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February 2026

McDonald’s Germany Hides Food Ads During Ramadan

McDonald’s Germany Hides Food Ads During Ramadan Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, McDonald’s latest marketing stunt in Germany syncs billboards to show empty packaging by day and full meals only after sunset, drawing backlash for prioritizing a minority’s religious observance over the broader customer base. As Ramadan unfolds, McDonald’s Germany has rolled out a […]

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Xi Purge Latest: China’s Top Legislature Abruptly Sacks 9 Top Military Officials

Xi Purge Latest: China’s Top Legislature Abruptly Sacks 9 Top Military Officials China has removed nine military lawmakers from its national parliament, escalating President Xi Jinping’s purge of senior defense officials, which has been a months-long trend, tracked closely by global headlines. In this latest move, first reported internationally by Bloomberg Thursday, the country’s top legislative

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The Brits & French Want Ukraine To Go Nuclear Out Of Desperation To Hold Onto Donbass

The Brits & French Want Ukraine To Go Nuclear Out Of Desperation To Hold Onto Donbass Authored by Andrew Korybko, Russia’s control over it, whether through Ukraine’s withdrawal or forcible expulsion, is considered to be the basis of the US’ peace plan that the Brits and French are dangerously trying to subvert. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence

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Electricity Crisis on the Horizon?

Official data already shows that US data centers consumed about 176 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2023, representing roughly 4.4% of total electricity demand, and that figure is expected to surge dramatically as AI and cloud infrastructure expand. This is not a linear trend. Between 2014 and 2023, power consumption from data centers more than tripled,

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Man Charged for Calling German Chancellor “Pinocchio” Online

German police in Heilbronn launched an investigation against a retired man who commented “Pinocchio is coming to HN” under a police Facebook post announcing a visit by Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Baden-Württemberg’s prime minister. The comment included a long-nosed emoji, yet authorities still initiated proceedings under Article 188 of the German Criminal Code, a law

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Svalbard: The Other Arctic Island Flashpoint

Svalbard: The Other Arctic Island Flashpoint Authored by Paul Crespo via RealClearWire, As many focus on the world’s largest island, Greenland, and President Trump’s aggressive efforts to acquire it, another strategic Arctic island, nearby Svalbard, may be an even more likely future point of contention and conflict. Not a conflict between the United States and

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Elite US Air Force Pilot Arrested For Training The Chinese Military

Elite US Air Force Pilot Arrested For Training The Chinese Military The following has made for quite the headline, as a retired elite US Air Force pilot is in very hot water and faces US intelligence and military questioning: “A former US Air Force fighter pilot with more than two decades of experience with nuclear

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Paramount Wins Bidding War For Warner Bros. After Netflix Drops Out

Paramount Wins Bidding War For Warner Bros. After Netflix Drops Out Late on Wednesday, we highlighted an aggressive options trade where a call spread buyer in Netflix options had bet $14 million that Paramount would end up buying Warner Brothers after Netflix walks, something which Polymarket had indicated very much since the start of this

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As US Readies Iran Action, Kim Jong Un Vaunts ‘Irreversible & Permanent’ Nuclear Arsenal

As US Readies Iran Action, Kim Jong Un Vaunts ‘Irreversible & Permanent’ Nuclear Arsenal Kim Jong-un just gave a fresh nuclear speech, vowing that North Korea will expand its atomic arsenal in both scale and sophistication, and that this is necessary given pressure from nuclear-armed “imperialist” superpowers like the United States. Kim presented the strategy during

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