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Biden’s March to State Capitalism . . . The message from Team Biden is clear: You now work for us, the government. In April, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan gave an important speech at the Brookings Institution, in which he explained that Team Biden is  putting in place a permanent U.S. industrial policy in which the government explicitly leads, and everyone else follows.

“America,” Mr. Sullivan said, “needs a deliberate, hands-on investment strategy to pull forward innovation, drive down costs, and create good jobs.” He added: “A modern American industrial strategy identifies specific sectors that are foundational to economic growth, strategic from a national-security perspective, and where private industry on its own isn’t poised to make the investments needed to secure our national ambitions.” . . 

What we’re seeing is the inexorable rise of state capitalism, a system that deploys the state’s authority and money to force acquiescence to its version of social organization. Wall Street Journal

Trump raises $7 million for 2024 campaign since federal indictment . . .  Former President Donald Trump's 2024 White House campaign said on Wednesday he had raised $7 million since being indicted on federal charges last week, as his message of political persecution continues to resonate with die-hard supporters. "President Trump Raises Over $6.6 Million and Counting Since Deranged Jack Smith Announced Political Prosecution," Trump's campaign wrote in an email to supporters on Wednesday, referring to the U.S. special counsel investigating him. Reuters

20 Republicans Join With Democrats To Kill Schiff Censure . . . Twenty House Republicans joined with Democrats to table a resolution that would have censured and fined Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff. The resolution, introduced by Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, asserts that Schiff “purposely deceived his Committee, Congress, and the American people” during the special counsel investigation into former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. It would have fined him $16 million, half the special counsel investigation’s cost. Daily Caller

‘It Failed Miserably’: After Wargaming Loss, Joint Chiefs Are Overhauling How the US Military Will Fight . . . In a fake battle for Taiwan, U.S. forces lost network access almost immediately. Hyten has issued four directives to help change that. A brutal loss in a wargaming exercise last October convinced the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. John Hyten to scrap joint warfighting concepts that had guided U.S. military operations for decades. “Without overstating the issue, it failed miserably. An aggressive red team that had been studying the United States for the last 20 years just ran rings around us. They knew exactly what we're going to do before we did it,” Hyten told an audience Monday at the launch of the Emerging Technologies Institute, an effort by the National Defense Industrial Association industry group to speed military modernization. Defense One

We've got the best military men and women in the world but they are so badly mismanaged by incompetent careerists at the Pentagon.

Belarus now has Russian nuclear weapons "three times more powerful" than those used on Japan, leader says . . . Russian nuclear weapons "three times more powerful" than those used on Japan during World War II have already been delivered to Belarus, which borders Ukraine, the country's autocratic leader Alexander Lukashenko said in videotaped remarks broadcast Tuesday. His announcement came just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country would deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus in July. CBS

VIDEO | Rebekah Koffler explains rationale for Putin's move to send nuclear weapons to Belarus - Fox News

NATO races to design long-term package for Ukraine, differences remain . . .  NATO members are racing to complete a plan to provide long-term support to Ukraine, but are wrestling with how best to assure the country's security until it can join the military alliance, according to U.S. and European officials.

With four weeks to go until a NATO summit in Vilnius that is expected to approve the plan, there is agreement that Ukraine cannot join the alliance while fighting is still underway against Russian forces, a position accepted in early June by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy after months of pleading for speedy admission. Reuters

Eight reasons Putin may not be bluffing about using nuclear weapons . . . Analysis by Rebekah Koffler | NY Post

Hoping to Avert Nuclear Crisis, U.S. Seeks Informal Agreement With Iran . . . The Biden administration has been negotiating quietly with Iran to limit Tehran’s nuclear program and free imprisoned Americans, according to officials from three countries, in part of a larger U.S. effort to ease tensions and reduce the risk of a military confrontation with the Islamic Republic. The U.S. goal is to reach an informal, unwritten agreement, which some Iranian officials are calling a “political cease-fire.” It would aim to prevent a further escalation in a long-hostile relationship that has grown even more fraught as Iran builds up a stockpile of highly enriched uranium close to bomb-grade purity, supplies Russia with drones for use in Ukraine. New York Times

Russia’s improved weaponry and tactics pose challenges to Ukraine’s counteroffensive . . . Ukrainian troops are probing Russian defenses as spring gives way to a second summer of fighting. But Moscow has learned from its blunders and improved its weapons and skills.  Russia has built heavily fortified defenses along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, honed its electronic weapons to reduce Ukraine’s edge in combat drones, and turned heavy bombs from its massive Cold-War-era arsenal into precision-guided gliding munitions capable of striking targets without putting its warplanes at risk. The changing Russian tactics along with increased troop numbers and improved weaponry could make it challenging for Ukraine to score any kind of quick decisive victory, threatening to turn it into a long battle of attrition. PBS

‘Best’ Russian general killed in Ukraine missile strike during counteroffensive . . . A top Russian general has been killed in a Ukrainian missile strike during Kyiv’s escalating counteroffensive, a report said Tuesday. Prominent pro-Russian war correspondent Yury Kotyonok revealed on his Telegram channel that Major-General Sergei Goryachev, Chief of Staff of Russia’s 35th Army, had been killed Monday on the Zaporizhzhia front, where Ukrainian forces have been regaining territory in recent days.

“War claims the best,” Kotyonok wrote. Newsweek

China's economy slows in May, more stimulus expected . . . China's economy stumbled in May with industrial output and retail sales growth missing forecasts, adding to expectations that Beijing will need to do more to shore up a shaky post-pandemic recovery. The economic rebound seen earlier this year has lost momentum in the second quarter, prompting China's central bank to cut some key interest rates this week for the first time in nearly a year, with expectations of more to come. Reuters

Cash-strapped Taliban selling tickets to ruins of Buddhas it blew up . . . The three Taliban soldiers gazed down at the gaping hole in the 125-foot cliff where one of Afghanistan’s two great Buddhas once stood and wondered aloud who was to blame for its destruction 22 years ago. “This is the identity of our country,” said Kheyal Mohammad, 44, wearing a camouflage cap as he bent over a railing at the top of the giant cavity. “It shouldn’t have been bombed.” Washington Post

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Medicaid emergency spending for illegal migrants doubles in one year to $7 billion: GOP House . . . House Homeland Security Committee leader says in roughly past two years more people have entered U.S. illegally than in 12 years of the Obama, Trump administrations combined. Medicaid emergency spending for illegal immigrants more than doubled from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2021, according to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green. During a congressional hearing Wednesday on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ job performance, Green said more people have entered the U.S. illegally under his roughly two-year tenure "than in the 12 years of the Obama and Trump administrations combined." Just the News

CFOs expect economy will be worse in a year, Deloitte survey finds . . . North America's top corporate finance executives anticipate a downturn across each of the world's regional economies over the next year, according to new data from Deloitte. The global consulting and risk management firm released the results of its quarterly CFO Signals survey Thursday, which found respondents have a more pessimistic view of 2024 in the second quarter of this year than they did in the first. Fox Business

Millennials and Gen Z unleash on the work habits of Baby Boomers — power hungry and can’t Google . . . Young workers are constantly being called out for the way they work, but what about the older generation? With the cultural focus on how Gen Zers and Millennials have changed the way we work. We’ve heard a lot about how the younger generation craves compliments, and flexibility, and are less concerned with hierarchy. We know they are chatty, ignore power structures, and firmly set boundaries.

But what about the Boomers? According to *Jake, Boomers are far too liberal when using the reply-all button. Young people are much more personal with their approach to work and don’t like their business broadcasted to the entire company. Meanwhile, *Jade is completely fed-up with their “unnecessary phone calls.” In fact, she is so enraged that she added three exclamation points to highlight the severity of her complaint. Clearly, those Boomers have missed the memo that young people don’t actually talk on the phone. And clearly, Gen Zers don’t realize how much Boomers value a chat over a cold email. NY Post

With Order Making Maryland a Gender Transition Sanctuary, Governor Aids Sex Traffickers . . .Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, issued an executive order Monday that makes the state a sanctuary for gender transition procedures on minors.

Under the order, “all state agencies shall, to the fullest extent within their authority, take whatever action is necessary” to “protect people or entities in Maryland providing, receiving, assisting in providing or receiving, seeking, or traveling to obtain gender-affirming treatment.” Daily Signal

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Cancer most often strikes late in life. In the United States, nearly 60 percent of patients are 65 or older when they’re diagnosed. But in recent decades, cancer rates have been climbing among people under 50, the typical cut-off for when cancer is considered “early-onset.” This “early-onset cancer epidemic,” as one recent study published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology dubbed it, comprises a surge in the incidence of over a dozen different cancers in younger people since the 1990s in countries around the world.  In the U.S., the rate of early-onset cases rose by almost 18 percent between 2000 and 2019, even as cancer declined slightly in older adults, according to data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). 

Among Americans between 15 and 39 years old, an age group cancer researchers refer to as adolescents and young adults (AYAs), the surge was more pronounced still, topping 20 percent.

That increase has spanned genders, races and organs. It has stormed through young people’s blood and bone marrow, launched assaults on their gastrointestinal tracts, quartered itself in their reproductive organs. The incidence of breast cancer in Americans aged 15 to 39 rose more than 17 percent over the 19-year period. Myeloma rates spiked by over 30 percent. Colorectal cancer, by nearly 45 percent. Why? Cancer researchers aren’t entirely sure. The Hill

There's no mystery why. The food supply in the United States is poisoned as the food industry has laced every possible food with sugar and chemicals.

Biden Admin Gives Boost to Prince Harry in Drugs Case . . . Joe Biden's administration has formally rejected a request for the publication of Prince Harry's visa application in a case about the royal's past drug use. Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation is suing the Department of Homeland Security under the Freedom of Information Act in an effort to determine whether the Duke of Sussex disclosed his experiences with drugs when seeking entry to America. Harry described taking cocaine, marijuana, magic mushrooms and ayahuasca in his book Spare, released in January 2023, and the organization wants to know whether he was given favorable treatment by the DHS. Newsweek

Six Indicted For Trafficking Stolen Body Parts From Harvard Medical School Morgue . . . Six individuals were indicted Wednesday for allegedly operating in a nationwide network trading human remains obtained from university morgues, according to the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. A federal grand jury charged the six individuals with conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods, the USAO wrote in a press release. Another individual, Candace Chapman Scott, was indicted in April in the Eastern District of Arkansas. Daily Caller

Starbucks manager wins $25.6 million lawsuit after arguing she was fired for being White . . . A Starbucks regional manager won a $25.6 million verdict Friday after she accused the corporation of firing her for being White in response to a national backlash over the arrest of two Black men at one of its Philadelphia cafes. A New Jersey federal jury decided in favor of Shannon Phillips, who sued Starbucks in 2019 over allegations of racial bias and discrimination, according to court filings.

 It took the eight-member panel nearly five hours to award $25 million in punitive damages and $600,000 in compensatory damages to Phillips, determining that her skin color played a decisive role in her termination. Phillips, who worked for Starbucks for 13 years and oversaw roughly 100 cafes, was fired less than a month after Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson were arrested at a Spruce Street store on April 12, 2018, for refusing to leave a table. Fox Business

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Fox News issues statement on chyron calling Biden ‘wannabe dictator’ . . . Fox News sent out a statement acknowledging a chyron that ran late Tuesday during former President Trump’s post-indictment remarks that called President Biden “wannabe dictator.” “WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL RIVAL ARRESTED,” the Fox News chyron read just before 9 p.m., as the network showed a split screen of both Biden speaking at the White House and and Trump giving remarks at his New Jersey golf club. “The chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed,” the network said in a statement to The Hill Wednesday afternoon. Fox, unlike competitors CNN and MSNBC, provided live continuous coverage of Trump’s remarks, during which he accused Biden of weaponizing the Department of Justice to “take out” his top political rival. The Hill

Well, Biden is a dictator, so Fox just stated the obvious.

‘That Isn’t True!’: Fox Analyst Tears Into Ex-Biden Surrogate After He Claims Black Unemployment At Historic Lows . . . Fox News’ political analyst Gianno Caldwell tore into ex-Biden 2020 surrogate Kevin Walling on Wednesday after Walling claimed black unemployment is at a historic low under the Biden administration. Caldwell and Walling joined “The Faulkner Focus” to discuss the Biden administration, including Vice President Kamala Harris and her low approval ratings. Caldwell said Harris has “lost support among the black community which was one of her strongest gets.” Daily Caller