From Grok:

The Trump administration has indeed been feeding Axios multiple exclusives and direct briefings on Iran negotiations throughout April and May 2026. Recent examples include reports on a potential one-page MOU to end the war, Trump rejecting Iranian proposals on the blockade, Iranian responses to U.S. drafts, and internal admin discussions on ceasefires and nuclear talks. These pieces routinely cite “U.S. officials,” “White House officials,” or even Trump himself speaking to Axios.

The Cuba drone story follows the exact same template: classified U.S. intelligence shared exclusively with Axios, plus a senior U.S. official comment framing the intel as showing how the Trump administration views Cuba as a growing threat (drones from Russia/Iran, Iranian advisers in Havana, contingency planning).

U.S. officials (per Axios) explicitly say this is contingency talk if hostilities erupt, not an imminent threat. The piece itself notes the intel “could become a pretext for U.S. military action.”

From: Vox Popoli

Andrei Martyanov, whose track record has been very good for more than a decade, believes Russia is going to strike Europe, specifically Germany, soon in retaliation for manufacturing the drones used by Ukraine to attack Russian territory.

Now, per strikes–all indicators are that Russia will strike Europe. Russia doesn’t need to use nukes because she has more than enough conventional means for both destruction of a critical industrial infrastructure involved in support of 404 and, if it comes down to it, decapitating governments of hostile countries.

Russia has enough conventional means to strike at any facility in Europe and the US IS NOT coming for a simple reason–it has no resources. Demilitarizing NATO was one of the key strategic aims of the Special Military Operation once it became clear that the US sabotaged Istanbul talks and Iran has demonstrated it fully. Who will be hit first? Yeah, I am inclined to see Germany “getting the message”–it is long overdue.

And Russia will be perfectly justified in attacking any of the belligerent parties. It would be very difficult for the leaders of the EU, the UK, Germany, and even Switzerland to have more incompetently mishandled their various relations with Russia in futile attempts to appease Clown World and keep the US military in Europe. All they had to do was stay neutral and keep out of what was never any of their business in the first place.

Their collective lunacy is only exceeded by that of Finland and Sweden, who were perfectly safe as neutral parties, but have now unnecessarily painted targets on their national chests by joining NATO and declaring themselves enemy of the Russian Federation.

And now, ironically, they all find themselves falling afoul of both the USA and China as well. The last four years have been marked by some of the most incompetent national diplomacy in the history of international relations.

With Waymo robotaxis now operating in 11 major U.S. markets, these fully autonomous Jaguar I-PACE SUVs are becoming increasingly visible to everyday folks. This wider rollout means more public encounters and more viral footage capturing robotaxis in the wild.

One such incident occurred in a northwest Atlanta neighborhood this week, where residents told local media outlet WSB-TV that more than 50 empty Waymo SUVs flooded their tiny street.

Expect more stories like this as robotaxi deployment ramps up nationwide. We have provided readers with enough context about robotaxi deployments (see here and here).

Just wait until local resistance movements, similar to data centers, begin …

Zerohedge …

So my question. Going forward, what purpose will human beings serve? AI, self-driving cars, robots. We used to grow our own food, build things, drive our own cars, think our own thoughts, work out our own problems, write our own books, create our own art …

People need a purpose. I’m just wondering what it will be in a technocratic society. Better, I think, to lose the grid and return to the 19th Century, but that’s just me …

The video is AI. It went viral this morning so I did not check its authenticity. My apologies.

Grok:

PressTV (Iranian state media) presents it with a heroic, propagandistic spin—which is expected—but the underlying incident is corroborated by U.S. officials, military analysts, and outlets like NBC News, Military Watch Magazine, and The Aviationist.

It’s not fabricated propaganda; it’s a real (and embarrassing for U.S. defenses) event turned into cinematic propaganda.

As Kevin Barrett noted, these suspected insider trades took place on March 23, April 7, April 16, April 21, and then again last Wednesday, May 6.

Although the Iranians soon explained that they weren’t actively negotiating with the Americans and they ridiculed the media reports that a peace agreement might be imminent, oil prices still sharply fell and stayed down, which seemed totally irrational.

After so many false reports of a peace agreement being almost at hand and the strait about to be reopened, I found it difficult to believe that even the most gullibly optimistic trader would accept these statements at face value, let alone that there were enough of those traders to move the markets in such dramatic fashion.

But perhaps the solution to this mystery was that these major market movements were actually due to trading by AI systems, which made their decisions mostly based upon how they expected all the other AI trading systems would react to Trump’s statements. A shrewd observer had suggested this possibility last month:

An offhand comment the other night by an MSNow commentator gives us the first insight. He mentioned that a lot of trading isn’t being done by humans but by algorithms that search the news and what’s trending on the web for clues about how the market will move the next day.

So when Trump Truths that the war with Iran is over — they’re opening the strait and have agreed to all his terms and are becoming the 51st state — the algorithm doesn’t need to believe him. It just needs to see that true or not, this statement will move stocks up and oil down. With so much trading done by algorithms, each algorithm knows stocks will rise because the other algorithms will move them.

With 70% of daily trading done by algorithms, humans have become largely irrelevant to the stock market. So it isn’t people at all moving the market.

From: Will America Be Expelled from the Middle East?

Why would silver and gold spot prices drop when the geopolitical conditions are as they are now? Why would oil futures behave as they are with such uncertainty? Why does the stock market keep rising in the face of obvious economic difficulty? I’m no financial expert, but it has seemed to me that there’s a great deal of manipulation in all the markets, Corruption and insider trading. But … perhaps it’s the algorithms after all?

The wolf never betrays his pack.

The raven never forgets a soul.

But humankind has often forgotten what honor once meant.

Between cold winds and ancient forests, animals still know the law of loyalty. No false face. No hidden word. Only instinct, truth, and connection.

The wolf stays with his pack until his last breath. The raven carries memories across time and shadows. But many people traded honor for utility and truth for comfort.

Perhaps that’s why some souls feel closer to the call of the forests than to the noise of this age.

h/t Huter der Irminsul

Caveat: This post is not intended as an attack on anyone’s religion. It is simply an alternative viewpoint for those to whom it may resonate.

Most people reading this will have grown up in a culture where Christianity was already dying, but nothing replaced it. The churches emptied, but the assumptions Christianity planted in Western civilization did not leave with the congregations. The Abrahamic worldview is universalist at its core. It teaches that all souls are equal before a single God, that tribal and ethnic identity are secondary to a universal spiritual brotherhood, and that salvation is available to all peoples on the same terms. When Christianity lost its grip on the West, this universalism did not disappear. It migrated into secular systems. Liberalism, in all its forms, inherited the Christian template: the individual abstracted from kin, land and tradition, granted universal rights under a universal framework, with particular identity treated as something to be transcended rather than cultivated. The West moved from Christian universalism to liberal universalism without ever questioning the universalism itself.

The result is the world we live in now. Identity is treated as a consumer choice rather than an inheritance. Culture is something you browse, not something you belong to. Borders—physical, spiritual, tribal—are treated as obstacles to progress rather than the structures that give life meaning. The old distinctions between peoples, between sacred and profane, between kin and stranger, have been flattened in the name of a vision of humanity that claims to include everyone but in practice leaves everyone rootless.

The consequential hyper-individualism produces loneliness on a scale our ancestors could never have imagined.

The Void

Look at the conditions honestly. People move across the country for work and never go home. They live in rented flats in cities where they know no one, eating food grown on the other side of the world, consuming entertainment made by strangers. They have hundreds of connections online, and nobody they would call at two in the morning. They have been told that freedom means the absence of obligation—no ties to place, no duties to kin, no inherited identity—and they believed it, and now they are paying the price. Rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide have climbed steadily for decades. Young men in particular are adrift, with no framework for understanding who they are or what they are for. The modern world offers endless choice and almost no meaning.

The spiritual void is real and specific. The problem for most people is not an oppressive church. It is the absence of anything at all. Christianity is gone for them, and what fills the gap is a shallow materialism that cannot answer the most basic questions: who am I, where do I come from, what do I owe to those who made my life possible, and what will I leave behind when I die? These are ancestral questions. They are questions our forebears had answers to. And the ancestral religion—rooted in specific peoples, specific lands, specific lineages—answers them in a way that no universal system ever can, because it starts from the particular rather than the abstract.

The Answer

Ancestral religion is the opposite of universalism. It does not claim to be for everyone. It is for us—for the descendants of the Northern European peoples whose traditions it preserves. It is tied to specific landscapes, specific bloodlines, specific histories. It honors the particular over the general, the local over the global, the inherited over the invented. This is what makes it powerful and this is what makes it threatening to the universalist order: it asserts that peoples are different, that those differences matter, and that a man severed from his roots is weaker than a man who knows where he stands.

The full essay …

From Grok:

This isn’t isolated to Macgregor or pro-Iran accounts—IRGC admissions, UAE official statements, and cross-verified reporting from Western, Gulf, and international media all corroborate it.