(Canada) “The federal government must hold firm on several key points.” I’m a former minister of the environment and climate change. Mark Carney and Danielle Smith are about to define Canada’s climate future https://www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=0bc0f69a-1aad-4244-ad12-c17a8b3704f1

Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-trump-psychopaths-war-criminals

“(…) by offering a platform for the vision of the G6 (the G7 without the United States) (…) It is about [with regard to the Strait of Hormuz] rallying the “Global South” (Africa and Asia) to the Western cause (…)” (Gemini) The IMF Meetings Were Supposed to Be About Trade. Then Came the Iran War. https://youtu.be/xVaTIMgecno

Unmasking the Creator of Bitcoin https://fountain.fm/episode/BZrcRp0u4127tdFKEx33

(Claude Sonnet 4.6) The New York Times today publishes a year-long investigation by John Carreyrou identifying Adam Back, a 55-year-old British cryptographer and CEO of Blockstream, as the likely creator of Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The evidence is multiple and convergent: Back is British and a Cypherpunk like Satoshi, he invented Hashcash (integrated into Bitcoin mining), he sketched between 1997 and 1999 the five conceptual pillars of Bitcoin a decade before its creation, and he shares with Satoshi a highly specific lexicon, rare grammatical tics, and 67 identical hyphenation errors out of 325 catalogued — the second-closest candidate shares only 38. A computational analysis of 620 suspects drawn from the Cypherpunks mailing lists, narrowed through successive linguistic filters, leaves only one name: Back. Strikingly, Back vanished from discussions on electronic money exactly during Satoshi's period of activity, then threw himself into Bitcoin six weeks after Satoshi's disappearance. When confronted directly, Back denies it — but refuses to provide the metadata of the Satoshi→Back emails, and apparently made a revealing slip during the final interview in El Salvador. The cryptographic proof — movement of coins — remains absent; the case is strong but circumstantial. My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery: Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back. https://bit.ly/4cxnXdp

“The question is whether officers who carried out orders to bomb Iranian power stations and bridges could argue that they did not know it was “palpably illegal”. (...) “There are many factors that make it hard to say ‘no’ or stand up to stop war crimes, especially where there are grey areas in the law,” (...) "What the law requires of enlisted troops is to disobey only ‘manifestly unlawful’ orders – orders so egregiously unlawful that a person of ordinary understanding would know they were wrong. “However, this skill and moral judgment is not drilled into troops in the same way as they are taught to follow the chain of command and go along with their small units, and troops can also be court-martialed for insubordination if they guess wrong. Since taking office last year, Hegseth has made it harder for officers in the chain of command to find legal advice by firing the Pentagon’s top JAGs, and dissolving the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response unit set up by the Biden administration. Ordinary soldiers have the last-resort option of calling a “GI rights hotline” and calls have reportedly risen sharply under the Trump administration.” Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/06/trump-threats-dilemma-for-officers-disobey-orders-or-commit-war-crimes

"The 22-year-old wife of an Army staff sergeant came to the U.S. as a toddler. She was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live." ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy https://nyti.ms/4sT6YYJ

"The greatest threat to stability in the Middle East is not Iran, but “the US working closely together with Israel”, argues United States political scientist John Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer tells host Steve Clemons that the notion that the US and Israel are making a safer, more stable Middle East is “ludicrous”. And the idea that Iran is “the great destabiliser” in the region is “a myth that the US and Israel purvey”. After US President Donald Trump insisted that “We have all the cards; they have none”, Mearsheimer says the exact opposite is true - “and that's why we are in desperate straits”." Mearsheimer: No signs of quick end to US-Israel war on Iran | The Bottom Line https://youtu.be/wf6MlijsbhA

The 'trad wives' leaving high-control Christian nationalist communities https://youtu.be/7dXBpWiwxkw

"The roughly $1.5 trillion sought for the Pentagon would amount to about 4.5 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product" White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for Defense in New Budget Request https://nyti.ms/4tkaMSK