Tuesday, July 8
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Trump extends tariff deadline and starts revealing steep new levies. The White House confirmed yesterday that President Trump planned to delay imposing new tariffs on trade partners that haven’t reached deals with the US until Aug. 1, ahead of the original date (tomorrow) when the 90-day tariff pause would have ended. However, the president also began sending letters to other countries threatening high duties on their goods unless a deal is secured. These threats included 25% on imports from Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan, 30% on South African goods, and 40% on products from Laos and Myanmar.
Search for survivors continues as death toll from Texas floods rises. Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls, said 27 campers and counselors had died due to the flash flooding over the weekend, with 10 more campers and a counselor reportedly still missing. In all, authorities said yesterday that more than 100 people were known to have died in the flooding, and that the number was likely to go up as searching continued. They declined to answer questions about weather warnings and didn’t clarify why more areas were not evacuated as searches continued with more rain expected. Meanwhile, facing criticism from Democrats, President Trump denied that staffing cuts at the National Weather Service had hindered weather forecasting before the sudden flooding.
AI company to buy crypto miner for $9b to meet power needs. That very 2025 sentence comes as AI companies race to scoop up energy and data centers to power their tech. CoreWeave is doing it by acquiring Core Scientific, a Bitcoin miner that was already providing data center infrastructure to the company and has access to lots of energy. It’ll nab those centers for itself in an all-stock deal valued at $9 billion that’s expected to close in Q4. But investors weren’t energized by the deal—both companies’ stocks fell after it was announced.—AR
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He can be stopped only with people power
Friends,
Never before in American history, not even in wartime, has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.
Yesterday he sent ICE agents and National Guard troops into Los Angeles, over the objections of the governor of California and the mayor of Los Angeles. He is also sending 200 Marines to Florida to aid ICE.
Where will he next direct ICE, National Guard, and active duty military? He isn’t saying. But it’s our country.
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In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Mexico tops Team USA 2-1 to win their second straight Concacaf Gold Cup and 10th overall (More) | Liverpool and Portugal soccer star Diogo Jota dies at 28 along with his brother in single-car crash in Spain (More)
> Joey Chestnut eats 70.5 hot dogs and buns to win his 17th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest; Miki Sudo eats 33 to win her 11th women's title (More)
> "Jurassic World Rebirth" hauls in $318M at the global box office in its opening weekend as "Lilo & Stitch" crosses $972M in its seven-week run (More) | Julian McMahon, actor known for starring roles in "Nip/Tuck" and "Fantastic Four," dies of cancer at 56 (More)
Science & Technology
> Astronomers detect the third interstellar object ever observed; the roughly 20-mile-wide comet will pass around 150 million miles from Earth, travel past the sun, and eventually exit the solar system (More)
> Neanderthals crushed and boiled bones in "fat factories" to access bone marrow and other nutrients as early as 125,000 years ago, evidence suggests (More)
> Researchers discover microbe with one of the smallest genomes known to date; findings raise questions around what constitutes life in single-celled organisms (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher Thursday (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.8%, Nasdaq +1.0%) after report showing the US added 147,000 nonfarm jobs last month, beating expectations; unemployment rate dropped from 4.2% in May to 4.1% in June (More)
> President Donald Trump says 12 countries will receive letters today notifying them of tariffs going into effect tomorrow unless they accept "take it or leave it" deals; will name countries today (More)
> Eight OPEC+ countries, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, agree to increase oil production next month by 548,000 barrels per day in virtual meeting Saturday (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Tropical Storm Chantal makes landfall in northeastern South Carolina, with maximum sustained winds of up to 50 miles per hour and warnings of potential flash flooding across the two Carolinas (More)
> Israel sends delegation to Qatar after Hamas says it is ready to negotiate US-proposed 60-day ceasefire; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Donald Trump today in Washington, DC (More) | Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei makes first public appearance since 12-day war with Israel (More)
> US deports eight men convicted of violent crimes to South Sudan, most of whom are citizens of other countries in Asia and Latin America; the move ends weeks of a legal saga, which saw the men held at a US military base in Djibouti (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Immigration
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Since the ONLY REAL AMERICANS are NATIVE AMERICANS, then one could easily say that ALL AMERICANS today came from immigration.
So, we are a country of immigrants!!!
Over the years, we have passed laws so that if one wants to immigrate into the USA, it must be done LEGALLY, not illegally.
President Biden allowed Immigrants to enter the USA illegally as opposed to entering the country legally.
These illegal immigrants caused most of all other Americans to vote for Donald Trump who promised to REMOVE the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS... and this is what he is doing.
Those who are opposed to Trump want these ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to remain in this country. That is UNACCEPTABLE for the rest of us.
Personally...
I am not opposed to immigration.
I am opposed to illegal immigration.
I have been told by a legal immigrant that these illegal immigrants do not want to wait ten years to enter the USA legally.
Them not wanting to wait is irrelevant because that is the law, whether it take ten years, ten months, or ten weeks.
You must wait if you want to be legal.
MY CONCERN:
If you are willing to enter the USA illegally, what other laws are you willing to break after you get here???
Americans either obey the laws or must accept the consequences... they know this... so, I don't feel bad for anyone who breaks the law and gets punished.
The Earth’s rotation is accelerating
Our planet is speeding up, yes, like Hamilton when he reaches a corner. Astronomers are investigating because, since 2020 (and for still unknown reasons), the Earth has been spinning on its axis faster than usual, and the next record is about to happen. Graham Jones is the astrophysicist who is studying this phenomenon, and he has predicted the next shortest day on three possible dates: July 9, July 22, or August 5, 2025.
It’s not that you’re going to work one day less, hold your horses, the day will be shortened by 1.66 milliseconds. Not even the length of a blink!
But of course, the important thing is not how long the day lasts but why this is happening, and, although there are several hypotheses on the table, the origin is still unclear. And do you know what’s even more curious? Until recently, the planet was spinning slower and slower!
Monday, July 7
A Painful Truth
Whether we like it or not, Artificial Intelligence and Humanoid Robots with AI are on the near horizon. What do I mean by near horizon? I would suspect no later than 2030, and most likely well before that.
This was provided to me by CoPilot AI:
Now through 2030: Experts like Vinod Khosla predict that AI could automate up to 80% of economically valuable tasks by 2030. That doesn’t mean 80% of jobs vanish—but many will be reshaped or require fewer humans.
A prediction now but as we all know too well, these expert opinions are always underestimated in the hopes of not putting the general public into a state of PANIC!!!
AI, whether it be CoPilot or Gemini or Claude, is being used more and more by the general public than ever before and that usage rate is only going to escalate.
- Robots don't need sick leave
- Robots don't take breaks
- Robots don't need vacations
- Robots don't bitch about the work
- Robots don't need pay increases
- Robots don't need benefits
- Robots don't sabotage production
When you look at this situation a little closer, one might begin to wonder, robots replacing people will cause a lot of UNEMPLOYMENT...
Are we ready for an increase in claims?
How will be pay for food, housing, healthcare?
Who will be able to buy the products made?
How will we pay off student loans?
What will laid off military personnel do?
There are hundreds of more questions, and no one seems to care or are talking about these UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES...
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