ELIZA BLEU AND THE PERPETUAL TRAUMA MACHINE—PART 2

Israeli airstrikes were targeting Lebanon’s main coastal highway south of the capital city of Beirut today, hitting at least seven vehicles and killing 12 people, along with wounding an unspecified number of others. The main strikes were reported earlier in the day between Beirut and the key port city of Sidon, but there were other, […]

Norwegian Cruise Cuts Outlook On Gulf Disruptions, Fuel Shock Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings shares fell in premarket trading in New York after the cruise ship operator lowered its full-year 2026 outlook, as disruptions in the Middle East, higher diesel costs, and softer travel demand in Europe weighed on first-quarter bookings. "The Company is experiencing headwinds related to disruptions in the Middle East, including higher fuel expense and signs of softer demand as consumers reevaluate travel plans, particularly to Europe," Norwegian Cruise wrote in a press release. It continued, "As previously noted,...

UN Climate Panel Quietly Admits Its Doomsday Climate Scenarios Were 'Implausible' The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios - and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible. It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios," Science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. wrote, calling...