System Update, 07/02/26
Source: System Update
“Socialist Says 9/11 ‘INEVITABLE,’ AOC Endorses Jeffries, Dan Goldman Cries on CNN & More.” (07/02/26)
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/socialist-says-911-inevitable-aoc
The Declaration of Independence Versus America’s Immigration Police State
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“This week — the week in which Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence — U.S. immigration police arrested a Catholic nun in McAllen, Texas, as she was walking to Mass. They handcuffed her, confiscated her rosary, and incarcerated her. But before anyone reacts too harshly to such misconduct, let’s keep in mind some important points. It is the responsibility of the U.S. immigration police to keep us safe. Who’s to say that woman was really a nun? She could easily have been a Muslim fanatic disguised as a nun who was invading America to establish a worldwide caliphate and Sharia law. Indeed, she could have been a terrorist, drug dealer or, even worse, both — a narco-terrorist!” (07/02/26)
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/02/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Israel Wanted To Kill Iran’s Negotiators During US Talks, Russia’s Largest Attack on Kyiv, and More.” (07/02/26)
Man pleads guilty to sending fake ransom notes to Nancy Guthrie family
Source: USA Today
“A Southern California man pleaded guilty in federal court to sending fake ransom notes to Nancy Guthrie’s family shortly after her disappearance, prosecutors announced on July 2. Derrick Callella, 42, of Hawthorne, California, pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment using a telecommunication device at a federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, on July 2, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona. The charge has a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a potential fine of up to $250,000. … Nancy Guthrie was reported missing on the morning of Feb. 1 after she failed to show up at a friend’s house to watch a virtual church service. While the FBI obtained footage of an armed and masked individual captured by her Google Nest doorbell camera, investigators for months have been unable to identify a suspect behind her likely abduction.” (07/03/26)
Fountainhead Forum, episode 467
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Revecca Whiting on running for US Senate and fighting wars in the Middle East.” (07/02/26)
On the Moral Foundations of America
Source: Cato Institute
by Roger Pilon
“Of all that makes America—the subject of this symposium—nothing has been more crucial or consequential than our having constituted ourselves as a people on sound moral, political, and legal principles—the ‘self-evident truths’ set forth in our Declaration of Independence and then instituted through our Constitution as corrected by the Civil War Amendments—for those principles are the very foundation of our liberty. Yet many Americans today seriously misunderstand them, while still others reject even their preconditions—reason, objectivity, and free speech.” (07/02/26)
The Anarchist Experience, episode 587
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich and Riley discuss Forkfest, the success/failure of Porcfest and the Free State Project, and socialists controlling the thermostat.” (07/02/26)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/the-anarchist-experience-587/
Living better, not just longer
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“In an era of information overload, genuinely fresh news and concepts can occasionally get obscured by the ‘slop’. But eventually, thought-expanding data and perspectives rise to the surface and into wider public attention. This appears to be the case with a Yale University study on aging in America published in an academic journal in early March. The findings of ‘Aging Redefined’, now being reported in mainstream media, defy – and can help redefine – long-held and limiting views about the United States’ older demographic. Collecting data on some 11,000 participants over a 12-year period, the researchers found that nearly half of American adults age 65 or older became physically stronger, mentally more acute, or both. ‘If this finding was extrapolated to the entire US population, it would suggest that more than 26 million older persons are experiencing [such] improvement,’ the study’s authors noted.” (07/01/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0701/Living-better-not-just-longer
WHO declares cruise-linked hantavirus outbreak officially over
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“The World Health Organization has declared the hantavirus outbreak over after the last identified contact of an exposed person linked to a cruise ship completed quarantine and tested negative for the virus. The outbreak, which infected 13 people and killed three, involved the rare Andes hantavirus strain that typically circulates in Argentina and Chile. The cruise ship Hondius sailed from Argentina on April 1. … The Andes virus is the only known hantavirus that can spread through close, prolonged human-to-human contact.” (07/02/26)
Sal and Mark, episode 10
Source: Free Talk Live
“Sal and Mark are back with a packed episode. Special guest Joyce Brand joins to discuss Morizon, a unique free city project in Honduras that is quietly changing lives on the ground — featuring private police, community justice, and a remarkably low crime rate.” (07/02/26)