USA - Despite the fact that summer, and the heat associated with that season, comes around reliably every year, the climate activists behave as if such a thing has never happened before. Ever since “global warming” and “climate change” (formerly known as “weather”) became the environmental bogeymen, any slight increase in temperature over the summer has been spun as the first sign of the climate apocalypse. According to The Washington Post, the US will be assaulted by abnormally high temperatures thanks to a “heat dome” forming over the mainland United States.

VATICAN - Pope Francis warned world leaders that 'no machine should ever choose to take the life of a human being,' as he spoke about the risks posed by AI while becoming the first pontiff to ever address the G7 summit. In his historic address to the leading politicians, Pope Francis said humans needed to remain at the centre of any decisions made by AI systems and that it was vital to maintain 'human dignity' in any processes used. He was especially emphatic on the need for humans to make decisions, not machines, when it came to using weapons. 'We would condemn humanity to a future without hope if we took away people's ability to make decisions about themselves and their lives, by dooming them to depend on the choices of machines,' he said.

YEMEN - The leader of the Iran-backed Yemeni terrorist group Ansarallah, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, warned neighboring Saudi Arabia on Thursday that any normalization deal would “disgrace” the country, implying his terrorists would consider the Saudis a legitimate target. Ansarallah, known commonly as the “Houthis” after the family that runs the organization, has been embroiled in a bloody civil war with the legitimate government of Yemen since 2014. The Saudi government backed the legitimate Yemeni government against the Houthis for years, turning the civil war into a proxy war with Iran. The Houthis responded by directly targeting Saudi territory for years, bombing oil depots and other civilian facilities in the country. Those attacks largely stopped after peace talks in September 2023.

AUSTRALIA - Aussies have flocked to ATMs all over the country to withdraw thousands of dollars in cash as part of a massive awareness campaign against card payments. The Cash is King Australia Facebook group promoted the unofficial Cash Out Day to their 27,000+ followers, calling on anti-card activists to withdraw from bank branches or machines. “Cash out tomorrow June 14th,” the group wrote to its followers on Thursday night. “Bank branch or ATM, get it out, use it don’t lose it.” The event has gained momentum as a protest against the increase in card-only payment options.

USA - A single waste management facility in Pennsylvania has collected $10 million in lost coins since it began picking them out of the trash in 2017, a company executive said. According to the Wall Street Journal, Reworld began sorting through coins in 2017. Out of the $10 million collected, about $6 million were in good enough shape to be put back into circulation. That $6 million was “turned over to a third party to be counted and deposited to local banks. The company estimates that Americans throw away approximately $68 million in change each year.

SAUDI ARABIA - This past Sunday (June 9, 2024) Saudi Arabia made the historical move to not renew an 80-year-old agreement with the United States that established the US Dollar as the world currency to purchase Saudi oil, in what should have been headline news, but seems to have been blacklisted in US financial news publications, even in alternative financial news publications such as ZeroHedge News. Here is the coverage of this historic event from The Business Standard, a Bangladeshi daily newspaper.

USA - Where have all the Teslas gone? Stored in parking lots, every one. Last quarter Tesla produced 433,371 Teslas. It delivered just 386,810, meaning there were about 47,000 extra Teslas around, more than double what it was a year ago and its biggest imbalance to date. This surplus is happening as the electric car company deals with a number of headwinds, including slowing electric vehicle sales growth, growing competition, and chaotic leadership. Of course, some of these Teslas could be en route to happy owners. But the mass of them piling up is getting harder to ignore.

EUROPE - About one month after President Joe Biden slapped new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, batteries, solar panels, steel, aluminum, and medical equipment, the European Commission has followed suit with its own set of tariffs. The Commission announced Wednesday that it would apply additional duties of between 17% and 38% on imported Chinese EVs beginning early next month. The duties will be applied to an existing 10% tariff on all Chinese EVs, which indicates some vehicles will have duties as high as 48%. "As part of its ongoing investigation, the Commission has provisionally concluded that the battery electric vehicles (BEV) value chain in China benefits from unfair subsidization, which is causing a threat of economic injury to EU BEV producers," the EU wrote in a press release.

ISRAEL - More than 19,000 unguided rockets have been fired into Israel since the October 7 attacks, the IDF announced in a statement on Monday. While most of the rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip by Iranian proxies Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), rocket attacks from Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon have been rapidly increasing on Israel's northern border in recent months. In addition, scores of guided anti-tank missiles have been fired at Israel by Hezbollah, while hundreds of rockets launched by the terrorist groups in Gaza have misfired and landed inside the Strip. The Hezbollah attacks have sparked wildfires in northern Israel, causing much destruction.

USA - When we read about ancient societies that worshipped their gods by conducting child sacrifices, many of us recoil in horror. But the truth is that far more children are being murdered in our time, and the vast majority of the population is perfectly okay with that. In ancient times, in most cases it wasn’t children that were wanted that were brought to the child sacrifices. Instead, in most cases such ceremonies were a perfect opportunity to get rid of children that were not wanted.

USA - Montana has more cows than people. Why are locals eating beef from Brazil? While many people can conjure up romantic visions of a Montana ranch — vast valleys, cold streams, snow-capped mountains — few understand what happens when the cattle leave those pastures. Most of them, it turns out, don’t stay in Montana. Even here, in a state with nearly twice as many cows as people, only around 1 percent of the beef purchased by Montana households is raised and processed locally, according to estimates from Highland Economics, a consulting firm. As is true in the rest of the country, many Montanans instead eat beef from as far away as Brazil.

USA - DEVELOPING STORY: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency across South Florida after a rare extreme flooding event. Nearly two feet of rain fell swamping many cities from Miami to Sarasota. Hundreds of motorists were stranded and a large swath of Interstate 95 was shut down.

USA - Our world is witnessing apocalyptic events so frequently that many of us are starting to become numb to it all. Major wars are raging all over the globe, children in Africa are literally dropping dead from starvation as hunger spreads like wildfire, and “billion dollar disasters” are hitting us more frequently than we have ever seen before. But as long as these tragedies are not affecting us directly, most people don’t really care too much. As the level of worldwide suffering rises, it seems as though hearts are getting colder at the same time. The traumatic events of the past several years have left deep scars, and there are many that prefer to ignore the apocalyptic things that are happening in the world because it is just too much for them to handle emotionally.

USA - An underwater fault line along the US West Coast could trigger a megaquake that would be more devastating than California's 'Big One,' a new study suggests. Using underwater mapping techniques, scientists have mapped the Cascadia Subduction Zone - a 600-mile fault line extending from southern Canada to northern California - in never before seen detail. It has revealed that the fault splits into four segments instead of being one continuous strip like most fault lines. The discovery could prove more catastrophic because the tectonic plates can slide under each other, creating more pressure and more severe earthquakes. The researchers concluded the Cascadia Subduction Zone has the potential to unleash a nine-plus magnitude quake.

USA - A Russian submarine and a Russian frigate that are each capable of nuking US cities were both spotted traveling approximately 25 miles from the coast of Florida, but most of the US population did not receive the message that the Russians were trying to send. By sending these warships along the coast of Florida, the Russians are warning that they will use nuclear weapons if they are pushed too far, but hardly anyone seems to care. The mainstream media insists that these vessels are “no threat” and that there is no risk that a full-blown nuclear conflict will erupt any time soon. If the Ukrainians decide to get really bold and start hitting Moscow with long-range weapons provided by western powers, there is no telling what the Russians might do.