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Bonehead politician wants unconstitutional amendment added to U.S. Constitution

California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom responded to the tragic shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade in Missouri Wednesday by suggesting America add to its Constitution anti-gun measures already prohibited by the Founding Fathers’ historic document.

Newsom shared video of a press briefing by Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves telling reporters, “People who came to this celebration should expect a safe environment… This tragedy occurred even in the presence of uniformed officers.”

The governor shared her quote and added, “We cannot accept the status quo. We need to pass a Constitutional Amendment to prevent gun violence nationwide.”

California boasts the highest number of mass shootings of any state in the country, so Newsom’s own track record shows his state’s heavy gun restrictions are already failing.

Meanwhile, restaurants like Denny’s and In-N-Out are closing shop in cities like Oakland because they can’t even operate due skyrocketing crime.

It’s happening in San Francisco too – where Newsom used to be mayor – as nearly half of the retail stores in Union Square have recently left the area.

The comments on the governor’s social media post are flooded with people slamming him for wanting to remove guns from the hands of good citizens, slashing police budgets and allowing so many criminal illegal aliens into the state.

Out of the nearly six thousand comments, only a handful support Newsom’s message.

If Newsom and the Democratic Party had their way, guns would be heavily restricted nationwide as they are in Commiefornia and crime would get out of control across the country.

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It’s never too late for a person to wake up to the globalist agenda

Podcaster and professor of evolutionary biology Bret Weinstein talked with Alex Jones about his awakening to the Covid hoax as he used his expertise to dive further into the official narratives being pushed thanks to a follower who questioned his stance.

Watch the full interview below:

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An aging population and higher interest expenses have been pushing the country’s indebtedness higher

The US national debt could surge by $19 trillion over the next decade to surpass the $54 trillion mark, owing to the mounting costs of an aging population and higher interest expenses, according to the latest report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The debt exceeded $34 trillion in December.

A key factor that will likely lead to a further surge in the national debt is the sharp increase in the federal deficit, according to the CBO, which projects the annual shortfall rising to $2.6 trillion in 2034, up from $1.6 trillion this year, adding $18.9 trillion to the national debt during the decade.

The CBO’s director, Phillip Swagel, told reporters last week that the US remained on track to rack up more debt as a share of its total economic output in 2034 than at any other time in its history. “The first message of the projections is a familiar one: that the fiscal trajectory is daunting. On the other hand, it is a little bit less bad than it was in our projections last year,” Swagel said, as quoted by the New York Times.

The budget office’s projections come as Congress faces another deadline next month to agree on federal spending legislation. Lawmakers have been in a heated debate lately over providing more aid to Ukraine and Israel.

Meanwhile, interest rates in the US skyrocketed to two-decade highs over the past year, making borrowing costs a significant contributor to the national debt. According to the CBO, the US will spend more than $12 trillion alone on interest costs from 2024 to 2034. The budget office warned that starting next year net interest costs will be larger as a share of the US economy than at any time since the federal government started keeping records in 1940.

“Also boosting deficits are two underlying trends: the aging of the population and growth in federal health care costs per beneficiary,” Swagel stated. “Those trends put upward pressure on mandatory spending.” 

The US exceeded its debt ceiling, which was legally set at $31.4 trillion, in January 2023. After months of warnings of an imminent and economically disastrous default from the US Treasury, President Joe Biden in June signed a bipartisan debt bill that suspended the cap until January 2025. This effectively allowed the government to keep borrowing without limits through next year. Debt spiked to $32 trillion less than two weeks after the bill was approved, and has been piling up ever since.

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If elected, the ex-US president reportedly plans to leverage US military aid to Kiev to bring it to the negotiating table

Republican presidential frontrunner and ex-US leader Donald Trump is planning to pressure Ukraine to negotiate peace with Russia if he wins an expected rematch against incumbent Joe Biden for the White House, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources.

Should Trump become president, he may also retract a number of defense commitments to some NATO allies, according to reports. 

People familiar with the matter said Trump advisers had talked about ways of bringing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his Russian counterpart to the negotiating table shortly after the potential inauguration.

One adviser, according to Bloomberg, suggested that Washington could push Kiev to engage with Moscow by threatening to cut massive military assistance, adding that Russia could be swayed by the threat of increasing that aid instead.

Bloomberg sources also stressed that Trump aides had not discussed the matter with Russian officials, as it would be illegal for private US entities to negotiate with foreign governments on behalf of the administration.

Russian officials have repeatedly said they are open to talks with Ukraine, but noted that any dialogue would take place only after Zelensky cancels his decree banning negotiations with the current leadership in Moscow. The Ukrainian leader introduced the ban last autumn after four of Kiev’s former regions overwhelmingly voted to join Russia.

Another facet of Trump’s presumed foreign policy appears to be a concept of “a two-tiered NATO alliance” in which a common defense clause would be applied only to those nations that had reached a certain defense-spending threshold, Bloomberg reported, adding that no final decision had been made on the matter.

Still, the agency noted that such an approach could “upend decades of US policy” while risking “fracturing” the defense alliance.

During his term as president, Trump repeatedly pushed NATO countries to increase military spending to 2% of GDP, a threshold many have struggled to reach. As of July, only 11 NATO members had met or exceeded that level.

Bloomberg’s report came after Trump claimed last week that, while in office, he had threatened not to defend those ‘delinquent’ NATO members that did not pay their fair share of defense spending if they were attacked by Russia. His remarks triggered condemnation both from the White House and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Moscow has repeatedly said it has no plans or interest in attacking the US-led military bloc.

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“A military operation into Rafah would be catastrophic. About 1.5 million Palestinians are taking refuge in the area, including many of our citizens and their families.”

The prime ministers of Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued a a joint statement on Thursday urging Israel not to commence its planned offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and warning of catastrophic consequences for Palestinians of expanding the Israeli military operation.

“We are gravely concerned by indications that Israel is planning a ground offensive into Rafah. A military operation into Rafah would be catastrophic. About 1.5 million Palestinians are taking refuge in the area, including many of our citizens and their families. With the humanitarian situation in Gaza already dire, the impacts on Palestinian civilians from an expanded military operation would be devastating. We urge the Israeli government not to go down this path,” Australia’s Anthony Albanese, Canada’s Justin Trudeau and Christopher Luxon of New Zealand said in the statement.

The three prime ministers also reminded Israel of the recent ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under which the nation is obliged to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and protect civilians. The need for humanitarian assistance in the Palestinian enclave “has never been greater,” the statement read.

“Australia, Canada, and New Zealand remain steadfast in their commitment to a two-state solution, including the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, where Palestinians and Israelis live side by side in peace, security, and dignity,” the prime ministers added.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a large-scale attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting over 200. The attack prompted a retaliatory military operation by Israel, leading to the deaths of more than 28,500 people in the Gaza Strip, according to local authorities.

In November 2023, Qatar mediated a deal between Israel and Hamas on a temporary truce and the exchange of some of the prisoners and hostages, as well as the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza. The ceasefire expired on December 1, 2023, after several extensions. More than 100 hostages are still believed to be held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

In January 2024, the ICJ ruled on provisional measures in South Africa’s case against Israel over alleged genocide in the Gaza Strip. The court ordered Israel to take urgent measures to prevent acts of genocide and ensure the flow of humanitarian aid to the enclave. At the same time, the ICJ did not order an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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Is the NFL more important than America?