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Geopolitical flashpoints. Supply chain warfare. Intelligence analysis. How global events hit home.
The $1,500 Assassination Attempt: How a Tutor Got Within Firing Range of the President
A part-time tutor with zero criminal record spent $1,500 over two and a half years. He bought guns legally in California. He traveled cross-country by train. He checked into the hotel as a guest. He got within firing range of the President of the United States.
The WHCD Manifesto vs. What You Were Told
The White House said the shooter was anti-Christian. His manifesto suggests otherwise. He was not a registered Democrat. This is the third attack, not the fourth. Three claims, checked against the document.
Antibiotic Resistance: 1.9 Million Deaths a Year by 2050
Drug-resistant infections kill more than HIV and malaria combined. By 2050, 1.9 million could die each year. In remote Australia, MRSA rates exceed 50 per cent.
Record Margins, Record Prices, Taxpayer Backing
Australia's two remaining refineries quadrupled their margins in twelve months while consumers paid record fuel prices. The government responded by underwriting private fuel imports with public money. Then, on the same day it announced 200 million litres of extra diesel, it told 160,000 disabled Australians their support was ending.
The War Started 8 Weeks Ago. The Famine Starts in 2 Years.
A third of the world's traded fertiliser moves through one strait. Australia imports 96% of its urea. Farmers are planting right now. The chain reaction has already started.
Everyone's talking about undersea cable sabotage. Half of what you've heard is wrong.
The viral 'watch the cables' narrative is mostly true - Russian and Chinese vessels really are damaging undersea infrastructure. But four major claims making the rounds are flat-out wrong, including how many cables connect Australia to the world.
See something the press isn't covering in your region?
From supply chain disruptions to geopolitical power plays - if you're seeing something the mainstream press is ignoring, we want to hear about it. Regional eyes matter.