Why Venezuelan F-16s buzzing US warships prove Trump right

First the boat, then the buzz. On Tuesday, an American strike in the Caribbean shredded a vessel ferrying narcotics out of Venezuela, killing eleven alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang – which Caracas, strategically, dismissed as an AI hallucination. Two days later, Nicolás Maduro tried his own spectacle, dispatching a pair of F-16s to roar over the USS Jason Dunham, one of the U.S. destroyers recently sent on a counter-narcotics patrol off Venezuela’s coast.

The maneuvers – and the steady drumbeat of pressure that preceded them – have regime-changers daydreaming about intervention and restrainers losing sleep. But before mistaking the noise for reality, it’s worth asking: what is Washington trying to achieve?

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The Famine That Wasn’t: How the UN, Media and Hamas Waged a War of Disinformation

Since the invasion of Israel by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the international media, humanitarian organizations, and UN-affiliated agencies have relentlessly pushed one of the most damaging blood libels in history: that Israel is deliberately starving the people of the Gaza Strip. In headline after headline, and through “official” UN reports and viral images, the world has been told that Gaza teeters on the edge of famine — or that famine has already taken hold. However, these warnings, loudly declared, have repeatedly failed to materialize.

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Trump says peace agreement is attainable after meeting with Zelenskyy

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday a peace agreement for the war in Ukraine is attainable as he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders.

Trump, speaking with reporters at the White House, said all would prefer an immediate ceasefire, but that he was optimistic that an agreement could be reached to deter aggression in Ukraine.

Trump said he covered “a lot of territory” in his talk with Zelenskyy, saying the day had been successful thus far.

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North Koreans say they are being sent to work ‘like slaves’ in Russia

North Korea and Soviet Union BFF’s Forever

Thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work in slave-like conditions in Russia to fill a huge labour shortage exacerbated by Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the BBC has learned.

Moscow has repeatedly turned to Pyongyang to help it fight the war, using its missiles, artillery shells and its soldiers.

Now, with many of Russia’s men either killed or tied up fighting – or having fled the country – South Korean intelligence officials have told the BBC that Moscow is increasingly relying on North Korean labourers.

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Trump drops ceasefire demand for Ukraine war after summit with Putin

KYIV — President Donald Trump said Saturday that Ukraine and Russia should go straight to agreeing on a final peace deal, dropping his demand for a ceasefire in a dramatic reversal that aligns him with Russian President Vladimir Putin hours after their summit in Alaska.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with the backing of European leaders, has insisted that a ceasefire must be in place before any negotiations to end the war. In the run-up to the summit, European officials had expressed guarded optimism that the United States was aligning with them after Trump had earlier pushed for a ceasefire. Zelensky said Saturday he would be traveling to Washington to discuss the summit with Trump.

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Migrant hotel protests LIVE: Protestors chant ‘Keir Starmer is a w*****’ as tensions erupt

Tensions are high across the UK today with demonstrations outside migrant hotels planned for multiple locations, with tensions flaring in Nuneaton as anti-racism protesters incurred the wrath of passing locals, with chants of “Keir Starmer’s a w*****”. Other demonstrations are underway in places including Bristol and Newark, after similar protests on Friday night. Last night, Express.co.uk’s Lotti O’Brien was on the spot outside the Britannia Hotel in London, where police arrested two people, one anti-asylum protester for allegedly throwing a bottle, and one a pro-migrant demonstrator for refusing to remove a facemask. Large crowds also gathered outside other hotels in locations including Epping, Leeds, Portsmouth and Rugby.

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Canadians with an X gender marker will now have to select male or female on Nexus travel cards after Trump order

Canadians renewing their Nexus travel cards or applying for new ones to make it easier to cross the border to the U.S. must now say if they are male or female, even if they are transgender or non-binary.

The change follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order that says the American government will now only recognize the male and female sex. U.S. passports and other identity documents are no longer issued with an X gender marker.


Good idea from the Trump admin, pity our PM consorts with crossdressers.

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Trump Strikes a Blow Against “Woke AI”

The president has signed an executive order that will shape the future of artificial intelligence.

This week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively instructs his administration to refrain from purchasing “woke AI.” The order, issued just as artificial intelligence seems poised to dominate the technological future, creates powerful incentives for developers to produce unbiased AI models that serve the American interest.

I had an inside view of the order’s development and worked with administration officials, including AI czar David Sacks, to define the problem of artificial intelligence getting skewed ideologically. Since the 2020 George Floyd riots, the public has become familiar with the process of ideological capture: “woke” concepts, such as critical race theory, transgenderism, and DEI, proliferate within an institution, then degrade it. Trump and his administration understood these dynamics and prepared a suite of executive orders for the beginning of his term that eliminated Washington’s DEI bureaucracy and defunded government contracts that promote woke ideologies.

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Police deny ‘bussing’ protesters to asylum hotel

They escorted them on foot so they could “protest” the anti-Migrant protest then drove them to safety.

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The voices in the cockpit fuelling controversy over Air India crash

When the preliminary report into the crash of Air India Flight 171 – which killed 260 people in June – was released, many hoped it would bring some measure of closure.

Instead, the 15-page report further stoked speculation. For, despite the measured tone of the report, one detail continues to haunt investigators, aviation analysts and the public alike.

Seconds after take-off, both fuel-control switches on the 12-year-old Boeing 787 abruptly moved to “cut-off”, cutting fuel to the engines and causing total power loss – a step normally done only after landing.

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CBS, NPR CEO Team Up To Mourn ‘Tremendous Tragedy’ After Senate Defunds

Truth is not necessary

After the Senate passed President Trump’s rescission package early Thursday morning that, among other things, clawed back federal funding for PBS and NPR, CBS Mornings teed up an interview it did with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who claimed the move “would be a tremendous tragedy.”


They live in the same bubble the CBC inhabits championing marginal viewpoints as mainstream.

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JD Vance Artfully Connects Trump’s Immigration Policies to America’s Founding Vision

‘You cannot swap 10 million people from anywhere in the world and expect America to remain unchanged.’

Vice President JD Vance gave a speech last Saturday in which he tied together the Trump administration’s immigration policies to the core of American citizenship as envisioned in the country’s founding. Vance argued, “President Trump’s immigration policies are, I believe, the most important part of his successful first six months in the Oval Office.”

Vance addressed the topic of statesmanship and the meaning of American citizenship in the 21st century, emphasizing how principles of immigration policy are pivotal to understanding citizenship and national sovereignty.

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