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🗞 Today’s Edition: Pakistan’s Double Game, UAE Secretly Bombs Iran, Starmer's Own Party Is Trying To Evict Him, 400 NYPD Officers Protect Brooklyn Synagogue, Google In Talks With SpaceX...& much more!
👀 Do you know where Einstein’s eyeballs are? Scroll down to find out!
🚨 Watch For:
President Trump visits Beijing: May 13th-15th
📜THE HIGHLIGHT
One killer insight to stash in your back pocket
🇵🇰🥷 Pakistan’s Double Game
According to a bombshell report by CBS News, Pakistan quietly allowed Iranian military aircraft — including an Iranian RC-130 intelligence plane — to park at Pakistan’s Nur Khan Air Base near Rawalpindi during the shaky April ceasefire.
US officials claim the move was meant to shield Tehran’s surviving aircraft from possible American or Israeli strikes.
That’s... awkward for a country simultaneously playing peace broker between Washington and Tehran.
🇵🇰 Islamabad admits Iranian aircraft were present, but insists they were only supporting the “Islamabad Talks” — ferrying diplomats, security staff, and logistics teams during ceasefire negotiations.
👀 The bigger issue: The controversy has intensified because it overlaps with separate reports that Iranian tankers used Pakistani waters and trade corridors to bypass the US naval blockade.
Up to 34 Iranian supertankers slipped past US forces by detouring through Pakistani territorial waters using spoofing tactics.
Pakistan also opened 6 overland trade/transit routes to Iran giving Iran an economic lifeline while the US naval blockade was in place.
💬 Reactions:
I don't trust Pakistan as far as I can throw them. If they actually do have Iranian aircraft parked in Pakistan bases to protect Iranian military assets, that tells me we should be looking maybe for somebody else to mediate.
No wonder this damn thing is going nowhere.
Indian media framed it as classic Pakistani duplicity, comparing the aircraft move to Saddam Hussein hiding planes in Iran during the 1991 Gulf War.
💡 Bottom line: Pakistan spent months selling Washington on its neutrality. Turns out "neutral" had an Iranian tail number.
♟️THE CHESSBOARD
Geopolitics Decoded In 3 Moves
Still from video officially released by the Russian Ministry of Defense
🇷🇺 Russia Tests “Satan-2” Nuclear Missile
Russia successfully test-launched the RS-28 Sarmat — NATO’s “Satan-2” heavy ICBM — from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on May 12, with the payload reportedly striking the Kura test range in Kamchatka.
It carries up to 16 independent warheads, flies 18,000+ km, and is engineered specifically to defeat Western missile defenses.
First combat regiment deploys by end of 2026.
💡 Why it matters: A fully operational Sarmat regiment renders every existing European missile shield effectively obsolete — and Putin just confirmed it's combat-ready by Christmas. The clock starts ticking.
🇬🇧 Starmer's Own Party...Is Trying to Evict Him
Labour just lost 1,200+ council seats, ceded Wales after 27 years, and handed Reform UK its biggest-ever night.
Now 80+ of Starmer's own MPs want him gone — and 4 ministers have already quit.
Starmer's response: a "reset" speech, promises of bolder action, and a firm "I'm not leaving."
The tea: Health Secretary Wes Streeting — the most likely successor — is set to hold a showdown with Starmer at Downing Street Wednesday morning, before the King’s Speech.
💡 Bottom line: Starmer survived a landslide to get here. His own party may finish the job Tories couldn't.
🇦🇪 The UAE...Has Been Quietly Bombing Iran
While publicly playing defense, the UAE secretly struck a refinery on Iran's Lavan Island in early April — triggering a massive fire and knocking out the facility for months.
Iran has launched 2,800+ missiles and drones at the Emirates. Apparently Abu Dhabi decided intercepting them wasn't enough.
The WSJ reports US officials quietly welcomed the strikes amid efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
UAE's Foreign Ministry declined comment — but referenced its "right to respond militarily" to hostile acts.
💡 Bottom line: The Gulf's quietest power just became a combatant. The ceasefire map just got a lot more complicated.
🗽THE EMPIRE FILES
Political Drama From DC To NYC
Scenes of clashes and mayhem as the mob gets violent. Stills from clips linked in the story below.
🚨 400 Cops. 1 Brooklyn Synagogue. A Real Estate Fair.
The NYPD deployed 400 officers to a Midwood synagogue Monday after pro-Palestinian protesters targeted a Israeli real estate event inside.
Clashes broke out — pepper spray, thrown objects, hair-pulling — in a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. At least 4 arrested. The event continued anyway.
Second time in a week. A near-identical protest at a Manhattan synagogue on May 5 injured an officer.
Protesters displayed Hezbollah flags and Hamas-associated symbols outside an active house of worship.
💡 Mayor Mamdani vetoed the bill that would've kept protesters away from places of worship — and may have handed protesters a green light. New York's polarization problem has officially left the campus and moved to Jewish neighborhoods.
🕵️♂️American Mayor...Was Beijing's Local Correspondent
Eileen Wang, mayor of a Los Angeles suburb, resigned Monday after pleading guilty to acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China.
Her operation: A fake community news site that posted Beijing-approved propaganda on Xinjiang, directed via WeChat by Chinese officials. Her response to one handler after posting? "Thank you, leader."
Her fiancé ran her campaign, recruited her for the operation, and is already serving 4 years for the same charges.
💡China just weaponized an American suburban mayor. Imagine what's still running undetected.
🤖 CODES & POWER
Tech Wars, Crypto Chaos, and AI’s Black Mirror Moments
🛸 Google Wants to Put Data Centers...In Space
Google is in early talks with SpaceX to launch AI data centers into orbit — yes, actual servers in space.
The pitch: Unlimited solar power, no land permits, no cooling bills.
Google's Project Suncatcher plans 2 prototype satellites by 2027. SpaceX has already filed to launch 1 million orbital computing satellites.
⚡Earth-based AI data centers are consuming electricity at a scale that's breaking power grids. Space is starting to look cheap by comparison.
🎮 GameStop Tried to Buy eBay. eBay Said...No.
Ryan Cohen's GameStop — a company worth ~$11 billion — launched a $56 billion unsolicited bid for eBay last week.
eBay's board reviewed it, consulted lawyers and bankers, and responded Monday with one devastating line: "Neither credible nor attractive."
The math problem: GameStop offered $125/share but only had $9.4B in cash — for a $56B deal.
⚡Cohen's next move: He'd previously threatened a hostile bid directly to shareholders. Watch this space.
📺 FUN FACTS & TRIVIA
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Did You Know?
Einstein’s eyeballs are stored in a safety deposit box in New York City.
After Albert Einstein died in 1955, pathologist Thomas Harvey performed the autopsy and removed his eyeballs (along with his famous brain). Harvey gave the eyes to Einstein’s longtime ophthalmologist, Dr. Henry Abrams, who preserved them.
Dr. Abrams confirmed in a 1994 interview that he kept them in a safety deposit box in a New York bank vault. He died in 2009, and the eyes are still believed to remain there (or with his family).