Alexandra Prokopenko, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and a former advisor at the Bank of Russia, warned on X that the near-shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered an energy shock that risks morphing into a "slower, more consequential story": fertilizers.

"A near-shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz is triggering a supply shock that will show up in food prices 6-9 months from now," Prokopenko wrote on X, adding, "Putin's gains here may be more long-term than simply lining his pockets with petrodollars."

For weeks, we have cited institutional desks warning about the emerging fertilizer shock, which is expected to ripple across the world's food supply chain.

UK court hears "evidence of BBC misleading the public" during the Gaza war

A British court has heard evidence that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) "misled" its audience during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

The evidence was presented as part of documents in a case being heard by a UK employment tribunal, in which five journalists of Arab origin accuse the BBC of discrimination and of unfairly dismissing four of them for refusing what they described as racist and discriminatory practices within BBC Arabic service.

The five complainants are Ahmed Rouaba, of Algerian origin; Dima Odeh, of Syrian origin; Nahed Najar, of Palestinian origin; and Mohamed El-Ashiry and Amer Sultan, both of Egyptian origin. The claimants are represented in the case by John Barnes from Albertson Solicitors. This is the first case of its kind brought by this number of journalists from the Arabic of the BBC Service of World Service against the long-standing news corporation.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have deployed to several airports as Senate Democrats continue to withhold funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

ICE was deployed Saturday to assist Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers amid a nationwide airport crisis, as the partial government shutdown left TSA officers without pay and suspended their "nonessential privileges and courtesies," according to DHS. President Donald Trump had threatened in a Saturday Truth Social post to deploy ICE agents to airports if the "Radical Left Democrats" failed to agree on a funding bill — hours after a fifth vote to end the shutdown failed 47-37.

The myth of the 'Green Revolution' is finally evaporating in the heat of the Persian Gulf. The near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz in March 2026 has impacted the Indian agrarian landscape.

As 16 million barrels of oil and massive LNG shipments stall daily, India's domestic urea production has plummeted. It is now clearer than ever that industrial agriculture is a sub-branch of the petroleum industry.

Having spent decades forcing farmers into dependency on West Asian gas for synthetic nitrogen, the state now watches as global urea prices spike by 20% in a week. This validates what Norman J Church warned in 2005: that vast amounts of oil and gas are the hidden raw materials of every stage of food production — from planting and irrigation to the very construction of the trucks and roads that facilitate the industry.

The industrial food supply is basically a system of fossil-fuel conversion.

With the just-in-time supply chain for granular urea broken by war, the Indian government has accelerated the push for Nano Urea. Developed by IFFCO (Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative) as a central pillar of Aatmanirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India), this liquid fertiliser, sold in 500 ml bottles containing nitrogen at the nanoscale (20-50 nanometres), is marketed as a miracle of self-reliance.

The claim that a single 500 ml bottle replaces a 45 kg bag of urea is the ultimate 'technological fix'. But this 'fix' is an optical illusion. A bag of granular urea builds a nutritional reservoir in the soil, but the 500ml Nano Urea is a foliar spray that merely stimulates the plant's leaves (like a caffeine shot). This forces crops to mine the soil's remaining internal reserves to stay green while the earth beneath them is hollowed out.

Soil-based fertility (like compost or legumes) is a permanent asset. A foliar spray is a just-in-time commodity that must be purchased every season. Nano Urea represents a transition from a commodity-based dependency to a proprietary one. Unlike soil and compost, Nano Urea is a controlled, patented substance. It is the Trojan horse of the current crisis, used to maintain chemical dependency while rebranding it as high-tech efficiency.

The February launch of Bharat-VISTAAR — the AI-powered 'voice of authority' personified as the chatbot 'Bharati' — aims to provide real-time, multilingual advisory to 140 million farmers. By integrating with the AgriStack ID system, the state is creating a digital panopticon for farmers.

An Air Canada passenger plane smashed into a rescue truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday — killing two pilots and hospitalizing 41 others in the horrific crash that obliterated the front of the jet and forced the major travel hub to close for most of Monday.

The Bombardier CRJ-900 jet landing from Montreal with 72 passengers and four crew members was landing shortly before midnight when it smashed into the truck responding to an unrelated emergency.

Audio caught an air traffic controller frantically trying to avoid the deadly smash, repeatedly crying out, "Stop, stop, stop, stop!"

He was later heard admitting, "I messed up."

More than half of the NYPD's Joint Terrorism Task Force cops can retire right now, along with thousands of sergeants, lieutenants, and captains, worrying officials about the future of terror and crime fighting in Gotham, The Post has learned.

Forty-five of 82 JTTF detectives - or 55% - have 20 years under their belts, which is enough time on the job to leave with a full pension, according to union data.

There are 5,121 active detectives in the NYPD, and 1,193 of them — or 23% — are in the same boat, eligible for a full pension after 20 years.

Another 698 lieutenants, or about 42% of the total 1,669, could retire today; 518 captains, or 66% of the 780, could leave; and 954 sergeants, representing about 22% of the 4,300 total, could exit at any time, according to union data.

Millions of victims worldwide...

In a hearing of the Corona Inquiry Commission in the German Bundestag in March 2026, former Pfizer toxicologist Dr. Helmut Sterz voiced sharp criticism regarding the approval of the mRNA vaccine Comirnaty (Pfizer).
The clip of Sterz's statements were posted by Dr. Stefan Homburg here:

California's Democrat Governor is attacking a journalist for exposing daycare fraud.

Governor Gavin Newsom implied investigative journalist Nick Shirley is a pedophile for exposing rampant daycare fraud in California and Minnesota.

On Monday evening, Nick Shirley released his latest video uncovering $170 million in fraud in California.

"We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences," Nick Shirley said.

"California's version of Medicaid called 'Medi-Cal' has more than doubled since 2022 from $108 billion to a proposed $222 billion in 2026. Their population, however, has not grown exponentially. However, their spending has," Nick Shirley said.

According to Gallup polling from last year, up to 45% of adult Americans identify as political independents. That's a plurality, as the remainder is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with 27% each. Forty-five percent is around 120 million adults, and that number has been growing for the past 20 years, driven largely by the younger generations. It's easy to see why. Neither party represents them.

Every four years, independents are put in the position of either throwing their vote away for a third-party candidate who will get at most 3% of the popular vote, or choosing what they see as the lesser of two evils. (In the last 50 years, only Ross Perot came close, winning 19% in 1992.)

That's not to say independents are a homogeneous group. Slightly more independents lean Democrat than Republican (20% vs. 15%), with a core 10% who explicitly reject both parties. Given the choice (and an electoral system that would support it), their votes might be split among a handful of parties, as is the case in most democracies. The end result is that the largest segment of the American voting population does not have consistent political representation, at least on the federal level.

One person was killed and another was wounded in a shooting at a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico on Tuesday, according to military officials.

The Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, in southern New Mexico, was put on lockdown at about 5:30 p.m. due to reports of an active shooter, according to a statement released by the Holloman Air Force Base. The person who was wounded has been taken for medical treatment.

Security officials confirmed the base is safe and the lockdown has been lifted.