Laura Stringer

#takebackcontrol #digitalrevolution #stayfree #controlthewire #CBDC #justsaying

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

In yet another Orwellian move, the Government announced in a green paper this week that it wants to decide what news people can and cannot see, with plans to push approved outlets to the top of social media feeds.

Ministers should not be deciding which news sources the public read — especially in an era when three-quarters of under-25s say they get their news from social media.

As written in The Times, “In a state-sponsored ­regime in which inconvenient news was pushed out of view, would the grooming gangs scandal or the excesses of transgender ideology ever have come to light? You shouldn’t choose to trust ­everything you read online; but you shouldn’t trust the state to make the choice for you, either”.

This is dystopian.

Read more below in @thetimes 👇

[Pavel Durov @durov]

WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud.

The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to “virtually all” private messages.

Now we know what WhatsApp’s founder meant when he said he “sold his users’ privacy.”

[European Central Bank @ecb]

Iceland has just signed an agreement to join our TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system.

This is a further step towards integrating the Icelandic króna into the Eurosystem’s payment services.

Read the press release https://t.co/FROSQJxqfI

@sedlabanki_is

[Laura Stringer @lauras_]

Extreme temperatures in Western Europe triggered widespread school and transit disruptions UK and France. The failure of two transformers in Brittany, probably due to the heat, left 68,000 people without electricity the UK’s grid operator issued a rare summer power-supply warning

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Top Overnight News

Qatar’s prime minister said establishing a hotline between the US and Iran is essential to prevent rogue actors impeding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, as he predicted that the Gulf state would resume normal liquefied natural gas production “within a few weeks”. FT

The US Senate voted 50-48 to pass a resolution to halt the Iran war unless US President Trump gets approval from Congress. However, the White House said Congress resolutions on Iran are non-binding and won't be sent to President Trump, while Trump criticized the Senate passage of the Iran war powers resolution, which he claimed provides aid and comfort for the enemy.

Scott Bessent said inflation will return to the target, and he is confident Fed Chair Warsh will optimize the path for the economy. Bessent also stated that the US housing issue is a conundrum affected by rate-lock owners, and will take lower rates and more supply, predicting inflation will ease as talks with Iran continue and gas prices fall. BBG

Congress on Tuesday passed its most-ambitious housing legislation since the 1980s, a package of more than 50 provisions aimed at making it easier to build homes and make housing more affordable. The House passed the bill 358-32 with broad bipartisan support a day after the Senate voted 85-5 to approve the measure. President Trump is expected to sign it into law as soon as Wednesday. WSJ

Leveraged ETFs tracking Samsung Electronics or SK Hynix probably sold a combined $6 billion of the Korean chipmakers’ shares yesterday to maintain their ratios, underscoring how such products are amplifying market moves. BBG

The BoJ sees the risk of inflation exceeding its 2% target and will conduct additional interest-rate hikes appropriately, Governor Kazuo Ueda said in speech Wednesday that reiterated policymakers’ recent messaging. BBG

Australia’s consumer price growth eased in May amid cooling fuel prices, but underlying inflation continued to strengthen as businesses passed on higher costs resulting from the Middle East conflict. WSJ

Extreme temperatures in Western Europe triggered widespread school and transit disruptions across the UK and France. The failure of two transformers in Brittany, probably due to the heat, left 68,000 people without electricity, while the UK’s grid operator issued a rare summer power-supply warning. BBG

Venezuela is set to reveal a $240bn debt pile, much higher than previously thought, as the country embarks on the biggest sovereign restructuring in history following the US removal of Nicolás Maduro. The country is on track to reveal borrowings that are significantly larger than market estimates of $150bn to $200bn when it lifts the veil for creditors on the state of its finances in the coming weeks. FT

SK Hynix plans to raise up to $29.4 billion in a landmark US listing to increase its capacity to meet memory chip demand. At that size, the deal would be among the top five share sales of all time. BBG

[Together @Togetherdec]

DIGITAL ID: "I promise that I will not be complying"

@_ConnieShaw signing The Pledge

It is a simple but serious commitment to refuse Digital ID and “government by app”

Launched at our Trafalgar Square rally, with NO2ID

A similar pledge helped defeat Tony Blair’s ID cards in the 2000s - and was signed over 1 million times

#PledgeTogether

[Sebastián Lukomski @lukomski_sebito]

🚨 Today, the EU votes on the Digital Euro.

Nobody asked for it.

Yet Brussels is pushing ahead with a project that could mean less cash, less privacy, and more control over your money.

[Sebastián Lukomski @lukomski_sebito]

‼️🇪🇺 Did you ask for the Digital Euro?

Did you ask for a centralised institution to monitor your transactions?

Did you ask for cash to slowly disappear from everyday life?

Didn’t think so. You think the EU cares?

Today they’re voting on moving the Digital Euro one step closer to reality.

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

📻 What's the link between AirPods and the world's first nuclear bomb?
And what if the conventional story about how China "stole" a key industry from the West is totally upside down?
That's right - it's episode 2 of STUFF MATTERS.
Here are some charts to get you into the mood👇

[Pavel Durov @durov]

More in my Oslo speech — the source material for our just-launched $200,000 clipping contest: https://t.co/9GZbrk57rf

[Fox News @FoxNews]

A UK student's reaction is going viral after Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain will ban children younger than 16 from using social media.

During a BBC interview, the student revealed her screen time was nine hours over the weekend. When asked how she'd fill all that extra time without social media, she didn't hesitate: "Stare at a wall."

The deadpan response is quickly becoming one of the most shared reactions to the UK's sweeping new restrictions on children's social media use.

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

I’ve finally got my hands on a physical copy of my forthcoming book - “Ten Years On; The untold story of Brexit”

Writing and compiling the book has been an incredible process, revisiting some of the more momentous events in my life of campaigning.

Ten Years On is out on the 23rd June, but you can pre-order your copy now on Amazon - link below 👇

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

📽️ What is Donald Trump's "Southern Highway"?
Here's the story of the secret trade route funnelling oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. Might it help explain why oil prices never went as stratospheric as some feared?
My latest primer on war in the Persian Gulf👇

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

Britons prefer to be self governing.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

France and Germany have abandoned their joint fighter jet project, a source in the Elysée told The Telegraph's @JamesCrisp6

The collapse of the project marks a major setback in the wider European rearmament project ⤵️
https://t.co/6AAJbzxXzr

[Santiago Abascal 🇪🇸 @Santi_ABASCAL]

El pueblo británico arde de indignación. Y le sobran motivos.

Henry Nowak, 18 años, esposado por su propia policía mientras se desangraba en el suelo. Esposado él. La víctima. Para no ofender a quien le acababa de coser a puñaladas.

Los grandes medios, mudos, para variar. Las élites globalistas que han parido esta locura, también mirando para otro lado.

Hay muchos responsables y cómplices en las atrocidades que vemos a diario en Europa. Todos deberían responder ante la justicia, y algún día lo harán.

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

In Parliament today: I expose an official national police policy, published in March 2025, requiring police forces to treat different ethnic groups differently.

This is immoral, divisive and dangerous

We cannot have two-tier policing

The Home Secretary should ensure this policy is ended right now

#Justice #EqualityBefore #TheLaw #PoliceAccountability #UKPolitics #PublicSafety #Accountability #Parliament #HomeSecretary

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2016, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute adjusted temperatures at De Bilt, the country's main climate station. Daily maximums from 1901 to 1950 were lowered by up to 1.9C, which removed 16 of 23 heatwaves from the record.

The altered data were then used to claim modern heatwaves were unprecedented.

Four researchers challenged the changes, but the institute dismissed the criticism, so the analysis went to peer review. In 2021, it was published, conclusively demonstrating the method systematically erased historical heat extremes.

Today, the Meteorological Institute has quietly changed its approach, and as a result, seven erased heatwaves have been restored, including the extreme summer of 1947.

Here again, we have a government agency caught rewriting climate history. The Netherlands Meteorological Institute erased heatwaves of the past, ignored critics, and reinstated the truth only when the evidence became impossible to ignore.

Policies were built on that manipulated record.
Dutch farmers lost livelihoods.
Industry and the wider economy paid the price.

But accountability is coming.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

After 18 months of “standing up to Putin” the Labour govt quietly issued a licence allowing imports of Russian oil refined in third countries.

Yesterday Labour MPs voted AGAINST UK oil and gas licences.

We are now importing from Russia instead of drilling in the North Sea.

Insane.

[Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm]

The British Pound is under pressure today, failing to find support despite a dramatic surge in yields.
With the 10-year Gilt breaking above 5.10% and the 30-year yield hitting a level not seen since March 1998 (Bloomberg chart below), the market is sending a clear signal that should serve as a sobering reminder:
Convincing markets that fiscal stability will continue is a necessary condition to avoid a repeat of the 2022 “Liz Truss moment” that, among other things, pushed the UK pension system to the brink.
This is even more important at a time when external (non-UK) developments are intensifying the economic and financial headwinds.
#economy #uk #markets #bonds #gilts

[James Cleverly🇬🇧 @JamesCleverly]

Side note.

To the Labour MPs who shout “Liz Truss” whenever the economy is discussed, should note that the UK 10yr bond yield under Truss peaked at 4.7%

This morning, because of Reeves’ and Starmer’s ineptitude the 10yr bond yield is 5.02%

Labour crashed the economy.