When President Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of treason, he didn't panic or call a lawyer, Google cleaned it up for free.

A new Media Research Center study uncovered how Google manipulated its news tab to subvert Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's exposé on how the former president orchestrated the fabrication of intelligence behind the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

The MRC found that Google actively protected Obama after Gabbard revealed how his White House schemed behind the scenes to override early assessments finding no pro-Trump Russian interference in 2016, instead pushing rushed intel to legitimize the salacious Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had earlier said state Democrats taking steps to stall Republican redistricting efforts could be liable for 'felonies'

With the 4 p.m. CT deadline having come and gone, Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows announced this afternoon he would sign arrest warrants against any absent Democrat lawmakers if authorized by a vote of the chamber. Shortly thereafter, the House did approve the warrants and Gov. Greg Abbott then swiftly called on the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest the "delinquent Texas House Democrats."

The Democratic lawmakers ultimately did not return to Texas in time Monday to approve a quorum amid a fight to halt GOP efforts to redraw the state's congressional maps.

And nobody's surprised. President Trump said the Commanders would be 'much more valuable' if they restored their old name. He couldn't be more accurate.

Rumor's out that the owners of the Washington Commanders are feeling the heat to reverse the 2020 decision by former owner Daniel Snyder to drop the team's beloved Redskins name.

The reason? President Donald Trump's recent threats regarding the team's $3.7 billion plan to return the team's stadium to the District of Columbia from its decades-long sojourn in Maryland. "I may put a restriction on them that if they don't change the name back to the original 'Washington Redskins,' and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, 'Washington Commanders,'" Trump posted, "I won't make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington."

Certainly, this lifelong Redskins fan wouldn't mind Trump fighting on behalf of the fanbase of a storied franchise who still feels betrayed by a decision that had more to do with woke mob outrage in the aftermath of George Floyd's death than with the purported social justice reasons given for why the team needed to alter its name and mascot.

The invisible shrinking solar industry

Quietly, the world manufacturing base for solar panels has been shrinking for nearly two years and yet hardly anyone knows. Especially not the Prime Minister of Australia who set up the the $1 billion Solar Sunshot a year ago to artificially create an Australian solar panel manufacturing industry, twenty years too late, and with the worst possible timing.

China has already captured the solar market and killed it.

Gluts have consequences

The CCP is making twice as many solar panels as the world wants to buy. The latest trend is from bad to worse.

Let's remember this story, the next time the propaganda media try to tell us solar panels are setting new records. Isn't this the sort of thing our investigative sleuths at the ABC-BBC-CBC should have been digging out before elections were held? Doesn't this change everything?

Australia is supposed to be going gangbusters "leading the world" and installing 44,000 panels a day, but no one else in the world is doing that.

China's solar giants quietly shed a third of their workforces last year

Reuters

• Over 40 solar firms have delisted, gone bankrupt or been sold since 2024

• The industry lost $60 billion last year.

BEIJING, August 1 (Reuters) - China's biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses.

Layoffs are politically sensitive in China, where Beijing views employment as key to social stability. Other than a 5% cut acknowledged by Longi last year, none of the firms mentioned above have announced any job cuts or responded to questions from Reuters."The industry has been facing a downturn since the end of 2023," said Cheng Wang, an analyst at Morningstar. "In 2024, it actually got worse. In 2025, it looks like it's getting even worse."

The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many.

In a notice to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, the department said it would start a 12-month pilot program under which people from countries deemed to have high overstay rates and deficient internal document security controls could be required to post bonds of $5,000, $10,000 or $15,000 when they apply for a visa.

The proposal comes as the Trump administration is tightening requirements for visa applicants. Last week, the State Department announced that many visa renewal applicants would have to submit to an additional in-person interview, something that was not required in the past. In addition, the department is proposing that applicants for the Visa Diversity Lottery program have valid passports from their country of citizenship.

The EU has narrowly avoided a full-blown trade war with Donald Trump by pledging to buy $750 billion of U.S. oil and gas by the end of his term.

But achieving that will be almost impossible.

So far, Brussels has provided scant details on how the purchases would work. Yet limited U.S. supplies, technical obstacles, and the EU's weak powers over import deals mean hitting the goal will be fiendishly difficult, regardless of the specifics.

Even though it isn't a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe daily life all around you, no matter how superficial it may at first seem, you will catch many glimpses of why this may be so. The signs of falsehood are everywhere here in the land of make-believe, for those willing to decipher them.

The big lies and deceptions of politicians, intelligence services, and their media minions have their counterparts in trivial encounters where, as Melville said, "A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities." Such smiles plaster not just human faces, but appear in the signs and symbols of the wider culture everywhere you look. They are meant to tranquilize with trivia. They are offered as bait to induce people to stop worrying and be happy as their leaders smash the world to bits.

I recently chanced to look down the cereal aisle of a supermarket where my already florescent-irritated eyes were further dazzled by an entire row of technicolor boxes of the garbage that Americans eat to begin their days. First came the poison laid low down for the kids so they can reach the traps and pester their parents for what would better be served to rats.

These I passed, only to stop at a big orange yellow box that was advertised on sale. I had seen it before, just as often as I had seen pictures of Van Gogh's sunflowers adorning dentists' offices and funeral homes, twin bright colors before which we are beseeched to smile and be happy like Vincent. The cereal was General Mills' Honey Nut Cheerios.

At the center of the box in large letters outlined in bright orange screamed the words "made with REAL HONEY." I quickly grabbed a box since I am always searching for reality, but then it struck me, as I fell off my horse like Paul on the road to Damascus (not today's bombed Damascus), that such an assertion was strange, for the cereal is called Honey Nut Cheerios, which would imply it was made with honey.

So why are they boldly asserting it is?

I will probably spend the foreseeable future periodically reminding the world that when everyone was angry at Israel for starving children in Gaza, Israel's apologists spent days loudly proclaiming that no, they were actually just starving sick children.

As their defense they said this. They actually believed this helped their case.

Let me back up a bit.

On Wednesday, The New York Times posted an editor's note on an article it had published the previous Friday which included a horrifying photo of an emaciated child named Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq. Caving to pressure from Zionists and influence ops like the Israeli propaganda outlet HonestReporting, the Times went out of its way to clarify that al-Mutawaq "had pre-existing health problems," which Israel apologists instantly and predictably spun as proof that the media are lying about Israel starving Gaza.

Hollywood icon Mel Gibson is speaking out against California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for the second time in recent weeks.

Gibson was speaking to a group of Californians, presumably people who lost their homes in the fires, when he suggested that Gavin Newsom 'wants to do the Maui plan.' This was an obvious reference to the government land grab that has been going on in Maui following the disastrous Lahaina fire.

Gibson called for new leadership in the state and also demanded that there should be federal oversight of any government funding that is given to California.

As he closed his remarks, more than one person can be heard yelling 'Mel for governor.'

Americans on the scene who tried to help Palestinians said Israeli authorities detained them — all as settler attackers roamed free.

Israel detained and then deported an American nurse who tried to save the life of Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist who worked on the Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land.

After Israeli settler Yinon Levi allegedly shot and killed Hathaleen on Monday in Umm al-Khair, a village in the occupied West Bank, the critical care nurse gave Hathaleen four rounds of CPR. She cradled his head in her hands, checking his pulse and whispering "You're OK," as he bled out, the nurse told The Intercept. The medical worker asked not to be named because they fear for their safety. Hathaleen was then taken away in an ambulance, where he died before reaching the hospital.

About 20 feet away, and minutes before Hathaleen was shot, another Israeli settler in an excavator tried to destroy the village's main water pipe, according to media reports. A local man named Ahmad, Awdah's cousin, was struck in the head with the excavator's arm and nearly knocked unconscious after he tried to stop the driver.