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[ad_1] President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the South Portico of the White House.(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) President Donald Trump’s war against Iran has slipped to its lowest approval yet. The poll comes after the collapse of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and ceasefire. A Reuters poll released on Tuesday found that just 33% of Americans approve of the war against Iran, while over 60% disapprove of the conflict. Disapproval of the war may stem from Americans being unclear about the reasons for the conflict. Nearly…
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[ad_1] Summary Our latest update in this series provides economic and other metrics of President Donald Trump’s second term, so far. Job growth remains slower, with a total of 716,000 jobs created as of June. The unemployment rate remains slightly higher at 4.2%. Inflation worsened to 3.5% in June, and gasoline prices have risen to more than $4 per gallon after a ceasefire with Iran dissolved. Average weekly earnings of private-sector workers, adjusted for inflation, rose 1.3%. The economy grew 2.1% in the first quarter of 2026, matching the 2025 full-year growth. Consumer sentiment hit a new record low in…
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[ad_1] To understand the spark in Tell, one must understand the explosive pressure cooker that the occupied West Bank has become, writes Ramzy Baroud. An Israeli incursion in Nablus in the northern West Bank during the IDF’s assault on Gaza, January 2025. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Wikiedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0) By Ramzy BaroudCommon Dreams During a military raid on the small town of Tell, southwest of Nablus, a moment of direct defiance shattered the illusion of total Palestinian submission. Faced with relentless military incursions, land confiscation and settler harassment and violence, local villagers and farmers refused to retreat. In the confrontation that…
[ad_1] Also available on Substack. * * * In the previous article, we discussed the “gaggle of Silicon Valley oligarchs” who can be distinguished by their “liking for the ideas presented in Nick Land’s Dark Enlightenment and their enthusiasm for Technocracy.” Calling them the NRx accelerationists, we noted that Elon Musk is part of this group.In 1938 in Technocrat Magazine, vol. 3, No. 4—the in-house magazine of Technocracy Inc.—Technocracy was described as: The science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population. In the 2014 Chinese State Council Notice concerning Issuance of the…
[ad_1] From today’s decision by Judge Ann Aiken (D. Ore.) in Owen v. Askew, the allegations from plaintiff’s complaint: Plaintiff Kursten Owen is an Oregon resident and is the owner of Elegance & Geekery, LLC, an Oregon business. Elegance & Geekery sells accessories and had gross receipts of $190,310 in 2024. Relevant to the present case, Plaintiff makes and sells hair accessories through Elegance & Geekery and has done so for eight years. Defendant Breana Askew, dba Breromi, is a resident of Georgia. Like Plaintiff, Ms. Askew makes and sells hair accessories. Ms. Askew also has a large social media…
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[ad_1] From today’s sanctions order in Copycat Legal PLLC v. Peralo, by Judge David Leibowitz (S.D. Fla.), entered on the court’s own initiative (the defendant is described in the Complaint as “a digital content creator who primarily focuses on producing videos in short form for his YouTube, TikTok, SnapChat, and Instagram viewers” and who claims to have “over 2 million followers across social media, 2.5 billion views and … over 4 billion impressions in polls/quizzes”): Pro se Defendant Charles A. Peralo (“Defendant”) has repeatedly failed to obey the Court’s orders. Accordingly, the Court will impose a monetary sanction on him. Rule…
[ad_1] The FBI office in charge of maintaining the terrorist watch list is seeking an artificial intelligence system for pre-crime policing, according to procurement documents obtained by Reason. The request for information for vendors, posted by the FBI’s procurement division in March, solicits potential bidders for a project that would supercharge the Threat Screening Center (TSC) with new predictive AI capabilities—just as its focus moves from Islamist terrorism to domestic dissent. “The solution must leverage existing enterprise datasets that include enriched or enhanced data elements with documented source attribution to develop predictive models. When new data is ingested, the system…