RAIR Foundation USA founder Amy Mekelburg just delivered a BRUTAL truth to Congress:
“Islam is a hostile totalitarian political ideology using our freedoms to destroy us. To every non-Muslim, it offers three choices: convert, submit, or die.”
The US stock market closed at a record high overnight, as the fervour around artificial intelligence (AI) eclipsed concerns about the ongoing fallout of the Iran war.
The benchmark S&P 500 index rose 0.6 percent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.2 percent.
The S&P 500 has gained 8.5 percent so far this year, while the Nasdaq Composite is up 13.6 percent.
Netanyahu made a “secret visit” to the UAE during the war.
Iran targeted the UAE more than any other country during the war.
Despite a ceasefire that came into effect last month, the UAE has since reported multiple missile and drone attacks from Iran.
Brigadier-General Mohammad Akrami Nia says Iran’s military is maintaining “the highest level of readiness” and “there is no room for retreat” as the ceasefire with the US hangs in the balance.
Benjamin Netanyahu made a “secret” visit to the UAE and met its president during the war on Iran, the Israeli prime minister’s office says.
US President Donald Trump has landed in Beijing to meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, with discussions on theUS-Israel war on Iran expected during his two-day visit.
Trump says Iran’s response to US plan to end war ‘totally unacceptable’
United States President Donald Trump says Iran’s response to a US proposal to end the US-Israel war on Iran is “totally unacceptable”.
Trump’s comments came after Iranian media reported that Tehran sent its response to the US proposal to mediator Pakistan.
“I don’t like their letter. It’s inappropriate,” Trump told Axios. He would not share details of what he disliked about the text.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says any attack on Iranian oil tankers and commercial ships will be met with assaults on US bases and “enemy ships” in the Middle East.
US demanded Hormuz opening, enriched uranium during Islamabad talks: Iranian official
Mahmoud Nabavian, member of Iran’s negotiating team, says the US had two main demands during the Islamabad talks: Complete opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the withdrawal of all 60 percent enriched material from Iran.
In comments shared by ISNA news outlet, Nabavian is quoted as saying:
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf said that although the US had the ability to strike Iran’s infrastructure, Iran could also “raze all the infrastructure in the region to the ground in less than half a day”
The US said $6 billion in frozen assets be released if Iran cooperated with the demands
After contacting Trump, Vance suggested negotiations continue based on the plan presented by the US and Ghalibaf had agreed
However, Vance suddenly announced that Trump would not accept the agreement.
“The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and U.N. efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies,” said a May 11 tweet from the Department of State, adding:
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For the citizens of Western nations, mass migration was never safe. It introduced new security threats, imposed financial strains, and undermined the cohesion of our societies… Under President Trump, the State Department will facilitate remigration — not replacement migration.
The rejection of mass migration is a big shift from President Joe Biden’s term, when his deputies carefully and covertly worked with the U.N. Together, they moved almost 10 million culturally distant migrants into Americans’ neighborhoods, workplaces, aid programs, schools, hospitals, jails, and politics.
Biden’s elite-backed displacement migration killed many migrants and many Americans, flatlined the economy, and prompted Americans to elect Trump on a mandate to deport millions of migrants from their nation and society.
French President Emmanuel Macron:
“I want the youth of France to understand that our fate is tied with the African continent’s fate, that we will succeed with Africa”
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a €23 BILLION investment in Africa focused on energy… pic.twitter.com/4GuUo4neRx
“The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and U.N. efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies,” said a May 11 tweet from the Department of State, adding:
For the citizens of Western nations, mass migration was never safe. It introduced new security threats, imposed financial strains, and undermined the cohesion of our societies… Under President Trump, the State Department will facilitate remigration — not replacement migration.
The rejection of mass migration is a big shift from President Joe Biden’s term, when his deputies carefully and covertly worked with the U.N. Together, they moved almost 10 million culturally distant migrants into Americans’ neighborhoods, workplaces, aid programs, schools, hospitals, jails, and politics.
Biden’s elite-backed displacement migration killed many migrants and many Americans, flatlined the economy, and prompted Americans to elect Trump on a mandate to deport millions of migrants from their nation and society.
US president says Washington has the nuclear material in Iran ‘surveilled’ and will ‘blow up’ anyone who gets near it.
President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will target any Iranian trying to reach the country’s highly enriched uranium, saying that the nuclear material is under constant surveillance by the US military.
if your asylum request is rejected, you have two choices. Either you go to jail or return to your homeland. The Greek state does not accept you… You are not welcome.”
In an interview with the syndicated TV show Full Measure that aired on Sunday, Trump appeared to play down the significance of the uranium, which is believed to be buried under the rubble of nuclear facilities, remaining in Iran for now.
“We’ll get that at some point, whenever we want. We have it surveilled,” Trump said.
Several foreign airlines such as Germany’s national carrier Lufthansa have suspended flights to Tel Aviv following the Houthi air strike that hit the BenGurion International Airport.
Israeli airstrikes hit airport and power station in the Houthi-controlled capital city of Sana’a, Yemen. May 6, 2025. (X)
Update:
IRGC says it launched retaliatory strikes on Israel, including near Ben Gurion Airport, after US‑Israeli attacks hit more than 115 Iranian cities, killing over 900, with fears the toll is higher due to strikes on hospitals, schools, and homes.
Israeli warplanes strike Sana’a International Airport in Yemen’s Houthi-occupied capital city, destroying the passenger hall and other buildings, and bombs power station days after a Houthi missile exploded outside Israel’s largest airport.
Israeli warplanes on Tuesday afternoon bombed multiple targets in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a, days after pro-Iranian rebel forces in Yemen launched a missile that exploded next to Israel’s largest air travel hub.
According to preliminary reports, IDF fighter jets struck the Dhaban power station, just outside of Sana’a, along a power distribution facility and a cement factory.
In addition, Israeli warplanes hit the Sana’a International Airport.
Multiple aircraft were destroyed in the strike, and the passenger hall and flight service areas were also hit.
At least two dozen hits have been reported in the Israeli airstrikes.
The attacks came shortly after the Israeli military warned Yemen of an impending attack on the Sana’a International Airport, calling for its evacuation.
IDF Col. Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military’s chief Arabic spokesperson, issued an “urgent warning to everyone in the vicinity of Sanaa International Airport: We urge you to evacuate the airport area immediately and to warn others nearby to do the same. Failure to do so endangers your lives.”
The ceasefire that began on April 8 continues to hold despite sporadic skirmishes in the strait.
The US said it is optimistic that Iran will respond to its latest proposal to resume talks and end the war.
Defence ministries in Kuwait and UAE have announced their air defences have shot down a number of drones coming in from Iran this morning.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says any attack on Iranian oil tankers and commercial ships will be met with assaults on US bases and “enemy ships” in the region.
Washington says it’s optimistic to think that Tehran will respond to its latest proposal to end the war and resume talks.
Qatar has confirmed that a commercial cargo vessel arriving from Abu Dhabi was targeted by a drone this morning in its territorial waters, resulting in a limited fire on board.
Kuwait’s Defence Ministry says a “number of hostile drones” had been detected in the country’s airspace at dawn.
An Iranian army spokesperson warns the countries that comply with US-imposed sanctions against Tehran that they will “definitely face difficulties passing through the Strait of Hormuz”.
IRGC navy warns that any attack on Iranian tankers will be met with strike on US base
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy command has warned that any attack on Iranian oil tankers or commercial ships will be met with a large attack on its vessels as well as an American base in the region, Iran’s state-run IRIB News agency reported.
“Any attack on Iranian oil tankers and commercial ships will be met with a wide attack on one of the American bases in the region and enemy ships,” the IRGC Navy Command was quoted by IRIB News.
Tensions continue to remain high in the strait, with Iranian and US forces exchanging fire. Despite the limited skirmishes, Donald Trump says the ceasefire is still in effect.
It was the first attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs since a truce in the Israel-Hezbollah war went into force on April 17.
Israeli forces have bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs and claim to have assassinated eliminated Malek Balou, a commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force.
“Israeli warplanes launched an attack, targeting Ghobeiri” in the southern suburbs, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported, as a loud explosion and extensive damage were reported from the area.
The Israel Defense Forces identified the target as Malek Balou, a commander in the group’s elite special operations unit.
This action follows a series of Israeli operations against Hezbollah leadership earlier in 2026. In April, Israeli forces killed Haj Youssef Ismail Hashem, commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front, in a naval strike on Beirut. Other strikes targeted intelligence officials and aides close to Hezbollah’s senior leadership.
Israel bombed Beirut in an expansion of attacks on Lebanon and in the first strike on the Lebanese capital since a “ceasefire”, in name only, came into force on April 17.
Israeli forces have consistently violated the ceasefire with retaliated and on Wednesday killed at least 13 people in attacks across the country, including claiming to have targeted eliminating a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike on Beirut.
Hamas has condemned Israel’s attacks on Gaza, calling the daily bombings and growing death toll a “blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement” and a continuation of Israel’s “war of extermination” in the Palestinian territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the attack, saying he and Defence Minister Israel Katz had instructed the army to carry out the attack.
US crude oil futures rose by approximately $1 in early Thursday trading as investors weighed the prospects of a potential peace deal in the US-Israel war on Iran.
German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd says the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is costing it about $60m per week in fuel and insurance costs, as it remains too risky to send its vessels through the strategic waterway, AFP reports.
“Iran’s mistake is that once Hormuz becomes structurally unreliable, the world builds around it…“
Long after the Iran war is just a bookmark in the history books, one distinct consequence will persist: much of the world, at least the part that does not fall under the Chinese sphere of influence, will do everything it can to avoid the Strait of Hormuz and failing that, have a Plan B. Just like when the Biden admin weaponized the US Dollar in 2022 by booting Russia from SWIFT after the Ukraine war, and in the process started the biggest gold and bitcoin rally in history as the rest of the world parked its savings in non-USD assets, so the world’s most important oil choke point will never again be viewed again in the same way after Iran launched dozens of rockets at the ships transiting it.
This shift in perception is what James Thorne, chief market strategist of WellingtonAltus, called “Iran’s Historic Mistake“; he explains it as follows:
By weaponizing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran committed a strategic blunder of historic proportions. Tehran meant to punish America. Instead, it exposed every power built on imported energy, vulnerable sea lanes, and the delusion that globalization repealed geography. China is exposed. Europe is exposed. Britain is exposed. Iran has created a world where hard resource power decides outcomes.
And the punchline:
Iran’s mistake is that once Hormuz becomes structurally unreliable, the world builds around it. That means bypass corridors, revived pipeline politics, and urgent planning for routes linking Aqaba to Mediterranean outlets near Gaza and the long-stalled Basra-to-Aqaba pipeline. The old energy order is cracking. The UAE’s OPEC exit signals cartel discipline giving way to national advantage under pressure.
The hide & the hubris of this clown is off the charts.
Trump Ballroom $400 million: no tax payer dollars used.
ObamaLibrary: over $650 million in tax payer dollars used and it is still not finished. So why does anyone even care? Because liberal media told them to care….
Democrats are puppets of liberal media. The Biden library is only accessible online.
The remarkable thing about the Obamapresidentiallibrary is that it contains neither books nor documents from the Obama administration. None. Just a brutalist, forbidding architectural monument to the self-absorbed chief executive between Bush II and Trump. Plus gift shop.
There is trouble in the Obama household, and the former Divider-In-Chief thinks he knows precisely who is to blame for it.
The former president told the far-left New Yorker that Michelle has begged him to step out of the spotlight so they can live their golden years together in peace. But he can’t quit Trump.
Obama claims that Trump’s return to the White House demands that he stay on the front lines and fight.
He pointed to policies implemented by the Trump Administration, ranging from withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accords to gutting Obamacare.
