Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/27314684/putin-launches-new-nuclear-capable-missile/

>The "super weapon" is understood to be capable of dodging Western detection thanks to its unpredictable manoeuvres.

>The suspected advanced rocket was launched last week from the Kapustin Yar test range - leaving a bizarre smoke trail behind.

>The intercontinental missile was spotted "waltzing" across the sky from different regions in Russia and even Iran.

>Shocked witnesses have caught the unusual "pirouettes" on camera with the clips showing white smoke twirls.

>Following the testing of the mysterious weapon, Ukraine has been on a total air alert, according to a military expert.

>Colonel Viktor Baranets, Russian defence expert for Komsomolskaya Pravda, said: "Nato's intelligence agencies are beside themselves after Russia's new missile test.

>"It looked like a comet with a serpentine white tail.

>“Its spiralling twists and turns were watched with amazement by residents of different regions of Russia - Orenburg, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Dagestan and others.

>“And even in many countries of the Middle East.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/fisa-surveillance-bill-program.html

A hidden dispute over whether a data center for cloud computing must cooperate with a warrantless surveillance program prompted the House last week to add a mysterious provision to a bill extending the program, according to people familiar with the matter.

The disclosure helps clarify the intent behind an amendment that has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702. The provision would add to the types of service providers that could be compelled to participate in the program, but it is written in enigmatic terms that make it hard to understand what it is supposed to permit.

Data centers are centralized warehouses of computer servers that can be accessed over the internet from anywhere in the world. In the cloud computing era, they are increasingly operated by third parties that rent out the storage space and computing power that make other companies’ online services work.

Even as national security officials described the provision as a narrow fix to a technical issue, they have declined to explain a classified court ruling from 2022 to which the provision is a response, citing the risk of tipping off foreign adversaries. Privacy advocates, for their part, have portrayed the amendment as dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people — like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment — to act as spies.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-laura-ingraham-kid-rock-budweiser-hat_n_660fa6c0e4b083254eabaedf

Kid Rock has made Budweiser part of his style again roughly one year after he shared a video of himself shooting cans of Bud Light amid conservative backlash to the brand’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

The Trump-supporting rapper, in a Fox News appearance on Thursday, rocked a “This Bud’s For You” hat before host Laura Ingraham pointed to his headwear.

“Oh, shit,” said Kid Rock as he took the hat off and looked at it.

Ingraham asked the rapper if he’s “lightened up” on the drink.

“This is a cool hat,” replied Kid Rock, adding that he didn’t know what hat he was wearing in the interview.

He continued, “We got bigger targets. I mean, when you look at what, Planet Fitness? Like what are they doing? Like, Ben and Jerry’s? I don’t want to put any targets on people’s back. Target?”

Kid Rock joined a number of other right-wing critics who claimed to boycott Bud Light amid a controversy that saw a massive drop in the drink’s sales and hundreds of layoffs at Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company.

The rapper’s boycott seemingly didn’t last long, as he was caught on camera drinking Bud Light at a Nashville bar in August.

His own bar in the Music City — Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock ‘n’ Roll Steakhouse — still kept the drink on the menu months after his shooting video, as well, according to reports by CNN and Newsweek.

He told Tucker Carlson in December that it was a wrap on his boycott, adding that he thinks Anheuser-Busch “got the message.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/boomers-bought-up-the-big-homes-now-they-re-not-budging/ar-BB1lzZC0?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=0b85b171217441bb946162ff5aaadbbb&ei=10

Wow, who could have predicted this? It isn't like obongo and brandon were intentionally flying muslims from the MENA to red towns/states to cause the muslims to kill everyone or anything. Remember when dems flipped out because Trump banned muslims and then king hawaii judge overturned it?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-campaign-we-dont-want-votes-death-america-protesters-michigan

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68782177
>His death was one of 50,000 suicides registered in the US last year - the largest number ever recorded. In second place: 2022, which saw 49,449 suicides.
>Other universities, across many different states, are experiencing a similar trend. And suicide is now the second-leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 35, according to the Centers for Disease Control, America's health protection agency.
#1 cause of death is accidents, btw
>inb4 good fuck white men
there is another article that is a week old that I am not going to add to this post because then trannies will report it despite the bbc article only being a day old, blacks are killing themselves at record rates and it keeps going up.
But you know biden is totally a good president. that is why 2023 had a record number of homeless and a record number of suicides. Such a good president and economy you either kill yourself or you live on the streets

Biden once again saving the world from the Republican's disastrous trickle down economics, Trump Recession and Trumpflation.

https://www.averyjournal.com/news/national/robust-us-has-helped-improve-global-economic-outlook-imf-chief-says/article_df341cf4-175d-599d-9951-79ea4bb8d9a2.html

Strong growth in the United States has helped to lift the outlook for the world economy, but more needs to be done to stem a slide in productivity, the head of the IMF said Thursday.

"Global growth is marginally stronger on account of robust activity in the United States and in many emerging markets economies," International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva told reporters in prepared remarks.

The U.S. economy grew by a robust 2.5 percent last year, according to the US Commerce Department, far outstripping most other advanced economies.

"Robust household consumption and business investment, and an easing of supply chain problems helped," Georgieva added. "And inflation is going down, somewhat faster than previously expected."

She spoke just a few days before the IMF-World Bank spring meetings of world financial leaders in Washington, one of two such gatherings hosted each year by the international financial institutions.

Her remarks suggest the IMF now expects the world economy to grow faster than it predicted in January, when it forecast global growth to rise by 3.1 percent in 2024, and 3.2 percent in 2025.

"It is tempting to breathe a sigh of relief. We have avoided a global recession and a period of stagflation -- as some had predicted," Georgieva said. "But there are still plenty of things to worry about."

Meanwhile Trump is still in favor of Israeli war crimes

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support

President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. will oppose any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios.

Why it matters: Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran's attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences, U.S. officials said.

>Iran launched attack drones and missiles against Israel on Saturday night local time in retaliation for an airstrike in Syria that killed a top Iranian general.
>"More than 200 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were fired from Iran," IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said. Most of the threats were intercepted outside of Israeli airspace, he said.
>A U.S. defense official earlier said U.S. forces in the region shot down Iranian-launched drones targeting Israel.

Behind the scenes: Biden told Netanyahu the joint defensive efforts by Israel, the U.S. and other countries in the region led to the failure of the Iranian attack, according to the White House official.

> "You got a win. Take the win," Biden told Netanyahu, according to the official.
>The official said that when Biden told Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran and will not support such operations, Netanyahu said he understood.
>U.S. Secretary of State Lloyd Austin spoke on Saturday with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant and asked that Israel notify the U.S. ahead of any response against Iran, a senior Israeli official said.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-arizona-biden-trump-presidential-election-11fe3cecb65d2365192273ebac2e9ed1
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground.

This Sunbelt state with a fierce independent streak has long been at the forefront of the nation’s immigration debate due to its 378-mile border with Mexico and its large Hispanic and immigrant populations. It now moves to the center of the national debate over reproductive rights after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federally guaranteed right to abortion.

Abortion and immigration have been two of this year’s biggest political issues. No battleground state has been affected more directly by both than Arizona.

“Do not underestimate this,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who polls for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, said of the Arizona abortion ruling. “It’s dynamic-changing.”

Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump are expected to fight hard to win Arizona after Biden carried the state four years ago by less than 11,000 votes.

In addition to the presidency, the U.S. Senate majority may be decided by the state’s high-profile contest between Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in the race to replace retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.

The state Supreme Court’s ruling reviving an abortion ban passed in 1864 also added rocket fuel to Democrats’ push to add a question to the November ballot asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion until viability, when a fetus could survive outside the womb. Later abortions would be allowed to save the woman’s life or protect her physical or mental health.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/truth-social-investors-try-to-keep-hope-alive-as-stock-tanks

Donald Trump’s acolytes gathered at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday evening to celebrate the public listing of his social media firm, even as the company’s stock continued to crater. Under the Palm Beach sky, right-wing radio host Sebastian Gorka sucked on a cigar, actor Jon Voight posed for photos, and country singer turned Bible salesman Lee Greenwood belted his runaway hit “God Bless the USA.” At the end of the song, he and the former president saluted.

In a speech, Trump encouraged investors to keep calm. “We have over $200 million dollars in cash, which is very liquid,” he said, according to a reporter from Right Side Broadcasting Network in attendance.

On Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, the mood is less ebullient. “Man I really thought we were gonna see a jump today. Especially after that party last night. There is always tomorrow,” one user lamented on Thursday morning.

“Doesn’t it seem strange that the price goes down steadily every day? Haven’t seen a green day for a while,” wondered another.

Shares of Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, have fallen more than 50 percent since late March, as the company’s dire financial position has become more clear. Last year, it brought in just $4.1 million in revenue and posted a $58.2 million loss.

Even after tanking, however, the business is still worth more than $4 billion on paper—a number that defies normal valuation metrics. Trump loyalists have helped keep the stock afloat as a way to financially support him, though TMTG remains heavily shorted by investors who believe its shares will continue to fall.

On Truth Social, retail investors are encouraging each other to keep the faith. “When the whole world is set on ruining you with everything that they have got, it’s a good sign that you are likely on the right side of things,” one person wrote on Thursday.