Ukrainian Expert Dismisses Trump Pledge On Patriot Missile License As Empty PR President Trump’s declaration from the NATO summit in Turkey this week saying that he’ll give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot defense systems has been met with a lot of skepticism, both among Ukrainians and internationally.  “We’ll give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to do it,” Trump had said. “I think they can produce […]

“Planet’s Strongest Heat Dome” To Bake America’s Heartland What some meteorologists are calling the “planet’s strongest heat dome” is set to build over America’s heartland next week. Triple-digit temperatures are expected across the northern Plains, with dangerous heat pushing eastward into parts of the Mid-Atlantic. “The planet’s strongest heat dome will develop over the Intermountain West and Plains into next week,” […]

Iran Begins ‘Retaliation’ Attack On Gulf After Overnight US Launched 3rd Round Of Strikes, Following IRGC Hit On Cargo Ship Update 10:40pm ET. Somewhat predictably, as has been the pattern of this war – Iran is in the very early morning hours (local) launching retaliatory strikes on Arab Gulf nations, or as the Iranians say against US assets and bases in the Gulf. Per state media: IRAN LAUNCHES SERIES OF STRIKES AGAINST US […]

Tehran Declares Hormuz Closed, But Ships Are Still Transiting The Strait of Hormuz’s southern shipping channel remained open Sunday morning despite a sharp escalation in tit-for-tat attacks, with the US launching a third round of airstrikes on Iran and Tehran retaliating against US-linked targets across Arab Gulf states. “Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz continued at reduced levels, with vessels transiting via […]

US Population Growth Prospects Corrected Downwards The population of the United States is projected to keep on climbing beyond 2100. However, the rate of increase that can be expected until 2050 has been significantly corrected downwards over the last couple of years. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, according to the Congressional Budget Office, 349 million people live in the United States in 2026. In 2050, this is […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham Dead At 71 Following “Brief And Sudden Illness” Lindsey Graham, the Republican foreign-policy hawk from South Carolina, died abruptly on Saturday following what his office described as “a brief and sudden illness,” according to a statement posted on X. “On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness. Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this […]

EU Eyes 2040 Electrification Target To Slash Oil and Gas Dependence Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The European Commission is set to unveil next week an electrification target for 2040 in a bid to reduce the need for fossil fuels and strengthen the renewable energy sector in the EU, according to a draft proposal seen by Bloomberg News. The Commission, the EU’s legislative arm, is expected to propose on July 17 […]

IMF Downgrades Global Growth Forecast Second Time In A Row The IMF downgraded global growth prospects for the second time this year, saying it expects the global economy to grow by just 3 percent in 2026. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, in January, this projection had still stood at 3.3 percent. While the downgrade is slight, it still conveys the multiple risks to the global economy currently present. As shocks from […]

Record High 53% Of Gang Rape Suspects Were Foreigners In 2025 In Germany Via Remix News, The share of foreigners involved in gang rapes hit a record high in 2025, reaching 53 percent. A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD). According to the statistics, 53 percent of the suspects — a […]

The Economics Of The Surveillance State Authored by  John Wilder, “That was a Beria operation in Stalin’s time.  It was deactivated twenty years ago.” – The Living Daylights How did KGB agents commit suicide?  Two shots to the back of the head.  (all photo content as-found) Remember Lavrentiy Beria’s cheerful advice:  “Show me the man, and I will find the crime”?  Back in the Soviet Union they had so […]

Which States Produce The Most Food In America? From California’s fruit and vegetable farms to the Midwest’s vast corn and soybean fields, agriculture looks very different across the United States. Using the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), this graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, ranks every state by its agricultural production value in 2024. America’s Largest Agricultural […]

Next-Gen Ramjet Fuel Propulsion System For Future Offensive, Defensive Missions Tested Authored by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra via Interesting Engineering, L3Harris has taken a significant step toward advancing next-generation propulsion technology for future offensive and defensive missions. The approach marks an essential risk reduction step in enabling solid fuel ramjet propulsion to help close a critical performance, and cost gap. […]

California Ex-Police Official Tops State Payroll With $1.2 Million Payday Former Redlands Police Deputy Chief Travis Martinez received nearly $1.2 million in wages in 2025, the highest reported compensation for any city employee in California, according to newly released data from the State Controller’s Office and reporting by the New York Post. Payroll records show Martinez collected $81,804 in regular pay, $890,467 in other […]

Congressman Outraged After Brief Detention By Gun-Wielding Israeli Settlers In West Bank Visit Via The Cradle A group of extremist Jewish settlers equipped with US-made M4 rifles detained US lawmaker Ro Khanna and his group during their visit this week to the southern occupied West Bank, the Democratic representative has disclosed. “We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed; they had destroyed the school, they had […]

Guggenheim AI Survey Finds Adoption Surging Across Large IT Enterprises As Mass Layoff Fears Fall Flat Building on Goldman’s estimate that AI adoption across corporate America currently stands at roughly 20.6% and could rise to 24% by year-end, a Guggenheim Securities survey of 150 large-enterprise IT professionals found that 81% of respondents have already deployed AI agents. Anthropic and OpenAI are leading adoption among […]

DARPA’s Chilling Pre-COVID Blueprint: Predict, Manufacture, & Deploy Pandemics On Demand Authored by Jon Fleetwood, via Substack, A sprawling, multi-institution effort for “predicting” future pathogen characteristics, developing vaccines “in advance of need,” and building the very systems intended to validate those predictions. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spent the early 2010s constructing what […]

DHS Deports Convicted Child Rapist Gov. Tim Walz Pardoned The Department of Homeland Security deported Tou Lue Vang on Friday, the Laotian national Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pardoned last month in an effort to keep him in the country. Vang, 42, entered the United States illegally and built a life in Minnesota that included, by his own admission, sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty in 2006 to first-degree criminal […]

The Real Grid Crisis Is A State Policy Problem Dressed Up As A Market Failure Authored by Todd Snitchler via RealClearEnergy, There’s a critique of PJM making the rounds: PJM – the largest grid operator in the United States – is too big. There are too many state interests at play, and PJM doesn’t have the ability to function cohesively or quickly enough. FERC even scheduled a governance technical conference this month to examine […]

Pro-Palestine Activist Reportedly Murdered By Migrant Boyfriend The phrase “suicidal empathy” has exploded like wildfire across social media in the past year largely because there are so many tragic stories of migrant crime against people who advocate for open immigration.  Liberal women and devout leftist activists work in immigration centers or open their homes to third world migrants, only to be brutally assaulted or murdered by […]

Fifth Circuit Rules Against In-State Tuition For Illegal Aliens Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJMedia.com, The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the Trump administration and against woke states or universities that try to provide special tuition breaks to illegal aliens. Brett Shumate, who serves as the assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Division, celebrated the court win […]

The COVID Reckoning That Never Came Authored by Ed Dowd via ‘Beyond The Narrative’ substack, The COVID Reckoning That Never Came… And the Silence That Proves the Psyop Over the last several years I have been posting nonstop on X about the same nightmares we’ve been living through…the COVID psyop, the experimental mRNA shots, the mandates that destroyed lives, the injuries, the excess deaths, and the relentless propaganda […]

Rubio Convenes 60-Nation Summit To Confront Transnational Far-Left Terrorism Secretary of State Marco Rubio has requested that senior officials from more than 60 countries convene in Washington next Thursday to discuss the alarming rise of transnational far-left terrorism, according to a Washington Post report. The State Department confirmed the meeting in a post on X Friday afternoon titled, “Secretary of State Marco Rubio Is […]

5 Charts To Navigate This Chaotic Market Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, I have 5 charts for you today which put this crazy market into context and give some clarity on what might come next. We’re at a fascinating crossroads for markets, geopolitics, and finance. Let’s get started. Semis Party Like It’s 1999 First up, semiconductor returns. The index below includes U.S. semi stocks like Nvidia, Micron, […]

China Lands Reusable Rocket On Barge, But SpaceX Remains Years Ahead China successfully landed the first-stage booster of a Long March 10B rocket on a floating barge during an orbital launch test earlier Friday, marking the first major step in reusable launch technology, albeit roughly a decade behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX. “This mission … signifies a historic breakthrough in China’s reusable rocket technology and a solid […]

China Bans Helium Exports As Qatar Outage Deepens Global Supply Squeeze China has abruptly banned helium exports, a key component in semiconductors, which adds yet another serious constraint to a global market already reeling from the loss of production in Qatar. In a two-sentence Friday announcement, China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs said helium covered by customs code 2804290010 was subject to a […]