NY MTA, LIRR Unions Reach ‘Fair Deal’ To End Strike After Commuter Chaos Grips NYC New York’s MTA reached a tentative labor deal with five Long Island Rail Road unions, ending the first LIRR strike in more than 30 years. Roughly 3,500 workers walked off the job Saturday, sparking commuter chaos for several hundred thousand people who heavily rely on the train service. “Tonight, the @MTA reached a fair deal with the five LIRR […]

International Energy Agency Is Wrong To Forecast Coal’s Demise Authored by Tom Harris via The Epoch Times, Activists would have us believe that coal is a dying energy source. But, thankfully for American coal states such as West Virginia and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia—all of which use millions of tonnes of coal every year to generate electricity—that is not even remotely true. However, the world […]

“Answering The Call”: Ford Motor Eyes WWII-Style Production Push For Trump’s War Economy One month after we reported that the Trump administration was in talks with U.S. manufacturers about converting idle civilian industrial capacity into weapons production, as conflicts across Eurasia deplete critical weapons stockpiles, Ford Motor signaled Monday morning that it is prepared to support a Western defense-industrial mobilization. […]

“The Political Shift Is Inevitable”: AfD Leader Weidel Heralds New Polling High For Party Via Remix News, The latest Insa Sunday poll has given the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party a new record high for voter support. At 29 percent, up 1 point, the AfD has an even greater lead over the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), which fell 1 point to 22 percent. A YouGov poll just last week showed AfD at 28 percent and […]

UBS Reactivates Supply-Chain Stress Watch After Detecting Alarmingly Rapid Deterioration One week after Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc warned CNBC of a “new wake-up call” for global trade amid the ongoing disruption of the Strait of Hormuz and a deepening energy crisis that could intensify further in June, UBS analysts are out with a new note telling clients they have “reactivated” their Global Supply Chain Stress Index in response to […]

Pakistan Deploys Thousands Of Troops, Jet Fighter Squadron To Saudi Arabia Via The Cradle Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a ​squadron of fighter jets, and an air defense system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defense pact, Reuters reported on Monday, citing security and government officials. The officials described the Pakistani deployment as a “substantial, combat-capable force intended to support Saudi Arabia’s military […]

Belarus Rattles Europe With Drills Involving Russian Tactical Nukes The Belarusian Defense Ministry announced Monday that its specialized military units have kicked off surprise combat drills specifically focused on the deployment and use of tactical nuclear weapons, which is a sign of yet more atomic saber-rattling on Europe’s eastern flank. According to the official statement blasted out across Telegram on Monday: “Today, in the […]

“Closely Monitoring The Situation”: Germany Fears Next Migration Wave After Spanish PM Welcomes Hundreds Of thousands Of Illegals Via Remix News, With Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez legalizing what could amount to as many as 1.6 million migrants, other EU member states are getting worried, and not just neighboring France. While the Socialist prime minister’s announcement originally aimed to naturalize some 500,000 […]

Escobar On Xi’s “Constructive Strategic Stability” Authored by Pepe Escobar, If all of us are magnanimous enough, we might infer that Xi and Trump agreed on a three-year stability framework. The headline on the front page of China Daily this past Thursday was a thunder and lightning “Red-carpet welcome for Trump in Beijing”. Well, complete with electric jumpin’ children waving flowers and a visit to the Temple of Heaven, […]

Software CEO Convicted In Massive $1 Billion Medicare Fraud Scheme Targeting Seniors In a verdict hailed by federal officials as a major blow against one of the most egregious health care fraud operations in Florida history, a jury in the Southern District of Florida convicted Brett Blackman, 42, of Johnson County, Kansas, on multiple conspiracy charges related to a sprawling scheme that bilked Medicare and other federal programs […]

The Politicization Of Everything Authored by David Solway via The Epoch Times, There was a time when politics occupied only a compartment of life. A citizen might vote, follow public affairs, argue over taxes or foreign policy and then return to the ordinary business of living: work, worship, family, literature, music, sport, conviviality. This older balance has been upended. Politics no longer confines itself to government […]

Japanese Bonds Crater After PM Takaichi Prepares To Issue Much More Debt To Pay For Gasoline Subsidies While it may seem like every government these days – not just Emerging but certainly all Developing countries too – has become a banana republic in light of the increasingly more idiotic fiscal and monetary policies adopted to kick the can at least until the next election, nobody is quite as cartoonish as Japan, the place where […]

UAE Paid New York Firm Millions To Bury Article On Ambassador’s Links To Sex Traffickers: Report Via The Cradle The UAE paid New York-based reputation management firm Terakeet more than $6 million to bury a 2017 report revealing that the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, had ties to sex workers and traffickers, according to a New York Times (NYT) report published on Sunday. The campaign was designed to push […]

Hundreds Of Subpoenas Are Targeting The Russian Collusion Hoax According to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Justice Department is hunting the architects of the Russia hoax, and they’re leaving no stone unturned. Blanche sat down with Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss what he says is a sweeping criminal investigation into the origins of one of the most destructive political operations in history.  The […]

Trump Demands DOJ Probe Of Maryland’s 500,000 “Illegal” Mail-In Ballots Submitted by Maryland Freedom Caucus, President Donald Trump is demanding immediate action from the Department of Justice over Maryland’s exploding mail-in ballot scandal, and he’s not mincing words. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump slammed the fiasco:  “In Maryland, they sent out 500,000 Illegal Mail In Ballots, and they got caught! So now, they’re […]

Wayfair CFO’s Muted Home-Goods Demand Outlook Offers More Bad News For Realtors Wayfair CFO Kate Gulliver appeared at JPMorgan’s conference Monday morning in a discussion with the bank’s retail analyst, Christopher Horvers. What caught our attention in the 35-minute conversation, which ranged from the online home-goods retailer’s financial position to broader consumer trends, was Gulliver’s outlook on home goods and housing […]

Combined NextEra-Dominion Would Have 130-GW Large-Load Pipeline By Robert Walton of UtilityDive Summary NextEra Energy plans to acquire Dominion Energy in an all-stock transaction announced Monday, potentially creating the largest regulated electric utility in the world — with 10 million customers in four states — if the deal passes muster with three state and two federal regulatory commissions. The companies have […]

Almost All Non-Iran Tankers That Entered The Persian Gulf During The War, Have Successfully Exited With A Cargo Despite a near-halt in daily Hormuz traffic, Bloomberg reports that almost all large non-Iranian tankers that have entered the Persian Gulf during the war appear to have successfully exited with a cargo, underscoring the emergence of a small group of shipowners willing to risk crossing the Strait of Hormuz. At least 19 […]

The Great American Squeeze Of 2026 Authored by MN Gordon via Economic Prism, Does your American dream feel like it’s being put through a hydraulic press? If so, you’re not alone. Between rising rent and gas prices, escalating grocery bills, and sky-high health insurance premiums, Americans are feeling a relentless squeeze from all directions. That’s the painful reality. Recent economic numbers point to a weary consumer. […]

Lawfare? Royal Caribbean Sinks After Mexican President Orders Review Of Resort Project Shares of Royal Caribbean Group slid to session lows around midday after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her environment minister would review the cruise operator’s proposed water park project in Quintana Roo, injecting new regulatory risk into the company’s expansion plans. President Sheinbaum was speaking at a regular press conference […]

Be Very Afraid: The Hantavirus And Suicide Dolphins Authored by Donald Jefferies vis substack, Bend over and keep smiling Our incomparably bad leaders appear ready to foist another “pandemic” on the always unwary public. They proved in 2020 that the entire world could be shut down in a matter of days. With no troops or police needed. Just a corrupt, kept press, and compromised political “representatives.” They know that […]

McDonald’s Worker Axed After Viral Video Shows Her Shoving Fries In Mouth Then Back In Box A Massachusetts McDonald’s worker was axed from her job after a revolting video captured her putting French fries into her mouth and then placing them back into a box, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports. “So you want French fries today, right?” the worker appears to ask a customer while looking into the camera as she puts the […]

We’ve Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial, And… Rage Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What happens when optimization is itself the point of failure? In today’s zeitgeist, everything must be optimized or we’ll fail: our time, productivity, fitness, diet, supplements, career, income, wealth–everything must be constantly optimized lest we fall behind or fail. The grand irony is optimization generates […]

BofA’s Blanch Joins Goldman In Calling For $90 Brent This Year Amid “Pretty Large Deficit” Fears Add Bank of America’s commodities and derivatives research chief to the growing list of Wall Street strategists who see Brent crude sticking around $90 a barrel this year, as any near-term resolution to the Hormuz chokepoint crisis appears increasingly distant. The call follows Goldman’s move several weeks ago to raise its year-end oil […]

Five Dead After San Diego Mosque Shooting Updated: San Diego police responded Monday to reports of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego in the Clairemont area, where authorities say the threat was quickly neutralized but at least three people were killed five adults are reported dead, including the two suspected gunmen, reportedly 17 and 19 year old males – who appear to have died from self-inflicted gunshot […]