BREAKING:
Major confrontation between China and the Philippines near the Scarborough Shoal.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) have deployed 2 PCG vessels and 5 fishery patrol vessels to the shoal after Chinese Coast Guard vessels started harassing more than 20 Filipino fishing boats in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Philippines.
A Filipino Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) flight over the area documented 6 China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels, 20 China Maritime Militia (CMM) vessels, and one People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) warship carrying out offensive activities in the area.
Via @jaytaryela
This is just another reason that President Biden will go down in history as one of the best Presidents ever.Just watching him talk to this MAGA supporter & trade a signed Presidential seal hat for the man’s Trump hat was Epic & he even put it on which was mind blowing! Miss him
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Joe Kent gave a pretty good analysis on the Iran war in 2024:
- The US probably can penetrate the air-defense for a shock and awe campaign
- There will be quick results to celebrate
- But in the long run it will be messy
- Iranians will rally around their leaders, and this will unite them
- “Iran has been an empire for centuries they will not go anywhere”
- it would be “very bloody”
"And we came within about 30 minutes of having a war."
Israel tried to pressure Barack Obama to launch military strikes on Iran, according to former US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who said Israeli leaders warned they would attack themselves if Washington refused.
Obama rejected the push for war, arguing the better approach to Iran’s nuclear program was "very muscular diplomacy" backed by global sanctions rather than immediate military action.
Blinken also revealed the US nearly entered another regional war after the October 7 attacks, when Israeli officials gave false information insisting Hezbollah was about to attack from Lebanon and pushed for a pre-emptive strike.
According to Blinken, Washington came within about 30 minutes of a new conflict before the situation was halted.
Bill Clinton: “I killed myself trying to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza and 97% of the West Bank. You name it. They turned it all down.”
The Palestinians never wanted peace.
BREAKING: Trump’s agenda of cruelty leads to $50 billion of lost spending from international tourism as travelers shun America.
Donald Trump promised to make America “great again.” Instead, he’s made it empty.
According to blistering figures from the International Trade Administration, international tourism to the United States collapsed 4.2 percent in 2025, Trump’s first year back in the White House — the first annual decline since COVID. While the rest of the world reopened and rebounded, America slammed the door.
The damage is staggering. The U.S. Travel Association estimates the U.S. lost 11 million international visitors, translating into $50 billion in vanished spending and hundreds of thousands of jobs wiped out. And here’s the kicker: global tourism rose 4 percent during the same period. The U.S. is now the only major destination losing visitor spending.
Why? Take your pick.
Trump has turned entry into the United States into a gauntlet of fear and humiliation. His administration has blocked visitors from more than a dozen countries, suspended visa issuance to 75 countries, and supercharged border searches of phones and laptops — up 18 percent in a single year. Tourists aren’t seeing freedom. They’re seeing interrogation rooms.
There are receipts. A Norwegian tourist said he was denied entry after agents found a meme mocking Vice President JD Vance on his phone. A Welsh backpacker was detained for nearly three weeks. Germans were held for weeks — even in solitary confinement — without charges. A U.S. citizen and her German fiancé were detained while re-entering her own country.
And then there’s the optics. Trump’s ICE crackdowns make global headlines. His bullying of allies. His bizarre fixation on Greenland. His tariffs that make travel and trade feel radioactive. As Tourism Economics bluntly put it, America is “losing market share” because the world now sees a country less open, less welcoming, and more hostile.
Even Canada — historically one of the biggest sources of U.S. tourism — has started looking elsewhere, with visits dropping 10.2 percent in a single year.
This isn’t patriotism. It’s self-sabotage. Trump didn’t just build walls at the border — he built one around the entire country. And the world took the hint.
America didn’t become great again. It became the place tourists warn each other about.
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Rep. Mohamud Noor: ICE has stopped me in my own neighborhood. They've detained US citizens in front of me while I was begging them to let them go. My kids' schools went into lockdown because ICE was outside.
"Nothing is normal anymore."
Catherine Austin Fitts, July 2025:
"Trump's Epstein file is bigger than the Encyclopedia Britannica... he and Epstein were best friends... [and] [Howard] Lutnick... was Epstein's next door neighbor... the whole administration is full of Epstein people."
With everything happening in the news, the Trump Administration tried to bury their confession that Elon Musk’s DOGE operation breached personal, confidential Social Security information. I’ve been sounding the alarms about this for a long time.