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The Middle East escalation has cut off a number of American allies from the vital Strait of Hormuz · FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / MAGNIFIER · Oil producers in the Gulf region have lost an estimated $15.1 billion in energy revenues since the launch of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing estimates by analytics firm Kpler. · The US and Israel conducted coordinated strikes on the…

The LIABLE Act would trigger a historic legal reckoning — unleashing a tsunami of lawsuits from millions of vaccine-injured Americans against Pfizer and Moderna. · by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH · Representative Chip Roy has introduced the Let Injured Americans Be Legally Empowered (LIABLE) Act, a bill that would strip COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers of the federal legal immunity granted during the pandemic and allow millions of injured …

Kiev has intensified attacks on Russian civilian sites recently, backed by Western arms supplies · RT- FILE PHOTO. ©  Mikhail Voskresensky/RIA Novosti · European leaders are not interested in a diplomatic settlement to the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He stressed that the only recent diplomatic outreach by EU states – a visit by a French presidential envoy last month – did not bring “any…

Analyzing Bret Weinstein's intuition that Netanyahu's gift of a golden pager to President Trump has an ambiguous and ominous quality. · John Leake · The following clip piqued my curiosity. · The video prompted me to find an image of the gift. · Weinstein points out that the pager is an allusion to the September 2024 Israeli operation in Lebanon, in which pagers rigged with explosives killed or injured thousands of Hezbollah…

Authored by Peter H. Diamandis via Metatrends, · I just spent the afternoon at Figure headquarters in San Jose with Brett Adcock and David Blundin, and I’m still processing what I saw. · We’re not talking about concept robots. We’re talking about fully autonomous humanoid robots running neural networks end-to-end, doing kitchen work, unloading dishwashers, organizing packages – for hours at a time, with no human intervention. · Today?…

While media attention fixates on Iran, a broader strategic shift is unfolding as great powers act in their own sovereign interests, with Trump identifying Zelenskyy as the obstacle to peace and Russia naming Britain as the saboteur. · Susan Kokinda · Today's Monday Brief with Susan Kokinda argues that while media attention fixates on Iran, a broader strategic shift is unfolding as great powers act in their own sovereign interests.…

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of the American Dream blog, · For decades, we were told to ignore any of the strange reports that we were hearing about Antarctica. Experts assured us that nothing unusual was going on and that there wasn’t anything to be concerned about. Of course we couldn’t go investigate for ourselves, because as you will see below, there are 72 areas of Antarctica that only those with a special permit are…

It’s possible that Putin’s spokesman was signaling that one, some, or all of the major terms stipulated in spring 2022’s peace deal are no longer relevant as regards the endgame that Russia has in mind. · Andrew Korybko · Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently said that “The reality has changed altogether” when asked about Russia’s commitment to the Istanbul Accords that were initialed in spring 2022 but ultimately derailed by the UK and…

Photo credit: AI-generated image (ChatGPT/OpenAI) · The FCC chair, Brendan Carr, threatened broadcasters over their coverage of the war with Iran. · Carr suggested broadcasters could face consequences — including license issues — if their war coverage spreads what the administration considers distortions. · This is a chilling precedent. · The media is attempting to cover a rapidly unfolding war while operating under massive information gaps…

New Zealanders recently received reassuring economic messaging from the banking sector, including commentary from Kiwibank suggesting that global oil market movements could ease domestic fuel pressures and improve inflation prospects. But behind the optimism lies a deeper structural problem. · Unless the New Zealand Government takes immediate action on internal fuel pricing and supply resilience, any short-term economic gains will disappear…