Ukraine Is Becoming Another Verdun

European Wildfires, Net-Zero Stagnation, & The Great Industry Displacement Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Europe’s wildfire crisis has also exposed the failure of public spending rhetoric unsupported by effective land and forest management. EU governments spent 40.6 billion euros on fire protection services in 2023. In 2022, the total expenditure stood at EUR 37.4 billion. The European Court of Auditors discovered that spending oversight was incomplete, result monitoring was weak, and there was no assurance that the most impactful actions received financing. At the same time, the average annual burnt area in...

Meta Ordered To Pay New Mexico $25 Billion Over Misleading Privacy Claims Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A Santa Fe judge on Wednesday ordered Meta Platforms to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company committed 43.9 million violations of state consumer-protection law by making misleading statements about Facebook users' data privacy and control. The case, filed in 2021, grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. New Mexico alleged that Facebook, now Meta, systematically misled the public - and New Mexico users - about how it...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed President Donald Trump to escalate the war against Iran immediately after the US midterm elections on Tuesday.  According to sources speaking with Axios, Trump and Netanyahu held a phone call on Saturday that officials described as “tough” or “direct.” Publicly, the President gave a less confrontational description of the […]