Lake Mead Is America’s Deadliest National Park On April 13, Arizona Hot Springs and Goldstrike Trails in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area announced the closing of several trails after one death and the rescue of several hikers under extremely hot temperatures. The incident showcases the dangers that National Parks and similar wilderness areas pose to visitors, especially those who come underprepared. Unfortunately, as […]

The Coward’s Bargain: How We Taught A Generation To Live In Fear Authored by Josh Stylman via Substack, Everyone’s Afraid to Speak Someone our family has known forever recently told my sister that they’ve been reading my Substack and that if they wrote the things I write, people would call them crazy. I got a kick out of that—not because it’s untrue, but because it reveals something darker about where we’ve ended up as a […]

Flying Fatalities Are Extremely Rare Investigations into the cause of last week’s deadly Air India plane crash are currently underway, with the cockpit voice recorder in the plane’s second black box having now been recovered. All but one of the 242 people aboard the Air India 171 flight bound for London-Gatwick on June 12 were killed soon after it took off from India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad. At least 29 people on […]

7 California Men Indicted In ‘Largest Jewelry Heist In US History’ Authored by Jill McLauglin via The Epoch Times, Two of seven California men suspected of helping orchestrate the “largest jewelry heist in U.S. history” were ordered by a federal judge on June 17 to be detained until trial, a spokesperson for the local U.S. Attorney’s Office told The Epoch Times. Prosecutors say the men were part of a modern-day highwaymen […]

Defense Takes Center Stage At Paris Air Show As Goldman Bullish On JDAM Bombs  The 2025 Paris Air Show, Europe’s biggest air show, is nearing an end as Airbus announced a flurry of new plane orders while Boeing dialed back its presence to focus on last week’s Air India 787 Dreamliner crash.  Reuters estimates Airbus has secured $21 billion in sales through Thursday morning, led by 132 firm orders on Monday alone from buyers […]

Loss of Narrative Control: How State Power Struggles Against Free Speech Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The state is losing control over the dominant narratives in the competition of prevailing stories. Its apparatus of power responds predictably invasively and reveals its hostility toward dissenting opinions. The German Bundestag’s Vice President Bodo Ramelow calls for stricter control of social media. “The platforms must be […]

U.S. Ramps Up Surveillance Amid Fears Of Iran-Backed Sleeper Cells  President Trump stated Thursday that a potential U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear targets could occur within a two-week window. This announcement aligns with an uptick in U.S. military activity across the USNORTHCOM, USEUCOM, and USCENTCOM theaters, including airlift missions, the deployment of aerial refueling tankers, and the repositioning of naval […]

Letter Urges Transportation Sec. Duffy To Ban Foreign CDLs Amid Series Of Highway Crashes   Submitted by American Truckers United, As the deadline for President Trump’s Executive Order 14286, titled “Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers,” looms, a powerful movement is gaining momentum in Washington to address a national security crisis in America’s trucking industry. Signed in April 2025, the order […]

Iran’s Internet Blackout Enters Day Two As Starlink “Beams Are On”  One path to regime change in Iran involves targeted strikes on state media infrastructure, designed to sever the regime’s grip on domestic narratives. In parallel, Western technology—such as Starlink terminals—could flood the information vacuum with uncensored internet, enabling the West’s long-prepared psychological operations to win hearts and minds on the […]

FDA Halts Trials That Send Americans’ Cells To China, Other ‘Hostile Countries’ Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 18 announced a halt to clinical trials that involve sending cells from Americans to “hostile countries” until they can confirm Americans have granted informed consent. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary in […]

Nebraska ICE Raid Debunks Claim That The US Needs Migrant Labor The primary argument among progressives on the issue of mass deportations is that “criminals are fine” but kicking Pedro the farm worker or Juanita the waitress back to Mexico is unacceptable because they are doing jobs that native born Americans refuse to do. First, the Trump campaign made it clear from the beginning that they planned to deport all illegals, not just […]

VDH: Israel Dismantles Iran’s Defenses, But Will It Be Enough? Via DailySignal.com, We are at a historic time in the Middle East. Never in our lifetimes have we been closer to a complete revolutionary fervor that gives promise of normalcy for the Middle East. And never have we been in more danger of seeing the entire region blow up. What am I referring to? The war right now between Iran and Israel. It is surreal. If we had […]

Trump Warns Lindsay Graham, Mike Pompeo To Watch Their “Mouth” In Stoking Ukraine War President Trump on Friday warned Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Mike Pompeo to be “very careful what they say,” after we asked him about their efforts to stoke the Russia-Ukraine war.  “On Russia-Ukraine, you’ve been making progress towards a peace deal. I don’t know if you know this, but Lindsay Graham and Mike Pompeo were there on the ground in […]

Is ChatGPT Intentionally Driving You Into Psychosis? Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, “Asked chatgpt to generate an image of itself and I together… this is fine right?” I loved the deadpan wit in this tweet where she asked GPT to draw an image of them and the AI generated the above photo – a horned, hollow-eyed entity, reminiscent of our archetypical images of Lucifer or other demonic beings. ChatGPT […]

Moscow Warns Against ‘Catastrophic’ US Involvement; Trump Says Gabbard “Wrong” About Iran Nukes A new Friday headline in The Guardian reads Trump weighs Iran strike as Pentagon officials privately divided over ‘bunker buster’ bombs – and though the highly alarming report is sourced to the usual anonymous US defense officials, the question of a ‘small’ nuke as an ‘option’ for taking out Iran’s most secure underground enrichment […]

“Wake Up People!” Dave Smith’s Plea To MAGA On Iran Conflicting reports out of the Middle East. For those keeping track: Antiwar’s Scott Horton said his sources were predicting a U.S. strike as soon as last Monday (thought Horton hoped they were wrong). Seymour Hersh is now reporting that “heavy” U.S. strikes are inbound until the Supreme Leader of Iran is removed. Trump downplayed the WSJ story that he had […]

Anxiety Attack Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Marcus Aurelius You must have noticed by now how this Fourth Turning bidness disorders the collective mind. The churning zeitgeist is hard on the nerves, while something strange is birthed by mankind, the end of one way of life and the beginning of […]

Iran Officials Join Large Anti-Israel Street Protests Dubbed ‘Friday Of Rage & Victory’ Despite Israeli warplanes conducting regular bombings and around Tehran, and against nuclear and missile sites in Western Iran, tens of thousands have taken to the streets for what activists are calling “Friday of Rage and Victory” after mosque prayers on Friday morning. The call to protest is being pushed by the Islamic Revolutionary […]

NIH Ends Gain-Of-Function Research, Implementing Trump’s Executive Order Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The National Institute of Health (NIH) announced the end of gain-of-function research in a June 18 statement. The institute’s update said the move is in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order on the topic.  The president’s order was issued on May 5 of this year to improve the […]

Trump Calls For Special Counsel To Investigate 2020 Election As Texas Launches Separate Inquiry Into 2024 President Donald Trump on Friday called for a special prosecutor to investigate potential fraud in the 2020 US election.  “Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a ‘LANDSLIDE!'” Trump posted to Truth Social. “Biden was […]

IAEA Chief Warns UN Security Council That Strike On Iran’s Bushehr Plant Would Create Nuclear Disaster Update(1118ET): The head of the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has issued fresh remarks before the Security Council on Friday, warning that Israeli strikes on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant is where the consequences of an attack could be most serious. The active and operating nuclear power plant currently […]

Schiff: Why Gold Is Still King Via SchiffGold.com, While gold has been used to hoard wealth since the beginning of history, many mainstream experts still deride it in favor of nearly any newly invented investment opportunity… Financial advisors only suggest that gold should make up under 10% of an individual’s portfolio. Independent individual investors, dark money, and governments have recently contributed to gold’s […]

US Truck Assemblies Hit An All Time High In May Trump wanted an industrial boom in the US and in May he got it. Last month, assemblies of trucks at US auto plants increased to the fastest pace in Federal Reserve data back to 1967, according to Bloomberg analysis. On the heels of two solid months for total auto sales in March and April, truck assemblies climbed to a 9.84 million annualized rate, with light-duty pickups accounting […]

Los Angeles Dodgers Deny Federal Agents Access To Stadium Parking Lots Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, The Los Angeles Dodgers said they denied Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers access to the Dodger Stadium parking lots on June 19. In a post on social media platform X, the Major League Baseball team said, “This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the […]

Europe Admits “Trump Is Right”, China Is The Problem As Beijing Unleashes Global EV Dump While Donald Trump has been warning about China’s mercenary, mercantilist trade practices for much of the past decade – ‘ripping us off’ and hollowing out the middle class – (and who facilitated that?), Europe and Latin America, who until recently were screaming loudly to anyone who bothered to listen just how great BFFs they are with Beijing, […]