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Let’s head into the weekend with a bang, via the Friday Grail news briefs! NASA chief pulls back curtain on Trump UFO files after bizarre finds surface in buried fed records. The first reactions to Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day are here, and things are looking good! A severed piece of sea cucumber refused to die, and what happened next could transform medicine. The UK’s rudest chalk figure, the Cerne Abbas Giant, gets a glow-up to stop it fading in the rain. Deepak Chopra, Jeffrey Epstein and those “cute girls” emails: New Age guru exchanged hundreds of messages with Epstein, including…
IN SHORT: • Russia tries to shift blame for its deadly strikes on Kyiv.• Transnistria is used as a tool to destabilise Moldova.• Ukraine is being falsely accused of trying to drag the Baltic states into war with Russia. LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Russia continued to combine military escalation with coordinated FIMI activity. Following Sunday’s overnight missile strikes on Kyiv, Russian state media falsely framed the attacks as justified retaliation while amplifying warnings of further strikes, creating psychological pressure and reinforcing narratives of Russian inevitability and escalation dominance. Across the information space, Kremlin-aligned actors intensified efforts to manipulate regional threat…
Saturday is the 140th anniversary of Randolph Bourne’s birthday. Antiwar.com named its parent institute for this early 20th century antiwar activist. Read Jeff Riggenbach’s biography of Bourne. [Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Randolph Bourne (1886–1918)”] Randolph Bourne was an American intellectual journalist who flourished for a few years in the second decade of the 20th century – in the Teens, the decade that ran from 1910 to 1920. Bourne wrote mostly for magazines during this period. His byline was particularly familiar to readers of The New Republic – until his radically antiwar views on the eve of the…
The Oracle of Apollo at Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest among Athenians because he knew that he knew nothing, and acted and spoke accordingly. The Central Intelligence Agency and companion members of the intelligence community, in contrast, are intelligence dunces. They uniformly profess or presume to know what they don’t know about the political cultures, power dynamics, or public opinion in foreign countries. Thus, they chronically blunder in intervening or seeking to intervene to replace foreign leaders with our own puppets who invariably prove cures worse than the disease. The intelligence community is not populated by political philosophers or students…
A brash reality TV star is once again winning over Republican voters. Spencer Pratt, a former star of MTV’s The Hills, is expected to advance to the Los Angeles mayoral runoff against Karen Bass. Pratt is not gaining support either as a milquetoast RINO or as an economic populist. His campaign is a wildly entertaining attack on LA’s liberal elite, vagrants, and out-of-control crime. It addresses everyday issues voters face, but many politicians refuse to address, such as the homeless problem. While being a (minor) celebrity, he has a relatable story for his foray into politics. His house burned down…
The Costly 'Renewable' Boondoggle Source link
For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears to be an earth-shattering event. On the surface, it looks as if the days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of far-right extremists are numbered. The reality, however, is far more complex. Israel’s current political implosion is fundamentally tied to its failure to escape the ghosts of October 7. When the country’s military defenses collapsed on that day, Israel was transformed from a state with a formidable reputation as an invincible regional superpower into one trapped…
Even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens and gas prices fall, many Americans will still believe that the economy is terrible. Do the Democrats have a solution for this permacession? Source link
The Republican establishment burned through more than $100 million in its bid to defeat Ken Paxton in Texas’s GOP Senate primary – only to find out sometimes money is not enough. Source link
A single Swiss man’s semen sample is now headline news on three continents. What’s behind the hysteria? A Gates-funded journalism desk, a biosurveillance firm backed by the CIA’s venture capital arm, and a Swiss biodefense laboratory. And they’re all feeding each other a story that the underlying science doesn’t support. On May 14, The Telegraph’s “Global Health Security” desk published a story with a headline engineered for maximum alarm: “Hantavirus may survive in human sperm for up to six years and cause a transmission risk.” Within hours, the story was syndicated across international outlets like Yahoo News, tied to the eight…