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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. wants all Americans to use “wearable” technology to track their health as part of his “MAHA” agenda. The Kennedy-clan strongman revealed his agency’s plan Tuesday for a massive push for Americans — who have an obesity rate of 40% — to use wearable data-collecting technology such as FitBits, Oura Rings, and Apple Watches, to promote healthier lifestyles. “We’re about to launch the biggest advertising campaign in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables,” Kennedy said in a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on Tuesday. ...

Friday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump was a “Kremlin kiss ass” during his Anchorage, Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Swalwell said, “If you’re a Republican in Congress, you just saw a Kremlin kiss ass in the president of the United States. Somebody who squandered an opportunity to confront a ruthless dictator who is killing innocent children and kidnapping innocent children every single day. I don’t know what this meeting accomplished other than taking the Epstein files and inflation out of the news, but you have meetings like this to achieve...

The British colonialism lasted a few centuries, left behind railroads, legal systems, education, and modern institutions. It wasn't perfect. It had its sins. But it also built. The British brought modern medicine, science, engineering, and governance. They opened schools, built cities, printed books, developed infrastructure, and left behind functioning states, many of which are now sovereign global players. Now compare that to Islamic colonialism, 1,400 years long, relentless, brutal, and still ongoing. It left behind slavery, tribalism, religious apartheid, cultural erasure, and the complete destruction of countless civilizations. In India alone, Islamic invasions are estimated to have killed 80 million...

First, Hillary Clinton, the twice-failed presidential candidate who never got over her humiliating loss to Donald Trump, is suddenly praising Trump as a peacemaker and openly admitting she’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize if he can end the bloody war in Ukraine without ceding land to Russia. And now, shockingly, Obama’s disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan, the same deep state operative who pushed the Russia Collusion Hoax to undermine Trump’s presidency, is following Clinton’s lead, saying he too would support Trump for the Nobel if he pulls it off. “Honestly, if he could bring about the end...

Most stunningly offensive comment heard in a generation. “Hamas built schools…”. That’s as stupid as saying “Hannibal Lector made creative culinary dishes.”Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby · Aug 15 BREAKING: UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese defends Hamas yet again. “I don't think people have any idea what Hamas is. Hamas is a political force that won the 2005 elections—whether we like it or not. Hamas built schools, public facilities, hospitals.”

You can almost understand President Donald Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics… and his insistence that the economy is far stronger than the employment numbers indicated. After all, the stock market is hitting all-time highs, and the American tech sector is absolutely crushing it. With Nvidia and the rest of the Mag 7 leading the way, the U.S. is spearheading the AI revolution and leaving the rest of the world behind. End of story… right? Well, that depends on which economy you’re talking about. It’s almost nonsensical to talk about “the economy,” because it’s...

There is no other way to say it: today’s Democrats have a love-affair with criminals, violence, and vulgarity. Thus, they clearly favor illegal immigrants over citizens, criminals over the law-abiding, and chaos over the Constitution. The examples are legion, inexhaustible. To wit: The man charged with assaulting a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent with a Subway sandwich is a former DOJ employee, an ex-Swamp dweller. Hunter Biden recently claimed that Melania Trump met her husband through Jeffrey Epstein. Hunter dismissed First Lady Melania Trump’s demand for an apology for his statements linking the former super model to Jeffrey Epstein....

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is paying just 3% on both his Maryland and California homes since refinancing his mortgages in 2020, even lower than the 5.625% rate at the center of a federal mortgage-fraud investigation against him, newly released documents reveal. The Department of Justice is accusing the junior senator from California of claiming two homes as primary residences for more than a decade – to score lower mortgage rates and property taxes. A grand jury in Maryland is currently weighing a criminal indictment against the former 12-term congressman. The newly released annual financial documents show that even after Schiff...

This weekend, the path of Erin is expected to pass north of the northern Leeward Islands, the NHC says. Impacts of the hurricane have already been felt throughout the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico but they are not expecting a direct hit. The Caribbean Islands should see about 2–4 inches through Sunday and totals could reach up to six inches. As for where the storm is likely headed, models are in agreement that Erin will turn north this weekend into early next week, staying well east of the U.S. But people on the East Coast of Florida...

Blackfeet Chief Two Guns White Calf was my great uncle and a great American icon. Americans know his face: he was the face of the Washington Redskins for 48 years, until he was cancelled in 2020. Americans once knew his story. White Calf defended tribal traditions in our Blackfeet homeland in Montana, where many of us still live today. He went to Washington D.C. where he forced the U.S. government to honor Indian treaties. He served as a model for the U.S. Mint’s famous 1913 “Indian head” nickel. White Calf’s face is still a collector’s item. ... White Calf became...

SpaceX's recent launch involved another successful landing of its Falcon 9 booster, but this time marked a Falcon Heavy center core booster launching and landing as a single-stick Falcon 9 rocket.The booster, designated B1091, powered the KF-02 mission, deploying 24 satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation into low Earth orbit. This event marks a technical first for the company, blending elements of its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy programs...At first glance, the launch appeared to be a standard Falcon 9 mission. However, B1091 is no ordinary booster. As revealed by SpaceX Vice President of Falcon and Dragon, Jon Edwards,...

@KobeissiLetter Are we on the verge of a generational jobs crisis? The 3-month average youth underemployment rate jumped to 17% in July, the highest since 2020. This metric includes unemployed individuals aged 16–24. Now, the youth underemployment rate has climbed by ~5 percentage points over the last 2 years. This is nearly in line with the peak during the 2001 recession and the early stages of the 2008 Financial Crisis. This also signals the US labor market could weaken further, with young workers typically the first to feel the impact when the economy turns. The job market is rapidly deteriorating.

Cop allows an obese black woman to punch him in the face multiple times. Then the cop's partner ends the assault.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An unidentified man at a local Subway location was seen asking the Sandwich Artist on duty if they had a sandwich that has good stopping power that's also compact and easy to conceal. The customer arrived at the restaurant and reportedly asked the worker behind the counter if she had anything that would be effective for home defense. "I'm looking for something lightweight and easy to conceal that I can still pull out in a pinch to stop a threat," the man reportedly said. "Something manageable that won't kick too hard but has sufficient stopping power." "No...

Forget everything you think you know about baseball — the Colorado Rockies are not just a team; they are a cosmic force poised to revolutionize the sport in ways the world has never seen. The Rockies are the most electrifying team in baseball! They don’t simply compete; they transcend the game itself. A breakout year for a franchise on the verge of dominance! The Rockies are poised to surprise the baseball world and claim the World Series title due to a combination of emerging talent, strategic improvements, and their unique home-field advantage. True, they’ve taken their fans on one hell...

The owners of a Los Fresnos Bakery were convicted Wednesday on charges of harboring undocumented employees within their business. Owners Leonardo Baez-Lara and Nora Avila-Guel will be sentenced on Nov. 18, 2025. They are permanent, legal residents but could lose their residency status following their convictions. They are currently out on bond pending their sentencing. ... Baez-Lara and Avila-Guel were arrested in February after a federal raid led to eight employees being detained. The trial started on Monday. During closing arguments, the government said the owners of Abby's Bakery had an agreement with the undocumented workers to secretly shelter them...

From Von Greyerz Gold, Zurich Friday, August 15, 2025 In an informal yet compelling conversation, two veterans of the precious metals space -- Egon von Greyerz and James Turk -- bring needed financial and historical perspective to evolving (and eerily foreseeable) cracks in the global financial system. They reminisce upon a discussion they enjoyed nearly 15 years prior. Not surprisingly, much of what was discussed and warned about then (currency debasement, trapped banks, dangerous credit expansion, and rising gold) is playing out dramatically in real-time today. ... Dispatch continues below ... Turk, having equally foresaw the U.S. dollar's direct march...

After three years of war, with the commentariat on both sides eagerly predicting the looming collapse of the enemy, it behooves one to develop a prudent aversion to histrionic predictions. However, it seems fairly obvious that the war in Ukraine is at a critical juncture, and August 2025 will receive considerable play in retrospective accounts of the conflict, as perhaps the last opportunity for Ukraine to cut a deal and slither out of its strategic grave. On Friday, August 15, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are slated to meet in Alaska to discuss steps to end the war. Whether those...

Any agreement between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin following their historic summit could leave Ukraine in an impossible position after three years of brutal, grinding war for survival. While no deal was struck when they met in Alaska on Friday, the two leaders are believed to have discussed the possibility of Ukraine giving up territory in exchange for an end to the fighting. That would effectively be an annexation of sovereign Ukrainian territory by Russia by force. Russia currently occupies around 19% of Ukraine, including Crimea and the parts of the Donbas region it seized prior to the full-scale invasion...

While on a mission to conduct diplomatic discussions in the United Kingdom earlier this month, US Vice-President JD Vance and his children went fishing with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy. Both Vance and his children broke the law because they didn't have a fishing license. Lammy called the lack of a license "an administrative error, which I made up for it by purchasing it later." Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif) called for an investigation, saying "this latest example of lawbreaking by a member of the Trump Administration must not go unpunished. That the Vice-President of the United States of America would...