Western mainstream news of a ceasefire between Yemen and the US really signal an American defeat.

The American leadership, with president Donald Trump in the lead, has announced that the US is stopping its massive bombing campaign against Yemen. (While the US usually clings to the fiction that it is not bombing a country but "merely" a movement - namely, Ansar Allah, pejoratively labeled "Houthis" - it has, de facto, been at war with Yemen, most of which Ansar Allah rules.) This also de facto sort-of-ceasefire now - which Trump, for some reason, does not want to call a "deal" (for once) - has been engineered with the help of Omani mediation; on the American side, Trump's inevitable man-for-everything-and-then-some Steve Witkoff played a role.

What exactly the American announcement means - indeed whether it has an exact meaning known to anyone, especially in a White House busy with producing pope and Jedi memes - has remained unclear: For instance, has Ansar Allah agreed to desist from all attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and especially the Bab al Mandab choke-point strait? Or just from attacking US ships? Or merely American military vessels perhaps? An Ansar Allah spokesman, in any case, stated that Israeli ships remain targets. Also, as it happened, Trump informed the media first; the US military second, if at all. Even Israel - certainly something Trump defers to much more than to his own generals or the American people in general - claimed to have been taken by surprise.

Usually, such questions of scope and procedure really, really matter in grown-up-politics world, but hey, no biggie: it's probably a little too much to expect from the leadership of the "Indispensable Nation" currently very busy with getting "great again" by tanking the world economy through a trade war that isn't merely aggressive but stupid as well as failing on its own very ill-conceived terms.

After all, bombing Yemen for seven weeks was just a matter of life and death - and, as usually, other, not Americans deaths: Since the fresh US escalation of violence against Yemen in mid-March, American forces have attacked a thousand targets - according to the US - and they have, as is their wont, massacred civilians, including migrants targeted with bunker-busting bombs, Israeli-style, as it were.

Things just escalated in a huge and dangerous way between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, with the Indian government confirming it has launched strikes on nine sites inside Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

"No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted," the statement added according to Reuters, in a 'counter-terror' operation dubbed "Operation Sindoor".

India identified that it hit the terrorist infrastructure of Islamist groups in retaliation for the April 22 terror attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir which killed 26 in the scenic Pahalgam area.

The victims had been singled out by the gunmen, which the Indian government has suggested were sponsored by Pakistan, for being Hindu in a sectarian mass killing.

Israel's air force has continued a second day of large-scale attacks on Yemen, targeting the leadership and infrastructure of the Ansarallah movement, or Houthis, after the Sunday Houthi ballistic missile strike on Israel's Ben Gurion international airport in Tel Aviv.

Huge plumes of black smoke have been observed rising above the Houthi-controlled airport area in the capital of Sana'a. Prior Israeli strikes, with US backing, focused on the vital port of Hodeidah.

Within a couple hours before the Tuesday Israeli strikes on Sana'a commencing, the IDF military issued an evacuation warning for Yemen's Sana'a International Airport, stated that being near it "exposes you to danger."

This warning was given because Israel is fully aware that this is a civilian aviation hub. However, Israeli officials have accused the Houthis of using it as a military base and staging ground.

The EU's latest propaganda offensive accuses Russia of historical revisionism ahead of Victory Day, but critics argue it's Brussels — not Moscow — that's distorting the truth for political gain.

Don't be deceived! That's the message from the EU propaganda channel EUvsDiSiNFO. Today's outcry from the media outlet run by the European External Action Service (EEAS) concerns nullifying Russia's sacrifices during WW2. As I write this, on the eve of Russia's May 9th memorial festivities, I wonder in disbelief that the world is not already entangled in the final world war.

Ursula's Propaganda Channels

I discovered this story, as I do so many, by using the Western technocrat-owned Google search engine. I use the biased Google News channel not because it has a virtual monopoly on information dissemination, but because the truth is easily found in a sea of lies. You see, Google chooses to index and prioritize information and news, supposedly by algorithms. However, these models of categorization have been "programmed" to show the world stories and opinions of the European External Action Service (EEAS), which is an arm of the Diplomatic Service of the EU. Or, a copycat of the soon-to-be-defunct Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty run by the U.S. State Department. I shouldn't have to explain why either of these channels are Russophobic in their essence, or why and how they are the ones spitting out disinformation by the ton.

The story that caught my eye today, "Putin's History 3.0 — historical revisionism in Russia ahead of 9 May," is a prime example of "gaslighting." It also uses repetition of the "Putin evil" theme so that more people begin to believe the lies about the Russians and Putin are the truth. Or, as Hitler's propaganda genius Joseph Goebbels put it, "Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth." The EUvsDisinfo story of May 2, 2025, tells information consumers that Russia's Vladimir Putin is a history revisionist, when the truth is the current fascists running Europe are seeking to make Russia seem barbaric and her president a liar. Since this EUvsDiSiNFO is simple to dissect and disintegrate, I use EU Fuhrer Ursula von der Leyen's copywriters' lies against them.

The liars at the EU's propaganda channel say Vladimir Putin has not one, but three different instances of historical revisionism. The author or authors refer to these as Putin History 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. Let's unscramble each in succession.

The reported plan includes the forced relocation of Palestinians and occupation of the territory.

The Israeli government has approved a plan for the complete military occupation of Gaza and the forced relocation of its Palestinian inhabitants to the southern part of the territory, multiple news outlets have reported citing unnamed officials.

According to officials quoted by the AP, the new plan is meant to help Israel achieve its war aims of defeating Hamas and freeing the hostages held in Gaza. Israel says the militant group is holding 59 captives, although about 35 are believed to be dead.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted unanimously in favor of the strategy during a meeting on Monday morning, two sources told the media. Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Eyal Zamir has also announced the mobilization of tens of thousands of additional reservists.

"The plan will include, among other things, the conquest of the Gaza Strip and the holding of the territories, moving the Gaza population south for their protection," an Israeli official stated, as quoted by Agence France Presse.

It's vain and futile to suppose that the disordered minds of Western Civ's entrenched Wokester Jacobins might ever be subject to polite persuasion about anything they believe. They believe only in the power of pushing their fellow citizens around, and so, alas, the only persuasion that might conceivably work to stop their infantile assaults on liberty, truth, and decency is to push back harder until they suffer and break.

This is something that most parents with young children instinctively understand. You don't negotiate with two-year-olds. You tell them how things are and what sort of behavior is required of them, as plainly and simply as possible. Mr. Trump, having been the father of many two-year-olds over time, appears to get this. It has been apparent for years that Mr. Trump's symbolic role as a father figure is the most deeply resented feature of his role in US politics.

It also appears that many men in this country likewise get this, perhaps because nature conditions them early on to understand that some day they might have to play the role of father, meaning they will have to push back hard against emotional disorder, hysteria, illogic, and untruth, and violence.

The co-leader of The Left party leader has said the US-led military bloc "has no future".

The co-leader of the German Left party, Jan van Aken, has called for NATO to be replaced with a new security alliance involving both Russia and the United States, arguing that the US-led military bloc "has no future."

In an interview with Die Zeit published on Saturday, van Aken said the party continues to support its 2011 platform, which called for Germany to exit NATO and help create a new collective security system.

"We never wanted to abolish NATO without replacement but rather replace it with a cooperative security system," van Aken said when asked whether Germany and its European allies could defend themselves without US support. He proposed a new model similar to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), focusing on peacekeeping and joint defense:

"Something like OECD 2.0. A peace and defense alliance, together with Russia and the US. But of course, if we were to rebuild it, it would certainly require another ten years of confidence-building measures. NATO would still exist that long, but it no longer has a future."

Blockchain technology can perform financial transactions more efficiently, the president's son has said.

Banks could face extinction within a decade if they fail to embrace blockchain technologies, US President Donald Trump's second son Eric, a crypto entrepreneur, has warned.

In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Eric Trump lambasted what he described as the slowness and inefficiency of the traditional banking system.

"The modern financial system is broken, it's slow, it's expensive," he told the business news channel.

Trump, who launched a bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin in March, said he turned to digital currencies and decentralized finance when he realized that "our banking system favors the ultra-wealthy" and "was weaponized against the vast majority of people in our country."

Decentralized finance platforms allow individuals to conduct transactions directly with one another, often with low or no fees, something traditional banks rely on to generate income.

The EU is ready raise imports of US goods by $56 billion to address the trade imbalance, the bloc's trade commissioner says.

The EU wants to substantially increase purchases of goods from the US, according to European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic, as cited by Financial Times. The move could help the bloc secure the elimination of import tariffs proposed by US President Donald Trump, the official has said.

As part of his sweeping 'Liberation Day' tariffs on major trading partners, Trump sharply raised duties on US imports from the 27-nation bloc. The US president sees the tariff campaign, which targeted over 90 countries, as a solution to what he calls unfair trade imbalances.

Sefcovic, on Thursday in an interview with the newspaper. said:

"If what we are looking at as a problem in the deficit is €50 billion ($56 billion), I believe that we can really...solve this problem very quickly through LNG purchases, through some agricultural products like soyabeans, or other areas."

He emphasized that the bloc would not accept the 10% tariffs on its goods being kept in place as a fair resolution. He also warned that it would be "very difficult" to strike a deal that is "clearly good and acceptable for our member states and our European parliament."

Simion, leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, had come in fourth place in the annulled vote, but he inherited Georgescu's votes and surged to first place.

Populist-sovereigntist candidate George Simion came out on top in the first round of voting in the Romanian presidential election on Sunday. The election was held after the previous election was annulled, and the leading candidate was barred from running in the redo contest.

Results unveiled by Romania's Permanent Electoral Authority, with over 99 per cent of votes tabulated, showed that Simion scored a large victory with 40.87 per cent of the vote.

The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) leader was followed by neo-liberal globalist Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan in second place at 20.97 per cent and acting President Crin Antonescu in third with 20.13 per cent, Digi24 reports.