WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram audio messages published by Canal RED and Hondurasgate on 29 April reveal pro-Israel groups “paid” for the release of former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez (JOH) from US federal prison last year.
“The pardon money … came from a board of rabbis and people who supported Israel, and they had previously supported Yani Rosenthal,” JOH is heard saying in the leaked audios.
Yani Rosenthal is the former president of the right-wing Liberal Party of Honduras. He was convicted in December 2017 of laundering drug proceeds for a prominent Honduran drug cartel.
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Dr Marchella Ward (always 'Chella') @LuxMea
It’s always a good day to talk about how Israel is inventing ancient history - but this week (with the news from Arizona…) is an especially good week for it.
(SEE THE BIBLE UNEARTHED BY ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN. THERE NEVER WAAS A UNIFIED KINGDOM OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH. ISRAEL
WAS LONG GONE WHEN JUDAH WAS RESTORED AFTER ESTHER CONVINCED THE KING OF BABYLON TO GENOCIDE JUDAH'S ENEMIES
THERE NEVER WAS A KINGDOM OF DAVID AS THERE WERE ONLY 1,600 PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM AT THE TIME. THERE NEVER WAS A
TEMPLE OF SOLOMON.)
https://x.com/LuxMea/status/2049811117426274774
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Congress Passes 45-Day Extension Of FISA Section 702, Sending It To Trump's Desk
Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill to extend a spying authority of Section 702
Both chambers of Congress raced to pass the short-term measure earlier Thursday after the Senate declined to take up a House-passed bill to extend the deadline until 2029.
The House passed the “clean” extension, without reforms, which punts the deadline from April 30 to June 12, in a 261–111 vote. It was passed under a suspension of the rules, meaning it relied on Democratic support to pass. However, opposition to the measure was also bipartisan, with 26 Republicans joining 85 Democrats in casting a “No” vote.
The measure’s passage and signature into law came just hours before the critical—but contentious—power was due to expire.
The 45-day extension was proposed and passed by the Senate earlier on Thursday after it became clear that a three-year extension passed by the House the night before couldn’t pass the Senate before the midnight deadline.of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for 45 days as congressional debate on the controversial measure continues.
(FISA WARRANTS ALLOW THE FBI AND FRIENDS TO ILLEGALLY SPY ON US.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/congress-passes-45-day-extension-fisa-section-702-sending-it-trumps-desk
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China Reopens Fuel Export Spigot, Offering Relief To Asian Buyers
by Tyler Durden
Beijing is reversing its curbs on refined fuel exports after halting shipments in the opening days of the U.S.-Iran conflict. This move suggests that Chinese domestic inventories are now at comfortable levels, allowing state refiners to reopen the export spigot, even as much of Asia remains gripped by a fuel shock caused by disrupted Gulf energy flows through the Hormuz chokepoint.
There was chatter earlier this week that China's state-owned refiners were applying for government permits to resume fuel exports in May. These include China Petrochemical (Sinopec Group) and China National Petroleum Corporation.
By late in the week, Bloomberg reported that state-owned refiners had received government approval to export 500,000 tons of fuel next month.
People familiar with the upcoming shipments said the one-off quota would allow gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel to be sent to neighboring Asian countries, providing relief amid a worsening fuel crunch.
They said these shipments will be loaded onto tankers and are likely destined for Vietnam, Laos, and other nearby nations.
China's U-turn on export curbs comes weeks after the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and International Energy Agency urged countries to avoid panic hoarding of energy supplies, as JPMorgan analysts warned that Asia would face the most immediate impact from the Gulf energy shock.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/china-reopens-fuel-export-spigot-offering-relief-asian-buyers
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Soon Comes The Mother of All Supply Shocks
by David Stockman
The Donald’s genius boy band including Pete Hegseth and Little Marco Rubio forget the elephant in the room. To wit, it was always a question of which of the dual blockades – Iran’s at the Strait or the US Navy’s outside on the Gulf of Oman – would would run out of time first.
The fact is, since February 28th the only meaningful amount of oil, LNG, naphtha/petrochemical feed-stocks, LPGs, ammonia, sulfur, aluminum, helium and sundry others that have passed thru the SOH is Iranian product in vessels hugging the coastline along the Iran/Pakistan/India route to the Indian ocean and beyond.
This means, in turn, that the greatest bow-wave of missing physical shipments will soon be lapping up on the ports in India and the Pacific east-wise and Rotterdam and the European ports to the west. As a practical matter of vessel time on the water, it takes VLCCs roughly 20 days to get from SOH to Japan, 30 days from SOH to Rotterdam thru Suez and 40-days if the Houthis shutdown the Red Sea Route and force tankers around the Cape of Africa, which is likely as the war winds on.
Accordingly, and as we have previously noted, nearly 900 million barrels of oil, or roughly 55% of the normal 1.7 billion barrels of seaborne oil shipments are now missing from the global tanker traffic heading to ports. So even if a complete peace deal and return to open-ended free navigation were to be agreed to by mid-May, there would be no new tankers coming into Rotterdam until July at the earliest.
So the “blockade” is about to cause mayhem alright, but that would be the Iranian blockade doing the thundering damage to European and Asian economies.
https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2026/04/30/soon-comes-the-mother-of-all-supply-shocks/
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Meta lost 20 million users last quarter
Meta is planning to pump billions more into AI investments this year, despite noting that millions of users have seemingly started to abandon its platforms. In an earning call on Wednesday, Meta reported that figures for “Family daily active people” — the term Meta has coined for all collective users of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger — declined by 20 million this quarter compared to the previous three months.
Meta attributes this fall to “internet disruptions in Iran, as well as a restriction on access to WhatsApp in Russia.” It’s up to you whether you take Meta on its word, given that by bundling the user stats together across all its platforms, we can’t tell which ones are most impacted. If I wanted to obscure that a leading social platform was potentially hemorrhaging daily users, that’s certainly what I would do.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/921089/meta-earnings-q1-2026-user-decline-ai-investments
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Google DeepMind Veteran Raises $1.1 Billion For AI That Doesn't Train On Human Data
DeepMind veteran David Silver raised $1.1 billion for his new startup Ineffable Intelligence at a $5.1 billion valuation.
Silver says reinforcement learning, not large language models, is the best path to superintelligence.
The startup aims to build AI “superlearners” that learn through simulations and self-play.
David Silver, the DeepMind scientist behind AlphaGo’s historic 2016 win over world Go champion Lee Sedol, has raised $1.1 billion to launch a startup betting that the next era of AI won’t come from today’s dominant technology.
“Human data is like a kind of fossil fuel that has provided an amazing shortcut,” he said. “You can think of systems that learn for themselves as a renewable fuel—something that can just learn and learn and learn forever, without limit.”
Silver has spent much of his career advancing that argument. AlphaGo, which combined human training data with reinforcement learning and self-play, developed strategies that surprised even top human players and demonstrated how AI can exceed human precedent in narrow domains.
“I feel it's really important that there is an elite AI lab that actually focuses a hundred percent on this approach,” he told Wired. “That it’s not just a corner of another place dedicated to LLMs.”
Ineffable Intelligence plans to build what Silver calls “superlearners”—AI agents placed inside simulations where they can pursue goals, fail, adapt, and improve without the limits of a static human dataset. Silver declined to describe what those simulations would look like, but said the approach would allow agents to collaborate and develop capabilities autonomously.
Silver argued that large language models are limited by the data they are trained on, adding that a model trained in a world where everyone believed the Earth was flat would likely keep that belief unless it could test reality for itself. A system that learns through experience, he said, could discover otherwise.
Ineffable Intelligence did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Decrypt.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/google-deepmind-veteran-raises-11-billion-ai-doesnt-train-human-data
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The Comex Silver Crisis is Real
The Comex CrisisAuthored by GoldFix
The current state of the COMEX silver market reflects a tightening structure. Registered inventories have declined to just under 80 million ounces, while open interest has fallen to levels not seen in over 15 years.
That combination is significant. It indicates that market participants are stepping back from paper exposure at the same time the pool of deliverable metal is shrinking.
This retreat from paper is occurring against a backdrop of persistent physical demand. China’s import appetite remains elevated, continuing to draw silver out of the global system and away from Western exchanges. At the same time, one-month lease rates have turned positive.
In practical terms, this means the cost to borrow physical silver has risen, reflecting tighter availability and a growing premium on immediate access to metal. This is a key confirmation signal. Inventory data shows the drawdown, while lease rates show the stress in sourcing.
BUT- Near-term mechanics still suggest stability. Open interest is rolling forward into July, and despite a strong start to the May delivery cycle, with roughly 23 million ounces issued on First Notice Day, the exchange is likely to meet its obligations without disruption. The system, for now, continues to function.
The more relevant shift is structural.
With open interest collapsing, the leverage embedded in the paper market is contracting. With inventories declining and lease rates rising, the physical market is tightening. These forces together reduce the market’s ability to absorb demand through paper expansion and increase sensitivity to actual metal flows.
In that environment, pricing power begins to shift. As Western participation declines and Eastern physical demand rises, price discovery gradually moves toward markets more directly tied to delivery, particularly in Asia.
Comex is, as we have asserted for over a year now and hinted at going back to 2023- DYING, adn along with it western dominance in setting the price of silver. This is not bearish
Gold offers a parallel. Its recent advance has been driven by sustained physical accumulation and central bank demand, with institutions such as UBS pointing to further upside as macro conditions align. Silver operates in a smaller and less liquid market. If similar demand dynamics persist, the resulting price response is likely to be more abrupt and more volatile.
Continues here
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-05-01/comex-silver-crisis-real
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Beijing Bad: Chinese Nationals Charged Building Meth Super Factory
A "complete set of automated equipment"
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijing-bad-chinese-nationals-charged-building-meth-super-factory
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Medicaid Withholds Additional $91 Million In Funding For Minnesota
A total of $350 million in Medicaid dollars that Minnesota expected has now been frozen, administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/medicaid-withholds-additional-91-million-funding-minnesota
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AfD Vows To Drain 'NGO Swamp' After Berlin Café That Bans White People Received Taxpayer Cash
The AfD has accused the German government of funding "left-wing ideology"...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/afd-vows-drain-ngo-swamp-after-berlin-cafe-bans-white-people-received-taxpayer-cash
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British Police Raid Islamic Group Accused Of Sex Trafficking And Slavery
Sometimes "coexistence" is simply not possible...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/british-police-raid-islamic-group-accused-sex-trafficking-and-slavery
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Canada's Culture Minister: Regulating Online Content A Duty Of Federal Government
The upcoming legislation will be the government’s third attempt to legislate on “online harms"...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadas-culture-minister-regulating-online-content-duty-federal-government
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"We Shouldn't Have To Live Like This": UK Terror Level Raised To 'Severe' After Stabbing Attacks
"We need REMIGRATION. The people who have came here need to go home..."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/we-shouldnt-have-live-uk-terror-raised-severe-after-stabbing-attacks
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Hezbollah's Cheap Fiber Optic Drones A Growing, Deadly Problem For Israeli Troop Convoys
From battlefields of Donbass to southern Lebanon... often made with 3-D printed parts.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hezbollahs-cheap-fibre-optic-drones-growing-deadly-problem-israeli-troop-convoys
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Massive Lithium Lode In Appalachia Could Power 130 Million EVs: USGS
$65 billion worth of key resource right here at home?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/massive-lithium-lode-appalachia-could-power-130-million-evs-usgs
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Goldman Maps Retailer Exposure To Working-Poor Consumers As Gas Soars
"We also note that historically, during periods of elevated gas prices, DG has benefited..."
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-maps-retailer-exposure-working-poor-consumers-gas-soars
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InfoWars Signs Off for the Last Time: Alex Jones Delivers Defiant Final Broadcast After 27 Years as Court-Ordered Shutdown Forces Austin Studio Closure
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/infowars-signs-last-time-alex-jones-delivers-defiant/
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The Worst League in Sports Continues to Cook Its Golden Goose – Caitlin Clark Injured in WNBA Preseason Game
https://joehoft.com/worst-league-sports-continues-cook-its-golden-goose/
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Previously Deported Illegal Alien Who Went on the Run for 15 Years After Killing 16-Year-Old Indiana Teen Megan Ratliff Gets Just Two Years in Prison
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/previously-deported-illegal-alien-who-went-run-15/
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NEW: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins reveals that 14,000 individual SNAP recipients in just ONE state have been exposed for having luxury vehicles.
- 3 Bentleys
- 3 Ferraris
- 11 Lamborghinis
- 59 Maseratis
- 141 Porsches
- 244 Alfa Romeos
- 306 Land Rovers
- 2,098 Teslas
"And this is just in ONE STATE. We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system."
"These individuals are taking advantage of the American taxpayer. And together with VP Vance's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this ends NOW." |
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/drivers-ferraris-lamborghinis-porches-host-other-premier-luxury/
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