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 […]

Trump Pauses Project Freedom Amid “Great Progress” Towards ‘Complete & Final’ Agreement With Iran Summary Trump announce ‘pause’ to Project Freedom amid optimism of a “complete and final” deal with Iran; French ship confirmed hit in cruise missile attack, crew members injured Rubio declares ‘offensive’ actions of Operation Epic Fury are over, and now Project Freedom is in swing. Another vessel comes under attack in […]

From DOJ To Ballot Box: The Rise Of Lawfare Candidates Authored by Julie Kelly via RealClearInvestigations, One of the beneficiaries of Virginia’s aggressive attempt to gerrymander the state for Democratic advantage could be a former federal prosecutor whose campaign for Congress hinges on his efforts to use the law to target President Trump and his supporters. When a slim majority of Virginia voters gave the legislature […]

The Nuclear Co. And Brookfield Partner For New Large Reactor Projects Brookfield announced that it has formed a partnership with The Nuclear Company (TNC), to create a new company for developing Westinghouse reactor technology. This new company, which remains unnamed, is being positioned as a world-leading nuclear project execution company.  A few weeks ago, we covered how Bloomberg anticipated an announcement for new AP1000s. […]

Iraq Offers Huge Discounts Up To $33 Per Barrel For Oil Shipments Via Hormuz By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com OPEC’s second-largest producer, Iraq, is offering huge discounts of up to $33.40 per barrel off the official selling prices for its crude that has to move through the Strait of Hormuz. Iraq’s oil production and exports have been severely crippled due to the hostilities in the Middle East and the de facto closure of […]

Russia & Ukraine Declare Ceasefires That Will Begin On Different Days Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Russia said on Monday that it would observe a ceasefire with Ukraine on May 8 and May 9 to observe Victory Day, when Russia celebrates the Soviet Union’s victory against Nazi Germany in World War II, but it’s unclear if the truce will hold, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by declaring a […]

Trump’s Project Freedom Likely Triggered By Oil Market’s One-Month Countdown To Chaos What is well established about President Trump’s newly announced Project Freedom is that the U.S. military is helping “guide” commercial vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz. The battle over the Hormuz chokepoint comes as the oil market appears to be one month away from a potential “tipping point.” Without a resolution, traders warn that global […]

The Precious Paper Problem: The Divergence In Western Bullion Markets Authored by Armin Sidhu via The Mises Institute, Gold has nearly doubled in two years. Silver has outpaced it. For the commodity that backed money for most of human history and that central banks still treat as the final settlement asset, these moves should represent a clean signal about physical scarcity and monetary demand. Western gold prices no longer carry […]

Apple Shares Jump On Report Next iOS Will Allow Users To Choose Rival AI Models Having appeared to be behind the game on its AI offerings for months, Apple will reportedly allow users choose from a range of outside artificial intelligence services to power features across its software, building on a strategy to turn its devices into a comprehensive AI platform. Bloomberg reports that, according to people with knowledge of the […]

Trump Admin Working To Ease Memory Chip Crunch And Soaring Prices With Supply Chain Coalition In a world where high commodity prices are the cure for high commodity prices, it was only a matter of time before we saw a surge in oil output in response to near-record oil prices, as Diamondback did ovenright. The same logic applies to memory chips, another commodity, whose prices have exploded in recent months due to soaring demand by […]

Hormuz “Deserted” As Iran Expands Area Of Control; Hundreds Of Ships Cluster Near Dubai The Strait of Hormuz has become a ghost town, er strait, with traffic grinding to a complete halt as no new commercial ship crossings were recorded despite a US effort to guide vessels through the waterway, according to Bloomberg. While Maersk confirmed that its vessel Alliance Fairfax transited the strait on Monday under US military […]