What happens when the world simply stops needing the US dollar? We aren't talking about a distant conspiracy theory—we are approaching a specific, mathematical threshold. Once global trade settled in dollars drops below 50%, the fundamental gravity of the global financial system changes entirely.

The Dollar’s 50% Tipping Point (The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History)

 

In this video, we break down the "physics" of reserve currencies, how the US dollar got its monopoly, and why the BRICS nations are systematically dismantling it. Most importantly, we reveal exactly what the world's central banks are aggressively accumulating to prepare for the inevitable paradigm shift—and how you can position yourself before the window closes.

Wealth doesn't disappear during a crisis; it simply transfers. Are you holding the right assets?

 

Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.”

“Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, this War Department has moved from bureaucracy to business,” he said last Thursday.

 

A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget is a Gift to the Grifters

by Ron Paul

 

In a way he was right, though. The huge increase is much more about “business” than what is needed to protect the United States from potential invasion.

 

The Farrer by-election result marks a dramatic collapse in Liberal support and signals a broader shift in Australian politics as One Nation surges.

It is impossible to exaggerate the disastrous performance of the Liberal Party in the by-election for the seat of the party’s former (briefly) leader, Sussan Ley. In just over 12 months more than half of the people who voted Liberal when she was the candidate changed their allegiance and voted for One Nation or an independent.

 

David Solomon

One Nation’s win in Farrer leaves Liberals on the brink

 

In a new video released today [10/05/2026] by the channel Inside China Business, host Kevin Wamsley delivers a pointed critique of Western energy analysts and oil-industry insiders who predicted that China — the world’s largest importer of crude oil — would be crippled by the ongoing military disruptions in Venezuela and the Persian Gulf. Instead, the opposite has occurred: China is operating with significant crude-oil surpluses, while Western markets grapple with severe shortages and rapidly rising prices.

 

China’s Oil Resilience Amid Global Shock: “Experts” Caught Off Guard Again

by Larry C. Johnson

 

WE WOULD NOT PROMOTE PRODUCTS USUALLY, BUT ON THIS ONE WE WILL MAKE AN EXCEPTION... RENEWABLE/GREEN ENERGY DESERVES TO BE SEEN AROUND...

Sail Grand Prix (Sail GP) is known as the fastest race on water, using the wind to fly their incredible F50 boats at breathtaking speeds. Since they already master the wind on waves, it only made sense to harness that same power to run their event on land.

Apex Group Sail GP, Bermuda – Mobile Wind Turbine – Containerised Turbine (MC15)

 

We’ve built and supplied a custom, containerised portable wind turbine specifically for this event. Not only is this a feat of engineering, but it’s also the first-ever wind turbine on the island of Bermuda.

Moments after Austria overtook Israel to win last May's Eurovision Song Contest and in doing so won the right to host this year's event, UK viewers heard commentator Graham Norton say organisers "will be breathing the largest sigh of relief that they're not faced with a Tel Aviv final next year".

Anti-Israel protests had built ahead of the contest. At a demonstration of several hundred people in Basel, Switzerland, where the final was held, protesters wore the Palestinian flag and smeared themselves with fake blood to symbolise the killings in Gaza. During the grand final the Israeli singer Yuval Raphael was targeted when two people attempted to storm the stage, and threw paint which ended up hitting a Eurovision crew member.

A new analysis released Thursday estimates that the average American taxpayer shelled out over $4,000 to the federal government last year “for militarism and its support systems” such as the Pentagon, whose already-massive annual budget is poised to surge to $1.5 trillion if President Donald Trump gets his way.

Iranian Nobel winner Mohammadi moved to Tehran hospital

Kate Hairsine with AFP, AP; Reuters and dpa

Human rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been released on bail and transferred to Tehran, her foundation said, amid alarm about her health.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a hospital in Iran's capital Tehran for medical treatment, a foundation run by her family said Sunday.

Mohammadi has been granted a temporary suspension of her sentence in exchange for the payment of a substantial bail, the foundation said in a statement.

She has now been transferred by ambulance to Pars hospital in Tehran "to be treated by her own medical team."

 

A Commonwealth Human Rights Act must do more than help courts identify breaches of human rights; it must enable them to strike down offending laws and give relief to wronged litigants. The groundwork for an act with teeth is still to be done. 

 

Frank Brennan

Is the renewed push for a Human Rights Act worth the effort?

 

Last week, Hugh de Kretser, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, told the National Press Club that I had been a fence sitter on a Commonwealth Human Rights Act and that I got off the fence, coming out in favour, when I chaired the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation for the Rudd Government. He was right on both counts.

 

Does it seem people are unhappy at work?

It should. Not only is employee engagement down, things such as anger and stress are up.

And those are things you want to reduce because happy employees are critical to business success. 

Proof: Happy employees achieve their goals nearly a third more often than their not-so-happy colleagues – and for good reason. The happy people are 36% more motivated than their colleagues, according to research from the iOpener Institute and The Wall Street Journal.

 

cc. With a view to the upcoming referendum on the Swiss popular initiative “Preserving Swiss Neutrality”, a “pacifist and internationalist committee for neutrality” was formed in Ticino two years ago. As the initiators themselves state, it is “composed of political organisations, associations, collectives and activists who oppose Switzerland’s rapprochement with NATO and campaign for peace and international solidarity”.
    

Ticino Association for Neutrality and Work: No to the EU – No to NATO

 

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has hit back at German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after he criticized Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico for attending Victory Day celebrations in Moscow.

Merz said he “deeply regretted” Fico’s trip and claimed it did not reflect the EU’s “common view,” speaking at a press conference in Stockholm on Saturday.

“We will talk with him about this day in Moscow today,” he said. “We are celebrating Europe Day here in Stockholm today. And this is something completely different.”

Asked to comment on Merz’s remarks, Zakharova argued that modern Europe would not exist without the Soviet sacrifice that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.

Following One Nation's extraordinary victory at the Farrer by-election last night, the party's leader Pauline Hanson has taunted critics who said she could never break into the mainstream.

One Nation has won Farrer in a landslide victory, decimating the Liberal and National vote, and claiming the first lower house win for the conservative party since Senator Hanson first entered parliament in 1996.

Victory Day celebrations across Russia and the world concluded on May 9, while President Vladimir Putin wrapped up a series of meetings with foreign leaders who came to Moscow and spoke to journalists about the Ukraine conflict, Russia-China ties, and other international issues. 

“I think the matter is heading towards the completion of the Ukrainian conflict,” the Russian leader observed while answering questions from the press. He also did not rule out a possible meeting with Vladimir Zelensky in a third country once final agreements on a settlement are reached. 

Here are some further highlights from Putin’s remarks:

Ukraine yet to respond to Trump’s POW exchange initiative

On May 5, Moscow sent Kiev a list of 500 Ukrainian prisoners of war and proposed an exchange, Putin said.