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Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago

FOMC Minutes Signal Fed Saw "Dual Sided" Risks From Iran War

FOMC Minutes Signal Fed Saw "Dual Sided" Risks From Iran War Since the last FOMC meeting (March 18th), a lot has happened (war, more war, and now less war), and rate-change expectations hawkishly surged, then dovishly normalized today... And given the last 24 hours, perhaps this information is more useful now, as we return to macro-fundamentals from geopolitical chaos running markets. Fed officials wrestled with starkly differing scenarios for the US economy following the outbre...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago

Trader Makes $23 Million In One Day With Massive SandP Call Purchase Hours Before Ceasefire

Trader Makes $23 Million In One Day With Massive SandP Call Purchase Hours Before Ceasefire A trader who made a large bet on a stocks rocketing in the coming weeks is up about $23 million in paper profit today, according to Bloomberg. The unknown trader spent $12 million premium on 6800 lots of 6950 SandP 500 Index Options (SPX) calls for May 8 expiry, when the index was at 6556.21; the trade was executed around 10:20 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, just hours before Trump's announcement ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago

The Apple AI Strategy: Discipline Over Hype

The Apple AI Strategy: Discipline Over Hype Authored by Michael Lebowtiz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While tech giants invest billions in AI, Apple executives are quietly sitting on their hands and a mountain of cash. Given the massive growth in AI investments, as shown in the graphs below, executives of leading companies at the forefront of AI development must be ecstatic about the prospect of AI significantly boosting their bottom lines. The puzzling question, however, is ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago

Blue Owl Stock Slides After Moody's Cuts Outlook To "Negative" On Surging Redemption Requests

Blue Owl Stock Slides After Moody's Cuts Outlook To "Negative" On Surging Redemption Requests Blue Owl stocks is getting slammed this morning, erasing all early gains, after Moody's Ratings cut its outlook on a $36-billion Blue Owl non-traded fund to "negative" from "stable" on Tuesday, citing redemption requests that were significantly higher than at peers in the first quarter. Moody's also said the change in the outlook on Blue Owl Credit Income Corp (OCIC) is ​due to the majorit...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago

10Y Auction Tails As Foreign Demand Dips

10Y Auction Tails As Foreign Demand Dips After yesterday's impressive 3Y auction, moments ago the Treasury sold $39 billion in benchmark, 10Y paper, in what was a mediocre auction. The auction, a 9-Year 10-Month reopening of cusip CPX8, stopped at a high yield of 4.282%, up from 4.217% last month and the highest since last August. It also tailed the When Issued 4.280% by 0.2bps, the third consecutive tail in a row. The bid to cover dipped to 2.429 from 2.449, and was also below ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 3 hours ago

Watch Live: White House Addresses Fragile Iran Truce

Watch Live: White House Addresses Fragile Iran Truce All eyes are on the very shaky Iran ceasefire, at a moment Tehran is already threatening to pull out due to heavy Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Iran says it has again halted Hormuz oil transit, and there's much that's still up in the air and uncertain. The briefing with press secretary Karoline Leavitt is expected to begin at 1300ET: Washington and Tehran have just entered a two-week ceasefire, brokered by Pakistani mediation, ai...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 3 hours ago

Eric Swalwell About To Be Hit With 'Shocking' Number Of Sexual Harassment Allegations; Report

Eric Swalwell About To Be Hit With 'Shocking' Number Of Sexual Harassment Allegations; Report Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, A “shocking” number of former female employees and interns are preparing to come forward to accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell (|D-Calif.) of sexual misconduct, according to a Democrat activist. Cheyenne Hunt, a lawyer, former congressional candidate and executive director of the left-wing nonprofit Gen-Z for Change, revealed on X Sunday, that she ha...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 4 hours ago

Iran Ceasefire Extremely Fragile As Trump Highlights Discrepancy In 10-Points; Direct Talks Planned 'Soon' In Pakistan

Iran Ceasefire Extremely Fragile As Trump Highlights Discrepancy In 10-Points; Direct Talks Planned 'Soon' In Pakistan Summary:  The Hegseth/Caine presser as expected declared 'victory' in Iran while Gen. Caine emphasized the ceasefire is a "pause" but US forces remain "ready to resume combat." Pentagon is trying to put a bow on Operation Epic Fury. NYT: 10-point plan might differ between Tehran and Washington. US, Iran agree to meet for first direct talks in Islamabad Frida...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 4 hours ago

US, Israel Insist Iran Ceasefire Doesn't Apply In Lebanon, Which Suffers Huge Airstrikes

US, Israel Insist Iran Ceasefire Doesn't Apply In Lebanon, Which Suffers Huge Airstrikes Israel has made clear that it doesn't see the newly declared US-Iran ceasefire as applying to its war in Lebanon, where it is still trying to destroy Hezbollah. The White House too has made its stance clear that it doesn't apply, but President Trump has stated his intent to take care of a Lebanon ceasefire separately.  The military has unleashed hell on Beirut, southern Lebanon, and the eastern...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 4 hours ago

Anthropic Withholds Latest Model After It Went Rogue In Testing; Launches "Project Glasswing" To Secure Critical Software

Anthropic Withholds Latest Model After It Went Rogue In Testing; Launches "Project Glasswing" To Secure Critical Software Still smarting from its embarrassing source code leak, Anthropic announced it will not release its latest frontier AI model, Mythos, to the public, saying the model is too powerful in ways that introduce elevated cybersecurity risk. In internal testing, Anthropic said the model surfaced thousands of high‑severity “zero‑day” vulnerabilities (previously unknown fl...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

Tanker Passage Through Hormuz Halted As Iran Accuses Israel Of 'Ceasefire Breach'; Direct Talks Planned For Pakistan Friday

Tanker Passage Through Hormuz Halted As Iran Accuses Israel Of 'Ceasefire Breach'; Direct Talks Planned For Pakistan Friday Summary:  The Hegseth/Caine presser as expected declared 'victory' in Iran while Gen. Caine emphasized the ceasefire is a "pause" but US forces remain "ready to resume combat." Pentagon is trying to put a bow on Operation Epic Fury. NYT: 10-point plan might differ between Tehran and Washington. US, Iran agree to meet for first direct talks in Islamabad ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

Delta Air Lines Erases All 'Epic Fury' Losses As In-House Refinery Cushions Fuel Shock

Delta Air Lines Erases All 'Epic Fury' Losses As In-House Refinery Cushions Fuel Shock Delta Air Lines soared in premarket trading on a combination of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire and stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, with the carrier's in-house refinery helping to lower the average jet fuel price for its fleet in the first quarter, making it appear to be one of the better-positioned carriers than most peers to withstand an energy shock. Even without a ceasefire in the Middl...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 5 hours ago

Nobody Knows What Will Happen Next

Nobody Knows What Will Happen Next By Michael Every and Bas van Geffen of Rabobank Ceasefire Yesterday, the US and Iran threatened to, respectively, “destroy Iranian civilisation” with “new tools” and other countries in the Gulf with old ones. Ahead of the 8PM deadline that Trump had set for “Bridge and Power Plant Day,” US and Israeli forces reportedly already destroyed some bridges and other infrastructure. Washington and Tehran struck a last-minute, two-week ceasefire – provid...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Iran Gives Approved Hormuz Shippers "Few Seconds" To Submit Payment In Bitcoin

Iran Gives Approved Hormuz Shippers "Few Seconds" To Submit Payment In Bitcoin Iran plans to require shipping companies to pay transit tolls in Bitcoin for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a Financial Times report. As Micah Zimmerman reports for BitcoinMagazine.com, this links bitcoin to one of the world’s most critical energy corridors and current events. The policy would apply to oil tankers seeking passage during a two-week ceasefire between Iran and...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

ASP Isotopes Offers Helium Alternative As Qatar Export Crisis Looms

ASP Isotopes Offers Helium Alternative As Qatar Export Crisis Looms ASP Isotopes could provide timely relief for the global helium shortage. In a new research note from Canaccord Genuity analyst George Gianarikas, he highlights the company’s Virginia Gas Project in South Africa as a potential new source of supply just as Qatar’s helium exports face major disruption. The warning comes shortly after we reported on Qatar’s Ras Laffan complex damage and the closure of the Strait of ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 6 hours ago

Homeward Bound: Artemis II Leaves Lunar Space, Reveals 'Earthset' Photos

Homeward Bound: Artemis II Leaves Lunar Space, Reveals 'Earthset' Photos Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times, The Artemis II astronauts are on their way home from the moon. NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen left lunar space just before 1:30 p.m. ET on April 7. After carrying humanity’s representatives to the farthest point in space ever ventured—where they witnessed cosmic wonders never before seen by ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

First Two Ships Pass Through Strait Of Hormuz Since Ceasefire As Iran Demands Payment In Crypto

First Two Ships Pass Through Strait Of Hormuz Since Ceasefire As Iran Demands Payment In Crypto Last night we reported that no less than 800 ships were still trapped in the immediate aftermath of the US-Iran ceasefire agreement, unsure what the fine print of the deal meant for transits. This morning we are down to ~798, after the first two cargo vessels have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire, according to ship tracking data. The Liberia-flagged Daytona Beach, destine...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

Saudi Arabia's Oil Pipeline To Red Sea Hit By Drone Attack Just As Hegseth Declares 'Overwhelming Victory' Against Iran

Saudi Arabia's Oil Pipeline To Red Sea Hit By Drone Attack Just As Hegseth Declares 'Overwhelming Victory' Against Iran Summary:  The Hegseth/Caine presser as expected declared 'victory' in Iran while Gen. Caine emphasized the ceasefire is a "pause" but US forces remain "ready to resume combat." Hegseth says "military will be hanging around in Iran, won't go anywhere, and will make sure Iran complies. Caine hails that US has destroyed Iran's defense-industrial base, includin...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

Airline Stocks Soar On Iran Ceasefire As IATA Sees "Positive" Tailwinds, But Warns Jet Fuel Crisis Will Persist

Airline Stocks Soar On Iran Ceasefire As IATA Sees "Positive" Tailwinds, But Warns Jet Fuel Crisis Will Persist Airline stocks are flying high in premarket trading in New York after the overnight ceasefire between the Trump administration and Tehran. The truce is a positive for the aviation industry, which has been locked in turbulence for six weeks, as surging jet fuel prices have crushed the margins of major carriers, forcing ticket and baggage price hikes and triggering travel ch...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

US Futures, Global Stocks And Bonds Soar On Ceasefire Relief, Oil Plummets

US Futures, Global Stocks And Bonds Soar On Ceasefire Relief, Oil Plummets US futures, global stocks and bonds are sharply higher while oil prices plunge the most in years as a wave of optimism swept through global markets after the US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in exchange for Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormuz: JPMorgan's Market Intel desk, which moves from Neutral to Tactically Bullish this morning, says to look for a re-risking in the very near-term albeit it wit...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 7 hours ago

A Pause To Negotiate A Deal? Some Caveats...

A Pause To Negotiate A Deal? Some Caveats... Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Basically we wound up at the better end of our “base case” in yesterday’s Spaghetti Western, and you could argue we made it all the way into our best case of “ceasefire” (I’m reluctant to label it that, as you will see, but it is touching on that end). I do think we are far from a “real deal”. In any case, markets are responding according as both sides send people to Pakistan to negotiat...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

Watch Live: Hegseth Declares 'Victory' As Fragile Iran Ceasefire Hailed Internationally

Watch Live: Hegseth Declares 'Victory' As Fragile Iran Ceasefire Hailed Internationally War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are expected to give their first post-ceasefire announcement briefing on Iran at 8am Eastern time. Watch Live: Iran sees this as Victory The United States and Iran have announced a two-week suspension of all attacks, and Tehran reportedly agreed to allow safe transit of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago

Shares Of Infrastructure Developer Erupt On Gulf Energy Reconstruction Prospects

Shares Of Infrastructure Developer Erupt On Gulf Energy Reconstruction Prospects The two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire looks more like a pause in the six-week conflict than a long-lasting agreement, with language so broad and vague that it remains unclear who conceded what. The one clear point is that Iran's reported willingness to allow vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz was enough to send crude prices tumbling from triple-digit territory and spark a global relief rally across...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 9 hours ago

Senate Democrats Might Not Have November In The Bag

Senate Democrats Might Not Have November In The Bag Based on various polls, Democrats are leading Republicans by roughly five to six points on the generic congressional ballot. While this certainly means they have an advantage, the numbers actually show real trouble for the Democrats for this year’s midterm elections. And even CNN isn’t trying to sugarcoat it for the Democratic Party. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten took a hard look at the numbers, and the picture for Democra...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 10 hours ago

These Consumer Goods Could Be First To Vanish As "Supply Shock" Disrupts Asian Factories

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 plants altogether as soaring petrochemical-linked ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Berlin Targets Entrepreneurs: Apprenticeships, Punishment, And Social Decay

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 currently in power, fosters a culture of societal divisio...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 11 hours ago

Kraken Robotics Demos Next-Gen Tech For Maritime And Defense Operations

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 company announced that its KATFISH towed synthetic apertu...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 12 hours ago

UK Schools Rake In Record £572 Million For Non-English Speaking Pupils

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 figures. This comes as the number of such pupils has climbed ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 14 hours ago

Germany's 67-Point Climate Plan: Fatal Yet Highly Effective

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, Canada. This week, the CDU politician toured the site of ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

War Unicorn Hermeus Raises $350 Million For Unmanned Supersonic Fighter Jets

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 straightforward: build today’s fastest aircraft for the Americ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 17 hours ago

US Scientists Crack Superconductor Code - Zero Energy Loss Moves Closer To Reality

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 Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

As Los Angeles Hits "Breaking Point" Population Exodus, Houston's GDP Rockets Higher

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, wildfires, parental rights, and homelessness.  And whi...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

Why Military Bases Should Never Have Been Gun-Free Zones

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, with penalties ranging from rank reduction and forfeiture ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 18 hours ago

Living In Any New York Borough Now Requires A Six Figure Income

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 fall short of that level. A separate report from Mayor Zo...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

Education Department Ditches Title IX Agreements That Pushed 'Transgender Agenda' In Multiple Schools

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 Washington on Nov. 18, 2024. Jose Luis Magana/AP Phot...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 19 hours ago

CIA Used "Ghost Murmur" To Locate Missing F-15 Airman From 40-Miles Away

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 York Post reports that the long-range quantum magnet...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

Cyber Crimes Costing Americans Nearly $21 Billion: FBI

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 181,565 complaints totaling more than $11 billion,” the ag...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

Iraqi Protesters Overrun Kuwait Consulate, Angry Over Role In US Actions

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: Supporters of Iraq’s pro-Iranian Popular Mobilizat...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 20 hours ago

Massive "Treasure Trove" 3,000-Year-Old Silk Road City Discovered In Uzbekistan

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 Region, Uzbekistan. (Wikimedia) Originally discovered in ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

Synagogue In Tehran 'Completely Destroyed' In US-Israeli Strikes On Area

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 describes the synagogue was destroyed when an adjacent ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

US, Iran, Israel Agree To 2-Week Ceasefire, Iran Will Allow Safe Passage Via Hormuz For Two Weeks

US, Iran, Israel Agree To 2-Week Ceasefire, Iran 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 two weeks Israel has reportedly agreed to suspend b...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

US, Iran, Israel Agree To 2-Week Ceasefire; Tehran Will Allow Safe Passage Via Hormuz For Two Weeks

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 two weeks Israel has reportedly agreed to suspend...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 21 hours ago

No Kings - Except Moloch And Marx And Everyone Else

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 exceptional cases to justify surveillance over people who...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

Helicopters And Poison? 32 Charged In $20M Mount Everest Rescue Scam

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 helicopter evacuations that insurers foot the bill for. Ac...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

Texas Investigating Islamic Tribunal For Allegedly Operating Sharia Law Court

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 in Richardson, Texas, on Dec. 12, 2015. LM Otero/A...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 22 hours ago

Container Ship Sinks In Hormuz After Iranian Strike Last Month; UBS Gives Latest Strait Update

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 on the surface of the water in the Hormuz chokepoi...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

Exposing The FBI's Human Experimentation Studies

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. During his tenure, the bureau has grown proficient at snooping on ...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

Kanye West Banned From UK: Wireless Festival Cancelled After Home Office Revokes Travel Authorization

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, where he was set to headline all three nights in July at Fi...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 23 hours ago

The Left Is Baffled - But Still Repulsed - By The White Working Class

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 from white middle- and working-class voters. Yet mid...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Consumer Credit Grows Less Than Expected On Subdued Credit Card Usage

Consumer Credit Grows Less Than Expected On Subdued Credit Card Usage While the monthly jobs report has become a veritable economic random number generator, with every monthly print coming either well below or above the forecast stack, the weekly initial claims report has become its foil - a study in boring reporting, with numbers barely budging week to week, and usually falling right on top of Wall Street estimates. A similar dynamic is emerging for the monthly consumer credit repo...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Tehran-Aligned Militia In Iraq Frees American Journalist In Prisoner Swap

Tehran-Aligned Militia In Iraq Frees American Journalist In Prisoner Swap An Iran-backed militia in Iraq has announced it will release an American freelance journalist kidnapped in Baghdad a week ago. Shelly Kittleson was abducted on March 31, and her captors in Kataib Hezbollah announced Tuesday that she can go free as long as she exits Iraq immediately. Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, a security official in the group, has been cited in international reports as saying, "In recognition of th...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Pakistan Prime Minister Offers Last Ditch Olive Branch Plan, Hours Before Trump's 'Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight' Deadline

Pakistan Prime Minister Offers Last Ditch Olive Branch Plan, Hours Before Trump's 'Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight' Deadline Summary:  Trump: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Axios cites "glimmer" of progress on negotiations. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif introduces last minute olive branch extension plan, hoping that the US will avoid its decimation campaign. In a call with FOX's Bret Baier, Trump says 8 PM deadline today "could c...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Antares Earns DoE's First Ever Microreactor Approval As Modi Heralds 'Defining Step In India's Nuclear Energy Journey'

Antares Earns DoE's First Ever Microreactor Approval As Modi Heralds 'Defining Step In India's Nuclear Energy Journey' Antares Nuclear reached the most significant regulatory milestone to date for a microreactor. The company announced that its Mark-0 reactor became the first advanced reactor to receive Department of Energy approval for a Documented Safety Analysis under the new DOE-STD-1271.  DSA approved. ✅ Antares is the first advanced reactor to receive DOE approval of a Docume...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Oil, Inflation, and Recession

Oil, Inflation, and Recession Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, It's not the price of oil per se that triggers recession, it's the underlying vulnerabilities that have been cloaked with happy story narratives to keep the game going. Recessions don't require a spike in the price of oil/gasoline, but spikes in energy prices trigger recessions. This makes sense, as hydrocarbons are the foundation of every industry, from the so-called "green" industries to all the hi...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Petrochemical Supply Shock Begins Idling Asian Factories

Petrochemical Supply Shock Begins Idling Asian Factories For weeks, we mapped out for readers how the Gulf energy shock dominoes would fall, spreading outward from the Middle East and striking Asia first through tightened energy-product flows that risk destabilizing the global economy. That transmission of tightening energy flows is now becoming alarmingly visible on factory floors across Asia. Goldman analysts, led by Georgina Fraser, warned clients on Monday that the petrochemic...

Alt - Zero Hedge - 1 day ago

Tucker Carlson Urges U.S. Officials To Defy Trump On Iran Orders: "Say No, Absolutely Not"

Tucker Carlson Urges U.S. Officials To Defy Trump On Iran Orders: "Say No, Absolutely Not" Tucker Carlson has publicly called on White House aides and Pentagon officials to refuse President Donald Trump’s orders if they involve mass attacks on Iranian civilians or the possible use of nuclear weapons, telling them to "say no, absolutely not" directly to the president and, if necessary, to "figure out the codes on the football yourself." The remarks, made on his popular podcast, come ...

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Battle Of Narratives: Bloomberg Counters Nikkei Asia's Foldable iPhone Delay Report

Battle Of Narratives: Bloomberg Counters Nikkei Asia's Foldable iPhone Delay Report Summary:  Bloomberg counters Nikkei Asia's reporting on possible foldable iPhone delays Nikkei Asia says the foldable iPhone has hit "engineering snags," with shipment delays possible Polymarket odds of a foldable iPhone release this year stand at 81% Bloomberg counters Nikkei Asia's reporting Hours after Nikkei Asia reported that Apple's first foldable iPhone could face delays in mas...

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Stellar 3Y Auction: 2nd Most Foreign Buyers On Record, Highest Stop Through Since Feb 2025

Stellar 3Y Auction: 2nd Most Foreign Buyers On Record, Highest Stop Through Since Feb 2025 After several weeks of decidedly ugly auction which saw a notable drop in foreign demand amid what we reported a week ago was rampant selling of US debt by foreign central banks, moments ago the Treasury sold 3Y notes in what may have been the best auction since the start of the war. Just after 1pm, the US treasury sold $58BN in 3Y notes at a high yield of 3.897%, up sharply from 3.579% a mon...

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Trump Endorses Steve Hilton In California Gubernatorial Primary

Trump Endorses Steve Hilton In California Gubernatorial Primary Authored by Dave Mason via The Center Square, President Donald Trump has endorsed former Fox News anchor Steve Hilton in California’s Republican gubernatorial primary. Trump picked Hilton over the other prominent GOP candidate – Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is an outspoken Trump supporter. Sunday night’s endorsement on social media comes as Democrats face the risk of being shut out of the general elect...

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US Official Cites 'Glimmer Of Progress' On Ceasefire After Trump Warns 'A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight'

US Official Cites 'Glimmer Of Progress' On Ceasefire After Trump Warns 'A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight' Summary:  Tehran Times: All communications with US side suspended - THEN ISSUES CORRECTION, REVERSES. This after Trump's Tues. morning threat: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Axios cites "glimmer" of progress on negotiations. In a call with FOX's Bret Baier, Trump says 8 PM deadline today "could change if negotiations move fo...

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Russia, China Veto UN Res Authorizing Military Force To Reopen Hormuz Strait

Russia, China Veto UN Res Authorizing Military Force To Reopen Hormuz Strait On Tuesday a UN Security Council resolution on opening the Strait of Hormuz failed due to Russia and China vetoing it. It was drafted by Bahrain and authorized countries to use military force if necessary to open the strait for the free flow of shipping and commerce. The resolution garnered 11 votes in favor, but permanent veto-wielding members China and Russia blocked it by registering no votes. This come...

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NY Fed: Inflation Expectations Jump, Driven By Surging Gas

NY Fed: Inflation Expectations Jump, Driven By Surging Gas Ahead of Friday's CPI report, inflation fears are already rising, with the NY Fed's latest monthly survey of consumer expectations reporting that Inflation expectations at the one-year horizon were higher at 3.42% in March from the previous month’s 3.00%, matching the highest since April '25. Inflation expectations also increased by 0.1% to 3.1% at the three-year-ahead horizon, and were unchanged at 3.0% at the five-year-ahe...

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IMF Panics, Warns Tokenization Could Bring Crypto Risks Into Global Financial Markets

IMF Panics, Warns Tokenization Could Bring Crypto Risks Into Global Financial Markets Authored by Francisco Rodrigues via CoinDesk.com, Tokenization could reshape finance by enabling instant settlement and cutting out intermediaries, and introduces new risks that regulators are not yet equipped to manage, the IMF said. Tokenization could amplify volatility through automated markets and smart contracts, the report said. The IMF called for clearer legal frameworks and str...

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Trump Calls Artemis II Astronauts After Record-Breaking Flight Around The Moon

Trump Calls Artemis II Astronauts After Record-Breaking Flight Around The Moon Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, For the first time in more than 50 years, the president of the United States had a phone call with astronauts around the moon. President Donald Trump spoke with the crew of Artemis II on April 6, shortly after they completed their historic, record-breaking flight around the moon, saying he wanted to be the first to congratulate them on the occasion. “Today...

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Foldable Apple iPhone Hits Engineering Snags, Raising Risk Of Delays; Odds Of 2027 Release 80%

Foldable Apple iPhone Hits Engineering Snags, Raising Risk Of Delays; Odds Of 2027 Release 80% Apple is about 8 years late to the foldable smartphone space, with Samsung's Galaxy Fold released in October 2018. Now, Tim Cook's big launch of Apple's first foldable smartphone could face "delays in its mass production and product shipment schedule," according to new Nikkei Asia sources deep within the handset supply chain. Supply chain sources told the Japanese business outlet that the...

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​​​​​​​Trump Warns "A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight"; State-Linked Media Says 'All Diplomatic Comms With US Suspended'

​​​​​​​Trump Warns "A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight"; State-Linked Media Says 'All Diplomatic Comms With US Suspended' Summary:  Kharg Island heavily bombed in preparation for potential US Marine/Special Forces ground siezure. Israel has begun attacking Iran's railway infrastructure, telling civilians to not take trains, cancelations across country. IRGC still defiant - announces new retaliatory attacks on petrochemical plants in eastern Saudi Arabia. Iran's ...

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Gunmen Attempt To Storm Israeli Consulate In Istanbul Terror Attack

Gunmen Attempt To Storm Israeli Consulate In Istanbul Terror Attack Israel's foreign ministry confirmed that on Tuesday there was a "terrorist attack on the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul" and has thanked Turkish security forces for stopping it before the attackers were able to make it into the building. "We appreciate the Turkish security forces' swift action in thwarting this attack," a statement from the ministry on X said. It added "Israeli missions around the world have been su...

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Trump, Rubio Eye Visa Revocations For Nearly 4,000 Iranian Elites Living In America

Trump, Rubio Eye Visa Revocations For Nearly 4,000 Iranian Elites Living In America Podcaster Katie Miller, who is also the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, said on Fox News overnight that the Trump administration and the State Department, under Secretary Marco Rubio, are planning to revoke the visas of thousands of Iranian elites living in the U.S. "You look at the UK, and look what Keir Starmer has in his own country. You look at the nephew of Khomeini [R...

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US Core Durable Goods Orders Surge For 11th Straight Month

US Core Durable Goods Orders Surge For 11th Straight Month After recent string 'soft' survey data, this morning we get some 'hard' data and it's mixed...ish... Preliminary headline durable goods orders for February fell 1.4% MoM (worse than the -1.2% MoM exp). That is the third monthly decline in a row (the first 3-month decline since Nov 2019) Source: Bloomberg The monthly decline of the headline print largely reflected a decline in orders for aircraft. Boeing said it receive...

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Polymarket Unveils Exchange Overhaul, Native Stablecoin As US Expansion Looms

Polymarket Unveils Exchange Overhaul, Native Stablecoin As US Expansion Looms Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin and crypto focused prediction market platform Polymarket is preparing its most significant infrastructure upgrade to date, rolling out a rebuilt trading system alongside a new native stablecoin designed to replace bridged collateral and streamline on-chain activity. The overhaul, described by the company as a “full exchange upgrade,” is expected...

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US Already Spent Over $42 Billion and Counting On Iran War

US Already Spent Over $42 Billion and Counting On Iran War This week will see the Iran war reach 40 days of fighting, which is a far cry from the mere "four days" some US administration officials offered as a possible 'optimistic' timeline at the very opening of Trump's Operation Epic Fury. According to the Iran War Cost Tracker portal, the US military operation has cost more than $42 billion thus far. The tracker has arrived at this figure largely based on a Pentagon briefing to C...

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75 Gulf Energy Assets Damaged In U.S.-Iran War As Supply Shock Intensifies

75 Gulf Energy Assets Damaged In U.S.-Iran War As Supply Shock Intensifies International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol was interviewed by the French newspaper Le Figaro earlier on Tuesday and warned that the Gulf energy shock "is more severe than those of 1973, 1979, and 2022 combined" because it is affecting oil, gas, food, fertilizers, petrochemicals, helium, and global trade all at once. Birol said in the interview that more than 75 energy sites across the G...

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Marc Andreessen Calls AI Job-Loss Fears 'Fake', Expects Employment Gains

Marc Andreessen Calls AI Job-Loss Fears 'Fake', Expects Employment Gains It is not the first time that the venture capital guru has questioned some of the fundamentally dystopian scenarios being proposition in an AI world.  In February, we noted that amid an armada of dystopian futurists, projecting linear thoughts into a future of 'AI uber alles', Marc Andreessen stands as a beacon of potential utopian light, seeing a future that looks very different and very positive for young an...

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Germany's Debt Spiral: Bundesbank Chief Breaks Silence

Germany's Debt Spiral: Bundesbank Chief Breaks Silence Submitted by Thomas Kolbe It’s not every day that top officials of the German Bundesbank take an explicit stance on daily politics. Nagel’s stark warnings about Germany’s debt and the government’s creative accounting were surely met with grim recognition in Berlin’s corridors of power. Open criticism is rare there, and when it comes from credible insiders, it stings even more. Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel  Chancellor Fr...

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Death Of Hollywood In Two Charts

Death Of Hollywood In Two Charts The nightmare story for Hollywood is playing out in real time for the world to see, as a century-old entertainment economy implodes and bears all the hallmarks of what happened to Detroit after the auto industry went bust. A new Wall Street Journal report describes the Hollywood job market as being in "collapse" mode, with employment in the industry down 30% from its late-2022 peak, while behind-the-scenes union workers logged 36% fewer hours las...

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Iranian Kurdish Groups Deny Receiving US Arms After Trump's 'Guns For Protesters' Remark

Iranian Kurdish Groups Deny Receiving US Arms After Trump's 'Guns For Protesters' Remark Via The Cradle Several Iranian Kurdish opposition groups on Monday denied reports that the US had armed them during anti-government protests and riots that erupted in January, leaving over 3,000 Iranians dead. Mohammed Nazif Qaderi, a senior official from the opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), called the reports "baseless," saying, "We haven't received any weapons. The weapo...

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RQ-180 Spy Drone Reappears Again In Greece As Larissa Air Base Backs U.S. Recon Ops

RQ-180 Spy Drone Reappears Again In Greece As Larissa Air Base Backs U.S. Recon Ops New footage of what appears to be the highly secretive Northrop Grumman RQ-180 stealth surveillance drone has surfaced near Larisa, Greece, according to the aviation outlet The Aviationist. The RQ-180 apparently appeared in daylight hours on approach to landing at Larisa Air Base, home to the Hellenic Air Force’s 110 Combat Wing. The footage offers one of the clearest views yet of the flying-wing sp...

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Europe's Climate Policy Forces Industry Into Retreat; Even Its Critics Are Folding

Europe's Climate Policy Forces Industry Into Retreat; Even Its Critics Are Folding Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In the media business, five months is an eternity. And it does indeed seem like an eternity has passed since Christian Kullmann, CEO of the German chemical giant Evonik, sharply criticized European climate policy at the end of October. At the time, Kullmann gave an interview to Süddeutsche Zeitung, in which he called—if not for the outright abolition—then at least for a sig...

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France's Debt Spiral: Tax Hikes Mask A Looming Crisis

France's Debt Spiral: Tax Hikes Mask A Looming Crisis Submitted by Thomas Kolbe On both sides of the Franco-German border, the same problem persists: overburdened and reform-averse politicians struggle against a rapidly accelerating debt spiral. Their preferred tool: higher levies. Last week, France’s Finance Minister Roland Lescure reported a revision of the projected budget deficit for the current year. Initial estimates for 2026 had suggested a deficit well above five percent....

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How Modern Influence Operations Work, Part 1: The New Influence Stack

How Modern Influence Operations Work, Part 1: The New Influence Stack Authored by Charles Davis via The Epoch Times, On a Tuesday night in a dorm room, a student opens TikTok for a “five-minute break.” The first clip is a montage of rubble and sirens. The second is a professor-style explainer, neatly captioned, delivering a single moral conclusion. The third is a shaky phone video of a confrontation on another campus—shouts, police lights, a crowd surging like weather. The s...

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China Introduces Pistol-Like Coil-Gun Based On Electromagnetic-Launch Systems

China Introduces Pistol-Like Coil-Gun Based On Electromagnetic-Launch Systems Authored by Bojan Stojovski via Interesting Engineering, A new handheld coil gun developed in China is designed for discreet, non-lethal use, including law enforcement operations, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Capable of firing between 1,000 and 2,000 rounds per minute, the weapon can penetrate wooden boards from distances of several dozen yards. Its adjustable power settings allow it to incapacitate r...

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US Oil Premiums Hit Record High As World Scrambles For Crude

US Oil Premiums Hit Record High As World Scrambles For Crude By Charles Kennedy of Oilprice.com The premiums for U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude have soared in the spot market to a record high of between $30 and $40 per barrel above key regional benchmarks as Asia and Europe scramble for supply amid the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz. WTI Midland is being offered for July delivery in north Asia at premiums of between $30 and $40 per barrel, depending on the benchmark ...

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Murder And Mayhem: A Look At ICE's 'Worst Of The Worst' Arrests

Murder And Mayhem: A Look At ICE's 'Worst Of The Worst' Arrests Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez and Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts this term have focused on illegal immigrants with criminal histories. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made about 379,000 arrests from Jan. 20, 2025, through Jan. 20, 2026, and the administration has maintained that the majority involved those with criminal arrest...

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What Would Robert Louis Stevenson Say About Ozempic?

What Would Robert Louis Stevenson Say About Ozempic? Authored by Ann Bauer via Brownstone Institute, I have loved many addicts in my life. I have been exasperated, impoverished, and terrified by them. But also amused, warmed, enraptured, elevated…That’s the thing about addicts. They contain multitudes, all drama and extremes. They’re charismatic until they’re repugnant, joyful until they’re suicidal. Everything is in vivid, dangerous color. It’s part of the ride and the reason t...

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Tech Bros Sound Alarm As AI Data Centers Poll Worse Than ICE Agents

Tech Bros Sound Alarm As AI Data Centers Poll Worse Than ICE Agents The tech bros are only now waking up to what we pointed out 1 year and 8 months ago: the early stages of public backlash against AI data center expansion. Since then, this resistance has spread nationwide as working-class people grow increasingly angry about hyperscalers erecting massive AI data centers in their backyards, with one of the most immediate consequences being surging power bills. "If tech leaders don't...

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NHTSA Ends Probe Into Tesla's Remote-Driving Feature, Citing Low Risk

NHTSA Ends Probe Into Tesla's Remote-Driving Feature, Citing Low Risk Authored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on April 6 that it had closed its investigation into Tesla’s Actually Smart Summon feature, a remote driving function that allows low-speed vehicle movement over short distances in parking areas using a smartphone app. The NHTSA opened its probe into the feature in January 2025 following multiple reports o...

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"You're Not Really Blaming Islam On Whitey, Are You?"

"You're Not Really Blaming Islam On Whitey, Are You?" Bill Maher asks Ana Kasparian which Middle Eastern country she would feel comfortable wearing "that dress" and then this happened... Bill Maher asks Ana Kasparian which Middle Eastern country she would feel comfortable wearing “that dress” and then this happened. MAHER: “If you had to live in the Middle East. Any city. Where would you live where you’d be comfortable in that dress?” ANA: “I’m sure I would not… pic.twitter.com/Iz...

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US Tests Mach-5 Hypersonic Missile In Joint Army-Navy Launch

US Tests Mach-5 Hypersonic Missile In Joint Army-Navy Launch Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, The U.S. has carried out a successful launch of a hypersonic missile made to travel at speeds exceeding Mach 5, meaning over five times the speed of sound, which allows it to cover vas distances in a matter of minutes. A common hypersonic missile launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on March 26, 2026. via DoW The launch of the common hyper...

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US Secretly Repositions Bulk Of Stealth Cruise Missiles For Iran War

US Secretly Repositions Bulk Of Stealth Cruise Missiles For Iran War President Trump has set a Tuesday evening deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with Tehran facing severe consequences if it refuses. Trump’s messaging suggests the next phase of the conflict could shift toward strikes on power plants, bridges, and other critical infrastructure nationwide. New reporting from Bloomberg suggests that the Department of War shifted a large share of its JASSM-ERs, formerly ...

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What The Hell Is Wrong With Modern Parents?

What The Hell Is Wrong With Modern Parents? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A 17-month-old toddler had his hand instinctively grabbed by a wolf at ZooAmerica inside Hersheypark, Pennsylvania, while his parents sat glued to their phones just 25 to 30 feet away on a bench. Reports note that the parents didn’t even notice until bystanders rushed in amid the commotion. Chaos at Hersheypark zoo when toddler is injured by wolf while parents were 'distracted by their pho...

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Top University Dubbed 'MIT Of Iran' Bombed Along With Several Airports

Top University Dubbed 'MIT Of Iran' Bombed Along With Several Airports US-Israeli strikes have been on a noticeable uptick against Iranian institutions of higher learning over the last days. This has included a large-scale aerial assault on Tehran’s Sharif University, which is often dubbed the "MIT of Iran". After this attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi threatened Iranian retaliation, warning "aggressors will see our might." He said several other universities have also...

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Supreme Court Clears Way For Dismissal Of Contempt Case Against Steve Bannon

Supreme Court Clears Way For Dismissal Of Contempt Case Against Steve Bannon Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court on April 6 cleared the way for the Trump administration to dismiss the criminal contempt case against Steve Bannon over his failure to honor congressional subpoenas. Steve Bannon attends a court hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Nov. 12, 2024. Adam Gray/AFP via Getty Images The high court granted Ba...

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Federal Appeals Court Reinstates $656 Million Judgment Against Palestinian Authorities

Federal Appeals Court Reinstates $656 Million Judgment Against Palestinian Authorities Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, A federal appellate court has agreed to reinstate a $656 million judgment against Palestinian authorities for Americans killed or wounded in attacks by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority while in Israel. The ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was issued in the wake of a Supreme Court decision a...

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Ex-CIA Analyst: What The Hell Happened With The Pilot Rescue Op In Iran?

Ex-CIA Analyst: What The Hell Happened With The Pilot Rescue Op In Iran? Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson Iran's air defense system succeeded on Friday, April 3, in downing a US F-15E over Iran. There is some dispute and confusion about the exact location (more about that later). The pilot and the WSO (i.e., Weapons System Officer) both successfully ejected but were separated. The pilot was quickly rescued by the Combat Search and Rescue (i.e., CSAR) and the two Pave Ha...

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UBS: Trump's Historic Military Budget Request Could Boost Beaten-Down Defense Stocks

UBS: Trump's Historic Military Budget Request Could Boost Beaten-Down Defense Stocks U.S. defense stocks showed signs of stabilizing in April after tumbling since Operation Epic Fury began in late February and sustaining a Mach bloodbath. The improvement followed Friday's White House proposal to lift military spending sharply, to roughly $1.5 trillion in 2027.  UBS analyst Allyson Gordon said Monday morning that the White House budget request "should help sentiment," which has det...

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The Debt Spiral Ends In Dollar Destruction: 6 Hard Truths America Can No Longer Ignore

The Debt Spiral Ends In Dollar Destruction: 6 Hard Truths America Can No Longer Ignore Authored by Nick Giambruno via Doug Casey's International Man, “Whenever governments are granted power to purchase their own debt, they never fail to do so, eventually destroying the value of the currency.” – Ron Paul Let’s take a step back and look at the big picture so we can assess the US government’s financial situation, where it’s likely headed, and what these trends could mean. Observ...

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Iran Conflict Spotlights Nuclear Energy As Key To Global Energy Security

Iran Conflict Spotlights Nuclear Energy As Key To Global Energy Security The ongoing disruptions tied to Iran’s energy infrastructure and the Strait of Hormuz, have once again exposed the fragility of global oil supplies. As oil prices swing on geopolitical headlines, the founder and executive chairman of Nano Nuclear Energy, Jay Yu, underscored the critical alternative during a recent Fox Business appearance: nuclear power offers “consistent baseload energy”, while oil remains “a f...

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Big Pharma Forced To Yank COVID Vaxx Study Due To Lack Of Participants

Big Pharma Forced To Yank COVID Vaxx Study Due To Lack Of Participants Authored by Ben Sellers via Headline USA, Two of the major pharmaceutical companies connected with the controversial COVID vaccines were forced to abandon a new research study after failing to garner enough participants. Pfizer and German vax maker BioNTech had sought to research an updated version of the vaccine in adults ages 50 to 64, but were unable to generate the data needed due to the low enrollment in...

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Trump Threatens To 'Take Out Entire Country Of Iran' Tomorrow Night, Demands 'Free Traffic Of Oil' In Hormuz

Trump Threatens To 'Take Out Entire Country Of Iran' Tomorrow Night, Demands 'Free Traffic Of Oil' In Hormuz Summary:  Trump threatens "Iran can be taken out in one night... maybe tomorrow"; Warns 'every bridge and power plant' will be destroyed WSJ reports US military is making preparations for potential strikes on energy targets in Iran A Sunday night Axios report on a US-proposed 45-day ceasefire has by Monday morning been rejected by Iran, which later on Monday issu...

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Watch Live: Artemis II Breaks Record For Farthest Crewed Flight From Earth

Watch Live: Artemis II Breaks Record For Farthest Crewed Flight From Earth The human race is now flying farther from its home planet than at any other time in history. At approximately 1:57 p.m. on April 6, NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, flew their Orion spacecraft Integrity beyond 248,655 statute miles—a record set by Apollo 13 almost exactly 56 years ago. The pioneering moment came at the beginning...