Belfast Horror: African Migrant Tries To Saw Off Victim’s Head In Street Attack Authored by Steve Watson via modernity, Authorities and the media have scrambled to soften language around a graphic knife assault last night by an apparant African migrant that has left a local Belfast man fighting for his life with devastating injuries. Horrifcic footage shows the attacker straddling the victim and repeatedly stabbing his head […]

Trump Insists US In ‘Final Throes’ Of Iran Deal; Death Toll Soars As Israel Pounds South Lebanon The southern Lebanese city of Tyre is being pounded by Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday, despite President Trump’s insistence that Lebanon not come under attack. Israel’s military had hours prior issued an evacuation order for all civilians in the area, amid the unraveling and failing ceasefire. Casualties are already high, coming at a […]

House Report Finds Minnesota Officials Ignored Fraud To Avoid Racism Accusations A House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report released Monday paints a devastating picture of both Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison, finding that they both knew about widespread fraud in state social services programs and failed to act. The report centers on the Feeding Our Future scandal, in which a […]

Futures Rise As Tech Rebound Extends While Oil Drops US equity futures are higher as Monday’s US stock gains extend into today’s trading with both tech and small caps outperforming as the AI theme resumes its global surge and US/Iran deal optimism is back (on the back of the now daily optimistic comments from Trump) broadening the rally.  As of 8:00am ET, tech enthusiasm is on display with Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.8% as […]

Apple’s Aura Is Starting To Crack Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Apple isn’t in trouble. The company still generates enormous amounts of cash, the iPhone remains one of the most successful consumer products ever created, and its business continues to grow. If you forced me to choose one ecosystem to live in for the next decade, I’d still probably choose Apple’s. But for the first time in a very long time, the company […]

Apache Helicopter Downed Near Strait Of Hormuz In Iran War First, Crew Rescued A US helicopter has gone down over the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman in an unprecedented first of the Iran war, Central Command announced Tuesday, after which the two crew members were reportedly rescued by unmanned boats. The Army AH-64 Apache was patrolling regional waters before the downing incident, which is still shrouded in mystery, and […]

From The City Of Angels To The City Of Zombies… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The Jungle Drums Speak! “Love that the crack heads on Skid Row are up on the issues, know the candidates, and are able to Make Their Voices Heard in between hits of meth.” – Peachy Keenan on X Whaddaya know? Looks like the charismatic Nithya Raman has overtaken maverick candidate Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayoral “jungle” primary […]

Beijing Readies $297 Billion Data Center Buildout Blitz In Bid To Dominate AI Race The US and China are locked in a series of races, with AI now sitting at the center of nearly all of them. This is a race not only to build the leading frontier models, but to deploy them across entire economies, unleash physical AI, and convert compute power into productivity, surveillance, military, and industrial advantage ahead of the 2030s. This […]

“Device-Level” Nudity Detection: UK Gov’t Blackmailing Public Into Digital ID Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced plans, in a speech earlier today, to introduce “device-level controls” that will prevent children from viewing, sending or taking naked photographs: This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online. Today I am calling on the tech companies […]

Goldman Hikes Obesity Drug Market Forecast As Oral GLP-1s Go Mass Market The global weight-loss drug market is now expected to reach $114 billion by 2030, up from Goldman’s prior $101 billion forecast, as analysts cite faster adoption of oral obesity pills, stronger demand outside the U.S., and improved affordability that is expanding the patient pool. Goldman analysts led by Asad Haider and James Quigley laid out four main […]

Since Lockdowns, A 12% GDP Loss; Half Of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was in fact far greater than official statistics indicate.  What follows will […]

These Are The World’s Most Prosperous Countries The world’s richest countries are not always the most prosperous. As Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld details below, according to the Atlantic Council’s 2026 Prosperity Index, the world’s most prosperous countries tend to combine economic strength with high living standards. Meanwhile, the U.S. places 38th overall, far below many smaller advanced economies, highlighting […]

5 Future Scenarios For Post-Conflict Iran Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times, There likely are more than five scenarios that Iranians could opt for as hostilities unwind, but the following five visions represent the paths Iran could take this year. Will 2026 onward become the Third Islamic Republic, following the first (1979-1989) and the second (1989-2026)? We can only speculate on the outcome of this third […]

Netanyahu Confirms Israel ‘Holding Fire, For Now’ – Rejects Iran Red Line To Not Attack Lebanon Summary Israel has rejected Iran’s warning not to attack Lebanon, though aerial operations appear paused. Israeli officials say strikes on Iran being halted at President Trump’s request to ‘stop shooting’. Netanyahu confirms attacks halted ‘for now’. Iran FM accuses US of cooperating with Washington: “No one believes that the Zionist […]

Watch: French Fighter Jets Shoot Down Kamikaze Drone Over Latvia There’s been another ‘mystery’ drone shootdown incident over Baltic and Eastern European airspace early Monday. Latvia’s military and Foreign Affairs Minister confirmed that French fighter jets had shot down a drone that entered its airspace, after a series of similar incidents in the region over the past months. Some sources are claiming it was a Russian UAV, while […]

Google Met Top German Govt Officials Many Times To Discuss Online “Hate Speech” And “Disinformation” Authored by John Rosenthal via DailySceptic.org, Data provided in a German Government response to a parliamentary question on online censorship show that Google met with top German government officials dozens of times between early 2022 and spring 2024 to discuss suppression of online “hate speech” and “disinformation”. […]

Pro-EU Ruling Party Wins Armenia Election In Landslide, Kremlin Blasts Western Interference Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party has won parliamentary elections, according to Monday’s result, after a vote which has signified the small Caucasus nation’s major pro-Western shift. His Civil Contract party secured 49.81 percent of the vote, while the main opposition party Strong Armenia – seen as pro-Moscow, finished a […]

Street Unrest In Albania After PM Says Pristine Land ‘Belongs’ To US-Saudi Investors  Authored by Jake Johnson via Common Dreams Albanians took to the streets in droves for the eighth consecutive day on Sunday to protest a proposed $1.6 billion luxury resort complex backed by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, one of several investors in the project, which opponents say is both corrupt and disastrous for […]

10 Enduring Lessons From Adam Smith Authored by Nikolai G. Wenzel via The Daily Economy, Adam Smith (1723-1790) is widely considered to be the father of modern economics. There were precursors, such as the School of Salamanca and the French Physiocrats, but Adam Smith’s 1776 magnum opus, “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,” was the first comprehensive treatise. A statue of Adam Smith in Edinburgh, […]

Apollo And Blackstone Raise $35 Billion For Anthropic In One Of The Biggest Ever Private Credit SPV Deals Back in January, when we profiled Meta’s landmark $27.3 billion SPV deal named “Beignet” for the Hyperion data center located in Louisiana, in which Blue Owl provided the private credit, we said to “expect hundreds of billions of these in 2026.” As a reminder, META is already neck deep in off-balance sheet debt. Here is a […]

Report Says Cuba Mobilizing Militias As U.S. Invasion Fears On The Rise Weeks after Cuba’s leader warned that any U.S. military action against the communist-controlled Caribbean island nation would be a “bloodbath” and risk destabilizing the region, local media reported that the regime had begun handing out weapons to ordinary citizens. Other reports, however, dispute that claim and suggest Havana is instead mobilizing its […]

Tiny X-Ray Telescope Could Unlock The Moon’s Hidden Chemistry Authored by Tokyo Metropolitan University via ScienceDaily, Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have used simulations to show that a small, newly developed X-ray telescope could help create a chemical map of the entire lunar surface. Such a map would be a major step toward understanding how the Moon formed, changed, and evolved over time. A new compact X-ray […]

4 In 10 American Adults Report Having ‘Mental Health’ Problems Over the past few years, a lot of progress has been made in accepting and understanding mental health problems. Having long been seen as a sign of weakness, mental health issues in their many varieties and severities have become much less of a taboo. As Statista’s Valentine Fourreau notes, the pandemic, which left many people feel isolated, powerless or overwhelmed, […]

Chinese Article Warns VPN Use Alone Can Trigger Punishment Under Expanding Censorship Regime Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, A widely circulated Chinese social media article warning that internet users can be punished simply for bypassing China’s online censorship system has drawn attention to what observers say is an expanding clampdown on access to the global internet. The article, published June 2 on Chinese […]

OpenAI Files Confidentially For IPO, Joining SpaceX and Anthropic In Capitalizing On AI Frenzy The rush by AI companies to go public before the window closes (i.e., “market conditions” emerge) entered its final lap late on Monday, when OpenAI joined its two mega peers in filing for a blockbuster IPO that could value the ChatGPT creator at more than $1tn as it races rival Anthropic to list its shares publicly, following an imminent […]