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DOJ seeks information on FBI employees who investigated Jan. 6
The Department of Justice has asked for the names of thousands of FBI employees who worked on investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove in a Jan. 31 missive to Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll directed the FBI to provide the names of all bureau personnel who investigated Jan. 6 and an unrelated terrorism case.
Driscoll told FBI workers in a separate message to the FBI workforce that the request encompasses thousands of employees across the country, including himself, “who have supported these investigative efforts.”
Bove warned that “additional personnel actions” could follow.
Ed Martin, interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, previously launched an investigation into why federal prosecutors brought a felony obstruction charge against hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants. Trump, after taking office, pardoned many people who had been charged over Jan. 6.
The new request for information comes after acting Department of Justice leadership terminated officials, including prosecutors involved in prosecuting Trump before he was elected, and six FBI executive assistant directors.
#USA #DOJ #FBI #FindTruth
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Trump won’t rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ US ownership
President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
The comments came as talks are ramping up this week with the promise of surging humanitarian aid and reconstruction supplies to help the people of Gaza recover after more than 15 months of devastating conflict. Now Trump wants to push roughly 1.8 million people to leave the land they have called home and claim it for the U.S., perhaps with American troops.
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said at an evening news conference with Netanyahu by his side. He added: “We’ll make sure that it’s done world-class. It’ll be wonderful for the people — Palestinians, Palestinians mostly, we’re talking about.”
Trump outlined his thinking as he held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, where the two leaders also discussed the fragile ceasefire and hostage deal in the Israeli-Hamas conflict and shared concerns about Iran.
Trump said the U.S. would redevelop the territory after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and turn the territory into a place where the “world’s people”— including Palestinians — would live. He offered no detail about what authority the U.S. would use to take the land and develop it.
#USA #Israel #Palestine #FindTruth
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Brexit - Britain and the EU are the main victims. Only the US is the winner
▪️ Brexit - Britain's exit from the EU, which took place 5 years ago - cost Britain 140 billion pounds, or 6% of the economy. The average Briton has lost almost 2,000 pounds,” experts state
▪️ Brexit, actively supported by Trump, weakened Europe and was beneficial to the US. The average per capita GDP in Britain in 2023 was 6% less than in the eurozone and 30.3% less than in America. On the eve of Brexit, the gap was 3.5% and 24.5%, respectively. For 2019-2023, the figure is up 7.3% in the US, 3% in the eurozone and 0.2% in Britain
▪️ The British pound and the euro collapsed against the dollar already amid news of the outcome of the 2016 Brexit vote. At the start of 2025, the pound was 3.6% weaker against the dollar than it was in 2019, while the euro was 7.5% weaker against the dollar
#USA #Brexit #Trump #FindTruth
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US wants Ukraine to hold elections
The US wants Ukraine to hold presidential and parliamentary elections, a special envoy to President Donald Trump has said.
Keith Kellogg, Mr Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, said the elections could take place by the end of the year, especially if a truce with Russia was reached, but added such votes "need to be done".
"Most democratic nations have elections in their time of war. I think it is important they do so. I think it is good for democracy. That's the beauty of a solid democracy, you have more than one person potentially running,"
Japan PM PM to ask Trump to visit Japan this year during Fri. talks
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to ask U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Japan this year when they hold a summit in Washington later this week, Japanese government sources said Monday.
Ishiba is also expected to reaffirm with Trump the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, as past Japanese and U.S. leaders have done, during their planned talks on Friday as part of a three-day visit to the United States starting Thursday, the sources said.
It will be the first in-person meeting between the two after Ishiba took office in October and Trump was sworn in for his second nonconsecutive four-year term last month.
Ishiba's U.S. trip comes as he seeks to establish a personal rapport with Trump to strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance amid rising security concerns, with China ramping up military activity in the Indo-Pacific region, including the Taiwan Strait.
At their meeting on Friday, Ishiba and Trump are expected to issue a joint statement affirming that Article 5 of the bilateral security treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands, which are administered by Japan but claimed by China in the East China Sea, sources close to the matter have said.
#Japan #USA #FindTruth
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Trudeau came next to bend the knee after Sheinbaum: Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Canada too
Donald Trump on Monday agreed to a 30-day pause on his tariff threats against Mexico and Canada as America’s two largest trading partners took steps to appease his concerns about border security and drug trafficking.
The pauses provide a cool-down period after a tumultuous few days that put North America on the cusp of a trade war that risked crushing economic growth, causing prices to soar and ending two of the United States’ most critical partnerships.
“I am very pleased with this initial outcome, and the Tariffs announced on Saturday will be paused for a 30 day period to see whether or not a final Economic deal with Canada can be structured,” Trump posted on social media. “FAIRNESS FOR ALL!”
Panama pledges to end key canal deal with China, work with US after Rubio visit
Panama’s president vowed Sunday to end a key development deal with China after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and after complaints from President Donald Trump that the Latin American country had ceded control over its critical shipping canal to Beijing.
José Raúl Mulino, Panama’s president, said his nation’s sovereignty over the 51-mile waterway, which connects the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, will remain unchanged. But he said he would not renew a 2017 memorandum of understanding to join China’s Belt and Road global development initiative and that Panama would instead look to work more closely with the U.S.
During his visit, Rubio wrote in a post on X that
“the United States cannot, and will not, allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue with its effective and growing control over the Panama Canal area.”
Thousands protest against immigration crackdown, blocking traffic on freeways
Thousands of raucous protesters rallied against President Trump’s renewed effort to deport illegal migrants and ground traffic to a standstill on a Los Angeles freeway Sunday afternoon.
The throngs of demonstrators waving flags of Mexico and other countries south of the border shut down a portion of 101 Freeway for hours. Protesters marched directly on the highway while others lined the side of the overpass and roads. It took about five hours for police to fully reopen the freeway.
There were no reported arrests during the afternoon protests. But protesters again converged on part of the freeway as cars returned to US Route 101 Sunday night.
Some of the signs throughout the day read “MAGA – Mexican always get across.” One protester told the Los Angeles Times: “We thought we were done with his administration, and now we have to do this again.”
Supporters of Trump’s immigration policies blasted the protest for causing gridlock in one of America’s most congested cities.
“First Hamas supporters, now illegals and their enablers, are stopping traffic. To make America safe again, we must have law and order,”
Europe exhausted without Russian gas is about to launch Nord Stream
▪️ The Danish Energy Agency has authorized Nord Stream 2 AG to start work on sealing damaged pipelines. This is considered to be the first step towards restoring the branch, which supplied up to 40% of Germany's gas needs,” states The Spectator.
▪️ The loss of cheap pipeline Russian gas has been a disaster for German industry. The double energy shock has led to falling living standards and reduced production. The EU is unable to “punish” Russia and find alternative sources of cheap gas at the same time
▪️ The resumption of Russian gas supplies will spark debate and accusations of Ukraine's betrayal, but these are nothing more than emotions, The Spectator emphasizes.
#EU #NordStream #FindTruth
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Turmoil inside USAID
Amid ongoing turmoil inside the U.S. Agency for International Development, DOGE staffers have moved to take over offices, escalating tensions as more senior staff members are locked out of internal systems, additional employees are placed on administrative leave, and the agency’s newly appointed chief of staff resigned. Elon Musk-led agency works to assert control over the USAID.
"USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die,"
"This site can't be reached. Check if there is a typo in www.usaid.gov."
U.S. trade war: Trump's initiatives and response to them
▪️ For China, the duties will be 10%, for Mexico 25%, for Canada 10% on energy and 25% on other imports. If countries decide to respond to the U.S., the duties will be increased, states Bloomberg
▪️ Canada considers Trump's initiatives a “total betrayal” and imposes retaliatory 25% duties on $107 billion worth of U.S.-made products.
▪️ Mexico's president calls for retaliatory tariffs and other non-tariff measures against the U.S., leaving room for dialog with America on security and health issues
▪️ China pledges to take countermeasures against America and files a lawsuit at the WTO. Experts are confident that China has trump cards in the trade war with the US
#USA #Trump #FindTruth
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Since 2018, over 74,000 Canadians died waiting for health care
If you think Canada has such a great nationalized health care system, you need to reconsider.
SecondStreet.org released government data showing an additional 15,474 patients in Canada died in 2023-24 before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans. However, that number is incomplete, as several governments provide either partial data, or simply do not track the problem.
Key Findings:
▪️At least 15,474 patients died in Canada while waiting for surgeries or diagnostic scans. This figure does not include Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador and most of Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia only provided data on patients who died while waiting for surgeries – not diagnostic scans.
▪️If one extrapolates the data provided across provinces and health regions that did not provide data, an estimated 28,077 patients died last year on health care waiting lists.
▪️While some response data is vague, SecondStreet.org observed cases where patients died after waiting anywhere from less than a week for treatment to more than 14 years.
▪️New data from Ontario Health suggests 378 patients died while waiting for cardiac surgery or a cardiac procedure.
▪️Since April 2018, SecondStreet.org has identified a staggering 74,677 cases where Canadians died while waiting for care.
Another 15,000-plus euthanized.
#Canada #Health #FindTruth
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The Great Metal Mirage: How Banking Institutions Have Manipulated Gold and Silver Prices
Banking institutions and central bankers have been suppressing metal prices for decades. They issued paper certificates for gold that didn't exist. What happened is what happened with partial reserve banking. Bullion banks borrow precious metals and sell paper certificates for them. They cover themselves with futures contracts and hedge contracts from producers.
The result has been a huge lack of supply of real gold and silver on the market, and instead of physics, paper certificates are being offered that actually have nothing to do with the real metal.
The onset of real pressure on precious metals along with mining cost inflation is just around the corner, and short positions will have a very difficult time covering. For buyers who need metals for production, it will be even harder to get supply.
There is a big revaluation of precious metals coming due to the long overdue devaluation of fiat currencies and bonds as well as an oversupply of paper certificates for them. They are covering themselves with futures contracts and hedge contracts from producers.
The result has been a huge lack of supply of real gold and silver on the market, and instead of physicals, paper certificates are being offered that actually have nothing to do with the real metal.
The start of real pressure on precious metals along with mining cost inflation is just around the corner, and short positions will find it very difficult to cover. For buyers who need metals for production, it will be even harder to get supply.
A major revaluation of precious metals is coming due to the long overdue devaluation of fiat currencies and bonds as well as an oversupply of paper certificates on the market.
#World #Banks #Economy #FindTruth
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China Appears to build giant nuclear fusion research site
China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in the southwestern city of Mianyang, a development that could aid nuclear weapons design and work exploring power generation.
Satellite photos show four outlying "arms" that will house laser bays, and a central experiment bay that will hold a target chamber containing hydrogen isotopes the powerful lasers will fuse together, producing energy.
It is a similar layout to the $3.5 billion U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Northern California, which in 2022 generated more energy from a fusion reaction than the lasers pumped into the target - "scientific breakeven".
Experts estimate the experiment bay at the Chinese facility is about 50% bigger than the one at NIF, currently the world's largest. The development has not been previously reported.
"Any country with an NIF-type facility can and probably will be increasing their confidence and improving existing weapons designs, and facilitating the design of future bomb designs without testing" the weapons themselves, said William Alberque, a nuclear policy analyst at the Henry L. Stimson Centre.
#China #USA #Science #FindTruth
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Tucker Carlson is shifting Piers Morgan's layers of consciousness
#USA #MSM #Carlson #FindTruth
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What’s wrong with DEI
The diversity, equity, and inclusion project keeps popping up as a possible subtext in a variety of recent tragedies.
In the case of the Los Angeles fires, Mayor Karen Bass, who cut the fire department budget, was warned of the mounting fire dangers of the Santa Anna winds and parched brush on surrounding hillsides. No matter—she junketed in Uganda. When furor followed, on cue, her defenders decried a racialist attack on “a black woman.”
Her possible stand-in deputy mayor for “security” was under suspension for allegations that he called in a bomb threat to the Los Angeles city council—a factor mysteriously forgotten.
The fire chief previously was on record mostly for highlighting her DEI agendas rather than emphasizing traditional fire department criteria like response time or keeping fire vehicles running and out of the shop.
One of her deputies had boasted that in emergencies, citizens appreciated most of all that arriving first responders looked like them. She further snarked that if women allegedly were not physically able to carry out a man in times of danger, then it was the man’s fault for being in the wrong place.
The point is not necessarily whether the key players who might have prevented the destruction of some 25,000 acres of Los Angeles were selected—or exempted—on the basis of their race, gender, or sexual orientation. Rather the worry is that in all these cases, those with responsibility for keeping Los Angeles viable, themselves eagerly self-identified first by their race, gender, or sexual orientation—as if this fact alone was synonymous with competence and deference.
#USA #DEI #FindTruth
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What Rubio said about multipolarity should get more attention
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s in his recent interview with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly surprisingly declared unipolarity an anomaly and treated a return to multipolarity essentially as a correction by the gravitational forces of geopolitics.
“So it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was not — that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet. We face that now with China and to some extent Russia, and then you have rogue states like Iran and North Korea you have to deal with,”
he said.
Setting aside whether he truly believes this or is simply adjusting to President Trump's worldview, it is still very significant for the secretary of state to not only declare unipolarity over, but to also treat the return to multipolarity as a return to normalcy.
It’s not clear how far Rubio has thought this through, and he makes no mention of ending primacy as a grand strategy. However, he speaks of centering U.S. interests in U.S. foreign policy and that the U.S. cannot be responsible for resolving every problem in the world.
Of course, the gap between what is thought, what is said, and what is done by the Trump administration may be quite sizable. Either way, Rubio's interview here deserves more attention.
#USA #Rubio #Trump #FindTruth
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‘Take X down if it refuses to conform’
German Social Democratic Party (SDP) MP Dirk Wiese has called for using “all measures” against social media platform X under the European Union’s Digital Services Act — including a shutdown if it failed to comply with regulations.
“The European Commission should use all the powers necessary to monitor social media platforms that do not respect the rules,”
“I am very concerned about billionaires trying to influence political debate in other countries,”
“Germany has a responsibility for its past with the crimes that we saw in Germany during the Second World War. I am very concerned that a billionaire is supporting these ideas of far-right extremists here in Germany,”
China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google
Unlike Canada and Mexico, China countered President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs of its own on multiple U.S. imports Tuesday as well as announcing an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures.
China said it would implement a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas products as well as a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery and large-engine cars imported from the U.S. The tariffs would take effect next Monday.
“The US’s unilateral tariff increase seriously violates the rules of the World Trade Organization,” the statement from a Ministry of Finance office said. “It is not only unhelpful in solving its own problems, but also damages normal economic and trade cooperation between China and the US.”
Analysts said that China’s retaliatory measures would cause adverse effects on not just the U.S. economy but also impact the rest of the world.
“They have a much more developed export control regime. We depend on them for a lot of critical minerals: gallium, germanium, graphite, a host of others. So … they could put some significant harm on our economy,” said Philip Luck, a former State Department official and director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Monday at a forum.
Trump planned to talk with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the next few days.
#China #Economy #USA #FindTruth
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Putin: Trump will restore order; Elites will “stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails”
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has commented on President Trump’s first weeks in office and the effect it will have on Europe, declaring that political elites will fall into line at Trump’s feet.
In an interview with Russia Today, Putin stated “Nothing has changed. They were happy to carry out any order from Washington under Biden.”
“They just don’t like Trump,” he continued, adding “They forgot him actively, really interfered in political life, in the election process of the United States. And then they were confused when Trump suddenly won.”
Putin further declares that the political elite in Europe “mentally liked Biden more,”
“But Trump has better ideas about what is good, what is bad, including in gender policy, in some other issues, they kind of don’t like it,” the Russian president asserted.
“But I assure you, Trump with his character, persistence, he will restore order pretty quickly,” Putin stated, adding “And all of them, you’ll see, it will happen quickly, soon, all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails.”
#Trump #Putin #EU #FindTruth
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Amazon hits reverse and ramps up ad spending on X
US technology giant Amazon has boosted its advertisement spending on social media giant X.
The move marked a turnaround from an earlier decision to distance itself from the platform owned by Elon Musk over concerns about hate speech.
According to The Wall Street Journal, which spoke to people familiar with the situation, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was involved in the decision.
Apple, which pulled all of its advertisement money from X, was reportedly also testing out new ads on X.
That appeared to be part of a broader wave of businesses returning to the platform, making peace with X’s stance on free speech and a seeming rejection of censorship.
Most of the advertisers moved away from X after a report in autumn last year by the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America. The pressure group accused the platform of spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and far-right content.
Musk filed a lawsuit against the group on November 20, which will go to trial on April 7 after a federal judge in Texas ruled against Media Matters and its request to dismiss the case.
#USA #Amazon #Musk #FindTruth
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Some hospitals stop transgender surgeries on children
Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia, and the nation’s capital said on Jan. 30 they have stopped transgender procedures for minors as they evaluate President Donald Trump’s new executive order “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation.”
Denver Health in Colorado has stopped providing transgender surgeries such as breast removal for people under the age of 19, a spokesperson said, in order to comply with the executive order and continue receiving federal funding. It’s not clear whether the hospital will continue providing other transgender procedures and medicine for youth, such as puberty blockers.
In Virginia, VCU Health and Children’s Hospital of Richmond said it has suspended transgender medication and surgical procedures for those under 19 years old.
Children’s National Hospital in Washington said the hospital had “paused prescriptions of puberty blockers and hormone therapy to comply with the directives while we assess the situation further.”
The hospital already did not perform transgender surgeries on minors, according to a spokesperson.
It is probably not a victory yet, but we are on the right way.
#USA #Trans #Health #FindTruth
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Zelensky says excluding Ukraine from US-Russia talks about war is ‘very dangerous’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that excluding his country from talks between the U.S. and Russia about the war in Ukraine would be “very dangerous” and asked for more discussions between Kyiv and Washington to develop a plan for a ceasefire.
He said in an Associated Press interview published Saturday, "They may have their own relations, but talking about Ukraine without us — it is dangerous for everyone." Zelensky issued this assessment the day after the Trump White House confirmed that discussions at a "general level" are happening with Moscow and that an in-person meeting between presidents will take place 'soon'.
Zelensky did express openness to eventually entering negotiations with Putin, despite current active legislation which forbids entering direct communication with Moscow.
But he emphasized Trump and Kiev should be on the same page first. "I believe that, first and foremost, we hold a meeting with him, and that is important. And that is, by the way, something that everyone in Europe wants," Zelensky said.
#USA #WarInUkraine #Zelensky #FindTruth
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China building military facility 10 times bigger than Pentagon
China is building a new military command centre near Beijing that is expected to be 10 times the size of the Pentagon. Dubbed "Beijing Military City", the construction on the project started in mid-2024 with recent satellite images showing deep holes dug in the 1,500-acre area, located 30 km southwest of the capital city.
The new military command may house large buildings and hardened bunkers, designed to protect the top Politburo officials during any conflict, including a nuclear war.
According to researchers, nearly 10 times bigger than the Pentagon, it's fitting for Xi Jinping's ambitions to surpass the US. "This fortress only serves one purpose, which is to act as a doomsday bunker for China's increasingly sophisticated and capable military."
The details of the project have been kept under wraps with the Chinese embassy in Washington claiming that it was not aware of the details. Though the military officials are not present at the site, signs warning against flying drones or taking photographs have been pasted across the construction site which is spread more than four kilometers across.
Currently, China's main command center is located in the Western Hills, northeast of the new facility, and was built decades ago at the height of the Cold War.
The development comes in the backdrop of China rapidly increasing its nuclear arsenal to be prepared for any Western misadventure. As per the Pentagon, Beijing will have 1,500 operable nuclear weapons by 2035, matching the firepower of the United States.
#China #Military #USA #FindTruth
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Gold surges past $2,800 as tariff threats reignite record rally
Gold prices surpassed the key $2,800 mark for the first time on Friday, fuelled by a rush to safety following U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats, which heightened concerns about global economic growth and inflationary pressures.
According to Bob Haberkorn, senior market strategist at RJO Futures, "There's a lot of uncertainty out there right now and also wait-and-see attitude on the geopolitical stage with tariffs."
Trump has set a Saturday deadline to slap a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and said he was still considering new tariffs on Chinese goods.
At the beginning of 2021 the price of gold was $1962. Currently it is $2800.
#USA #Trump #Gold #FindTruth
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Trump likely to lower Biden's already low arms trade bar
The Biden administration has left President Trump a surprisingly low bar when it comes to improving U.S. arms trade restraint. Unfortunately and dangerously, the Trump administration is likely to lower the bar even further.
The latest State Department factsheet revealed that fiscal year 2024 arms transfers were “the highest ever annual total of sales and assistance provided to our allies and partners” via the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process (emphasis is in the original document). FMS values were more than $100 billion in FY 2024 with a staggering $845 billion in open cases. More than $200 billion in authorizations were made via the separate Direct Commercial Sales process. The Forum’s tracking of FMS notifications by calendar year, found nearly $146 billion in FMS sales were notified to Congress last year.
Trump is likely to aim to go higher. In 2017, his first international trip was to the Middle East where he announced $110 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Although that figure was inflated, it showed what would be a hallmark of his first term, which was the promotion of U.S. arms trade, including to autocratic regimes in the Middle East. He ended his term notifying Congress of more than $134 billion in potential FMS sales in 2020 (a figure higher than Biden’s 2024 totals when adjusted for inflation) that included $10 billion in F-35 sales to the United Arab Emirates that Biden slow-walked, with the deal collapsing.
In his first term, Donald Trump took a transactional and unrestrained approach to the arms trade while undermining multilateral efforts at control, and multilateralism more broadly. He is quickly on his way to doing so again in 2025.
#USA #Military #Trump #FindTruth
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Do we need a final crusade to save the Western world?
From Brandon Smith’s article on the Alt-Market
Regardless of how you might feel about Donald Trump, the cultural shift surrounding his return to office cannot be denied. After four years of Biden and Harris trying to institute medical tyranny, instigate a mass immigration crisis, label conservatives a “threat to democracy” and force woke cultism into daily life, it seems as though Americans have had enough.
In 2025 a lot more people treat leftist ideology and globalism with disdain rather than complacency. The borderless multicultural agenda of the elites is finally facing substantial opposition, at least in the US. I would also argue that there has been a resurgence of interest in Christianity and Christian history; a natural consequence of Americans rediscovering their western cultural roots.
Our own governments have been flooding our borders with migrants from the third-world and inviting in ideologies and politics that are completely antithetical to western ideals. Many of these people come have one foot in the archaic. They don’t believe in things like equality, they believe that predators must rule and victims must submit.
Tolerance has never been a Christian value. It’s not coincidence that Europe has been overrun with third-world migrants in the past decade. These groups are acting as a blunt weapon, used by the elites to silence dissent by native born citizens.
If a new crusade were to happen, it would have to start here in America. However, if we were to “take up the sword”, as it were, we can do so knowing we are not alone. There are million upon millions of westerners around the world that would welcome us.
#USA #World #FindTruth
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Council of Europe legal body casts doubt on Romanian election annulment
The Council of Europe's Venice Commission published an urgent report detailing the conditions and legal standards under which a constitutional court could invalidate elections. The report, released on January 27, follows a request made by Theodoros Rousopoulos, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), last month.
The report stressed that annulments of elections should only occur as a last resort, backed by solid evidence.
“The power of constitutional courts to invalidate elections ex officio [by right of office] – if any – should be limited to exceptional circumstances and clearly regulated, in order to preserve voters’ confidence in the legitimacy of elections,” the report said.
The report asserts that decisions made by constitutional courts should be reserved for extraordinary situations and must be clearly regulated to maintain public trust in the electoral process. Procedural safeguards are deemed essential, with the European Court of Human Rights emphasizing the need for a transparent and well-explained decision in the event of election cancellation, based on clear evidence of serious irregularities.
The report also insisted that any decision to invalidate an election should not be made on “classified intelligence”.
The annulment, which disqualified the hard-right candidate Călin Georgescu, was initially based on classified documents submitted on November 28 and then declassified on December 4.
#EU #Romania #Elections #FindTruth
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‘Miracle’ of Green Hydrogen Becomes Fading Mirage
Fanciful dreams of green hydrogen powering the future have met reality. The cost of producing this much-hyped fuel will remain prohibitively high for decades to come, crushing hopes of its rapid adoption across industries.
Green hydrogen start-ups are shuttering operations, major projects are being shelved, and investors are retreating from what was once seen as the next frontier in “renewable” energy.
So-called green hydrogen is the form favored by environmentalists promoting the gas. What makes it green in the eyes of enthusiasts is the manufacturing process: the electrolytic splitting of hydrogen atoms from water with wind- or solar-generated electricity.
The latest analyses predict that green hydrogen prices are likely to remain stubbornly high for decades. The goal of achieving production costs below $2 per kilogram – the threshold for competitiveness with fossil fuels – remains far out of reach. In most parts of the world, the economics simply do not add up.
The reasons are multifaceted. One of the fundamental flaws of green hydrogen is its reliance on wind and solar energy that is expensive, intermittent and unreliable.
The story of green hydrogen’s fall from grace is eerily reminiscent of past technological bubbles. We saw similar patterns with first-generation biofuels and concentrated solar power. Each time, the lesson is the same: we must be wary of silver-bullet solutions that promise to solve all our energy challenges without confronting the fundamentals of physics and economics.
#Energy #Hydrogen #FindTruth
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Federal Reserve, BlackRock retreat from climate coalitions as economic realities take precedence
The Fed has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), emphasizing its focus on monetary stability and rejecting the politicization of climate policy, which Fed Chair Jerome Powell argues is outside the central bank’s mandate.
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has left the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM), leading to the suspension of the coalition. This move reflects growing financial and political pressures, particularly from Republican-led states, which accuse BlackRock of prioritizing ESG goals over fiduciary duties.
Major energy corporations like BP and Shell are reducing their climate commitments, focusing on profitability and energy security. This shift highlights the economic challenges of transitioning to renewable energy, which remains dependent on subsidies.
Nations pursuing net-zero goals are experiencing economic repercussions, including rising energy prices and public discontent. The U.S. is projected to spend $825 billion on clean energy subsidies over the next decade, with costs disproportionately affecting working-class households.
The retreat from climate coalitions suggests a need for more realistic and economically viable approaches to energy and environmental challenges. Policymakers are encouraged to prioritize energy reliability, affordability and innovation over ideologically driven mandates.
#USA #Economy #BlackRock #FindTruth
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