Canadian officials are making their voices heard against tariffs through digital billboards in multiple states. Billboards in the Metro Detroit area read: "Tariffs are a tax on your grocery bill." The Government of Canada is paying for the ads and billboards have been placed in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and Washington, DC. read more
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wasted taxpayer funds on Wednesday by visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the US. The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory, and an isolation unit. Noem's trip to the prison - where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside - comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the "worst of the worst." read more
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to cut 10,000 employees from HHS. Per the Trumpf-controlled CDC, the diseases rampaging throughout the US and the world: www.cdc.gov read more
Bolsonaro, who fought to stay in power after losing the 2022 election, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and claims he is being politically persecuted. read more
A police chief in Hudson County is being accused of assaulting and harassing his officers in a lengthy list of complaints that includes defecating on floors, exposing himself, attempting to drug coworkers and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer's penis. Chief Robert Farley, who was appointed chief of the North Bergen Police Department in February 2024, is also accused of retaliating against an officer who attempted to report him to the New Jersey Attorney General. Five police officers in North Bergen said they plan to sue over Farley's alleged behavior, which also includes claims of retaliation, discrimination, sexual misconduct, and harassment. The US must seriously consider starting from scratch with its local police departments. The US must seriously consider starting from scratch with its police departments. read more
#13: Of course. Since the US neglected the Shia Houthis circa 2015, no CIA or DIA personnel had cover to operate undercover with the State Dept, USAID, etc in Yemen. The USIC has SIGINT and IMINT coverage of Yemen, but no HUMINT sources. I'm so glad to read that Bibi is spending US dollars and jeopardizing American servicemembers in USCENTCOM to avoid those pesky inquiries and corruption trial. How many Palestinians did Netanyahu have butchered today? biowrite.wordpress.com
The Trumpf administration has obviously flown over the cuckoo's nest: staticseekingalpha.a.ssl.fastly.net
#12: In 1983 UK PM Margaret Thatcher was pissed that Ronald Rogaine invaded Grenada. See the dangerous enemy our Soldiers captured?
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#2: Hi Lamplighter: Concur, the time for any despotic ruler to attack another country would be during the abhorrent 2025-2029 Trumpf regime. And China has been observing which military tactics and technology works in Ukraine. Beijing built up global goodwill outside of Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines, so they won't be diplomatically isolated. Taiwan is quite vulnerable.
Note the huge landing craft China is constructing serves a dual purpose. Analysts used the term "D-Day type", but they are also "Inchon-type": news.bbc.co.uk
At one point (I don't know when), Beijing is going to tire of the lunatic Kim Jong-un dynasty at their border with an ever-increasing nuclear stockpile.
The despicable Trumpf national security team chatting on Signal: "I share your loathing of European freeloading." static.kyivpost.com
Hare Krishna off-shoot cult member Tulsi Gabbard on Signal: "Great work and effects!" newsmedia.tasnimnews.com
My friends in Canada advised me tonight the signs are a great idea and know that most Americans oppose Trumpf.