It appears Chairman Xi has not yet consolidated power after what appeared to be an attempted coup a few months ago. It has been announced 6 top PLA Generals, including the powerful procurement head, have been fired. The charges are corruption connected to taking money through the procurement process.
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It appears Chairman Xi has not yet consolidated power after what appeared to be an attempted coup a few months ago. It has been announced 6 top PLA Generals, including the powerful procurement head, have been fired. The charges are corruption connected to taking money through the procurement process.
Xi to remove top 6 PLA generals, including procurement head – NewsBytes
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is reportedly preparing to dismiss the top six generals of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The purge includes key commanders of cyberspace and logistics forces, as well as the general responsible for equipment procurement. This comes after Air Force General Xu Xueqiang is to be sacked from his dual role as Director of Equipment Development Department and head of the Manned Space Programme.
Membership termination
National People’s Congress terminated memberships of these generals
The National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s legislative body, has terminated the memberships of these six top generals. This is the first step in a three-step purge process that includes expulsion from the Communist Party and a formal investigation by military prosecutors. The latest dismissals come amid Xi’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign, which has seen at least 104 generals purged over four years, including 62 in the past year alone.
Equipment Development Department at center of corruption scandal
The Equipment Development Department (EDD), which Xu headed, is at the center of a major corruption scandal. The scandal involves alleged irregularities in the testing, approval, and procurement of military equipment. This year alone, heads of state-owned enterprises like Aviation Industry Corporation of China (Avic) and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have also been dismissed over this issue.
A viral video shows a young man getting assaulted by black men before female British police break up the ruckus. The black men fled, leaving the white man to be arrested. The Birmingham police announced only the white man would be charged, even after considering a review of the viral video. The police are also calling on the video to not be allowed to be shared on social media.
Almost half of Americans, 46%, had no idea what July 4th celebrated, the birth of our republic. The findings come from a Cato Institute Poll, which was conducted with Morning Consult. 61% of Gen Z Americans failed to recognize July 4th is the birth of the American republic.
In the wake of a wave of crackdowns on Christians by Chairman Xi’s China, President Trump has successfully convinced the leader to let a Christian pastor go free. The pastor is Ezra Jin Mingri, who appears to have been released as a token “gift” to President Trump. He was released two months after President Trump’s Beijing visit.
President Donald Trump announced the pardons of 6 American citizen who had been convicted under the Clean Air Act for “simply fixing” their cars. The cases cut against the right to repair, which President Trump acknowledged.
After Springer National chose to utilize the once-iconic Scientific American magazine as a progressive agit prop organ, the publication immediately began losing subscribers. Now, Springer National has sold the publication just as the staff had overwhelmingly voted to form a union.
In another 6-3 decision, with the three progressive justices dissenting, SCOTUS ruled laws restricting election funding were unconstitutional. The ruling removes limitations on how much money a political party can spend on any one candidate.
Laws preventing biological males presenting as females from playing in female sports are constitutional, rules SCOTUS by a 6-3 majority. This means 3 justices thought it was “unconstitutional” to prevent males from playing sports with females if they present as “woman.”
SCOTUS issued a spate of major rulings at the end of its term. Some rulings favor Americans, while some preserve key aspects of progressive power. In two key rulings, the Supreme Court upheld two key progressive policies, one allows mass-mailer ballot counting after election day and the other preserves “Birthright citizenship.”
SCOTUS also ruled the President can fire executive employees without cause and police must get a warrant to conduct “geofence” searches, or wide searches of cell phone user data within a crime scene area.
Alito Rips Supreme Court Majority in Ruling on Data Privacy– www.dailysignal.com
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The Supreme Court narrowed the conditions for law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access someone’s Google Location History data, ruling that it constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.
In a case involving Big Tech and a bank robbery, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling Monday that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy with their cellphones. The case involved law enforcement’s access to geolocation data used to convict an alleged bank robber—who made a conditional guilty plea. The justices didn’t divide along traditional ideological lines.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority, joined by the high court’s two other Democrat appointees, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as Republican appointees Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.
SCOTUS Ruling Allows Mail-In Ballots to Be Counted after Election Day– www.westernjournal.com
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A closely-divided U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a critical decision on election integrity, jeopardizing the security of American elections and the sovereignty of the nation. In an opinion released Monday morning in Watson v. Republican National Committee (RNC), the court’s narrow majority ruled that mail-in ballots postmarked by election day may still be counted even if received after election day.
“Three federal statutes set the day for the election of Representatives, Senators, and the President,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority. At issue is a Mississippi state law allowing ballots received by mail and postmarked by election day to be counted for up to five days after election day. The RNC argued that federal statutes preempt Mississippi’s law and require ballots to be received by election day in order to be counted. Barrett and the majority concluded that the federal statutes “do not” preempt Mississippi’s law.
Roberts’ Argument For Birthplace Citizenship Is Self-Defeating– thefederalist.com
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During oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the birthplace citizenship case handed down from the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Solicitor General John Sauer observed that “we’re in a new world now … where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who’s a U.S. citizen.”
Four justices would go on to agree with this originalist argument, that the framers of the 14th Amendment did not understand their words to confer citizenship on the offspring of illegal aliens and birth tourists. But Chief Justice John Roberts dismissed Sauer’s point, retorting that while it may be “a new world, it’s the same Constitution.” He clearly thought it was a clever turn of phrase, an impression no doubt bolstered by the fawning media coverage of his remark. Released on Tuesday, his majority opinion takes the same approach to a foundational constitutional question as his cheap potshot at Sauer: he shows little interest in compelling originalist arguments, instead issuing shallow and misapplied but noble-sounding platitudes.
Joined by Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Roberts declared that, if a pregnant foreigner travels to the United States — legally or illegally, for 20 years or 20 minutes — to give birth, the 14th Amendment demands that act be rewarded by granting the child the full privileges of American citizenship. At the center of his argument is an aspirational concept of “allegiance” he grounds in the practices of feudal Europe. Because British subjects “born within the dominions and under the protection of a particular sovereign” owed a “tie or duty” to that sovereign, Roberts reasons, the children of foreigners born on American soil must be bound by the same allegiance and thus demanded citizenship.
Ironically, Roberts’ decision to reward illegal immigration and birth tourism is the surest way to destroy the bonds of allegiance he claims inform his opinion. He uses the term “allegiance” 51 times, emphasizing the mutual duties that British sovereigns and subjects owed each other. But such an argument is irreconcilable with the practice he defends: allowing people with no practice or intention of “allegiance” to the United States to secure citizenship for their children.
After Andy Burnham handily won the special by-election in Makerfield, Keir Starmer took less than a week to officially announce his intention to resign as Britian’s Prime Minister. Members of his cabinet have been quick to endorse Burnham in the leaders’ race, which is looking more like a coronation at this point.
After Andy Burnham handily won the special by-election in Makerfield, Keir Starmer took less than a week to officially announce his intention to resign as Britian’s Prime Minister. Members of his cabinet have been quick to endorse Burnham in the leaders’ race, which is looking more like a coronation at this point.
Starmer has stated no significant policy changes will be made until the new Prime Minister takes power. This puts a pause on their push to force British citizens to use digital ID every time they access the internet in the name of protecting children.
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At the No 10 lobby briefing, the PM’s spokesperson said that Keir Starmer has agreed that there will be “no new major policy or spending commitments” before he stands down.
But this did not cover the defence investment plan (Dip), the spokesperson suggested. Starmer seems to regard this as a policy that is already more or less settled.
Describing how the civil service would operate during the transition period leading to a new PM taking over, the PM’s spokesperson said:
The cabinet secretary [Antonia Romeo] has written to heads of departments to set out the principles of how the civil service should operate during this period.
Keir Starmer remains prime minister, and so the business of government will continue as normal until he has recommended a successor to His Majesty the King.
The civil service will act as it did during similar periods in line with precedent. All ministers remain in office and may carry usual activities …
The prime minister has agreed that there will be no new major policy or spending commitments initiated during this period.
Where a process is already under way or collective agreement is in place, government business will continue.
Several rulings by progressive judges have stopped or hindered numerous Trump policies. These include orders that affect Mail-in voting, Federal building protections from terrorist Antifa attackers, voter roll validations, voter ID, illegal arrests at courthouses, and even subpoenas against Minnesota Democrats suspected of committing fraud.
A 7.5 Earthquake has struck Venezuela, with reports of skyscrapers collapsing and thousands feared dead and missing. The official death toll is rapidly changing. At the time of this report, it had crossed 100 dead and 1,000 injured. The U.S. has pledged aid, as have multiple nations. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted in X that the United States is “immediately deploying search and rescue teams, medical resources, and humanitarian assistance to Venezuela.”
Venezuela earthquake live: At least 164 dead as Caracas buildings crumble in 7.5 quake– www.mirror.co.uk
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Offers of help were made by various governments, including the United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a post on X that the United States is “immediately deploying search and rescue teams, medical resources, and humanitarian assistance to Venezuela”.
Jeremy P Lewin, the US undersecretary of state for foreign assistance, said the State Department had mobilised a disaster assistance team and task force to organise aid in co-ordination with the interim Venezuelan government.
Ms Rodriguez said that Qatar had already sent rescuers who were expected to arrive within the next day, along with rescue personnel from Mexico and El Salvador.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, once diametrically opposed to Venezuela’s government, said in a post on X that he had offered aid. “We send you all our solidarity and our prayers. Stay strong, Venezuela,” Mr Bukele wrote.
The Columbian Trump, Abelardo de la Espriella, has won a close election against his leftist opponent, Senator Ivan Cepeda. The victory was by less than 1%. The election is being contested, but the U.S. has already thrown its support behind the pro-U.S. de la Espriella.
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a Hawaii anti-gun law attempting to prevent Americans from possessing guns while in businesses open to the public with express permission first from the owner.
Haitians and Syrians with Temporary Protection Status had been prevented from being deported by a lower Federal court ruling. That ruling was overturned by SCOTUS in a 6-3 decision. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the decision, “The TPS statute plainly bars consideration of respondents’ nonconstitutional claims.”
Zohran Mamdani went three-for-three in his effort to win U.S. House nominees for his anti-American socialist movement, his new world order, the progressive state. Bernie Sanders also endorsed the same far-left candidates. He is becoming the center of the real power of the Democratic Party as it completes its transition from an American leftist party to an anti-American communist party.
Eight Antifa street fighters have been sentenced to a combined 450 years in prison for assaulting an ICE facility. The ringleader of the Democrat-inspired, and potentially funded, insurrectionist attack, Benjamin Song, was sentenced to 100 years. Seven more Antifa street fighters will be sentenced on July 1, 2026.
Bank of America is predicting the Federal Reserve will issue rate hikes by the end of this year in response to rising inflation. They are predicting a three-quarter-point increase in the benchmark rate. General Motors replaced 1,000 workers with “collaborative robots” in one plant alone. Oracle revealed it replaced 21,000 workers with AI solutions so far this year. The loss of jobs through technology, rising inflation, and potential rate hikes portend a poor-performing economy leading up to the November 2026 Midterm elections.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has declared his socialist action in New York City “the birth of the new world order.” The statement can be read as an act of insurrection, a declaration of the death of the American republic and the birth of the Progressive State.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has declared his socialist action in New York City “the birth of the new world order.” The statement can be read as an act of insurrection, a declaration of the death of the American republic and the birth of the Progressive State.
Given the nature of socialism, which assumes no right to free speech, no right to bear arms, no right to due process, no right to private ownership at all, we are inclined to agree with that interpretation. Mamdani fed the narrative by saying repeatedly, “ICE should be abolished.” He is calling for America’s basic internal security to be dismantled to allow for the free flow of migrants from around the world into his “new world order.” So far, he has not been charged with treason or insurrection.
Mamdani Claims Communist Takeover Of NYC Is “The Birth Of The New World”– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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According to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the Communist takeover of New York City is “the birth of the new world.” This is a metaphor to describe a time of massive transformation. And well, if you consider contributing to the downfall of a once-great city to be “the birth of the new world,” then yes, this would be accurate.
Can anyone even name one net-positive this administration has done for the people of New York? So far, we have gotten a lot of talk, yet there seems to be nothing of substance these commies can point to. Why do you think that is?
Well, I guess if you count appointing the first trans “woman” to lead a New York City agency as an accomplishment, then that counts.
Mamdani also made the rounds on the interweb this weekend for claiming “ICE should be abolished.” This means that despite him pretending to represent voters, he continues to fight to make everyone worse off.
Maybe one day Mamdani will represent the people he was elected to represent, but until then, do not expect anything more than a lot of slogans, such as “the birth of the new world,” while offering nothing of substance. But what else is new?
When players chose not to wear Pride uniforms or put bible verses on their hats in protest, Major League Baseball warned them to not do that again. The DOJ then warned the MLB it was violating players’ rights, triggering a retreat from the league in response.
The tapes and transcripts of former President Joe Biden’s testimony related to his handling of classified documents can be released according to a U.S. district judge’s ruling. The files reveal Joe Biden’s level of cognizance while still President. The Heritage Foundation is the one requesting the files. They filed a FOIA request in 2024.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to meet him America to come to a final peace agreement. Zelensky said, “Yesterday (Sunday), we discussed with President Trump that such a meeting could be organised in the US, in a format where Putin would find it much harder to refuse. We will see what comes of it. If Russia refuses this chance as well, additional pressure will be needed.”
President Donald Trump has officially signed a deal with Iran that is effectively a 60-day ceasefire intended to lead to a final peace deal. Details of the plan have not been clearly given, but already Trump faces skepticism from both progressives and conservatives at home.
The Supreme Court of the United States voted unanimously to strike down laws prohibiting regular marijuana users from possessing firearms. The ruling is good news for Hunter Biden, who faced prosecution under a similar federal law. It is also good news for marijuana users in states where the drug is legal.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed a record-breaking number for America’s obesity rate. It has dropped by 2.5 percent in a little over one year, which is the first drop in that measurement in over 50 years.
Right after Sweden announced it would be sending migrants back that failed to pass the “good behavior test,” the EU made a bolder statement. By a vote of 418-218, the EU parliament voted for mass deportation of migrants. After the vote, the parliament erupted with chants of “Send them Back!”