How The Deep State Weaponizes AI To Control The Narrative The Deep State just upgraded from clunky human fact-checkers to AI that scales narrative control at lightspeed. As Tony Seruga wrote on X: No more paper trails, subpoenas, or exposed biases – just seamless manipulation. Automated Shaping at Scale AI floods zones with thousands of subtly varied “organic” rebuttals in seconds. Pre-bunks emerging stories before they trend. […]

European Gas Storage Can’t Survive 3 More Months Of Hormuz Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Europe risks a major gas storage shortfall if disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz continue for another 1–3 months, with inventories still far below normal seasonal levels. LNG supply disruptions, strong Asian demand, and distorted gas pricing have made refilling storage unusually difficult and expensive across the EU. […]

Japan’s Auto Giants Are Losing The EV Race To China Japan’s car industry is being forced into a major reset as Chinese automakers rapidly outpace traditional rivals in electric vehicles, software, and manufacturing speed, according to Nikkei. The shift is especially visible at Honda Motor. In 2021, CEO Toshihiro Mibe pledged that EVs and fuel-cell vehicles would account for all new Honda sales by 2040. Last week, however, he […]

Nearly 1.2 Billion People Live With Mental Disorders Globally: Study Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, There were an estimated 1.17 billion people suffering from mental disorders worldwide in 2023, up by 95.5 percent from 1990, according to a May 23 peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet journal. The study assessed the prevalence of 12 types of mental disorders across 204 nations and territories between […]

The Appearance Of ‘Action’: Britain’s Navy Docked At Gateway To Mediterranean For Hormuz Mission Is Washington’s ally the United Kingdom making preparations to ‘do more’ related to the Iran crisis at the behest of President Trump?  New reporting in The Associated Press suggests so. But the new Monday report also points to the UK possibly just making an appearance of action: “Aboard the RFA Lyme Bay docked off the coast of […]

US Launches “Self-Defense Strikes” Near Hormuz, Killing Several Iranian Personnel Summary The US military carried out “self-defense strikes” on Monday in southern Iran against targets including boats attempting to lay mines and missile launch sites, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said.  Iran has reportedly lifted its nationwide internet ban after nearly 90-days. Israel dramatically ramps up war and bombing of Lebanon, […]

Brussels Eyes Wealth Taxes As Europe’s Fiscal Crisis Spirals Submitted by Thomas Kolbe A fatal fiscal dynamic has become entrenched across the European Union. In nearly every member state, public spending is accelerating at all levels — from municipalities and social insurance systems all the way up to the European Commission — while the private economy at best stagnates and its industrial core sectors visibly erode. This […]

Finland Flourishes As Freedom Flounders In The ‘Land Of The Free’ Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025, according to Freedom House. More than 50 countries saw political rights and civil liberties deteriorate, including the United States. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks the world’s most and least free countries using Freedom House’s 2026 Freedom in the World report, which […]

The Digital Euro As Europe’s Backdoor Capital Control System Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The digital euro ranks among the most ambitious projects within the political architecture of the European Union. As the Eurosystem and the EU increasingly merge into identical and integrated political spaces, it can no longer be denied that this CBDC project is primarily a geopolitical power play by Brussels. Yet the euro-CBDC — shorthand for […]

China Begins Flooding The Market With DRAM And NAND Memory Chips Last September, when the memory bubble was just getting started, we said that inevitably “the cure for high commodity prices is, well, high commodity prices.” While many financial market maxims have quietly ceased working in recent years thanks to rigged markets due to central bank interventions and market manipulation by both money printers and HFTs, this is one that […]

Globalism Seeks To Kill The Nation-State Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, International government threatens the whole planet. People are beginning to understand that those who rule in their name have long been working to eliminate the nation-state. The United Nations is not neutral ground for national governments to discuss their differences; it is a governmental construct meant to replace national […]

Healthcare Workers Dominate America’s Highest-Paid Jobs Want to earn more than $300,000 a year in America? The clearest path is still a highly specialized medical career. This ranking of America’s highest-paying occupations uses Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data to compare mean annual wages and total U.S. employment across the country’s top-paid roles. As Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld details below, the results show […]

Musk: SpaceX Is Actively Seeking More AI Compute Customers, After Anthropic Deal By Sebatsian Moss of Data Center Dynamics SpaceX’s xAI subsidiary is looking to score more data center compute lease deals, after it sold all of the capacity of Colossus I to Anthropic. That deal will see Grok’s competitor pay $1.25 billion a month over the next three years for the 300MW facility. The deal can be terminated by either party, with […]

First Andreessen, Now Goldman CEO Shuts Down AI Job-Apocalypse Doomerism Narrative Amid the flood of AI doomerism, from Pope Leo XIV’s Monday warning that AI and the digital transformation of the economy could unleash “new forms of slavery” and mass job losses, to Bernie Sanders and unhinged socialists calling for a halt to data centers buildouts, a move that would conveniently cede compute power to communists in Beijing, a growing […]

Arab States Voice Outrage Over New ‘Illegal’ Embassy Opening In Jerusalem Via The Cradle Fifteen Arab and Islamic countries condemned on Sunday the decision of the breakaway region of Somaliland to open an embassy in occupied Jerusalem. The foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Turkiye, Pakistan, Indonesia, Djibouti, Somalia, Palestine, Oman, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, and Mauritania denounced the move in a joint […]

Debt Remembered And Debt Ignored Authored by Greg Marasca via AmericanThinker.com, Memorial Day compels Americans to confront a word we avoid: debt. Not the financial kind that Congress pretends will magically resolve itself, but the older, heavier meaning — the kind carved into headstones at Arlington and cemeteries across the country. It is the debt paid in full by those who gave their lives, so the rest of us could live […]

China Moves To Shut Down Offshore Stock-Trading Channels Used By Mainland Investors Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, China’s securities regulator has opened enforcement actions against Futu, Tiger Brokers, and Longbridge Securities, accusing the offshore online brokerages of illegally serving mainland investors who used the platforms to trade U.S. and Hong Kong stocks. The China Securities Regulatory Commission […]

‘Weeks Inside Highly Fortified Bunkers’: Report Details Painfully Slow Communication Within Iran’s Leadership According to a Sunday CBS News report citing US officials, Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still in hiding in a secret location with extremely limited communication to the outside world. Driven underground by a pervasive fear within Tehran’s remaining leadership structure following relentless US and Israeli […]

Democrats Using Black Athletes As Pawns In Redistricting War The Congressional Black Caucus, aligned with the NAACP, is urging black college athletes to avoid Southeastern Conference schools in Southern states as a form of economic pressure against Republican-drawn redistricting maps that eliminate majority-black congressional districts. The campaign is called “Out of Bounds,” and is essentially asking young black athletes to […]

“It Should Be Studied”: RFK Jr Says ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome Is ‘A Real Thing’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler, For The Honored Dead “I told my staff today that we need an ICD code for Trump Derangement Syndrome, because it is a real thing … It should be studied.” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr As of this holiday morning, America is informed that the negotiations between the US and Iran may take several more days to […]

Huckabee Tells Lebanese To Thank Israel For Seedless Watermelons, While Under IDF Bombs Via Middle East Eye Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel and a passionate advocate of its wars in the region, has told the people of Lebanon to be grateful for Israeli contributions to its society. Video of Huckabee speaking at the Atlas Awards in Tel Aviv on May 12 has only recently emerged and is being shared online after it was […]

OnlyFans “Hack” Hoax Likely Used To Push Malware-Laced Leak Checkers A cyber threat actor advertised a purported database of 340 million OnlyFans-linked user records on a well-known cybercrime forum, asking for 0.313 BTC, or roughly $76,000, according to U.K.-based cybersecurity news site HackRead. The alleged “340 million OnlyFans user mega leak” narrative ran rampant on X this past holiday weekend, garnering millions of views […]

Corrections Vs Bears: How The Fed Rewired The Market Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, After three decades of watching market cycles play out from both sides of the trade, I’ve come to a simple conclusion: Wall Street’s love of simple rules is one of the most dangerous aspects of investing. When stocks fall 10%, it’s just a “correction.” However, if they decline 20%, it’s a “bear […]

Pope Sounds Alarm On AI “Slavery” While Church Aligns With Lefty Anthropic Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday, entitled Magnifica Humanitas (The Magnificence of the Human Person). The roughly 42,300-word declaration, issued as a papal encyclical, warned, “The fight against new forms of slavery is a decisive test for the ethical discernment of AI and digital transformation.” “If technology promises emancipation, […]

Everyone Talks About The Cost Of Gasoline… Soon Everyone Will Be Talking About The Cost Of Food Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse Blog.  For most people, the price of gasoline is the most obvious consequence of the war in the Middle East. As I write this article, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $4.56. Of course, in some parts of the country, consumers are paying much more […]