Russia Warns US Against Sending Thousands More Troops Near Its Borders: Pushing Toward ‘Suicidal Conflict’ Russia is deeply alarmed about US plans to deploy thousands of additional troops to NATO’s eastern flank member Poland, slamming reports out of Washington as unacceptable and portending an escalation in the Ukraine war. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press briefing on Thursday that sending […]

DC Great Again: Historic Columbus Circle Fountain Flows For First Time In Years Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump administration continues to deliver tangible results in Washington, D.C. Columbus Circle at Union Station is now clean, safe, and beautiful again, with its historic fountain restored and water flowing for the first time in years. The ribbon was officially cut Thursday, and fencing around the […]

Will Blue Origin’s Vaporized Rocket Set Back Amazon Leo’s Satellite Rollout Summary:  Amazon Leo needs 24 New Glenn launches to close the gap with SpaceX’s Starlink. NASA needs New Glenn for Artemis. Both timelines could’ve just been derailed simultaneously. Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes On Florida Launchpad Will Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Mishap Derail Amazon Leo Satellite Launches Ahead of Thursday […]

Iran Clarifies Deal ‘Not Finalized’ Amid Lack Of Trust, Warns US-Gulf Of ‘Utter Ruin’ If War Resumes Iran’s Tasnim reports Friday that the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is not yet finalized, and that Thursday’s flurry of Western media headlines about an agreement finally being reached were inaccurate. “The text is not finalized yet and the account in Western media is not precise,” a fresh statement indicates. Official […]

SpaceX Reportedly Lowers IPO Valuation Target SpaceX is targeting a valuation of at least $1.8 trillion in its upcoming initial public offering, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. This is below an earlier goal of more than $2 trillion. In practice, the initial IPO valuation target is a marketing range, not a final number. Therefore, any valuation shifts ahead of the trading day would not be unusual. This […]

Futures Hit Another Record High After Pricing In Same “Iran Deal” Every Day For The Past Month US equity futures are higher, continuing their slow motion-gamma squeeze into record territory, as traders waited to see whether America and Iran could finally get the peace deal they have already priced in every single day for the past month. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are up 0.1%, and poised to rise for the ninth consecutive week, […]

French FinMin “Vigilant” After Economy Unexpectedly Contracts In Q1 “We remain vigilant, without giving in to being alarmist,” said French Finance Minister Roland Lescure on social media after the Gallic nation saw its economy unexpectedly shrink at the start of the year. French gross domestic product fell 0.1% in the three months through March, the first quarterly contraction since the COVID pandemic, raising concerns over […]

99% Of CEOs Are Planning AI Job-Cuts, As Gap Between Rich And Poor Continues To Explode Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Our economy is being transformed at a faster pace than we have ever experienced before. Thanks to giant leaps in the field of artificial intelligence, human labor is not as valuable as it once was. All over the world, millions of human workers are being replaced and that trend is only […]

“Approaching Unheard Of Inventory Levels”: Exxon, Chevron Issue Apocalyptic Warning About What Happens Next To Oil Just about two months ago, JPMorgan did the math on “How Long Before The World Hits Crude Oil Operational Minimum.” The punchline was that while the market can hold hundreds of millions of barrels, it would still become fragile once working stocks fell too low. Like blood pressure in the human body, the issue is […]

US To Power Base With Nuclear Aircraft Carrier As Navy Mulls New Floating Reactor Program Later this summer, the nuclear-powered USS Gerald R. Ford will export electricity from its two A1B reactors directly to Naval Station Norfolk, powering the largest naval base in the world from a $13 billion supercarrier sitting at the pier. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao provided the news during a May 14 House Armed Services Committee […]

“Significantly Exceeding Expectations”: Dell Erupts 40% After AI-Fueled Beat, Outlook Hike Dell Technologies surged 38% in New York premarket trading after delivering a major earnings beat and issuing a stronger-than-expected annual sales forecast, fueled by explosive demand for AI servers that continues to reshape the hardware sector. Earnings results reinforce Dell’s position as a direct beneficiary of the AI infrastructure […]

Consumers Face Fiscal-Cliff As Tax-Refund Sugar-High Fades Nearly two months of the national average gasoline price exceeding the politically sensitive $4-per-gallon level have left corporate America increasingly worried about consumer health this earnings season. Kraft Heinz’s CEO warned that some households are “literally running out of money,” while UBS analysts caution that even as the AI-linked chip and memory bubble inflates […]

Miniature Floating Nuclear Plants Could Supply Clean Power To Greek Islands Authored by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra via Interesting Engineering, Miniature floating nuclear power plants (FNPP) could help Greek islands by supplying power, according to a new study. Such plants could also help decarbonize Greece’s non-interconnected islands, according to the study by the Deon Policy Institute, ABS, Core Power, and Athlos Energy. The concept […]

South African Impeachment Committee To Hold First Meeting On President’s “Farmgate” Scandal South Africa’s parliament has scheduled for Monday the first meeting of an impeachment committee ​that will probe allegations around President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “Farmgate” scandal, Reuters reported citing the Democratic Alliance ‌party.  The meeting is the next stage in an impeachment process against Ramaphosa that was revived by the […]

France To Reimburse Patients For Anti-Obesity Drugs Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, France is set to begin reimbursing severely obese people for the cost of weight-loss drugs, French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist said on May 28. Wegovy at a pharmacy in London on March 8, 2024. Hollie Adams/Reuters She said that Paris would subsidize the use of Danish company Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and American pharma giant Eli […]

Vance Says Trump Not Ready To Approve Iran Deal, Citing Distance On Nuclear Issue Summary Rtrs citing Iran’s Fars: Iran’s armed forces carries out a missile launch operation from southern regions of the country toward specified targets. Reports of US ships targeted (unconfirmed); also ‘warning shots’ fired on ‘illicit’ vessels. Per Axios: “U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached an agreement on a 60-day memorandum of […]

Canadian Government Is Crushing Indie Media With Two Sneaky Policies Canada is not only going the way of Europe with the country’s draconian speech laws, it is in many ways surpassing the suppression and censorship across the Atlantic.  The speed at which the population is being robbed of their freedoms is staggering, and much of this is being done through backdoor bureaucracy.   One factor that consistently frustrated the […]

Leak Exposes Germany Forcing Social Media To Boost State Propaganda, Bury Dissent Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, European elites are reeling from the information revolution they failed to suppress. A fresh leak exposes Germany’s state media regulators plotting a new law to compel social media platforms to automatically boost “reliable” and “trusted” mainstream outlets in their algorithms. Sold as a […]

Stealth Technology In A Can Could Make Suicide Drones Invisible A Turkish defense startup claims it has developed a spray-on radar-absorbing paint coating that could reduce the radar signature of one-way attack drones without the exorbitant costs of traditional stealth materials, a capability once only reserved for major defense primes. Military and defense news outlet The Defense Blog reports that researcher Yunus İnce, along […]

Leftist Party Wants Voting Rights For All Foreigners Who’ve Lived In Germany For 5 Years Via Remix News, Germany’s Left Party is pushing for a major overhaul of the German electoral system by proposing that foreign residents without a German passport be granted voting rights after five years of legal residency. To achieve this, the Left faction in the Bundestag has submitted a formal application demanding that anyone residing […]

NATO Warns Russia’s Hybrid War Is Targeting Europe’s Energy Grid Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, European officials fear Russia’s “grey war” is entering a more dangerous phase, with gas pipelines, electricity interconnectors, offshore networks, and subsea infrastructure increasingly vulnerable to sabotage and cyberattacks. Security sources say Moscow is escalating pressure because the Ukraine war is […]

US Nuclear Recycling Plant Could Extract 100 Times More Energy From Uranium Fuel Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, A US startup has joined forces with the nation’s first national laboratory to recycle spent nuclear fuel into energy for fast reactors by using advanced pyroprocessing technology. New York-based nuclear technology company BLSK Energy announced on May 18 that it had signed a Cooperative […]

Threat Of 2030s Lunar War Has NASA, Elon Musk Racing To Build Major Moon Base NASA unveiled plans earlier this week for a lunar base as the U.S. finds itself locked in a multi-domain race with China, one that stretches across energy, compute, weapons, drones, trade, rare earths, shipbuilding, and now the Moon. The next front with Beijing is no longer just about returning humans to the lunar surface. It is about establishing […]

Judge Declines To Block Trump’s Order On Mail-In Voting Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on May 28 allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to implement an executive order imposing restrictions on mail-in voting. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, based in Washington, rejected a request from Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), for an injunction against the […]

Visualizing The Beef-Margin Bloodbath Behind Tyson CEO’s Exit Tyson Foods CEO Donnie King is stepping down after five years at the helm of the nation’s largest meatpacker, with the stock having languished under his tenure as the company battled some of the worst cattle-market conditions in a generation. Jeff Schomburger, a long-time Tyson board member, will become president and CEO on October 4. King, a 43-year Tyson veteran, will […]