In Episode 119 of the Maybe God podcast (released March 20, 2025), titled "Why John Lennox Believes in God AND Science", renowned Oxford mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist Dr. John Lennox sits down with host Justin Brierley (with an intro from Pastor Eric Huffman). This 51-minute conversation is a warm, intellectually robust affirm...
Popular Mechanics ran a flashy piece on February 17, 2026 titled "Your Consciousness Can Connect with the Whole Universe, Groundbreaking Research Suggests." Written by Manasee Wagh, the article revives the long-debated Orch OR theory (Orchestrated Objective Reduction) proposed by Nobel physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff in...
The Greek Reporter article (February 25, 2026, by Abdul Moeed) spotlights a fringe theory from independent researcher António Ambrósio (affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona) in his non-peer-reviewed paper. It claims the Great Pyramids of Giza (and associated structures like the Sphinx) were constructed around 12,000 years ago (cir...
Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has dropped one of the most explosive accusations of the post-2024 election period. In recent statements, Orbán claimed that billions of dollars intended as Western aid for Ukraine's war effort were instead funnelled through Hungary (and Europe) to influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election, specifica...
In the Mad Max films, an oil shortage turns Australia into a post-apocalyptic wasteland of road warriors and collapsing society. In real life in April 2026, things are not quite that dystopian — yet. But with barely a month of diesel left in reserve, hundreds of forecourts already running dry, and the Strait of Hormuz effectively blockaded by...
The U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz has rapidly escalated from a targeted pressure campaign against Iran into a direct confrontation with China. On April 13, 2026, President Trump ordered more than 15 U.S. Navy warships to enforce maritime-access restrictions on Iranian ports and coastal areas across the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and ...
Australian suppliers are sounding the alarm: without price increases from the nation's dominant supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths, many food and beverage businesses face collapse or severe contraction amid a fresh wave of cost pressures. A detailed report in The Australian on April 13, 2026, highlights how the ongoing Middle East confli...
In an X post that went viral Sunday, Elon Musk said he "felt like I was dying" and almost went to the hospital after taking his second COVID-19 vaccine. Musk was responding to an X post about how Dr. Helmut Sterz, Pfizer's former chief toxicologist, admitted last month during a German COVID-19 Inquiry that an estimated 60,000 people have died in Ge...
The Strait of Hormuz crisis escalated dramatically in mid-April 2026 when President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to enforce a naval blockade targeting vessels entering or leaving Iranian ports and coastal areas. This followed the collapse of U.S.-Iran peace talks in Islamabad and Iran's de facto closure/control of the strait since early...
The defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary's April 12, 2026, parliamentary election marks a seismic shift in European politics. After 16 years in power, the longtime nationalist leader conceded a landslide loss to Péter Magyar and his centre-right Tisza party, which secured a projected two-thirds supermajority (around 135–138 seats out of 199) with reco...
"Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder." The line, attributed to Arnold J. Toynbee, has the ring of paradox, but only at first hearing. We are accustomed to thinking of collapse as something inflicted from without — barbarians at the gates, enemies on the march, catastrophe descending. Toynbee's point is more unsettling. Civilisations, he s...
Socrates' final words, recorded in Phaedo, are as striking as they are strange: "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius; pay the debt and do not neglect it." At the edge of death, with the poison already working through his body, Socrates does not offer a grand philosophical conclusion. Instead, he speaks of a small religious obligation — a sacrif...
There is a particular kind of political theatre that emerges when power meets image-making and then forgets the difference between the two. The recent controversy over Donald Trump — circulating imagery that appeared to place him in a quasi-Christ-like role, followed by the now-familiar retreat into "misinterpretation" — is a case study in th...
The Mercola article from March 14, 2026, titled "Huge Study Links 99% of Heart Attacks and Strokes with 4 Risk Factors," centres on a 2025 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). It analysed massive cohorts: over 9.3 million Korean adults from national health data and about 6,800 U.S. adults from the Multi-Ethni...
If you want proof that Australia's media elite are completely detached from everyday Australians, look no further than the Australian Financial Review's attack on me and a short piece of fiction I wrote. The response was not thoughtful, not analytical, and certainly not intellectual. It was a sneering hit job designed to...
The following article first appeared at ConfidentialDaily.com: Freedom rarely disappears overnight. More often, it is quietly legislated away. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2025 is a textbook example of how extraordinary state powers become permanent fixtures of government control. •The Australian Se...
The Biden administration's approach to enforcing the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act has sparked intense controversy, framed by critics as a targeted campaign against pro-life Americans exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceful protest and prayer. On April 14, 2026, the Department of Justice under the current administrati...
Ireland erupted in fury in early April 2026 as farmers, truckers, hauliers, and agricultural contractors brought large parts of the country to a standstill. For nearly a week, tractors and lorries blocked motorways, ports, fuel depots, and even Dublin's O'Connell Street. The nation's only oil refinery faced partial block...
Brussels erupted in quiet (and not-so-quiet) jubilation on April 12, 2026, as Viktor Orbán's 16-year grip on power finally snapped. Péter Magyar and his Tisza party delivered a landslide victory, securing a projected two-thirds supermajority and ending the era of Hungary's most prominent sovereignist leader. Ursula von d...
There is a form of power that does not arrive with sirens or speeches. It does not pass through parliaments or appear on ballots. It works quietly, often invisibly, through systems we rely on without thinking. You notice it only when it turns against you, when your account is frozen, your payment rejected, your financial life abruptly placed on hol...
