Futures Drop Ahead Of July 9 Tariff Deadline US equity futures are weaker with investors on edge about the potential for more tariffs from the Trump administration as we head into the July 9 deadline which appears to have been rolled to Aug 1. As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 contracts declined 0.2% although well off session lows after Treasury Secretary Bessent indicated that some countries may get a three-week extension to trade […]

Are We Training Kids To Beat AI – Or Training AI To Beat Kids? Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary In a world racing to build smarter machines, a group of children just reminded us what real intelligence looks like. Various AI apps are seen on a smartphone screen in a file photo. Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images At the University of Washington, researchers recently put a group of 7- to […]

Wall Street Responds To ‘America Party’; Musk Denies, Calls Party Filing ‘Fake News’ Tesla shares tumbled in premarket trading in New York as investors weighed Elon Musk’s move to launch the new “America Party,” just one day after President Trump signed a tax-cut and spending bill into law—legislation Musk had publicly denounced. Although Musk has denied founding the party, calling the reports “fake news,” the market appears […]

Investor Greed Returns With A Vengeance Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestm,entAdvice.com, Retail investor greed again dominates market activity, echoing some of the same speculative behaviors seen during previous risk-on phases. Retail investors show heightened risk appetite across multiple metrics, from options trading to leveraged ETF flows, with little regard for valuation or macroeconomic headwinds. Put/call ratios […]

Texas Flood Disaster: 81 Dead As Search Intensifies; Cloud Seeding Startup Denies Involvement The flash flood that sent a 30-foot wall of water surging down the Guadalupe River in Central Texas has claimed at least 81 lives as of early Monday morning. Law enforcement officials in Kerr County confirmed that at least ten girls from Camp Mystic remain missing. Amid speculation that the so-called “1-in-1,000-year storm” may have been […]

Google Bets Big On Nuclear Fusion Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, Google signed the first direct corporate power purchase agreement for nuclear fusion energy with Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The global race to achieve commercial nuclear fusion is intensifying, with significant investments from the U.S., China, and the European Union. Nuclear fusion promises to deliver abundant, clean energy, […]

Tanker Explosion Reported At Russia’s Ust-Luga Seaport An ammonia leak during loading operations on the LPG tanker “Eco Wizard” reportedly triggered an explosion, resulting in the tanker sinking at one of Russia’s most strategically important ports, located in the Leningrad Region of northwest Russia on the Gulf of Finland.  German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported that Eco Wizard experienced an explosion during onboard […]

Germany’s Pension Ponzi Scheme Is Collapsing: What Comes Next Submitted by Thomas Kolbe If you’ve ever wanted to witness the slow-motion collapse of a Ponzi scheme, you might want to keep an eye on Germany’s public pension system. Rhetorically and politically sugar-coated as a “pay-as-you-go” system — where today’s workers finance the retirement of yesterday’s — this bureaucratic redistribution leviathan is utterly […]

Ayatollah Khamenei Makes First Public Appearance Since War With Israel, US Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made his first public appearance since last month’s 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel, at the end of which the US sent B-2 bombers in an effort to destroy three key nuclear facilities. Khamenei attended a religious ceremony in Tehran, which was featured in a video broadcast by state media. The 85-year-old […]

The UK Aims To Entrench Its Influence In Estonia In Order To Lead The Arctic-Baltic Front Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The possible deployment of nuclear-capable F-35As there, which could be equipped with US air-to-ground nukes since the UK no longer has its own, would give London a leading role in managing the joint Arctic-Baltic front against Russia that’s expected to remain even after the Ukrainian Conflict […]

Russia Army Captures Two More Settlements In 3rd Straight Month Of Advance In Ukraine’s East Russia’s military announced on Sunday that its forces had taken control of two additional settlements in eastern Ukraine, specifically one in the Donetsk region and the other in Kharkiv. The statements indicated the villages of Piddubne in Donetsk and Sobolivka in Kharkiv are now under Russian control, though the Ukrainian side has not yet […]

Germany Is Not Being Honest About Who Is Assaulting Children At Swimming Pools Authored by eugyppius, Migrants will not stop molesting and assaulting children at swimming pools in the best and most democratic Germany of all time… In the last 10 years, we’ve welcomed a lot of ill-behaved and criminal young men into our country for no discernible reason, and along the way we’ve had the dubious privilege of discovering whole […]

Analyzing Xi’s Absence From The Latest BRICS Summit Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Chinese President Xi Jinping declined to travel to Rio for the latest BRICS Summit on the reported pretext of scheduling conflicts and having already met with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Ignacia Lula da Silva twice this year. The South China Morning Post speculated that the real reason was that Xi didn’t want to be “perceived as […]

FBI Concludes Jeffrey Epstein Had No Clients, Didn’t Blackmail Anyone, And Definitely Killed Himself Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein and his colleague, Ghislaine Maxwell, were both charged by the Justice Department with sex trafficking—and Maxwell was convicted. But according to the DOJ, the two apparently didn’t have any clients. In a bombshell FBI memo leaked to Axios and […]

The Secret Campaign To Stop RFK Jr. Authored by ‘A MidWestern Doctor’ via ‘The Forgotten Side Of Medicine’ substack, A few days ago, Robert Malone contacted me about a leaked memo from BIO published by the Brownstone Institute which he’d shared on his Substack which detailed an orchestrated industry conspiracy to sabotage RFK Jr. and stop making America healthy. After reviewing the article, my suspicion was that it was […]

Russia Becomes First Country To Officially Recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban Government Russia has become the first country to officially recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government, which occurred during a formal ceremony in Moscow on Saturday. In attendance representing the Taliban was Molavi Gul Hassan Hassan, Kabul’s ambassador to Russia. In the ceremony he presented his credentials to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei […]

Texas Floods Kill 50; Search Ongoing For Dozens Of Missing Campers Update (Sunday Morning):  Search and rescue operations continued into the early hours of Sunday morning as officials in Central Texas confirmed the death toll has now exceeded 50. The urgent search remains focused on 27 missing children from Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls summer camp in Kerr County, after flash floods from the Guadalupe River tore through the […]

Biden Claims European Leaders, Dems, & Republicans Are Calling Him As Trump Unravels His ‘Accomplishments’ Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Joe Biden asserted Wednesday that European leaders, as well as Democrat and even Republican office holders have been reaching out to him since President Donald Trump took office. Biden also complained that his “accomplishments” from his stint in the White House were […]

Carlson Teases Interview With Iran’s President: ‘God-Given Right To All Information Americans Can Gather’ Former Fox News show host and journalist Tucker Carlson has revealed plans to release an interview with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, explaining that the American public has a right to hear directly from the leader of a nation the US military recently attacked. Anticipating immense pushback from mainstream media pundits […]

New York Times Struggles To Explain Why It Reported News To Traumatized Readers Authored by Jonathan Turley, This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial staff to be canned. Why? Because The New York Times actually reported news that was deemed harmful to the Democrats, specifically Democratic […]

300% Increase In American Investors Defrauded By ‘Pump’n’Dump’ Stock Fraud: FBI Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, There has been a surge of criminals targeting stock investors in the United States in a “ramp-and-dump” stock manipulation scheme via messaging apps and social media platforms, the FBI said in a July 3 alert. In the scheme, “investment clubs” are promoted among potential targets. These clubs […]

Watch: Mexico City Protest Against American Ex-Pat ‘Invasion’ Turns Violent In a role reversal that underscores a universal resentment of economic and social impacts caused by a major influx of foreigners, demonstrators marched in Mexico City on Friday to protest against the city’s status as a hot new residential destination for American ex-pats and remote workers. Though it started peacefully, many demonstrators turned violent, […]

America’s “Healthcare” System Is Now A Structured Financial Skim/Scam Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, “Healthcare” grift, graft, fraud and financialized skims / scams will bankrupt the nation. I’ve been writing about America’s healthcare system for 18 years, emphasizing two enduring themes: 1) our lifestyle is unhealthy, with predictable consequences and 2) healthcare as it is currently configured will […]

‘Fact Checkers’ Claim NY Mayoral Candidate’s “Seize The Means Of Production” Remark Isn’t Communist Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An open Communist is on the verge of becoming the Mayor of New York, yet the self appointed Ministry of Truth wants Americans to believe that it’s totally not Communist ideology to advocate for “seizing the means of production.” Zohran Mamdani used the phrase openly in 2021, just […]

NATO’s Rutte Warns Of Chinese-Russian Red Dawn As Medvedev Suggests He’s “On Magic Mushrooms” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has gone full ‘Red Dawn’ – warning that China and Russia might orchestrate simultaneous invasions of Taiwan and Europe to destabilize the Western alliance. “If Xi Jinping would attack Taiwan, he would first make sure that he makes a call to his very junior partner in all of this, Vladimir Vladimirovich […]