At the end of the first song, the centre of the stage went dark, though there was still light in the wings and the auditorium. The cast ad-libbed about not being able to see each other. I thought nothing of it. Years ago, I worked in theatre lighting myself, and I learnt that there are…
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Legal Battle Erupts as Subnautica 2 Creators Allege Publisher Sabotaged Sequel’s Launch
The gaming world has been rocked by explosive allegations as the ousted founders of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds have filed a lawsuit against publisher Krafton, accusing the company of systematic sabotage to avoid a massive 250 million dollar payout—and ultimately seizing control of the studio in what they claim was an illegal power grab….
Hungarian Border Fence on Southern Border Started Construction Ten Years Ago
Construction of the border fence separating Hungary and Serbia started exactly 10 years ago today, on 17 July 2015, as the Hungarian news channel Hír TV pointed out in a segment. The barrier stretches 102 miles (165 kilometres) and stands at 13 feet (4 metres) tall. The project has been drawing heavy criticism from the…
Australia’s Election Shows People Are Looking For Leadership
The dust has settled on the left-wing electoral triumph in the Australian Federal Election in May. Various hot-takes leaned into the supposed ‘anti-Trump’ wave spreading across the world in the wake of the American President’s disruptive tariffs and bullish policy implementation. The results in Australia signal something quite different to what most mainstream outlets are…
Hungary Rejects EU Budget Plan Favouring Ukraine over Domestic Subsidies
The Hungarian government has sharply criticized the European Union’s proposed seven-year budget, which would reallocate funds from cohesion and agricultural subsidies—key financial lifelines for member states—to support Ukraine. At a press briefing on Wednesday, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás condemned the draft, arguing it unfairly sacrifices Hungarian and Central European interests. The…
Price controls coming for EVs?; Nvidia CEO in Beijing; Trump to delay US-China tariff deadline?
“There’s so much opportunity, so much confidence in the China market” – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Beijing. Summary of today’s top items: 1. State Council signals rectification ahead for EV sector – Premier Li presided over a State Council Executive Meeting on Wednesday. According to the official readout the agenda of the meeting was:…
Orlando Airport’s Sharia Prayer Rooms: Florida Was the Test Run for Red-State Islamization (Video)
Nearly a decade before Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport made headlines for installing a Sharia-compliant Islamic prayer complex, another major transportation hub in a Republican stronghold had already laid the groundwork. In 2016, Orlando International Airport quietly spent more than $250,000 in taxpayer funds to construct gender-segregated Islamic prayer rooms, making it one of the…
Sudan Destroys Church Building in Khartoum North
Church bulding demolished in Khartoum North, Sudan on July 8, 2025. (CSW) JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Authorities in Sudan on July 8 demolished a church complex in Khartoum North, sources said. With no prior warning, bulldozers and trucked accompanied by police and armed forces personnel arrived at the compound of the Pentecostal Church…
Banning Alternative für Deutschland: A Nightmare Scenario
As all of my readers know, the Social Democrats (SPD) are fighting hard to force two hard-left justices onto the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. Although the vote failed last week because Friedrich Merz messed it up, the SPD remain determined to give Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf and Ann-Katrin Kaufhold the red robes. They might still succeed….
Former Belgian PM Says Slovakia Can Be ‘the Next Hungary’
‘Is Slovakia on a path to become the next Hungary? To be very honest, that remains to be seen, but some patterns are strikingly similar,’ Sophie Wilmés said at the presentation of the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee report on Wednesday, 15 July, according to a recent article by POLITICO. The former Prime Minister of…
Republicans Move to Defund PBS and NPR, Drawing Absurd Cries of ‘Fascism’
With Vice President JD Vance’s tie-breaking vote, the US Senate advanced a bill aiming to strip the American public broadcast stations PBS and NPR of $1.1 billion in federal funding. Doing away with government funding to public broadcasters has been a conservative rallying cry in the US for years. One, because of the liberal bias…
New Helicopter Fleet Marks Major Leap in Hungarian Military Capability
The Hungarian Defence Forces have received the final two Airbus H225M helicopters, completing a 16-aircraft fleet that significantly enhances the country’s military mobility, operational flexibility, and international integration. The milestone was announced on Tuesday at the base of the 86th Helicopter Brigade in Szolnok by Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky. ‘This is no longer a promise…
The Death of a Transcarpathian Hungarian in Ukraine Meets with Silence from Brussels
Recently the Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights published a ’Memorandum on Human Rights Elements for Peace in Ukraine’. Building on the evidence gathered during the CoE’s country visit to Ukraine, the paper spelled out ‘observations and recommendations’ on human rights–related issues. The report also dedicated a chapter to the impact of martial…
Budapest’s Liberty Statue Renovation Reignites Political and Cultural Tensions
A major restoration project on Gellért Hill—one of Budapest’s most iconic locations—is nearing completion. By next spring, the Liberty Statue and the surrounding Citadel area will fully reopen to the public. The redevelopment is being presented as a long-overdue renewal of a national memorial, but a newly added Christian cross at the base of the…
Trump’s Bold Move: New Remittance Tax Puts Americans First, Cracks Down on Mass Migration
In a landmark victory for America-first policy, President Donald Trump’s administration has implemented a new tax on international money transfers by non-citizens — a powerful measure aimed at discouraging mass migration and funding border security. The new policy, part of the “One Big Beautiful Act,” signed into law on July 3 and passed by both…
Sharia Nurse: Civilizational Jihad Reaches New Jersey Hospitals
THIS is what “medical care” looks like in a New Jersey hospital. A walking symbol of Sharia, fully veiled in a niqab, handling your health records. Let’s be clear: Anyone fleeing an Islamic regime and still choosing to wear this oppressive uniform in America isn’t escaping… pic.twitter.com/duTP60xRyG — Amy Mek (@AmyMek) July 15, 2025 The…
Is TikTok Out to Get Us?
Shortly after wrapping up an interview about China and the use of TikTok for espionage, I took out my phone to relax for a bit and watched a YouTube video. As I was watching, a notification from TikTok popped up with a message saying: ‘You will be dealt with.’ I smirked and laughed when I…
Houston Airport Goes Sharia: George Bush Intercontinental Becomes a Frontline for Islamization
The Islamization of Texas is no longer a slow creep — it’s a full-on sprint, and Houston is at the center of it. At George Bush Intercontinental Airport, a full Sharia-compliant Islamic prayer complex has been installed in Terminal D. It includes gender-segregated prayer rooms and a ritual-washing (wudu) facility for purification. It is explicitly…
Busy Xi; Central Urban Work Conference; H20 export controls gone in win-win for Nvidia and China
Xi has been busy this week, chairing the Central Urban Work Conference, holding a collective discussion with foreign ministers visiting for the SCO Foreign Ministers gathering, meeting individually with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, and hosting a discussion with Australian Prime Minister Albanese. Those four events led the Tuesday CCTV Evening News: And the July 16th…
Raped Christian Mother in Pakistan Says Police Block Justice
Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, including Faisal Mosque. (Fassifarooq, Creative Commons) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Police in Pakistan delayed registering a complaint by a Catholic woman gang-raped by three Muslims in front of her 3-year-old daughter and are pressuring her to withdraw the case, she said. Sheeza Intikhab, a 20-year-old Catholic in Chak…
Schoolmarmocracy
Germany is becoming a weird place – not just politically, but culturally and discursively too. Every day it more closely resembles a massive open-air kindergarten. Consider what is happening to the Bundestag: This has always been a highly ponderous parliamentary body, basically the Ambien of Western liberal democracy. As our economic situation and our political…
How Important Are the Turkic States to the European Union, and in What Areas?
The following is a translation of an article written by János Matuz, a research fellow at the Europe Strategy Institute of the University of Public Service, originally published on the Five Minutes Europe blog of Ludovika.hu. Participation of the Turkic States in Direct EU Programmes The question posed in the title can typically be answered precisely by looking…
Bryan Leib Congratulates Tibor Kapu on Successful Space Mission
Bryan Leib, Senior Fellow for the Center for Fundamental Rights and Managing Director for Henry Public Relations, took to the social media site X to congratulate Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu on completing his space mission. The Crew Dragon capsule carrying Kapu and his three crewmates splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the coast of…
Retired US officer shared classified Ukraine intel on dating site – DOJ
The Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to leaking top secret data to an unknown woman on a foreign dating platform A retired US Army officer has admitted to leaking classified information about the Ukraine conflict to a woman he met on a foreign dating website, according to a press release by the US Justice…
US Senate freezes 500% Russia tariff bill – Republican leader
Lawmakers will wait as US President Donald Trump considers his own sanctions, John Thune has said The US Senate has paused a bill from hawkish Senator Lindsey Graham that proposes imposing 500% secondary tariffs on Russia’s trading partners, according to Senate Republican leader John Thune. Graham previously claimed the measure would give President Donald Trump…
Two African island sites added to UNESCO World Heritage list (PHOTOS)
The Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau and Tiwai Island in Sierra Leone have gained international recognition for their ecological value The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has added two West African island regions, the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau and Tiwai Island in Sierra Leone, to its World Heritage list, recognizing their outstanding ecological…
France predicts ‘major war in Europe’ by 2030
A new defense review lists Russia as a top threat, alongside Iran, China, terrorism, separatism, and cybercrime France expects a “major war” in Europe by 2030, according to the new Strategic National Review released on Monday by the General Secretariat for Defense and National Security. Despite Moscow’s denials that it plans to attack Europe, the…
Spain Erupts: Migrant Gang Beats Elderly Man, Locals Riot, Government Targets the Victims
Murcia, Spain — Torre Pacheco, a small town in Spain’s Murcia region, erupted into chaos this weekend after a brutal and unprovoked attack on a 68-year-old Spanish man by a group of alleged North African migrants. What began as community outrage has now exploded into full-blown unrest, riots, injuries, and arrests, while political elites scramble…
Why Gen Z goes mad for Dostoyevsky
In a letter written after his release from a Siberian prison camp, in 1854, Fyodor Dostoyevsky defined himself as “a child of the century, a child of disbelief and doubt”. The materialism, nihilism, and atheism which spasmed across 19th-century Russia, forces which Dostoyevsky vehemently fought against in his writings, are those which underpin modern liberalism…
Germany’s War on Truth: State-Funded Poster Depicts White Woman as Predator to Shield Migrant Rapists
Outrage erupts as Büren authorities flip reality, mocking victims, sanctifying criminals, and gaslighting the nation. In the town of Büren, Germany, the mask has finally slipped. A taxpayer-funded “anti-harassment” campaign has triggered national outrage for depicting a red-haired white woman sexually assaulting a disabled black boy. At the same time, migrant-led rape waves continue to…
DSA Seeks to Install Muslim Commie Omar Fateh as Minneapolis Mayor—A Clone of NYC’s Zohran Mamdani
The contagion of Islamic Marxists being instilled into the leadership of big blue cities is spreading. Democrats in Minneapolis want to elect as mayor, Muslim socialist/communist Omar Fateh, whose goals directly reflect those of New York City’s Zohran Mamdani. (Video Credit: KSTP 5 Eyewitness News) Another Muslim communist runs for mayor of a big, blue…
Fulanis Kill Five Christians, Kidnap 110 Others in Northwest Nigeria
Remains of home set aflame in Unguwar Rogo village, Kajuru County, Nigeria, on Jan. 1, 2025. (Facebook Kaduna Political Affairs) ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Friday (July 11) killed five Christians and wounded three others in an area of northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state where at least 110 others have been…
Muslim Who Raped Christian Girl Receives Life Sentence
Attorney Hanif Hameed (L) with rape victim’s father, Razzaq Masih, after court verdict on July 9, 2025. (Christian Daily International-Morning Star News) LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A judge on Wednesday (July 9) handed a life sentence to a Muslim found guilty of abducting and raping a Christian girl but ignored accusations of…
The coming rare earths war
If there is a moment of origin for the China shock that has hit the United States, it is events around rare earths in the late summer and early autumn of 2010. That August, China reduced its export quotas for the rest of the year. The following month, it stopped selling rare earths to Japan…
Why the French hate Bastille Day
Today is Bastille Day — except in France. Spend long here, and you’ll quickly find that this national day of celebration is instead known simply as Le Quatorze Juillet. There are plenty of explanations, but probably the most convincing is that the storming of the Bastille, one of the foundational moments of the French Revolution,…
The shaming of SEND families
When Charlie Plaiter was nine, he stopped going to school. He had been diagnosed with autism the year before. A bright, capable and happy boy when he started in reception, Charlie had come to find his school a hostile and distressing place, and his teachers unsympathetic. It had reached the point where Charlie simply refused…
America loves an outlaw
Luigi Mangione’s followers believe he is the messiah. On online forums, far from the judgement of society, they compare him to Superman and Jesus. “His face looks so biblical,” writes a Reddit user. You have to admit they have a point: the jet-black hair, the chiselled nose, the strong jawline, the dark eyes burning with…
Ilhan Omar Incites Violence, Claiming ICE is Shipping Illegal Aliens off to ‘Dungeons’ Around the World
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) pitched a fit in Antioch, Tennessee, on Saturday at a rapid response town hall, where she accused the Trump administration of kidnapping illegal aliens off the street and shipping them to dungeons across the world. (Video Credit: WKRN News 2) Spreading hatred of America and Trump globally The Squad member went…
Dutch Patriot Edwin Wagensveld Risks All to Expose the Truth About Islam—And the State Tries to Silence Him (Video)
The Hague, Netherlands — July 2025 In a nation once known for its free speech and fierce defense of Enlightenment values, one man stands alone against the growing tide of submission. Edwin Wagensveld, the Dutch leader of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West), has once again risked his life and triggered an…
US-led drills pose threat to peace in Asia – Lavrov
The Russian foreign minister has cautioned against expanding “NATO infrastructure” in the Indo-Pacific The military activities of the US and its allies around the Korean Peninsula threaten the stability of the entire region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during his visit to North Korea. The US, South Korea, and Japan are increasing the number…
Trump announces 30% tariffs on EU and Mexico
The US President has threatened to impose the levies starting on August 1 US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that Washington will impose 30% tariffs on two of its key trade partners: the EU and Mexico. Just days earlier, Trump declared a flurry of tariffs on key US allies in Asia, as well as…
France waging ‘crusade’ against free speech and tech progress – Telegram boss
Criminal probes against tech giants will only damage the French economy, Pavel Durov has said France has embarked on a “crusade” against free speech and progress itself, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Friday after Paris launched a probe against the social media platform X. The French authorities should talk to tech companies instead of…
Russian lawmakers spare witches
Several MPs had moved in April to ban the commercial promotion of alchemists, astrologers, and other occult services A Russian parliamentary committee has rejected proposed legislation aiming to ban all advertising of various “esoteric” services and block their websites, the newspaper Vedomosti reported on Friday, citing a government review of the bill. The legislation was…
Polish president-elect asks Zelensky to exhume victims of Ukrainian Nazis
The remains of over 100,000 Poles are lying in unmarked mass graves scattered across Ukraine, according to a historian’s estimates Kiev should allow the “full-scale” exhumation of the victims of mass ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Ukrainian Nazi collaborators during World War II, also known as the Volyn massacre, Polish President-elect Karol Nawrocki has said. Poles…
Texas man arrested for Trump death threats
The US president has survived at least one assassination attempt and one plot to kill him A Texas man was arrested in the US on Thursday for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump, making a reference to a prior assassination attempt, the Department of Justice has stated. The alleged threat came ahead of Trump’s…
A Presidential Race Plagued by Controversy
This article was originally published in Vol. 5 No. 2 of our print edition. Romania’s Nicușor Dan Wins a Democracy in Ruins Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan won Romania’s presidential run-off on 18 May, defeating George Simion, the candidate of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR).1 The pro-EU, progressive candidate overturned a gap of more…
Lavrov thanks ‘heroic’ North Korean soldiers for helping liberate Kursk Region
A monument to the troops who assisted Russia in repelling the Ukrainian incursion will be erected, the minister has said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has thanked the North Korean troops who helped liberate Russia’s Kursk Region earlier this year from a cross-border incursion by Ukraine. Kiev’s forces captured some of the border areas in…
US Treasury reports surprise surplus
The gains are largely driven by President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes, which pushed customs duty collections to record highs The US government posted a surprise budget surplus in June, driven by a sharp increase in customs duties amid President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes, the Treasury said in a monthly report on Friday. The report shows…
Americans fighting for Ukraine should lose citizenship – Carlson
“You can only really pledge your loyalty to one person or one country,” the conservative host has argued Americans who fight for other countries, including Ukraine and Israel, should be stripped of their US citizenship, journalist Tucker Carlson has argued. Speaking at a conservative conference in Tampa, Florida called Turning Point USA on Friday, Carlson…
EU nation seeking guarantees in fight over Russian gas – PM
Slovakia has made finding a solution for its energy security a condition for approving the latest EU sanctions package Slovakia hopes to secure guarantees by early next week to protect it from the impact of a planned EU-mandated halt in Russian gas imports, according to Prime Minister Robert Fico, as cited by Bloomberg. Slovakia has…
Global-warming brainwashing has the French sweating without air conditioning
Apparently, cranking up the A/C in near-40-degree heat is now “cheating” and killing the environment Paris was melting last week, flirting with 40°C and zero chill. Apparently, the moment was ripe for an epiphany. I was in an Uber, as one does when public transport becomes a slow cooker. I always enjoy chatting with the…
