‘Deeply Shocked’: Merz Speaks Of ‘Consequences’ After Historic CDU Defeat via Remix News, Germany’s political establishment is still absorbing the shock of Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt, where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to 43.8 percent and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz crashed to 17.2 percent. Merz called the result the CDU’s “heaviest defeat” in decades and said it […]

The Exodus Continues… Britain’s 3rd Largest Taxpayer Escapes To Greece Britain’s highest taxpayers have been drifting offshore since the non-dom regime was scrapped in April 2025 and inheritance tax was extended to worldwide assets. This shift is already visible on the Sunday Times lists: six of the 2026 Tax List’s top 100 (including Revolut’s Nik Storonsky) had left in the previous year, the compiler noted that one in nine […]

Why Won’t China Cut Ukraine Off From Drone-Related Sales? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Indefinitely perpetuating the Ukrainian Conflict through these means indefinitely delays the full implementation of the US’ planned “Pivot (back) to (East) Asia”, can lead to Russia selling its natural resource wealth to China at bargain-basement prices, and maintains China’s “active neutrality”. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty […]

Europe’s Auto Bloodbath Deepens: Jaguar Land Rover To Axe 4,000 Jobs After VW Targets 50,000 More Job Cuts Europe’s industrial base faces yet another setback, with Bloomberg reporting that Jaguar Land Rover plans to cut 4,000 jobs over the next two years. Britain’s largest carmaker is confronting intensifying Chinese competition and adding to the broadening wave of planned and ongoing layoffs across European automakers. The job […]

Greenland’s Icecap Grew This Year Authored by Paul Homewood via The Daily Sceptic, Greenland’s icecap is melting away thanks to global warming, at least that is what we are told. According to the EU’s European State of the Climate 2025 Report, the ice sheet lost 139 Gt last year. They say that is equivalent to about 1.5 times the amount of ice stored in all the glaciers in the European Alps, and raised global mean sea level by 0.4 […]

Asia Leads Global Value Rotation On Chip Woes By Abishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist A rotation from growth to value stocks is more pronounced in Asia than anywhere else globally, as doubts grow over the chip rally’s staying power. MSCI’s gauge for value stocks in Asia Pacific has risen about 6% this quarter, compared with a 2% drop in its growth counterpart, on track for its biggest outperformance […]

Prolific Recruiter Of Teenage Suicide Bombers Earns US Sanctions Relief, Days Before 9/11 Anniversary Authored by Max Blumenthal via The GrayZone As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among those he delisted was Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric who recruited child fighters and teen suicide bombers to wreak havoc across […]

Rise Of The Machines: China’s Military Prepares Humanoid Robots For Combat At the start of the year, we warned about the prospect of humanoid robots moving beyond factory floors and into military operations. China’s World Humanoid Robot Games last month showcased advances in robotic speed and mobility, while reports of Beijing’s expanding military research suggest preparations for eventual battlefield deployment are gathering pace. […]

Central Asia Is Escaping The ‘Backyard’ Label Authored by Ziaulhaq Tanin via RealClearWorld, Three decades after their independence, Central Asia is still often viewed through outdated geopolitical lenses – a region once called “Russia’s backyard” and more recently as an arena of competition among Russia, China, and the West. Yet this familiar narrative no longer captures the region’s strategic reality. Central Asian states are […]

Japan’s NEC Halts Quantum Computer Project After Decades Of Research NEC has ended its effort to develop a working quantum computer, reportedly deciding that the project would take too long to deliver an acceptable return on investment, according to a new report by Nikkei. The move represents a significant change in direction for a company that has been involved in quantum computing research for more than three decades. NEC was […]

China’s Provinces Show Evidence Of Financial Pressure And The Economy’s Imbalances Authored by Milton Ezrati via The Epoch Times, Some 28 provinces and separate jurisdictions increasingly have had to turn to Beijing for help closing budget gaps, according to China’s Ministry of Finance. People walk next to a screen with a stocks indicator in the Jing’an district in Shanghai, China, on April 7, 2025. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty […]

This Labor Day Take A Closer Look At America’s Deadliest Jobs, Ranked Labor Day is a time to recognize the contributions of American workers, but it also draws attention to the risks many face on the job. Logging was the most dangerous occupation in America in 2024, with 110.4 fatal work injuries per 100,000 full time equivalent workers, more than 33 times the national rate of 3.3, according to a new study by Moneygeek. Fishing […]

Court Rules Pentagon Can Fire Stars And Stripes Journalists Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A district court denied a motion from three Stars and Stripes journalists that sought to block the Department of War from firing them. The Pentagon in Arlington, Va., in a file photo. Carolyn Kaster/AP While plaintiffs argue that the terminations “violate their First Amendment rights to communicate as citizens on matters […]

UBS Calls Brazil Election “Extremely Close” – Bolsonaro Win Would Cement LatAm’s Political Shift Socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s polling lead over right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has eroded in recent weeks, leaving both statistically tied in UBS’ latest runoff polling average.  Arend Kapteyn, UBS’ global head of economics and strategy research, described the upcoming election in early October as […]

Chinese Oil Demand Unexpectedly Soars, Sending Shanghai Crude Above $100, With Brent Prices Set To Follow One of the reasons why the price of oil failed to soar during the “actively kinetic” phase of the Iran war, when shipments through Hormuz were effectively halted and the world faced a shortage of about 10-15mm barrels of oil per day, is that Chinese oil demand suddenly evaporated. Whether due to a sharp slowdown in the economy […]

Hunter Biden To Launch Memecoin, Will Send To TRUMP Holders Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, Hunter Biden will reportedly distribute 200 million of the LAPTOP token to his substack subscribers, members of a mailing list and investors in President Donald Trump’s memecoin. Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, announced that he plans to launch a memecoin based on the reports of his infamous laptop, […]

Unhinged Passenger Duct-Taped on Flight Is Identified, Fired From Job An American Airlines flight was forced into an emergency landing Thursday evening after an unhinged passenger was duct-taped to his seat after a racist, sexist meltdown, according to multiple reports. The raging flyer, identified as 67-year-old Arthur Layne Lundeen, allegedly hurled the N-word and anti-gay slurs at flight attendants and unloaded a series of “very […]

Canada’s Tariff Strategy Designed To Interfere With U.S. Midterm Elections Late last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from a trade deal with the United States. According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Canada was “offered the best trade deal of any country on the globe,” but Carney abandoned the deal “at the last minute.” According to the White House, “the U.S. offered Canada the most preferential […]

Hackers Withdraw 320 Million In Bitcoin From Blockstream’s Liquid Network Federation Reserves Authored by Juan Galt via BitcoinMagazine.com, The Liquid Network said Sunday that purported white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 bitcoin, worth about $320 million, from the federation wallet that backs L-BTC. Bridge nodes were disabled, and the sidechain was paused. Other issued assets, including USDT, DePix and RWAs, were unaffected, […]

Iron Ore Bottom In? Prices Reclaim $100 On “Improving Downstream Conditions” Iron ore futures in Singapore surged above $100 a ton, the highest level since mid-July, as tightening Chinese coking coal supplies lifted steelmaking costs and early signs of improving seasonal demand supported prices across the steel supply chain. Rafael Barcellos, head of Latin American metals and mining, pulp and paper equity research at Bradesco BBI, […]

Lawmakers Press DHS On Forced-Labor Import Enforcement Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to know whether enforcement is keeping pace after the Department of Homeland Security last month added 43 companies to its forced-labor Entity List – the largest single expansion since the list was created. Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, at a U.S.-backed Uyghur photo exhibit […]

Welcome To The World That Now Exists By Michael Every of Rabobank We ended last week with the Dutch thinktank acknowledgement that “The world as we knew it no longer exists.” We start this week knowing many are going to be profoundly uncomfortable with the new world that replaces it.  Not the weekend op-ed in the Financial Times asking, ‘Is Keynesianism dead?’ adding “When debt is the disease, fiscal medicine may be as […]

Six Nuclear Bills Clear House Committee Without A Single ‘No’ Vote The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced six nuclear-industry bills on September 2nd, all without a single opposing vote. The measures target fuel recycling, uranium enrichment, licensing delays, regulatory staffing and transparency. The vote to get it to the House floor is another testament to the lack of divide among the Republicans and Democrats regarding […]

DOJ Announces Deal With Mount Sinai Ending Pediatric Sex-Change Interventions Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Justice Department announced Friday an agreement with Mount Sinai Health System that ends the New York hospital network’s provision of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures to minors. Mount Sinai West in New York City on Jan. 20, 2026. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Mount […]

Iran To Draw New “Restricted Zone” In Hormuz As Saudi Aramco Facility Hit Again, Oil Climbs At a moment US officials have been boasting of more and more oil tankers making it through the Strait of Hormuz under US naval protection and support, Iran has previewed a new ‘restricted zone’ in the Gulf, which it says will be announced in the coming days. The announcement is expected to include maps of the new shipping corridor through […]