Beijing Showcased Future War Machines While Trump Was In Town The 11th China Military Intelligent Technology Expo opened Thursday at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, showcasing a lineup of drones, robotic war dogs, grenade launchers, wheeled unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, and other modern battlefield technologies. The key takeaway is that many of these once-futuristic war machines have moved well beyond […]

Waste Of The Day: Seattle’s Homelessness Fiasco Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClear Politics, Topline: The homelessness agency in King County, Wash., has a $45 million deficit, but auditors can’t fully figure out why, according to a state audit publicly released this April. Its accounting records are so poor that it’s impossible to track where portions of its money are being spent. Key facts: The King County Regional […]

Here’s Where Wealth Is Moving In America Americans aren’t just moving, they’re bringing billions in wealth with them. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, visualizes net wealth migration by state in 2023, based on Realtor.com’s analysis of the latest data from the Internal Revenue Service. Florida alone gained tens of billions in income from out-of-state residents. Meanwhile, states like California and New […]

AI Bots Placed In Virtual Town For 2 Weeks Go Apesh*t, Prompting Concerns Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days and found they exhibited bizarre behaviour. The agents drafted their own laws — then promptly violated them. Two formed what researchers called a romantic partnership, only to torch buildings across the town as order collapsed. One […]

Gun Control Advocates Turn Their Sights On Regulating Muskets? It’s always interesting when gun control activists and the media discover something about the firearms world that gun enthusiasts have known for decades.  It shows that the people desperately clamoring to erase the 2nd Amendment often know nothing about the weapons they want to regulate.  The act of “gun control” has nothing to do with understanding firearms, their […]

We’re Living In The Age Of Consequences Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, Lookie here… The United Arab Emirates recently announced it would quit OPEC after nearly six decades, striking a major blow to the oil cartel and to Saudi Arabia, its unofficial leader. Let’s be clear, the UAE didn’t leave OPEC. They were bought out. You may recall that this event was preceded by two major developments that tell […]

Canada’s Assisted Suicide Program Could Include Children And The Mentally Ill Canada’s MAID program is the subject of ongoing concern among anti-globalist movements across the western world.  The assisted suicide system kills around 15,000 or more Canadians each year and is quickly expanding to include more and more people who are not terminally ill.   Almost all assisted suicide programs are created by liberal governments and […]

India Raises Fuel Prices For The First Time In Four Years Submitted by Irina Slav of OilPrice.com Indian state refiners raised their retail prices for gasoline and diesel by the equivalent of $0.031 per liter in response to tighter crude oil availability. This is the first fuel price hike in India in four years, Bloomberg noted in a report on the news. The hike amounts to over 3% and was necessitated by the global crude oil […]

“Energy Is The Issue” – NANO Nuclear Highlights Reactor And Enrichment Opportunity NANO Nuclear’s founder and chairman Jay Yu was on Fox Business to discuss the company’s opportunity with data centers, space, and uranium enrichment.  Yu took the time to review their recent deal with Supermicro. The combination of AI and nuclear is being seen on multiple fronts across both industries. In the past few weeks we’ve also seen […]

Woke Judge Admits “Taking A Chance” On Violent Criminal… Who Then Went On Shooting Spree Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Massachusetts judge openly confessed in court that she knew she was rolling the dice by giving a light sentence to a career criminal with a 20-year rap sheet packed with violence, guns, and assault convictions. She did it anyway. Now Tyler Brown is back in custody after opening fire with 50 to […]

Harvard Weighs Major Crackdown On “Grade Inflation” Harvard faculty begin voting Tuesday on what may be the most aggressive effort in decades to curb grade inflation, a long-running issue that has also drawn attention from the White House as it pushes broader higher-ed reforms, according to Bloomberg. The proposal would cap A grades in undergraduate classes at 20% of students, plus four additional students. The move comes after A […]

Closing Arguments In High-Stakes OpenAI Trial Focus On Reputation, Character Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), OAKLAND, Calif.—After nearly three weeks of presented evidence, an Oakland jury on May 14 heard final arguments in a high-stakes legal battle that could have profound impacts on the race for artificial intelligence. In a courtroom sketch, Sam Altman listens as OpenAI President Greg […]

Rep. Steve Cohen Drops Reelection Bid After Tennessee Redistricting On Friday Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced he is ending his bid for reelection to Congress, capping a nearly 20-year career in the U.S. House. The decision comes days after the Republican-controlled Tennessee legislature approved a new congressional map that dramatically reshapes – and effectively dismantles – his longtime majority-Black 9th […]

Ethanol: Not The Energy Transition We’re Looking For Authored by Ike Kiefer via RealClear Energy, With current events stirring up global energy prices, corn ethanol is again being dressed up as if it is a domestic energy source and agent of energy security. The truth is that corn ethanol is an energy sump, and that it takes more fossil fuel energy to make a gallon of corn ethanol than a gallon of gasoline. It is time to face this […]

India’s Trade Deficit Surges As Energy Import Prices Soar India’s trade deficit soared in April by more than analysts expected, as the surge in oil and gas prices hiked the Indian energy import bill. The trade deficit jumped by $8bn from $20.6bn in March to $28.38bn last month, higher than the $26 billion estimate, on a broad-based increase in imports. At the same time, total exports grew by 13.8% in April from a year earlier to […]

Everyone In The Democratic Party Has Money – Except The Democratic Party Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), On April 30, Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the race for a U.S. Senate seat. In a statement about suspending her campaign, Mills was blunt: “While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else—the fight—to continue on, I very simply do not […]

“Send Us A Tip”: U.S. Dangles $15 Million Reward For New Intel On Iran’s Drone Network There is little doubt that Iran’s Shahed drone threat has become a major concern, menacing surrounding Gulf states, commercial tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. bases across the region. This backdrop helps explain why the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program has now put up to $15 million for new information in connection […]

Re-Arranging The Global Game-Board ‘Bigly’… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Resource Scramble “Trump has done so much damage to libtardery that the Democrats will need a decade of uninterrupted power to undo it, which they’re not going to get.” – Matt Forney on X If you learned anything from this week’s extravaganza in Beijing, it is that Donald Trump is aggressively re-aligning world relations so that the USA does […]

Deadlocked At Square Zero: Very First Line Of Iran’s Latest Proposal ‘Unacceptable,’ Trump Says Tehran and Washington are truly not just back to square one, but it’s as if no rounds of dialogue – direct or indirect – have even taken place. It’s more like being back at square zero – and the US President has just acknowledged it. President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One Friday while departing Beijing that even the very […]

DHS Pushes Forward With Large-Scale Warehouse Immigration Detention Hubs Via American Greatness, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is continuing efforts to transform warehouses into large-scale immigration detention centers despite a growing number of politically motivated lawsuits. Officials with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently discussed plans to award contracts for construction and operations at […]

SpaceX Reportedly Chooses Nasdaq And “SPCX” Ticker For Mega IPO Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, has reportedly selected Nasdaq for its long-awaited IPO and is targeting a June 11 pricing, followed by a June 12 debut under the ticker “SPCX,” according to a Reuters report released late in Friday’s U.S. cash session. Immediately after the report, odds for “SPCX” on the Polymarket bet, “What will SpaceX’s public ticker be?” soared […]

Uranium Gap Worsens: Nuclear News Roundup Goldman analyst Brian Lee reviews headlines across the nuclear industry for March (full note here).   New reactor progress and announcements North America 4/16/2026 – Canada: Bruce Power has signed an MoU with SaskPower to share its experience in large-scale nuclear reactors, including project development and long-term operations, as Saskatchewan evaluates large reactor technologies […]

UCLA Medical School Accused Of Racial Discrimination In Defiance Of Supreme Court Authored by Jonathan Turley, We previously discussed a disturbing account of how medical students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) were subjected to a bizarre class where one of the university’s “activists-in-residence” showered them with anti-Semitic postings and racist rhetoric. Now, […]

Watch: Trump Spars With ‘Treasonous’ NYT Reporter On Iran War Coverage Friday saw a wild exchange play out between President Trump and a member of the media aboard Air Force One as it made its way back from China. The New York Times’ David Sanger pointed out that Trump’s Operation Epic Fury did not result in political transition in Iran, but that the same Islamic Republic theocratic government is in charge. Sanger in essence […]

BWXT Holds A Realistic Path To Expanding Nuclear Capacity Ananym Capital is urging BWXT to commercialize its reactor production capabilities. The investor is looking for BWXT to bring back one of their old small modular reactor (SMR) design, mPower, that was abandoned in 2017.  BWXT already produces one to three reactors each year for U.S. aircraft carriers and submarines. That steady cadence gives it unmatched experience […]