Today’s Top 5:
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, has been voted out of the hardline House Freedom Caucus group after clashing with a fellow lawmaker, a caucus member said.
The move to expel the firebrand Greene from the roughly three-dozen-strong hardline group came weeks after she engaged in a heated clash on the House of Representatives floor with fellow hardliner Representative Lauren Boebert over the latter’s plan to try to force a vote to impeach Democratic President Joe Biden.
Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have prevented males from competing in interscholastic sporting events designated for females, even after the legislation earned bipartisan support in the state legislature.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on July 5 pressed the U.S. Secret Service for details regarding its ongoing investigation into the discovery of cocaine at the White House.
“The American people deserve to know whether illicit drugs were found in an area where confidential information is exchanged,” Mr. Cotton wrote (pdf).
The letter posed a series of questions to Ms. Cheatle, seeking clarification on the security of the complex and requesting the Secret Service’s plan to address any identified security flaws.
Seven Republican attorneys general warned Target on Thursday that the company’s controversial Pride collection contained vulgar clothing that may violate child-protection laws.
Threads, the Twitter clone touted by Facebook executives as the “sanely run” alternative to Elon Musk’s Twitter, has launched with the company’s characteristic political bias, censoring Donald Trump Jr. with a warning message the platform’s first day of operation.
Threads users who attempt to follow the former president’s son receive a warning message before they are allowed to do so.
WORLD NEWS
Report: Joe Biden to Supply Ukraine with Controversial Cluster Bombs
President Joe Biden is expected to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs, which much of the world has vowed not to use due to their long-term effects on civilians.
Crashed Storm Shadow Missile Falls Into Russian Hands (Updated)
AStorm Shadow air-launched cruise missile that was donated by the United Kingdom to Ukraine has reportedly fallen into Russian hands in a partially intact state.
The missiles, which are launched from Su-24 Fencers using adapted pylons from now-retired RAF Tornado strike jets, are the longest-range weapon provided to Ukraine and have been used in the fight against Russia’s invasion since early May.
‘Nudge Unit’ Chief Says UK Will Obey Future Lockdowns: Citizens Have ‘Learnt the Behaviour’
A UK government adviser is confident any future pandemic lockdown and compulsory mask edicts will be met with compliance because people have learnt a new behaviour and, “in principle, you can switch it back on.”
Report: China Has Had an Intelligence Base in Cuba for at Least 30 Years
A retired American intelligence official told the Miami Herald in a report published Wednesday that China has been conducting espionage activities in Cuba since at least 1992, taking advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union to forge a closer relationship with the fellow communist nation.
Russian Jets Harass U.S. Drones During Mission Against Islamic State in Syria
The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday that three Russian fighter jets harassed three American drones during a mission against Islamic State targets in Syria.
UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record
The UN secretary general has said that “climate change is out of control”, as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week on record.
International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Dream Debunked as a Nightmare
et Zero 2050 means that “net emissions of carbon dioxide will need to fall to net zero by 2050”. This is Technocracy’s scam in order to control all available energy and hence, all economic activity and human consumption. CO2 is not, nor has ever been, our enemy. Without it, green plants do not grow. Green plants produce O2 for humans to breathe. What is hard to understand?
Death Toll Rises to 7 in Fungal Meningitis Outbreak; CDC Urges Testing
Seven people in the United States have died from fungal meningitis in connection with medical procedures they had received in Mexico, U.S. health officials stated in a recent alert.
The people contracted the fungal infections after getting procedures under epidural anesthesia in Matamoros, a city in Mexico’s Tamaulipas state, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. The two clinics associated with the outbreak are River Side Surgical Center and Clinica K-3, which were closed down in mid-May.
“Anyone who had procedures under epidural anesthesia in these clinics from January 1 to May 13, 2023, is at risk for fungal meningitis,” the CDC said. The outbreak was first reported in May, leading the federal health agency to issue an alert.
First-ever malaria vaccine set for roll-out in Africa – WHO
At least 28 countries on the continent expressed interest in receiving the Mosquirix malaria serum, World Health Organization says
Fukushima: China extends ban on some Japanese food over wastewater release plan
China says it will maintain a ban on some Japanese food imports over the plan to release water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.
China’s customs administration said it would also implement radiation tests on food from other parts of the country.
South Korea is also maintaining a similar ban but says the proposed release meets international standards.
On Wednesday the UN’s nuclear watchdog said it would have “negligible impact” on the environment.
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Secret Service: Cocaine Found in White House Possibly Dropped by Authorized Person
The U.S. Secret Service has stated that the substance found in the White House on July 3 identified to be cocaine may have been brought in by someone who works there or had authorization to be there.
A Secret Service spokesman said the incident with the illegal drug is under investigation but doesn’t appear to be any significant threat to the West Wing.
“We are going to do our best to identify who may have brought it in,” Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the U.S. Secret Service, told The Epoch Times on July 5.
For years, Democratic presidential candidate hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised serious questions about the safety of certain vaccine ingredients, an issue once the domain of small groups of parents that became a national issue with the onset of COVID-19.
Kennedy’s Health Policy Roundtable
June 27, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a Health Policy Roundtable featuring a panel of health freedom advocates
Panelists included me; my good friend Dr. Patrick Gentempo; Maureen McDonnell, a holistic pediatric nurse; Dr. Pierre Kory, cofounder of the Frontline COVID Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC); filmmaker Mikki Willis; Sayer Ji, founder of Greenmed.com; and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
Kennedy wants to implement a digitized medical informatics system so that correlation studies can be rapidly done to determine the impact of drugs and vaccines on public health
He also intends to redirect federal grants away from infectious disease research to study chronic disease instead. He would also end the practice of allowing scientists with the National Institutes of Health to collect royalties on products they’ve worked on
Kennedy also vows to end gain-of-function research, and will work to get all nations to sign onto a treaty to ban it, as manmade pathogens have been responsible for most of the worst infectious outbreaks in modern history
Republicans Recruiting Mayra Flores to Flip Hispanic Texas Seat
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is recruiting former Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) to run for her old seat in Texas’s 34th congressional district.
Newsom calls on DOJ to investigate Florida over migrant transports
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday called on the Justice Department to investigate the Florida program responsible for transporting migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and Sacramento.
The California Democratic officials, along with a sheriff in Texas, urged Attorney General Merrick Garland in a letter to open criminal and civil investigations into Florida’s “Unauthorized Alien Transport Program,” arguing that contractors hired by the state have used fraudulent tactics to coerce asylum seekers into accepting trips to liberal cities.
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
ANALYSIS: Democrats, Republicans Step Up With Student Loan Debt Plans
As the Biden administration’s plan to erase more than $400 billion in federal student loan debt failed at the U.S. Supreme Court, both Democrats and Republicans are saying they have an answer to help with the looming student loan default crisis.
OceanGate Suspends ‘All Exploration and Commercial Operations’ After Catastrophic Sub Disaster
The company that operated a failed Titanic exploration trip that killed all five people on board confirmed on July 6 that it’s suspending “all exploration and commercial operations” in response to the deadly incident.
OceanGate announced the decision on its website just weeks after its Titan submersible vehicle imploded during a trip to visit the Titanic shipwreck in the North Atlantic. A previous version of the website shows the company had listed two trips to the Titanic scheduled for June 2024.
White House takes action against short-term ‘junk’ insurance plans and surprise billing
The Biden administration announced plans on Friday to tamp down on “junk” insurance plans and surprise medical fees as part of the “Bidenomics” agenda and its goal of lowering health care costs for Americans.
Through its newly proposed rules, the White House is aiming to crack down on short-term health plans, or “junk plans” as critics refer to them.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
China unveils first domestic open-source operating system
China has launched its first domestic open-source desktop operating system, which has been hailed as a software development breakthrough, amid Beijing’s technological stand-off with Washington.
Pharma Giant Selling mRNA Drugs To China After Getting Billions In US Taxpayer Money
Moderna, an American pharmaceutical giant that developed mRNA technology with the help of U.S. taxpayer funds, will now produce some mRNA drugs that are exclusively for Chinese markets, the company told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The company will produce certain drugs using mRNA technology for the Chinese market that will not be exported, the company said. Moderna received roughly $2.5 billion in federal funding for research and orders of the COVID-19 vaccine, and cooperated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in its late-stage trials for the development of its mRNA vaccine for COVID-19.
“On July 5th, we signed a memorandum of understanding and a related land collaboration agreement to work toward opportunities for Moderna to research, develop and manufacture mRNA medicines in China,” a spokesman told the DCNF in a statement. “These agreements are focused on strengthening health security by targeting unmet needs and contributing to the ecosystem of medical solutions available to patients in China. Any medicines produced under this agreement will be exclusively for the Chinese people — who face many of the same health challenges that affect other communities around the world — and will not be exported.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone, Threads, is trumpeting an explosive start with 10 million signups in just seven hours, but users are surprised to learn about a catch built in to the new platform. People that set up a Threads profile and decided to delete it learned that doing so will delete their Instagram account as well.
Conjoined twins with fused brains separated; surgeons practiced for months in virtual reality
The twins, Bernardo and Arthur Lima, are almost 4 years old and have never seen one another’s face. They’ve spent their lives conjoined at the top of their heads, facing opposite directions. Born as craniopagus twins (joined at the cranium), their brains were also fused together, making their separation extremely complex. According to the BBC, they’ve been cared for at the Instituto Estadual do Cérebro Paulo Niemeyer (Paulo Niemeyer State Brain Institute) in Rio de Janeiro for the past two and a half years.
Surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani is the founder of medical charity Gemini Untwined, which funded the surgery. He helped lead the team of nearly 100 medical workers who worked for months to prepare for the boys’ separation, which was one of the most complicated of its kind.
Jeelani told the BBC that it was the first time surgeons in separate countries practiced by operating in the same “virtual reality room” together, wearing VR headsets.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Warning Issued Americans Going to the Beach This Summer
Pollution report finds a number of US beaches are contaminated with fecal bacteria
GARDENING, FARMING & HOMESTEADING
How to Make 5 Minute Fridge Pickles
It’s that time of year when home gardens are producing epic amounts of vegetables, especially cucumbers!
While it may be tough to eat an abundance of cucumbers fresh, it’s super easy to preserve them to enjoy later.
These five minute fridge pickles are so simple, and truly only take five minutes!
They’re made with ingredients you likely already have on hand, but if you don’t, you could easily substitute any of the flavorings in the brine for something you already have in your cupboard.
Gourmet Homemade Mustard Recipe
Three ingredients, five minutes of mixing, and in a couple days? DIY gourmet mustard! This homemade mustard recipe – a whole grain mustard – is mind-bogglingly easy and will add a kick to so many meals.
Why you might consider raising your own chickens for meat and eggs … Why $4.99 Costco Chicken Is a Massive Problem
Costco sells rotisserie chicken for $4.99 and will go to great lengths to maintain this ultralow price. The company opened its own poultry CAFO in Fremont, Nebraska, to have better control over the size of the broilers
There are steep, hidden costs to CAFO chicken, including environmental costs, human health costs and ethical considerations
Current-day CAFO chickens contain more fat than protein and have lower amounts of omega-3 fats and higher omega-6 than they used to. Previous research has linked diets high in omega-6 to a rise in obesity
Another significant hazard linked to CAFO chicken is the spread of antibiotic-resistant disease, specifically urinary tract infections (UTIs), including drug-resistant UTIs, which are on the rise
Studies have conclusively demonstrated that a majority of UTIs are caused by exposure to contaminated chicken; American, Canadian and European studies have all confirmed close genetic matches between drug-resistant E. coli collected from human patients and those found on poultry
HEALTH
Most Nutritious Berries: Top 5 Superfoods Most Recommended By Experts
Everyone knows that berries are a wonderful source of vitamins and minerals. There are more variations than you actually may think exist. Some berries are more tart, some are sweet, some are in season only at a certain time of year, and some are healthier than others. All with their own benefits, we found the most nutritious berries of them all!
It’s a good thing berries are delicious. Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland say that both parents practicing what they preach regarding eating habits can make all the difference in healthy eating among three- to five-year-olds. The study delved into the relationship between the home food environment and parental action on vegetable and fruit consumption among young children. Instilling healthy eating habits in children from a young age often leads to dietary patterns that persist well into adulthood. So, if parents can convince their kids to eat some greens at age five, in all likelihood they’ll still be eating vegetables at age 35. In all, 114 kindergarten-age children and their parents took part in the research via a series of surveys. Raw vegetables, cooked vegetables, fruits, and berries were all analyzed separately.
To add some extra healthy and delicious fruits to your diet, StudyFinds worked to find the most nutritious berries across 10 expert reviews to keep you healthy. There were many berries we saw among the expert lists. If there is one that you buy each season that we didn’t list, please share it below!
The List: Most Nutritious Berries, According to Experts
- Strawberries
- Blueberries
. Raspberries
- Goji Berries
- Cranberries
Aspartame, the well-known artificial sweetener 200 times sweeter than table sugar, is responsible for keeping diet beverages seemingly sweet but low-calorie. Now it’s on track to be labeled a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer examined “the potential carcinogenic effect of aspartame,” the WHO told Fortune in a statement. On July 14, “The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) will update its risk assessment exercise on aspartame, including the reviewing of the acceptable daily intake and dietary exposure assessment for aspartame.”
How aspartame affects your health
Dozens of studies have looked at how aspartame affects the brain and body. Research suggests an association between aspartame and a decreased release of dopamine and serotonin, the neurological hormones responsible for mood. Consumption of aspartame may also cause headaches and dizziness.
Suppliers have been critical of the associations; however, national organizations plan to correlate the artificial sweetener as a potential cancer risk. The WHO’s label puts aspartame in the least effective carcinogen category, labeling it as a “possible carcinogen.”
As it stands, the recommended daily limit of aspartame is 40 mg per kilogram of body weight (a 12-ounce can of Diet Coke has about 180 mg of aspartame).
Until updated recommendations are made, here are the most common foods and drinks containing aspartame. Every brand is different, however, so be sure to check the label:
Popular foods and beverages that contain aspartame
- Diet soda, like Diet Coke
- Sugar-free soda
- Low-sugar juices
- Sugar-free puddings and desserts
- Sugar-free jams
- Artificially sweetened gum
- Cereals
- Low-calorie coffee sweeteners
Beware of Arteriosclerosis, Eat These Foods to Help Maintain Vascular Health
Arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, can lead to a variety of other diseases including kidney failure, stroke, and mesenteric ischemia
How to Maintain Healthy Arteries Through Diet
Consuming foods that help maintain vascular elasticity and patency can reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Chia-Ling Kuo, a nutritionist at KUO General Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, suggests eating the following four foods to maintain artery health:
- Pecans
- Olive oil
- Cauliflower
- Dark chocolate
Kava Plant Used for Centuries in Traditional Medicine Now Studied for PTSD Treatment
In New Zealand, Pacific Island scientists have just been given a large grant to run a study trial on the use of the traditional kava preparation and kava ceremony for treating PTSD.
Believing it could help treat PTSD and other trauma in soldiers and veterans, police officers, and corrections facility staff, the two scientists want to revise the reputation of kava, which was damaged by a pharmaceutical rush into the product some years ago.
Do you really trust Big Pharma that much?
Alzheimer’s Drug Leqembi Has Full FDA Approval Now and That Means Medicare Will Pay for It
U.S. officials granted full approval to a closely watched Alzheimer’s drug on Thursday, clearing the way for Medicare and other insurance plans to begin covering the treatment for people with the brain-robbing disease.
The Food and Drug Administration endorsed the IV drug, Leqembi, for patients with mild dementia and other symptoms caused by early Alzheimer’s disease. It’s the first medicine that’s been convincingly shown to modestly slow Alzheimer’s cognitive decline.
COVID RELATED NEWS
Unprecedented: Athlete Cardiac Arrests Killed 1,310 In 2.5 Years, Injured 574
NYU Professor Mark Crispin Miller has been chronicling sudden deaths and unexpected health events since the COVID pandemic and the mRNA therapy shots (COVID “vaccines”) started. Athletes and healthy young people with no known health issues, are falling over dead from sudden cardiac arrest after receiving injections. Many deaths showed no signs of impending collapse. As Miller notes, this is unprecedented in history.
Big Pharma propaganda has tried to minimize these statistics, claiming that heart failure is the leading cause of young athlete deaths. What they fail to explain is the manner of failure, namely, face planting with no prior indication of an impending crisis event. Most heart attacks are preceded by pain, dizziness, shortness of breath, etc. A victim might grab their chest, drop to one knee or fall over. Seldom is one just walking (or running) along normally and the lights instantly go out.
Propaganda-In-Action: How The Media Minimizes mRNA Vaccine Injuries
Propaganda is the Technocrat way of sowing confusion and doubt about what otherwise is self-evident reality. Some people call this “gaslighting”. Whatever you are seeing with your own eyes is miss-interpreted or miss-represented and therefore you should accept the propaganda as being true. This is blatant fraud, but people fall for it time after time, giving the reason why propaganda continues to be sprayed from a firehose.
Damaged People, Rotten Standards: Anatomy of Decline
If we look around, we’ll see many working-age people struggling with basic tasks, and a great decline in standards
The MSM is suggesting that one in every ten people who’s had “Omicron” ends up with “long COVID,” which nowadays seems to be the establishment term to describe all chronic illness, as well as injury from “vaccines”
The official rates of autism and dementia are also growing at a pace that is incompatible with a functioning society, and so the “great resetters” are in a great hurry to replace us with bots and “save the day”
The suffering and the decline in health are very real and heartbreaking
The mainstream medicine, on the other hand, is in decline — preoccupied mostly with selling establishment talking points and pharma drugs
CANCEL CULTURE
CDC Gives Instructions on ‘Chestfeeding’ for Transgender, Non-Binary People
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is being criticized for material instructing transgender and non-binary people on how to “chestfeed” their infants.
In a section titled “Health Equity” found within the CDC’s “Infant and Young Child Feeding Toolkit,” the health organization uses the term “chestfeed” when referring to transgender and non-binary people caring for infants.
PET NEWS
A major UCLA study says that at least 65 species of animals laugh
Laughter is one of the most natural impulses in humans. Most babies start to laugh out loud at around 3 to 4 months, far earlier than they are able to speak or walk. Expressing enjoyment or delight comes naturally to us, but we’re not the only creatures who communicate with giggles.
Researchers at UCLA have identified 65 species of animals who make “play vocalizations,” or what we would consider laughter. Some of those vocalizations were already well documented—we’ve known for a while that apes and rats laugh—but others may come as a surprise. Along with a long list of primate species, domestic cows and dogs, foxes, seals, mongooses and three bird species are prone to laughter as well. (Many bird species can mimic human laughter, but that’s not the same as making their own play vocalizations.)
10,000 Bricks With Built-in Bird Homes Installed in UK Homes to Give Nest Holes to Swifts
Tiny birds in the UK are being given free tenements from real estate development companies by installing “swift bricks” in new buildings around the country.
Over 30,000 swift bricks—essentially a normal building brick with a hollow inside—have been sold in the country, and more than 10,000 homes have been built with swift bricks incorporated into the design.
GOOD NEWS
The Guys Who Sell Ocean Plastic Bracelets Just Reached 30 Million Pounds of Waste Pulled From Seas
4ocean has reached a stellar milestone: 30 million pounds of plastic waste recovered from the our oceans, rivers, and coastlines since the company began in 2017.
Operating in 12 locations across two continents, 4ocean has been dedicated to ending the ocean plastic crisis.
“4ocean is incredibly proud to have accomplished this record-setting feat” said Alex Schulze, 4ocean CEO and Co-Founder.
Guy with a metal detector astonished to find a ring that belonged to the Sheriff of Nottingham
A retired merchant navy engineer in England has found a treasure that would have made his country’s most popular folk hero proud. Graham Harrison, a 64-year-old metal detector enthusiast, discovered a gold signet ring that once belonged to the Sheriff of Nottingham.
The discovery was made on a farm in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, 26.9 miles from Sherwood Forest. The forest is known worldwide for being the mythological home of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. A central road that traversed the forest was notorious in Medieval times for being an easy place for bandits to rob travelers going to and from London.
“It was the first big dig after lockdown on a glorious day. We were searching two fields. Other detectorists kept finding hammered coins but I’d found nothing,” Harrison said according to the Daily Mail. “Then I suddenly got a signal. I dug up a clod of earth but couldn’t see anything. I kept breaking up the clod and, on the last break, a gold ring was shining at me. I broke out into a gold dance.”
Harrison sent the ring to the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme to have it authenticated. After doing some research they found that it was once owned by Sir Matthew Jenison, who was the Sheriff of Nottingham between 1683 and 1684.
The first accounts of Robin Hood, then known as Robyn Hode, first appear in the 12th century, a few hundred years before Sir Matthew served as sheriff.
But there’s no doubt that the archer and leader of Merry Men would have been delighted to know that an everyday guy came into possession of the Sheriff of Nottingham’s ring.
ICYMI
Disney Star Coco Lee Dead at 48 by Suicide
Hong Kong-born American singer Coco Lee, who blazed her way to pop stardom across Asia and beyond in the 1990s and 2000s, has died. She was 48.
The singer had suffered from depression in recent years, “but her condition deteriorated drastically over the last few months”, sisters Carol Lee and Nancy Lee said in an Instagram post.
Journey Co-Founder George Tickner Dead at 76
The co-founder and original rhythm guitarist for the 80s rock band Journey, George Tickner, has died. He was 76.
Tickner’s death was confirmed by co-founding member Neal Schon on social media.
Judge accused of lip-syncing racy songs in chambers and in bed in TikTok videos
A New Jersey judge is facing an ethics complaint alleging that he lip-synced songs with graphic sexual references in inappropriate videos that he posted to TikTok under the alias “Sal Tortorella.”
The accused judge, Judge Gary N. Wilcox of Bergen County, New Jersey, is 58 years old, his lawyer, Robert Hille, told the New York Times.
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