Fournier piles affair allegations, Chinese spy claims and Nvidia money into a Trump scandal. But where’s the evidence connecting them?

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Fournier is doing a lot of insinuating here. He starts with the alleged affair and the communist spy angle, uses anonymous accounts of private conversations to paint Trump as indifferent to national security, then drops Nvidia’s $26 million in contributions right next to the investigation into chip exports to China. What exactly is the connection? … Read more

Bessent tells Iranian leadership to “F the Iranian leadership,” says WSJ exposed his home and death threats forced him to move to a military base

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he was forced to leave his Georgetown home and relocate to a military base after receiving death threats linked to Iran. In a CNBC interview, he said he would not be intimidated by the Iranian leadership, using some choice language to make his point. Bessent also accused The Wall Street … Read more

Europe admits it is falling behind in AI, €500 billion needed to compete with US and China

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EU leaders held their first dedicated AI discussion in Dublin, with Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton joining the meeting. One figure stood out: only 20% of European digital services run on European infrastructure. Mensch says €260 billion a year is going to foreign providers instead of companies and infrastructure Europe controls. … Read more

Inflation is getting harder to contain. US wholesale prices rise at fastest annual pace in four years, Fed rate hikes back in focus

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Wholesale prices rose 6.5% over the past year, the biggest annual increase since November 2022. October’s monthly increase slowed to 0.3%, but the pressure is spreading. Food prices jumped 1.3%, core goods rose 0.5%, and transportation and warehousing costs climbed 2%. Diesel is still up 115% from a year ago. Markets are now weighing another … Read more

Washington Has Two Plans to Fight Inflation (Both Are Terrible)

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via Peter Reagan Earlier this week, Brandon Smith asked whether Americans would actually get the lower prices they voted for. Today, I’d like to ask the next question: What would it actually take for Washington to deliver meaningful relief from inflation? It’s a deceptively simple question. President Trump has emphasized economic growth, deregulation and increasing … Read more

Housing market alarm: “Can’t sell my house” searches break 2008 record, home sales hit lowest level since 2010

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People are searching Google for “how to sell my house” at levels reportedly higher than during the 2008 crash. The latest housing numbers aren’t reassuring. Existing-home sales fell 5.5% in October, down 8.8% from a year ago. Just 3.75 million homes sold at an annual rate, the lowest since 2010. Excellent video on the dire … Read more

Western bonds are starting to trade like risk assets. The Fed’s Goolsbee seems panicked about inflation.

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While Western bond yields are surging, China's are plunging. China can now borrow at ~50-60% lower interest rates than Western countries. Chinese bonds now trade like Western bonds used to… as safe-haven assets. Western bonds are starting to trade like risk assets. pic.twitter.com/AX1jfT6oWh — Lukas Ekwueme (@ekwufinance) November 13, 2026 The Fed’s Goolsbee seems panicked … Read more

Honduras joins the Bukele prison movement, plans 5,000-inmate mega-prison modeled on Costa Rica’s copy of El Salvador’s CECOT

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construction potentially starting in January. The price tag is estimated at $35–40 million. He’s looking to Costa Rica, which recently opened its own mega-prison modeled on El Salvador’s CECOT. And it’s not just the prison walls. Honduras has also adopted tougher rules for inmates, including tighter isolation of suspected gang members and restrictions on outdoor … Read more

El Salvador deploys ARMED ROBOT DOGS in a Haiti stadium driving out GANG members from every HIDING SPOT

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El Salvador deploys ARMED ROBOT DOGS in a Haiti stadium driving out GANG members from every HIDING SPOT pic.twitter.com/UcuRDMwAhZ — RT (@RT_com) November 13, 2026 El Salvador’s military has brought rifle-equipped four-legged robots into its security operation in Port-au-Prince. The machines appeared in footage released by President Nayib Bukele after Haitian and Salvadoran forces retook … Read more

RFK JR: “People who take the flu shot are 4.4x more likely to get a non-flu upper respiratory infection

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RFK JR: “People who take the flu shot are protected against that strain of flu, but they’re 4.4x more likely to get a non-flu infection … It injures your immune system so that you’re more likely to get a non-flu viral upper respiratory infection” pic.twitter.com/iF3VK1r1Nu — MAGA Storm 47 (@MAGAStorm47) November 12, 2026

Quite the article. He is concerned about the 6 million+ Americans in California who did not vote Democrats.

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At some level, I think they don’t entirely believe their own propaganda. They understand that statewide population percentages don’t tell the whole story. What matters is where people are concentrated geographically. You can have a state that’s overwhelmingly blue on paper but still has millions of people who think very differently. I suspect that reality … Read more

International Youth Strike set for November 20 across 25+ countries, with student walkouts planned at 200+ UK schools and colleges

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EVERYONE SHARE!!!!! The public need to know about this. The public needs to be aware of the planned International Youth Strike taking place across towns and cities throughout the UK on Friday 20 November. The organisers’ published information identifies numerous gathering… pic.twitter.com/GjAyMUdhOx — The English Crusader (@andrewc44104127) November 10, 2026 Students and youth organisations in … Read more

FAA grounds flights nationwide, NWS reports communications failures, and Washington seeks $30.1 billion more for aviation upgrades, all in one day.

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The FAA grounded flights across the country Friday after communications failed at air traffic control centers. More than 4,000 planes were already in the air. On the same day, the National Weather Service reported its own nationwide internet and communications problems. Officials say there is no evidence the outages were connected. Then there’s the money. … Read more

Putin wants Ukraine deal with Trump and Xi. Europe fears being cut out, Zelenskyy refuses to surrender territory.

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Trump is planning to meet Putin and Xi in Shenzhen next week, and Ukraine is worried about being left out of the room. Zelenskyy doesn’t want three powerful countries deciding what happens to Ukrainian territory without Ukraine at the table. European leaders are making the same point: no deal should redraw Ukraine’s borders or decide … Read more

Friday’s FAA shutdown could wreck the entire weekend travel schedule. Airlines warn stranded planes and crews may leave Saturday and Sunday flights in chaos.

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The ground stop may be over, but getting the system back to normal is another problem. Aircraft and crews are scattered across the country, passengers are waiting to be rebooked, and airlines may not have the right planes in the right cities for Saturday’s departures. Travel experts warn the disruption could continue into Sunday or … Read more

Nvidia CEO resigns, Microsoft goes down, FAA grounds every departing flight in America. Now everyone’s looking at November 17 blackout.

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Three incidents in about 48 hours. Jensen Huang’s reported departure from Nvidia. Microsoft’s outage affecting Outlook, Teams and other services, with Downdetector recording roughly 130,000 Outlook complaints. Then the FAA’s nationwide ground stop after communications failed across air traffic control centers. DHS says there’s no evidence of an attack. Now people are connecting the dots … Read more

DHS rules out signs of an attack after FAA shutdown. 12,000+ flight disruptions spread overseas and threaten college football schedules.

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By Friday evening, more than 2,000 flights were canceled and over 10,000 delayed. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was no indication of an attack. He called it a telecommunications outage and said, “This isn’t another 9/11.” But the government still hasn’t explained what failed. The fallout isn’t staying at US airports. Some European departures … Read more