Germany’s Industrial Collapse: Degrowth And Ideology At Work Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Even with some temporal distance and broader perspective, the election result in Baden-Württemberg makes no sense. That the two eco-socialist parties, fused into a kind of political twin planet—Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and the CDU—could claim almost two-thirds of the votes cast is staggering given the economic situation in the country. It […]

Saudi Aramco To Buy Ukrainian Interceptor Drones To Defend Oil Fields Low-cost interceptor drones are poised to see massive demand across U.S.-aligned Gulf states as the conflict with Iran grinds deeper into its second week, exposing the absurdity of expending multi-million-dollar interceptor missiles to eliminate IRGC drones that cost roughly $20,000 to $30,000 each. One day after The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi […]

Volkswagen Plans 50,000 Job Cuts Due To Plunging Profits; Board Members Grab €1.75MM Each In Bonuses Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, German automaker Volkswagen plans to cut around 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030 as profits slump and the company struggles with rising costs, tariffs, and declining margins. The job cuts were announced alongside the company’s 2025 financial results, which showed net profit falling 44 […]

Pro-War Republican Senator Apologizes For Iran Girls’ School Massacre After Trump Blames Tehran Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams A Republican senator apologized this week for what US military investigators have reportedly determined was an American missile strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran that killed around 175 people—mostly children—amid continued sidestepping by President Donald Trump, who has […]

Indian H1B Scammers Found Guilty In Multi-Million Dollar Fraud In Pennsylvania A federal jury in Philadelphia has delivered a resounding guilty verdict against two Pennsylvania brothers and a longtime associate, convicting them of masterminding one of the most elaborate and prolonged racketeering operations uncovered in recent years. The scheme, which prosecutors say drained more than $32 million from Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program […]

FDA Unveils New Platform For Tracking Side Effects Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Food and Drug Administration on March 11 made public a new, consolidated platform for tracking side effects experienced by people following receipt of vaccines and drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in White Oak, Md., on June 5, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Officials are folding a number […]

Iran’s Hormuz Naval Mines: A Powerful Asymmetric Weapon Paralyzing Tanker Traffic Iran’s asymmetric warfare in the Strait of Hormuz has shifted from kamikaze drone strikes on tankers, bulk carriers, and container ships to littering the world’s most important maritime chokepoint with naval mines. Even though much of Iran’s conventional naval capability has  been severely degraded in the 12 or so days of the Operation Epic Fury […]

Will Johnny Ever Learn To Read? Pushback Against Science Of Reading Mandates Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., it has only gotten worse: A quarter of all young adults, many of them high school graduates, are now functionally illiterate. Unable to read more than basic, short sentences, their […]

Eric Swalwell Rents Room Linked To Former Staffer To Claim California Residency Rep. Eric Swalwell has primarily been living in Washington, D.C. for years, and now that he’s running for governor of California, he’s hit a snag over residency.  According to reports, Swalwell is renting a single room in a home in the eastern Bay Area that’s occupied by a family of three to claim residency in the state. Public records show […]

Paging Nostradamus: You Have A Margin Call Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If conditions change beneath the surface, the folks behind the curtain will be powerless to do anything but make it worse. This just in: predicting is hard, especially about the future. One solution is ambiguity: couch predictions in poetic allusions that are open to interpretation. What’s hard is making an unambiguous prediction that […]

Senate Republicans On Iran War Ending: Sooner The Better The ongoing U.S. military operation against Iran, which began February 28th with strikes aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missile capabilities, navy, and other strategic assets, has prompted a range of reactions from Republican senators. While most GOP lawmakers initially supported President Trump’s actions – evidenced by the Senate’s largely party-line […]

US Court Clears State Medicaid Ban On Transgender Surgeries For Adults Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), West Virginia’s ban on Medicaid coverage of surgical procedures for people with gender dysphoria is legal, a federal court ruled on March 10. A sign in support of Medicaid rests in a walking device on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 27, 2025. Bryan Dozier/Middle East […]

Ben Affleck Once Criticized AI, Now Netflix Is Buying His AI Startup For $600 Million Ben Affleck—who has previously warned about the risks artificial intelligence poses to Hollywood—has sold his own AI filmmaking startup to Netflix in a deal that could reach $600 million, according to Bloomberg. The cash portion of the acquisition is smaller, with additional payments tied to performance targets, but it still ranks among the […]

White House Disputes ABC Report Claiming Iran Wants To Launch Drones At West Coast Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The White House and FBI on Thursday disputed claims of an internal government alert saying Iran wants to launch drones to attack the West Coast of the United States, saying that ABC News should move to retract its reporting. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a […]

Large US Refueling Aircraft Down In Western Iraq In First Of Iran War Summary: State media: Iran claims responsibility for shooting down US refueling plane, says US refueling plane was downed with all crew killed in Western Iraq. CENTCOM confirms search and rescue operation underway after large KC-135 refueling tanker goes down over Western Iraq. Trump: Iran paying a ‘big price’ right now; situation ‘moving along […]

Centrus Partners With Palantir As Wright Pushes End To Russian Imports In a move underscoring America’s drive for nuclear fuel sovereignty, Centrus Energy and Palantir announced an AI-powered partnership aimed at slashing costs and fast-tracking the multi-billion-dollar expansion of U.S. uranium enrichment capacity. The collaboration, showcased at Thursday’s AIPCon 9 event, deploys Palantir’s Foundry and Artificial Intelligence […]

Crypto Whale Beached, Loses Nearly $50 Million Swapping USDT For AAVE Authored by RT Watson via The Block, Quick Take Aave Labs founder and CEO Stani Kulechov said a crypto user “attempted to buy AAVE using $50 million in USDT through the Aave interface” but only received about $36,000 worth of the token in return. CoW Swap said the “transaction executed according to the parameters of the signed order” and that “clear […]

Western Leaders Pivot To Blaming “Putin’s Hidden Hand” As Iran War Not Going To Plan Western intelligence officials believe Russia’s role in supporting Iran amid the US-Israeli military campaign is deepening, alongside potential expanding involvement by China. Bloomberg, citing officials, writes in a fresh Thursday report: “Moscow is currently providing Iran with various forms of intelligence, including satellite imagery and drone […]

‘Moderate’ Gov. Abigail Spanberger Expected To Sign Sweeping Gun Ban Into Law Authored by Tim O’Brien via PJMedia.com, Now that the Virginia General Assembly has passed what it calls “assault weapon ban” legislation, all that’s needed is for Gov. Abigail Spanberger to sign it into law, which is all but a given. Once signed, Senate Bill 749 will likely take effect as soon as July 1, 2026.  The law will ban the sale, […]

Adobe Plunges To 7 Year Low On CEO Resignation, Muted Forecast Troubled SaaS icon Adobe tumbled after hours, sending its stock to 7 year lows after the company announced that CEO Shantanu Narayen will resign from the creative software giant amid deep skepticism about the company’s ability to survive and thrive in the AI era. Narayen had served as CEO of the company for 18 years, and will remain in the position until a successor […]

Charts Show Middle East Shockwave Rippling Through Energy, Air Travel, And Freight Networks The Middle East conflict has triggered what the International Energy Agency earlier described as the largest oil supply disruption in global oil market history, as Iran continues to strike energy infrastructure across the Gulf. Against that deteriorating backdrop, Goldman analysts laid out how the shock is rippling through the global economy, […]

Nearly One-Third Of People Living In North America Believe That World Will End During Their Lifetimes Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, We live at a time when millions upon millions of us feel deeply unsettled. The news is filled with constant headlines about war, political chaos, economic problems and major natural disasters. A lot of people feel like humanity’s story is building up to some sort of a […]

UN Security Council Passes Iran War Resolution, Yet With No Mention Of US Or Israel Many independent pundits have long complained of the emptiness of the United Nations as some kind of ‘moral authority’ – given it often claims to be just this. The vacuous nature of UN statements connected to war is on display once again as the Security Council (UNSC) issued a formal condemnation of the Iran war on Wednesday, but without mentioning […]

Judge Halts Construction Of ICE Detention Center In Maryland Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Federal authorities must stop construction of an immigration detention center in Maryland, a judge said on March 11. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, left, speaks as Gov. Wes Moore listens during a news conference in Baltimore, MD., on Sept. 24, 2024. Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo U.S. District […]

Musk Whips Out ‘Macrohard’ In Disruptive Tesla-xAI Bid To Shaft Software Companies Elon Musk on Wednesday announced a joint project between Tesla and his AI startup xAI, which he dubbed “Macrohard” or “Digital Optimus” that can ‘basically automate entire companies’ by observing and intelligently simulating their functions.  The way it works, per a Wednesday post on X:  “Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep […]