Xi Raises Prospect of a Future US-China War in Meeting with Trump: ‘Thucydides Trap’

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By New York Post. Chinese leader Xi Jinping opened Wednesday’s high-stakes meeting with President Trump by ominously raising the prospect of a future war between the US and China.

Xi made reference to a geopolitical concept known as the Thucydides trap, which posits that there is a high probability of a violent clash when a rising power challenges the ruling hegemon.

“The whole world is watching our meeting,” Xi said inside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, with Trump seated across the table.

“Currently, transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe, and the international situation is fluid and turbulent,” he continued, according to one translation of his remarks. “The world has come to a new crossroads.

“Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides trap and create a new paradigm of major country relations? Can we meet global challenges together and provide more stability for the world? Can we, in the interest of the well-being of our two peoples and the future of humanity, build a brighter future together for our bilateral relations?” (Read more from “Xi Raises Prospect of a Future US-China War in Meeting with Trump: ‘Thucydides Trap’” HERE)

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Melania Mysteriously Snubs Trump’s Big Trip

By Daily Beast. Donald Trump left Washington for a three-day state visit to China flanked by cabinet secretaries, sixteen corporate CEOs, his son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara—but not his wife.

Melania Trump’s office confirmed her absence in an email to the South China Morning Post hours before takeoff, without even attempting to offer an explanation: “First Lady Melania Trump is not travelling this time,” her spokesperson said.

Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why she was sitting out the trip.

The move comes amid speculation about the first lady increasingly breaking with her husband as she seems to be trying to charter her own course. Trump and his White House aides were reportedly blindsided last month when she called a surprise press conference to read a statement declaring she had no ties to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The move appeared only to revive the scandal that Trump himself had been eager to put to rest.

Melania’s absence, bizarrely, does not appear to have kept the man who produced her critically panned Melania documentary last year from tagging along. (Read more from “Melania Mysteriously Snubs Trump’s Big Trip” HERE)

Senior White House Official Placed On Leave After Trashing Trump In Sting Operation

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The White House placed a top administration official on leave after an undercover sting operation revealed his deep disdain for President Donald Trump.

Benjamin Ellisten, a senior budget analyst and funding manager for the White House, told James O’Keefe’s undercover journalist that Trump is a “madman” who is “f*cking it up for everybody.” Ellisten, who has worked at the White House since 2024, according to O’Keefe’s reporting, has since been placed on administrative leave, a White House official told the Daily Caller.

“He has no direct access to the President or Senior Staff, and does not work on the White House campus,” the official told the Caller. “Such views expressed by the individual are not reflective of patriots who admirably serve in the Administration.”

Ellisten was caught telling O’Keefe’s reporter that Trump is a “mess,” saying they “gotta get rid of him.”

“He’s a madman,” Ellisten told the undercover journalist. “Literally. He’s invincible. Nothing can stop him, and that’s dangerous.” (Read more from “Senior White House Official Placed On Leave After Trashing Trump In Sting Operation” HERE)

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Marine Vet With Concealed Carry Permit Helped Halt Felon’s Brazen Shooting Spree

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A Marine veteran helped Massachusetts State Police halt a gunman’s brazen shooting rampage Monday, the Cambridge Police Department said in a release.

Cambridge Police received word at 1:00 p.m. EDT Monday from the Boston Police Department that a person acting erratically armed with a rifle might be in the area. State Police came upon what was described as “an active shooter scene,” and confronted the gunman alongside the military veteran who had a concealed carry permit.

“After being confronted, the suspect allegedly continued to fire the weapon striking the State Police Cruiser,” Cambridge police said in the statement. “Both the civilian and the Trooper fired their weapons and the suspect was struck multiple times in the extremities. The suspect was treated on scene by police officers and transported to a Boston hospital.”

Video obtained by CBS News Boston showed the gunman brazenly firing a rifle while on Memorial Drive, with authorities saying at least 60 rounds were fired. The civilian who aided law enforcement has been described by multiple media outlets as a former Marine who had a concealed carry permit.

The suspect, 46-year-old Tyler Brown, had a lengthy criminal record, including receiving a five-to-six-year prison sentence for firing multiple rounds at police officers in 2020, according to a 2021 release from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office. (Read more from “Marine Vet With Concealed Carry Permit Helped Halt Felon’s Brazen Shooting Spree” HERE)

Michael Jackson’s ‘Secret Family’ Reveals Disturbing Child Sex Abuse Claims Against Late Pop Star: ‘He was a monster’; Elton John, Liz Taylor Homes Implicated

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Four siblings who were part of Michael Jackson’s “secret family” revealed in an interview Sunday the vile ways the late pop star allegedly groomed and sexually abused them as children.

The Cascio family sat down with “60 Minutes Australia” on Sunday night to describe how Jackson allegedly sexually abused all of them as children and supplied them copious drugs and alcohol after wooing their family with lavish gifts and fame.

The four siblings filed a lawsuit in February, alleging Jackson was a serial child sex predator who sexually abused victims at the homes of Elizabeth Taylor and Elton John.

“He’s a monster, he’s evil, what he did was evil. And he’s tricked the whole world to think he’s this innocent, perfect human being, and he’s not,” Dominic Cascio told “60 Minutes.”

The Cascios’ father, Dominic Sr., met Jackson in the 1980s while working at the Helmsley Palace Hotel in New York City. He quickly became part of the singer’s inner circle and his family would often spend holidays at Neverland Ranch and travel the world with the King of Pop.

One of the siblings, Eddie, 43, recalled on the broadcast that he met the “Thriller” singer when he was only 2 — when Jackson began visiting the family’s New York home on late nights unannounced. (Read more from “Michael Jackson’s ‘Secret Family’ Reveals Disturbing Child Sex Abuse Claims Against Late Pop Star: ‘He was a monster’” HERE)

Dying River in Biblical ‘Cradle of Civilization’ Raises Scary Specter of End Times

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The “cradle of civilization” may be turning into a dust bowl — and some Christians say the Bible saw it coming.

The mighty Euphrates River — the legendary waterway that helped give rise to some of humanity’s earliest civilizations — has been shrinking at an alarming rate, sparking fresh fears among end-times believers that an apocalyptic prophecy from the Book of Revelation could be unfolding in real time.

The famed watercourse winds nearly 1,800 miles from the mountains of eastern Turkey through Syria and Iraq, slicing through the ancient Fertile Crescent — the Biblical “cradle of civilization” — before meeting the Tigris River and draining into the Persian Gulf.

Now, as water levels plunge, prophecy-watchers online are sounding the alarm over a chilling passage from Revelation 16:12.

It says: “The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.”

For generations, some Christians have interpreted the verse to mean that the drying river would pave the way for a massive eastern army to march toward the Battle of Armageddon — the cataclysmic showdown believed to precede the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. (Read more from “Dying River in Biblical ‘Cradle of Civilization’ Raises Scary Specter of End Times” HERE)

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White House Reporter Quits Job and Announces Engagement to Marjorie Taylor Greene After Trump Roasted Him for Dating Her

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Brian Glenn, the White House correspondent for the pro-MAGA Real America’s Voice network, announced on Thursday that he is stepping down. His announcement came a week after President Donald Trump dinged him for dating former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Glenn announced his departure on Thursday’s edition of Bolling! The correspondent also said he was “breaking news” by revealing that he and Greene will get married this year.

“This has been really the only life I’ve known, you know, chasing the news, being in front of the camera, a lot of times behind the camera, and especially in the last seven, eight years, following President Trump, being kind of the MAGA mouthpiece, if you will, for the Trump America First agenda,” Glenn told Eric Bolling. “But this past Sunday, sitting at home in Georgia, I decided that it’s time to – and I’ll use an MMA reference – it’s time to leave the gloves in the ring and walk away from what I really consider has been a great career. It’s been a great time with Real America’s Voice. It’s fantastic working with you.” . . .

Bolling asked Glenn what he plans to do next.

“I have no plans to go jump into a competitor,” he said. “That’s not what I’m going to do. I’m gonna take some time off. I’m going to kind of relax, get my health back to where it needs to be, reconnect with some of these relationships with my family that I have neglected over the last seven, eight years, and really kind of enjoy life a little bit. And of course, Marjorie and I, planning a wedding likely before the end of the year. That’s a little bit of breaking news on here as well. Focus on that, but really focus on each other. And I think that this campaign can be grueling. It can really kind of drain the life out of a lot of people. And I’m 56 years old. I’m not a young kid anymore.” (Read more from “White House Reporter Quits Job and Announces Engagement to Marjorie Taylor Greene After Trump Roasted Him for Dating Her” HERE)

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Seattle Mayor Melts Down under Simple Questions as City Spirals Farther into Chaos

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Seattle’s progressive experiment appears to be unraveling even faster under Mayor Katie Wilson (D), whose latest public appearances reveal that ideology has replaced competence in Washington state.

Wilson doesn’t appear to understand that wealthy residents mean a wealthier city, as she’s imposing a 10% tax on millionaires in Seattle.

“I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if, you know, the ones that leave, like, ‘Bye,’” Wilson said at Seattle University, seemingly unaware that higher taxes will cause the wealthy to leave.

And they are, especially after Wilson urged a boycott of Starbucks. The company is now moving its operation south to Nashville.

And while none of this looks good for Wilson, things appear to only be getting worse. (Read more from “Seattle Mayor Melts Down under Simple Questions as City Spirals Farther into Chaos” HERE)

Leaked CIA Memo Reveals that Trump Is Lying About Iran

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By Alternet. President Donald Trump claims that Iran told him that the country was collapsing, but a new CIA analysis made it clear that the claim is not rooted in reality.

TIME Magazine reported the frequent messages coming out of the Trump administration claiming victory over Iran, but a leak from a CIA analysis suggests the opposite is the case.

What has collapsed is the talks between Iran and the U.S. after Trump cut a late-April meeting with Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner. He claimed the flight to Pakistan would take too long.

“Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work!” Trump said. “Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their ‘leadership.’ Nobody knows who is in charge, including them.”

JD Vance was also going to meet with Iranian leaders, but Trump canceled that at the last minute, too.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that Iran’s leaders are “very good negotiators.” But Trump said on Sunday that the problems were “infighting” among Iran’s various political factions. (Read more from “Leaked CIA Memo Reveals that Trump Is Lying About Iran” HERE)

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Satellite Images Reveal Iran Has Destroyed Far More Than Trump Admits

By MSN News. Satellite imagery has revealed that Iranian airstrikes have done much more damage to U.S. military bases, fuel depots, barracks, and other outposts than the Trump administration is letting on—even as the president and his Cabinet claim to be winning the war.

The Washington Postreported on Wednesday that at least 228 structures at U.S. military sites in the Middle East have been either partially damaged or totally destroyed by Iran since the beginning of the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon. The Post reached this number by independently verifying satellite images released by Iranian state media.

The numbers are much higher than the Trump administration has publicly admitted, and the U.S. military has been forced to reduce staffing at many of the attacked sites.

“The Iranians have deliberately targeted accommodation buildings across multiple sites with the intent to inflict mass casualties,” image analyst William Goodhind told the Post. “ It is not just equipment, fuel storage and air base infrastructure under fire, but also soft targets, such as gyms, food halls and accommodation.”

(Read more from “Satellite Images Reveal Iran Has Destroyed Far More Than Trump Admits” HERE)

‘Population Autopsy’ finds Americans are Dying Younger than other Wealthy Countries — the Deadliest 2 Culprits Revealed

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. . .For decades, life expectancy in the States has lagged behind wealthy nations like Japan, Switzerland and Australia, with Americans consistently dying younger than their peers abroad.

Now, a landmark “population autopsy” analyzing more than 63 million deaths has identified two key factors fueling shorter lifespans nationwide, as experts warn the trend is only getting worse.

In the study, researchers compared the US to 17 peer nations and found that between 1999 and 2022, nearly 12.7 million American deaths could have been avoided if death rates matched those countries.

And the problem isn’t easing up. Annual “excess deaths” in the US more than tripled over the 23-year period, rising from about 346,000 in 1999 to 905,159 in 2022.

The top two factors: rising rates of cardiovascular and metabolic disease, along with a growing number of “deaths of despair,” or those linked to drugs, alcohol and suicide. (Read more from “‘Population Autopsy’ finds Americans are Dying Younger than other Wealthy Countries — the Deadliest 2 Culprits Revealed” HERE)

Katie Porter Accidentally Admits The Real Reason Democrats Want Sanctuary Cities

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Democratic California Gov. candidate Katie Porter inadvertently revealed the real reason leftist politicians are pushing for sanctuary cities.

Porter let the mask slip during Tuesday night’s gubernatorial debate and admitted that illegal immigration is one of “the only ways [California] has been growing in recent years,” seemingly embracing the replacement of American residents with foreigners. Notably, the deep blue state has welcomed illegals to the tune of millions while an estimated 10 million California residents have fled the state in the last decade.

“It’s the job of the California governor to protect every single Californian,” Porter said. “The sanctuary state policy is designed to make sure that our state resources, the taxpayer dollars, the public servants that we have, are focusing on doing their jobs, which is not cooperating with the federal immigration authorities.”

“These are Californians,” Porter said of illegal immigrants. “They contribute to our economy, they pay taxes, and they’re one of the only ways our state has been growing in recent years.”

(Read more from “Katie Porter Accidentally Admits The Real Reason Democrats Want Sanctuary Cities” HERE)