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Chinese national accused of impersonating US marshal to scam victim
Data show government impersonation scams are a growing problem in the United States.
A Chinese citizen is accused of impersonating a U.S. marshal in an attempt to con a New York resident out of $98,000.
The St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office in Canton, New York, announced that its criminal investigation division had arrested Chinese national Chi Liqing and charged him with attempted second-degree grand larceny.
The suspect was arrested before he was able to collect money from a local resident as part of an impersonation scam in which individuals posed as U.S. marshals, said authorities.
In September last year, the U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of Louisiana warned that criminals had been spoofing the district office’s real number to deceive people into sending payments. The criminals’ tactics included trying to convince people that they would need to pay a fine for offenses, such as failing to report for jury duty, or go to trial.
#USA #Crime #FindTruth
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Romania’s Călin Georgescu retires from politics
Călin Georgescu, who was the leading candidate in last year’s Romanian presidential elections until the courts barred him from running, has said he will quit politics.
On May 26, Georgescu announced his retirement, saying he would focus on his family, “which needs peace”.
Georgescu said he would remain outside any party structure and keep a politically neutral stand. “However, if I see that the rights of those who have chosen differently are violated, I will once again engage with a clear voice to defend the principles of democracy and freedom.”
In Romania’s 2024 presidential election, right-wing nationalist Georgescu unexpectedly won the first round on November 24 with 22.94% of the vote, a result that was said to have been boosted by a TikTok campaign.
In an unprecedented and controversial move, the Romanian Constitutional Court then annulled the results on December 6, citing what it claimed was Russian interference favouring Georgescu, although evidence was contested.
#Romania #Elections #FindTruth
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Merz gives Ukraine green light to strike deep inside Russia
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Ukraine has been given permission to use weapons supplied by its allies to launch strikes deep inside Russia.
“There are absolutely no range limits anymore for weapons delivered to Ukraine, not from Britain, the French or from us — also not from the Americans,” Merz said at a conference in Berlin on Monday. “That means Ukraine can defend itself by attacking military positions also in Russia.”
Germany had long refused to deliver the long-range Taurus cruise missile, though Merz has expressed approval of its use.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that, if confirmed, a decision to allow long-range strikes could undermine efforts toward reaching a political settlement. He called such a decision “dangerous.”
#Germany #Merz #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Democrats don't need more scandals now, but here comes one
While Biden’s inner circle apparently saw no issue with a mentally diminished, terminally ill man controlling nuclear codes, the Clintons are back in the spotlight thanks to explosive revelations from Buzz Patterson, a former senior military aide in the Clinton White House who carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton.
In a post on X, Patterson revealed another major Clinton scandal, this time involving sexual assault allegations aboard Air Force One.
“Apparently, Clinton had cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her,” Patterson revealed. “She was young, a staff sergeant, and married with children. I knew her, liked her, and she was super sweet. Now, she was in tears.” Patterson says he asked the pilot what she wanted to do. “He told me that she didn’t want to be another ‘bimbo,’ she wanted to remain in the Air Force and be promotable. All she wanted was an apology.”
This latest revelation is yet another reminder of the deep moral rot that defined the Clinton White House, something Democrats and their media allies have spent decades trying to whitewash. But Patterson’s firsthand account cuts through the spin and exposes just how far the corruption went.
#USA #Democrats #Scandal #FindTruth
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When Black Lives Matter colonised the world
Five years ago, Western elites fell to a reactionary racial ideology.
On 25 May 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer kneeling on his neck. His killing, and his muffled cry of ‘I can’t breathe’, were caught on video and shared around the world.
BLM had pretensions of radicalism. Activists believed they were railing against not one brutal, shocking police killing, but against ‘the system’ itself. A system they viewed as inherently racist, corrupted by ‘whiteness’ and forever tainted by the original sins of slavery and colonialism. Almost immediately this movement was embraced by just about every establishment institution under the Sun. From big banks to the tech oligarchs, from politicians to philanthropists, from Oxford University to the British royal family, Western elites all took the knee before the BLM juggernaut.
There was also serious money made from the Black Lives Matter moment. Diversity, equity and inclusion, already an $8 billion industry in the US before the BLM protests, became far more widespread and more firmly institutionalised across the corporate and public sectors. DEI initiatives seemed to give the business elites a sense of purpose that they had previously been lacking.
They could suddenly pose as warriors ‘fighting racial injustice’, ‘driving meaningful change’ and ‘doing the work of anti-racism’. It turns out those BLM protesters setting fire to police stations were not radical revolutionaries, after all – they were more like the militant wing of the HR department.
Five years on from George Floyd’s tragic murder, we can all see BLM for the reactionary, elite crusade it always was.
#USA #BLM #Radicalism #FindTruth
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$67 in France and $798 in US - why prescription drug prices are so high in America
Prescription drugs cost more in the United States than anywhere else in the world.
Trump has so far issued several actions related to prescription drug prices. The latest, announced May 12, is a Most Favored Nation Prescription Drug policy, requiring pharmaceutical companies to offer their lowest price to U.S. customers.
An earlier order aimed to ensure that the middlemen in the drug supply chain can’t hold on to rebates provided by pharmaceutical companies and instead must pass savings on to Medicare beneficiaries.
In all, the president has taken at least a dozen actions to reduce prescription drug costs, while no less than nine Senate bills aim for the same results.
Americans still pay nearly three times as much for prescription medication as any peer nation, often even more.
Trulicity, a medication for Type 2 diabetics, was listed for $67 in France, according to a 2021 Government Accountability Report.
In the United States, it cost $798.
Meanwhile, Remlivid, an oral cancer medication, was listed for $4,723 in Australia. In the United States, it was listed at almost five times that price: $22,048.
#EU #USA #Health #FindTruth
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Shadow fleet ban ‘could trigger escalation’
EU measures targeting Russia’s shadow fleet could risk triggering an escalation in response, experts have told Brussels Signal.
“Oil revenues remain one of the Kremlin’s most important sources of income”, said Aura Sabadus, a fellow at London’s RUSI think tank.
Moscow could therefore act to protect one of the few lifelines left for its wartime economy.
Russia has “spent a lot of money” to build a fleet of tankers that allows it to bypass sanctions and continue selling oil, she said.
“Russia already has begun to react against the interception of its tankers,” David Betz, professor of war studies at King’s College London, said in an interview. EU actions against the shadow fleet tankers could provoke further retaliation, he said.
“It does have the potential for some military response or indeed quasi-military or hybrid response to attacks on its shipping,” said Betz.
“I would expect them to take measures to protect this fleet,” agreed Sabadus.
The shadow fleet was “one of a number of areas where there is potential for escalation”, said Betz. “In war, escalation is a central dynamic,” he said. “History is full of examples of wars which got out of control and exceeded the initiating political arguments which animated that war.”
#EU #Russia #Sanctions #FindTruth
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Japan rides the censorship bandwagon
The manufacturer of the replicon mRNA Covid “vaccine” in Japan, Meiji Seika Pharma, has brought a lawsuit against a member of the Japanese parliament, Kazuhiro Haraguchi. Haraguchi had commented that the Covid injections are “akin to a biological weapon,” a statement which the Meiji Pharma president claimed was beyond the bounds of acceptable expression.
However, statements like Haraguchi’s about the dangers of the Covid mRNA injections are now commonplace in many nations, and drug companies do not seem to be suing people for making them, at least in the US. Instead, state attorneys general in Kansas and Texas have been suing Pfizer for misrepresenting its Covid injections.
In general, Japan has been gradually evolving into a place where it is difficult to publicly express ideas unapproved by powerful business interests and officialdom. In addition to government and mainstream news media collusion to keep Covid medical realities from the Japanese public, the government passed a law to squelch nonconforming messaging online.
The intentions behind this measure are clear: Prominent government figures have openly declared their conviction that “misinformation” is a major problem in Japan. In December 2024, Prime Minister Ishiba stated that he was considering more regulations concerning Internet discourse that he considers problematic, and a prominent LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) politician named Noda commented recently that Japan was being influenced more and more by “fake” information.
#Japan #Censorship #COVID #FindTruth
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Public indifference to bird flu fearmongering contributes to egg price drop
Egg prices dropped 12.7% since March, with the average dozen falling from $6.23 to $5.12, marking the sharpest monthly decline since 1984. However, costs remain nearly double pre-crisis levels.
Aggressive measures – including mass culling, quarantines and relaxed cage-free laws – helped stabilize supply chains. Summer migrations further reduced transmission risks, with only two isolated outbreaks remaining.
The 2024 election saw criticism of Biden's response, prompting Trump's USDA to boost imports, deregulate production and investigate potential price gouging by major producers like Cal-Maine Foods.
Experts warn that restocking farms takes time, and new outbreaks (e.g., in Ohio and South Dakota) could disrupt progress. Prices are expected to dip further but stay above historical norms.
While officials highlight containment, consumer refusal to panic may have stabilized demand. The crisis underscores vulnerabilities in globalized food supply chains amid ongoing avian flu risks.
#USA #Food #Prices #FindTruth
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Pride month and the fascism of identity politics
In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan warned that “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.” In the coming days, as Democrats once again spend an entire month celebrating their pride, recognize that what Reagan predicted has come to pass for about 50% of our country’s electorate.
Ideological fascism now rules the political left, and during the month of June, they will prove it once again by their incessant navel-gazing and adolescent demands. “Celebrate our politics,” they will shout, “or we will cancel you.” “Affirm our endless list of hyphenated identities or be crushed.” “You must agree with us. You must comply with our fasces — our acceptable bundle of ideas — or we will silence you.”
Forced unity is an oxymoron. If it’s forced, it’s not unity; it’s compliance. There is a huge difference between the conservatives’ fight for unity and the liberals’ prideful attempt to force everyone else to comply. Perhaps the best question is this: Could it be that the most effective way to support the marginalized is to embrace a worldview that brings us all together rather than drives us apart? Wouldn’t it be better to welcome everyone into the body politic of American life rather than create endless subcategories by pridefully hyphenating everyone’s identity?
One worldview is freedom, and the other is fascism. One celebrates the whole, and one condemns those not part of the group. One confronts, and the other coddles. One thrives by the rule of love, and the other exists by the tyranny of the gang. One raises up mature adults, the other produces self-absorbed fascists who, every June, march in streets across America waving their rainbow banners of “identity” and “pride.”
#USA #Fascism #FindTruth
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Biden’s border legacy: A financial burden that will last for years
After four years Joe Biden administration policies, America will be stuck with a massive border bar tab for years to come.
New York’s Roosevelt Hotel is a formerly grand Manhattan edifice that contributed to the city’s lucrative tourist trade. Biden’s policies of paroling inadmissible aliens and mass releasing them at the border brought millions who went to welcoming “sanctuaries” like New York.
The city not only offered free housing and other benefits to illegal and quasi-legal aliens but also rarely prosecuted them for any petty crimes they committed. Mayor Eric Adams scrambled to lease hotels and other buildings, spending around $4 billion tax dollars a year in migrant support. The Roosevelt was just one of more than 200 make-shift shelters operating at the height of the crisis.
According to one estimate, that can cost $50,000-$90,000 per room. With over 1,000 rooms, that means over $90 million for the Roosevelt alone, not counting the common areas. That’s just one of the city’s rented shelters. Who is going to pay to repair them all? New York taxpayers.
#USA #Biden #Economy #FindTruth
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As Italy is declaring its readiness to meet NATO’s defence spending target of 2% of GDP, Giorgia Meloni is facing severe criticism at home for the decision
“The Meloni government wants to mortgage the future of Italians in favor of weapons manufacturers”, esteem opposition parliamentarians after the 5 Star Movement president, ex-premier Giuseppe Conte.
“To meet the US President Donald Trump’s push for a 5% GDP target means that after the crazy blow of at least 10 billion that will have to be found by the end of the year to reach 2% of GDP (about 45 billion in total), next year there will be another one of 15 billion, in 2027 one of 20 billion, in 2028 one of 25 and so on for seven years until reaching the astronomical figure of about 80 billion a year. We will fight to prevent this”, conclude the M5S parliamentarians.
The M5S Youth Network will organize in June - the former prime minister then announced - a national mobilization against the European rearmament plan, with stalls in many Italian cities “to explain to all citizens where the European governments are taking us”. And the M5S continues to denounce the madness of European rearmament.
#Italy #Military #Meloni #FindTruth
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Colorado’s transgender sanctuary state bill is too radical for California
Colorado’s transgender bill defines child sterilization as “medically necessary” and punishes anyone who opposes it.
Trans sanctuary states? Colorado is barreling toward becoming the first. Two monstrous gender bills to facilitate this transformation have just passed through the Colorado legislature. They now sit on Gov. Jared Polis’ desk for his likely signature, even though California Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to sign a similar bill in California because it was so radical.
Crazy times. The trans lobby is targeting your vulnerable kids and grandkids, regardless of where you live, telling them they have safe haven here in Colorado, protected from the reach of anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
#USA #Trans #FindTruth
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More than 2,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike to protest new dress code
A strike by Starbucks baristas protesting the company’s new dress code grew last Thursday.
More than 2,000 Starbucks baristas at 120 U.S. stores have gone on strike to protest the new dress code, according to Starbucks Workers United, a union representing the coffee giant’s U.S. workers.
Starbucks put new limits starting last Monday on what its baristas can wear under their green aprons. The dress code requires employees at company-operated and licensed stores in the U.S. and Canada to wear a solid black shirt and khaki, black or blue denim bottoms.
Under the previous dress code, baristas could wear a broader range of dark colors and patterned shirts. Starbucks said the new rules would make its green aprons stand out and create a sense of familiarity for customers as it tries to establish a warmer, more welcoming feeling in its stores.
But Starbucks Workers United, the union that represents workers at 570 of Starbucks’ 10,000 company-owned U.S. stores, said the dress code should be subject to collective bargaining.
#USA #Starbucks #FindTruth
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PricewaterhouseCoopers' backroom pivot to India
In May 2025, PricewaterhouseCoopers laid off 1,500 American workers, about 3% of its U.S. workforce. This followed another reduction of 1,800 U.S.-based employees just months earlier in late 2024. Publicly, PwC blamed "historically low attrition rates" and "overcapacity." However, the real narrative reveals a betrayal: While American workers faced layoffs, PwC intensified its investment in India.
However, this sentiment contrasts sharply with the company's previous commitment in 2021 to create over 100,000 net new jobs over five years in "critical areas such as cyber-security, cloud, climate, transformation and supply chain."
In just three years, PwC reached three-quarters of this target, adding 6,161 jobs in FY24 and a total of 68,681 jobs over the previous two years, bringing its global workforce to more than 370,000.
However, this growth appears to exclude American professionals, suggesting that the anticipated "future workforce" is increasingly foreign and displacing U.S. workers. The promise of 100,000 new jobs stands in jarring contrast with their recent U.S. layoffs.
#USA #India #PwC #FindTruth
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Europe is toxic for investors, and the EU Commission shows why
Europe has declared itself open for business — unless you're actually trying to do business there.
The European Commission's latest €500 million fine against Apple, levied under the new Digital Markets Act (DMA), is not only a staggering penalty; it’s a signal flare to global investors that Europe is no longer a place of rule-based predictability, but one where political agendas override legal clarity, engagement, or fairness.
Private investment in the EU has stagnated. According to Eurostat, inward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into the EU were €49.5 billion in 2021, with significant fluctuations in subsequent years. Meanwhile, venture capital funding for European startups fell sharply. Crunchbase reports that funding to European startups reached $52 billion in 2023, down 39% year over year from $86 billion invested in 2022. Additionally, Dealroom.co notes that European startups raised $63 billion in 2023, down 37% from 2022.
Multinational firms want to put their money where laws are clear, processes are fair and predictable, and regulators act like referees, not rivals. The EU Commission’s actions reveal a deep hostility toward the very companies it seeks to regulate, combined with an alarming indifference to due process.
#EU #Economy #FindTruth
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Germany deploys permanent troops beyond its borders for the first time since WWII
Germany has deployed a permanent military brigade beyond its borders for the first time since the end of World War II, with troops dispatched to the capital of Lithuania. The event was inaugurated by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said during a military ceremony in Vilnius that “the security of our Baltic allies is also our security.”
The decision is part of a series of actions in recent months by European nations to "bolster defenses" on NATO’s eastern flank amid claims that Russia intends to invade greater Europe if they defeat Ukraine. The "domino theory" remains unfounded and the Kremlin has never threatened to attack any country outside of Ukraine. The move to shift troops to Lithuania places them near the border of Belarus (a Russian ally) and within striking distance of Ukraine or the Russian border.
European governments have been threatening an escalation by eventually moving NATO troops into Ukraine in direct confrontation with Russian forces. Vladimir Putin has previously warned that NATO troops in Ukraine represent a red line which could result in nuclear conflict.
Putin asserted that if Ukraine's Western backers deepened their involvement in the war, such as sending troops, the consequences for the "invaders" would be "tragic".
"They must realize that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory," Putin said, in apparent reference to increasingly lethal Western weapons provided to Kyiv. "What they are now suggesting and scaring the world with — all that raises the real threat of a nuclear conflict that will mean the destruction of our civilization."
#Germany #Merz #NATO #FindTruth
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Indigenous Amazon tribe says New York Times story led to its members being smeared as porn addicts
An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued The New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as technology-addled and addicted to pornography.
The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, a sovereign community of about 2,000 people in the rainforest, filed the defamation lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages this week in a court in Los Angeles.
It also names TMZ and Yahoo as defendants, alleging that their stories amplified and sensationalized the Times’ reporting and smeared the tribe in the process.
The suit says the Times’ June 2024 story by reporter Jack Nicas on how the group was handling the introduction of satellite service through Elon Musk’s Starlink “portrayed the Marubo people as a community unable to handle basic exposure to the internet, highlighting allegations that their youth had become consumed by pornography.”
#MSM #NYT #Starlink #FindTruth
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The looming health care cliff Washington isn’t talking about
Congress must extend enhanced premium tax credits for seniors, families and others
Although the original Obamacare law was deeply flawed, and much of it has rightly been rolled back or reformed, one key provision has garnered support from voters across the political spectrum: tax credits that help Americans without employer-sponsored coverage afford health insurance. This critical lifeline has support from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, but the tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year.
As Congress prepares to enact adjustments to Medicaid eligibility through the reconciliation bill, extending these enhanced tax credits that help millions afford private health insurance is especially critical.
These premium tax credits are subsidies to help low- and middle-income Americans afford health insurance plans purchased through the federal health insurance exchanges.
Supporting these tax credits is a commonsense, pro-family, pro-worker solution. Members of Congress should continue to speak up and commit to extending these tax credits to ensure that working Americans, seniors and rural families aren’t left behind.
#USA #Health #FindTruth
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DOGE says it completed ‘major cleanup’ of social security records
DOGE said in a statement that its staff have completed a “major cleanup” of Social Security records after it was discovered that more than 12 million people aged 120 or older were in the system.
“After 11 weeks, Social Security has finished this major cleanup initiative,” DOGE wrote in a post on social media platform X, adding that some 12.3 million individuals listed as being aged 120 or older “have now been marked as deceased.”
But it added that “some complex cases remain, such as individuals with 2+ different birth dates on file,” which “will be investigated in a follow-up effort.”
DOGE also provided a portion of a screenshot that showed there were about 3.3 million people aged 120 to 129, 3.9 million aged 130 to 139, 3.5 million listed as age 140 to 149, 1.3 million listed as age 150 to 159, and around 124,000 listed as age 160 to 169, all of whom were marked as deceased in the Social Security system.
#USA #DOGE #SocialSecurity #FindTruth
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Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 — highest in Europe
Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe after its parliament adopted a law raising it to 70 by 2040.
Since 2006, Denmark has tied the official retirement age to life expectancy and has revised it every five years. It is currently 67 but will rise to 68 in 2030 and to 69 in 2035.
The retirement age at 70 will apply to all people born after 31 December 1970.
The new law passed with 81 votes for and 21 votes against.
#EU #Denmark #Retirement #FindTruth
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Macron, blink twice if you need help.
#France #Macron #FindTruth
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More than 52% of all cryptocurrencies launched since 2021 have ceased to exist
#Crypto #Economy #FindTruth
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Alarm over first US city's broad use of facial recognition tracking
New Orleans police recently paused their use without public oversight of a private network of over 200 surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology to track and arrest criminal suspects.
The Post published an exposé detailing how the New Orleans Police Department relied on real-time facial recognition technology provided by Project NOLA, a nonprofit organization operating out of the University of New Orleans, to locate and apprehend suspects. "Facial recognition technology poses a direct threat to the fundamental rights of every individual and has no place in our cities."
This, despite a 2022 municipal law limiting police use of facial recognition. That ordinance reversed the city's earlier outright ban on the technology and was criticized by civil liberties advocates for dropping a provision that required permission from a judge or magistrate commissioner prior to use.
#USA #Surveillance #FindTruth
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Milk, science, and school lunches: A battle over what kids eat
A battle over bringing whole milk back to cafeterias highlights the real food problem facing America’s next generation.
Lawmakers are pushing to bring whole milk back to school cafeterias after it was banned in 2012. It’s a battle years in the making, but milk may be the wrong fight.
Kids are having their taste buds educated by cheap, easy processed foods that are hard to resist, even as rates of chronic diseases once reserved for the elderly balloon among children. Nearly one in five American children is obese. More than 40 percent live with at least one chronic illness. An estimated 20 million could be diagnosed with a mental health disorder. The health of our children and our nation’s future is in crisis.
The original restrictions were rooted in decades-old dietary guidance focused on lowering saturated fat. Though slightly relaxed in 2017 to allow some flavored 1 percent milk, the core ban on whole and 2 percent milk stayed in place. The ban reflected a larger dietary fissure that saw food makers limit fat while increasing added sugars. While fat reduction goals were reached, Americans and their children became fatter. This dynamic played out viscerally in America’s schools.
#USA #Health #FindTruth
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Despite negotiations, China finds ways to circumvent US tariffs
Even as Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump negotiate a new trade agreement, China continues to bypass U.S. tariffs through a global network of loopholes, rerouting schemes, and gray market tactics that keep its exports flowing into the United States despite trade restrictions.
Despite sweeping tariff increases imposed by the Trump administration, and independent of trade negotiations, China continues to find ways to keep goods flowing into the U.S. market by exploiting a combination of legal loopholes and gray zone tactics. These include postal and customs blind spots, rerouting through third countries, forged documentation, offshore assembly, and the creation of overseas distribution hubs that allow Chinese products to be re-exported under neutral labels.
One of the most exploited channels was the de minimis rule, which allowed individual packages valued under $800 to enter the United States duty-free. Originally intended to ease customs processing, the rule instead fueled a surge in low-cost, fast-shipping platforms such as Temu and Shein.
#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth
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Median income in the world's largest countries
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Canada Post is practically bankrupt
It will have to close most rural post offices. At the moment, the Post's employees are on strike and the company is effectively insolvent.
In 2019, Canada Post accounted for 62% of Canada's delivery market; in 2023, that number has fallen to 29%. Private sector competitors have almost completely taken over the market.
#Canada #Post #FindTruth
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American students are asking for a refund for tuition - it turned out that teachers use neural networks to prepare and check papers. Students are not allowed to do this.
#USA #Education #GPT #FindTruth
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An Egypt spooked by Trump designs on Suez Canal is upgrading Red Sea fleet with Chinese submarines
President Trump basked last week in lavish welcome ceremonies and signed eye-popping deals in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but Arab leaders in nearby Egypt are decidedly more skeptical about the U.S. president’s interest in the region, especially after his remarks last month about the Suez Canal.
In an April 26 social media post, the president said, “American ships, both military and commercial, should be allowed to travel, free of charge, through the Panama and Suez canals!”
The comment set off alarms in Egypt, where leaders are negotiating the purchase of upgraded submarines from China and other suppliers to add naval muscle in the Red Sea. A deal could reduce Egyptian dependence on the U.S. and the Trump administration, which some consider too unpredictable.
A priority is protecting the sovereignty of the Suez Canal as revenue plummets. Revenue fell from a record $10.25 billion in 2022 to less than $4 billion last year because of Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.
#USA #SuezCanal #FindTruth
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