Putin Invites Trump To Visit Russia In ‘Constructive’ July 4th Phone Call A nearly 90-minute phone call between Presidents Trump and Putin on July 4th could signal shifting White House priorities, as it tries to find permanent offramp and settlement in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, but also as the Ukraine war seems to be fast heating up again. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said in comments made public Sunday that Trump offered Putin […]

UK Government’s Shocking Bid To Rig YouTube Algorithm To Force-Feed BBC Propaganda Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, In a brazen move that reeks of authoritarian control, the UK government is pushing plans to seize influence over YouTube’s recommendation system. Their goal is to prioritise content from the BBC, and other state backed propaganda machines, while burying independent journalists and creators who dare […]

Red Sea Blockage Fears: Cargo Ship Attacked Off Southwest Yemen A Red Sea disruption would be terrible timing for global shipping and energy markets, coming just as vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has started to normalize in recent weeks. An overnight report that a cargo ship was attacked by “armed assailants” in the southern Red Sea off Yemen is a reminder that the region’s maritime-risk premium has not totally […]

Wage Growth As A Leading Inflation Indicator Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Wage growth peaked four years ago. Since 1985, it has led CPI by three to seventeen months in every single cycle. The May 4.2% inflation print is the noise. Watch the wages. Headline CPI just printed 4.2% year-over-year for May. The highest reading since April 2023. The 10-year Treasury punched above 4.6% on the back of it, […]

The UK’s Latest “Debanking” Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, UK-based readers may recall the moment almost exactly three years ago when the word “debanking” entered the mainstream British English lexicon. The prestigious London-based private bank Coutts had just decided to close Nigel Farage’s bank account due to his unsavoury political views and alleged Russian […]

Germany’s AfD Tricks Thousands Of Antifa Revolutionaries Germany’s right-wing AfD party re-elected co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla at its annual conference in Erfurt, a central German city. Meanwhile, far-left activists, professional political agitators, and NGOs funded by dark money attempted to restrict access to the event through a coordinated pressure campaign. BREAKING: Around 2500 far-left militant Antifa […]

Multicultural French Crowds Brawl Over Discount Air Conditioners As Heatwave Looms Via Remix News, France was gripped by chaos on Thursday, July 2, 2026, as an exceptional sale of discounted air conditioners at Lidl descended into long lines, emptied shelves, and physical fights between customers nationwide. The retailer had put 200,000 units up for sale — nowhere near enough to meet demand as yet another heatwave looms next week […]

What Happened To The 56 Signatories Of The Declaration Of Independence Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, Today the United States celebrates the 250th – or semiquincentennial – anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Congress voting on the Declaration of Independence. Library of Congress/Public Domain While July 4 marks the day Thomas Jefferson’s revised draft of the Declaration of Independence […]

Majority Believes They Will Achieve The American Dream 250 years after American independence, a majority of people in the United States continue to believe in their personal American Dream. As Statista’s Kathraina Buchholz reports, 69 percent of those interviewed by Gallup in the beginning of the year say that they will achieve it in their lifetime. This is in contrast, though, to 54 percent saying that not everybody can […]

Waste Of The Day: Stolen Education Grants Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: A North Dakota woman was convicted last month of five counts of theft for stealing $131,000 in state grants meant for after-school programs. Key facts: Faith Dixon, 47, was one of the top recipients of $2 million that the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction awarded in October 2021 for its Out of School Time program […]

BMW Puts Next-Gen Humanoid Robots To Work On Factory Floors In South Carolina Before humanoid robots enter the modern battlefield alongside ground bots and low-cost suicide drones, these bipedal robots are first being unleashed on factory floors and inside warehouses, where the physical world of AI is beginning to take shape.  The latest development in humanoids entering factory floors comes from BMW’s Spartanburg factory, where […]

Trump Pardons 6 Prosecuted For ‘Fixing Their Car’ Under Biden-Era Emissions Rules Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Friday announced pardons for six individuals he said were persecuted by the Biden administration for repairing their own vehicles, saying that the cases were emblematic of regulatory overreach. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks during the Faith & Freedom […]

Is Tesla About To Use Facial Recognition Before Activating Full Self-Driving Tesla is reportedly preparing a series of updates, including one that would use a vehicle’s cabin camera to verify a driver’s identity before activating Full Self-Driving. It sounds a bit dystopian, but this is likely the direction that connected smart-car brands are headed. As vehicles become more autonomous, automakers will increasingly need to verify […]

Houthis Say Forces ‘Repelled’ Saudi Warplanes From Threatening Iranian Civilian Airliner Via The Cradle Yemen’s Houthis announced Friday that they had “repelled” an attempt by Saudi warplanes to prevent an Iranian civilian aircraft from landing at Sanaa airport. Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said that Saudi warplanes violating Yemeni airspace were targeted with several air-defense missiles, […]

The Greatest Break-Up Letter Ever Written… Via VigilantFox.com, Have you ever heard the Declaration of Independence read out loud? You should. It’s the greatest break-up letter ever written. At just 33 years old, Thomas Jefferson, with cold moral clarity, told the British government to pound sand: Have you ever heard the Declaration of Independence read out loud? You should. It’s the greatest break-up letter ever […]

Six California Cities Ranked Among Top 10 Least Educated In US Six California cities ranked among the top 10 least educated metropolitan areas in the United States, according to a report by WalletHub published on June 29. Looking at the 150 most populated metro areas, the city of Visalia ranked as the second least educated, while Bakersfield was fourth, and Modesto, Fresno, Stockton, and Salinas followed. All six are in central […]

Canada Seizes 7 Tons Of Drugs, Fentanyl Chemicals, And Signal Jammers In China-Linked Narco Bust Authored by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper (emphasis our own),  A Burnaby RCMP investigation that began with a routine traffic stop last summer has ended in one of the largest drug-chemical seizures in British Columbia’s history — 6,765 kilograms of finished narcotics and fentanyl-production chemicals pulled from three homes and two […]

These Are The World’s Top Destinations For Wealth Migration Countries are increasingly competing to attract wealthy individuals alongside businesses and skilled workers. For many governments, internationally mobile wealth represents a source of investment, entrepreneurship, and long-term economic growth. This graphic, via Visual Cspitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, ranks the world’s most competitive destinations for wealth migration […]

Historians Set Record Straight On 5 Events That Shaped America Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times, As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it’s prime time for historians such as Jeff Bloodworth to set the record straight. Bloodworth, a professor at Pennsylvania’s Gannon University, noted that it had become trendy among historians to “demythologize” the Founding Fathers. “But it has gone too far,” he told […]

‘Gave Iran Week Off Because We’re Nice’: Trump References Ayatollah Funeral In Rushmore Speech On Friday President Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore to kick off the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations, and in it he confirmed that everything regarding Iran – whether on the military or diplomatic fronts – have been paused to allow for the Islamic Republic to bury its late supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Trump said […]

First $1 Billion, Now $50 Million: Khanna Says Wealth Tax “Must Not Stop At Billionaires” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) – fresh off endorsing California’s November ballot measure to seize 5% of billionaire wealth – published a Substack essay Wednesday titled, no really, “Why I Support a Billionaire Wealth Tax.” He makes it roughly a dozen paragraphs before explaining that it isn’t one. “The tax should not stop at billionaires, it must […]

CFPB Orders Remote Employees To Relocate To Washington Or Lose Jobs Via American Greatness, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has directed hundreds of employees who live outside the Washington area to relocate to the agency’s new headquarters or face losing their jobs, a move that could significantly reduce the bureau’s workforce. Acting Director Russell Vought notified employees in a memorandum Tuesday that […]

Could The Government Use Tax Dollars To Bail Out Bitcoin?  Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance There was a time when Bitcoin’s biggest selling point was that it existed outside the financial system. No governments. No central banks. No bailouts. No “too big to fail.” It was supposed to be the antidote to everything that happened in 2008. In fact, I once argued that another 2008 is what could standardize bitcoin. Fast […]

Chart Of The Day: Democrats’ Patriotism Falls Off A Cliff. Here’s One Reason Why American pride remains high in absolute terms, but the trend is clear: the U.S. has shifted from being one of the world’s most nationally proud countries to one that now resembles a typical Western nation. There are multiple forces behind this decline, but the largest political signal comes from the transformation of the Democratic Party. What was once […]

DRAMageddon Deepens As Samsung Prepares 20% Memory Price Hike There is no immediate price relief coming for cutting-edge memory chips, even as South Korea moves to double memory capacity. New fabs and expanded lines take time to build and then ramp production, meaning the supply response will lag demand. For now, DRAM inventories remain tight through year-end as data center buildouts accelerate, keeping producers like Samsung in […]