A special guest, Figure 03, entered the East Room at the White House on Wednesday with First Lady Melania Trump. This took place during Melania’s International Technology Summit, where she hosted First Spouses of leaders from 45 different countries and delegates from 28 global tech firms.
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Lead:Â Ceasefire or Setup?
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan said on Tuesday that the country would host talks between the United States and Iran. Vice President JD Vance is reportedly heading to Pakistan to participate in those talks since Iran has refused to negotiate with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
Who could blame them? Each time Witkoff and Kushner have attended peace negotiations, Iran gets bombed by the U.S. Neither of them are elected officials so they answer to nobody. Perhaps Iran figures that JD Vance has presidential hopes and something to lose if this war continues.
The talks with President Vance could be a set up for further escalation but Iran has repeatedly said that it puts little to no faith in American guarantees so Vice President Vance will really have to work some magic if there is any hope of ending this war.
Still, many insiders report that the U.S. could launch a ground invasion as early as this Friday. That might be tricky given that New York Times reports that Iran has all but destroyed the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops, calling them “all but uninhabitable.”
While the U.S. and Israel become increasingly desperate, Israel is moving fast on its expansive plans of ethnically cleansing Palestinians.
The Israeli Knesset’s National Security Committee approved a bill this week that will impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. This means executions by hanging.
This is terrifying. Israel has over 14,000 Palestinian prisoners right now, held without charge or trial. This law would allow them to kill them at will. Remember, they had at least 4,000 October 7 Hostages, but the media won’t use that word.
Palestinians are already enduring extreme suffering. According to a report from B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, Israeli prisons currently function as a network of torture camps. Yet now, legislation threatens to escalate that harm even further by passing a bill that can easily end their lives.
Additionally, The Guardian finds that Israel has not prosecuted the killing of a Palestinian in the West Bank since 2020, despite hundreds of adults and children alike being killed by Israeli settlers in that time frame.
It seems this war has only made the plight of Palestinians worse as attention is diverted to Iran.
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The CDC is now warning that a new COVID variant carries mutations that reduce the effectiveness of prior immunity, including from vaccines. This is exactly what many experts said early on: the virus would evolve, and vaccination alone would not stop its spread.
The variant is labeled BA.3.2 and represents a new lineage of SARS-CoV-2. It was first detected in South Africa in 2024, has spread to 23 countries, and has now been found in 25 U.S. states.
The CDC releases new data, and right on cue, the media launches into another round of fear-mongering. However, BA.3.2 is not even shown on the variant tracker list, and the CDC has this statement buried in their document: “Although genomic differences in BA.3.2 and its geographic spread warrant continued monitoring, the impact of these findings on human health outcomes (e.g., illness severity and health care system impact) remains to be determined.”
This indicates the CDC does not have sufficient evidence to draw firm conclusions, yet the media narratives continue to promote fear that leads to ridiculous statements like this: “COVID is not a seasonal virus; we need updated vaccines in August, in time for school to start.”
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What’s Trending
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Stephen Colbert is trending because he plans to write Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, a new film based on unadapted chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring.
Gray’s Anatomy is trending as Kevin Mckidd (Owen) and Kim Raver (Teddy) leave the series after the season 22 finale.
Bruce Campbell is trending after he stated that his cancer diagnosis won’t derail his new movie, “Ernie & Emma.”
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