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EU Pushes Age Verification App for All States

The European Commission wants every member state running age verification by the end of 2026, and it wants them running its own app to do it. A recommendation adopted Wednesday tells the bloc’s twenty-seven governments to accelerate deployment of the EU Age Verification App and have it available to citizens before the year is out, regardless of the unease some capitals have expressed about adopting Brussels’ code over their own.

The push lands months after security researchers tore through the same app the Commission is now urging governments to ship. In April, consultant Paul Moore bypassed the app’s protections in under two minutes, demonstrating that the rate-limiting controls were stored in an editable file, biometric authentication could be turned off with a simple configuration change, and sensitive credentials were accessible without secure hardware protection.

The Commission patched the headline issues. It is now telling governments the app is ready for production.

Henna Virkkunen, the Commission’s Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, framed the recommendation as the next step toward shielding minors online. “Effective and privacy-preserving age verification is the next piece of the puzzle that we are getting closer to completing, as we work towards an online space where our children are safe and empowered to use positively and responsibly without restricting the rights of adults,” she said.

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Artemis astronauts’ awkward reaction as Trump teases classified UFO files will be released ‘soon’

The Artemis II crew smirked as President Donald Trump fielded questions about his long-awaited UFO files during their visit to the White House on Wednesday.

Standing behind the President in the Oval Office, the four astronauts listened as reporters pressed Trump on when Americans might finally see the highly anticipated government records.

Trump had invited the crew, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, to celebrate their historic journey around the moon earlier this month, praising them as heroes of a mission that marked a major milestone in NASA’s return to deep space.

The moment took an unexpected turn when questions shifted from spaceflight to unidentified flying objects, drawing visible reactions from the astronauts as Trump began discussing the long-awaited disclosure.

When asked about his promised UFO disclosure, Trump suggested that long-awaited files could soon be made public.

‘I think we will be releasing as much as we can in the near future,’ the president replied. ‘For some reason, and I guess it’s just a reason, it’s been in the minds of people for a long time. They want to find out about the UFOs and anything having to do with UFOs or related material.’

Trump first announced the planned disclosure in February, ordering the Pentagon to release all government files related to UFOs and extraterrestrials.

However, months later, Americans have yet to see a single document or video from the promised release, fueling growing curiosity about what the files may reveal.

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NJ recreational marijuana could put PA buyers in legal trouble

Recreational marijuana is legal in 24 states and Washington D.C., but Pennsylvania has yet to approve its use

But while it is readily accessible nearby, especially in Bucks County with easy borders to New Jersey, a short trip over the bridge to purchase fun weed could still get you a long prison term and may force you to forfeit your gun rights and face fines.

The law allows for drug trafficking charges up to $250,000 under the federal Controlled Substances Act, since it still classifies marijuana as a “Schedule I” narcotic as dangerous as heroin.

While there’s been a shift in the public’s attitude toward marijuana, penalties for possessing it have not eased with the federal government or with Pennsylvania.

Here’s what you should know if you buy New Jersey recreational weed, but live in Bucks County.

Can I buy recreational marijuana in New Jersey if I’m from Pennsylvania?

Yes. Since 2022, when NJ legalized recreational marijuana, any shop will sell it to you. Five shops this news organization visited this spring said they have no idea how many out-of-state buyers they have, and take a don’t ask-don’t tell attitude.

“Our busiest days are Fridays when everyone’s coming home from work, (after 5 p.m.) and Sunday’s right before Eagles games,” said a Willingboro shop employee, who asked that his name not be published.

Do NJ weed shops require identification?

The shops we visited require a current driver’s license or government issued ID to enter. In New Jersey, you must be 21 to use recreational marijuana. Your ID is digitally scanned and, if you’re purchasing medical marijuana, it’s sent to Trenton, the state capital where the the Cannabis Regulatory Commission controls sales.

Is there a record of my purchase?

Yes. For medical marijuana, time, date and what you bought is recorded and retained for four years, but not for recreational cannabis, according to the state website, and those records are kept for four years. Weed shops aren’t permitted to copy your ID or retain record of your purchase “beyond what is required for the completion of that single financial transaction.” If you put your name on a mailing list for customer programs, that’s considered voluntary and can be subject to review by the authorities.

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Louisiana Lawmakers Pass Bill To Send People To Jail For Smoking Marijuana Near College Campuses

Louisiana lawmakers have approved a bill that threatens to send people to jail for up to one year if they smoke marijuana within 2,000 feet of a school property—including a college campus.

The legislation from Rep. Gabe Firment (R) was passed by the House of Representatives in a 59-34 vote last week.

HB 568, which now heads to the Senate for consideration, applies to people who violate drug laws “while smoking, vaping, or otherwise abusing such controlled dangerous substance while on any property used for school purposes by any school, within two thousand feet of any such property, or while on a school bus.”

The pro-legalization Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) said the “incredibly draconian penalties” in the legislation threaten to reverse cannabis reform progress made in the state in recent years.

In 2021, then-Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) signed a bill decriminalizing marijuana by removing the threat of jail time for possessing up to 14 grams.

“HB 568 would make cannabis use a felony in huge swaths of urban and suburban areas. Two thousand feet is a little over ⅓ of a mile,” Kevin Caldwell, MPP”s Southeast legislative manager, said in an action alert to supporters. “In addition to mandatory incarceration of up to a year, the bill includes a fine of up to $1,000.”

“This is an attempt to bring back the draconian penalties that Louisiana was infamous for in decades past. This bill seeks to undo years of hard work by advocates for ending jail time for minor cannabis offenses,” he said. “Under this legislation, a student could be incarcerated for a year for consuming in a college dorm room.”

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Hakeem Jeffries Remains Defiant & Calls For Maximum Warfare Against The GOP

Woke House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday forcefully defended his vow to unleash “maximum warfare” against Republicans when pressed by reporters about the inflammatory phrase.

Asked about the language in light of the recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, Jeffries replied, “I stand by it,” adding, “You can continue to criticize me for it, I don’t give a damn about your criticism.”

Jeffries has used the phrase repeatedly in recent days while celebrating Democratic redistricting wins in Virginia and vowing to “crush” what he has called the “DeSantis dummymander” in Florida.

At a Capitol news conference last week, he framed the fight over congressional maps by declaring, “We are in an era of maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

The New York Democrat has attempted to argue that his rhetoric refers to a hard‑fought political and legal campaign over redistricting. Even as he doubled down, Jeffries hypocritically insisted he “unequivocally” denounces political violence, saying in a television interview that “violence is never the answer, whether it’s targeted at the right, the left or the center.”

Republicans have seized on the comments, with the National Republican Congressional Committee circulating a clip of Jeffries saying he stands by “maximum warfare” and calling the remarks “unhinged” in a widely shared post on X.

Critics in opinion outlets and online have argued that by vowing “maximum warfare” against the GOP “everywhere, all the time,” Jeffries is dehumanizing Republican voters and escalating a climate in which political violence is at an all time high, even as he publicly claims to call for unity and lower temperatures in public life.

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MAHA Advocates Rally Against Pesticide Makers, Question Federal Agriculture Policies

As the Supreme Court heard opening arguments on Monsanto v. Darnell, a case which could prevent people harmed by pesticides from suing manufacturers, hundreds of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) proponents, farmers, and environmental activists gathered near the steps of the building outside for the People Vs. Poison rally on April 27.

The event cut across traditional political party lines and highlighted tensions surrounding federal agriculture policies. Speakers expressed frustration with what they deem inconsistencies in federal approaches to “real food” and chemical company protections.

Kelly Ryerson, known as the Glyphosate Girl, is cofounder of American Regeneration and an outspoken critic of Monsanto, which is now a subsidiary of Bayer. Her comments reflected the sentiments of many attendees.

“If your product is safe, then you don’t need immunity. And if your business depends on immunity, the problem is not the lawsuits. The problem is the product,” Ryerson said.

Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, is manufactured by Bayer. It is the main ingredient in RoundUp, which is produced by the company.

In February, President Donald Trump surprised some MAHA movement leaders when he issued an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act.

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House Judiciary expands probe into allegations Biden admin spied on GOP members of Congress

ouse Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan expanded his committee’s investigation Monday into allegations that the Biden administration spied on Republican lawmakers. 

Revelations last year claimed the Biden FBI snooped on the phone records of multiple Republican members of Congress, including eight senators, during its January 6 investigation known as Arctic Frost. 

Jordan sent the latest letter to Alpine Bank CEO Glen Jammaron requesting documents and communications related to allegations that the Biden administration’s Department of Justice may have subpoenaed financial institutions for records of private customer data for Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert.

The letter asks the bank to produce documents and communications relating to any material sought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in relation to investigations about the 2020 presidential election.

It also sought documents and material related to Arctic Frost and activities conducted by former Special Counsel Jack Smith and asked for the material by no later than May 11.

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The Global Crisis Scam and the Battle to Stay Human

A Brief Synopsis of Our Global Predicament

On the global stage it appears, with a few exceptions, that every nation is defining itself as an enemy of another nation, and an increasing number backing this with the build up of a force of arms. War is big business, and fear is the great repressor of human resilience and resistance. So long as these two states dominate world affairs, the globalist elite that provokes and finances them retains complete control.

This ‘elite’ has built its empire on an unprecedented appropriation and centralisation of global wealth, which now includes the expansion and domination of artificial intelligence and related advanced technologies.

This vast financial wealth is gained by controlling the money (debt) owed to banking and investment institutions that are the creditors of the neo-liberal global economy *

By maintaining a level of crisis as a permanent feature of world economic and social affairs, this elite (also known as shadow government) undermines the normal workings of national and international economic activity, forcing millions of businesses (big and small) into increased hardship and bankruptcy.

The assets of these enterprises are then stolen by the creditors in lieu of non-payment of their debts.

The founder of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, stated quite categorically in 2020 that by 2030, “You will own nothing and you will be happy”. This is the demonic reality of the world we find ourselves in 2026. 

According to the shadow government’s agenda, by 2030, globalist creditors will have appropriated the world’s wealth while driving large sections of the population into impoverishment.

All high-level institutions of the world, whether secular, religious, military, social, technological, educational, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and many more of the same, play their part in maintaining this ultra repressive top down control. 

It forms a cult of power and control that finances and stages international conflicts, such as those we see today in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Iran, Venezuela, with the promise of Cuba, Greenland and even Canada to join the current hit list.

The European Union, NATO, the United Nations, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Economic Forum (WEF), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are all in there, along with all main banking institutions, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, and additionally global investment institutions such as Black Rock, Vanguard and State Street. While the military industrial complex stands at the head of the war profiteering agenda.

There can be no ‘peaceful resolution’ to world conflicts as long as this situation prevails. Its protagonists are presently set on the mass roll-out of IT; ‘Smart’ 24/7 surveillance technologies (including your mobile phone); central bank digital currencies; ‘transhuman’ brain-chipped humans; advanced social engineering of human behaviour and totalitarian government.  

There is a lot to deal with. Not least the fact that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have combined to head the current enforced regime of chaos, destruction and death. Only a few years ago, ironically, many were seeing America as a great ‘ally’ of Europe against the supposed threat of the Soviet regime.

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Jimmy Kimmel Invents an Outrageous Lie While Defending His Cruel Assassination ‘Joke’ About the President and First Lady

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel came up with one of the most pathetic lies imaginable while deciding to defend his wicked joke about President Trump.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Kristinn Taylor reported, Kimmel previously made an assassination joke about First Lady Melania Trump and her husband President Donald Trump, saying she looked like an “expectant widow.”

This happened just two days before another deranged terrorist tried to take out the president.

“And of course, our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Mel, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said during a mock White House Correspondent’s dinner last week.

“You know, Melania’s birthday is on Sunday,” he added. “That’s right. She’s uh, planning to celebrate at home the same way she always does, looking out a window and whispering, “What have I done?”

“As you’re all aware, Melania is a movie star now. Her documentary had a score of 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a website named after her husband’s testicles.”

This ‘joke’ generated such widespread outrage that both the President and First Lady issued scathing statements condemning Kimmel. President Trump also called on ABC to fire the alleged ‘comedian.’

On Monday night, Kimmel not only defended his sick words, but astoundingly claimed that he was just talking about Donald and Melania’s age difference.

Is that the best lie he could come up with?

“It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,” Kimmel fibbed. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination. And they know that.”

“I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence, in particular,” he continued. “But I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house?”

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The great bait-and-switch of state assisted suicide laws

Last March, 31-year-old Eileen Mihich was found dead in a room at the Hotel Deluxe in Portland, Ore. Near her body was an empty bottle of the poison pills prescribed specifically for physician-assisted suicide.

Mihich had obtained this concoction from a pharmacy in Mill Creek, Wash., despite not meeting any of the legal criteria to obtain it. She was not terminally ill. She had not seen even one practitioner. She also had serious mental illness that rendered her capacity questionable, and she was not a resident of Washington state.

One year after lodging a formal complaint with the Washington Department of Health, her family has still received no word on how their loved one could have received these deadly drugs.

The incident helps illustrate the classic bait-and-switch nature of the modern assisted suicide movement and the effort to make suicide-affirmation a form of medical care.

The first U.S. state to legalize the practice, Oregon, promised that cases like that of Mihich wouldn’t happen. In the subsequent decades, the assisted suicide lobby has continuously protested too much that no documented case of abuse exists. This nonsense has long been discredited. In fact, the very first woman to die from Oregon’s original suicide law was pushed through the doctor-shopping process despite her likely ineligibility. A litany of other cases of abuse has followed.

Outside the U.S., it is almost satirical how ravenous the system has become for new victims of abusive practices. Recently, multiple outlets have documented how an 81-year-old woman in Canada was offered to be put to death by the state on account of her back pain.

Mihich’s tragic case ought to bring renewed scrutiny to how this flimsy, dangerous system operates in the U.S. Bills to legalize the practice are active in 13 states, and two other states are looking at removing their existing safeguards.

Eileen’s workaround was disturbingly simple and works in all 13 states where suicide-affirming care is legal. She knew she did not meet her native Oregon’s eligibility requirements. So she found a random doctor’s publicly available National Provider Identifier, which she used to forge a prescription. She spoofed that doctor’s email address and submitted the fraudulent application by email to a pharmacy, which signed the prescription.

Eileen picked up the fatal dose shortly thereafter.

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