Leftist German Party Leader Forced To Correct Lies About AfD Leader, Pay Her Legal Fees Via Remix News, Alice Weidel, co-leader of the anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has successfully sued the Left Party leader and won a retraction after she spread falsehoods about Weidel on live television. In mid-May, Ines Schwerdtner, the federal chairwoman of the Left Party, claimed during an interview on Welt TV that […]

Intercepted Iranian Missile Damages U.S. Reaper Drones, Injures Five At Kuwaiti Air Base An Iranian Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile targeted Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base, a key operational hub for the U.S. Air Force’s expeditionary forces in the Gulf region. An initial report from Bloomberg News indicates that Kuwaiti air defenses intercepted the tactical ballistic missile in the last 24 hours, but falling debris struck […]

UK’s Ofcom Investigates Airing Of Trump Interview Calling Climate Change A “Hoax” Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom for years, including in my book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.  One of the most critical components of the British censorship system is Ofcom, the Office of Communications, which regulates the broadcasting, internet, […]

The Case For Air Conditioning Is Growing In Britain A recent spell of extreme heat has intensified debate over whether UK homes should be designed with built-in cooling systems, according to FT. Air conditioning remains uncommon in Britain, with fewer than 5% of homes equipped with it, reflecting a long-standing view that cooling is a luxury rather than a necessity. FT writes that current building standards favor passive methods […]

Norway Lobbies To Persuade EU To Drop Arctic Drilling Ban Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Norway, Western Europe’s top oil and gas producer, has intensified lobbying at the European Union to persuade the bloc to remove or tweak its moratorium on Arctic oil and gas drilling. Norway, which is not a member of the EU but is the biggest gas supplier to European markets, has sent nearly a dozen of its ministers to […]

Both Sides Agree Iran Deal ‘Close’ But Not Finalized, As Trump Promises ‘Final Determination’ Soon Summary NYT: President Trump’s meeting in the Situation Room lasted about two hours, but the president did not reach a decision on any new deal with Iran. Trump repeats conditions on Iran for lifting US naval blockade, oil pushed lower. Fars responds: “Mix of truth & lies.” Trump vows to ‘unearth’ and gain control of nuclear […]

When The Grid Dies: How A Single Blackout Could Unravel A Modern World Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, For decades, infrastructure analysts, military planners, and emergency preparedness experts have warned that modern civilization is built upon a dangerously fragile foundation. Electricity is no longer merely a convenience of industrial society; it is the bloodstream of every institution sustaining modern life. Water […]

How A 24 Mile Fence Once Divided California’s North Coast And Sparked A Four Year Political Fight For two weeks in 1976, a white nylon fence ran across the hills of Sonoma and Marin counties and disappeared into the Pacific Ocean, according to SF Gate.  Called “Running Fence,” the installation stretched 24 miles and stood 18 feet high, supported by more than 2,000 steel poles. It was created by artists Christo and […]

Biden’s Weaponized DOJ Ruined Tate Adamiak’s Life. Top Gun Rights Group Calls On Trump To Pardon Via Gun Owners of America, In 2022 during the Biden Administration, federal agents arrested Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, a U.S. Navy sailor with no violent history or criminal record. Tate’s crime? He was a firearms enthusiast. If that sounds like an exaggeration, it’s not. Biden’s weaponized DOJ charged Tate with violations of the […]

Repeat Speeders In Washington Could Soon Have Cars Electronically Restricted Washington state has approved a new law targeting drivers with serious speeding violations by requiring them to use speed-limiting technology before regaining limited driving privileges, according to Slashgear.  The measure, House Bill 1596 — also called the BEAM Act — was created in response to a fatal 2024 crash that killed Boyd Buster Brown, Eloise […]

Iranian Opposition News Outlet Got $800 Million In Debt Relief: Report Via Middle East Eye An $870m debt-relief deal suggests that Iran International, an Iranian opposition outlet, has ties to Saudi Arabian investors, according to a Financial Times report on Thursday. The links stem from documents related to a debt-for-equity swap that Iran International conducted in December to shore up its finances. Iran International has spent […]

Meet America’s Largest Doomsday Bunker Community Vivos xPoint, a survivalist bunker community built on a former military munitions depot in South Dakota, was created as a refuge for people preparing for disasters such as nuclear war, pandemics, or societal collapse, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal. Marketed as “The Largest Survival Community on Earth,” the development offers long-term leases on converted […]

Maryland’s Glock Ban Aims At The Gun, Not The Criminal Authored by David Manney via PJ Media, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed SB 334 into law Tuesday, putting the state on a collision course with gun owners, firearm dealers, and 2nd Amendment groups. The law targets “machine gun convertible pistols,” mainly Glock-style semiauto handguns that use a cruciform trigger bar. Maryland lawmakers argue criminals can convert those […]

‘We Outright Grabbed The Wallets’: Bessent Boasts $1BN In Iran State Crypto Seized To Date Washington’s economic war on Iran and its ‘shadow’ banking network continues, as on Friday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the US has seized $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets as part of the economic component of President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. The billion dollar figure represents the running total seized to date, […]

Why Stable Systems Fail: The Illusion Of Institutional Control Authored by Luc Lelièvre via The Mises Institute, There is a persistent belief in modern political life that systems fail because they become fragile. Institutions, it is assumed, weaken under pressure and eventually break down. This intuition is not just incomplete—it is backward. Systems do not fail when they become fragile; they become fragile because they have […]

US Service Members Targeted Via Commercial Location Data, Pentagon Tells Senators Adversaries have used commercially-available location data to attack individual US service members in war zones, according to a report furnished by the Department of Defense to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, and first reported by Reuters. Wyden is a Democratic member of the Senate intelligence committee.  Responding to four questions Wyden had posed about […]

The Loophole That Put Drunk Truckers Back On The Road Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, A federal database built to flag and remove drunk and drugged truckers from U.S. highways used the equivalent of an “honor system” as its last line of defense between a family in a minivan and a substance addict steering an 80,000-pound mass of steel. Trucks fuel up at the Love’s Truck Stop in Springville, Utah, on Dec. 1, 2021. George […]

662 Billion Reasons To Worry: Moody’s Raises AI Data-Center Funding Fears As Apollo Shops Huge Anthropic Debt Deal Unless you have lived under a rock for the last year (or month), you will know that the explosive growth of artificial intelligence is fueling a massive infrastructure buildout. In a chart book published nearly simultaneously with Moody’s report, Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok worked to […]

Japan Crude Imports Fall 66% To Record Low By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Amid the supply disruption in the Middle East, Japan’s crude oil imports crashed by 66% in April from the same month last year, dropping to an all time low, official Japanese data showed on Friday. Japan imported 4.07 million kilolitres, or about 850,000 barrels per day (bpd), of crude oil last month, down by 65.7% from the April 2025 levels, the […]

Anti-Trump Entertainers Bolt From Freedom 250 Celebration Several entertainers abruptly backed out of President Donald Trump-linked Freedom 250 concerts this week after learning more details about the patriotic celebration planned for the National Mall. As American Greatness reports, the cancellations add to the long-running tensions between Americans and the politically progressive entertainment industry. Young MC, Morris […]

Obama-Nominated Judge Orders Trump’s Name Removed From Kennedy Center Building Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal district judge on May 29 ordered that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and blocked officials from shuttering the venue for two years for renovations. Obama-nominated, Washington-based Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued an order […]

Japan Prepares To End Quantitative Tightening Amid Bond Market Turmoil With Japanese bond yields recently hitting record highs and bond market volatility soaring, overnight Reuters floated a trial balloon that Japan’s central bank may pause the unwinding of its massive debt holdings next fiscal ​year, which would give Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi some relief amid growing investor concerns about her growing spending plans. A […]

This Is The Deep State On Parade Like A Naked Emperor Authored by James Howard Kunstler, In the annals of Deep State WTF-ery, is there a stranger case than CIA officer David Rush turning up with $40-million in 303 one-kilogram gold bars, plus $2-million in cash, plus a stash of 30 mostly Rolex watches? Well, yeah, the stranger story is how the guy got hired by the CIA in the first place. Rush was arrested on Monday, May 18, by […]

Bessent Signals Crackdown On Dark-Money Funded NGOs In “Weeks, Months Ahead” Last year, readers were briefed on what was then the investigative phase into dark-money-funded NGOs and alleged foreign influence operations routed through far-left activist networks. These NGOs and activist networks advance anti-capitalist agendas, mobilize protests and riots to fuel unrest under the banner of toxic social justice, and have also served […]

One In Three American Men No Longer Working Via American Greatness, The number of American men participating in the workforce has fallen to one of its lowest levels in nearly two decades, according to new federal labor statistics. Just 66 percent of men age 20 and older were employed or actively seeking work as of April, according to data released earlier this month by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. That figure has dropped […]