Qatar Tried Secret Deal-Making With Iran To Protect World’s Largest Gas Complex By the middle of March during Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, Iran was flexing its retaliatory might, and the Gulf region was shocked to see the largest natural-gas production facility in the world, Qatar’s North Field, badly damaged – with a key section forced offline and severely damaged. The Washington Post has just provided some new information which […]

A Conservative Audit Of The Left’s Ruling Assumptions Authored by Stu Cvrk via American Greatness, There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, […]

The Most Important AI Experiment You’ve Never Heard Of Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times, In May 2026, a group of scientists set out to answer an important question that had never been properly tested: What does artificial intelligence (AI) actually do when it is put in charge? Until now, AI systems have always been evaluated on specific and defined tasks. Nobody had placed multiple AI systems together in a shared […]

Gabbard Drops Receipts Detailing US-Funded Biolabs In Ukraine Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday declassified a set of internal intelligence slides documenting a long-running US program that has funded a worldwide network of biolabs that handle dangerous pathogens – including dozens in Ukraine.  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing […]

Mother Of All ‘Ifs’: Trump Officials Claim Iran Deal Delivers Peace, Inspections & Hormuz Reopening; Iran Says Indeed ‘Close’ Summary Araghchi: A deal, if reached, will be signed remotely by both sides and then announced. The UAE had agreed to release a total of $10b, more than $3b of which had already been delivered (Reuters). Bloomberg latest: US Senior admin officials says Iran deal accomplishes core US objectives and deal […]

The Mullahs & The Lefty-Left Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Until you are willing to harm the left more than they are willing to harm you, they will win. It’s really that simple.” – Aimee Terese on X You’ll just have to stand by on whether this war with Iran is over or not, since the Shia true believers’ practice of Taqiyya is a permission structure for lying to infidels (us) when necessary — like, to […]

Federal Government Pauses Funding To Los Angeles Homeless Agency Citing Fraud Allegations Authored by City News Service via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on June 11 suspended federal funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), cutting off millions of dollars to the L.A. region, over allegations of fraud and widespread mismanagement. HUD Secretary Scott Turner […]

SpaceX Blasts Past $2T, Musk’s Wealth Tops Trillion As Record IPO Ignites Space Economy Summary:  Musk Becomes A Trillionaire  SpaceX IPO Opens Up $150, above $135 IPO price SpaceX IPO Shares To Trade 29% Higher Than IPO Price  Liftoff: SpaceX Gray-Market Trading Signals 35% IPO Pop Vanda SPCX IPO update: SpaceX is on track to become the biggest IPO debut for retail investors in recent history. Coinbase […]

India Accuses West Of Double Standards Over US Russia Oil Sanctions Submitted By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The on-and-off U.S. sanctions on Russian oil and the flipping U.S. position regarding India’s oil purchases from Russia highlight the double standards of the Western nations, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. India turned en masse to Russian oil in 2022, when the U.S. and the EU imposed […]

DOE Declares Southeast Grid Emergency As Sweltering Heat Boosts AC Demand As the U.S. men’s national soccer team kicks off its first match against Paraguay in Southern California on Friday night, large swaths of the country are trapped in what feels like a wet sauna, with dangerous heat and humidity forcing households to crank up their air conditioning and straining power grids from the Southeast to the Northeast. On Thursday, the […]

Gabbard Rescinds Intelligence Committee Reports On Mysterious Syndrome Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has retracted intelligence community reports on mysterious health problems known as Havana Syndrome, according to a memorandum released on June 11. Gabbard found that the intelligence community assessments of the anomalous health incidents, released in […]

Democrats Divided On Platner As GOP Reportedly Has Opposition Research That Will Destroy Him Graham Platner may have easily won Maine’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday, but his own party is already trying to figure out how to get rid of him. Democrats openly admit they cannot afford to lose this race if they want to retake the Senate, and Platner is already complicating their plans. Yet, the chaos involving Platner may have only […]

Ministry Of Truth: UK Government To Block ‘False Information’ During ‘Crisis Events’ Authored by Steve Watson via modernity, Vague new rules will allow UK regulators to pressure platforms over “legal but harmful” content whenever government ministers declare a crisis, while the same government ploughs ahead with mandatory phone scanning, digital ID lockdowns, and jail threats for tech bosses who refuse to spy on every device. […]

UBS Finds Global Trade Structure “Surprisingly Stable” As AI Emerges As Growth Engine Despite ongoing Gulf-related energy shocks, mounting concerns over a potential energy cliff (read here), and UBS last month reactivating its supply chain stress-watch coverage, another UBS analyst noted Wednesday that the overall structure of global trade remains “surprisingly stable.” Analyst Arend Kapteyn pointed out that the structure of global […]

The K-Shaped Economy: Why The Middle Class Moved Up Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The K-shaped economy has become shorthand for a tidy story. The rich pull away while everyone else falls behind. It fits the mood, and it makes for a sharp headline. The problem is that it’s mostly wrong. When you pull the actual Census data, the dominant move of the last half-century isn’t down. It’s up. Yes, the […]

Banks Curb FOMO-Chasing Levered Bets On Korean Tech Firms SK Hynix has been THE poster-child for ‘Vol Up, Spot Up’ FOMO-chasing over the past few months of exuberant semi-shortage panic-buying… And volumes in levered Semi trades has been astronomical… With SK Hynix standing out among the most-levered bets… Driven by massive speculative momentum (margin loans at record highs)… …which faced huge forced […]

Kuwait Joins “Dark-Mode” Tanker Traffic Through Hormuz By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Kuwait appears to have joined a growing bunch of Middle Eastern oil and gas producers that have moved to ship energy cargoes in dark mode through the Strait of Hormuz. The liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carrier Gas Umm Al Rowaisat, which is owned by the national Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, has passed through the Strait in recent days, […]

Blackrock’s Private Credit Fund Gates Investors Again After Redemption Requests Surge The market may be in full-blown face-ripping bubble mode, and software stocks are now gripped in by a category 5 gamma squeeze hurricane, but not even that is helping the ongoing debacle that is private credit. One week after Cliffwater’s Private Credit fund gated investors for a second straight quarter, and days after Blackstone also gated […]

US Pulling Large Chunk Of Jets, Refueling Tankers From NATO Defense, Realigning Further East In a move that surprises absolutely no one paying attention, the United States is planning to significantly slash the number of fighter jets and warships it feeds into the NATO machine in Europe, the New York Times reported Thursday. The reported cutbacks hit right as panicked European nations scramble to patch up their own defense […]

Gas Prices Fall For 3rd Straight Week Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline declined for three consecutive weeks, dropping from $4.56 per gallon on May 21 to $4.12 per gallon on Thursday. Lower gasoline prices are “delivering some relief to drivers during the busy summer travel season,” the American Automobile Association (AAA) said in a June 11 […]

“Reckless Propaganda”: Globe And Mail Op-Ed Tells Readers “How To Properly Hate” Elon Musk Ahead Of SpaceX IPO Whether it is Elizabeth Warren, left-leaning unions, or Democrat-aligned NGOs funded by dark money, the common pattern here has been an information campaign aimed at Elon Musk to derail the SpaceX IPO. Their motives are very simple: if the game is about power and money, then Musk potentially becoming the world’s first […]

National Mall Vandalized With ‘8647’ Markings Ahead Of Independence Celebrations Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, U.S. Park Police and federal officials opened an investigation Thursday after a sizable marking resembling “8647” was etched into the lawn of the National Mall. The incident occurred amid preparations for major events celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary of independence. A Reuters […]

UMich Sentiment Bounces Off Record Low In June, Inflation Fears Fade After reaching all-time record lows in May, analysts expected UMich’s Sentiment index to rebound modestly in preliminary June data and it did, up from 44.8 to 48.9 (well above 46.0 exp), with consumers experiencing some relief due to the early-month easing in gasoline prices. Source: Bloomberg “This measured improvement in sentiment was widespread, seen across […]

Kennedy Center Appeals Order Requiring Removal Of Trump’s Name Via American Greatness, The Kennedy Center’s board of trustees voted Thursday to challenge a federal judge’s order requiring President Donald Trump’s name to be removed from the performing arts center. According to court filings, the board formally appealed US District Judge Christopher Cooper’s ruling just before the court-imposed deadline for removing […]

Fool Me Once? Shame On You. Fool Me 39 Times…? By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset macro strategist at Rabobank After several days of strikes against Iran, and several morning announcements that strikes were set to continue, Trump announced via Truth Social that the “scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran” have been cancelled as a peace deal has been agreed upon. Indeed, “discussions and final points have been, in both […]