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Trump Proposes $1.5 Trillion In War Spending, 'Largest In Decades' Via The Cradle US President Donald Trump is asking Congress to boost military spending to $1.5 trillion for 2027, the largest such request in decades, while demanding cuts to domestic spending on social programs, AP reported Friday. The White House released details of the desired spending increase on Friday as part of Trump's 2027 budget proposal. The proposal comes amid the US-Israeli war on Iran, which is costing US taxpayers over $11 billon for each week it continues. US Army/AP image Last month, the Pentagon proposed receiving an...

Robot "Ahmed" Gropes Teen Girl Live On TikTok - World's First Robot Sex Assault? Via Remix News, Cologne police are investigating an unprecedented incident in which a humanoid robot was allegedly used to sexually harass a 16-year-old girl on a busy city street, with the act filmed and livestreamed. Videos of the assault appear to show two men with a migration background controlling the robot, which they named "Ahmed," an Arabic name. They also claim the robot is from the multicultural neighborhood of Neukölln in Berlin. The case, which has drawn international...

The Return Of Economic Gaslighting Authored by Connor O'Keefe via The Mises Institute, Around two and a half years ago, as the Biden administration was entering what we now know was its final year, the then-president’s re-election campaign was growing frustrated. According to nearly all the big economic indicators and aggregates, the economy was doing quite well, especially considering the historic shutdown governments had forced on the global economy a few years before. However, at the same time, the American public as a whole felt very negatively about that same economy. And that negativity was...