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 […]

What Prevents Trump From Implementing The “Chainsaw” Approach Like Milei? Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In recent months, many libertarians have criticised Donald Trump’s economic policies, arguing that he is not implementing drastic public spending cuts like Javier Milei has done in Argentina. However, this comparison ignores key structural and contextual differences between the two countries and their governments. Below is […]

Merchant Ship Attacked With RPGs In Southern Red Sea Chokepoint On Saturday evening, air raid sirens sounded across the Dead Sea region and parts of the West Bank following the launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen toward Israel. The launch, attributed to Iran-backed Houthi forces, marks an alarming expansion of their missile capabilities beyond the Red Sea maritime chokepoint.  Hours later, on Sunday morning, the UK […]

Turkey Arrests Three More Opposition Mayors, After Istanbul’s Imamoglu Detained Via Middle East Eye Three opposition mayors have been arrested in Turkey in what the Republican People’s Party (CHP) have a branded a “political operation”. Adana Mayor Zeydan Karalar, Antalya Mayor Muhittin Bocek and Adiyaman Mayor Abdurrahman Tutdere were all arrested on Saturday as part of an investigation into corruption allegations that have […]

Zelensky’s Latest Call With Trump Was ‘Most Productive’ He’s Ever Had The White House rhetoric on Ukraine could be slowly shifting, after President Trump said he was “very unhappy” with a Thursday phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. After a single night’s record drone attack of some 500 UAVs sent on Ukraine, Trump said “It just seems like he wants to go all the way and just keep killing people. It’s not good. I wasn’t […]

Tchir: The Risk For Stocks Is That The Administration Decides It Was Correct All Along On Tariffs By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Big, Beautiful Production For Security The “Big Beautiful Bill” is now law (which always brings back childhood memories of Schoolhouse Rock – yes, we had that in Canada too). If you don’t know the “I’m Just a Bill” song it is well worth a quick search. We are taking the view that the […]

Tropical Storm Chantal Makes Landfall – All Eyes On Possible NYC Path With deadly Texas flooding dominating headlines this weekend, we now shift focus to Tropical Storm Chantal, which made landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, early Sunday. This marks the first tropical storm to make landfall in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season—and the earliest to do so since 2022. Chantal is the third tropical storm of this year’s […]

UK Restores Formal Diplomatic Ties With Syria After Grooming Sharaa For Power Via The Cradle Britain reestablished full diplomatic relations with Syria on Sunday as part of the visit of UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to Damascus to meet the country’s new de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa (Jolani). In a video message on X, Lammy claimed the UK had an interest in Syria’s recovery after 14 years of war. “It matters that it’s […]

Rickards: Superintelligence Will Never Arrive Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Readers know at least two things about artificial intelligence (AI). The first is that an AI frenzy has been driving the stock market higher for the past three years even with occasional drawdowns along the way. The second is that AI is a revolutionary technology that will change the world and potentially eliminate numerous jobs, […]

It’s Official: Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ Registers With Federal Election Commission Update (Sunday): A new filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) confirms that Elon Musk’s America Party (AMEP) is now official, as the billionaire sets out to challenge the entrenched “uniparty” duopoly in Washington. Musk has voiced deep frustration with GOP lawmakers over their failure to codify DOGE cuts and President Trump’s “Big […]

Tesla Sales Drop 60% In Germany In June Tesla’s sales in Germany dropped 60% in June to 1,860 vehicles, according to the KBA. For the first half of 2025, sales fell 58.2% year-over-year to 8,890 units, despite overall growth in battery EV sales., according to Reuters. Tesla has also now seen six straight months of declining sales in France, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy. Chinese EV maker BYD saw its German sales nearly quadruple in […]

To Make America Great Again, Start Here Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Our status quo is so thoroughly corrupt that it’s no longer even seen as corruption, it’s just BAU–business as usual. It’s a big ask, but let’s depoliticize the phrase “make America great again” and consider what this would actually entail, not as a lobbyists’ grab-bag of tax breaks for the wealthy and arcane giveaways in 500-page […]

Texas Floods Kill 50; Search Ongoing For Dozens Of Missing Campers Watch Live .    .     .    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 […]

Which Countries Invest In The US The Most? Foreign direct investment flows have steadily climbed in recent years, fueled by the expansion of multinational companies. A growing share of that capital is now concentrated in a small number of economies, including the United States. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, visualizes foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S. by country or region of origin in 2023. Data […]

Kazakhstan Plans To Establish Bitcoin And Crypto Reserve Authored by Vivek Sen via BitcoinMagazine.com, Kazakhstan’s National Bank has announced plans to establish a state Bitcoin and crypto reserve, marking a significant shift in the country’s approach to Bitcoin amid growing institutional adoption of crypto. According to statements from National Bank Chair Timur Suleimenov, the bank is developing a comprehensive […]

France’s Fiscal Reckoning: Is The Eurozone’s Second Giant Next In Line? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe  France is caught in a debt spiral. Now the president of the French Court of Auditors is warning of the consequences of political inaction. Pierre Moscovici has served as president of the French Court of Auditors for five years, overseeing regular audits of the nation’s public finances. From 2012 to 2014, he was France’s finance […]

Jaguar Sales Plummet By 97.5% After Awful They/Them Rebrand Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Yet another stunning example of ‘go woke, go broke’ has come to pass after high end car brand Jaguar has seen vehicle sales fall off a cliff following a mind blowingly stupid non-binary rebrand. Sales in Europe dropped by a whoppping 97.5 percent year-over-year in April 2025,  figures from the European Automobile […]

US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price Via Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities When asked about the cost of their government’s support of the State of Israel, some Americans will say it’s $3.8 billion a year — the amount of annual military aid the United States is committed to under its current, 10-year “memorandum of understanding” with Israel. However, that answer massively understates the […]

US Reassesses Relations With Colombia As Crime And Cocaine Surge Under Leftist Regime  The Trump administration recalled its top diplomat in Colombia, John McNamara, for “urgent consultations” on Thursday in response to what it described as “baseless and reprehensible” statements from senior Colombian officials. While the State Department did not specify which remarks prompted the move, it indicated that further actions would […]

21 States Across US Now Reporting COVID ‘Razor Throat’ Variant Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), At least 21 states are reporting a COVID-19 variant that spread across China earlier this year, according to newly updated data provided by a private company. A map released by the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) shows that 21 states in the United States are reporting COVID-19 […]

CNN Stunned As Majority Of Americans Back Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major deportation victory on Thursday. On the same day, the GOP-led House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in a narrow 218–214 vote—legislation that paves the way for over one million deportations annually. Meanwhile, the first illegals arrived at “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, with […]

Bitcoin Is The Benchmark: Why The Biggest Opportunity In The Next Decade Isn’t DeFi Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Excerpt from the July Issue of The Bitcoin Capitalist – ‘The Stablecoin Standard’ Here is the the argument for this section of the Bitcoin Capitalist entitled ‘Bitcoin and Crypto Macro’: “This sums up everything we’ve been seeing over this past cycle – Bitcoin settling in as the base […]

Weakened By War And Syrian Regime Change, Hezbollah Considers Major Demilitarization Prompted by military losses and shifting regional geopolitics, the Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah is considering a major strategic shift that would see the group undertake a major disarmament, Reuters has reported, citing three sources familiar with the group’s deliberations.   In solidarity with Gaza, Hezbollah began attacking […]

Boxer Chávez Jr. Expected To Be Deported To Mexico To Serve Sentence, Mexican President Says Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on July 4 that she expects boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. to be deported to Mexico to serve a prison sentence after his arrest in Los Angeles by U.S. immigration authorities. “The hope is that he will be deported and serve the sentence in Mexico,” […]

YouTuber Uncovers “Soros Soldier” Behind NYC Color Revolution Operation Initial signs suggest a shift in federal posture toward increased scrutiny of rogue non-governmental organizations (NGOs) potentially engaged in domestic color revolution operations aimed at sowing chaos and destruction. These NGOs are reportedly backed by a mix of left-leaning (and often anti-American) high-net-worth individuals, U.S. taxpayer funds, corporate […]