June 24, 2026

01a Apocalyptic

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A video of the moment Alex Pretti was shot and killed shows a Department of Homeland Security member clapping nearby – Pretti’s family has described his death as a ‘murder’

Video angle shows agent clapping after Alex Pretti shooting(Image: EastEndJoe/X)

A video widely circulated on social media appears to show a member of the US’ Department of Homeland Security clapping moments after protester Alex Jeffrey Pretti was shot and killed in Minneapolis.

The officer can be seen wearing a police vest over a black hoodie. Before he reached the group where Pretti was pinned by a group of Border Patrol agents, a shot rang out and the agent stopped.

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A ferry with more than 330 passengers sank early Monday near an island in the southern Philippines, killing at least 18 people, officials said.

The M/V Trisha Kerstin 3 was travelling from the port in Zamboanga City to Jolo Island when it “submerged” around 1:50 a.m. local time, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said in a statement on Facebook.

“The vessel was carrying 332 passengers and 27 crew members when the maritime incident occurred approximately 2.75 nautical miles northeast of Baluk-Baluk Island, Basilan,” the statement continued.

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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (In preparation for a whirlwind book tour, the Sine Qua Non Sequitur is compiling a comprehensive list of foreign translations of “wainscoting.”)

We’ve been hearing it seemingly forever. Donald Trump’s a fascist. Trump’s a dictator. Trump’s targeting those who disagree with him.

If only.

OK, I’m kidding about that. Sort of. My Minneapolis fatigue is making me a bit cranky.

Democrats are having a field day creating an alternative reality that — once again — blames law enforcement for everything. Those paying close attention will remember that we were just discussing this… yesterday. I wrote that the Democrats really got going with their hatred of law enforcement “when Barack Obama was shooting off his mouth about the police during his vapid vanity presidency. ”

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Over the weekend, during another incident of impeding ICE operations at the encouragement of Minnesota Democrat officials, Alex Pretti was shot by border patrol. This would be a good point for an investigation into what happened and why it happened. However, when you have elected officials calling it an “assassination,” and the police chief saying it doesn’t matter if it was justified because what really matters is that people are upset, a fair investigation is impossible. And that pretty much explains where we’re at in Minnesota.

Fox News’s Bill Megulin spoke to sources in the Department of Homeland Security, who said it was a terrible decision for Pretti to show up with a gun and inject himself into a federal law enforcement operation. However…

These sources all believe this is going to end up being what they call a “bad shoot”, a “shitty” situation that happened in seconds where agents likely heard “gun!”, then the disarmed firearm may have had an accidental discharge that spooked the agents, and they shot. The agents do not have the luxury of multiple slow motion angles – and had to make split second decisions.

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In a Democrat thugocracy, you can arrest a President or a 70 year old grandmother silently praying outside an abortion clinic, but attacking a church? All good.

MOTHERS TERRIFIED, CHILDREN SCREAMING as Democrat Protestors Storm Church in Minneapolis, ‘Hunting’ ICE Agents

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On Monday’s CNN This Morning, CNN Guest and WIRED contributor Garrett Graff praised Minnesota protestors for supposedly being non-violent and said viral videos only showed federal law enforcement being violent. In reality, many other videos have shown protesters being violent, including a riot outside a hotel where federal law enforcement was staying on Sunday night into Monday morning.

The segment was a part of CNN ‘Breaking News’ coverage pertaining to the shooting of Alex Pretti and the following unrest.

Host Audie Cornish introduced a clip of FBI Director Kash Patel that talked about the need to “quell these riots” amid a trend across the country of “protests turning into violent scenarios and people attacking law enforcement.”

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It’s the last thing that should’ve happened, but here we are. Minnesota is now a national spectacle after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by Border Patrol over the weekend. Then, FBI Director Kash Patel and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doled out some terrible takes on the incident, further creating chaos. It’s already bad enough that the Left thinks this was an execution, and some Department of Homeland Security folks are portraying Pretti as a domestic terrorist gearing for mass carnage. We don’t know that—some of the Border Patrol agents had bodycams. We’ll get back to you once they’re analyzed.

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Senate Democrats are threatening to force another government shutdown to block funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the recent fatal shootings in Minnesota.

The anti-ICE unrest in the Democrat-controlled state is rapidly escalating into a high-stakes budget confrontation that could trigger a partial government shutdown.

In just days, Democrats in the upper chamber have coalesced around a strategy to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), placing immigration enforcement squarely at the center of looming government funding negotiations.

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Speaking to CNN host Jake Tapper, a Minneapolis bookstore owner compared deportation centers with Nazi concentration camps, and went as far as to claim, “I’m not saying they are putting people in ovens — yet.”

Jamie Schwesnedl, owner of Moon Palace Books, joined Tapper to discuss the “economic blackout” to protest ICE. The craziest part is not that he said what he said, it’s that it was so extreme that even Tapper appeared physically uncomfortable by it.

According to Schwesnedl, “we can’t do business as usual right now anyway because our city has been invaded by masked gunmen kidnapping family members and friends and neighbors of ours to send them to concentration camps. Additionally, there are a lot of businesses in our area that have staff or customers or owners who are afraid to come to work, afraid to come in and shop. People are closing down today, and we felt like it wouldn’t be kind or fair for us to stay open. So we’re closing in solidarity to help send a message.”

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The Minnesota National Guard has been caught handing out coffee and donuts to anti-ICE mobs after being deployed to the state, raising serious questions about whose side state authorities are on as federal law enforcement faces escalating violence.

Instead of maintaining order or protecting federal property from the lawless mobs that have besieged Minneapolis, Guard troops are now appearing to cater to the very protesters disrupting immigration enforcement operations.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz activated the National Guard weeks ago as protests surged following intensified federal immigration operations in the Twin Cities.

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) spurred outrage this week after suggesting during an interview that residents may use lethal force against masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents using the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law.

Arizona’s largest police organization blasted her comments on Friday, calling them “reckless, irresponsible and dangerous to the safety of all law enforcement professionals in this state.”

During an interview with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik earlier this week, Mayes stated that the law allows individuals to defend themselves with lethal force if they reasonably believe their life is in danger, particularly when facing unidentifiable individuals in plain clothes wearing masks.

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Anti-ICE agitators who stormed a Minneapolis-area church in January terrorized worshippers, blocked parents from reaching their children and forced congregants to flee during a Sunday service, according to a newly filed federal affidavit.

The affidavit, submitted last week by a Homeland Security Investigations agent, details the Jan. 18 invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, where a left-wing mob disrupted services while protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

According to the filing, the agitators “intimidated, harassed, oppressed, and terrorized the parishioners, including young children,” turning a worship service into what witnesses described as a frightening and chaotic scene.

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China made a major announcement over the weekend, saying it was investigating the army’s top general for suspected serious violations of discipline and law.

Gen. Zhang Youxia was the highest military member just below President Xi Jinping.

The Defence Ministry said Saturday that authorities were investigating Zhang, the senior of the two vice chairs of the powerful Central Military Commission, China’s top military body, and Gen. Liu Zhenli, a lower member of the commission who was in charge of the military’s Joint Staff Department.

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A coordinated network of far-left activist organizations played a central role in the street confrontation and nationwide unrest that followed Saturday’s fatal shooting of anti-ICE agitator Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, according to a detailed investigation.

The investigation by Fox News Digital found that agitators were already mobilized and actively tracking federal immigration agents minutes before the shooting occurred, using encrypted messaging platforms, live street alerts, and a shared database designed to monitor alleged ICE vehicles.

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While anti-ICE insurgents stormed into Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday, there was another anti-Christian disturbance happening outside of a church in Washington, D.C., where leftist agitators screamed obscenities and threatened young Christian families as they left Sunday services.

At roughly the same time on Sunday when the hoard of disrupters — including Don Lemon — burst into a worship service in St. Paul, agitators in D.C. were screaming “F-ck off, Nazi scum” at moms and kids as they left Christ Church on Pennsylvania Avenue. Christ Church in D.C. is an offshoot of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, which is led by Pastor Doug Wilson. The D.C. congregation has routinely garnered the attention of left-wing agitators since its first worship service last year, which was attended by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

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A mob of protesters smashed and crashed their way into a Minneapolis hotel on Sunday night as the city continued to be roiled by mob violence aimed at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Some at the scene alleged that Minneapolis police were slow in responding.

The hotel’s windows were smashed and anti-ICE graffiti was painted onto windows because protesters believed federal agents were staying at the Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel, according to the New York Post.

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A chilling new “suicide pod” has been unveiled that seeks to streamline the euthanasia process by gassing two people to death at once, all while being powered by artificial intelligence (AI) automation to eliminate human safeguards.

The disturbing new AI-powered “suicide pod” is being pushed forward by a radical euthanasia activist, accelerating what critics warn is a globalist effort to normalize mechanized death under the guise of “choice.”

The new device is known as the “Double Dutch Sarco.”

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Some Democrats realize they have a problem with transgender orthodoxy, but not New York Attorney General Letitia James—she’s doubling down.

Last week, she fired Glenna Goldis, the assistant attorney general at the Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau, apparently for the crime of expressing concern about the mutilation of children.

Goldis announced her departure in a lengthy post on X. She claimed James fired her “for speaking out against pediatric gender medicine.”

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In case you aren’t familiar, Canada has a federal program called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Here’s more about it:

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) is a process that allows someone who is found eligible to be able to receive assistance from a medical practitioner in ending their life. The federal Criminal Code of Canada permits this to take place only under very specific circumstances and rules. Anyone requesting this service must meet specific eligibility criteria to receive medical assistance in dying. Any medical practitioner who administers an assisted death to someone must satisfy certain safeguards first.

Only medical practitioners are permitted to conduct assessments and to provide medical assistance in dying. This can be a physician or a nurse practitioner, where provinces and territories allow.

 

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence AdvisorSubscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Show no partiality in judgment; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”Deuteronomy 1:17

The truth claims around a shooting of a woman by an ICE Agent in Minnesota have served to remind us once again that our land is occupied by two nations, Progmerica and America. In Progmerica, the criminals are the people who benefit from the privilege of being white (or white adjacent) and American. Their flourishing happened at the expense of the rest of the world. They invented evil as a means of becoming a cruel master of all.

The white ally is a Jesus figure in this movement, taking on the role of the all-powerful one who lays down their power for the good of the POC whole. The POC, the “person of color,” is both the victim of the white devil and the retribution against the white devil. Individual liberty is a dog whistle for white supremacism. America has committed the WORLD’S GREATEST CRIME against humanity.

What Americans call criminals, Progmericans call righteous judgments of America, which is why they want to defund the police, get rid of cash bails, and give next-to-nothing sentences to violent criminals. Where criminals exist, social injustice exists. Let the criminals force the privileged to become socially just!

In America, the Progmerican is a violent revolutionary who views your children as acceptable targets for murder in the name of liberating the TRUE HUMANITY, the POC, from the EVIL power of humanity, the white race. The moment you remove the white devil narrative, all other claims by the left crumble like a house of cards (which is further proof the heart of their movement is simply racism and bigotry).

What we can now behold after this is the crystal-clear proof there are two nations in this land, and one, Progmerica, intends on MURDERING the other, America, one terroristic planted lie at a time by the DNC hate machine.

On Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 9:30AM local time, an Immigration Customs Enforcement Officer named Jonathan Ross, 43, shot far-left radical insurrectionist activist Renee Nicole Good, 37, three times in the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was white, as is the officer.

The circumstances surrounding this shooting were not as important as the narratives that empower the factions competing for the new American order. Unfortunately, the first video that went viral was ambiguous, allowing for anyone willing to read this shooting to fit their narrative to conveniently do so.

At the time of the shooting, nothing was known about the woman, the ICE officer, or the circumstances that led to this altercation. Yet despite that fact, both the left and the right quickly assumed narratives that suited their preferences, though the right’s reactions contained some measure of doubt and questioning while the left’s reaction were sure and wholly militant in their conclusions.

As it would turn out, the right’s characterizations were mostly true, though they claimed that certainty far before the evidence emerged that clearly justified these claims.

The media and DNC leadership have long been intentionally inciting violence against Americans using knowing disinformation, but this time they crossed lines that should lead Americans to conclude American Rule of Law is effectively dead.

Even as their original narratives are destroyed by material evidence, including more videos, including undisputed facts about the insurrectionist and the ICE agent, they appear to be doubling down on knowing lies. They seem to be betting on their audiences not wandering too far off the information plantation.

If you asked two of  the leading AI platforms, Grok and ChatGPT for objective facts around the shooting shortly after it happened (even a day after0, you would get a sanitized version of the facts that will lead you to believe it is reasonable to assume the shooting was unjustified. Not only is it reasonable, both AI prophets leaned towards unjustified.

Their characterization of DNC leadership response and media coverage is also sanitized, removing the vilest (and thus most noteworthy) statements made by both the media and DNC leadership. In short, the world the DNC describes is almost the same as the world the major AI platforms describe.

I point out AI results to document what the real new MSM is telling Americans, for ChatGPT and Grok are the new Walter Cronkites for the masses. If they characterize an event a certain way, this is the way the vast majority of people who use these services will come to view that event, for, to most of them, the AI results are “objective.”

In this instance, the AI platforms are acting as agents of insurrection programmed to intentionally disseminate lies that lead their readers to murder Americans. In this they join DNC leadership and their old priests, the mainstream media.

The initial narrative, which you won’t find in AI results, was that this woman was a poet, a mother, and a wife who was simply taking her kids to school when she was callously shot down intentionally by murderous Nazi ICE agents. This narrative went forward by the MSM, AI platforms, and DNC leadership at a time when ICE agents were already seeing thousands of percentages of increased assaults against them by leftist terrorists.

It produced a flood of leftist social media death threats against ICE agents and has produced violence in multiple U.S. cities, including Minneapolis (whose police force abandoned their own downtown to the insurrectionists). So far, while Americans still want illegals gone, their support for ICE is plummeting as the media narratives take hold.

Who knows how many have been killed or wounded by leftist attacks as a result of the knowing lies the DNC machine spread with the intention of triggering a civil war aimed at destroying our constitution? There can be no doubt that the insurrectionists breaking into a hotel with ICE agents with the intent to kill them was triggered DIRECTLY by the DNC machine, its AI platforms, its corporate media, and its party leaders.

What we know now is that the “mother” is a woman who divorced her husband, lost custody of two of her three kids over allegations of physical abuse by her “wife,” and became one of the leaders of a violent insurrectionist movement. On the day of her justified death, the woman was leading a deliberate assault on ICE operations to impede their ability to arrest illegal aliens. In this instance, they were defending pedophiles and murderers, which is on brand for the DNC.

You will not know any of this if you get your news from DNC-controlled AI search results (and yes, Grok is STILL controlled by DNC allies, the programmers), corporate media, or the Democrat leaders that have called for the assassination of ICE agents.

As for the noble sacrifice of the white woman for the cause of the POC, her own white compatriot realizes that their allyship is not redemptive of who they are, worthless whites. The woman claimed that her crying over the death of a white woman “feels wrong,” and that “I feel like white tears are not always helpful or necessary.”

This is psychosis at a level that should get her committed involuntarily to a mental hospital, and it is a psychosis that is common among younger white women who get their news only from America’s enemies, the DNC and its far-left alliance of seditionists.

Yet, the MSM, the AI Prophet/Priests, and the DNC leadership are NOT traitors, they are NOT insurrectionists, and this shooting was COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED…. in Progmerica, but in AMERICA, the shooting was COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED and the DNC machine is an insurrectionist one.

And therein lies the heart of this event, the demonstrably clear difference between two nations, America and Progmerica, which have existed side by side with one another for more than 100 years now. To the Progmerican, America is a vehicle of power for the inventor of evil, the white devil, and that white devil has unleashed genocidal fury on a world now primed to deliver the FAFO season to America.

Every white woman raped by an illegal alien is socially justified recompense for the crime of being a white woman in a privileged land. Every illegal alien that enters America and grifts off our system is socially justified recompense for the colonizing crimes of the white devil, AMERICA.

To them, they have Jews hidden under the floorboards and we are the Nazis trying to find out where the Jews are (despite the fact that NO ONE hates Jews more than leftists, even as wealthy Jews support them).

This is why they are justified in spreading lies that produce insurrection, because the evil they are fighting is worse than the evil they are committing. This is the will to perceive overcoming the actual reality that THEY have been the ones looking to find Jews and kill them the whole time.

To this writer, the continued response by the left, from its rabble-rousing white woman rainbow terrorists to its MSM paid disseminators of info-terrorism, to the party’s leadership now openly calling for Civil War, is consistent with the fact that America is their enemy.

American values are death to their nation, and they are so far removed from Americanism they can no longer publicly hide their anti-American “values.”

The governor of Minnesota thinks it’s perfectly legal to threaten to call up the National Guard to fight ICE agents while he claims it is time to start a second Civil War. His lack of accountability for openly calling for a violent insurrection against Americans is only dramatically encouraging violent white leftist women and their cuckolded white male “allies” (serial rapists and sex pests all) to pull more triggers on guns aimed at Americans.

Even as we speak, DNC operatives and their AI platforms continue to spread the lie that this woman was an innocent mother at the wrong place who was just there to pick up her kids. They continue to lie in the face of video evidence that shows the officer fired directly into the front of the windshield, and not just the side as she passed him.

They continue to tell people the officer deliberately got in front of the vehicle when video evidence shows she turned, placing him in front of the vehicle.

They do so because, to them, it is a noble to lie to protect the Jews in the floorboards rather than allow the Jews to be killed. Only they aren’t protecting Jews, they are protecting criminals who have no interest, no desire to advance the cause of Americanism. They are here to destroy us, not join us, and THAT makes them allies with Progmerica, who wants the same thing, the death of America.

For those of you paying attention, this notion of two nations in one land is one we have been claiming for some time. We hope this incident at least helps the doubtful now clearly see what we mean by two nations in one land.

Progmerica is a nation whose Rule of Law is “Social” Justice, as in justice determined by identity not the facts of the dispute themselves. American Rule of Law is about impartial justice determined by the particular facts on the ground within an individual liberty context. Social Justice is a dog whistle for “OVERTHROW AMERICA!” whenever anyone says it. The individual is traitor to the social.

The separation is accelerating, as Americans identify fellow Americans and the insurrectionists identify fellow insurrectionists they can connect to and begin to rely on during this de facto interregnum.

Based on polling, this writer is assuming America accounts for 50% of the country, though maybe only half of them are fully aware of the two nations within them. Progmericans account for 30% of the country, but amongst those numbers are groups of people who are just as interested in murdering Democrats as they are Republicans, Progmericans as much as Americans, for their Progmericanism is far purer than the version the DNC hopes to exploit.

After this incident, this writer implores our readers to build up your connections to people you identify as American and pull back your reliance on connections to people you identify as Progmericans. Remember Progmericans have a code of ethics that gives them special permission to use violence, deception, fraud, theft, etc., as tools of manipulation against anyone they perceive as not being themselves.

God willing, soon we shall vanquish the Progmerican nation without becoming the monster we are fighting (a very real threat). God willing, the Progmerican will see the depravity of their worldview, repent, and return to the family of man, return to America, where they would be welcome back.

Barring that, let us gird our loins and prepare to fight to defend our children from the serial rape and murder Progmerica not only has in store for them but is already carrying out in territories still held by them. Let us hope for the American Reconquista!

Iran’s Islamist regime and friend of the Democratic Party has murdered its way to secure its tottering Empire, for now. This comes after tens of thousands of its own citizens were murdered in the streets by the regime’s assassins. Ayatollah Khamenei has bragged about the slaughter, declaring, “We broke the back of the rioters. The day of the successful crackdown will be remembered as a day of celebration for years to come.”

While it is known that China has been infusing Iran with military toys, reports of it sending troops to discourage an anticipated American intervention (with a carrier group heading to the region even as I write this) have not been substantiated by our standards. Still, it bears taking note and it could be a factor into why the President hasn’t acted so far despite telling the protesters, “Help is on the way.” See last week’s issue feature for more on the President’s unfulfilled promise.

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Iran’s latest warning to retaliate “with everything we have” if the United States launches new military strikes is not a surprise. It is the predictable result of years of half-measures, muddled deterrence, and a foreign policy that tried to manage Tehran instead of confronting what its regime really is.

In a recent op-ed, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed that protests in Iran began peacefully but were hijacked by “foreign and domestic terrorist actors.” He accused the United States of exploiting unrest and blamed President Donald Trump’s rhetoric for escalating violence.

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The co-hosts of “The View” were exhilarated by the presence of newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), but Whoopi Goldberg topped them all with her praise of his policies.

Mamdani was swept into office on the promise of higher rent controls and redistribution of wealth, but he also benefited from opposition that included a scandal-plagued former governor and an unpopular incumbent mayor.

Her comments were met with thunderous applause from the audience.

More Nigerian Christians were attacked by Islamists who appear to have the protection of a government that forbids allowing Christians to defend themselves from these attacks. This time, 172 Christians were kidnapped when their church was overrun by Islamists in Northern Nigeria. The Nigerian government has failed to respond to this latest assault.

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… As Reuters reported this week, more than 170 Christians were kidnapped during church services in Kaduna, with over 160 still missing. Armed Muslim gangs stormed churches, abducted worshippers en masse, and vanished—part of a long-running campaign of terror concentrated in northern Nigeria. The Nigerian government continues to deny systematic persecution, even as churches are emptied and entire Christian communities disappear.

Only when Donald Trump publicly condemned the persecution—and ordered strikes against Islamic State targets on Christmas Day—did the issue briefly pierce the fog of indifference. Otherwise, the killings continue in near-total silence.

President Donald Trump came to Davos and delivered the news that the global order was dead. While much hand wringing conspired amongst Europe’s elites, and America’s Democrats (including Gavin Newsome), at the end of the day all had to acknowledge the reality of power. If America says the global order is dead, it’s dead.

Trump let the Western Hemisphere know, “The USA is the economic engine of the planet, and when America booms, the entire world booms. History shows that when America goes bad, the whole world goes bad. When we go down, you follow us down. When we go up, you follow us up. Trump on the burgeoning US economy in Davos ‘Instead of hiring bureaucrats we’re firing them”

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NATO Secretary General Warns China’s Investments Come With Strategic Strings Attached – dailycaller.com

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Wednesday that Western leaders must not grow complacent about China’s intentions, even as some U.S. allies deepen economic and diplomatic ties with Beijing.

China has been steadily expanding its influence across NATO countries. Rutte pushed back on “Special Report with Bret Baier” against suggestions that Western leaders are rethinking their approach to China, while warning about Beijing’s long-term military ambitions.

“It’s not up to me to comment on what any allies are doing in terms of their relationship with China. I think collectively as NATO, we have a position,” Rutte told Bret Baier when the host asked about a change in the way leaders deal with China. “The position is that we should not be naive. I can tell you, Bret, these huge investments the Chinese are making in the military are not there to organize parades in Beijing.”