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1997–2025: When The West Is Distracted, China Advances
ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 11:25pm EDT1997–2025: When The West Is Distracted, China Advances Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, For nearly three decades, the Western world has hardly had a calm time—terrorist attacks, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, financial meltdowns, pandemics, and deepening political fractures. Each has seized the headlines, drained treasuries, and monopolized the attention […]
Japan Pushes Back On US Pressure To Halt Russian Energy Imports
ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 6:25pm EDTJapan Pushes Back On US Pressure To Halt Russian Energy Imports By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com, Japan will base any decisions about energy imports on its national interests, the country’s trade minister Yoji Muto has said, following suggestions from the Trump administration that Japan suspends all purchases of Russian oil and gas. “Since the invasion […]
John Brennan Hit With Criminal Referral Over Steele Dossier Lies
ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 3:00pm EDTJohn Brennan Hit With Criminal Referral Over Steele Dossier Lies House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday referred former CIA director John Brennan to the Justice Department for prosecution, alleging that Brennan made false statements to Congress about how the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian election interference handled material from the so-called Steele dossier. […]
Trump To Buy Tiny 1 Million Barrels For SPR As China Unleashes Record Oil Stockpiling Spree
ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 1:11pm EDTTrump To Buy Tiny 1 Million Barrels For SPR As China Unleashes Record Oil Stockpiling Spree Badly beating down oil jumped, if only briefly, on a Bloomberg report that the Trump administration plans to buy 1 million barrels for the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, taking advantage of low oil prices to begin filing the depleted […]
Alaska’s $44 Billion LNG Project Nears Key Milestone As Pipeline Study Wraps Up
ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 11:45am EDTAlaska’s $44 Billion LNG Project Nears Key Milestone As Pipeline Study Wraps Up By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The proponents of the $44-billion Alaska LNG are expected to complete by the end of the year the crucial engineering and cost study for an 800-mile-long pipeline set to service the export project, U.S. Secretary of the […]
Eos Energy Shares Surge After Announcing New $75 Million Facility In Pennsylvania
ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 9:40am EDTEos Energy Shares Surge After Announcing New $75 Million Facility In Pennsylvania Shares of Eos Energy Enterprises surged more than 20% this morning (before pulling back into the cash equity open) after the company announced a $75 million battery manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania to supply Talen Energy Corp. and help meet the state’s fast-growing data […]
Rare Earths Stocks Soar After Mega US-Australia Minerals Deal To Slash Dependence On China
ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 7:20am EDTRare Earths Stocks Soar After Mega US-Australia Minerals Deal To Slash Dependence On China President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a minerals deal on Monday at the White House to expand America’s rare earth supply and diversify away from China’s dominance in critical minerals used in EVs, semiconductors, and defense weapons. Beijing’s weaponization of […]
64% Of Rwanda Politicians Are Women; Just 4% In Nigeria
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EU Energy Ministers Want To Finish Ditching Russian Gas In Two Years
ZeroHedge - Oct 21st 2025 4:15am EDTEU Energy Ministers Want To Finish Ditching Russian Gas In Two Years European Union energy ministers think they’ll be able to phase out the import of Russian gas by 2028, and have backed a proposal that would begin the process by phasing out the contracts themselves for both pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) by Jan. 1, […]
Who’s Most Affected By Federal Cuts To DEI And EBT
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 9:20pm EDTWho’s Most Affected By Federal Cuts To DEI And EBT The inherent threat of socialist programs rests in the fact that they can be used by a political party or a politician as a means to bribe voters from certain demographics to support destructive policies in exchange for handouts. The Democratic Party understood this well […]
New Generation Of Industries Emerges In Texas As Rare Earths Race Ignites
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 8:05pm EDTNew Generation Of Industries Emerges In Texas As Rare Earths Race Ignites Authored by Dylan Baddour via Inside Climate News (emphasis ours), Major oil companies are drilling in East Texas again, but not for oil. This time, they’re after lithium for batteries and other rare elements. Chevron and Halliburton announced East Texas projects this summer. Exxon has acreage across […]
Gigantic Muslim ‘Planned Community’ Meets Resistance From Texas AG
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 5:40pm EDTGigantic Muslim ‘Planned Community’ Meets Resistance From Texas AG Authored by Wendi Strauch Mahoney via AmericanThinker.com, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has asked the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) to review what he says is evidence that entities tied to the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC)’s EPIC City project violated state and federal securities laws — and to refer […]
Trump Blasts Colombian President As ‘Lunatic, Drug Leader’ While Vowing New Tariffs
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 3:45pm EDTTrump Blasts Colombian President As ‘Lunatic, Drug Leader’ While Vowing New Tariffs President Trump has put Colombia on notice, and will hit the South American nation with new tariffs. He has further charged President Gustavo Petro with being an “illegal drug leader,“ saying the US will also halt all aid to the country. Trump asserted […]
Sustaining The Unsustainable
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 1:20pm EDTSustaining The Unsustainable By Rabobank The Dow Jones, NASDAQ and S&P500 closed around half a percentage point higher on Friday following comments by Donald Trump to Fox News that elevated tariffs on China are not “sustainable”. Markets seem to be interpreting this line as the latest incidence of TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) and bidding […]
Speculative Bull Runs And The Value Of A Bearish Tilt
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 12:10pm EDTSpeculative Bull Runs And The Value Of A Bearish Tilt Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The recent market crack certainly woke up the more complacent bullish investors. Of course, the complacency was warranted, given the recent market surge, conversations about “TINA” (There Is No Alternative), and how “this time is different.” But that is what a speculative bull run looks […]
Was The CIA Misleading Witkoff & Kushner On Key Intel About Hamas During Critical Phase Of Peace-Talks
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 10:20am EDTWas The CIA Misleading Witkoff & Kushner On Key Intel About Hamas During Critical Phase Of Peace-Talks Authored by ‘sundance’ via The Last Refuge, A fascinating hour-long interview with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as they outline the backstory to the Israel-Hamas peace agreement in Gaza. During a segment (prompted below) Witkoff and Kushner are […]
Futures Rise As Trade, Credit Fears Fade Ahead Of Earnings Deluge
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 8:43am EDTFutures Rise As Trade, Credit Fears Fade Ahead Of Earnings Deluge US equity futures are higher led by small caps, with sentiment TACOed for a second consecutive weekend thanks to Trump’s comments that the US will “be fine” with China ahead of trade talks between the two sides. It’s going to be a busy week […]
EU Capital Markets Union: Germany’s Merz Calls For A “Wall Street” For Europe
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 5:20am EDTEU Capital Markets Union: Germany’s Merz Calls For A “Wall Street” For Europe Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In the German Bundestag, Friedrich Merz appealed to the EU to integrate the fragmented European capital market more deeply and reduce bureaucratic hurdles. His vision for the next step: a kind of Wall Street for Europe. German Chancellor Friedrich […]
The Rise & Rise Of AfD: Exploring The Unprecedented Political Dumbassery Afoot In The Federal Republic
ZeroHedge - Oct 20th 2025 3:30am EDTThe Rise & Rise Of AfD: Exploring The Unprecedented Political Dumbassery Afoot In The Federal Republic Authored by ‘eugyppius’ via A Plague Chronicle, The firewall is making AfD the strongest party in Germany, artificially empowering the left and destroying the centre-right, who alone can lift it There’s a subtle, little-discussed but very bizarre political phenomenon […]
Has Xi Jinping Lost Control Of China’s Military… And China Itself?
ZeroHedge - Oct 19th 2025 11:55pm EDTHas Xi Jinping Lost Control Of China’s Military… And China Itself? Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, On October 17, China’s Ministry of National Defense announced that the Communist Party’s Central Committee and Central Military Commission had, after investigations, removed nine senior officers from their posts in the People’s Liberation Army. Pictured: General He attends […]
Disputed Thai-Cambodian Border Still Tense Despite Ceasefire
ZeroHedge - Oct 19th 2025 10:45pm EDTDisputed Thai-Cambodian Border Still Tense Despite Ceasefire Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia stopped after five days of clashes in July that left dozens dead, according to Nikkei Asia. ASEAN hopes to formalize a broader ceasefire at its Oct. 26 summit in Kuala Lumpur, to be witnessed by U.S. President Donald Trump. But tensions along the […]
Slow Drift To New Norms
ZeroHedge - Oct 19th 2025 9:00pm EDTSlow Drift To New Norms Authored by Todd Hayen via Off-Guardian.org, The agenda moves so slowly that everything they are bucking for will eventually be fact, but no one will think it the least bit odd. It’s like a foxtail slowly digging its way under an unsuspecting dog’s skin, causing serious infection, with the poor […]
Forget The “Great Wealth Transfer”… This Is Much Worse
ZeroHedge - Oct 19th 2025 6:40pm EDTForget The “Great Wealth Transfer”… This Is Much Worse Authored by Peter Reagan via BirchGold.com, What does the average person do when they run out of money before the end of the month? According to Federal Reserve data, nearly half of U.S. households report spending every penny (or more) than they earn in a typical month. Like families juggling credit […]
More Money Is Lost In Credit From Forced Selling Than Defaults
ZeroHedge - Oct 19th 2025 5:30pm EDTMore Money Is Lost In Credit From Forced Selling Than Defaults By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities ProSec and Credit Risk If you missed Thursday’s piece titled Is ProSec the New ESG, then I highly recommend checking it out. In fact, I almost stopped writing today just to make sure people saw that. So many […]
“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This”: One Bullion Dealer Sees A Rupture In Gold And Silver Markets
ZeroHedge - Oct 19th 2025 3:10pm EDT“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This”: One Bullion Dealer Sees A Rupture In Gold And Silver Markets Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance When silver surged to multi-year highs, veteran bullion dealer Andy Schectman didn’t see just another price move—he saw a rupture in the foundation of the global metals market. In a wide-ranging interview last […]
