Don’t call these invaders “refugees.” As an actual refugee, I fled from these Islamofascists, who destroyed the Middle East and North Africa with their sick imperialism and Islamic fascism, and are now destroying Europe. Spain should be excluded from the Schengen area ASAP.

People argue landlocked Europe can easily be invaded. Well this is Canada, not an easy place to get to in order to start a brand-new life - these people have been deliberately imported by the millions - same with the Islands of UK & Australia - the trajectory is clear - Canadians will become a minority. Just like Brits, Australians & Europeans. ‘They’ have spent Trillions orchestrating this. It doesn’t end well.

Europe's dependence on American gas has never been greater: The US now accounts for ~60% of Europe's total LNG imports, near an all-time high. This figure peaked at ~64% in April following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which cut off supplies from Qatar and the UAE. This percentage has risen +20 points since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, forcing Europe to replace Russian pipeline gas with LNG shipped from the US. Furthermore, the US accounts for 26% of total EU gas imports, including LNG and pipeline gas, second only to Norway. Europe also needs US gas to refill storage tanks ahead of winter, meaning this dependence is set to deepen further in the coming months. Europe’s energy security is now tied directly to the US.

Today is the anniversary known as “Okinawa Memorial Day” — a day to remember and pray for everyone who died because of the war in Okinawa during WWII. The Japanese Empire anticipated its defeat in WWII, but chose to wage a ground battle in Okinawa in order to delay the invasion of mainland Japan. The US military invaded Okinawa, and ordinary people there — who had been taught to fight against the US and die for the Japanese Empire — were drawn into the war by the Japanese military itself. The Battle of Okinawa lasted only about three months, yet the death toll reached over 200,000 people. When I think of Gaza since October 2023, where more than 70,000 people have died, it’s hard to even begin to imagine the scale of devastation that has taken place there. (Of course, the real point is the imperial violence that kills a person — not the number itself.) For 27 years after the end of WWII, Okinawa was forced to live under US military control. Even after its reintegration with Japan, Okinawa has been unfairly burdened with hosting US military bases at a far higher rate than mainland Japan. So many incidents have occurred — for example, sexual assaults committed by soldiers against people in Okinawa that unjustly ended without prosecution. Now, the Japanese government is expanding military power around Okinawa, and is even planning to force ordinary people living on the remote islands of Okinawa to evacuate their own land if war breaks out. One of the most essential responsibilities of politicians is to refrain from war — not to profit from it. This photo was taken at the shoreline where so many ordinary people in Okinawa were pushed back and killed during the Battle of Okinawa.

Iraqi "asylum seeker" who raped girls as young as 12 after plying them with drink and drugs at mini-mart before raping them is jailed for 29 years. Bawan Harwe, 28 met the girls in 2024 in Hexthorpe Mini Mart in Doncaster, south Yorkshire, where he worked. He then abused them in his nearby flat. The was assisted by co-worker Sharam Muhamadi, who he met in 2022 after they worked near each other and lived in the same house. Under fake names, Harwe, known as 'Karo', and Muhamadi, under 'Jack', the men messaged girls across South Yorkshire through social media. Harwe, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of eight counts of rape, two counts of meeting a child following sexual grooming, two counts of false imprisonment, and six counts of arranging and facilitating travel of another person with a view of exploitation. Invaders are destroying the lives of our children. Get them all out!

Tesla Weighs Sale of China Business to Pave Way for Potential SpaceX Merger -- WSJ China. By Becky Peterson and Raffaele Huang (Wall Street Journal) -- Elon Musk designed Tesla's China business to be easily separated from its U.S. business because of geopolitical tensions. It might also come in handy if he proceeds with a SpaceX merger. Musk in recent years instructed Tesla executives to organize the company with a "laser" between its U.S. and China businesses, according to people familiar with the planning. He wanted to ensure that in the event of geopolitical strife between the two countries, at least the U.S. half of Tesla would survive. Now, some Tesla executives have been told to prepare for a separation of the China business ahead of a potential merger, a person familiar with those talks said. And Tesla advisers have discussed possible options for a separation, including a spinoff, sale or closure, another person said. Any of those moves could have a profound impact on Tesla, whose Chinese operation transformed it into a consistently profitable global mass-market electric vehicle leader -- and potentially impact its valuation if a SpaceX merger were to happen. It is unclear how quickly Tesla could spin out or sell the China business, and it is possible that its plans could change. Musk, who is chief executive of both Tesla and SpaceX, has talked up the crossover potential between both companies in recent months as he reorganizes them around artificial-intelligence projects. Investors and analysts have embraced the idea of a merger following a record-setting IPO for SpaceX, which raised $86 billion for the company in June. "Obviously we can't talk about, you know, combining companies and that kind of thing on earnings calls," Musk told investors last week. "It is got to be done with the appropriate process." Musk was particularly concerned about Tesla's dependence on China for battery cells and feared its access to semiconductors could be jeopardized if Beijing invaded Taiwan, the people familiar with the planning said. The goal was to be ready for 2026 or 2027 in anticipation of a war, they said. Separating Tesla's China operations -- including an electric-vehicle factory there -- would address potential conflicts arising from SpaceX's work as a major U.S. defense contractor. Such a deal would aim to create a firewall between Tesla's Chinese subsidiary and its U.S. business. SpaceX faces significant restrictions due to its dealings with the U.S. government. The company is a major national-security defense contractor, with business lines that include launching top-secret satellites and operating internet services in war zones like Ukraine. Sales to the U.S. government made up 20.9% of its business in 2025. That business is highly regulated, with the company restricted by export controls and, for some programs, classified government activities. Executives have also discussed creating a separate sales entity to handle exports from Tesla's Shanghai plant, one of the people said. Tesla could create separate office systems and bar China-based employees' direct access to other company units, the person said. While Tesla China already has some autonomy, employees more or less work together around the globe and the top executive in China, Tom Zhu, oversees all of Tesla's global automotive business. A potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla would likely trigger intense scrutiny from Beijing, given that a major U.S. defense contractor would control Tesla's factories in China and the factories' know-how and supply chain could be repurposed for the U.S. military, according to people familiar with the matter. Another concern for Beijing is that a deal could put data of China's roughly two million Tesla owners in the hands of an American defense company, they said. In the event of a merger, Beijing would likely seek Tesla's commitment and business guardrails to prevent the influence of SpaceX on Tesla China and illicit diffusion of dual-use goods such as rare-earth materials from Tesla China to SpaceX, the people said. Tesla has two major factories in Shanghai. They make electric cars and batteries that are sold in China and exported to various markets around the world, but not to the U.S. China is Tesla's second-largest market after the U.S., making up around 18% of sales in the first half of 2026. Unlike many other Western competitors, Tesla's automaking operation there isn't part of a Chinese joint venture. During the first Trump administration, Tesla launched an initiative called Project Carbon to relocate its Chinese suppliers to Mexico, a decision that went beyond concern over tariffs from the U.S. on Chinese goods, according to people involved in those plans. Musk was particularly concerned about Tesla's dependence on China for lithium iron phosphate, or LFP, battery cells, as well as its reliance on chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's biggest contract chip maker, which faces the threat of war between the island and Beijing, the people said. In 2025, the EV maker decided that it would stop using China-based suppliers by 2027 in its U.S. factories, in part because of U.S. tariffs and government incentives for local production, The Wall Street Journal reported. Mergers involving multinationals typically require regulatory approval across multiple jurisdictions, though most reviews focus primarily on antitrust concerns. In 2018, Qualcomm terminated its proposed purchase of Dutch chip maker NXP Semiconductors after failing to obtain clearance from China. It is common for companies in the U.S. to have contingency plans for their China businesses and a number of U.S. companies have already spun out their China arms into independent companies. Starbucks recently sold a majority stake in its China business. In 2016, Yum Brands, owner of Pizza Hut and KFC, spun off its China unit and sold stakes to local investors. 6:08 PM

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet. The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems. Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem” The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control. Slippery slope of age verification It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone. Most age verification is identity verification Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous. Restrictions on app store or operating system level Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state. The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time. Read more on our site.

A retired plumber in Nebraska beat the CIA at predicting foreign elections in 2013. A 22 year old college dropout beat every pollster in America in 2024. A 9 billion dollar prediction market called Polymarket is now telling you whether the AI bubble bursts this year, whether the US enters a recession, and whether Anthropic overtakes OpenAI before December. They are all using the same 4-step technique a Berkeley professor proved actually works in a 20 year experiment that should have ended the careers of half the experts on television. His name is Philip Tetlock. In the late 1980s he started collecting predictions from 284 experts. Political scientists. Economists. CIA-adjacent analysts. People paid their entire careers to forecast geopolitics. Over 20 years he gathered 28,000 predictions. Then he scored them. The result destroyed an entire profession. The average expert was barely better than chance. The famous ones, the ones with the most media appearances and the loudest voices, were the worst of the group. The more confident the voice, the worse the score. Buried in his data was something nobody else had emphasized. Fewer than 2% of forecasters were dramatically better than the rest. Year after year. Across domains they had no training in. In 2011 the US intelligence community gave him his chance to prove it at scale. Still bruised from missing Iraq, IARPA ran a 4 year tournament on 500 geopolitical questions. Will North Korea launch a missile. Will Russia invade. The intelligence analysts had classified intercepts. Tetlock's team had retired plumbers and ballroom dancers. Tetlock's team won by 35 to 72 percent against the other academic teams. His top forecasters scored 30 percent better than the CIA reading classified data. A retired pipe installer in Nebraska was outpredicting the intelligence community using only the newspaper. The technique sits in his book in plain language and almost nobody applies it. It starts with a method invented by Enrico Fermi during the Manhattan Project. Fermi handed students problems that looked impossible. How many piano tuners are there in Chicago. He did not want a guess. He wanted them to break the question into smaller questions they could actually estimate. Each sub-estimate was rough. Multiplied together, they landed remarkably close to the truth. Superforecasters Fermi-ize everything. They never try to predict a complex event directly. They shatter it into smaller questions where base rates are knowable, then reassemble the pieces. The second move is the outside view. Most people, asked whether a startup will survive or a war will end by a date, dive into the specific details. Story details feel useful. They are not. Superforecasters first ask how often events of this general type happen across history. The story comes last, not first. The third move is what most people refuse to do. Superforecasters update their predictions constantly, in tiny increments. Not dramatic reversals. Small honest nudges. They move like a Bayesian. Most people move like a teenager defending a position. The fourth move is the one that hits closest. Superforecasters express predictions as actual numbers. Not "likely" or "probably." 62 percent. 18 percent. Vague language is unfalsifiable. A number forces accountability, and accountability is the engine of accuracy. Polymarket is the same idea scaled to a hundred thousand strangers with real money on the line. In the final weeks of the 2024 US presidential election, every major pollster called the race a coin flip. FiveThirtyEight had Harris at 50 to 49. Nate Silver had her at 48.6 to 47.6. Polymarket had Trump at 58 to 42 the morning of the election. By midnight, while networks still refused to call swing states, Polymarket was at 97 percent. In late 2025 the New York Stock Exchange invested 2 billion dollars in the platform. Polymarket is now valued at 9 billion. The largest stock exchange in the world is integrating prediction prices directly into the data feed traders use to make decisions. The plumber did not have classified intercepts. The college dropout did not have a polling model. Polymarket does not have an algorithm nobody else can see. They all have the same thing. A method that forces you to write a number on paper, attach a date, and let the world watch you be wrong. In 2026 the gap between people who price the future and people who narrate it is going to be the most expensive gap in the world to be on the wrong side of.