Keep An Eye On Cocoa Prices Cocoa futures surged as much as 7.9% on Friday to $11,068/ton in New York, approaching record levels once again, as mounting supply-side risks reignite upside price action. Persistent drought conditions across key West African growing regions—despite recent rain—continue to pressure the global production outlook, raising concerns over both mid-crop and main-crop harvests. The deteriorating weather […]

What On Earth Has This Got To Do With Pride? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Some bright spark has decided that a Falklands War landing craft is the perfect thing to slap rainbow Pride colours all over to once again mark the LGBTQ event for the entirety of June. The move has angered veterans, who describe it as “entirely inappropriate” adding “Our Falklands dead will be turning in their graves.” What On […]

US vs China: Mapping Trade Dominance In Africa China has steadily expanded its global trade footprint and now surpasses the U.S. as the leading trading partner in many regions around the world. In Africa, for instance, China overtook the U.S. as the continent’s top trading partner back in 2009—a position it continues to hold today. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, visualizes whether each African country […]

“Smacks Too Much Of Elimination Of Political Rivals” – German Chancellor Merz “Very Skeptical” About Banning AfD Via Remix News, In recent months, a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) appeared to be inching closer and closer, but now a key voice has clearly spoken out against such a move. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now said that voting on an AfD ban in the Bundestag is not the right path, saying it “smacks too much of […]

House Republicans Advance Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” After Weekend Of Negotiations Following a Friday fracas on Capitol Hill which saw House Republicans fail to advance President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” out of the House Budget Committee, Republicans on said Committee did just that after several GOP deficit hawks relented. And while the bill still has a couple of stops before it can hit the House Floor, passage to the […]

Pepe Escobar ‘Decodes’ The Istanbul Kabuki Authored by Pepe Escobar, Did President Putin really change the game by proposing the resumption of negotiations on the proxy war in Ukraine in Istanbul – over three years after the first ones were scotched by NATO? It’s complicated. And depends on which “game” we’re talking about. What the Russian move instantly accomplished was to throw into total disarray the European […]

If Abortion Is Healthcare, Why Is Abortion Data Going Unreported? Authored by Samantha Flom via RealClear Politics (emphasis ours), We were told mifepristone is “safer than Tylenol” by pro-abortion activists. Now women are discovering how lethal that lie really is. “Abortion care is healthcare!” The oft-repeated claim of the abortion lobby emerges whenever someone dares to question whether an elective procedure with the goal […]

Kroger Overcharging Customers On Sale Items, Consumer Reports Investigation Finds You know times are getting tough when grocery stores resort to good ole’ fashion ripping off customers via mispricing. Shoppers at Kroger-owned stores may be unknowingly paying more at checkout due to pricing errors, according to a Consumer Reports investigation with The Guardian and the Food and Environment Reporting Network. Even if you don’t […]

“It Was A War. We Won”: Rare Breed Triggers Scores Landmark Victory Over DOJ/ATF  The Department of Justice announced a settlement with Rare Breed Triggers (RBT) on Friday, ending a multi-year legal battle over Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs). The agreement aligns with President Trump’s Executive Order protecting Second Amendment rights and follows guidance from the Attorney General’s Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force. […]

Los Angeles Announces Flying Taxis For Visitors At ‘No-Car’ Olympics Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Los Angeles announced May 15 that air taxis will be available for visitors and Team USA at the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games by Archer Aviation Inc. Mayor Karen Bass pledged last year that the Olympics would be a “no-car Games” and that people would need to use public transportation to access venues. […]

FBI Agents Beg Court To Destroy List Before ‘Shame’ Campaign Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, A group of FBI agents involved in the Jan. 6 investigations asked a judge Thursday to destroy a Trump administration list containing the names of roughly 5,000 agents tied to the probes.  Their move follows Ed Martin’s vow, as the newly appointed weaponization czar, to “name” and “shame” the thousands of agents […]

MAHA Working: Goldman Finds “Better-For-You” Consumption Shift Underway President Trump’s second term will likely be regarded as a major public health inflection point, driven by the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement. The initiative aims to revolutionize a broken system rigged against patients—creating disease and then profiting from it—while also targeting reform of the nation’s food supply chain, which is dominated […]

Tattoos May Be Linked To Cancer – Here’s Why… Authored by Zena le Roux via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), “I got tattooed during a time in my life when I wasn’t fully informed about what was going into my body or what I was allowing onto my skin. Back then, it was about art, self-expression, and creative identity.” Witthaya Prasongsin/GettyImages “Today, I see it differently. Tattoos are not harmless,” Ellie Grey a […]

GPS Disruption Reported In World’s Most Critical Maritime Chokepoint A new report has emerged stating that vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz are experiencing GPS interference, disrupting electronic navigation systems and forcing commercial ships to rely on manual or backup methods in one of the world’s most critical maritime chokepoints.  UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) announced on X late Sunday morning that it has […]

Do Republicans Buy The Dip Far More Than Democrats By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Together We Stand… Ratings… UMich We already covered the Trump PIVOT and the Trump PUT as positives in the past week. We got to kick off the first half hour of Bloomberg TV on Tuesday and published the Around the World Podcast on Thursday. Neil Wiley, formerly from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, represented the […]

Biden Diagnosed With ‘Aggressive’ Stage IV Prostate Cancer Fresh on the heels of the Trump administration dumping the Biden-Hur tapes to Axios (revealing what we all knew – Biden was totally cooked & we still don’t know who was actually running the country for four years), the Biden family announced that the former president has an aggressive form of prostate cancer.  The news comes five days after a small nodule was found […]

Patel & Bongino Tease New ‘Russiagate’ Evidence In ‘Wave Of Transparency’ – Yet Insist Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Fox News on Sunday, where the pair hinted at a “wave of transparency” on the horizon over weaponization of the DOJ by the Biden and Obama administrations. “You asked in the beginning how the FBI was weaponized,” […]

Trump Denies Rift With Netanyahu, Says PM ‘Fought Hard & Bravely’ Via The Cradle US President Donald Trump denied that he has grown “frustrated” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing the leader who remains ‘wanted’ by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as someone who has “a tough situation.” Asked during a televised interview with Fox News if he was frustrated by the Israeli premier, Trump said, […]

Kid Rock Blames “Ugly Ass, Broke, Crazy” Liberal Women For Low US Birthrate Musician Kid Rock has figured out why the US birthrate is so low; ‘Ugly ass, broke, crazy, deranged, TDS liberal women.’ Speaking with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, the 54-year-old rocker responded to a clip of left-wing protesters, saying: “You look at these rallies, and it’s like a bunch of women that no guy wants to sleep with and a bunch of dudes that […]

Two Dead After Mexican Navy Smashes Into Brooklyn Bridge Update (1102ET): Two people were killed in last night’s collision between a Mexican navy ship carrying 277 people on board and the Brooklyn Bridge. Nelson Slinkard/X Mayor Eric Adams confirmed that two out of the 19 injured died. Police believe a “mechanical malfunction” and power cut had caused the collision. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she was deeply saddened […]

The Great Simmering In The West Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, People all over the world are worried about the future.  While regional wars continue to fester, the prospect of global war weighs heavily on many.  However, likely belligerents are not all foreign aggressors.  Nearly a century of globalization has erected a web of clunky international institutions that wield tremendous power while disregarding […]

Did The Biden Admin Fudge Jobs Numbers Into Election? Labor Dept Report Raises Questions Via American Greatness, The former Biden administration’s claim to have added nearly 400,000 jobs from July to September of 2024, is being scrutinized after new data released by the Labor Department suggests that none of those jobs ever existed. Bean counters under the former Biden administration published optimistic estimates for […]

Houthis Again Target Israel’s International Airport With Ballistic Missile The Houthis have responded to Israel’s major Friday airstrikes on sites across Yemen by launching two ballistic missiles at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. The Israeli military announced Sunday morning the intercept of at least one inbound ballistic missile, saying there were no injuries or casualties from the attack, only light injuries of people […]

The Irony Of Moody’s Downgrade Of U.S. Credit Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance On Friday, the U.S. lost its last perfect credit rating as Moody’s downgraded it from ‘AAA’ to ‘Aa1,’ citing decades of rising deficits and interest costs. This ends a perfect rating streak held since 1917. Moody’s had warned in 2023 that a downgrade was possible, following similar moves by Fitch in 2023 and S&P in 2011. The layers of […]

Vance & Zelensky Repair Relationship In ‘Good’ Vatican Meeting Amid ongoing efforts to reset the relationship between Washington and Kiev, US Vice President JD Vance met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top aides in Rome on Sunday. Crucially, this is the first time Zelensky and Vance have met since their blow-up in the White House in February. The pointed exchange had even led to Trump very briefly […]