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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup this month " his fourth publicized visit to medical experts since returning to office " in what the White House describes as an annual physical and regular preventive care. Trump, who turns 80 next month and was the oldest person elected U.S. president, will see his doctors at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on May 26, the White House said in a brief statement Monday evening. Trump " who has been frequently critical of former President Joe Biden for age-related health and fitness issues " has recently remarked how good he feels despite his years. Earlier Monday, Trump that he feels the same as he did 50 years ago.


STOCKHOLM, Sweden"This paragon of collectivism is pivoting toward rugged individualism. For decades, Sweden was shorthand for the brand of high-tax, high-spend government that managed people's lives from cradle to grave through state-run hospitals, schools and care homes. No longer. With little fanfare, this Nordic country of 11 million has embraced capitalism. Today, nearly half of primary healthcare clinics are privately owned, many by private-equity firms. One in three public high schools is privately run, up from 20% in 2011. School operators are listed on the stock exchange. Read more


For the first time in three years, Americans' wages are no longer outpacing inflation. Prices rose 0.6% on a monthly basis, driving the annual rate to 3.8%, the highest since May 2023, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists had expected prices to rise 0.6% from March and for the annual rate to climb to 3.7%. Read more


In the past, present, and future, machines will take away jobs from humans. You can just hear people saying, "Keep your cotton pickin' machines away from me and my work. Let me work. I have my cotton pickin' hands and that feeds me." Read more


Trump will be joined in China this week by 16 chief executives, including Elon Musk and Tim Cook. The White House distributed a list on Monday of business leaders who are scheduled to be in Beijing with the president. Mr. Trump is slated to depart Washington on Tuesday and hold meetings with Xi Jinping, China's leader, later in the week. U.S. officials have said Mr. Trump wants to discuss the creation of a board of investment and a board of trade with China, and the delegation includes business leaders across a wide range of industries Read more


The US Navy plans to buy at least 15 new nuclear-powered battleships endorsed by Donald Trump at $14.5 billion apiece minimum over the next 30 years, making one of them even costlier than the $13 billion USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier, the most expensive US warship afloat today. This multi-decade defense contract will guarantee Mammon-like profits for the next generation of members of the diabolical Trumpf Crime Family (TCF), as well as Republican Party insiders.

In addition, Felon Musk's Golden Dome project will cost the US $185bn, yet America still doesn't have universal healthcare as enjoyed by Israelis, Germans, Canadians, Brits, Albanians, Cubans, Greenlanders, Iranians, and in 2027, Mexicans.


Iran's Foreign Ministry stated that the US was making "unreasonable demands" that are being shaped by Israel, coming after Donald Trump called Tehran's proposals a "piece of garbage," bleating that the so-called ceasefire is on "life support."

Illegal War Against Iran Costing American Taxpayers More Than Israeli Taxpayers


The prestigious title of "Ambassador" remains with an individual even after they have left that position, like "Colonel," "President," or "Your Honor." Kennedy clan patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr insisted on being addressed as "Ambassador" long after he concluded his short tenure at the Court of St James's (8 March 1938 " 22 October 1940). On top of free housing in comfortable and spacious quarters, as well as a generous expense account, the average annual salary for a US Ambassador is $200,431. Donald Trump nominated Kari Lake to be the US Ambassador to Jamaica and election denier PA State Sen. Doug Mastriano to represent the US in Slovakia.

White supremacist Doug Mastriano spent thousands of dollars chartering buses for the 6 Jan 2021 insurrection against the US.


BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump's administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land. The 2024 rule adopted under former President Joe Biden was meant to refocus the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, which oversees about 10% of land in the U.S. It allowed public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling. But Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said the rule could have blocked access to hundreds of thousands of acres (hectares) of land -- preventing energy and timber production and hurting ranchers who graze on public lands. Read more


Monday, May 11, 2026

After jolting awake from drowsiness in front of guests in the Oval Office, Donald Trump ranted about an unidentified friend as a "very highly neurotic, very fat-- sort of a fat slob" while discussing the high costs for medications in the greedy for-profit American healthcare industry. Then Trump bleated: "Every person is gonna have autism. That's what's happening. What is this thing that's happening? It's spiked so much. Anything having to do with medical, I always bring in autism."

Damien "666" Trumpf and his Dead Eyes


Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, requested that DODIG Platte B. Moring III conduct an investigation after the Trump administration repeatedly awarded lucrative DOD contracts to companies affiliated with the president's family.

DODIG Platte B. Moring III


Sunday, May 10, 2026

The White House released a wide-ranging counterterrorism strategy describing narco-terrorists, Islamist terrorists, and violent left-wing extremists as a triad posing "significant and pervasive" dangers to the homeland.

Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Not a Terrorism Threat to US


Doctors have been warned to be on the lookout for "imported" hantavirus cases as American passengers return home from a cruise hit by an outbreak of the deadly disease. New Jersey joined five other states on Friday in announcing it was tracking residents who were onboard the MV Hondius, where eight cases of the illness were confirmed, with three deaths. Seven American passengers left the Dutch cruise ship last month, and 17 more are due to disembark in the Canary Islands on Sunday before being brought home.


A prominent Baptist pastor told Fox News on Saturday that President Donald Trump has a "better understanding" of the bible than Pope Leo XIV when it concerns the military conflict with Iran. Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor, made the comments on "Fox News Live" two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the pope in Europe. While Jeffress, a megachurch pastor in Dallas, said Leo was a "good man" and "sincere in his faith,' he argued that the pontiff is "sincerely wrong when it comes to Iran."


President Donald Trump declared Iran's latest peace proposal "totally unacceptable" in a blistering Truth Social post on Sunday, signaling that negotiations to end the Iran war remain deeply deadlocked. "I have just read the response from Iran's so-called 'Representatives,'" Trump wrote. "I don't like it " TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!"


George Retes woke up on July 10, 2025, hoping the day would change his life for the better. Retes, an Army veteran, worked as a security contractor for a legal cannabis farm in Ventura County, California. After seven months on the graveyard shift, working from midnight to 8 a.m., Retes was eager to move to a daytime schedule and spend more waking hours with his family.


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