Swiss Voters Reject Proposal To Cap Population At 10 Million Summary: Swiss Voters Reject Population Cap of Ten Million Propsal  The initiative “No 10 Million Switzerland” (population cap of 10 million) is being voted on by the Swiss and is likely to be rejected at the ballot box New Projection by research institute GFS Bern, commissioned by SRG SSR, 1 pm local time Final Vote In a national vote, Swiss voters […]

Iran Says New Israeli Attack On Beirut ‘Won’t Go Unanswered’ As Tenuous US-Iran Deal At Goal-Line  On Sunday the spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s National Security Commission again warned against pursuing a deal with the United States without first restraining Israel. Iran has tried to force a ‘red line’ on Washington – essentially making clear that if it doesn’t get Israel under control in Lebanon, it can kiss an Iran and […]

Strategy’s New Math: Dilution Equals Accretion? Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Strategy’s Bitcoin is worth roughly $12 billion less than the company paid for it, yet Michael Saylor’s message last week was simple: “Business is Good.” But today’s article isn’t really about unrealized losses. It’s about whether Strategy is changing the way it measures shareholder accretion and company performance on the fly — […]

Iran Reveals Draft Of Trump-Touted MoU To Be Signed Sunday: $25BN Asset Unfreeze, Enriched Uranium Dilution On The Table Iran Weighs In on Anticipated MoU Signing Details, Potential Unresolved Issues Bloomberg and Reuters are reporting Sunday some fresh details on Iran’s version of what the MoU to be signed – which President Trump says will happen today (albeit remotely) will inlcude. “A draft of the US-Iran memorandum of […]

Talking Across The Divide Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, How we see politics reveals a lot about who we are. But it is less akin to a Rorschach ink blot than one of those reversible images, like the drawing that is both a rabbit and a duck. As messy as society might be, it is not some blob open to any interpretation (at least not yet, anyway). The patterns are there. But where we see one clear thing clearly, our […]

Former UK Prime Minister Admits Mass Migration Is Being Weaponized To Undermine Western Civilization Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, In the space of hours, Britain endured yet more random barbaric violence. A 17-year-old girl was stabbed in the neck on a quiet residential street in Burnley, Lancashire, and a 21-year-old man was murdered in Central Park, Chelmsford, Essex. These incidents form part of a relentless pattern of […]

Sweden Sees Russia-NATO Conflict In ‘Relatively Near Future’ Russia could test the NATO alliance’s unity and its “all-for-one” collective defense commitments in the “relatively near future,” Sweden’s Defense Commission has said, sounding the alarm in a fresh report issued Friday. In the blunt interim report cited by Radio Sweden, the commission made it clear that Moscow’s ‘aggression’ against the West is no longer a distant […]

Indigenous Nonsense Authored by Spyridon Andrews via American Greatness, When the dust settles hundreds of years from now and people begin to assess the hows and whys of Western decline, the issue of colonialism will figure prominently. We are traveling from Mexico City to San Miguel de Allende with “The Professor,” a San Miguel resident who makes extra money by driving tourists from Mexico City to San Miguel. The title of […]

Somaliland Opens Diplomatic Office In Taiwan Despite Strong Objections From Beijing Via The Cradle The breakaway African territory of Somaliland opened a new representative office in Taiwan on Friday, saying it had the right to establish diplomatic relations despite objections from Somalia. “We have the right to choose who we have relationships with. It’s our prerogative, and so it hasn’t been successful as far as pressure […]

Which States Are Leading America’s Economy? America’s biggest economies aren’t always its strongest. While California, Texas, and New York dominate in economic size, long-term competitiveness depends on a broader mix of factors, from business creation and labor market strength to innovation and investment. This 2026 analysis by WalletHub evaluates all 50 states and Washington, D.C. across 28 indicators of economic activity, […]

China’s New AI Agent Risks Trapping Western Tech In Rights Abuses: Analysts Authored by Jarvis Lim via The Epoch Times, China’s new state-backed artificial intelligence (AI) platform threatens to stifle domestic tech innovation through forced ideological compliance, and in the West, it could also be used to cover up the regime’s human rights abuses, analysts warn. A screen advertising Xinhua News Agency in Times Square in the […]

North Korea Rips Fresh Western Criticism Of Expanding Moscow Relationship North Korea fired back on Saturday and lashed out at the Washington-Seoul alliance, tearing into a fresh South Korea-EU joint statement that condemned Pyongyang’s deepening military alliance with Russia. North Korea has increasingly over the past acknowledge a significant number of troops sacrificed in support of Russia and in the context of the brutal and […]

Why The Millionaire Next Door Drives A Used Car – And What That Teaches About Real Wealth Authored by Peter Daisyme via Due, The wealthiest person I know personally drives a 2018 Toyota Camry. He owns three rental properties, has over $2 million in investment accounts, and could buy any car on any lot without blinking. He chooses not to, and his explanation is both simple and profound: “A car is a tool that takes you from one place […]

“Tell Him He’s A Piece Of Shit”: Employee Hijacks Meta Meeting In AI Revolt Earlier this week, a routine livestreamed Meta meeting descended into open revolt. During a presentation open to thousands of employees, one participant suddenly interrupted the speakers with a profanity-laced outburst, according to WIRED. The employee declared they felt like “the company’s bitch” and demanded that the people leading the call write to a […]

Discs, Orbs, ‘Heavenly’ Phenomena, & More Revealed In 3rd Batch Of Declassified UFO Files Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Americans living in the northeastern United States witnessed “brilliant and beautiful” glowing red and white orbs in their backyard, which they caught on video, the Pentagon’s third release of declassified UFO files on June 12 showed. The new documents contained encounters from around […]

Hillary Clinton Fears “Revolution” Preventing The US From Becoming A “Rainbow Nation” The word “Democracy” is thrown around frequently within progressive circles as a call to arms; a rallying cry based on a fraudulent narrative of patriotic duty.  Throughout the entirety of Joe Biden’s first and last term, the political left painted conservatives as a threat to democracy.  Anyone who opposed pandemic mandates, compelled […]

AI’s Core Flaw: “Mass Regurgitation Of Misinformation” Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These immense hidden costs will not show up in GDP until they collapse the entire house of speculative gambling cards propping up the global economy. I approach all AI topics with several things in mind. One is the nature of problems, which implicitly define what qualifies as solutions, and the resulting incentive to […]

What’s In A Name? Alaska GOP Succeeds In Stopping Democrats From Stealing The Senate Election Alaska’s election officials may have just saved a U.S. Senate seat from one of the more brazen ballot schemes in recent memory. The state’s Division of Elections issued a preliminary ruling this week that Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg is ineligible to appear on the 2026 Senate ballot, dealing a significant blow to Democrats – in what […]

Bitcoin & The Clash Of Two Inexorable Realities Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Two inexorable realities have come into sharpened focus over the last month or so. Both are themes we have been exploring and monitoring – one, since practically the very beginning of this service, the other, over the last year or so. The first is the unsustainable nature of the global monetary system: we are not unique in […]

Canadian Mother Sues OpenAI, Alleging Chatbot Encouraged Daughter’s Suicide Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, A Canadian mother is suing OpenAI after its popular ChatGPT chatbot allegedly encouraged her daughter to continue engaging with the app after she revealed suicidal thoughts. A screen showing the ChatGPT app. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times Instead of terminating these discussions or flagging her account for […]

Watch: Humanoid Warbot Live-Fires Mortars At Vegas Test Range It is not just one-way attack drones (read JPMorgan report) operating on AI-enabled kill chains that human soldiers have to worry about on the modern battlefield. We have been laying out this story and were among the first to point out that humanoid robots are not only entering factory floors and warehouses, but are also moving toward the battlefield. San […]

Trump Mulls Farmer Aid As Fertilizer And Fuel Costs Bite Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is considering support for U.S. farmers struggling with high fertilizer prices, as rising energy costs and market volatility continue to squeeze producers across the farm belt. A farm field near West Bend, Iowa, on May 6, 2026. Scott Olson/Getty Images “I am looking at doing a form of […]

Former NIH Head Secretly Helped With Paper Dismissing Theory COVID-19 Came From Lab Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Then-National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins, around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledged that he secretly assisted with a paper stating the virus that causes COVID-19 “is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” according to a newly […]

“Swift And Lethal”: U.S. Southern Command Eliminates Tren De Aragua Kingpin In Venezuela Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed late Friday that U.S. forces, working in coordination with Venezuelan security services, conducted a kinetic strike on a Tren de Aragua compound inside Venezuela, killing the foreign terrorist organization’s leader, Niño Guerrero. The decapitation strike is part of the Trump administration’s Western […]

President Trump Says Iran Peace Deal To Be Signed Sunday, Will Open Strait To All Summary: President Trump confirms that he is expecting to sign the US-Iran peace deal tomorrow (Sunday), opening the Strait to all Pakistan PM confirms US and Iran have ​agreed to the final text of the agreement IRGC continues to push back against deal President Trump Says Iran Peace Deal To Be Signed Sunday, Will Open Strait To […]