Oil Soars As Trump Warns Iran Will Pay For Future Houthi Shipping Attacks, Rubio Rules Out Deal US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that Iran is “begging for a deal” and “they need to come to their senses,” adding that Tehran will “pay a very heavy price for the things they are doing.”  Speaking on the sidelines of the ASEAN conference in Manila, he claimed that “Iran is begging us, both directly and indirectly, […]

AIpocalypse No! Initial Jobless Claims Collapse To Lowest Since 1969 Amid ongoing exclamations of an AIpocalypse in the jobs market, the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time crashed to just 187k last week (well below expectations)… That is the lowest since 1969… Additionally, continuous jobless claims tumbled back below 1.8mm (1.796mm) Americans… Zero signs of labor market stress in any […]

ECB Keeps Rates Unchanged (As Expected), Warns ‘Full Energy Inflationary Shock Yet To Come’ The European Central Bank  kept its key deposit rate unchanged at 2.25 percent and said it was “closely monitoring” the inflationary impact of fresh conflict in the Middle East. The ECB reiterated it won’t pre-commit but act one meeting at a time based on information as it arrives. “Uncertainty remains high and the full inflationary […]

Elon Vows AI-Made ‘Odyssey’ After Blasting Nolan’s Take On Homer Via American Greatness, Elon Musk says he’ll beat Hollywood at its own game, pledging that his artificial intelligence venture will produce a full-length film of Homer’s “The Odyssey” by year’s end, one he insists will stay faithful to the ancient text in a way Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation has not. Musk, believed to be the first […]

Futures Slide After Google Earnings, Oil & Bond Yields Jump On Houthi Escalation US equity futures are lower as WTI breaches $90/bbl and Brent approaches $100/bbl (Houthi escalation in the Red Sea as two Saudi tankers were struck), pushing bond yields higher with longer-dated yields seen making new highs, globally. But, Alphabet’s underwhelming results – while dragging down Mag7 names – are boosting Semis / AI (CapEx spend) […]

Nestle Shares Plunge Most Since Dot-Com Bust As Weak Volume Shatters High Hopes Of Turnaround Nestlé shares in Switzerland tumbled the most in 24 years after North American sales volumes unexpectedly contracted, undercutting investor confidence in CEO Philipp Navratil’s turnaround efforts. Organic sales rose a better-than-expected 3.7% in the second quarter, but real internal growth in North America fell 0.6%, while an infant […]

RBC Commodities Chief Warns “War Entering Dangerous Phase” As Chokepoint Chaos Risks Oil Above 2008 Peak Brent crude futures rose nearly 5% to the mid-$98-a-barrel range after tanker attacks near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait threatened another critical maritime chokepoint as the Strait of Hormuz remained partially disrupted. Tankers are again turning away from the southern Red Sea, reversing a recovery in traffic following the 2023 […]

To The Woke Woodshed: Burnham Is Funding UK Populism By Liquidating The Progressive Project Andy Burnham has been UK Prime Minister for three days, and he has already settled into a routine: announce something cheap for households in the morning, pay for it by killing a progressive unicorn.  The tally so far: Monday, within hours of kissing rings at the Palace, Burnham signaled he would fast-track oil and gas development in the […]

Trump Suggests He May Restart Bombing Yemen Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump on Tuesday suggested he could restart a bombing campaign in Yemen in response to the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, enforcing a blockade on the Red Sea. Trump’s comments came after Ansar Allah announced a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, which came a week after the Saudis bombed Yemen’s Sanaa airport to prevent the […]

Wildberries – Russia’s Amazon – Has Seen Four Major Hubs Attacked In Quick Succession Wildberries, which is widely referenced as ‘Russia’s Amazon’, has seen four of its top ten distribution hubs attacked by Ukrainian long-range drones in only a matter of days, potentially putting their business operations in doubt. Stunning footage is widely circulating Wednesday of some of the latest attacks, which came overnight. A large fire […]

What Is The UK Government So Afraid Of? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The British government is in court to stop the public seeing the full picture of migrant crime rates. After the Information Commissioner ordered the Ministry of Justice to release nationality-linked conviction data from 2018 to 2024, officials have launched an appeal, claiming it risks identifying offenders and costs too much. Campaigners say […]

Gay Cruise Debacle Proves Liberals Are Deluded About Alliance With Muslims In a world where “Queers for Palestine” is a real thing and a Muslim communist with an LGBT cabinet is the mayor of the largest city in the US, the far-left vision of total intersectional multiculturalism seems to be in reach.  The only people not welcome in this new world order would be straight, white Christian conservatives and anyone else who disagrees […]

The Digital Euro’s New Chapter Authored by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), For years, the digital euro was presented by the European Central Bank (ECB) merely as a modern and practical alternative to banknotes and coins. It has now been openly acknowledged that the project is intended to respond to the dominance of American payment companies. Visa and Mastercard process 61 percent of […]

Bulgaria Draws Iranian Warning Over Hosting US Military Tanker Aircraft Bulgaria has for many years during the so-called Global War on Terror been a major Eastern European hub for US and Western weapons shipments as well as military aircraft transfers related to the Middle West.  But now Iran is paying close attention, putting the Bulgarian government on notice over a planned temporary deployment of up to eight American refueling […]

Swedish Police Veteran Warns Islamization Is Replacing Gang Violence As Country’s Defining Threat Via Remix News, A veteran Swedish police officer says tougher criminal laws have sharply improved security in Uppsala, but warns that Islamization and parallel social structures now pose a deeper long-term threat. Maria Rosander, a police officer of 17 years and Sweden Democrat group leader in Uppsala, told Samnytt that conditions […]

Washington Can’t Afford To Let The US Lose The Open-Source AI War Authored by Julio Rivera via American Greatness, President Trump was right about China. Long before it became conventional wisdom in Washington, he recognized that America wasn’t simply competing with another trading partner. China was executing a long-term strategy to dominate the industries that would define the 21st century. From manufacturing and […]

Lavrov To Challenge Germany’s Bid For French Nuclear Shield In Rubio Talks Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to hold an important, rare meeting on Thursday to address shaky bilateral relations in the context of the Ukraine war, as well as recent nuclear rhetoric out of European NATO countries. The Kremlin is especially alarmed at the German government’s intent to gain access […]

The Great Menopause Grift Authored by Alan Cassels via The Brownstone Institute, Well, well, look here. In its June 2026 update the venerated OED or Oxford English Dictionary, finally added the ‘new’ word, fearmonging. It explains fearmongering as “the action or an act of spreading fear or alarm among the public, esp. by exaggerating the dangers associated with a political, social, or economic issue; alarmism.” Thank goodness, […]

Taco Bell Getting Desperate With This Shockingly Cheap Offer Amid “Explosive Diarrhea” Parasite Blowback Taco Bell is betting a buck can buy back your love. The fast-food giant rolled out $1 lettuce-free enchiritos – “for the ones who’ve been riding with us,” as the company put it – a peace offering to customers who bolted after a cyclospora outbreak was traced to lettuce served at its restaurants, the New York Post reports. The […]

House Passes Defense Policy Bill That Attaches SAVE America Act Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, The House of Representatives on July 22 passed a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill that attaches a key election integrity bill championed by President Donald Trump. The tally for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was 216–212. Six Democrats crossed the aisle to back passage of the bill, while six […]

Deutsche Bank: Humanoid Robot Market Accelerates Globally As China Ramps Production The latest “Humanoid Robot Pulse” report from Deutsche Bank states that the global humanoid robot market is accelerating, with China, unsurprisingly, leading the race. “The humanoid robot market is accelerating globally. China is leading in production, with government officials estimating 100,000 units of humanoid robot production in 2026, […]

Supreme Court To Decide If Plane Can Be Seized Over 6-Pack Of Beer Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on July 20 agreed to hear the appeal of an Alaska pilot whose small airplane was seized for attempting to haul beer into a so-called dry jurisdiction where alcohol is banned. The court’s decision in Jouppi v. Alaska took the form of an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not […]

AI Is Quietly Transforming Healthcare And Might Just Save Your Life Amid the broader debate over artificial intelligence’s economic disruptions, the healthcare sector is quietly demonstrating some of the technology’s most concrete applications. Rather than the job losses feared in other industries, hospitals report AI augmenting physicians, streamlining routine tasks and accelerating innovation in ways that could improve outcomes […]

Poo-Demic: As Cases Spread To 41 States, FDA Suddenly Can’t Find Parasite In Recalled Lettuce A stomach parasite spread by feces on fresh produce has now sickened people in 41 states, federal health officials said – five days after the FDA pulled back the only lab test linking the outbreak to the lettuce it recalled. Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts in a stool sample, in an undated file image. CDC via The Epoch Times The Centers for […]

RFK Jr. Says Government Pausing More Than $1 Billion In Medicaid Payments To California, Minnesota Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The federal government is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to two states, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is withholding more than $867 million from California and more than $200 million from Minnesota. […]