Former Military Officials Launch ‘Cowardice‘ Award
A network of former intelligence, military, and national security officials on Tuesday launched the Profiles in Cowardice Award and urged the public to vote for nominees who are “silent in the face of the country’s descent into fascism,” a march led by U.S. President Donald Trump.

“We are in a constitutional crisis,” says the Eisenhower Media Network’s (EMN) website for the award. “Trump is amassing power in the executive branch, ignoring Congress and the courts. Meanwhile, leaders who have sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution are sitting on their hands.”

“The Joint Chiefs of Staff are tasked with defending the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” the site notes. “But as reckless U.S. military actions push the world closer to nuclear catastrophe, they’ve chosen silence over service. No resignations. No public warnings.” “.. (Continue to full article)

‘Absolute bloodbath for Trump‘: Experts Flag ‘Stunning Numbers‘ in New Poll
President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared that he has a mandate from the American people to stem immigration, but a new Gallup Poll reveals attitudes have shifted since he took office.

When asked if immigration is generally a good thing or bad thing for the country, a record-high 79% of U.S. adults call it a good thing; a record-low 17% see it as a bad thing.

Other highlights of the poll showed “30% of Americans want immigration decreased, down from 55% a year ago.” It also showed waning support for Trump’s border wall and mass deportation policy… (Continue to full article)

FBI’s Dan Bongino Thinking of Resigning After Clash With AG Pam Bondi Over Epstein Files Fallout
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino is considering resigning over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a source told Fox News Digital, noting that Bongino took a day off from work on Friday due to his frustrations.

The latest revelation comes on the heels of a heated argument between Bongino and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi that occurred on Wednesday at the White House, two sources confirmed

The latest revelation comes on the heels of a heated argument between Bongino and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi that occurred on Wednesday at the White House, two sources confirmed… (Continue to full article)

“It Didn’t End on Friendly Terms“: FBI Leader ‘Seriously Thinking About Resigning‘ After White House Spat
MAGA influencer Laura Loomer says FBI deputy director Dan Bongino is now considering leaving the Trump administration after the administration’s mishandling of the controversial Epstein files.

“[Bongino] is now seriously thinking about resigning from the FBI as Deputy Director over Pam Blondi’s mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein file release and the lack of transparency at the DOJ,” Loomer posted on X. “… Source tells me it’s very likely that Bongino resigns from the FBI unless Pam Blondi is FIRED by President Trump or resigns from the DOJ…. (Continue to full article)

Director of Federal Agency Suggests Fed Chairman Powell Is Considering Resigning
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte – a vocal critic of Powell who has backed President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure the central bank into interest rate cuts – released a statement on X and the agency’s website alluding to unspecified reports that Powell will resign.

“I’m encouraged by reports that Jerome Powell is considering resigning. I think this will be the right decision for America, and the economy will boom,” Pulte said.

It’s unclear where Pulte is getting the information he used for the statement and there is no other public information on the subject at this time… (Continue to full article)

Laura Loomer, After Scooping Bongino News, Says Ron DeSantis Is Under Consideration to Replace Pam Bondi
Laura Loomer, the prominent MAGA influencer and Trump-world insider, dropped several posts on Friday, one of which turned out to be a quickly confirmed scoop. Loomer reported that Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is “now seriously thinking about RESIGNING” amid the ongoing fallout from the so-called “Epstein Files” memo, concluding there was no conspiracy.

Loomer’s Bongino post was quickly confirmed by mainstream media reporters from CNN and Axios. She later posted that if President Donald Trump were to fire Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has been under fire over her handling of the Epstein case, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is a leading contender to replace her.

“If Blondi is fired, I’m told @GovRonDeSantis has been considered/floated for the role of Attorney General by some over the last few months… (Continue to full article)

FBI Director Kash Patel ALSO Considering Resigning If Pam Bondi Keeps Her Job
FBI Director Kash Patel may reportedly join Deputy Director Dan Bongino in resigning if Attorney General Pam Bondi keeps her job.

According to a Friday report from Axios, Bongino and Bondi clashed over President Donald Trump’s administration’s handling of the case of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The Justice Department, led by Bondi, released a joint memo with the FBI announcing that the rumored “Epstein list” naming his associates never really existed. That conclusion contradicted Bondi’s previous claims that the supposed list was on her desk.

As a result, Bongino and Bondi reportedly got into it. That led to Bongino taking off from work on Friday “in protest.” The deputy director, according to The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan, had also made it clear that he would be leaving his post if Bondi kept hers… (Continue to full article)

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Trump Dismisses Concerns of Chinese Businesses Purchasing Land by Military Bases: ‘I Have a Good Relationship With President Xi‘
A day after Trump officials said he may take executive action and work with states to ban U.S. land sales to China and other foreign adversaries, the president dismissed concerns about Chinese businesses buying farmland near military bases nationwide.

During a multilateral lunch with African leaders at the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump was asked why he believes “the Chinese have been buying up all this farmland in our country, so close to military installations.”

“I don’t want to get into that,” Trump initially said in a clip shared on X by journalist Aaron Rupar… (Continue to full article)

USDA Chief Outlines Plan to Block China From U.S. Farmland Ownership
Trump’s administration will pursue a ban on Chinese ownership of U.S. farmland as part of an effort to strengthen farm security, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday, July 8.

Appearing alongside other Cabinet officials, Republican governors and members of Congress at an event outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in Washington, D.C., Rollins announced a department initiative to block “foreign countries of concern” from owning U.S. agriculture lands.

Rollins said officials will even try to revoke lands already owned by China-backed entities… (Continue to full article)

Trump Floats 200% Tariffs On Pharmaceuticals
Even though one area of the border has seen more border crossings this year than in the President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday his administration intends to impose a 200% tariff rate on pharmaceutical imports into the U.S., which would take effect in a year, a major fee that could affect some $200 billion in imports and raise prices on Americans’ medications if it takes effect.

It’s unclear when exactly the Trump administration could formally announce any pharmaceutical tariffs, and when they could take effect, given Trump suggesting there would be a year-long grace period first for manufacturing to move to the U.S.

HOW WILL PHARMACEUTICAL TARIFFS IMPACT CONSUMERS?… (Continue to full article)

Brazilian President Warns of Retaliation After Trump Threatens to Impose 50 Percent Tariffs
Trump has cited Brazil’s non-tariff trade barriers and treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro as the reason behind his tariff hikes.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that his nation may implement retaliatory tariffs if the United States follows through with President Donald Trump’s plan to impose a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian goods on Aug. 1.

Lula said that his government intends to negotiate with the Trump administration over the tariff hikes. Still, he warned that Brazil may enforce its economic reciprocity laws if those talks fall through.

“If there’s no negotiation, the reciprocity law will be put to work. If he charges 50 [percent tariff] from us, we will charge 50 from them,” he told local broadcaster TV Record. “Respect is good. I like to offer mine and I like to receive it.”… (Continue to full article)

Ford CEO Jim Farley Warns AI Will Wipe Out Half of White-Collar Jobs, but the ‘Essential Economy’ Has a Huge Shortage of Workers.

During the Aspen Ideas Festival last week, he highlighted the importance of the “essential economy”—which he defined as everything that gets moved, built or fixed—while saying blue-collar skilled trades have been neglected.

The U.S. spends too little on vocational training, which is also geared more toward 1950 than 2050, contributing to a decline in blue-collar productivity, Farley explained, though the carmaker has been investing in training.

There’s already a massive shortage of trade workers, he added, estimating a deficit of 600,000 in factories and nearly half a million in construction, for example… (Continue to full article)

Veterans Affairs to Cut Staff by Roughly 30,000 by End of September
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins revealed this spring plans to cut roughly 15% of the VA’s staff or around 80,000 workers, arguing that positions “like interior designers and other things DEI” are bloating the agency, which saw staffing levels surge during the Biden era.

While mass layoffs, also known as reduction-in-force, were on the table, Collins said he no longer viewed the technique as necessary this week due to a federal hiring freeze, deferred resignations, retirements, and normal attrition. Nearly 17,000 employees have already left because of those measures under the Trump administration, Collins said, revealing that an additional 12,000 VA workers are expected to exit the agency by Sept. 30.

I think that’s important to understand that if we continue down the path we are and just add people and add money to it, it’s not going to improve because it hasn’t improved for many years… (Continue to full article)

Social Security’s 2026 COLA Is Shaping Up to Be a No-Win Scenario for Retirees
With inflation rising, retirees are paying higher prices now but won’t receive a benefit increase until later. The key inflation metric used to calculate the Social Security COLA doesn’t fully reflect retirees’ higher costs.

Less accurate data collection this year could increase the odds that the 2026 COLA doesn’t keep up with inflation.

What if your Social Security retirement benefits never increased? The buying power of those benefits would steadily erode over time due to inflation. Many retirees would soon find themselves in dire straits…. (Continue to full article)

GOP Medicare Reversal Spells Doom for Social Security
As tensions escalate between President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, Senate Republicans have sharpened their focus on finding social security budget cuts within the contentious “One Big, Beautiful Bill.”

The focus has shifted toward Medicare, prompting concerns that the program might be on the chopping block alongside the already slashed Medicaid.

Despite the eye-watering deficit, some Senate Republicans are eager to further reduce spending in a bid to ease the bill’s financial impact. Alarmingly, this push has turned the gaze of GOP lawmakers toward Medicare, raising questions about the future of two critical entitlement programs, and by extension, Social Security…. (Continue to full article)

…and the Beat goes on…

I awoke this morning to find that America Again Crawls on Its Belly for Israel and adds another war crime to its impressive 21st century list.

The recklessness increases. President Trump committed an act of war for Israel. This comes on top of some fool green-lighting an attack on the Russian strategic triad, an attack that was played down even by Putin himself. What will Washington’s next reckless act be?

Why did Putin green-light the attack on Iran by conveniently announcing that Russia’s treaty with Iran did not include military support, a claim that John Helmer says is disproved by secret provisions in the treaty?

Russia and China could have prevented the attack, but did nothing. Peace in the Middle East could have been established with a Russian-Iranian-Chinese mutual security treaty. Why do Russia and China prefer war to peace in the Middle East? Where was Iran’s air defense? Why is Iran always a sitting duck devoid of initiative? Why are Muslims happy fighting one another instead of their real enemies? Continue reading →

Major US Healthcare Data Provider Hit by Data Breach
Over 5 Million Patients Affected!

Researchers found 30 databases housing 16 billion records online. The records were most likely generated by info-stealers. Records come from a wide range of providers, from Apple to Google and many more

Security researchers have reported discovering what could be the mother of all data breaches – a set of 30 databases containing a total of 16 billion records… (Continue to full article)

Border Patrol Finds ‘Highly Sophisticated‘ Smuggling Tunnel Passing Under California Port Of Entry
The tunnel connected Tijuana and San Diego and was almost 3,000 feet long.

Border Patrol agents have disabled a tunnel that crossed the southern border and sought to be used for smuggling purposes, authorities said.

Concretely, the tunnel was found in early April while still under construction. It passed underneath the Otay Mesa Port of Entry and connected Tijuana and San Diego, U.S. Customs and Border Protection detailed. Its projected exit point would be near or inside a commercial warehouse space in San Diego… (Continue to full article)

The Real Reason People Are Giving Up on Work

Trump’s Border Agenda ‘The Most Effective in Decades’
As the Biden-era border chaos is being unraveled, the legacy media is now targeting Trump administration veterans like Stephen Miller – those who are actually making the immigration system work again.

Laura Ingraham opened her latest segment by calling out NBC for its attempt to smear Miller, President Trump’s point person on immigration policy and a longtime MAGA stalwart. The network criticized Miller for reportedly pressing ICE to make 3,000 arrests per day – a number Ingraham called not only reasonable but too low given the scale of the problem.

“Americans want mass deportation, period“…… (Continue to full article)

Fear Spreads At Veterans Affairs Hospitals As Trump Job Cuts Loom
VA nurses warn that veteran care could deteriorate even if frontline workers are exempt from layoffs. “When you lay off support staff, our jobs get harder.”

When the Trump administration fired 2,000 probationary employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year, frontline health care workers were spared from the president’s cuts. But Ann Marie Patterson-Powell said she and other VA nurses still felt the effects of the layoffs.

Medical supplies became harder to track down in her oncology unit at the VA hospital in Durham, North Carolina, Patterson-Powell said. So she ended up going floor to floor looking for blood-pressure cuffs, urinals, alcohol swabs and gauze. Nurses also had to help deliver meal trays to patients’ rooms, something normally done by the food service team… (Continue to full article)

U.S. Considers Selling More Than 16 Million Acres of Federal Land in California for Housing

OH – What the Hell!!!

Experts and those who have lost work to AI integration weigh in as 92 million jobs could be cut globally by 2030.

Just as the internet radically changed how America conducts business, artificial intelligence (AI) is also making waves in the workplace by taking thousands of jobs. It’s an outcome that industry experts have warned would happen, and professionals across multiple employment sectors have already been affected.

Beyond artists and content creators, AI is also impacting professionals in marketing, technology, translation, various levels of administration, and management. It has been a silent and ongoing trend for two years, but tech insiders say this is just the beginning. Continue reading →

Chinese investment in land near U.S. military bases has become an increasing concern for national security observers. This June 2024 map shows 19 military bases where Chinese-owned farmland is in relation to them. (New York Post, 6/20/2024)

Andy Biggs, a U.S. House Republican from Arizona, is running for governor in his home state next year. The incumbent gave him serious campaign fodder this week.

Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, vetoed bipartisan state legislation that sought to prevent China from buying land next to strategic assets such as military bases. Hobbs argued that S.B. 1109 was “ineffective at counter-espionage” and did not “directly protect” American military assets in the state.

Arizona State Senate Majority Leader Janae Shamp (R) slammed Hobbs, citing recent Chinese attempts to lease buildings alongside Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base where the U.S. military trains fighter pilots. (NOTE: Luke Air Force Base is about 15 minutes from my home. ~ Editor) Shamp, the bill’s author, called the veto decision “utterly insane” and challenged Hobbs for “every politically motivated veto of public safety legislation put on her desk by Republicans.” Continue reading →

The siren song of technological progress has always promised a brighter future, often accompanied by reassurances that any jobs displaced will be swiftly replaced by new, unforeseen opportunities. From the Luddite rebellions against textile machinery to the fears surrounding automation, history is replete with instances where technological advances were expected to lead to widespread unemployment, only to witness a net increase in job availability.

However, to blindly apply this historical precedent to Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to misinterpret this transformative technology’s fundamental nature. AI is not merely an extension of human physical capabilities; it is an encroachment upon our cognitive dominion. Its widespread adoption will, in fact, lead to a net job loss, fundamentally altering the landscape of human employment. Continue reading →

One Of The Pioneers In The Field Has Warned That “Everyone Will Die” If AI Is Not Shut Down

AI technology has been developing at an exponential rate, and it appears to be just a matter of time before we create entities that can think millions of times faster than we do and that can do almost everything better than we can. So what is going to happen when we lose control of such entities? Some AI models are already taking the initiative to teach themselves new languages, and others have learned to “lie and manipulate humans for their own advantage”. Needless to say, lying is a hostile act. If we have already created entities that are willing to lie to us, how long will it be before they are capable of taking actions that are even more harmful to us?

Nobody expects artificial intelligence to kill all of us tomorrow.

But Time Magazine did publish an article that was authored by a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence that warned that artificial intelligence will eventually wipe all of us out.

Eliezer Yudkowsky has been a prominent researcher in the field of artificial intelligence since 2001, and he says that many researchers have concluded that if we keep going down the path that we are currently on “literally everyone on Earth will die”… Continue reading →

Would having your brain connected to the Internet 24 hours a day be heaven, or would it be hell? Today, a very large portion of the population is seemingly glued to their phones or their computers much of the time. But soon implantable brain-computer interfaces will allow those people to stay connected to their devices all the time. Apple has partnered with a shadowy tech company known as “Synchron” to develop a “brain implant that allows users to operate digital devices by thinking”… Continue reading →

The 47th president seems to wish he were king – and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.

The president of the united states appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a government of laws, not of men, so that they and future generations of Americans would never again be subject to the whims of a tyrannical king. As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776, “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” Continue reading →

“Donald Trump ran on a platform of relentless, thoroughgoing rejection of the Constitution itself, and its underlying principle of democratic self-government and individual rights. True, he never endorsed quartering of troops in private homes in time of peace, but aside from that there is hardly a provision of the Bill of Rights or later amendments he did not explicitly promise to override, from First Amendment freedom of the press and of religion to Fourth Amendment freedom from ‘unreasonable searches and seizures’ to Sixth Amendment right to counsel to Fourteenth Amendment birthright citizenship and Equal Protection and Fifteenth Amendment voting rights.” – Garrett Epps, law professor

If Donald Trump is remembered for anything, it may be his unintentional role in reviving public interest in the U.S. Constitution.

Indeed, few modern political figures have done more to prompt spontaneous national discussions about the Bill of Rights and constitutional limits on government power – if only because Trump tramples on them so frequently.

Through his routine disregard for due process, free speech, separation of powers, and the rule of law, President Trump has become a walking civics lesson.

From the First and Fourth Amendments to the Emoluments Clause, the Constitution has never had such regular airtime.

Ironically, this might be Trump’s greatest legacy: forcing Americans to learn what the Constitution actually says – by violating it.

Unfortunately, Trump himself remains constitutionally illiterate. Continue reading →

This is how we must proceed…

Composite: Guardian Design

We have seen the conflict and tragedy that can follow when an old era collapses. Countries that believe in multilateralism must come together now.

(This is the second in a two-part series on the global response to Donald Trump’s tariffs)

After a week that started with the worst financial volatility in recent history and ended with the most serious escalation so far of the China-US conflict, it is time to distinguish the tectonic shifts from the tremors. If nothing changes, the 2020s risks being remembered as this century’s devil’s decade – the term historians once used for the 1930s. It will be defined not just by seven million people who have died of Covid-19 and rising global poverty and inequality – but also by a dismembered Ukraine, a burnt-out Gaza and little-reported atrocities in Africa and Asia, each testimony to the violent displacement of a rules-based global order by a power-based one.

Indeed, before our eyes, every single pillar of the old order is under assault – not just free trade but the rule of law and the primacy we have long attached to human rights and democracy, the self-determination of peoples, and multilateral cooperation between nations, including the humanitarian and environmental responsibilities we once accepted as citizens of the world. Continue reading →

“This is economic sabotage. Whether through malice or incompetence or, more likely, both Trump is isolating the United States on the world stage, tanking the markets, worsening inflation, and burdening working families with the cost of his 18th-century cosplay. These aren’t policies. They’re performance art. And the rest of us are footing the bill.” ~ Oregon’s Bay Area (blog post)

What we’re witnessing is the calculated use of emergency powers to concentrate power in the hands of the president, enrich the Deep State, and dismantle what remains of economic and constitutional safeguards.

Nearly 250 years after our nation’s founders rebelled over abused property rights, Americans are once again being subjected to taxation without any real representation, all the while the government continues to do whatever it likes – levy taxes, rack up debt, spend outrageously and irresponsibly – with little concern for the plight of its citizens.

Nothing has changed for the better with Donald Trump. Indeed, it’s getting worse by the day. Continue reading →

In today’s turbulent times, it seems as though world leaders are constantly at odds with each other, leading to conflicts that have global implications. Nostradamus, the famed French seer and astrologer, has long been known for his prophetic visions of the future. Could his predictions offer insight into the current state of affairs and the potential for a new world order to emerge? Continue reading →

Bill Gates predicted that advancements in artificial intelligence will significantly reduce humanity’s role in many traditional tasks such as medicine and education — and the seismic shift could happen in less than 10 years.

During a recent interview with comedian Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” the Microsoft co-founder described a future where humans are no longer necessary “for most things” because AI technology will readily perform tasks that currently require specialized human skills.

Today, expertise in fields such as medicine and education remains “rare,” Gates said, adding that those areas depend on “a great doctor” or “a great teacher.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says that advancements in artificial intelligence will eventually negate the need for doctors and teachers. Continue reading →

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The healthcare industry is facing a growing crisis as more doctors leave their jobs, citing burnout, financial pressures, and changing work environments. Physician shortages are becoming a concern, impacting patient care and healthcare access. Here are four key reasons why doctors are leaving their professions at an alarming rate. Continue reading →

Because we are at such a pivotal point in world history we are going to stand back and consider The Big Picture because what happens in the next few months and even weeks is likely to change everything. What we are going to do is consider where we are now and then “reverse engineer” it to see how we got here. This is important because we stand at the threshold of a nuclear war and gains in the markets won’t help you much if you are dead.

The first key point to understand is that the Western World is in an advanced state of decay and collapse, a situation that has arisen because it is increasingly bankrupt, morally physically and spiritually. Continue reading →

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.” ~ Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

This is how it begins.

This is how it always begins, justified in the name of national security.

Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at least for select segments of the population. A hierarchy of rights, contingent on whether you belong to a favored political class.

This is what you can expect in the not-so-distant future.  Continue reading →