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. 

 

The newly revealed $40B blowout on Snowy 2.0 is shocking, but not surprising. Former senator Rex Patrick on management and oversight failures.

Originally announced in 2017, Snowy 2.0 is a mega pumped-hydro renewable energy project, acting as a massive “giant battery” for the national grid. The basic concept behind Snowy 2.0 is simple, albeit flawed, on account of its scale; off-peak electricity will be used to pump water ‘uphill’ from the Talbingo Reservoir, 27 km east to the Tantangara Reservoir, and during peak demand periods, allow the water to flow back ‘downhill’ through 2.2 gigawatt turbines to contribute power to the national electricity grid.

It can be likened to a 350 gigawatt-hour battery.

A cluster fiasco

The project is a taxpayer-funded financial disaster.

Peskov stated that the Kremlin had seen Bonya's video and emphasized that it had indeed attracted attention and become popular.

Kremlin Acknowledges Resonant Issues

The presidential spokesperson also added that the blogger touched on highly resonant topics in her video.

"But, in fairness, a great deal of work is being carried out on those issues, a large number of people are involved, and none of this has been left without attention,” the Kremlin representative concluded.

 

by ANDREY MIHAYLOFF

Russian Influencer Records Emotional Video Address to Putin. Kremlin Responds

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov commented on the appeal of blogger Victoria Bonya to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Compared with the same period last year, revenues from oil and gas exports dropped by more than one-third — down 38.3% to 2.298 trillion rubles. The ministry attributed the decline primarily to lower global oil prices. At the same time, non-oil-and-gas revenues increased by 10.2% to 9.423 trillion rubles.

The Finance Ministry expects the federal budget to receive 8.919 trillion rubles in oil-and-gas revenues and 31.365 trillion rubles in non-energy revenues over the course of 2026.

The ministry also announced that beginning in May it plans to resume operations involving the purchase and sale of foreign currency and gold on the domestic market under the budget rule mechanism.