Important Takeaways:
- America is falling behind its adversaries when it comes to technological advancement, commanders of special operations forces told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.
- Rear Adm. Milton Sands III, Maj. Gen. Peter Huntley, Lt. Gen. Jonathan Braga and Lt. Gen. Michael Conley all voiced concerns about special ops being bogged down by bureaucracy when it comes to making critical technological upgrades.
- Gen. Huntley, who leads the Marine Forces Special Operations Command, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that modernization is “moving very fast” across the globe, but America’s ability to keep up with the pace is troublesome.
- As an example, Maj. Gen. Huntley spoke of the impact artificial intelligence has had on U.S. forces’ ability to “sense the enemy before they sense us,” an advantage America has enjoyed for decades.
- Rear Adm. Sands also issued a warning about the ability to “rapidly” get U.S. troops the equipment they need “to survive” the modern battlefield.
- “… our priority is getting equipment that’s required for the modern battlefield rapidly into the hands of our operators, and the reason is because they need it to survive,” Rear Adm. Sands told lawmakers
- Gen. Braga, commander of Army Special Operations Command, expressed similar concerns about how systems in place are impacting modernization.
- “Our people are great at innovating, they have fantastic ideas,” Lt. Gen. Braga told the lawmakers. He added, however, that the challenges with funding and bureaucratic processes that can make simple modifications take months or years. However, he suggested that streamlining funding and oversight processes could be possible solutions to these issues.
- The military leaders also mentioned the threats posed by non-state actors, with Maj. Gen. Huntley noting that they are rapidly upgrading when it comes to technological capabilities.
- “What they bring to the tactical fight is, frankly, pretty impressive,” Maj. Gen. Huntley said, adding that the forces “know what we have to do,” but the “critical” challenge is getting those capabilities into the hands of troops.
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- Students attempted to plaster walls with Hamas propaganda proclaiming, “THE ENEMY WILL NOT SEE TOMORROW”
- Two Barnard College students in New York City have been expelled for their alleged roles in disrupting the first session of the History of Modern Israel course last month.
- The expulsions were made public by the Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a group that calls on Columbia University to divest from any association with Israel. Barnard and Columbia are affiliated institutions.
- In a statement to Fox News Digital, Barnard President Laura Rosenbury said that under federal law, the college can’t “comment on the academic and disciplinary records of students.”
- “That said, as a matter of principle and policy, Barnard will always take decisive action to protect our community as a place where learning thrives, individuals feel safe, and higher education is celebrated,” Rosenbury wrote, without confirming the expulsions. “This means upholding the highest standards and acting when those standards are threatened.”
- “When rules are broken, when there is no remorse, no reflection, and no willingness to change, we must act,” she added. “Expulsion is always an extraordinary measure, but so too is our commitment to respect, inclusion, and the integrity of the academic experience. At Barnard, we always fiercely defend our values. At Barnard, we always reject harassment and discrimination in all forms. And at Barnard, we always do what is right, not what is easy.”
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Important Takeaways:
- Hamas returned four more hostage bodies and Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners following a day of mourning as Israel buried the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two little boys – the youngest hostages murdered and held by Hamas for more than 500 days.
- In the very early Thursday morning hours, without any fanfare, Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the Red Cross, who passed them over to the Israeli police and the Israel Defense Forces.
- The bodies of Tsachi Idan from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Itzhak Elgarat and Ohad Yahalomi, both from Kibbutz Nir Oz, and 85-year-old Shlomo Mantzur from Kibbutz Kissufim were identified by morning.
- President Isaac Herzog posted on X, “In this painful moment, there is some solace in knowing that they will be laid to rest in dignity in Israel.”
- Israel freed more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, including 71 who were serving life sentences and 60 with long prison sentences.
- The overnight releases complete the first phase of exchanges of about 1,800 Palestinian prisoners for 33 hostages, leaving 59 hostages in Hamas captivity. It’s believed approximately 20 of the 59 are still alive.
- However, President Donald Trump’s Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff, who has postponed his arrival in the region, says he believes he can get an extension of Phase One and the release of more hostages.
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Important Takeaways:
- British legacy media and establishment politicians were quick to accuse U.S. Vice President JD Vance of spreading “misinformation” after he asserted at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month that people could be arrested for praying in their homes if they live within the 200-metre (656ft) protest prohibition zones surrounding abortion clinics in Scotland.
- However, in an interview with BBC Scotland’s Scotcast podcast, the legislation’s author, Gillian Mackay, appeared to confirm Vance’s warnings.
- Despite having initially branded the vice president’s comments as “nonsense” and “shocking and shameless misinformation”, the leftist lawmaker admitted that prayer within a home could fall afoul of the law.
- Asked whether someone was seen visibly praying at their window within the exclusion zone was committing an offence, the Member of the Scottish Parliament said: “That then depends on who’s passing the window.”
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Important Takeaways:
- The order implements the Department of Government Efficiency’s “Cost Efficiency Initiative,” which aims to ensure that “government spending is transparent and government employees are accountable to the American public.”
- The pause of credit card usage comes a week after DOGE discovered nearly $40 billion in spending last year linked to government-issued plastic.
- “To the maximum extent permitted by law, all credit cards held by agency employees shall be treated as frozen for 30 days from the date of this order,” reads the section on credit cards.
- The order includes exceptions for “any credit cards held by employees engaged in, or charges related to employees utilizing such credit cards for, disaster relief or natural disaster response benefits or operations or other critical services” as determined by the agency heads in consultation with DOGE.
- The cost-cutting program, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has pledged to “simplify” the federal government’s credit card program, which is managed by the General Services Administration (GSA).
- The US government currently has about 4.6 million active credit cards or credit card accounts on file – more than the total number of federal workers (about 3 million), not including government contractors and active-duty military personnel.
- Around 90 million unique transactions were made on the cards in fiscal year 2024, running up about $40 billion in bills for the federal government…
- For decades, the federal government has been plagued with scandals involving the use of taxpayer-funded credit cards.
- Over the years, government watchdogs have found everything from adult entertainment to Lego toys to lavish, multi-course meals being charged to taxpayers.
- Trump’s executive order also directs federal agencies to work with DOGE to “build a centralized technological system” in an effort to “seamlessly record every payment issued by the agency pursuant to each of the agency’s covered contracts and grants, along with a brief, written justification for each payment submitted by the agency employee who approved the payment.”
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Important Takeaways:
- EXECUTIVE ORDER
- By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (“NEA”), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:
- Section 1. The energy and critical minerals (“energy”) identification, leasing, development, production, transportation, refining, and generation capacity of the United States are all far too inadequate to meet our Nation’s needs. We need a reliable, diversified, and affordable supply of energy to drive our Nation’s manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, and defense industries, and to sustain the basics of modern life and military preparedness. Caused by the harmful and shortsighted policies of the previous administration, our Nation’s inadequate energy supply and infrastructure causes and makes worse the high energy prices that devastate Americans, particularly those living on low- and fixed-incomes.
- This active threat to the American people from high energy prices is exacerbated by our Nation’s diminished capacity to insulate itself from hostile foreign actors. Energy security is an increasingly crucial theater of global competition. In an effort to harm the American people, hostile state and non-state foreign actors have targeted our domestic energy infrastructure, weaponized our reliance on foreign energy, and abused their ability to cause dramatic swings within international commodity markets. An affordable and reliable domestic supply of energy is a fundamental requirement for the national and economic security of any nation.
- The integrity and expansion of our Nation’s energy infrastructure —- from coast to coast -— is an immediate and pressing priority for the protection of the United States’ national and economic security. It is imperative that the Federal government puts the physical and economic wellbeing of the American people first.
- Moreover, the United States has the potential to use its unrealized energy resources domestically, and to sell to international allies and partners a reliable, diversified, and affordable supply of energy. This would create jobs and economic prosperity for Americans forgotten in the present economy, improve the United States’ trade balance, help our country compete with hostile foreign powers, strengthen relations with allies and partners, and support international peace and security. Accordingly, our Nation’s dangerous energy situation inflicts unnecessary and perilous constraints on our foreign policy.
- The policies of the previous administration have driven our Nation into a national emergency, where a precariously inadequate and intermittent energy supply, and an increasingly unreliable grid, require swift and decisive action. Without immediate remedy, this situation will dramatically deteriorate in the near future due to a high demand for energy and natural resources to power the next generation of technology. The United States’ ability to remain at the forefront of technological innovation depends on a reliable supply of energy and the integrity of our Nation’s electrical grid. Our Nation’s current inadequate development of domestic energy resources leaves us vulnerable to hostile foreign actors and poses an imminent and growing threat to the United States’ prosperity and national security.
- These numerous problems are most pronounced in our Nation’s Northeast and West Coast, where dangerous State and local policies jeopardize our Nation’s core national defense and security needs, and devastate the prosperity of not only local residents but the entire United States population. The United States’ insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to our Nation’s economy, national security, and foreign policy. In light of these findings, I hereby declare a national emergency.
- [Read more on the White House website]
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Important Takeaways:
- A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck off the Pacific Coast Tuesday, generating shaking felt as far as Washington state — 375 miles from the epicenter.
- The tremblor hit at a depth of roughly six miles, striking 130 miles west of Port McNeill in northwest Vancouver Island around 12:37am ET.
- Three Washington residents in the towns of Greenbank, Forks and Sequim reported shaking from the quake, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
- They categorized the tremors as level two on the Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) Scale, which measures the intensity of seismic shaking.
- A score of two indicates ‘weak’ shaking that is typically ‘felt by only a few persons at rest, especially on upper floors or buildings,’ the USGS states.
- Although earthquakes of this size have been known to cause slight damage to buildings and other structures, there have been no reports of damages or injuries yet.
- This was the third quake to impact Washington state over the last four days.
- The first was a magnitude 4.8 that struck about 15 miles northeast of the coastal community of Sechelt, British Columbia just before 1:30pm Friday.
- Several smaller aftershocks followed, but there were no reports of damage.
- On Saturday, a magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck about four miles south-southeast of the Lea Hill neighborhood of Auburn, Washington.
- Many earthquakes in Washington state stem from the boundary between two tectonic plates: the Juan de Fuca and the North American.
- The Juan de Fuca plate is gradually subducting, or sliding beneath, the North American continent. The boundary where this occurs is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ).
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Important Takeaways:
- In recent days, forecasters tracked no fewer than six cyclones that formed across the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, some of which have the potential to impact landmasses.
- Satellite imagery from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center showed cyclones stretching from off the coast of Africa and Madagascar to both coasts of Australia, with the names Alfred, Seru, Rae, Honde, Garance and Bianca.
- Among these storm systems, Cyclones Honde and Garance appeared to have the potential for the most immediate disruptions, particularly in regions such as Madagascar and Mozambique, where heavy rainfall and gusty winds were expected.
- The primary focus of meteorologists in the Land Down Under was Cyclone Alfred, which was forecast to make a direct hit on the Australian coastline in the coming weeks… raising concerns about potential flooding and significant travel disruptions.
- According to data compiled by Colorado State University, tropical cyclone energy in the Southern Hemisphere is running more than 138% above normal.
- Despite the current wave of cyclone activity, forecasters expect it to be the final major bout of the season, as the season will quickly come to an end over the next few weeks.
- Water temperatures will begin to cool as the Sun shifts to the Northern Hemisphere after the spring equinox, marking the transition towards the start of cyclone seasons across the Northern Hemisphere.
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Important Takeaways:
- FBI Director Kash Patel has launched an investigation into former Director James Comey’s secret “honeypot” operation involving 2 female undercover agents who targeted President Trump’s 2016 campaign, according to The Washington Times.
- Last October it was revealed that according to an FBI whistleblower, former Director James Comey inserted two female agents inside the Trump campaign in 2016.
- The Washington Times reported that the female agents were directed to act as “honeypots” and travel with Trump and his staff.
- This was an “off-the-books” operation and was separate from Comey and Obama’s Crossfire Hurricane operation (launched in July 2016) that targeted Trump based on false Russian collusion lies.
- The whistleblower told Congress last year that the “honeypot” investigation was hidden from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, another Obama-appointed lackey for the regime.
- One of the undercover agents involved in Comey’s operation was transferred to the CIA so she would not be a potential witness.
- The other undercover agent was promoted to a high-ranking position at the FBI
- The details of this investigation were kept from President Trump’s criminal defense attorneys.
- On Tuesday, The Washington Times reported that Kash Patel launched an investigation into Comey’s “honeypot” operation.
- Recall that Kash Patel was former House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes’ top deputy for years and helped blow the Spygate and Russiagate stories wide open.
- Nobody knows the Comey-McCabe-Brennan-Clapper-Spygate scandal better than Kash Patel.
- According to The Washington Times, the FBI is looking for the undercover honeypots.
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Important Takeaways:
- 6G and the Biblical Prophecy
- Why does this matter? Because Bible prophecy tells us that a global system of control will rise before Christ’s return. Scripture speaks of a time when a one-world government, economy, and religion demand allegiance to the Antichrist’s rule (Revelation 13:16-17). Technology like 6G sets the stage for this reality. What we are seeing now must be set into place and be available then.
- Total Surveillance – No one will be “off the grid.” AI-driven monitoring will track every individual’s movements, purchases, and communications.
- Digital Identification and Cashless Society – 6G will facilitate the infrastructure for a global digital ID system, controlling who can buy or sell.
- AI Decision-Making – With 6G, AI—not humans—will control systems that dictate access to essential services.
- For some, this new technology will be welcomed as progress. For others, it will be an alarming step toward complete dependence on AI-driven governance. The reality is that rejecting it may not be an option. It is designed to consume and control every aspect of life, but what it cannot control is the sovereignty of Jesus Christ.
- The Blessed Hope
- As we watch these technological advancements unfold, believers must not live in fear but in awareness. The very fact that this system is emerging aligns with what Scripture has foretold for thousands of years. These are signs pointing to the soon return of Jesus Christ. To me, the most significant sign to all of this technology is the soon return of Jesus. The development and implementation of 6G sets the stage even more for the soon disappearance of believers as the Rapture takes place while the world is left with its controlling technology and the judgment of God.
- Luke 21:28 KJV – “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
- 6G is not just another tech upgrade, but a preview of the coming global system described in prophecy. But for those who trust in Christ, our future is not one of fear and control, but of hope, freedom, and eternal security in Him.
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