Drone Strikes Pound Southern Lebanon Apartment Building as Israeli Demolitions Continue

Downtown Seattle Lost 30,000 Jobs Since 2020 Payroll Tax: Report Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times, A new report from the Downtown Seattle Association published June 15 stated that downtown Seattle has lost around 30,000 jobs since 2020, when city leaders passed the “JumpStart” business tax, while neighboring Bellevue has become more attractive for businesses. “What we have seen in downtown Seattle is not a ‘jump start,’ but instead, a slowdown,” the report stated. “Seattle has become a tax outlier in the region, and it’s costing the city jobs and tax...

Telegram Founder Warns UK Social Media Ban Is Digital Iceberg About To Sink The Free Internet Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, Telegram founder Pavel Durov told the Freedom Forum audience in Oslo that Western societies have already struck the iceberg and started sinking - yet most citizens remain in their cabins, convinced the ship of personal freedoms is unsinkable. His remarks arrive precisely as Keir Starmer's government rams through a social media ban for under-16s that functions as the perfect pretext for mandatory digital ID, device-level scanning on every phone, and...