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American Military Dependent on CCP, as China Learns U.S. Military Secrets from Russia

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As China becomes America’s military manufacturing hub, Russia has begun sharing whatever top-secret information it has about America’s military with China. A report from a think tank group called Govini reveals China is becoming a larger presence in the U.S. defense industry. For instance, China supplies America’s military with 40 percent of her semiconductors.

Representatives John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), the chair and ranking member of the House Select Committee on China, want answers from the Biden administration about what U.S. military “secrets” have been passed on from Russia to China given the nature of their closer relationship.

Specifically, they want to have “an assessment regarding information Russia has gained about the capabilities of U.S. weapons provided to Ukraine and the degree to which this information has been shared with the People’s Republic of China…”

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(WND News Center) — A new report details how deep the People’s Republic of China has embedded itself within the U.S. supply chain, especially for military machinery. While U.S. lawmakers have been calling for an end to this for some years, China’s domination continues unabated.

According to the report, China’s presence in the U.S. supply chain has been steadily rising for the better part of almost 20 years. From 2005 to 2023, Chinese manufacturers in the U.S. supply chain have grown from around 12,000 to almost 45,000.

The use of forced labor and dangerous working conditions gives China the ability to quickly churn out products, while keeping cost savings at a premium.

Between 2014 and 2023, the data presents a concerning trend of China outpacing U.S. supply chains across almost all industries, by 1,800 percent in some instances – including electronics, transportation, materials and chemicals, and industrial equipment.

A large number of Chinese semiconductors are used in critical military platforms, accounting for around 40 percent of all U.S. Department of Defense weapons systems and infrastructure, and are further linked to military supply chains such as Patriot air-defense missiles and B-2 bombers.

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Microsoft Claims it has Created an AI That’s Too Scary for the General Public

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Microsoft claims it has developed an AI speech generator that is able to mimic real speech of real people to such a high degree that they dare not release it to the public. The name of the AI tool is VALL-E 2, and it can get your speech patterns and tone down with just a few seconds of audio recording of your voice.

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In a world where technological advancements are often heralded with great fanfare and widespread availability, Microsoft has taken an unusually cautious step. The tech giant has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) speech generator so convincing and advanced that it has decided to withhold it from public release.

VALL-E 2 is an AI marvel capable of mimicking human speech with uncanny accuracy, using just a few seconds of audio. Representing a significant leap in text-to-speech (TTS) technology, Microsoft’s researchers boast that it achieves “human parity” in generating speech — meaning its output is virtually indistinguishable from a human’s voice.

This extraordinary capability has been made possible through a couple of groundbreaking features. The first of these is “Repetition Aware Sampling”, which ensures that VALL-E 2 avoids the pitfalls of monotonous speech by addressing repetitions of “tokens” — the small units of language like words or syllables. This feature prevents the AI from getting stuck in a loop of sounds, making its speech flow more naturally.

Nanoplastics could be Breaking Down Nutritional Value of Breast Milk

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Researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso have discovered that nano-plastics and forever chemicals found in many U.S. products could be interfering with some of the health benefits of breast milk by breaking down a protein called an alpha helix.

One of the researchers, Dr. Mahesh Narayan, said “By understanding the molecular mechanisms of how nanoplastics and forever chemicals disrupt cellular functions, scientists can develop safer alternatives to these materials… “We weren’t expecting them all to have this similar impact on the alpha helix, It was a complete coincidence.”

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UTEP researchers found that nanoplastics and PFAS chemicals significantly alter proteins essential for human development, like those in breast milk and myoglobin, potentially leading to developmental defects and other health issues. These findings underscore the urgent need for safer material alternatives and inform future environmental policies.

UTEP study reveals that both nanoplastics and forever chemicals modify crucial proteins in breast milk and infant formulas.

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have achieved important advancements in the study of nanoplastics and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also referred to as forever chemicals. Their research demonstrates how these compounds can modify the structure and function of biomolecules. Specifically, the team found that these substances can change proteins present in human breast milk and infant formulas, which could potentially lead to developmental problems later on.

Nanoplastics and forever chemicals are manmade compounds present throughout the environment; a series of recent studies have linked them to numerous negative health outcomes. While nanoplastics originate primarily as a result of the degradation of larger plastic materials, like water bottles and food packaging, forever chemicals are found in various products like cookware and clothing.

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Elon Musk and EU Engage in Costly War

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Elon Musk’s X Platform is on the verge of facing fines in the hundreds of millions of euros after EU tech regulators ruled they had violated their digital advertising regulations. Musk revealed that the EU wanted to do a secret deal with the company to ban and throttle accounts and posts according to what EU officials told them to do.

Musk claims they wanted this done secretly so that the public wasn’t aware it was being censored as a direct result of government direction of private enterprise. Musk has declared his intentions to sue the EU Commission, communicating with them directly through X, “We look forward to a very public battle in court.” To wit, the Commissioner, Thierry Breton, responded “Be our guest.”

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EU offered X secret censorship deal – Musk

X (formerly Twitter) is facing persecution by the European Union because it rejected Brussels’ demand to secretly censor opinions on the platform, its owner Elon Musk has revealed.

The EU announced on Friday that it considered X in violation of its Digital Services Act (DSA) and intended to levy massive fines against the company unless it changed its practices.

“The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us,” Musk wrote in response. “The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not.”

“We look forward to a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth,” he added.

Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, after voicing displeasure over widespread censorship on the social media platform. He has since unbanned most blocked accounts, including that of former President Donald Trump.

When Musk announced “the bird is freed,” one of the responses came from Thierry Breton, the EU Commissioner for Internal Market.

“In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules,” Breton said, with a reference to the DSA.

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EU charges X with deceiving users via blue checkmark, draws Musk’s ire

Elon Musk’s social media company X breached European Union online content rules and its blue checkmark deceives users, EU tech regulators ruled on Friday in a finding that could lead to a hefty fine and significant changes in how it operates.
The charges by the European Commission, the first issued under the Digital Services Act (DSA), follow a seven-month long investigation. The new rules require very large online platforms and search engines to do more to tackle illegal content and risks to public security.
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Elon Musk to sue the EU Commission after accusations of X breaching digital rulebook

Elon Musk said he will take the European Commission to court after the EU executive accused social media platform X of breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA) over its verified accounts policy and lapses in transparency, in preliminary findings released on Friday (12 July).

“We look forward to a very public battle in court,” X Chairmain and CTO Musk said in an X post late on the same day. He was responding to an earlier post by Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton’s post on the Commission’s preliminary findings on X.

“Be our guest,” Breton responded on the platform within the hour. X wanted to learn how it can settle with the Commission, an option under the DSA, he said, implying that the company never followed up with commitments, which in turn led to the accusation of non-compliance.

On Friday morning, the Commission released preliminary findings on X’s non-compliance under the DSA. These are the Commissions’ first findings under the landmark content moderation regulation, Margrethe Vestager, the Commission’s executive vice-president, said on Friday.

 

 

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California School Violates Parents’ Rights, Hides “Trans” Kids’ New Identities

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Capistrano Unified School District in Orange County, CA has a school policy that “protects” the identities of students from their parents when they choose to adopt non-cis, non-binary, or trans identities. The nonprofit law firm Center for American Liberty learned of the policy, called “The Individual Transition Plan” through a FOIA request.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Southern California school district trains counselors to help students hide their transgender identity from their concerned parents, according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal.

Capistrano Unified School District in southern Orange County, California, allows students to change their name and gender in school records without parental permission.

The Individual Transition Plan, obtained by the nonprofit law firm Center for American Liberty through a California Public Records Act request, asks the counselor filling it out whether the child’s parents “need to know” about their child’s transition. It later asks the student to respond with “yes” or “no” to the statement: “My parents/guardians are aware of my transition.”

Parental signatures are optional to finalize the transition plan. The form is not publicly available on the district’s website.

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Meta Unshackles Trump from Facebook, Instagram Chains

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Mark Zuckerberg has decided to remove all the restriction on President Donald J Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, which were restored two years ago to limited status after they had been banned on January 6, 2021.

The move came just before the assassination attempt on Trump, but no doubt Facebook’s decision to follow the DNC party narrative that January 6 was an insurrection led by President Trump in an effort to overthrow the election (as opposed to legally challenging the results, which is what the President was doing) helped contribute significantly to the climate that has created such violent action in the first place.

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Facebook and Instagram parent company, Meta, is moving to remove restrictions on former President Donald Trump’s accounts, according to a report that was published Friday.

The limitations were imposed after the end of a two-year ban linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by Trump’s supporters. But a Facebook spokesperson told the Axios news website that it is reversing course to ensure fairness between candidates heading into November’s White House race.

The limitations on Trump’s account included stricter penalties if he violated the company’s rules.

“In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear from the nominees for president on the same basis,” Meta’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said in a statement.

Imran Khan’s Party to get Banned from Next Pakistani Election

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With a WEF member at the helm in Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Poland appears poised to significantly increase its ties with embattled Ukraine, entering in to an agreement to develop joint air defenses, as well as integrating their arms industries. The deal was signed in Warsaw, Poland on July 8, 2024.

Imran Khan’s Party to get Banned from Next Pakistani Election – The current administration of Pakistan’s government, led by Shehbaz Sharif, is about to declare the former jailed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party should be banned from the next spate of elections.

Information Minister, Attaullah Tarar, stated “The government has decided that the federal government will move a case to ban the PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf).” He also added that there was “credible evidence” Khan’s party received foreign funds illegally, among other claims of criminal activity by the former PM’s party.

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The Shehbaz Sharif-led government in Pakistan has decided to ban Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by the jailed former PM Imran Khan.

This decision was announced by Pakistan’s Information Minister, Attaullah Tarar, in a press conference on Monday. “The government has decided that the federal government will move a case to ban the PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf),” Tarar told AFP. Tarar cited “credible evidence” for the ban, pointing to the foreign funding case, the May 9 riots, the cipher episode, and a resolution passed in the US as grounds for this action. The government plans to refer the case to the Supreme Court.

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Jack Smith Gets Fired by Cannon

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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has ruled that the appointment of special council Jack Smith by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland was unconstitutional, calling the cases cited by Jack Smith’s office to back up his claim irrelevant to the constitutional issues at hand. This means that the classified documents charges against Trump are necessarily thrown out.

Cannon concluded, “The Framers gave Congress a pivotal role in the appointment of principal and inferior officers. That role cannot be usurped by the Executive Branch or diffused elsewhere — whether in this case or in another case, whether in times of heightened national need or not.”

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WASHINGTON — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump in Florida dismissed the prosecution on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon brings a stunning and abrupt conclusion to a criminal case that at the time it was filed was widely regarded as the most perilous of all the legal threats that the Republican former president confronted. Trump faced dozens of felony counts accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and obstructing FBI efforts to get them back.

Defense lawyers filed multiple challenges to the case, including a legally technical one that asserted that special counsel Jack Smith had been illegally appointed under the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which governs the appointment of certain government positions, and that his office was improperly funded by the Justice Department.

Trump Chooses Vance as VP

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Donald J Trump chose Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate on the first day of the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024. Vance was once a virulent critic of Trump but had changed his tune, becoming one of Trump’s staunchest supporters. Vance is 39, a stark contrast to the age of his running mate, Trump, as well as Biden.

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MILWAUKEE — Anticipation around former President Donald Trump tapping Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential nominee not only concerned the next four months before the 2024 election and the next four years, should he and Vance win in November.

But Trump’s decision on Monday, announced during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, could also define the GOP for the four or eight years after that should Vance become the party’s prohibitive favorite in 2028.

In tapping Vance, 39, the youngest vice president since eventual President Richard Nixon, Trump has provided his Make America Great Again movement and America First policy platform with an opportunity to continue after his second and last term, instead of picking a more centrist, compromise candidate as an appeal to more establishment Republicans.

Trump, a legacy-minded real estate mogul and marketing expert who rose to national prominence before The Apprentice TV series because of his branded buildings, has anointed an heir apparent in tapping Vance, according to Republican strategist Cesar Conda.

GOP convention divisions fade in wake of Trump shooting– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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MILWAUKEE – The risk of political division at this week’s GOP convention is fading in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday.

Moments before the former president was shot at, with one bullet grazing his ear, Trump declared to a crowd of rallygoers that his nomination would be a moment of unity for the party.

“The world will see a vibrant Republican Party that is bigger, stronger, more confident, and more united than ever before,” he said in Butler, Pennsylvania.

But Republicans were going into the convention, a four-day affair that begins on Monday in Milwaukee, with lingering divisions over the party’s official platform and a bitter primary that revealed a sizable rift among Republican voters.

Elon Musk fully endorses Donald Trump after shooting and blames Secret Service for attack– en.as.com

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The owner of social media site X, Elon Musk, has opened up on his feelings regarding the recent incident which saw former President of the United States, Donald Trump, become the victim of a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump was attending a presidential rally in Butler when shots were heard coming in from his right hand side. Amidst screams and confusion, the former leader was quickly told to ‘get down’ by Secret Service agents, who piled on top of him in an effort to protect him from the incoming fire.

Musk fuels fire of ‘deliberate’ conspiracy theory

Trump Arrives Milwaukee, Says I am Supposed To Be Dead– www.tvcnews.tv

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Former US President Donald Trump has said he is “supposed to be dead” after Saturday night’s assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.

In one of his first interviews since the incident, Mr Trump told conservative US media he felt that he had been saved “by luck or by God”.

A spectator was killed in the attack, while two other people were seriously injured. The gunman, who also died, has been named as Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Trump says he’ll ‘bring country together’ at Republican convention after shooting.

Mr Trump described the moment he looked up at the crowd after realising he had been shot.

Speaking as he prepared to board a flight to the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is expected to be confirmed as the party’s candidate for president, Mr Trump said he now had a “chance to bring the country together”.

BREAKING: Biden says voters must solve issues at the ‘battle box,’ offers prayers for ‘former Trump’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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President Joe Biden addressed Americans for the second time on Sunday evening, instructing voters how to feel and behave in the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Saturday.

“We’re neighbors, we’re friends, coworkers, citizens,” he told his “fellow Americans,” saying that “we’re not enemies.” He went on to say “we must stand together,” saying it was time to “lower the temperature” and “take a step back.”

“Thankfully,” he said, “former Trump is not injured” [sic], he said, noting again, as he did this morning and last evening in a post, that they spoke on the phone. And he again offered condolences to the family of Corey Comperatore, who was killed by the would-be assassin’s bullet. Biden had no update on the investigation, saying that it was ongoing and that was still no information as to what the motivation of Thomas Matthew Cooks, the 20-year-old Pennsylvania gunman, was.

‘Morning Joe’ Pulled Off the Air in Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt, and the Reason Is Telling – RedState– redstate.com

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As fans of MSNBC woke up on Monday morning, many no doubt waiting to be delivered the hottest takes from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, they were instead greeted by generic news desk coverage. That’s because executives at the network made the call to pull “Morning Joe” off the air in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The reason why is telling.

According to CNN, which reported the development, this wasn’t a case of routine preemption. After all, “Morning Joe” has been left intact through essentially every other breaking news story since its inception. Instead, the decision came from a much darker place: MSNBC couldn’t trust that Joe, Mika, and its stable of lunatics wouldn’t compare Trump to Hitler again.

A person familiar with the matter told CNN that the decision was made to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television that could be used to assail the program and network as a whole. Given the breaking news nature of the story, the person said, it made more sense to continue airing rolling breaking news coverage in the fraught political moment.

Trump Assassination Attempt Biggest Security Failure ‘Since 9-11’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Alex Berenson, author of the book, “Pandemia”, said the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is the biggest security “failure since 9-11.”

“LOL dummy it was the biggest failure since 9/11. Or maybe the Kennedy assassination,” Berenson posted on X, in response to a post saying the assassination attempt was the biggest security failure since January 6, 2021.

“I am so tired with lefty media pretending Jan. 6 was a near-coup. It sucked, it was horrible and embarrassing, but it was closer to a Capitol tour gone wrong for 98% of the ‘insurrectionists,’” posted Berenson.

BREAKING UPDATE: Secret Service Flagged Rooftop Next to Trump’s Pennsylvania Event as Security Risk Days Before Rally, Yet Failed to Secure It– conservativeroof.com

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According to a new report by NBC News, the Secret Service identified the rooftop next to Trump’s event in Butler, Pennsylvania as a security vulnerability just days before the rally.

The agents failed to secure the building, allowing a man with a rifle to climb onto the roof, position his scope, and fire several shots at President Trump.

A bullet grazed Trump’s right ear, while two rally attendees were wounded. One Trump supporter was fatally shot.

President Trump told former W

Quantico Reportedly Can’t Access Shooter’s Phone, Yet Claims ‘He Acted Alone’—Tech Mogul Elon Musk Responds | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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Biden’s FBI has announced that they believe the would-be assassin at former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Saturday acted alone.

The statement comes despite the bureau’s inability to access data from the suspect’s cell phone, which has been sent to Quantico for further examination.

Kevin Rojek, FBI Special Agent in Charge Pittsburgh, said that the information currently available to the bureau suggests that there is no further public safety concern. However, he also noted that the investigation is still in its early stages, according to Fox News.

“We have not identified an ideology associated with the subject, but I want to remind everyone that we’re still very early in this investigation,” Rojek said during a press conference on Sunday.

The FBI is ac

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20-year-old Trump rally shooter, identified by FBI– www.washingtonpost.com

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BETHEL PARK, Pa. — The FBI said Sunday that investigators have not yet identified any ideology fueling the gunman who fired at former president Donald Trump at a packed campaign rally, and they believe he carried out the horrifying assassination attempt on his own.

The gunman was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, a strong math student in high school who was working as a nursing home employee.

Seconds after he opened fire from a rooftop outside the rally’s security perimeter Saturday evening, using an AR-style rifle that was legally purchased by his father, he was fatally shot by the Secret Service, authorities said.

“At this time, the information that we have indicates that the shooter acted alone and that there are currently no public safety concerns,” FBI special agent in charge Kevin Rojek said in a telephone briefing. “At present we have not identified an ideology associated with the subject, but I want to remind everyone that we’re still very early in this investigation.”

Boeing Discussing DOJ Guilty Plea With US Defense Department– simpleflying.com

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After reports that the company had agreed to pleading guilty to conspiring to defraud the US government, Boeing is holding talks with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to determine how the move could impact its portfolio of defense contracts and future opportunities.


Defense is a major sector for Boeing, with more than one-third of the company’s revenue last year coming from government defense contracts.

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NATO’S First Fiefdom

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NATO’S FIRST FIEFDOM

MIA REPORT

Thursday, July 11, 2024

It appears that NATO has told Russia that Ukraine is, in fact, an administrative territory of the global alliance known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The red-hot situation in Ukraine is now on nuclear meltdown. The Republicans failed to arrest Garland while they succeeded in passing a Voter ID bill. The news is still dominated with election stories as the factions continue to raise the rhetoric and the action in an already tumultuous contest.

 

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NATO TELLS RUSSIA, UKRAINE IS OURS! – NATO leaders met in Washington, DC and emerged with a joint statement that said Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to becoming a member of NATO. The statement declares that Ukraine “has become increasingly interoperable and politically integrated with the alliance.”

The event was hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden. NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg was there as well as newly seated UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who also just approved UK weapons being used to strike deeper into Russia than it had previously allowed before.   Biden stated “We know Putin won’t stop at Ukraine. But make no mistake — Ukraine can and will stop Putin. Especially with our full, collective support. They have our full support.”

The move is equivalent to Mexico joining an Iranian-Hamas-Russian alliance. It makes Ukraine a permanent existential threat so long as it continues to exist. It also appears to be an announcement that Ukraine is effectively a vassal state of NATO, a globalist fiefdom in the nearly openly transparently sense of the term. It is yet another dramatic escalation of the showdown in Ukraine.

 

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COMER WANTS TO KNOW, WHOSE RUNNING AMERICA? – House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has issued subpoenas to three White House staffers he has identified as key people that are protecting a non-functioning Joe Biden from the public.

He stated “I am issuing subpoenas today for White House staff Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, and Ashley Williams to appear for depositions. The White House has shielded these three key aides from testifying about President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and now we’ve learned through reporting these same aides are also seeking to cover up President Biden’s declining cognitive state inside the White House… it appears as though Tomasini has firsthand knowledge of the extent to which President Biden is personally carrying out the duties of his office and whether he is capable of doing so.”

The Chairman is being far more charitable than this writer would be in assuming that we are dealing with a declining cognitive state rather than a declined cognitive state, in terms of actual ability to perform the duties of President, since before he was elected. What we are seeing now is the failure by the best doctors in the world to medicate up a dying Biden enough to make him briefly semi-cognizant in ways that give the media marketers of the DNC-CCP, the mainstream media, some plausible deniability.

Now, even that is gone, and the rats are looking to leave a sinking ship, which isn’t losing the 2024 Presidential election (so long as they can take back the House majority), it’s getting Biden out fast before anyone goes beyond what Comer is asking. Comer is looking for evidence Biden is unfit now, but others want to know who knew before the 2020 election that they were propping up a juiced up dying man. Comer doesn’t appear ready to ask those types of questions just yet.

DOD DECLARES REJECTING UNBORN BABY MURDER MAKES YOU A TERRORIST – The Department of Defense has informed the public this past Wednesday, July 10, that Pro-Life groups are terrorist organizations. They revealed this information at Fort Liberty’s Directorate of Emergency Services.

Citizen journalist Sam Shoemate on X revealed this fact in X posts where he said “An anti-terrorism brief was held on Fort Liberty (Bragg) today where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as ‘terrorist organizations.’ The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East.” The slide listed pro-life organizations and labeled them “TERRORIST GROUPS.”

The flipping of morality from one of finding shock at the very idea of murdering unborn children to finding shock at the very idea of being opposed to murdering unborn children is indicative of how far we’ve come as a people from valuing the sanctity of each individual life. Seeing our security institutions so dominated with such dark moralities should give all of us Americans pause, for if the government now openly seeks to criminalize the very thought of not sub-humanizing life, what chance is there it will value your human life?

ELON PREPARES FOR SECOND NEURALINK PATIENT, PROMISES “SUPERPOWERS” – Elon Musk has announced plans to insert another Neuralink implant into another patient. He also announced he intends on Neuralink to eventually give humans “superpowers.” Musk hopes to make AI a friend and not a threat to humanity, promising to develop “a closer symbiosis between human intelligence and digital intelligence.”

Imagine being able to manipulate much of the automated world around you with your mind alone. Imagine having perfect memory recall and the capacity to hold more facts in your mind within a single thought. These are just some of the things the hyperbolic PT Barnum of our day is promising in his push to gain traction with Neuralink.

 

ANTI-LIBERTY AGIT-PROP WATCH

TRUMP-ALIGNED REPUBLICANS MAKE NONCITIZEN VOTING – ALREADY ILLEGAL IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS – A TOP 2024 TARGET – kake.com

KAKE ABC News misinforms audience with headline that suggests GOP SAVE Act is about making non-citizen voting illegal rather than what it really is, requiring voter ID to ASSURE non-citizens aren’t voting

RUSSIA SEEKS TO BOOST TRUMP IN 2024 ELECTION, U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – wsj.com

U.S. intel community ramps up “Russia Loves Trump” hoax in effort to aid Democrats win key swing states; their action appears on its face to be intentional election interference, which is a federal felony violation

DISNEY SECRETLY FUNDS FLORIDA PUBLIC PROGRAMS AFTER DESANTIS DEFUNDS ENTIRE STATE – insidethemagic.net

Inside the Magic in running for most hyperbolic headline of the year with headline that equates defunding an at program for $15 million with defunding the entire state of Florida

COLBERT CLAIMS GOP IS ‘CHRISTO-FASCIST,’ WHITMER IMPLIES TRUMP WANTED HER KILLED – newsbusters.org

Leftist “Thought Leaders” continue to push hysterical lies intended to frighten people to not realize they’re voting for a party that hates them using Christian Devil and Orange Man Villain boogeymen

 

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM GOES NATIONAL, TRUMP REMAINS AN ANTI-ABORTION RADICAL – dailykos.com

Daily Kos uses Christian Devil boogeyman and Orange Man Evil boogeyman to frighten people to not realize they’re voting for a party that hates them

REPUBLICANS PREVIEW THE VOTER SUPPRESSION POLICIES THEY’LL ENACT IF TRUMP WINS – Mother Jones

Mother Jones announces to world it believes requiring Americans to prove they are who they say they are when they vote is “voter suppression”

DONALD TRUMP’S FAKE REJECTION OF PROJECT 2025 HAS ANGERED HIS BIGGEST FANS – salon.com

Salon continues to spread misinformation that Donald Trump ever had anything to do with Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which triggers leftists because it’s pro-family, pro-Christian, and pro-heterosexuality

 

RIGHT-WING MEDIA’S RECYCLED ELECTION CONSPIRACY THEORY: DEMOCRATS ARE USING THE DMV TO FACILITATE NONCITIZEN VOTING – mediamatters.org

Media Matters denies left’s efforts to use DMV to “register” Non-Citizens to Vote in Elections

 

TOP HEADLINES

GOP HOUSE PASSES SAVE ACT OVER THE OBJECTION OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY – A bill that would make it mandatory for all Federal elections to require Voter ID to assure each person voting was who they claim they are AND is a U.S. citizen passed the House by a vote of 221-198, with all Republicans voting for it and only 5 Democrats joining them.

U.S. HOUSE LEAVES ITSELF UNFUNDED, FOR NOW – By a vote of 205-215, a bill that would have funded the activity of the U.S. House failed to pass. The bill failed due to 10 Republicans defecting and joining nearly all the Democrats that voted against the bill. The move leaves the GOP in a fix regarding how it can go forward with some of its investigations.

REPUBLICANS ALLOW MERRICK GARLAND INHERENT CONTEMPT MEASURE TO FAIL – Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) failed to see her measure, an Inherent Contempt resolution against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, pass, it was voted down with 204 voting yes and 210 voting no. 12 Republicans were absent for the vote and 4 actually voted against it.

U.S. INTELLIGENCE SPREADS NARRATIVE RUSSIANS LOOKING TO HELP TRUMP IN SWING STATES – DNC-controlled media are using statements from unnamed intelligence officials to spread the narrative that the Russians are using social media to “covertly” affect U.S. elections in swing states in an effort to once again get Trump elected President.

One official is quoted with saying, “We are beginning to see Russia target specific voter demographics, promote divisive narratives and denigrate specific politicians. (Russia is) undertaking a whole-of-government approach to influence the election, including the presidential race, Congress and public opinion.”

CHINA SENDS BIGGEST AIR AMADA EVER ACROSS U.S.’S TAIWAN STRAIT LINE – The Chinese military ran a military exercise that saw it send 56 war birds across the lines the United States has drawn to divide the waters of Taiwan from the waters of China down the Tiawan Strait. This is the most amount of war birds China has ever sent across that proverbial line in the straits.

HOUSE INTERIM STAFF REPORT EXPOSES DNC-CORPORATE CABAL TO CENSOR OPPOSITION – The House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report that maps out the parties and methods being used to censor voices that don’t align with the DNC party’s core “values” and narratives.

The report is titled “GARM’s Harm: How the World’s Biggest Brands Seek to Control Online Speech,” and it exposes the central hub of the government-corporate hub, Global Alliance for Responsible Media.

TRUMP LOOKING TO LAUNCH OWN STREAMING SERVICE – Appealing to the anti-cancel-culture audience, President Donald J Trump’s media company, the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) is looking to enter the streaming market, promising to build own streaming service that “cannot be cancelled.”

MOVE OVER MRNA, NANOPARTICLE VACCINES ARE ON THE WAY – A study published in Nature Communications presents a plausible scenario for the creation of vaccines that can be created with nanoparticles. The methodology proposed specifically targets influenza-class viruses.

HEADLINES

Joe Biden Threatens to Block Bill Requiring Proof of U.S. Citizenship to Vote– conservativeroof.com

The $37 billion reason Marco Rubio could be Trump’s VP pick– www.rawstory.com

Poll Crushes Biden’s Anti-Trump ‘Convicted Felon’ Narrative as Americans Raise Concerns of Weaponization of Government– slaynews.com

SAVE Act Heads To House Floor To Stop Noncitizen Vote– thefederalist.com

U.S. ‘Misery Index’ Has Soared Under Biden’s Disastrous Presidency– lidblog.com

New York in play as ‘battleground state’ after decades of Democrat dominance | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

Dem Megadonor Is Backing Suit To Silence Election Journalism– thefederalist.com

Kari Lake Gets Terrific News After Trailing For Months– trendingpoliticsnews.com

China launches investigation in response to EU probes of solar, wind power and other products– abcnews.go.com

Jeff Bezos sells another $863.5M worth of Amazon shares (NASDAQ:AMZN)– seekingalpha.com

Elon Musk Wins Twitter Layoff Lawsuit, Dodging $500 Million Payout– www.pcmag.com

Temu Breaks With Direct-From-China Strategy In Threat to Amazon – The Information– www.theinformation.com

Disney faces strike threat as thousands of California workers vote on walkout | Business– amp.theguardian.com

Zelensky is ‘worried’ Trump will become president again: Byron York– www.washingtonexaminer.com

Illinois residents could see medical debt eliminated – WHBF – OurQuadCities.com– www.ourquadcities.com

Stem cell-derived therapy shows promise against treatment-resistant liver cancer– www.sciencedaily.com

NATO Tells Russia, Ukraine is OURS!

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NATO leaders met in Washington, DC and emerged with a joint statement that said Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to becoming a member of NATO. The statement declares that Ukraine “has become increasingly interoperable and politically integrated with the alliance.”

The event was hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden. NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg was there as well as newly seated UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who also just approved UK weapons being used to strike deeper into Russia than it had previously allowed before.   Biden stated “We know Putin won’t stop at Ukraine. But make no mistake — Ukraine can and will stop Putin. Especially with our full, collective support. They have our full support.”

The move is equivalent to Mexico joining an Iranian-Hamas-Russian alliance. It makes Ukraine a permanent existential threat so long as it continues to exist. It also appears to be an announcement that Ukraine is effectively a vassal state of NATO, a globalist fiefdom in the nearly openly transparently sense of the term. It is yet another dramatic escalation of the showdown in Ukraine.

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NATO nation leaders, in a Washington summit declaration released Wednesday, said Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to NATO membership.

The summit declaration, signed by all 32 NATO nations, offers some of the strongest language yet about the organization’s intent to eventually include Ukraine in its membership.

Ukraine and its protection are a central part of this year’s NATO summit in Washington, D.C., hosted by President Biden. The declaration, which encompasses NATO’s beliefs and goals, says Ukraine “has become increasingly interoperable and politically integrated with the alliance.”

Comer Wants to Know, Whose Running America

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has issued subpoenas to three White House staffers he has identified as key people that are protecting a non-functioning Joe Biden from the public.

He stated “I am issuing subpoenas today for White House staff Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, and Ashley Williams to appear for depositions. The White House has shielded these three key aides from testifying about President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and now we’ve learned through reporting these same aides are also seeking to cover up President Biden’s declining cognitive state inside the White House… it appears as though Tomasini has firsthand knowledge of the extent to which President Biden is personally carrying out the duties of his office and whether he is capable of doing so.”

The Chairman is being far more charitable than this writer would be in assuming that we are dealing with a declining cognitive state rather than a declined cognitive state, in terms of actual ability to perform the duties of President, since before he was elected. What we are seeing now is the failure by the best doctors in the world to medicate up a dying Biden enough to make him briefly semi-cognizant in ways that give the media marketers of the DNC-CCP, the mainstream media, some plausible deniability.

Now, even that is gone, and the rats are looking to leave a sinking ship, which isn’t losing the 2024 Presidential election (so long as they can take back the House majority), it’s getting Biden out fast before anyone goes beyond what Comer is asking. Comer is looking for evidence Biden is unfit now, but others want to know who knew before the 2020 election that they were propping up a juiced up dying man. Comer doesn’t appear ready to ask those types of questions just yet.

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Excerpt from amgreatness.com

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has subpoenaed three key White House staffers who are allegedly shielding Joe Biden from media scrutiny and doing his job for him amid his cognitive difficulties.

“I am issuing subpoenas today for White House staff Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal, and Ashley Williams to appear for depositions,” Comer announced on X on Wednesday.

Williams is the Special Assistant to the President and Deputy director of Oval Office Operations,  Bernal, the Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the First Lady, and Tomasini, the Deputy Chief of Staff.

“The White House has shielded these three key aides from testifying about President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and now we’ve learned through reporting these same aides are also seeking to cover up President Biden’s declining cognitive state inside the White House,” the Chairman added.

DOD Declares Rejecting Unborn Baby Murder Makes You a Terrorist

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The Department of Defense has informed the public this past Wednesday, July 10, that Pro-Life groups are terrorist organizations. They revealed this information at Fort Liberty’s Directorate of Emergency Services.

Citizen journalist Sam Shoemate on X revealed this fact in X posts where he said “An anti-terrorism brief was held on Fort Liberty (Bragg) today where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as ‘terrorist organizations.’ The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East.” The slide listed pro-life organizations and labeled them “TERRORIST GROUPS.”

The flipping of morality from one of finding shock at the very idea of murdering unborn children to finding shock at the very idea of being opposed to murdering unborn children is indicative of how far we’ve come as a people from valuing the sanctity of each individual life. Seeing our security institutions so dominated with such dark moralities should give all of us Americans pause, for if the government now openly seeks to criminalize the very thought of not sub-humanizing life, what chance is there it will value your human life?

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

The Biden administration’s Department of Defense has made a ridiculous move, labeling pro-life groups as “terrorist organizations” during an anti-terrorism briefing at Fort Liberty’s Directorate of Emergency Services (formerly Fort Bragg) on Wednesday.

This deeply concerning slide from an anti-terrorism brief was first exposed by citizen journalist Sam Shoemate on X.


“An anti-terrorism brief was held on Fort Liberty (Bragg) today where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as “terrorist organizations.” The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East,” Shoemate wrote on X.

The presentation slide, which has since circulated widely on social media, lists these pro-life organizations that oppose “Roe[sic] v. Wade” under a headline reading “TERRORIST GROUPS.”

The presentation specifically focuses on organizations such as National Right to Life and Operation Rescue, both longstanding pillars of the pro-life movement.

These organizations are dedicated to peaceful advocacy against abortion, grounded in the belief that every life is valuable and worth protecting…

The slide also displayed a New York license plate bearing the text “IM4IT” and a design promoting the “Choose Life” message.

“They also included a screenshot of a license plate with “IM4IT,” which is a plate many Pro-Life citizens put on their car which implies normal citizens are terrorists if they display this plate,” Shoemate wrote.

“Keep in mind they’re not labeling them as extremist organizations (which would still be crazy), but as terrorist organizations. The military and Dept of Defense are insanely out of control. Service-members are being indoctrinated to view Pro-Life groups as the enemy,” Shoemate added.

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Elon Prepares for Second Neuralink Patient, Promises “Superpowers”

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Elon Musk has announced plans to insert another Neuralink implant into another patient. He also announced he intends on Neuralink to eventually give humans “superpowers.” Musk hopes to make AI a friend and not a threat to humanity, promising to develop “a closer symbiosis between human intelligence and digital intelligence.”

Imagine being able to manipulate much of the automated world around you with your mind alone. Imagine having perfect memory recall and the capacity to hold more facts in your mind within a single thought. These are just some of the things the hyperbolic PT Barnum of our day is promising in his push to gain traction with Neuralink.

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Excerpt from www.news18.com

Neuralink plans to implant its device into a second human patient in about a week, according to the company’s founder, Elon Musk. During a broadcast on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Musk shared that the company aims to have ‘high single digits’ of patients with the device by the end of the year. He and several Neuralink executives discussed the brain chip’s capabilities and future potential, such as treating paralysis and memory loss. They also addressed improvements for future surgeries to prevent issues encountered during the first implantation on Arizona man Noland Arbaugh. Musk emphasised that the long-term goal is to reduce the civilisational risk posed by AI by fostering “a closer symbiosis between human intelligence and digital intelligence.”

Elon Musk stated that the goal is “to give people superpowers,” as he announced that Neuralink will implement changes to address the issue of its electrode threads retracting from brain tissue in upcoming surgeries. To mitigate this problem, the proposed fixes include removing an air pocket that may have caused the threads to retract in the first surgery. Additionally, the company plans to insert the threads more accurately on the folds of the brain in future procedures, he explained.

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GOP House Passes SAVE ACT over the Objection of the Democrat Party

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A bill that would make it mandatory for all Federal elections to require Voter ID to assure each person voting was who they claim they are AND is a U.S. citizen passed the House by a vote of 221-198, with all Republicans voting for it and only 5 Democrats joining them.

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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would expand on and enforce proof-of-citizenship requirements in federal elections. President Biden has vowed to veto the legislation if it is passed in the Senate, however, while Democrats have slammed the bill as “racist” and “xenophobic.”

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act passed through the House by a vote of 221-198 on Wednesday, with five Democrats voting in favor of the Republican-led bill.

If enacted, the legislation will require state election officials to ask about citizenship before providing voter registration forms. There is currently no requirement to provide proof of citizenship in order to receive federal voting forms. According to a recent report from the New York Post, this has led to non-citizens receiving voting forms in 49 states.

The SAVE Act would also allow state officials to accept a wide variety of documents that will make it easy for citizens to register to vote in federal elections, provide states with access to federal agency databases so they can remove noncitizens from voter rolls and confirm citizenship for individuals lacking proof of citizenship, and direct the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether to conduct removal proceedings if a noncitizen has been identified as having registered to vote in federal elections.

Republicans Allow Merrick Garland Inherent Contempt Measure to Fail

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Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) failed to see her measure, an Inherent Contempt resolution against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, pass, it was voted down with 204 voting yes and 210 voting no. 12 Republicans were absent for the vote and 4 actually voted against it.

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The House voted to reject a resolution that would have held Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt” and would have fined him $10,000 per day if he did not comply with a Congressional subpoena. Congress demanded that he release audio recordings of Joe Biden’s interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur, which were part of the investigation into Biden’s illegal retaining of classified documents after leaving the vice presidency.

The resolution, brought by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), was met with a 204 to 210 vote. While 204 Republicans voted for the motion, another four voted against and 12 did not vote at all. The motion had been brought forward originally by Luna as well as Reps. Dan Crenshaw, Rich McCormick, Mark Alford, and Tim Burchett.

U.S. Intelligence Spreads Narrative Russians Looking to Help Trump in Swing States

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DNC-controlled media are using statements from unnamed intelligence officials to spread the narrative that the Russians are using social media to “covertly” affect U.S. elections in swing states in an effort to once again get Trump elected President.

One official is quoted with saying, “We are beginning to see Russia target specific voter demographics, promote divisive narratives and denigrate specific politicians. (Russia is) undertaking a whole-of-government approach to influence the election, including the presidential race, Congress and public opinion.”

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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN

(CNN) — Russian operatives and propagandists are planning to “covertly use social media” in an attempt to sway public opinion and undermine support for Ukraine in swing states during the 2024 US elections, US intelligence officials said on Tuesday.

“We are beginning to see Russia target specific voter demographics, promote divisive narratives and denigrate specific politicians,” an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told reporters in a call conducted on the condition that the official not be named.

Russia is “undertaking a whole-of-government approach to influence the election, including the presidential race, Congress and public opinion,” the official said, adding that Russia’s preference for US presidential candidates has not changed from previous election cycles.

The official declined to elaborate, but US intelligence previously assessed that in the 2020 US election, Russia conducted a range of influence operations to denigrate Joe Biden’s candidacy and support Donald Trump’s candidacy.

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U.S. House Leaves Itself Unfunded, For Now

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By a vote of 205-215, a bill that would have funded the activity of the U.S. House failed to pass. The bill failed due to 10 Republicans defecting and joining nearly all the Democrats that voted against the bill. The move leaves the GOP in a fix regarding how it can go forward with some of its investigations.

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The House failed to pass its annual spending bill to fund the Legislative branch, throwing a wrench into GOP leaders’ ambitious schedule to pass all 12 appropriations bills by the end of July.

Lawmakers voted 205-213 for the bill, falling short of the simple majority threshold needed to advance the measure. The legislation failed after 10 Republicans joined nearly all Democrats in rejecting the bill over disagreements with of its provisions.

The Republicans who voted against the bill include Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Tim Burchett (R-TN), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Bob Good (R-VA), Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), and Keith Self (R-TX).

China Sends Biggest Air Amada Ever Across U.S.’s Taiwan Strait Line

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The Chinese military ran a military exercise that saw it send 56 war birds across the lines the United States has drawn to divide the waters of Taiwan from the waters of China down the Tiawan Strait. This is the most amount of war birds China has ever sent across that proverbial line in the straits.

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China sent a record number of warplanes across a U.S.-drawn boundary in the Taiwan Strait—a move that comes as the new president of the archipelago mulls a trip that may include a stop in America.

Some 56 aircraft crossed the so-called median line as of early Thursday, the Ministry of National Defense in Taipei said on the X social media site. Taiwanese aircraft, naval vessels and missile systems were used “in response” to the flights by the People’s Liberation Army, the military added, without providing details on what that entailed.

The archipelago’s armed forces have “a close grasp of the dynamics of the sea and airspace surrounding the Taiwan Strait, including the actions of the PLA aircraft and ships,” ministry spokesperson Sun Li-fang told reporters later in the day.

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was considering passing through the U.S. while potentially visiting nations that have ties with the archipelago, Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said Wednesday, according to the semi-official Central News Agency in Taipei. Details of the trip were still being planned, Lin added.

Beijing reacted to a similar stop in the U.S. by Lai’s predecessor, Tsai Ing-wen, last year by holding large military exercises. Tsai met then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a move that angered Beijing, which opposes nations it has ties with from having official contact with Taiwan.

The latest warplane flights add to the pressure campaign China has rolled out since the election victory in January of Lai, who Beijing accuses of pursuing independence. That drive has included holding major military drills just after he took office in May, peeling off one of Taiwan’s few remaining diplomatic allies and expanding a law targeting what it sees as “separatists.”

China has vowed to bring the archipelago of 23 million people under its control someday, by force if necessary.

Read More: TIME’s Exclusive Interview With Taiwan President Lai Ching-te

When asked about the warplanes crossing the median line at a regular press briefing in Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian avoided directly responding. “The determination of China to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity remains unrelenting,” he said.

While Beijing has never officially recognized the median line that the U.S. drew in 1954 during a period of cross-strait tensions, its military had for decades respected the boundary.

The PLA has stepped up incursions across the demarcation in recent years, effectively shrinking the buffer zone between the two sides and slashing the amount of time that Taiwan’s smaller military has to react to any attack from China.

President Joe Biden has repeatedly said the U.S. would come to Taiwan’s aid in the event of a Chinese invasion. The U.S. has also stepped up military aid to the archipelago that produces the bulk of the world’s advanced semiconductors in recent years in the hopes of deterring any attack.