These Consumer Goods Could Be First To Vanish As “Supply Shock” Disrupts Asian Factories Goldman analysts warned that the petrochemical supply shock sweeping across Asia is now morphing into a full-blown COGS shock, hitting a range of industries with factories across the region. The immediate consequence is that manufacturers – from sofa makers to apparel producers – are being forced to dial back production and, in some cases, idle […]

Berlin Targets Entrepreneurs: Apprenticeships, Punishment, And Social Decay Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The German capital is hardly a hospitable place for entrepreneurs or founders. Ambitious individuals who aim to build a career outside the state subsidy system and establish their own livelihoods encounter, in this strangest of European capitals, an atmosphere of contempt and hostility. Berlin politics, regardless of who is […]

Kraken Robotics Demos Next-Gen Tech For Maritime And Defense Operations At a time when waterways like the Strait of Hormuz have occupied almost every headline and have been the impetus behind a good portion of the ongoing conflict in Iran, Kraken Robotics has successfully completed a new demonstration of its autonomous mine countermeasure technology, highlighting the growing role of unmanned systems in maritime security. The […]

UK Schools Rake In Record £572 Million For Non-English Speaking Pupils Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Mass immigration is once again exposing the true cost to British taxpayers, with UK schools now receiving a record £572 million to support pupils who do not speak English as their first language. The bill has soared by £157 million since modern records began in 2020, according to Department for Education […]

Russia Ferries 175 Russian Nuclear Scientists Out Of Iran Via Land Border With Armenia Russia has announced that it has successfully evacuated a last main group of Russian workers from Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which has been hit several times by US-Israeli strikes throughout the over one-month long war. A group of 175 Russian employees of Rosatom Atomic Energy Corporation were evacuated via land route through […]

Germany’s 67-Point Climate Plan: Fatal Yet Highly Effective Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Travel is said to broaden the mind. At least, this wisdom applies to those willing to leave their routines behind and not stubbornly defend their claimed spot by the pool. In the case of Economics Minister Katharina Reiche, the “aha” moment arrived at breathtaking speed. She is currently traveling in North America, specifically in Ontario, […]

War Unicorn Hermeus Raises $350 Million For Unmanned Supersonic Fighter Jets Atlanta-based aerospace startup Hermeus Corp. has secured $350 million in a funding round that values the builder of uncrewed supersonic and hypersonic fighters at north of $1 billion, according to a Bloomberg report. Today we’re announcing a $350 million Series C financing led by @khoslaventures, bringing us to a $1B valuation. Our mission is […]

US Scientists Crack Superconductor Code – Zero Energy Loss Moves Closer To Reality Authored by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra via Interesting Engineering, Researchers in the United States have unlocked secrets of high-temperature superconductors. Small differences in how atoms are arranged in a crystalline lattice can strongly affect superconductivity. (Representational image) Wildpixel/Charles Researchers at the U.S. Department of […]

As Los Angeles Hits “Breaking Point” Population Exodus, Houston’s GDP Rockets Higher California – which spends nearly 40% of taxpayer revenue ($95.5 billion, not including federal funds) on social services that’s rife with  fraud – and which spends roughly 25% of its $95.5 billion Medi-Cal budget (free healthcare) on illegal immigrants, is in the midst of a massive population exodus due to housing affordability, crime, taxes, […]

Why Military Bases Should Never Have Been Gun-Free Zones Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics, It may sound hard to believe, but except for a very limited group of personnel, the military has treated its bases as gun-free zones. Until Thursday, only designated security forces – such as military police – could carry firearms while on duty. Commanders punished any other soldier caught carrying a weapon severely, […]

Living In Any New York Borough Now Requires A Six Figure Income Living in New York City without financial assistance now requires a six-figure income in every borough, according to Bloomberg. The Fund for the City of New York’s latest “self-sufficiency standard” shows that in 2026, a family of four with two school-age children needs about $133,000 a year to cover basic expenses without outside help. Still, 46% of households […]

Education Department Ditches Title IX Agreements That Pushed ‘Transgender Agenda’ In Multiple Schools Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Education announced April 6 that it rescinded agreements between previous administrations and multiple school districts that aimed to enforce civil rights laws with regard to students who identify as transgender. The Department of Education building in […]

CIA Used “Ghost Murmur” To Locate Missing F-15 Airman From 40-Miles Away In combination with the downed F-15 weapons systems officer, known publicly only as “Dude 44 Bravo,” activating Boeing’s Combat Survivor Evader Locator, or CSEL, U.S. forces were reportedly able to narrow the search area and then locate the second crew member shot down over southern Iran using a secret CIA reconnaissance tool known as “Ghost Murmur.” The New […]

Cyber Crimes Costing Americans Nearly $21 Billion: FBI Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The FBI released its 2025 Internet Crime Report, revealing that Americans were being defrauded to the tune of nearly $21 billion, with artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency crimes behind some of the massive losses. “Americans who submitted complaints involving cryptocurrency reported the highest losses, with […]

Iraqi Protesters Overrun Kuwait Consulate, Angry Over Role In US Actions Close US ally Kuwait finds itself under growing political pressure from its neighbor Iraq, related to the ongoing Iran war. Angry crowds stormed the Kuwaiti consulate in Iraq’s southern Basra governorate on Tuesday after rockets which came from the direction of Kuwait killed three people, according to police sources cited by Reuters and Al Arabiya. BREAKING: […]

Massive “Treasure Trove” 3,000-Year-Old Silk Road City Discovered In Uzbekistan Authored by Maria Mocerino via Interesting Engineering (emphasis ours), A Chinese-Uzbek archaeological team has discovered a remarkable 3,000-year-old city along the Silk Road that is rich with artifacts, providing new insights into urban development during the early Iron Age in Central Asia. Surkhan State Reserve. Sherobod District, Surxondaryo […]

Synagogue In Tehran ‘Completely Destroyed’ In US-Israeli Strikes On Area The AP, AFP, and others have cited Iranian state media to say that US-Israeli strikes have “completely destroyed” a synagogue in Tehran, as attacks have intensified overnight and into Tuesday. “According to preliminary information, the Rafi-Nia Synagogue … was completely destroyed in this morning’s attacks,” the Shargh newspaper reported. Mehr news agency […]

US, Iran, Israel Agree To 2-Week Ceasefire; Tehran Will Allow Safe Passage Via Hormuz For Two Weeks Summary:  President Trump agrees to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, conditional on them “agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz” Iran accepts Pakistan’s two-week ceasefire proposal, with the deal approved by the New Supreme Leader; Iran also says safe passage via Hormuz “Possible” for […]

No Kings – Except Moloch And Marx And Everyone Else Authored by Anthony Esolen via American Greatness, No kings? But millions of little queens of both sexes, tyrants in both public and private life, who would make sure, if they were in the position to do so, that I would pay dearly for the very sentence I am writing right now; who police both what you say and what you would very much like to be left alone not to say; who use […]

Helicopters And Poison? 32 Charged In $20M Mount Everest Rescue Scam Nepal’s Central Investigation Bureau investigates a large-scale insurance fraud operation in the Himalayan trekking sector. Authorities charge 32 individuals – including trekking company operators, guides, helicopter rescue coordinators, hospital owners, and doctors – with organized crime and fraud. The scheme allegedly triggers unnecessary and expensive […]

Texas Investigating Islamic Tribunal For Allegedly Operating Sharia Law Court Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday an investigation into a Dallas-based group accused of operating as a sharia law court. Protester David Wright (L) speaks with counterprotester Vincent Simon, a Muslim, as Melissa Yassini holds a sign across the street from a mosque […]

Container Ship Sinks In Hormuz After Iranian Strike Last Month; UBS Gives Latest Strait Update The Egyptian-owned, Maltese-flagged container ship Safeen Prestige (IMO: 9593517), which was damaged in the first week of the U.S.-Iran conflict following an Iranian strike, has reportedly sunk in the Strait of Hormuz. According to Bloomberg, Pakistan’s hydrographic service said the container ship sank last week, leaving only an oil slick […]

Exposing The FBI’s Human Experimentation Studies Authored by Ryan Lovelace via Racket News, “You’re only going to create a real problem for an FBI employee if you call ‘em direct this way.” Senior FBI official Thomas Gregory Motta was upset that I dared to call him to talk about the bureau’s hidden experiments on humans. He joined the bureau in 1998 and was promoted to the FBI’s senior ranks nearly 20 years ago. […]

Kanye West Banned From UK: Wireless Festival Cancelled After Home Office Revokes Travel Authorization The UK Home Office has barred Kanye West (aka Ye) from entering the country, ruling that his presence “would not be conducive to the public good.” The decision, made hours after he received an initial Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) on Monday, has triggered the immediate and complete cancellation of Wireless Festival, […]

The Left Is Baffled – But Still Repulsed – By The White Working Class Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, After failing to win Congress and the presidency in 2024, the Democrats conducted an internal postmortem of what went wrong. While they predictably did not divulge the full results, everyone knew what they had found. Their obsessions with the low side of 30/70 issues had especially alienated Democrats […]