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SPIRITUAL:
VERSE for TODAY:
New International Version
If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
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CANADIAN:
Juno Jump Start
Nenshi wrote an open letter to CSIS requesting an investigation into alleged foreign interference in Alberta’s independence movement.
Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has written an open letter to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, requesting an investigation into alleged foreign interference in Alberta’s independence movement, despite prior reports that indicate the RCMP did not find any information to indicate foreign interference.
The letter, addressed earlier this week to CSIS Director Daniel Rogers, asks the agency to provide public updates on its risk assessment ahead of Alberta’s planned referendum.
Nenshi asks CSIS to spy on Alberta independence movement
Very Alarming
· It is very alarming the growth of Data Centres…
· High consumption of electricity
· High consumption of fresh water
· High trash collection
· High Humm continuously
Look at this site…
and this site…
both liberals and conservatives see it as problem moving forward… who is behind these…any surprise the global elites!
One world government and the beast system is now in our face! God bless, and do your own research,
Brian Plum
NOTE:
The World’s Data Centers by Country (2026)
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Key Takeaways
· The U.S. leads with 3,960 data centers, the largest footprint in the dataset.
· That’s more data centers than the next 14 countries combined.
· Europe clusters heavily (UK, Germany, France lead), while Asia’s footprint is growing (China, India, Japan).
Data centers power everything from streaming and cloud storage to the AI systems reshaping industries. When it comes to scale, one country stands far ahead.
The U.S. has 3,960 data centers in this dataset—more than the next 14 countries combined.
The map above, based on data from Data Center Map, counts operational facilities by country, from small cloud hubs to sprawling colocation campuses. While totals vary by methodology, the concentration of infrastructure in a few major economies is unmistakable.
U.S. Leads by a Wide Margin
With nearly four thousand data centers in this dataset, the U.S. is the world’s largest data center market.
This U.S. dominance reflects heavy investment by major cloud providers and tech companies. Years of hyperscaler investment help explain why much of the world’s cloud and AI capacity is built in the country.
Some other industry estimates place the U.S. total above 5,000 facilities!
TRUMP:
Alaska election official finds same-name Senate challenger ineligible in preliminary ruling
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Alaska's Division of Elections issued a preliminary decision Thursday finding that Dan J. Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher from Petersburg, is not eligible to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. The ruling came after the division received two complaints about the challenger's candidacy, and after weeks of mounting evidence that his campaign may have been orchestrated by Democratic operatives.
Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher delivered the finding directly to Dan J. Sullivan, the Daily Caller reported. Her language left little ambiguity about the division's view of the matter.
"Based on a review of the evidence presented and in the Division's possession, the Division has determined that the preponderance of evidence does not support your eligibility for the office of United States Senator."
The decision is not final. Beecher gave Sullivan until 5 p.m. Thursday to make his case, after which the elections division would issue a final determination. The state did not publicly specify which evidence drove its conclusion, and the identities of the two complainants remain undisclosed.
But the trail of breadcrumbs leading to this moment tells its own story, one that conservatives have been flagging for weeks.
A candidacy with Democratic fingerprints
When a second Dan Sullivan surfaced on the Alaska Senate ballot, the incumbent's campaign wasted no time pointing fingers. On June 3, Sen. Sullivan's campaign spokesperson Nate Adams told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the candidacy was a manufactured ploy:
"Mary Peltola and D.C. Democrats know they can't win this race on the issues, so they've resorted to dirty, dishonest tactics, recruiting a sham candidate with the sole purpose of deceiving voters and manipulating Alaska's election system."
Adams added that the scheme "undermines confidence in our elections" and said the campaign was "reviewing all of our legal options and aren't ruling anything out."
Those weren't empty accusations. Campaign metadata reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation in early June showed that Democratic strategist Amber Lee authored the press release announcing Dan J. Sullivan's candidacy.
Lee has ties to former Democratic Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, she supported Peltola in the past and told The Hill in January that she believed Peltola had a good chance of defeating Sen. Sullivan.
In March 2025, Lee went further, expressing hope that Peltola would run for governor because she believed Peltola would be best positioned to "protect" the state from President Donald Trump's administration.
Peltola's visit to Petersburg
The timeline only deepens suspicion. The Anchorage Daily News reported that Peltola visited Dan J. Sullivan's hometown of Petersburg on May 28, days before he filed to launch his candidacy. The sequence raises obvious questions about coordination, though no direct evidence of a meeting between the two has been reported.
Federal Election Commission records add another layer. Dan J. Sullivan has donated $650 to Democrats nationwide, including to Peltola and to a failed Illinois state House candidate named Kat Abughazaleh. For a man who filed as a Republican Senate candidate, his financial support flowed in a decidedly different direction.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee took formal action as well, sending a letter to Director Beecher arguing that Dan J. Sullivan must be removed from the ballot to protect election integrity laws. The NRSC has also pushed for a federal investigation into what it views as a spoiler scheme designed to split the Republican vote and hand the seat to Democrats.
A familiar playbook
Same-name candidates are not new in American politics, but the pattern here is unusually brazen. A retired schoolteacher with a history of donating to Democrats files as a Republican for a Senate seat held by a Republican with the same name.
A Democratic strategist writes his campaign announcement. A prominent former Democratic officeholder visits his small town just before he files. And the candidate himself has offered no public explanation, at least none captured in available reporting.
The preliminary ruling from the Alaska Division of Elections suggests that state officials found enough evidence to conclude, on a preponderance standard, that the candidacy did not meet eligibility requirements. What those specific requirements are, residency, intent, party affiliation, or something else, remains undisclosed.
That gap matters. Without knowing the precise legal basis, it is difficult to assess whether the final decision will hold up to challenge. Dan J. Sullivan's deadline to respond has already passed, and the division's final ruling could come at any time.
The broader concern, though, extends well beyond one Alaska race. If operatives from either party can recruit same-name candidates to confuse voters and dilute an opponent's support, the integrity of primary and general elections across the country is at risk. Senate campaigns around the nation already face enough controversy without adding ballot manipulation to the list.
What comes next
The elections division's final decision will determine whether Dan J. Sullivan's name appears on the ballot. If the preliminary ruling stands, the alleged spoiler effort will have failed at the administrative level before voters ever had a chance to be confused. If it is reversed, the legal and political fight will escalate, and the NRSC's letter to the FEC could become the next front.
Alaska uses a nonpartisan top-four primary system, which means all candidates regardless of party appear on the same ballot. In that environment, a same-name candidate could siphon votes with devastating efficiency. Voters scanning a crowded ballot for "Dan Sullivan" would have no easy way to distinguish the incumbent senator from a retired schoolteacher with a Democratic donor history and a campaign announcement ghostwritten by a Democratic strategist.
That is precisely the kind of voter confusion that election integrity laws exist to prevent. And it is why the preliminary ruling from Director Beecher, whatever its final form, matters far beyond Anchorage.
Democrats have spent years lecturing the country about threats to democracy. Their leaders have called for sweeping changes to election rules in the name of fairness and access. But when the evidence points to a manufactured candidacy designed to deceive voters in a Senate race, the silence from that side of the aisle is telling.
Election integrity is not a slogan. It is a standard, and it applies to everyone, including the people who claim to care about it most.
Newsmax TV Weekend Lineup
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Kyle Lowder and Kenzie Beach
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This Week: The octagon is ready for this weekend’s UFC Freedom 250 at the White House. Former UFC Champion Aljamain Sterling joins Kyle Lowder and Kenzie Beach to preview the unforgettable event.
Tom Basile
Saturday, 9 a.m. ET/LIVE
This Week: NBA champion Trent Tucker discusses the NBA finals. And UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz previews UFC Freedom 250.
Saturday Report
Rita Cosby
Saturday, 11 a.m. ET/LIVE
This Week: White House World Cup chief Andrew Giuliani talks about the World Cup. And former special envoy for Iran Elliott Abrams breaks down the latest on Iran.
Saturday Agenda
Rob Astorino
Saturday, 1 p.m. ET/LIVE
This Week: UFC fighter Beneil Darius previews UFC Freedom 250. And former Prime Minister Liz Truss discusses the U.K.’s immigration crisis.
Rob Carson’s What in the World?
Saturday, 3 p.m. ET
Sunday, 8:30 p.m. ET
This Week: President Trump walks out on his NBC interview with Kristen Welker. After lashing out at his bosses, Scott Pelley burns every bridge with CBS. And Democrats defend Senate candidate Graham Platner as accusations against him grow darker.
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This Week: Harmeet Dhillon, assistant AG for civil rights, discusses the lawsuit against Philadelphia over gun owners’ rights. The family of Rocky Jones, who was killed by an illegal immigrant, talks about the fight for justice. Plus, a look at the health risks for people who work from home.
Greg Kelly This Week
Saturday, 4 p.m. ETSunday, 5 and 11:30 p.m. ET
This Week: Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan reacts to the Dems’ threat to target WinRed as the GOP probes ActBlue. Plus, Joe Penland, aka Joe From Texas, discusses his plan for saving Social Security, which could run out by 2032.
Carl Higbie This Week
Saturday-Sunday, 7 p.m. ET
This Week: Carl Higbie discusses the outrage over an attempted beheading in Belfast, and the fallout over the Karmelo Anthony trial.
The Record With Greta Van Susteren Weekly
Saturday, 8 p.m. ETSunday, 2 p.m. ET
This Week: Who is testifying next on Jeffrey Epstein? And are the Chicago Bears moving to Indiana? Greta Van Susteren gets to the source of the week’s biggest stories in America for “The Record.”
Wise Guys With John Tabacco
Saturday, 9 p.m. ETMonday, 12 a.m. ET
This Week: A new gender-neutral bill replaces the words “mother and father.” President Trump makes an abrupt exit from “Meet the Press.” And a plastic surgeon with ties to terrorism wins the New Jersey primary. John Tabacco breaks it down with patriotic artist Scott LoBaido, political strategist Jackie Tobacco, Frank Scavio, Rich Valdés, and Nagah Ezaldein.
Ed Henry The Big Take Weekly
Saturday, 10 p.m. ETSunday, 6 p.m. ET
This Week: Ed Henry gets the take of iconic ’90s rapper Vanilla Ice on artists refusing to take part in America 250 celebrations. And Sen. Tommy Tuberville explains the way forward for the U.S. and Iran.
Stolen Lives: America’s Human Trafficking Crisis
Saturday, 11 p.m. ET
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Sunday, 10 a.m. ET/LIVE
This Week: TPUSA contributor Jack Posobiec weighs in on the U.K.’s immigration crisis. And UFC champion Tito Ortiz previews UFC Freedom 250.
Sunday Agenda
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Sunday, 12 p.m. ET/LIVE
This Week: Therapist and recovery coach Harry LeVant discusses gambling addiction in the U.S. And GB News anchor Bev Turner addresses the latest wave of anti-immigration protests in the U.K.
Conversations With Nancy Brinker
Sunday, 3 p.m. ET
This Week: Memories of the Bush White House during Sept. 11 and the connection to current events in the Middle East. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation expands its mission to assist first responders and their families. And fallout from the Epstein sex scandal impacts the royal family. Nancy Brinker takes a closer look at the issues with Tunnel to Towers’ Brad Blakeman and Strelmark President Hilary Fordwich.
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The News MAX
Audit Exposes DHS Parolee Tracking Failures
Lawfare Update: Jack Smith and Federal Judges
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Pursues Transparency on Jack Smith–Judge Meetings
Important questions remain about communications between former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s team and the federal judges involved in President Trump’s cases. The American people deserve full transparency regarding these meetings and any discussions.
We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records concerning meetings between Smith and members of his team and two Obama-appointed federal judges who presided over matters involving President
Donald Trump (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-02027)).
We sued after the Justice Department failed to respond to a March 24, 2026, FOIA request submitted to the Office of Information Policy (OIP) for all records concerning meetings between Smith and/or members of his team and Chief Judge Beryl Howell or Judge James Boasberg from December 2022 through April 2023, including notes, recordings, transcripts, calendar entries, agendas, presentations, and other related documents.
On November 18, 2022, three days after Trump announced he would run for president again in 2024, former Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate potential criminal wrongdoing by Trump. The appointment came nine days after then-President Joe Biden announced his effort to make sure Trump did not become president again.
In March 2026, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released briefing notes prepared for Garland from January 2023 that refer to interactions between Smith’s team and Judges Howell and Boasberg. The notes describe a meeting with Howell in which Smith’s team discussed the pace of the investigation over the preceding month and state that Howell “liked our approach of pursuing the executive privilege litigation in an omnibus fashion.” The briefing notes also state that, regarding a planned omnibus executive privilege motion involving former Trump administration officials, “Chief Judge knows it is coming and loves idea.”
The notes also reference “Judge Boasberg = March 18.” Boasberg became chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 17, 2023, succeeding Howell and assuming responsibility for supervising grand jury matters before the court.
Before his appointment to investigate and prosecute Trump, Smith previously was at the center of several other controversial issues, the IRS scandal among them.
We are a national leader in exposing the lawfare and abuse targeting Trump and other American citizens.
In April 2026, we sued the Justice Department for records on the Biden FBI’s search warrants used in the April 2021 raid on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s residence and office (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-01158)). Giuliani served as a personal attorney and informal adviser to President Donald Trump.
In May 2026, we obtained records that revealed the FBI’s concerns about the legal basis for the 2022 raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. The records exposed explicit objections from field agents who warned the Justice Department that the unprecedented raid on Trump’s home lacked probable cause.
In March 2026, the Justice Department reported that the FBI found about 1.9 million pages of records that are responsive to our FOIA lawsuit. These documents were reportedly stored in a “hidden room” at FBI headquarters and were first revealed by former Deputy Director Dan Bongino (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-04047)).
In March 2026, we sued the Justice Department for records from the FBI’s Biden-era “Arctic Frost” probe, specifically involving the Criminal Division, the Office of Information Policy, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-00746)).
In March 2026, we asked a Georgia state court to reject Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ efforts to continue hiding records about her office’s communications with Jack Smith’s office and the January 6 Committee (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fani Willis et al. (No. 24-CV-002805)).
In February 2026, we secured the release of rosters identifying the names of top deputies who worked for former Special Counsel Jack Smith (Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01485)).
In January 2026, we sued the Justice Department for communications of FBI agents regarding the prosecution of former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:26-cv-00079)).
In January 2025, a federal court ordered the Justice Department to provide us information on communications between Jack Smith and Fani Willis regarding the prosecution of Trump. In May 2025, the Justice Department was directed to search text messages from the Special Counsel’s Office for responsive records (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 23-cv-03110).
Federal Audit Exposes DHS 'Honor System' for Tracking Millions of Illegal Alien Parolees
The federal government entrusted national security to an astonishingly ineffective “honor system” by failing to properly monitor millions of illegal aliens released into the United States under temporary parole programs. Our Corruption Chronicles blog reports:
In a significant security lapse that has occurred under both Democratic and Republican administrations, the government failed to track millions of illegal aliens admitted into the United States under a temporary parole because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agency that processed the migrants failed to provide identifying information to the DHS agency responsible for monitoring them.
The unbelievable breach involves Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the 60,000-employee frontline border agency charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S. and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the premier federal law enforcement agency of around 20,000 that preserves national security and public safety by enforcing immigration laws. In a shameful admission ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) reveals that it relies on the “honor system” to ensure parolees in the country illegally report to field offices as directed, according to a scathing federal audit.
The probe was conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, and reveals that from October 2018 through May 2025, CBP granted around 2.4 million illegal aliens humanitarian parole, many with criminal records and over half of them from Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela. The agency expanded the use of the temporary humanitarian measure to mitigate a huge increase of migrants crossing into the U.S. along the southwest border, which amounted to around 10.4 million during the period examined.
A few months into the Biden presidency, CBP authorized agents to parole apprehended migrants on a case-by-case basis under certain conditions, such as limited immigration detention space, which was pervasive. A few years later the Biden administration greatly expanded access to illegal migration with a special mobile application called CBP One that rewarded nearly all applicants—97%—parole, the GAO found. “Once noncitizens are paroled at the southwest border, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is responsible for monitoring them to ensure they adhere to the conditions of their release,” the report states.
In fact, last year DHS and ICE issued guidance that emphasized the importance of ICE reviewing parole cases to determine whether further enforcement action is appropriate. The problem is the immigration enforcement agency does not have the information it needs to readily identify the illegal aliens that CBP paroled at the border. Sounds like a joke, but it is yet another example of government inefficiency, of how individual federal agencies fail to communicate even when national security, and most likely public safety, is at stake.
Congressional investigators confirm that ICE ERO “is not conducting its required monitoring of all noncitizens CBP paroled at the southwest border” and that the laughable “honor system” it relies on is clearly not efficient because not all paroled migrants report at least once a year as required. In 2024 alone ICE lost track of a starling 70% of illegal immigrants paroled by CBP and it is not clear what efforts are being made to track them down in communities throughout the U.S.
The good news is that illegal immigration is at a historic low under President Trump and last spring the administration directed DHS to review cases of paroled migrants and terminate the temporary reprieve of approximately 654,000. Tracking them down remains a problem, the GAO found, because the agency that enforces the measure still does not know where the offenders are.
“Although DHS and ICE guidance emphasizes the importance of ICE’s monitoring and enforcement efforts for paroled noncitizens, ICE is not well-positioned to carry out these responsibilities because it does not have readily accessible information about noncitizens’ parole status,” the report states.
“According to ICE officials, while ICE obtains information from CBP on noncitizens it places in removal proceedings, this information does not include the parole status of noncitizens who should be monitored, including those whose parole was terminated by CBP through the April 2025 notices.” Congressional investigators point out that, while CBP systems have data fields that provide readily accessible information about parole status, officials at ICE’s ERO headquarters maintain its internal systems do not have those specific data fields and therefore the agency has no access to the critical information.
GLOBAL:
The art of the Iran deal
THE CATCH-UP
A woman walks past an anti-American mural on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy, now a museum, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) | Vahid Salemi/AP
LET’S MAKE A DEAL: Not for the first time in three and a half months of the Iran war, a peace agreement appears within reach — but sniping and disagreements could still derail the final stages of this first big diplomatic accord.
The positive signs for peace: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a U.S.-Iran deal “has never been closer,” echoing President Donald Trump’s optimistic sentiments when he called off major strikes yesterday. Both sides are making plans for a possible signing with VP JD Vance on hand, which could happen as soon as Sunday (Trump’s 80th birthday) in Geneva ahead of next week’s G7 summit nearby in the French Alps, Bloomberg’s Fiona MacDonald scooped. The deal would continue the ceasefire for another two months.
The stumbling blocks: Trump fumed today after reports of the details of the memorandum of understanding appeared in various outlets. He wrote on Truth Social that those were not the terms agreed to, without getting into any details, and lambasted the Iranians: “Very dishonorable people to deal with. With them, there is no such thing as dealing in good faith,” he wrote. “They better get their act together, and FAST!”
Vance, too, sought to tamp down criticism of the emerging deal, writing on X that “the Iranians are not receiving any cash” and that the country would access economic benefits only if it complies with the terms of the agreement.
The administration’s pushback comes after drafts and accounts of the text were published, including in hard-line Iranian state media outlets.
Reuters’ Parisa Hafezi and colleagues report that the memorandum seems to include many of the principal demands Tehran had made — chiefly, the unfreezing of Iranian assets and the lifting of sanctions in exchange for Iran finally opening up the Strait of Hormuz. Nuclear talks would come afterward. It remains unclear whether the memorandum would address the destruction of enriched uranium: One top U.S. official says it will, while other drafts omit the key Washington priority.
“Performance-based deal” is the phrase of the day from the U.S. side, insisting that Iran deliver results to get more relief.
Whether the deal addresses Lebanon, where Israel’s war against Hezbollah has largely continued, also remains to be seen. Several thousand people have died, mainly in Iran and Lebanon.
But if it comes together, the deal could provide massive relief to the global economy, which has buckled as Iran choked off maritime traffic and a key source of oil through the strait. The war’s intense inflationary pressure in the U.S. and even deeper economic pain in much of the world might ease with a reopening. Dwindling oil supplies in many countries have led to growing fears of shortages, not just high prices. But Energy Secretary Chris Wright said today that 7 million barrels are still getting through the strait each day, per Bloomberg. That number is somewhat higher than expected, but still just half of the pre-war volume.
Whether Trump could really stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon — his stated goal of the war, and one that remains distant — would be left for the next phase of negotiations. CNN’s Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen scooped that last month, the U.S. came very close to launching a risky ground operation to seize Iranian uranium, but Trump ultimately called it off.
Is this time really different? The conflicting accounts of the text from the U.S. and Iran — while neither country has released the details — leave plenty of room for things to go awry. Read more from POLITICO’s Emilio Perez Ibarguen
But Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif declared today that “a final, agreed upon text of the peace deal has been reached and Pakistan is now working closely with both sides to finalize the next steps. Peace has never been this close as it is now.”
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5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
1. WEAPONIZATION WATCH: Federal judge Leonie Brinkema today extended her block on Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” saying she would keep the ruling in place despite acting AG Todd Blanche telling Congress they were junking the idea, per POLITICO’s Josh Gerstein. But Brinkema said she may agree the case is moot if Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent within the next week formally declare, under penalty of perjury, that they will not create the fund. She noted Trump’s own unhappiness over the fund being canceled as reason for caution.
2. RACE CALL: More than a week after the primary election, the tight GOP contest in New Jersey’s 9th Congressional District has officially been called for Rosie Pino, per AP’s Mike Catalini. The Clifton City council member will take on freshman Democratic Rep. Nellie Pou in a district that rocketed to the right in 2024, voting for Trump — but this year looks like a reach goal for Republicans.
3. DEMOCRACY WATCH: The FBI yesterday raided offices and appeared at staffers’ homes of the voting rights group Ohio Organizing Collaborative, MS NOW’s Carol Leonnig and colleagues scooped. One board member for the organization, which works on voter registration, pro-democracy work and anti-gerrymanding advocacy, said agents asked about voter fraud with “straight-up intimidation tactics,” amid the Trump administration’s broader push to promote false claims of widespread fraud. The FBI didn’t respond for comment.
4. WHAT’S IN STORE FOR NATO: A U.S. document shows a significant planned pullback in military contributions to NATO, slashing fighter jets, an aircraft carrier, aerial refueling tanker jets and more, NYT’s Christopher Schuetze and Eric Schmitt report. The drawdown “would limit NATO’s ability to launch long-range strikes and conduct surveillance,” as it reflects the Trump administration’s desire to cut its support for the alliance. The U.S. pivot away from Europe leaves NATO working to figure out how it’ll continue to defend itself at the same level through other means, AP’s Lorne Cook reports.
5. DIAMONDS AND COAL: A major new effort to create the U.S.’ first new coal-fired power plant in more than a decade is in the hands of little-known TerraSpark and Alex Phillips, POLITICO’s Zack Colman and colleagues report. The big West Virginia project, which has already gotten $18.5 million for a study, is being led by figures with greater ties to GOP politics and 2020 election conspiracy theories than to the energy world. But TerraSpark and DOE said the contract was awarded in a competitive process sans favoritism.
TALK OF THE TOWN
WHAT TO READ BEFORE TONIGHT’S GAME — “What’s really at stake between the US and Paraguay,” by POLITICO’s Sasha Issenberg: “The Trump administration has deployed assiduous, patient diplomacy with Paraguay, enlivened by its newly aligned interests in making the country a hub for U.S.-backed data center projects.”
PLAYBOOK METRO SECTION — “This Lawyer Spent Years Fighting His $100 D.C. Speeding Ticket,” by NOTUS’ Martin Austermuhle: “Matt Ricciardi got the citation tossed out by the D.C. Court of Appeals. His victory could benefit other drivers.”
OUT AND ABOUT — The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, GlobalWIN and the Foundation for Art & Preservation in Embassies hosted an “Art and Conversation” event last night celebrating America’s 250th anniversary and the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery’s current exhibition, “Artistic Generosity and the American Artist Abroad.”
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TRANSITIONS — Bethany Holden is now press secretary for the Senate Commerce Committee. She previously worked for Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas). … Jon Treichler is joining Think Big as director of public affairs. He previously has worked at Sunwater Capital.
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Patrick Bestall’s INPUT:
#1.
Alternative Answers to Bad Banking by Cagey Carney
Batten down the hatches, we're in for a financial storm. It already costs the average taxpayer over $100 a month just to pay the interest on Liberal loans! And the pros say that Carney's weird way of banking is going to make it a lot worse. (Read below.) Time to find yourself a nice little support group, one of many mutual aid communities like we have in London. Connect with local farmers. We even have groups now spreading across the province with their own local bucks.
Carney has announced he is separating the operational costs of the government from capital spending and has promised to balance the operating deficit by 2028-29.
But Ryan's predecessor, interim parliamentary budget officer Jason Jacques, warned last November the Carney government misclassified $94 billion worth of operating expenses in its November budget as revenue-generating capital investments, contrary to standard accounting practices.
Noting the International Monetary Fund recently urged Ottawa to reinstate the debt-to-GDP ratio as its primary fiscal anchor to “strengthen discipline, transparency, and credibility,” Ryan said based on the calculations in her report, there is only a 39.6 per cent chance the federal debt-to- GDP ratio in 2030-31 will be lower than its 202526 level.
According to the PBO, the cost of paying interest on the total federal debt of $1.41 trillion this year will be $58.9 billion – more than the $57.4 billion the federal government will transfer to the provinces for health care.
The budget isn’t supposed to be a suggestion. The budget is supposed to be a serious promise to taxpayers about how much the government will spend. It’s a document that the government should follow to the letter.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/canadian-taxpayers-federation-prime-minister-mark-carney-over-budget-twice
The Parliamentary Budget Officer testified that Carney's "very broad" definition of capital isn't recognized by any other economy in the world.
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#2.
TOP STORY
If the Liberals’ proposed digital safety bill passes as written, Canada would enter a unique legal environment in which its minors would be barred from accessing social media, but would still be able to inject illicit drugs at a government-run safe consumption site.
This week, the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to table legislation Wednesday that would ban social media for Canadians younger than 16. Similar age controls were also promised for AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
"I think it's obvious why it's a priority. Kids are dying," Marc Miller, the minister of identity, told reporters on Tuesday.
Nevertheless, as has been established at a recent House of Commons committee, no such age limits extend to Canada’s network of safe consumption sites for drugs.
Thus, Canadian 15-year-olds could soon face a regime in which they are not allowed to use Facebook, but could face no barriers to injecting fentanyl at a government-run facility.
In a February meeting of the House of Commons health committee, Conservative MP Dan Mazier asked Health Minister Marjorie Michel whether Health Canada imposes an “age requirement” on access to “federally approved supervised drug consumption sites.”
Michel answered “no.”
In a follow-up, Mazier then asked “if a 16-year-old enters a federally approved drug consumption site, is there any requirement from Health Canada that prohibits that minor from injecting fentanyl at that site, yes or no?”
To which Michel replied that age verification at drug consumption sites was not a federal responsibility.
“We just told you that we don’t manage supervised consumption sites. They’re managed by the provinces, so it’s not our responsibility,” she said.
At that same hearing, Health Canada official Kendal Weber also confirmed that there no was no age limit on safe consumption sites, nor any policies to enforce one.
“If someone comes to the site looking for help and a place to be supported when they're using a substance, there is no requirement for ID,” she said.
B.C., which pioneered Canada’s system of supervised drug consumption clinics, has indeed been open about the fact that it allows minors to use illicit drugs in the province's harm reduction facilities without parental consent.
“In B.C., there is no set age when a child is considered capable to give consent. This means there is no legal age limit for youth to access harm reduction services,” reads an information sheet distributed by Interior Health, one of the province’s five health authorities.
A 2023 paper in the B.C. Medical Journal went even further, declaring that children were cleared to use drugs at “non-regulated” facilities, even “without a capacity assessment.”
“Youth under 19 years of age can access harm reduction supplies, Naloxone, overdose prevention services, and, in appropriate circumstances, witnessed consumption by a regulated or non-regulated health or social service provider, without a capacity assessment,” it read.
The paper added that if minors were denied access to supervised drug consumption, it risked creating a “lasting imprint on the relationship between the youth and the health system.”
At the core of Canada’s various harm reduction policies is the philosophy that they should be as easy to access as possible, lest drug users eschew safe consumption sites in favour of alleys or apartments where they are at higher risk of overdose. This necessarily means that age controls are difficult to enforce.
A 95-page guidebook on supervised consumption published by the B.C. Ministry of Health, for instance, stresses that it’s important for drug consumption sites to be “low-threshold and low-barrier.”
It’s why, even in provinces that have promised age limits on safe consumption services, there remain doubts as to how that would be enforced.
The Manitoba government of Premier Wab Kinew is set to open the province’s first supervised drug consumption site this month.
While Manitoba Addictions Minister Bernadette Smith has pledged that the site won’t be open to children under 16, the opposition Progressive Conservatives have countered that there’s no way of checking.
In March, the Progressive Conservatives also published details from the site’s 2024 Health Canada application showing that managers intended to provide supervised drug consumption of users as young as 16, provided they showed physical signs of prior drug use.
The low-barrier philosophy also extends to government distribution of drug paraphernalia.
The relatively easy access of harm reduction services to Canadian minors stands in contrast to a growing number of areas in which authorities are looking to impose ever-tighter age restrictions, a federal social media ban being only the latest example.
Quebec is pursuing a bill to ban energy drinks for youth under 16. Last month, the federal health minister proposed implementing a permanent ban on tobacco sales for anyone born after 2009.
The idea, which has also been pursued in the U.K., would be a “rolling age restriction” under which young Canadians would be permanently denied legal access to cigarettes.
IN OTHER NEWS
A meeting of the Standing Committee on Science and Research was thrown into chaos Monday after a Conservative MP asked Canada’s chief science advisor what a woman is.
“You know a thing or two about x or y chromosomes, so I wanted to ask you, what is the definition of a woman?” Conservative MP Vincent Neil Ho asked Mona Nemer, Chief Science Advisor of Canada.
The question immediately prompted a point of order from Liberal MP John-Paul Danko, who stated that it was “pride month,” and that the question was “highly offensive.” He also accused Ho of violating a committee rule prohibiting “personal attacks, insults and offensive language.”
Ho attempted the question again, stating that Canadians are required to state whether they are a woman on the census. “And so I just want to understand what your view is on this,” he said.
He was interrupted by another point of order, this time from Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed, who stated that Nemer’s “opinion” on the matter was irrelevant to her role as Chief Science Advisor.
Nevertheless, Ho persisted, yielding this response from Nemer, “genetically speaking, we define female as in the animal kingdom as, um, someone with two X chromosomes.”
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#3.
Ottawa's Vacancy Tax Has Failed
From our friend Bob in Ottawa.
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Robert DuBroy
To: Patrick <tradingpost777@aol.com>
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2026 at 07:18:03 a.m. EDT
Subject: Ottawa's Vacancy Tax Has Failed
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Independent Review Calls for Phase-Out of Ottawa’s Vacant Unit Tax, Recommends $10 Million Reallocation to Permit Reform
OTTAWA, June 11, 2026—A comprehensive independent assessment released today by Robert Du Broy, BSc, MBA, concludes that the City of Ottawa’s Vacant Unit Tax (VUT) is delivering diminishing public returns and should be phased out by the 2027 fiscal year. The report recommends redirecting the program’s $10 million annual resource base into a “Housing Through Permit Acceleration Program” to address the city’s housing supply crisis more effectively.
The review finds that while the VUT was well-intentioned, administrative and compliance costs absorb nearly all revenue gains. Du Broy argues that permit reform is the best way to address the housing supply shortage, potentially accelerating approximately 2,000-2,600 new housing units annually with substantially lower overhead.
Key Findings of the Review:
Illusory Housing Gains: The report challenges City claims regarding housing supply. While the City cited over 1,600 units “returned to market” in 2023, the review estimates only half (~800 units) were actually attributable to the VUT. Furthermore, because these units were merely hastened to market by 6-24 months rather than being permanent new additions, the net impact is equivalent to building only 22 new units.
Environmental and Stock Losses: The tax has created perverse incentives for owners of intractable vacancies to demolish habitable buildings to avoid punitive levies. Projections suggest approximately 650 units will be demolished by 2028 due to the graduated tax structure, generating roughly 7,000 tons of CO2e and 22,000 tons of landfill waste per year.
Bureaucratic Burden and Privacy Concerns: In 2023 alone, property owners were required to spend significant time disclosing information on 341,973 units. This resulted in 1,843 appeals and 7,053 audits, creating widespread anxiety and “mission creep” regarding municipal surveillance of residential units.
“Negative Option Billing” Ethics: The report characterizes the VUT as a municipal-level negative option billing scheme where tax liability arises automatically from silence, shifting the onus of proof onto the citizen to avoid a punitive levy.
Significant Legal Risk: The implementation of a graduated tax (rising to 5% of assessed value) increases the likelihood of litigation. The report estimates municipal legal liability could reach $35–$60 million by 2028 from court-ordered refunds and settlements, particularly involving hard cases like the elderly or estates.
“Ottawa does not need to tax empty homes—it needs to empty its permit backlog,” said Robert Du Broy. “The VUT is a relatively negligible source of revenue that has obsessed Council and staff while generating significant social costs and environmental damage. True housing progress depends on efficient permission for productive building, not punitive taxation.”
The report concludes that shifting to a customer-service-oriented culture for developers and fast-tracking permit approvals would leverage approximately $58 in private capital for every $1 of public investment, far outperforming the current tax regime.
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About the Author: Robert Du Broy is a lifelong Ottawa resident and homeowner with a BSc from McGill University and an MBA from Queen’s University. He has a professional background in strategic planning and policy analysis for major Canadian institutions.
Media Contact: Robert Du Broy, robert.dubroy@rogers.com, 819-593-6377
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#4.
New Safe Social Media Act is not safe
What Carney isn’t telling you about Bill C-34
Ottawa is back with another attempt to police the internet and critics are saying that the Safe Social Media Act mirrors the Liberals’ previously abandoned online harms bills, using child protection as political cover for sweeping new powers over what Canadians can say online.
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#5.
Canadian Assoc. to End Homelessness
Don, you missed that I am OPPOSED to CAEH. Read my introduction again. Hopefully add it to #8 of Patrick’s Inputs [Yesterday’s BLOG]
Patrick’s VIEW:
You may have heard their commercials on local radio. You should know CAEH is one of the largest left-wing NGO's in Canada. They believe, contrary to our Constitution, that homelessness is a federal responsibility. They love "top down" power to change, contrary to Catholic Social Justice teaching that endorses the principle of Subsidiarity (small government as much as possible). CAEH has seduced dozens and dozens of good Christian organizations into partnering with them because they serve such a noble cause.
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The CABAL Robbed The People Of Their Wealth, Trump Is Returning The Wealth Back To The People
Streamed on: Jun 11, 5:30 pm EDT
Chinese miracle has fallen apart, they pushed central planning to build their economy because they were going to be the next reserve currency country, Trump changed all of this. Japan manufactures are letting Canada know the only reason they are in the country is because they have backdoor access to the US, if Trump removes it they are leaving. The CABAL robbed the people of their wealth, Trump is going to return it.
Trump Traps The Deep State With Recon 3.0, The Deep State Has No Where To Run, Or Hide, To Be Blunt, Game Over
Streamed on: Jun 11, 6:00 pm EDT
The Deep State is now trapped with Recon 3.0, Trump is using the same tactic that [Biden / Obama] used, it only needs 50 votes with JD Vance. Trump has the leverage over Iran and Iran has asked him to stop bombing. Deal is very close, could be signed any day. The DEM’s are struggling, their entire crime system is being exposed and they will have nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, to be blunt the game is over and they don’t even know it.
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The Emergence Of A New American Order: Unveiling A Reality Long Opposed
The Media Realignment – Paramount-Warner Merger as Narrative Warfare
The DOJ greenlighting the Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance merger (around $110 billion, approved mid-2026) isn’t “convenient capitalism.” It’s a deliberate gut punch to the old legacy media cartel that spent years as the propaganda arm of the uniparty and globalist nodes.
David Ellison stepping up to control that empire means fewer gatekeepers pushing the same tired narratives on elections, borders, and “democracy threats.” No more six corporations controlling 90%+ of outlets without pushback. This is new media presentation for a new American order raw, unfiltered, patriotic storytelling that doesn’t kneecap every move toward sovereignty.
Critics whining about “convenience” miss the point: breaking the old monopoly frees information flow exactly when election files, Fulton patterns, Maricopa anomalies, and California h--------g scandals are primed to drop. The machine loses its unified megaphone right as the ledger turns.
Geopolitical De-escalation – Iran Timing and SpaceX IPO as Power ProjectionThe Iran conflict cooling right before SpaceX’s massive IPO? Pure strategic poetry, and the scoffers calling it coincidence are either blind or paid to be. De-escalation stabilizes energy markets, drops oil volatility, and clears the decks for capital to flood into the new space frontier without war premiums scaring investors.
SpaceX raising billions publicly, transparent on Nasdaq, means unfettered private capital bypassing gatekept government programs that the old guard used to control black projects, DUMBs, and suppressed tech.
Musk talking Moon, Mars, and beyond isn’t hype it’s the spear tip of breaking the scarcity model the Cabal thrived on. Fully funded, publicly accountable SpaceX means real multi-planetary civilization, not endless Earth-bound debt servitude.
Financial & Election Rails – Clarity, Save America, and the New OrderThe Clarity Act carves space for digital assets and stablecoins, bypassing legacy banks that fought tooth and nail. The Digital Asset Stockpile expands reserves beyond Bitcoin. Save America Act (voter ID, proof of citizenship) guts h--------g fraud.
Together they form the new banking and citizen initiative asset-backed systems over fiat sorcery, integrity over theater. This starves the Cabal’s debt engine that funded black budgets, NGOs overlapping t---------g, and occult continuity.
Read Full Article:https://www.patreon.com/Prolotario1/posts/emergence-of-new-160935618
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