These Are The 50 Richest Countries By GDP Per Capita GDP per capita is a rough proxy for a country’s average living standards. A higher GDP per capita usually reflects more economic resources available per person, a signal for prosperity. However, like all statistical measures there are caveats: it doesn’t account for income distribution, quality of life metrics, or how sustainable the economy is. Nevertheless, it is a […]

Netanyahu Survives Coalition Collapse, Strikes Deal With Ultra-Orthodox Partners Via The Cradle, Israel’s parliament narrowly rejected a preliminary bill to dissolve itself early on 12 June, avoiding the possibility of snap elections and preserving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile governing coalition. The motion, backed by opposition lawmakers, was defeated by a vote of 61 to 53 – just meeting the 61-seat […]

Israel Says Another Missile Barrage Launched From Iran Overnight, Casualties Rise Summary/developments: Missile sirens sound across north as IDF says new barrage launched from Iran More than 60 Israelis wounded in barrages Israelis rush back into shelters in the north Senior Iranian official threatens that Iran will target countries that try to defend Israel Iran says Israel has killed 78 people, including senior military […]

Early COVID-19 Vaccine Patent In China Raises New Questions For U.S. Investigators A Chinese patent for a COVID-19 vaccine filed just weeks after the virus emerged in the United States is drawing fresh scrutiny from U.S. investigators examining the origins of the pandemic and potential efforts to conceal early information about the virus. The February 24, 2020, patent application – submitted by three Chinese entities affiliated […]

(Un)Deported Democrat Darling Abrego Garcia Pleads Not Guilty To Human Trafficking Charges Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national returned to the United States after being deported to his home country, pled not guilty to federal human trafficking charges on June 13. A Homeland Security vehicle stands in front of the Fred D. Thompson Federal Building, housing the […]

Two Former USPS Employees Indicted For Stealing $80 Million In Treasury Checks Missing your tax return check and living near Philadelphia? We might have an idea of what’s gone wrong… That’s because two former employees of the U.S. Postal Service in Philadelphia have been indicted for their roles in a scheme involving the theft of over $80 million in U.S. Treasury checks, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. According […]

Florida State’s Novel Civics Program Authored by Mike Sabo via RealClearEducation, “Liberty is the lifeblood of America, but it flourishes only when citizens understand the ideas that sustain it,” says Ryan Owens, the director of the Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University. The problem according to Owens is that the serious study of civics has been neglected in recent years. He relates the story of a […]

The Most Common Reasons Not To Have Kids Are Financial A new survey by the UN Population Fund shows that the most common reasons people name for not having more children are financial in nature. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, among 14 countries surveyed, respondents named financial limitations or job instability as the most common reasons to have fewer children than they desired in all. Commonly, financial reasons, […]

Rep. Green Letter to DoD IG Demands Answers On K2 Base Toxins Authored by Jonathan Draeger via RealClearDefense, In June 2003, Mark Jackson, an Army CID at the time, landed on Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Air Base in Uzbekistan. After signing into the base, the first words another soldier greeted him with were, “I hope you’re done having kids, because this place is tough.” After spending a few days on the base, he realized why the […]

Texas Prepares For Weekend Protests With National Guard Deployment Governor Greg Abbott of Texas said on Thursday that more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops and 2,000 state troopers would be deployed across the state in anticipation of widespread protests against federal immigration raids, intensifying a week of mounting political tensions over immigration enforcement and civil unrest. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/The Texas […]

Vitamin D May Help Slow Cellular Aging, Study Finds Authored by Cara Michelle Miller via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Every morning, millions of people take a vitamin D supplement, thinking mostly about stronger bones and a healthier immune system. However, quietly, at the cellular level, something else may be happening—something that could change how we think about aging. FotoHelin/Shutterstock A long-running study recently […]

Smells Like Bureaucratic Overreach: FDA Greenlights Lab-Grown Salmon In a move that reeks of bureaucratic overreach and questionable priorities, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rubber-stamped Wildtype Inc.’s lab-grown salmon, the first of its kind approved for human consumption in the U.S. Derived from mesenchymal lineage cells and mixed with plant-based goo to mimic sushi-grade saku cuts, this franken-fish is being […]

‘We Will Kill You, Graveyard Dead’ – Florida Sheriff Warns Anti-ICE Rioters Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, A Florida sheriff on Thursday warned potential anti-ICE rioters that any attack on local law enforcement would be met with deadly force: “We will kill you, graveyard dead.”  🚨 ‘WE WILL K*LL YOU!’: Florida sheriff has a message for would-be leftist rioters. NOT IN FLORIDA. “If you throw a brick, a […]

Protected Status Terminated For 1 Million Migrants In US Around 1 million migrants in the U.S. on temporary protections are seeing their status terminated by the Trump administration. In April, around 350,000 Venezuelans lost their Temporary Protected Status in the country and were told to self-deport. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security notified almost 500,000 people from […]

Dark-Money Network Funneled Millions Into ‘No Kings’ Nationwide Color Revolution Operation Submitted by Peter Schweizer & Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute,  New Schweizer team investigation reveals how ‘No Kings’ and its partners bagged $114.8 million from the Arabella dark money network and how these professional protest organizations use tax dollars as a force multiplier. 🚨 RIOT INC. EXPOSED: […]

New IRS Commissioner Once Sponsored A Bill To Eliminate The Agency Entirely The U.S. Senate confirmed former Missouri Rep. Billy Long on Thursday as the new commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in a 53–44 vote, ending months of temporary leadership at an agency under intense scrutiny and facing deep staffing cuts, according to AP. Long, a Republican who served in Congress from 2011 to 2023, once sponsored a bill to […]

“The World Situation Amounts To A Set Of Jihads Of Different Varieties…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Game On! “Leftism is the tyranny of structurlessness. Lawlessness. The abhorrence of order. That is why Leftist individuals are characterized by emotional dysregulation. . . . ” – JT Haltigan If you seek a general theme in this moment’s tempestuous events, try No submission. It’s behind events in the Middle East […]

Battered Hezbollah Says It Will Stay Out Of Iran-Israel Fight Hezbollah is warning of grave escalation that “crosses all red lines” the day after Israel’s major missile attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. But so far the Iran-backed group is indicating it doesn’t plan to reopen a war front against Israel. “This attack by Israel, carried out with full support and protection from the U.S., represents a blatant escalation that […]

The Justice Department Sues California Coffee Shop Over Discrimination Against Jewish Customers Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Justice Department has filed an anti-discrimination case against the owners of the Jerusalem Coffee House in Oakland, California. Fathi Abdulrahim Harara and Native Grounds LLC are accused of violating Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, […]

Four Plead Guilty In $550 Million USAID Bribery Scheme Four men have pleaded guilty to a $550 million US Agency for International Development (USAID) bribery scheme, which resulted in 14 contracts being improperly awarded to companies involved in the fraud, the Department of Justice announced in a June 12 statement.  The U.S. Agency for International Development logo is covered with black tape in Washington on Feb. 7, 2025. […]

Interior Department Announces $200 Billion LNG Supply Agreements With Japan Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. companies have finalized sales agreements with Japanese power generation giant JERA Co. Inc. for it to purchase up to 5.5 million tons per year of American liquefied natural gas (LNG), the Department of the Interior (DOI) said in a June 11 statement. A liquefied natural gas tanker […]

NHTSA Tweaks Robotaxi Rules To Unleash “Rapid Innovation” What a week for the electric vehicle space in America. First, President Trump publicly mended ties with Elon Musk, calling him a “friend” just a week after their viral feud. Then came the policy hammer: Trump signed three congressional resolutions dismantling California’s EV mandate and terminating the federal clean vehicle credit. Musk? Unfazed. With Tesla’s dominance […]

Middle East War: Next Steps For Israel And Will Iran Blockade The Straits Of Hormuz By John Kemp, author of KempEnergy.com The United States has partially distanced itself from Israel’s military operation characterising the strikes as a “unilateral action” and emphasising that the United States was “not involved”. It is likely the United States had some degree of foreknowledge of the operation. “Israeli officials said […]

Waste Of The Day: Video Game Conservation Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: The word “conservation” usually applies to wildlife or the environment, but in 2011, the federal government spent $113,277 on a conservation survey of 6,900 video games. The grant to the International Center for the History of Electronic Games would be worth $161,573 today. That’s according to the “Wastebook” […]

“Go After The Scum Of The Earth” – Al-Qaeda Leader Urges Followers To Assassinate Trump, Vance, Musk, Rubio, Hegseth Over Gaza War Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, The leader of al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch is urging fellow Islamists in the United States to assassinate President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, tech billionaire Elon Musk, and other U.S. leaders, calling them “scum of the earth and its greatest […]