On The Latest Child Gender-Transition Research
Lord Of The Lies: A Pediatrician’s Take On The Latest Child Gender-Transition Research Authored by J. Edward Les, MD, via The Epoch Times, Last week’s release of the Cass Review brought to memory the old jingle: “Liar, liar, pants on fire; your nose is longer than a telephone wire.” Commissioned four years ago to probe…
Shipping Industry Pleads With UN For “Enhanced Military Presence” As Maritime Choke-Point Chaos Spreads
Shipping Industry Pleads With UN For “Enhanced Military Presence” As Maritime Choke-Point Chaos Spreads Exactly one week ago, Iranian commandos seized a container ship affiliated with Israel as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz. This action sparked new fears of another maritime chokepoint becoming disrupted as the crisis in the Middle East escalated. It also prompted…
St. Louis University Hosts Dylan Mulvaney, Denies College Republicans Request For Event With Former NCAA Swimmer A Day Later
St. Louis University Hosts Dylan Mulvaney, Denies College Republicans Request For Event With Former NCAA Swimmer A Day Later By Adam Sabes of Campus Reform St. Louis University plans to host transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney to speak on campus next week and denied College Republicans’ request to host an event with a former NCAA swimmer…
Project Much? Hillary Clinton Claims Trump Wants To ‘Kill, Imprison His Opposition’
Project Much? Hillary Clinton Claims Trump Wants To ‘Kill, Imprison His Opposition’ Hillary Clinton, who once suggested murdering Julian Assange and whose party is trying to imprison their chief political rival, suggested that Donald Trump wants to murder and imprison his political opponents. Appearing on a podcast with Marc Elias, the Democrat super-lawyer who laid…
What Are Mises’ Six Lessons?
What Are Mises’ Six Lessons? Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises’s Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow has become quite popular recently. The Mises Book Store has sold out of its physical copies, and the PDF, which is available online for free, has seen over 50,000 downloads in the past few days. This surge…
What Are Mises’ Six Lessons?
What Are Mises’ Six Lessons? Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises’s Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow has become quite popular recently. The Mises Book Store has sold out of its physical copies, and the PDF, which is available online for free, has seen over 50,000 downloads in the past few days. This surge…
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Fix “Incorrectly Low” Severance Packages For Laid Off Employees
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Fix “Incorrectly Low” Severance Packages For Laid Off Employees Elon Musk stated last week that the severance packages given to some ex-Tesla Inc. employees during the company’s largest workforce reduction were incorrectly too low. Tesla announced on Monday that it is cutting over 10% of its 140,000-strong global workforce to…
Not ‘The Onion’: New Guinea Academics Say Cannibals Would Be Offended By Biden’s Tale Of Uncle Being Eaten
Not ‘The Onion’: New Guinea Academics Say Cannibals Would Be Offended By Biden’s Tale Of Uncle Being Eaten Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Academics from Papua New Guinea say that the actual cannibals who live there would be extremely offended by Joe Biden’s made up story of his uncle being eaten by them during…
11 Elon Musk Quotes Every 70 Year Old Needs To Hear
Elon Musk is a lot of things – a visionary, a leader, an entrepreneur, but a wordsmith he ain’t. Musk does make some good points, don’t get me wrong, but his prose lacks art and finesse. He has his CEO fingers in a number of different business pies, including Paypal, Telsa, SpaceX, and X, the…
There Are Degrees of Disavowal
Co-blogger Pierre Lemieux writes: Whatever one thinks of the criminal prosecutions and state “civil” suits against Donald Trump (and there are good reasons to question many aspects of them), they represent the powerful state that he has not disavowed, except perhaps in occasional and incoherent baby talk, as long as he was running it. And…
House Passes $95 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan – But Not US Border
House Passes $95 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan – But Not US Border The House on Saturday passed a set of foreign aid bills that would send $61 billion to Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel, and $8 billion to the Indo-Pacific region. In total, the foreign assistance package totals $95 billion –…
NPR Scandal Should Kill Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting
NPR Scandal Should Kill Taxpayer-Funded Broadcasting Authored by Charles Lipson via RealClearPolitics, “I don’t want any yes-men around me,” said Sam Goldwyn, the Hollywood producer famed for his movies and malapropisms. “I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.” The brass at National Public Radio must have heard…
Israeli Security Chief Slams ‘Lame’ Attack On Iran, Deepening Division Among War Leaders
Israeli Security Chief Slams ‘Lame’ Attack On Iran, Deepening Division Among War Leaders Days ago, The Wall Street Journal featured a headline that underscored Israel’s war leaders don’t trust one another. This comes as they are dealing simultaneously with the operation in Gaza, repelling Hezbollah daily drone and missile attacks in the north, and of…
Oh, The Irony: Congress Passes FISA-702 Extension, Allowing Warrantless Document Searches & Electronic Surveillance Of Americans, On Patriots Day 2024
Oh, The Irony: Congress Passes FISA-702 Extension, Allowing Warrantless Document Searches & Electronic Surveillance Of Americans, On Patriots Day 2024 Authored by ‘Sundance’ via TheConservativeTreehouse.com, The fourth amendment to the United States constitution says: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be…
The 5 Worst Ford Explorer Years To Avoid and 5 Years to Own
First released in 1991, the Ford Explorer is one of the most popular SUVs on the market today. Ford has even gone as far as to say the Ford Explorer is the most popular SUV of all time. For Ford, creating a quality vehicle like the Explorer will earn long-term repeat customers, something Ford (NYSE:F) needs…
This AI “Moonshot Stock” Has 10X Returns Potential
AI stocks have been in free fall across the past week. The primary culprit is the broader market. The S&P 500 has been down six days in a row while the Nasdaq is down nearly 7% since April 11th. It’s not far from taking just two weeks to enter correction territory. The broader market’s decline…
Bill Maher Calls Out Hollywood Pedophilia And The Gay Agenda In Schools
Bill Maher Calls Out Hollywood Pedophilia And The Gay Agenda In Schools It’s not the easiest thing for a person to step away from their peer group and question the dogmatic political path the mob has chosen to follow. When it comes to the woke left, stepping out of line is doubly difficult because any…
Why Is Gold Rising Now, Where Is It Headed Tomorrow?
Why Is Gold Rising Now, Where Is It Headed Tomorrow? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Needless to say, we at VON GREYERZ spend a good deal of time thinking about, well… gold. The Complex, the Simple, the Math and the History Year after year, and week after week, there is always a new way to…
Bitcoin (BTC) up 145% but This Crypto Is up 350%
Bitcoin (BTC) has been on a steady climb since the past year, surging over 145%. However, despite BTC’s impressive growth, another crypto overshadowed Bitcoin, gaining 350% in the same period — Kaspa (KAS) has given Bitcoin a run for its money in the last year. Analysts, traders, and crypto enthusiasts all expect BTC to blaze…
If You Invested $15,000 In Disney 10 Years Ago, This Is How Much You Would Have Today
The House of Mouse has recently settled a proxy battle between current CEO Bob Iger and activist shareholder Nelson Peltz, who was seeking a seat on Disney’s board and who objected to a number of the ultra-large budget box office flops and political stances that Disney had released of late. However, Walt Disney Company (NYSE:…
What Are The Biggest Perceived Dangers Of AI?
What Are The Biggest Perceived Dangers Of AI? As with every technological advancement, generative artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, image generator Midjourney or Claude, the chatbot created by AI startup Anthropic, are used for productivity and creation as well as increasingly for scams and abuse. Among this new wave of malicious content, deepfakes are especially noteworthy….
5 Nissan Rogue Years to Avoid and 5 Years to Own
First available from Nissan for the 2008 model year, the Nissan Rogue is a compact crossover SUV. Competing with the Ford Escape, Hyundai Tucson, and the Honda CR-V, the Rogue is currently Nissan’s best-selling vehicle in the United States. Making its debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, the Rogue was built…
Middle Class Can’t Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds
Middle Class Can’t Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds By Sam Bourgi of CreditNews, Housing is becoming an exclusively upper-class privilege in a growing number of cities. According to a new study by Creditnews Research, in 2024, middle-class households could afford to buy an average home in just 52…
Tesla’s Robotaxi Is “Obviously Bullshit”: Mark Spiegel
In the latest episode of my podcast, I had the pleasure of welcoming my buddy Mark Spiegel, an outspoken investment manager and vocal critic of Tesla. Our discussion delved into the nuances of Tesla’s business model, market valuation, operational challenges and Elon Musk’s questionable track record. Mark provided an analysis of the overvaluation of Tesl……
Could Plummeting AI Stock Prices Delay an NVIDIA Stock Split?
AI stocks were sold off big on Friday. NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) closed down an even 10% while Super Micro Computer (Nasdaq: SMCI) plummeted 23.14%. There were some earnings in the AI space that spooked investors during the week (both Taiwan Semi and ASML fell after earnings), but the reality is that Friday was likely just a rotation out of…
Utah Students Stage Walkout To Protest ‘Barking And Biting Furries’ In The Classroom
Utah Students Stage Walkout To Protest ‘Barking And Biting Furries’ In The Classroom American schools have changed a lot in just the past five years. Not long ago, it was understood by even the most progressive educators that some rules need to be put in place to keep kids in check. Structure has always been…
America’s 10 Greenest Cities
We should all strive to live in harmony with the Earth, no matter where we live. Disregard for our home is only doing damage to ourselves and our posterity. Wherever possible, we should support laws and ordinances that seek to improve the area where we live, not leave it a devastated landscape of pavement and single-use plastic. However,…
Silver Prices Are About To SKYROCKET! Central Banks Are Buying Gold At RECORD PACE!
Russian Refineries Install Nets As Protection From Drone Attacks
Russian Refineries Install Nets As Protection From Drone Attacks Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice,com, Russian oil company Bashneft, part of state-controlled giant Rosneft, has installed metal mesh at its refineries to protect them from drone attacks from Ukraine, Russian media reported on Friday, quoting Radiy Khabirov, the head of the Bashkortostan region where Bashneft is based….
What You Really Need to Know to Build Passive Income in the Stock Market
Since 1926, dividends have contributed approximately 32% of the total return for the S&P 500, while capital appreciations have contributed 68%. Therefore, sustainable dividend income and capital appreciation potential are essential for total return expectations. Most dividend investors seek solid passive income streams of quality dividend stocks. Passive income is a steady stream of unearned…
These Are the Richest Counties in North Carolina
No economy has generated as much wealth for as many people as that of the United States. According to the 2023 Global Wealth Report from the Swiss investment bank UBS, most adults worldwide have less than $10,000 in total wealth. Meanwhile, the typical American adult is worth nearly $108,000. The same report found that the…
Furious Gen-Zers Threaten DC Protest Ahead Of TikTok Ban Vote
Furious Gen-Zers Threaten DC Protest Ahead Of TikTok Ban Vote The US House of Representatives plans a vote early Saturday afternoon on several bills that would send critical aid to Israel and Ukraine and a possible bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest or risk being banned across the US. At…
Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High
Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High Well, that escalated quickly… ..but some saw it coming. In a week characterized by data supporting ‘no landing’ from a growth perspective and disappointment from a disinflation perspective… Source: Bloomberg FedSpeak that was without exception – hawkish! As they suddenly realized that all that…
Tesla Drops Prices, Again
Probably looking to keep its 51% market share in the US, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has cut prices on most of its models. It lowered prices on several late last year and early in 2024. Tesla’s issues may be so difficult that it is in deep trouble. Reuters reports that, after a review of the Tesla…
Why AI Leader Nvidia Dipped 10% This Week
AI phenomenon Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA) got the wind taken out of its sails this week. After tumbling 10% from fresh all-time highs of almost $1,000 seen in March, Nvidia stock found itself slipping below the psychologically sensitive $800 level. Given its roughly 5% weighting in the S&P 500, Nvidia’s performance also weighed on the broader…
How Much Social Security Will I Get If I Make $25,000 A Year?
Your current income significantly impacts the amount of your Social Security benefit. While earning $25,000 this year will contribute significantly to your retirement benefits, the actual amount you’ll receive is a more complex equation. Simply put, your current income isn’t the only thing that matters. If $25,000 a year is about average for your annual income, you…
5 New Stocks Under $10 That Pay Incredible Ultra Yield Dividends
While Most of Wall Street focuses on large and mega-cap stocks, as they provide a degree of safety and liquidity, many investors are limited in the number of shares they can buy. Many of the most significant public companies, especially the technology giants, trade at prices up to $1000 per share, while many are in…
Goofy Greens And Regulators Threaten Nuclear Revival
Goofy Greens And Regulators Threaten Nuclear Revival Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClear Wire, Despite its commitment to “no more gas, oil, or coal,” Friends of the Earth has launched a campaign against one of the nation’s “greenest” governors, California’s Gavin Newsom. Their goal? To stop the U.S. Department of Energy from doling out $1…
Goofy Greens And Regulators Threaten Nuclear Revival
Goofy Greens And Regulators Threaten Nuclear Revival Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClear Wire, Despite its commitment to “no more gas, oil, or coal,” Friends of the Earth has launched a campaign against one of the nation’s “greenest” governors, California’s Gavin Newsom. Their goal? To stop the U.S. Department of Energy from doling out $1…
Nike Hit By Layoffs
Nike (NYSE: NKE), apparently trying to streamline its corporate management structure, has laid off workers at its headquarters. The company suffers from a tepid market and harsh competition inside and outside the US. The layoffs included 740 people. The problem is more significant than it seems. Nike called this its “second round of layoffs.” Earlier…
Ukraine Claims First-Ever Shootdown Of Russian Strategic Bomber, Moscow Denies
Ukraine Claims First-Ever Shootdown Of Russian Strategic Bomber, Moscow Denies Another Russian military aircraft has fallen from the sky in a fiery wreck, social media video widely circulating on Friday shows. But precisely how it happened is being hotly disputed. Ukraine is now touting that for the first time ever, its forces have downed a Russian…
Forget AI, This Is How Microsoft Actually Makes Money
The hype around investing in Microsoft is all AI, but the money comes from somewhere else. Investors looking at the stock today need to know how the tech giant actually earns it’s keep. The company is taking a page out of Amazon’s playbook and has started giving investors the information they need to see clearly….