Wait, TikTok could be owned by the United States government instead of private Chinese investors? Does anyone think that’s a good alternative?

The Trump administration published an order to establish a “sovereign wealth fund to promote fiscal sustainability, lessen the burden of taxes on American families and small businesses, establish economic security for future generations, and promote United States economic and strategic leadership internationally.”

The fund would do what hedge funds are supposed to do: make investments. The President said that other countries have funds like this and putting TikTok in the fund was just one of many ideas he is spitballing.

“As an example, TikTok, we’re going to be doing something perhaps … and we might put that in the sovereign wealth fund, whatever we make, or if we do a partnership with very wealthy people — a lot of options, but we could put that as an example in the fund. We have a lot of other things that we can put in the fund.”

Another idea was discussed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: investing in the vaccines that the government green lights.

“If we are going to buy 2 billion COVID vaccines, maybe we should have some warrants and some equity in these companies and have that grow for the health of the American people.”

The government profiting from the vaccines it implements? No. Didn’t we learn from the Covid vaccine?

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Could the Black Hawk helicopter that slammed into a passenger airplane last week have had faulty altitude readings? That is what new data suggests.

Early investigation shows that the Black Hawk was shown an altitude of 200 feet, even though the crash happened at around 325 feet. Black Hawks are not supposed to fly above 200 feet so why were they? Did they have faulty readings? Was the system hacked to show faulty readings? Did the pilots not know that they were well over their allowed altitude?

To be honest, I’m surprised they’ve even acknowledged this much. Two men were arrested for leaking the footage of the airplanes collapsing. They were airport employees.

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The Presidents of Mexico and Canada both made last-minute deals to avoid 25% tariffs on trade with the United States, which were imposed by the White House.

China did not make a deal so 10% tariffs will be imposed beginning today. China says that they oppose this and “will take necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests.”

The White House threatened these tariffs to get these countries to take responsibility for “halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country.”

Mexico promised to send 10,000 troops to the Southern Border to prevent migrants from crossing North. In exchange, the U.S. promised to work “to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico,” according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

Canada staved off the tariff by promising to implement a 1.3 billion border plan. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that Canada will commit to “reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl. Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel are and will be working on protecting the border.  In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, we will list cartels as terrorists, ensure 24/7 eyes on the border, launch a Canada- U.S. Joint Strike Force to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering. I have also signed a new intelligence directive on organized crime and fentanyl and we will be backing it with $200 million.   Proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together.”

Those are hefty promises but will they really stop the powerful and dangerous drug trade or will bad people find a way? It’s better than what we had to stop the drug and human traffic, which was nothing, but what will happen to the drug economy now?

Another partner has shown up to deter drug and human traffickers: Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele says that his country is willing to “take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee. The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.” The images are pretty scary. Could this work? And are the people of El Salvador okay with hosting the worst of the worst?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Trump today. President Trump, worryingly, was asked on Monday about Israel annexing the West Bank and he said this:

“It’s a small country in terms of land…that’s not good… It’s a pretty small piece of land and it’s amazing that they’ve been able to do what they’ve been able to do when you think about it. There’s a lot of very smart brainpower. But it is a very small piece of land, no question about it.”

What does that mean exactly? That the U.S. President supports Israel annexing and ousting Palestinians from their homes? That he thinks that Israel has outgrown it’s country? Even if it did annex the West Bank, Israel would still be a small piece of land so….would Jordan and Egypt be next? Israel already tried to take the Sinai Peninsula but had to give it back in 1982 due to the Camp David Accords.

The Wall Street Journal cites unnamed “U.S. officials” reporting that “the Trump administration has asked congressional leaders to approve new transfers of roughly $1 billion worth of bombs and other military hardware to Israel at the same time the White House is working to preserve a fragile cease-fire in Gaza.”

This was announced by the Biden administration and President Trump has said that Israel already paid for them. Israeli officials have said that this was part of the conditions of the ceasefire.

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Russia intelligence reports that NATO is planning to oust Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky from power “by discrediting him ahead of potential elections next fall.”

He’s done a pretty good job of that on his own. What else could NATO do? They could all of a sudden see Zelensky’s own corruption that we have been reporting on Redacted for two years.

Hey, that guy is linked to the “embezzlement of over $1.5 billion in funds intended for purchasing military equipment.” We now know what we have been busy not knowing!

Moscow claims that NATO officials “see Zelensky as a key obstacle to peace talks with Moscow.”

“Washington and Brussels agree that the main obstacle to the implementation of such a scenario is Zelensky, who is referred to in Western circles as nothing more than ‘expendable material,’” the he Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in the statement, adding that “even NATO understands that Zelensky’s time is up.”

Dictator Zelensky has held onto power citing marshal law while touring the world to beg for money for more of his people to die. Over the weekend, he said that he doesn’t even know where most of the money the West has sent has gone. Recent reports show that his military is so depleted that they are now enlisting people with diagnosed schizophrenia.

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Top FBI leaders have until today to resign or be sent packing. They were given notice on Thursday, even as the prospective head of the FBI Kash Patel has not yet been confirmed.

James E. Dennehy, a veteran agent who has been in charge of the New York City field office, sent an internal memo calling this “a battle of our own.”

“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy,” he wrote, according to the New York Times. He said it was time for him “to dig in.”

Dennehy is not reported to be among those asked to leave but at least five top officials in field offices in Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans and Las Vegas were ordered to resign.

The Justice Department has ordered the FBI to “collect the names of bureau personnel who helped investigate the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.” We know that the government violated the civil rights of many of those defendants and we are owed an explanation of how. The New York Times reports that the number of relevant agents “could reach 6,000 — or about a sixth of the bureau’s 38,000 employees, according to the F.B.I.”

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The United States is signaling an end to the “unipolar world” and acting accordingly. This sounds like diplomatic gobbledygook but it could actually be a major shift and the end of the U.S. policy to be the bully of the world.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has started to use the phrase “multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet.” He wrote this in the Wall Street Journal:

“It’s no accident that my first trip abroad as secretary of state, to Central America on Friday, will keep me in the hemisphere. This is rare among secretaries of state over the past century. For many reasons, U.S. foreign policy has long focused on other regions while overlooking our own. As a result, we’ve let problems fester, missed opportunities and neglected partners. That ends now. President Trump’s foreign-policy agenda begins close to home.”

He’s right, most Secretaries of State start off in Europe and the Middle East, telling them what to do and how to be.

The U.S. is also, in the words of Arnaud Bertrand, “dismantling foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID).” The Trump administration shut down USAID in one fell swoop and exposed all manner of funding corruption in so doing. When DOGE tried to enter USAID offices this weekend, two officials reportedly tried to physically stop them and were put on leave. DOGE leader Elon Musk said that this agency has been put “into the wood chipper.” Follow former State Department whistleblower Mike Benz for a summary of all the evils that USAID was guilty of, including funding gain of function research in China, funding fake news organizations as propaganda, funding online censorship, funding heroin production in Afghanistan, and more.

President Trump said that it was run by “radical lunatics” and it is hard to argue with that. Elon Musk said that the National Endowment for Democracy may be next and I would show up with popcorn to watch that organization hit the wood chipper next!

These organizations have been used to justify and start wars by bullying other countries around the world under the guise of “teaching them to be more like us.” It’s high time that ends and, in the words of Bertrand, “Hegemony was going to end sooner or later, and now the U.S. is basically choosing to end it on its own terms. It is the post-American world order – brought to you by America itself.”

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the United States to discuss foreign relations but he will have to wait until Tuesday to meet with President Trump. He is the first foreign dignitary to visit the new Trump administration by invitation.

Netanyahu will first meet with Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East. On Wednesday, he will hold meetings at the Pentagon and on Thursday, he will meet with members of Congress, presumably those who are heavily funded by Israel.

The timing is interesting because the second phase of the ceasefire discussions with Hamas is still ongoing. Netanyahu has said many times that Israel intends to resume military operations in Gaza after hostages are exchanged and Hamas says that it cannot agree to that. It would seem that this impasse is in the hands of the Trump administration.

Meanwhile, Israel blew up a neighborhood in the West Bank over the weekend but both Israel and Palestinian authorities said that the area had been evacuated so there are no reported casualties.

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