Source: Newsbytes.PH [Philippines]
“The global smartphone market is projected to contract sharply in 2026, with shipments expected to fall 12.9% year-on-year to 1.1 billion units, according to the latest forecast from research firm IDC. If realized, the decline would mark the steepest annual drop on record and push worldwide smartphone shipments to their lowest level in more than a decade. IDC said the revised outlook represents a significant downgrade from its November forecast as a worsening memory-component shortage ripples across the consumer electronics supply chain.” (03/01/26)
https://newsbytes.ph/2026/03/01/global-smartphone-shipments-to-hit-decade-low-in-2026/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Anne Strickland
“Britain’s national debt is now rising by more than £500 million a day. Every single day. It’s the kind of figure that should prompt a national emergency, but instead it’s been met with the kind of collective shrug that suggests we’ve all decided it’s someone else’s problem. Future Chancellor, future Parliament, future generation. Someone will sort it eventually, surely? Half a billion pounds doesn’t really sound like a real number to most people though. It’s too big, too abstract. So let’s translate it into something that matters.” (02/27/26)
https://fee.org/articles/who-has-the-courage-to-fix-britains-debt-crisis/
Source: Common Dreams
by Alvin Thomas & Conial Caldwell
“It is 1955 and the hot Mississippi sun is blazing overhead. Miles away in Chicago a Black mother is having a conversation with her 14-year-old son. She tries to impress upon him the often subtle but dangerous realities of what it means to be Black in America, and how one misinterpretation, one lie, could result in his death. That boy is Emmett Till, and in her memoir, Death of Innocence, Mamie Till-Mobley reflects on ‘The Talk’ she delivered to her son before his historically tragic trip to Mississippi. This version of The Talk dates back to American chattel slavery and has been passed down for generations in Black families, shaped by ongoing racial violence and unequal treatment.” (02/28/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ice-violence-children
Source: Engadget
“The Federal Communications Commission has given the go ahead for two of the US’ biggest cable providers, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, to merge. Charter announced its intention to acquire Cox for $34.5 billion in May 2025, with specific plans to inherit Cox’s managed IT, commercial fiber and cloud businesses, while folding the company’s residential cable service into a subsidiary.” (02/27/26)
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/fcc-approves-the-merger-of-cable-giants-cox-and-charter-230258865.html
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Hrvoje Morić on crime and safety in Mexico after the death of ‘El Mencho.'” (02/28/26)
https://rumble.com/v76d0eu-ff-430-ff-102-hrvoje-mori-on-crime-and-safety-in-mexico-after-the-death-of-.html
Source: The American Conservative
by Harrison Berger
“In an April 10, 2024 post on Truth Social, then-candidate for president Trump urged Republicans in Congress to ‘KILL FISA,’ referring to the U.S. law establishing procedures for foreign surveillance. ‘IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!’ Yet now that he has entered the White House for a second term, Trump is seeking to extend those spying powers he once denounced. As POLTICO reported last week, the Trump administration, in an effort led by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, is quietly pressing Congress to approve a ‘clean’ extension of Section 702 surveillance authorities, potentially through 2027.” (02/27/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-seeks-to-extend-domestic-spying-powers-he-once-condemned/
Source: Reuters
“Japan will not reappoint businessman Joichi Ito to a government committee on an entrepreneurship project when his term ends this month, over ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Sankei newspaper said on Monday. The decision comes after the release of millions of new Epstein documents by the U.S. Justice Department that revived scrutiny of Ito’s ties with Epstein and his current roles in Japanese government and academic circles.” (03/02/26)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/joichi-ito-linked-with-epstein-leave-japan-government-panel-sankei-says-2026-03-02/
Source: Law & Liberty
by John C Pinheiro
“A new book proposing a synthesis of Hamilton and Jefferson fails to escape the follies of progressive cliches.” (02/27/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/a-failure-of-vision/
Source: CBS News
“Mexican authorities returned the body of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as ‘El Mencho,’ to his family after he was killed by the Mexican army last week, officials said on Saturday. In a brief note on X, the Attorney General’s Office said that it handed over the body of El Mencho after completing all the necessary procedural protocols. … The killing of the country’s most powerful drug lord was met with a wave of retaliatory violence in some 20 states. More than 70 people were killed. The violence has fueled fears that the bloodshed could hurt tourism ahead of the FIFA World Cup later this year.” (02/28/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/mexican-authorities-hand-body-el-mencho-family-130633371
Source: Antiwar.com
“Special Report: US and Israel Launch War Against Iran.” (02/28/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKk8-s5iXQ
