Washington state has approved a new law targeting drivers with serious speeding violations by requiring them to use speed-limiting technology before regaining limited driving privileges, according to Slashgear.

The measure, House Bill 1596 — also called the BEAM Act — was created in response to a fatal 2024 crash that killed Boyd Buster Brown, Eloise Wil…

Read more

For decades, infrastructure analysts, military planners, and emergency preparedness experts have warned that modern civilization is built upon a dangerously fragile foundation.

Electricity is no longer merely a convenience of industrial society; it is the bloodstream of every institution sustaining modern life. Water purification systems, food distributi…

Read more

Adversaries have used commercially available location data to target U.S. servicemembers in war zones, a bipartisan group of lawmakers revealed Thursday.

In a letter to Pentagon CIO Kirsten Davies, 14 members of Congress — led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C. — warned that the department “has not taken basic steps to protect U.S. …

Read more

Several women testify that they have had repeated abortions to have children of their desired sex. In closed Facebook groups, women share their experiences of how they rejected fetuses that don’t match their dream image.

Sofia had three sons when she became pregnant for the fourth time. With the help of a so-called NIPT test, she received information abo…

Read more

Dagens Industri columnist Erika Bjerstrom singles out white men as a specific “climate problem”. The former SVT journalist links men’s travel, meat consumption, and right-wing voting to the so-called climate crisis – and presents individual “carbon quotas” tied to credit cards as a possible way to change behavior.

Erika Bjerstrom, who previously worked a…

Read more

Hundreds of Norwegian gas stations have closed in just a few years. Industry voices now warn that the trend could weaken fuel preparedness, especially outside major cities.

Norway has long been held up as a leading country for electric cars. But as the vehicle fleet is electrified, the network of service stations is becoming increasingly sparse.

According…

Read more

In a recent Buddhist retreat in Lima, Peru, about 200 participants were urged to abstain for the three-day retreat from our enslavement screens, “smart” phones, computers and television.

Difficult to say how many really followed the advice, but many did.

What was amazing is that during the first day, ignoring constant phone notifications was not easy for …

Read more

It can simultaneously threaten Russia along the increasingly interconnected Arctic and Baltic fronts.

Russian Ambassador to Norway Nikolai Korchunov gave a brief interview to TASS about bilateral relations. He warned that Norway is integrating new NATO members Sweden and Finland into the bloc’s regional plans. More American military bases and NATO facili…

Read more

The United States has long operated under a seductive strategic fantasy. Remove the leader of an adversary organization, whether a drug cartel, a terrorist group, or a sovereign state, and that organization will collapse, enabling American interests to fill the resulting vacuum.

However, decades of academic literature, hard empirical data from Mexico’s d…

Read more

EU police agency Europol allegedly used a parallel IT system for several years to store and analyze large amounts of sensitive personal data, including information concerning people who were not suspected of any crime. According to internal documents, the system lacked basic data protection and security controls.

The information comes from an investigati…

Read more

An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world’s first “biological data centers” — augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with living human neurons.

Cortical Labs, the company behind the effort, has opened its first facility in Melbourne, Australia, and is planning a larger site in Singapore. Instead of racks filled en…

Read more

“The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn’t be afraid of the government.” ― Edward Snowden

“The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights are in fact limitations of state power that define exactly where and when a government may not infringe i…

Read more

Surveillance firm Palantir has issued a 22-point manifesto calling for a “new era” of AI-driven military power. Founded with CIA funding and now contracted to the Pentagon and Israel, the company demands that Silicon Valley take its place in the war machine – and that Germany and Japan re-arm.

The declaration goes far beyond a typical corporate vision. I…

Read more

Sweden may need to consider options to reduce energy consumption, including rationing, if the disruption to the flow of fuel supplies continues as a result of the Iran war, the country’s prime minister and finance minister said on on April 23.

“We are not planning any rationing right now, but we are prepared for it to happen,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristers…

Read more

The European market is facing a critical shortage of kerosene, with only six weeks of supply remaining, and the war in Iran is threatening the continent with a major aviation crisis.

Since the war broke out, jet fuel prices have jumped 70 percent, threatening the financial health of European airlines.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that …

Read more

Late last year, German lawmakers passed new legislation paving the way for military conscription. As the Guardian reports, “The change will include the obligatory screening of all 18-year-old men to gauge their suitability to serve in the military from 1 January..” This is not (yet) full-blown conscription, but clearly moves in that direction, providing…

Read more

The United States is said to be considering conducting limited ground operations in the Iran war. Among the potential operations reportedly under consideration are efforts to seize the islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs, Larak, and Kharg in the Persian Gulf.

There are serious questions surrounding the feasibility of these potential acti…

Read more

Germany has introduced new regulations requiring men aged 17 to 45 to obtain official permission before leaving the country for extended periods.

Effective as of January 1, 2026, this rule applies to individuals planning to stay abroad for more than three months, whether for education, employment, or long-term travel, according to Berliner Zeitung on Apr…

Read more

Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz to the United States and its allies – and an Iranian security official has now confirmed to RT that the strait will not return to its pre-war status. Ships from countries not classified as “enemies” may pass with Iranian approval, but under a new fee system that could generate up to $100 billion per year for Tehran.

T…

Read more

A newly introduced U.S. Senate bill would allow the military to deploy autonomous lethal artificial intelligence systems by granting the Secretary of Defense the authority to override its own restrictions.

Senate Bill S.4113—the “AI Guardrails Act of 2026,” introduced March 17, 2026 by U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)—is being presented as a framework …

Read more