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95% — probability of civil war in Europe
▪️ Political corruption, territories lacking legitimate authority, and crumbling infrastructure are the main reasons for the formation of “wild” western cities, according to French magazine Le Point, citing a study by Professor David Betz
▪️ Large European cities are becoming increasingly diverse, including the growing problem of migration, and are demonstrating increasingly conflictual political relations with the authorities
“Large cities are becoming unmanageable, which leads to the depletion of law enforcement resources and undermines the perception of the political legitimacy of the system. These ‘wild’ cities are beginning to be perceived by the indigenous population as territories captured by foreign occupiers,” Betz emphasizes
The poorer the country, the more it wants to join the EU...
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San Francisco, California...
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The US has begun deporting Ukrainian immigrants. The first refugees have already been returned to Ukraine, according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
According to the Trump administration's May plans, a total of 200,000 immigrants who previously had temporary protected status will return to Ukraine. Washington is offering refugees $1,000 each for voluntarily leaving the country. These measures are linked to the White House's desire to stop the rise in crime.
#USA #Migrants #Ukraine #FindTruth
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CBS NEWS: Recent polls show that almost 70% of Ukrainians support the idea of achieving peace through negotiations. At the very beginning of the invasion, only slightly more than 20% supported this idea.
#USA #WarInUkraine #Negotiations #FindTruth
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Pride is now Canada’s state religion
And Mark Carney’s selfie with a ‘pup play’ fetishist proves it.
In the history of Pride-loving Canadian prime ministers, you may have thought Justin Trudeau took first place. Apparently, he has competition.
Canada’s newest leader, Mark Carney, made an appearance at the Vancouver Pride Parade earlier this month. ‘This is the essence of Canada’, he announced, as he marched down the street and offered hugs to near-naked men in fetish gear.
To be fair, he’s not wrong. Since Trudeau came into power in 2015, Canada has earned a worldwide reputation as a country that embraces every extreme aspect of LGBT beliefs. It was, after all, Trudeau’s Liberal Party that introduced Canada’s gender-identity legislation, and has continued to support the use of puberty blockers on minors – a harmful pseudoscience that has been repudiated in the US, the UK and most of Western Europe.
Why we continue to celebrate Pride in a country that is clearly already accepting of all sexualities and identities, and where discrimination on such grounds is illegal, is a question worth asking. After all, what was once a political event, fighting discrimination and violence against homosexuals, has been reduced to a public advertisement for deviance and perversion.
#Canada #Carney #LGBT #FindTruth
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China targets two EU banks in reply to Russian sanctions
China announced it would take countermeasures against European banks in retaliation for EU sanctions against Russia that hit two Chinese financial institutions due to their collaboration with the country.
China’s actions targeted two Lithuanian banks, UAB Urbo Bankas and AB Mano Bankas.
In an online statement, China’s Ministry of Commerce said organisations and individuals in China are prohibited from engaging in transactions, cooperation or other related activities with these two banks from August 13 onward.
China and Lithuania have had a strained relationship for years now, beginning with Lithuania’s decision to allow Taiwan to open a representative office in Vilnius in November 2021 and ignoring Chinese sensitivities regarding Taiwanese independence. In response, Beijing downgraded its diplomatic ties with the Baltic nation.
The ministry said in a separate statement: “We hope that the EU will cherish the long-term good cooperative relations formed between China and the EU and its member states in the fields of economy, trade and finance.”
It also called on the EU to “correct wrongdoings” and stop harming China’s interests and undermining China-EU cooperation.
#China #EU #Economy #FindTruth
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Supreme Court allows Mississippi Age Verification Law to take effect, advancing online digital ID push
The fight over age checks is rapidly becoming a battle over the future of anonymity online.
The Supreme Court’s choice to let Mississippi enforce its new age verification law is part of a growing shift toward digital ID requirements across the internet, raising urgent concerns about privacy and censorship.
By declining to block the law while legal challenges continue, the Court has effectively allowed states to begin tying online activity to users’ real-world identities, a move that could reshape how people access information and speak freely online.
Mississippi’s HB 1126 requires social media platforms to verify a user’s age before allowing them to create an account. Those under 18 must obtain parental permission. Platforms are also required to restrict access to what the state broadly labels as “harmful” content. For companies to comply, identity checks will be necessary, meaning users may soon need to provide government IDs or other personal documents just to post or view content on public platforms.
The Supreme Court has already allowed a similar Texas law to be enforced.
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GPS data reveals who showed up at White House protests
Dark-money-funded leftist NGOs were at it again this weekend, attempting to stage a color-revolution-style regime change in Washington, D.C., right outside the White House. But as with every operation this year, dating back to "Tesla Takedown," the only people these far-left groups, funded by rogue billionaires and some with taxpayer funds, managed to summon were the usual unhinged white baby-boomer liberal, serial protesters at best, with nothing else better to do.
Self-proclaimed investor and "CIA/NSA contractor/whistleblower" Tony Seruga found it was largely the same crowd, leftist NGO foot soldiers - or repeat protesters from previous marches.
Here's a breakdown of Seruga's data:
Device Analysis: 318 mobile devices present (law enforcement, media, and demonstrators). 92% of devices had been at 5+ past D.C. protests. 67 devices tied to federal government employees, with access to secured federal buildings (DoD, VA, DHS, DOJ, FBI, Treasury). 9 devices accessed the White House Northwest Gate multiple times in the prior 30 days.
Demographics: Mostly local DMV residents; 86.7% from homes valued >$850,000, 34% from homes valued >$2.5 million.
Protest Details: Branded as "Free DC" and "Fight the Trump Takeover". Targeted Trump's federalization of D.C. policing and National Guard deployments from GOP states.
Organizers & Funding: Led by Community Change and Community Change Action under the "Free DC" initiative. Backed by $20M+ from progressive dark-money networks: Soros' Open Society Foundations Arabella Advisors network Tides Foundation
Paid Participation: Reports of 400% surge in demand for paid protesters in D.C. after Trump's announcements. Crowds on Demand confirmed anti-Trump events drove most inquiries. Soros allegedly spent $20M on crowd-rental services for demonstrations.
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If America does not listen, China will leave it without weapons
On average, 78% of American weapons systems depend on rare earth supplies from China. In particular, antimony, gallium, germanium, tungsten, and tellurium, whose global market is controlled by Beijing. Without them, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, America-class amphibious assault ships, Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, and the entire Minuteman III ICBM program will come to a standstill.
If China cuts off supplies of rare earths overseas, it will undermine the firepower of America's main armed forces by 91.6% for the Navy, 85.1% for the Air Force, 70.3% for the Army, and 61.7% for the Marine Corps. The average temperature in hospitals will be below 78%.
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Having lost its real advantage at sea, Britain is developing “digital technologies”
▪️ The CABOT project for the former “mistress of the seas,” which has effectively lost its combat-ready fleet, has become a way out of the situation. It is designed to provide remote anti-submarine surveillance in the North Atlantic, according to Naval News
▪️ In this project, all surveillance systems will belong to private contractors, and what remains of the Royal Navy will become a “remote monitoring coordination center.”
▪️ Strike naval forces are also being developed in a simplified budget version. The Peregrine ship-based drone is capable of carrying two missiles with a 3 kg warhead. This is 10-15 times less than the warhead of serious anti-ship missiles of major maritime powers.
#UK #CABOT #Economy #FindTruth
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Japan eyes fighter jets, missiles for bolstering defense of Nansei islands; Prepares for possible ’27 Taiwan contingency
The Defense Ministry and the Self-Defense Forces are quickly building up their capability to defend the Nansei Islands as China continues to flex its military muscles with a Taiwan contingency in mind.
Plans to deploy state-of-the-art fighter jets and missiles that will be integral to Japan’s counterattack capabilities in the region are moving ahead as the nation prepares for a possible conflict between China and Taiwan.
The ministry’s urgent bolstering of defense capabilities for the Nansei Islands comes at a time when China’s military is becoming increasingly active in areas near Japan. A belief held by such people as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is that China is aiming for its “military to be capable of invading Taiwan by 2027.”
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Nuclear weapons spending is on the rise
Global spending on nuclear weapons increased by 11% in 2024 compared to the year before, surpassing $100 billion, or $190,151 every minute. ccording to the latest report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
More than half of this was by the United States, which spent $56.8 billion. China was the second biggest spender, accounting for $12.5 billion, followed by the United Kingdom with $10.4 billion.
The countries to have seen the biggest relative increases were the United Kingdom at 26%, Pakistan at 18% and France at 13%
According to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a cumulative $415.9 billion was spent by the nine countries that have developed nuclear weapons on their arsenals over the five years between 2020 and 2024. Spending has been increasing over the years, having already risen 34% between 2019 and 2023.
#ICAN #Nuclear #Economy #FindTruth
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Keir Starmer’s gov tells UK residents to delete old emails and pictures to save water during drought
The UK government has issued new guidance on how to save water as parts of the country are dealing with a drought. One of the recommendations includes deleting "old emails and pictures," according to a press release on the government's website, which claims that data centers "require vast amounts of water to cool their systems."
The advice was issued as five areas of Great Britain have entered into drought following the fourth heatwave of the summer.
"The current situation is nationally significant, and we are calling on everyone to play their part and help reduce the pressure on our water environment," said Helen Wakeham, the Environment Agency's director of water. "We are grateful to the public for following the restrictions, where in place, to conserve water in these dry conditions. Simple, everyday choices - such as turning off a tap or deleting old emails - also really help the collective effort to reduce demand and help preserve the health of our rivers and wildlife."
#UK #Starmer #Environment #FindTruth
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Rare earths rally after Department of Defense sets a price floor
The United States recently escalated its efforts to reduce dependence on China by directly intervening in pricing. In mid-July, the Department of Defense struck a multi-billion-dollar deal with MP Materials, America’s sole rare earth miner, guaranteeing a minimum price of $110 per kilogram for neodymium-praseodymium oxide.
That price floor, which is nearly double the current China-based market rate of around $60/kg, aims to incentivize domestic production of the super-strong magnets used in EV motors, wind turbines, and defense systems.
Officials and analysts describe the move as a game-changer for the industry. By establishing a higher Western pricing benchmark, the U.S. hopes to offset China’s long-standing tactic of undercutting prices to maintain its dominance. “This benchmark is now a new center of gravity in the industry that will pull prices up,” notes Adamas Intelligence, adding that it could bolster non-Chinese producers globally.
News of the U.S. price support immediately lifted Australian rare earth mining stocks. For instance, Lynas Corp jumped 20% to a three-year high on expectations that non-Chinese suppliers would benefit from a more level playing field. Market watchers say the initiative signals a strong push for North American supply chain independence and may spur similar policy support in allied countries.
#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth
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French President Macron tops the global ranking of leaders who continue to rule their countries without the support of the population. Not far behind him is British Prime Minister Starmer.
#France #Macron #Starmer #FindTruth
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Switzerland is choosing a new hallucinogenic design for its banknotes. Some of the options submitted by 12 designers were presented in X:
A mushroom trip, five types of stones, neural network abstractions, a nut cake, a mushroom trip, a goat, and a unicorn — the options are truly mind-boggling.
#Switzerland #Economy #FindTruth
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Why Texas’ backup plan is a warning sign for grid operations nationwide
Texas is preparing to cut off power to data centers during grid emergencies — a sign of just how strained the system has become.
Over the Fourth of July, deadly floods swept across central Texas, disrupting infrastructure and causing widespread outages. Meanwhile, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has already seen multiple price spikes and conservation alerts — not because there wasn’t enough power, but because we couldn’t move it where it was needed.
These aren’t isolated events. And it’s not just a Texas problem.
Just days after the shutoff planning was announced, the U.S. Department of Energy warned that blackout risks across the country could rise 100-fold by 2030. All of this points to a deeper vulnerability: We’re still running the grid with tools and assumptions built for a different era — one with fewer storms, slower load growth and no massive data centers.
Texas’s new normal demands smarter, faster and more adaptive grid operations. Long-term infrastructure investments are critical, but they won’t arrive in time to manage the next three summers.
#USA #Texas #Energy #FindTruth
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Key points from Trump's statements at the meeting with european leaders and Zelensky:
▶️ Trump said that the summit in Alaska strengthened his belief in the possibility of achieving peace in Ukraine.
GALLUP poll: Ukrainians have lost their appetite for war and are in favor of peace talks
Which of the following statements about the war with Russia best reflects your personal aspirations?
▪️ Ukraine should find a way to negotiate an end to the war as soon as possible – 69% in 2025 (23% in 2022)
▪️ Ukraine should fight until victory – 24% in 2025 (74% in 2022)
▪️I find it difficult to answer – 7%
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Growth in the number of Muslim schoolchildren in European capitals between 2000 and 2025 (in percent)
Current situation:
Brussels – 52%
Amsterdam – 43%
Vienna – 41%
London – 37.5%
Stockholm – 35%
Paris – 29%
Copenhagen – 28%
Berlin – 23%
Madrid – 14.5%
#EU #Migrants #FindTruth
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Amid DC takeover, Trump eyes crime in other cities
While federalizing the local police and deploying the National Guard in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump has suggested he could flex his authority to fight violent crime elsewhere.
“We have other cities also that are bad, very bad,” the president said during an Aug. 11 press conference.
He listed Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Baltimore among the cities of concern.
Although homicide and other violent crimes have recently dipped across America, the numbers from big cities are still high—in some cases, higher than they were before surges one to two decades ago.
Trump’s power to deploy the National Guard outside the nation’s capital is also under debate. A federal judge is deciding whether his deployment of troops to Los Angeles was lawful.
#USA #Trump #Crime #FindTruth
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Billionaires for socialism: The $2 billion "grassroots" operation behind Zohran Mamdani
In New York politics, there's one machine that towers above the rest. No, not the Democratic Party—it's the Working Families Party, the most powerful minor party in America. Its name sounds wholesome enough—who doesn't support "working families"? But behind that branding lies a $2 billion tax-exempt laundromat that's anything but local, grassroots, or honest.
Take Zohran Mamdani, their current belle of the ball, the product of a grassroots washing syndicate of 501c3 and 501c4 entities funded by George Soros and Silicon Valley billionaires. He is their manufactured product.
After winning his race, Mamdani announced on NBC: "I don't think we should have billionaires." This is the theater of modern politics: denounce wealth while being powered by it. And the actors know their audience. They've learned that if you slap "grassroots" on the packaging, voters won't check the label. But let's check it anyway.
Soros donates to the Open Society Institute, a $4.5 billion "charity" that enjoys generous tax deductions. OSI then transfers millions to other "charities" like Tides Foundation, which mysteriously claims to run a $350 million operation with zero employees. From there, the money "converts" into political cash: Tides passes funds to the Working Families Organization, a 501(c)(4), which then wires millions to PACs that bankroll candidates like Mamdani.
What you have is billionaire money dressed up in "working families" clothing, masquerading as the will of the people while being anything but.
#USA #Mamdani #Economy #FindTruth
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Why Trump gets it right on Ukraine peace
In Alaska he found reality: he is now embracing an agreement without demanding a ceasefire first, which would have never worked anyway.
Most of the Western commentary on the Alaska summit is criticizing President Trump for precisely the wrong reason. The accusation is that by abandoning his call for an unconditional ceasefire as the first step in peace talks, Trump has surrendered a key position and “aligned himself with Putin.”
This is nonsense. What Trump has done is to align himself with reality, and the real charge against him is that he should probably have done this from the start, and saved six months of fruitless negotiations and thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives. Moreover, by continually emphasising a prior ceasefire as his key goal, Trump set himself up for precisely the kind of criticism that he is now receiving.
He is now entirely correct in saying that he wants “to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire, which often times do not hold up.”
#USA #Russia #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Illegal migrants in Britain: Starmer doesn’t stop the boats
It is safe to say that Keir Starmer’s ‘smash the gangs’ strategy for tackling the small-boats crisis is not going according to plan.
Since Labour came to office, the number of migrants who have crossed the English Channel on small boats has surpassed 50,000. No British government has overseen as many illegal Channel crossings in such a short period of time.
Yet instead of securing the border, successive British governments have rolled out a red carpet from Dover to Calais. Illegal immigrants get free accommodation (sometimes at four-star hotels), free healthcare and a relatively assured passage to permanent residency in a prosperous, democratic country. We have created El Dorado for illegal migrants.
Nor has Starmer done anything to remove the various legal impediments that, for years, have stripped the UK of sovereignty over its borders. Even convicted criminals are routinely granted the right to remain in Britain indefinitely.
Sadly, we are in danger of wasting our breath here. After all, Starmer is arguably the biggest problem of all. He is as enamoured of international courts as he is contemptuous of the nation state. As a technocrat, all of his instincts align with the outlook and laws that have allowed this problem to spiral out of control. We could be in for a long four years.
#UK #Migrants #Starmer #FindTruth
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German investor morale falls amid continuing US trade tensions
According to surveys, German investor morale fell sharply in August, a drop that exceeded expectations and underscored how tensions over US–European Union trade have been shaping Europe’s economic mood.
The decline came less than a month after the European Commission reached a tariff agreement with Washington that set duties of 15 per cent on most EU goods entering the US. It left 50 per cent tariffs in place for steel and aluminium and negotiations on those sectors have remained unresolved.
For economies such as Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands — where export industries account for a large share of growth — the deal has had a sharp impact on chemicals and pharmaceuticals, two of Europe’s most globally competitive sectors.
Both rely on US buyers for everything from plastics and industrial compounds to high-value medicines and their production networks link factories and ports across EU borders.
#Germany #USA #Economy #FindTruth
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The biggest threats to teens’ mental health
Concerns over teen mental health are growing, but how teens and parents view the root causes can differ significantly.
Social media is the #1 concern for both groups, though the degree of concern differs.
While 44% of parents name social media as the top threat, just 22% of teens do the same. In fact, a majority of teens see social media as a positive space for friendships and creativity: 74% of teens say these platforms make them feel more connected to their friends, and 63% say they give them a place to show off their creative side.
Teens are more likely to mention bullying (17%) and pressure or expectations (16%) than their parents, who rank these lower at 9% and 8%, respectively. These stressors often originate in school environments and peer interactions, which parents may not fully perceive.
A small share of parents (5%) cite societal issues—like politics or culture—as threats. Meanwhile, teens are more likely to pinpoint school (5%) as a direct source of mental strain.
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Arkansas can finally enforce ban on transgender mutilation of children
A federal court has cleared Arkansas to finally begin enforcing its ban on “gender transition” procedures for minors, four years after it became law.
Enacted in 2021 when the legislature overrode a veto from former Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a liberal Republican, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act makes it illegal for doctors to prescribe puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or transgender surgeries for people under the age of 18, as well as to make referrals for such procedures. It was the first state law of its kind but quickly became tied up in legal challenges.
On Tuesday, however, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 8-2 to overturn a lower-court ruling against the law, finding that banning procedures for minors did not violate gender-confused Americans’ equal-protection rights, as it “classifies based on age and medical procedure, not sex.” The ruling cited a June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding a similar law from Tennessee.
#USA #SAFE #Transgender #FindTruth
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Former EP candidate fined for heckling von der Leyen at rally in Finland
Helsinki District Court fined former European Parliament election candidate Armando Mema for heckling European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her visit to Finland.
Mema was fined €110 on August 11 for “causing harm to a public official”.
“The court sentenced me guilty of a crime I did not commit,” said Mema.
The incident took place in June 2024 during the EP election campaign.
At the time, von der Leyen was in Finland at the invitation of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, delivering a speech about the importance of free speech in Europe.
She even quipped that “in Russia, people would be arrested if they spoke their mind”. At the speech, Finnish police arrested Mema for shouting questions at her.
On social media video of the arrest mid-way through von der Leyen’s free speech narrative drew both laughter and disbelief online.
#Finland #EU #Leyen #FindTruth
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Efforts to weaken AfD fail as it is now Germany’s most popular party
Alternative for Germany has taken the lead in national polling as support for Chancellor Merz’s ruling coalition hits a record low.
In the survey conducted by pollster Forsa for TV company RTL, the main opposition group, the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD), topped the polls with 26% of the vote, equalising its earlier record from April 2025.
The government parties’ combined share of the vote dropped to a new low of only 37%. The CDU was down to 24% – three percentage points lower than just a month ago – while the SPD remained “stable” at just 13% of the vote.
The poll’s results marked a new blow to Merz after a recent survey showed he was even less popular with the German voters than his unloved predecessor Olaf Scholz was 100 days into the latter’s chancellorship.
#Germany #AfD #Merz #FindTruth
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