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Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago

Saudi Arabia Has Five Points Of Leverage Over The US

Saudi Arabia Has Five Points Of Leverage Over The US Authored by Andrew Korybko, It probably won’t ever muster up the political will to use them, however, but the possibility always remains. Trump recently surprised the Saudis by demanding that they recognize Israel as the precondition for the US implementing their newly signed nuclear energy deal, which wasn’t part of the agreement. This follows him humiliating Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman earlier in the ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Atomic Bomb, and The Perils Of Power

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Atomic Bomb, and The Perils Of Power Authored by Jonathan Miltimore via The Epoch Times, On Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, instantly killing tens of thousands and marking the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. Three days later, a second bomb, “Fat Man,” was dropped on Nagasaki. Within days, Japan surrendered, bringing World War II to an end. For most Americans, the bombings were greeted with celebration. Polls at the tim...

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How China Is Using Its Coast Guard To Assert Control At Sea

How China Is Using Its Coast Guard To Assert Control At Sea Over the past decade, China's Coast Guard (CCG) has evolved from a conventional maritime law enforcement agency into a central instrument of Beijing's strategy to reinforce its territorial claims, according to Bloomberg. Now operating a fleet of roughly 680 vessels, it continues to conduct routine missions such as search and rescue, anti-smuggling operations, and fisheries enforcement, but increasingly serves broader strat...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

'You're Like A Parrot': RFK Jr. Destroys Dana Bash Over Fauci's COVID Lies

'You're Like A Parrot': RFK Jr. Destroys Dana Bash Over Fauci's COVID Lies Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. obliterated CNN's Dana Bash during a fiery interview Sunday morning on State of the Union, and it was brutal. The segment aired as measles outbreaks tore through several states, with public health officials warning that unvaccinated communities were fueling the spread of the disease to levels not see...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Jay Clayton To Become Top US Intel Official On Monday

Jay Clayton To Become Top US Intel Official On Monday Jay Clayton will take over as director of national intelligence (DNI) on Monday, according to a social media post by acting director Bill Pulte. “I am eternally grateful to President Trump for the opportunity to serve as Director of National Intelligence, while he completed historic declassifications and we right sized the ODNI. I have no doubt that Jay will do a tremendous job,” Pulte wrote on Aug. 1 in a post on X. “I have of...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out

India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via American Greatness, Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time. This year the big news has been the Iran war. But even accounting for competing headlines, the silence around a genuinely consequential development is telling. And that is the story of India’s explicit rejection of the global net zero movement. India has wa...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

Is Anybody Ever Going To Say, "I'm Sorry"?

Is Anybody Ever Going To Say, "I'm Sorry"? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before Congress and, on the advice of his attorney, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answering many of the senators’ questions. Everyone is talking about what he did or didn’t know, whether he misled Congress, whether he should have answered the questions, and whether he should be held accountable. But that wasn’t the moment from t...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

Leftist Activists Establish 'Autonomous Zone' In Madison

Leftist Activists Establish 'Autonomous Zone' In Madison Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, Far-left activists with apparent ties to the Democratic Socialists of America recently established their own autonomous zone in Wisconsin's capital city, Madison. Activist Carlos LeMar Dixon confronts Madison Police Chief John Patterson during a press conference about the shooting death of Corey Ruiz. / IMAGE: @CollinRugg via X The tent cities have become a familiar sight in far-left...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

The GOP Has Its Own Platner-Esque Nightmare Erupting In Ohio

The GOP Has Its Own Platner-Esque Nightmare Erupting In Ohio Democrats spent months navigating the endless Graham Platner scandals in Maine, before credible rape allegations finally forced him out. Republicans got their own Platner-esque scandal of their own this week in Ohio. Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) posted a 25-minute video to X on Sunday morning to deny a stack of abuse allegations from his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno. He's been accused of holding a...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Japan, Bretton Woods 2.0, and The End Of The Carry Era

Japan, Bretton Woods 2.0, and The End Of The Carry Era Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama is set to announce as early as Monday that Tokyo and Washington are coordinating on steps in the foreign exchange market to curb the yen’s weakness, a person familiar with the situation told Bloomberg. Satsuki Katayama The content of the announcement is still being worked on but could happen as early as Monday morning, the person said, declining to be identified as the information i...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

Bill Gates Held A Top Secret 'Q' Clearance For Seven Years - And The DOE Won't Say Why

Bill Gates Held A Top Secret 'Q' Clearance For Seven Years - And The DOE Won't Say Why Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held a top-tier "Q" security clearance at the Department of Energy from 2014 to 2021 - though the DOE didn't grant it. Another federal agency vetted him first, and the letter confirming the clearance doesn't say which one. The detail comes from a DOE letter entered into the Congressional record by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). The letter emerged as Fauci faced fierce Re...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

9/11 Families Don't Want Mamdani Participating In Memorial Ceremony

9/11 Families Don't Want Mamdani Participating In Memorial Ceremony Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, a coalition of victims' families don’t want New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani anywhere near the ceremony marking the anniversary at Ground Zero.  A Change.org petition urging Mamdani to stay away from the September 11 memorial has collected more than 66,000 signatures in under three weeks and organizers say the mayor's own history of rhetoric and associations makes...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 13 hours ago

Crack Pipes, Get Yer' Crack Pipes! Free Crack Pipes!: California Taxpayers Fund Drug Paraphernalia

Crack Pipes, Get Yer' Crack Pipes! Free Crack Pipes!: California Taxpayers Fund Drug Paraphernalia Authored by Christopher F. Rufo, Austen Hufford via Christopher Rufo's Substack, As governor of California, Gavin Newsom has repeatedly supported "harm reduction" policies, which enable drug use in the name of making it "safer." He created the state's Harm Reduction Initiative, which funded "syringe services programs" for "people who inject and smoke fentanyl and/or methamphetamines....

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Obama-Appointed Judge Defies SCOTUS, Now Faces Impeachment

Obama-Appointed Judge Defies SCOTUS, Now Faces Impeachment Authored by Matt Margolis via PJ Media, An Obama-appointed federal judge just decided the Supreme Court's rulings are more like suggestions, and Republicans in Congress are done pretending she has the authority to make that call. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued an order on Friday blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals. It was a brazen display of judicial...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

Marxist Terror Group Responsible For Colombian Truck Bomb Attack

Marxist Terror Group Responsible For Colombian Truck Bomb Attack Summary: VBIED Attack Comes Days Before President-Elect Abelardo de la Espriella's Inauguration Marxist-Leninist Terror Group Responsible For Truck Bomb Attack Twin Car Bombs Rock Colombian City Days Before Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power Marxist-Leninist Terror Group Responsible For Truck Bomb Attack  The Colombian government blamed the far-left, Marxist-Leninist ELN for the truck bombing outside a police hea...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 15 hours ago

From Influence Peddler To Starving Artist: Hunter Biden Claims Family Is Broke In Defaulting On $17 Million Bill

From Influence Peddler To Starving Artist: Hunter Biden Claims Family Is Broke In Defaulting On $17 Million Bill Authored by Jonathan Turley, Hunter Biden is no Van Gogh. In addition to having both ears, Hunter’s work has generally been panned beyond an enabling media following. However, he claims he is also a starving artist. The problem appears to be that, as predicted years ago, his sales dried up in the influence-peddling market once his father left office. Now, his lawyers wa...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago

'Defend Israel Or The Homeland': Top US General Issues Stark Warning To Pentagon Brass

'Defend Israel Or The Homeland': Top US General Issues Stark Warning To Pentagon Brass Via The Cradle The highest-ranking US general in Europe informed the Pentagon this week that he does not have enough naval units to protect Israel against potential Iranian missile strikes, according to a report by the Washington Post on Saturday. General Alexus Grynkewich, the head of US European Command (EUCOM), notified senior Pentagon officials in writing that without another navy destroyer,...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

Entitled Migrants Complain About Hospitality And Prices After Invading Spanish Territory

Entitled Migrants Complain About Hospitality And Prices After Invading Spanish Territory One of the most egregious fantasies promoted by liberals over the past several decades is the worshipful image of the desperate and grateful third world asylum seeker.  We see it constantly in movies television and popular media; the narrative of the "huddled masses, yearning to breathe free..."  This narrative has become so ingrained in western culture that it is absolutely world shattering whe...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

"Nothing Is 100%": CZ Warns Bitcoin Holders After $89 Million Coldcard Wallet Exploit

"Nothing Is 100%": CZ Warns Bitcoin Holders After $89 Million Coldcard Wallet Exploit Update (1030ET): A third wave of thefts against Bitcoin wallets built on flawed Coldcard firmware ran through Saturday morning, lifting observed losses to roughly 1,367 BTC - close to $89 million - drained from 4,585 addresses since Thursday. As Cyberkendra.com reports, the size is not the interesting part. The third wave is the first one designed to be hard to follow, and that shift tells self-...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

Trump Says "Perimeters Of A Deal Reached" With Iran To Reopen Hormuz After Call With Saudi Crown Prince

Trump Says "Perimeters Of A Deal Reached" With Iran To Reopen Hormuz After Call With Saudi Crown Prince The past few days have been tense. Although no US strikes were launched from Friday night into Saturday morning and the Gulf region remained quiet early Sunday, anticipation surrounding President Trump's next move is keeping energy traders and Gulf governments on edge. The big concern is that another round of strikes could trigger a wider regional conflict, particularly as the Ira...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Spain's Immigration Crisis: Ceuta and The Collapse Of Sánchez's Pro-Migration Experiment

Spain's Immigration Crisis: Ceuta and The Collapse Of Sánchez's Pro-Migration Experiment Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The new migration crisis in Ceuta is not an isolated episode or a simple border emergency. It is the result of a deeply irresponsible and damaging political and economic model. Sánchez boasts about aggregate growth while destroying cohesion, productivity, net real income per capita, and institutions. Spain is not an example of growth, migrant integration, or cohesion...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Water-System Hacks Hit 7 States This Week, FBI Warns, As Trump Shoots Down Iran Theory

Water-System Hacks Hit 7 States This Week, FBI Warns, As Trump Shoots Down Iran Theory Cyberattacks on municipal water systems were reported in at least seven states this week, according to a joint public service announcement from the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency - and in some cases, the agencies say, the malicious activity actually degraded water operations. The feds declined to name the states. A water tower in Plymouth, Minnesota, on Thursday after a cyberattack ta...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

UK High Court Moves To Ban Display Of English And British Flags

UK High Court Moves To Ban Display Of English And British Flags Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A Liberal Democrat council has secured a High Court injunction that effectively bans the unauthorised display of the St George's Cross and Union Flag on lampposts and public highways across an entire English county. What began as a grassroots campaign to raise the colours of the nation has been declared a threat to community safety, with the full force of the courts now d...

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A Brain That Can Swap Bodies: Google DeepMind Aims To Be The 'Android' Of Robotics

A Brain That Can Swap Bodies: Google DeepMind Aims To Be The 'Android' Of Robotics Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2 on Wednesday, a suite of three AI models that gives humanoid and other robots whole-body control, sharper manipulation, and the ability to work together. The system can run locally on the robot itself and adapt to an entirely new machine body with a few hours of training data. DeepMind is pitching it as the "intelligence layer" for robots - the foundational o...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

No, The Spanish Invaders Have Not All Just 'Gone Home'

No, The Spanish Invaders Have Not All Just 'Gone Home' Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spanish authorities and their leftist allies are pushing the line that the tens of thousands of migrants who stormed Ceuta have mostly "gone home." The claim is pure fantasy. Fresh video from the streets shows the city still under siege, with invaders assaulting facilities, smashing graves, clashing with locals, and turning a Spanish enclave into a no-go zone. This is the same da...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

McGlinchey: Trump's Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation

McGlinchey: Trump's Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities As the US-Israel war on Iran grinds into its sixth month, it’s clear to all but the most intellectually-dishonest Trump loyalists and war-bent Israel-sympathizers that it’s been a spectacular failure. A war of aggression that was supposed to precipitate a revolution has instead galvanized popular support of the Iranian government in defiance of the country’s tormentors, who’v...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Gunman Targets Tesla Supercharger And In-N-Out In Twin Falls, Killing Two

Gunman Targets Tesla Supercharger And In-N-Out In Twin Falls, Killing Two Two people are dead and five more are injured after a gunman opened fire at a Tesla charging station and an In-N-Out Burger in Idaho. WATCH: Video reportedly shows one of the two believed suspects opening fire with what appears to be an AR-style rifle in a parking lot in Twin Falls, Idaho. No word on casualties. pic.twitter.com/eBo3zagILN — Scope Report (@ScopeReport_) August 1, 2026 Fox News reports; Multi...

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New Jersey Offers Taxpayer-Funded Legal Services To Noncitizens Improperly Registered To Vote

New Jersey Offers Taxpayer-Funded Legal Services To Noncitizens Improperly Registered To Vote This week, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill revealed that more than 6,600 noncitizens ended up on its voter rolls, with nearly 400 of them casting ballots between June 2023 and June 2024. Despite saying the situation is unacceptable and claiming that she is being proactive to fix it, her administration has also begun steering the same noncitizens toward taxpayer-funded legal help. Sherrill ...

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CCP Bans Sale Of Retired Military Equipment, Citing Security Risks

CCP Bans Sale Of Retired Military Equipment, Citing Security Risks Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times, The Chinese regime's military and public security authorities have jointly issued an order banning the sale, assembly, and marketing of retired military equipment, citing "security risks to military secrets." Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers take part in military training at Pamir Mountains in Kashgar, northwestern China's Xinjiang region, on Jan. 4, 2021. STR/...

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Collision Next Week: Spent SpaceX Rocket Set To Slam Into Moon

Collision Next Week: Spent SpaceX Rocket Set To Slam Into Moon A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is forecast to slam into the moon near Einstein Crater early Wednesday morning, potentially producing the first impact plume observed from Earth against the lunar surface's sunlit side. William Jo, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering, and five co-authors posted a preprint to arXiv detailing the expected lunar impact of the spent ...

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Disease Caused By Cyclospora Parasite Now In 45 States: CDC

Disease Caused By Cyclospora Parasite Now In 45 States: CDC A disease caused by a parasite called Cyclospora has been recorded in 45 states this summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update. Delaware, Oregon, South Dakota, and Vermont have now logged cases of cyclosporiasis, the disease, the CDC said on July 28. The CDC in its previous update had said 41 states had reported cases. The number of confirmed cases across the 45 states since May 1 is up t...

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Kamala Harris Moves To $8.5M Mansion In 94% White Neighborhood

Kamala Harris Moves To $8.5M Mansion In 94% White Neighborhood Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Former Vice President Kamala Harris has long spoken about the importance of being surrounded by other black or minority Americans. But her new $8.5 million home is located in an exclusive Malibu neighborhood where the population is overwhelmingly white. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, purchased a 4,000-square-foot mansion in Point Dume, one of Malibu’s most exclusive c...

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Michigan Waves The White Flag On Child 'Conversion Therapy' Ban

Michigan Waves The White Flag On Child 'Conversion Therapy' Ban Democrat-run Michigan just backed down after threatening therapists who use talk therapy to help children with 'gender dysphoria' accept their biology.  Alex Brandon / AP On Thursday, the state agreed to a permanent federal court order barring it from ever enforcing House Bill 4616 - the 2023 law, signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, that threatened licensed counselors with discipline for engaging in ordinary talk therapy ...

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North Carolina Police Officer Arrested For Alleged Illegal Use Of Flock Cameras

North Carolina Police Officer Arrested For Alleged Illegal Use Of Flock Cameras Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, A North Carolina officer was arrested by state authorities July 29 after allegedly accessing license plate registration information from Flock Safety cameras and other technology, authorities announced. Flock Safety, based in Georgia, estimates more than 6,000 communities in 49 states have partnered with the company to install surveillance systems. Flock ...

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Proof: TDS Is Anti-Christian

Proof: TDS Is Anti-Christian Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, New data exposes the purest form of Trump Derangement Syndrome yet: young Americans so thoroughly programmed that they will abandon church itself rather than sit in a pew next to someone who supports the president. A survey from the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Research Institute found that nearly half of Gen Z adults - 48 percent - say Christians' support for Donald Trump has made them less likely ...

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New Report Ranks California 35th Best State And Least Affordable

New Report Ranks California 35th Best State And Least Affordable Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times, California, the most populous U.S. state and the one with the largest economy, ranked as the 35th best state in a new ranking published by U.S. News on July 28. South Orange County communities near Laguna Beach, Calif., on Oct. 15, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times Utah ranked as the best state, followed by South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The rank...

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The State Where DOGE Is Actually Working

The State Where DOGE Is Actually Working Authored by Noah Wall via The American Mind, On July 14, the State Leadership Initiative was honored to host the Florida DOGE team and their tech partners, Vulcan, Echelon, and DigiBuild, for the Florida DOGE Showcase in Washington, D.C. Spearheaded by Governor Ron DeSantis, the state has become the leader for providing accountable and efficient governance to its citizens. Since its creation in 2025, the Florida DOGE team has identified n...

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"Pure Case Of Vandalism": Trump Rages As DoJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case Against Former Olympian

"Pure Case Of Vandalism": Trump Rages As DoJ Drops Reflecting Pool Case Against Former Olympian Update (1245ET): President Trump has not taken kindly to the DoJ dropping their case against the former Olympian for vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, exclaiming his displeasure in a post on X: I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM... ...that...

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Man Kidnaps Former Investment Partner, Stuffs Him In Trunk, Shoots Him, Then Gets Shot By Cops

Man Kidnaps Former Investment Partner, Stuffs Him In Trunk, Shoots Him, Then Gets Shot By Cops Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Two Chinese men have been identified as suspects in the shooting and kidnapping of a Chino Hills resident who was later found mortally wounded in the trunk of their vehicle after one suspect fired into it during a police stop, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a July 31 statement to The Epoch Times. A home on the street in...

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Airspace Lockdown Looms: US Warns Americans Get Out Of Mideast As Iran Targets Kuwait Again

Airspace Lockdown Looms: US Warns Americans Get Out Of Mideast As Iran Targets Kuwait Again There were no Friday night into Saturday morning US attacks on Iran, after President Trump warned he has given an order to hit Iran 'hard' - though didn't disclose a timeline. Friday reports in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Axios strongly suggested that large US strikes would commence at some point this weekend, as the region remains on edge. The only new and recent attacks have been mor...

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The Real Threat To Young Americans' Jobs Isn't AI. It's The National Debt...

The Real Threat To Young Americans' Jobs Isn't AI. It's The National Debt... Authored by Ken Buck via The Epoch Times, The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence and supercomputing technologies has many Americans worried about the future of their careers. In a survey last month, more than half of U.S. workers expressed concern that AI could take their job or the job of a family member. Another survey in December found that almost 60 percent of young people believe AI poses ...

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Verizon Blames 'Human Error' For Burying A Jack Smith Subpoena From Congress

Verizon Blames 'Human Error' For Burying A Jack Smith Subpoena From Congress Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and fifteen colleagues sent a letter to Verizon on Thursday demanding the telecom giant explain how a 2023 grand jury subpoena tied to Jack Smith's "Arctic Frost" investigation vanished from its own paperwork for more than two years - only to resurface after the company chalked the omission up to "human error." The letter, addressed to Verizon CEO Dan Schul...

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Leftists Now Claim US And Israel Behind The Migrant Invasion Of Spain

Leftists Now Claim US And Israel Behind The Migrant Invasion Of Spain A clear pattern is emerging:  When the political left or their favorite pet migrants wreak havoc and commit heinous crimes, the immediate canned response from the activist fold is to blame the "right wing" or blame those devious Israelis.  Why do they do this?  Because it works.  Progressive politicians and third world invaders always seem to dodge accountability while conservative movements in-fight over the sou...

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22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" As Migrant Invasion Raises Fear Of Hybrid Warfare

22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" As Migrant Invasion Raises Fear Of Hybrid Warfare Summary: 22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" Italy Suspends Schengen Travel Agreement With Spain After Horrifying Ceuta Invasion Spain's Border Invasion Is An Optics Disaster For Open-Border Democrats Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging, Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain 22 EU Leaders Demand "Immediate Action" To Spanish Enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla Invasion  European leader...

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Leopold Aschenbrenner's Short Seller Fairy Tale

Leopold Aschenbrenner's Short Seller Fairy Tale Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, stuffed like the ass of a Thanksgiving turkey with every trendy AI name you could throw a dart at, reportedly suffered one of the most spectacular drawdowns of recent memory, losing roughly 67% in July after a series of heavily leveraged bets went violently against it. According to the Wall Street Journal, the losses became severe enough to trigger margin calls, fo...

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"I've Been Doxed": Lefty Podcaster Scott Galloway Rips Mamdani After Landing On Socialist's Rich Target List

"I've Been Doxed": Lefty Podcaster Scott Galloway Rips Mamdani After Landing On Socialist's Rich Target List Prominent liberal podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway, who can only be described as a "useful idiot" for helping legitimize far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, appears to be awakening from his political delusion. Galloway now says he has been "doxed" after realizing that the socialist movement he helped empower is publicly identifying wealthy property owner...

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Twin Car Bombs Rock Colombian City Days Before Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power

Twin Car Bombs Rock Colombian City Days Before Trump-Backed "El Tigre" Takes Power Details remain limited, but initial reports and footage on X suggest that one or more vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), commonly known as car or truck bombs, detonated near a police station in Cúcuta, Colombia, close to the Venezuelan border. The apparent VBIED attack occurred just six days before President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella's inauguration, which will transfer power ...

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Closed Borders Killing Western Union, Earnings Call Transcripts Reveal

Closed Borders Killing Western Union, Earnings Call Transcripts Reveal Western Union CFO Matt Cagwin quietly acknowledged in yesterday’s earnings call that fewer border crossings under the Trump admin are chipping away at the remittance behemoth’s profits: “New migration is the lifeline of our retail business. With borders closed, it is difficult to offset natural attrition… as consumers return home to their native countries,” Cagwin said. WU has long been the dominant vampire ski...

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Germany Builds AI 'Racist Uncle' Robot To Indoctrinate Kids In Schools

Germany Builds AI 'Racist Uncle' Robot To Indoctrinate Kids In Schools Authored by an 'anonymous German teacher' via dailysceptic.org, Täteropferumkehr is the German term for “victim blaming” – often hyphenated as Täter-Opfer-Umkehr to make it look slightly less clunky. In recent times, our political and media establishment have turned it into a sharp tool, employed with reference to both foreign and domestic politics. Unsurprisingly, Germany’s woke Left – always eager to champion...

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Crude Inventories Have Fallen To "Precariously Low" Levels

Crude Inventories Have Fallen To "Precariously Low" Levels U.S. crude inventories fell sharply last week as refineries ramped up production to capitalize on higher fuel prices following renewed conflict with Iran, according to Financial Times. Commercial crude stockpiles declined by 7.2 million barrels, while the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped another 3.8 million barrels. Refineries operated at 97% of capacity nationwide, with some Midwest facilities running at full capa...

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Britain's Problems Didn't Begin With Brexit

Britain's Problems Didn't Begin With Brexit Authored by Jason Sorens via  The Daily Economy, Ten years ago, Britons voted to leave the European Union, launching three and a half years of tumultuous negotiations and domestic political ructions, only subsiding after the UK’s official withdrawal in January 2020. It’s tempting to see Brexit as a watershed moment in Britain’s political economy. Britons themselves now tend to regret the choice rather than affirm it, with narrow majori...

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Xi Tells PLA TO Build 'Intelligent Military System' As Beijing Leans Into Drones And AI

Xi Tells PLA TO Build 'Intelligent Military System' As Beijing Leans Into Drones And AI China's Xi Jinping told the People's Liberation Army this week to intensify the military application of artificial intelligence and unmanned systems, telling a Politburo study session that the force should build toward what the official readout called an "intelligent military system." The directive landed days before the PLA's ninety-ninth anniversary and squarely on the modernization targets Bei...

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Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging, Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain

Crazy Footage Shows Migrants Rampaging, Breaking Into Homes After Invading Spain Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Nearly 50,000 military-aged men stormed the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla from Morocco in a single day. What followed was not "asylum-seeking." It was open looting, home invasions, vehicle burnings, and street chaos while Spanish authorities largely stood aside. Spain's socialist government under Pedro Sánchez had already rolled out mass regularis...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 days ago

Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed

Chaos Agent: Anthony Fauci Represents A System That Needs To Be Cleansed Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us I think nothing enrages Americans more than a lack of accountability from government officials. Yes, it happens often, and the public hasn’t taken up torches and pitchforks (yet), but I would point out that these incidents are cumulative and they light a growing fire within the collective memory. Eventually, people are going to snap if they don’t see action taken to ...

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Wichita Man Sues City To Rip Out Its 200-Camera Flock Dragnet

Wichita Man Sues City To Rip Out Its 200-Camera Flock Dragnet A Wichita machinist, Mason Grimmett, sued his own city this week, arguing that the roughly 200 Flock license-plate readers the police department has bolted around town amount to warrantless dragnet surveillance forbidden by the Kansas Constitution. The complaint, filed in Sedgwick County District Court by the Kansas Justice Institute, does not ask for money - rather, it asks a judge to declare the program unconstitutional...

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'Genetically Altered' Nuclear Monster Sharks Could Be Eating Whales

'Genetically Altered' Nuclear Monster Sharks Could Be Eating Whales Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A mysterious predator has been tearing into whales, seals, and giant tuna off the New York coast, leaving bite marks the size of dinner plates and sparking theories of a radioactive "Sharkzilla" spawned by decades of government nuclear waste dumping. Because nothing says summer 2026 like the possibility that Cold War bureaucrats cooked up a genetically enhanced killing ...

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Unitree IPO Finally Puts A Real Price On Profitable Humanoid Robots

Unitree IPO Finally Puts A Real Price On Profitable Humanoid Robots Chinese robotics maker Unitree formally launched its IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market on Thursday, opening the books on a deal that aims to raise about 4.2 billion yuan (roughly $618 million) at an implied valuation near 42 billion yuan ($5.9 billion). Once the shares start trading, the listing will put a real, daily market price on a profitable humanoid-robot maker operating at scale - the first the sector has had. ...

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Trump Defends Anti-Weaponization Fund But Admits It's Effectively 'Dead'

Trump Defends Anti-Weaponization Fund But Admits It's Effectively 'Dead' Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Friday said that he still wants compensation for people he said were victimized by a weaponized federal government while acknowledging that a planned $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund is “dead” after the Department of Justice walked it back amid congressional opposition and court rulings. “It is dead,” Trump said at a Cabinet meetin...

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The Strange Reason Scientists Still Need Pre-1945 Steel

The Strange Reason Scientists Still Need Pre-1945 Steel The world's most sensitive radiation detectors sometimes rely on low background steel produced before the first atomic bomb test in July 1945, according to a new report from SpaceDaily. Steel manufactured before the nuclear age lacks the tiny traces of radioactive fallout that atmospheric weapons testing later introduced into the environment, making it valuable for experiments searching for extraordinarily rare particles and f...

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Trust In Higher Education Hits Another Low As The Public Rejects Institutional Bias

Trust In Higher Education Hits Another Low As The Public Rejects Institutional Bias Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, According to the latest Gallup poll, only 38% of U.S. adults have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education. One of the Gallup experts told Fox News that one of the key reasons for the continued slide in public trust is "the perception that there's a political agenda being taught." That perception is well documented after mo...

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US Withdraws Troops, Patriot Batteries From Northern Iraq Amid Iranian Attacks

US Withdraws Troops, Patriot Batteries From Northern Iraq Amid Iranian Attacks There are new reports Friday of more US troop pullback initiatives in the wake of the last couple weeks of US-Iran fighting, and Iranian ballistic missile and drone strikes which have targeted American bases with increased regularity, especially in Jordan and Kuwait. One regional media publication freshly reports, "The United States military has started to draw down its last remaining forces from Iraq st...

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Students Seek To AI-Proof Their Careers With Trades Over College

Students Seek To AI-Proof Their Careers With Trades Over College Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, For years, students were told the future belonged to college graduates with a four-year degree. Now, some of the fastest-growing opportunities are in skilled trades, where there is an escalating demand for labor and a higher level of job security amid the rise of artificial intelligence. An instructor teaches a student about brazing—a metal joining process used in hea...

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F-35 Stealth Jet Suffers "Mishap" At San Diego Airbase

F-35 Stealth Jet Suffers "Mishap" At San Diego Airbase A US Marine Corps F-35B assigned to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing suffered a "mishap" at MCAS Miramar in San Diego earlier today, according to Fox News. Viral videos have circulated on X showing the $100 million fifth-generation fighter jet in flames. BREAKING: Emergency crews are responding to an aircraft mishap appearing to involve an F-35 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego after the incident was reported ea...

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China-Focused Influence Program Courted Senior US Media Figures With Sponsor-Paid Trips

China-Focused Influence Program Courted Senior US Media Figures With Sponsor-Paid Trips Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, A journalist's review of Committee of 100 (C100) records has renewed scrutiny of sponsor-paid trips that brought senior figures from major U.S. news organizations to China and recorded changes in their views and professional plans. A tour guide stands near a display showing images of people at locations described as vocational training centers in sou...

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Argentina's Milei Borrows Warren Buffett's Idea To Punish Deficit-Spending Politicians

Argentina's Milei Borrows Warren Buffett's Idea To Punish Deficit-Spending Politicians More than two years after campaigning to "blow up" Argentina's central bank, President Javier Milei has announced his "Fiscal Shackle" bill - a permanent rule aimed at preventing Argentina from approving or maintaining budgets with fiscal deficits that could have consequences for politicians. On Thursday, in a speech recorded at the Casa Rosada and broadcast nationwide, Milei proposed an overhaul...

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Judge Rejects States' Attempt To Block Medicaid Work Requirements

Judge Rejects States' Attempt To Block Medicaid Work Requirements Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on July 30 declined to block new work requirements for Medicaid recipients that states must implement by Jan. 1, 2027. Judge Richard Stearns of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts turned down a request for a preliminary injunction made by Massachusetts and 25 other states to block the work requirements as the states’ legal chall...

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Memory-Chip Crunch Hits Smartphone Demand Across China

Memory-Chip Crunch Hits Smartphone Demand Across China Prices for electronic devices reliant on advanced memory chips, from smartphones to gaming consoles, have risen as the AI data-center buildout tightens supply and drives component costs higher. The resulting memory-chip crunch is now weighing on consumer demand, with Goldman’s latest note showing that the pressure is increasingly visible in China’s handheld-device market. Goldman analyst Allen Chang, who focuses on everything ...

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Trump Orders Heavy Attack On Energy-Related Targets In Iran, To Commence This Weekend

Trump Orders Heavy Attack On Energy-Related Targets In Iran, To Commence This Weekend Summary Trump orders major strikes on Iran, likely to start this weekend. US adds sanctions, Bessent says Tehran can't pay troops, as Iran faces growing pressure. Most Americans say the Iran war isn't worth fighting: AP poll. Iran claims drone strike on US base in Kuwait - after no new US strikes overnight. Oil rises as fears of wider conflict grow and lack of talks. //--> //--> //--> U...

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Saudi Arabia Planning Major Escalation In Yemen, Possible Ground Op: Reports

Saudi Arabia Planning Major Escalation In Yemen, Possible Ground Op: Reports Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, said Thursday that there were indications Saudi Arabia was planning a major escalation in Yemen, as the war between the two sides has been reignited following the July 13 Saudi strikes on the Sanaa International Airport. "We will work to establish the equation of siege with sie...

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Trump's Jones Act Waiver Helped Avert Fuel Shortages Across These Key US Regions

Trump's Jones Act Waiver Helped Avert Fuel Shortages Across These Key US Regions The Department of Homeland Security has issued the broadest Jones Act waiver since at least the 1950s, just weeks after the US-Iran conflict erupted. The measure has allowed foreign-flagged vessels to transport fuel, crude oil, fertilizer, and other essential goods between US ports, bypassing domestic shipping restrictions to mitigate supply chain disruptions across various U.S. regions. The Jones Act,...

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: The Old Order Is Breaking Down

The Fourth Turning Is Here: The Old Order Is Breaking Down Authored by Chris MacIntosh via InternationalMan.com, In 1997, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published “The Fourth Turning,” a cyclical theory of Anglo-American history built around generational archetypes and recurring saecular rhythms of approximately 80 to 100 years roughly the length of a long human life. Their framework identified four “turnings,” each lasting roughly 20 to 25 years, that repeat in sequen...

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From Nazi Tats To Kissing Cousins: Maine Democrats Go Full Jerry Springer

From Nazi Tats To Kissing Cousins: Maine Democrats Go Full Jerry Springer In the span of a few weeks, Maine Democrats replaced their U.S. Senate nominee amid a cascade of personal controversies, with a guy who's been banging his 2nd cousin for years.  Platner's Collapse Graham Platner, a Marine Corps veteran and oyster farmer, had emerged as a progressive populist challenger to five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins. He secured the Democratic nomination in June 2026 despite a s...

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Demoralizing The Whole Citizenry To The Max

Demoralizing The Whole Citizenry To The Max Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The Curse It Is Cast... “I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.” - Dr. Anthony Fauci, recorded for TV in 2022 However you cut this Fauci business, one thing Americans have learned is how slippery and treacherous this thing called The Law has become. You saw it in the sundry Trump prosecutions of 2024, too - a marvelous demonstration of how to play Hide-the-S...

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ICE Planning New Detention Facilities For 5,500+ Detainees In Four US Cities

ICE Planning New Detention Facilities For 5,500+ Detainees In Four US Cities Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is currently moving to open four new major detention facilities across the United States with a combined capacity to hold 5,500 detainees. Just the News reports that ICE has sent out a request for information seeking contractors who could operate detention facilities near Denver, Miami and Seattle, and central ...

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Five States Make The Cut For $50 Billion Nuclear Campuses 

Five States Make The Cut For $50 Billion Nuclear Campuses  The Department of Energy has selected Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho as the first five potential hosts for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses (NLICs), advancing an effort that forced states to decide whether they support the entire nuclear industry or merely the convenient parts. Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed Memorandums of Understanding with the five states after the DOE reviewed 28 application...

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FCC Chair Carr Defends License Review As ABC Cries Censorship

FCC Chair Carr Defends License Review As ABC Cries Censorship Via American Greatness, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is pushing back against Disney-owned ABC’s claims that his agency is engaged in “attempted censorship,” insisting the review of the network’s broadcast licenses stems from evidence of discriminatory hiring practices, not politics. ABC leveled the censorship accusation in a 119-page regulatory filing posted Thursday, arguing the FCC’s scrutiny...

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Chips To Ships: Nvidia Plans New Shipbuilding Investment With Kawasaki

Chips To Ships: Nvidia Plans New Shipbuilding Investment With Kawasaki Authored by Stuart Chirls via FreightWaves.com, Can the world’s newest technology give a boost to one of transportation’s oldest? A plan by leading Asia companies wants to find out. Nvidia and Kawasaki Heavy Industries announced a joint effort to build a “next‑generation digital shipyard” at Kawasaki’s Sakaide Works in Japan.  The core of the deal is co‑development of AI‑powered robots for shipbuilding tasks s...

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US Treasury Informed Banks It May Intervene In Japan's Yen, As Market Laughs At BOJ's Own Attempts To Prop Up Currency

US Treasury Informed Banks It May Intervene In Japan's Yen, As Market Laughs At BOJ's Own Attempts To Prop Up Currency While the BOJ understandably refuses to admit it spent a record $140BN (across all markets, $90BN on EBS) to briefly manipulate the Japanese yen higher... ... ahead of yet another disappointing (non-rate hike) decision (according to some calculations, Japan's central bank is about 100 bps of rate hikes behind to stop the ongoing collapse of the yen), others are l...

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Italy Suspends Schengen Travel Agreement With Spain After Horrifying Ceuta Invasion

Italy Suspends Schengen Travel Agreement With Spain After Horrifying Ceuta Invasion Summary: Italy Suspends Schengen Agreement With Spain Over Ceuta Invasion Europe's Right-Wing Blasts Spanish Socialists For Border Failure Riots erupted in Ceuta as Illegals Clashed with Security Forces Mass Migration Invasion Of Military-Aged Males From Morocco Invades Spanish Enclave  "Looks Like World War Z!": Spain's Ceuta Invaded By Thousands Of Military-Aged Male Illegals Italy Suspends S...

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Tesla Weighs China Spinoff As Potential SpaceX Merger Looms

Tesla Weighs China Spinoff As Potential SpaceX Merger Looms Tesla is reportedly evaluating whether to separate its China operations through a sale, spinoff, or other restructuring as it considers a possible future merger with SpaceX, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The discussions reflect increasing geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, as well as the unique regulatory challenges that would arise if Tesla became part of a company with si...

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Seattle Police Chief Resigns 4 Days After Deadly Festival Shooting

Seattle Police Chief Resigns 4 Days After Deadly Festival Shooting Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes on Thursday sent his letter of resignation to Mayor Katie B. Wilson, four days after a fatal shooting at a food festival, the mayor's office and Seattle Police Department announced. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson (C) and Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes (L) attend the vigil for victims the day after a shooting at Seattle Center during the B...

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Trump Eschews Talks With 'Dishonest' Iran, Says Will Keep 'Hitting Them Very Hard' 

Trump Eschews Talks With 'Dishonest' Iran, Says Will Keep 'Hitting Them Very Hard'  Summary Trump proclaims US strikes on Iran are succeeding and will continue. US adds sanctions, Bessent says Tehran can't pay troops, as Iran faces growing pressure. Most Americans say the Iran war isn't worth fighting: AP poll. Iran claims drone strike on US base in Kuwait - after no new US strikes overnight. Oil rises as fears of wider conflict grow and lack of talks. //--> //--> //--> ...

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Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores

Immigrant Business Owners Prepare Lawsuit Against Mamdani Over City-Run Grocery Stores Via American Greatness, Several immigrant business owners are preparing to sue New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his plan for city-owned grocery stores, Fox News Digital confirmed Wednesday. The Multicultural Business Coalition’s board voted this week to pursue legal action against the city over Mamdani’s proposal to open five taxpayer-funded grocery stores that would sell food at prices...

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Claude Hacked Three Real Organizations During Botched Test

Claude Hacked Three Real Organizations During Botched Test Anthropic's efforts to test Claude's offensive cybersecurity skills produced an unintended real-world result: Its AI models gained unauthorized access to three outside organizations. The company said the incidents occurred during "capture the flag" evaluations designed to measure whether Claude could identify vulnerabilities, exploit simulated systems, and retrieve hidden information. Claude had been told that the targets...

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AI Bear Case: What Skeptics Get Right And Wrong

AI Bear Case: What Skeptics Get Right And Wrong Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The AI “bear case” isn’t one argument; it’s three. Burry on earnings. Bernstein on circular financing. MIT on revenue. Two are half right. One falls apart on the data. Michael Burry broke a two-year silence on November 11 to accuse the world’s largest technology companies of cooking their books, calling it one of the more common frauds of the modern era. That got attention, an...

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Spain's Border Invasion Is An Optics Disaster For Open-Border Democrats

Spain's Border Invasion Is An Optics Disaster For Open-Border Democrats The average American has learned about the far-left movement, or more particularly, reformist socialists, otherwise known as the Democratic Socialists of America, in recent months. The DSA says in its own words that its platform is about collapsing America from within. To accomplish that, they must push open borders and flood the nation with millions more illegal aliens, similar to what the Biden-Harris regime o...

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It's A Gambling Platform "Plain And Simple"; New York Sues Kalshi

It's A Gambling Platform "Plain And Simple"; New York Sues Kalshi Authored by Olivier Acuna via CoinDesk.com, New York sued prediction-market Kalshi, alleging it offers sports and event wagers in the state without a gaming license. The petition, filed in the New York Supreme Court on Friday, asks a judge to bar the company from operating an unlicensed gambling business and seeks an accounting of customer bets, losses and company gains, plus restitution, damages and civil penalti...

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US Senators Sent Revised Ethics Rules To White House For CLARITY Act: Report

US Senators Sent Revised Ethics Rules To White House For CLARITY Act: Report Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, Two US senators on opposite sides of the political aisle have reportedly sent revised ethics guidelines to the White House as part of discussions over a cryptocurrency market structure bill in Congress. According to a Thursday PunchBowl report, Senator Thom Tillis and Senator Ruben Gallego submitted a counteroffer to the Trump administration that included...

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UMich Sentiment Surges To Pre-War Highs; AI Fears Becoming "Salient"

UMich Sentiment Surges To Pre-War Highs; AI Fears Becoming "Salient" Having rebounded from record (46 year) lows in June, University of Michigan's final July Sentiment survey was expected to show further improvement MoM, but a slight decline from the preliminary print as gas prices started rising again following the apparent end of the MoU-driven MidEast ceasefire. However, from 49.5 final for June, UMich headline print rose to 54.4 preliminary and has now jumped further to 55.2 (5...

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Iran Claims Kuwait Airbase Attack, Strikes Pair Of Tankers In Hormuz, Despite No New US Operations Overnight

Iran Claims Kuwait Airbase Attack, Strikes Pair Of Tankers In Hormuz, Despite No New US Operations Overnight "We note with concern that the security situation remains precarious," said Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi on his country's mediation efforts to find peace between the US and Iran. Talks "are ongoing to normalize the situation, particularly the situation in the Strait of Hormuz," he told reporters as a week full of renewed fighting as come to a close. B...

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Senate Schedules Contempt Vote For Fauci

Senate Schedules Contempt Vote For Fauci Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Senate has scheduled a vote on holding Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Aug. 5 will consider a contempt resolution for Fauci. The resolution has not been released as of yet. Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, testifies befor...

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A Wolf In New York City Mayor's Clothing

A Wolf In New York City Mayor's Clothing Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Zohran Mamdani may be the most effective and dangerous wolf in sheep's clothing American politics has produced in years. Beneath the polished charm and social-media-friendly persona is a grotesque combination of noxious policy ideas, delivered with snake like charm and layered with what feels like an outright hatred for success, individual liberty, free enterprise, private property, and many of the principl...

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Trump Hails 'Historic Agreement' To Disarm Hamas, But Israel 'Skeptical'

Trump Hails 'Historic Agreement' To Disarm Hamas, But Israel 'Skeptical' "Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza," Trump declared Thursday evening on Truth Social. "This is a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY," he added, following months of delicate negotiations involving mediators Qatar, Egypt, Turkey. Implementation is as soon as in the coming weeks, a US official told Axios, ...

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Situational Unawareness

Situational Unawareness Via Rabobank, Markets have a habit of explaining every move with the most obvious narrative available. This week, that narrative was earnings. Investors spent days dissecting cloud growth, AI capex, free cash flows, and also Fed messaging, while some of the most dramatic price action of this summer was being driven by something else entirely.  That "something else" was Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by a 24-year-old whizz-kid, which re...

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Roblox Crashes After User Miss, Soft Guidance Triggers Wall Street Downgrades

Roblox Crashes After User Miss, Soft Guidance Triggers Wall Street Downgrades Roblox shares plunged 21% in premarket trading in New York - the most in two years if losses hold through the cash session - after second-quarter users and bookings missed Bloomberg Consensus estimates, reflecting softer engagement following the rollout of new child-safety measures. Daily active users reached 123 million versus the 128.7 million consensus, while bookings totaled $1.56 billion, below the $...

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European Nations To Boycott Soccer World Cup Over New FIFA Proposals

European Nations To Boycott Soccer World Cup Over New FIFA Proposals Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times, Europe’s governing soccer body, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), has said its 55 members have ​unanimously voted to ‌boycott the World Cup in protest of ⁠FIFA’s plans ​to sell stakes ​to external investors, saying that the sport’s biggest competition is “not for sale.” FIFA, the sport’s worldwide governing body headed by Gianni Infantino, announ...

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Weaponized Migration? 50,000 Military-Aged Men Invade Spanish Enclave Without Supplies As Chaos And Riots Erupt

Weaponized Migration? 50,000 Military-Aged Men Invade Spanish Enclave Without Supplies As Chaos And Riots Erupt Summary: Europe's Right-Wing Blasts Spanish Socialists For Border Failure Riots erupted in Ceuta as Illegals Clashed with Security Forces Mass Migration Invasion Of Military-Aged Males From Morocco Invades Spanish Enclave  "Looks Like World War Z!": Spain's Ceuta Invaded By Thousands Of Military-Aged Male Illegals Invasion: 50,000 Illegals Invade Spanish Enclave In 24...

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Entire Ethiopian Football Team Vanishes In Sweden After Youth Tournament

Entire Ethiopian Football Team Vanishes In Sweden After Youth Tournament Via Remix News, Twenty Ethiopians connected to a youth football team disappeared in Sweden on the final day of the Gothia Cup youth tournament, prompting an international missing persons search. The group consists mainly of boys aged between 14 and 17, together with one or more adult leaders. Police believe they left voluntarily, amid suspicions that they may be attempting to remain in Sweden or another Eur...

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Islam, Marxism, Tyranny Ascendant

Islam, Marxism, Tyranny Ascendant Authored by Eric Utter via AmericanThinker.com, Canada, the U.K., and France are rapidly morphing into Muslim nations. Iran is run by a motley collection of itinerant thugs and Islamic terrorists. Russia is run by an extreme authoritarian. China, North Korea, Cuba, and various other nations have a communist government. Daniel Ortega is a dictator, like many others, one who recently announced he was suspending elections in Nicaragua. The EU render...

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Iran FM Accuses Israel Of False Flag After Mystery Drone Strike On Egyptian Port

Iran FM Accuses Israel Of False Flag After Mystery Drone Strike On Egyptian Port Iran is suggesting that Wednesday's unprecedented drone attack on a US-owned gas-processing vessel moored at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta was a false flag. Even within hours of the incident first being reported by Egyptian authorities, which merely described an industrial fire of unknown cause, the incident was shrouded in mystery and contradictory reports. Some reports pointed to the Iranian...