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13 May 2026 15:57

🇦🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷 Australia to join UK-French ‘strictly defensive mission’ in Strait of Hormuz

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles announced Wednesday that Australia will participate in a “strictly defensive mission” headed by France and Britain to help safeguard shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Australia will deploy a Wedgetail E-7A surveillance aircraft, which is already operating in the region to help protect the United Arab Emirates from Iranian drone attacks, Marles said following a meeting involving 40 countries.

“Australia stands ready to support an independent and strictly defensive Multinational Military Mission, led by the United Kingdom and France, once it is established,” Marles said in a statement.

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13 May 2026 15:45

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 US lawmaker admits heavy losses of 39 US aircraft in failed Iran campaign

A senior US congressman revealed on Tuesday that Washington has lost 39 aircraft since the outbreak of hostilities with Iran on 28 February, citing data from a specialized defense publication. During a special Senate committee hearing, Democratic Congressman Ed Case questioned Pentagon officials regarding the staggering material costs of the conflict, noting that the reported losses are likely higher given that the data is nearly a month old.

The figures, originally published by defense outlet The War Zone, indicate that while the US Air Force conducted nearly 13,000 sorties during the war, the attrition rate has been significant.

The report claims that 39 aircraft were destroyed and 10 others sustained major damage, including the high-profile loss of a Boeing E-3 Sentry and an F-35A Lightning II fighter jet, which was reportedly hit while operating inside Iranian airspace. When pressed on the financial impact, Pentagon Chief Financial Officer Jay Hurst declined to provide immediate figures, stating that a "full diagnosis" is required before estimating the "retention cost" of the fleet.

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13 May 2026 14:15

🇵🇭⚡️- Shots fired in the Philippines' Senate in Manila as a raid is being carried out to arrest Senator Della Rosa, an ICC fugitive.

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13 May 2026 14:14

🗳 🇺🇸 ✅️ In a late-night vote, Louisiana Republicans have advanced a new congressional map out of committee that would eliminate one of the state’s Democratic-leaning districts.

The map now heads to the Senate floor for a full vote.

🔴 +1 GOP
🔵 -1 DEM

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13 May 2026 14:11

🇬🇧⚡️ — King Charles III:

My ministers will proceed with the introduction of digital ID that will modernize how citizens interact with public services.

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13 May 2026 11:55

🛢 One of the largest energy shocks in history shows no signs of abating. We have mapped the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz

🔗 The Economist (@TheEconomist)

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13 May 2026 11:37

🇺🇸🤖💻 The information technology employment is falling at a RAPID PACE:

The information technology sector has now shed jobs for 16 consecutive months, the longest streak since the Great Financial Crisis.

The information sector lost -13,000 jobs in April alone, with the pace of monthly declines accelerating sharply since December 2025.

As a result, information sector payrolls have fallen to 2.77 million, the lowest since 2021.

In effect, technology employment as a % of total US employment is at an all-time low.

This is in stark divergence with the stock market, where the technology sector relative to the S&P 500 is at an all-time high.

🔗 Global Markets Investor

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13 May 2026 11:15

🇩🇪 Germany's automotive industry is expected to lose about 35,000 more jobs than previously forecast, the head of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) told the RND media group.

"We unfortunately now have to assume, based on current calculations, that 225,000 jobs will be lost by 2035," VDA president Hildegard Müller said in comments published on Wednesday.

About 100,000 jobs had already been lost between 2019 and 2025, she added. The VDA had previously forecast that 190,000 jobs would be cut between 2019 and 2035.

Suppliers are expected to be hit particularly hard as the shift from combustion-engine vehicles to electric mobility leads to significant job losses in the supplier sector, Müller said.

She also blamed what she described as a "serious and persistent competitiveness crisis" in Germany and Europe for the worsening outlook.

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13 May 2026 05:38

📝 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 White House casts Tucker Carlson as a possible domestic terrorist - Ken Klippenstein

Administration deems anti-Trump right wingers terrorists

Two right-wing figures — Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes — have been named by the White House as possible domestic terrorists, according to the Trump administration’s top counterterrorism official.

And let’s be real: none of this is actually about extremism. It’s about the fact that Carlson, like Fuentes, recently broke with Trump — bitterly — over the Iran War. That's the real offense. So now they’re being cast as extremist threats. But to avoid alarming conservatives, the administration can't just say that — it has to first strip them of their conservative credentials, redefine them as something foreign-affiliated and dangerous, and then go after them.

Carlson has called Trump’s Iran war “the single biggest mistake Trump, or any American president, has made in my lifetime.” He has slammed the strikes as “reprehensible and immoral,” insisting the war “doesn’t serve American interests in any conceivable way” and suggesting it happened “at the behest and then the demand of Israel.”

When Trump ordered strikes on Iran, Fuentes said in a social media post: “NO WAR WITH IRAN. ISRAEL IS DRAGGING US INTO WAR. AMERICA FIRST.”

Taken together, that’s the substance Gorka is trying to launder out of the “conservative movement” by redefining Carlson and Fuentes as something else: in Carlson’s case, a Sharia fan.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/new-counterterror-strategy-eyes-tucker

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13 May 2026 05:22

🇺🇸⚡- Counterterrorism Chief Sebastian Gorka claims that Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson are not conservatives, and that they’d be more promptly labeled as “extremists” or akin to “domestic terrorists.” The move follows an attempt by the Trump Administration to crack down on far-left extremism, and by claiming Fuentes and Carlson are not “right-wing,” or conservatives, they'll be free range for the Trump Administration to persecute.

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13 May 2026 03:09

🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🇺🇸 — House Democrats:

Trump’s war with Iran is illegal.

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13 May 2026 01:44

🚗 🇺🇸 🔋 The global EV transition in one chart:
Leader: Norway
Almost there: Netherlands, China
Accelerating: U.K., France, Germany
Starting: Thailand, South Korea
Barely begun (yet still selling millions): U.S., India, Indonesia
Doing its own thing: Brazil (ethanol)

📎 John Bistline

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13 May 2026 01:30

🇧🇷⚖️🗳 — Justice Nunes Marques of the Supreme Federal Court, appointed by former President Jair Bolsonaro, has just been sworn in as president of the Superior Electoral Court and will lead the court during the 2026 Brazilian election.

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13 May 2026 01:26

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — The Chinese Embassy in the U.S. outlined the four redlines in U.S.-China relations that "must not be challenged":

— The Taiwan Question

— Democracy and Human Rights

— Paths and Political Systems

— China’s Development Right

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13 May 2026 01:11

🗳 🇺🇸 ✅️ South Carolina House Judiciary Committee pass new 7R-0D congressional map despite the State Senate rejecting sine die agreement to Redistrict

🟢 Yes: 15
🔴 No: 9

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13 May 2026 15:54

🇮🇱🇩🇪⚡️ — Volkswagen and Israeli Rafael are close to finalizing a joint venture by the end of the year to produce components for the Iron Dome at a plant in Germany, according to Bloomberg.

➡️ The proposed venture would convert Volkswagen’s struggling plant in Osnabrück from automobile production to manufacturing military vehicles for the missile defense system.

➡️ The factory is expected to produce military trucks for both Iron Dome and the laser-based Iron Beam, while missiles and core defense components would continue to be manufactured in Israel before final assembly in Germany.

➡️ Two additional German sites could also support the project through supply chains.

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13 May 2026 14:15

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — President Trump has touched down in Beijing aboard Air Force One, officially beginning his two-day state visit to China.

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13 May 2026 14:15

🇷🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷⚡- 10 Russian ships transits Japan's Tsushima Strait and enter the East China Sea, en route towards the Yellow Sea.

The fleet, which comes as US President Trump is on his way to Beijing, consists of two corvettes, a fleet oiler, a tugboat, and six cargo vessels. All six cargo vessels are under US, UK, and EU sanctions.

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13 May 2026 14:11

🇬🇧⚡️ — King Charles III:

An increasingly dangerous and volatile world threatens the United Kingdom, with the conflict in the Middle East only the most recent example.

Every element of the nation's energy, defence and economic security will be tested.

My government will respond to this world with strength and aim to create a country that is fair for all.

My government will take urgent action to tackle anti-Semitism and ensure all communities feel safe.

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13 May 2026 12:05

💸📈 The oil & fuel shock caused by the 3rd Gulf War is translating into higher energy and comfort prices, the number one causes for the inflation spike.

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13 May 2026 11:38

🇯🇵 Japan's 20Y bond yield rises as high as 3.511%, highest since 1996 as global interest rates go vertical

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13 May 2026 11:34

🇺🇸🏠📉 The U.S. housing market is on the verge of collapse

Construction of new homes has been declining year after year. Inflation is eating away the wages of Americans, mortgage rates are the highest they've ever been have caused home sales to plummet.

There are a great number of Americans who want to buy new homes but the prices put up by home sellers leave Americans with few options.

The day of reckoning for the housing market is long overdue. The only way housing affordability is fixed is by a steep decline in home prices and mortgage rates.

Zillow is forecasting that 309 of 894 US metro housing markets will decline in price by 2027, that's more than 1/3 of America's metropolitan areas.

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13 May 2026 10:42

🇺🇸↗️ - The US Consumer Price Index (CPI) accelerates to 3.8% year on year, highest since May 2023.

The index climbed 0.6% month on month, driven by a 3.8% increase in energy price. The US energy market is still being cushioned by drawdown from the SPR and refined product inventories. Energy price is expected to increase further if the Hormuz crisis is not resolved in the coming weeks.

The inflationary pressure is broad based, with core inflation also spiking to 2.8% year on year.

The mounting inflation may derail President Trump's plan to cut the interest rates and boost the slowing US economy. The US 10-year yield climbed 50 basis points since the beginning of the War in Iran.

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13 May 2026 05:31

📢 🇺🇸 🐸 Sebastian Gorka slammed Nick Fuentes in 2024, saying he should burn in hell and vowing not to associate with anyone who supports him.

Gorka labeled Fuentes a Holocaust-denying scumbag and called him one of the most reprehensible people on the planet.

"You will burn in hell, you sad little boy."

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13 May 2026 03:24

📖 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 Civil rights law empowers wokeism, but its roots are much deeper.

📎 Europa

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13 May 2026 02:41

🇫🇷🇰🇪⚡️ — French President Emmanuel Macron:

There are some 17 million French people who are part of the African diaspora — we are part of the African continent.

There are millions of French people who are French Malian or French Algerian or French Senegalese and so on.

We have this great chance to be able to succeed alongside the African continent.

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13 May 2026 01:34

🚷 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 California is frequently cited as an example of extreme left politics, yet white Californians are still politically divided evenly.

47% of white Californians voted for Trump in 2020. Other ethnic groups weighted heavily for Dems. (75% Hispanics, 76% of Asians)

A simple cancellation of green cards & visas would remove 45% of immigrants.

https://whitepaperspolicy.org/issue/the-american-repatriation-policy-platform-reviving-the-nation

https://whitepaperspolicy.org/issue/the-remigration-act-of-2025

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13 May 2026 01:26

🇺🇸- Donald Trump mimics the WW1 "I Want You for U.S. Army" poster by James Montgomery Flagg, better known as 'Uncle Sam'.

@GeoPWatch

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13 May 2026 01:16

📢 🇺🇸 🗳 Alabama Governor Kay Ivey calls a Special Primary Election on August 11, for the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th congressional districts Under The New Map

New Map:
🔴 Republicans: 6 (+1)
🔵 Democrats: 1 (-1)

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13 May 2026 01:07

🗳 🇺🇸 ✅️ The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld the new 7R-1D congressional map, which will be used in the 2026 midterms.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Democratic-leaning Kansas City district has been dismantled and replaced with a Republican-leaning seat.

MO-05 RVI
Before: 🔵 D +12
After: 🔴 R +8.2

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