Ours Is A System Of Fraud, Swindles, And Corruption Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, But all bubbles pop, and there are no tricks left to fund both the greed of the few and the needs of the many. Every society / economy is a distribution mechanism that distributes: 1. Gains 2. Losses 3. Risk 4. The costs of securing the sources of gains. As a general rule, markets / economies don’t really care who ends […]

“Completely Insane”: Wired Posts DIY Video For Mangione’s Ghost Gun YouTube’s content rules apparently don’t apply to corporate media darlings.  Case in point: Wired (Publisher: Condé Nast) recently published a video walking viewers through the exact process of building a copycat version of the untraceable 9mm “ghost gun” allegedly used in the UnitedHealth CEO shooting by Lugi Mangione.  Completely insane. Wired publishing a […]

Doug Casey On The Neocons And Their Push For The Next Big War Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: Who exactly are the neoconservatives—where did this movement originate, what do they fundamentally believe, and why does their ideology seem so relentlessly focused on promoting war and global intervention? Doug Casey: Most of the neocons have a background as socialists or hardcore leftists. But the neocons are smarter […]

Nvidia Reportedly Prepares Mass Production Of Cheaper China-Centric Blackwell AI Chip Nvidia’s market share in China has cratered from 95% to 50% over the past four years, driven by the Biden administration’s super-aggressive chip export restrictions. The restrictions opened the door for Chinese rival Huawei to seize market share quickly with its Ascend 910B chip. According to Reuters, Nvidia is preparing to launch a new […]

Here Are The Countries That Have Reached, Or Are Considering, Deportation Deals With US Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump’s illegal immigrant deportation push has officials looking for new places to put illegal immigrants if their home nations won’t accept their citizens back. Section 241(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act requires that Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

Trump’s Big Bill Is Beautiful For Areas With Many Retirees The proposal in the “Big Beautiful Bill” to add an extra deduction of $4,000 for filers collecting Social Security payments within certain income limits and for people age 65 and older could be a significant boon to areas of the country with a large share of older beneficiaries, according to Bloomberg calculations. For instance, some of highest concentrations of […]

House Oversight Chair Wants To Question Biden Handlers Acting As ‘De Facto Presidents’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has announced that he is seeking depositions from four former Biden staffers in addition to former White House physician Kevin O’Connor in an effort to find out if they were influencing the cognitively impaired Joe Biden and acting as ‘de facto […]

Anthropic’s Latest AI Model Threatened Engineers With Blackmail To Avoid Shutdown Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4, tried to blackmail engineers in internal tests by threatening to expose personal details if it were shut down, according to a newly released safety report that evaluated the model’s behavior under extreme simulated conditions. In a […]

Watch: Army Suspends Rangers After They Fired Blanks Near Crowded Florida Beach New viral video has emerged showing an incident near a beach and popular tourist island spot off Florida, which the US Army is now investigating. The unusual incident has quickly made national headlines. Eighteen soldiers with the 6th Ranger Training Battalion were temporarily suspended as instructors amid a formal inquiry into the May 16 incident, […]

Joe Biden, The Mainstream Media, & The Republic We Couldn’t Keep Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, I like Megan McArdle, the conservatarian political columnist for The Washington Post. I really do. I think she’s smart and talented and interesting. Best of all, she’s not someone who is bound by ideology or political allegiances. Ideology and allegiance are good in some cases and in some occupations, but not […]

Watch: Tulsi Gabbard Crushes Comey For Blaming ‘8647’ Trump Threat On His Own Wife Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard scorched disgraced former FBI Director James Comey over the very unsubtle threat he made towards President Trump, and his subsequent excuse when he blamed his own wife. As we highlighted, Comey claimed he had no clue that posting an image of sea shells […]

Memorial Day Chill Hits D.C. – Too Cold For Pools, What Happened To Climate Crisis Climate alarmists might be scratching their heads as unseasonably cool air pours over the Mid-Atlantic area this Memorial Day weekend. In Washington, D.C., pools are beginning to open up—but it’s far too chilly for a swim.  “Memorial Day weekend is supposed to mark the unofficial start of summer, but this morning’s low temperatures did not play […]

Education Department Launches Investigation Into UPenn Over Foreign Donations By Patrick McDonald of CampusReform The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has come under federal investigation for “inaccurate and incomplete disclosures” of foreign funding. The probe was launched by the U.S. Department of Education on May 8 after concerns that the school may be unduly influenced by foreign actors and follows a review of the […]

Kremlin Says Vatican Is Not A ‘Neutral’ Place For Peace Talks After last week’s Istanbul talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations, which was a first since early 2022, Western leaders have been floating the Vatican as a likely venue for future rounds of peace talks. This is after Pope Leo, the first American-born pontiff, offered for talks to be hosted at the Vatican, which could act as a mediator. Italian Prime Minister […]

Declassified: Biden Admin Labeled COVID Dissenters ‘Domestic Violent Extremists’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Newly declassified intelligence records have revealed that the Biden administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists.” The documents, which were declassified by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, show that they cutely abbreviated the term to […]

US Removes Syria Sanctions In Implementation Of Trump’s ‘Fresh Start’ Vision The White House on Friday began easing sanctions on Syria, in fulfillment of President Trump’s promise to give the war-torn country a new chance and put it on the path to “greatness”. “I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” Trump had first announced in an investment forum in Riyadh last […]

Big, Beautiful Bill Meets Big, Ugly Bond Market Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance One of the reasons many people voted for President Trump during this past election was the Republican Party’s focus on our nation’s out-of-control finances. After four years of what can only be described as the Biden administration purposefully racking up as much debt as humanly possible—while not even telegraphing a semblance of fiscal […]

More POWs Swapped Amid Russian Missiles On Kiev Overnight Early Saturday Russia and Ukraine completed their second round of a large-scale prisoner swap that was agreed to in Istanbul talks last week. The deal will see 1,000 POWs exchanged for 1,000 POWs but has to be completed in phases given the logistics and sheer size of the swap, with the first round of hundreds freed having taken place Friday along the Belarus-Ukraine border. […]

New Nuclear Power Could Meet 10% Of Projected Data Center Demand Increase By 2035 By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive Summary: New nuclear power capacity could meet about 10% of the projected increase in data center electricity demand by 2035, Deloitte said in an April 9 report. Deloitte expects data centers to consume about 30%, or 11 GW to 19 GW, of the estimated 35 GW to 65 GW of new nuclear capacity added over the next decade […]

X Is Back After Morning Outage Update (1014ET): X is back online after an hour of outages across parts of the U.S. The big question: Was this early Saturday morning outage just another glitch—or a sign of a broader system overhaul? Time will tell, but it’s clear the platform has been unusually glitchy this past week.    *   *    * For all the early risers rolling over in bed on Saturday morning, reaching for their […]

Government-Assisted Suicide Is Spreading Across The Western World Is it humanitarian empathy, or a nihilistic death cult that desires a legal rationale for population control?  The legislative push for government assisted euthanasia in the western world is one of the most guarded topics in establishment media.  Nothing negative or critical can be said and all concerns are dismissed as “conspiracy theory”.  The government run […]

Oh Canada: Teslas Banned From International Car Show Authored by Jonathan Turley, If you go to the Vancouver International Auto Show, you can see all the new models. However, if you want to see a Tesla, you must go down the road to check out a car without a political litmus test. The organizers are just the latest group to join the mob retaliating against Elon Musk for working with the Trump Administration to remove waste and fraud […]

Will Russia’s Latest Buffer Zone Plan Be More Successful Than The Last? Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Putin warned in March 2024 that Russia might set up a “security zone” inside Ukraine in response to cross-border strikes and raids, which it then began to do two months later that May after Russian troops made a fresh push into Kharkov Region at the time. Regrettably, the incursion didn’t penetrate too deeply, […]

British Airways Extends Suspension Of Israel Flights As More Houthi Missiles Target Airport Another ballistic missile fired from Yemen has targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on Friday, in reportedly the third such attack on Israel within 24 hours. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree announced the fresh attack in a televised statement, saying “The Houthi forces targeted Ben Gurion Airport with a hypersonic […]

1 In 4 People In Germany Now Has Migrant Background, Data Shows Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Germany’s migrant population is surging, with new data from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) revealing that more than one in four people now living in the country has a migration background. In 2024, the number of residents with an immigration background rose by 4 percent, or 873,000 people, compared to the […]