Doll-Heads Apparently Fooling Tesla FSD. Is Facial-Recognition Update Next? Chinese e-commerce platforms are selling miniature heads that, according to Fred Lambert at the EV blog Electrek, are being used to “trick Tesla’s cabin camera into thinking a driver is paying attention.” Priced at $20 to $50 and marketed as dashboard decorations or “travel companions,” these miniature heads are mounted near the rearview mirror to mimic a […]

Inflection Point Overload? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Inflection Point Overload?  Between 250th Celebrations, heat waves, power failures, and jet lag, I feel more discombobulated than I have in a long time (I do admit that I really liked a sign that I think was in PHX airport just past security – Recombobulation Area). I think that’s what I could use. In any case, last weekend’s ProSec Mid-Year Outlook is worth […]

With Dismissed Lawsuits And DOE Support, Holtec Delays Palisades Nuclear Plant Restart Further Holtec announced last week that the major refurbishment projects at Palisades are complete. Reactor vessel inspections, head penetration replacements, steam generator tube refurbishment, primary system decontamination, and operator training all wrapped up. New fuel now sits on site, ready for loading. The company called it a “watershed […]

Clashing Over Saylor, Strategy, And Bitcoin’s Biggest Risks Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Sometimes the best conversations happen after an argument. That’s exactly what unfolded this week when I sat down with fund manager Larry Lepard for a discussion that almost never happened. After disagreeing earlier in the week over my criticism of Michael Saylor, Strategy, and the company’s evolving Bitcoin strategy, we decided to hash […]

Devastating Evidence: Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing A Slam Dunk For Prosecution Did the Israelis do it?  Did the US government?  Did Charlie Kirk’s wife plan it?  Did Trump have Charlie killed?  Nope. It turns out that all the theories raging online about the “real” assassins behind the Charlie Kirk murder were complete bunk – A distraction away from the obvious suspect and the leftist movement that inspired him.      […]

“The Same Monstrous Theme… Collectivism” Authored by The Federalist Papers Project (@TheFederalist1) via X, Ayn Rand was right when she wrote these words, and she is still right now. “Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme: collectivism.” That is the part too many people refuse to understand. These systems may use different slogans. They may wave different […]

Third Round of US Strikes Hits 140 Targets After Hormuz Ship Attack; Iran Retaliates On Kuwait, Jordan Bases Update 1210ET.  The escalation cycle intensified overnight and into early Sunday as the US conducted its third round of strikes this week, while Iran enforced its declared closure of the Strait of Hormuz and launched retaliatory attacks across multiple Gulf states. CENTCOM confirmed strikes began around 7:15 p.m. ET […]

Mexican President Seeking Legal Action Against The US Over Deaths Of Alien Migrants Should foreign governments be allowed to support or fund lawsuits against the US government over its immigration and enforcement policies?  US sovereign immunity aside, the very idea of foreigners trying to influence American immigration law through indirect civil suits sounds insane.  Why, oh why, should Americans care what Mexico thinks? To put […]

‘Witness List Expanding…’: A Seth Rich Scenario Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Witness list expanding in multi-conspiracy probe out of Fort Pierce. . . .” – Paul Sperry, Real Clear investigations. The scene: February of 2027, a federal courtroom in Fort Pierce (St. Lucie County), Florida, the third day of trial in the RussiaGate matter. Defendants seated on the right (from the judge’s vantage) are so numerous they […]

Ukrainian Expert Dismisses Trump Pledge On Patriot Missile License As Empty PR President Trump’s declaration from the NATO summit in Turkey this week saying that he’ll give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot defense systems has been met with a lot of skepticism, both among Ukrainians and internationally.  “We’ll give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to do it,” Trump had said. “I think they can produce […]

“Planet’s Strongest Heat Dome” To Bake America’s Heartland What some meteorologists are calling the “planet’s strongest heat dome” is set to build over America’s heartland next week. Triple-digit temperatures are expected across the northern Plains, with dangerous heat pushing eastward into parts of the Mid-Atlantic. “The planet’s strongest heat dome will develop over the Intermountain West and Plains into next week,” […]

“What Makes It Even Stranger…”: Trump Describes Saturday Night Phone Call With Lindsey Graham Hours Before Senator’s Death Update (1135ET): President Trump has weighed in on Graham’s death, telling Meet the Press that Graham called him in the ‘early evening,’ to tell Trump he was ‘all set for the Save America Act,’ and that it may have been the last call Graham made.  “what makes it even stranger is that I got a call last […]

Tehran Declares Hormuz Closed, But Ships Are Still Transiting The Strait of Hormuz’s southern shipping channel remained open Sunday morning despite a sharp escalation in tit-for-tat attacks, with the US launching a third round of airstrikes on Iran and Tehran retaliating against US-linked targets across Arab Gulf states. “Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz continued at reduced levels, with vessels transiting via […]

US Population Growth Prospects Corrected Downwards The population of the United States is projected to keep on climbing beyond 2100. However, the rate of increase that can be expected until 2050 has been significantly corrected downwards over the last couple of years. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, according to the Congressional Budget Office, 349 million people live in the United States in 2026. In 2050, this is […]

EU Eyes 2040 Electrification Target To Slash Oil and Gas Dependence Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The European Commission is set to unveil next week an electrification target for 2040 in a bid to reduce the need for fossil fuels and strengthen the renewable energy sector in the EU, according to a draft proposal seen by Bloomberg News. The Commission, the EU’s legislative arm, is expected to propose on July 17 […]

IMF Downgrades Global Growth Forecast Second Time In A Row The IMF downgraded global growth prospects for the second time this year, saying it expects the global economy to grow by just 3 percent in 2026. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, in January, this projection had still stood at 3.3 percent. While the downgrade is slight, it still conveys the multiple risks to the global economy currently present. As shocks from […]

Record High 53% Of Gang Rape Suspects Were Foreigners In 2025 In Germany Via Remix News, The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD). According to the statistics, 53 percent of the suspects — a […]

The Economics Of The Surveillance State Authored by  John Wilder, “That was a Beria operation in Stalin’s time.  It was deactivated twenty years ago.” – The Living Daylights How did KGB agents commit suicide?  Two shots to the back of the head.  (all photo content as-found) Remember Lavrentiy Beria’s cheerful advice:  “Show me the man, and I will find the crime”?  Back in the Soviet Union they had so […]

Which States Produce The Most Food In America? From California’s fruit and vegetable farms to the Midwest’s vast corn and soybean fields, agriculture looks very different across the United States. Using the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), this graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, ranks every state by its agricultural production value in 2024. America’s Largest Agricultural […]

Next-Gen Ramjet Fuel Propulsion System For Future Offensive, Defensive Missions Tested Authored by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra via Interesting Engineering, L3Harris has taken a significant step toward advancing next-generation propulsion technology for future offensive and defensive missions. The approach marks an essential risk reduction step in enabling solid fuel ramjet propulsion to help close a critical performance, and cost gap. […]

California Ex-Police Official Tops State Payroll With $1.2 Million Payday Former Redlands Police Deputy Chief Travis Martinez received nearly $1.2 million in wages in 2025, the highest reported compensation for any city employee in California, according to newly released data from the State Controller’s Office and reporting by the New York Post. Payroll records show Martinez collected $81,804 in regular pay, $890,467 in other […]

Congressman Outraged After Brief Detention By Gun-Wielding Israeli Settlers In West Bank Visit Via The Cradle A group of extremist Jewish settlers equipped with US-made M4 rifles detained US lawmaker Ro Khanna and his group during their visit this week to the southern occupied West Bank, the Democratic representative has disclosed. “We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed; they had destroyed the school, they had […]

Guggenheim AI Survey Finds Adoption Surging Across Large IT Enterprises As Mass Layoff Fears Fall Flat Building on Goldman’s estimate that AI adoption across corporate America currently stands at roughly 20.6% and could rise to 24% by year-end, a Guggenheim Securities survey of 150 large-enterprise IT professionals found that 81% of respondents have already deployed AI agents. Anthropic and OpenAI are leading adoption among […]

DARPA’s Chilling Pre-COVID Blueprint: Predict, Manufacture, & Deploy Pandemics On Demand Authored by Jon Fleetwood, via Substack, A sprawling, multi-institution effort for “predicting” future pathogen characteristics, developing vaccines “in advance of need,” and building the very systems intended to validate those predictions. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spent the early 2010s constructing what […]

DHS Deports Convicted Child Rapist Gov. Tim Walz Pardoned The Department of Homeland Security deported Tou Lue Vang on Friday, the Laotian national Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pardoned last month in an effort to keep him in the country. Vang, 42, entered the United States illegally and built a life in Minnesota that included, by his own admission, sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty in 2006 to first-degree criminal […]