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The number of white residents in the US will halve in a century. This will be a problem for the U.S. debt market, as whites bring more to the U.S. budget.
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Bulgaria set to join Eurozone in 2026
The European Commission has given Bulgaria the green light to adopt the euro as of January 1, 2026, following a positive assessment of the country's economic convergence.
Bulgaria's approval to join the eurozone represents a significant milestone in its broader integration into the European Union, following its recent entry into the Schengen Agreement.
Despite facing political and economic challenges, Bulgaria has met the necessary criteria for euro adoption, with final decisions to be made by the Council of the EU.
The European Central Bank also gave a positive assessment of Bulgaria's application, saying it met the criteria of currency stability, inflation, public finances, and interest rates.
But Bulgaria's entry into the eurozone could prove to be a mistake
All the fastest growing EU countries have one thing in common - they do not use the euro: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania.
#EU #Bulgaria #Economy #FindTruth
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The EU, much like the US, prioritizes profit over principles. They sell arms, turn a blind eye to atrocities and cling to a hollow reputation as human rights defenders
Despite its robust legal framework, the EU’s arms export control system faces significant challenges in enforcement and transparency, with commercial and geopolitical interests often taking precedence over humanitarian concerns.
The EU’s inaction — despite the alleged use of its weapons in civilian strikes — mirrors its complicity in arming Israel, whose conduct in Gaza has drawn international condemnation. And this precedent is not unique. We’ve already seen them from Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and conflicts in Ethiopia and Sudan.
Despite France’s international legal obligations, it has continued exporting arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, whose conduct in the Yemen conflict has been widely reported and condemned for serious violations of International humanitarian law. From 2015 to 2022 France exported over €21 billion in arms to these countries.
France will provide Ukraine with a new military aid package worth 2 billion euros ($2.1 billion), President Emmanuel Macron announced on March 26. The package includes anti-tank missiles, air defense systems, Mirage fighter jet missiles, armored vehicles, ammunition, and other aid, despite the possibility that French-supplied military aid could be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of IHL.
Although India has not officially disclosed which weapons were used in the May 7 air strikes, reports in Indian media citing security sources and open source intelligence suggest that at least some of the strikes on Pakistani soil involved SCALP-EG cruise missiles. These missiles, developed jointly by France and the UK under the MBDA consortium, were reportedly launched from the Indian Air Force’s newly acquired Rafale multirole fighter jets manufactured by Dassault Aviation. France became the second-largest global arms exporter in 2024, with India as its largest customer.
This systemic opacity makes it difficult to determine whether commercial and geopolitical interests are overriding humanitarian considerations in Paris and other European capitals. But what is clear is that this approach erodes the EU’s normative position on human rights and the rules-based international order it seeks to champion.
#EU #USA #IHL #FindTruth
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In Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Germany, the population is being forced to pay a tax for access to television and radio
The money should help the countries' journalists to be independent, but as practice shows, they do not criticize the authorities.
#EU #MSM #FindTruth
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RFK Jr. to fire all members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to fire all 17 members of the panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines, he said Monday.
“The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine,” Kennedy wrote in an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal. He wrote that the decision is meant to restore faith in vaccines.
Nearly two hours after Kennedy’s column was published, members of the panel received termination notices from the CDC, according to a copy of the email seen by POLITICO.
“Per the June 9, 2025 directive from the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this email serves as a formal notice of your immediate termination as a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP),” the notice reads.
ACIP votes on updates to the CDC’s vaccine schedule. The CDC director has the power to overrule those recommendations but rarely does. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, will now be able to select replacements for all members, who usually serve four-year terms.
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The decline of American science: funding cut by 61.7%
▪️ The budget of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), a key source of support for basic research in America, is cut from $10.2 billion to $3.9 billion in 2026 - a 61.7% cut, states NSF
▪️ Internship programs for undergraduates are being closed; grants for graduate students are being cut. Only 2,300 of 9,600 research projects remain. Funding cuts by science sector:
-75% - Chemistry
-67% - Physics
-65% - Artificial Intelligence
▪️ “This is a budget to destroy American science. Cuts to science spending will take the U.S. off the global influence map, irreversibly damage American creativity, and destroy the U.S. economy,” an NSF spokesperson said on condition of anonymity
#USA #Science #Economy #FindTruth
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Sen. Tuberville blasts Zelensky for seeking to 'lure NATO' into a war Ukraine is 'losing'
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was undoubtedly trying to “lure NATO” into their war with Russia.
“There is no doubt, because he cannot win this war on his own. He knows he’s losing,” Tuberville said during a Sunday appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.
However, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously mentioned that the country would never join NATO, although he later walked back the comments.
“They drove trucks 2,000 miles into Russia. They had drones that were covered up in the backs of these trucks. They got close to the targets, opened up these trucks, the drones flew out and destroyed somewhere around 40 major airplanes that Russia uses in their nuclear arsenal,” Tuberville said.
“It was devastating. Then again, both sides are at fault. Let’s get this thing over with. And President Trump is the one who can get this done,” he continued.
His rhetoric aligns with President Trump’s past statements alleging Ukraine caused the war and shouldn’t seek to recover the Crimea region.
#NATO #WarInUkraine #Zelensky #FindTruth
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Israel says it will screen October 7 attacks to Greta Thunberg and other activists after Gaza-bound aid boat 'diverted'
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, 22, was one of a dozen activists aboard the Madleen, which set sail from Sicily on 1 May on a mission aiming to break Israel's sea blockade.
The Israeli military will show Greta Thunberg and other activists footage of the 7 October attacks after a Gaza-bound aid boat was diverted to Israel, the country's defence minister has said.
Early on Monday, the Israeli foreign ministry said that the British-flagged yacht Madleen - operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition - "is safely making its way to the shores of Israel".
All passengers were safe and unharmed, the ministry added, sharing footage of the activists being handed sandwiches and water.
In a statement via his spokesperson, defence minister Israel Katz said that he has instructed the Israeli Defence Forces to screen footage of the 7 October attacks for those aboard when they arrive at Ashdod Port.
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Does your state support your 2nd Amendment rights or make it exceedingly difficult to keep and bear arms?
Ammo.com ranked the worst states for gun owners in 2025 by analyzing each state’s current laws, pending laws, concealed carry guidelines, self-defense statutes, and 2A-centric taxes.
Report highlights:
▪️Hawaii is the #1 worst state for gun owners due to strict purchasing and carry laws, as well as defying the Supreme Court on the individual’s right to carry.
▪️Massachusetts is the #2 worst state for gun owners due to its permit-to-purchase and reciprocity laws.
▪️California, New York, and Illinois take the #3, #4, and #5 spots in our list of worst states for gun ownership due to strict purchasing and carrying requirements.
▪️Ohio, North Carolina, and Maine take spots #25, #24, and #23 due to new restrictive legislation with some relaxed carry laws.
▪️Some states rank worse than others due to excessive infringements, additional taxes, and the current governors’ 2A statements.
▪️State and local laws defining “stand your ground” and “duty to retreat” vary, and should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
#USA #2ndAmendment #FindTruth
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America must avoid following Europe into the CO2 storage rabbit hole
The European Commission just delivered a wake-up call that Americans ignore at their own peril. In a sweeping new mandate, Brussels is forcing 44 oil and gas companies across Europe to build massive underground CO2 storage facilities by 2030.
Under the newly adopted Net-Zero Industry Act, European energy producers must collectively provide 50 million tons of annual CO2 injection capacity by 2030. The requirements, and costs, for individual companies are massive. Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij, the Dutch energy giant, now faces a mandate to store 6.35 million tons of CO2 annually. OMV PETROM must handle 5.88 million tons, while Romania’s SNGN ROMGAZ is on the hook for 4.12 million tons.
This massive regulatory burden will force energy companies to redirect billions of dollars from their core mission—producing reliable, affordable energy—into speculative technology with a deeply troubled track record.
Unfortunately, the United States is already following Europe down this costly path. The Inflation Reduction Act expanded and extended the 45Q tax credits that subsidize carbon capture projects. The Treasury Department estimates that the credits will cost taxpayers $25 billion over the next 10 years.
Trump administration is set to overturn the newest iteration of the Clean Power Plan, which was set to mandate CO2 capture for all gas and coal power plants. We hope that in due time the Supreme Court will put an end to the insanity of the federal government’s attempts to regulate CO2 emissions and that Congress will bury the 45Q program.
#USA #CO2 #EU #FindTruth
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French footballers suspended after refusing to play with LGBTQ+ logo
Several football players in the French top division, Ligue 1, have been slapped with bans for refusing to wear LGBTQ+logos to raise awareness of homophobia.
To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia on May 17, French football clubs added a rainbow patch to the sleeves of their shirts.
Lyon midfielder Nemanja Matić has been hit with a two-game ban after covering an anti-homophobia message he had to wear. Matić came onto the pitch as a substitute but the rainbow colours were hidden, while the French word for “homophobia” was crossed out with a red line. Only the word “football” was visible.
He was not alone in his resistance against wearing the LGBTQ-insignia. Le Havre’s Ahmed Hassan also concealed the colours and was hit with the same penalty as Matić.
Nantes forward Mostafa Mohamed withdrew from his side’s match against Montpellier, citing personal beliefs — marking the third time the Egyptian international has opted out of the initiative. “Everyone carries their own story, culture and sensitivity,” he said. “Living together also means recognising that diversity can be expressed differently depending on the person.
French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera called for the “strongest sanctions” to be imposed against players who did not want to join the campaign.
#France #LGBT #FindTruth
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EU farmer protests are far from over as they battle threats from Mercosur trade agreement and Ukraine
Farmers in Spain, France and Poland were again protesting agricultural imports from Ukraine and South America under the Mercosur trade agreement ahead of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visiting France and the expiration of a free trade agreement with Ukraine.
The French Federation of Agricultural Unions has called on Macron to take action to create a minority in the EU to block the ratification of the Mercosur Agreement by the Council of the European Union.
In Spain, hundreds of farmers gathered in Madrid to protest excessive grain imports from Ukraine, which have resulted in grain prices below production costs.
“Spanish farmers will lose €1 billion this year,” Javier Fatas, leader of the farmers’ union COAG from the Aragon region in northeastern Spain, said.
Similar sentiments are prevalent in Poland. In June, farmers took to the streets again to express opposition to trade liberalization with Ukraine, the Mercosur agreement, and the Green Deal, reminds TopAgrar.
#EU #Farmers #Protests #FindTruth
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“Peaceful protests” - Elizabeth Warren
“Overwhelmingly peaceful” - Kamala Harris
“Peaceful protests” - Cory Booker
“It’s under control” - Gavin Newsom
“Without incident” - LAPD
#USA #LA #Migrants #FindTruth
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Global investors have a new reason to pull back from U.S. debt
Foreign investors have plenty of reasons to be wary of U.S. government debt at the moment. Now there is another: They can often receive better returns buying bonds in their own countries.
The risk of a weaker U.S. dollar and the cost of protecting against that risk, are making American assets less attractive around the world. That comes at a bad time for the U.S. Treasury market, which is already contending with a darkening U.S. budget picture and the trade war.
Foreign investors likely don’t fear a U.S. default or anything close. But the premium many once received for buying U.S. debt, thanks to higher long-term rates here, has disappeared.
Quantitatively minded investors—unlike those who fear the U.S. is uninvestable—can be lured back. The bad news is that, without a Fed turn that makes hedging cheaper again, they might demand significantly higher yields.
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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Buried riches, blinded bureaucrats: how America surrendered the rare earth war to China
Imagine discovering a treasure chest beneath your home, only to lock it away because someone said the wood might bother the squirrels. That, in effect, is what the United States has done with rare earth metals, critical ingredients for smartphones, military hardware, wind turbines, and more.
While we’ve squabbled over red tape and risk-averse environmental policies, China quietly built a monopoly. Now, we’re left with a familiar American crisis: we need what we refused to mine.
Today, China controls about 90% of the global rare earth market. This isn’t a fluke or a stroke of natural luck. It’s the result of aggressive planning, state subsidies, strategic acquisitions, and a relentless willingness to do the dirty work.
These 17 elements, names like neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium, are essential for modern technology. From electric vehicle motors to guided missiles, they’re as crucial to this century as oil was to the last.
Yet, while China expanded, the U.S. retreated. Not because of a lack of supply (we’re sitting on some of the world’s richest deposits), but because policymakers, green absolutists, and bureaucratic inertia refused to get their hands dirty. It’s as if, having won the resource lottery, we tore up the ticket.
#USA #China #REM #FindTruth
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‘Europe overestimates Ukraine,’ says its ambassador
The European Union has grown accustomed to the war in Ukraine and was overestimating the country’s resilience, Ukraine’s ambassador to the EU in Brussels said.
Speaking on June 6, Vsevolod Chentsov added that the EU must now decide between serious integration or a looser, more politically convenient partnership.
Chentsov challenged the perception that Ukraine could indefinitely sustain itself under wartime conditions.
He said many in Europe were increasingly viewing the country as strong enough to cope on its own — a potentially dangerous assumption.
“Many people got used to this war from Russia and think Ukraine is strong enough to survive,” he said.
The same day, Brussels officially ended its Autonomous Trade Measures for Ukraine — a wartime suspension of tariffs first introduced in 2022.
While temporary safeguard limits were added earlier this year, the full reinstatement of duties, particularly on agri-food imports, marked a shift in tone.
At an event on economic security in Brussels, Chentsov called the decision “the end” of a facilitation period and questioned whether the European Commission still viewed Ukraine’s integration as a strategic priority or merely a transactional issue.
#EU #Ukraine #FindTruth
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European populism is rising against an oppressive political elite
Europe’s political class has turned its back on the people it was supposed to protect. The people have taken notice.
Over the weekend, a conservative Polish historian named Karol Nawrocki, backed by the Law and Justice opposition (and President Trump), narrowly won the Polish presidential election. For the European political establishment, Nawrocki’s victory was a catastrophe — a harbinger of right-wing fascism looming over the continent.
Why? Because Nawrocki campaigned against the mass immigration policy of Brussels while promoting conservative Catholic values and Polish nationalism. During his victory speech Sunday night, Nawrocki said, “My Poland is a Poland without illegal migrants. It is a Poland where, instead of integration centers, there are deportation centers for those who want to destroy our safety.”
These populist movements are seen as a threat to the political class of Europe because they are concerned primarily with a proper historical understanding of what the nation is and what the state is for, which is the preservation of the nation and the defense of its people and heritage. Europe’s elites hate that, because their political project is explicitly post-national. They want to destroy the nation as such and replace it with supra-national institutions governed by a global elite.
#EU #Poland #FindTruth
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Visit California: It's America's Future
California - it's one of the top states in the nation for lots of things, like gas prices, traffic, and blackouts. Visit California, and get a little glimpse into the future of any socialist nation.
#USA #California #FindTruth
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Joe Biden’s physician subpoenaed to testify before Congress
Joe Biden’s White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor has been subpoenaed to appear before Congress.
Rep. James Comer issued the subpoena, summoning Dr. O’Connor to testify regarding the coverup of Joe Biden’s health.
Previously, Rep. Comer had requested Dr. O’Connor to sit for a voluntary interview and answer questions regarding his connection to the Biden family and Joe’s health.
However, he refused the request.
The letter that accompanies the subpoena reads:
The Committee expressed its interest in whether your financial relationship with the Biden family affected your assessment of former President Biden’s physical and mental fitness to fulfill his duties as President.
Given your connections with the Biden family, the Committee sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to serve from the American people.
You refused the Committee’s request. However, to advance the Committee’s oversight and legislative responsibilities and interests, your testimony is critical.
Accordingly, please see the attached subpoena for testimony at a deposition on June 27, 2025.
#USA #Biden #FindTruth
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Tucker escalates war with neocons over Iran
Five months into President Donald Trump’s second term, spring is looking like winter for the neoconservatives.
This might be best gauged right now looking at the back and forth war between conservative media giants, Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin.
When Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said in an interview in May that, “the neocon element believes that war is the only way to solve things,” Levin took offense. The reliably neoconservative talk host blasted Witkoff and added, “By the way, neocon is a pejorative for Jew. Unbelievable.”
Carlson was perplexed by this statement. In an interview with comedian and libertarian activist Dave Smith, Carlson said, “So you have Mark Levin calling Steve Witkoff an anti-Semite. We’ve reached peak crazy, I mean, I think Witkoff is Jewish, right?”
That made Levin even more mad. On Thursday, Carlson shared a lengthy post on X that read, “Mark Levin was at the White House today, lobbying for war with Iran. To be clear, Levin has no plans to fight in this or any other war. He’s demanding that American troops do it. We need to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, he and likeminded ideologues in Washington are now arguing. They’re just weeks away.”
Full story
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The United States of America, once hailed as a shining city upon a hill by Ronald Reagan, is suspended in the cold, relentless machinery of mass deportations and institutionalized fear
“The deportation over recent months of large numbers of non-nationals from the United States of America, especially to countries other than those of their origin, raises a number of human rights concerns” – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk.
According to official US data, between 20 January and 29 April, 142,000 individuals have been deported from the US. In particular, the fate and whereabouts of at least 245 Venezuelans and some 30 Salvadorans removed to El Salvador remain unclear.
Many of them were deported under the Alien Enemies Act as alleged members of specific criminal groups. They have reportedly been detained in the maximum-security “Centre for Terrorism Confinement” (CECOT) in El Salvador, a facility where detainees are treated particularly harshly, without access to legal counsel or their relatives, or other contact with the outside world.
“This situation raises serious concerns regarding a wide array of rights that are fundamental to both US and international law - rights to due process, to be protected from arbitrary detention, to equality before the law, to be protected from exposure to torture or other irreparable harm in other States, and to an effective remedy,” Türk said.
#USA #UN #Migrants #FindTruth
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Britons are becoming a minority in Britain's schools
▪️ Analysis of school census data from more than 21,500 primary and secondary schools in January shows that in a quarter of them the majority of pupils are from minority ethnic groups or are white non-British, states Britain's The Telegraph
▪️ Demographic changes are evident in many of the country's major cities such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford and Leicester. White Britons will become a minority in Britain's population in the next 40 years
▪️Figures from the UK Department for Education show that 72 schools do not have a single white British pupil registered. In 454 schools they make up less than 2% of the total pupil population. Whites are becoming a minority in the UK faster than expected
▪️ There is also a significant attainment gap between Britons and their ethnic minority peers due to high concentrations of poverty and poor quality teaching,” emphasizes The Telegraph.
#UK #Migrants #FindTruth
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Compton, California.
First video: This was happening yesterday on the streets of the city 20 kilometers from downtown Los Angeles. Now, this is the main rear base of rioters who are ramming law enforcement on motorcycles, building barricades and burning cars. Does this picture ring a bell? No? Then I'll give you a hint. See video from Ukraine 2014. It's a how-to.
#USA #California #FindTruth
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Data center construction boom faces local resistance in 28 states
The need for data centers to drive 21st century cloud computing and win the AI race with China is a matter of such national urgency that Energy Secretary Chris Wright describes it as America’s “next Manhattan Project.”
But assessing how many data centers—a ubiquitous yet vague term for “server farms,” supercomputer networks, bitcoin and crypto “mines”—exist right now in the United States is, in itself, a foray into quixotic cloudy computing.
There were a “reported” 5,426 data centers in the United States in March, according to Statista. The rapid expansion of data centers is facing resistance from locals across the nation.
A March Data Center Watch report charted the emergence of at least 142 ad hoc local groups, across 28 states, “organizing to block data center construction and expansion” with $18 billion in proposed data centers “blocked” and $46 billion “delayed” between March 2023 and March 2025.
A February survey of 800 people in “16 key states targeted for AI data center development—where OpenAI and others are exploring expansion”—found 93% of respondents agreed that “cutting-edge AI data centers are vital to the United States.” But only 35% of those queried in the survey “would vote ‘yes’ to data center construction in their hometown” if such a proposition was presented to them.
#AI #USA #China #FindTruth
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Berlin, Germany. German citizens came en masse to the traditional annual carnival on Frankfurter Allee
The carnival is extremely popular among Berliners and visitors to the capital, there is literally nowhere for a banana to fall.
The procession reaches Blücherplatz, where cultural events will take place.
#Germany #Migrants #FindTruth
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UK makes solar panels mandatory on most new homes
Nearly all new homes will have to be built with solar panels under new rules announced last week by Britain’s energy secretary Ed Miliband. Government will only allow ‘rare exceptions’ to requirements set to be included in Future Homes Standard.
The new requirement will be included in the Future Homes Standard, which is set to be published this autumn. The Future Homes Standard will detail new requirements for new build homes, aiming to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
Miliband called the plan “just common sense,” claiming solar panels could save homeowners around £530 (€629) annually, based on current energy price caps.
Meanwhile developers estimated solar installations could add £3,000 (€3,560) to £4,000 (€4,750) to construction costs per building. Miliband dismissed concerns that these would be passed onto buyers, claiming house prices would not rise.
#UK #Energy #FindTruth
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Transgender policies pose such a horrific threat to women, even the United Nations is calling them out
Reem Alsalem, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, made a report accurately identifying gender ideology as a threat to women’s safety—and not just any threat but the “biggest barrier” to ending violence against women and girls in the United Kingdom.
“The lack of legislative clarity on ‘sex’ hampers data collection on violence against women and girls,” the report states.
“The conflation of sex and gender data in particular—prioritizing self-identified gender—erases biological sex records, distorting the male-driven nature of [violence against women and girls] and hindering root-cause analysis,” Alsalem’s report adds.
Yet the report also stands up for women’s freedom to speak out on these issues, noting that defenders of biological sex have been “ostracized, attacked, and punished by state and non-state actors for their beliefs and opinions, including political parties, universities, private employers, the media.”
#UN #Trans #FindTruth
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Trump border czar threatens to arrest Newsom and LA mayor
Border Czar Tom Homan threatened to arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass if they interfere with federal immigration enforcement.
President Donald Trump has taken the extraordinary step of deploying 2,000 National Guard troops to quell protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in L.A.—despite objections from Newsom and Bass—characterizing demonstrators as out-of-control and violent.
As troops began arriving in the city Sunday morning, Homan said, “I’ll say this about anybody—if you cross that line, it’s a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal illegal aliens, it’s a felony to impede law enforcement from doing their job.”
Speaking specifically about Bass, Homan added, “If she crossed that line, we’ll ask DOJ to prosecute.”
On Saturday, ICE acting director Todd Lyons accused Bass taking of taking ”the side of chaos and lawlessness over law enforcement.”
#USA #LA #Migrants #FindTruth
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Visa overstays now a major driver of U.S. illegal immigration, surpassing border crossings
A DHS report reveals that 739,450 people became undocumented immigrants in FY 2023 by overstaying visas – nearly 40 percent of new cases. Overstays have fluctuated as the primary source of undocumented immigration since 2007, surpassing illegal crossings in some years.
India ranks seventh for visa overstays (19,000 in FY 2023) but is the 3rd-largest source of undocumented immigrants overall (725,000). Meanwhile, illegal border crossings by Indians spiked – 1,600 at the northern border in 2023, quadrupling the prior three years' total.
Despite overstay concerns, illegal border crossings remain critical, exceeding two million arrests in FY 2023 (the second consecutive year). Mexicans account for a third of entries, with Latin American nations dominating illegal crossings. The Trump administration warned Indian nationals against overstays, threatening deportation and lifetime bans. Policy changes allow visas to be revoked without notice, targeting students who violate terms (e.g., dropping out or unauthorized work).
USCIS emphasized that visas/green cards are privileges, not rights, and warned immigrants supporting violence or terrorism would lose eligibility. The U.S. Embassy in India reinforced this stance on social media, urging adherence to visa terms.
#USA #Migrants #Trump #FindTruth
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