2 July 2026

Rescuers cling to hope for survivors 6 days after Venezuela earthquakes
Caracas: The race to find survivors continued 6 days after powerful twin earthquakes devastated northern Venezuela. A NASA assessment from satellite imagery suggests almost 60,000 buildings may have been damaged/destroyed. Teams worldwide have joined increasingly frantic efforts to find anyone still trapped alive under the rubble.

Not Just a “Super El Niño”: A Record-Setting Worldwide Ocean Heat Wave Is Causing Insane Weather Chaos All Over the Globe
Oceans have never been this hot, and it’s causing explosive weather throughout the world: Record high temps all over the northern hemisphere; crazy storms and gigantic wildfires erupting at a blistering pace. We’ve never experienced anything quite like this, and it will be very difficult for farmers to grow crops in these unpredictable conditions.

Traffic Through the Strait of Hormuz Is Way Below Pre-War Levels As Trump Is Briefed On Options for “All-Out War”
The crisis in the Strait isn’t even close to resolving, and global oil supplies continue to get tighter. The world has run an “oil deficit” for months by running down commercial oil inventories and strategic national reserves. There was hope that traffic through the Strait would return to pre-war levels before things got really hairy, but that isn’t happening.

The UN wants to impose degrowth on the world; it will make everyone poorer by design
The UN’s latest attack on economic growth is wrapped in moral language. Its global initiatives are marketed as justice through economic restraint, while advocates promise less poverty, greater equality, & a safer climate. In reality, their policies would deliver less production, investment, & opportunities. That’s managed decline, not prosperity.

CAPTURED: Minnesotastan Under Somali Occupation – Week of Conquest
Americans are supposed to be celebrating our Independence Day spirit, yet Minneapolis is again transformed into a foreign enclave. Lake Street and surrounding areas are filled with burqas, Somali flags waving proudly, the call to prayer echoing, and the entire city looking, sounding, & functioning like Mogadishu-on-the-Mississippi.

Netanyahu in Lebanon: IDF to stay in region as long as Hezbollah continues posing threat
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the IDF will stay in the security zone within Lebanon until Hezbollah no longer poses a threat to Israel during a visit to soldiers serving in the area on Tuesday. If soldiers recognize a threat, they are instructed to act to remove it, Netanyahu said.

Israel developing space lasers to attack above the Earth, Katz says
“One of the central goals that the prime minister and I set is that we are recruiting the best minds,” he said in a briefing with military reporters. “As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability.”

Woman killed in alligator attack while swimming in central Florida. 3rd attack this week
Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission warns that alligators who have come to “associate people” with food must be reported immediately and “removed from the wild.” Serious injuries are rare, but alligators are active across Florida, especially during courtship and mating season in spring and early summer.