Wall Street stocks closed lower on Monday, as markets reacted to the sale of JPMorgan Chase to First Republic Bank after it was seized by financial authorities. Stocks of the regional lender plummeted after it revealed that it lost more than $100 billion in deposits over Q1. The three main US indices all finished the week in the red, despite a busy news week that includes Apple’s results and the report on the April employment statistics. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite Index, and the S&P 500 all fell by 0.1 per cent after a turbulent session.
JPMorgan Chase has been able to gain control of the industry and calm investors’ fears about possible turmoil. Investors are now watching the US Federal Reserve closely for its next interest rate announcement, due on Wednesday. It is widely believed that the US central bank will raise its benchmark lending rates for the tenth time and possibly last time, by another quarter point. A reading from the Institute for Supply Management revealed that US manufacturing activity had contracted for the fifth consecutive month.
Investors are bracing for volatility in the coming days as the fallout of First Republic’s collapse continues. The US Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision will likely have a major effect on the financial industry and could mean the end of rate increases by the bank. Some investors are still optimistic about the future, and some predict a recovery in the next few weeks. Investors can expect a rough ride in the coming days, as uncertainty continues to hang over the market.
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TNT Radio guest host Basil Valentine speaks with artist and peace activist Jason Liosatos, to discuss the British Government’s clampdown on people’s freedom and the importance of creating new communities whilst we still can.
He also discusses the process of emancipation away from an Orwellian tyrannical government whose moral compass has vanished over the years.
He goes on to describe what resistance should look like and how crucial it is to believe and thoughtfully act toward the creation of a new independent system to counteract the digital prison we are being hurdled into and various forms of punishment being used to secure the population’s compliance including the fear of your fellow human being.
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Former President Donald Trump claimed at a recent campaign rally that more than 300,000 Americans are dying each year from the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, and that the number of fentanyl overdoses was the “lowest” during his administration and has skyrocketed since.
“We’re losing 300,000 people a year to fentanyl that comes through our border,” Trump told his supporters at a July 24 campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina. “We had it down to the lowest number and now it’s worse than it’s ever been,” he said.
Trump’s figures appear to have no basis in fact. Government statistics show the number of drug overdose deaths per year is hovering around 100,000 to 110,000, with opioid-related deaths at about 81,000. That’s enough that the government has labeled opioid-related overdoses an “epidemic,” but nowhere close to the number Trump cited.
Moreover, though the number of opioid deaths has risen since Trump left office, it’s incorrect to claim they were the “lowest” while he was president.
Numbers are likely higher than reported, but nowhere near Trump’s claim
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt wouldn’t comment specifically on the source for Trump’s statistics. She instead sent KFF Health News an email with several bullet points about the opioid crisis under the heading: “DRUGS ARE POURING OVER HARRIS’ OPEN BORDER INTO OUR COMMUNITIES.”
One such bullet noted that there were “112,000 fatal drug overdoses” last year and linked to a story from NPR reporting that fact — directly rebutting Trump’s own claim of 300,000 fentanyl deaths. Additionally, the number NPR reported is an overall figure, not for fentanyl-related deaths only.
More recent government figures estimated that there were 107,543 total drug overdose deaths in 2023, with an estimated 74,702 of those involving fentanyl. Those figures were in line with what experts on the topic told KFF Health News.
“The number of actual deaths is probably significantly higher,” said Andrew Kolodny, medical director for the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University, noting that many such overdose deaths go uncounted by government researchers.
“But I don’t know where one would get that number of 300,000,” Kolodny added.
Trump’s claim that fentanyl deaths were the “lowest” during his administration and are now worse than ever is also off the mark.
Overdose deaths — specifically those from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl — started climbing in the 1990s. When Trump took office in January 2017, the number of overdose deaths related to synthetic opioids was about 21,000. By January 2021, when he left the White House, that tally was nearing 60,000, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System shows. Deaths involving synthetic opioids continued to increase after Trump left office.
“There’s some truth to saying that there are more Americans dying (of opioids) than ever before,” Kolodny said. “But again, if you were to look at trends during the Trump administration, deaths just pretty much kept getting worse.”
In the last year, though, statistics show that overdose numbers have plateaued or fallen slightly, though it’s too soon to say whether that trend will hold.
Given that Trump’s claims about fentanyl came when discussing the southern border “invasion,” it’s worth noting that, according to the U.S. government, the vast majority of fentanyl caught being smuggled into the country illegally comes via legal ports of entry. Moreover, nearly 90% of people convicted of fentanyl drug trafficking in 2022 were U.S. citizens, an analysis by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, showed. That year, U.S. citizens received 12 times as many fentanyl trafficking convictions as did immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally, the analysis showed.
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Trump said, “We’re losing 300,000 people a year to fentanyl that comes through our border. We had it down to the lowest number and now it’s worse than it’s ever been.”
Annual U.S. fentanyl deaths have increased since he left office, but Trump’s claim about 300,000 deaths has no basis in fact and is contradicted by figures his press secretary shared.
Trump is wrong to assert that overdoses were the lowest when he was president. Moreover, Trump continues to link fentanyl trafficking to illegal immigration — a claim statistics do not support.
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Matthew Thomas Crooks, age 20, who attempted to assassinate former president Trump on July 13, resembled–with his shy, mischievous grin, pale skin, braces, and acne–countless young males who have sat in front of me in English classrooms over years–at community colleges, in high schools, and even in middle schools, as Crooks looked very young in his photo, now published all over national and international media. When schools shut down in March 2020, and lockdowns ensued, Crooks was 16, in the spring of his sophomore year of high school.
Absent from public discussions of Crooks’ tragedy are despair, losses, and mental health crises Covid-era lockdowns caused, especially young people; cruel, vitriolic, and even violent political rhetoric pervading our culture in the last several years; and effects of video gaming on young people’s brains, and perhaps on Crooks’ brain, effects worsened by the predatory gaming and technology industry, making billions of dollars, especially on young males. Gaming addictions and other addictions skyrocketed during Covid lockdowns.
Reports describe Crooks as a computer gamer, and shy student, whom acquaintances have said was bullied and often sat alone at lunch. How might the last four years of cultural collapse and health harms of lockdowns have exacerbated this young man’s challenges? Across U.S. airwaves, commenters on Crooks are silent on covid era devastation to the lives of young people. An epidemic of mental health crises struck those ages 18 to 25, according to the CDC and other sources, with more than 25 percent in this age group saying they seriously considered suicide. Mental health crises persist. Chronic absenteeism persists today with some public schools losing their accreditation due to poor attendance.
During lockdowns, students endured months of computer school and social isolation. Days before he climbed on a rooftop near a Pennsylvania farm show complex, aimed and shot at former president Trump’s head, someone claiming to be Crooks bragged about a planned assassination on Steam, a site frequented by tens of millions of gamers, who use it to buy computer games and discuss gaming. After the shooting, the name on the account was changed. Who posted the message? We don’t know the extent of Crooks’ computer gaming and the kinds of games he played, but this certainly may be worth examining since someone announced his deadly plan on a major gaming site and, sadly, called it his “premiere.”
“July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds,” someone using his name wrote on the site. Crooks had asked for the upcoming Saturday off from his job in a nursing home kitchen. His actions were planned. He lost his life that day, shot in the head by a Secret Service sniper. He killed a firefighter, Corey Comperatore, and injured others.
News stories report that Crooks had just completed a two-year community college degree and was headed to a four-year university. In high school, he won a math and science award. In school reopening plans in the Covid period, bureaucrats ordered students to mask their faces, to sit six feet apart to eat lunch, and, at many schools, disallowed them from eating with friends. High school students could only remove masks long enough to chew their food. Organized sports, clubs, and groups ceased meeting for two years in many places. These bizarre practices depressed even the heartiest students. What effect did they have on Crooks?
Instead of hard discussions of what actually may have led to Crooks’ violence and suicidal actions, we read obfuscations, evasions, and vagaries. With verbose, dehumanizing language, John Cohen, “Former Acting Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis and Counterterrorism Coordinator and ABC News contributor,” completely evades harms governments perpetrated in the last few years as well as the increasingly, vitriolic political language dominating U.S. airwaves, language inundating young people as they struggle with what all young people do–finding communities, developing life purposes, and making meanings.
“The individuals who exhibit the behavioral characteristics this shooter is exhibiting go into the attack not expecting to survive,” Cohen says. “Some behavioral characteristics that have come to light already is that this is an individual who clearly suffered challenges in developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships,” said Cohen, who probably never missed a paycheck during the Covid period and aftermath when government and health bureaucrats decimated small businesses and cultural centers while millions lost jobs and opportunities. How much does ABC “news” pay for this language that would make George Orwell cringe? Another ABC story states, “Investigators are also looking into what appeared to be disinformation that the suspect was consuming before the attack and whether it played any role in it, according to law enforcement sources.”
In plain language: A young man shot people. He was someone’s son, someone’s student, someone’s employee. He was on his way to college. Unasked questions remain about Crooks. Some young people may have endured a learned helplessness in the Covid period when month after month, isolation, fear, restrictive policies, and bizarre practices did not abate. But in video games, especially the violent ones with shooting and killing, gamers become part of a community, maybe a combat team. The player may become a killer, an assassin, a hero. And he doesn’t die in the game. But these are fake worlds. How many hours of video games did Crooks play? What kinds? Shutdowns and lockdowns forced young people inside, and for some, increased gaming hours relieved pain, stress, boredom, and purposelessness.
Gaming addiction worsened during pandemic shutdowns with game usage nearly doubling from 2019 to 2022 in males, 15 -24, according to an August 13, 2023 report in The New York Post. Mental health harms from computer gaming have not received nearly enough attention, especially during the Covid era. In 2018, the World Health Organization officially voted to adopt the latest edition of its International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, to include an entry on “gaming disorder” as a behavioral addiction.
People playing online combat games may have observable changes in speech patterns, behavior, and impulse control. Immersed in the game, they often claim they can’t leave the game. While playing combat video games, players’ clipped, rapid-fire speech patterns resemble those in the Collateral Murder video Julian Assange released on Wikileaks, for which the U.S. government sentenced Assange to prison. In 2007, U.S. soldiers in an Apache helicopter killed several Iraqi people, including two Reuters journalists. Former U.S. soldier, Ethan McCord, who arrived after the attack and saved two children, has said that such occurrences during the U.S.-led war in Iraq were common.
We do not know the content of the games Crooks played but may get glimpses of horrible, realistic violence contained in some of the most popular ones. Teachers attend required computerized active shooter trainings, and these trainings look and feel disturbingly like video games. Excessive gaming alters young people’s brains, and makers design them to be highly addictive. Harms have been so pervasive that support networks and treatment centers increased, including groups for family and friends of addicted loved ones.
Parents, trying to help addicted gamers, describe hiding routers and cables from teens or young adults, who compulsively try to regain internet access. Parents describe working at the library themselves after having to cancel the house internet when an addicted teen became aggressive. Internet and gaming recovery sites and programs proliferate with more studies on games’ powerful psychological manipulations, or dark patterns, in the technology and how to avoid them.
Parents report teens breaking into car trunks or tearing apart closets after attempts to limit gaming by removing computer devices or turning off the internet. A colleague, who specializes in addiction, tells of a parent, trying to help an addicted gamer, who wore an adult diaper, so he didn’t have to leave the game. Aren’t parents supposed to limit harmful substances or activities for their children’s health and safety? Spouses and parents on support networks describe addicts not eating or sleeping, gaming for hours and days, and becoming assaultive with attempts to control gaming. What support is there for parents, for Thomas Crooks’ parents, described as both licensed counselors, who were so worried about their son that July day that they called the police to find him and check on him? Why were they calling the police?
Described as bullied and socially isolated, what do we know about Crooks’ gaming habits? People argue that games don’t cause teens or young adults to become violent, but research has shown that games may numb them to violence and cause aggressive behavior. While denial persists, anecdotal data surges among parents, educators, and mental health professionals. Gaming is a multi-billion-dollar industry with revenues exceeding those of the movie and music industries combined. Those profiting from gaming certainly would aggressively control the kinds of questions asked, studies conducted, and information published.
Young people use cell phones to buy, play, and discuss gaming. Many U.S. governors have called for cell phone bans in public schools after Jonathan Haidt published his 2024 book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. The book discusses research on emotional, social, and mental health damage cell phone and technology abuse causes young people. Why did Crooks have two cell phones? Who was paying for them? Media reports say that Crooks was “rarely seen in his neighborhood”. Why?
Years ago, I attended at my children’s school district a presentation on cell phone and computer device abuse and harm to young people. It was organized by the superintendent. Sadly, I noticed parents all around me, scrolling their phones in the dark during the presentation. Also, years ago, I was horrified to learn that teens slept with cell phones. What have these devices done to them? Do I want my beloved child or student sleeping with the internet and all its sordidness, predators, and garbage in a device under her pillow? Yes, there is good on the Internet but also so much that is harmful, and our children must be protected.
The media negatively portrayed Crooks’ gun club membership. He practiced target shooting with his father’s gun. I didn’t grow up with guns in the house and have no familiarity with them. However, I imagine that if someone like my brother-in-law, who belongs to a gun club in rural Illinois, had any inkling of this young man’s foolish and desperate behavior, he would have asked Crooks what in the world he was going to do; he would have told him to act like he had some sense. Gun club members, who know how to use guns safely, may have been glad to take Crooks out hunting or fishing.
Had they known his growing terrible trouble, they may’ve taught him how to build and repair houses or barns, how to grow food, to raise and process animals for food, how to ward off despair with real-world communities, productive activity, and serving others. Some members of the farm show complex audience may have provided Crooks with good counsel, perhaps guiding him to stay connected to the natural world’s wonders–had they had the chance to steer him from his deadly path.
Some speculated that Crooks was part of a conspiracy. I don’t believe it was “them” or a “they” who did the shooting. It wasn’t the gun that did it. Tragically, the shooter was a distraught young man, roiling in a terrible cultural storm, one that still engulfs teens and young people. What will we do, as the generation with more years of context, that should hold more wisdom, strength, and hope to pass on?
Crooks didn’t care for his own or anyone else’s life or safety that day. Searches of his computer revealed no ideology on his laptop, investigators have said. None of Crooks’ acquaintances interviewed said he discussed politics. Did Crooks imagine he was “defending democracy” if he succeeded in killing Trump? That potent abstraction that tens of thousands of mostly young men are sent to kill for in U.S. foreign wars, many of which are revealed to be based on lies, folly, and profits? How did lockdowns, bullying, and despair contribute to Crooks’ tragedy? Was he in a game? The last several years of increasingly cruel, vicious political rhetoric provided another potent context for Crooks’ suicidal violence.
“It’s time to put a bull’s eye on Trump,” President Joe Biden said days before Crooks’ assassination attempt. Sadly, I saw an acquaintance on social media post a comment after the shooting that he wished the shooter’s aim was better.
Like so many young males’ shootings, Crooks’ actions included his planned suicide. Our time to help him, to notice, to perhaps prevent this violence was months, perhaps years ago.
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The Deep State Knowing Kamala Harris’s personal and professional baggage, and knowing Biden could not win, or even if he did (by vote rigging again), could not effectively serve another term (and would eventually have to be removed) … Knew their best replacement for the totally compromised Joe Biden was … the also Compromised … Cackling Kamala Harris !!!
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Welcome to Episode #117 of the Eagle’s Eye Report. This episode is Hosted by myself with Co-Host and Show Producer Stephen Roberts. The title of today’s show is, Cackling Kamala to the Rescue. The intent of this radio show is to be a mechanism for communicating the truth as well as the facts in a country increasingly forbidding of these very concepts.
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When it was finally decided by the Deep State that they could no longer hide the total mess Biden had morphed into … When enough pressure (blackmail) had been applied to him … he folded and immediately named Kamala as his successor. Thus: Cackling Kamala to the Rescue.
Knowing that Harris was originally put on the Biden ticked in 2020 for show and tell (She is Supposedly Black and a Woman). The Deep State Knowing Kamala Harris’s personal and professional baggage, and her lack of serious usable intelligence, and knowing Biden could not win, or even if he did, could not effectively serve another term (and would eventually have to be removed) … Knew their best replacement for the totally compromised Joe Biden was … the also Compromised … Cackling Kamala !!!
So who is Cackling Kamala Harris? This is someone who couldn’t make it through the first competitive round in the Democratic 2020 election cycle, and was the first candidate to drop out, and had virtually zero backing!
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The following are descriptions of Kamala from various sources:
Arrogant and quick to strike
Mean spirited and verbally abusive
About 100% staff turnover since she entered the White House
Has or is backtracking on long held positions as election approaches
Has taken the lead as the worlds best ‘Word Salad’ presenter
Her rise to political power is another questionable scenario for another day
As a result … what can we the People hope to gain from a Harris Presidency?
If Kamala manages to win this election with the largest number of votes ever cast for a president (Joe) burying Trump (again) who is immensely more popular … and We The People, being fully aware of the vote rigging now commonplace in America (2000 Mules) do not step up … Then shut up and sit down because you now live in a totalitarian state being passed off as a Constitutional Republic … and by remaining silent … You have given your approval !!!
But before we proliferate any sort of a defeatist attitude (NOT) allow me to say there is a lot more to present here including a bit of digging into Kamala’s past to see just how she reacted to scenarios important, or paramount to We The People ‘s interest. Digging more deeply into Kamala’s past may also uncover many issues she would rather not have to revisit.
To help continue the ball rolling on this we bring in an article by Deane Waldman that does a great job of bringing a few facts to light that may not exactly be Kamala’s favorite points (LOL).
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LEXINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (TCN) — Officials recently arrested a man and are searching for another after firefighters found a deceased man inside a burning home last month.
According to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Office, on July 20, local fire personnel responded to an overnight house fire on Oak Ridge Lane, where they located the body of a man, later identified by deputies as Caldwell Melton Motley Jr. Responders found another victim with severe injuries inside a shed on the property, and he was transported to a hospital and survived.
The sheriff’s office alleges that 39-year-old Edward Smith fatally stabbed Motley and struck the second victim with an edged object. Through interviews, evidence, and electronic data, authorities learned Smith was reportedly at the Oak Ridge Lane residence shortly before someone called 911 to report the fire.
Deputies arrested Smith on Tuesday, Aug. 13. He remains held in the Lexington County Detention Center without bond on charges of murder and attempted murder.
The sheriff’s office said another man, 33-year-old Donovan Holman, is wanted on charges related to the case, but authorities did not specify how he was involved in the incident.
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1 arrested, 1 wanted after body found in burning house – Lexington County Sheriff’s Office
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Crowd size has become a 2024 presidential race talking point.
But a viral photo claiming to show low turnout at Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s western Michigan campaign event is misleading.
An X account called Kamala’s Wins shared a photo Aug. 14 from Vance’s rally that day outside Cordes Inc., a Byron Center, Michigan, trucking company. The photo showed a sparse crowd and rows of empty white folding chairs.
“BREAKING: New photos are emerging from JD Vance’s rally today. While Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are filling up massive venues, Donald Trump is incapable of campaigning in person and JD Vance couldn’t fill a small room,” said the X post, which had been viewed more than 1.3 million times as of Aug. 15.
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The Kamala’s Wins account bio reads, “Keeping Score of Kamala Harris’ wins. The largest online community supporting soon to be President Kamala Harris.”
Sarafina Chitika, a Harris-Walz campaign spokesperson, told PolitiFact that this X account is neither affiliated with nor run by the Harris-Walz campaign. The Democratic presidential campaign’s official X account is @KamalaHQ.
The photo of the sparse crowd, which has been widely circulated on X, is misleading. Other footage from that day shows more people in the audience by the event’s start time.
Kamala’s Wins shared the photo at 12:13 p.m. About an hour later, at 1:30 p.m., Meryl Kornfield, a staff writer at The Washington Post, posted on X a photo from the Vance campaign event that showed a bigger crowd with almost every seat occupied.
“The photo of a virtually empty Vance rally going around doesn’t accurately depict the crowd size now. Pretty much every seat is full and there are attendees hanging out in shady areas that aren’t in this photo,” Kornfield wrote in the X post.
Vance took the stage just after 2 p.m., according to C-SPAN footage.
Photos and video from The Associated Press, Getty Images, The Detroit News, C-SPAN and WZZM-TV before, during and after Vance’s speech show few empty seats in the crowd. The Detroit News reported that there were a few hundred people at the event.
Although the Byron Center venue was smaller than some other places former President Donald Trump and Vance have campaigned, the event didn’t have low attendance as the Kamala’s Wins photo had intimated.
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