No Crying In The Casino Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Browsing social media last night and this morning, I was greeted with dozens of examples of people posting their “loss porn,” as the Reddit traders would call it, with one P/L after another showing huge losses. Some traders posted ominous things about blowing up their crypto accounts, forced liquidations, and massive losses. Some even also posted, insinuating they were […]

Memphis Dem Rep. Decries ‘Military Operation’ After Feds Arrest Nearly 500 ‘Violent Criminals’ Two weeks ago the FBI announced that 489 ‘violent criminals’ had been arrested in Memphis over a 60-day period, which included 118 guns seized, in a multi-agency effort involving the FBI, DEA, Memphis PD, ICE, Homeland Security and other agencies. Shortly after this announcement, Memphis law enforcement coordinated with DHS to deploy the […]

7 Minutes Outside: The Collapse Of Childhood Play Authored by Hannah Frankman Hood via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Studies suggest that today’s kids get an average of 4–7 minutes of unstructured time outside a day, while they spend 7–8 hours a day in front of screens. Shutterstock With a youth mental health crisis also sweeping the nation (rates of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and diagnosed mental health […]

Market Crack Or Beginning Of Something Bigger Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Market Crack Or The Beginning Of Something Bigger The data had been sending signals that few wanted to acknowledge all week. Speculative behavior had reached extremes, valuations were stretched, and positioning was one-sided. Retail traders had returned to chasing options and meme stocks with the same recklessness seen in 2021. As […]

Watch: MSM Puppets Receive “New Talking Point Directive” Amid Info War  Establishment media puppets that align with the Deep State interests have received coordinated messaging directives this past week,  scripted talking points designed to advance ongoing informational warfare against the American public to obscure or downplay the very existence and activities of radical left group Antifa, which has been formally designated a […]

Nobel Peace Prize Organizers Probing Potential Insider Trades On Polymarket Authored by Sander Lutz via Decrypt.co, The organizers of the Nobel Peace Prize are investigating whether insiders used privileged information about this year’s winner to profit on crypto prediction market Polymarket, according to local reports. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, displays a photo of winner María Corina […]

Rare Blackouts Hit Southern Odessa Region Amid Russia’s Pre-Winter Strikes Rare blackouts have occurred in Ukraine’s southern Odessa region – a place which has largely been spared from sustained fighting – given the vital port is all the way to the south, across from the border with NATO member Romania. This latest overnight Russian assault again targeted Ukraine’s energy grid ahead of winter, with hundreds of thousands of […]

Wind, Solar Projects Can Stick Taxpayers With The Tab Coming And Going Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance, When it comes to our energy future, it is often true that what many on the left consider an enlightened long-term view is in fact short-sightedness that fails to reflect the full consequences of their actions.   Such is the case with the liberal media’s fawning over the Republican governor of […]

Crypto Carnage: Trump Tariff Tape-Bomb Triggers Largest Liquidation Event In History Crypto market traders were hit by record liquidations just days after Bitcoin touched an all-time high, after President Trump triggered a wave of cross-market volatility saying he would impose an additional tariff on China and export controls on software. October has historically been a particularly strong month for Bitcoin’s price – a […]

Telegram’s Durov: We’re “Running Out Of Time To Save The Free Internet” Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, Messaging app Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov warns that a “dark, dystopian world” is approaching, with governments worldwide rolling back privacy protections. “I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free internet built for us by our […]

Watch: MSM Interview Covers Up Ukrainian Fighter’s Swastika Tattoo In another embarrassing and revealing moment for Western mainstream media and its many puff pieces on Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Regiment, Canadian national broadcaster CBC has aired a news report this week from “an elite training facility” of its 3rd Assault Brigade in Kiev, featuring a fighter with a swastika tattoo on his arm. The footage, released Thursday, […]

The Hidden History Of Policy Theft & Skyrocketing Gold Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, As gold continues to rocket north with continuous all-time highs, some investors are still wondering, well… why? The answer has less to do with gold’s consistent physical and monetary properties, and more to do with historical human –and hence policy—weakness, which makes this metal almost too easy to […]

Putin Skewers Nobel Committee, Praises Trump’s Gaza Efforts Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday heaped praise on President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Middle East and at the same time trashed the Nobel Committee. Putin said to reporters while in Tajikistan that Trump “is definitely making an effort and working on these issues – on achieving peace and resolving complex international affairs. The […]

Trump Suggests Dropping Spain From NATO Alliance Over Defense Spending Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump suggested on Oct. 9 that Spain could be thrown out of NATO after Madrid declined to commit to boosting defense spending to 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Trump made the remarks during an Oval Office meeting with the leader of the defense alliance’s second-newest member, […]

Where Is Pensioner Poverty The Most Prevalent? Four in ten people aged 66 and older in Korea were living in relative income poverty in 2022, according to the latest data from the OECD. That year, 39.7 percent of Korean seniors were living on an income below half the national median equivalized household income – the highest elderly poverty rate recorded across the OECD. The rate has remained stubbornly high over the past decade […]

“We Will Not Agree!” – Polish President Rejects EU Migrant Relocation Plan Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix news, Polish President Karol Nawrocki has told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that Poland will not accept any attempt by EU institutions to impose migrant relocations within its borders. In a letter sent to Brussels, Nawrocki stated that such actions would be unacceptable and urged the Commission to […]

Geert Wilders Suspends Campaign Due To ‘Jihadi-Inspired Terrorist’ Plot, Assassination Threats In yet another example of how ‘peaceful’ both the Left and hardline Sunni/Salafi immigrants are, and in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination last month in the US, Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders – who the media constantly dubs Hitler “far Right” – has suspended his campaigning for elections later this month, due to ongoing […]

Lagarde And The Euro: Why The ECB Will Never Deliver A Global Reserve Currency Submitted by Thomas Kolbe ECB President Christine Lagarde on Tuesday once again called for a leadership role for the euro in the global economy. According to her assessment, the Eurozone is today a passive observer, forced to endure shocks from Washington and other financial centers. A glimpse into the obscure world of ECB officials, who see themselves […]

Trump Administration Lays Off 4,000 Federal Workers As Government Shutdown Drags On Update (Saturday): The Trump administration revealed in a late-Friday court filing that the White House has begun laying off more than 4,000 federal employees as the government shutdown entered its 10th day. Unlike standard temporary furloughs, these moves are permanent layoffs. The decision has infuriated Democrats, who called it politically […]

ANTIFA’s Mask Slips: Trump’s Roundtable Sends Shadow NGO Network Behind “Riot Inc.” Into Panic Submitted by Jason Curtis Anderson of One City Rising,  President Trump’s latest roundtable on ANTIFA wasn’t just a political statement — it was a long-overdue reckoning against rising far-left political violence. For years, journalists and citizens alike have watched America’s streets burn, our cities vandalized, and our law […]

A US Port In Pakistan Would Complete Its Pro-Western Pivot Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Pakistan has been pivoting towards the West since April 2022’s post-modern coup against former multipolar Prime Minister Imran Khan, with this trend accelerating since Trump’s return to power and his obsession with punishing India for not subordinating itself as the US’ largest-ever vassal state. Their rapid […]

Central Banks Now Hold More Gold Than US Treasuries Central banks have crossed a symbolic line: their combined gold reserves now exceed their U.S. Treasury holdings for the first time in nearly three decades. The crossover underscores a gradual diversification away from dollar-denominated securities and toward hard assets. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, tracks how these shares have evolved from the […]

Lesser-Known Breast Cancer Spreading Among American Women Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A subtype of breast cancer is on the rise among American women, with incidence rates highest among White females, according to an Oct. 7 peer-reviewed study published in the American Cancer Society’s (ACS’s) journal Cancer. A new study found that race-wise, White women had the highest incidence rate for […]

Where Americans Can’t Afford Healthcare If there are two issues that dominate America’s online discourse, they’re the soaring cost of housing and the even steeper price of staying healthy. The U.S. pours almost $13,000 per person into healthcare, yet average life expectancy is below nearly every other high-income nation. It’s a study of contrasts. As Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao notes, the country boasts of state of […]

Paper Chase: A Global Industry Fuels Scientific Fraud In The U.S. Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific researchers. It will not only write a scholarly paper for a fee but also guarantee publishing the fraudulent work in a respected journal.    It is one of many “paper mills” that have […]