12 Years Of Data Prove China’s Belt & Road Initiative Is A Debt Trap Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times, After 12 years, Beijing’s four major defenses against the Belt and Road “debt trap” argument are dispelled. The 12th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (also called One Belt, One Road) was last month. Amid ongoing accusations that it is a debt trap, the Lowy Institute think tank reported that […]

These Are The Cars With The Best Resale Value In 2025 Cars are one of the most significant purchases people make, but unlike real estate, their value drops quickly. To help you protect your investment, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu created this ranking highlighting the 13 cars with the best resale value in America, as of 2025. This means that all of the models shown in this graphic are from the 2022 model year. The data in this […]

The Gold And Silver Boom Is Ominous Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve not seen days like these for gold and silver since the late 1970s. It is nothing short of spectacular for investors and hoarders of the tried and true metals. People who have kept the faith in the real are being rewarded. For everyone else, these are scary signs concerning what might be coming our way. For thousands of years, these two […]

US Drops To Historic Low In ‘Most Powerful Passports’ Ranking The United States has slid off the Top 10 most powerful passports for the first time since Henley & Partners started publishing their index 20 years ago. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, where the U.S. appeared in rank seven last year when it enabled citizens to enter 188 countries without major restrictions, it has now dropped to rank 12, with visa-free […]

The World Has Woken Up To China’s Supply Chain Weaponization: Navarro Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times, The world has now woken up to the consequences of China dominating global supply chains, said White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. “That’s kind of the state of play,” he said at an Oct. 17 event at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The world has fundamentally changed based on what we’ve observed, and the […]

More Americans Experienced Homelessness During Biden’s Term The number of adults experiencing homelessness is on the rise in the United States. As Statista’s Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, using data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 771,480 people were living in a state of homelessness in 2024, marking an 18 percent increase from the year before. You will find more infographics at Statista Two […]

No Kings Kicks Off Across Country As States Prepare For Violence The billionaire-funded ‘No Kings’ protests kicked off on Saturday, with what organizers claim are more than 2,600 protests across the country against “authoritarian power grabs” by the Trump administration [which are promptly halted by activist judges who overrule the ‘king’ every time]. No Kings marchers heading down 14th Street heading to the main rallying area at […]

Most Of The Population Of The World Lives In A Nation Where Christians Are Being Persecuted Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, There are about 8 billion people living in our world today, and well over half of them live in a country where Christians are being persecuted. Of course that would come as quite a shock to the vast majority of the Christians that are living in the western world, because they never […]

Engineering Desperation ‘Camus’ writes on X that in a stark analysis, journalist Whitney Webb dissects the fundamental mechanism of control being rolled out globally: the desperate need for our consent. The entire digital architecture – from government-backed CBDCs and stablecoins to the linchpin of Digital ID – is designed to fail without one crucial element: a captive user base. They cannot build the digital prison if no one […]

Nearly 7 In 10 American Adults Meet New Definition Of Obese: Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Almost 70 percent of American adults are considered obese under a revamped definition of obesity, according to a peer-reviewed study published in the JAMA Network Open and conducted by researchers affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. An overweight woman […]

Mamdani Poses With WTC-Linked Imam Whose Son Ran ‘Decomposing Child’ Terrorist Compound New York City Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani posted a picture of himself posing with a Brooklyn Imam known as being an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing whose son ran a terrorist camp for children.  In a post to X, Mamdani can be seen posing with Imam Siraj Wahhaj and City Councilmember Yusef Abdus […]

Ray Dalio Explains Why Gold & Why Now… Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio stated on Friday that gold has started replacing some U.S. Treasury holdings as the riskless asset for investors, amid a continued surge in the yellow metal’s prices. This comes after he said investors should allocate as much as 15% of their portfolios to gold even as the precious metal surged to new all-time highs this week. “Gold is a […]

Supreme Court Won’t Exempt California Schoolchild From Vaccination Mandate Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 17 rejected an advocacy group’s emergency application to allow a religious parent to opt her child out of California’s mandatory vaccination policy for schoolchildren. The court’s decision in We The Patriots USA v. Ventura Unified School District took the form of an […]

LPG Tanker Reportedly Hit By “Unknown Projectile” Off Yemen UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that a commercial vessel was struck by an “unknown projectile” approximately 210 kilometers (130 miles) east of Aden, Yemen. Security firm Ambrey identified the vessel as the liquefied natural gas tanker MV Falcon. UKMTO WARNING 036-25 UPDATE 001 – ATTACK – 18 OCT 25 Click here to view the full […]

“Can’t Wait To Spend Quality Time Together”: Trump Invades Bluesky ‘Safe Space’, Liberals Melt Down Democrats who live in the Bluesky echo chamber are losing their minds after the White House social-media team opened an account on the far-left platform. Overnight, Bluesky turned into ‘Bluecry’ as Trump memes and posts invaded what liberals thought was a ‘safe space.’ Not anymore. “What’s up, Bluesky? We thought you might’ve […]

FAFO: Federal Agents Bear Spray Obnoxious Antifa Goon In The Face Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Federal agents outside the ICE facility in Portland were not taking any BS from Antifa agitators Friday night, with officers spraying one screeching lunatic directly in the face with bear spray. The individual was seen on camera earlier yelling at agents stationed on the roof to jump off and kill themselves. She then […]

Salesforce CEO Apologizes For Pro-Trump Comments Amid Democratic Party Machine’s Outrage Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has spent years bankrolling left-wing Democrats – from Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden to progressive ballot measures across California. And look at California now. Things have deteriorated so badly that even Benioff, once the poster child of Bay Area liberalism, told The New York Times one week ago he would welcome […]

The Ghost Of Mt. Gox Will Stop Haunting Bitcoin This Halloween Authored by Yohan Yun via CoinTelegraph.com, Mt. Gox, the defunct Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, still holds around 34,689 Bitcoin ahead of its Oct. 31 repayment deadline. The exchange lost around 650,000 BTC in thefts that went undetected from 2011 until its 2014 collapse, while about 200,000 BTC was later found in an old-format wallet. Those coins became the […]

“Fueled By Billionaires”: No Kings Prepares Color-Revolution-Style Mobilization Against Trump The Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, is reportedly preparing to activate a coordinated, color-revolution-style mobilization across the U.S. this weekend – a replay of failed agitation attempts seen earlier this year targeting President Trump and Elon Musk. The operation, marketed under […]

Jack Smith Referred To DOJ For Misconduct Investigation And Possible Disbarment Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Former special counsel Jack Smith was criminally referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 16 by multiple Republican lawmakers for alleged misconduct and possible disbarment. A group of GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking […]

China Expels 9 Top Generals, Including Two From Communist Party Leadership, In Sweeping Purge In another major purge likely based on loyalty, China’s President Xi Jinping has embarked on another significant series of top level military firings, with the Communist Party having expelled nine senior generals in one of the most sweeping such moves in decades. A Defense Ministry statement indicated the nine officers are under […]

How America’s Paper-Money System & The Federal Reserve Plunder American Taxpayers Authored by Jacob G. Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, Given that the Federal Reserve has obviously abandoned its 2 percent target for the rise in prices brought on by its own paper-money inflationary policy, it’s important that we keep in mind how our nation’s paper money-system and the Fed’s inflationary policy plunder and […]

The US Has Given Ukraine The Most Aid To Date Following Zelensky’s trip cap-in-hand to Washington this week, we note that (to date) the United States has been the biggest supporter of Ukraine in terms of aid, according to data from the Ukraine Support Tracker compiled by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel). EU institutions (including the European Commission and the Council), followed by Germany and the United […]

When The Curve Speaks: What The (UK) Bond Market Is Telling Us Authored by Ben Lord via BondVigilantes.com, In 2020, the bond market awoke from a decade-long slumber and moved long-dated bonds higher, in what we call a curve steepening, even whilst short-end rates were (possibly) at paradigm lows. It was easy to look at this steepening move as being driven by the quite justified cutting of interest rates in response to the global […]

Poland Lets Ukrainian Wanted By Germany In Nord Stream Blasts Walk Free: ‘A Just Act’ A Polish court has simply let a Ukrainian citizen suspected by Germany of sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022 walk free. The Polish judge ruling in the case not only decided to ignore the European arrest warrant issued by German authorities last month, but went so far as to say that if the man did have a part in the […]