President Donald Trump has reportedly urged Speaker Mike Johnson to raise the top individual tax rate from 37 percent to 39.6 percent for incomes over $2.5 million for a single filer, or $5 million for joint filers. This was suggested as a way to close the carried interest loophole in order to fund middle-class tax cuts. But the middle-class tax cuts haven’t happened yet, and most are still struggling and live paycheck to paycheck. So right now, this looks like another theft scheme from the ruling class. Don’t Tax the Rich. End the Fed! At the end of the day,…
Author: Tommy Grant
As a last major event while still on the ground in Saudi Arabia, and before embarking for Qatar, President Donald Trump met with Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa. This signifies a monumental, historic shift in the entire regional order. We are witnessing the final blood soaked after-effects of the culmination of what was laid out in Seymour Hersh’s The Redirection, a policy which began all the way back in the Bush administration. Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, got his start early in the Syrian war as an emissary of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and later became the founder of Syrian…
When you’re out in the wild, things can go from “this is an adventure” to “this is a survival situation” incredibly fast. Maybe you got lost on a hike, or the weather turned bad unexpectedly, and now you’re on your own. Fear is a normal reaction in situations like these. You will feel it but you must be prepared to manage it effectively. What follows are the fundamentals of wilderness survival, and how you can dramatically increase your chances of escaping a scenario that can spiral into a tragedy faster than you think. Do you choose to ignore these essential…
SANTA FE, N.M. — Several hundred immigrants have been charged with unauthorized access to a newly designated militarized zone along the southern U.S. border in New Mexico and western Texas since the Department of Justice introduced the new approach in late April.President Donald Trump’s administration has transferred oversight of a strip of land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the military while authorizing U.S. troops to temporarily detain immigrants in the country illegally — though there’s no record of troops exercising that authority as U.S. Customs and Border Protection conducts arrests. The designated national defense areas are overseen by U.S. Army…
The head of the largest U.S. combatant command praised the fires capabilities that the Army’s multidomain task forces bring to a potential conflict in the Indo-Pacific region.The service’s task forces are the “centerpiece” of how the joint force denies Chinese military access to key areas, said Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Tuesday at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual Land Forces Pacific conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.Paparo said such units, combined with the Army’s firepower, enable land forces to contribute fires that counter China’s military aggression in the region.“We’re facing a profoundly consequential moment here in the…
A Marine fighter attack squadron recently deployed to Japan, joining three other squadrons in an effort to support operations in the Indo-Pacific, according to a release from the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.Marine Fighter Attack Squadron, or VMFA-211 — an F-35B Lightning II squadron hailing from Yuma, Arizona — arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, on Saturday. The newest additions, also known as the “Wake Island Avengers,” will fold into Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, to assist with deployments in the region.“The squadron joins VMFA-121 and VMFA-242, MAG-12’s two permanently stationed F-35B squadrons, alongside VMFA-214, another…
When the Oppressor isn’t on, the Cloak is still there, killing flash.We take a quick look at Strike Industries’ Oppressor Lite V2 blast-forward muzzle device.Owning and shooting an AR-15 pistol, or SBR, is fun. Well, it starts out fun, but the muzzle blast gets to be a bit much after a short while. Indoors, it’s even worse.And, if you happen to be working in a team environment … well, others will grow to hate you.Quickly.I’ve even heard of SWAT team members being retired with medical disability due to the muzzle blast of an SBR too close to them. What do…
Navy leaders are looking for brand-new types of munitions to ensure they have enough firepower for future conflicts. “Precision-guided, long-range munitions like Tomahawk, Long Range Anti-Ship Missile, the heavyweight torpedo, all those ammunitions we need to increase production on,” he said. “But I’m also of the mind that we need to look at other vendors. They may not be able to produce the same exact specifications, but they might be able to produce a missile that’s effective, which is more effective than no missile.”But the munitions shortfalls drew extra attention, given recent military operations against Houthi forces in the Red…
A hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., that hasn’t worked for more than three years may have contributed to another near miss shortly after the U.S. Army resumed flying helicopters in the area for the first time since January’s deadly midair collision between a passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter, Sen. Ted Cruz said at a hearing Wednesday.The Federal Aviation Administration official in charge of air traffic controllers, Frank McIntosh, confirmed the agency didn’t even know the hotline hadn’t been working since March 2022 until after the latest near miss. He said civilian controllers…
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog under the title: Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Here, And They Are A Giant Step Toward The Dystopian “Digital Prison” Society The Elite Have Planned For Us Would having your brain connected to the Internet 24 hours a day be heaven, or would it be hell? Today, a very large portion of the population is seemingly glued to their phones or their computers much of the time. But soon, implantable brain-computer interfaces will allow those people to stay connected to their devices all the time. Apple has partnered…