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Sunday, March 29, 2026

AI can lead mentally unwell people to some pretty dark places, as a number of recent news stories have taught us. Now researchers think sycophantic AI is actually having a harmful effect on everyone.


Republican Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry's administration is pushing to embrace the nuclear power industry and proposing the state build more nuclear plants, components, and fuel enrichment sites. The push comes as data centers and heavy industry are popping up in Louisiana, creating a major need for new power generation.

Solar and Wind Power Are the Future, Not Nuclear Power or Fossil Fuels


Saturday, March 28, 2026

Gulf Arab states are telling the US that any deal with Tehran should do more than end the war, and must permanently curb Iran's missile and drone capabilities and ensure global energy supplies are never again "weaponized," four Gulf sources said.


President Donald Trump is toying with renaming one of the world's most critical shipping routes after -- who else -- himself. Speaking at an investor forum in Miami on Friday night, Trump casually referred to the Strait of Hormuz as the "Strait of Trump," before quickly correcting himself, then insisting it wasn't a slip.


"Under the Labor government of Israeli PM Gold Meir, the Mossad attempted to expel 60,000 Palestinians to Paraguay soon after occupying the Gaza Strip in 1967. Tel Aviv would pay authoritarian General Alfredo Stroessner's Paraguayan government a fee of $33 per deportee, including an advance of $350,000 for the first 10,000. Almost six decades later, Israel's methods and objectives to ethnically cleanse Palestinians remain eerily similar."

Two-state solution masquerade exposed


Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once made a peculiar pit stop to collect a dead raccoon's penis, according to New York Post investigative reporter Isabel Vincent. Vincent relayed the strange tale this week in an excerpt from her forthcoming book, "RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise." Her reporting is based on three of Kennedy's private journals spanning more than 1,200 pages. In a passage exploring Kennedy's fascination with animals, Vincent revealed an unusual event chronicled in one of his journals: "In his diary, he writes about cutting off the penis of a road-killed raccoon in 2001, while his kids waited patiently in the car,' so that he could examine it later." Read more


VPOTUS JD Vance: "So, we actually think that [Congresswoman] Ilhan Omar (D-MN) definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America. And I talked to Stephen Miller about this actually recently. "We're trying to look at what the remedies are. That's the thing that we're trying to figure out is what are the legal remedies now that we know that she's committed immigration fraud. "How do you go after her? How do you investigate her? How do you actually do the thing? How do you build the case necessary to get some justice for the American people?"

Dummkopf Trumpf War on Somalis


The USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier, a floating airbase that can carry over 80 aircraft, will be deploying to US Central Command in the Middle East, multiple sources tell the BBC's US partner CBS News. The massive carrier and its strike group completed pre-deployment training earlier this month, and now could be joining US operations in Iran, US officials tell CBS. Two guided missile destroyers - the USS Donald Cook and the USS Mason - also departed the US this week en route to join US operations in Iran. And another, the USS Ross, has also left the US this week, though its destination is not yet public.


Friday, March 27, 2026

Mexico has launched a search and rescue operation for two sail boats that vanished at sea while attempting to deliver food, medicine and other aid to Cuba. Nine people were on board the vessels, which were meant to deliver humanitarian relief to the island nation this week as part of a larger maritime convoy. A US oil blockade intended to pressure the Cuban government has plunged the country deeper into crisis, with food shortages and days-long electrical blackouts. Read more


North Korea's Kim Jong Un has said the United States' war with Iran proves his country made the right decision to keep its nuclear weapons. In a speech to North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly published on Tuesday, Kim accused Washington of "acts of state sponsored terrorism and aggression," but did not mention Iran by name. "The present situation clearly proves" that North Korea was justified in rejecting what he described as US pressure and "sweet talk" to give up its nuclear arsenal, Kim said. He added that North Korea's nuclear status is now "irreversible." Read more


Noelia Castillo pursued her right to die after she was left paraplegic following a suicide attempt. She had been raped by a group of men, and had tried to take her own life.


Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, is calling on President Trump's son, Barron, 20, to enlist in the military, saying, "Do something your father didn't have the courage to do, do something your father didn't have the patriotism to do."


The policy explains that, for all disciplines on the sports programme of an IOC event, including the Olympic Games and for both individual and team sports, eligibility for any female category is limited to biological females. Eligibility for the female category is to be determined in the first instance by SRY gene screening to detect the absence or presence of the SRY gene. Based on scientific evidence, the IOC considers that the presence of the SRY gene is fixed throughout life and represents highly accurate evidence that an athlete has experienced male sex development. Furthermore, the IOC considers that SRY gene screening via saliva, cheek swab or blood sample is unintrusive compared to other possible methods. Read more


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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Mar 26, 2026 News Updates

Let's talk about the new book called "Trump's Ten Commandments" by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, which is due out next week.

Also, Donald Trump's signature will now appear on all U.S. paper currency, starting in a couple of months with the $100 bill. How much longer until we see his image?


his is not a partisan affair. Experts in military strategy, regional history, and current power dynamics in the Middle East"as well as American politics and geoeconomics"are struggling to make sense of the U.S."Israel war launched on February 28 and warn that its escalatory spiral is spinning out of control. But just like when the bloom was off the rose in late 2003, when the insurgencies and sectarian violence started emerging in Iraq and it was becoming clear that the Bush administration had no plan for "what's next," the cheerleaders and shills are rushing to battle stations today to do everything to maintain some sort of rationalization for the disaster unfolding right before our eyes. Read more


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