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Young and travel-hungry: My early days at Rider Magazine taught me that on the right motorcycle there are no limits. The following story is excerpted from 50th Anniversary Gold Wing, a book released this year by American Honda. It will be provided as a gift to customers who purchase a 2025 50th Anniversary Edition Gold Wing and will be available online and through Honda powersports dealers. What is a motorcycle, if not a companion? You can love a car, sure, but do you ever feel a part of it? On a motorcycle, your physical connection is not unlike what a rider feels on a horse. Your slightest movement impacts the machine, your line of sight guides it. As shared adventures accumulate, that connection can only deepen into something even more profound. A bond. Ask me about Honda’s Gold Wing and I’ll tell you the model has been a great friend to me during my nearly 40-year career as a motorcycle journalist, testing and traveling on the full range of brands and bikes.  Honda’s legendary Gold Wing and I got along right from the start, me a 20-year-old associate editor at Rider trying out a fully dressed tourer for the first time, a 1986 blue-on-blue GL1200 Aspencade. It was by far the largest motorcycle I’d ever ridden, and I remember feeling so nervous, my heart pounding as I throttled away, expecting an unruly ride.  But the Gold Wing immediately did what I now know it always does, its weight evaporating like some magic trick, revealing a machine that is agile and easy to ride. I was done for, my growing appetite for two-wheel travel now matched with a machine that could take me farther and in a glorious amount of comfort. And what about that plush pillion behind me? It presented an opportunity to share the magic of motorcycle touring. Shortly after that first ride, I packed an extra set of gear and motored away from Southern California on that Aspencade, grabbing up my big sister, who had never been on a motorcycle, from the San Francisco Bay Area, and away we went on a weeklong tour of Oregon. Again, the Gold Wing wowed me with its ability to maintain its composure, now carrying two girls, trunk and saddlebag lids straining to contain all our cute outfits and hair curlers.  Oh, how very young and free we were, barely into our 20s, our long, blonde braids in the wind as we dipped and dove our way up Oregon’s winding Pacific Coast Highway. And what a sight, two-up, in a time when women riding motorcycles was a rarity. All these years later, I can’t remember a time when we had more fun together, a situation where we felt closer, all thanks to that Gold Wing Aspencade and all the possibilities a beautifully designed touring bike presents. In 1987, I was tasked with comparing the budget-minded GL1200 Interstate with another tourer, and I chose the backdrop of Tombstone, Arizona. The other editor I invited on the tour, Brent Ross, had been a professional roadracer, and dicing with him in the twisties on those big tourers took my love for the Gold Wing to the next level. Not only was the bike agreeable in everyday situations, it was up for a mad dash, keeling over predictably and roaring off each apex like it was born for the chase. From there, my relationship with Honda’s GLs only deepened, each year the bikes becoming more refined, more exciting to ride, right in step with my improving skills and ever-expanding horizons. Back in 1986, my sister was my first passenger on a two-up tour – a weeklong adventure we still revisit with smiles. In 1988, the long-awaited GL1500 “Super Wing’’ hit the scene, the ferocious growl of its flat-six resonating as much in my chest as in my ears. As soon as we got our hands on one, Rider’s then tech editor, Mark Tuttle, and I headed off toward Arizona’s Superstition Mountains, not on two bikes but two-up on the Wing, switching rider and passenger duties along the way. This was my first time riding pillion for long stints on a Gold Wing, and I remember thinking at the time how on a machine this luxurious, the passenger might enjoy a tour even more than the pilot. When I left Rider later that year to begin a 12-year stint freelancing for a variety of motorcycle publications, the Gold Wing was always there, popping in and out of my life like a favorite friend. I interviewed Nancy Wright, a transport pilot during World War II, who at 82 no longer flew planes but said riding her 1992 GL1500 around the country was just as exciting. A 1987 GL1200 Interstate test to Tombstone, chasing curves and discovering just how spirited a tourer could be. A Gold Wing of any vintage is a dream to ride on the Cherohala Skyway. While testing a GL1500 SE in the late ’90s, I rode into a monstrous sandstorm near Death Valley that was blowing sand sideways so hard you couldn’t see three feet ahead. When I emerged on the other side nearly an hour later, I found the Gold Wing’s pretty Pearl Glacier White paint had been stripped clean off the left side, but thanks to the tourer’s steady nature, I was unscathed. Rallies celebrating the Gold Wing were attended, factory tours were enjoyed, and all the while the bike kept improving. I like to think I was evolving right alongside it, now married and the mother of a young daughter, a circumstance that didn’t keep me from riding but did make me appreciate the stability and emerging rider aids on this legendary tourer even more. In the early aughts and now approaching 40, I created a magazine called Motorcycle Escape, the physical manifestation of my long-time passion for road travel. It was about motorcycles, but even more so about the places they could take you. The 2012 Gold Wing held its crown in a showdown with BMW’s then-new GTL. By now, the Gold Wing had been reborn as the kingly GL1800, the definition of a super-tourer that came with a boatload of innovations, including a nice stereo with CD changer, optional ABS, and a much-welcomed stiffer aluminum frame. GL1800 test units loaned to the magazine became my secret weapon, carrying me as far and wide and as fast as I cared, allowing me to grab up stories from all over the continent in comfort, style, and with plenty of room for camping and camera equipment. One GL1800, a fully loaded 25th Anniversary Edition, carried me so many thousands of miles it earned a nickname: Zeus, an endearment that came to me just after I’d passed a couple of young guys on sportbikes on the outside of a fast corner on the way to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, a shower of sparks adding to their surprise. I remember laughing out loud in my helmet and reveling in how connected I felt to that machine. I put more than 6,000 miles on that bike in just 10 days, reporting on world-class roads and travel destinations in Arizona, Utah, and Colorado, including exploring high-elevation dirt and gravel passes like Cinnamon and Engineer. Over the many years of testing Gold Wings, I’d come to understand there is nothing it won’t do well, including light off-road use, as the bike’s tractor-like torque, low center of gravity, and supple suspension work together to glide you across every imaginable landscape. A tour along the Pacific coast two-up with my daughter on a Gold Wing nicknamed Zeus became another treasured memory. It was always so amusing to me to pull up at a scenic overlook of a high-altitude dirt pass on a machine that looked so completely inappropriate for the conditions. I remember one older man getting out of a Jeep and asking, “Did you ride that thing up here all by yourself?” After Colorado, I pointed Zeus northwest, where I met up with long-distance riding legend and Ayres Adventures founder, Ron Ayres, for a SaddleSore 1000 (1,000 miles in 24 hours) from Seattle, Washington, to Hyder, Alaska. Since my bum was already pretty famous for being iron-clad, I thought it would be a piece of cake, but we started extremely late, so most of that 1,000-plus miles was spent in the dark, dodging elk and moose on torn-up Canadian high-country backroads. I’m not sure there was ever a time I was more relieved to be on a Gold Wing, hurtling so precariously through that cold, ink-black night. Watching Hannah, then 13, smiling in her helmet and developing her own signature wave, I knew I’d chosen the perfect bike to grow her love for motorcycling. The next day kicked off an interesting event in town, the Hyder Seek Rally, which used to be the culmination of an annual Iron Butt Association-sanctioned run called a “48 Plus” where riders had to pass into 48 states plus Alaska in just 10 days. Reaching Hyder, the closest pinch of U.S. soil from the lower 48, was the only possible means to complete the challenge. And what bike were the majority of the 25 finishers riding? Gold Wings, of course.  I immediately felt at home in the company of these men and women, riders who understood the hypnotic pull of a long-distance ride, as well as the powerful advantage of choosing the right bike for the job. Running late on my return to Southern California, with a magazine needing to be shipped to the printer, my long-term test Wing was parked at the Seattle airport for a few weeks as I flew home to work. When I returned to retrieve it, I brought along an eager passenger, the epitome of precious cargo, my then 13-year-old daughter, Hannah. Hannah immediately took to the Gold Wing with its cushy seat and backrest, pillion speakers and floorboards. She had ridden behind me many times, though mostly on short spins on the back of my sportbikes, so luxury-touring was entirely new. We had helmet comms for that ride and had the most wonderful talks, gliding along the edge of the Pacific, Hannah so chatty I knew she was having the best time, me so grateful to the Gold Wing for its gift of great memories. As we crossed the Astoria-Megler trestle bridge, a majestic steel stitch that binds Washington state to Oregon, one of those Gold Wing-gained memories surfaced and stirred a strong wave of emotion. For a moment, I was 20 again, riding across that same bridge with my 25-year-old sister as passenger on that 1986 Aspencade. We had thought the bridge was so cool we had ridden across it and back, marking the apex of our weeklong tour of Oregon. Boy, the Gold Wing and I had come a long way since then. It, awash in cutting-edge innovations and me, at the height of my career, at the time editor-in-chief of two national motorcycle magazines. The kinship I felt with the Gold Wing was further cemented on that four-day trip as I watched my daughter in the rearview mirrors, dialing in her own signature wave to other riders, the two of us singing girl pop over the intercom. The Astoria-Megler Bridge connects Oregon and Washington state. It also became a link between my carefree youth and the responsibilities of parenthood. In 2012 I was 47, the Gold Wing, 37. That year, the bike came with some updates, things like new saddlebags and fairing, stereo and nav system, though the core machine hadn’t seen an overhaul in more than a decade. Motorcyclist magazine had hired me to compare the updated Honda to BMW’s 2012 K 1600 GTL, a bike that was brand-new from the ground up and bristling with state-of-the-art technology.  The comparison took place in Tennessee over the course of three days, and it had been preordained that I would ride the winning machine back to California. I went in feeling a sense of dread for my favorite luxury-tourer, a bike I shared so much important history with, since it felt all but certain the GTL would knock the Wing off its long-held luxury-tourer throne. Well, to everyone’s surprise, the king held onto its crown. BMW’s GTL was sportier in those days, yes, but it was also top heavy and not nearly as luxurious or comfortable to ride. I was more than happy to settle into the Honda’s familiar bucket seat for the long ride home to California, the bike’s silky-smooth flat-six humming a song about the open road. At a rally in Hyder, Alaska, the majority of finishers of the Iron Butt 48 Plus (48 states plus Alaska in 10 days) arrived aboard Gold Wings. As I was crossing Missouri on that Gold Wing, a crazy thing happened. It had been pouring rain all day, but the Wing has always been a calm machine, and I felt very comfortable riding it in extreme conditions. I was cruising along, singing in my helmet, when a speeding car slowed beside me, its passenger pointing to the sky. I gave a thumbs up and thought, yes, I know it’s storming and I appear crazy, but it is not as hard as it looks. But when I glanced down at the weather overlay on the Gold Wing’s navigation screen a moment later, I saw something I’d never seen before, a dot of purple within the red mass that was heavy rain. I swiveled around to assess the whole of the sky, and there it was, a tornado. I sped toward the nearest exit, wind howling, and quickly pulled up to the office of a hotel, its manager yelling for me to get inside then ushering me toward the center of the first floor by the elevators where all the hotel’s guests were already gathered along with mattresses taken from nearby rooms. It was an absolutely wild experience, by far the most dramatic moment I have ever had on a motorcycle tour. When the sporty GL1800 came on the scene in 2018, it felt like a stranger, but at its core, I found the same magic. The tornado eviscerated nearby buildings and plucked trees from the ground by their roots. I had never seen such a thing, and I couldn’t stop thinking about the close call as I rolled toward home, me now requiring Advil and Red Bull to put in the long miles while the GL felt as vital as ever. As the next decade rushed by, the Gold Wing and I underwent dramatic transformations, me becoming an aging empty nester in stretchy pants, while the GL1800 went full Benjamin Button for 2018, becoming sleeker, lighter, and far more athletic than ever before. I didn’t even recognize that sixth-generation Gold Wing when I first saw it, the sharp lines of a shark where once lived a friendly bear. At the model’s press introduction in Texas Hill Country, I eagerly jumped onto the next-gen GL expecting to find an old friend once underway, but instead, I was met by a stranger. No longer sitting “in” the big touring bike I knew so well, I was perched atop a modern sport-tourer, gazing at a clean, concise cockpit. An IBA Bun Burner (1,500 miles in 36 hours) to Key West helped forge a fresh bond with the new-gen Wing. The bike performed brilliantly, of course, though I admit I was pining for the last gen’s plane-like cockpit, so busy with buttons, the bolstered captain’s chair, and that Cadillac-esque cush. I left the press ride happy for Honda and the new generation of riders this bike would attract but also a bit sad for myself. The arrival of such a different Gold Wing felt like a hard stop to a beloved series of chapters in my life’s story, or so I thought. That same year, I spent the entire summer riding around America in search of its 50 greatest roads. I used several different test bikes for this 16,000-mile expedition, the last one a Candy Red 2018 Gold Wing Tour DCT I collected in upstate New York a day and a half before my 53rd birthday. It’s difficult to choose which generation of Gold Wing is my favorite, each having become a part of my life story in its own unique way. As preferred, I had no expectations for my birthday other than to wake up somewhere memorable. I pulled the Gold Wing to a stop on the edge of an I-95 onramp to ponder options when a wild idea struck: Why not ride to Key West? I tapped the destination into the Wing’s nav system, and it told me it was a dumb idea. It was already noon and Key West was 1,502 miles away, but if I throttled onto the interstate immediately, I could arrive just after midnight on the morning of my birthday. For better or worse, wild hairs always win with me, so, yes, I rode the new, ultra-sporty Wing right into that fast-flowing river of traffic and swam south for a day and a half, stopping only to refuel, slam gas-station snacks, and grab a terrible night’s sleep at a cheap motel. I know most riders hate the interstates, but I’ve always found a long ride on a straight road leads to a therapeutic level of introspection, a deep cleaning of sorts. As happens later in life, and especially around birthdays, there was an audit of time. How quickly it slides by later in life, but also an accounting of time passed versus time left. Did I spend it well? How do I make the most of what is left? Ever since I had swung my leg over that first Gold Wing in 1986, the bike had become a kind of touchstone, and here it was, punctuating the story of my life with another profound memory. Though the cockpit has changed over the decades, I’ve always found the view from the seat of a Gold Wing to be the most satisfying. By the time the bike’s tire crunched onto the white, crushed-shell driveway of my Key West hotel, the new Gold Wing was no longer a stranger. Instead, I’d made a new friend: youthful, smart, powerful, and more than happy to share its abundant grace with a pilot who was now growing older, my essence dimming slightly each year as the Gold Wing’s only grew brighter. (For the full story, see “The Long Ride” in the February 2022 issue or on our website here.) That sharing of power and fluidity was a gift I would prize more than ever over the next two weeks as I explored some of the country’s finest motorcycle roads in Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, the Gold Wing proving itself, as ever, to be an ideal travel companion. Over the course of my long-shared history with this wonderful motorcycle, it has been so much more than the perfect tool for two-wheel travel. The Gold Wing has become a cherished friend, ever-evolving and ready for a ride, even when it is just a trip down memory lane. Contributing to the 50th Anniversary Gold Wing book has been a major highlight of my 40-year career as a motorcycle journalist. Led by Lee Edmunds and edited by Matthew Miles, the project resulted in a gorgeous tribute, packed with details and backstories about the machine beloved by so many. The post Love Letter to the Gold Wing: A Lifelong Affair with Honda’s GL appeared first on Rider Magazine.

Has the MSM succeeded in getting you all stirred up in a tizzy about tariffs? Did they convince you everything you buy at the store will soon cost 100% more because, say it with me: “the tariff is just a tax on the consumer”? I know this might surprise you, but it turns out all of that is one huge lie. I like to make things really simple to understand and I just found a video that PERFECTLY lays this out. It’s short, take a look here and in less than 2 minutes I think you’ll fully understand just how badly the MSM lied to you yet again: The TRUTH about tariffs (what the MSM is not telling you) pic.twitter.com/6kSb1UMaL7 — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) April 16, 2025 FULL TRANSCRIPT: Chinese producers are all over social media right now, and they’re exposing just who is targeted by Trump’s tariffs. And it’s not the American consumers. And it’s not the Chinese producers. It’s actually our international corporations who have sold out American prosperity for their own profits. Let me illustrate. Let’s use this example of Nike. Now these are fictitious numbers, just for example. But let’s say that Nike buys shoes from this company that manufactures Nike shoes for ten dollars—a Nike shoe. Which isn’t very far off. Nike turns around and sells that shoe at retail for a hundred dollars. Here’s the interesting part about tariffs. You’re not paying tariffs on the retail price. This is not a tax in the classic sense— The way the economists who are bought and paid for are trying to conflate it as. It is a tax On the import. This means with a twenty-five percent tariff, Nike is going to have to pay two dollars and fifty cents to the U.S. government every time it imports a Nike shoe at ten dollars. So this $2.50 gets remitted to the American government— To American citizens. Now Nike’s cost: ten dollars for the shoe, $2.50 for the import tax. This means they’re netting $87 per shoe. Now that’s net, not profit. There are going to be other costs that are going to have to come from that. But you can see that the increase in cost is $2.50. So let’s say that Nike passes the entire cost onto the consumer— Even a little more just because of the fear of tariffs. A hundred and three dollars a shoe now. That is the impact of a twenty-five percent tariff. So what the Chinese producers on TikTok are saying— Instead of the American consumer buying it for $103, Or let’s just say that the company Nike eats all $2.50 of the tariff and still sells it for $100— You’re way better off over here paying directly to China, including the tariff: $12.50 a shoe plus shipping. So as you can see, the tariffs are not meant to hurt consumers. They’re not meant to hurt China. They don’t really affect China at all. They are meant to protect American industry. They are meant to protect Americans from their corporations, Who will sell them out for a profit. So if you look hard, you’ll notice that the people who are screaming about how bad tariffs are for consumers— It’s these companies right here. It’s Wall Street. It’s all the investors in these companies, Because they don’t want American citizens to realize These companies have sold them out, And that they’re not doing Americans any favors. Now does it make sense? Let’s connect the final dots and sum this up…. Big Business controls the MSM. Big Business has been scamming the American People for decades, offshoring jobs, padding their pockets, and charging you through the nose with increasing prices every single year. Then when their scam is being exposed by Trump’s tariffs, they send their minions in the MSM out to put out this massive spin. Are you starting to wake up and see through all the lies? Look, I’m all for capitalism and making money in business, but I’m not for unfair trade practices and screwing over Americans to get those profits. Do it fairly. Do it the right way. Do it America First! Then go ahead and make all the money you want. MORE HERE: Here’s EXACTLY What Life Will Be Like With Trump Tariffs (Spoiler alert: it’s REALLY good!) Here's EXACTLY What Life Will Be Like With Trump Tariffs (Spoiler alert: it's REALLY good!) Are you scared of tariffs? Has the "MSM" brainwashed you into thinking prices of everything are going to skyrocket? You might be surprised to learn [sarcasm alert] that the "MSM" lied to you again. In fact, at this point I don't know why people don't just take the inverse of whatever the MSM says and just assume that's the truth.  Because it works every time. If you want to know exactly what life will be like with the Trump Tariffs, just watch this: Here's EXACTLY What Life Will Be Like With Trump Tariffs (Spoiler alert: it's REALLY good!) pic.twitter.com/jWItCPtpXx — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) February 3, 2025 FULL TRANSCRIPT: So I see a lot of people flipping out because the tariffs are getting ready to go in. I saw some guy panicking on here, saying, "Okay, tariffs move us closer to cancellation—potential cancellation of an income tax—and it would be one of the most robust growth strategies to the United States economy that anybody can imagine." Now, if you're worried about tariffs, please understand that 44 percent of the tariffs are actually absorbed by the exporter. And if you're worried about runaway prices, okay, let me show you. I'll just show you. Now I even went to a left-leaning source—CNBC—so that nobody can call me biased. Trump's proposed tariff increase would boost inflation by nearly one percent, Goldman Sachs estimates. This calculation includes a 10 percent tariff on China and a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico, resulting in roughly a one percent increase in inflation. So think about this, okay? Because advancing a pro-tariff policy moves us closer and closer to being able to cancel income taxes. Visualize this for your life: inflation goes up one percent. A three-dollar item now costs three dollars and three cents. But because we've advanced tariffs, the net exporters taking advantage of us in trade deals are absorbing a lot of the tax. That's why you generally only see a one percent increase—even with 10 percent on China and 25 percent on both Mexico and Canada. If we can raise our tariffs—which we're going to do because we're done being taken advantage of—this change is happening whether or not anybody wants it. With a raise in tariffs and a subsequent decrease in government spending of two trillion dollars based on current GDP and economic levels, that would require 0 percent income taxes. So this is what your life could look like once the plan is done: A robust economy with runaway employment, a three-dollar item costing you three dollars and three cents, and you're not subject to income taxes any longer. Is your life better or worse? I know a lot of people hate Trump, but this is the trajectory we are on—and he reaffirmed it again today. Have a great day, everybody. Here is a portion of that CNBC report: The latest tariff proposal from President-elect Donald Trump would likely put upward pressure on inflation in the United States, according to Goldman Sachs. On Monday, Trump said on social media site Truth Social that he would impose an additional 10% tariff on goods from China and a 25% duty for Canada and Mexico. Goldman’s chief economist, Jan Hatzius, said in a note that the proposed levies would result in a notable increase for consumer prices in the U.S.. “Using our rule of thumb that every 1 [percentage point] increase in the effective tariff rate would raise core PCE prices by 0.1%, we estimate that the proposed tariff increases would boost core PCE prices by 0.9% if implemented,” Hatzius said. “PCE” refers to the personal consumption expenditures price index, which is the preferred inflation reading of the Federal Reserve. A tariff-linked increase in core PCE could scramble the calculations around Fed rate cuts. The October PCE reading is due out Wednesday, and it’s expected to show a year-over-year increase of 2.8% for the core, according to economists surveyed by Dow Jones. In other words, inflation is still above the Fed’s target of 2%, and the tariffs could widen that gap. Traders have been dialing back their expectations for Fed rate cuts in 2025, though it is unclear how much of that is due to election results versus a resilient U.S. economy. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said the central bank will consider the impact of tariffs and other fiscal policy changes on the direction of inflation once the details become clear. Here's EXACTLY What Life Will Be Like With Trump Tariffs (Spoiler alert: it's REALLY good!) pic.twitter.com/jWItCPtpXx — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) February 3, 2025

Folks, I’m telling you….something big is coming. Some very big announcements or disclosures or discoveries or inventions are soon going to be released. They’re telling you right to your face…are you paying attention? It was just a few days ago that I brought you this report: REVEALED: President Trump Has Teleportation Technology? And now on the heels of that one, we have another top Trump official making more stunning claims, like:  "We have the technology to manipulate time and space". Words mean things and I don't think all of these stunning claims are being released right now by accident. They're prepping the public. In fact, I believe we've had a bunch of this technology for a long time and it's purposely been suppressed. So I don't think these are necessarily "new" inventions, but they will seem very new and novel when finally released to the American public. If you want to know what I really think, I think most of this is reverse-engineered alien technology of some sort, but that's another whole rabbit trail we don't need to go down right now. Right now I just want to show you this.... Meet Dir. Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and just listen to what he was to say. This is not what Noah thinks, this is from Director Kratsios himself: Whoa ? “Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated..” This is Dir. Michael Kratsios, who now serves as the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). As OSTP Director, he advises President Donald… pic.twitter.com/SI73Dpethe — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) April 16, 2025 FULL TRANSCRIPT: The X-15’s record still stands, and the Concorde was decommissioned more than two decades ago. Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be. Our trains crawl compared to those in other parts of the world. Our cars do not fly. Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong. Stagnation was a choice. We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet—first hampering America's ability to become a net energy exporter, and then making it harder and harder to build. We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights, and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along. But we are capable of so much more. Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity. As Vice President Vance said in a recent speech, the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America’s workers—of extending human ability so that more people can do more and more meaningful work. But unrestricted immigration and reliance on cheap labor, both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving the productivity with technology. We can build in new ways that let us do more with less. Or we can borrow from the future. We have chosen to borrow from that future again and again. Our choice as a civilization is technology or debt— and we have chosen debt. Today, we choose a better way. Our first assignment is to secure America’s preeminence in critical and emerging technologies. This administration will ensure that our nation remains the leader in the industries of the future, with a strategy of both promotion and protection—protecting our greatest assets and promoting our greatest innovators. To the degree it even tried to accomplish this, the Biden administration failed on its own terms— led by a spirit of fear rather than promise. The old regime sought to protect its managerial power from the disruptions of technology, while promoting social divisions and redistribution in the name of equity. They secured American technology poorly and failed to strengthen our leadership at all. Backup here if needed: TOP TRUMP OFFICIAL: "We have the technology to manipulate time and space" pic.twitter.com/etScO8qdKn — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) April 16, 2025 If you're like me and you want more than that short clip, you can watch the full speech right here. It's really good. Enjoy: FULL TRANSCRIPT OF DIR. KRATSIOS' REMARKS FROM WHITEHOUSE.GOV: THE DIRECTOR: Thank you for the kind introduction. It is a pleasure to speak to you all this evening, here in the early light of the new Golden Age of America. President Trump has given all of us who serve in his administration a monumental task—the renewal of our nation. I know, and I think you know too, that such a renewal will require the reinvigoration of American science and industry. Over the last few decades, America has become complacent, forgetting old dreams of building a wondrous future. But we know the American pioneer spirit still seeks the exploration of endless frontiers. Our technologies, and what we do with them, will be the tools with which we will make the destiny of our country manifest in this century. Yet this American hope in the possibility of progress and the power of science and technology does not allow builders and innovators to retreat from politics. Indeed, quite the opposite, which is what brings me here today. A Golden Age is only possible if we choose it. There is nothing predestined about technological progress and scientific discovery. They require the efforts and energies of men and women, the collective choice for order and truth over disorder and opinion. The last century was called the American Century, as—despite wars and domestic conflict—the United States stood at the forefront of science and technology, building the future. With the strength of our industry and ingenuity, we created the largest middle class the world has ever seen. As President Trump said to me in his letter laying out the science and technology agenda of this administration, “The triumphs of the last century did not happen by chance.” Ours was the Atomic Age. Ours the victory in the Space Race. And ours the invention of the Internet, collecting and connecting the multiplicity of human knowledge. Today we fight to restore that inheritance. As the failure of the Biden administration’s “small yard, high fence” approach makes clear, it is not enough to seek to protect America’s technological lead. We also have a duty to promote American technological leadership. A gap lies between our moment and the speed of transformation America experienced midcentury. Progress has slowed. Yes, large language models astonish us, rockets still turn our eyes upward, and satellites envelop the globe. But as we look forward to America’s 250th birthday celebration next year, our progress today pales in comparison to the huge leaps of the 20th century. Consider the country of fifty years ago. As the nation approached its bicentennial, Americans looked forward to electricity too cheap to meter. By the end of 1972, 30 nuclear plants were operational, 55 were under construction, and more than 80 were planned or ordered. That same year, the Apollo 17 astronauts became the 11th and 12th men to walk on the moon. Five years before, the X-15 rocket plane had set a speed record for a crewed aircraft of Mach 6.7. America was flying higher, faster, and farther than ever before… Today, however, energy prices still burden producers and consumers alike, and the grid remains precarious. Over the past 30 years only three commercial nuclear reactors have been built and 10 have been closed. Despite spending almost twice as much on healthcare as peer nations, we have the lowest life expectancy. Apollo 17’s steps on the lunar surface have proved mankind’s last. The X-15’s record still stands, and the Concorde was decommissioned more than two decades ago. Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be. Our trains crawl compared to those in other parts of the world. Our cars do not fly. Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong. Stagnation was a choice. We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build. We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along. But we are capable of so much more. Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity. As Vice President Vance said in a recent speech, the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America’s workers, of extending human ability so that more people can do more, and, more meaningful work. But unrestricted immigration, and reliance on cheap labor both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving productivity with technology. We can build in new ways that let us do more with less, or we can borrow from the future. We have chosen to borrow from the future again and again. Our choice as a civilization is technology or debt. And we have chosen debt. Today we choose a better way. Our first assignment is to secure America’s preeminence in critical and emerging technologies. This administration will ensure that our nation remains the leader in the industries of the future with a strategy of both promotion and protection— protecting our greatest assets and promoting our greatest innovators. To the degree it even tried to accomplish this, the Biden administration failed on its own terms, led by a spirit of fear rather than promise. The old regime sought to protect its managerial power from the disruptions of technology, while promoting social division and redistribution in the name of equity. They secured American technology poorly, and failed to strengthen our leadership at all. Promoting America’s technological leadership requires three things of government. First, we have to make the smart choices of creatively allocating our public research and development dollars. Second, we have to make the right choices in constructing a common-sense, pro-innovation regulatory regime. And third, we have to make the easy choice to adopt the incredible products and tools made by American builders and to enable their export abroad. In a moment of strategic significance, we must be more creative in our use of public research and development money, and shape a funding environment that makes clear what our national priorities are. Whether in AI, quantum, biotech, or next-generation semiconductors, in partnership with the private sector and academia, it is the duty of government to enable scientists to create new theories and empower engineers to put them into practice. Prizes, advance market commitments, and other novel funding mechanisms, like fast and flexible grants, can multiply the impact of government-funded research. At a time defined by the desire to build in America again, we have to throw off the burden of bad regulations that weigh down our innovators, and use federal resources to test, to deploy, and to mature emerging technologies. We know, for example, the greatest obstacle to limitless energy in this country has been a regulatory regime opposed to innovation and development. This, too, has been the chief barrier to pushing the envelope again in transportation, whether supersonic aircraft or high-speed rail and flying cars. The time has come to review the rules on the books and to ask whom they really protect and what they really cost. For a future stamped with the American character, the federal government must become an early adopter and avid promoter of American technology. Our innovators make incredible breakthroughs, but consumers, government included, require products that meet their needs, not just the wide-open country of frontier technology. Our industrial might, unleashed at home, and our technical achievements from AI to aerospace, successfully commercialized, can also be powerful instruments of diplomacy abroad and key components of our international alliances. American progress in critical technologies will make us the global partner of choice and the standards setter to follow if we enable and encourage American companies to distribute the American tech stack around the world. This approach to promoting America’s technological leadership goes hand in hand with a threefold strategy for protecting that position from foreign rivals. First, we must safeguard U.S. intellectual property and take seriously American research security. Second, we must prevent rival nations from infiltrating our infrastructure and supply chains, as well as from embedding themselves in the infrastructure of our allies. And third, we must enforce export controls and other measures that keep American frontier technologies out of competitors’ hands. We face many dangers as a nation, but thanks to decades of feckless American leaders, China in particular has grown into both a geopolitical rival and technological competitor. This threat requires us to protect our science and technology resources with heightened vigilance, and defend the vital work American researchers do in public and corporate contexts alike from misuse, theft, and disruption. To safeguard our intellectual capital, we must restrict foreign access to sensitive data and strengthen oversight of international collaborators. Our infrastructure, supply chains, and those of our allies must be secured, too. We cannot afford to remain dependent, as we are in too many essential industries, on Chinese inputs and products, nor can we allow our closest partners to become points of insecurity by relying on Chinese-controlled critical infrastructure, whether in telecom, the grid, or AI. We must establish and secure trusted supply chains, implement public-private partnerships to enhance supply-chain resilience, and create investment incentives to reshore more critical manufacturing. Finally, after thirty years of subsidizing Chinese growth, it is time for us to stop helping a rival catch up with us in this race. Strict and simple export controls and know your customer rules, with an unapologetic America-first attitude about enforcing them, are central to stopping China from continuing to build itself up at our expense. We want peace between our countries, and that peace depends on keeping America’s bleeding-edge technology out of our competitor’s hands. The Golden Age of American innovation is on our horizon, if we choose it. In a changing technological environment, the task ahead of us is to adapt to new realities without destroying the American way of life or dis-inheriting the American worker. We seek, in the most basic terms, to secure our economy, restore our middle class, and uphold America as the planet’s best home for innovators. For many years now the temptation for the kinds of people represented in this room—builders and discoverers—has been to withdraw from politics. In the face of burdensome regulation and inefficient government and the circus of election cycles, many of you have chosen retreat of various kinds. But there is no substitute for victory. You and your fellow Americans cannot afford to give up on the nation. In a world so shaped by politics as well as technology, we must take action in both of these domains. We need all Americans to continue to rise to the occasion, to make full use of their talents, and to build. All of us must labor to preserve the inheritance of the American Century to share with posterity, and to ensure that the technologies that give shape to our world help the American people secure the blessings of liberty we received from our forebearers. I bear that responsibility in my role as the President’s Science and Technology Advisor. You bear it, too, in exercising whatever powers and responsibilities you have, whether in business, education, or the laboratory—as Americans. It is the choices of individuals that will make the new American Golden Age possible: the choice of individuals to master the sclerosis of the state, and the choice of individuals to craft new technologies and give themselves to scientific discoveries that will bend time and space, make more with less, and drive us further into the endless frontier. And now if you want even more, check out this other report I brought you a few days ago. Tell me these aren't related...? REVEALED: President Trump Has Teleportation Technology? Stick with me on this, I promise I'm going to deliver the goods! Does the United States already possess teleportation technology? You know, like "Beam me up, Scottie!" I know that sounds crazy at first glance, but you might just change your mind once you see what I'm about to show you. It all starts with this Tweet that caught my attention today, suggesting that President Trump has teleportation technology and so badly wants to let the cat out of the bag: Trump wants to tell people we can teleport stuff so badly. https://t.co/4qmUhEEpyG pic.twitter.com/uPR5IF95St — Ashton Forbes (@JustXAshton) April 10, 2025 And if that's all I had, I'd expect you to click out now. But that's not how we roll around here. We don't write entire articles based on one unfounded and speculative Tweet. And yet, here we are so there has to be more -- and there is! Watch this video from President Trump talking about the technology we have: "It's far more powerful than people understand. Nobody has any idea what it is and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have." When are people going to listen to what I'm saying? "It's far more powerful than people understand. Nobody has any idea what it is and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have." Remember when people said Trump would leak the truth, well here ya go! https://t.co/PmTno87CwU — Ashton Forbes (@JustXAshton) April 10, 2025 TRANSCRIPT: And we're very powerful. This country is very powerful. It's far more powerful than people understand. We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have. More powerful than anybody — even — not even close. So nobody's going to do that. But I think that if that's what you're referring to, maybe it's— We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have. More powerful than anybody — even — not even close. So nobody's going to do that. pic.twitter.com/HYuMVNoeKN — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) April 11, 2025 Ok, ok I know what you're thinking.... Still, that doesn't prove we have teleportation technology? And you're right. And perhaps we don't but now take a look at this next clip. In light of President Trump going out of his way to talk about the technology we have that is far more powerful than people understand, now I give you Space-Force, Steven Kwast, USAF General Ret. pic.twitter.com/wbLFYppRhuWhoa… Space-Force, Steven Kwast, USAF General • Technology that can take you anywhere on Earth in less than an hour.• wireless energy from space • Deliver wifi from space “The power of space will change world power forever.” Sooo, umm when can… — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) April 10, 2025 Whoa… Space-Force, Steven Kwast, USAF General • Technology that can take you anywhere on Earth in less than an hour. • wireless energy from space • Deliver wifi from space “The power of space will change world power forever.” Sooo, umm when can we start? Or has it already begun? This guy is the real deal, you can see his profile here on the official Air Force website: Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast is the Commander, Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. He is responsible for the recruiting, training and education of Air Force personnel. His command includes Air Force Recruiting Service, two numbered air forces and Air University. The command operates more than 1,400 trainer, fighter and mobility aircraft, 23 wings, 10 bases and five geographically separated groups. It trains more than 293,000 students per year with approximately 60,000 active-duty, Reserve, Guard, civilian and contractor personnel. General Kwast was commissioned upon graduation from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1986. After completing a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he was assigned to undergraduate pilot training where he earned his pilot wings in June 1989. General Kwast has served as military aide to the vice president and completed a National Defense Fellowship with the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy at Boston University, Massachusetts. The general has commanded at the squadron, group and wing levels, including the 47th Operations Group at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, and the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina. He also served as the deputy director for Colonel Matters, Air Force Senior Leader Management Office, Washington, D.C., and as the commander, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. General Kwast was the deputy director for Politico-Military Affairs for Europe, NATO and Russia, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate, Joint Staff, the Pentagon, Arlington, Va. Prior to his current assignment, General Kwast was the Commander and President, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He has more than 3,300 flying hours, including more than 650 combat hours during operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Allied Force and Enduring Freedom. Now let's go back to what he said... • Technology that can take you anywhere on Earth in less than an hour. • wireless energy from space • Deliver wifi from space Watch here: Space Force has teleportation technology? pic.twitter.com/nsAPB5lZe7 — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) April 11, 2025 TRANSCRIPT: Energy. The seed corn of all development, all growth, all survival. Survival. Energy. So—energy, transportation, information, and manufacturing. These are the things that change humanity, that will change world power. And they are descending upon us in ways that are very unique. The technology is on the engineering benches today, but most Americans—and most in Congress—have not had time to really look deeply at what’s going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these engineers and these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental—to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour. To deliver Wi-Fi from space, where you never need a cell tower to connect. To deliver energy from space, where you never have to plug your phone in—and it trickle charges, and you can use that energy over time. It can be applied to cars. To houses. The technology of Edison and Tesla that we live with in our energy environment—our paradigm today—is expensive, it’s dangerous, and it’s wasteful. Plug it into the wall. But yet, that’s what we all do—because we are used to paradigms. The power of space will change world power forever. And it doesn’t have to be a big country to do it. It can be a small island country—let’s say New Zealand. Because the technology, if optimized, can change world power. And there’s nothing you can do if you don’t have that power. The nature of power: you either have it and your values rule, or you do not have it and you must submit. We see that play out again and again in history. And it’s playing out now. But we get trapped. Look folks, I'm not telling you what to believe... I'm not saying we have transporter technology.... I'm just showing you what President Trump and this Air Force General are saying. And if they're saying in publicly, it's usually because they're ready for disclosure to come out. You'll have to decide for yourself what you think and I'd love to hear about it down in the comments. Let me know! Teleporter technology? Zero point energy? Something else?

Watch Trey Gowdy’s and Fox News’s version of the news about the ‘Maryland man,’ ‘mistakenly’ sent to an El Salvador prison. Part of the Exchange on The Story “I think what they ought to do is probably follow the judge’s order and the Supreme Court decision, which used the word facilitate,”  Gowdy told Martha MacCallum […] The post Trey Gowdy-Fox Version of the Maryland Man: “Obey” the Judges appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

President Donald Trump will meet with Japan on Wednesday to negotiate over tariffs and American military support. The meeting comes after Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs on countries worldwide, including a 24% tariff on Japanese goods. That tariff was later paused after Trump hit China with a 125% tariff and lowered reciprocal tariffs for all other countries across the board to 10% for 90 days to allow for negotiations. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will attend Trump’s meeting with Japan. “Japan is coming in today to negotiate Tariffs, the cost of military support, and ‘TRADE FAIRNESS.’ I will attend the meeting, along with Treasury & Commerce Secretaries,” Trump posted Wednesday on Truth Social. “Hopefully something can be worked out which is good (GREAT!) for Japan and the USA!” Japan has also been impacted by a 25% tariff on auto imports imposed by Trump, which the country hopes to see ended.  Economy Minister Ryosei Akazawa said that Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba “has a strong desire to help the U.S. achieve its goals in a win-win way, through investments rather than tariffs,” according to The Wall Street Journal.  At the same time, Ishiba recently told Japan’s parliament that he doesn’t want to rush negotiations.   “I’m not of the view that we should make big concessions for the sake of wrapping up negotiations quickly,” he said. “In negotiating with the United States, we need to understand what’s behind Trump’s argument both in terms of the logic and the emotional elements behind his views.” Trump has defended tariffs, saying it has brought in billions of dollars in revenue to the United States.  “The United States is taking in RECORD NUMBERS in Tariffs, with the cost of almost all products going down, including gasoline, groceries, and just about everything else,” he posted on Truth Social Wednesday. “Likewise, INFLATION is down.” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said on Sunday that 130 nations have reached out to negotiate trade with Trump after the “Liberation Day” tariffs were announced.  “If you come to the table and negotiate with us and treat us the same way we treat you, then we will get your rate really low,” he said. “So, right now, 130 countries, 130 countries have responded, and we’re negotiating with them, and they have got their rate down to 10%.”

On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump blasted Harvard University for hiring “Leftist dopes” and “birdbrains” to teach at the institution while declaring they teach “Hate and Stupidity.” Writing on Truth Social, Trump began by asserting, “Everyone knows that Harvard has ‘lost its way.’” He then noted that the university had hired two former hard-left mayors of New York and Chicago, Bill de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot, to teach about government, writing, “They hired, from New York (Bill D) and Chicago (Lori L), at ridiculously high salaries/fees, two of the WORST and MOST INCOMPETENT mayors in the history of our Country, to ‘teach’ municipal management and government. These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil.” “Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders,’” he continued, then turned to former Harvard President Claudine Gay, who resigned after she had been harshly criticized for insisting that calls for genocide against Jews might not have violated Harvard’s codes of conduct because it depended on the “context” and had also been accused of plagiarism. Trump wrote: Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn’t take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching, rather than firing her ON THE SPOT. Since then much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place. “Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges,” he stated. “Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” On Monday, the Trump administration’s Department of Education announced it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value to Harvard University after the university said it would not comply with the Trump administration’s demand that the university claimed would “invade university freedoms.” Last Friday, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services sent a letter to Harvard in which they stated, “By August 2025, the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin …” adding that the same attitude must prevail in admissions policies. The correspondence also declared that by the same date, the university must “prevent admitting students hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including students supportive of terrorism and anti-Semitism.” The university “shall commission an external party … to audit the student body, faculty and leadership for viewpoint diversity” by August 2025, the letter continued, in order to ensure that the leftist perspective that dominates the university should be contrasted with other viewpoints. Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University, responded with a statement in which he said, “We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement,” contending, “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights” and claiming the administration’s demands violated “Harvard’s First Amendment rights … threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.”