“I have known cardiologist Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, for many years. I’ve interviewed him multiple times on my show, ‘Doctor Radio Reports’ on SiriusXM, and have also spent time around the dinner table with him and his family. … Dr. Oz spends a lot of time with President Donald Trump these days as they travel to and attend events together. He told me recently on my show that he is struck by how clever and funny the president is and how he doesn’t actually have a bad diet.” (04/22/26)
“US officials have announced fraud charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights group that tracks extremist organisations and played a prominent role in confronting the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). In a news conference on Tuesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche accused the non-profit of secretly funding the very groups that it says it opposes, through paying informants who infiltrated them — including within the KKK. An indictment charges the SPLC with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The organisation’s president has said they would ‘vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work.'” (04/22/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“In February 2026, Indonesia and Australia signed the Treaty on Common Security (‘the Jakarta Treaty’), a commitment to developing joint training facilities in Indonesia, increased cooperation and information sharing, and consulting on security matters at ministerial level between the two countries. But in the last two months, this already important agreement gained greater significance, as it has expanded to include Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Japan. It seems that a new security paradigm and new trade partnerships are emerging in the Pacific.” (04/22/26)
“They understand that humans are storytelling animals whose inner lives are typically dominated by mental narratives about what’s happening, so if you can control those narratives, you can control the humans.” (04/22/26)
“Billionaire businessman Justin Sun has filed a lawsuit against the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial, claiming his multi-million dollar investment was secured through fraud and alleging that WLF is ‘on the verge of collapse.’ Sun claims his tokens have been indefinitely frozen and his voting rights revoked since he refused to accept the terms of a new governance proposal submitted on April 15, which required that 10 percent of all company advisers’ tokens be permanently burned. … The complaint goes on to accuse WLF of making multiple false statements, inducing Sun’s investments through fraud and scheming to secure more capital from him, misrepresenting the company’s compliance with the law, improperly freezing his tokens, making threats and defamation.” (04/22/26)
“On December 14, two ISIS-affiliated gunmen massacred 15 unarmed civilians at a Hanukkah festival at Bondi Beach, the icon of Australia’s breezy way of life. Just three police officers guarded the festival. One of the shooters, Naveed Akram, had come to the attention of the Australian security services in 2019, and yet in 2020, his father, an Indian-born non-citizen, was able to legally purchase multiple firearms. Just weeks before their murder spree, the father and son duo spent nearly a month in the Southern Philippines, a hot spot for Islamic terrorism. … To cover for their incompetence, the government is now proposing a host of laws to restrict speech, protest, and gun ownership (Australia already has some of the world’s strictest gun laws).” (04/22/26)
“When Donald Trump first suggested that the United States should purchase Greenland, the reaction in Washington was disbelief mixed with ridicule. The United States, it had seemed, long ago settled its borders. Territorial expansion belonged to a different era. Yet in the longer arc of American history, expansion has been quite normal. For much of the nation’s first century and a half, Americans debated not whether the United States should grow, but where and by what means. The idea that borders might shift was a routine feature of statecraft. So why does the idea now seem so strange?” 904/22/26)
