DOGE Savings Top $200 Billion, Almost $1,300 Per Taxpayer Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated 123 “wasteful contracts” over the past five days with a ceiling value of $5.3 billion and savings of $4.2 billion, DOGE said in an Aug. 16 X post. The canceled contracts included an $857,000 contract from the Department of the Interior for a technical […]

Hungary Expresses Outrage After Ukraine Strikes Key Oil Pipeline To EU, Forcing Halt Crude oil flows from Russia to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline suffered a forced halt on Monday, officials from both countries confirmed, after a Ukrainian drone strike crippled a vital transformer station. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto stated Monday “this latest strike against our energy security is outrageous and […]

An Offer He Can’t Refuse Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “This is not our war. The US is not in a war. Ukraine is in a war. . .” – Sec’y of State Marco Rubio Volodymyr Zelenskyy is dropping in at the White House today so that Mr. Trump can read him the riot act. It’s that simple. Somewhere to or from Alaska, Mr. Trump concluded that a ceasefire would not work, for the excellent reason that seven previous ceasefires […]

Homeless Arrests Climb After Supreme Court Clears Bans Homelessness in the U.S. has reached record levels, with more than 771,000 people unhoused on a single night in 2024, according to The Conversation. Since the Supreme Court’s June 2024 ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, cities have stepped up enforcement of bans on sleeping or camping in public, even when no shelter is available. The Court found such laws constitutional, […]

Bud Light Considers Tapping Sydney Sweeney To Rehab Tarnished Image Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, What started as a joke may soon become a multimillion-dollar reality as Anheuser–Busch marketing executives were reported last week to be in serious consideration for a deal with actress and American Eagle model Sydney Sweeney. The Daily Mail reported that the blonde bombshell could net $10 million dollars in a […]

Key Events This Week: All Eyes On Zelensky At The White House And Powell At Jackson Hole As we arrive at a new week, DB’s Henry Allen writes that the focus is still on Ukraine this morning, as the world reacts to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska last Friday. The main headline was that no deal was reached on a ceasefire, but multiple outlets reported that Putin wanted Ukraine to withdraw from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and he […]

Vestas Wind Shares Surge On Revised Tax Credit Guidance, Wall Street Analysts Breathe Sigh Of Relief Vestas Wind Systems jumped the most in years after the Internal Revenue Service issued revised guidance on U.S. wind and solar tax credit eligibility that proved far less restrictive than initially feared top Wall Street desks. President Trump’s tax and spending bill dialed back the Biden-Harris regime era renewable […]

Waste Of The Day: “Medicaid Millionaire” Bought Lamborghini Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: A Louisiana woman was arrested and charged with fraud last month after allegedly underreporting her income to qualify for Medicaid. The state Bureau of Investigation claims that Candace Taylor, 35, bought a Lamborghini and owned six businesses that earned almost $10 million in five years while on federal […]

Futures Dip Ahead Of Trump-Zelensky Meeting As Jackson Hole Looms US equity futures are down a touch, after closing in the red on Friday having tagged a new all time high earlier in the day, with small caps outperforming to start the week. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 0.1% and Nasdaq futures drop 0.2% after the benchmarks closed last week near an all-time high, with Ukraine’s Zelenskiy and his European allies arriving […]

Trump Vows Social Security Will Thrive For Another ’90 Years’ Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Nearly a century removed, President Donald Trump heralded his Democratic predecessor FDR for “one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever signed into law,” the bill that created Social Security. The program turned 90 this month. Without reform, its 100th anniversary is not guaranteed. President Trump […]

Novo Shares Gain As Wegovy Wins FDA Approval For Liver Disease Novo Nordisk shares gained in Copenhagen trading on Monday after the U.S. FDA approved Wegovy for the treatment of metabolic-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a severe form of liver disease. The approval gives Novo a first-mover advantage over Eli Lilly in the U.S. market.  Year-to-date, Novo shares have lost nearly 50% amid intensifying GLP-1 competition, including […]

Illegal Alien Behind Fatal Florida Big Rig Crash; Sec. Duffy Signals Major Action On CDL Crisis  Six months ago, the advocacy group American Truckers United (ATU) emerged as a prominent voice on X (read here), leading the charge within the U.S. trucking sector against the massive influx of non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) holders – allowed under the globalist Biden-Harris regime – that has transformed America’s […]

Europe’s New War Economy: From Green Collapse To Military Keynesianism Submitted by Thomas Kolbe While the green pseudo-economy drags the broader economy into the basement, two-thirds of Germans say they are satisfied with renewable energy or even want to see it expanded more rapidly. Meanwhile, the construction of a European war economy marks the next stage in Europe’s ongoing impoverishment. The most popular yet most […]

Microsoft Sends 60 Day Warning To Windows 10 Users Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As Microsoft moves toward ending its support of Windows 10, PC users who haven’t yet upgraded to Windows 11 now have less than 60 days to take action to make sure their devices are receiving updates for cyber threats. Visitors try out Windows 10, the latest operating system from software giant Microsoft, during a launch […]

What’s Standing In The Way Of A Grand Compromise On Ukraine? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The onus is now on Zelensky to reciprocate Putin’s widely perceived willingness to compromise for peace. Putin and Trump publicly confirmed that they found a lot of common ground during their three-hour-long talks in Anchorage, but no grand compromise on Ukraine was reached due to “a couple of big [points]…One is […]

Danish PM Calls Netanyahu A ‘Problem’, Threatens Sanctions On Israel Via The Cradle Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Sunday that Benjamin Netanyahu has become a “problem,” and that she does not rule out sanctions on the Israeli Prime Minister, or even on Israel as a state. Speaking with Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, Frederiksen stated that “Netanyahu himself is a problem now,” and that Israel would be […]

British Army Colonel: Civil War Is Coming Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A retired British Army Colonel is warning that he believes a civil war in the country is now inevitable because politicians are unwilling to take meaningful actions to fix societal collapse. Colonel Richard Kemp, who has served on the Joint Intelligence Committee and the Cabinet Office crisis centre COBRA, urges that an alliance “of the […]

Dispute Over EU Censorship Law Delays Trade Deal With The EU Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The United States is fighting against EU opinion control on digital platforms. From the perspective of the European Commission, this constitutes an unacceptable interference in internal affairs, which is why it is now delaying the ratification of the trade deal. In the meantime, the cost of higher tariffs due to the delay is being borne by the […]

The US Has Given Ukraine The Most Aid To Date To date, the United States has been the biggest supporter of Ukraine in terms of aid, according to data from the Ukraine Support Tracker compiled by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel). EU institutions (including the European Commission and the Council), followed by Germany and the United Kingdom have been the next biggest contributors. As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows […]

Rich Londoners Hire Security, Leave Rolexes At Home Over Knife Crime, Robberies Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), One of the world’s most popular tourist destinations is struggling with rising levels of robbery, usually involving knives, which has led to an increase in demand for bodyguards, experts say. A police van outside the gates of the British Museum in London on Aug. 23, 2023. Leon Neal/Getty […]

Former Navy SEAL Fights Child Sex Trafficking Authored by Ilene Eng via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former Navy SEAL went from battling international terrorism to fighting a different war at home—the war against child sex trafficking. Former Navy SEAL and founder of Veterans for Child Rescue Craig Sawyer. The Epoch Times Craig Sawyer, a former Navy SEAL and founder of Veterans for Child Rescue, told EpochTV’s “Bay […]

FDA Approves Therapy For Rare Disease Without Randomized Trial Data Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 14 approved a therapy for a rare disease called recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in White Oak, Md., on June 5, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Regulators cleared Papzimeos, an immunotherapy made by […]

Judge Puts Infowars Up For Sale Again As Leftists Clamor For Alex Jones Takedown The establishment media has long argued that the Sandy Hook lawsuits against Alex Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, are about “justice” for grieving parents suffering from harassment.  However, the actions of the plaintiffs and others involved in the civil case suggest that their goals are highly political and have little to do with […]

New GPS Data Reveals Exactly Who Showed Up At White House Protests Dark-money-funded leftist NGOs were at it again this weekend, attempting to stage a color-revolution-style regime change in Washington, D.C., right outside the White House. But as with every operation this year, dating back to “Tesla Takedown,” the only people these far-left groups, funded by rogue billionaires and some with taxpayer funds, managed to summon […]

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Cases On the Rise: Here Are The Symptoms Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A “flesh-eating bacteria” called Vibrio vulnificus has been making headlines after recent reports of deaths and hospitalizations. Every year, around 150 to 200 severe cases of Vibrio vulnificus are reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with most cases occurring during the […]