Massive Blast Rocks Italian Munitions Plant At Heart Of Europe’s Ammo Supply Chain A massive explosion has been reported at a major Italian manufacturer of medium- and large-caliber ammunition, formerly known as Simmel Difesa. The plant operates in Colleferro and Anagni, near Rome. Local Italian outlet Sky TG24 reports:  Fire and explosion at Colleferro, in the facility of the former Simmel Difesa, currently owned by KNDS […]

All Of Iran’s Weapons Today Are Domestic, Missile Production Exceeds Usage: IRGC Official At a moment US officials as well as media headlines have been voicing alarm over depleted US missile stockpiles – something which President Trump sought to bat down as false – Iranian leaders have been busy boasting that their domestic defense production has not only kept pace but even expanded on the local production front. Mohammad Reza […]

The Beautiful Great Game: Extra Time & Penalties By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday’s in-line US CPI report was the non-event its relative insignificance vs tumultuous domestic and global backdrops suggested it should be. Meanwhile, in the ‘Beautiful Great Game’, it’s extra time and penalties, medals and champagne for some, and tears for others. Iran remains defiant. Trump says he has “total control” of and […]

Palantir, Flock, & Data Centers: The Battle Dividing The Right The political right spent much of the last decade united against Big Tech, government surveillance, and the unprecedented expansion of state power during COVID. But the rise of artificial intelligence has brought with it an urgent need for data centers, and firms like Palantir and Flock are providing government with increasingly sophisticated tools for […]

Dowd: US Disabilities Hit An All-Time High Of 37 Million In July: UP 23% Since Feb 2021 Authored by Ed Dowd via Beyond The Narrative, The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data is out, and the number of Americans ages 16 and over reporting a disability has hit a new all-time high of roughly 37 million. As of July 2026, the Current Population Survey series sits at 37,029,000. That’s not a rounding error or a seasonal blip. It’s the […]

StubHub Shares Plunge As Weak Outlook Fuels Fears World Cup Pulled Spending Forward StubHub shares plunged 20% in premarket trading as uncertainty surrounding its second-half outlook fueled concerns that World Cup demand temporarily pulled forward discretionary spending on entertainment and events. ..back near four month lows… StubHub’s second-quarter results were mixed. Revenue climbed 33% to $573.1 million, beating the […]

Watch: UK PM Wants Every Area In Britain To House Migrants Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has decided that “all parts of the country need to play their part.” That means middle-class families and leafy villages must now accept large numbers of asylum seekers so the poorest areas are no longer the only ones carrying the load. This approach obviously does nothing to stop the root of the […]

2026 Rate-Hike Expectations Plummet After Cooler-Than-Expected PPI Following yesterday’s cooling (in-line) consumer price inflation data (driven in large part by energy deflation), US producer prices were expected to rebound modestly in July from a 0.3% MoM decline (headline) in June. Instead, headline Producer Prices were unchanged MoM (cooler than expected), pushing the annual change down from +5.5% to +4.7% YoY… Source: […]

Michigan And New York Drive Jump In Initial Jobless Claims, Continuing Claims Near 2-Year-Lows The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time rose to 209k last week, rebounding off the lowest levels since 1969… Michigan and New York saw the largest surge in initial jobless claims last week, while Puerto Rico and Ohio saw the biggest weekly declines… Continuing jobless claims, however, dipped […]

Former SPLC Exec Arrested: Accused Of Funneling Donor Money To KKK, Neo-Nazi Informants Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) executive Heidi Beirich was arrested in California on Wednesday under a superseding indictment in the Justice Department’s ongoing case against the organization, according to a CNN report confirmed by federal officials. Heidi Beirich. What even… Beirich, who directed the Southern Poverty Law Center’s […]

Iran Says It Reorganized Military To Be More Aggressive In Protracted Conflict After US ‘Long Miscalculated’ Top adviser to the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammad Reza Naqdi, has been signaling Iran’s more aggressive stance in media appearances this week, also following a significant reshuffling of top military leadership. “Look, we have to attain deterrence so that the enemy never dares to attack us, […]

SpaceX Surges Following First Lockup Expiry After Musk Taunts Shorts SpaceX shares have jumped 35% over five sessions and 22% since Elon Musk responded to our X post on the “massive SPCX shorting,” which cited S3 data. He said, “I try to warn them, but they just double down …” The post-earnings squeeze has pushed SPCX well above its $135 initial public offering price, easing concerns that future lockup expirations could […]

Futures Rise, Just Under Record High Ahead Of PPI Report Futures are higher again, although trading in a narrow range for the past week just below all time highs, with Tech flat following disappointing earnings from CSCO. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures add 0.2% while Nasdaq futures are unchanged as Cisco shares dropped 6.4% in premarket trading after earnings failed to impress. Elsewhere, Semis are flat, Memory is lower, […]

Hormuz Shock “Manifesting Itself In Cracks, Not Crude,” Jefferies Says Brent crude futures held near recent highs of $90 a barrel before fading to around $87 early Thursday morning, as traders awaited progress toward reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Stalled US-Iran negotiations and tightening global fuel supplies continued to support prices and concern some top energy experts, who warn of a looming supply shock.  US-Iran talks […]

Treasury Proposes Tax-Free Employer Contributions To Trump Accounts Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of the Treasury on Aug. 11 issued guidance on employer contributions to Trump Accounts, proposing rules for how companies can run a valid contribution program for their employees. President Donald Trump speaks during the Trump Accounts summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington on Jan. […]

“BlackDiamonds Are Forever”: How To Profit From The China-Driven Germanium Squeeze Piper Sandler initiated coverage of LightPath Technologies with an “Overweight” rating and a 12-month price target of $15, citing the defense supplier’s proprietary BlackDiamond infrared glass, which completely “circumvents” the need for Germanium amid “significant cost increases and scarcity stemming from recent Chinese export controls.” Clarke […]

‘Safe Space’: New Taxpayer-Funded Berlin Pool For ‘Blacks Only’ On Fridays Via Remix News, A temporary open-air pool erected outside Berlin’s iconic theater was supposed to represent the ultimate low-barrier urban oasis. Instead, a plan to allow only Black people to attend on Fridays has sparked outrage and accusations of racism. Conceived as a free, non-commercial refuge requiring no identity checks — though reliant on a […]

Wall Street Zeroes In On This “Pure-Play” US Attack Drone Company Wall Street analysts are finally waking up to Unusual Machines as a pure-play in the effort to anchor America’s sovereign drone supply chain. One-way attack drones and autonomous systems have forever changed modern warfare, forcing the Department of War to quickly fire up a massive procurement supercycle to stockpile these drones.  We identified UMAC (read report) […]

Norway $2.3 Trillion Wealth Fund Posts Record-High Profit in H1 By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s $2.3-trillion Government Pension Fund Global, posted a record-high profit of $185 billion for the first half of 2026, as Asian technology stocks boosted its returns and profit on the portfolio. Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), which is commonly referred to as […]

Danube Water Levels Sink To Historic Lows The Danube and other rivers in Europe are experiencing historic drought conditions which have thrown shipping, tourism and energy supply into disarray. Additionally, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, the sinking water levels that have set new all-time records in some locations have revealed historic finds from World War II to Roman times and even the Ice Age. You will […]

The Ceuta Crisis And The Emerging European Divide Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Eleven years have passed since Angela Merkel opened the floodgates of migration to chaos. The European Union, already firmly in the grip of statists and numerous left-wing currents, has since become almost unrecognizable. The advance of Islamization and the dissolution of established urban milieus, traditions and cultures are progressing and contributing to […]

US Embassies Across Mideast Are Permanently Reassigning Personnel  It is not just America’s military bases in the Middle East which have been greatly reduced in terms of personnel or in some cases completely abandoned altogether due to the Iran war, but US Embassies in the region have also suffered forced downgrades of staff. Iran’s retaliation on US locations and assets across the region was much bigger and more effective than US […]

Left-Wing German Parties Pour Record Sums Into Stopping The AfD In The East Via Remix News, Germany’s Green Party is campaigning with record sums of money in the eastern German states of Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to keep the Alternative for Germany (AfD) out of power. Remarkably, the Greens are campaigning with an intensity usually reserved for a national election, despite the party’s own election chances […]

GOA Members Make History With First Suppressor Transfers Without NFA Registration Since 1934 via Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners of America (GOA), along with lead plaintiff Silencer Shop, made history tonight as GOA members Brandon Herrera and Wes Virdell lawfully acquired suppressors without complying with the currently enjoined registration requirements of the National Firearms Act of 1934. The transfers took place at […]

The Cultural Revolution Is In Full Swing Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, It’s no secret that socialism is advancing in the U.S. The latest development in this ominous trend occurred on August 4, when Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive backed by democratic socialists, defeated the establishment-backed congresswoman Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. At the same time, our culture is under […]