Wednesday, July 9
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> 2025 FIFA Club World Cup semifinals kick off with Fluminense taking on Chelsea tonight (3 pm ET, DAZN) and Paris Saint-Germain pitted against Real Madrid tomorrow (3 pm ET, DAZN) (More)
> Brad Pitt's "F1" nears $300M at global box office, becoming highest-grossing Apple-produced theatrical film ever (More)
> 2025 Wimbledon quarterfinals begin today; see updated scores, schedule, and brackets for women's and men's tournaments (More)
Science & Technology
> Twitter and Block founder Jack Dorsey launches Bitchat, a WhatsApp-style messaging service that works entirely over Bluetooth; application doesn't use centralized servers or require personal information (More)
> Researchers enhance a key molecule involved in photosynthesis in plants, boosting its chemical reaction efficiency by up to 25%; results may lead to improved crop yields in certain species (More) | 1440 Science & Technology: Today's deep dive on memory comes out at 8:30 am ET (Join here)
> Oldest known pterosaur in North America discovered; the reptiles coexisted with dinosaurs, current specimen pushes their timeline back to about 209 million years ago (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.8%, Dow -0.9%, Nasdaq -0.9%) after President Donald Trump announces a slew of new tariffs taking effect Aug. 1 (More) | Tesla shares drop 6.8% after Elon Musk announces plans to form a new political party (More) | See previous write-up (More)
> Amazon Prime Day begins today and runs through Friday, July 11, extending to four days for the first time; shoppers expected to spend nearly $24B (More) | Amazon explained (1440 Topics)
> AI company CoreWeave to acquire data center infrastructure provider Core Scientific for about $9B; shares subsequently drop 3.3% and 17.6%, respectively (More) | ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy find new natural gas deposit off the coast of Cyprus, bolstering the region's energy exporting potential (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Death toll from Texas floods rises to at least 104 people, including at least 28 children (More) | See previous write-up (More) | Twenty-seven-year-old gunman killed after opening fire at US Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, injuring police officer (More)
> Justice Department finds no evidence the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept a so-called "client list" or blackmailed high-profile associates; department confirms he died by suicide, citing video footage near Epstein's prison cell (More) | Read the memo (More)
> President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss potential ceasefire in Gaza (More) | Lebanon signals openness to disarming Hezbollah in exchange for Israeli withdrawal (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Tennessee
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The state of Tennessee has a few major cities, among them are:
- Bristol/Johnson City/Kingsport
- Knoxville
- Chattanooga
- Nashville
- Memphis
The state of Tennessee is divided into three sections:
- East
- Bristol-Knoxville-Chattanooga
- Middle
- Nashville
- West
- Memphis
The Tennessee Valley Authority created (during the depression) and manages a series of recreational lakes that include:
- Fort Loudoun Lake
- Watts Bar Lake
- Chickamauga Lake
- Nickajack Lake
- Guntersville Lake
- Wheeler Lake
- Wilson Lake
- Pickwick Lake
- Kentucky Lake
- Cherokee Lake
- Douglas Lake
- Fontana Lake
- Fort Patrick Henry Lake
- Melton Hill Lake
- Davy Crockett Lake
- Norris Lake
- Lake Nottely
- Ocoee Lakes
- South Holston Lake
- Tellico Lake
- Tims Ford Lake
- Watauga Lake
East Tennessee, not only has these lakes but they have the Bristol Motor Speedway (NASCAR) and the Great Smoky Mountains which is home to:
- Sevierville (Outlets)
- Pigeon Forge (Dollywood)
- Gatlinburg (Mountain Resorts)
Oak Ridge is also located in East Tennessee and was considered to be the SECRET CITY during WWII because it was one of three places that was responsible for creating the Atomic Bomb that ended the war. Now Oak Ridge is home to OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABS that receives money from DOE and is currently working on creating a portable nuclear reactor (among other things) that will one day power a spaceship.
Since I am a resident of East Tennessee, I am rather fond of my location and prefer it to the Piedmont of North Carolina where I used to live over thirty years ago.
Scientists achieve teleportation between quantum computers for the first time ever
The promise of quantum computing come with a hitch: the more qubits you load into a single machine, the harder they are to keep in line. Scientists have tried shielding, error correction, even stacking qubits on top of one another, yet stability keeps slipping through their fingers.
A fresh demonstration now points to a different strategy – spreading the workload across several small processors and letting quantum teleportation knit them together in real time.
Tuesday, July 8
The Possibility of War
When I was younger, I worried about being drafted into the Army or the Marines because of the Vietnam War. I went to college to keep from being drafted but after two and a half years, dropped out and enlisted in the Navy.
Today, high school students and college students no longer have to worry about the draft, which to some degree is good, but with the world as it is presently, WORLD WAR III could be right around the corner.
It is that right around the corner that should bother young people today. I know that Americans, especially those between the ages of 18-35, have NO DESIRE for the USA to get involved in the wars of other countries. I can understand why they feel that way.
However, there are certain countries in the world today that HATE THE USA for the sins of previous administrations, some of which were around before we were born... like after WWII.
Countries like:
- Iran
- Middle eastern countries
- Countries of BRICS
- North Korea
want the USA gone and have no problems annihilating us completely.
Most Americans simply do not understand nor do they believe that other countries hate us as much as they do... and, honestly, I hope they never find out the truth of that hate.
Americans have been lucky that wars have not been fought inside the borders of the 48 states because not only would our outlook be different, but we would be living under the FEAR that war might happen again.
A WWIII would more than likely be fought outside the USA, but the impact of that war would touch everything we do, like:
- Education
- Prices
- Gasoline
- Travel
- Internet
- Recreation
- Food
just to name a few...
Whether we get pulled into a WWIII is doubtful to many and a certainty to some, but I doubt it will result in a military draft. Bear in mind that wars happen because leaders don't have the courage to BACK DOWN.
Right now those fears of war are concentrated around:
- Russia
- China
- Iran
- Israel
- North Korea
It is believed by our military strategists that none of the leaders of those five countries, except for Israel, actually values human life.
Headlines
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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.
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