BREAKING: The Trump Administration has struck a deal with Anthropic which grants the company permission to release its Mythos 5 model to a group of ~100 companies and federal agencies, per CNBC.
Details include:
1. Senior Anthropic staffers flew to Washington DC to meet with members of the Trump Administration
2. Anthropic said earlier this month that it disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with an export control directive from the government
3. The Trump Administration and Anthropic have been in a two-week-long standoff over its latest models
This deal will have industry-wide implications.
🇩🇪 Germany mailed 298,200 letters to every 18-year-old in the country, asking if they'd voluntarily join the military.
The result: 530 actually signed up. That's 0.18%.
25% showed initial interest. After a follow-up call, that dropped to 12.5%.
Of those, 1,500 went through physical screening, 80% passed as fit for service, and only 530 walked away with a firm job offer.
Germany's active force needs to grow from 186,000 to roughly 260,000 by the mid-2030s to meet NATO targets.
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has already warned that if volunteers don't get the job done, partial conscription is "not something we can avoid."
Mandatory registration for all 18-year-old men starts July 2027 either way. Whether actual conscription follows is still up to the Bundestag.
Source: ZDFheute / Writer: Michael
I am utterly horrified at the idea of Labour importing thousands and thousands more refugees - Sudan? Afghanistan? Somalia?
It is evil.
I am calling on both Reform and the Tories to match Restore Britain's commitment to deport anyone who arrives through this scheme.
We must make it abundantly clear that ANYONE who arrives on these routes will NOT stay.
That is the only way we can stop this now.
2029 is too late.
We need to end it NOW.
It has now reached the point where I truly believe that public officials and politicians who continue to knowingly import third world savages into our communities should be prosecuted.
It is that reckless, that irresponsible, that dangerous.
People need to go to prison.
Just 8 million people fund the entire UK
Of the 70 million residents, 40 million pay zero tax
Even among the 30 million taxpayers, only 8 million are true net contributors
Meanwhile, the state keeps driving mass immigration, bringing in more people who take out more than they put in
Make this make sense
What is happening in the UK right now is absolutely outrageous.
The UK government is using the British people’s own money to outbid them in their own housing market to favour illegal migrants who are breaking our laws.
The walls are crumbling. Britain has one last chance to reclaim its Christian heritage. If we remain silent, we risk becoming a very different nation from the one our ancestors built.
Volkswagen aims to axe up to 100,000 jobs in a “profound” strategic shift to counter trade tariffs, stagnating markets and, above all, fierce competition from China. It will cut one in six of its 660,000 jobs worldwide and production at four German factories — the largest restructure in automotive industry history.
China is out to do to Europe’s car industry what it’s already done to its solar panel industry — destroy it.
Judging from the pathetic response of the EU so far to this threat (the UK is equally pathetic) it’s likely to succeed.
China also aims to dominate batteries, wind power machinery, machine tools, Pharma and chips — with its mercantilist ‘industrial policy of everything’.
China 2.0 poses a far bigger threat to European industry than China 1.0 over 20 years ago. Some forecasts predict over 50% of what’s left of Europe’s manufacturing base will be gone in a decade.
China's central bank has now bought gold for 19 months straight, the largest official buyer on earth. And this week, as gold broke 4,000 dollars, China's biggest banks moved to push ordinary Chinese out of leveraged gold trading, with at least one warning it will liquidate any position not closed by month-end. Both are true at once, and together they explain what this crash really is.
Start with what is being banned, because the words matter. ICBC and a string of other banks are shutting down retail trading in what the Chinese themselves call paper gold, the margined, leveraged contracts where you bet on the price without ever owning a bar. Some banks lifted the margin requirement to 140 percent to choke the leverage off before closing the products outright. Physical gold, meanwhile, stays wide open. Coins, bars, savings plans, ETFs, all fine. It is only the paper, the leverage, the casino, that is being shut, the last step in a five-year retreat that the crash just finished.
Officially this is about protecting small investors, and that part is real. The same kind of leverage wiped out a wave of Chinese retail in a 2020 commodity blowup. But set the ban beside what the state is doing and something larger comes into view. While its citizens are pushed out of the paper, the People's Bank of China has spent those same 19 months buying the physical metal, more than two thousand three hundred tonnes of it now, accumulating straight through a 28 percent crash that scared everyone else out. Beijing is not trading gold. It is hoarding it.
That is the strategy in one frame. China looked at the two things both called gold, the paper bet and the physical bar, and made a choice no Western government would make. It is taking the metal for the state and closing the casino for everyone else.
The reason sits in a single date. 2022, when Russia's reserves were frozen with a keystroke. That taught every country outside the Western system one lesson: dollars in an account can be switched off, gold in your own vault cannot. So China is building its monetary independence out of the one asset nobody can freeze, and it does not want that foundation in the hands of leveraged traders who panic-sell in a crash, or priced by a paper market it does not control.
Watch this month and the two worlds split in real time. Western investors were forced out of their gold by margin calls and a rate scare. China's central bank bought that exact dip with both hands. One side treats gold as a trade. The other treats it as the floor under a currency.
The West is selling paper gold and calling it a crash. China is buying physical gold and calling it a foundation. In ten years, only one of them will look like it understood what gold was for. The metal is already moving to that side.
🇩🇪 AfD is poised to make history, as it's leading polls at 40%+ ahead of state elections, putting them on track to form the country’s 1st AfD-led government.
In a region tired of business-as-usual, they're surging with a "bold" platform:
- Mass deportations starting “minute one,”
- protecting German culture,
- boosting birth rates with pro-family policies,
- and pushing back against woke overreach.
They’re also especially popular among younger voters via TikTok and in high-unemployment areas.
That’s a potential earthquake in German politics, the first time the “firewall” against AfD could actually crumble.
Source: Politico / Writer: Claudio
1 in 3 newborn babies in Sweden now have at least one foreign born parent.
35.7% of the population in Sweden now has a foreign background.
Swedish people are already a minority in Malmö.
Sweden has changed.
Syria (Aleppo) in the 1950s, when 40% of the population was Christian. Today, it is less than 1%. This is the case for all the Middle East under Islam. Funny how no one cares about this real genocide.
Denmark is planning to ban the Islamic call to prayer, with the country's immigration minister claiming parts of the nation risk sounding like 'a suburb of Islamabad'.
Morten Bødskov said the government would reopen an investigation into whether the Muslim call to prayer can be outlawed nationwide, arguing that what he described as creeping 'Islamisation' was taking up too much public space.
⚠️WARNING!! Houston: 250,000+ Muslims. 209 mosques. City council representation. Population tripled since 2012.
Research is clear at 5–10% a minority group gains electoral influence. At 20–25% they elect their own.
The city is changing. The data just confirms what residents already see.
Why does no one care?
In Africa, Arab Muslims are enslaving black African Christians.
The media, progressives, Palestinian protesters, the UN, and even the Pope remain silent.