June 18, 2026

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Starmer to use Kids to Track Adults Online

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Kier Starmer’s government has announced plans to pass a new online safety act that will ban children under 13 from using social media. To assure that children cannot gain access, adults will be required to confirm their identification every time they access the internet. The plan is seen as a scheme to track adult online users, not to protect children from the dangers of the internet.

UK Government Announces Digital ID Mandate for All Social Media Users– slaynews.com
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled sweeping new restrictions that will force social media users to verify their identity before accessing major online platforms, as part of a nationwide crackdown that will ban children under 16 from social media altogether.

The move has triggered alarm among free speech advocates, privacy campaigners, and critics of government surveillance, who warn that the policy represents a major step toward a digital ID system for Internet access.

Under the plan, platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, and YouTube will be required to block users under 16, while all users will be forced to undergo age verification checks.

Belfast Beheading Attempt Triggers Native Uprising

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If Northern Ireland is a bellwether of what’s to come in broader Britian, the ordered protests in front of police stations are about to be replaced with organized targeted assaults on migrant strongholds.

After as Sudanese migrant was caught attempting to behead a disabled Irishman on a street in Belfast, the youth of the city have taken to burning down the migrants’ apartment complexes as well as targeting any other administrative structures of migrant power. Calls by the progressives of the UK for calm, so far, are being met with derision.

Belfast Assault Victim Suffers Life-Altering Injuries as Police Charge Suspect– legalinsurrection.com
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We have been following the fallout from the video of a Sudanese migrant in Belfast allegedly attempting to behead a local man in a violent knife attack captured on video.

The incident has sparked anti-immigration protests across Northern Ireland, with demonstrators gathering in Belfast, blocking roads, and setting vehicles on fire amid rising tensions.

The victim of this incident has been identified as Stephen Ogilvie, who has reportedly lost his left eye and suffered severe injuries to his face as a result of the brutal attack.

Stephen Ogilvie, thought to be 44, suffered injuries to both eyes after Sudanese migrant Hadi Alodid, 30, allegedly tried to behead him late Monday night, the Sun reported.

Barbaric video footage showed Ogilvie being pinned under the knifeman — with a horrified witness heard crying, “He’s trying to cut his head off. He’s slicing his head off.”

Ogilvie suffered serious injuries to his right eye and had deep slash wounds in his head, face and back, the hearing in Belfast was told.

Alodid was identified for the first time as he appeared in court Wednesday on charges of attempted murder and possessing a blade.

Europeans Conclude the U.S. is not their friend

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A new poll from the European Council on Foreign Relations found that only 1 in 10 Europeans consider the U.S. an ally, while only 50% viewed the U.S. as a “necessary partner.” 25% of those polled consider the U.S. an adversary.

Just 1 in 10 Europeans now view the U.S. as an ally, according to new poll: “Collapse in faith”– www.cbsnews.com
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Just one in every 10 Europeans now sees the U.S. as an ally, according to a major new poll conducted by the European Council on Foreign Relations across 15 European countries.

In what the think tank described as a “collapse in European faith in the U.S.,” only 11% of the nearly 20,000 European respondents now consider America an ally, down from 16% six months ago and 22% in November 2024.

Half of those polled view the U.S. as a “necessary partner,” while 25% see America as a rival or an adversary. The percentage of respondents who view the U.S. as a rival or an adversary grew in several countries, especially Denmark, France, Spain and Switzerland.

Final Thought – The Anti-British Shadow State of London

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Originally published June 5, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“On The Pervasive and Dangerous Evil Inflicted by the Shadow State of the City of London and its Puppet State in the UK and Around the World” – Bill Collier, alternative title for this Final Thought

The murder of the native British young man, Henry Nowak, has become the bellwether of the policies of anti-white progressivism pushed by the British state, which is London, not 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s residence (even though it is also in London).

The UK is being driven towards a race war by two-tier policing that targets whites, especially white Christians, as the enemy.

The problem in the UK is a looming potential race war which benefits no one. Yet, for the City of London, a race war is preferable to the population fixing their opposition and anger on the real enemy, the City of London, the Shadow State of Britian that despises Britain.

The natives, however, are increasingly demanding the end of London’s power and influence, and possibly the breakup of their financial empires once and for all.

These are hard times to love liberty while being a native British person in your own country. For white Christian native British people, it is especially difficult to see your own country’s cops and government become your enemy. But who is the real culprit, the non-white colonizers? This is where some whites are being led, down the path to violent racism that leads to violent race wars.

This is what the real culprit behind Henry Nowak’s murder wants, a race war to distract you from its direct guilt.

I will argue that the culprit here is the City of London as a state within the state, and that the victims of their global corpostate system are not just white British Christians, they include Nigerian Christians and Igbo people, who also oppose a City of London corpostate puppet regime, namely Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.

What’s a person who really doesn’t think we as human beings should be divided by race to do, especially if you happen to be classified as a white Christian in a system that actively hates you?

White Christians didn’t choose to be white, to be native English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish in a land whose laws and culture favored their native culture and beliefs. They did not choose to be born there, but many would proudly choose their culture and their heritage every time. A strong desire to live in a place where your culture and way of life are favored and supported by law and custom is practically a human necessity.

The bellwether for the catastrophic effect of policing against your own country’s peoples and ways is the murder of Henry Nowak by a Sikh man using a ceremonial blade that he was allowed to carry despite the fact that nobody else in the UK is allowed to carry a knife.

Henry Nowak was walking out in the public at night when he was stabbed in the face and body. As he tried to crawl away from his killer, he was stabbed in the legs and back.

He bled out while the Southampton Police handcuffed him, denied he was stabbed, ignored him when he said he couldn’t breathe, and when they discovered he had been murdered by the Sikh, they arrested the Sikh without handcuffing him.

The police claim he could not have been saved, but even if he couldn’t, they couldn’t have known that since they gave no serious examination of his body to see if he had been stabbed.

The last moments of Henry Nowak’s life were spent being ignored while bleeding out, and falsely accused of being racist by his own murderer. The colonist’s testimony held all the credibility with the cops, because they had been clearly trained to despise white boys, especially British white boys.

He was treated like a criminal because his killer accused him of being racist to get out of randomly murdering him.

In the UK, if a brown person accuses a white person of committing a hate-speech crime, that white person might go to jail. Thousands of white British people, mostly Christians, have been charged with hate speech crimes. Getting a figure on the amount of people fully prosecuted and imprisoned is not possible.

Asking AIs for the number gave me answers that align with the official UK narrative.

They claim the amount of people put in prisons for “hate crimes,” while in the thousands, include people who are in there for violent crimes, but “hate crime” was added to their crimes.

The real figure, they suggest, is a couple dozen to a hundred people are in prison in the UK at any one moment for violating hate crime laws. Skepticism abounds in response to these answers.

If you are attacked and stabbed for being white, you will be treated with hateful contempt. Those cops’ actions proved a culture of anti-white hatred pervades the police force, even to the extent that white cops have been trained to see their own people with the same contempt as their enemies do.

What’s happening in the UK is a blatant population and culture replacement, mostly from Muslim Far East, Near East, and North African countries.

The colonizers are told on their way over that being white is a sin, an evil, and that “colonizing the colonizers” is just. The people making these decisions are ones who ostensibly derive their authority from the approval of the very people they are demonizing to their planvasion street fighters.

Nobody asked the British if they wanted their religious and cultural lifestyle to be replaced by curry and kebabs, and their churches with Mosques that lionize Palestinian terrorists and preach hatred against Christianity.

Nobody asked England if their capital should no longer look, smell, or sound British anymore or if laws prohibiting dissent against population replacement and cultural erasure should be enacted.

The British police automatically believed a murderer over a victim because the victim was white and British. The British police let the native die to appease the colonizer. Their very actions should mark them as insurrectionists against the British State.

The police made Henry’s last moments a horrible hell. They taunted him while he lay dying, accusing him of being a racist just for being white. There are legitimate racists, but the libelous claim against all white people being racist just for being white has consequences we can see and hear: murder. The people pushing this literally want to genocide the white race.

I should remind our readers that in many public schools across America today, “teachers” are telling children the world is working towards one mission, the elimination of whiteness and white privilege. This has been going on for ten years.

The chickens are about to come home on that violent action soon enough.

The UK government, which has zero accountability, and which is losing its legitimacy, responded to Nowak’s murder first by affirming no change to the law allowing Sikh’s to carry knives while white Christians are jailed for wrongspeak against the regime.

The native British are under attack by their own government, a government whose ministers increasingly lack British names.

The British are being forced to be disarmed on streets increasingly filled with people who hate the British people. All a brown non-Christian has to do when in competition with a British native is accuse them of racism. From that testimony alone, minimally, the native British citizen would lose their job.

The Child Rape Grooming Gangs show how just the FEAR of appearing to be racist pushed cops to aggressively harass and arrest the victims and their family members when they tried to get justice.

The powers that be are making life hell for their own white citizens. They also make life a struggle for survival for the Igbo of Nigeria, a Christian people with a long, self-sustaining history.

The City of London is a corrupt entity that has done much harm around the world, not the least of which is the Biafran genocide paid for in British pounds. But the British people aren’t the City of London, and that institution has ruled over them without any humanity, treating the whole world, including the UK, as a slave plantation.

It took a while for the City of London to try to consume its host, but here we are.

A race war looms. White British Christians are feeling three things: a strong sense of identity about being white (race consciousness as the left puts it, but only for non-white people), a strong sense of imminent harm to their children by non-white and non-Christian people and their white allies in power, and finally a feeling that nothing worse could be said about them so there is no need to worry about appearances or red lines.

The accusation of racist is now a self-accusation of treason to the white British citizen.

When you demonize the native British people and arrest them in the thousands for dissenting against your population replacement program, you get the making of a civil war or revolution.

Make no mistake, the policy of the left in the UK is to replace native British people and to exterminate the Christian faith and culture from the land by using the bodies of imported people who hate your native population, who have no loyalty, and who can be made to be good work slaves for the City of London.

This isn’t hyperbole and the murder of this young man by a Sikh foreigner who obviously hates Britain has physically and emotionally proven the theory to be true. The conclusion they have come to is that if their child is raped or killed by a non-white, the government will protect the rapists and the killers because that’s how you end whiteness and white privilege.

What would race war look like?

In today’s Britian, it’s where the government is viewed as a hostile occupation and any armed resistance becomes morally justified, including attacks against groups that are not white and/or Christians, or just not British in the eyes of the angry mobs.

It can get ugly. Random killings or beatings will begin against people who are spouting anything anti British, or whole groups of non-white people in a community may be set upon because the locals don’t want to walk down their own streets and feel like it’s India or Pakistan or Africa. It’s not rational, fair, or just. Innocent people will be harmed.

The British government must support and favor the British identity as the basis of citizenship and social standing without being bigoted toward those who don’t fit that category. Instead of common sense, they cling to their woke tyranny and population replacement in service of a global corpostate run by the City of London, but never for the good of the country that acts as its host, a host it is cannibalizing.

Former Labour speechwriter Andrew Neather revealed in a 2009 Evening Standard article that a key motivation behind the government’s decision to loosen immigration controls from around 2000 (including not imposing transitional controls on EU accession countries in 2004) was partly political.

Earlier drafts of a speech by Immigration Minister Barbara Roche included a “driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural.”

Neather recalled discussions suggesting the policy was intended—even if not the main economic goal—to “rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.”

The proof of “diversity” lies dead in a British front yard, bled out in front of state authority, who found his claims of being stabbed contemptible because he was not “diverse.”

It turns out merely implementing their genocidal plan has proved their ideas to be “out of date.”

The population replacement theory is proven in that very moment, because no fair and sane police officer who has real affection for their own people would make that young man’s last moments of pure hell and misery.

In the UK, the white Christian who identifies with the British culture and way of life, and whose ancestors lived in the land for over 500 years, has become to British politicians a dissident voting block that must be overcome by any means necessary, including strategic planvasions of paid non-white, non-Christian (especially anti-Christian and anti-white) colonizers.

The UK’s native population have watched while their own native brothers and sisters opened the door to a well-funded colonizer army, who then became the new leaders of that same nation, as they are to this day.

British politicians are puppets of the City of London’s global corpostate which evinces a design of global slavery. The minority groups in the UK are being weaponized against the British, but once they fulfill this, they will find they get no reward and if their people ever wake up to dissent against the authoritarianism, they will just be replaced also.

This isn’t really about race. People who aren’t white aren’t the enemy. Even the ones who act out and exploit their actual privilege are nothing without the slave masters from the City of London regime backing them up and pushing ideologies that justify their crimes as social justice for white guilt.

What the London Shadow State (as I call it) are doing to the natives of Britian, they did in Biafra, the homeland of the Igbo.

What is happening in Nigeria with anti-Christian persecution and genocide and with anti-Igbo genocide is also a City of London project.

Tony Blair’s government was the most openly connected puppet state to the City of London. The current British King is but a puppet, as is his son, William, both of whom extol the virtues of migration while attacking Christianity.

Race War could come to the UK and the City of London’s actual rulers will say, “we prefer the slaves fight each other rather than us.”

It will be a war between the discardable violent pawns of the City of London and its intended victims. The City of London will be the only beneficiary after the wars are ended.

The City of London is a shadow government that is the real government of the UK, and it views native British people as an obstacle to be overcome, especially after Brexit, which they hated to see. Their reach across the world has diminished.

Their inability to competently manage a military has left them toothless on the geopolitical stage. As their power shrank globally, they increased it domestically.

The world continues to suffer because of the City of London’s global corpostate agenda. Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand are all ruled through puppet governments by the City of London and are being forced to accept a “Wokeist” anti-British culture and population replacement to atone for their sins, sins perpetuated by the City of London, not by every or many British people.

The City of London is ruled by arrogant fools who have too much power and money and whose chief hobby is playing gods to the world through such social experiments as population replacement.

They don’t just replace white people. They have done population replacement for centuries, they are literally the entity behind the Atlantic Slave Trade and when this was taken away from them, their cravings for being lords over an empire of slaves shifted from brown people and black people to anyone, including white people.

Today, many of the hidden rulers in the City of London system are the wealthy and the members of the Royal families of Muslim countries. The current US President is generally allied to them even as he seems to be a force of will which they cannot control.

This regime used the accusation of whiteness to justify population replacement, while denying they meant what they said, as noted above. Yet the “crimes” that justify this racist view of the white British were perpetrated by this same power, London power.

These “crimes” were committed for the benefit of the London elites, not the British citizens.

The London Shadow State is the institution that alone bears the guilt, and they are shifting that guilt to white people in general, while dodging their own institutional guilt.

It is not fair or right to suppress, oppress, and replace white Christian British natives over historical injustices they neither participated in nor benefited from. The wealth of the British Empire fed this cabal, not the average Brit, who even now lags far behind their American offspring in economic and civil rights terms.

The global corpostate systems, one being the City of London and one being the Coastal Elites who want to turn America into a tool and host for their own global agenda, are the enemy.

White people are not evil, nor are brown and black, red or yellow people. What makes a people evil is their cultural being, not their biological being, and even then, what makes a person evil is their individual actions, not the culture they were born into.

But even where the cultures imported have proven to be evil (Pakistani Islamist culture producing child rape gangs targeting whites and Sikhs), vanquishing the real terror, the London Shadow State, will empower the white British to prosecute crimes committed against them.

Without London’s protection, even if Pakistani rape culture comes to town, its existence would be short-lived as its offenders would be imprisoned and deported already.

Attacking races will only empower London, leaving everyone left alive right where they were when they started, under a tyrant’s thumb. Let us hope the rising justified rage of the British people is turned on London and not the colonizers.

Destroy the power of London, then peacefully deport the colonists. This is the only sane and potentially successful way to preserve the British nation.

Bellwether Report – Week Ending June 5, 2026

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Originally published June 5, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By STAFF

This report covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from May 30 – June 5, 2026.

This report contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Reports.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. Iran War
  2. Henry Nowak Murder
  3. 2026 Election
  4. Trump Deportations
  5. UK Grooming Gangs
  6. AI Data Centers
  7. DNI Replacement
  8. Epstein Files
  9. Gerrymandering Wars
  10. 2020 Election Fraud

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. SAVE ACT DIES AGAIN – Thanks to four Republican Senators, efforts by the GOP to pass the SAVE Act failed once again. The Act would make Voter ID mandatory. Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) attempted to add it as an amendment to DHS funding bills, but the provision failed thanks to four GOP no votes.
  2. SENATE GOP FUNDS DHS, KEEPS TRUMP LAWFARE HOPES ALIVE – By a vote of 49-50, a vote to eliminate the formation of a future fund for lawfare victims of the Biden administration failed. The Senate GOP also managed to pass $70 billion for immigration enforcement funding through the DHS. The Senate engaged in an all-night voting session that lasted into the early morning hours.
  3. DEMOCRATS PASS UKRAINE WAR FUNDING BILL IN HOUSE – The U.S. House has passed a funding bill for the Ukraine War in the amount of $18 billion. The bill passed 226-195 with the help of 18 Republicans who crossed party lines to help the Democrats pass the funding bill.
  4. ICE HAS HAD ENOUGH IN DELANEY HALL – After days of assaults on an ICE detention center in New Jersey called Delaney Hall, ICE officers were given the green light to execute mass arrests, which they did, ending interference with operations.

Democrat leaders, including the Governor of New Jersey, continue to vilify ICE in the public, which seems to often be followed up by a round of violent actions by “protesters” who are well coordinated and well-funded. Evidence mounts that these are professional agitators who go from one “protest” to the next on someone’s dime.

  1. RESTORE DELIVERS CHILLING GROOMING GANG TESTIMONY – Restore Britian’s Rupert Lowe delivered a heartbreaking report on the national tragedy of the Pakistani child rape gang epidemic. Reform UK responded by calling the report foolish, while the other political parties called it irrelevant and pointless.

The testimonies reveal police compliance, and even participation the child rape gangs, and a barrage of testimonies on how the fear of the police even appearing to look racist led them to ignore, and also harass, the victims and their parents.

Read more about Britian’s “anti-racist ideology” conflicts in our Final Thought on pg. xx.

  1. TRUMP CHOOSES FANNIE MAC MAN TO REPLACE GABBARD – “I am appointing the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, William J. Pulte, to serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence. William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago.” – President Donald Trump

Trump initially hinted Pulte would be his permanent choice, but after pushback from within his own party, he backed off that commitment. He claimed Pulte wouldn’t want to make that type of commitment anyway.

  1. DOJ ENDS TRUMP’S LAWFARE FUND – The Department of Justice under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has announced plans to cancel the “anti-weaponization” fund aimed at compensating Americans who had been politically prosecuted by the Biden administration. The President also recently indicated he would select Blanche to become the Senate confirmed Attorney General nominee.
  2. ALABAMA REDISTRICTING UPHELD BY SCOTUS – The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld a recent redistricting map from the Alabama GOP that will eliminate the sole “majority-black” district. The ruling is another gerrymandering wars win for the GOP.
  3. APPEALS COURT PREVENTS TRANS TROOP REMOVAL – A U.S. Court of Appeals of DC panel ruled 2-1 that the President could not remove currently serving trans members of the military. The ruling also concluded the President could continue prohibiting trans people from joining. The response from the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, was “See you at SCOTUS.”
  4. GOP HOUSE PASSES RESOLUTION TO END IRAN WAR – The U.S. House voted 215 to 208 on a resolution to end the Iran War. The resolution passed with the help of four Republicans who crossed the aisle to vote against their party’s President. The vote is symbolic as it most likely would not pass the Senate, and it certainly wouldn’t be signed into law by the President.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. GOLD CONQUERS U.S. TREASURIES – The world’s top reserve asset is no longer US Treasuries, it’s gold, and that rally is being led by China, with Poland, Kazakhstan, and Brazil joining in the gold buying frenzy.
  2. TRUMP DOWNPLAYS CHINA’S ANTI-DATA CENTER AGIT PROP CAMPAIGN IN AMERICA – President Trump told the press at a White House event he does not think China is engaging in agit prop campaigning to drive Americans to not support AI Data Centers. His response suggested even if China could do such a thing, it wouldn’t be effective.
  3. TRUMP’S EUROPE RETREAT APPEARS TO BE REVERSING – After President Trump had signaled the U.S. might scale back its military presence in Europe, he is now signaling both continued troop rotations AND increases in nuclear weapons deployment.
  4. DID POLAND CRACK OPEN THE GAY MARRIAGE DOOR? – Poland’s Catholic Bishops are warning a recent court ruling recognizing foreign gay marriages will undermine Poland’s constitution, which strictly forbids it.
  5. U.S. CLAIMS SOMALIA SOVEREIGN OVER SOMALILAND – President Trump has decided to not recognize the sovereignty of the state of Somaliland. The administration went further in a report from the State Department claiming the U.S. recognizes Somalia as having sovereignty over Somaliland. The report also claims the U.S. is open to cooperating with Somaliland on security issues.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

  1. TINA PETERS FREED – “I know that the Democrats are going to cheat. No one’s really addressing the problem that I spent my time in prison as retribution for, and that was exposing the election machines that allow the votes to be flipped. I’m very concerned and burdened with why no one is talking about this.” – Tina Peters, Election Fraud Whistleblower, after being released from prison. She had been locked up for 20 months.
  2. DON LEMON CATCHES FEDERAL CHARGES – After the city of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota failed to prosecute progressive state activist Don Lemon, the Federal government has stepped in. He will face numerous Federal charges after the city AG claimed there was insufficient evidence.
  3. VA PROSECUTORS REJECT PROGRESSIVE GUN LAWS – A growing number of Virginia prosecutors have declared they will not enforce the recent spate of gun control laws passed by the newly elected Progressive government. The number is up to 13 but is expected to rise.
  4. BOLTON PLEADS GUILTY – Donald Trump’s former National Security advisor, John Bolton, will reportedly plea guilty to classified document handling charges. Bolton was an avid detractor of Trump who initially called the charges political.
  5. HUMAN MEMORY STORAGE EXPLODES IN ASTROCYTES – A brain cell previously believed to be, at best, a support cell, has turned out to be a source for human memory storage that exponentially exceeds previous models. That brain cell is called an astrocyte. The discovery was made by a team at MIT.

Gold Conquers U.S. Treasuries

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The world’s top reserve asset is no longer US Treasuries, it’s gold, and that rally is being led by China, with Poland, Kazakhstan, and Brazil joining in the gold buying frenzy.

China among top buyers as gold overtakes US Treasuries in global reserves: ECB – South China Morning Post
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China is one of the world’s largest buyers of gold as central banks shift towards the precious metal, which has overtaken US Treasuries to become the world’s top reserve asset amid higher valuations and its appeal as a geopolitical hedge, the European Central Bank said.

The world’s second-largest economy was the fourth-largest per-country buyer of gold in 2025 after Poland, Kazakhstan and Brazil, purchasing about 25 tonnes, the ECB stated. It estimated that China had bought more than 350 tonnes of gold since early 2022, more than any other country.

Gold accounted for 27 per cent of global official foreign reserves at the end of 2025. By contrast, US Treasury bonds – long considered one of the world’s safest reserve assets – fell to 22 per cent, with the euro making up 15 per cent. Those figures comprised both foreign exchange holdings and gold, the Frankfurt-based central bank said in a report this week.

Gold’s share topped Treasuries and the euro mainly because of “valuation effects”, with prices rising by about 60 per cent last year and 30 per cent in 2024, according to the report. These gains “mechanically increase the share of gold in total official foreign reserves”, the central bank said.

Situation Report – May 2026

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Originally published May 29, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Dates: 26-05-01 to 26-05-29

By BWI STAFF

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

We have selected four bellwether trends in U.S. Politics, Geopolitics, Culture, and Sci-Tech news for the month of May 2026. This report analyzes the four selected bellwether trends in each major category. It also includes a general analysis of that category.

We provide a general analysis of the markets, with a primarily American focus. We end our report with an overall assessment of the past month.

In our quarterly Situation Report, we also include a RECOMMENDED ACTION and PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS section. Our next Quarterly Situation Report is scheduled for July 10, 2026.

U.S. POLITICS

For updates on the 2026 election and gerrymandering wars, read our Deep Dive, Midterm is Coming, on pg. 2.

BACKGROUND – The White House shooting that left the shooter dead and one bystander injured was hardly a ripple in the news reporting world compared to what such an event might have been in the recent past. It seems Americans are getting so inured to violence that a man opening fire on the White House is hardly a surprise to many people anymore.

The rhetoric across America from both the “left” and the “right” is only getting more pitched, and the versions of reality each side presents is getting increasingly disconnected from one another.

What we have yet to see is any significant American movement aimed at replacing both major political parties.

1.1. PROGRESSIVE US – The Left is bifurcating along gentle transformation and radical transformation lines, with the radical transformationists becoming increasingly disenfranchised while the gentle transformationists are simply becoming feckless. Perhaps not coincidentally, the divisions are reflected in their positions on Israel and the Iran War.

The gentle transformationists support Israel and at least don’t condemning the Iran War, and the radical transformationists hate Israel and support the mullahs in Iran (more on this in our geopolitical section).

1.2. CONSERVATIVE US – The conservatives have also been dividing over Israel and the Iran War, but neither camp is attempting to create alternatives to the GOP.  They seem to be either competing for GOP power or becoming disenfranchised.

Generally, the camp growing skeptical of Trump tend to be anti-Israel. While they don’t go so far as to support the mullahs, they don’t support the decision by Trump to attack Iran in the first place. MAGA still strongly supports both Israel and the Iran War (again, more on this in our geopolitical section).

The Anti-Trump contingent took a serious beating in the midterm primaries, with more anti-Trumpers potentially at risk in the remaining primaries to come. Yet even as Trump’s faction wins elections, they lose House and Senate battles in large part thanks to that diminishing anti-Trump faction.

1.3. PROGRESSIVE MEDIA – Corporate cultural production power is continuing to aggressively undermine President Trump’s foreign and domestic policies even appearing often to sound the same as America’s enemies, including China and Iran.

They do appear to be turning back from the “woke” ideology in part, but not the “conservatives are all racists” narrative, which continues to dominate their reporting and continues to trigger violent actions by their progressive audience.

1.4. TRUMP DEPORTATIONS – While the deportations continue, so too do the Anti-Ice actions by the Democrats’ de facto street fighter army.

Conservatives are questioning the resolve of the new DHS head Markwayne Mullin after a Newark, NJ battle with street fighters that seemed to resolve in surrender by the ICE facility under attack.

The progressive media supported the assault, even supporting the participation of elected Democratic politicians in the assault, one of which got pepper sprayed. This story continues to develop and may yet lead to a future Deep Dive or special report.

The progressive media has aggressively used agit prop to fuel violence against ICE officials, though even the DOJ has failed to directly recognize the crimes that we assert are being executed everyday by the likes of CBS, NBC, and the New York Times.

The Trump administration has done little to address the use of corporate news media for illegal political activity in direct opposition to American Rule of Law, even as it directly incites violence against Federal officials, ICE agents.

They are, however, zeroing in on another branch of the Democrats’ military, the judges and the lawyers, lawfare assassins.

The Department of Homeland Security is going to start aggressively investigating “immigration attorneys” who use fraud as a means of winning cases for their clients. It’s a significant move, but hardly as significant as confronting the progressive media’s continued aggressive actions, acts of war against the American republic.

ASSESSMENT – Most Americans continue to view the political landscape through the lens of the 1990s, with the Democrats representing the poor and the disenfranchised and the Republicans representing the patriots, the hard workers, and the entrepreneurs.

Political activists, however, do not view the world through those lenses at all, but they continue to market to the non-activist Americans in the same way. Furthermore, the political reality of power has long left those paradigms.

The two major factions are now dividing and at risk of permanent balkanization, which would be good for Americans in the long run.

The capture of human political action by two institutions who have long left true American rule of law standards has prevented Americans from plainly seeing the true political reality of power in this land today.

GEOPOLITICS

BACKGROUND

1.1. IRAN WAR – So far, the economic impact of the Iran War on America has been minimal, but cuts in Chinese oil imports, along with increased U.S. oil exports have helped mitigate that impact. Chinese oil import cuts aren’t going to continue, so the current scheme to offset the effect of the war is not expected to last.

The on-again, off-again Peace Treaty is right where it was a month ago, residing between Trump claiming a deal is all but done and Iran feigning ignorance of the whole affair. Trump wants no nukes guarantees and Iran wants to keep the nuke dream alive and get back $24 billion.

The “ceasefire” continues to hold, which appears, at this point, to be code for “allow Iran to lash out at a small scale and the U.S. to respond afterwards.” In other words, the “ceasefire” is just cessation of offensive action, for the most part.

1.2. UKRAINE WAR – The month began with a brief peace truce that both  sides accused the other side of violating. The war is showing no signs of revealing a decisive victor. Drone warfare is becoming the prevailing reality, as even drone strikes are now targeting drone factories and any point of drone production, be it direct or indirect.

With Russia recently “accidently” hitting an apartment building in Romania with a drone strike that injured one person, Ukraine is hoping to instigate an expansion while the EU is attempting to pull Romania back from the brink of decisive, consequential action.

1.3. CHINA WATCH – A mine disaster in China that left at least 82 reported dead has not helped Chairman Xi quiet the roiling dissent throughout the country that seems to only be building up. A summit with President Trump yielded no significant policy shifts from either party.

China continues to grow deeper relations with European allies, with Serbia perhaps leading the way, though the citizens don’t seem to be fully onboard with that alliance. Canada is facing a CCP scandal from within. Opponents to the current government accuse it of being unduly “influenced” by the Chinese Communist Party.

China is growing increasingly wary of its AI technology being shared with others. It has ended potential foreign collaborations with Chinese AI companies, and now it is mandating stricter travel controls over its homegrown AI experts.

1.4. CUBA WATCH – After indicting the current President of Cuba, Raul Castro, the Trump administration appears poised for another Venezuela-styled invasion. Progressive live streamer Hasan Piker went to Cuba with what might be a CCP-funded progressive group called Code Pink, led by Madea Benjamin. That group, along with Hasan, is now under investigation.

Cuba’s lack of military credibility has reduced Castro’s defiance to claims he will leave the island before the U.S. can take him. While Cuba called the U.S. oil embargo an act of war through its representative in the UN, Trump is rumored to be going over the final touches of his Cuba Invasion plan.

Cuba is an essential part of China’s plan to establish a deep presence in America’s backyard.

Now that Venezuela is gone, a previous seat of backyard power for China, Cuba remains the next logical seat of backyard power for the U.S. to attempt to remove. Venezuela kept Cuba afloat with free gas, and now that pipeline has been cut off.

ASSESSMENT – Iran and Israel seem to have become foils that have created strange bedfellows worldwide, though we will use what’s happening in America as a bellwether for the dynamic being felt in almost every western nation.

In America, Iran is a growing wedge issue in both the Progressive and Conservative camp. We do want to stress, however, that MAGA is still firmly behind both the war in Iran and Trump.

For both Iran and Israel, we believe we see two groups diametrically opposed to one another who BOTH oppose the Iran War and are strongly anti-Israel.

We believe, on the conservative side, the group opposing the Iran War and Israel tends to be more strongly focused on the nationalism aspect of conservatism.

This is not to say they are nationalists, but that they view Israel and Iran as symbols of global interest being forced upon the American nation because of foreign influence over American politicians.

Some of them are former MAGA who hoped Trump would be as America First as they were, but most were already at least skeptical of Trump before he ever took office.

On the progressive side, we see the opposite, we see the more radical ecumenical nationalists (our term for progressive globalism) reading into the potential overthrow of the Iranian regime as a major blow to global order power.

That global order power is the same power they’ve relied on to build power from within America. It is the same power they’re banking on to create their ecumenical progressive nationalist state.

To the progressive, Israel is offensive for two reasons, it gives historical credence to the “Judeo-Christian story,” which is a story of an individual relationship with God, not a collective salvation story the progressive tells.

Israel also represents the best argument for an ethnic nation-state, since it was created as a safe haven for Jews following the Holocaust, the extermination of millions of Jews. So long as it thrives it continues to be an apologist for the ethnic nation-state. It preserves national sovereignties just through the model its existence upholds.

For the progressive, the only state is the global state, the only nationalism (and there will be nationalism, forced public worship of the state) is global nationalism. The only true nation-state is the global nation-state.

CULTURE

BACKGROUND

1.1. ABORTION WATCH – The abortion drug, Mifepristone, has become the tool of choice for women choosing to terminate their fetus before birth. The SCOTUS ruling this month allowing the drug to be sold through the mail preserves access to the drug even as concerns over its side effects grows.

The abortion industry is fighting hard to preserve easy access to the drug, which essentially starves the unborn fetus to death. So far, the American people continue to support the drug’s use, as well as its continued sale through the mail.

Support for the drug could gain you votes in white suburbia, while not supporting the drug could lose you votes.

Abortion continues to be a winning issue for the progressives in Suburban America, which contributes significantly to its ability to not run as what it actually is, an anti-American party, but one that allows women the “choice” to be burdened with the consequences of consensual sex, or not.

1.2. EUTHANASIA WATCH – Canada has crossed the 100K mark in its euthanasia tally after only 10 years of its legalization. Michigan is still pushing to pass a euthanasia legalization bill, but so far it still doesn’t have enough votes. The ones pushing euthanasia, worldwide, are consistently on the progressive side of the political spectrum.

1.3. TEEN TAKEOVER – The spreading of teen takeovers looks more and more like a coordinated effort to further destabilize the republic. This is not to suggest the teens are in on the conspiracy. They are teens offered an opportunity to thug, which is one many teens, of all races, might take up if given the chance.

The DC U.S. Attorney is threatening to prosecute the parents of the teens. A teen takeover in Chicago left 5 cops injured, though the Mayor refused to outright condemn the actions, and there is doubt any effective prosecution of the perpetrators will take place.

So far, we have seen no credible investigations into what might be behind the Teen Takeover trend. It is also possible it is an emergent consequence of progressive culture now asserting its “right” to take from the inventors of evil, the colonizers, the “white nation.”

We are not being hyperbolic or rhetorical. This is the type of language regularly used by Progressives youths.

It is also the rhetoric of college and public school “educators” for the last 20-plus years.

1.4. TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY – Planned Parenthood is looking to get into the transgender business, and it allegedly already has. The progressives seem to be doubling down on their insistence that government and corporate power can be used to force Americans to publicly support gender fluidity over the gender binary.

The plight of the transgendered person has become the tip of the progressive spear aimed at the 1st Amendment to the constitution, the ideational anchor that is backed by the concrete anchor, the 2nd Amendment.

California’s decision to take a child away from a parent who refused to accept the gender fluid ideology has made it clear that progressives recognize conceding on this point will undermine their whole project.

The “need” to protect the transgendered child from the tyranny of binary gender absolutism is a justification of thought control by the state. Thought control is needed to assure the weak and vulnerable are not suicided with offensive thoughts. If the 1st Amendment triumphs over the suicidal transgendered child, the progressive project is lost.

ASSESSMENT – We continue to observe that the heart of America is for abortion. While Trump promises to Make America Great Again and executes real action that existentially harms anti-American forces like the Chinese, the European global order, and the “American” progressives, his reforms never touch the core of what’s broken in America, our loss of the sense of the sacredness of the individual.

Abortion continues to be the bellwether of our nation. As our spirit goes with abortion, so too will go the fate of our nation, for a nation that can sub-humanize the unborn can sub-humanize anyone, as this nation is surely doing, from both the progressive and conservative camps of this country.

SCI-TECH

BACKGROUND

1.1. AI WATCH – It appears there is minimal care being given to create safeguards as we continue our worldwide rollout of AI machines. Industry reports have raised concerning red flags. The industry itself is fighting over whether there will or will not be an AI job apocalypse.

Around the world, the battle against the rapid deployment of the memory centers of AI Machines, the AI Data Centers, is only ratcheting up. In America, progressives have adopted a hard-anti-AI Data Center stance, while conservatives seem mostly cautious, but not overtly against them.

Conservatives are accusing the anti-DATA Center movement of being AstroTurfed by foreign influence, from China to Russia. There’s probably a fair degree of truth to that, but the organic resistance to Data Centers in America appears very real, and at the street level, outside of political activists, the resistance crosses political lines.

1.2. SOCIAL MEDIA WATCH – Worldwide, the use of children’s safety as an opportunity to replace restrictions on children is only growing. Even in America, various states are attempting similar actions, to force adults to confirm their real identity before they can go online. This continues to be the bellwether of social media freedom or social media state control.

1.3. DEFENSE TECH – The future in defense tech is AI and drones. What drones will look like, how they will function will most likely be radically different 10 years from now than they are today. By then, we may begin to see some basic archetypal drone forms emerge that offer more long-term stability in our understanding of potential future development.

1.4. SUSTAINABLE FLOURISHING – Diabetes was successfully reversed in mice with lab-grown insulin cells. Young gut bacteria was successfully used in a mouse to reverse liver aging. Long-life genes of moles could theoretically help mice live longer, a study finds. A brain spray could reverse aging while biological age can be reversed with a special diet.

ASSESSMENT – Integrating AI with drones is the most important task for any serious power in the world today. It is pushing the hastier development of AI that many predicted would happen as a result of emerging in the nation-state model of human governance.

It is only a matter of time before the supercarrier’s importance is ended. At that point, it’s a whole new worldwide military reality of power, one that we think will still heavily favor America, but in the end it might not favor humanity as a whole.

It should be coming very clear to the world powers that AI is now the new heart of military power. Battles will be won and lost in AI machines long before we see the drone manifestations of those decisions

MARKETS

The most troubling sign in our economy is the reactivation of inflation. Two inflation indicators, the CPI and the PCE Prince Index show inflation is heating back up.  This news is sure to pause any plans by the Fed to lower rates.

While jobs are being created, the growth is not high and appears to be slowing. Consumer spending is reportedly mixed but showing steadiness overall.

The next three months appear primed for relative calm, but no dynamic growth, barring geopolitical developments.

So far, the Iran War has yet to significantly touch the U.S. economy, though the inflation reactivation is most likely being affected by it.

OVERALL ASSESSMENT

The bellwether of the world is America. As America goes, the rest of the world will inevitably follow. If she goes authoritarian, the world will go authoritarian. If she embraces liberty, the world will at least move closer to liberty.

Worldwide, the old justifications for power are gone, not wholly, but overwhelmingly. Among the major powers, the old myths are dead. As we face this loss of the justification for authority, for state power, AI is changing the terms of our engagements in ways we have yet to understand (nor can we fairly predict).

Yet even AI is engaged in the same elemental battle we humans are, the battle for the new justification for state power, for without state power AI will not flourish at the large scale it is heading towards even as we create this report.

How we respond to this justification crisis will largely determine how well we will fare unleashing our new tool, AI.

What’s at stake is the heart of governance, which, under American rule of law, is justified by restraint, not by promises of ending evil or restoring past glories as the two major factions of today seem to have chosen.

Elections are not about WHAT IS but about what is marketed. This is always true to a certain degree, but never has that been truer in American than it is today, for the marketing is not based on the real arguments happening.

We are no longer talking about the poor and the needy, the good and the entrepreneurial, we are talking about much more foundational issues than these.

We are talking about human governance at its root.

There are three questions humans around the world are asking, but America might be the bellwether for how these questions will be answered for the next epoch of human being.

The first question is this: Can humans co-exist flourishingly among real biological ethnic diversity?

The second question is this: Do humans need a nation, a sovereign nation of their unique own, to thrive?

The third question is this: If not God, what is the justification for state power?

We will leave you, the reader, to answer this question for yourselves.

America’s answer has been yes to the first question, though with great contradiction and violation of its own answer.

Whether the founders pictured only white faces with “created equal” or not, the words could not be contained by their own prejudice. The seed of biological ethnic diverse cohabitation was indelibly planted.

While America says yes to the second question, it has no answer to the last question.

America’s justification for state power is the state’s demonstrated restraint in recognition of the self-agency the creator has given to the citizen. This citizen defines his own happiness and his own pursuit of happiness, for that is the agency his creator has given him.

We are not sure this sentiment is shared by even the majority of American citizens anymore. We doubt President Trump understands this, and we are certain progressives violently oppose this principle. To them, tolerance is intolerance.

The progressive also violently opposes America’s second answer, that humans need a nation, a sovereign nation of their unique own. They ostensibly oppose what they call “nationalism,” which is, more often than not simply national sovereignty.

They imagine they are not nationalists, but their ideology is much closer to nationalism than American “nationalism” is.

Nationalism is more than just national sovereignty and pride and patriotism connected to the nation. It’s forced worship of the state, which is everything to everyone all the time. It does not recognize the self-agency of the individual anymore than the progressive does.

Like the nationalists, the progressive also demands worship, worship of either the party or the movement (depending on whether you’re inside progressive institutional power or outside it).

Public action in demonstration of your enthusiastic adherence to the moral code of the party or the movement is demanded, by force, if necessary.

Their nationalism is ecumenical, but it’s still national sovereignty. It simply ends all other national sovereignties. It is the most imperialist ideology of them all.

So far, America’s political battlefields only hint at the true nature of the real battles happening, but yet where we grant power to the ecumenical nationalists/conquerors and the heaven on earth types, we consign the world to an epoch of ecumenical authoritarianism.

These types are found on both sides of America’s political divide, though neither reflect the heart of true American rule of law, for both offer conquest, revenge, heaven on earth and world domination.

It remains to be seen if we are right in assuming the vast majority of Americans reject both calls.

We continue to suspect these Americans are simply either not willing to face a difficult reality, that America’s political parties are no longer American, or are so committed to the ideal American version they have of their non-American party that they have difficulty avoiding plain truths.

They’re not hiding from truth, they’re simply unable to see it.

If we are right, more and more of these Americans will soon be unable to not see the plain reality, and American political movements will finally emerge.

Be sure to read our next Quarterly Situation Report on July 10, 2026, for a Predictive Analysis. Next week, we will feature our next installment in our Transitions series. We will be looking at the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire

Bellwether Report – May 2026

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Originally published May 29, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By STAFF

This report covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from May 1-29, 2026.

This report contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

TOP MAY 2026 NEWS TAGS

  1. 2026 Elections
  2. Iran War
  3. Gerrymandering Wars
  4. Beijing Summit
  5. Cuba Watch
  6. Teen Takeover
  7. Trump Deportations
  8. Ukraine War
  9. White House Shooting
  10. AI Planning and Design

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. RUBIO CLAIMS “OPERATION EPIC FURY” IS OVER – Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the end of “Operation Epic Fury,” claiming the offensive part of the war with Iran is over.

Rubio claimed in a White House press briefing, “The operation, Epic Fury, is concluded. We achieved the objections of that operation. This is the first step toward reopening the strait. We are doing it not only because we were asked, but because we are the only ones that can.”

For an update on the ongoing Iran War, read our Situation Report on pg. xx.

  1. MAGA WINS BIGLY IN MAY PRIMARIES – Five of the seven republican Indiana state senators that voted against a GOP redistricting measure have lost decisively to Trump-endorsed candidates in the GOP Primary. The redistricting measure would have eliminated Democrat seats in the U.S. House. Four other Trump-endorsed candidates won their primaries decisively as well.

In Texas, Senator John Cornyn was ousted in the GOP primary by Trump-endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Across the country, MAGA candidates consistently beat “moderate” and “anti-Trump candidates,” meaning the party’s leadership is becoming increasingly MAGA at the expense of the progressive GOP. Read more about Election 2026 in our Deep Dive on pg. 2.

  1. CALIFORNIA OUTLAWS UNDERCOVER JOURNALISM – California has passed its “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” which effectively creates extra civil liability for journalists exposing fraudsters through undercover journalism. The bill claims it would “prohibit a person from posting on the internet the personal information or image of a designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address.”
  2. SCOTUS JUDGE SWATTED – Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barret was swatted, according to a report by the Fairfax County Police in Virgina. Police say they responded to a call around 9pm on Wednesday May 27. Fortunately for Barrett, the protocol in this situation for local police is to contact the security assigned to protect Barrett. They quickly affirmed the call was a hoax.
  3. ABORTION PILL MAILER BAN LIFTED BY SCOTUS – After a lower court issued an injunction temporarily blocking the abortion pill from being delivered through the mail, SCOTUS has lifted the injunction. The abortion pill will continue to be available online until the matter is fully adjudicated in the courts. The ruling could make abortion an issue in the 2026 midterms. This is an issue that favors the Democrats.
  4. CRITICAL FAILS IN AI INDUSTRY EXPOSED – Two major AI security flaws have been revealed; corporations aren’t building safeguards into their AIs and there is a security vulnerability in the code itself.
  • A survey of 1,200 top-level executives has revealed that over 1/3 of organizations deploying AI have no deactivation plan should they go rogue.
  • A security code vulnerability has been revealed in the open-source framework Starlette that allows hackers to take over servers and capture sensitive data from the servers.
  1. TRUMP GETS HIS GUY IN THE FED – President Trump’s man, Kevin Warsh, is in as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell is out. The transition happened officially on Friday, May 15, 2026. Warsh was easily confirmed by the Senate, first as a Fed Governor, and then as the new Federal Reserve chair.
  2. TRUMP, XI MEET IN BEIJING – The Trump-Xi summit saw Chairman Xi claim the U.S. and China should be working together; while making it clear recognizing Taiwan was off the table. President Trump hinted at major business deals, and the progressive press largely covered the event as a victory for China over Trump. Read our News Blurb digest on the Beijing Summit.
  3. WHITE HOUSE SHOOTER DEAD, WAS REPEAT OFFENDER – The White House came under gunfire with the President working inside at the time of the shooting. The attacker was killed by secret service. One bystander was injured. The attacker was 21-year-old Nasire Best. He has a history of mental illness. He also has a history of violating White House property.
  4. BRITISH COPS LET STABBED MAN BLEED TO DEATH FOR FEAR HE MIGHT BE RACIST – The British police arrived on a bloody scene in Hampshire, England. An Englishman, Henry Nowak, aged 18, had been stabbed by a Sikh man. The man accused Henry of being racist, so the police arrested the young man, not the Sikh who stabbed him.

The young man bled out while trying to convince the police he wasn’t a racist. The Sikh has already been found guilty of the murder. The police apologized for letting the young man bleed to death because they were afraid he might be racist.

  1. ANOTHER DEMOCRAT ARRESTED FOR BEING A CCP SPY – The former Mayor of Arcadia, California has pled guilty to being a Chinese Communist Spy, Eileen Wang pled guilty to charges she cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party through a website called “US News Center.”
  2. AFTER COURT KILLS VA REDISTRICTING MAP, PROGRESSIVES LOOK TO KILL COURT – Progressives in Virginia are already strategizing how to overcome their state’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down their new redistricting map. The map would have given the progressives 4 more U.S. House seats. Now, they are looking to force retirement by lowering the retirement age of the court so they can replace the new retirees with progressive lawyers.
  3. 13. TRUMP CREATES J6 REPARATIONS FUND – President Trump has settled his lawsuit with the Department of Justice over the prosecution of himself and others through what he alleges is lawfare. The settlement requires the DOJ to create a $1.9 billion fund that will be used to compensate those prosecuted by the Biden administration for “political reasons.”
  4. U.S. SENATOR EXPOSES U.S. MUNITIONS RUNNING LOW – Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stands accused of exposing top secret information on CBS News’ Face the Nation. He was reacting after having attended a Pentagon classified briefing on the Iran War’s impact on stockpiled weapons. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is seeking legal counsel on whether charges can be brought against Kelly or not.
  5. AMERICANS REJECT DATA CENTERS – Plans by corporate and state America to rapidly build AI data centers could meet stiff resistance if a recent Gallop poll is correct. The poll shows 70% of Americans oppose Data centers, ESPECIALLY in their local regions.
  6. TULSI STEPS DOWN AFTER HUSBAND’S CANCER DIAGNOSIS – At the end of June of this year, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, will no longer be serving in that office. Gabbard has announced her intention to resign to take care of her husband, Abraham, who has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer.
  7. NYC MOB ATTACKS JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, MINIMUM ARRESTS FOLLOW – A mob of far-left progressive anti-Israel terrorists assaulted Jews as they were coming out of their NYC synagogue. When cops arrived, the mobs attacked the cops. The response from Mamdani’s office has been tepid, with only three arrests announced as a follow-up.
  8. MOSQUE ATTACK LEAVES 3 DEAD – Three men were killed by two teen shooters in an apparent anti-Islamist attack on a mosque in San Diego. One gunman later killed the other gunman before killing himself. A suicide note confirms the anti-Islamist motivation behind the attacks, according to the police.

The suspects have ties to actual Nazi and Neo-Nazi communities. They also support triggering a complete race war. No political party can claim them, as they expressed hatred of the whole political system. They were also extremely antisemitic, with supporting the eradication of the state of Israel.

  1. SPIRIT AIRLINES LOSES ITS SPIRIT – Spirit Airlines had a 34-year run that came to an end this month after the company declared bankruptcy. They shut down all operations and are now in the process of selling off their assets, including their planes.
  2. TRUMP WANTS BLANKET NDA FOR FEDERAL WORKERS – President Trump is seeking to protect his administration from criminal leaks to the press that have occurred since he first became President. The Office of Personal Management (OPM) is proposing a rule from the Trump administration that would create a blanket NDA for all 2 million Federal workers.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. U.S. AI FIRMS TO GO THROUGH GOVERNMENT SAFETY SCREEN – America’s major AI companies, including Google and Microsoft, have agreed to submit all new AI models to the Federal government’s Commerce Department for a national security safety review. This review will be conducted by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards.
  2. CHINA GATEKEEPING U.S. MILITARY FROM CHINA DEFENSE INDUSTRY THREATS – The U.S. is allegedly paying a CCP-connected firm to help identify potential stealth risks from embedding Chinese technology into the U.S. military.
  3. PARENTS LOSE CHILD TO CALIFORNIA’S TRANS POLICE – California has officially used the doctrine that a child can choose their sex to take that child away from their parents. California now wants to put the girl up for adoption after the mother lost custody of her daughter in a court ruling. It is presumed the adopting adults most agree to transition the girl to a boy if she chooses to. The girl was 15 at the time she was placed into state custody.

The girl is the daughter of a Ukrainian immigrant, Alexandra Lyaschenko, who herself is hiding in Florida to prevent the state of California from taking her son into custody as well. The state of California also wants to put her son in the foster care system because his mother refuses to allow him to transition to a girl.

  1. CCP TERRORIZES DISSENTERS ON AMERICAN SOIL – A former CCP agent told CBN News he was part of an operation to identify and silence former Chinese citizens in America who spoke out against the party. He told CBN they use threats, entrapment, and even kidnapping.
  2. ISRAEL WANTS U.S. DOLLARS OUT OF MILITARY – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to phase out U.S. financial support of its military down to zero. He stated, “I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive – we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I – I think that it’s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.”
  3. ANTHROPIC IS PUTTING OUR BANK ACCOUNTS AT RISK – Top U.S. officials, including Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury, met to discuss the growing threat Anthropic now poses on the U.S. banking industry. The threat comes from the announcement that Anthropic’s next model can beat humans in exploiting software security vulnerabilities.
  4. TRUMP HOUSE MAN MURDERED BY SUSPECTED PROGRESSIVE – The man who gained internet fame thanks to his “Trump House” has died after his neighbor punched him in the jaw. The Trump House owner was Terry Sherron, who was 69, and was also a veteran. He was murdered by 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler.

The motivation for the attack was not given, but Sherron had been complaining his flags were being stolen and vandalized. The police have not commented on the case beyond identifying the suspect and describing the event from the point of the punch being thrown and Sherron falling and hitting his head on the ground.

  1. CCP AND CANADA’S COPS HAVE SECRET SECURITY AGREEMENT – Canadians are asking questions after learning in a foreign interference trial that the Canadian Royal Mounted Police have a secret security agreement with the Chinese Communist Party. The suspicion is that Canada’s cops are enforcing CCP laws against CCP dissidents living in Canada.
  2. AMERICAN FERTILITY HITS ALL-TIME LOW, FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW – The U.S. Fertility Rate for 2025 fell from the previous low in 2024 of 53.8 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44 to 53.1 births. The U.S. birthrate fell below replacement levels shortly after the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing pre-born human termination, or abortion, as it is commonly called.
  3. CANADA REJECTS PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTIONS OVER FIRST NATIONS CLAIMS – A bid by the conservatives to get the Canadian parliament to pass a resolution recognizing private property rights in the wake of “First Nations” claims was rejected by the majority liberal party.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

  1. LABOUR ALMOST DIES, REFORM ALMOST SURGES, RESTORE IS BORN – The local election in Britin have seen Labour, the current party in power, lose 1,496 local seats, while the conservatives lost 564 seats. The big winners were Reform UK, which gained 1,451 seats, and Restore UK, which won the only 10 seats they were running for by margins more than double the second-place finisher.
  2. TRUMP OVERSEES HISTORIC VIOLENT CRIME RATE DROP – Violent crime rates in the U.S. fell by 18% between 2024 and 2025. This is a year-on-year rate decline not seen in nearly 90 years, not since 1937.
  3. AFTER FIRST SEAT WIN, DOES AUSTRALIA FINALLY HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN PARTY? – The rise of Australia’s One Nation party has culminated in the party’s first lower House seat win in the national parliament. The party emerged in response to the disenfranchisement with the major political parties, left and right, by “average” Australians. One Nation now leads in the Australin national polls as well.
  4. NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS RESCUED FROM JIHADISTS – The Nigerian government rescued 92 Nigerian Christians, including seven children, from jihadists who appeared to be attempting to enslave them.

Nigeria’s military spokesperson Sani Uba said, “Converging on the terrorists in a well-coordinated pursuit toward the Mangari-Dora general area, Operation HADIN KAI troops engaged the insurgents and forced them to abandon their captives and flee in confusion.”

  1. INDIANA SCOTUS PRESERVES ABORTION BAN – The Indiana Supreme Court rejected a Planned Parenthood petition that would have applied a Court of Appeals ruling blocking an abortion ban from taking place. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said the court “ruled in favor of office and delivered a decisive WIN for the people of Indiana and the unborn!”
  2. SICKLE CELL CURE MIGHT SOON BE ON THE WAY – If not an outright cure, a new discovery could turn Sickle Cell Anemia from a deadly and painful chronic disease to a curable, or at least manageable, disease. The discovery comes from Swee Lay Thein and Stuart Orkin.
  3. OPERATION FIREWALL SNATCHES HUNDREDS OF CALIFORNIA’S CHILD PREDATORS – The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted raids in five California counties that led to 40 children being rescued from a child trafficking operation. 341 suspected child predators were also arrested.
  4. BRAIN SPRAY COULD REVERSE BRAIN AGING – Texas A&M Scientists have developed a nasal spray that reduces inflammation in the brain. The spray is being heralded as a potential effective treatment for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients. Research leader Dr. Ashok Shetty said, “Brain age-related diseases like dementia are a major health concern worldwide. What we’re showing is brain aging can be reversed, to help people stay mentally sharp, socially engaged and free from age-related decline.”
  5. STATES MOVE TO PREVENT MORE WORSHIP SERVICE TAKEOVERS – A handful of states have passed or are attempting to pass legislation to protect worship services from political protestors. The move comes after local authorities failed to move decisively when anti-ICE protestors raided a Minneapolis church in the middle of their service to protest the pastor’s connection to ICE.

10. PERSECUTED SOUTH AFRICAN WHITES NOW ELIGIBLE FOR U.S. ASYLUM – President Donald Trump has issued an order increasing U.S. admission ceilings by 10,000 in 2026 to clear the way for

British Cops Let Stabbed Man Bleed to Death for Fear He Might be Racist

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The British police arrived on a bloody scene in Hampshire, England. An Englishman, Henry Nowak, aged 18, had been stabbed by a Sikh man. The man accused Henry of being racist, so the police arrested the young man, not the Sikh who stabbed him.

The young man bled out while trying to convince the police he wasn’t a racist. The Sikh has already been found guilty of the murder. The police apologized for letting the young man bleed to death because they were afraid he might be racist.

Police Sorry For Cuffing Dying Teen Henry Nowak, Murderer Found Guilty– www.breitbart.com
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EXCERPT:

A Sikh man who claimed to have been the victim of a racist attack has been found guilty of murder for the slaying of student Henry Nowak, the death of whom became notorious after it was revealed he was handcuffed by police and ignored while he bled to death.

A murderer who lied to police about having repeatedly stabbed a teenager, and covered for himself by telling a “wicked lie” about his victim having committed racist abuse against him, has been found guilty by a jury at Southampton Crown Court in Hampshire, England this afternoon. Police welcomed the conviction, but also apologised for having believed the knifeman’s lies, meaning Anglo-Polish victim Henry Nowak’s last conscious moments were spent handcuffed explaining that he’d been stabbed, while being told he was making it up.

After the guilty verdict was read out, it was revealed an anti-“two tier policing” protest had been called for Thursday night outside Southampton Central Police Station over the force’s reflexive instinct to believe the racism accusation while ignoring the factual stabbing report.

The jury of eight women and four men started their deliberations at lunchtime on Wednesday and found 23-year-old Vickrum Digwa guilty of murder on Thursday afternoon. Digwa was also found guilty of carrying a knife in a public place. Digwa’s mother, Kiran Kaur was also found guilty on her charge of assisting an offender by removing the murder weapon from the scene and stashing it at their family home.

The BBC reports Digwa showed no emotion as the jury reported, that Kaur was “visibly upset”, and that “sobs” could be heard from the public gallery.

Killer Digwa will be sentenced on Monday, the judge said. Mother Kaur’s sentencing is to be delayed until July 17th to allow the preparation of a pre-sentencing report, reports Sky News.

As previously reported, Nowak and Digwa met by chance in the city of Southampton on December 3rd 2025. The court heard that accountancy and finance student Nowak had been out socialising with friends from his student football team and had consumed alcohol that evening but at his time of death was not intoxicated and could have legally driven a car.

Canada Rejects Private Property Rights Protections Over First Nations Claims

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A bid by the conservatives to get the Canadian parliament to pass a resolution recognizing private property rights in the wake of “First Nations” claims was rejected by the majority liberal party.

Majority of MPs vote down Conservative motion calling for private property protection – CFJC Today Kamloops
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EXCERPT:

OTTAWA — A majority of the House of Commons voted against a non-binding motion on Monday that called on the federal government to protect private property from First Nations land claims — a political issue the Crown-Indigenous Relations minister has said is rife with partisan rhetoric.

The motion stems from a 2025 B.C. Supreme Court ruling that confirmed the Cowichan Tribes hold Aboriginal title over about 300 hectares of land in Richmond, B.C.

The ruling led to questions about how Aboriginal title and private property rights can coexist.

B.C. and the Cowichan Tribes have both said they do not want to invalidate any privately held fee simple titles on the lands covered by the court decision.

Deep Dive: The Dragon in America’s Playground – China’s Counter-U.S. Foreign Policy War

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Originally published May 15, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“If you ignore the dragon, it will eat you. If you try to confront the dragon it will overpower you. If you ride the dragon, you will take advantage of its might and power.” – Chinese Proverb

OVERVIEW

China has been aggressively attempting to drive the U.S. out of regions it once dominated. The regions we are analyzing are Africa, Western Europe (the EU nations primarily), and the Americas. For each region, China has a different foreign policy approach, but it has a few tools it uses repeatedly.

The primary tool is entanglement, a strategy that is also used to procure resources at discount prices. This involves building infrastructure that is sustained by Chinese workers, or Chinese-paid workers, offering loan packages that create mounting perpetual debt, and integrating their economy into yours through trade.

The variation of its application comes through how China leverages that power to affect policy. In the case of Africa, there is little demand on policy, beyond Taiwan, but in the Americas, China wants a little more than mere profit.

The second tool is narrative. The use of this tool is much more difficult to document and track. It warrants a report on its own. For now, we will bracket off this tool and focus primarily on economic tools, which are China’s primary overt foreign policy weapons.

This report is intended to show the reader, just through the open policies of China, just how aggressive and invasive China has been in its ongoing effort to topple the U.S. as the military hegemon of the world.

It does not touch on the clandestine operations, such as the narrative tools deployed by bots and agents, some of which become California mayors.

AFRICA

China’s approach to Africa is more pragmatic than the other two regions we will analyze. They have adopted the “Anglo model,” which trades good deals on resources for infrastructure development.

Beyond resources, China wants entanglement with markets that make it difficult, if not impossible, to allow any quick African exodus from Chinese influence. Maximally, they want that entanglement to come at the expense of the West, especially the United States.

The China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) began in 2000; In less than three decades this institution has become the backbone of China’s Africa policy.

Through this it has trained soldiers and students, and served in UN Africa missions, where the PLA accounts for more troops than any other permanent member of the UN. It is second only to France in training African students.

China’s recently announced policy packages for Africa offering zero-tariff deals for 53 African nations.

Unlike the West, including the U.S., China makes no cultural or social policy conditions on its potential African allies outside of not acknowledging Taiwan as an independent nation.

  1. RARE EARTH MINERALS – The largest reserve of cobalt reserves sits in the Democratic Republic of Congo. China’s mining firms are operating within the region, but the region itself is highly unstable.

The pushback against Chinese incursions into more rare earth mineral fields has begun, with 13 African countries now banning certain “critical” rare earth minerals from being exported, with China as the unnamed target.

China’s development of the Lithium Green Lane is attempting to monopolize the global battery supply chain. Zimbabwe, Mali, and Namibia are part of the chain. China is now developing processing or “beneficiation” plants so they can export a more finished product.

  1. SAHEL – China is on most unsteady ground in the Sahel, where efforts to align with junta governments like Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, have led to the juntas turning on the Chinese. What’s at state are more rare earth minerals, especially lithium.
  2. AFRICA AND TAIWAN – China’s One Nation policy, enforcing the notion Taiwan is a part of China, not an independent nation, is winning the day in Africa. Only two African nations, Eswatini and São Tomé and Príncipe, recognize Taiwan and sustaining diplomatic relations with them.
  3. AFRICAN ALLIES – China has three strong allies of note, Djibouti, South Africa, and Ethiopia. Djibouti is China’s most significant ally. China’s first overseas military base was built in Djibouti. It its China’s largest import point into Africa and China’s second-largest export point out from Africa.

Ethiopia is China’s “investment for bases” model. China has invested hundreds of millions of dollars building infrastructure in Ethiopia. That includes railways, communications systems, and even industrial parks. They have a tight military partnership.

The African Union Headquarters is located in Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa. It was built by China.

South Africa might be China’s most complete partner. South Africa is one of the letter countries in China’s BRICS scheme, an effort to counter the U.S. dollar’s world reserve currency status. BRICS stands for Brazile, Russia, China, and South Africa. China has bestowed on South Africa the status of “all-around strategic cooperative partnership.”

  1. AFRICAN ADVERSARIES – The only direct adversary of China in Africa is Eswanti, which is also one of only two African countries to sustain diplomatic relations with Taiwan. In response, China has severed all diplomatic relations with the country.

Eswanti is located completely within South Africa. Its geopolitical location within a strong Chinese ally gives it incentive not to support China.

Zambia isn’t a direct adversary like Eswanti, but it was the first African nation to default on its sovereign debt to China. This happened during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, Zambia is seeking relief from western authorities, though they haven’t fully broken with China either. China’s control over the nation’s mines and power grids makes that separation difficult.

  1. KENYA – Most of China’s relations with other African nations fit into some category of mixed. Kenya stands out as a bellwether of this type of relationship.

Kenya has received a lot of funding from China, which has seen a lot of infrastructure built, including their Standard Gauge Railway. But China is losing support in the country, as mounting debt to China is causing them to question their own sovereignty, a theme not uncommon with countries in this relational category.

EUROPE

China approaches Europe both as a single economic bloc and as independent nations they develop unique policies for. Underlying all their policies is efforts to tilt Europe away from America. The tension against that comes from Russia, which China has continued to support, even if not consistently aggressively.

The EU receives economic leverage in its American dealings by inviting China into their markets, and being allowed into China’s markets, but they also see China as a threat.

The long-held line is that China is an economic partner, but also a competitor, and a systemic rival. However, that last claim gets more dubious as much of Europe continues to become increasingly authoritarian.

The nations are coming closer together even as, at minimum, a plurality of people in Europe are growing increasingly hostile to these policy shifts towards Beijing’s governance model.

One wedge China has exploited recently is the “Global South” narrative, which is a narrative that a polar, or even bipolar world, created a great injustice in the global south. China uses the narrative to suggest Europe should support a multipolar world to avoid another global south injustice.

They don’t aggressively push Europe away from the U.S., they push them towards “neutrality” on the U.S.-China rivalry.

  1. HUNGARY – China’s strongest ally has been lost after Viktor Orban lost his re-election bid to EU-supporting Peter Magyar. The win immediately affected China’s power as Hungary quickly shifted from resisting aid to Ukraine to now supporting it. Hungary has been blocking many CCP-disproved policies, and now that is over.

However, Hungary’s entanglement with China is such that it cannot cleanly break away, so efforts have been made to at least normalize relations, even if Hungary is no longer going to be the CCP-s EU veto.

  1. LITHUANIA – The only clear adversary of China, Lithuania represents a spirit held by other Balkan states, like Estonia and Latvia.

Lithuania decided to recognize Taiwan, which led China to sever all ties with the nation. In response, Lithuania allowed Taiwan to create a “Taiwanese Representative Office” on its soil.

  1. GERMANY – While Germany is China’s biggest economic trade partner, the country is becoming concerned about just how dependent they now are on Chinese supply chains while China has also become an industrial competitor.

Germany is a bellwether of the risk of the entanglement strategy, especially among the citizens themselves.

  1. ITALY – China’s Belt and Road Initiative got its first home in Europe in Italy, the first G7 nation to become part of the project. However, as China moved in and projects moved forward, Italy had second thoughts. Just four years later, they would formally exit the belt and road.

While Italy still wants to trade with China, they are no longer interested in opening themselves up to the Chinese entanglement strategy.

CHINA AND THE AMERICA

Within the Americas, China is looking fundamentally to disrupt American power and shatter the mantle that the Americas are the United States’ “backyard.”

It’s approach to each nation is more wholly systemic than Europe’s policies, which are more systemic than Africa’s policies. While America is always a part of almost every relationship China forms in these three regions of the world, it’s not as prevalent as it is in the Americas.

In addition to blunting U.S. power, China also relies on Latin America for essential commodity exports. China has become the top trade partner for numerous South American countries.

In keeping with its entanglement strategy, China is also building infrastructure in Latin America, including railroads, mining operations, and energy grids.

On the Taiwan front, China has turned most of countries towards its One China policy, with holdouts in the Caribbean, including Belize, Haiti, and Saint Vincent.

Beginning in the early 2000s, China’s Belt and Road initiative started in earnest in South America, making it the number one trading partner of the whole continent. Over $140 billion in loans have been issued through the project since 2005.

As in Europe, China is also using the “Global South” narrative to push the Americas to minimally remain neutral in the U.S.-China rivalry.

However, it’s policies in the America’s took a serious hit when the United States effectively replaced a pro-Chinese regime in Venezuela with a pro-U.S. one.

  1. THE VENEZUELA SHIFT – In January 2026, the U.S. pulled off a stunning operation in the middle of the night that saw the balance of power shift in Venezuela by the time the sun rose. Pro-China President Nicolas Maduro had been seized by U.S. forces and taken to a U.S. prison where he sits today, facing numerous drug trafficking related charges.

Venezuela was the strategic crown jewel of China’s foothold strategy in South America. Through Maduro, China was given great access to the continent. Not only did China lose the foothold, they also lost roughly $60 billion the Maduro regime owed them.

The collapse of the Maduro regime has led to the end of the so-called “Bolivarian axis.” Venezuela was the lynchpin of the axis, which included Nicaragua and Cuba. As a result, Beijing is shifting to an “Institutional” strategy.

They are no longer looking to back “rogue” regimes, but instead want to rely on “institutional” democracies that submit more easily to international law.

The ability of the U.S. to snatch Maduro so easily is leading China to want to develop networks outside of U.S. observation, especially financial ones. A key development is China’s digital Yuan (e-CNY), which hopes to replace the U.S. controlled SWIFT system that most of the world uses to move currency legally.

China’s policy of avoiding military conflict with the U.S. has caused it to shift from hopes of developing a military presence openly in South America to more clandestine developments, along with continued entanglement strategies.

China also took a major surveillance hit by losing access to Venezuela’s satellite tracking stations. Overnight, it also lost access to all of Venezuela’s military ports.

The general world policy expert consensus is that this action has not finished China in the Americas, but it has forced it to take a more patient approach as it bides its time before it can sufficiently challenge the U.S. militarily.

China’s entanglement strategy in the Americas appears to have avoided the excesses in Europe and Africa. It hasn’t raised widespread local concerns of Chinese dependence, but it has made these countries unable to fully disentangle from China.

While the South American countries are not likely to challenge U.S. policy in relation to China, they’re also not likely to stop doing business with China anytime soon.

One good outcome for China is the emerging notion of the “lawlessness” of the U.S., which will open doors for China. However, its inability to offer military protection to such a key ally as Maduro somewhat blunts the opportunity, since its standing as a security protector is significantly less than it was before January 2026.

  1. PANAMA – The first major blow to China’s presence in the Americas came with Panama throwing China out as the operator of the Panama Canal. The move has pitted Panama against China directly, with the U.S. providing security.

Outside of the United States, it’s the only nation of the Americas to be in an adversarial role with China.

  1. CHINA’S AMERICAS ALLIES – Brazil, Cuba, and Peru now stand as the jewels of China’s alliance in the Americas. Of the three, Cuba stands on the precipice of being lost to China, but, for now, it is still holding on.

Brazil is the largest agriculture exporter in the world. China is the world’s largest agriculture exporter. Between the two, their volumes are so high they can bypass western standards and set their own global “green commodities” standards. This is called the “Beijing-Brasilia” effect.

Cuba offers China a military presence, which is why, in part, the U.S. is moving so aggressively to affect regime change. Cuba’s ties to China are more ideological than any other nation in the Americas, which has made the relationship an easy fit.

Peru has become maybe the most economically entangled country with China of all the nations of the Americas. The capstone of that relationship is the $1.3 billion mega-port in Chancay. It is strategically the most valuable asset China has access to in all of the Americas.

  1. COLUMBIA – Columbia is in a state of limbo when it comes to China, with 2026 elections determining the China’s fate. The country signed a belt and road agreement with China in 2025, but that deal is now in doubt. The elections happen at the end of this month, May 2026.
  2. MIXED ALLIANCES – Most of the nations of the Americas fall into the Mixed Alliance category, with Canada, Mexico, and Chile, being the bellwethers of the group.

Canada had a good relationship with China until several scandals, including accusations of election interference, caused the relationship to collapse. Now, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, has been working on mending those relations, even calling for the multipolar vision of the world China has been pitching.

Carney appears willing to use China as a blunt on President Trump’s power, but Canada’s security mistrust of China isn’t going away any time soon.

Mexico is China’s second largest regional trade partner, but one not wholly trusting of that relationship. Mexico views China as a direct goods competitor and has imposed tariffs on China to minimize its presence. Mexico’s entanglement with the U.S. insulates it from China’s full entanglement strategy.

Chile has strong economic ties to China, but it is not so keen to have China become entangled in its economy. It also favors U.S. security ties, which it also feels more ideologically aligned with. Chile remains a top 3 major partner for China in the Americas, but one kicking its heels in protest.

SUMMARY

In less than 30 years, China went from a backwater foreign policy power to one second only to the U.S. in world influence, and that claim might be disputed.

Partly on bluster and partly on real accomplishments, China has built its entanglement into multiple nations who once relied primarily on the U.S. for security and commerce. Their foreign policy is thoughtful, complex, and above all else clearly serves the best interests of China.

In 2026, China suffered two major setbacks to its foreign policy schemes, the fall of Maduro and the loss of the Panama Canal. With Iran threatening to totter, a third catastrophe could soon be on the way. Yet even if Iran were to fall, China would still have solid options to overcome the loss of Iran, and neither the Panama Canal nor Venezuela have finished them off in the Americas.

The wildcard in the China foreign policy is the state of affairs at home. No great power in the world is stable, and China is no exception. Chairman Xi’s recent purge of Generals testifies to that fact.

In some ways, it seems Xi’s foreign policy strategy is more thoughtful, more long-term in thinking, than his domestic policies are. It could be that China’s foreign policy power might be felled from within, though the next regime will hardly be left with nothing to once again resume the dream.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

China in Africa – Council on Foreign Relations

EU China Relations – European Commission

Global Implications of the U.S. military operations in Venezuela – Brookings Institute

After Maduro: Latin America reassesses the U.S.-China balance – Atlantic Council

Bellwether Report -Week Ending May 15, 2026

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Originally published May 15, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By STAFF

This report covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from May 8-15, 2026.

This report contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. Gerrymandering Wars
  2. Beijing Summit
  3. Iran War
  4. UK Local Elections
  5. Cuba Watch
  6. 2026 Elections
  7. AI Watch
  8. Ukraine War
  9. Lebanon War
  10. UK Starmer Watch

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. TRUMP GETS HIS GUY IN THE FED – President Trump’s man, Kevin Warsh, is in as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell is out. The transition happened officially on Friday, May 15, 2026. Warsh was easily confirmed by the Senate, first as a Fed Governor, and then as the new Federal Reserve chair.
  2. TRUMP, XI MEET IN BEIJING – The Trump-Xi summit saw Chairman Xi claim the U.S. and China should be working together; while making it clear recognizing Taiwan was off the table. President Trump hinted at major business deals, and the progressive press largely covered the event as a victory for China over Trump. Read our News Blurb digest on the Beijing Summit.
  3. ANOTHER DEMOCRAT ARRESTED FOR BEING A CCP SPY – The former Mayor of Arcadia, California has pled guilty to being a Chinese Communist Spy, Eileen Wang pled guilty to charges she cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party through a website called “US News Center.”
  4. MAIL-ORDER ABORTION PILL SALES TO CONTINUE – The Supreme Court of the United States upheld a pause on a 5th Circuit Court ruling that would have halted mail-order sale of the abortion pill, mifepristone. The majority gave no reason for the decision, the two in opposition, Thomas and Alito, wrote their dissents.
  5. AFTER COURT KILLS VA REDISTRICTING MAP, PROGRESSIVES LOOK TO KILL COURT – Progressives in Virginia are already strategizing how to overcome their state’s Supreme Court ruling that struck down their new redistricting map. The map would have given the progressives 4 more U.S. House seats. Now, they are looking to force retirement by lowering the retirement age of the court so they can replace the new retirees with progressive lawyers.
  6. U.S. SENATOR EXPOSES U.S. MUNITIONS RUNNING LOW – Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stands accused of exposing top secret information on CBS News’ Face the Nation. He was reacting after having attended a Pentagon classified briefing on the Iran War’s impact on stockpiled weapons. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is seeking legal counsel on whether charges can be brought against Kelly or not.
  7. ICE MIGHT HAVE YOUR PERSONAL DATA SOON – Immigrations and Customs Enforcement have been using a Palantir tool to track far more than illegal aliens, critics allege. ICE has over 20 million people worldwide in a database that some suspect includes American citizens.
  8. AMERICANS REJECT DATA CENTERS – Plans by corporate and state America to rapidly build AI data centers could meet stiff resistance if a recent Gallop poll is correct. The poll shows 70% of Americans oppose Data centers, ESPECIALLY in their local regions.
  9. PAKISTAN PLAYS MODERATOR WHILE SIDING WITH IRAN – New evidence has revealed Pakistan has been allowing the Iranians to park their warplanes in its territory for safekeeping. Pakistan is currently playing the role of mediator in ceasefire negotiations between Iran and the U.S. (and Israel).
  10. IF KIM IS KILLED, NORTH KOREA NUKES, CONSTITUTION SAYS – North Korea’s constitution has been changed to compel the nation to launch a nuclear attack should their leader, Kim Jung Un, get killed.
  11. NYC MOB ATTACKS JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, MINIMUM ARRESTS FOLLOW – A mob of far-left progressive anti-Israel terrorists assaulted Jews as they were coming out of their synagogue. When cops arrived, the mobs attacked the cops. The response from Mamdani’s office has been tepid, with only three arrests announced as a follow-up.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. ISRAEL WANTS U.S. DOLLARS OUT OF MILITARY – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to phase of U.S. financial support of its military down to zero. He stated, “I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive – we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I – I think that it’s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.”
  2. IRAN HAS FOUR MONTHS LEFT, WASHINGTON POST CLAIMS – A Washington Post report claiming one CIA analysis gave Iran 4 months to withstand the blockade on its country. A senior intelligence official called those claims false. The unnamed official also claimed the blockade “is inflicting real, compounding damage, severing trade, crushing revenue, and aceleating systemic economic collapse.”
  3. ANTHROPIC IS PUTTING OUR BANK ACCOUNTS AT RISK – Top U.S. officials, including Scott Bessent, the Secretary of the Treasury, met to discuss the growing threat Anthropic now poses on the U.S. banking industry. The threat comes from the announcement that Anthropic’s next model can beat humans in exploiting software security vulnerabilities.
  4. CCP AND CANADA’S COPS HAVE SECRET SECURITY AGREEMENT – Canadians are asking questions after learning in a foreign interference trial that the Canadian Royal Mounted Police have a secret security agreement with the Chinese Communist Party. The suspicion is that Canada’s cops are enforcing CCP laws against CCP dissidents living in Canada.
  5. DID CHATGPT COMMIT MANSLAUGHTER? – A Texas couple is suing OpenAI, alleging their product, ChatGPT, led to their son’s overdosing on drugs after following the AI platform’s advice.

OpenAI released this statement, “This is a heartbreaking situation, and our thoughts are with the family… ChatGPT is not a substitute for medical or mental health care, and we have continued to strengthen how it responds in sensitive and acute situations with input from mental health experts…”

  1. RESEARCH LAB RUN BY AI – A medical research lab in Tokyo is being entirely run by AI. The Institute of Science Tokyo’s Yushima campus developed and runs the All-AI lab.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

  1. LABOUR ALMOST DIES, REFORM ALMOST SURGES, RESTORE IS BORN – The local election in Britin have seen Labour, the current party in power, lose 1,496 local seats, while the conservatives lost 564 seats. The big winners were Reform UK, which gained 1,451 seats, and Restore UK, which won the only 10 seats they were running for by margins more than double the second-place finisher.
  2. TRUMP OVERSEES HISTORIC VIOLENT CRIME RATE DROP – Violent crime rates in the U.S. fell by 18% between 2024 and 2025. This is a year-on-year rate decline not seen in nearly 90 years, not since 1937.
  3. AMERICA SAYS NO TO UN PLANVASION – The American State Department released two recent statements that break with the mass migration strategy of the UN. One release made it clear America stands in direct opposition to the plan, and one exposes how the UN is working to “assure” Britian’s recent “migrants” aren’t deported.
  4. AFTER FIRST SEAT WIN, DOES AUSTRALIA FINALLY HAVE AN AUSTRALIAN PARTY? – The rise of Australia’s One Nation party has culminated in the party’s first lower House seat win in the national parliament. The party emerged in response to the disenfranchisement with the major political parties, left and right, by “average” Australians. One Nation now leads in the Australin national polls as well.
  5. LIVING LONGER THROUGH OTHER MAMMALS’ GENES – An experiment at the University of Rochester shows the long-life genes of moles could be transplanted to mice, producing mice that live longer than average mice.

Rochester University’s Biology and Medicine Professor Vera Gorbunova explained, “Our study provides a proof of principle that unique longevity mechanisms that evolved in long-lived mammalian species can be exported to improve the lifespans of other mammals.”

  1. PA SCOTUS JUDGE NIXES DEMS OVER ISRAEL – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht has announced his intentions to leave the Democrat Party. He accused them of being antisemitic. He stated, “… acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party. I can no longer abide this. So, I won’t. I am no longer registered with any political party,”
  2. INDIANA SCOTUS PRESERVES ABORTION BAN – The Indiana Supreme Court rejected a Planned Parenthood petition that would have applied a Court of Appeals ruling blocking an abortion ban from taking place. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said the court “ruled in favor of office and delivered a decisive WIN for the people of Indiana and the unborn!”

 

Trump, Xi Meet in Beijing

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Xi praises US ‘milestone’ visit and relationship, offers Trump roses | Donald Trump– www.aljazeera.com
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NewsFeed

US President Donald Trump was struck by the size of the roses during a tour of Zhongnanhai gardens in Beijing, so President Xi Jinping offered to send him some.

Xi praised the new ‘constructive and strategic’ relationship with the US, before Trump concluded his China trip.

Trump touts business wins as China airs Iran, Taiwan concerns– japantoday.com

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U.S. President Donald Trump entered his final talks with Xi Jinping on Friday touting economic wins that gave markets little to cheer, while Beijing warned Washington about mishandling Taiwan and said its war with Iran should never have started.

Trump is making the ‌first visit by a U.S. president to China, America’s main strategic and economic rival, since his last in 2017, and has been seeking tangible results to beef up his dented approval ratings ahead of crucial midterm elections.

“We’ve made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries,” Trump said, seated beside Xi in a decorative red armchair at the opulent Zhongnanhai complex, a former imperial ‌garden that houses the offices of Chinese leaders.

China Prepared to Invest ‘Hundreds of Billions’ in US Companies After Xi Meeting › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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President Donald Trump said Thursday that China plans to pour “hundreds of billions of dollars” into American companies led by executives who joined him during high-level meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Speaking during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Trump said the executives accompanying him to China were there to secure economic opportunities that could ultimately bring jobs back to the United States.

“Those business people are here to make deals and to bring back jobs,” Trump said. “China’s going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars with those people that were in that room today.”

Seized ship taken toward Iran as Trump and China’s Xi agree Strait of Hormuz “must remain open”– www.cbsnews.com

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In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity Thursday from Beijing, President Trump said that during their summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping assured him that China would not provide military equipment to Iran for its war in the Middle East.

Asked by Hannity how big of a discussion the two leaders had regarding China’s support for Iran, Mr. Trump responded, “We discussed it. When you say support, they’re [China] not fighting a war with us or anything.”

According to Mr. Trump, Xi told him that he’s “not going to give [Iran] military equipment. That’s a big statement. He said that today. That’s a big statement. He said that strongly.”

Body language expert spots Xi Jinping’s subtle ‘power move’ in Trump handshake | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping came face to face outside China’s Great Hall of the People, the pair exchanged a historic handshake, with this opening moment laying bare the nature of their relationship — a body language expert asserting that Xi holds the upper hand.

The two leaders sat down for two hours of talks on Thursday, May 14, with the entire world looking on as Xi hailed US-China relations as the world’s “most important” and Trump declared the discussions “extremely positive”.

From the very beginning of the visit, the power dynamic between the two men has been unmistakable, according to body language expert Louise Mahler, who argued “if life is a competition, for me, Xi won.”

Trump says China ‘impressed’ by Iran war, hints at Beijing buying US oil– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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President Donald Trump claimed that Chinese President Xi Jinping was “impressed” by the U.S.’s performance in its war with Iran and that it may soon resume imports of oil from the United States.

Speaking with Fox News’s Sean Hannity after his meeting with the Chinese leader, Trump expressed his belief that a good relationship with the other superpower was a good thing and that positive relationships with “very powerful” countries are desirable. He then suggested the view was mutual vis-a-vis China and that Beijing gained further respect for the U.S. during the war with Iran.

After boasting of successes in Venezuela and Iran, Trump said he and Xi spoke about the matter at their meeting.

China Humiliated Trump And Now He’s In A Damage Control Frenzy– www.politicususa.com

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The Trump/Xi meetings in China were private. It appears that there were no big breakthroughs and “wins” for Trump to bring back to the United States.

Trump tried to flatter the Chinese leader, who responded with threats about Taiwan.

The Trump trip, where he took a bunch of the world’s richest CEOs with him, appears to have been a total bust on all fronts. Republicans were hoping that Trump would have another one of his fake deals with China to announce that would help to get farmers who are being devastated by the president’s toxic combo of war and tariffs off their backs, but there was no big announcement.

Trump touts “fantastic trade deals” after meeting with China’s Xi– www.cbsnews.com

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President Trump said Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping made some “fantastic trade deals” and both want the Iran conflict to end during this week’s summit in Beijing, as both countries look to claim the visit as a win — and aim to keep their relationship on a stable footing after last year’s trade war.

The leaders of the two superpowers are holding a bilateral meeting and lunch at China’s seat of power — the Zhongnanhai Garden compound — late Friday morning local time, before Mr. Trump leaves China and heads back to Washington. They met for tea and walked around the centuries-old gardens, mostly out of earshot of reporters.

Trump Says China Agreed To Buy 200 Boeing Jets– www.ndtv.com

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President Donald Trump said Thursday that China had agreed to purchase 200 Boeing jets, speaking of an order for “200 big ones” in a broadcast interview. 

“It was sort of like a statement but I think it was a commitment,” Trump said, describing his conversation with President Xi Jinping in a Fox News interview.

“That’s a lot of jobs,” Trump told Fox host Sean Hannity in excerpts released by the broadcaster.

Shares fell after the spots were released.

Trump to Confront Xi as China Provides Iranian Military Aid, Helping Them Target US Forces– www.cbn.com

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TAIPEI, Taiwan – President Trump is in Beijing for high-stakes talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The president is expected to confront Xi over China’s support of Iran.

The Chinese leader is sending a strong message of his own, challenging U.S. policies on Taiwan.

But the war with Iran especially looms large as the two leaders meet, with President Trump expected to press Xi over China’s support for Tehran.

“You’ve got to remember, China is supporting everything to Iran that it needs in this war except combat personnel. It is a comrade in arms. It is an enemy combatant,” said Gordon Chang, with Gatestone Institute.

Trump-China visit live: Xi calls for US and China to be ‘partners not rivals’ as high-stakes summit begins– www.independent.co.uk

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Xi Jinping warned Donald Trump that tensions over Taiwan could push the US and China towards “clashes and even conflicts”, according to Chinese state media reports on their closed-door meeting in Beijing.

According to a readout published by Xinhua, Xi told Trump that if the Taiwan issue is “handled well”, relations between the two countries could maintain “overall stability”.

But he cautioned that mishandling the issue would place the wider US–China relationship in “great jeopardy”.

China’s Xi warns Trump about “conflicts” if Taiwan isn’t “handled properly”– www.cbsnews.com

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Chinese President Xi Jinping had stern words for President Trump on Taiwan as they met in Beijing on Thursday, warning of potential “clashes and even conflicts” if the issue isn’t “handled properly,” according to Chinese state media.

During their summit, the two leaders are seen as aiming to stabilize their trading relationship after last year’s trade war. They’re also grappling with uncertainty over the United States’ war with Iran. But the issue of Taiwan loomed large.

The closed-door session lasted roughly two hours and 15 minutes. The White House characterized the meeting as “good.”

DW News. . US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on a Chinese sanctions list for allegedly being a “vanguard of anti-China sentiment.” But does this mean Rubio will have to sit out US President Trump’s planned trip to Beijing? #dwasia – facebook.com

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DW News. . US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on a Chinese sanctions list for allegedly being a “vanguard of anti-China sentiment.” But does this mean Rubio will have to sit out US President Trump’s planned trip to Beijing? #dwasia  facebook.com
from news.google.com

Trump Wants to Delay Beijing Summit to Focus on Iran – RedState– redstate.com

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Blurb:

President Trump is hitting pause on his highly anticipated summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of March and is telling Beijing that it can wait a month as his team focuses on the conflict in Iran and their attempts to disrupt shipping in the crucial waterway of the Strait of Hormuz.

China has been keeping its cards close to the vest as it has warily watched U.S. forces take out most of the senior Iranian leadership in the last 17 days with Operation Epic Fury. Trump, meanwhile, has worked since the beginning of his administration to rebalance the rules of trade between the two powerful countries, as he believes the deck has long been stacked in the People’s Republic’s favor:

The summit was meant to focus on trade, as both Trump and Xi seek to extend a delicate tariff truce between the world’s two biggest economies. But China showed little immediate sign that it was bothered by the likely delay, which analysts told NBC News may actually prove beneficial to efforts to further stabilize relations.

Trump said Monday that his China trip planned for later this month could be postponed because of the war, telling reporters in Washington, “I think it’s important that I be here.” But his administration has not confirmed that the trip is delayed or shared more specific dates for when it would be rescheduled.

Bellwether Digest – Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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By STAFF

This digest covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from May 11-12, 2026.

This digest contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. Gerrymandering Wars
  2. Iran War
  3. UK Local Elections
  4. Election 2026
  5. Progressive Virginia

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. ANOTHER DEMOCRAT ARRESTED FOR BEING A CCP SPY – The former Mayor of Arcadia, California has pled guilty to being a Chinese Communist Spy, Eileen Wang pled guilty to charges she cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party through a website called “US News Center.”
  2. PURGE THE COURTS, VA PROGRESSIVES SAY – After the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a new congressional district map that eliminated four GOP seats, progressives want to purge the court and replace it with more loyal progressives. The plan is to lower the mandatory retirement age of judges to below the youngest member of the VA Supreme Court so they can put progressive activists in to take their place.
  3. NYC MOB ATTACKS JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, MINIMUM ARRESTS FOLLOW – A mob of far-left progressive anti-Israel terrorists assaulted Jews as they were coming out of their synagogue. When cops arrived, the mobs attacked the cops. The response from Mamdani’s office has been tepid, with only three arrests announced as a follow-up.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. ICE MIGHT HAVE YOUR PERSONAL DATA SOON – Immigrations and Customs Enforcement have been using a Palantir tool to track far more than illegal aliens, critics allege. ICE has over 20 million people worldwide in a database that some suspect includes American citizens.

DHS told 404 Media, “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is committed to achieving the nation’s mandate to clear the backlog of illegal aliens who pose a threat to the security of our communities. Like other law enforcement agencies, ICE employs various forms of technology while respecting civil liberties and privacy interests.”

  1. CCP AND CANADA’S COPS HAVE SECRET SECURITY AGREEMENT – Canadians are asking questions after learning in a foreign interference trial that the Canadian Royal Mounted Police have a secret security agreement with the Chinese Communist Party. The suspicion is that Canada’s cops are enforcing CCP laws against CCP dissidents living in Canada.
  2. DID CHATGPT COMMIT MANSLAUGHTER? – A Texas couple is suing OpenAI, alleging their product, ChatGPT, led to their son’s overdosing on drugs after following the AI platform’s advice.

OpenAI released this statement, “This is a heartbreaking situation, and our thoughts are with the family… ChatGPT is not a substitute for medical or mental health care, and we have continued to strengthen how it responds in sensitive and acute situations with input from mental health experts…”

PEOPLE ADVANCE

  1. PAKISTAN PLAYS MODERATOR WHILE SIDING WITH IRAN – New evidence has revealed Pakistan has been allowing the Iranians to park their warplanes in its territory for safekeeping. Pakistan is currently playing the role of mediator in ceasefire negotiations between Iran and the U.S. (and Israel).
  2. AMERICA SAYS NO TO UN PLANVASION – The American State Department released two recent statements that break with the mass migration strategy of the UN. One release made it clear America stands in direct opposition to the plan, and one exposes how the UN is working to “assure” Britian’s recent “migrants” aren’t deported.
  3. PA SCOTUS JUDGE NIXES DEMS OVER ISRAEL – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht has announced his intentions to leave the Democrat Party. He accused them of being antisemitic. He stated, “… acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common among activists, leaders and even many elected officials in the Democratic Party. I can no longer abide this. So, I won’t. I am no longer registered with any political party,”

 

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Bellwether Digest – Week Ending May 8, 2026

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Originally published May 8, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

 

By STAFF

This digest covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from May 1-7, 2026.

This digest contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

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TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. 2026 Elections
  2. Iran War
  3. Gerrymandering Wars
  4. China US
  5. Strait of Hormuz
  6. Epstein Files
  7. Trump Deportation
  8. Ukraine War
  9. Judgefare
  10. Anti-ICE Action

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. RUBIO CLAIMS “OPERATION EPIC FURY” IS OVER – Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the end of “Operation Epic Fury,” claiming the offensive part of the war with Iran is over.

Rubio claimed in a White House press briefing, “The operation, Epic Fury, is concluded. We achieved the objections of that operation. This is the first step toward reopening the strait,” he added. “We are doing it not only because we were asked, but because we are the only ones that can.”

  1. WALL STREET IGNORES IRAN’S UNCERTAINTY – While the signals from Iran continue to be conflicting and often changing from one moment to the next, the U.S. stock market seems to have adapted to this uncertainty.

The Strait of Hormuz remains unopened, mostly, and the President does not seem hard-pressed to settle on a ceasefire or resume “offensive” actions.

After Iranian small vessels attacked U.S. destroyers, only to be repelled, the President claims the ceasefire is still in effect. Strikes against Iranian military instillations have been called retaliatory in response to the U.S. destroyer attack.

  1. MAGA WINS BIGLY IN INDIANA – Five of the seven republican Indiana state senators that voted against a GOP redistricting measure have lost decisively to Trump-endorsed candidates in the GOP Primary. The redistricting measure would have eliminated Democrat seats in the U.S. House. Four other Trump-endorsed candidates won their primaries decisively as well.
  2. BOND FOR ILLEGALS SAYS APPEALS COURT – The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 most illegals should get bond releases while awaiting deportation hearings.
  3. ABORTION PILL MAILER BAN LIFTED BY SCOTUS – After a lower court issued an injunction temporarily blocking the abortion pill from being delivered through the mail, SCOTUS has lifted the injunction. The abortion pill will continue to be available online until the matter is fully adjudicated in the courts. The ruling could make abortion an issue in the 2026 midterms. This is an issue that favors the Democrats.
  4. SPIRIT AIRLINES LOSES ITS SPIRIT – Spirit Airlines had a 34-year run that came to an end this month after the company declared bankruptcy. They shut down all operations and are now in the process of selling off their assets, including their planes.
  5. OMAR THUMBS STATE INQUIRY – Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is under investigation for suspicion of fraud by the state of Minnesota. She failed to meet a deadline to turn over documents related to that investigation.
  6. SENATE HOPEFUL ARRESTED FOR THREATENING TO KILL TRUMP – Raymond Chandler III of Alleghany County, PA was a Democrat U.S. Senate candidate until he was arrested for threatening to murder President Trump. His plan was to threaten a U.S. Senator’s daughter if the Senator didn’t walk into the oval office and assassinate President Trump.
  7. DYING GAMESTOP GRABS FOR EBAY – As GameStop continues to struggle to stay afloat, it looks to make a $56 billion bid to buy eBay. The problem is they cannot show how they could pay for it.
  8. PROGRESSIVE HOUSE MEMBER CONFESSES – Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) publicly confessed to working with foreign governments to undermine U.S. policy in Cuba.

She declared, “I was in conversations with the ambassadors from Mexico and some other places, other countries in Latin America trying to figure out how to get oil there. I’ve called these sanctions an economic bombing of the infrastructure of Cuba.”

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. U.S. AI FIRMS TO GO THROUGH GOVERNMENT SAFETY SCREEN – America’s major AI companies, including Google and Microsoft, have agreed to submit all new AI models to the Federal government’s Commerce Department for a national security safety review. This review will be conducted by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards.
  2. HOMESCHOOLERS FACE CPS CALL IN CONNECTICUT – If you want to take your child out of the public school system in Connecticut, your family will be subject to a visit from the Department of Children’s Protective Services.

The bill requiring a CPS visit for homeschoolers passed the Connecticut legislature. Homeschoolers successfully stopped the curriculum requirement from being added to the now-passed bill. The governor is expected to sign the new requirement into law.

  1. CHINA GATEKEEPING U.S. MILITARY FROM CHINA DEFENSE INDUSTRY THREATS – The U.S. is allegedly paying a CCP-connected firm to help identify potential stealth risks from embedding Chinese technology into the U.S. military.
  2. CCP TERRORIZES DISSENTERS ON AMERICAN SOIL – A former CCP agent told CBN News he was part of an operation to identify and silence former Chinese citizens in America who spoke out against the party. He told CBN they use threats, entrapment, and even kidnapping.
  3. EPSTEIN RANCH WAS EUGENICS PARADISE? – New leaked Epstein Files point to forced pregnancies of teens in Eugenics experiments conducted on Epstein’s ranch, Zorro Ranch.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

  1. LABOUR VAPORIZED IN LOCAL UK ELECTIONS – Reform UK look to be the biggest winners after a round of local elections in the UK, while Labour and the Conservatives were the biggest losers. Reform UK will gain almost 400 local seats while Labour will lose at least 250. The Conservatives could finish with similar results to Labour.

Rupert Lowe’s Restore Party failed to win a single local seat in Greater Yarmouth, the one locality his party was able to field a full slate of candidates. This is also Lowe’s home seat as the sole MP for the party.

Final Results will not be posted before this issue is finalized for publication.

  1. SICKLE CELL CURE MIGHT SOON BE ON THE WAY – If not an outright cure, a new discovery could turn Sickle Cell Anemia from a deadly and painful chronic disease to a curable, or at least manageable, disease. The discovery comes from Swee Lay Thein and Stuart Orkin.
  2. FLORIDA GOP GERRYMANDERING MAP SIGNED – Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a new U.S. House redistricting plan that will give the GOP 4 more seats. The law was immediately challenged in state and federal courts.
  3. AMERICA’S EUROPEAN TROOP CUTS BEGIN – President Donald Trump announced a 5,000 troop cut in Germany, adding more is to come. He said, “We’re going to cut way down. And we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000.”
  4. ALBERTA WANTS TO LEAVE CANADA – Leaders of the separatist movement of Canada’s western province Alberta claim to have enough signatures to trigger a vote on separation from Canada.
  5. KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT HOME EVEN WHEN YOU BUY ONLINE – Harvard has created a digital open-source wallet that keeps your private data from being shared online. The digital wallet keeps your personal data on your phone, validating your purchases without relying on a third-party source to do so.
  6. TRUMP GIVES TEEN FIGHTING CHANCE AGAINST CANCER – A 15-year-old teen boy from Louisiana was running out of options in his fight against cancer. A viral video brought his plea to President Trump, who promptly moved to get the boy the special treatment he needs to continue his fight for life.

Israel Wants U.S. Dollars out of Military

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to phase of U.S. financial support of its military down to zero.

He stated, “I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have,” he said. “Because we receive – we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I – I think that it’s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.”

Netanyahu says Israel should draw US financial support ‘down to zero’– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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EXCERPT:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he wants to immediately begin phasing out American financial support for Israel’s military in a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night.

Netanyahu said he wants to draw that aid “down to zero” and do so during the current Congress, adding that he’s said this to President Donald Trump.

Bellwether Digest – Thursday, May 7, 2026

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By STAFF

This digest covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from May 6-7, 2026.

This digest contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. 2026 Elections
  2. Gerrymandering Wars
  3. Iran War
  4. Trump Deportations
  5. AI Markets

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. WALL STREET IGNORES IRAN’S UNCERTAINTY – While the signals from Iran continue to be conflicting and often changing from one moment to the next, the U.S. stock market seems to have adapted to this uncertainty.

The Strait of Hormuz remains unopened, mostly, and the President does not seem hard-pressed to settle on a ceasefire or resume “offensive” actions.

  1. BOND FOR ILLEGALS SAYS APPEALS COURT – The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 most illegals should get bond releases while awaiting deportation hearings.
  2. PROGRESSIVE HOUSE MEMBER CONFESSES – Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) publicly confessed to working with foreign governments to undermine U.S. policy in Cuba.

She declared, “I was in conversations with the ambassadors from Mexico and some other places, other countries in Latin America trying to figure out how to get oil there. I’ve called these sanctions an economic bombing of the infrastructure of Cuba.”

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. KIM DROPS UNITY – North Korea is no longer seeking unity with South Korea. It was once a part of their constitution, but now that article has been dropped.
  2. SUPERCARRIER OCTOBER – There is a growing realization by many that the U.S. Supercarrier is no longer the decisive military advantage it once was. Now, more analysts are coming down on the side that claims the supercarrier’s days are gone or soon will be.
  3. SCIENTISTS FIND ANOTHER DNA LAW BREAKER – Scientists have discovered an example in nature of genetic exchange of information through DNA that defies their understanding. A microscopic organism’s genetics was able to reassign gene-stopping signals to amino acids, a feat not imagined possible for life before this observation.

PEOPLE ADVANCE

  1. 2020 ELECTION FRAUD EVIDENCE STAYS – A motion by Fulton County election officials to have the 2020 ballots seized by the FBI returned has been denied by a Federal Judge, meaning the case will go on.
  2. VIRGINIA’S GERRYMANDER CHAMPION RAIDED BY FBI – The woman behind the Virginia special election to effectively eliminate 4 GOP U.S. House seats is now under FBI investigation. Virginia’s State Senator L. Louise Lucas saw her offices raided, along with other businesses connected to her.

So far, only anonymous sources are cited as claiming this is connected to a corruption investigation directly linked to her. She is considered the main driver of the Virginia gerrymander election plan that is currently under legal scrutiny.

Stories We Are Watching:

On Our Radar:

Wall Street Ignores Iran’s Uncertainty

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While the signals from Iran continue to be conflicting and often changing from one moment to the next, the U.S. stock market seems to have adapted to this uncertainty.

The Strait of Hormuz remains unopened, mostly, and the President does not seem hard-pressed to settle on a ceasefire or resume “offensive” actions.

There continues to be troubling signs for the world economy should the Strait of Hormuz continue to remain unopened, especially for Europe, but so far, the U.S. has yet to feel the pinch, save for at the gas pump.

Iran War Live Updates: Tehran and U.S. Offer Conflicting Messages on State of Negotiations– www.nytimes.com
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President Trump said his administration had had “very good talks” with Tehran in the last 24 hours. An Iranian official said an American plan to end the war was under review. Israel struck targets near Beirut.

Deep Dive Report – 26-05-01 – Trump’s Dinner Theater

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Originally published May 1, 2026 for our monthly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Staff

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it.

‘Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish? Punishing itself is terrible.’ With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil

INTRODUCTION

Last week, we did a deep dive on the Iran War, which could be considered our deep dive of the month even considering the attempted assassination of the Trump administration at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

By itself, the attempted shooting did not reach the room the President was in, so the seriousness of the attack was considerably lower compared to Pennsylvania’s attempt. But connected to this story is the story of splitting narratives, conservative ones and progressive ones, that are increasingly giving permission to take matters into your own hands, for the good of the whole.

In this story, we are focused on progressive violence, but we suspect we might soon be doing a report on conservative violence (though it hasn’t happened at any significant scale yet, and we certainly pray it doesn’t happen, for it is not predestined to happen).

So, our Bellwether of the month is really progressive violence, which is systemic, from street fighter to top Democrat Politician, but that violence is the result of their national framing. Within the progressive framework, conservatives, Americans, the staff of MIA, are all in a category of systemic violence that gives progressives permission, even compulsion, to violently respond to us.

Our very institutions commit social murder, which makes us all eligible for death.

Progressives can assume they are not violent for, in their minds, they are only responding to violence.

In America, a homosexual can expect to hear a person of influence boldly say on a major national platform that homosexuality is a sin without fear of being economically assassinated as a result.

In Progressive US, that person might go to jail.

If the law doesn’t send him to jail and even allows him to continue to have a public presence, then the progressive is compelled by their moral code to use violence to end the systemic violence that person is perpetuating against a disenfranchised class of people. This is their government, not the constitution.

A hierarchy of social class informs their governance code. It is the prescription for the description, that the white devil invented evil, and his continued existence is an existential threat to the planet and the non-evil people, the POC (person of color).

In America, a person can expect no significant consequences for publicly declaring support for Hamas and opposing Israel. In Conservative US, that person might lose their college career. If authority doesn’t gatekeep this person, the conservative will not take the matter into their own hands (yet). Their government is the constitution, not hierarchies of social class.

For the progressive, every objection to their program can be rooted to white supremacism. This is not hyperbole; this is observable fact. Recently, progressive Governor Tim Walz called a conservative journalist’s efforts to expose fraud in his state nothing but dog whistles to white supremacism.

For this reason, we are making Progressive Violence as seen through the bellwether event, the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting, our bellwether of the month.

Our Deep Dives now generally follow a Situation Report format, though you will get more analysis and opinion within the Background and Current Situation section than you will in our Situation Reports (like the one in this issue on pg. xx).

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

On April 26, 2026, around 8:30PM, a man attempted to break into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his administration.

Leading up to the shooting, this publication recently surmised the polarization between Progressives and Americans was only deepening, as the rhetoric from progressives was becoming increasingly violent.

Now, even conservatives are expressing fatalistic finality in response. While Progressives want acts of violence, conservatives do too, in the form of arrests that produce convictions, which is how conservatives are currently expressing their violent response, for now.

The aftermath of the shooting has seen further divides and further disconnects from one another’s’ realities, as both major factions, the progressives and conservatives, double down on their own narratives.

At this point this attempted assassination was like a pre-season NFL game because the shooter didn’t come close to the President and no blood was drawn.

BACKGROUND

The shooter’s manifesto would reveal a profound connection between the framing of reality by the most rhetorically violent progressives and the shooter’s heart. The fact that the shooter was a schoolteacher who won a “Teacher of the Month” award reveals he is also a bellwether of the public school system under progressive stewardship.

If true, this would suggest more “shooters” have already been programmed either through the teacher training and screening process or through the progressive-trained-and-screened teachers’ teachings.

THE PROGRESSIVE RHETORIC – This publication has documented the recent history of progressive rhetoric becoming increasingly hostile. This rhetoric started with the two phrases, “Punch a Nazi” and “Freedom of Speech doesn’t mean Freedom from Consequences” right as President Trump announced his candidacy for President in 2015.

Here we present two recent bellwethers in April of progressive rhetoric, along with a mention of the shooter’s manifesto which reflects progressive talking points. For more on progressive rhetoric, go deeper on progressive violence.

1.1. HASAN PIKER – Days before the attempted assassinations, progressive thought leader Hasan Piker said in response to a caller on a podcast that it was ok to kill landlords that don’t rent their properties. He said, “Yeah, kill them. Kill those mother f*ckers. Murder those mother f*ckers in the street. Let the streets—let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood, dude.”

1.2. JIMMY KIMMEL – Progressive corporate spokesperson Jimmy Kimmel joked on his show days before the attempted assassinations that Melania Trump looked like an expectant widow. Under normal circumstances, the comment could be dismissed as being distasteful but innocuous.

We are not living under normal circumstances. In the wake of numerous recent acts of political violence, it seems ill-timed at the very least. It is not unreasonable to assume something worse, though proving that legally might be nearly impossible.

1.3. RECEIPTS – Shortly after the shooting, progressive media challenged the administration’s assertion that it was progressive rhetoric which led to the shooting. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt presented evidence that shows the shooter was parroting the same exact rhetoric Democrat Politicians and Progressive thought leaders like Hasan Piker has been speaking.

She revealed Allen’s manifesto, which she claims reads like Democrat talking points.

THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS – Before the shooting, the shooter allegedly traveled from California to Washington D.C. by train, checking into the Washington, D.C. Hilton one day before the scheduled White House Correspondence Dinner.

First the shooter had to get past security on the outside perimeter of the hotel. This was not a challenge as he was a guest at the hotel. The shooter himself would note on the way that security was lax, and that if he had wanted to stage a mass casualty event, he could have easily done this.

His race past the next line of security was caught on video. The President was later seen commenting he moved “like a flash.” He never reached the actual dining hall where the President was located. After he breached security he shot a secret service agent in the chest, but the agent was not injured seriously as he was wearing a bullet-proof vest.

The agents returned fire as he ran until he tripped, where he was then apprehended.

President Trump’s take on the shooting: “I wanted to see what was happening, and I wasn’t making it that easy for them. I wanted to see what was going on… And by that time, we started to realise maybe it was a bad problem, different kind of a problem, bad one, and different than what would be normal noise from a ballroom, which you hear all the time.”

THE SHOOTER AND THE MOTIVE – Cole Thomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, CA, has been identified as the suspect in the White House Correspondents Dinner. He is a schoolteacher who notably recently won a teacher of the month award.

His social media presence reveals a man who holds to progressive Christian values, who equates Donald Trump with Hitler, and uses a lot of the same phrases, the same talking points, including false talking points, that progressive thought leaders and Democrat politicians continue to use even as we create this report.

In most instances, a deeper dive would be warranted on the shooter and the motive, but in this case, the shooter and his motive fit so almost stereotypically into the progressive violence memetic, that there isn’t much depth of discovery there beyond what you see at the surface.

Also, the less time focusing on the shooter the better, as their mythologization is one of the motivations behind why such psychopaths act out in the way this shooter did. The real heart of this bellwether is the progressive spirit at war with everyone else, not the shooter himself, who became a mere avatar of that larger story.

One narrative suggests the shooter was allegedly led by progressive talking points equating President Trump and his supporters with Nazis. For this reason alone, he justified his attempt to murder the President and his administration. The counter-narrative is that the shooter was motived by Trump’s rhetoric and actions.

While some progressives fall short of saying this justifies the attempt, many not only don’t, but they are also once again upset the attempt failed.

CURRENT SITUATION

The two nations we have been describing for a while, Progressive US and Conservative US, are becoming clearer every day. The fallout from the shooting makes that even clearer.

The interpretation of the shooting is as radically different as it can be between progressive and conservative. For Americans, they (we too) need to sift through both narrative war machines to discern something closer to the truth that either side might care to see.

NOTE: We’d like to offer a caveat regarding our progressives and conservative neighbors; in both camps there yet resides true Americans who haven’t quite figured out the un-American parts of their coalitions of power.

We recognize there are most likely far more Americans among conservatives than progressives as this point, as most Americans have already left the progressive coalition of power (which is why it is becoming increasingly openly anti-American).

Conservative US is also much closer to Americanism than Progressive US is (which is fundamentally opposed to it).

The prevailing narratives are these: secret service and security deficiencies have been laid bare; Trump is using the shooting to get tax-funding for a new White House ballroom; Progressives are calling the shooting staged by Trump to save flagging opinion polls; and the emergence of an ‘offensive war against progressives’ narrative from the conservatives

PROTECTION – Shortly after the shooting had stopped, questions began flooding in about how a man got so close to putting shotgun blasts on the President and his administration. The shooter himself would call for reform to security after a sane President is in power. He claimed he could have committed a mass murder event had he wanted to because the security was so bad (yes, this bears repeating).

The White House immediately praised Secret Service and their handling of the attack. The President even claimed he got in their way.

A Fox News employee who was present at the dinner wrote on X: “The first exterior security for me was on the street outside of the hotel. I flashed my ticket and was waved through in one second. My name was not checked against any list, I showed no ID, I was not patted down and did not go through a metal detector. I probably could have shown a ticket from a prior year or a fake one as they barely looked at it. (I don’t know who that exterior security was, they were guys in suits).

From that point, I walked into the hotel with no further security check, and I walked down to the Fox pre-party where there were multiple ballrooms that were absolutely PACKED with attendees. Still did not go through any security at that point.”

PROGRESSIVE MEDIA REACTION – A title by PoliticsusUSA summarized the progressive response to the shooting, “The White House Correspondents Dinner Gunman Changes Nothing.” The story is about Trump using the shooting to try to push tax funding of the new White House ballroom, but the headline is intended to speak beyond that story, we believe.

Crooks and Liars finds it incredulous Fox would blame the progressive media for the shooting. Politico also found it incredulous that Republicans would blame Democrat leaders’ political rhetoric for the WHCD shooting.

Also from Crooks and Liars is this headline, “WHCD Faked? Trump’s Numbers Worse Than Any I’ve Ever Seen.”

Daily Kos is upset Melania wants ABC to let Jimmy Kimmel go for saying the First Lady looked like a widow in waiting. Kimmel said that just before the shooting. Remember, these are the same progressives that have ruined whole careers for opposing forced transgender morality compliance.

The biggest bellwether of the progressive media reaction to the shooting might be Nora O’Donnell’s attempt to try to read the shooter’s manifesto to the President just after the shooting. This publication has decided not to reprint the manifesto in whole or in part. It adds little value to the this report’s focus, the overall progressive spirit of war.

This is not a judgment on publications that choose to publish the whole or parts of the manifesto.

Here, O’Donnell is willing to use the CBS platform to reward a man who attempted to murder the President of the United States by delivering his manifesto to his intended target.

As of April 29, 2026, CBS News had still not revealed to their audience the shooter’s party affiliation, Democrat, or his known attendance of progressive events like the “No Kings” protests.

FALLOUT – There has been no slowdown in rhetoric on the progressive side. If anything, conservative rhetoric is now just beginning to heat up beyond the defensive to the offensive. We have seen a growing call for convictions, not indictments, and those calls have only greatly increased after the shooting.

After the shooting, progressive activists protested outside the Hilton Hotel. They held up signs that said, “death to tyrants,” “death to them all,” and “yes, they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell.”

Leading up to the shooting, a recent study showed that anti-government violence is spiking. We expect that trend to continue.

Illinois’ Progressive Governor JB Pritzker blamed the attempted assassination of Trump on Trump himself, further seeming to tacitly legitimize the act. Trump is either a Nazi deserving assassination, or he is not. Here, Pritzker is suggesting he IS a Nazi, further emboldening progressive teachers to be the next wave of attack.

An article in politicsususa suggests “Many Americans Don’t Care About 3rd Assassination Attempt On Trump.” This might be true, but only of progressives, not conservatives, who seem to have crossed a threshold in their minds that has shifted them from defensive to offensive violent rhetoric.

This is politicsususa’s assessment of the fallout, which isn’t completely incorrect, “If you spend five minutes on any form of social media, you’ll soon learn that the consensus reaction is people claiming the gunman was staged, MAGAs who think a White House ballroom will solve everything, and some version of the sentiment that the American people have already seen this movie twice before, and they are bored.”

What they’re missing is the MAGA part, the switch that happened after this last attempt. The PA assassination attempt shifted conservatives from American civil language to aggressive defensive anti-insurrectionist language. Now, the language shift appears to be going from defensive to offensive in nature.

A headline from PJ Media summarizes that shift: “The Time for Playing Nice is Over.”

ASSESSMENT

The third direct Trump assassination attempt has pushed the conservative base past the point of reconciliation with the progressives, who have expressed no desire at reconciliation with anyone for the past decade.

The progressives appear more frustrated their latest savior didn’t deliver the goods than anything else. A narrative quickly emerged that the whole thing was staged, as it often does no matter who was the target.

When the target is a non-progressive, the progressive media will tamp down the signals that make the shooting real at the very least, if not amplify false signals that push the staged shooting narrative (without ever having made the claims themselves). This is what they’ve done here.

Yet even though the staged narrative has received top-down corporate signaling and support, progressive communities’ rank and file street fighters had already come up with that narrative all on their own.

One thing about an ideology based on granular morality codes enforced with violence is that they tend to produce same-speak all on their own. This is ESPECIALLY true when that morality code is loaded with unique terms and redefinitions of anchor terms from the culture under attack.

This is similar to a Large Language Model in AI, but with considerably less variation.

So, the top-down signal was redundant, for the most part, at least among the true converts. To the casual viewer of corporate news, the shooter was a Christian and Trump’s own rhetoric and action is why it happened. Also, Trump and the conservatives are still white supremacist Nazis.

Among these casual viewers are true Americans, Americans who still don’t understand they are watching narrative warfare disguised as news.

There are some conservatives fighting the White House ballroom battle, but most seem more concerned with two things, cleaning up Secret Service and figuring out how to deal with the nation they are starting to recognize, Progressive US.

They haven’t given it a name, but they recognize the “left” as having its own national identity, customs, and standards for law that are mostly antithetical to both Conservative US and America (with America being the number one impediment to the progressive dream).

At this point, conservatives are still hoping for elections but are also now demanding arrests that lead to convictions. Support for the GOP and the President has been trending downward. They don’t just want arrests, though, they want first serious and clear indictments, and then convictions with serious consequences, up to and including death (though execution talk is fortunately limited, for now).

While some conservatives are excited about the recent Comey indictment, many are skeptical the indictment will hold weight and wonder when the clear-evidence-showing-treason charges will happen.

They want those charges targeting the top suspected leaders of the “coup,” the ones allegedly behind the Russia Hoax, the “stolen” 2020 election, the J6 Operation, the Open Borders policies, and the Biden Committee Presidency, to lead to convictions that lead to lifetime sentences, at minimum.

Anything less will result in the GOP and the President continuing to bleed support.

Conservatives and Americans are becoming more concerned with American survival than economics, while non-activist Americans seem mostly driven by economics and the freedom to choose abortions or the desire to see them outlawed that in preserving, restoring, and fulfilling American Rule of Law standards.

Progressives want nothing short of a reboot of the country and a purging of the land of all non-progressives, including conservatives and Americans, including the staff of MIA.

This event has not significantly moved the progressives or the non-activist Americans, but it has significantly moved conservatives and Americans. They both now clearly recognize the reality of two nations in one land, Progressive US and Conservative US, with neither nation fully embracing the America that bore them both.

Still, so far, a clear American “movement” has yet to emerge, as Americans mostly find themselves outside the camps, frustrated they can’t easily see what’s really going on behind the veil both camps’ narrative war machines cast.

We hope more of them find this publication and others like it. If you have a friend or a relative you think would like to receive our weekly news analysis, buy them a subscription at MIA subscriptions.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The President has chosen to call for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel over his “expecting widow” comments, while Trump’s FCC now moves to challenge ABC affiliate broadcast licenses. The move is clumsy and the justification for it is not clear, especially when it doesn’t target the whole broadcast industry.

IF ABC has violated broadcasting licensing standards, so has the rest of the industry.

In U.S. law, the standard is not what we know but what we can prove. We know Kimmel’s statement was intentionally broad enough that you can assume he’s inciting violence against the President but proving that in a court of law would be, well, extremely challenging.

The FCC move in and of itself would be great if it had already happened, and if it happened for every major broadcast corporation AFTER a study ACTUALLY showed violations of broadcast licensing had been occurring systematically for decades.

We think a serious study would most likely reveal this decades-long systemic pattern of violations to be true, but it would also expose both the GOP and DNC’s involvement in perpetuating this unofficial alliance between the government and corporate media, or rather, between political parties and corporate media.

This soft power appears to be a tool the President doesn’t want to completely forfeit, even if it means not vanquishing one of the two hearts of progressive power, the progressive corporate media control of socio-cultural production, signaling, and gatekeeping.

Like the move against Comey, the effort might do more to strengthen progressives than hurt them. If, once again, Comey’s charges are dismissed, or a jury finds him not guilty, this will only embolden progressives’ sense of violent injustice being perpetrated on them every day America continues to exist.

This is not hyperbole; this is the spirit already emerging in street activist level progressive discourse.

We recommend the President halt the FCC call to review ABC affiliate licensing and instead conduct the comprehensive study that could, theoretically, show the clear illegal entanglement between corporate media, American political parties, and even foreign governments and corporations.

If we are right, the study will show the public the corporate media is not the free press, it’s a criminal operation (by American standards, not progressive ones). If so, the prosecutions of the corporate media will be far more profound, and it will have public support, even from the “normies” who still get their news indirectly through that same corporate media (through the influencers who use corporate media to create content).

From here, our next move would be on Public Schools, especially Teachers’ Unions, who have been allegedly illegally using their non-partisan donations to support anti-American progressive actions, including illegal interruption operations against ICE officers (this is not referring to the lawful protests which also occurred).

The study would first happen, followed by exposure to the public, followed by prosecutions. This would be the second heart of progressive power, control of our education system.

We recommend not pursuing the death penalty and giving everyone but the top leadership an opportunity to confess with immunity and be forgiven, with a path back to the American family preserved.

Bellwether Report – May 2026

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Originally published May 1, 2026 for our monthly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

This report covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from April 1-30, 2026.

This report contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

For an analysis of this month’s news, read our Situation Report on pg. xx.

Top Ten Tagged News

  1. Iran War
  2. 2026 Elections
  3. Trump Dinner Shooter
  4. Trump Deportations
  5. Strait of Hormuz
  6. Gerrymandering Wars
  7. Eric Swalwell Investigation
  8. Ukraine War
  9. AI Planning and Design
  10. Anti-ICE Action

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

NOTE: Read about the White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting on pg. 2 in our Deep Dive Report.

AS IRAN’S LEADER RE-EMERGES, U.S. FAILS TO FINISH – President Trump has rejected the latest proposal by Iran to continue the ceasefire, which seems to be de facto over. The Supreme Leader has allegedly emerged and promised to free the Strait of Hormuz from U.S. presence. The progressive media is casting doubts on U.S. power while Trump’s base buckles in its support for the war.

PUTIN THREATENS TRUMP OVER IRAN – President Vladimir Putin of Russia is claiming he has warned Trump of “extremely harmful consequences” if the U.S renews attacks on Iran. The public declaration puts Russia’s power reputation with its allies on the line should the U.S. attack and not suffer “extremely harmful consequences.”

IMPEACHMENT HOAX? – The 2019 Trump Impeachment was based on dubious, or fake evidence, concocted by “Democrat partisans,” or so a report from the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard suggested.

PUBLIC SCHOOL UNIONS FUEL PROGRESSIVE POWER – Public School Teachers Unions have contributed more than $1 billion to progressive organizations, causes, and candidacies in the last 10 years alone. The two heaviest hitters are the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA). These two unions combined to account for $669 million alone. This means progressives could count on teachers’ unions to give them $100 million a year for the last 10 years.

AI IS BECOMING A UTILITY – More and more Americans have begun making AI subscription services a part of their essential household budget. Since 2024, paid AI subscriptions have increased by 38%. The paid AI subscription service market is expected to exponentially expand over the next two years.

AI LEADERSHIP ASSASSIN CAUGHT – A man who tried to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been caught. Included in the evidence is a hit list of AI leaders the man hoped to kill. An FBI Affidavit claimed the suspect wanted to kill AI by killing its human leaders.

The suspect allegedly wrote, “Also if I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message.”

OPEC LOSES UAE – The United Arab Emirates is officially separating from the OPEC alliance. They declared, “During our time in the organisation, we made significant contributions and even greater sacrifices for the benefit of all. However, the time has come to focus our efforts on what our national interest dictates and our commitment to our investors, customers, partners and global energy markets. This is what we will focus on going forward.”

WAS CHATGPT BEHIND A MASS SHOOTING? – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier thinks ChatGPT may have had a hand to play in a recent mass shooting event on the Florida State University campus. He declared, “My prosecutors have looked at this and they’ve told me if it was a person on the other end of that screen, we would be charging them with murder.”

He is referring to ChatGPT, whom he accuses of aiding and abetting the shooting. The AG has opened a criminal investigation into ChatGPT.

TRUMP JESUS – President Trump posted a meme depicting himself as Jesus while he was also in the midst of a back and forth with the Pope of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV. This followed his f bomb on Easter where he threatened to end the Iranian civilization. The President deleted the meme.

VIRIGINIA SAYS YES TO PROGRESSIVE GERRYMANDERING – The Progressives won a major battle in the ongoing gerrymandering wars, this time scoring a narrow victory in Virginia. The ballot measure allows the progressives to change U.S. House Districts to effectively take 4 Republican seats away. The now-passed ballot measure faces legal challenges. The results have yet to be certified.

COMEY’S 86 47 GETS INDICTED – The Department of Justice has garnered two new indictments targeting former FBI Director James Comey. The indictments are connected to a social media post by Comey that showed seashells on the beach laid out to signal “86 47.” One charge is “knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of — and to inflict bodily harm on — the president.” The second charge is “knowingly and willfully transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to kill the president.”

STARMER HOLDS ON AS EPSTEIN SNARE TIGHTENS – The UK’s Prime Minister Kier Starmer is holding on amidst increasing calls for him to resign. Evidence already revealed Starmer fully knew the man he appointed to be Ambassador to the U.S. had Epstein ties before the appointment. Now, it is revealed he willfully lied when confronted before Peter Mandelson, the man in question, was finally appointed.

SWALWELL IMPLOSION CRATERS CONGRESS – The Democrat congressman turned California Senate candidate is now former in both categories. Eric Swalwell is now out of the Senate race and congress after more women have come forward, accusing him of sexual assault and harassment. The fallout could affect other members of congress on both sides of the aisle, who may have similar credible accusations against them.

SPLC ACCUSED OF FUNDING HATE – The FBI has leveled multiple criminal indictments against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). SPLC is accused of spending millions of dollars to fund numerous far-right hate groups, including the group behind the now-infamous Charlottsville, VA white supremacist rally. The SPLC’s initial defense is it was simply paying informants.

EU WINS IN HUNGARY? – After Victor Orban’s ouster in Hungary’s elections, his replacement, Péter Magyar, a former member of the Orban government, might not be on the EU’s side after all. The election was characterized as the EU versus national sovereignty movements, with Magyar representing the EU. But soon after winning, Magyar announced plans to double down on blocking immigration to the country.

Claims of Magyar being an Orban sleeper candidate seem plausible, but not credible. We will continue to evaluate Magyar’s policies in action after his government takes power in May.

CHARLES STEALTH BOMBS TRUMP IN CONGRESS – Using extremely veiled language, Charles III, King of Britian, appeared to tell the U.S. congress Trump should end the war in Iran, stop deportations, and embrace DEI. Progressives tend to agree with this assessment, claiming Charles “owned” Trump in front of congress.

This is our interpretation after reading between the two clear focal points of his speech, diversity and religious tolerance, both target Trump deportations of immigrants and his war on Islamist Iran.

SPACE DEFENSE AND NUCLEAR SCIENTIST APOCOLYPSE? – The FBI is now looking into the disappearance and deaths of numerous scientists working in the nuclear and space defense industries. The cases go back to 2022. U.S. House Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said in a letter to the FBI, “If the reports are accurate, these deaths and disappearances may represent a grave threat to U.S. national security and to U.S. personnel with access to scientific secrets.”

He later added, “Once you see the facts, it would suggest that something sinister could be happening and it would be a national security concern… Congress is very concerned about this. Our committee is making this one of our priorities now because we view this as a national security threat.”

POPE PROMISES NOTHING MORE THAN INFORMAL BLESSING FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE – Pope Leo XIV has affirmed he has no plans to go beyond allowing priests to bless gay marriages. In other words, he will not approve formalizing blessings for gay marriages.

Leo declared, “When a priest gives the blessing at the end of Mass, when the Pope gives the blessing at the end of a great celebration like the one we had today, there are blessings for all people. Francis’s famous expression, ‘everyone, everyone, everyone,’ expresses the Church’s conviction that everyone is welcomed, everyone is invited, everyone is invited to follow Jesus, and everyone is invited to seek conversion in their own lives. To go beyond this today, I believe, could cause more disunity than unity, and that we should seek to build our unity on Jesus Christ and on what Jesus Christ teaches.”

TRANSGENDER CARE FOR KIDS, SAYS DISTRICT JUDGE – United States District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai has ruled on the HHS’s declaration that gender-affirming care for children is unsafe and ineffective. The progressive judge has ruled the HHS declaration to be unconstitutional.

The judge sided with the 22 progressive-led states, which argued the federal government did not have the legal authority to make such a determination.

META’S DOWNSIZING CONTINUES – The parent company of Facebook, Meta, has announced plans to lay off nearly 10% of its total workforce, 8,000 positions, starting in early May 2026. These layoffs may not be the only layoffs, as more might be announced after May of this year.

HEADLINES MISSED

FISA PASSES HOUSE, BIDEN VEHICLE KILL SWITCH SURVIVES – Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) is still trying to kill what is being called the Biden Vehicle Kill Switch. This is a requirement by the government that all car manufacturers create a vehicle kill switch that car owners cannot deactivate. So far, he has failed. This latest effort has also failed, with the Johnson-led House passing FISA renewal ahead of Thursday’s deadline.

Roy proposed an amendment to the FISA renewal act that effectively kills the Biden kill switch. Roy said, “Republicans should not be continuing a blatantly invasive Biden-era policy that enables round-the-clock monitoring of Americans in their own cars. That’s why I introduced an amendment to FISA to eliminate the ‘kill switch’ and stop this Big Brother technology from being built into new vehicles.”

SCOTUS ALLOWS STEALTH TRANSITIONING OF KIDS – SCOTUS rejected a petition by parents to challenge a Massachusetts law that allows schools to treat their children as a gender not aligned with their biological sex without parental consent. The schools also have a policy permitting teachers to conceal the child’s school-affirmed trans or non-binary gendered identities from the parents.

FISA COURT QUASHES SPY TOOL, TRUMP DISSENTS – The Trump administration is fighting a FISA court ruling that prevents the government from specifically searching for individuals online who have contacted a foreigner.

The administration is challenging the FISA court as the court’s existence comes up for renewal this April 30. The GOP-led House extended the program by unanimous consent vote during a late-night session.

CANADA GIVES LIBERALS BIG MAJORITY WIN – Canada’s coalition government is effectively over after two special elections have secured a simple majority for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party. The possibility of gaining a simple majority happened after five members of opposition parties defected to join the liberals. The wins secure a majority for the Liberals until 2029.

MALI BUCKLES, RUSSIA WITHDRAWS – After Islamists led a successful offensive across Mali, Russian forces withdrew, while junta forces failed to stop the assaults. Not only did the Islamists successfully disrupt multiple cities, but they also killed the country’s defense minister and gained territory in northern areas. The assault puts the junta’s power in jeopardy, especially given Russia’s disengagement.

FINLAND RULES CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE IS “HATE SPEECH” – Finland’s Highest Court has ruled two Christian pastors who created a Christian marriage pamphlet in 2004 violated hate speech laws.

One of the “guilty” pastors said, “I am shocked and profoundly disappointed that the court has failed to recognize my basic human right to freedom of expression. I stand by the teachings of my Christian faith and will continue to defend my and every person’s right to share their convictions in the public square.”

CANADA TO CRIMINALIZE BEING “ANTI-GAY” – If you read scripture in public that condemns homosexuality, you might soon be jailed in Canada if Canada’s latest Bill C-9 passes. The proposed law would define “harm” as making public statements protected groups would find offensive.

HOW AMERICA IS DEVELOPING CHINA’S WEAPONS OF WAR – American tech companies warn the world that China’s domestic tech companies are really military tech companies in disguise. We are China’s free defense tech research and development department now.

CHINA’S MANTUS CUT OFF FROM U.S. PURCHASE – China has made a decisive move in the emerging AI race and war with the U.S., halting the purchase of a Chinese-created AI-agent company called Manus. The purchaser was the U.S.’s Meta. China did not offer an explanation, though it reflects AI nationalization trends both in China and in general.

HUMANS SURRENDER TO ROBOTS – According to Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian troops surrendered to Ukrainian drones and robots, making it, allegedly, the world’s first human surrender to a robot in a field of battle.

Zelensky claimed the machines “carried out (the mission) without infantry and without losses on our side. For the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms – ground systems and drones.”

RIOT BOTS AND THE CCP – China hopes to soon deploy robots to control future rioters. The People’s Armed Police Force (PAP) is already testing the possibility in preparation for a potential mass riot event.

SOUTH OF THE BORDER GOING CASHLESS – The Progressive-led Mexican government is looking to aggressively push towards a cashless society and a national digital ID system.

CONCEALING SIN FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME – A Christian Homeschool League in Texas is accused of knowingly hiring a registered sex offender to be a baseball coach without informing anyone of his convicted sex offender past.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

SCOTUS KILLS RACE-BASED GERRYMANDERING. – There were three big wins this month for the Republicans in the Gerrymandering Wars that culminated with a major SCOTUS ruling on race-based gerrymandering.

First, the Virginia Supreme Court continues to refuse to certify the special election that saw the Progressives win the “right” to use gerrymandering to eliminate 4 GOP U.S. House Seats.

Second, SCOTUS has confirmed the Texas gerrymander map that switches 5 Democrat-held seats to 5 likely GOP seats. In Florida, a gerrymander plan is advancing in the legislature that would net the GOP 4 more seats in the U.S. House.

Third, SCOTUS has struck down race-based gerrymandered districts in a move that is existentially threatening to the Democrat Party in its current iteration.

HOUSE ENDS DHS SHUTDOWN – The U.S. House has passed partial funding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sending the bill to the President for an expected signing. The passage ends the 76 days of DHS shutdown.

NO MORE MASS MAILER ELECTIONS? – President Trump’s XO attempts to stop mass mailer elections in America. Lawsuits have already been filed.

PRO-LIFE JOURNALISTS FREED FROM LAWFARE – After years of being under the weight of criminal prosecution, undercover journalists have now seen all their charges dropped. They exposed Planned Parenthood in a series of undercover videos selling parts of aborted babies.

SHUTTING DOWN IN NATO – Rubio hints at 80% reduction of U.S. military presence in Europe in the near future.

CHARLIE KIRK HONORED WITH 1A PROTECTING LAWS – Kansas joins a growing list of states which passed laws honoring the late assassinated American activist Charlie Kirk. The laws have one thing in common, they both protect rights enumerated in the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. These rights are the right to religious liberty and the right to freedom of speech.

WOKE HEALTH PANEL NO MORE – RFK Jr. is vowing to replace the “woke” panel currently in charge of choosing what preventative care gets covered by Obamacare. Kennedy plans on replacing the current allegedly “woke” members of the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force, saying “We’re now bringing new members on who have a clear mission.”

U.S. MILITARY GETS VACCINE FREEDOM – Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth has ended mandatory flu vaccines for military personnel. While flu vaccines will still be offered, military personnel can now opt out of them if they so choose.

NO MORE MEN IN WOMEN’S CELLS – A Federal Appeals Court has upheld President Trump’s XO requiring biological sex to be used to determine which prison an inmate is assigned to. The argument hinged on the claim biological males faced “cruel and unusual punishment” by being forced to be imprisoned with men.

JESUS RESTORED BY ITALIANS IN LEBANON – Italian Peacekeeper Troops in Lebanon delivered a new Jesus statue to a Lebanon village that saw their previous Jesus statue smashed by an Israeli soldier in a now-viral video. The IDF has apologized and punished the solider responsible.

HOLDING MTG’S SEAT – Clay Fuller holds on to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in Georgia in a special election that at least gave the Democrats a consolation prize, he failed to win by as great a margin as Greene did in the election prior. With Republicans holding a slim majority in the U.S. House, this was a big win for the GOP.

AI CREATES 1K JOBS AT SALESFORCE – Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced online plans to hire 1000 new college graduates to drive the “exponential” potential of AI. He said in his X post, “… they said AI would kill entry-level jobs. Meanwhile these grads & interns are building it.”

PRINCIPAL HALTS MASS SHOOTER – Oklahoma’s Paul’s Valley High School witnessed a heroic miracle when their principal, Kirk Moore, stopped a wanna-be-mass-school shooter, 20-year-old Victor Hawkins. The principal stopped the shooter before he could harm or injure anyone, other than the principal himself. The principle survived the shooting with only minor injuries.

MOONSHINE LIBERTY – The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has essentially struck down a 158-year-old law that made moon shiners run, the law making home liquor distilling illegal.

LINCOLN REFLECTING POOL RESTORATION SAVES AND DAZZLES – President Donald Trump oversaw an upgrade of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that saved the nation hundreds of millions and left the monument looking better than ever before.

 

Bellwether Digest – MAY 9, 2026

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Bellwether Digest – MAY 9, 2026

By STAFF

This digest covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from May 8-9, 2026.

This digest contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. 2026 Elections
  2. Iran War
  3. AI Culture
  4. China US
  5. 2020 Election Fraud

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. U.S. AI FIRMS TO GO THROUGH GOVERNMENT SAFETY SCREEN – America’s major AI companies, including Google and Microsoft, have agreed to submit all new AI models to the Federal government’s Commerce Department for a national security safety review/ This review will be conducted by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards.
  2. MAGA WINS BIGLY IN INDIANA – Five of the seven republican Indiana state senators that voted against the redistricting measure that would eliminate Democrat seats in the U.S. House lost decisively to Trump-endorsed candidates in the GOP Primary. Four other Trump-endorsed candidates won their primaries decisively as well.
  3. RUBIO CLAIMS “OPERATION EPIC FURY” IS OVER – Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the end of “Operation Epic Fury,” claiming the offensive part of the war with Iran is over.
  4. OMAR THUMBS STATE INQUIRY – Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is under investigation for suspicion on fraud by the state of Minnesota. She failed to meet a deadline to turn over documents related to that investigation.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. CHINA GATEKEEPING U.S. MILITARY FROM CHINA DEFENSE INDUSTRY THREATS – The U.S. is allegedly paying a CCP-connected firm to help identify potential stealth risks from embedding Chinese technology into the U.S. military.
  2. CCP terrorizes Dissenters on American Soil – A former CCP agent told CBN News he was part of an operation to identify and silence former Chinese citizens in America who spoke out against the party. He told CBN they use threats, entrapment, and even kidnapping.

PEOPLE ADVANCE

  1. SICKLE CELL CURE MIGHT SOON BE ON THE WAY – If not an outright cure, a new discovery could turn Sickle Cell Anemia from a deadly and painful chronic disease to a curable, or at least manageable disease. The discovery comes from Swee Lay Thein and Stuart Orkin.
  2. TRUMP GIVES TEEN FIGHTING CHANCE AGAINST CANCER – A 15-year-old teen boy from Louisiana was running out of options in his fight against cancer. A viral video brought his plea to President Trump, who promptly moved to get the boy the special treatment he needs to continue his fight for life.

STORIES WE ARE WATCHING

  1. ‘RINO’ Indiana Senate incumbents lose BIGLY to Trump-endorsed challengers– www.theblaze.com
  2. Trump orders military to pause effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – The Washington Post
  3. US Proposes Resolution to UNSC to Defend Free Navigation, Secure Hormuz; Rubio Says ‘Test’ for UN – Republic World
  4. Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump-backed Vivek Ramaswamy wins Republican nomination for Ohio governor– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
  5. Reporter Uncovers Stunning Fraud Red Flags in America’s Second-Biggest Somali Enclave– www.westernjournal.com
  6. Romanian government collapses after losing no-confidence vote – Europe live | World news– www.theguardian.com
  7. Post-poll violence in Bengal leaves 4 dead, dozens injured – The Times of India
  8. Education Department probes ‘all-women’ Smith College for admitting trans students– www.thecollegefix.com
  9. Trump tells shocked kids Iran ‘was two weeks away from killing you’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk
  10. Fed-up Justice Alito Just Leveled 5 Humiliating Insults at Justice Jackson in Withering Majority Opinion– www.westernjournal.com

Radar Links

  1. Leftist Censorship Groups Advise AI Company Anthropic– www.dailysignal.com
  2. Top Trump advisers urge China to leverage Iran ties to reopen Strait of Hormuz to global traffic– www.euronews.com
  3. Final Persian Gulf Oil Shipment Reaches California Amid Supply Fears– legalinsurrection.com
  4. IDF kills Hamas commander linked to Oct. 7 Nova massacre in Gaza airstrike– www.foxnews.com
  5. Black Democrat Elected Mayor In Deep-Red Texas City– crooksandliars.com
  6. Greene wins Michigan Senate special election, Democrats retain control of chamber – Michigan Advance
  7. 3 killed in latest U.S. strike on suspected drug boat in eastern Pacific, Pentagon says– www.cbsnews.com
  8. Syria says it dismantled Hezbollah-linked cell plotting assassinations | Conflict News– www.aljazeera.com
  9. Europe’s jet fuel supplies should fall below the key 23-day shortage threshold in June– fortune.com
  10. US ‘Welcomes’ Vatican Input on AI Regulation, Says Ambassador Burch – National Catholic Register
  11. REVEALED: Far-left UVU groups celebrate Charlie Kirk assassination, target TPUSA, Trump admin | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
  12. Louisiana Bill Would Educate Teens About Development of Unborn Babies– www.lifenews.com
  13. Planned Parenthood Gender Drugs Raise Fertility Concerns– www.standingforfreedom.com
  14. Social Media Threats: Comey’s Indictment Trivializes Serious Online Attacks Against Politicians | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org
  15. When strength in numbers stops working: Climate extremes rewrite monkey society in Costa Rica– phys.org

 

U.S. AI Firms to go through Government Safety Screen

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America’s major AI companies, including Google and Microsoft, have agreed to submit all new AI models to the Federal government’s Commerce Department for a national security safety review/ This review will be conducted by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards.

US government expands vetting of frontier AI models for security risks – Politico
News Source
EXCERPT:
The Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation will conduct safety testing of new AI systems before they are released publicly.

Top artificial intelligence firms Microsoft, xAI and Google DeepMind have inked deals with the Commerce Department that will allow the government to vet their AI models for national security risks ahead of release.

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation, an office within the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, announced Tuesday that it will conduct pre-deployment evaluations and “targeted research” on AI models developed by the companies.

Bellwether Digest – May 5, 2026

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By STAFF

This digest covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from April 1-16, 2026.

This digest contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. Iran War
  2. 2026 Elections
  3. Gerrymandering Wars
  4. Trump Assassins
  5. AI China

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. ABORTION PILL MAILER BAN LIFTED BY SCOTUS – After a lower court issued an injunction temporarily blocking the abortion pill from being delivered through the mail, SCOTUS has lifted the injunction.
  2. SPIRIT AIRLINES LOSES ITS SPIRIT – Spirit Airlines had a 34-year run that came to an end this month after the company declared bankruptcy. They shut down all operations and are now in the process of selling off their assets, including their planes.
  3. SENATE HOPEFUL ARRESTED FOR THREATENING TO KILL TRUMP – Raymond Chandler III of Alleghany County, PA was Democrat U.S. Senate candidate until he was arrested for threatening to murder President Trump. His plan was to threaten a U.S. Senator’s daughter if the Senator didn’t walk into the oval office and assassinate President Trump.
  4. DYING GAMESTOP GRABS FOR EBAY – As GameStop continues to struggle to stay afloat, it looks to make a $56 billion bid to buy eBay. The problem is they cannot show how they could pay for it.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. HOMESCHOOLERS FACE CPS CALL IN CONNECTICUT – If you want to take your child out of the public school system in Connecticut, your family will be subject to a visit from the Department of Children’s Protective Services.
  2. EPSTEIN RANCH WAS EUGENICS PARADISE? – New leaked Epstein Files point to forced pregnancies of teens in Eugenics experiments conducted on Epstein’s ranch, Zorro Ranch.

PEOPLE ADVANCE

  1. FLORIDA GOP GERRYMANDERING MAP SIGNED – Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a new U.S. House redistricting plan that will give the GOP 4 more seats. The law was immediately challenged in state courts.
  2. AMERICA’S EUROPE TROOP CUTS BEGIN – President Donald Trump announced a 5,000 troop cut in Germany, adding more is to come. He said, “We’re going to cut way down. And we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000.”
  3. ALBERTA WANTS TO LEAVE CANADA – Leaders of the separatist movement of Canada’s western province Alberta claim to have enough signatures to trigger a vote on separation from Canada.
  4. KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT HOME EVEN WHEN YOU BUY ONLINE – Harvard has created a digital open-source wallet that keeps your private data from being shared online. The digital wallet keeps your personal data on your phone, validating your purchases without relying on a third-party source to do so.

 

Stories We are Watching

  1. Child Struck by Gunfire as Secret Service Neutralizes Alleged Gunman Near White House– www.westernjournal.com
  2. ‘I think they’re getting some guns’– www.washingtonexaminer.com
  3. Trump’s Approval Ratings Sink Even Lower– crooksandliars.com
  4. Ukraine and Russia Declare Separate Truces– www.themoscowtimes.com
  5. Trump & Republicans Float Deal to Flip Fetterman from Democrat to GOP– slaynews.com
  6. Russia Lost Ground in Ukraine in April, a First Since Mid-2023 – AFP Analysis– www.themoscowtimes.com
  7. Fulton County moves to block DOJ subpoena for 2020 election workers’ personal data, calls effort “harassment” – CBS News– news.google.com
  8. U.S. sinks 7 small Iranian boats as Iran launches attacks on UAE and ships in Strait of Hormuz– www.cbsnews.com
  9. Young Voters Swing Back To Democrats As Republicans Are In Big Trouble– www.politicususa.com
  10. House sexual harassment payouts exceeded $300,000– www.politico.com

 

On Our Radar

  1. White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released– www.nytimes.com
  2. SCOTUS declines to hear Stockton lawsuit over doctors penalized for allegedly spreading COVID-19 misinformation – krem.com
  3. DCCC Caught Putting ‘Thumb on the Scale’ in 2026 Primaries, ‘Narrowing Democracy’ – RedState– redstate.com
  4. Canada to host NATO-backed global defence bank, Vancouver awaits HQ decision | Daily Hive | Urbanized – Daily Hive
  5. The US fights to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the UAE comes under attack in a test of Iran truce – AP News– news.google.com
  6. Staffer for Dem Sen. Cory Booker Who Brought Gun Into Capitol Without a License Saw Charges Quickly Dropped: DOJ– www.westernjournal.com
  7. Mamdani Calls ICE ‘Cruel and Inhumane’ After Anti-ICE Mob Violently Riots in Support of Criminal Illegal › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
  8. The Redistricting War Has Just Begun– www.dailysignal.com
  9. America’s AI Rules Are Being Written in Courtrooms | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org
  10. China Construction Bank (CICHF) Receives a Buy from Goldman Sachs – The Globe and Mail
  11. Trump considering federal AI model oversight – Mashable
  12. EU Leaders Respond to Question on National Identity and Globalism at EPC Summit in Yerevan – The Armenian Report
  13. ‘Nature’ Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education– www.404media.co
  14. Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba– thefederalist.com
  15. Earth’s origin mystery cracked? Meteorites may hold the secret to life’s ingredients |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

Putin Threatens Trump Over Iran

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President Vladimir Putin of Russia is claiming he has warned Trump of “extremely harmful consequences” if the U.S renews attacks on Iran. The public declaration puts Russia’s power reputation with its allies on the line should the U.S. attack and not suffer “extremely harmful consequences.”

Putin issues ‘extreme consequences’ warning to Trump on Iran– www.mirror.co.uk
News Source
EXCERPT:

Vladimir Putin has reportedly warned Donald Trump that there will be “extremely harmful consequences” if the US attacks Iran again, as the pair reportedly discussed a potential Ukraine ceasefire in a 90-minute call.

Vladimir Putin has issued a warning to Donald Trump that there will be “extremely harmful consequences” should the US launch further attacks on Iran, according to reports.

It came as the two leaders discussed the Iran conflict and floated a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine during a 90-minute telephone conversation on Wednesday.

OPEC loses UAE

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The United Arab Emirates is officially separating from the OPEC alliance. They declared, “During our time in the organisation, we made significant contributions and even greater sacrifices for the benefit of all. However, the time has come to focus our efforts on what our national interest dictates and our commitment to our investors, customers, partners and global energy markets. This is what we will focus on going forward.”

United Arab Emirates quits OPEC alliance– www.washingtonexaminer.com
News Source
EXCERPT:

The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday said it is exiting OPEC and the broader OPEC+ as of May 1, marking a major loss for the oil producing bloc as global energy markets remain volatile in light of the Iran war.

The UAE said it has participated in the organization for the greater global benefit, but it is leaving the group to focus on internal interests.

Canada to Criminalize Being “Anti-Gay”

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If you read scripture in public that condemns homosexuality, you might soon be jailed in Canada if Canada’s latest Bill C-9 passes. The proposed law would define “harm” as making public statements protected groups would find offensive.

What Canada’s Bill C-9 will do to Christians– www.lifesitenews.com
News Source
EXCERPT:

She quoted Leviticus. Now she faces prison. Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen did not incite violence. She did not threaten anyone. She simply stated what Christians have believed for 2,000 years: that certain behaviors are sinful according to Scripture. For this, she has been prosecuted, threatened, and targeted — and now watches as Canada races down the same road with Bill C-9.

This is not about one law in one country. It is about a global redefinition of “harm” that criminalizes the very act of holding traditional religious beliefs. Räsänen’s case reveals the new logic: Offense is violence. Disagreement is hate. And the state now decides which doctrines are permissible and which are punishable.

Trump: Iran Is ‘In A State Of Collapse’ And Wants Hormuz Open ‘As Soon As Possible’– wltreport.com

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News Source
EXCERPT:

President Trump says Iran is “in a State of Collapse” and wants the Strait of Hormuz opened “as soon as possible” while talks continue.

That is the pressure point right now: Tehran wants relief, global energy markets want the waterway open, and the U.S. blockade is still being used as leverage.

Fox News highlighted Trump’s latest comments Tuesday afternoon:

Axios put Trump’s Tuesday claim in the larger negotiating picture:

Trump said Iran had told the United States it wanted the Strait of Hormuz opened quickly while it worked through a leadership crisis. The key caveat is that Tehran has not publicly confirmed Trump’s version of the message, so the claim still sits inside a live diplomatic standoff rather than a settled public agreement.

As Iran’s Leader Re-Emerges, U.S. Fails to Finish

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President Trump has rejected the latest proposal by Iran to continue the ceasefire, which seems to be de facto over. The Supreme Leader has allegedly emerged and promised to free the Strait of Hormuz from U.S. presence. The progressive media is casting doubts on U.S. power while Trump’s base buckles in its support for the war.

Iran’s Missing ‘Supreme Leader,’ in Written Message, Vows ‘Future Free of America’ for Strait of Hormuz– www.breitbart.com
News Source
EXCERPT:

The alleged, but missing, “supreme leader” of Iran Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly issued a written message on Thursday declaring that his country will impose a “new legal framework and management system for the Strait of Hormuz” that will result in a future “free of America” in the waterway.

Khamenei’s message declared the Strait, in which Iran has for over a month attempted to endanger commercial traffic, a “divine blessing” for his nation that the Islamist terror regime takes seriously. His statement, issued on the occasion of Iran’s “National Persian Gulf Day,” also contained a commitment to continue the regime’s illicit nuclear development — the main issue that the administration of President Donald Trump is seeking to settle with Iran.

The message follows weeks of attempts to end hostilities between Iran and America that began on February 28, when the Pentagon launched Operation Epic Fury and killed Khamenei’s father, longtime brutal dictator Ali Khamenei. President Trump announced a ceasefire this month that was initially intended to last two weeks, but has since been extended indefinitely. In public statements on his website, Truth Social, President Trump has explained that the extension was necessary given the large number of senior leaders in the Iranian regime that have been killed, resulting in unclear leadership and an intense power struggle within the terror state’s government apparatus. Iranian officials have attempted to deny the discord among their ranks but also have not at press time been able to organize a coherent response to the White House’s attempts to construct a long-lasting peace agreement.

Deep Dive Report: How Iran Kiled NATO

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Originally published April 24, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Michael A. Cessna, Military Affairs Correspondent

“I think NATO is obsolete. NATO was done at a time you had the Soviet Union, which was obviously larger – much larger than Russia is today. I’m not saying Russia is not a threat. But we have other threats. We have the threat of terrorism. And NATO doesn’t discuss terrorism. NATO’s not meant for terrorism. NATO doesn’t have the right countries in it for terrorism.” – President Donald J Trump

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Beginning in the first week of January 2026, US President Donald Trump launched into a high-stakes gamble, with a large number of moving parts, and a high chance of failure. The Trump administration’s Panama-styled “Operation Just Cause” takedown of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro opened the year.

Delta Force “operators” swiftly inserted themselves into the country and captured the drug-trafficking dictator and his wife, then successfully extracted them from the country. Both are now in custody in New York City on Federal drug charges.

No sooner was Maduro in custody than the Machine inside the Washington, DC Beltway turned its attention to the other side of the world.

In Iran, economic protests that began on December 28th of 2025 had suddenly morphed into a massive ‘street revolution.’

For the first time in forty-seven years, these protests seemed to have the potential to overthrow the financial lynchpin that held many of the worst terror groups in the Middle East together, keeping them in operation for far longer than they should have been.

Now, as we enter the third week of April of 2026, a massive month-long air and naval campaign – the largest the United States has conducted since the 2003 invasion of Iraq – has severely degraded the military and governmental structure of the Islamist regime in Tehran.

A. BACKGROUND

THE CLERICS – When the late Shah of Iran, Reza Muhammad Pahlavi, was forced to flee Iran in February of 1979, what had been our strongest ally in the Middle East – stronger by far than Israel at that time – suddenly, almost literally overnight, became a blood-enemy.

When the religious zealots in charge of the country led chants of “DEATH TO AMERICA!”, they meant it. This continued, even as the country was invaded by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 1980, kicking off the bloodbath now known as the Iran-Iraq War.

Today, the radical Shi’a clerics controlling the country – many of them not at all Iranian – not only still chant “Death to America!” and “DEATH TO ISRAEL!”, but directly sponsor all manner of proxy terror groups throughout the Middle East.

They don’t just sponsor Hezbollah, who were the group that carried out the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983, they also sponsor Hamas, who perpetrated the gory bloodbath of the October 7 attacks in Israel.

In addition to Hamas, they’re also supporting the Houthi Movement in Yemen. These same Houthis just recently effectively closed off the Red Sea to commercial merchant vessel traffic for a time, while launching Iran-supplied SCUD-derived ballistic missiles at anyone within range.

These are the major agents of the Islamic Republic, but many other such agents, or groups, exist, albeit smaller and less capable, but no less bloodthirsty.

The clerics were able to sustain this for the last forty-odd years, because of the succession of administrations. Democrats seemed to want to appease Iran while Republicans seemed to want to simply detain, not destroy Iran.

However, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran drove the bulk of the people on the side of the mullahs – not because the people liked the mullahs, but because they were loyal to the idea of Iran.

The blunders and missteps of these U.S. administrations, examined through a neutral lens, display either unimaginable levels of incompetence, or outright treasonous behavior; there really are no third options.

THE PROTESTS – Throughout it all, the religious zealots in Tehran have engaged in levels of open and naked corruption internally such that the Iranian Rial collapsed on December 28, 2025, to a staggering IRR 1.4 million to $1.

At the same time, corrupt regime leaders – religious, secular and military – have pushed out so many worthless dam projects, they have critically damaged the nation’s artesian water supplies.

This has led to many villages in the country’s interior being abandoned for lack of water, with the population migrating to the large cities, further increasing stress on those water systems.

The industrial sector has fared no better.

While Iran still has some level of civilian industrial production, it is hamstrung by old plant equipment and gross inefficiencies.

Car and truck manufacturing does continue, but those exports bring in only minimal revenue, under $9 million. Exports of mining and agricultural equipment, while better, have highly suspicious and unreliable sourcing, making hard figures not worth reporting.

The one area where Iranian industry has been working overtime is in the war-materials production sphere.

Iran does have the capability to manufacture battalion-organic weapons and ammunition (from handguns to mortars, heavy machine guns, light artillery and some light anti-tank missiles).

It also remains capable of at least making bespoke spare parts for things like main battle tanks and some jet aircraft (the fact that a few F-14 ‘Tomcat’ fighters left over from the Shah’s air force are still flying is frankly astounding), but the main Iranian arms export is its unmanned drone fleet.

While presented as an impressive array of remote weaponry, the regime’s drone fleet has been very underwhelming when pitted against an active and ready air defense network.

Their drone and missile exchanges with Israel in 2024 and 2025 saw Iran fire c.1800 drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in total, with fewer than fifty actually hitting close to any targets.

All the same, Iran has supplied a steady stream of its Shahed-131 and -136 drones to Russia for its long-running war in Ukraine…but significantly, Russia has to extensively modify them for use against a Ukrainian air defense network supported by U.S. and NATO air defense systems.

Lastly, there is the dilapidated state of Iran’s oil production industry. Iran, as of 2026, is no longer able to refine the oil that emerges from its own fields. It can pump raw crude to tankers for export, but it has to import refined fuels for all of its internal vehicles and aircraft.

Decades of mismanagement, corruption, lack of internal investment and an inability to maintain the physical plant have severely hampered Iran’s ability to push out oil, which is the country’s main financial lifeline.

B. CURRENT SITUATION

BEFORE EPIC FURY – After an initial period of confusion and fear inside the Islamic regimes’ leadership over what to do about the mass protests throughout the nation, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Basiji Militia adjunct moved into the streets in forces, and commenced a series of massacres across the country.

Concentrated on January 8 and 9, and continuing throughout January, the numbers of dead Iranian civilians could be somewhere around 40-45,000 people, conservatively.

In a direct response, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and its escorting strike group were ordered to the vicinity of the Arabian Sea, adjacent to the Strait of Hormuz, in mid-January. It was here that the first danger point appeared.

As of January 1, 2026, the United States had only two out of eleven aircraft carriers and their strike groups ready to deploy. The Lincoln was in the South China Sea, while the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and its strike group were operating in the Caribbean, overseeing operations against Maduro’s Venezuelan regime and keeping an eye on Cuba (which is still a developing situation).

All of the other nine carriers were in various states of maintenance; only the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) were “active”, in that they were in the process of “work-ups” – the process of ensuring that all of the many working components of a carrier strike group are functional and capable of working together – but were weeks from being available for deployment. The USS Eisenhower (CVN 69), in January, was still five or six months from being able to deploy.

This is a critical fail-point that had been building since the defense budget sequestrations of the Obama-era. Severe cuts had to be made to comply, which caused a long-term backlog in critical maintenance required to keep ships in fighting order to begin backing up.

This was aggravated by the Biden administration’s COVID-19 workplace restrictions, which had the immediate effect of delaying the refueling of the USS Stennis’ (CVN 74) nuclear refueling, extending a process that should have taken two years out to five; Stennis is not expected to leave the fueling process until the end of 2026.

This has obviously cut severely into deployment schedules, as the USS Ford – as of April 15, 2026, has been at sea in an operational posture for over 296 days, breaking a record set during the Vietnam War. This is brutal pace for both ship and crew.

This was the prelude to combat operations commencing on February 28th. Even given the terrible posture of the United States Military, the surge of air and naval forces into the region that began in earnest at the end of January was remarkable.

OPERATION EPIC FURY – When “Operation Epic Fury” (or “Operation Roaring Lion” for Israel) commenced on February 28th, US and Israeli forces – to the surprise only of those with no concept of reality – began to destroy Iran’s military and political structure in detail.

The Iranian navies (the regular national navy, as well as the IRGC ‘mosquito fleet’ of armed speedboats) ceased to exist within the first week. This led to the sinking of the 1,500-ton Moudge-class frigate IRIS Dena on March 4th by the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Charlotte. This was the first sinking of a hostile vessel by a US Navy warship with a torpedo in combat since World War 2.

In the air, US and Israeli planes hammered the Islamic Republic’s command and control structure with an opening of some 1,500 reported strikes on government and military targets, including the first successful “decapitation strike” – the direct targeting of a nation’s leadership – since the term was coined in the popular vernacular in the 1980’s/

That strike apparently killed the “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, some parliamentary officials and several senior IRGC commanders.

The regime responded with a massive barrage of ballistic missile and drone attacks on almost every country within range. While most of the strikes aimed at Israel failed to hit many targets of consequence, some strikes did get through, hitting and damaging mostly civilian housing complexes.

In the Persian Gulf, however, the Gulf Emirates and their populations – previously quiet supporters of the Tehran regime – suddenly discovered why that was a very poor choice of friends.

The regime in Tehran (such as that is, since it remains unclear who, exactly, is in charge, as of April 23rd) began firing barrages of Shahed drones at seemingly random targets in all of the Gulf Emirates, including Oman.

While a few military targets associated with the United States were hit, the vast majority of the drone strikes hit residential areas not associated with the US in any way. The attacks continued after the ceasefire began on April 8th.

At sea, with most of the Iranian Navy[s] sunk at anchor, or in suicidal sorties against US forces, on April 20th, the USN disabled, boarded and captured the Iran-flagged M/V TOUSKA in the Arabian Sea after it refused to halt its attempt to enter Iranian ports. Board-and-stop operations continue as this Deep Dive goes to print.

Diplomatically, Operation Epic Fury has brought the fundamental cracks in the NATO alliance into stark focus. Once stalwart allies like Britain and France have refused, point blank, to aid the United States in any way against Tehran, with Leftist-controlled Spain joining in, the whole value of NATO to the U.S. seems to crumble.

Notably, those three countries lack the combat power to aid the US in any way beyond acting as unsinkable aircraft carriers.

C. ASSESSMENT

As of publication, the facts on the ground are clear and stark:

There is no path to victory for the Islamic Revolutionary regime.

Even if Donald Trump commits political suicide by ending Operation Epic Fury prematurely, and unilaterally withdrawing U.S. combat forces from the Persian Gulf Theater, the regime in Tehran has been fatally compromised by combat operations to date.

They have lost too many experienced leaders – those capable of holding down the tensions and rivalries between the various factions of their state – too many physical assets, as their air force, in addition to their navy, is now functionally non-existent.

Even their oil production capacity has been so badly damaged, it is effectively a non-entity in contributing to Iranian state revenues…and that’s before addressing the looming water crisis.

Where Iran had been the major proxy supporter of terror groups throughout the Middle East, they can no longer do so: their internal currency is worthless, and with the current loss of oil revenue, they have no meaningful way to pay for their mercenaries imported from Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq.

This is the trap Machiavelli warned about in The Prince – but then, Machiavelli was an infidel…that rather limits one’s educational options.

And that opens the door to the real endgame.

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

If I were President Trump, I would lean into “staying the course”. The midterms are approaching in November of 2026 and right now, Trump is already facing enough setbacks.

Backing out with a lame deal that leaves the Islamic Revolutionary apparatus in place, even as a rump, would be a major blunder on his part. It would only compound his growing issues at home. A victory, however, in due time, will buoy his flagging support.

If there is one thing to understand about Donald J. Trump, it is that assuming that he will make some colossally stupid blunder is the surest route to handing him a huge win.

However – no one is perfect, and there is always the chance that Trump could decide that continuing to pound the regime is approaching a zero-sum state, and that withdrawing under an agreement is a good strategy. That seems unlikely, but not improbable.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

As of Friday, April 24th, the regime in Tehran – what is left of it – will fail to placate Trump, sparking a massive internal collapse (which is already in progress), and a renewed air offensive that will destroy what little coherent leadership and logistics infrastructure remains under regime control.

The secondary impacts will shape the region for the next century.

Trump’s ploy with the ceasefire – which he must have supposed even an intact regime in Tehran would not be able to adhere to – was more to allow US combat forces to rest and refit for the resumption of combat operations.

While the U.S. rests and re-arms, the regime is not able to do the same. The regime is unable to dig itself out of the rubble and repair its infrastructure for the next round.

When this second hammer comes down in full, the regime will lose the ability to sustain supply to its remaining military strength – the light infantry forces of the IRGC, the Basiji Militia, and their foreign mercenaries – with basic supplies, like rifle and machine gun ammunition…

…Which is the point at which the Iranian Street will reemerge, as it did in the first week of January. But this time, instead of peaceful protestors, the regime’s debilitated forces will face an aroused and enraged civilian population, intent on bloody revenge for the January massacres. It will get very ugly, very fast.

This would be a very dangerous situation, if there were no transitional government waiting in the wings…

In Iran’s case, there is a real exile government in all but name, waiting to step in: the Iran Prosperity Project (IPP).

POST-CLERICS – Led by Crown Prince Reza II Pahlavi, the IPP is the only organization in the greater Iranian Diaspora that has an actual plan for national recovery and governance.

Despite relentless propaganda from the worldwide Left-wing media, most Iranians in and outside of Iran support Pahlavi as at least a transitional leader.

Some are even calling for him to take the Imperial throne outright. This is not hyperbole, and the movement is not insignificant.

Videos of Iranians shot down in the streets of the country writing “JAVID SHAH!” (“Long Live the King!”) on the walls in their own blood create a visual representation of how real and profound that sentiment is.

The “ripple effect” of the regime’s collapse, however, looks to be closer to a global tsunami than a ripple.

Aside from the aforementioned impact in cutting off funding to terror groups and movements like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis – which, alone, would reshape the Middle East – there would be an immediate cessation of support and sales to Russia. While this would not be a a huge impact on the Russian war effort, it would yet be impactful, nonetheless. The real impact is far greater than this.

NATO – Donald Trump and the main movers and shakers in his administration are done with Europe in general, and NATO, in particular…and what Europe is only now beginning to realize, is that the vast majority of the American people – and the voters – are done with them as well.

For decades, NATO member nations have left the United States and its taxpayers holding the bag to pay for European defense, offering only tepid support – at best – when the United States committed troops and cash in operations that directly benefited them.

And now, they have refused, point-blank, to help the United States finally deal with a criminal regime responsible for terror attacks on their own soil.

What is the track record of the “Orange Man Is Always Bad” global leader crowd? Nations that fit that bill, nations like Britain, France and Spain – have shown just how feckless and corrupt their leadership really is.

BRITAIN – Britain has allowed its military to deteriorate to the point that it is unable to “surge” a single warship to protect its own territories in the Mediterranean.

Keir Starmer should be deliriously happy that Javier Milei is in charge of Argentina, as Milei wants nothing to do with the Falklands.

Looking deeper, the once-mighty Royal Navy now has about twenty-five combat vessels in commission, with another thirty or so support vessels. They have one hundred and thirty-four (134 – not a typo) admirals on active duty. This ratio makes the Republic of South Africa’s 27 admirals for 12 ocean-capable ships appear downright efficient in comparison.

And coupled to this, is the degradation of the British Army, with many of their top tier forces losing personnel to what some might consider lawfare. Members of the SAS (Special Air Service) have been facing prosecution for “crimes” supposedly committed during “The Troubles” in Ireland.

These service members face prosecution based on EU human rights laws ex post facto, including possible “violations” in Afghanistan and Syria, in the form of political point-scoring many would simply call “lawfare”.

FRANCE – In contrast to Britain, France does have about one hundred ships in commission, including roughly thirty combat vessels. The current French political leadership, however, is more dysfunctional than Britain’s, although that may be changing in the aftermath of Emil Macron’s disastrous handling of French relations in Africa.

SPAIN – Meanwhile, Spain – although having a similar-sized navy to France, including minesweeping vessels that would be critical to clearing the Strait of Hormuz – is buried under yet another Leftist government that opposes “Trump-anything” on general principles.

CONCLUSION

The “Trumpian Trap”, here, is that the United States and Israel do not actually need Anglo-French-Spanish support to make Epic Fury work.

Trump asked for help from NATO and the various allied members individually, betting that they would refuse, publicly and messily…which they did. This is the leverage Trump can now use to present unilaterally exiting NATO to the American public, if he chooses to do so, post-EPIC FURY.

It’s not whether a nation has tools, but whether they will use them to aid you when you ask politely for help.

Europe is still quaking in terror at the thought of an all-out Russian invasion of Western Europe, should Ukraine collapse…and is only now starting to grasp that they have abandoned their own national defense – both internal and external – for so long, that alienating the only nation actually capable of defending them, was almost literally “cutting off their nose to spite their face”.

England needs an Alfred the Great. France needs a Charles Martel. Spain needs an El Cid…What they have are Starmer, Macron and Sanchez. But at least the United States has its own Charlemagne, warts and all.

And this is only early 2026, remember – Donald Trump’s term will not end until January of 2029.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO – Peter Apps

NATO: The Dangerous Dinosaur – Ted Carpenter

Iran: A Modern History – Abbas Amanat

The Ayatollahs and the MEK: Iran’s Crumbling Influence Operation – Lincoln P. Bloomfield

Bellwether Digest – April 29, 2026

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By STAFF

This digest covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from April 1-16, 2026.

This digest contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Report.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. Trump Dinner Shooter
  2. Iran War
  3. 2026 Elections
  4. Trump Deportations
  5. Trump King Charles Visit

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. COMEY’S 86 47 GETS INDICTED – The Department of Justice has garnered two new indictments targeting former FBI Director James Comey. The indictments are connected to a social media post by Comey that showed seashells on the beach laid out to signal “86 47.” One charge is “knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of — and to inflict bodily harm on — the president.” The second charge is “knowingly and willfully transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to kill the president.”
  2. CHARLES STEALTH BOMBS TRUMP IN CONGRESS – Using extremely veiled language, Charles III, King of Britian, appeared to tell the U.S. congress Trump should end the war in Iran and stop deportations. Progressives tend to agree with this assessment, claiming Charles “owned” Trump in front of congress.

This is our interpretation after reading between the two clear focal points of his speech, diversity and religious tolerance, both target Trump deportations of immigrants and his war on Islamist Iran.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. MALI BUCKLES, RUSSIA WITHDRAWS – After Islamists led a successful offensive across Mali, Russian forces withdrew, while junta forces failed to stop the assaults. Not only did the Islamists successfully disrupt multiple cities, but they also killed the country’s defense minister and gained territory in northern areas. The assault puts the junta’s power in jeopardy, especially given Russia’s disengagement.
  2. CHINA’S MANTUS CUT OFF FROM U.S. PURCHASE – China has made a decisive move in the emerging AI race and war with the U.S., halting the purchase of a Chinese-created AI-agent company called Manus. The purchaser was the U.S.’s Meta. China did not offer an explanation, though it reflect AI nationalization trends both in China and in general.

PEOPLE ADVANCE

  1. TWO BIGS GERRYMANDER WINS FOR GOP – The Virginia Supreme Court continues to refuse to certify the special election that saw the Progressives win the “right” to use gerrymandering to eliminate 4 GOP U.S. House Seats. SCOTUS has confirmed the Texas gerrymander map that switches 5 Democrat-held seats to 5 likely GOP seats. In Florida, a gerrymander plan is advancing in the legislature that would net the GOP 4 more seats in the U.S. House.
  2. AI CREATES 1K JOBS AT SALESFORCE – Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced online plans to hire 1000 new college graduates to drive the “exponential” potential of AI. He said in his X post, “… they said AI would kill entry-level jobs. Meanwhile these grads & interns are building it.”

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