May 3, 2026

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FISA Passes House, Biden Vehicle Kill Switch Survives

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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.”

Roy Pushes Amendment to End Biden Surveillance Mandate– www.dailysignal.com
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The vehicle kill switch may be getting another chance to be killed in Congress this week as a member of the House Rules Committee wants to repeal legislation that directs automakers to install surveillance technology on all new vehicles starting in 2027.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a committee member and influential congressman on the conservative House Freedom Caucus, says the Biden-era mandate poses “a direct threat to our Fourth Amendment rights.”

“Republicans should not be continuing a blatantly invasive Biden-era policy that enables round-the-clock monitoring of Americans in their own cars,” Roy told The Daily Signal while the possibility of the amendment was still being discussed by the Rules Committee.

“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.”

This is Roy’s second attempt at killing the kill switch this year.

The need for an amendment already has large support from House conservatives, including Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.; Scott Perry, R-Pa.; and Keith Self, R-Texas.

“The government should never have the ability to remotely kill your car or anything else you own,” Self told The Daily Signal. “When a group of us conservatives in the House tried to repeal this Joe Biden-era mandate set to take effect next year, 57 Republicans teamed up with 211 Democrats to stop us. That’s unacceptable.”

House passes FISA extension ahead of Thursday’s deadline – WGHN

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A powerful surveillance authority that the U.S. government uses to spy on foreigners cleared the House on Wednesday, resolving one stalemate that threatened to derail its renewal before it expires this week.

It now faces hurdles in the Senate.

The controversial spy tool, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is set to lapse Thursday. Congress approved a 10-day extension ahead of the original April 20 deadline.

After House GOP opposition forced days of delay, the lower chamber advanced the measure earlier Wednesday in a procedural vote that was held open for about two hours as leaders worked to convince holdouts to flip their votes.

The House passed the measure — which is formatted as an amendment to an unrelated bill — in a 235 to 191 vote later in the day.

Section 702, which was first authorized in 2008, allows the government to collect the communications of noncitizens located outside the U.S. without a warrant, though it can also sweep up the data of Americans who are in contact with the targeted foreigners. The FBI is able to search Americans’ data gathered through the program without a warrant.

National security officials have long argued that the law is vital for disrupting terrorist plots, foreign espionage, international drug trafficking and cyber intrusions.

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
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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.

Mali Buckles, Russia Withdraws

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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.

What next for Mali’s military leaders after shock of rebel offensive? – BBC– news.google.com
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It is hard to overstate the sense of shock reverberating across West Africa after attackers, in co-ordinated assaults, managed to enter Mali’s capital, Bamako, assassinate the defence minister and seize control of northern areas.

Residents in different cities across the country woke to gunfire and explosions on Saturday – attacks which an alliance of two groups – the separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and the al-Qaeda-linked JNIM group – said they were behind.

The scale of the offensive and the withdrawal of Malian and Russian forces from the northern city of Kidal, now under FLA control, have fuelled doubts about the strength of the military government led by Col Assimi Goïta, who came to power in a coup in August 2020.

It has taken Goïta several days to make an appearance since the offensive, prompting questions about the junta’s future, as well as the role of Russian forces deployed in Mali and neighbouring countries to tackle the security threat.

  1. What next for Mali’s military leaders after shock of rebel offensive?  BBC
  2. Mali military leader Goita emerges as Russia declares it halted coup  Al Jazeera
  3. Mali leader says situation under control in first speech since attacks  Reuters
  4. Mali Rebels Strike Major Blow Against Junta and Russia’s Africa Corps  The New York Times
  5. Major blow to Putin in Africa as Russian forces driven from Mali stronghold by separatists, jihadists  Fox News

 

China’s Mantus Cut off from U.S. Purchase

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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.

China blocks Meta’s $2 billion Manus AI acquisition after regulatory scrutiny – Firstpost
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic startup founded by Chinese engineers. The move by the NDRC is one of the most significant interventions in a cross-border deal, one that extends well beyond US-China tensions and into the broader AI industry.

The commission issued no explanation and ordered both parties to unwind the deal completely. Reports suggest the decision could be a serious blow to Meta and its fast-moving AI agents strategy, since almost 100 Manus employees had already moved into Meta’s Singapore offices and taken on executive roles. The unwinding could therefore cause major disruption between the two companies.

Pope Promises Nothing More than Informal Blessing for Same-Sex Marriage

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Pope Leo XIV has affirmed he has no plans to go beyond allowing priests to bless gay marriages to 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.”

Church Will Not ‘Go Beyond’ Blessing of Same-Sex Couples– www.breitbart.com
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Pope Leo XIV said on Thursday that the Catholic Church will not go beyond the precedent set by Pope Francis of offering blessings to same-sex couples, adding that there will be no formalized blessings.

While Pope Leo XIV affirmed the 2023 decision enacted by Pope Francis during his flight back to Rome on Thursday, he emphasized that no further changes will be made.

As noted by Reuters, Pope Francis “allowed pastors to give blessings to same-sex couples informally outside of a ritual service, and on a case-by-case basis.”

Concealing Sin for the Good of the Game

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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.

A Texas Christian homeschool league had parents sign waivers to let a registered sex offender coach their kids. Nobody mentioned his conviction – Operation Sports
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Tommy Whiteman has resigned from his position as head baseball coach at the Texas Home Educators Sports Association (THESA) after it came to light that he is a registered sex offender. Whiteman is 46 years old, and the fact that he is a sex offender was not mentioned to parents at any point during his time with the organization.

Before his resignation, THESA made every parent sign a waiver agreeing to Whiteman’s leadership if they wanted their child to play on the team. The waiver did not mention his conviction. When THESA Board President Daryn Eudaly announced the resignation to families on April 7, the message said he left due to “operational challenges.”

According to Brobible, the board thanked Whiteman for his dedication and asked families to pray for him, without ever bringing up his legal history. Whiteman is a former professional athlete who played seven seasons in the Minor Leagues after being drafted by the Houston Astros in 2000.

Red State’s School Districts Pushed Stealth Child Transitioning

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The U.S. Department of Education uncovered four school districts in the red state of Kansas that were breaking a federal law requiring parents be informed when children are “transitioned” to an “alternative” gender.

Education Department Finds Four Red-State School Districts Pushed ‘Gender Identity’ on Kids– www.westernjournal.com
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The U.S. Department of Education found that four school districts in Kansas broke federal law by failing to inform parents that their children were undergoing “gender transitions.”

The agency announced on April 17 that the four schools — Kansas City, Kansas Public School District; Olathe Public Schools; Shawnee Mission School District; and Topeka Public Schools — violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

The Department of Education said in a release that the schools “had policies that were likely to prevent schools from notifying parents of their child’s so-called ‘gender transition,’ even if the parent requested their child’s records.”

DOJ says Green Beret used classified information to make Polymarket bets on Maduro mission– www.washingtontimes.com

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A senior Army Green Beret used his inside knowledge of clandestine operations to make more than $400,000 by betting on the timing of Operation Absolute Resolve, the Jan. 3 mission to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday.

Federal prosecutors said Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and was part of the team that planned and executed the mission. He is accused of using his access to classified military information to make wagers on its outcome with Polymarket, a prediction marketplace.

In 2025, Polymarket began offering betting contracts related to whether certain events involving Mr. Maduro and Venezuela would take place. They included predictions of the likelihood that U.S. troops would be in Venezuela by certain dates, whether the now-arrested leader would be taken into custody, and whether President Trump would invoke “war powers” against Caracas.

California Stealth Attempt To Reinstate Affirmative Action In Education Opposed By Equal Protection Project– legalinsurrection.com

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California Proposition 209, passed in 1995, amended the California Constitution to provide, among other things, to prohibit race and sex discrimination in all public employment, education, and contracting:

SEC. 31. (a) The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. [emphasis added]

This powerful nondiscrimination provision effectively banned affirmative action in most public spheres. Prop 209 has come under attack many times, including  a 2020 attempt at repeal that was rejected by voters 57%-43%.

There is a new stealth attack. Legislation (ACA0-7) has passed the California Assembly and is under consideration by the California Senate that would put forward to voters a ballot initiative that would drastically scale back the protections of Proposition 209, but it’s a stealth attack because the legislation and proposed constitutional changes are subtle but deadly for civil rights.

SCOTUS Allows Stealth Transitioning Kids

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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, as well as their awareness.

US Supreme Court rejects Massachusetts school gender-identity policy challenge – WHTC
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by parents to sue a public school district in Massachusetts over actions by teachers and officials to support the gender identity of students by not disclosing name or pronoun changes to parents without the child’s consent.

The justices turned ​away an appeal by the parents of a student who had self-identified as “genderqueer” while attending a middle school in ‌the Massachusetts town of Ludlow after a lower court threw out their lawsuit.

The plaintiffs claimed officials treated their child as nonbinary and hid this information from them in violation of their fundamental parental rights as protected by the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment promise of due process.

Teachers of the Future Must Learn to Teach What AI Can’t

pgnewser April 22, 2026 0

The future of teaching in an AI reality is going to mean learning what humans can teach humans that AI cannot, and becoming maximally good at teaching humans that, letting AI teach the rest. A study from a University of Pennsylvania professor used AI to show not only is the future happening sooner than we think, it’s already happening.

Penn professor uses AI to generate sociology module, suggests shift in higher ed learning– www.thecollegefix.com
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Key Takeaways

  • A University of Pennsylvania economics professor utilized AI to develop a comprehensive 12-hour study plan on sociologist Erving Goffman, suggesting a shift in educational models to focus on areas where AI cannot replace human instruction.
  • The use of AI in education has the potential to enhance critical thinking and personalized learning, but experts warn that improper use could undermine learning and trust among students.
  • Professors advocate for assignments that encourage deeper engagement and critical thinking rather than rote answers, allowing AI to assist in the learning process without diminishing the educational experience.

Space Defense and Nuclear Scientist Apocolypse?

pgnewser April 22, 2026 1

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.”

FBI looks into dead or missing nuclear and space defense scientists– fortune.com
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Almost a dozen scientists related to nuclear and space defense programs tied to NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are dead or missing in cases as far back as 2022, and they’ve gone largely unnoticed by authorities and the public—until now.

The House Oversight Committee formally demanded answers from four federal agencies Monday on the deaths and disappearances of at least 11 American scientists and researchers with ties to NASA, nuclear research, and classified defense programs—several of them directly connected to the space defense technologies now being commercialized by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), the chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, sent letters to FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, requesting staff-level briefings no later than April 27.

Was ChatGPT Behind a Mass Shooting?

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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.

Florida opens criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in FSU shooting– www.cbsnews.com
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Florida’s attorney general announced Tuesday that his office has launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI after reviewing conversation logs between its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, and a Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding several others after opening fire on campus last April.

FISA Court Quashes Spy Tool, Trump Dissents

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The Trump administration is fighting a FISA court ruling that prevents the government from specifically searching for individuals online who have merely 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.

DOJ Reportedly Appealing Ruling That Limits Feds’ Ability to Use Notorious Spy Tool– www.westernjournal.com
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The Trump Department of Justice is appealing a ruling limiting the use of certain tools to collect Americans’ data, according to The New York Times.

Congress is currently weighing an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals’ communications with Americans, as President Donald Trump urges Republicans to renew the program before its authorization expires on Monday.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued a classified ruling in March extending the program’s ability to collect emails and phone calls through March 2027, though the judge objected to tools analysts use to “process messages,” per The New York Times.

Under the court’s ruling, intelligence agencies like the FBI, CIA, and National Security Agency cannot use filtering systems that refines search results to examine communications of specific individuals who contact foreigners, The New York Times reported, citing a person familiar.

AI is Becoming a Utility

pgnewser April 21, 2026 1

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.

Generative AI News: US Households Are Carving Out Room in Budgets for ChatGPT and AI Subscriptions – crypto.news– news.google.com
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In the latest generative AI news, CBS MoneyWatch reported that US households are actively making room in their budgets for AI subscriptions, backed by Bank of America Institute data showing the number of paying AI subscribers has surged 38% from the 2024 average.

Summary
  • Approximately 3% of Bank of America households paid for AI services in early 2026, with median monthly spend at $20, up 10.4% year over year, driven by growing use of tools like ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Gemini.
  • The share of subscribers paying $21 to $40 per month jumped 50% year to date versus 2024, suggesting consumers are moving up the pricing tiers as they deepen their use of AI tools for daily tasks.
  • Bank of America Research projects the US consumer AI market could scale to $75 billion annually as AI becomes embedded in productivity, search, entertainment, and personal assistant use cases.

Generative AI news has moved from enterprise budgets to household spending lines. Bank of America Institute analysis of nearly 70 million consumer accounts found that the number of households making AI subscription payments is up 38% from the 2024 average, with median monthly spend sitting at $20 for those who pay, up 10.4% year over year.

 

Riot Bots and the CCP

pgnewser April 21, 2026 1

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.

China may control riots in the future using robots – NewsBytes
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China‘s internal security forces are exploring the use of autonomous machines for riot control, according to a recent study. The research, conducted by engineering experts from the People’s Armed Police Force (PAP), imagines a future where urban unrest is managed without any human intervention. This futuristic approach was envisioned in response to a hypothetical scenario of mass protests triggered by rumors following a military takeover of a large city.

Machine intervention

How will it work?

In the imagined scenario, a large crowd gathers in a central square with the intention of attacking important government sites. However, their protest is met with an immediate response from autonomous machines. Roadblocks are suddenly deployed to cut off their advance and key instigators are quickly identified and captured by these machines. The protesters, cut off from the internet and unable to broadcast their cause, eventually disperse on their own without any direct confrontation with human soldiers or police officers.

Bellwether Report – Friday, April 17, 2026

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Originally published April 17, 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 April 1-16, 2026.

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

TOP NEWS TAGS

AI Watch – Read our Bellwether Deep Dive on pg. 2.

Iran War

2026 Elections

Strait of Hormuz

Eric Swalwell Investigation

Hungary Watch

Judgefare

China Watch

Trump Deportations

Pope Leo XIV

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

IRAN GALVANIZES ANTI-AMERICAN EUROPEAN MOVEMENT – As 10,000 more U.S. troops head to the Persian Gulf, Trump promises the war will soon be over. The Senate failed again to check the President’s military actions. China looks to pry America’s allies loose, accusing the U.S. of destabilizing the world. Macron and Starmer followed China’s lead, holding a joint conference on the Strait of Hormuz.

The French president wrote on X that the gathering would include “non-belligerent countries ready to contribute, alongside us, to a multilateral and purely defensive mission aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the strait when security conditions allow.”

Whether Iran is turning America’s allies against her, or simply exposing America’s allies as “fake,” is another issue altogether. We assume the latter is true, that Iran has exposed America’s true enemies and allies, it didn’t create them.

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.

LEBANON CEASEFIRE ANNOUNCED – President Donald Trump has announced a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon which both sides seem to affirm. He also claimed the ceasefire deal with Iran is close to completion as well.

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.

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 suggest

VACATE THE J6 CONVICTIONS – The Department of Justice (DOJ) officially filed motions to have the convictions of numerous J6 protestors vacated. The request simply stated, “The United States respectfully requests that the Court vacate the defendants’ convictions and remand to the district court so that the government may move to dismiss the indictment with prejudice under Rule 48(a).”

MORE SIGNS POINT TO 2026 BLUE WAVE – New polls have come out that show four key Senate Races are shifting from toss-up to leans Democrat. This reflects other polls that show similar rises in Democrat numbers, along with rises in funding.

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 credible, but not confirmed. We will continue to evaluate Magyar’s policies in action after his government takes power in May.

DROP THE CONTEMPT, BOASBERG – Progressive Judge James Boasberg received an unfavorable review from 2 of the 3 D.C. District Court panelists who ruled to end contempt proceedings against Trump administration officials. They accused the progressive judge of committing clear abuses of “discretion” as a district judge.

The ruling declared, “The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion, as the district court’s order said nothing about transferring custody of the plaintiffs and therefore lacks the clarity to support criminal contempt based on the transfer of custody.”

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.”

Read more about the current geopolitical reality of AI in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2.

HEADLINES MISSED

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.

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.”

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.”

SUICIDE BUSINESS IN BELGIUM BOOMS – Belgium’s Euthanasia laws are rapidly expanding the eligible “clients,” and so are the suicides. Euthanasia increased over 12% in one year, from 2024 to 2025, and now accounts for 4% of the nation’s annual deaths.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

PROSECUTING PRO-LIFE GETS PROSECUTORS FIRED – Four Biden-era prosecutors who used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to convict pro-life protestors at abortion clinics have been fired by the Justice Department. A spokesperson said, the department “has terminated the employment of personnel for weaponizing the FACE Act who still remained at the department.”

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.

WON’T DEPORT? YOU’RE FIRED! – Two immigration judges that refused to deport illegal aliens have themselves been fired by the Department of Justice. They were fired along with four other immigration justices; all of whom were probationary justices whose terms were near completion.

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.

PROGRESSIVE FLAGSHIP COLLEGE SHUTS DOWN – Massachusetts’ Hampshire College is shutting its doors after the end of the fall 2026 semester. The college is a leading progressive college which has consistently led the nation in enacting progressive policies.

The President, Jenn Chrisler, stated, “The College no longer has the resources to sustain full operations and meet our regulatory responsibilities. We want to assure you that Hampshire’s board made its decision only after exploring every possible alternative.”

PRIDE FOLDS – Pride Events are shutting down across America, with the latest being Tucson Pride. They announced they were cancelling the next Pride event, saying “This decision was not made lightly…We recognize the deep importance Tucson Pride has held in our community since 1977, serving as a space of visibility, advocacy, celebration, and resilience for nearly five decades.” 

REVERSE AGING SHOWING EARLY SIGNS OF SUCCESS – Shinya Yamanaka, a stem-cell biologist then at Kyoto University in Japan, led a team of scientists to successfully test a 2006 reverse aging discovery. Now, major companies are prepared to bring the testing to the next level after other researchers have shown more evidence to support the 2006 claim. Billions are now being flooded into the emerging technology.

TAX DAY BRINGS KIDS TO CHRIST – Organizers of “One Big Wednesday” led thousands of teens to Christ over a three-hour event at Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs, CO. The event was held on Tax Day, April 15, 2026.

AI CURRENT NEWS Digest – 26-04-16

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PLANNING AND DESIGN

Why Perfect AI Alignment Is Mathematically Impossible, and Why That Might Be Fine – ScienceBlog.com

Agentic coding at enterprise scale demands spec-driven development– venturebeat.com

AI Could Democratize One of Tech’s Most Valuable Resources– www.wired.com

April 16, 2026

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Nvidia is the undisputed king of AI chips. But thanks to the AI it helped build, the champ could soon face growing competition.

Modern AI runs on Nvidia designs, a dynamic that has propelled the company to a market cap of well over $4 trillion. Each new generation of Nvidia chip allows companies to train more powerful AI models using hundreds or thousands of processors networked together inside vast data centers. One reason for Nvidia’s success is that it provides software to help program each new generation of chip. That may soon not be such a differentiated skill.

A startup called Wafer is training AI models to do one of the most difficult and important jobs in AI—optimizing code so that it runs as efficiently as possible on a particular silicon chip.

Emilio Andere, cofounder and CEO of Wafer, says the company performs reinforcement learning on open source models to teach them to write kernel code, or software that interacts directly with hardware in an operating system. Andere says Wafer also adds “agentic harnesses” to existing coding models like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT to soup up their ability to write code that runs directly on chips.

Agentic coding at enterprise scale demands spec-driven development– venturebeat.com
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Autonomous agents are compressing software delivery timelines from weeks to days. The enterprises that scale agents safely will be the ones that build using spec-driven development.

There’s a moment in every technology shift where the early adopters stop being outliers and start being the baseline. We’re at that moment in software development, and most teams don’t realize it yet.

A year ago, vibe coding went viral. Non-developers and junior developers discovered they could build beyond their abilities with AI. It lowered the floor. It made prototyping much quicker, but it also introduced a surplus of slop. What the industry then needed was something that raised the ceiling — something that improved code quality and worked the way the most expert developers work. Spec-driven development did that. It laid the foundation for trustworthy autonomous coding agents.

Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI– www.marktechpost.com

April 15, 2026

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Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection — acting as the high-level reasoning model for a robot, capable of executing tasks by natively calling tools like Google Search, vision-language-action models (VLAs), or any other third-party user-defined functions.

Here is the key architectural idea to understand: Google DeepMind takes a dual-model approach to robotics AI. Gemini Robotics 1.5 is the vision-language-action (VLA) model — it processes visual inputs and user prompts and directly translates them into physical motor commands. Gemini Robotics-ER, on the other hand, is the embodied reasoning model: it specializes in understanding physical spaces, planning, and making logical decisions, but does not directly control robotic limbs. Instead, it provides high-level insights to help the VLA model decide what to do next. Think of it as the difference between a strategist and an executor — Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is the strategist.

 

 

This new chip survives 1300°F (700°C) and could change AI forever– www.sciencedaily.com

A Deep Neural Network Approach for Random Networks with Sparse Nodal Attributes and Complex Nodal Heterogeneity– arxiv.org

 

 

 

RESOURCES

Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why– www.technologyreview.com

April 8, 2026

Blurb:

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart.

From the time I began work on AI in 2010 to now, the amount of training data that goes into frontier AI models has grown by a staggering 1 trillion times—from roughly 10¹⁴ flops (floating-point operations‚ the core unit of computation) for early systems to over 10²⁶ flops for today’s largest models. This is an explosion. Everything else in AI follows from this fact.

 

Republicans must reject Big Tech land grabs or start losing elections– www.theblaze.com

April 15, 2026

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Republicans are continuing their uninterrupted streak of woefully underperforming in elections. However, in the first of its kind referendum on Big Tech data centers, voters are showing that a party that embraces land sovereignty over Big Tech dystopian land grabs will win the day.

Sadly, Republicans have chosen to be on the losing side of the issue.

The public is being asked to shoulder a burden to facilitate a supposed technology whose benefits are very unclear and dubious.

In a first of its kind local referendum, voters in Port Washington, Wisconsin, voted by a margin of 2-1 for a referendum that will require all future data center projects in the area to be approved by a vote of the city’s residents.

The referendum was sparked in the wake of Oracle and OpenAI’s Stargate facility setting up shop in the area. The proposed 1.3 gigawatt facility will consume the power equivalent of over one million households.

 

 

Ban on data centers in St. Charles gets city planning commission’s endorsement– www.stltoday.com

Elon Musk’s xAI faces lawsuit over Mississippi power plant tied to AI data centers – The Times of India

Bill Gates Given Green Light to Build Nuclear Reactor– slaynews.com

A Technical Deep Dive into the Essential Stages of Modern Large Language Model Training, Alignment, and Deployment– www.marktechpost.com

 

 

 

 

 

CULTURE

Anthropic seeks Christian leaders’ help in shaping AI ethics – Christian Post

AI Leadership Assassin Caught

April 14, 2026

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.”

Man Who Allegedly Attempted To Murder Sam Altman Had Hit List Of Other AI Leaders, FBI Says– dailycaller.com
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The man accused of attempting to murder OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kept a hit list of other tech executives, according to the FBI.

Twenty-year old Daniel Moreno-Gama, who faces federal charges for posession of an unregistered firearm and attempted destruction of property with explosives, wrote a document that “identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the executives of various AI companies,” an FBI affidavit revealed Monday.

After detaining Moreno-Gama, officers “recovered incendiary devices, a jug of kerosene, a blue lighter, and a document” from his possession, according to court records.

After the Attack on Sam Altman’s Home, Will AI CEOs Go On the Offensive? – Mother Jones

April 14, 2026

Blurb:

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, takes his seat before a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington.Alex Brandon/AP

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Sam Altman suggested that an investigative story describing him as someone “unconstrained by truth” with a “sociopathic lack of concern” for consequences caused an early Friday attack on his San Francisco home.

 

 

Moody’s CEO: AI has a trust problem – better models won’t fix it– fortune.com

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Nearly every week, the headlines about AI are dominated by the news of the latest model. A few days ago, Meta announced its newest model called Muse Spark – its first under its revamped AI division. According to their internal benchmarking tests, the new model is competitive with leading rivals across several tasks.

AI Companies Building A Trojan Horse To Get Public On Their Side– crooksandliars.com

April 8, 2026

Blurb:

The Wall Street Journal, which famously floats trial balloons for corporate behemoths, is carrying water for the poor AI companies who are so, so disliked:

OpenAI this week published a populist wish list of policy proposals that zero in on worries like job replacement and wealth concentration, floating such ideas as a four-day workweek and an AI-invested public-wealth fund distributed to citizens.

Those proposals come as its rival Anthropic has been signing partnerships and building tools for such sectors as consulting and software, where share prices have been whacked by investor worries that they will be replaced by AI. Anthropic’s efforts have helped push back up shares of tech companies including LegalZoom.com LZ 3.84%increase; green up pointing triangle.

Anthropic and OpenAI are each pursuing ventures to help private equity, a big owner of companies in sectors ripe for disruption, with AI transformation. (Those efforts could also yield lucrative new business customers.)

 

AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It– www.thealgorithmicbridge.com

Blurb:

The first thing you learn about a loom is that it’s easy to break.

The shuttle runs along a track that warps with humidity. The heddles hang from cords that fray. The reed is a row of thin metal strips, bent by hand, that bend back just as easily. The warp beam cracks if you over-tighten it. The treadles loosen at the joints. The breast beam, the cloth roller, the ratchet and pawl, the lease sticks, the castle; the whole contraption is wood and string held together by tension. It’s a piece of ingenuity and craftsmanship, but one as delicate as the clothes it manifests out of wild plant fibers. It is, also, the foundational tool of an entire industry, textiles, that has kept its relevance to our days of heavy machinery, factories, energy facilities, and datacenters.

Google DeepMind hires philosopher Henry Shevlin to explore AI consciousness and human-machine relationships – Firstpost

AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy– www.wired.com

April 15, 2026

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To anyone with a pulse and a smartphone, it’s obvious that the internet has an AI slop problem. The issue has grown more severe since ChatGPT launched in 2022, with some social platforms flooded with AI-generated writing. Now, there’s data to back up the anecdotal evidence.

A new preprint study published today from researchers at the Imperial College of London, Stanford University, and the Internet Archive found that approximately 35 percent of all new websites are either AI-generated or AI-assisted. The same study also found that online writing is “increasingly sanitized and artificially cheerful.” In other words, AI is making the internet fake-happy.

The research team tried four different approaches to AI detection before settling on tools from Pangram Labs after it delivered the most consistent results. (Though the team found it performed well on its tests, it is worth noting that all artificial intelligence detection tools are imperfect.) To compile a representative sample of websites, it tapped the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which collects snapshots of webpages. In addition to quantifying how many sites created between 2022 and 2025 lean on AI-generated writing, the study also tested six different theories about the characteristics of slop.

Canada Is Mulling Age Restrictions on AI Chatbots and Social Media – Bloomberg.com

AI gig workers forced to collect personal data, including kid’s pics, for Zuckerberg-backed company – Yahoo

Claude puts up a wall as ID checks complicate access for Chinese users– technode.com

OpenAI can’t duck federal claims over murder-suicide tied to ChatGPT – Courthouse News

Apple threatened to remove Grok from the App Store over sexualized deepfakes, letter says – NBC News

Video. Humanoid robots box and perform at Hong Kong AI and robotics fair– www.euronews.com

April 15, 2026

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Hong Kong hosted the AI and robotics fair where humanoid robots boxed and played music as part of InnoEX 2026 and the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition), which ran from 13 to 16 April 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The innovation-and-technology showcase reflects a broader trend of robots expanding into service and public functions. Unitree unveiled four models with advanced capabilities, including navigation assistance and support in emergencies, with some able to operate fire hoses in hazardous settings.

At the exhibition, robots also performed martial arts style routines and mimicked musical instruments, highlighting their versatility across sectors. Developers say these systems are designed for security, rescue and customer service as well as entertainment.

According to organisers, the fair brought together companies and researchers from across Asia, reflecting strong investment in the sector. Firms including AgiBot, EngineAI, UBTECH and Unitree showcased advanced robots, alongside start-ups and international participants, underlining Hong Kong’s role as a regional hub.

MARKET

AI Is Exposing The Limits Of Economics– thefederalist.com

April 7, 2026

Blurb:

There is a particular pleasure in watching a scholar dismantle the monument he has spent a career admiring. Tyler Cowen named his blog after the Marginal Revolution; he has spent decades explicating, celebrating, and applying marginalist thinking to every aspect of modern life. In Cowen’s compact and astringent book, The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution, he turns to survey the edifice and finds it, if not crumbling, then visibly retreating from the frontier where the real intellectual work gets done. The result is one of the more honest performances in recent economic writing: a love letter that doubles as an elegy, delivered without sentimentality.

The book’s method is itself something of a marginalist exercise. Rather than mounting a frontal assault on large questions about the future of economics, Cowen begins at the margin, with the history of a single idea, the doctrine that value is determined not by the total utility of a good but by the utility of an additional unit of it. Many readers arrive at this book knowing that definition. Cowen’s first service is to show how much that belief has concealed. Marginalism is not one thing but several: There is intuitive marginalism, tautological marginalism, engineering marginalism, and social marginalism. The further one presses into the concept, the more it ramifies. Even the ideas we think we understand resist the grip that holds them.

 

Google hosts AI for the Economy Forum in Washington D.C.– blog.google

April 14, 2026

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Today we’re bringing people together in Washington D.C. to discuss how AI will impact the economy and jobs. At our inaugural AI for the Economy Forum, co-hosted with MIT FutureTech, we’re starting with a simple premise: neither the benefits nor the risks are automatic or guaranteed. How AI impacts our lives, jobs and economy is something we as a society can shape – and fully realizing AI’s economic potential will require a new era of partnership between companies, workers, governments, researchers and more. At the forum, economists, industry leaders, policymakers and experts will gather to share information, identify gaps in current understanding, and lay the foundation for ongoing collaboration.

Google has a long-standing commitment to helping positively shape this transition. Today, we’re building on that commitment in two critical ways. First, we are making new investments in research to ensure governments, companies, researchers, and civil society have the information required to make smart decisions. Second, we are providing training opportunities to equip people with the skills needed to navigate a changing economy.

Intel Hit By AI Brain Drain As Top Execs Depart For Rivals: Sachin Katti Joins OpenAI After Saurabh Kulkarni’s Jump To AMD – MSN

Why A.I. Ads Could Define the Next Internet Economy– observer.com

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The shift to A.I.-driven interfaces is transforming advertising from attention-grabbing to machine-readable participation. Unsplash+

For decades, advertising has quietly powered the modern internet. It funded the rise of search engines, social platforms, maps, email and media, making them accessible to billions of people around the world. Most users never paid directly for these services, and yet they benefited from one of the most open and expansive information ecosystems ever created.

Now, that ecosystem is being reshaped. Over the past year, the rapid adoption of generative A.I. and the corresponding decline in traditional search traffic for many publishers have intensified questions about how the next phase of the internet will be funded.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the new front door to information. Instead of typing queries into a search bar and sifting through links, users are turning to A.I. systems to deliver direct answers, recommendations and decisions. Platforms like OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic are redefining how information is accessed altogether. Meanwhile, incumbents like Google are integrating A.I.-generated overview answers directly into search results, signaling a structural shift in how users discover information.

“Every Chip Is Getting Used Instantly” — Here’s Why Google’s AI Dominance May Be Unstoppable – 24/7 Wall St.

 

AI TOOLS

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived – Quanta Magazine

Weapons of Mass Automation: AI can make war more lethal than nuclear weapons. How US, Russia, China, India and others are preparing – WION

China Says AI Outperformed Human Commanders With 90% Accuracy in Simulation – The Defense Post

The AI build-out is powering global goods trade – Financial Times

Decentralized AI models take over healthcare systems – Devdiscourse

Algorithms Now Discover And Write Scientific Papers Autonomously – Quantum Zeitgeist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Final Thought: From A Hope Castle to Hope Estates

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Originally published April 10, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of.” – Charles Spurgeon

Since last we checked in on our Riqueday Castle project, we had been struck by a prolonged subzero ice storm that left us in limbo wondering how much damage had been done. Initial findings suggested the results might not be as bad as we feared.

Last weekend, we conducted a thorough inspection of the Riqueday Castle, where we learned the primary damage was to the heating element pipes in our basement. The pipes to our two kitchens and two bathrooms all turned out to be fine, save for one leak in the drain of one of the bathroom’s sinks.

Our castle is heated with steam, which comes through water heated up by a natural gas furnace. The pipes that lead to the registers, the actual heating systems, were the ones to suffer damage, with MOST of the pipes in the basement becoming disconnected.

Fortunately, we did not have the water turned on at the time of the disaster, so there was no flooding (save for minor flooding in our mezzanine bathroom), which would have cost damages we most likely would not have recovered from.

As for the damage to the pipes in the basement, the overall cost of repair will range between $3K and $5K. We have until next winter to get the pipes fully repaired. We plan on having the work done one section at a time. We have a contractor in the queue waiting to start work.

Due to the prolonged days of freezing sub-zero weather without heat, any cracks in our walls got worse, which affected a part of the sanctuary and our first-floor kitchen. Both will need wall repairs, with the kitchen also needing some ceiling repairs. We have a handyman who will be addressing these small repair issues.

It does appear we have two registers which will need to be replaced; these will cost another $800-$1K (including installation costs). While the overall damages are more than we thought after our previous inspection, they are still far less than was originally feared.

Outside of the new damages we must now repair, our initial targets for major restoration are the roof and the basement floor. We will be getting estimates for a new roof. We plan on installing the new basement floor(s) ourselves.

After the roof and the basement floors (which will also include waterproofing and a thorough steam cleaning), our next step is to make my brother’s quarters habitable (which includes installing a shower in the first-floor bathroom) and my wife’s and my quarters habitable (which includes installing a bathroom/shower on the second floor).

At this point, we will begin to be able to use our space to serve the community around us.

Beyond this, we have doors to replace, outside stairs to fix, a basement redesign, and more. We envision this project will take up to five years before it is “done.” We had originally planned for three years, but our circumstances have changed.

One reason we think it will take this long is we are working on more than Riqueday Castle, we are also working on our Harrisburg Estate. This property belongs to my mother, who hopes to see the property become a Hope Castle like Riqueday Castle.

Her property includes nearly a half-acre of unoccupied land (a rarity in the inner city of Harrisburg, which is where the property lies), a row of 8 garages in the back (4 on each side, with one facing inward in the property and the other facing out on the alley behind the property), and a four-unit 3-story apartment building.

The two properties, Riqueday Castle and the Harrisburg estate, serve radically different communities. The Canton property (Riqueday Castle) serves a 95 plus percent white community that is overwhelmingly conservative and Christian. The Harrisburg property serves a diverse community with a slight majority black population that is overwhelmingly progressive.

It is our hope that as our castles come online, the communities that emerge from them will have ambassador exchanges, with Harrisburg members spending some time in Canton and vice versa.

We do not recommend people begin two large projects at the same time such as we have, but this emerged out of necessity, not design. Our mother’s health is such that she needs help now, which includes simply holding on to her property (which my brother, Bill, has been helping her to do, including paying property taxes).

Currently, my brother owns his home in Blossburg and we (my wife and I) own our home in Bethlehem. We had originally planned to sell our homes and use those funds to further invest in the Riqueday Castle, then when our mother’s needs became apparent, we added Harrisburg to the plan.

We still might end up having to do that, but we are working on funding plans to potentially hold on to all four properties under one trust, with Blossburg serving as a support to Canton (Riqueday Castle) and Bethlehem being its own future “colony.” For now, what we hope is that our daughter becomes the steward of the home while she continues to go to college in the region.

Our home in Bethlehem is not large enough to be a fully functioning castle, nor is Bill’s home in Blossburg. In the end, we might have to sell both homes, but for now we plan on holding on to them, believing their uses will become apparent in due time.

For now, BOTH homes are still needed. Bill’s home will be a transition home for our mother (when she and one or both of us aren’t at Harrisburg) as we continue to prepare the castle for occupation.

Our home in Bethlehem costs less to hold on to (including taxes) than paying for room and board for our daughter’s university. She lives less than 10 minutes from her university, which will be her home until she gets her master’s in psychology (at least another 3-4 years).

Due to the shift in our focus from one Hope Castle (Riqueday), we are now going to call our Project the Hope Estates Project. Our monthly updates will focus on the whole project, which includes Harrisburg, Blossburg, Canton, and Bethlehem.

We ask our readers inclined to do so to pray for us as we seek to build sources for more revenue that will enable us to fund this project. We are working right now on a version of MIA that will serve a broader audience. It will be called Bellwether Intel. It derives its name from our Bellwether Deep Dive reports.

There will be considerable overlap in content between the two projects, but some significant differences. For instance, BWI will not include a Final Thought feature. Generally, MIA is serving a Christian, mostly conservative, and primarily American audience. BWI will serve an independent, assumed mixed-belief and non-belief audience that isn’t exclusively American.

While MIA analyses news from a Christian Americanist perspective, BWI will analyze news from a more “neutral” perspective, or, rather, a geopolitical reality of power perspective.

The subscriptions we offer BWI will be different than MIA. As we announced in a past issue, the price on MIA will not change, but BWI subscriptions will cost more than MIA’s, with a lock on new subscriptions to follow AFTER BWI fully comes online. For our longtime loyal readers, especially those who were there when the founder, Don McAlvany was the editor, nothing will change for you.

So long as we have legacy subscribers, we will continue to serve you, which includes allowing for renewals even after we freeze new subscriptions.

We will update you as that project develops.

The Harrisburg Estate is about 90 minutes away from Washington, D.C., which is where potential clients are for Regal Blue Media, the parent company of MIA. As soon as we fix up the top apartment in the Harrisburg Estate, brother Bill will be able to visit D.C. more often to generate more business for our personal and opposition research, marketing, and political campaign services.

If you’re in the market for any such services, let us know at miamailroom@gmail.com.

In addition to these potential income streams, we continue to rely on stock dividends for revenue. On that front, my wife and I are educating ourselves on investing to figure out how, if possible, we can increase our stock dividend income.

The bottom line is this; To make our Hope Estates project a reality, we will have to raise more revenue. As we are not interested in forming a non-profit at this time, this means we must raise the funds ourselves. THIS is why we ask our readers to pray for us as we seek paths to fund our project into existence.

Next week, we will have an update on Don McAlvany’s ministry for our Final Thought. We originally planned on covering that story this week but flipped the order as we had no real Hope Castle update in our last monthly issue (where these updates will regularly appear).

Canada Gives Liberals BIG Majority Win

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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.

Canadian Prime Minister Carney secures majority government with special election wins– japantoday.com
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EXCERPT:

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a majority government with special election wins Monday night, allowing his Liberals to pass legislation without the support of opposition parties.

Voters cast ballots for three vacant seats of the 343 districts represented in Parliament. In Toronto, Liberal candidate Danielle Martin won the election for the district of University Rosedale and Liberal Doly Begum won the district of Scarborough Southwest. The result for a Quebec district was expected later.

The Liberal Party could stay in power until 2029 after Monday’s results.

Finland Rules Christian Marriage is “Hate Speech”

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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.”

Blurb:

Finland Convicts Christian MP and Bishop Over Biblical Marriage Pamphlet – Standing For Freedom

In a stunning 3-2 decision, Finland’s Supreme Court found Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola guilty of “hate speech” crimes for co-authoring a church pamphlet about sexual ethics and biblical marriage and ordered it “removed from public access and destroyed.”

The justices convicted the two evangelical Christians under a 2011 section of the Finnish criminal code titled “war crimes and crimes against humanity” because they had “made available and kept available to the public opinions that insult homosexuals as a group on the basis of their sexual orientation.”

At the same time, the court found that “the text forming the basis for the conviction did not contain incitement to violence or comparable threat-like fomenting of hatred.” Nonetheless, it sentenced Räsänen and Pohjola to pay criminal fines of several thousand Euros, barred them from accepting any help in paying their legal fees, and ordered the destruction of all copies of the 2004 church pamphlet, as well as the deletion or redaction of all “impugned statements” located online.

Humans Surrender to Robots

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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.”

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s forces surrender to army robots in battlefield first, Zelensky says – www.independent.co.uk
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Over the past several months, Ukrainian forces have been increasingly deploying agile, remote-controlled armoured vehicles to carry out critical tasks and to protect personnel in hazardous operations.

The army uses these “robots on wheels,” which resemble miniature tanks, as it grapples with a soldier shortage in a conflict now spanning over three and a half years.

These versatile machines are capable of ferrying essential supplies, clearing dangerous mines, and evacuating both the wounded and the deceased.

Announcing the operation on Monday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said: “Ratel, TerMIT, Ardal, Rys, Zmiy, Protector, Volia, and our other ground robotic systems have already carried out more than 22,000 missions on the front in just three months.

In other words, he said, lives were saved “more than 22,000 times when a robot went into the most dangerous area instead of a warrior”.

Russian forces are also known to use robots on the battlefield.

“It cannot fully replace people,” said the commander of a platoon of the 20th Lyubart Brigade, who goes by the call sign Miami. “I would put it this way: A person can go in there, but for a human it’s (sometimes) far too dangerous.”

Suicide Business in Belgium Booms

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Belgium’s Euthanasia laws are rapidly expanding the eligible “clients,” and so are the suicides. Euthanasia increased over 12% in one year, from 2024 to 2025, and now accounts for 4% of the nation’s annual deaths.

Blurb:

Belgium Euthanizes Another 4,500 Citizens as ‘Assisted Suicide’ Death Toll Surges – slaynews.com

Alarming new data out of Belgium is fueling growing concern over the rapid expansion of state-sanctioned euthanasia, with record numbers of citizens now being killed under the country’s “assisted suicide” regime.

Official figures show that in 2025, a staggering 4,486 people were euthanized.

The data reveal that euthanasia now accounts for 4% of all deaths nationwide.

The death toll for 2025 marked a 12.4% increase from the previous year.

Global Outlook – Jan-Mar Q1 2026

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Originally published April 10, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Recapping Trending, World, U.S., Political, Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from January 1-March 31, 2026

By STAFF

NOTE: For our monthly and quarterly reviews, we will be merging the People Advance Report with our Global Outlook Report. For current news from the first part of April, read our Situation Report on pg. 8.

TOP NEWS TAGS

 IRAN WAR

PROGRESSIVE US – See our Bellwether Deep Dive on pg. 2.

AI WATCH

EPSTEIN FILES

TRUMP DEPORTATIONS – See our Bellwether Deep Dive on pg. 2

2026 ELECTIONS

MAMDANI WATCH

JUDGEFARE

ABORTION WATCH

WOKENESS

GEOPOLITICS

  1. DAVOS MARKS OFFICIAL DEATH OF POST-WAR ORDER – President Donald Trump came to Davos and delivered the news that the global order was dead. While much hand wringing conspired amongst Europe’s elites, and America’s Democrats (including Gavin Newsome), at the end of the day all had to acknowledge the reality of power. If America says the global order is dead, it’s dead.

Trump let the Western Hemisphere know, “The USA is the economic engine of the planet, and when America booms, the entire world booms. History shows that when America goes bad, the whole world goes bad. When we go down, you follow us down. Instead of hiring bureaucrats we’re firing them”

GO DEEPER ON DAVOS 2026

  1. XI PURGES TOP GENERALS, NARROWLY ESCAPES ASSASSINATION? – There appeared to be a power struggle going on in China, with many conflicting reports, some confirmed, some not, all of which suggest Chairman Xi had narrowly escaped a coup. This news came as Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, had just arrived in Beijing.

We now know there is an ongoing purge of most of the top Generals, including his two top Generals. We can also affirm there were numerous military lockdowns in Beijing.

GO DEEPER ON CHINA XI COUP

  1. 3. THE NEW LEADERSHIP OF IRAN IS ALREADY DEAD – As the new ceasefire just announced takes effect, we remember the purge of leadership that happened at the beginning of the Iran War:

Iran was forced to select a new group of future military targets, their new leadership. They had to select a new leadership team not because the Khomeini leadership was killed, but because their replacements were. The leadership meeting to select the replacements of the Khomeini leadership happened in Tehran, where the entire leadership gathered was killed, according to U.S. and Israeli officials.

  1. VENEZUELAN LEADER PLUCKED FROM CHINA’S PROTECTION – Despite the security provided to President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela by his two strongest allies, Russia and China, U.S. forces were able to quickly enter the country and within less than 3 hours return with Maduro and his wife to the U.S.

Reports of advanced military tech being used to easily overcome Venezuelan forces equipped in mid-range Chinese and Russian military tech have been confirmed by the Trump administration.

The move sends a powerful message to China and Russia’s allies that their protection might be no protection at all. Currently, Maduro is facing “evolving charges.” His VP has taken over and, as of now, is cooperating with the U.S.

GO DEEPER ON VENEZUELA US CONFLICT

  1. CUBA TOTTERS ON DISSOLUTION, BUT LEADER REMAINS DEFIANT AS RUSSIA, MEXICO RUSHES TO ITS RESCUE – Russia is sending oil tankers to Cuba to rescue it from its crippling energy crisis that has left the island in a blackout condition. As dissent grows from within, the Trump administration hints it could take Cuba whenever it wants to.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel responded that any act of aggression “will clash with an impregnable resistance.” Mexico has just announced plans to attempt to “come to Cuba’s aid,” sending a relief supply flotilla and promising to figure out how to get oil to the communist country.

  1. JAPAN GOES CONSERVATIVE AFTER LANDSLIDE ELECTION BURIES THE LEFT – A new Japan is about to emerge that is sure to frighten China after a landslide victory by Japan’s conservative party leaves leftists with only 5 seats in the parliament. The victory is credited to Japan’s Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, who appeared to take a risk by calling for a snap election soon after her party appointed her Prime Minister.

The gamble has paid off, leaving conservatives with a super majority that will most likely alter Japan’s passivist constitution. One of the major changes expected is ending Japan’s self-imposed limitations on military spending and operations. President Trump congratulated the PM, sharing on Truth Social, “Congratulations to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Coalition on a LANDSLIDE Victory in today’s very important Vote. She is a highly respected and very popular Leader. Sanae’s bold and wise decision to call for an Election paid off big time.”

U.S. POLITICS

  1. 2020 ELECTION RESULTS STILL IN DOUBT AS FBI SEIZES FULTON COUNTY, GA BALLOTS – The FBI has announced a raid on the Fulton County, Georgia elections office that resulted in 700 boxes of election ballots from the disputed 2020 election being seized. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was seen on site, with the speculation being she was overseeing the investigation. The agents were there for hours, triggering a meltdown from Georgia election officials (who, for some reason, really don’t want Americans to see these ballot records).
  2. FBI SEIZES 2020, 2024 ELECTION RECORDS FROM NOTORIOUS MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County, AZ is seen as the epicenter of 2020 election fraud suspicion, surpassing its closest rival, Fulton County, GA, in evidence that is difficult for skeptics to simply dismiss. Now that county is under an FBI microscope, with the announcement of election records being seized from Maricopa County from the bureau.

Republican State Senate President Warren Petersen confirmed the action by the FBI, posting on X, “Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County. The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news.”

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  1. AFTER VOTING FOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE, VIRGINIANS ARE ABOUT TO GET IT, AND TAX INCREASES ARE ONLY THE BEGINNING – After Virginians chose to overwhelming elect a Governor who endorsed political violence through silence and a Lieutenant Governor who openly expressed it by wishing he could murder his political opponent’s family, the DNC is about to reward them with a slate of bills and executive orders that will tax them, free criminals, including rapists and child molesters, secure fraudulent elections, silence free speech, allow abortion up to birth, and kill the 2nd amendment. Read more about this in our Situation Report on pg. xx.

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  1. JUDGES SET FIRE TO TRUMP AGENDA IN A SERIES OF BRUTAL RULINGS – Mostly Biden-appointed Judges have shut down numerous major Trump policies, including freezing federal funding, shutting down Voice of America, halting DEI investigations of progressive schools, stopping ICE detention facilities from opening, and more.

In the wake of a slate of questionable rulings, SCOTUS Chief Judge John Roberts has encouraged what we consider insurrectionist rulings (with some exceptions) by Democrat activist judges while shaming any critique of these same rulings. Read more about Judgefare in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2.

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  1. ANTI-ICE ACTIVISTS USE SIGNAL CONNECTED TO MINNESOTA OFFICIALS TO COORDINATE ASSAULT ON ICE AGENTS – Signal Chats have been exposed from paid anti-ICE activists that have been coordinating with Minnesota state officials. The anti-ICE activists have been intentionally interfering with the legal prosecution of criminal arrests that have been ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Now, Minnesota’s Attorney General has been directly connected to the chat. His office created a secret portal for the activists to use to coordinate their attacks and get information that was used to attack American independent reporters like Cam Higby. It should be noted the activity began shortly after the Somali Fraud scam was exposed by another independent journalist stalked with the help of Ellison’s secret web portal, Nick Shirley.

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  1. ANTIFA TERRORISTS FIRST TO BE CONVICTED OF TERRORISM – Nine Antifa members will go down in U.S. history as the first Antifa members convicted of terrorism. Finding DAs willing to charge them of terrorism has been difficult, but these terrorists chose Texas as their target for attack. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Lancy Larson was more than willing to charge them with terrorism. They were found guilty of terrorism by a federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas.

The nine antifa members were convicted of organizing an ambush-style attack on an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. The nine convicted terrorists are Cameron Arnold, Zachary Evetts, Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Bradford Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada.

CULTURE

  1. MEDIA, MAMDANI PROTECT ISLAMIST IED ATTACKERS WHILE VILIFYING WHITES, CHRISTIANS – The media coverage of the IED attack by two Islamists on a Christian anti-Muslim rally not only accused the Christians of being white supremacists (which they appear to actually be, in this case), they also accused the Christians of throwing the IEDs themselves. Mayor Mamdani of New York focused his ire on the “white supremacists,” while only condemning the IEDs being tossed. He failed to mention the Islamists behind the attack.

The attack was caught on video, so the internet already knew the Islamists were behind the attack, The two suspects are Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, both of whom come from wealthy immigrant parents. They screamed “Allahu Akbar” when they threw the IEDs, which were all verified to be real. Had any one of them gone off (there were three total, two near the mayor’s mansion), it is highly likely there would have been multiple casualties. We covered this story in more detail in the Final Thought of our Friday, March 13 MIA Issue.

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  1. 3RD TRANSGENDERED MASS SHOOTER IN LESS THAN ONE YEAR KILLS SELF, WIFE, SON, AND ONE OTHER – A man presenting himself as a woman opened fire at a Rhode Island hockey game, killing his wife, his son, and then himself. Another person later died of their injuries. The killer was Robert Dorgan, who has a long social media history of making violent threats, including to Kevin Sorbo and Alec Jones.

He threatened people online saying, “Keep bashing us, but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.” It could have been worse had a male bystander not intervened, causing the shooter to pull out another gun to shoot himself with.

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  1. THE LEFT’S HOLD ON BOY SCOUTS IS BROKEN – Scouting America has now committed to end its DEI programs, recognize the biological binary sex reality of humans, and separate the boys from the girls. The move came after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth informed the organization that failure to uncouple anti-American leftism from their standards would result in the Department of War ending its relationship with them.
  2. ESG LOSES IN COURT AS VANGUARD SETTLES AND AGREES TO DROP THE IDEOLOGY – Texas has successfully sued the investment company Vanguard, who has chosen to settle the lawsuit. They have agreed to pay $29.5 million in punitive fees and have agreed to remove restrictions on investments based on a company’s ESG score. Next on the docket is Blackrock, which Texas is also suing for the same reason. Should Blackrock fold, the two main progenitors of ESG would be out of the ESG business.
  3. EU COURT COMPELS ALL MEMBER STATES TO “RECOGNIZE” TRANSGENDER IDENTITIES – The highest court in the EU, the Court of Justice of the European Union, has ruled that all 27 members states of the union must allow all citizens to have photo IDs that match their “lived gender.” The ruling is sure to bring the differences between progressive globalism and traditional Europeanism to a head.

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MARKET

  1. CONSEQUENCE OF SCOTUS RULING ALREADY HITTING COURTS AS TRUMP ADMIN PLEDGES IT WILL PAY INTEREST ON TARIFF REFUNDS – Should the Trump administration lose in the courts and be forced to refund “American” businesses, they are committed to pay interest on the refunds, they informed the courts.

Judges have already signaled a willingness to fast-track the process, as we predicted would happen in our Bellwether DeepDive from our March 6, 2026 MIA issue.  In addition to the refunds for U.S. companies, foreign companies are also lining up for their cut of the SCOTUS plunder. Revenues collected through these struck-down tariffs are estimated to be around $170 billion.

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  1. TRUMP XO STOPS CORPORATE PURCHASES OF SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES – President Donald Trump just signed an executive order that effectively prevents large corporations from buying single-family homes. The President posted on Truth Social, “To preserve the supply of single-family homes for American families and increase the paths to homeownership, it is the policy of my Administration that large institutional investors should not buy single-family homes that could otherwise be purchased by families.”
  2. SBA HAS $26 BILLION SLUSH FOR BOGUS BUSINESSES THAT ALL EXCLUDE WHITE MEN – Chris Ruffo, the man who helped Florida legally remove DEI and wokeness from its public institutions, is claiming on Steve Bannon’s show, The War Room, that the Small Business Administration has a $26 billion slush fund they use to fund dubious businesses so long as those businesses aren’t owned by white men.

Ruffo claimed, “Yeah. So this is at the Small Business Administration. It’s a $26 billion slush fund that is dedicated to providing government contracts, including many no-bid government contracts, exclusively to firms that are owned by racial minorities and women. In many cases, these are shell companies where they have a token minority and then a private firm behind them. But in all cases, for this entire $26 billion slush fund, there’s only one identity group that is prohibited from accessing these funds or bidding for these contracts, white men.

And so this is like the epitome of DEI. It’s billions of dollars. There’s all sorts of fraud and corruption. In the program’s 45-year history, there’s never been a single audit done. And the question is simply this. It’s now one year into the Trump administration. The president came out strong on day one, said no more DEI. Why are we still administering billions of dollars for every group except for one? It seems totally unfair, totally unconstitutional. And yet it’s still something that, until now, has been surviving in the Trump administration.”

  1. TRUMP DELIVERS “MARSHALL PLAN” FOR AMERICA WORTH $18 TRILLION – President Donald Trump is touting the $18 trillion in foreign investments in America, calling it America’s Martial plan. As The Federalist pointed out, that’s equivalent to 120 Marshall Plans. The Federalist also contrasted this “Marshall Plan” with the “Green” Martial plan that saw nation-states, including America, invest $20 trillion in a project to reduce carbon emissions that produced next to no substantive carbon emission reductions.
  2. OIL REFINERY AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT APPROVED IN SAME WEEK – President Trump is overseeing the return of American energy sovereignty through the construction of new oil refineries and nuclear power plants. The Biden administration had begun the process of reactivating nuclear energy by completing the construction of a nuclear power plant in George in 2024. It was the first nuclear reactor to be built in America in over 30 years.

Now, President Trump has overseen the approval of an oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas, and the construction of a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor in Wyoming. The oil refinery is the first approved building of a new refinery in America in over 50 years. This same week, the nuclear power plant received its approval to build the nuclear reactor. With the need for energy for AI machines, nuclear power is sure to move to the fore of future energy planning, especially micro-reactors for individual AI machines.

SCI-TECH

  1. U.S. GOVERNMENT MAKES DEAL TO NEVER PUSH SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP AGAIN – The U.S. government has made a deal with state governments to no longer pressure social media companies to censor Americans. Senator Eric Schmitt, who as Missouri’s Attorney General, sued the Biden administration. He alleged the administration was strong-arming social media companies to remove posts and users that didn’t conform to the progressive agenda.

Schmitt declared, “Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech…

  1. TIKTOK DEAL OFFICIALLY CLOSES, AND THE CCP WILL BE HAPPY – The TikTok deal has officially closed, with a “mostly American” investor group mutually led by Oracle and Silber Lake. ByteDance will still have a 20% stake, meaning TikTok will help fund the CCP. The venture will be led by a board that will have a majority of U.S. directors on it.
  2. SOCIAL MEDIA HIT HARD IN TWO LANDMARK U.S. CASES, BOTH ADDRESSING CHILD SAFETY – Meta and YouTube have each faced legal setbacks that could portend badly for the social media industry as a whole. The first case saw Meta lose a $381 million lawsuit over child exploitation and safety, the second saw YouTube and Google lose $3 million each for not preventing child addiction. Both cases are expected to set off copycat cases, including against other social media platforms.
  3. OPENAI ENDS BILLION DOLLAR DISNEY DEAL, SHUTS DOWN VIDEO AI APP SORA – OpenAI is facing existential pressure after having to cancel a $1 billion Disney deal that would have allowed the media company to use their video AI app Sora to develop content. The app was ended due to an inability to prevent it from creating dangerous deepfake videos, including pornographic ones.

Disney said of the severed deal, “We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators.”

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  1. TRUMP SEEKS TO SET TERMS OF AI BRAIN DATACENTER DEBATE COMING TO AMERICA – President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about the emerging need for massive data centers to power AI brains which every nation-state will now need to be a world power in the years to come. He offered a carrot to the main sides of the incoming debate, the taxpayers who may be on the hook to pay for the data centers, the locals affected by the data centers, and the corporatists relying on those data centers for personal power.

He characterized it in the American context, writing, “We are the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World, and Number One in AI. Data Centers are key to that boom, and keeping Americans FREE and SECURE but, the big Technology Companies who build them must ‘pay their own way,” His post does not address another conflict-of-interest crisis, water resources, which are also needed in large volumes to fund the AI brains.

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  1. NASA WANTS A MOON BASE – NASA has announced plans to build a moon base that will cost the U.S. $20 billion, according to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. A moon base could replace the need for space stations. The moon base will also be a research and testing facility preparing the technologies needed for an eventual Mars occupation. It will also serve as the eventual departure point for the first landing. The race to Mars appears to be on.
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  3. DOJ CLOSES BIDEN AUTOPEN INVESTIGATION, SOURCE CLAIMS – After another round of much sound and fury signaling nothing, the GOP’s Department of Justice has allegedly quietly shut down its Biden autopen investigation in much the same way it has tried to bury the Epstein Files investigation. The claim comes from the Washington Examiner, which cites an anonymous source. The Department of Justice has refused to comment when asked by the press about the claim.

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  1. CHINA’S NEW ETHNIC UNITY LAW READS LIKE NAZI LAW – China’s National People’s Congress approved a new law called the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.” The law aims to harmonize the country’s 55 state-recognized ethnic minorities with the Han majority. The law was passed on March 12 and was signed into law by Chairman Xi. The law takes effect on July 1st.

It is feared that the law will be used to further crack down on these minorities, leading to more genocidal pogroms such as were carried out against the Uyghurs (and are still going on). Some of the tactics of the past include forcing minority groups to have more abortions, taking children and raising them as Han, and banning the use of the minority group’s languages and artistic traditions.

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  1. CHINA MAKES MOVE TO KILL U.S. GLOBAL RESERVE CURRENCY MONOPOLY – As Chairman Xi struggles to hold on to power at home, abroad he’s flexing his economic muscle, making a call for the Chinese Yuan to join the U.S. dollar as becoming a global reserve currency. The comments were from 2024, but were just released now, in conjunction with China’s European campaign, which includes the UK, where Xi won major concessions and territory in central London to build a massive spy center.

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  1. 4. HOCHUL LETS CHINA INVADE AMERICAN STREETS WITH DATA COLLECTING ROBOTAXIS – The Governor of New York and DNC-CCP party member Kathy Hochul handed New York’s vital data over to the Chinese Communist Party by allowing a country sworn to destroy our power to run their robotaxis, called Waymos, on American streets.

The company, Zeke, is a CCP-approved corporation that manufactures what are essentially street spies that members of the Democrat party appear more than ready to cosign. This, in part, is why this publication refers to the Democrats as the DNC-CCP, for they are frenemies working against their shared enemy, America.

  1. DNC MAYOR STAYS IN OFFICE AFTER FIANCÉ CONVICTED OF BEING CCP SPY – The Mayor of Arcadia, CA is a naturalized U.S. citizen from China, whose fiancé was recently convicted of being a CCP spy. The fiancé, a green card holder named Yaoning “Mike” Sun, was the fiancé of Mayor Eileen Wang, a Democrat and potentially STILL a member of the CCP. She emigrated from China more than 30 years ago.

So far, Wang has refused to resign. This type of CCP activity is only a small part of the rising evidence of widespread CCP influence across both political parties, but significantly more substantively among Democrats, their natural “allies.”

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  1. ISRAELI TECH CEO CALLS ON U.S. TO LIMIT FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS – Whether he realized it or not, Israeli billionaire tech entrepreneur and Cato Networks co-founder Shlomo Kramer just advocated for the restriction of Americans’ First Amendment rights essentially to protect Israel from online threats.

Here is how he chose to advance this Anti-First-Amendment narrative, “You’re seeing the polarization in countries that allow for the First Amendment and protect it, which is great. And I know it’s difficult to hear, but it’s time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it. And quickly before it’s too late… I mean that we (government) need to control the platforms, all the social platforms. We need to stack, rank the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online and take control over what they are saying, based on that ranking.”

  1. AS U.S. PULLS AWAY FROM SOUTH KOREA, FAKE NEWS LAW PASSES IN SEOUL – The U.S. Defense Department has revealed in a National Defense Strategy release that it is shifting its policy in South Korea, now calling on the state to protect itself from conventional threats to the North. As this was revealed, the CCP-captured government amended their law to prohibit “fake news” publishing. They did so over numerous protestations, including the U.S., who may recognize South Korea is now becoming a liability, a problem, perhaps, for Japan.
  2. KIM JONG-UN’S SISTER GAINS PROMINENCE AFTER WORKER’S PARTY CONGRESS VOTE – For only the 9th time since the Kims took over North Korea in 1948, the Workers’ Party Congress convened. They affirmed Kim Jong-un as their supreme leader and promoted his sister, and right-hand lieutenant, Kim Jo-jong, from a deputy department director to a full department director.
  3. WASHINGTON DEMS PLUG SOCIALIST DEBT HOLE WITH POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS’ PENSIONS – Democrat “lawmakers” in the insurrectionist state of Washington passed legislation that essentially raids the pensions of police and firefighters to the tune of $4 billion. They hope to use the stolen funds to plug a deficit in their budget caused by their own bloated socialist programs.

One recipient of that stolen money will be the “Climate Commitment Account,” which is a de facto DNC-CCP political slush fund that helps arm its street fighters we see across America on a regular basis. These street fighters have been terrorizing cities and burning down businesses for years now. They will receive over half a billion dollars, or 12.5% of the Police and Firefighters pension fund.

  1. SCIENTISTS THREATEN PLANET WITH PANDEMIC IF WE DON’T END GLOBAL WARMING – A team of Romanian researchers appear to be the tip of the spear of a new climate change content marketing strategy involving dangerous bacteria. The researchers have discovered bacteria in ice cores from 5,000 years ago that appear immune to most current antibiotics. The researchers warn if global warming continues, the melted ice could release these bacteria, leading to a global, catastrophic pandemic.
  2. RING’S SEARCH PARTY IS A POLICE STATE TROJAN HORSE – Amazon’s Ring Camera has added a Search Party feature critics say enables Amazon to build a pre-crime database that the state (or the corporation) could use to quickly tamp down dissent. An email from Ring Founder Jamie Simonoff is giving credence to those concerns.

He wrote, “I believe that the foundation we created with Search Party, first for finding dogs, will end up becoming one of the most important pieces of tech and innovation to truly unlock the impact of our mission. You can now see a future where we are able to zero out crime in neighborhoods. So many things to do to get there, but for the first time ever, we have the chance to fully complete what we started.”

  1. CANADA ALLOWS SAD SUFFERER TO KILL HIMSELF – 26-year-old Kiano Vafaeian was given permission by the Canadian government to be murdered by doctors on the grounds that that suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is “grievous and irremediable.” Vafaeian is also blind and suffers from Type 1 Diabetes. Neither condition qualifies for MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying).

The family of Vafaeian claim, “We believe that she (the MAiD doctor) was coaching him on how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away with approving him for. We don’t want to see any other family member suffer, or any country introduce a piece of legislation that kills their disabled or vulnerable without appropriate proper treatment plans that could save their lives.”

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

  1. VENEZUELA BECOMES A DE FACTO U.S. ALLY – The United States and Venezuela have officially restored diplomatic and consular relations that President Trump claims will lead to favorable oil and rare earth mineral deals for the U.S.. These deals freeze Russia and China out of the Venezuela equation.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said of the agreement, “When we are working together it can only mean two things, which is prosperity for the people of Venezuela and for the citizens of the United States, and it also brings peace and stability for the world.”

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  1. MURDER RATE PLUMMETS TO HISTORIC LOWS IN JUST ONE YEAR – Just one year into President Trump’s mass deportation operation, the murder rate in America dropped by a staggering 21% from 2024 to 2025. The murder rate has reached a low that hasn’t been seen since the records were first kept 125 years ago. The correlation between mass deportation and a massive drop in the murder rate cannot be dismissed, but more date would be needed to affirm causation beyond correlation.
  2. 50-YEAR NET MIGRATION STREAK ENDS IN U.S. UNDER TRUMP – For the first time in 50 years, the net migration in the U.S. has reached a deficit. The report by the Brookings Institute reveals the net deficit in migration is due to a combination of forced and voluntary deportations coupled with a precipitous decline in new entries. The Brookins Institute concluded, “Though a high degree of policy uncertainty remains, continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely.”
  3. SCOTUS STOPS CALIFORNIA FROM SECRETLY TRANSGENDERING YOUR KIDS – The Supreme Court struck down a California policy that essentially allowed schools to secretly transition your children to a different “gender” without your consent. The ruling was 6-3.

The majority justices determined, “We conclude that the parents who seek religious exemptions are likely to succeed on the merits of their Free Exercise Clause claim. The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs. The right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health.”

  1. CHINA’S DOOR SHUTS IN PANAMA CANAL – Panama has moved against two Hong Kong operated ports after pressure by the U.S. to force China out of the canal. Hong Kong was once an independent city-state that has since been taken over by the Chinese Communist party. CK Hutchinson Holdings responded, claiming, “None of the actions by the Panama State were advised to or coordinate with PPC. The Panama State is responsible for harm and damage caused by the confiscatory actions it has taken.”
  2. SCOTUS CUTS OFF LEFTIST FOREIGN AID SLUSH FUNDS – After lower-level insurrectionist DNC-CCP judges repeatedly attempted to force the Trump administration to keep funding their party’s money laundering foreign aid fund scheme, the Supreme Court has officially ended their judicial tyranny. SCOTUS ruled 6-3 the Trump administration has every right to cut off $4 billion in foreign aid if he so chooses. The six justices assessed that “the harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs appear to outweigh the potential harm faced by respondents.”
  3. NEPALESE ELECT FORMER RAPPER TO BE THEIR NEXT PM – The Gen Z revolution of Nepal has now culminated with a sweeping victory for a new party led by former rapper Balendra Shah. His party has now replaced the ruling party of the past few decades, the Communist Party of Nepal. Shah’s party has won super majorities in both the direct-vote seats of the parliament as well as the proportional representation seats. The Communist Party has fallen from majority party status to fringe 3rd party status in this one election.
  4. TWO MORE HOSPITALS ANNOUNCE CHILDREN’S GENDER TRANSITIONING PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN – Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, CA has announced it will no longer conduct “gender affirming care” for children. They stated. “…these developments affect our role and responsibilities as a provider participating in federal programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. This was a very difficult decision, made to ensure we can continue serving all children and families across the communities we serve.”

Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, WA has also announced it will be closing down its gender care clinic, stating, “This was an incredibly painful decision, and one that I wish we did not have to make. We recognize how important this care is to our gender health clinic patients and have a sense of the impact this will have on these patients and their families.”

For those who haven’t noticed, BOTH hospitals expressed regret they could not continue to offer children life-altering chemicals, and even surgeries, under the illusion that a child can “choose” their gender. Where possible, perhaps it is time to choose a hospital that doesn’t hold the philosophical view that a child can choose a gender, and doctors should help permanently alter them to satisfy that delusion.

  1. SCOTLAND BEATS BACK EUTHANASIA – Scotland’s version of legalized euthanasia has failed to pass their legislature after a 2-year push for its passage. The bill failed 69 to 57. The bill’s passage failure tables the issue legislatively for a decade or more. The move is supported by the public, with a poll showing 7 in 10 fear it could be used to pressure people to commit suicide when they otherwise wouldn’t have.
  2. NY SURRENDERS ITS EFFORTS TO FORCE NUNS TO FUND ABORTIONS – After nearly 10 years of fighting and winning a SCOTUS decision, Christian organizations have finally officially won their fight to stop forcing religious organizations to fund abortions. New York has officially settled with the Christian organizations, guaranteeing they will no longer be forced to fund abortions.

One of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Lori Windham, said of the settlement, “For nearly a decade, New York bureaucrats tried to strong-arm nuns into paying for abortions because they serve all those in need. At long last, the state has given up its disgraceful campaign. This victory confirms that the government cannot punish religious ministries for living out their faith by serving everyone. The Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear that religious groups shouldn’t be bullied for staying true to their faith.”

  1. MAHA BREAKS THE BIG FOOD PYRAMID – HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled the department’s update to the previous food pyramid. The pyramid is replaced with a 10-page guide. The Secretary said of the guide, “The new guidelines recognize that whole, nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care cost.”
  2. HERO ICE AGENT GETS OVER $1 MILLION IN SUPPORT AFTER INJURED BY LEFTIST INSURRECTIONIST – After ICE Agent Jon Ross was injured when a leftist insurrectionist hit him with her car, death threats came in from the insurrectionist’s fellow insurrectionists, along with condemnation by DNC party leaders, including the Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, and the Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Frey.

To help the agent recover from his injuries, as well as to deal with the security his family now needs due to DNC activists threatening to murder them, Americans started online campaigns to fund them. So far, the two major funds, GoFundMe and GiveSendGo, have exceeded $1 million in donations, a figure that continues to climb.

  1. CHARLIE KIRK’S DEATH LEADS AMERICANS TO BUY BIBLES – After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, church attendance and public proclamations of Christ have surged. Now, data reported by the Wall Street Journal reveals bible sales following his assassination increased by 36% in September. The news follows overall trends towards increased bible sales, as well as printed book sales in general.
  2. AMERICANISM CHAMPIONED IN TWO U.S. GOLD OLYMPIANS – 26-year-old Quinn Hughes scored the winning goal in the golden game of the 2026 Olympics Men’s Hockey tournament, defeating Canada in overtime 2-1. Afterwards, he gave an interview that made it clear he was there to win for the country he loves, America. His message went viral. He said, “It’s special. … I love the U.S. It’s the greatest country in the world, so [I’m] happy to represent it here with these guys. … It’s really special.” Team members were present at President Trump’s State of the Union Address.

Alysia Lui came to America from China, and her father faced great threats by the CCP to do so. Even after she came to America, the CCP was still threatening to kidnap her and force her to skate for China. She survived, going on to win the gold medal for her country of choice, America, knowing better than most Americans the blessing this country is to those who simply want to be self-stewarded people, to be free.

 

 

 

How America is Developing China’s Weapons of War

pgnewser April 10, 2026 0

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.

Blurb:

The Hidden System Turning Chinese Tech Companies into Military Suppliers – warontherocks.com

In October 2022, Unitree Robotics joined Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, and three other firms in signing an open letter pledging not to weaponize their machines and to review customers’ intended applications. This Chinese startup based in Hangzhou had earned its place in that group. Founded in 2016 by a 26-year-old engineer named Wang Xingxing, who quit his job at the drone maker DJI during his probationary period, Unitree set out to build affordable quadruped robots. It worked. By 2023, the company held over 60 percent of the global quadruped robot market by unit sales. Its investors included Sequoia China, Meituan, and Shenzhen Capital Group. Its consumer-grade robot dogs are sold on Amazon.

Two years after the pledge, China’s state broadcaster aired footage of Unitree’s B1 quadrupeds carrying assault rifles in joint military exercises between the Chinese and Cambodian armed forces. By September 2025, robot dogs appeared in China’s largest-ever military parade on Chang’an Avenue. In July of the same year, a military training exercise at a Chongqing vocational college — jointly developed by students, faculty, and a military training team — featured Unitree machines fitted with rifles and rocket launchers. In an August 2025 statement, Unitree affirmed that it “has always been a civilian robotics company” and that all militarized modifications were made by third parties.

The interesting thing is, Unitree isn’t really lying. And that is precisely the policy problem. Unitree did not seek out the Chinese military. The Chinese Communist Party brought the military to Unitree through channels that required no direct order, no classified contract, and no corporate consent. Understanding how that system works, and why current U.S. policy does not reach it, is the most urgent analytical gap in the American response to Chinese military-civil fusion.

“Hitler Never Said That”

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MS Now’s host tells America Trump is worst than Hitler, than any “cruel king EVER… “

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Hitler Was Better Than Trump, America Committed Suicide – newsbusters.org

Fresh off of cheering on Iran for how they “humiliated” President Trump by trying to kill American airmen, MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell kicked off Tuesday night’s show by suggesting Adolf Hitler wasn’t as bad a leader as Trump. He went even further and suggested that America committed suicide as a civilization when voters elected Trump a second time.

As O’Donnell was coming on the air, his first words were a jab a trump and praise for Hitler. “’A whole civilization will die tonight.’ Hitler never said that,” he declared for the man who wanted to exterminate the Jews and wrote an entire book about it.

According to O’Donnell, no villain in the history of the world was as bad as Trump. “No head of state in the history of the world ever said that. Civilization had to wait literally thousands of years until today, April 7th, 2026 at 8:06 A.M. for a head of state to say and threaten ‘A whole civilization will die tonight,’” he asserted.

Adding: “No cruel king ever threatened that, no mass murdering tyrant anywhere in the world ever said that, or even thought it was possible.”

South of Border Going Cashless

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The Progressive-led Mexican government is looking to aggressively push towards a cashless society and a national digital ID system.

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Mexico Advances Plans to Eliminate Cash, Mandate Digital ID – slaynews.com

Mexico’s far-left government is accelerating globalist plans to roll out a sweeping biometric ID system while laying the groundwork for a cashless society, raising serious concerns about privacy, surveillance, and government control.

Under President Claudia Sheinbaum, officials are framing the initiative as voluntary modernization.

However, the details of the plans tell a different story.

Biometric ID Push Tied to Everyday Life

At the center of the plan is the new CURP Biométrica, an upgraded national identity system that goes far beyond traditional ID.

The program will require citizens to submit:

  • Fingerprints (all ten)
  • Iris scans
  • Facial recognition data
  • Digital signature

ANTI-TERROR LAWS: Florida Passes Law to EXPEL Student Supporters of Terrorist Groups– gellerreport.com

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure into law Monday that gives him along with other Florida leaders the ability to label groups as domestic or foreign terrorist organizations and expel state university students who support them.

The law, criticized by free speech advocates, allows a top official at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to designate a group as a domestic or foreign terrorist organization, with the governor and three other members of the Florida Cabinet approving or rejecting the designation. Besides the governor, the Cabinet is made up of the state attorney general, the chief financial officer and the agriculture commissioner, all of whom are elected separately.