Explosion At Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial Area Due To “Technical Incident” A massive explosion rocked Qatar’s giant Ras Laffan energy complex.  BREAKING: HUGE EXPLOSION AT RAS LAFFAN INDUSTRIAL CITY IN QATAR’S LARGEST GAS FACILITY The blast was so strong it was heard in Bahrain and reportedly felt like an earthquake. pic.twitter.com/4bdCH0eeWd — Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) June 21, 2026 According to Qatar’s interior […]

What History Teaches Us About Why So Many Eventually Flee Socialism Authored by Armstrong Williams via The Epoch Times, History is filled with political movements born from noble promises. Few have been more appealing in theory than socialism. At its heart, socialism promises greater equality, economic fairness, and protection for those who struggle in a competitive marketplace. It speaks to the desire for justice and the belief […]

The Market Is Carrying More Length & More Leverage: Goldman Flows Guru Warns… Expect More Volatilit The biggest discussion that top Goldman Sachs trader (and flows guru), Lee Coppersmith, had with clients this week wasn’t whether AI is over – it wasn’t. The debate has shifted to how investors should own it from here. If anything, the secular backdrop across both the US and Asia continues to strengthen. Capex expectations […]

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Expected To Resign On Monday: Report Keir Starmer’s premiership appears to have entered its final act. Just over a week after Andy Burnham stormed back into Parliament with a crushing by-election win, the Prime Minister is – according to senior Labour figures cited by The Observer – preparing to set out a timetable for his own departure, with a “clear statement” possible as early as Monday. Peter […]

Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Scholarships As Unconstitutional Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state-funded scholarship program that awarded financial aid based on the race of college students. The Democrat-controlled court followed the precedent laid out by the United States Supreme Court in finding that Gov. Tony Evers and the state were violating the Equal Protection […]

Feminists Are Increasingly Joining “Witchcraft Communes” To Fill The Spiritual Void In the past 70 years, the subject of the Salem Witch Trials has been hijacked by the political left as a historic example of the authoritarian nature of the “patriarchy”.  Arthur Miller used the trials as an allegory for “anti-communist hysteria” in his famous 1953 play, The Crucible.  As we now know, however, Joseph McCarthy was mostly right when […]

With Just 2 Weeks To Go Until 250th July 4th Celebration, How Much Higher Will Trump Pump Stocks By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Getting Ready for the Most Beautiful HUGE Long Weekend Ever I hope you are all enjoying the Juneteenth long weekend and Father’s Day. It seems like we just had a long weekend (because we did) and that another long weekend is almost upon us (because it is). While the 4th of July is always special, […]

Financial Times Hypes SpaceX’s Dismal ESG Rating By MSCI, But Really Nobody Cares The Financial Times appears eager to frame MSCI’s decision to assign SpaceX the “lowest possible ESG rating” as a major reputational blow. However, the real story is that the entire ESG movement on Wall Street has imploded, and anyone grounded in reality and common sense has increasingly viewed the whole woke era as counterproductive. “The triple C […]

Trump Is Furious With Senate GOP, Puts Thune In His Crosshairs Donald Trump does not like the word “no.” He likes it even less when it comes from John Thune, the Senate majority leader whose job description apparently does not include telling the president what he wants to hear. That dynamic has now spilled into public view, and the fallout says as much about the state of the Republican Party as it does about any single piece of […]

First Round Of Iran Talks Concludes In Switzerland With Fireworks, Threats Of Renewed War: ‘Be Careful’ Summary Round 1 ends: Vance cites “great progress” and says talks will continue. Iran defiant, sees itself in strong position: Ghalibaf rejects US threats and links talks to a Lebanon ceasefire. Trump raises stakes via some typical Truth Social lashing out: Warns on Hormuz, Lebanon, and keeps military options on the table. […]

California Declares State Of Emergency Over Los Angeles Warehouse Fire, Smoke Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Saturday after the Los Angeles mayor asked for state disaster support in the wake of an ongoing warehouse fire that continues to burn more than three days after it started on June 17. “California is mobilizing to support Los Angeles as […]

Feeling Emboldened After Attacks On Moscow, Zelensky Threatens Belarus With Military Action Ukraine is feeling more confident of late as its long-range drones have made the Moscow area – as well as dozens of oil refineries across the country burn. Zelensky if seeking to flex yet again in recent days by issuing an ultimatum to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, threatening that close Russian ally and ‘Union State’ Belarus […]

Billionaire Tax Officially Heads To Nov. 3 Ballot Authored by Madeline Shannon via The Center Square, The controversial union-backed billionaire tax in California is officially heading to the Nov. 3 ballot. Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced the California Billionaire Tax Act exceeded the number of signatures it needed to qualify for the general election. The initiative aims to impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on the […]

Betting Against Ourselves: The Casino-ization Of America Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Last month I wrote about something that had been building in my mind for years: the realization that active trading was doing more harm than good in my life. I wrote about how I had finally put systems in place to turn my trading and account management over to trusted parties who are far better and more disciplined at it than I am. I had […]

Kremlin Skeptical That US-Iran Peace Can Be Achieved: ‘Rash’ If there’s a ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine happening at the Kremlin, mostly assuredly the role of bad cop always falls to Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev. In his maximalist and hyperbolic threats, he can be seen as the “John Bolton of the Kremlin”.  With Trump’s decision to wage war on Iran, Medvedev’s negativity and skepticism has proven right more often than […]

Swiss Government Discusses Revoking Protections, Benefits For Military-Aged Ukrainians During the opening years of the Russia-Ukraine war European states were quite welcoming to Ukrainian refugees and anyone fleeing the carnage and chaos, but now in the conflict’s fifth year the general sentiment among EU populations and governments is changing. Switzerland, once hailed as Europe’s most neutral state – and among the most […]

Windward Says “Zero AIS Transits” On Hormuz Chokepoint US-Iran technical talks are underway on Sunday, with Qatari mediators involved. Ahead of the talks, likely focused on Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran attempted to reassert leverage over the Strait of Hormuz following renewed Israel-Hezbollah fighting in Lebanon. Iran announced the closure of the strait on Saturday, framing the move as retaliation for alleged violations of the […]

Gabbard Drops Fauci COVID-19 Receipts On Last Day: He Funded The Research, Cooked The Cover Story, Then Lied To Congress Newly declassified documents released Thursday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard show that a U.S. national laboratory assessed the COVID-19 lab-origin hypothesis as a serious possibility as early as May 2020, as well as evidence of U.S.-funded coronavirus research that included planning for […]

BBC Flagship Soap Being Used To Push Pro-Migrant Propaganda By Activist Infiltrators Authored by Steve Watson via modernity, A campaigner for “migration and racial justice” has been employed to shape storylines for EastEnders – Britain’s long-running BBC flagship soap opera set in London’s East End – featuring plots about exploited African migrants and racially motivated murders, it has been revealed. It is clear evidence of […]

Poland Revokes Top Award From Zelensky As Row Over Nazi Symbolism Deepens Poland and Ukraine’s ties continue to fray, worsening an ongoing diplomatic crisis – despite Warsaw being an ‘eastern flank’ key NATO ally in the broader Western campaign against Russia.  President ​Karol Nawrocki has just announced the country’s highest state honor previously awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been revoked.  “In […]

Britain’s Greatest Betrayal: The Rape Gang Inquiry Report Authored by Celina via American Greatness, Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry Report opens with two quotations before a single piece of evidence is presented. The first is Albert Einstein’s observation: The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. Human history has always […]

Vance ‘Skeptical’ That Iran Closed Hormuz Strait Again, Pentagon Declares Safe Passage Remains ‘Intact Today’ Summary Vance & CENTCOM push back against reports of Hormuz ‘closure’ by Iranians.  Iran’s Ghalibaf, Araghchi en route to US Talks in Switzerland, IRIB reports. Also Witkoff-headed US delegation still expected. Iran declares Strait ‘closed’ again over US failing to reign in Israeli action in Lebanon. Rising death […]

Are iPhones Dialing Up The Birth Dearth? Authored by Thaddeus G. McCotter via American Greatness, When I call you up, your line’s engaged I have had enough, so act your age We have lost the time that was so hard to find And I will lose my mind If you won’t see me . . . Time after time You refuse to even listen I wouldn’t mind If I knew what I was missing —The Beatles, “You Won’t See Me” As one heads into […]

‘Syria & Turkey Represent Bigger Threat To Israel Than Iran’: Israeli Minister Via The Cradle Late this week Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli declared in an interview with Israeli Army Radio that Tel Aviv “will be at war with Syria sooner or later,” highlighting that the alliance between Damascus and Turkey poses a “strategic challenge” to his country. The Likud official said, “There is no way that a jihadist […]

In Defense Of Entrepreneurs By Matthew J. Brouillette via RealClearPennsylvania, Like clockwork, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) is again finding America’s billionaires guilty by reason of existence, arguing the Elon Musks and Jeff Bezos of the world must donate more to the government via higher taxes. Her premise is that the wealthy don’t pay their “fair share,” leaving the non-wealthy to suffer in a zero-sum […]