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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> US men's national soccer team fails to advance out of group stage at Copa América after 1-0 loss to Uruguay (More) | UEFA European Championship quarterfinals set; see latest bracket (More)

> "Beetlejuice" sequel to premiere at 81st Venice Film Festival (Aug. 28); Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder will return, with Jenna Ortega joining the cast for the long-awaited sequel (More)

> Marketa Vondrousova becomes first women's Wimbledon defending champ to lose in the first round since 1994 (More) | Sixteen former college basketball players sue NCAA over use of their likeness for March Madness promos (More)


Science & Technology
> Moderna wins $176M contract to develop an mRNA vaccine for humans to protect against the bird flu (More) | How mRNA vaccines work (More) | Current bird flu outbreak status (More)

> Astrophysicists simulate how cosmic gas disks form and feed supermassive black holes; study provides insight into how galaxies formed in the early universe (More) | Black holes 101 (More, w/video)

> Mosquito study finds the insect's drive for blood is heightened or suppressed by a pair of hormones; may lead to new methods to fight mosquito-borne disease (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.4%, Nasdaq +0.8%) as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says US is on "disinflationary" path (More) | Tesla shares close up 10% after Q2 electric vehicle deliveries slowed year-over-year but beat analyst expectations (More)

> US job openings rise in May to 8.1 million while layoffs also increase, indicating slowing but resilient labor market (More)

> The Federal Trade Commission blocks Tempur Sealy's proposed $4B acquisition of Mattress Firm (More) | Six Flags and Cedar Fair merge in estimated $8B deal to become North America's largest amusement park operator (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> At least 116 people killed—mostly women and children—after crowd surge in northern India's state of Uttar Pradesh during Hindu religious event and amid high temperatures; officials are investigating the cause of the crowd surge (More)

> Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D, TX-37) becomes first Democratic lawmaker to call on President Joe Biden to withdraw from presidential race (More) | Former President Donald Trump's hush money sentencing delayed to Sept. 18 (More) | Rudy Giuliani, former New York mayor and ex-attorney for former President Donald Trump, disbarred in New York over 2020 election statements (More)

> US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Illinois law banning certain high-power semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines (More)

SOURCE:  1440 News

July 4, 1776 - July 4, 2024 (248 Years)

Why do we celebrate on July 4? July 4 marks the anniversary of when Congress, comprised of delegates from the United States' original 13 colonies, signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The document declared the nation's independence from Great Britain.

Had we not won the war against Great Britain all of our leaders, especially the Continental Congress members would have been thrown into prison in London and more than likely hung from the neck until dead.  They would have all be charged with TREASON.

Our new country started as a result of us breaking laws and committing treason...  think about that...

What this goes to show you, the reader, is that you can break the law and do all sorts of other things including committing treason as long as in the end, your actions result in you being correct, justified, or legally innocent.

History shows that what we did in 1776 ultimately proved beneficial for the entire world, look at WWI and WWII for some of that proof.  We have also spent billions over the years to help other countries who are or were in desperate need of help.  We have also been the primary reason why COMMUNISM has not taken over the world.

In 1860, our Civil War almost destroyed our fledging country but again we survived.  There is no telling what might have happened to us if we had a Northern and Southern USA.  One might believe that over the years, our nation would have come back together, but since that did not happen, no one knows for sure.

The Declaration of Independence lead to a war with Great Britain, and to the creation of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights which are the first ten amendments to that constitution.  It is our Bill of Rights that separates us from the rest of the world and makes us incredibly unique.  It is that uniqueness that is envied and hated by the rest of the world.

NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HAS THE FREEDOMS THAT CITIZENS OF THE USA HAVE...

So, understand how special these 4th of July celebrations really is and make sure that your children understand that as well.

Somewhat Political

 

Pillars of Creation

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope released images of the Pillars of Creation — stunning effervescent clouds of interstellar dust and gas, the place where stars are born.


Now, combining data from Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a gorgeous 3D visualization of the cosmic structures in both visible and infrared light.


"By flying past and amongst the pillars, viewers experience their three-dimensional structure and see how they look different in the Hubble visible-light view versus the Webb infrared-light view," principal visualization scientist Frank Summers said in a statement.

"The contrast helps them understand why we have more than one space telescope to observe different aspects of the same object," he continue

The Pillars of Creation, which lie about 5,700 light-years from Earth, are composed of cool molecular hydrogen and dust. Due to strong winds and radiation from young nearby hot stars, the pillars are starting to get stripped of their contents. Long, finger-like structures can be seen emerging from the top of the pillars, which are larger than our own solar system.


Inside these structures, hydrogen and dust is gravitationally collapsing into new, infant stars. These new stars will add to the continued dispersion of materials within the pillars. The tallest of the pillars spans 3 light-years from top to bottom — three-quarters of the distance between the sun and our closest star.         READ MORE...

Voyager ONE

 

Socialism

Resignation

 

Issues

 

Corrupt

 

Morals

 

Military Preparedness

The US has 2,127,500 military personnel, significantly fewer than Russia and China. Russia has 3,570,000 personnel and China has 3,170,000, while India has the largest armed forces out of the top players with 5,137,550 personnel, according to the rankings.     SOURCE: Independent US Edition

So, if China, Russia, and India formed a coalition against the USA, there would be about 11 million military troops against 2 million USA troops...

Hardly seems fair, does it?

DJI, also known as Da Jiang Innovations, has become the world's largest drone maker, having achieved global dominance in less than 20 years. The company now supplies 70% of the world's consumer drones and nearly 80% of U.S. consumer drones.  Mar 14, 2024    SOURCE:  VOA News

DJI is located in China...

So, why am I talking about this?

Two reasons:

First - many experts believe that we are very close to the beginnings of a third world war because of Ukraine/ Russia, Israel/Hamas, and the real prospect that China might invade Taiwan.

Second - it has become increasing apparent that Drones will take a prominent position in the next global conflict since they have been used so successfully in smaller conflicts.

My Concern:  the present administration does very little to address the military possibilities that have been recently growing in our global community.  Instead, they have tried to end the use of gasoline, redirect resources towards climate control, and spend more money than they needed to on social welfare programs rather than giving citizens the tools to help themselves.

Consequently, our enemies (China, Russia, Iran, India, North Korea and others) are building up their militaries, ignoring climate control, and spending the least amount of money they can on social welfare programs.  Why?  To ultimately defeat the USA both militarily and economically.

Without causing any undue alarms, we need to get our act together and position this country so that it can properly defend itself and strengthen itself economically.  As the economy grows so too will its citizens.

Yes, the wealthy will get wealthier but that is going to happen regardless of what we do.  Increase taxes on the wealthy...  STUPID IDEA...  the wealthy have their money HIDDEN from taxes...  were you just born yesterday?

Appearances

 

Protection

 

Deportation

 

Deeds

 

Kamala's Claim

 

In The NEWS

Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> The 137th Wimbledon Championships began yesterday from the All England Club in London; see full preview for both women's and men's tournaments (More)

> Ismail Kadare, world-renowned Albanian novelist and poet who was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature 15 times, dies at 88 (More)

> Majority owners of the Boston Celtics plan to put the defending NBA champions up for sale; the franchise is valued at a reported $4.7B (More)


Science & Technology
> YouTube introduces new policy allowing users to request the takedown of AI-generated content simulating their face or voice (More)

> Fossil discovery suggests different species of grape plants proliferated following the extinction of the dinosaurs; findings include a 60-million-year-old species, the oldest ever found in the Western Hemisphere (More)

> Engineers develop nanorobots capable of killing cancer cells in mouse studies; approach uses a "kill switch" that activates only in the presence of a solid tumor (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.8%) to kick off a holiday-shortened trading week (More)

> European regulators charge Meta with violating new antitrust laws by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to pay to avoid seeing ads on the platforms (More)

> Investor Keith Gill, known as "Roaring Kitty," discloses 6.6% stake in Chewy; pet retailer's shares rise in premarket trading before closing down nearly 7% (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Israeli military orders evacuations in part of Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis ahead of possible renewed ground operation in the enclave's second-largest city (More) | Israel releases head of al-Shifa hospital after seven-month detention (More)

> Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Caribbean island of Carriacou in Grenada as Category 4 storm with a maximum of 150 mph winds; the storm is expected to reach Jamaica tomorrow (More) | See our previous write-up (More)

> House Judiciary Committee sues Attorney General Merrick Garland over refusal to hand over recordings of President Joe Biden's classified documents interview (More) | Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon begins four-month prison sentence for 2022 contempt of Congress conviction (More)

SOURCE:  1440 News

American Manufacturing

 

I purchased a Dell Vostro 7620 from Dell online in January of 2024 (five months ago) and already the problems I have encountered have resulted in two home visits by a Dell Technician.

The first time was to replace the keyboard and the second time was to replace the top of the laptop case holding the screen.  The hinge broke off from the bottom.

 

I have also been having a reoccurring problem with the mouse freezing up, causing me to make at least two calls so far for technical support.  Each call has lasted over two hours, and the problem still persists.

My last technician said I probably needed to reinstall the operating system that would involve backing up all my data on an external hard drive first, but that they could not help with that other that try and walk me through it.

So far, I would suspect that Dell has invested about half of the profit they made from the sell, trying to fix this problem.  No doubt, I will be calling them again for another problem and no doubt a technician will come out to the house, further decreasing their profit margins.

It would be much simpler and less expensive for Dell to replace this laptop with a new one.  However, they have a different mindset which, in my opinion, does little to serve the customer and enhance REPEAT BUSINESS.

A bigger problem here, as I see it, is the lack of quality with American Manufacturing.  When I was in graduate school for business, I remember my marketing professor sharing with us the concept of built in obsolescence.  The idea was to build products intentionally that would only last 3-5 years to create a guaranteed pool of repeat business.

While my problems with Dell may be a result of this built in obsolescence, it seems more like labor on the manufacturing floor are not performing their jobs correctly.

Everywhere you turn, I see a Dell computer in a variety of different office spaces from the medical profession to education to public administration to private use.  My thoughts are now on are these people using Dell having the same problems that I am having???

MAKES YOU WONDER.

Somewhat Political

 

An Exotic Propulsion Space Race

An international team of physicists behind several revolutionary warp drive concepts, including the first to require no exotic matter, says that recent unprecedented breakthroughs in physics and propulsion have launched the world powers into a Cold War-style, 21st-century space race to build the world’s first working warp drive.


“We have a space race brewing,” said Gianni Martie, the founder of the Applied Physics (AP) think tank and co-author on a pair of forthcoming warp drive research papers, in an email to The Debrief. “There’s still a ton to discover and invent, but we have the next steps now, which we didn’t have before.”


Comprised of over 30 physicists and scientists in related disciplines, the AP team has gained a sizeable reputation in the warp theory community due to their highly regarded, peer-reviewed papers on numerous warp drive concepts. 

One of those concepts recently reported by The Debrief has gained significant attention, inspiring many researchers and scientists to declare the team’s “constant velocity warp drive model” as the first practical, viable warp drive concept ever proposed.


The AP team has also created the Warp Factory, a set of development and simulation tools that allow fellow researchers in this nascent field to evaluate the physics of their own models, which can greatly improve the model’s quality and viability.       READ MORE...