🚨 It Wasn’t A Black Monday – April 08 2025

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Lead: Grey Monday

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Monday was not Black Monday with a major stock market fall out, as predicted by CNBC’s Jim Cramer and about every other corporate media outlet. Instead, markets ended up for the day.

The market was up at the end up Monday so Cramer explained it…this way. I don’t even know what he’s saying really. I think he’s saying it’s not that big of a deal actually and we’re not heading for such a bad time. On second thought, don’t sell everything, he’s saying.

Maybe the tariff plan is not so bad. European Commissioner Ursula Von Der Leyen now says that Europe will offer the U.S. a zero-for-zero tariff deal and there are reports that more than 70 countries have called the White House to negotiate their own trade deals. Considering there were 100 tariffs announced, that’s a 70% success rate in just a few days so…could it work?

Friends Of Israel

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By the looks of it, President Trump declined to ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the American citizen that was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers just days ago in the West Bank. Or the 15 medics that were murdered by the Israeli Defense Force. Or the civilians that were killed in Gaza in the last week.

Instead, he gave him a tour of the White House where large framed photos of the two leaders are mounted and reiterated that the U.S. is “a friend of Israel … It’s an honor to be so.”

And while it would seem that there is a bestie relationship here, the meeting was not a home run success for Netanyahu.

The President and Prime Minister held a “bilateral meeting” but did not take press questions in a podium format. That was reportedly canceled.

Netanyahu says that they would “eliminate the trade deficit with the United States. We intend to do it very quickly. We think it’s the right thing to do and we’re going to also eliminate trade barriers.”

When the President was asked if he would lift tariffs on Israel as a result, he said he doesn’t actually think he needs to since the U.S. gives Israel $4 billion per year.

President Trump also says that “direct talks with Iran” are planned for this upcoming Saturday in order to avoid a war. He says that a war with Iran is “not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with.”

The Israeli people want to avoid a war. Does Netanyahu know that?

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One TRILLION Dollar Defense Budget

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thanked President Trump for “the first TRILLION dollar
@DeptofDefense budget.”

The President mentioned this in his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Secretary Hegseth added this postscript: “we intend to spend every taxpayer dollar wisely — on lethality and readiness.”

One area that DOGE has been silent on is bloated military contracts, which we know are a reality. A 2023 CBS News investigation uncovered that the Pentagon was billed $71 for a pin that previously cost less than a nickel, and $80 for a drainpipe segment valued at $1.41. Does the defense budget expansion mean that these inflated prices have not been addressed?

China has a military that is approximately twice the size of the U.S. military with approximately one third the budget. Why do you think that is?

The Pentagon has failed every audit since 2018. Perhaps we should see some public accountability before championing a bigger budget.

What’s Trending?

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AOC is trending because the congresswoman was photographed flying first class to a Bernie Sanders rally and the headline is that she is “battling inequality one ‘mimosa at a time.’” Don’t most representatives fly first class?

Blondie is trending because Clem Burke, the drummer for the band Blondie, died at the age of 70.

Victor Robles is trending because he was hurt catching a ball in right field against the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.

News By The Numbers

54. That is how old Mark Consuelos is and he is making waves because of this new spring 2025 campaign for Stuart Weitzman.

10. That is how many years Bev Vance, the mother of Vice President JD Vance, has been sober. The Veep celebrated that on X with this post on Monday.

300,000. That is how many Lowe’s employees will get Easter off.

Fluoride Out

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. says that he plans to instruct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending water fluoridation nationwide. This. Is. Necessary!

The U.S. government has known that fluoride is a neurotoxin for decades and actively fought to keep that data suppressed. For more on this, read this book: “The Fluoride Deception.”

Fluoride is toxic waste when it is a byproduct in industry and yet it is knowingly added to prevent cavities in humans, even though there is little data that it does even that. In fact, fluoride causes dental fluorosis, the spots on human teeth.

Secretary Kennedy says that he will develop a task force to continue to address fluoride in water.

Last year, Kennedy promised that “the Trump White House [would] advise all U.S​. water systems to remove fluoride from public water” on Day One of the Trump administration. He added that “fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.”

Well, it’s a few months late but better late than never.

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