Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative: Amsterdam Bans Ads Featuring Meat & Fossil Fuels Authored by Jonathan Turley, In “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about how censorship often becomes an insatiable appetite once countries go down the road of speech regulation. There is no better example than the Dutch and their recent ban on public ads for meat and fossil fuels. Activists have imposed […]

No Kings? In Europe, Monarchs Are Far More Popular Than Politicians In Europe, monarchs are far more popular than the politicians who govern. As Visual Capitalist details below, using data from Morning Consult, visualized by The European Correspondent, monarchs hold an approval advantage of nearly 30 points over national leaders. The gap appears in every country analyzed. The pattern reveals a clear divide: leaders making […]

UK Faces Summer Flight Disruptions As Jet Fuel Risks Mount Via City AM, Ministers are expected to warn Britons that flight cancellations could disrupt summer holiday plans. Allianz Trade research says the UK is especially exposed to jet fuel shortages because of import dependence. Airlines are weighing cancellations, surcharges, and ticket price adjustments as fuel supply risks rise. Ministers are set to warn the […]

Moscow Targeted By Over 50 Drones, Country’s 2nd Largest Refinery On Fire We’ve been documenting that Ukraine has been demonstrating deeper targeting reach inside Russia, as several key oil sites have come under direct drone attack over several days and weeks, resulting in significant destruction. Just in the last several days, Russian state media has recorded over 50 Ukrainian drone attacks targeting the country’s capital of […]

How German Media Became The PR Arm Of The Expanding State Submitted by Thomas Kolbe How does economic growth emerge? Let us turn to Ludwig von Mises, one of the defining economists of the 20th century – and paraphrase his idea: growth arises where private capital is guided in a free market by an undistorted price system. Prices signal scarcity and direct scarce resources to where they generate real value. When this system is […]

Ramaswamy Wins Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Primary In Landslide Biotech entrepreneur and former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy just beat the pants off of political newcomer Casey Putsch (R) by a margin of 82% – 18% (approximately 530,000 votes to 116,000) in the Ohio gubernatorial primary.  The win positions Ramaswamy to face Democrat Amy Acton, the former Ohio health director who led the state’s COVID-19 response and […]

The Petrogas-Dollar: Symptom Or Strategy? Authored ‘No1’ via Gold and Geopolitics substack, Three people sent me Richard Medhurst’s petrogas-dollar piece this week. I read it. Twice even. There’s a lot in there that I feel is correct. The chronology of the Levantine Basin deals. Cheney’s 2001 National Energy Policy. The roughly $35 billion of Chevron contracts signed across Israel, Syria, Greece, and Cyprus in the past […]

Meteorologists Sound Alarm Over El Nino Plume Racing Across Pacific Like “Freight Train” Meteorologists on X are once again warning about a powerful El Niño, pointing to a new plume of warm subsurface water moving across the Pacific “like a freight train.” The latest water temperature data suggest that El Niño later this year could rank among the strongest on record, with potentially significant implications for the Lower 48. […]

Industry Leaders Warn Chinese EV Imports Will Undercut Canada’s Auto Sector, Bring Major Security Risks Authored by Paul Rowan Brian via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A number of industry leaders and policy experts are warning that the government’s permission of importing Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) into Canada at low tariff rates will undermine Canada’s auto sector and cause a number of substantial national […]

Figure CEO Says Humanoid Robots Could Soon Enter Homes For $600 A Month Figure’s CEO told Sourcery’s Molly O’Shea that the humanoid robotics company is preparing for a “near-term” push to bring humanoid robots into homes, where they would perform basic household tasks under a consumer subscription model that could cost “hundreds per month,” similar to a car lease. Molly O’Shea asked Figure CEO Brett Adcock: “In the near term, […]

The Golden State Has Fallen: Welcome To The Islamic Republic Of California Authored by Rabbi Michael Barclay via American Greatness, On April 8, the California Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement voted 19–0 to adopt AB2017, followed on April 22 by the California Assembly Committee on Appropriations, which voted 7–0 to adopt the bill. And with those votes, all that is left for this to become California law is […]

Tech Bros Aim To Sidestep Local Resistance By Installing Mini Data Centers In Homes California-based startup Span has developed XFRA, a distributed AI-compute network that turns unused electrical capacity in residential homes and small businesses into miniature data centers.   It may be one of the more ingenious workarounds yet from tech bros, as traditional data-center buildouts are increasingly delayed or canceled, not only […]

Texas Doctor Found Guilty For Illegally Distributing Millions Of Opioid Pills Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal jury in Texas found a physician guilty of unlawfully distributing over a million pills of opioids and other controlled substances from a Houston-area clinic that operated as a pill mill, the Justice Department announced Monday. Tablets of opioid painkiller Oxycodone delivered on […]

USAF Says Former Qatari 747 Boeing Ready For USA Paint Scheme The U.S. Air Force reports that the Boeing 747 donated by Qatar, now designated the VC-25B Bridge, has completed modification and flight testing and is entering the paint phase ahead of deployment as an interim Air Force One jet.  The bridge aircraft is a former Qatar head-of-state Boeing 747-8i that will serve as an interim presidential aircraft until Boeing’s delayed […]

Trump DOJ Probes 36 Illinois School Districts For Secretly Transitioning Kids Behind Parents’ Backs Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump administration is cracking down hard on radical gender policies in public schools. The Department of Justice has launched full investigations into 36 Illinois school districts accused of helping children “change genders” without telling their parents and pushing sexual […]

US Intelligence Only Sees Limited Additional Damage To Iran Nuclear Program Since Last June A widely circulating fresh report in Reuters has raised eyebrows and serious questions related to the effectiveness of the 38-day aerial campaign which saw US-Israel bombs unleashed in the many thousands (combined: some 20,000+ munitions expended) on the Islamic Republic. “US intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran would need to […]

DOJ Sues Minnesota To Block Climate Lawsuit Targeting Energy Companies Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing Minnesota over the state’s own climate lawsuit against major energy companies. Pumpjacks operate near the site of a new oil and gas well being drilled in Midland, Texas, on April 8, 2022. Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP The complaint, filed Monday in the […]

Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum Is Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, The rock is the rising threat of US military intervention in Mexico; the hard place is Sheinbaum’s own party’s narco-politicians. Late last week, as Mexico was still reeling from revelations that CIA agents are operating in Chihuahua, in direct violation of Mexico’s constitution and sovereignty, the […]

How A Musk Victory Vs. Altman Would Reset America’s AI Roadmap A courtroom victory for Elon Musk in his high-stakes federal trial against Sam Altman and OpenAI would deliver one of the most disruptive blows to the artificial intelligence sector in its brief but explosive history – potentially forcing the $850-billion-plus company to unwind its for-profit empire, ousting its top leaders, and handing Musk a symbolic and financial […]

ISO New England Trims 10-Year Forecast Based On Electrification Outlook By Robert Walton of UtilityDive Electricity consumption in New England will grow about 9% over the next decade, driven by electrification of buildings and vehicles, the region’s independent system operator said in an annual report published Friday. While significant, the rise in consumption is lower than its forecast in the two previous reports, reflecting […]

“No Quick Fixes”: Supply-Chain Deep Dive Shows Beef Prices To Remain High We are all familiar with the surge in beef prices, driven by a U.S. cattle herd at more than a half-century low amid severe drought, elevated feed costs, higher financing expenses, and other inflationary factors, such as soaring diesel prices, squeezing ranchers. $175 for beef?!🥩 $20.65 per pound … for one cut. Herds are at generational lows after […]

From DEI To Equal Protection: A New Direction In Civil Rights Policy Authored by Kenin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and Obama administrations, and giving substance to the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services […]

Alberta Separatists Say They Have Enough Signatures To Force Referendum On Leaving Canada A group pushing for Alberta to break free from Canada announced Monday that it has submitted nearly double the number of signatures required to force a referendum — which could come as early as October. While Alberta Premier Danielle Smith opposes independence, she has assured Albertans that she will not try to thwart a referendum if the […]

AMD Dumps & Pumps (To New Record High) After Beat-And-Raise Just wow… AMD shares initially puked after results dropped showing top- and bottom-line beats: EPS: $1.37 vs. $1.29 adjusted expected Revenue: $10.25 billion vs. $9.89 billion expected But now they are exploding higher after the second-largest AI chipmaker raised estimates: For the second quarter, AMD said it expects about $11.2 billion in revenue, versus […]

NIH Virologist Vincent Munster Caught Smuggling Deadly Viruses Into U.S., FBI Investigating Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, Since the COVID pandemic landed on American shores in early 2020, virologists and allied science writers have engaged in a vociferous propaganda campaign to deny the dangers of virus experiments. When Nature Magazine published a 2021 article minimizing a Wuhan lab accident as the […]