USA - A Volcano Of Fury Erupts In The Streets Of Los Angeles, Portland And Minnesota As Trump Converts 23 Giant Warehouses Into ICE Detention Centers. The violent clashes that are causing so much chaos in the streets of our major cities aren’t going to stop. Tens of thousands of anti-ICE activists have already been recruited, and more are joining their ranks with each passing day. At this stage, the only thing that could put a lid on the volcano of fury that we are witnessing would be if President Trump decided to pull ICE out of all of our cities and stop deportations. Of course there is no way that is going to happen. In fact, as you will see below, Trump is now converting 23 enormous warehouses around the country into giant ICE detention centers. The goal is to deport a million immigrants per year, and that means that the war between ICE and anti-ICE protesters is just getting started. I have always warned that civil unrest would be one of the key elements of “the perfect storm” that our society would be forced to endure, and now we have reached a stage where the civil unrest never seems to stop.

EUROPE - Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever delivered a blistering critique of the EU’s so-called “green energy” agenda, warning that “dogmatic” climate policies are driving up energy costs. Speaking at a public forum on Thursday, De Wever argued that years of misguided energy decisions have left Europe poorer, weaker and increasingly dependent on foreign powers. The leader of the right-wing New Flemish Alliance said Europe’s green transition has failed to deliver cheaper or more reliable power, instead shifting the advantage to China and leaving European consumers to foot “crazy bills.” “We made our life extremely hard,” De Wever said, according to the Brussels Signal. “We’ve made dogmatic choices against nuclear energy, which was the stupidity of the century.” De Wever’s candid remarks come just weeks after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted that the country’s nuclear phase-out was a “serious strategic mistake.”

PANAMA - Panama’s Supreme Court decision to boot a Chinese company from the strategic Panama Canal gives a boost to President Donald Trump’s effort to revive the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere aimed at reducing Chinese influence in Latin America. The ruling comes one year after President Trump zeroed in on Chinese influence in the country and the vital strategic waterway built by the US more than a century ago. “China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China,” Trump said in his inauguration address. “We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.”

IRAN - An Iranian military official said the country can control which ships can pass through the crucial Strait of Hormuz as US President Donald Trump ramped up military threats. The thinly veiled threat to halt some traffic on the Hormuz came as a US aircraft carrier arrived in the region, leading Trump to demand negotiations with threats of “violence”. Mohammad Akbarzadeh, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, said in a Fars News Agency report that Iran has “complete control” over the strait, a bottleneck for oil exports from the Middle East Gulf.

MIDDLE EAST - The Strait of Hormuz is once again back in focus as a possible US intervention in Iran raises the risk of Tehran disrupting one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints. US President Donald Trump is considering a range of options against Iran, according to multiple media reports on Sunday, as it cracks down on domestic protests. Industry experts cautioned that a military confrontation could provoke Iran to choke off the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea and through which nearly a third of the world’s seaborne crude flows.

EUROPE - EU member states will need to take on more joint debt to fund expanding military spending, Seamus Boland, president of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), has warned, saying the bloc’s next seven-year budget is too small to cover the costs. European NATO members last year agreed to raise defense spending targets toward 5% of GDP by 2035 and launched initiatives such as ReArm Europe to revamp their militaries. The push has been framed as a response to an alleged Russian threat – a claim Moscow has repeatedly dismissed as “nonsense.” The European Commission earlier proposed a €2 trillion ($2.4 trillion) budget for 2028-2034, but Boland said it will fall short of financing the EU’s military ambitions. “We are creating a new Europe, with much more emphasis on defense. We can’t do that out of the current expenditure,” he told Euractiv on Thursday, warning that when budgets are squeezed, “somebody’s going to suffer” – typically poorer and more remote regions that risk losing investment and support.

EUROPE - The head of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) has said that cash-strapped Eurozone countries can tap into its €500 billion worth of reserves to increase military spending. The EU has already borrowed tens of billions of euros to boost its defense budgets and arm Ukraine. Speaking to Reuters on Friday, ESM Director Pierre Gramegna said that the fund – which was originally intended to bail out debt-ridden economies during the financial crisis – could be used to let countries increase their defense spending on credit. “In these times of geopolitical turmoil, which have triggered higher expenditure, defense costs for all countries, we must use the full potential of the ESM,” Gramegna told the agency.

USA - The west coast is shaking again. In recent weeks we have witnessed so much seismic activity along the portion of the Pacific Ring of Fire that sits directly along the California coastline. There had been hope that the shaking would settle down, but instead it appears to be accelerating. There have been 321 earthquakes in the San Francisco area within the past 7 days. Scientists have warned us over and over again that “the Big One” is inevitably coming, and almost every day there are more reminders of this. In fact, San Ramon was just hit by a swarm of more than 30 earthquakes on Monday morning… A 4.2 earthquake struck near San Ramon Monday morning, following a 3.8 quake amid a string of over 30 temblors in the area, US Geological Survey said.

USA - Former World Bank Director, Erik Bethel, breaks down a US dollar collapse scenario. “How are they buying it? Well,they buy it by printing money. The artificial demand for dollars around the world is largely due to the fact that 60% of central banks have the dollar sitting in reserves. If the dollar isn’t there because nobody wants to use the dollar, we’re screwed. All that artificial demand for dollars disappears and we crater. We’re not going to be able to pay Medicare. And we’re adding $1 trillion of debt every hundred days. You know our government is paying more in interest on our debt, like over $1 trillion in interest alone. We’re paying more in interest, just in interest, to service the debt than we are paying for the Defense Department. People start losing faith in the dollar. We see huge amounts of inflation, perhaps hyperinflation.”

MIDDLE EAST - The US military warned Iran it will not tolerate "any unsafe and unprofessional behavior" surrounding US forces in the Middle East as Tehran gears up for live-fire naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz. The declaration comes as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is set to begin a two-day exercise starting Sunday, according to the US. Central Command. President Donald Trump announced this week that a "massive Armada is heading to Iran," led by the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. "US forces acknowledge Iran’s right to operate professionally in international airspace and waters. Any unsafe and unprofessional behavior near US forces, regional partners or commercial vessels increases risks of collision, escalation, and destabilization," CENTCOM said in a statement. CENTCOM described the Strait of Hormuz as "an international sea passage and an essential trade corridor that supports regional economic prosperity."