Somali Fallout: US Treasury Will Pay Snitches Up To 30% On Fraud, Money Laundering Prosecutions On the heels of all that Somali fraud in Minnesota, the US Treasury Department on Friday launched a new portal where people can report suspected fraud, money laundering and sanctions violations.  Snitchin’ Bubbles from The Wire According to officials, tips should be submitted with supporting documents. “FinCEN’s Office of the […]

Brazil Proposes National Bitcoin Reserve, Targets 1 Million BTC Over Five Years Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Brazilian lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to create a national Strategic Sovereign Bitcoin Reserve, known as RESBit, proposing the gradual acquisition of one million bitcoins over five years.  The bill, presented by Federal Deputy Luiz Gastão (PSD/CE), outlines a comprehensive framework to […]

Trump Plans Venezuela Trip, First U.S. President Visit Since Bill Clinton President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House on Friday afternoon that he plans to visit Venezuela, but offered no details or timeline. If it happens, it would be a historic trip, coming as Venezuelan oil flows accelerate under tighter U.S. oversight. “I’m going to make a visit to Venezuela… We haven’t decided [when],” Trump told reporters, […]

Leftist Vandals Again Hit Chicago Mural Of Murdered Ukrainian Iryna Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Chicago mural honoring Iryna Zarutska, the innocent Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death in cold blood on a Charlotte light rail train, has been vandalized again—just two weeks after its unveiling. This latest defacement underscores how deranged leftists will go to any lengths to suppress reminders of the deadly […]

The Bigger Problem That The Tim Walz NGO Scandal Has Exposed Authored by Edward Woodson via American Greatness, The Minnesota nonprofit fraud scandal, now expected to cost taxpayers more than $9 billion, is being dismissed by many as an isolated failure. However, this is far from the case, and writing it off as such would be a colossal mistake. What it actually revealed is a broader problem in the Swamp—that institutions […]

Two Philadelphia Men Admit To AI-Assisted $3.5M Housing Aid Scam In Minnesota This will be the first of many AI scams of its kind, we predict… Two men from Pennsylvania admitted to repeatedly flying from Philadelphia to Minneapolis to exploit Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services (HSS) program, stealing about $3.5 million, according to prosecutors. Authorities say they used artificial intelligence to forge records and […]

Financial Nihilism & The Trap Young Investors Are Walking Into Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The article from the Wall Street Journal titled “Why My Generation Is Turning to Financial Nihilism” by Kyla Scanlon argues that Gen Z is embracing high-risk financial behavior out of despair and detachment. Of course, it is essential to recognize that Kyla, although well-intentioned, is a young […]

EU Weighs Deploying Training Sites In Ukraine As Kremlin Warns: ‘Legitimate Targets’ The European Union is weighing plans to set up two military bases inside Ukraine to train fresh troops – a move Moscow has already warned could make them targets of military strikes. “We have been discussing the training of the Ukrainian soldiers, also on the soil of Ukraine,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Wednesday. “We have identified […]

Judge Halts Trump Admin’s $600 Million Public Health Funding Cut Targeting 4 Blue States Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from cutting more than $600 million in public health grants to four Democratic-led states, siding with the states’ argument that the cuts appeared politically motivated. U.S. District Judge Manish Shah issued a 14-day […]

Putin Is Trolling European Leaders With His Proposal To Re-Converge With The US By Bas van Geffen, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank Russian officials have drafted a memo that pitches a re-convergence of US and Russian interests. The proposal consists of seven points, including cooperation on critical raw materials and energy, and the possibility that Russia could return to the US dollar settlement system. The memo was […]

Pentagon Confirms 1st Troop Death In Drug Boat Targeting Operation Southern Spear In the first publicly disclosed military death related to America’s ongoing ‘Southern Spear’ operation to disrupt the Caribbean and Latin American drug smuggling network, a Marine with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit died after falling overboard USS Iwo Jima, the Marine Corps has confirmed.. Lance Cpl. Chukwuemeka Oforah, 21, of Florida, fell […]

Watch: Sen. Johnson Unloads On MN AG Ellison Over Anti-ICE Agitator Deaths Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Viral footage from a Senate hearing captures Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson tearing into Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison for allegedly exploiting and encouraging anti-ICE agitators whose actions led to deadly clashes with federal agents. This raw exchange highlights the escalating tensions over leftist […]

Alibaba Stock Nosedives, Then Rebounds, After Pentagon Designates Company As “Military Linked”, Before Inexplicably Deleting The Trump administration on Friday added some of China’s biggest companies, including Alibaba and Baidu, ‌to a list of firms allegedly aiding China’s military – however, strangely the listing was pulled within mere minutes with no explanation initially issued. A Bloomberg newswire Friday morning indicated: […]

US Core CPI Tumbles To Slowest In 4 Years; Real Wage Growth Surges Rate-cut expectations have surged (dovishly) higher this week (along with tumbling Treasury yields) amid a mixed macro picture (Labor market ‘good’, Retail sales bad, Housing ugly). Today could change all that as CPI for January prints with risk skewed to the upside. January brings annual resets and they tend to surprise on the high side. Despite the ‘hot’ whisper […]

NATO Allies Pledge More Than A Billion To Supply Ukraine With US-Made Weapons Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, NATO member nations on Feb. 12 announced new financial support to purchase U.S. military hardware for Ukraine, reaffirming their commitment to ending the war this year. “We want to make 2026 the year this war ends—the year we secure peace,” UK Secretary of Defense John Healey said after a meeting of […]

DP World Boss Resigns As “Epstein Disruption” Spreads Across Corporate World The “Epstein Disruption” continued to rock corporate America and the world overnight. First, Kathryn Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs’ chief legal officer and general counsel, announced her resignation Thursday night amid scrutiny over ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Ruemmler told the Financial Times that she will exit Goldman on June 30, and said, “I made the […]

Watch: Unhinged Woman Tries To Burn Down Rumored ICE Building The dramatic rise in left-wing chaos has been remarkable over the past year. From radical left militant groups firebombing Tesla showrooms, to the protest-industrial complex funded by activist nonprofits unleashing chaos on city streets, to the rise of militant transtifa – even the deep-state publication The Atlantic had to acknowledge the “rise of left-wing terrorism.” […]

Trial Date Set For Trump’s $10 Billion BBC Lawsuit Over Fake News Editing Scandal Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, A trial date has been locked in for President Trump’s massive $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, following the broadcaster’s deceptive editing of his January 6, 2021 speech to falsely portray him as inciting violence at the Capitol. District Judge Roy Altman rejected the BBC’s motion […]

2nd US Aircraft Carrier Rerouted From Caribbean To Mideast As Iran In Crosshairs Soon on the heels of Netanyahu’s meeting with President Trump at the White House this week, the US has quietly ordered its USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, to depart the Caribbean Sea and head to the Middle East, at a moment the White House is weighing possible military action against Iran, NY Times and others are reporting. […]

Futures Fall On Friday The 13th As CPI Looms US equity futures are lower in a scary start this Friday the 13th, having given up modest overnight gains, as Investors – already on high alert for any further signs of the “AI scare trade” – braced for Friday’s inflation reading and any clues it holds on what happens next for interest rates.  As of 8:00am ET, S&P and Nasdaq futures are down by 0.2%, having flipped between gains […]

Aluminum Futs Slide As Trump Weighs Metal Tariff Rollback In Affordability Push Aluminum futures in London slipped on Friday after a Financial Times report stated that the Trump administration is considering a partial rollback of steel and aluminum tariffs as it battles an affordability crisis (left over from the Biden-Harris regime years) ahead of November’s midterm elections. The FT cited three people familiar with internal […]

Bitcoin Advances Toward Quantum Resistance With Proposed Update Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, BIP 360, a proposal aimed at preparing Bitcoin for future computing threats, has been updated and merged into the official Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) GitHub repository, marking a new step in efforts to strengthen the network against emerging cryptographic and quantum computing risks.  The proposal […]

Goldman Sacks Ruemmler As Epstein Scandal Claims Obama’s Former Lawyer What do Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Susan Rice, Jeffrey Epstein, the Rothschilds, and Goldman Sachs all have in common? Kathy Ruemmler… Goldman’s (soon to be former) top lawyer, after a batch of documents released by Congress and the DOJ revealed she was thick as thieves with Epstein. Ruemmler rose to the top ranks of Wall Street, becoming a key advisor […]

Warsh Likes It Hot, And Will Move The Fed’s Inflation Target To 2.5-3.5% By Dhaval Joshi of BCA Research Executive Summary: The Fed will run the US economy hot – because, with labour demand and supply now in balance, both demand and supply must expand to keep output expanding. Short-term US real rates will come down further because the Fed will continue to cut even with inflation in the 2.5-3.5 percent range. The US […]

Mercedes Warns Of Fresh Margin Squeeze As China Struggles Persist Mercedes-Benz warned that profitability in its car division could come under renewed strain this year, underscoring a difficult outlook as the luxury group contends with elevated costs, weak demand in China and global trade tariffs, according to Reuters. Shares fell as much as 5.7% after the announcement and were down 3.1% by mid-morning trade on Thursday. […]