Putin Powerfully Rebuffed The Hawks Who Want Him To Attack NATO Authored by Andrew Korybko, In his words, talk about Russia attacking NATO “is not simply nonsense; it is a provocation.” Several top “Non-Russian Pro-Russians” (NRPR) influencers rang the alarm last month about Russia’s alleged plans to attack NATO, which were inspired by top hawk Sergey Karaganov and then Russian Ambassador to the OSCE Dmitry […]

AI Price Wars Begin: OpenAI Considers “Drastic Price Cuts” In Pursuit Of Anthropic Customers Earlier today, in a report discussing how “AI bills are out of control”, JPMorgan tech guru and TMT salesman, Mark Schilsky wrote that “most of my high level investor discussions focus on one major topic: when will the party end? Put another way, tech investors have made so much money in Semis so quickly that they are looking for potential […]

As Spy Law Nears Expiration, Lawmakers Mull Short-Term Renewal Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump’s pick for a key intelligence post has left Democrats and Republicans at odds over a spy law set to lapse on June 12. As the clock ticks down, lawmakers are contemplating Trump’s latest proposal: another short-term extension of the authority while the president searches for a permanent […]

The SAVE America Act Hits A Milestone, Does It Have Momentum Now? The SAVE America Act remains in limbo, but it achieved a critical milestone during a late-night vote-a-rama to advance the GOP’s $70 billion immigration enforcement package, when Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) switched her vote. That means the only thing preventing it from becoming law is the 60-vote threshold in the Senate. The legislation, formally titled the […]

New Arizona Law Targets Demand Behind Prostitution, Sex Trafficking Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times, Arizona has enacted a law that increases penalties for people who buy or attempt to buy sex, and directs new funding to services for victims of sex trafficking. Under the law, paying, agreeing to pay, or offering to pay for sexual conduct is now a felony offense and carries mandatory jail time. Offenders must also pay […]

SoftBank Attempt To Get Downsized $6 Billion OpenAi Margin Loan Stalls One month ago, Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group, was forced to downsize plans for a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake after facing hesitation from some creditors. Today, it couldn’t even get that done after talks with potential creditors to raise the downsized $6 billion stalled amid rising concerns about the collateral value, Bloomberg […]

JPM Says US Defense Base Faces ‘Evolve Or Die’ Moment As Warfare Forever Changes For several quarters, we have described the Trump administration’s massive push to reshape the military-industrial complex, from DOGE-driven efforts inside the Department of War to reset the procurement process, to a broader pivot toward fast-moving “war unicorns,” like Anduril, rather than bloated legacy defense primes. The urgency of that transition […]

California Gets 80% Of All Federal Cash For Illegal Immigrant Families: Report Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, California is home to the lion’s share of illegal immigrant families in the United States with children who received federal welfare assistance in 2024, according to a federal report published on June 10. More than 80 percent of all nationwide cash assistance allocated to such households was spent in […]

Trump Says ‘We’ll Bomb The Sh*t Out Of Them’ Tomorrow Too If No Deal,  After Dozens Of Tomahawks Hit Iran Summary Trump to FOX: ‘We’ll bomb the shit out of them tomorrow night.'” The president declared “we’ll bomb them to rubble” again tomorrow night if there is no deal by then. US says strikes completed tonight. The IRGC is claiming to have struck 18 US military targets in two waves – including attack on Bahrain’s US Fifth […]

MSFT Restricts Internal Use Of Claude Fable Over Data-Retention Concerns; BMO Calls Anthropic A Leading Pure-Play AI Lab Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a next-generation “Mythos-class” AI model, on Tuesday. The model is designed to restrict dangerous capabilities in areas such as cybersecurity and biological research after CEO Dario Amodei warned about risks last month. The model gives users access to Anthropic’s more powerful […]

From FOMO To Oh No! Koreans Face Massive Forced Liquidations As AI Bubble Bursts Korean retail investors’ aggressive leveraged bets on the market’s two dominant AI/Semi names – Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix – are now colliding with a sharp KOSPI correction, triggering the largest wave of forced stock sales in years and raising the specter of a self-reinforcing liquidation spiral. At its peak last week, the benchmark KOSPI […]

CBP Chief Says Border Wall Should Be Finished By Late 2027 Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The U.S. southern border wall will be completed by the end of next year, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott at an event on Tuesday. Scott told an audience in Washington that the “primary border wall … will be done by the end of 2027,” adding that there are a “couple of gaps.” […]

Goldman Flags Tightening Power Grid In Texas Amid Rapid Data Center Growth Goldman shared some of their thoughts on the tightening of power markets as the decade comes to a close. ERCOT’s own Preliminary Long-Term Load Forecast now sees baseline peak-summer demand (excluding most medium and large loads) growing at a 5.2% average annual rate from 2026 through 2030. This is already well above the 3.4% realized average of […]

The Potemkin Ballot Authored by Spyridon Andrews via American Greatness, The only completely predictable result of an election in a Western democracy is election fraud. Fraud is so fundamental to Western democracies that it is fair to say that democracies exist in name only. In fact, elections have become so essential to illegitimate power that they are almost the surest path to subvert the will of the people. Potemkin […]

Bank Of Japan Governor Ueda Hospitalized, Will Miss June Meeting Bank of Japan’s 74-year-old Governor Kazuo Ueda has been hospitalized for medical treatment and will miss the June 15 to 16 ‌policy meeting, the central bank said on Wednesday. It is the first time for the governor, who chairs the BOJ’s policy discussions, to miss a scheduled meeting since the central bank began deciding policy ​under the current arrangement in […]

RFK Jr. Responds To “Explosion” in Tick-Borne, WEF-Touted Alpha-Gal Syndrome Authored By Ben Bartee at Armageddon Prose Substack In response to a question on the topic posed by ZeroHedge reporter Liam Cosgrove, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently addressed the astronomical increase in alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne infection that causes potentially life-threatening allergic reactions to red meat: “Last week, I […]

Apollo’s President Warns AI Is Coming For Professional Services Jobs Next First AI came for Software, disrupting its various offshoots and sparking a brutal bear market at the start of the year before a powerful squeeze sent software stocks surging in recent weeks. Now, it’s the turn of professional services, including law firms, accountancies and consulting firms, which according to Apollo’s co-president, Scott Kleinman are […]

Even CNN Admits Democrats Are Cooked On Immigration Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, CNN’s latest “Run the Numbers” segment lays bare a brutal reality for Democrats: their radical immigration stance has left them bleeding support across every demographic, while President Trump racks up historic approval on the issue. The numbers don’t lie, and even the network long accused of carrying water for open-border advocates is […]

Oracle Tumbles After Mixed Results, Capex Comes In Hot; Warns Another $40BN Debt/Equity Capital Raise Coming With tech stocks cracking for a 3rd straight day, and with the broader market closing at the lows in a surprising sign of weakness, many were looking to ORCL to kickstart the AI euphoria which has been oddly missing in recent days (and which send NVDA stock briefly just below the key level of $200). Well, for those hoping […]

Solar Tops Coal In US Power Mix For The First Month Ever Solar power held a record-high 12.8% share of US electricity supply in May, overtaking coal-generated power for the first full month on record, energy think tank Ember said in a report on Wednesday. As OilPrice notes, while the share of solar-generated power jumped to a record high for a full month, the share of coal in the U.S. electricity mix slumped to 12.2% last month, the […]

Stop Destroying Civilization! Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, In the #MeToo years, the Left’s signature slogan was “Believe All Women!” That directive was used to bolster Christine Blasey Ford’s preposterous and easily refuted 2018 allegations that some 35 years earlier she had been sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, when both were teenagers. Two years later, the Left […]

OpenAI Eyes Massive 10-Gigawatt Ohio Data Center OpenAI is moving along in talks to lease a proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio, according to a new report from The Information, in a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia. This comes as Ohio lawmakers unveiled new legislation aiming to regulate data center build-outs. The massive 10 GW data center would be the largest data center […]

DHS Directs ICE To Deport Illegal Aliens Who Vote In American Elections Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) General Counsel James Percival has directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to impose strict penalties, including deportation, on illegal aliens who vote in American elections. According to a DHS press release, the Immigration and Nationality Act directs the […]

Governments Sell Bonds At Record Pace As Global Rates Rise, Spending Soars In a world already drowning with debt, the only certainty is even more debt  According to a new analysis by Bloomberg, governments are borrowing from syndicated bond markets at a record clip as public spending surges. That’s in addition to direct sales where the government auctions off debt to institutional investors and individuals. Sovereign issuers […]

Trump Says “Secret Military Mission” Allowed 200 Ships, 100 Million Barrels To Cross Hormuz Confirming our reported from both a week ago (see “As Gulf States Plan Bypass Pipelines, US Military Is Quietly Helping Ships Cross Hormuz”) and this afternoon (“Growing Number Of Oil Tankers Successfully Sneak Through Hormuz, Shrinking Iran’s Leverage”) moments ago Trump posted on Truth Social that he had “directed our Great U.S. Military […]