Trump Admin Announces $850MM To Modernize US Coal Capacity, Build 2 New Plants By Robert Walton of UtilityDive The Trump administration approved 76 coal-related permits in more than a year of efforts to revive the flagging fuel and execute an agenda of “energy dominance.” His latest attempt includes tapping Defense Production Act funding to expand the industry. “Last year we prevented 17 GW of coal-powered electricity from […]

Iran Fires Missiles At Israel In First Since April, After IDF Airstrike On Beirut; Trump Urges Israel To Hold Back Summary HUGE ESCALATION: Iran fires missiles on Israel, after IDF unleashed deadly airstrike on Beirut earlier Sunday. Despite Trump saying on Sunday that he would tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to strike ​back, an Israeli official warned that “There will be a forceful response.” Sunday is […]

A Lot More Than Just Rates Moving Markets By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The plan this weekend was to write about the AI Revolution. It would have dovetailed well with recent pieces Buggy Whips and Horses and Being Forced to Understand UBI. We discussed this, Iran, and much more on Bloomberg TV (1:43:30 mark), where I did bring out the red rocket ship tie, in honor of the SpaceX IPO. But it is difficult to stick to the plan […]

Angry Pentagon Sources Leak Report Of Israel’s ‘Unhinged’ Spying On US Officials It’s no secret that Israeli spying and surveillance is pervasive, and it is often even directed at its most powerful ally and backer, the United States. But the phenomenon has escalated of late, outraging Washington intelligence officials. Behind the scenes of this alliance which mainstream media and pundits typically project as essentially […]

Former Musk Adviser Sriram Krishnan Leaving White House AI Role Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Senior White House policy adviser on artificial intelligence Sriram Krishnan, a former Twitter executive who advised Elon Musk during his acquisition of the social media platform, announced Saturday he will leave his role at the end of June. U.S. President Donald Trump hands a pen to Senior White House Policy Advisor on […]

New York Legislature Passes Data Center Moratorium Authored by Nicholas Zifcak via The Epoch Times, The New York state Legislature passed a one-year data center permit moratorium June 4 in the final days of the legislative session. If Gov. Kathy Hochul signs it into law, New York would be the first to enact a statewide moratorium. A data center in Tennessee. Courtesy of CleanSpark The legislation requires a pause on permitting […]

Bessent Examining Use Of Frozen Iranian Assets To Help Gulf Countries Rebuild Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reportedly pursuing a pathway to repurpose Iranian assets to compensate Amerca’s Gulf allies which have suffered significant damage due to Iran’s attacks in the wake of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. Over eighty oil, gas, and vital infrastructure facilities across the Gulf have been hit – with most of the attacks having […]

Choose One: Housing Is Shelter, Or Housing Is Just Another Asset In A Bubble Economy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds, This will get massive pushback because it’s true: either Housing Is Shelter, or Housing Is Just Another Asset in a Bubble Economy – it can’t be both. This reality gets pushback because the conversion of housing from shelter into just another asset bubbling higher in a bubble-dependent economy has […]

‘I Could’ve Kept It That Way’: Trump Admits The Inflation Is His Choice – For A War That ‘Isn’t A War’ In a wide-ranging interview in which he touted record stock prices and rebranded weapons-grade uranium as “nuclear dust” (and then stormed out), President Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud: the prices Americans are paying at the pump are not an accident. This was all his decision. “I could’ve kept it that way,” Trump […]

Americans’ Average Monthly Mortgage Payment Tops $2000 For The First Time Ever Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, U.S. households are being financially squeezed at a level that we have never seen before. I have often said that we are in a long-term cost of living crisis that never seems to end, and that is not an exaggeration at all. Just about everything has been getting more expensive in recent years, and […]

US Intercepted Fresh Iranian Ballistic Missile Attacks Overnight As Tehran Blasts ‘Ceasefire Violations’ Summary Iran’s foreign ministry says US overnight action, especially bombing coastal radar facilities, is a violation of ceasfire. New nighttime salvo of missiles on Kuwait, Bahrain: Six ballistic missiles fired at Bahrain and Kuwait were intercepted, CENTCOM said. Overnight flare-up started with Iranian attack drones in […]

UK Cop Fired For Questioning Islam In ‘Safe Space’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, A Christian police community support officer lost his career after asking a Muslim colleague about jihad and Hamas atrocities during a diversity session that promised open discussion. At the same time, training drilled “white privilege” into police ranks. Luke Salmons, a 46-year-old Christian father of two and respected PCSO with North […]

Short-Term Bitcoin Holders Are Realizing Their Largest Losses On Record; Most Oversold Since 2018 Collapse After this week’s bloodbath… Bitcoin is now flashing its most oversold signal since 2018, raising the odds of a relief rebound toward $70,000 in the coming weeks. The extremely oversold reading followed a roughly 30% decline in BTC over the past month, as geopolitical risks, higher oil prices, fading hopes for a 2026 […]

Germany’s First F-35 Stealth Fighter Moves Closer To Service With Key Engine Installation Authored by Sujita Sinha via Interesting Engineering, Germany’s first F-35A fighter jet is now closer to delivery after its engine was installed during final assembly, according to Lockheed Martin. This milestone shows steady progress on one of Germany’s biggest defense modernization efforts since the Cold War. Germany’s first F-35 reaches a […]

Europe 2.0, Beyond Brussels: The End Of The European Union As We Know It Authored by Frank-Christian Hansel via American Greatness, Europe has reached the end of an era. Not the end of its history, but the end of its false form. For decades, the European Union served as the great substitute project of a continent that no longer dared to think politically. It promised peace without power, order without a people, unity without […]

Most Teens Aren’t Going To Social Media For Politics Teens turn to social media for multiple purposes: to catch up with friends, for entertainment and to connect with others over similar interests. However, as Statista’s Anna Fleck reports a possible misconception, however, is that many are going to platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok for politics. According to a recent survey of 1,458 teenagers in the United […]

A Serious Country Does Not Swap Its Greatest Leader On Banknotes For Little Animals Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, The Bank of England has now admitted the quiet part out loud. Historical figures including Winston Churchill were removed from future banknotes after researchers told officials they were “elitist and divisive.” The move replaces British legends with wildlife in a calculated step to sideline national heroes […]

An Emerging Market Crisis In Oil-Poor Asia? Authored by Satyajit Das via NewIndiaExpress, Reliable availability of cheap energy is, as the Iran war highlights, essential to modern economies and societies, at least for the foreseeable future. Shocks divide the world into the oil haves and oil have-nots. Alongside higher energy prices, shortages of petrochemical derived chemicals will affect agriculture, mining, plastics, textiles, […]

Watch: More Evidence Iran Is Rapidly Restoring Its Missile Tunnels President Trump has newly estimated that Iran has 21%-22% of its missiles remaining. Trump said in an interview with NBC: “They have some missiles and drones, percentage-wise maybe 21%-22% of the missiles. That’s a lot, but it’s not what it was before the war.” He and top White House officials had previously mused that the Iranians are working hard to reconstitute […]

A New Shortcut To Quantum Entanglement Authored by University of Chicago via ScienceDaily, Many of the most promising quantum technologies, including advanced sensors and future quantum computers, depend on a phenomenon known as entanglement, where particles become deeply connected and influence one another in ways that cannot be explained by classical physics. Creating the complex entangled states needed for these technologies has […]

UN Food Agency Warns Millions Pushed Into Hunger By Prolonged Iran War The United Nations food agency is sounding a catastrophic alarm on the macroeconomic fallout of the ongoing conflict in Iran and the Persian Gulf region. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), millions of people are actively being plunged into acute hunger due to the war – realizing a grim trajectory the agency previously warned would occur if the Middle […]

Protesters Target NV Energy At Utility Conference As Anger Over Soaring Electricity Prices Boils Over By Herman Trabish of UtilityDive Protesters shouting affordability complaints and chanting slogans interrupted a speech by NV Energy President and CEO Brandon Barkhuff on Wednesday. Barkhuff was speaking to some 1,000 utility executives and electricity industry stakeholders during the Edison Electric Institute 2026 conference at […]

Lebanese Army Officers Among 9 Killed In Israeli Airstrike On South Lebanon In a rare, major development related to the Israel-Hezbollah war, fresh Saturday Israeli airstrikes on Southern Lebanon on Saturday took out a group of Lebanese Army forces. What’s more is that several officers were reported killed: “Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon Saturday killed nine people including three members of the Lebanese military, the […]

Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Trump Admin To Restart Processing Asylum Claims Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration must restart processing claims of asylum, a federal judge ruled on June 5. Officials must also resume adjudicating requests for immigration benefits such as work permits from nationals of 39 countries from which President Donald Trump has restricted travel, Obama-appointed U.S. […]

Facebook Marketplace Enters The AI Thirst-Trap Era Searching Facebook Marketplace in the AI era has revealed a strange new phenomenon: sellers are running product photos through chatbots or image generators to insert scantily clad women into listings. This marketing ploy seemingly bets that thirst-trap imagery will boost clicks and improve the chances of selling whatever item is listed on the online marketplace. “This dude on FB […]