With all the hysteria regarding Russia, Russia collusion, Russian interference, Russia this, and Russia that, we seem to be ignoring one extremely large country at play. China.
China, according to Wikipedia, has an estimated population of 1, 403, 500, 365 people. It is an extremely large country in terms of people, land, and most certainly economy. While half the US focuses on Russia, who takes a back seat to China in population, land, and economy, China is increasing their military. Russia and China may be able to match each other in military might now, Russia certainly had the upper hand at one point, and really within the last decade. China over the past five years has been increasing their military might. According to Defense News, China has increased their military spending by 8.1% to $173 billion. China is also launching their second aircraft carrier this year. China would like to beef up their stealth fighters and missile programs too. China's Peoples Liberation Army consists of 2 million soldiers. China has said it once and has said it once again, this as recent as April 27, 2018 per Breitbart, that America can't protect Taiwan.
Let's not forget that the U.S and China have been in conflict in cyber space for over a decade now. Chinese hackers attack the US, either government, businesses, or citizens everyday, and you better believe the US does it back. Now the US and China did sign an agreement over cyber crime and hacking in 2015, but it really didn't stop anything.
A good article to read on this is this Newsweek one by Dorothy Denning. Is World War III coming, is it inevitable? I've been talking about powder kegs for a long while now, President Trump seems to be doing all he can to get rid of the powder kegs, but it's tough. President Trump made a historic meeting with an ally of China's, North Korea. China is North Korea's lifeline for the most part, and have been since the Korean War. President Trump has also been trying to keep a good relationship with President Xi, but has made clear that the US will not be taking advantage of anymore, specifically on trade. As of today, the US and China have entered a trade war in hopes of better trade deals as a result, more on that per Fox Business. Also as of today, a leak that sparked this post came to light, it was a Chinese government leak, and that leak contained information on growing their military and overtaking the United States. According to Express, China has plans to ramp up their military, which they're already doing, to win wars and eventually overtake the United States. Again this information is straight from Chinese government documents. The documents could suggest that China just wants to be a strong, if not the strongest, nation in the world. They cited the U.S, Russia, and Japan when talking about that. China is strong, but not strong enough yet. President Trump is trying to keep China on the good side, but it looks like China has plans of their own.
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Breaking down the top three headlines of Thursday, July 5, 2018. Pulsar has chosen 3 headlines from today as the top 3 to go over, and those headlines are as follows:
CBS News reported earlier that Scott Pruitt has resigned as director of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). This comes after Pruitt being under intense scrutiny on scandals he's had while running the EPA. Pruitt has had to face pubic criticism and calls to resign as well. One being as recent as this week, Pruitt was confronted by a mother holding a child, berated him and called for his resignation. Pruitt may have had personal issues, but he seemed to be running the EPA just fine. Now, it wasn't too great when he was wastefully spending our tax dollars traveling. Of course the media spent plenty of time shaming Pruitt and putting his wrong doings out there, maybe because he is part of the Trump Administration. The media managed to ignore 43 EPA scandals that happened during Obama's presidency, per Grabien. President Trump came out on Twitter and confirmed that Andrew Wheeler will replace Pruitt as director of the EPA. More on this here from Fox News:
2. Teen Attacked for Wearing a "MAGA" Hat
A teen was eating at a San Antonio Whataburger when a very insensitive man walked up to him, robbed him of his "Make America Great Again" hat, and throw the teen's drink on the teen. This all according to News4 San Antonio. Check out the video here, per News4 San Antonio:
In that same News4 San Antonio article, Whataburger made a statement and stated that they "certainly don't condone this kind of customer behavior".
According to Infowars, the suspect has been identified as Jimenez Kino and Kino has since been fired from his job. Apparently /pol/ on 4Chan ID'd Kino and contacted his employer. Just another day of tolerant leftists.
3. Facebook Flags the Declaration of Independence as Hate Speech
Today The Washington Times reported that Facebook deemed the Declaration of Independence was hate speech. All week Facebook's algorithms have been flagging the Declaration of Independence as hate speech according to the report. The report cited how a community newspaper around the Houston/Beaumont, Texas area was posting the Declaration of Independence in small chunks each day for nine days on Facebook. The paper's Facebook paged received an automated notice that stated that the Monday post went against Facebook's standards on hate speech". Facebook apologized and told the paper that the censorship was a mistake. Facebook has been under fire from libertarians, republicans, and privacy hawks for years now, and especially since their data scandal just this year. Mark Zuckerberg has had to go before Congress for these scandals. Big tech has been pushing the limits on censoring speech. Twitter, Facebook, and Google are the big three when it comes to online speech censorship. Here's more on this story per Fox Business:
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Breaking down the top 3 headlines of today, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. The top three headlines Pulsar has chosen to go over are as follows:
Monday night a group associated with the "Abolish ICE" movement through a brick through the office window of Nebraska Republican Party's headquarters in Lincoln, NE. The same vandals then spray painted "Abolish ICE" on the sidewalk outside of the office. This all according to the The Daily Caller.
This is just one of multiple violent leftist protests against ICE. On Saturday, a man assaulted a United States Secret Service officer after an ICE protest in Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. Per NBC Washington, a man illegally parked his car along Pennsylvania Avenue, got out, moved a security barrier, and started screaming "Where is the president" to officers. After the suspect started shouting at the officers, he then punched an officer in the jaw and in the eye. He was arrested for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. According to CBS Philly, an ICE protest turned violent with multiple arrests today. See the news report, per CBS Philly, here:
People need to stop acting on emotion and look at the facts and statistics of ICE. Research ICE, and look at all the good things they do for the United States. They put their lives on the line and go to work every day to protect American citizens. Why does the left hate Americans so much? The left needs to tone it down, or they'll start being arrested more, or even worse, get people killed.
2. Oil Tops $75 per Barrel for the First Time Since 2014
Oil topped out at $75 per barrel today, but has leveled out at around $74 after the closing bell today per CNBC. Today was the first day since 2014 where oil has reached $75 per barrel. President Trump has been calling on OPEC to increase oil production to help combat the rising prices, and some have been calling for the president to open up some of the US oil reserves. Russia, per The Wall Street Journal, Russia plans to boost production output by 200,000 barrels a day. OPEC in general plans to boost oil production as well. Looks like President Trump is herding the cattle when it comes to oil countries. According to The Hill, Saudi Arabia is planning to boost oil output by 2 million barrels per day. Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman and President Trump have had a great relationship since 2017, and we need a good one with Saudi Arabia in terms of oil supply and other things. Here is a breakdown of rising oil and rising gas prices per Fox Business:
3. Walmart Buckles to Pressure to Remove "Impeach 45" T-Shirts from Store Website
Per Fox News, Walmart has removed "Impeach 45" t-shirts from their store website. Walmart came under intense social media fire today when it was revealed that they were selling t-shirts that had "Impeach 45" on them.
With all the division and incivility around the country, along with the democrats pushing for impeachment and violent protests, this seemed like a good idea for Walmart to remove it. Also a great business move after #BoycottWalmart started trending on Twitter and quickly gained support. This is America, and you should be able to sell whatever you want, legally that is, but you're not entitled to sell it anywhere you want. Especially in bad political times as now, a large company shouldn't be profiting or encouraging a movement of division.
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Headlines of the Day: Foiled 4th of July Attack, Trump Tariffs, and Rand Paul Threatened Again7/2/2018
Below we're going to go over the top 3 headlines of Monday, July 2, 2018. The headlines Pulsar has chosen as the top 3 of the day are as follows:
Per WKYC, the FBI has foiled a plot to attack American citizens celebrating The 4th of July in Cleveland, OH. The suspect, Abdur Raheem Rafeeq also know to police as Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts, was set up and caught by the FBI on Sunday, July 1st. Rafeeq told an undercover FBI agent that he planned on committing a terror attack on The 4th of July in Cleveland, OH. According to authorities, Rafeeq conducted reconnaissance of downtown Cleveland, and even had pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda. This just goes to show that radical Islamic terrorism is still alive here in the US. Our men and women of law enforcement and government do a great job protecting us from it, this sting was a prime example. The WKYC news reports can be viewed here:
2. President Trump's Tariffs are Ramping Up, Canada has Retaliated, and Some are Worried
President Trump has been slapping tariffs left and right on countries, but for good reason. The good reason being the American worker and in the end the American consumer. President Trump is hoping to not only protect Americans in general when it comes to trade, but he wants to level the playing field when it comes to global trade. China has so far went toe to toe with the US and tariffs, the EU is threatening retaliatory tariffs on automobiles, and today Canada has hit the US with $12.6B in tariffs. Contrary to popular belief, this is what Trump was hoping for. This now sets the stage for trade negotiations and new trade deals to be made. It may sting at first, but at the end of the day the American worker and consumer will both benefit. Per Business Insider, Canada has hit the US with $12.6B in tariffs on steel, aluminum, yogurt, maple syrup, coffee, whiskey, candles, plywood, and various others. Now, a lot of this stuff the US has plenty of, and is made right here in the US, so buy American. These tariffs have some uneasy, see the Fox Business report here:
President Trump today came out and straight up said that the WTO (World Trade Organization) needs to change, or the US will do something about it. Per Fox Business, President Trump doesn't plan to leave the WTO, but is exploring plans to change the WTO.
Axios has reported a leaked bill titled "United States Fair and Reciprocal Trade Act" is in the works. The bill will give the President unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of the WTO and trade with any country. The President will be able to ignore tariff ceilings and not being able to set different tariff rates for different countries outside of free trade agreements. That is a bill I hope that passes, and it should, as it's long overdue. The US has been getting destroyed in trade for years now, and it's about time we have a president that is sticking up for the nation.
3. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and His Family Have Been Threatened, and The Suspect is Behind Bars
The Daily Caller reported earlier today that Kentucky GOP senator Rand Paul and his family were threatened. The suspect threatened to kill him and chop up his family with an axe. According to the report, the suspect called in the threat to Paul's Bowling Green, KY office.
Rand Paul was subject to physical assault from a lunatic neighbor in 2017, and his attacker has been charged and sentenced in that crime. Rand Paul is no stranger to these sorts of threats and attacks. Rand Paul is strong believer and supporter of liberty and the constitution, and according to the left, that's a bit radical. Political and physical violence have been ramping up on the left since President Trump has taken office. A deranged leftist shot up a GOP congressional baseball practice in 2017, nearly killing GOP representative, and House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise. Rand Paul was present that day, but not hit. This incivility and division has only been ramping up the last couple of months, and it seems as if there is no end in sight. The left is barking up the wrong tree, and for the sake of the United States, they should calm it down, and talk with those on the right. The mainstream media is no help at all for any of this.
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