Let’s Get Ready To Rumble: UFC Cage Match Planned At White House  Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White emerged from a White House meeting on Thursday, declaring to his nearly 11 million Instagram followers:  We had the meeting at the White House. It could not have gone better. This is going to be awesome. The White House fight is on. I’ll have more details on that in the next couple of weeks, but we got it done […]

Sharia Law? US Police Dept Introduces Arabic Patch Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A police department in Michigan has introduced a uniform patch that has Arabic writing on it, prompting fierce backlash. Dearborn Heights Police Department is believed to be the first in the country to have a patch with a language other than English. Reports indicate that the patch was designed by an Officer Ermily Murdoc, who […]

Rate-Cut Odds Surge After Soft Labor Market Signals; Here’s What Wall Street Thinks… Rate-cut expectations surged this morning following the weak labor market signals from the payrolls report with 2025 now pricing in 3 full cuts… Source: Bloomberg As we predicted, the chance of a 50bps cut in September are also rising, but for now it appears 25bps in each of Sept, Oct, and Dec is the most likely outcome… Source: […]

NATO Troops In Ukraine ‘Legitimate Targets’ Even If There For Peace Deal: Putin French president Emmanuel Macron had on Thursday hosted a ‘coalition of the willing’ on Ukraine in Paris, involving 26 nations which have declared readiness to get directly engaged in providing security guarantees for a post-war order. The plan will reportedly be finalized with US approval, as American forces are sought to ‘backstop’ the plan, […]

Crude Prices Tumble To 3-Mo-Lows As Saudis Push To Accelerate OPEC+ Production Boost Oil pries are tumbling further this morning following reports that OPEC+ leader Saudi Arabia wants the group to consider reviving more oil production ahead of its scheduled return at the end of next year to reclaim market share. Bloomberg reports that, according to people familiar with the matter, key alliance members will hold a video conference […]

Vance Blasts Democrat Senators: “You’re Full Of Sh*t” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Vice President JD Vance tore into Senate Democrats after they acted like a group of school children playing courtroom during RFK Jr’s testimony today. The Senators lined up to take pot shots at Kennedy, who remarkably held his own, in what was clearly an attempt to sour the American people on the HHS Secretary. The Democrats’ […]

Putrid Payrolls: Job Growth Collapses To Just 22K, Unemp Rate Rises To 4.3% Putting 50bps Rate Cut In Play Ahead of today’s jobs report, consensus was that a print between 40K and 100K is largely priced in and greenlighting a 25bps rate cut by the Fed in two weeks, and that we would need a real outlier number for the Fed to either cut 50bps… or not hike. Well, we got a real outlier when moments ago the BLS reported that in August […]

Futures Rise Further Into Record Territory Ahead Of Jobs Report US equity futures are higher into NFP, rising after strong results from Broadmcom and on optimism that Friday’s jobs report will set the stage for the Fed to resume cutting interest rates this month. At 8:00am, futures for the S&P 500 ticked 0.1% higher – reaching a new record high – but eased off the best levels of the session. Nasdaq contracts advanced 0.5%. In […]

“Incentivizing Elon”: Tesla Offers Musk Unprecedented $1 Trillion Pay Package  The same leftist activist judge who torpedoed Elon Musk’s Tesla pay deal earlier this year will likely go berserk over the company’s latest plan: a jaw-dropping 10-year, $1 trillion compensation package for the billionaire. This is the largest in the history of corporate America. Then again, when you’re running a company positioned to dominate the […]

Trump Ready To Place More US Troops In Poland Amid Russia Threat Authored by RFE/RL Staff via OilPrice.com, Trump told President Karol Nawrocki the U.S. is prepared to expand its 8,000-strong military presence in Poland. The meeting underscores Warsaw’s push for stronger U.S. security guarantees amid Russia’s war on Ukraine. Nawrocki, a conservative close to Trump’s movement, won the election narrowly on a […]

Broadcom Jumps Most In Months After $10 Billion OpenAI Chip Order Broadcom shares jumped the most since April in premarket trading, assuming the gains hold into the cash session, after a Financial Times report earlier said the chipmaker will produce a line of artificial intelligence chips for OpenAI. The new chips, set to enter series production next year, will reduce the ChatGPT maker’s reliance on Nvidia.  On Thursday, […]

UBS: Orsted Lawsuit Signals Wind Talks With Trump Admin “Not Going Well”  Revolution Wind LLC, co-owned by Orsted and Global Infrastructure Partners, sued the Trump administration on Thursday over last month’s order halting construction of the 80%-complete Revolution Wind offshore project off Rhode Island. The multi-billion-dollar, 65-turbine wind farm was suspended by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management […]

Top German Judge Says Overzealous ECHR ‘Endangers The Existence Of Western Democracies’ Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Hans-Jürgen Papier, Germany’s former chief justice and one of the country’s most senior legal scholars, has warned that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is undermining national sovereignty by creating what he called a “de facto right to immigration through the back door.” The […]

Watch: Brand-New Superyacht Sinks Minutes After Launch  Luxury motor yacht builder Medyılmaz Shipyard launched a 24-meter (or about 79-foot) superyacht named Dolce Vento, which capsized and sank just minutes into its maiden voyage earlier this week. On Tuesday, Dolce Vento was launched from the Ereğli district of Zonguldak, Turkey, according to SuperYacht Times. Within about 15 minutes, the vessel developed a “stabilization […]

Microplastics Are Linked To Heart Disease – Here’s How To Lower Your Risk Authored by Ellen Wan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tiny yet treacherous, microplastics have infiltrated our bodies, silently wreaking havoc on our health. Emerging research reveals their alarming link to weakened immune systems, increased risk of heart disease, and even early death. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock Traditional Chinese […]

France Issues Arrest Warrant For Syria’s Assad, Who’s Believed Living In “Russia’s Beverly Hills” France this week issued an arrest warrant for Syria’s ex-President Bashar al-Assad, who has been living in Russia under the protection of the Putin government, after he was overthrown on December 8 by invading Hayat Tahrir al-Sham forces under Jolani (and backed by external governments). A French court additionally issued arrest […]

EU Flag Ordered Removed From Polish President’s Office: Report Via Remix News, Polish President Karol Nawrocki ordered the European Union flag removed from his office, and now, other officials have followed his example, Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported. The source cited by Gazeta Wyborcza stated that removing the EU flag from the office was one of the first decisions after Nawrocki moved into the Presidential Palace. […]

The Rise Of A Multipolar World Order: The West Just Watched The World Shift In Tianjin Authored by Prof. Ruel F. Pepa via GlobalResearch.ca, At the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin, leaders representing over half of humanity signaled the rise of a multipolar world order. As China, Russia, India, and Central Asia push new financial and trade systems, the West risks being left on the sidelines. […]

Israel Tells Hamas: Lay Down Arms, Free All Hostages – Or Gaza City Gets Leveled Israel has once again given Hamas a tough ultimatum – release all the hostages and surrender or prepared to see Gaza City leveled – according to a new Thursday Times of Israel headline. This came after Hamas declared its willingness to release all the hostages, based on a ceasefire proposal the group said it accepted two weeks ago. Hamas has said it […]

Trump Tariffs Go From Terrifying To Indispensable To Prevent A Bond Market Crash How long does it take for conventional wisdom to make a 180 degree U-turn? In the case of anything Trump related, it’s just under 6 months. It was in early April, just after Liberation Day’s reciprocal tariffs were announced, that US bond markets suddenly cratered, sparking a collapse in hundreds of billions of basis trades, and triggered fears of a […]

DHS Terminates 2021 Temporary Protected Status For Venezuelans Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Sept. 3 that it was revoking the 2021 designation of temporary protected status for Venezuelan nationals in the United States. That status, which was previously set to expire on Sept. 10, will now be terminated 60 days after that date when the department publishes its […]

Trump Considers Leasing Parts Of Camp Pendleton To Fund Golden Dome The Pentagon is exploring the possibility of leasing sections of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California to commercial customers, and potentially using the proceeds to bankroll President Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense scheme, NBC News was first to report on Wednesday, citing a current DOD official, as well as a former one.  Positioned between Los […]

Military Pursues AI Systems To Suppress Online Dissent Abroad Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, The U.S. military wants artificial intelligence to do what human propagandists cannot: create and spread influence campaigns at internet speed while systematically suppressing opposition voices abroad, according to internal Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept. The classified wishlist reveals SOCOM’s ambition […]

What Job Numbers This Friday Will It Take For The Fed To Cut by 50bps Earlier this week, we laid out a case why the coming Sept 9 Preliminary Benchmark Announcement of labor market revisions could shock the Fed, and force a jumbo 50bps rate cut similar to last year for one simple reason: the revision could be just as big as last year, and as Powell explained, the massive 818K revision in 2024 was one of the primary reasons for the […]

‘You’ve Taken $855,000 From Pharmaceutical Companies”: Kennedy Spars With Senators During Wild Testimony Update (1520ET): Well that was actually pretty interesting. As Democrat Senators read prepared zingers to try and corner RFK Jr. over vaccines and other malarkey, Kennedy hit back with several very specific haymakers during the three-hour session – calling the Democratic lawmakers ‘liars’ – and even pointing out the […]