FAA Greenlights Laser Sentry Guns To Combat Attack Drones In U.S. Airspace The Federal Aviation Administration has given the green light for the U.S. military to deploy high-energy counter-drone laser weapons in U.S. airspace, adding a new, low-cost layer of protection against the rising threat from kamikaze drones. The decision follows a two-month interagency standoff over whether the systems posed a risk to general aviation and […]

More Than Just Iran By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Without a doubt, trading at the start of the week will hinge on developments in the ongoing ceasefire negotiations. As Spider, Bret, and I discussed on Friday’s podcast the range of possible outcomes has not narrowed significantly. Anything from a serious deal, to walking away and restarting the attacks seems plausible. Spider “guffawed” at the comparison of Regime […]

Navy Abandons USS Boise Overhaul After 11 Years And $800 Million Spent The U.S. Navy has finally thrown in the towel on the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Boise (SSN-764). After more than eleven years pierside and roughly $800 million poured into a repair effort that never really started, the service announced that the 34-year-old boat will be inactivated rather than returned to the fleet. The decision comes as the Navy […]

Trump Begins Blockade Of Hormuz Strait, Says Iran “Will Not Be Allowed To Profit From Extortion” Summary President Trump begins blockading Strait of Hormuz, warns US military will “finish up the little that is left of Iran” 2 Supertankers U-turn after peace deal talks fail UAE Oil Chief warns Iran blocking Hormuz is “a direct threat to the energy, food and health security of every nation” The odds of a peace deal by […]

Russia & Ukraine Exchange 350 POWs As Orthodox Easter Truce Holds The rare Russia-Ukraine Orthodox Easter truce is already bearing much positive fruit, as both sides have on Saturday confirmed a massive POW swap involving 350 captives. In a press release, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that “175 Russian service members were returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime, while in exchange, 175 Ukrainian Armed […]

Sick Behavior From Financial Psychopaths Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance I’ve been saying this for months: despite “experts” just sounding the alarm moments ago: the private credit unwind that started months ago and has now spiraled into a very real liability for the economy wasn’t some unknowable tail risk lurking in the shadows. It couldn’t have been clearer if it was a fucking neon sign blinking THIS ENDS […]

John Cleese Blasts BBC Over ‘Whiteness’ Claims; Pushes Back Against Islamist Tide In Britain Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, John Cleese has fired off a fresh round of unfiltered truth bombs, exposing the cultural erosion underway in the UK as mass immigration and Islamist influence accelerate. The Monty Python star is zeroing in on the BBC’s latest woke assault and the realities of Islamist culture that open […]

‘No Deal’: Vance Leaves Islamabad As Iran Talks Stall Over Nukes; US Starts Mine-Clearing Hormuz Summary:  US-Iran peace talks have broken down over Iran’s commitment to no nuclear weapons, Vance said “it’s bad news for Iran, much more than for the US.” CENTCOM confirms two mine-sweepers are clearing the Strait, Iran claims it turned the warships back. President Trump announces start of “clearing out the Strait” as a […]

Saudi Arabia’s Most Critical Pipeline Restored After Drone Attack A key Saudi oil pipeline to the Red Sea was restored on Sunday and is now pumping at full capacity after an Iranian drone attack last week damaged a pumping station. The East-West pipeline is back at full capacity, moving about 7 million barrels per day and restoring critical energy flows from Saudi’s Persian Gulf oil fields to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, bypassing […]

India’s Nuclear Bet Is Starting To Pay Off Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, India’s fast breeder reactor in Tamil Nadu achieved criticality earlier this month, making it self-sustaining and only the second commercial plant of its kind in the world. The 500-megawatt plant advances India’s goal of reaching 100 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2047, up from roughly 9 gigawatts today. While the milestone is […]

Swalwell Denies Rape Allegations – Refuses to Drop Out Of Governor’s Race Despite Democrat Exodus The latest: • Eric Swalwell’s California governor campaign collapsed after sexual assault allegations. • Former staffer alleged harassment plus two assaults while she was intoxicated. • Four women total have accused Swalwell of sexual misconduct. • Swalwell denies all claims as false and politically motivated. • Major […]

Add Pakistan To Growing List Of Countries Preparing To Stockpile Shahed-Style Attack Drones The Pakistan-based drone company Sysverve Aerospace can now be added to the rapidly expanding list of defense firms worldwide racing to develop, manufacture, stockpile, and potentially deploy low-cost, one-way attack drones on the modern battlefield. The proliferation of these drones across two major battlefields in Eurasia is set to […]

London Mayor Sadiq Khan Calls For A Government Social Media ‘Disinformation’ Unit Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Sadiq Khan is pushing hard for a new state-backed disinformation unit to silence online criticism of London. The Mayor claims a “dark blizzard of disinformation” is undermining the city, linking it directly to offline harm, and wants government tools to force Big Tech to act – or else. In a post on X […]

‘I Have A Dream’… Authored by ‘no01’ via Gold and Geopolitics substack, I have a dream where politicians live next door to you… Not metaphorically. Literally… The man who voted to rezone your street works three doors down. His kids go to the same school as yours. When he raises the local tax rate and the potholes don’t get fixed, he drives over those same potholes every morning. And when the community has had enough, […]

New Iran Leadership More Extreme, Israeli Intelligence Concludes In what should not at all be a surprise to anyone who has been awake and observant over the past 20+ years of America’s military interventions in the Middle East, the Israeli Army and intelligence officials have concluded that Iran’s news leadership is more extreme than the previous one. The IDF delivered a closed-door intelligence briefing to the Knesset Foreign […]

Pakistani Warplanes Land In Saudi Arabia For Start Of Mutual Defense Pact Via The Cradle A Pakistani military force arrived at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz Air Base on Saturday, as part of a strategic defense pact between the two countries, the kingdom’s defense ministry has announced. The Pakistani force includes air force fighter jets and support aircraft. It was sent to Saudi Arabia to “enhance joint military cooperation, […]

Does Altman Molotov Attack Portend Pitchforks Over AI? Things might be going kinetic in the backlash against data centers and AI.  On Friday, a 20-year-old suspect set on burning down OpenAI headquarters was charged and arrested following a predawn Molotov cocktail attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home on Russian Hill in San Francisco, whose […]

China’s BYD Introduces 3.9-Second 0-60 Electric SUV With Massive Range Authored by Bojan Stojkovski via Interesting Engineering, The BYD Great Tang full-size SUV is now reaching dealerships across China ahead of its planned April presale debut at the Beijing Auto Show. Early dealer data shows at least four configurations are being prepared for the market, spanning rear-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive setups with varying performance […]

Bitcoin Could Be Quantum-Safe Without Protocol Changes, New Proposal Claims Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine.coim A new research proposal claims it can make Bitcoin transactions resistant to quantum attacks without changing the network’s core rules, a goal that has drawn attention as concerns grow over future cryptographic risks. In a paper published on April 9, Avihu Levy of […]

Car-Shopping Websites Report Uptick In EV Interest Following Gasoline Price Shock March brought the biggest fuel price shock Americans have experienced on record, or at least according to AAA data going back to the early 2000s. A fuel price shock changes consumer behavior, especially for low-income households, by forcing folks to drive less, combine trips, cancel discretionary travel, or shift to carpooling and public transit. […]

Climate Organization Behind Anti-ICE Protests Is Leading May 1 School Walkout Plan, Parent Group Reports Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), One of the main organizations behind the recent protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations is encouraging children to walk out of class en masse next month to help promote its agenda, which includes achieving what it said are […]

It’s A MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ World And We’re Just Living In It Authored by Rick Moran via PJMedia.com, What is MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+? It might be a new, super-strong password. Maybe it’s a Gen-Whatever code-like thing that’s sweeping the internet, like “6-7” or something. If only it could be that mundane. In fact, MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is an all-inclusive, all-encompassing, balls-to-the-wall, slam bang, wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am acronym for […]

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Continue To Fight Iran & Proxies, Unlike Appeaser Erdogan As expected, Israel says it is preparing to keep waging war against Iran – even as the US and Tehran are engaged in high level talks in Pakistan. Clearly Tel Aviv has a dim view of the potential outcome in the Islamabad summit. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a fresh statement Saturday vowed he will continue fighting Iran and its […]

Texas To Face $700 Million In Federal Penalties For SNAP Errors Through 2027 Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, Texas is expected to pay $708 million more by 2027 to the federal government in penalties for erroneous distributions from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The state officials released the cost in a presentation to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services on April 8. The state […]

Three Supertankers Carrying Iraqi And Saudi Crude Sail Through The Strait Of Hormuz The wait is over: after the Persian Gulf side of the Hormuz Strait had turned into a bit of a parking lot late last week as tankers piled up hoping to use the ceasefire and make the crossing, two Chinese supertankers loaded with crude sailed through the Strait of Hormuz hours after a Greek vessel moved through the waterway, marking a significant […]