I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

Israeli attacks pounded targets across Gaza on Sunday and Monday, killing at least seven Palestinians and wounding 17, according to the daily update from Gaza’s Health Ministry. One strike on Monday targeted a bicycle in Gaza City, killing one person and critically injuring a child, according to the Quds News Network. QNN put the 24-hour […]

Russia To Stop Kazakh Oil Flows To Germany Via Druzhba Pipeline After several weeks of the main oil artery into Europe being halted - perhaps as Ukraine awaited the outcome of the Hungary election and the greenlighting of Europe's €90 billion loan to Kiev - Zelenskyy stated the Druzhba oil pipeline will be ready to ship Russian oil again. There is just one problem: Russia said it would halt halt Kazakh crude-oil shipments to Germany through the major Druzhba pipeline next month after reporting "technical issues."  The move would deal a major blow...

The Great Retreat: Beijing's Digital Currency Ambitions Are Faltering Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has positioned the digital yuan (e-CNY) as the ultimate weapon of financial totalitarianism. It was intended to be the crowning achievement of the surveillance state. With a programmable, traceable digital currency, Beijing thought it would finally break the back of private payment giants like Alipay and WeChat Pay. Signage of the Chinese digital currency is seen near a coffee store in the New Actuation Fintech Center...