Summary

Fujairah says 3 injured in Iranian attack on Oil Industry Zone, UAE confirms "air defenses are now dealing with a missile threat", we have gotten reports of explosions in Dubai, which has sent oil higher and Emini futures into the red. UAE threatens retaliation.

CENTCOM hails two US merchant ships exiting Hormuz Strait safely in "first step". Bessent issues remarks warning the US "will fire if fired upon."

Iran insists Hormuz is under its control & says it targeted & struck a US Navy vessel, which the Pentagon/Central Command has denied.

Trump announced Sunday US will 'help free up' ships stuck in Hormuz Strait through Project Freedom. Iran has in response issued a "redefined the control zone" in Strait of Hormuz.

Pakistan facilities good faith return of Iranian crew members of US-seized merchant ship from two weeks ago.

Iranian strike causes ‘major fire’ at petroleum facility – UAE

Three Indian nationals have been injured in the attack, according to the authorities in the Emirate of Fujairah

At least three Indian nationals have been injured in a drone strike on a major petroleum industrial site in the Emirate of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, the authorities have said. The incident took place as the Defense Ministry reported that it repelled an Iranian missile and drone attack.

The strike targeted the Fujairah Petroleum Industries Zone and caused a “major fire” at the site, the emirate’s media office said in a statement on Facebook on Monday. According to the authorities, the Indians affected by the attack sustained medium injuries and were taken to the hospital.

Earlier that day, the UAE Defense Ministry said three Iranian cruise missiles were successfully shot down over the Arab nation’s territorial waters. Another cruise missile fell into the sea, the ministry said on X.

A senior Iranian military official has said Tehran has no plans to target the UAE, according to IRIB News. The UAE Foreign Ministry condemned what it called “renewed Iranian aggression.”

Earlier, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that the Iranian military hit a US Navy patrol boat near the Strait of Hormuz. US Central Command dismissed the claim, saying no navy ships were struck.

The development came after US President Donald Trump promised on Sunday to “help free up” ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz. The key waterway, accounting for around 20% of global seaborne oil trade, has been de facto closed after the US and Israel launched attacks against Iran in late February.

The disruption has led to soaring oil prices, with the average national gasoline price in the US exceeding $4.40 per gallon.

Despite rising consumer costs and a record-high disapproval rating, Trump decided to maintain a naval blockade of Iranian ports to pressure Tehran to agree to a peace settlement that is satisfactory to Washington.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called the blockade an “act of war” that violates the ceasefire reached in early April.

https://www.rt.com/news/639435-uae-iranian-attack-fire/

‘You’ve Got to be Freaking Kidding Me’: U.S. Military Spends Over $700 Million for Ozempic and Other GLP-1 Weight Loss Meds

Subsequent to this report, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth expressed his concern on X, stating, “Completely unacceptable. This is what happens when standards are IGNORED – and this is what we are changing. REAL fitness & weight standards are here. We will be FIT, not FAT.”

Was the solution found in raising the bar for “REAL fitness & weight standards?” Perhaps they were. However, some startling revelations concerning weight loss have emerged, with RealClearInvestigations dubbing this disclosure the “Waste of the Day.”

Since 2021, the military has allocated nearly $726 million for Ozempic and other GLP-1 weight loss medications, with $274.6 million spent in fiscal year 2025, as revealed by spending records acquired by Open the Books.

This expenditure encompasses 102,597 individual purchases, all made through the Defense Logistics Agency for “troop support.” The majority of the funds were directed to the wholesale pharmaceutical company Cencora. Over a dozen varieties of GLP-1 medications were acquired, including Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Trulicity.

Many individuals—and taxpayers alike—who have served in the military are infuriated.

Lt. Ted Macie, a retired Navy Medical Service Corps officer, was appalled. He informed The Gateway Pundit that data obtained from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) indicate that obesity rates have surged in the military over the last decade.

From 2016 to 2019, an average of 13,863 cases of overweight and obesity were documented across all branches of service. This average rose to 21,969 between 2020 and 2023. Remarkably, there was a 190 percent increase during this period, with cases soaring from 12,249 to 35,531.

Macie criticized the use of Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications as “yet another bandage on a broken leg, and this one comes with a nearly billion-dollar tax burden and for avoidable poor choices.” He has long been an advocate for fitness and nutrition, both personally and as a command fitness leader.

“It’s frustrating to watch policies that miss the mark while service members pay the price,” he lamented. “There are well-documented, life-altering side effects like bone and muscle loss, vision issues, kidney problems, the kind of things you don’t just cure at the next Physical Readiness test.”

Macie argued that the military’s message is contradictory. When overweight service members are regularly promoted and seen throughout installations, he said, it undermines any genuine assertion that readiness and health are important. “These commanders can’t preach fitness while rewarding the opposite.”

In his view, the military’s investment of $726 million in what is essentially a temporary “fix” is “very shortsighted.”

“Odds are, we’ll be paying for the downstream health consequences later, too,” he admitted. “It continues to display the power of the relationship with the pharmaceutical industry and the military.”

In conclusion, Macie remarked, this is “par for the course, unfortunately.”

https://www.americansecurityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Ref-0301-Ready-the-Reserve-Obesitys-Impacts-on-National-Guard-and-Reserve-Readiness.pdf

3 Dead, 149 Trapped Onboard: Track Cruise Ship With Suspected Deadly Virus Outbreak

A luxury cruise ship carrying 149 passengers and crew is facing a suspected hantavirus outbreak that has already left three people dead. The vessel is currently anchored offshore near Cape Verde, the island nation in the central Atlantic off the west coast of Africa, as health officials rush to assess the scale of the outbreak.

The MV Hondius is currently anchored offshore near Praia, the capital and largest city of Cape Verde. Ship-tracking data show the vessel anchored just off the coast on Sunday after transiting from Argentina, with its prior voyage originating near the Antarctic Peninsula.

Hondius's operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, told BBC News that a Dutch husband and wife, as well as a German national, had died but did not reveal the cause of death. However, the Dutch company said hantavirus was confirmed in a 69-year-old UK national who is in intensive care in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The main transmission risk of the deadly virus to humans is through infected rodent urine, droppings, saliva, or contaminated dust, especially in poorly ventilated areas. People can inhale contaminated particles when rodent waste is disturbed.

Oceanwide Expeditions confirmed two other crew members on board "with acute respiratory symptoms, one mild and one severe."

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/track-cruise-ship-suspected-deadly-virus-outbreak-stuck-cape-verde

3 Dead, 149 Trapped Onboard: Track Cruise Ship With Suspected Deadly Virus Outbreak

A luxury cruise ship carrying 149 passengers and crew is facing a suspected hantavirus outbreak that has already left three people dead. The vessel is currently anchored offshore near Cape Verde, the island nation in the central Atlantic off the west coast of Africa, as health officials rush to assess the scale of the outbreak.

The MV Hondius is currently anchored offshore near Praia, the capital and largest city of Cape Verde. Ship-tracking data show the vessel anchored just off the coast on Sunday after transiting from Argentina, with its prior voyage originating near the Antarctic Peninsula.

Hondius's operator, Oceanwide Expeditions, told BBC News that a Dutch husband and wife, as well as a German national, had died but did not reveal the cause of death. However, the Dutch company said hantavirus was confirmed in a 69-year-old UK national who is in intensive care in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The main transmission risk of the deadly virus to humans is through infected rodent urine, droppings, saliva, or contaminated dust, especially in poorly ventilated areas. People can inhale contaminated particles when rodent waste is disturbed.

Oceanwide Expeditions confirmed two other crew members on board "with acute respiratory symptoms, one mild and one severe."

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/track-cruise-ship-suspected-deadly-virus-outbreak-stuck-cape-verde

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Nationwide Access To Abortion Pill

Update (05/04/2026): The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued a temporary order that restores full nationwide access to the abortion medication mifepristone, including through mail-order, telehealth prescriptions, and certified pharmacies, until at least May 11.

The emergency ruling pauses a May 1 decision by the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that had reinstated a nationwide requirement for in-person dispensing only. That lower-court order had threatened to sharply restrict medication abortion access across the country, even in states where abortion remains legal.

The USSC administrative stay came in response to emergency applications filed Saturday by mifepristone manufacturers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro. The companies argued the 5th Circuit ruling would cause “immediate confusion,” “regulatory chaos,” and irreparable harm to patients and providers. Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency matters from the 5th Circuit, referred the matter to the full Court.

Background

Mifepristone, used in combination with misoprostol, accounts for approximately 60–70% of abortions in the United States and is also used for early miscarriage care. The FDA first approved the drug in 2000 and expanded access in 2016 and 2021, eventually allowing telehealth and mail delivery without an in-person visit requirement beginning in 2023.

In June 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a previous challenge to the FDA’s rules, ruling that anti-abortion physicians lacked legal standing to sue. The new litigation was brought by Louisiana, which claimed standing as a state harmed by the federal regulations.

What's Next

The Supreme Court’s order maintains the status quo while the justices consider the manufacturers’ request for a longer stay or further review. A decision on whether to extend the relief beyond May 11 is expected in the coming days or weeks. The case could eventually return to the high court for full briefing and argument on the merits.

The temporary restoration prevents an immediate nationwide disruption to medication abortion services at a time when the method has become the dominant form of abortion care following the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Advocates on both sides are closely watching for further developments. Reproductive health groups welcomed the pause, while opponents of expanded access expressed disappointment that the 5th Circuit’s restrictions were not allowed to take effect immediately.

The ruling marks the latest chapter in a years-long legal battle over one of the most widely used medications in reproductive health care.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/federal-court-blocks-abortion-drug-mifepristone-being-sent-mail

US facing historic low birth rates

CDC data shows fertility has fallen below even Depression-era levels, raising fresh questions about family stability and long-term decline

According to vital statistics data published in April by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the birth rate in the United States has reached a new record low. In 2025, there were 53.1 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15-44) in the US, 1.3% lower than in 2024 and 23% lower than in 2007. The decline in birth rates reflects the impact of decades of social change that have undermined the institution of the American family.

Today, the total number of births per year is far lower than in earlier periods, when the US population was much smaller. For example, in 1961, 4.3 million children were born when the US population stood at 184 million. In 2025, only 3.6 million children were born across the entire country, even though the population now stands at 342 million.

The current birth rates are even lower than during the Great Depression, when births fell to 75.8 births per 1,000 women in 1936.

https://www.rt.com/news/639439-us-record-low-births/

US Destroys Six Iranian Ships In Straight Of Hormuz During ‘Project Freedom’

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) head Adm. Brad Cooper told reporters on Monday that the United States destroyed six Iranian boats that were threatening commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald Trump launched “Project Freedom” on Sunday, an effort by the U.S. Navy to help guide commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. On a press call with reporters, Cooper said the U.S. returned fire and destroyed Iranian forces who emerged to threaten the commercial ships.

“We have defeated each and every one of those threats,” Cooper told reporters.

“We defended this, both ourselves and consistent with our commitment, we defended all the commercial ships,” Cooper added. “We had drone launches against commercial ships, all of which were defended against consistent with our commitment, and then the small boats were all going against commercial ships, and all were sunk by Apaches and [inaudible] helicopters.”

Cooper told the Daily Caller that the U.S. has cleared an “effective pathway” through the strait. Two U.S. ships have passed through the strait in the last 24 hours. Following the exchange of fire, Cooper declined to speak about whether the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was now over.

Rather than directly escorting ships through the strait, Cooper told the Caller that the U.S. has a large defensive operation to help commercial boats through.

“I think we have a much better defensive arrangement in this process, where we have multiple layers that include ships, helicopters, aircraft, airborne early warning, electronic warfare — have a much broader defensive package than you would have ever if you were just escorting. I feel good about that, and it was proven just in the last couple of hours,” Cooper told the Caller.

After saying Iran had “agreed to everything,” the president told reporters that negotiations with the country were not going well.

“Right now, we have negotiations going on. They’re not getting there. They are very disjointed. They’re extremely disjointed,” the president said. “They’re not able to get along with each other as leaders; they don’t know who the leader is. Their military’s been defeated. If we left right now, it would take them 20 years to build back that country. But we’re not satisfied at this moment.”

Trump added that the country was asking for things he “can’t agree to.”

https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/04/united-states-brad-cooper-straight-hormuz-project-freedom-mines/

RFK JR. HIRED THE ‘BURY ANYONE’ FIRM: Consulted with Hollywood Smear Shop Accused of Running Vicious Campaigns

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought counsel from The Agency Group — the same crisis PR firm accused of orchestrating a $300 million smear campaign against Blake Lively — while pushing for his cabinet confirmation.

New federal court records reveal the Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. consulted with The Agency Group (TAG), a Hollywood "crisis management" firm accused of operating a digital smear machine.

The consultation occurred while Kennedy was aggressively seeking the nomination for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

TAG is currently at the center of a federal lawsuit filed by the insufferable actress Blake Lively. Lively alleges the firm orchestrated a covert, $300 million smear campaign to tarnish her reputation. Internal messages from the firm, unsealed on Friday, boast of a terrifying capability: "We can bury anyone."

The firm specializes in launching coordinated online attacks to silence critics. For Americans who expected transparency, Kennedy’s association with a Hollywood hit squad suggests that they are now being deployed within the government.

While Kennedy portrays himself as a champion of the individual, his reliance on a firm that prides itself on "burying" truth is antithetical to those values. As he faced scrutiny during confirmation, he turned to a firm known for orchestrating covert campaigns.

https://www.nationalfile.com/article/rfk-jr-hired-the-bury-anyone-firm-consulted-with-hollywood-smear-shop-accused-of-running-vicious-campaigns

Israeli Troops Attack Catholic Convent in Southern Lebanon Town of Yaroun

IDF insists convent with statue of Mary out front had no signs it was a religious building

The Israeli military attacked and seriously damaged a convent in the southern Lebanese town of Yaroun, leading to international condemnation from Christian groups. The convent belonged to the Greek Catholic order “Basilian Salvatorian Sisters,” and was known for supporting schools in the local community.

The order said they had been told the building had been destroyed by military bulldozers, and said that the two sisters who would normally be living at the site had been evacuated in the course of the war and were not present at the time.

French charity L’Œuvre d’Orient condemned the destruction as a “deliberate act,” and part of an Israeli war that is inflicting systematic damage with an eye toward preventing displaced civilians from returning home.

The IDF denied the incident initially, insisting the convent was perfectly safe, but later admitted that they had damaged it as “Hezbollah infrastructure,” claiming that Hezbollah had fired rockets from inside the convent, but providing no evidence that was actually the case.

The Catholic Church in Lebanon rejected the IDF’s claim. “We are against all practices against places of worship and churches. These are places to spread peace, love and education. These are not military bases,” said Rev. Abdo Abou Kassm, director of the Catholic Center for Information, according to the AP.

The IDF further claimed they had no idea that it was a religious building when they started damaging it, because there were “no external signs indicating it was a religious building.” That even the IDF’s image of the building shows what appears to be a statue of the Virgin Mary, and other images show crosses on the top of the building, undercuts that claim.

The IDF added a subsequent statement that they have “no intention of hurting religious structures” and that they only attack terror infrastructure. That this is hardly the first time obvious Christian sites have been attacked in Lebanon and that recent reports from IDF commanders are that policy is to destroy everything make those assurances increasingly less credible.

The Christian village of Debel stands as an obvious counterexample, as high-profile incidents of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer were followed almost immediately by videos of Israeli soldiers destroying the solar panels that powered the village’s water supply.

The go-to response when Israeli troops are caught out destroying Christian religious structure is a blanket denial followed by a promise of investigation. That such incidents keep happening, however, suggest that any building in the occupied parts of southern Lebanon is subject to such treatment, particularly as during the ceasefire the rate of destruction seems to be escalating.

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/05/03/israeli-troops-attack-catholic-convent-in-southern-lebanon-town-of-yaroun/

The monetary system is designed to enslave you and your government

The creation of money by central banks is not what you have been led to believe.

As the Bank of England has confirmed, money is created when a loan is signed, and this system funnels wealth upwards to the bankers while keeping the masses in debt.

To break free from this system, people can take personal action, such as getting debt-free, saving and stopping the use of mortgages and credit cards, ultimately making the old system obsolete through small changes.

The dollar, pound, euro, peso, yen or whichever fiat, unbacked currency is in your wallet or bank account is the very means by which we are all enslaved.

It is a brilliant, hidden system of cunning, evil genius – to make the commodity most sought after the world over (because it is the most exchangeable for the things you want and need; the very thing that keeps the state getting more powerful, the corporations squeezing ever more small and independent businesses out of the market, the courts maintaining the unjust status quo and the media propagandising everyone using every trick in the book – all to keep the system in place and the rulers in power.

The best way to keep a population enslaved is to never let them see the bars of the cage and give them the illusion of freedom.

So you get a choice between red and blue political teams, different brands of the same poisonous crap, and different branded stores where the poisonous crap is sold, but that is not freedom; it’s a system developed over centuries so that its slaves become comfortable in their open air prison and even fight to maintain it, believing it’s the best system possible, or it wouldn’t exist and another would surely have taken its place by now.

Aren’t we just the most advanced civilisation there has ever been? I mean, look at our amazing buildings (and modern works of art)!

It Starts With Indoctrination At School

Do you never wonder why we are not taught about the most basic mechanisms of our economic life in school, if school is supposed to prepare us for the world ahead as an adult?

You might have been taught what a bank account was and how to open and use one and then they just implant the necessity of money in our minds and there it stays as we keep chasing the carrot and avoiding the stick for most of our working lives, without ever understanding where currency comes from and why it is so hard to accumulate enough to buy the things we need in life like a home, land, transport, etc.

Here is the shocking truth they will never tell you: the money we borrow when we go for a loan or a mortgage is not from someone else’s deposits, again, as most are taught, even at university level.

Fractional reserve banking would be bad enough, but what the actual mechanism is, as confirmed by the Bank of England’s ‘Money Creation in the Modern Economy’ report from 2014 and many other researchers before and since, is far worse than even starting with real labour-produced savings: the money is created when you sign for the loan.

More

https://expose-news.com/2026/04/29/the-monetary-system/

https://www.antiwar.com/

Israel threatens Gaza war resumption to force disarmament as ‘truce’ frays

Palestinian factions reject US-backed plans linking humanitarian aid to weapons surrender, demanding a political horizon.

In the shattered neighbourhoods of Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah in the Gaza Strip, the roar of Israeli drones and the concussive thud of controlled demolitions are daily reminders that the war has never really ended.

Despite a “ceasefire” in place since October, families continue to pull bodies from the rubble. According to local medical sources, 828 Palestinians have been killed since the “truce” began. Now, families in Gaza are bracing for a renewed offensive as Israeli officials threaten to tear up the fragile agreement to force a surrender.

In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly cancelled a scheduled security cabinet meeting on Sunday, opting instead for smaller consultations. Simultaneously, the military has ramped up pressure to resume hostilities. A senior official in the Israeli military’s General Staff told Channel 15 that an additional round of fighting was “almost inevitable”, citing the refusal of Hamas to surrender its weapons and the alleged “failure” of the International Stabilization Force, a multinational body deployed under the recent truce framework to oversee security and manage the ceasefire’s implementation.

Israel’s Army Radio reported that on the ground, the military has steadily been enlarging the territory it controls in the besieged enclave. By gradually pushing the “ceasefire”-established “Yellow Line” westwards, Israeli forces have expanded their territorial control to 59 percent of the Strip, regularising their occupation through daily violations of the “ceasefire” and moving additional troops from the Lebanese front into Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

The ‘political surrender’ trap

In Cairo, mediators are applying intense pressure on Palestinian factions to accept a new framework pushed by Nikolay Mladenov, the high representative for the United States-backed Board of Peace.

Abdul Jabbar Said, a member of the Hamas political bureau, told the Palestinian website Ultra Palestine that Mladenov has tried to enforce a roadmap that would require the complete disarmament of Hamas within 281 days over five stages. The plan, which builds on United States President Donald Trump’s 20-point vision, strictly conditions humanitarian aid, reconstruction and the opening of crossings into Gaza on the phased handover of weapons. Analysts and Palestinian officials have previously told Al Jazeera this framework is designed to enforce the complete “political surrender” of the armed groups.

Analysts noted the strategy aims to turn the newly formed National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NGAC), a technocratic body established to govern civilian affairs and oversee reconstruction in the enclave, into a proxy security arm for the occupation.

Said confirmed to Ultra Palestine that a unified front of Palestinian factions — including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — has universally rejected the disarmament prerequisite. Instead, the groups insisted on the full implementation of the first phase of the “ceasefire”, which Israel has repeatedly violated by blocking the agreed-upon entry of 600 aid trucks daily.

Linking security to statehood

Wissam Afifa, a political analyst in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that Hamas is navigating the diplomatic pressure by linking security arrangements directly to comprehensive political rights.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/3/israel-threatens-gaza-war-resumption-to-force-disarmament-as-truce-frays

Iranian LEGO movie : Iran & America's Mothers 😢🥹😭

https://twitter.com/i/status/2051308691240952100

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 When asked why they never criticize Israel, AIPAC gave one answer: we just do what the Israeli government tells us to do.

Former AIPAC member Richard Forer says Congress isn't ignorant about what Israel has been doing.

They are WILLFULLY ignorant because they are terrified of losing AIPAC funding, with a lobbyist assigned to virtually every member of Congress.

"They are seduced by money. Money is the key to staying in office."

https://x.com/i/status/2051307802191126529

>>24570854

During a seemingly routine interview, Professor Sir John Bell, a key figure in the development of the Oxford vaccine, accidentally let slip a jaw-dropping bombshell that left the world in disbelief. Caught off guard, Bell revealed the unthinkable:

"Sterilising 60 to 70% of the world's population."

Watch the footage! The moment is surreal as Bell speaks, oblivious to the live broadcast, only to be met with the look of absolute horror and panic on his colleague's face.

https://x.com/i/status/2051240486359478563

“What is it about Jeffrey Epstein that's so infuriating to people, so infuriating that it's actually causing seismic political problems? — What is it? I'll tell you what it is.

It's the frustration of normal people watching a certain class of people get away with everything every single time. That's what it is.”

https://x.com/i/status/2051187627320291649

Epstein Forced Pregnancies in Eugenics Experiments, Leaked Materials Show

A devastating wave of leaked material tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged criminal network has sent shockwaves across the globe, reigniting one of the most disturbing scandals in modern American history.

The new evidence points to allegations of forced pregnancies, systematic coercion, and chilling eugenics-style experimentation.

Critics are now demanding to know why key details may never have been fully investigated.

Leaked Files Blow the Lid Off Zorro Ranch

The renewed firestorm centers on leaked materials connected to earlier Epstein investigations and media reporting.

These documents allegedly reference coercion, reproductive control, and deeply disturbing experimental discussions that took place within Epstein’s inner circle.

The claims have spread rapidly through investigative commentary and media analysis, particularly following documentary coverage that placed Epstein’s notorious Zorro Ranch in New Mexico back under the microscope.

The sprawling, heavily guarded estate has long been shrouded in secrecy.

Its remote location, restricted access points, and vast private infrastructure made it notoriously difficult for outside observers and potentially investigators to monitor.

Sources allege that authorities received multiple tips over the years about serious activity connected to the ranch.

Yet the scope and depth of any official response remain disturbingly unclear.

Critics argue that early investigative failures allowed crucial opportunities for evidence gathering to slip away entirely.

It raises uncomfortable questions about who, if anyone, was protecting Epstein’s operation.

Forced Pregnancies and a System of Total Control

Among the most harrowing allegations emerging from the leaked material are accounts of forced or coerced pregnancies involving sex trafficking victims and women connected to Epstein’s network.

These claims paint a picture of calculated, systematic exploitation, not isolated incidents, but an organized pattern of reproductive control.

Testimonies referenced in reporting describe victims feeling disoriented or unaware of medical procedures being performed on them.

Other accounts allege that pregnancies were closely monitored and controlled within a broader structure of coercion and abuse.

Investigations into Epstein’s activities have already confirmed abuse and trafficking.

The investigations, including the conviction of Epstein’s trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, lend weight to the broader pattern alleged in these new materials.

https://slaynews.com/epstein-forced-pregnancies-eugenics-experiments-leaked-materials-show/?utm_source=mailpoet

Britain Sold Palestine to Pay Its WWI Debt The Balfour Declaration Was a Banking Deal

In 1917 Britain wrote a sixty seven word letter that promised a land it did not own to people who had not asked for it over the heads of those already living there. That letter — the Balfour Declaration — is still reshaping the world today. But the account most people have been given leaves out the most important part.

By 1917 Britain was financially collapsing. Its national debt had exploded from six hundred and fifty million pounds to nearly eight billion. Its overdraft at JP Morgan had reached four hundred million dollars. Woodrow Wilson was using American money as leverage threatening to cut off the loans keeping the Allied war effort alive.

So Britain did what desperate empires do. It made deals.

https://youtu.be/rJgVu2hYPiw

"🚨 Israel's Channel 13: The war is starting again"

"Critical moments: Israel is preparing to restart the war with Iran."

https://twitter.com/i/status/2051082093393043645

If you trusted "settled science" throughout history, you'd have:

• Drunk radioactive water for vitality (1920s)

• Had your healthy teeth pulled to cure mental illness (1910s)

• Smoked cigarettes for your throat, on doctor's orders (1940s)

• Taken heroin for your child's cough (1890s)

• Eaten lead paint chips as a calcium supplement (decades of this)

• Used asbestos to insulate your child's bedroom (1950s)

• Given thalidomide to pregnant women for morning sickness (1960s)

• Eaten margarine for your heart (1970s)

• Lobotomised your sister for being unhappy (1940s and 50s)

• Sprayed DDT on the children in the playground (1950s)

• Avoided all fat to lose weight (1990s)

• Replaced butter with trans-fat spreads on the doctor's recommendation (1990s)

Every generation has its medical catastrophe dressed up as health advice. Endorsed by the experts. Printed in the textbooks. Recommended by your doctor. Featured on the front of the magazines in the waiting room.

Ours is seed oils, statins, grain-based diets, ultra-processed convenience food, and the steady chemical maintenance of conditions that better food would resolve in 90 days.

Future generations will look back in horror. Just like we look back at radioactive tonics and cigarette prescriptions and wonder how anyone fell for it.

The pattern never changes. Only the product on the shelf.

https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2050639977034457284

HSTF: Operation Mousetrap Leads to Midtown Takedown: Multiple Charged in Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Connected to 540-Kilogram Cocaine Seizure in Miami

MIAMI – A federal grand jury has charged five South Florida defendants for their roles in a cocaine trafficking organization tied to an international network moving narcotics from Colombia through the Dominican Republic into South Florida.

The indictment charges Daniel “Mickey” Hernandez, 38, of Miami; Frank Gonzalez, 45, of Hialeah; Alexander “Al Biggs” Walker Caraballo, 50, of Miami; Jose Luis “Lil Cuz” Diaz, Jr., also known as “Pri,” 33, of Miami Gardens; and Humberto “Kiki” Moreno, 42, of Miami, with conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Hernandez and Diaz are also charged with distribution offenses. Walker and Gonzalez face additional charges for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of firearms and ammunition as convicted felons.

According to court documents, the defendants were part of a Miami-based drug distribution network responsible for kilogram-level cocaine trafficking. Investigators identified Hernandez as a key distributor, with Moreno, Caraballo, and Gonzalez among his suppliers and associates. Agents traced the operation to a high-rise in Midtown Miami, where cocaine was stored and prepared for distribution.

The investigation builds on prior High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) and Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) efforts targeting cocaine routes between Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and South Florida, including Operation Final Voyage, which led to the prosecution of high-level traffickers and cooperation from more than 90 defendants.

As part of those efforts, Operation Horseman’s Voyage targeted maritime trafficking networks responsible for importing large quantities of cocaine into South Florida, while Operation Mouse Trap focused on local retail and wholesale distributors. Investigators identified a network importing up to 1,700 kilograms of cocaine aboard high-end fishing vessels traveling from the Dominican Republic to Miami.

The Miami-based distribution operation was allegedly led by Andy Gabriel Mercedes-Hernandez, who directed the receipt, storage, and distribution of cocaine shipments with the assistance of approximately 20 associates, including boat captains, enforcers, and street-level distributors.

The investigation led to multiple enforcement actions. In October 2025, law enforcement arrested two defendants and seized more than $250,000 in drug proceeds concealed in a vehicle. In a separate interdiction, law enforcement seized more than 1,600 kilograms of cocaine from a vessel.

The investigation culminated in a search warrant executed at a Midtown Miami luxury high-rise apartment, where agents seized approximately 536 kilograms of cocaine, 14 firearms — including an unserialized AK-47 — and roughly $3.1 million in cash. Walker was later arrested, and agents recovered additional cocaine packaged for street-level distribution, along with bulk cash concealed in hidden compartments in his vehicle.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/hstf-operation-mousetrap-leads-midtown-takedown-multiple-charged-drug-trafficking

Eastern District of Virginia prosecutes 15 child exploitation cases under Project Safe Childhood in the previous month

Two defendants indicted, eight convicted, five sentenced as U.S. Attorney’s Office advances DOJ mission to eradicate child sexual exploitation

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) prosecuted 15 defendants during the month of April under Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

EDVA brought two new Project Safe Childhood cases during April while achieving eight convictions and five substantial sentences, including a life sentence.

Indictments

On April 7, a federal grand jury indicted Bryan Brooke, 63, of Bates City, Missouri, on a charge of distribution of CSAM. Case No. 3: 26-cr-40

On April 8, a grand jury indicted Nicolas Antonio Lainez, 19, of Hawaii, on counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, sexual exploitation of a child, and transportation of CSAM. Lainez was charged by criminal complaint on March 12 with production of CSAM and transportation of CSAM. Lainez was living with a family on Fort Eustis when he allegedly recorded himself sexually exploiting a six-year-old victim. Case No. 4: 26-CR-28

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/eastern-district-virginia-prosecutes-15-child-exploitation-cases-under-project-safe

Trump Renews Call For Israel To Pardon Teflon Bibi, The "Wartime Prime Minister"

President Trump has renewed US pressure on some Israeli government decision-makers to grant a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he's still battling multiple corruption charges, at a moment he has ordered the armed forces to be engaged in several fronts, including in Lebanon.

Trump told the Israeli outlet Kan News on Sunday, "Tell your president to pardon Bibi. He's a wartime prime minister. They wouldn’t have Israel if it wasn’t for me and Bibi in that order. You want to have a PM that can focus on the war, not focus on nonsense."

Trump interestingly tried to flip the script with this statement, at a moment some conservative 'influencers' have increasingly attacked the White House for falling too much under Israeli influence.

But the US President is here saying the White House controls the narrative on Israel and its fate, not the other way around. And yet it also clearly affirms the airtight relationship, at a moment US naval forces are bogged down in trying to open back up the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump is directing his request to pardon Netanyahu to the only top official with the power to make it happen - Israel's President Issac Herzog.

"I like the guy, Herzog," Trump said in the fresh remarks. "He will be a national hero if he gives Bibi a pardon. I will very much appreciate it." Trump has also long charged that this is a "witch hunt" by Bibi's enemies.

Netanyahu has long been accused, even within Israel, of seeking to prolong Israel's 'multi-front' wars in order to permanently delay the corruption trial and ensure his time in power is extended.

The trial focuses on three corruption cases - including charges of fraud and breach of trust, as well as charges of bribery.

The allegations range from illegally receiving expensive gifts based on political favors, to quid pro quo agreements with some Israeli media sources for more favorable coverage, to authorizing telecom-related regulatory decisions to benefit friends and allies.

In the meantime, Herzog says he does not plan to make a decision before ongoing negotiations with Netanyahu's legal team have reached conclusion. An October election loss for Netanyahu's Likud party means he could actually face jail time.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-renews-call-israel-pardon-teflon-bibi-wartime-prime-minister