Americans Will Foot The Bill For Germany’s New Drug Price Controls Authored by Drew Johnson via PJMedia.com, Germany just found a new way to lower its own healthcare costs: make Americans pay more. In late April, German policymakers proposed changes that cap spending growth, restrict care, and force drugmakers to provide steep discounts. These changes are supposed to save Germany money. But drugmakers still need to recoup the […]

Medvedev: Russia Must Instill ‘Animal Fear’ In EU Warmongers As Goodwill Measures Futile Head of the Russian Security Council and former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has penned an article ahead of the 81st anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, or Russia’s V-Day, lambasting Europe’s new path of reckless militarization. As widely featured in state media, he argued that the “animal fear” of unacceptable losses will prevent […]

Age Verification PsyOp? Kids Bypass UK Government Tech With Fake Moustaches Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The UK government’s much-hyped age verification system for social media has been reduced to a joke overnight – and the punchline is being delivered by schoolkids armed with makeup pencils and fake facial hair. A damning new report from Internet Matters reveals that more than a third of UK children have […]

Visualizing The Stunning Global Fertility Divide A widening gap is emerging in global birth rates. This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows population-weighted total fertility rates (TFR) across major world regions, based on data from the UN World Population Prospects 2024 Revision, and how they compare to the 2.1 replacement level. While Africa remains far above this threshold, most of the world, including […]

Is It Time For Von Der Leyen To Go? Via Remix News, Amidst continued fears regarding Putin attacking beyond Ukraine and economic uncertainty caused by the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Brussels is reportedly beginning to grumble, i.e., look for someone to blame and remove. Now, according to a report by Finnish public service media Yle, cited by Világgazdaság, voices are growing to remove the president of the […]

Russia Calls On Foreign Embassies To Evacuate Diplomats From Ukrainian Capital Russia is warning that the Ukrainian capital could face unprecedented aerial bombing, and is taking the somewhat unprecedented step of issuing evacuation orders for bystanders in Kiev. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it warned foreign diplomatic missions to evacuate staff from the Ukrainian capital ahead of a potential large-scale strike if […]

Denver Leaders Reject Justice Department’s Demand That City Repeal ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times, Denver is refusing to repeal its 37-year-old ban on certain types of firearms known as “assault weapons.” Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, sent a demand letter on April 28 to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and City Attorney Miko […]

Gundlach Warns “Bagholders” Will “Lose Money” In Private Credit As BDCs Slash Asset Values, JPM Faces $500MM Loss In Biggest “Hung” Deal This Year Add another vocal warning to the chorus singing about the dangers of private credit.  DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach, who has been especially critical of private credit for the past year warning last November that the space “has the same trappings as subprime mortgage repackaging had […]

Toward Dual-Use Deterrence On The Moon Authored by Rick Fisher via The Epoch Times, As the United States pursues its goal of sending astronauts to the moon starting in 2028 to start building lunar bases—and China pursues its goal of sending its people to the moon by 2029 or 2030, also to start building lunar bases—it is necessary to consider a lunar political-military stability based on dual-use technologies. Concern that […]

“Existential Fight For Survival”: MSFT May Nuke Green Data Center Climate Pledge One week ago, Microsoft expected roughly $190 billion in AI data center spending for this fiscal year, highlighting the massive scale of the hyperscaler capex cycle as Big Tech races to build out compute infrastructure. Across the tech space, hyperscalers are expected to spend nearly $700 billion in capex this year alone. The incredible amount of capex […]

Canadian Prime Minister Is Playing A Very Dangerous Game Authored by ‘Sundance’ via The Last Refuge blog, Anyone who has ever dealt with a toxic narcissist understands the psychology behind their manipulative language, words and intents.  What Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is doing here is very dangerous, particularly for the Canadian people. After a year of increased provocative language intended to confront President […]

Israel Attacks Beirut For First Time In Nearly A Month: Assassination Raid The Lebanon ceasefire seems definitively off, as the capital of Beirut has come under heavy attack on Wednesday, with Israeli officials describing the military action as a targeted assassination of a top Hezbollah commander. “Israeli forces have targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs for the second time today, causing a loud explosion and extensive damage,” Al […]

Jeffrey Epstein ‘Suicide Note’ Emerges A federal judge on Wednesday unsealed a purported suicide note attributed to Jeffrey Epstein, written before his first reported incident in July 2019 and discovered by his then-cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, tucked inside a graphic novel. The undated, unsigned document – released as part of Tartaglione’s unrelated criminal case docket – contains lines such as “They investigated me for month […]

The Supreme Court Needs A Clock Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, The Supreme Court decides cases. But it also decides when to decide them – and that timing can be just as consequential as the ruling itself. Now we have a real-world example. In a closely watched decision last week, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-black congressional district violated the Constitution, […]

Treasury Weighs Allowing Billionaires To Donate Stock To Trump Accounts Here’s something that could go incredibly well or spectacularly wrong: The Trump administration’s flagship program for American children – the so-called Trump accounts – could soon get a dramatic upgrade. White House and Treasury Department officials are in internal discussions about letting the world’s wealthiest individuals donate shares of their companies […]

Scientists Reveal Time Travel Could Work Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Researchers have proposed a theoretical approach that could allow messages to be sent into the past using principles from quantum mechanics. Indeed, it could be happening right now already! The concept does not enable physical travel through time but focuses on information transfer through causal loops at the quantum scale. The work, […]

FBI Raids Office And Cannabis Dispensary Of Virginia State Sen. L. Louise Lucas Federal agents from the FBI executed court-authorized search warrants Wednesday morning at the Portsmouth legislative office of longtime Democratic Virginia State Sen. L. Louise Lucas and at an adjacent cannabis retail business she co-owns, as part of an ongoing federal corruption probe tied to marijuana dispensary operations. Virginia Senate President […]

NOAA OKs First Deep-Sea Mining Plan For Critical Minerals In Pacific Ocean Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration approved on May 1 its first deep-sea critical minerals exploration application, submitted by North Carolina-based deep-sea mining explorer The Metals Company USA (TMC). The company expects to find millions of tons of nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese on the sea floor needed in […]

Indiana Primary: Senate Incumbents Crushed By Trump-Backed Challengers First rule of politics:  Never ignore the will of your base.  Second rule of politics:  Never make your party and your supporters weaker, or the opposing party stronger.  In December 2025, 21 Republican Indiana state senators joined forces with 10 Democrats to vote against a Trump-supported bill to redraw the state’s congressional map as more favorable to […]

Will AI Make Us Wonderfully Prosperous? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, “Any given government program will become the opposite of its name,” Elon Musk said recently. The rule seems correct. Think of the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation Control Act, the CARES Act, the War on Poverty, and countless others. They all resulted in the very inverse of how they are named. That’s some wisdom right there. Musk […]

Iran Oil Official In Surprise Admission: ‘Fate Of Our Refineries Now At Risk’ As US Blockade Begins To Bite Summary Iran oil sector official admits “serious threat” – telling NYT: “export of our oil and energy and the fate of our refineries is now at risk.” US Navy jet fires on Iran-flagged tanker trying to reach Iranian waters & port. Axios reports that the White House is nearing a preliminary deal with Iran to […]

JPM Tried $1 Million Payoff To Bury Banker’s Sexual Assault Claims Before Daily Mail Bombshell Views on JPMorgan banker Lorna Hajdini’s Bloomberg profile surged on Wednesday afternoon. Why? The Wall Street Journal has released a new report stating that JPMorgan reportedly offered former investment banker Chirayu Rana $1 million to settle his sexual assault, harassment, and racial discrimination claims against Hajdini before he […]

DC Police Officials Disciplined Over Allegations Of Manipulating Crime Data Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, Multiple high-ranking officials in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) are facing termination in connection with allegations about how they handled and possibly manipulated crime statistics in the district. Breitbart reports that three MPD officials told The Washington Post that […]

Inside The Moscow Meeting That Laid Bare Iran’s Weak Hand Authored by Simon Watkins via oilprice.com, The Moscow meeting reinforced a long-standing imbalance, with Iran seeking deeper support while Russia offered only vague diplomatic backing. The 20-year Iran–Russia deal structurally favors Moscow, especially in energy and trade terms, leaving Tehran with limited economic and strategic upside. Russia’s growing military and […]

World Starts To “Build” Around Hormuz; Japan Buying UAE Oil Bypassing Strait As ADNOC To Spend $55 Billion On Pipelines Long after the Iran war is just a bookmark in the history books, one distinct consequence will persist: much of the world, at least the part that does not fall under the Chinese sphere of influence, will do everything it can to avoid the Strait of Hormuz and failing that, have a Plan B. Just like when the Biden […]