Submitted by Thomas Kolbe According to plans from the Federal Chancellery, Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, is set to significantly expand its surveillance capabilities. The focus is particularly on internet communication transmitted from within Germany to abroad, which is to be included in the agency’s monitoring catalog going forward. After months of heated debates […]
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a chilling move, the UK government has rolled out a taxpayer-funded video game that paints every curious teenager as a potential far-right extremist. The “Pathways” game, backed by the Home Office’s Prevent counter-terrorism program, threatens young players with referrals to anti-terror experts simply for questioning unchecked mass migration […]
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin quietly began unwinding portions of their financial empires in California in the days leading up to Christmas, according to corporate filings reviewed by The New York Times, as progressive lawmakers consider a proposed billionaire wealth tax. This development confirms our earlier note that California is on an accelerated […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images President Donald Trump and Elon Musk had one of the most talked-about breakups of 2025, but in 2026, it seems like they’re trying to work things out. On January 3, the two men appeared to enjoy a meal together at Mar-a-Lago, according to RadarOnline.com. Photos and videos of the dinner also started […]
Never did we ever imagine Fox News would run a headline that sounds ZeroHedge-style: “Second front: How a socialist cell in the US mobilized pro-Maduro foot soldiers within 12 hours.” Yet here we are in 2026. Former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani, now at Fox News, is investigating the left-wing, billionaire-funded dark money networks […]
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, SpaceX will move about 4,400 Starlink satellites to a lower orbit this year to better control risks and improve safety, the company announced Friday. Michael Nicholls, vice president of Starlink engineering, posted the news on X, saying the adjustment would increase space safety in several ways. Elon […]
In an effort to reverse China’s sagging birth rate, Beijing has removed a three-decade tax exemption on contraceptives starting Jan. 1, when condoms and contraceptive pills will now incur a value-added tax of 13%, the standard rate for most consumer goods. The move comes after 2024 data marked the third consecutive year that birth rates have […]
A history professor who taught at Harvard University for 40 years wrote a scathing letter slamming the Ivy League institution over its “exclusion of white males.” Professor James Hankins wrote in a piece titled “Whit I’m Leaving Harvard” that his decision to retire “was not a sudden one,” and that he’d made up his mind in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the White House cannot lapse its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a watchdog that has long drawn the ire of congressional Republicans. In a ruling, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote that the CFPB should continue to […]
Authored by Roger Kimball via American Greatness, To listen to the chatter of the Important People, you would think that a “decent and elevated conservatism”™ was about to return, has returned, or is just about to triumph in the person of—cue the drum roll—Mike Pence, former vice president and perpetual Mr. Goody Two-Shoes. Yes, […]
