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Fico Threatens To Cut Ukraine's Emergency Power As Russian Oil Transit Fight Escalates
Fico Threatens To Cut Ukraine's Emergency Power As Russian Oil Transit Fight Escalates
Slovakia's populist Prime Minister and pro-Trump ally Robert Fico has drawn an unexpectedly hard line in his country's ongoing energy showdown with Ukraine: restore Russian oil flows, or else a key emergency electricity lifeline for Ukraine gets pulled.
In a weekend post on X, Fico warned that unless Ukraine resumes pumping Russian crude to Slovakia by Monday, Bratislava will cut off its emergency power exports. This is an immense threat given current frigid subzero temperatures in war-ravaged Ukraine.
"If...
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Mar 27, 2026 / Tyler Durden
China Dismisses Report Of Top Chipmaker Aiding Iranian Forces As "Fake News"
China Dismisses Report Of Top Chipmaker Aiding Iranian Forces As "Fake News"
Beijing moved into damage-control mode on Friday, with its foreign ministry dismissing a Reuters report that cited two senior Trump administration officials alleging that SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, had sent chipmaking tools to Iran, as "false information."
Asked about the report at a regular news conference in Beijing, foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said he was "not familiar with the situation" and added, "What I can tell you is that recently, some media have been keen on releasing...
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May 16, 2026 / Tyler Durden
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Job Is Impossible
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Job Is Impossible
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
Congratulations to Kevin Warsh on officially becoming the next Federal Reserve chair. Unfortunately for him, he may have just accepted the worst job in global finance at the worst possible moment.
Warsh was narrowly confirmed this week in the most partisan Fed chair vote in modern history, inheriting a central bank that has spent years under political attack while gliding straight into a macroeconomic minefield. Inflation just accelerated to a three-year high. Oil is higher amid Middle East tensions....
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Jul 2, 2026 / Andrew P. Napolitano
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Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away? — Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788) Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston […]
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