A Serious Country Does Not Swap Its Greatest Leader On Banknotes For Little Animals Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, The Bank of England has now admitted the quiet part out loud. Historical figures including Winston Churchill were removed from future banknotes after researchers told officials they were “elitist and divisive.” The move replaces British legends with wildlife in a calculated step to sideline national heroes […]

An Emerging Market Crisis In Oil-Poor Asia? Authored by Satyajit Das via NewIndiaExpress, Reliable availability of cheap energy is, as the Iran war highlights, essential to modern economies and societies, at least for the foreseeable future. Shocks divide the world into the oil haves and oil have-nots. Alongside higher energy prices, shortages of petrochemical derived chemicals will affect agriculture, mining, plastics, textiles, […]

Watch: More Evidence Iran Is Rapidly Restoring Its Missile Tunnels President Trump has newly estimated that Iran has 21%-22% of its missiles remaining. Trump said in an interview with NBC: “They have some missiles and drones, percentage-wise maybe 21%-22% of the missiles. That’s a lot, but it’s not what it was before the war.” He and top White House officials had previously mused that the Iranians are working hard to reconstitute […]

A New Shortcut To Quantum Entanglement Authored by University of Chicago via ScienceDaily, Many of the most promising quantum technologies, including advanced sensors and future quantum computers, depend on a phenomenon known as entanglement, where particles become deeply connected and influence one another in ways that cannot be explained by classical physics. Creating the complex entangled states needed for these technologies has […]

UN Food Agency Warns Millions Pushed Into Hunger By Prolonged Iran War The United Nations food agency is sounding a catastrophic alarm on the macroeconomic fallout of the ongoing conflict in Iran and the Persian Gulf region. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), millions of people are actively being plunged into acute hunger due to the war – realizing a grim trajectory the agency previously warned would occur if the Middle […]

Protesters Target NV Energy At Utility Conference As Anger Over Soaring Electricity Prices Boils Over By Herman Trabish of UtilityDive Protesters shouting affordability complaints and chanting slogans interrupted a speech by NV Energy President and CEO Brandon Barkhuff on Wednesday. Barkhuff was speaking to some 1,000 utility executives and electricity industry stakeholders during the Edison Electric Institute 2026 conference at […]

Lebanese Army Officers Among 9 Killed In Israeli Airstrike On South Lebanon In a rare, major development related to the Israel-Hezbollah war, fresh Saturday Israeli airstrikes on Southern Lebanon on Saturday took out a group of Lebanese Army forces. What’s more is that several officers were reported killed: “Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon Saturday killed nine people including three members of the Lebanese military, the […]

Obama-Appointed Judge Orders Trump Admin To Restart Processing Asylum Claims Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration must restart processing claims of asylum, a federal judge ruled on June 5. Officials must also resume adjudicating requests for immigration benefits such as work permits from nationals of 39 countries from which President Donald Trump has restricted travel, Obama-appointed U.S. […]

Facebook Marketplace Enters The AI Thirst-Trap Era Searching Facebook Marketplace in the AI era has revealed a strange new phenomenon: sellers are running product photos through chatbots or image generators to insert scantily clad women into listings. This marketing ploy seemingly bets that thirst-trap imagery will boost clicks and improve the chances of selling whatever item is listed on the online marketplace. “This dude on FB […]

Viral: Humanoid Robot Kicks Chinese Kid In The Stomach During Public Demonstration Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering, A humanoid robot demonstration has sparked safety concerns after a video circulating on social media appeared to show a Unitree G1 robot accidentally kicking a young child during a public event. The robot, which was performing a roundhouse kick while wearing a blue clown wig, struck the child […]

Area 51 Mystery Jet Caught On Thermal Camera Sparks Sixth-Gen Stealth Fighter Speculation The military aviation and defense news blog The Aviationist has spent years tracking mysterious aircraft activity around U.S. restricted airspace. Its latest report highlights a thermal image that may reveal a previously unseen next-generation stealth fighter jet design featuring cranked-kite wings and canards near Area 51. “Had to update this […]

FBI Fires Analysts Who Drafted Controversial Anti-Catholic Memo Via Headline USA, Several FBI analysts who drafted a 2023 memo that cited Southern Poverty Law Center information to justify targeting “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as potential violent domestic extremists were fired Friday, according to their lawyer, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of its director Kash Patel. The fired employees […]

Iran’s World Cup Squad Belatedly Granted US Visas But Some Staff Blocked Via Middle East Eye Members of Iran’s World Cup 2026 administrative staff have not been given visas to enter the United States, Iranian media reported on Saturday. According to US officials, while Iranian footballers have been granted visas for the tournament, which begins on Thursday in Mexico, some support staff are reportedly not being allowed to join […]

Tesla Design Chief Says EV Supercar Roadster Is Coming “In A Few Weeks” Ferrari shot its load with the highly disappointing Luce EV… Next up is American innovation, not Italian innovation: the Tesla Roadster. 🚨 Tesla Roadster vs. Ferrari Luce Price – $250,000 vs. $640,000 Horsepower – 1,000+ vs. 1,035 0-60 MPH – 1.1s OR 1.9s vs. 2.4s Top Speed – 250+ MPH vs. 194 MPH Range – 620 miles vs. 280 miles https://t.co/uEgswwVLeD […]

US To Tighten Rule Regarding Nonprofits Paying Excessive Executive Compensation Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury issued a notice on Friday, announcing their plan to issue proposed regulation concerning taxation on high compensation paid by tax-exempt organizations to employees. The notice relates to excessive compensation and excess […]

Feds Launch Probe Into California’s Elections Days after California’s primary election, the votes are still being counted, and the winners are still unknown, and no one, save for California officials, seems happy about it. “The fact that California elections often can’t be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world,” Political data analyst Nate Silver wrote on X on Tuesday. […]

US Intercepted Fresh Iranian Ballistic Missile Attacks Overnight As Tehran Blasts ‘Ceasefire Violations’ Summary Iran’s foreign ministry says US overnight action, especially bombing coastal radar facilities, is a violation of ceasfire. New nighttime salvo of missiles on Kuwait, Bahrain: Six ballistic missiles fired at Bahrain and Kuwait were intercepted, CENTCOM said. Overnight flare-up started with Iranian attack drones in […]

Watch: Leftists Are Crying Over Trump’s Beautifully Restored Reflecting Pool Authored by Tim O’Brien via PJMedia.com, You just knew this day would come. President Donald Trump is really sprucing up the nation’s capital ahead of the country’s celebration of its 250th anniversary. One of the signature improvements has been the restored reflecting pool that sits between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. As […]

Trump Says US Weighing Taking Stakes In AI Companies Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump told reporters on June 5 that his administration is exploring the possibility of the United States acquiring a public stake in artificial intelligence (AI) companies. Trump made the comment in response to a question about a recent News of the United States report, which suggested that unnamed senior U.S. […]

Second Flesh-Eating Screwworm Case Raises Beef Supply Fears As Goldman Warns Outbreak “Could Be Disruptive” The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed a second New World screwworm (NWS) case in a one-month-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, roughly 5.6 miles from the first confirmed detection. For now, both cases remain inside what the USDA calls an “established movement control zone and enhanced sterile insect dispersal […]

Whatever You Do, Don’t Ignore Friday’s Selloff Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance By 1PM Friday, the Nasdaq was already down roughly 3.3%, and suddenly the same crowd that spent the last few months explaining why valuations don’t matter is asking what is happening. Bitcoin has also been taken behind the woodshed, crashing to around $60,000. Depending on where you’re measuring from, that’s a brutal decline in a remarkably […]

UK Government Plots Digital ID Lockdown On Every Phone In Lockstep With Big Tech Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, The Labour government in Britain is accelerating its assault on digital privacy under the well-worn banner of child protection. Fresh plans leaked to the press reveal ministers intend to compel Apple, Google and other tech firms to restrict smartphones so thoroughly that a digital ID will be needed to use them […]

Goldman’s World Cup Winner Prediction Is … The 2026 Football World Cup kicks off June 11, with Mexico vs. South Africa opening the tournament at Mexico City Stadium. The tournament will feature 48 teams across 104 matches at stadiums in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico from next Thursday through July 19. Jan Hatzius, chief economist and head of global investment research at Goldman Sachs, published a cheat sheet for clients […]

Israeli Ambassador To France Accused Of ‘Foreign Interference’ After Election Remarks Via Middle East Eye The Israeli ambassador to France has been accused of “foreign interference” after saying he would prefer “anyone rather than Jean-Luc Melenchon” to win the 2027 presidential election. Speaking in a television interview on Thursday, Ambassador Joshua Zarka said he would rather see any candidate elected to the Elysee Palace […]

‘Take The Badge Off’: Former Ferrari Boss Slams New $635k EV That Company Thinks Will Attract ‘Younger Buyers’ One week after Ferrari unveiled its first-ever all-electric car, called the Luce, the design continues to divide analysts. Some referred to the new model as a “mix between a Honda Accord EV and a Tesla,” while others said that Tesla’s Model S Plaid was far superior. The latest report from Goldman analysts provided new […]