Inpex Warns Of Looming LNG Crunch in Asia By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com, Japan’s Inpex expects an LNG supply shortfall in the Pacific coastal region, including Asia, in 2035, as demand will nearly double from current levels, the oil and gas major said in its 2025 earnings report on Thursday.  Global LNG demand is expected to increase to about 700 million tons per year in 2035, up from the current level of around 400 […]

Two Israelis Arrested, Indicted After Using Classified Iran Info For Polymarket Bets The Israeli government has announced the arrest and indictment of an IDF military reservist and a civilian with classified clearances who placed bets regarding military operations on the popular Polymarket prediction market. A joint statement by Shin Bet and the Israeli Police, which teamed up to conduct the investigation, said bets were made […]

American Colleges Received $5.2 Billion In Foreign Funding In 2025, Education Department Reveals Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), American colleges and universities received more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and contracts last year through more than 8,300 transactions, the Department of Education said in a Feb. 11 statement. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus […]

Confirmed: US Covertly Sent Thousands Of Starlink Terminals Into Iran Amid Unrest The Trump administration has confirmed what was already long suspected -the US sent Iranian protesters thousands of Starlink terminals amid last month’s raging economic protests and unrest. The mainstream media had claimed the whole time that the demonstrations were both purely peaceful and completely spontaneous, but a Thursday Wall Street Journal […]

Half Of Gen Z Brings Parents To Job Interviews: Survey Authored by Oscar Mackey via The College Fix, 80% said their parents have communicated with their manager at least once… Over 50% of college-age job seekers had their parents sit with them at an in-person interview, a January survey by Resume Templates found.  What’s more, over 35% of surveyed individuals reported parents either writing a cover letter or performing a […]

India’s Richest Man Sees Company Shares Dip After OFAC Request On Iranian LPG Allegations Shares of Adani Enterprises Ltd fell as much as 3.5% in Mumbai earlier this week before trimming losses, after the company disclosed that a US agency has sought information over alleged imports of Iranian petroleum products. In a stock exchange filing, the flagship of the Adani Group said it received a request on Feb. 4 from the US Treasury […]

China’s Central Bank Keeps Buying Gold… And Dumping US Debt Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, China’s ferocious appetite for gold is influencing the global metals market, and that demand is what will keep driving up metal prices, according to Michael Howell, founder of CrossBorder Capital. The People’s Bank of China’s gold holdings totaled 74.19 million fine troy ounces by the end of January, up from 74.15 […]

US Forces Pull Out Of Syria’s Tanf Base, Hand Over To Jolani Regime After many years of being there, American forces have withdrawn from the Al-Tanf Garrison, a base in southern Syria near the borders of Iraq and Jordan, according to fresh reporting in AFP. US troops had long operated out of Tanf to pressure the Assad government as part of the long-running US-backed regime change project. The US primarily trained the Syrian Free […]

Victor Hanson On Our Super Bowl Satyricon Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows: mediocre music veneered over with gaudy, flashily lit, but ultimately empty and meaningless sets. As seen again this year, the usual array of supporting dancers twerk and simulate intercourse, in sync with the main singer, mindlessly […]

Dollar Detente? Kremlin Memo Explores Rejoining US-Led Financial System The Kremlin apparently has a highly ambitious proposal for finally mending relations with the United States and wooing the Trump administration to its side regarding resolution to the Ukraine war. It centers on Russia weighing a return to the dollar-based settlement system as part of a broader economic reset with the White House, according to an internal […]

We Have Now Reached “Gunperson”-Level Absurdity Authored by Jenna McCarthy via ‘Jenna’s Side Rocks’ substack, By now you’ve surely heard about Tuesday’s horrific school shooting in Tumbler Ridge—a tiny, remote Canadian town where the biggest excitement is probably a moose spotting on Nextdoor—that left nine people dead and more than two dozen injured. Monstrous would be an insult to monsters everywhere. It’s the […]

Senate Blocks DHS Bill As Shutdown Looming Intensifies Update (1555ET): The Senate has failed to pass legislation that would pass the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just one day before it’s set to run out of money. 52 senators voted for a procedural step to advance a full-year spending bill, falling 8 votes short of the 60-vote filibuster threshold. 47 senators opposed it.  Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) notably sided with […]

Federal Judge Blocks Hegseth’s Censure Of Sen. Mark Kelly Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has blocked Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s censure of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), halting a process that could lower the senator’s military rank and benefits. “This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms and threatened the […]

Zelensky Demands ‘Specific Date’ For EU Accession, Spooking Brussels President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday issued a statement demanding that the European Union lock in a “specific date” for Ukraine’s formal entry into the bloc. But this is a tall order given Ukraine remains among the world’s most corrupt countries, study after study has shown. “Ukraine will do everything to be technically ready for accession by 2027,” […]

The Numbers Don’t Lie… Yet Again Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Once again, the hard data exposes the success of President Trump’s relentless crackdown on crime, with violent offenses plunging to historic lows across major U.S. cities—proving that backing the blue and securing borders delivers real results where Democrat failures once bred anarchy. This latest triumph builds on momentum where border […]

X Money ‘External Beta’ Will Go Live In 1-2 Months, Musk Says Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, X Money, an upcoming payments system that forms part of Elon Musk’s “everything app” plans, is scheduled to come out as a “limited beta” in the next two months before launching to X users worldwide.  Musk gave the new timeline at his AI company’s “All Hands” presentation on Wednesday, during which he […]

Trump Revokes Obama-Era Greenhouse Gas Finding In “Largest Deregulatory Action” In U.S. History Update (Thursday Afternoon): President Trump told reporters that his administration has rescinded the 2009 Obama-era “Endangerment Finding,” a determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare, which he said has been used by the radical left to justify $1.3 trillion in regulatory costs that have hurt American […]

Russia To Send Oil To Cuba Amid US-Imposed Blockade Russia is preparing to rush urgently needed oil to Cuba under what officials describe as a “humanitarian” arrangement, according to a report Thursday by the pro-government newspaper Izvestia. The Russian Embassy in Havana told Izvestia that “as far as we know, Russia is expected to supply oil and petroleum products to Cuba as humanitarian aid in the near future” – amid the […]

Microsoft AI CEO Warns Most White Collar Jobs Fully Automated “Within Next 12-18 Months”; Anthropic Fears Potential For ‘Heinous Crimes’ The man leading Microsoft’s AI sprawling efforts is sounding the alarm over imminent mass labor disruptions, warning that the overwhelming majority of white-collar professional work could vanish to automation far sooner than most business and policy leaders are willing to admit – something we’ve […]

Stellar 30Y Auction Stops Through As Bid To Cover Soars, Dealers Plunge To Record Low It was the polar opposite to yesterday’s slop.  After a mediocre 3Y, and a dismal 10Y auction yesterday, moments ago the Treasury concluded the sale of the week’s final refunding auction, when it unloaded $25BN in 30Y paper to seemingly endless demand.  The auction stopped at a high yield of 4.750%, down from 4.825% in January, and the lowest […]

Supreme Court To Hear Roundup Maker’s Bid To Block Thousands Of Lawsuits In April Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court scheduled oral argument in Monsanto’s appeal seeking to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn consumers that Roundup, its popular weedkiller, could cause cancer. The court announced on Feb. 11 that it will hear Monsanto Co. v. Durnell on April 27. The […]

After 88 Years, Gallup Discontinues Historic Presidential Approval Polling The Gallup public opinion polling agency has announced that, beginning this year, it will stop publishing approval and favorability ratings for individual political figures in public office. American Greatness reports that agency announced that it will no longer chart presidential approval ratings, saying in a statement that the move “reflects an […]

Trump Warns Republicans Will ‘Suffer The Consequences’ If They Vote Against Tariffs Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Feb. 12 warned Republican lawmakers they will face consequences if they vote against his tariff agenda, after a handful of GOP lawmakers sided with Democrats to pass a measure this week. “Any Republican, in the House or the Senate, that votes against TARIFFS will seriously […]

Another Pair Of Lululemon Leggings Fails The Squat Test KeyBanc Capital Markets analysts, led by Ashley Owens, say Lululemon Athletica is back in the crosshairs on Reddit after another leggings line sparked see-through outrage on social media. The note follows last month’s “Get Low” backlash, when the brand was forced into damage-control mode after Redditors raged about similar issues. Owens said a version of Lululemon’s leggings, […]

IEA Slashes Oil Demand Growth Forecast For 2026 By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice, Global oil demand is expected to rise by 850,000 barrels per day this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday as it cut its growth estimate from 930,000 bpd expected last month.   All the 850,000 bpd growth this year is poised to come from developing economies, with China leading the additional demand, the agency said in its […]