The U.S. Space Force plans to test rockets in Johnston Atoll, approximately 800 miles from Hawaii. The locals are saying: Not this again.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. military conducted nuclear tests on this region in their race with the Soviets for nuclear weapons. They were known as Operation Hardtack and Operation Dominic. That area is still considered nuclear. Although there was no civilian population exposed to the tests, U.S. soldiers and contractors were knowingly exposed to radiation. There is video of them standing there to watch a nuclear test with zero protection.

The locals also say that this is a spiritual violation of the land and they don’t want it used this way. They say that the land is finally recovering from previous military use, which included “coral dredging, atmospheric nuclear testing and the stockpiling and burning of toxic chemical munitions — including more than 2 million gallons of Agent Orange.”

The U.S. Space Force under the Department of the Air Force claims it wants to use this land to test space cargo shipments “to help determine whether commercial rockets can transport military equipment more speedily around the globe, in hours rather than days to weeks that current modes of transportation require.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel

Vice President JD Vance has a trip to Israel planned for Tuesday but has reportedly canceled it in the wake of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.

The Vance team cited “logistical” reasons for canceling the trip but did not expand but Axios quotes a U.S. official who says that the decision was made because the VP “didn’t want his trip to suggest the Trump administration endorsed the Israeli decision to launch a massive operation at a time when the U.S. is pushing for a ceasefire and hostage deal.”

Israel has commenced what they call Gideon’s Chariots. It is a full-scale invasion of Gaza with an attempt to displace every single one of the 2 million civilians living there. It involves Israeli airstrikes, ground troops, armored divisions, and naval units on a level not seen before.

Israel says that they have issued evacuation warnings via leaflets, text and media so if civilians stick around and die, that’s not on Israel. They tell them to go to Safe Zones but those Safe Zones have been bombed too.

France, the United Kingdom and Canada issued a joint condemnation of the Israeli military operation on Monday. It calls Israel’s reaction to October 7 “wholly disproportionate” and calls out the Netanyahu Government for breach of International Humanitarian Law. It says that these countries are “committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to achieving a two-state solution and are prepared to work with others to this end.”

Netanyahu did not take kindly to this statement. He called it a “huge prize” for Hamas and told them to follow President Trump’s lead and support Israel. He added: “We will take control of all the territory of the strip.”

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Iran says that it is still open to a nuclear deal but they do not want to negotiate in public. Probably a good idea.

The U.S. has previously said that it would be okay with Iran enriching uranium to a low level in order to build a nuclear power program and use for other civil development projects. Now the U.S. says that no uranium enrichment by Iran is acceptable. How did that needle move to 0? Did it have to do with Israel’s insistence that it be zero?

Over the weekend, Ayatollah Khamenei gave a speech in which he accused the U.S. of hypocrisy by seeking peace deals abroad but supporting “the massacre in Gaza.” He said that the U.S. “must and will leave” the Middle East and that Israel is a “dangerous, deadly, cancerous tumor” that “must and will be eliminated.”

He did not chant “Death to Israel” and “Death to the U.S.A.” The people in the audience chanted that and he did not stop them.

This is the temperature of peace negotiations right now but thankfully the Ayatollah is not doing the negotiations himself. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi says that “Mastering enrichment technology is a hard-earned and homegrown scientific achievement; an outcome of great sacrifice of both blood and treasure. If the U.S. is interested in ensuring that Iran will not have nuclear weapons, a deal is within reach, and we are ready for a serious conversation to achieve a solution that will forever ensure that outcome. Enrichment in Iran, however, will continue with or without a deal.”

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President Trump spoke with Russian President Putin for over two hours and both reported that the conversation was positive. They say a ceasefire is in the works but…they’ve been saying that for weeks and this weekend, the Russian military reported that Ukraine is losing up to 1,345 servicemen per day.

President Trump said that negotiations are underway towards a ceasefire and permanent end to the war. He seemed to indicate that after the war ends, Russia can start doing business with the U.S.

President Zelensky said that he too spoke with President Trump and that Ukraine is “ready for a full and unconditional ceasefire.” He pleaded with the United States to stay involved and threatened Russia with sanctions from the U.S. and Europe if it does not cooperate. Who is he to threaten sanctions from countries he does not run?

President Putin says that the details of a ceasefire will continue in Istanbul where President Zelensky met with a Russian delegation just days ago.

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FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino sat for an interview with Fox News on Sunday and said some things that raised eyebrows, namely that Jeffrey Epstein DID kill himself.

“You know a suicide when you see one and that’s what that was,” said Director Patel.

What did he see that the rest of us cannot? How did he “see one”? The camera footage was not captured because the system reportedly failed only where Epstein was at the time. The guards also failed to check on him as required and later falsified their logs. Epstein’s cellmate was also mysteriously removed prior to his death so there were no witnesses. And there are still inconsistencies with the autopsy which showed fractures in Epstein’s neck which experts say were were more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging. So how can he be so sure out of hand?

Director Patel also said that a new “wave of transparency” is coming soon in “about a week or two” but that pertained to Russiagate and January 6 prosecutions. Will we ever see solid evidence about Epstein’s death?

They were asked why we have so little information on the assassination attempt on President Trump and Director Patel said that there “are two live prosecutions and we can’t get ahead of the federal court cases.”

That’s fair. The government cannot impugn defendants while they are defending themselves but Director Bongino did say there is no “there there.” As in, the conspiracies are not based. Really?

Both men reiterated that they are focused on criminal prosecutions at the FBI under President Trump. “We’re about to ruin your summer if you’re a bad guy.”

So how do you feel about the FBI under this new leadership? Does this put those two stories to bed for you?

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President Biden’s has spokesperson announced that the former President has “an aggressive form of prostate cancer” with “metastasis to the bone.”

This is tragic news but it is also highly unusual. President Biden was treated for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in 2008 which is an enlarged prostate. The public was assured at the time that it was not cancer but we were also assured his treatment would include regular screenings, which would have caught this at a much earlier stage. Did he refuse screenings or is there malpractice at hand because those screenings were not ordered? This should have been detected and treated long ago based on his medical history.

As one cancer physician put it, “prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases…. It would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed.”

So… why is this happening? Why wasn’t this caught and treated earlier? Or is this news to us and not news to the Biden family? In which case, these are valid questions: Did they release this news on the heels of Democrats blaming the President for his own failed health? Or perhaps to distract from the recordings from President Biden’s FBI interviews?.

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The Food and Drug Administration issued an approval for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine. This is the only non-mRNA vaccine.

The vaccine was approved for adults aged 65 and older and individuals aged 12 to 64 with at least one underlying health condition that increases their risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes. But reading the clinical trials prompts serious questions.

The trials included populations that had a single doses and populations that had two doses. The trials showed a reduction in symptomatic Covid 7 days after the second dose. But the FDA didn’t approve two doses. They only approved one. So is one dose even effective at all at preventing Covid? We don’t know, that wasn’t tested.

There is also a noted risk of myocarditis and heart inflammation but it is lower than that of mRNA Covid vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. There was also at least one vaccine recipient with “a serious event of Guillain Barré syndrome reported 9 days following administration of” the vaccine. The FDA notes that Novavax has to follow up on any further cases if they observe it.

The FDA is also supposed to follow up on how the vaccine does when it is shipped to patients. They don’t know!? They don’t. They must submit a study called “Shipping Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 rS (JN.1 Vaccine) Drug Product in Pre-Filled Syringe (PFS) Finished Good Presentation” by July of this year. This is not an uncommon practice at the FDA. They approve vaccines not knowing how they will fare once they are shipped to doctor’s offices. They test it on us.

Why would someone chose to take this given that its dosage was not trialed and its effectiveness unknown? Especially given the low prevalence of Covid. Your guess is as good as mine.

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Ukrainian President Zelensky gave the new Pope Leo a war souvenir at his inauguration Mass.

“Today, we presented Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex with a special icon – the Holy Mother with the Infant, painted on a fragment of a crate used to store heavy artillery munitions, brought from near Izyum. This icon speaks of our children. Of those who have suffered from the war, who were deliberately abducted and deported by Russia, and who are very much awaited at home – in Ukraine. We pray for the lives of all our deported children and hope for the Vatican’s support in this matter, so that all of them, both the children and Ukrainian prisoners, can return home,” he wrote.

Pope Leo offered to moderate peace discussions for all global conflicts so Zelensky got in line first to speak to the new Catholic leader since the cameras are still very much trained on the amiable new Pope but less interested in Zelensky’s antics lately.

The Pope’s Inauguration Mass was attended by global leaders including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Vice President shared this photo of a meeting after church with President Zelensky where he said that the two spoke about the “goal of ending unnecessary bloodshed in Ukraine, and we discussed updates on the ongoing negotiations for a ceasefire and lasting peace.” The Russian military reports that Ukraine is losing up to 1,345 servicemen per day.

It that a forced smile on Zelensky’s face or indication that they got on better this time?

These seem to be ornamental meetings for Zelensky. The people who can actually make this happen will speak on the phone on Monday: that is, President Trump and President Putin. After the call, President Trump says that he’ll speak with President Zelensky and members of NATO. He added: “HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE A PRODUCTIVE DAY, A CEASEFIRE WILL TAKE PLACE, AND THIS VERY VIOLENT WAR, A WAR THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, WILL END. GOD BLESS US ALL”

OKAY GOOD

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Pope Leo XIV has begun tweeting and his first messages are unequivocally antiwar. In fact, he offered to mediate peace between warring nations!

“The Holy See is willing to help enemies meet, so they may look each other in the eye and so people may be given back the dignity they deserve: the dignity of peace. With heart in hand, I say to the leaders of nations: let us meet; let us dialogue; let us negotiate!”

One can only assume that means all leaders are welcome, popular and unpopular.

He also posted about the “the preservation of the Eastern rites,” which was important to Pope Leo XIII, he says.

It does not seem that any one conflict is more important to the Pope than another. In this post he gave permission to feel outraged about it: “There is so much violence and so many wars in our world! Amid this horror that should provoke outrage—as people die in the name of military conquest—stands the call of Christ, who repeats: ‘Peace be with you!’”

It is not unusual for Popes to play diplomatic peacemaking roles but it is interesting that this Pope wasted no time doing so.

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European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen got a slap on the hand for her backdoor vaccine deals with Pfizer from a European court.

The New York Times reported how von der Leyen secured Pfizer Covid vaccines for the whole of Europe with texts messages with Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla. The Times requested those texts and the European Commission rejected that request, saying that they didn’t have them. The Times says that they do have them and the court agrees, ruling they must hand them over.

The court also ruled that the EU “has not given a plausible explanation to justify the non-possession of the requested documents. Moreover, the Commission has not sufficiently clarified whether the requested text messages were deleted and, if so, whether the deletion was done deliberately or automatically or whether the President’s mobile phone had been replaced in the meantime.”

In other words: They were being shady.

This is the second time von der Leyen was caught deleting things from her phone. When she was Germany’s Defense Minister, she was investigated for military contracts and when officials searched her phones, they’d been wiped.

The European Commission has responded to this ruling saying that they’re sorry and the court is right, they should be more transparent. They have not committed to handing over the messages though.

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Ukrainian President Zelensky will attend peace negotiations in Istanbul today but he is being stood up by both Russian President Putin and U.S. President Trump.

Zelensky has been begging both leaders to come on Thursday but President Trump’s visit to the Middle East was not altered to oblige this request. President Putin is sending a Russia’s delegation led by Kremlin Aide Vladimir Medinsky. The delegation will also include Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kostyukov, and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. No Putin but it is the first time that Ukraine has met directly with Russian representatives since early 2022 when the West tanked their initial peace deal.

There is also that little problem that in 2022 Zelensky signed a law forbidding peace negotiations with Russia. How is he going to get around that? Easy: He says it doesn’t apply to him. That’s not true but he says a lot of dumb things.

The United States will not have representatives at this meeting. U.S. negotiators are planning to go to Istanbul on Friday, one day after the meeting.

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The Trump administration may have secured a nuclear deal with Iran. NBC News reports that “Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal with certain conditions with President Donald Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.”

NBC quotes Ali Shamkhani, a top political, military and nuclear adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He said that the deal would involve a commitment to not making nuclear weapons, “getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use, and allow international inspectors to supervise the process, in exchange for the immediate lifting of all economic sanctions on Iran.”

Iran already allows international inspectors to supervise and inspect its uranium.

In President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia, he said that he wants to make a deal with Iran and if he cannot, he will launch an economic war. He did not say he would launch a physical war.

“If I can make a deal with Iran, I’ll be very happy if we’re going to make your region and the world a safer place,” he said. “But if Iran’s leadership rejects this olive branch and continues to attack their neighbors, then we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure, drive Iranian oil exports to zero, like I did before.”

Well he may have done it. NBC reports this: “Asked if Iran would agree to sign an agreement today if those conditions were met, Shamkhani said, ‘Yes.'”

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The Trump administration says that it will cut $450 million in funding to Harvard University because they have failed to address race discrimination by the government’s own standards. This is in addition to the $2.6 billion that was already revoked.

The Trump administration has argued that Harvard has “become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination,” particularly antisemitism. In April, the government sent a list of demands, which requiring Harvard to “shutter all DEI programs, ban masks, overhaul governance, conduct third-party audits of ‘viewpoint diversity’ in each department, immediately report international student conduct violations, and discipline anyone alleged to have stoked campus protests.”

Harvard may very well be a hellish echo chamber that has scored dismally low by free speech advocates but the government should not turn purse strings into puppet strings and set academic agendas. Its demands are clear government overreach and Harvard should be afforded due process to defend its own academic freedom and agenda before any monies are revoked. The government is not affording the school that right.

Alternatively, the government could set standards for accepting grants in advance and Harvard could decide if it wants that money but given that the grants were not predicated on the above conditions, it isn’t right for the administration to set its own agenda and answer censorship with censorship.

Harvard filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in April claiming that the Trump administration’s decision to freeze and terminate federal research funding is an unlawful attempt to exert control over the university’s academic operations.

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American media is trying to place blame on the Biden White House for hiding President Biden’s decline, as if they did not themselves know. It is a heinous re-writing of their own sins and incredibly frustrating.

CNN’s Jake Tapper is promoting a book called “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” He accuses the White House of hiding the President’s condition from the American people. He reports that people who cared about the President, like George Clooney, missed it because he had good days and bad days.

It’s bullshit and it’s embarrassing. The entire country knew that because we watched it before our very eyes. The media denied what we could all see. Tapper himself denied many times that President Biden was in cognitive decline and is now accusing others of a cover up.

Even more shameful is the New Yorker piece by Tapper showing how the Democrats clearly launched a coup against the President, removing him from office when THEY decided he couldn’t win. It quotes Schumer saying, “If things go south at the debate, me, Barack, Nancy, and Hakeem have a Plan B,” though he denies it.

It wasn’t for kingmakers to have a Plan B! President Biden won the Democratic primary! He was the voters’ choice to face President Trump and that choice was taken from them by elites who decided that they didn’t like their chances. This article shows how the Democratic Party calls the shots, top down for their voters and not the other way around.

“He stole an election from the Democratic Party. He stole it from the American people,” one Democrat says in the piece.

He was the President of the United States. It was his right to run for reelection and it was the voters’ choice to let him. It’s shameful that they’re all admitting that they subverted the will of the people. You don’t hate the media and elites enough.

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French President Emmanuel Macron says that Europe may need to revisit its cooperation with Israel if Israel does not allow humanitarian aid through to the people of Gaza.

Israel has sealed off the Gaza Strip and says that it cannot allow food or other essentials through because the civilian population there is “mixing with” Hamas. The rest of the world is forced to watch in horror as Palestinians starve.

Macron said this about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “What he’s doing is shameful.”

Would Europe go as far as to withdraw money from Israel or cut off business deals? No Western nation has ever done that.

To be fair, some are saying that this is unprecedented for Macron but it’s not. He has spoken on behalf of the people of Gaza many times since October 7 but Israel has been able to ignore him.

Israel is moving forward with its plan to fully take over Gaza. On Tuesday, they bombed a hospital, killing at least 28 people. Also on Tuesday, the government approved a takeover of much of the West Bank too.

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President Trump gave a speech at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and it was perhaps one of the most impactful speeches on U.S. foreign policy in our lifetime. So naturally the media is ignoring it.

The gist of the speech was this: The U.S. is done waging wars on foreign soil. We’re done telling other countries how to be. We’re done judging their leaders by our own standards. We are open for business, not war.

He admitted that what the U.S. has done in the name of “democracy” or “freedom” has done far more harm than good. He also paid respect to other cultures and their accomplishments despite Western pressures to tear apart their societies.

This may have been my favorite part:

“It’s crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation does not come from Western interventionists. Flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs, no. The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called ‘nation-builders,’ ‘neo-cons,’ or ‘liberal non-profits,’ like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad, so many other cities. Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought about by the people of the region themselves … developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies. In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built. And the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came NOT from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.”

He later said that past administrations have “been afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use US policy to dispense justice for their sins… I believe it is God’s job to sit in judgment — my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity, and peace.”

This speech should be EVERYWHERE but the media has not caught on to its importance. The U.S. President is admitting that it went abroad in search of destruction, imposing its own values on others and that it does not want to do that any more. In the words of the Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey Tucker, “It’s hugely significant and tragic that it took decades.”

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The Netherlands and Australia have asked the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to force Russia to cooperate with its investigation of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 which was shot down in July of 2014.

This was the flight that was shot down over Eastern Ukraine, killing 298 people. In 2022, the court found three people guilty and sentenced them in absentia to life imprisonment. They have not been detained or extradited because Russia refutes the court’s legitimacy.

Russia did participate in this investigation until June of 2024 when the Kremlin decided that the investigation was politically motivated. Russia accused the ICAO of ignoring evidence and accused Ukraine of continuing the war in the region in 2014, which they did in violation of the Minsk Accords.

Also, the ICAO ruling on guilt was not really a trial. It was a voting session by United Nations member states.

The investigation was led by representatives from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. Russia was not allowed representatives to assist.

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning adults over 60 not to get the chikungunya vaccine after two patients died.

What is chikungunya virus? It is a mosquito-borne virus much like Zika and dengue, more common in tropical areas.

The FDA reports that it found at least “17 serious adverse events, including two that resulted in death, in individuals 62 through 89 years of age” from the vaccine brandnamed IXCHIQ.

The vaccine contains the chikungunya virus so the people who had the vaccine died from the symptoms of the very virus they were trying NOT to get.

The vaccine was clinically trialed on 3,500 people over the age of 18 but if participants reacted this poorly, it wasn’t disclosed to the public.

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The Democrats knocked down one of their party’s hopefuls on Monday, voting to void activist David Hogg’s election to vice chair of the party.

Hogg is a school shooting survivor and one of the more promising Democrats. He won a leadership role in the DNC but unfortunately so did two other men. Both the DNC and RNC have gender balance provisions so the wins were disqualified. They will now move to a runoff election.

This was explained by Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Christine Pelosi who is a member of the credentials committee.

It does seem that establishment Democrats are intimidated by Hogg. He is young and well spoken and – his greatest sin so far – is that he refused to sign a pledge calling for DNC officers to stay neutral in primaries.

How much do you want to bet that they Bernie Sanders him?

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A group of refugees was welcomed to the United States on Monday by the State Department and the media is upset that they are white people from South Africa.

The media’s main beef is that these people were deemed victims of racial discrimination in their home country and the media has a hard time admitting that white people can face discrimination. They refute that their lives are that hard. They claim that they are skipping the line over other groups, even though it was a small group of only 59 people who applied when the President opened up refugee status to farmers so there is no proof that they took anyone else’s spot.

MSNBC put the word “refugees” in quotes, denying that this group ever faced any danger at all. CNN says that South Africa has a good court and justice system that could have protected them. Lol. They also say that they are of German descent and Afrikaners are not. They are of Dutch descent and have had claim to their lands for as long as, if not longer, than many Black tribes which were themselves colonisers.

To be fair, Blacks are also at a high risk of violence in South Africa. The violence and corruption is horrible for everyone. We should open this same program with the burden of proof to all skin color and not be scandalized when they show up.

Also, I’m so confused because this is the same media that celebrated Ukrainian refugees skipping the refugee line because they were white.

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