After COVID delays and several wars, Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial re-commenced. He is accused of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three separate cases. His wife Sara and three aides have been accused of witness tampering. A Canadian newspaper, the Hill Times wrote: "Netanyahu is Israel's curse. He played for time with the war, using it to avoid his criminal corruption trials, and an inquiry into whether he could have prevented Hamas' brutal attack." See story: link text read more
A woman shot her four young daughters and then herself inside a home in northern Wyoming. The mother Tranyelle Harshman (32) and one daughter (7) survived, but their condition was unknown. The husband is devastated and a GoFundMe page was established to help pay for the exorbitant funeral costs. read more
The Pentagon is changing the name of the military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, reversing a decision made by a congressionally mandated commission to rename bases that honor Confederate generals. read more
One person was killed and others were injured when private jets collided Monday afternoon at the Scottsdale Airport in Arizona. read more
President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency, called $Trump, has cost investors billions. Trump announced the launch of his meme coin"a type of cryptocurrency that features Internet memes or celebrity mascots"just three days before his inauguration. "Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW," he wrote on TruthSocial. The opening sale for one of the 5,971,750 tokens was just 18 cents, but it quickly surged to $75. But the price of $Trump has since plummeted to about $17. read more
The late Meade Esposito. My friend knew Donald Manes who committed suicide because of one of the corruption probes. People forget that Donald Trumpf was once a registered Democrat and he contributed money to Kamala Harris. Trumpf donated US$6,000: $5,000 in Sep 2011 after she was first elected California AG, and another US$1,000 in 2013. Source: link text
In an average year in Indiana, 931 people are killed and 1,654 are wounded by firearms. Nearly 1.9 million Americans have died from gun-related incidents since 1968, 48,000 in 2022 alone. President Trumpf recently signed an Executive Order to reverse federal firearms regulations. See E.O. here: link text
Democrats should recapture the 6,265,888 voters they lost between 2020 and 2024. These Democrats didn't go to the Green Party which only won 862,049 votes in 2024. The missing 6.2m voters were antiwar progressives who stayed home in Nov 2024 because of US support for Israel which obliterated Gaza (~48,000 KIA, +100,000 WIA). Similarly, Democrats lost millions of voters between 1964 and 1968 because antiwar progressives sick of Vietnam stayed home in Nov 1968 rather than vote for Republican Richard Nixon or Segregationist George Wallace. This cost VPOTUS Hubert Humphrey the White House. Arab-Americans make up 1.1% of the US population at 2,560,619 people, and not all of them are of voting age. If we liberally subtract the Arab-American and Green Party vote from the equation, VPOTUS Kamala Harris still loses by 2,843,220 votes. The antiwar movement in the US dates back to the American Revolution. See story: link text
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And the average cost of a funeral in Wyoming ranges between $5,000 to $7,000. You wonder how much the offending firearm cost. I know three healthy couples who couldn't conceive children, so two of them adopted. This tragedy must have broken all of their hearts.
Initial reports suggest the mother suffered from PPD. Suicide rates in Wyoming are double the national rate. In the US it's easier to access a firearm than a psychologist. Per the CDC, in 2022 there were more than 48,000 firearm-related deaths in the US. These are wartime casualty figures without a foreign invader. See data:
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This is the first of the D.F. Jones Colossus trilogy about a super AI computer taking over the US nuclear arsenal which I highly recommend. Felon Musk has been making the film version of Colossus unavailable to view on streaming services.
Felon Musk has his own super AI computer called "Project Colossus" in Memphis, TN. See story here: link text
Nothing good will come of this for the American people.
Nearly 100,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed. From space, Gaza looks like a wasteland. See links: link text link text
The environmental damage has been catastrophic from the toxic residue of detonated munitions, decaying bodies under rubble, and untreated sewage: All paid for by the hardworking American taxpayer. Adjusting for inflation, US aid to Israel from 1951 to 2022 totaled $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II. This money could have paid for a lot of healthcare right here in the "good ole U.S. of A." link text
The head of Samaritan Purses which has been hurt by the USAID cuts.