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 […]

Iran Begins ‘Retaliation’ Attack On Gulf After Overnight US Launched 3rd Round Of Strikes, Following IRGC Hit On Cargo Ship Update 10:40pm ET. Somewhat predictably, as has been the pattern of this war – Iran is in the very early morning hours (local) launching retaliatory strikes on Arab Gulf nations, or as the Iranians say against US assets and bases in the Gulf. Per state media: IRAN LAUNCHES SERIES OF STRIKES AGAINST US […]

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 […]

The Real Grid Crisis Is A State Policy Problem Dressed Up As A Market Failure Authored by Todd Snitchler via RealClearEnergy, There’s a critique of PJM making the rounds: PJM – the largest grid operator in the United States – is too big. There are too many state interests at play, and PJM doesn’t have the ability to function cohesively or quickly enough. FERC even scheduled a governance technical conference this month to examine […]

Pro-Palestine Activist Reportedly Murdered By Migrant Boyfriend The phrase “suicidal empathy” has exploded like wildfire across social media in the past year largely because there are so many tragic stories of migrant crime against people who advocate for open immigration.  Liberal women and devout leftist activists work in immigration centers or open their homes to third world migrants, only to be brutally assaulted or murdered by […]

Fifth Circuit Rules Against In-State Tuition For Illegal Aliens Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJMedia.com, The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Trump administration and against woke states or universities that try to provide special tuition breaks to illegal aliens. Brett Shumate, who serves as the assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Division, celebrated the court win […]

The COVID Reckoning That Never Came Authored by Ed Dowd via ‘Beyond The Narrative’ substack, The COVID Reckoning That Never Came… And the Silence That Proves the Psyop Over the last several years I have been posting nonstop on X about the same nightmares we’ve been living through…the COVID psyop, the experimental mRNA shots, the mandates that destroyed lives, the injuries, the excess deaths, and the relentless propaganda […]

Rubio Convenes 60-Nation Summit To Confront Transnational Far-Left Terrorism Secretary of State Marco Rubio has requested that senior officials from more than 60 countries convene in Washington next Thursday to discuss the alarming rise of transnational far-left terrorism, according to a Washington Post report. The State Department confirmed the meeting in a post on X Friday afternoon titled, “Secretary of State Marco Rubio Is […]

5 Charts To Navigate This Chaotic Market Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, I have 5 charts for you today which put this crazy market into context and give some clarity on what might come next. We’re at a fascinating crossroads for markets, geopolitics, and finance. Let’s get started. Semis Party Like It’s 1999 First up, semiconductor returns. The index below includes U.S. semi stocks like Nvidia, Micron, […]

China Lands Reusable Rocket On Barge, But SpaceX Remains Years Ahead China successfully landed the first-stage booster of a Long March 10B rocket on a floating barge during an orbital launch test earlier Friday, marking the first major step in reusable launch technology, albeit roughly a decade behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX. “This mission … signifies a historic breakthrough in China’s reusable rocket technology and a solid […]

China Bans Helium Exports As Qatar Outage Deepens Global Supply Squeeze China has abruptly banned helium exports, a key component in semiconductors, which adds yet another serious constraint to a global market already reeling from the loss of production in Qatar. In a two-sentence Friday announcement, China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs said helium covered by customs code 2804290010 was subject to a […]

Without Subsidies, Is AI Unaffordable? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs. What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity […]

Maine Dems Will Pick Platner Replacement At Rushed Convention This Month After their nominee for the 2026 Maine Senate race dropped out on Friday in the wake of sex assault allegations, Democrats will pick his successor at a convention on July 25th, the state party chair announced Friday afternoon. That’s just two days before the deadline for making the change and securing a new nominees’ place on the general election ballot. It’s […]

Key Revelations From 4th Batch Of Pentagon UFO Files Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon released its fourth new batch of UFO files on July 10, including a transcript from a conference that included scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. This release of information on UFOs, which the government refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), has a total of 40 files, including 19 videos, 14 […]

Was SK Hynix’s US Debut The AI Bubble Top? BNP Says It’s Still 1998 With SK Hynix’s American depositary receipts now trading under the temporary ticker SKHYV as of late Friday morning, the seven-times-oversubscribed offering highlights Wall Street’s rush for more direct exposure to high-bandwidth memory amid the AI infrastructure boom. Against the backdrop of mounting concerns about an AI infrastructure bubble, Roth Capital […]

Muhammad Tops Baby Boys’ Names In England And Wales For Third Straight Year Official Office for National Statistics (ONS) data released today shows Muhammad – including variant spellings – has once again claimed the top spot as the most popular name for newborn boys in England and Wales. This marks the third consecutive year Muhammad has led the boys’ chart, continuing a trend that has drawn significant public attention and […]

Small Business Chapter 11 Filings Increase 50% Year Over Year Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Small business Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings jumped 50 percent in the first half of 2026 from the same period last year, signaling pressure on business owners. Chapter 11 is a type of bankruptcy filing that reorganizes a company’s debt to keep it afloat and allow the entity to become solvent. Subchapter V of […]

Cuba Plunges Into Second Island-Wide Blackout As Communist System Unravels Cuba suffered its second nationwide blackout in a matter of days late Friday, another sign that the communist-controlled island is sliding deeper into economic collapse amid tightening US sanctions and renewed pressure from the Trump administration. Havana blames US “gunboat diplomacy” and the financial sanctions for its economic demise, but the roots of the […]

Leftists Celebrate Murder Of Conservative British Politician Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The savage killing of 78-year-old Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe has unleashed a torrent of vile celebration from left-wing activists, revealing the depths of ideological hatred among the left in the UK. Widdecombe, the outspoken former Conservative MP and prisons minister, was found dead with serious injuries at her […]