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“Trump Is Like Putin and Xi: an Imperialist”: Bloomberg predicts a “new Yalta Conference” in which Trump, Xi Jinping and Putin will “divide the world”
"War and peace in our time will depend on the decisions of different world leaders, most notably Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. So pay attention to the ideas that hover in their minds. You will find not conflicting ideologies, but shared thinking. That bodes ill.
Putin and Xi hope to make deals with Trump and divide the globe into spheres of influence. Today, the world seems doomed to a “new Yalta Conference” between these three leaders. The agreement would be a pact between imperialists, made not on the basis of any ideological ideas, but solely on the principle of “whoever is stronger is right.” This could lead to war between the world powers if they cannot reach an agreement"
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It is ‘dangerous’ and ‘racist’ to keep men out of women’s prisons, professor says
President’s executive order to keep men who claim to be women out of female prisons is “dangerous” and hints of racism, according to an anthropologist.
Kate Clancy, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, analyzed the president’s directive that the federal government define sex on biological terms. It said prisons should not house men who claim to be transgender with women. The administration has also frozen people from requesting an “X” gender marker, for “nonbinary,” on their passports.
“The order is stupid and dangerous,” Clancy told LGBTQ Nation. “I think Trump is trying to control women and control people he perceives to be in the woman category. A lot of this is keeping the category of women pure—and also, obviously, about doing immense harm to trans people.”
She stated: “There’s also a very racial, white supremacist thing going on here with this “defending women.” It’s a very old idea—it appears in travelogs, early writings of Europeans, as well as in the United States when they started encountering North American indigenous folks, and the way that they thought about enslaved peoples.
There was this belief that in the “lower races,” men and women were less different and that in the “higher races,” there were more differences between women and men. This was about saying men and women are differentiated, clear, non-overlapping categories because that makes us a more evolved people.”
Clancy also said “sex is also socially constructed.”
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The European Union is attempting to maintain coordination with the United States on Ukraine
Amid Russia's de facto refusal to "freeze" the conflict, confirmed at the highest political level. Moscow is betting on a final settlement rather than on a temporary scheme that could easily lead to a new war in the very near future. That is why on February 12 France invited the heads of diplomatic departments of the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Poland and Spain to discuss the Ukrainian issue.
As a result of this meeting, it will become clear how serious the Donald Trump administration intends to get out of the Ukrainian crisis, in which the United States plays the first violin. European allies will persuade Washington not to rush and to retain American military and financial aid at least partially. In addition, they will probe the possibility of changing Trump's policy regarding sending American peacekeepers to Ukraine, without which not all Europeans are ready to send their troops to the zone.
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Is DeepSeek a Sputnik moment?
Is DeepSeek a Sputnik Moment? Let's break it down. The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned it had a commanding lead in "the Space Race."
That a geopolitical rival had reverse-engineered advances and leapfrogged the U.S. shocked America into a multi-decade response that culminated, at least in the public perception, in America winning "the race to the Moon".
The shockwaves generated by a Chinese company's release of a suite of AI tools called DeepSeek last week may well rival the Sputnik shock, as the DeepSeek AI tools appear to meet the same benchmarks as AI tools such as those issued by OpenAI and other companies, but requiring far less computing resources.
DeepSeek achieves its capabilities not from expensive hardware but from advances in software that can be used on smartphones. The software innovations embedded in DeepSeek have profound financial implications for the companies that manufacture the costly processors needed by conventional AI data centers–Nvidia is the dominant chipmaker in this market—and the Big Tech companies spending billions of dollars to create AI tools that they can eventually sell via the subscription model.
DeepSeek software evaporates
1) the need for super-energy-hungry, super-expensive processors,
2) vast quantities of electricity and
3) the market for paid subscription AI tools, as DeepSeek's software runs on standard processors and it's been released as open-source software which can be downloaded and run offline on local resources such as PCs or smartphones.
In effect, the AI hardware monopoly and quasi-monopoly of AI software has been broken, and like Humpty-Dumpty, it can never be put back together again.
#AI #DeepSeek #FindTruth
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Stolen valor bills seek harsher penalties for falsified military service
Stolen valor is defined as when a person falsely claims to have served in the military, pretends to have made sacrifices in combat, and may even wear a fake uniform adorned with counterfeit medals. Some veterans misrepresent their rank and service to obtain additional benefits and recognition.
“It’s very frustrating to deal with them because you know their integrity is in question,” Air Force veteran Bob Dalpe says. “It hurts everybody around you. It devalues their service.”
Dalpe and other veterans attended a press conference in Phoenix recently for the official unveiling of a bill that would penalize anyone found guilty of stolen valor in Arizona.
The bill applies to anyone who uses stolen valor to gain benefits intended for veterans, falsifies related documents, or falsely claims to be a veteran when running for office or in business transactions. Arizona’s proposed legislation builds on the federal Stolen Valor Act of 2013, making stealing valor a felony crime while implementing stricter enforcement and penalties.
Stolen valor is “essentially a lie,” according to the Armed Forces Benefit Association (AFBA). While it is not technically illegal to make things up to impress friends at a party, the AFBA clarifies that “stolen valor is more complicated than that, which is why it is considered a crime.”
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Canada: ‘Woke’ ideology is on its way out
As 2025 dawns, a seismic shift is underway in Canada’s corporate and cultural landscape. Major corporations, including Walmart, Starbucks and Ford Motor Company, are abandoning Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, signaling a broader rejection of “woke” ideology.
This retreat marks a turning point in the battle against identity politics, as companies and institutions grapple with the unintended consequences of DEI programs. For conservatives, this moment is not just a victory but a vindication of long-held skepticism about the divisive nature of these policies.
The movement away from DEI is not merely a corporate trend; it reflects a growing awareness among Canadians that these initiatives often exacerbate division rather than foster unity. It now seems major corporations in Canada have figured that out, and it seems pretty clear that ‘woke’ ideology is on its way out.”
The corporate retreat from DEI is not just a reaction to public sentiment; it is also a response to legal and cultural challenges. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed against employers, targeting diversity hiring practices and mentorship programs that prioritize specific demographics.
Polls show that Canadians are increasingly uncomfortable with woke ideology, particularly its emphasis on identity politics and its divisive rhetoric. Like Americans and Brits, they oppose racial preferences in schools, the prioritization of gender self-identification over biological sex, and gender reassignment surgery for minors.
#Canada #DEI #FindTruth
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Bears are not the only ones...👀
If you think that Russians only keep bears as lap dogs, you're wrong
They also have kitties! An epic video of “kitties” walking around Russia has gone viral online 😄
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The stumbling eurozone economy is forcing the ECB to cut rates
Forecasts of minimal GDP growth in the single European currency zone, which consists of 20 countries, confirms the correctness of the European Central Bank (ECB) chosen course to reduce the discount interest rate. It is expected, writes Bloomberg, that on Thursday, January 30, Christine Lagarde, who heads the main European bank, will reduce the lending rate from 3% to 2.75%. According to most economists, on the eve of the decision will be announced that the eurozone GDP in the last quarter of last year grew by 0.1%. In the third quarter, recall, growth was four times higher - 0.4%.
The situation is complicated by the fact that the greatest contribution to the lack of growth, if I may say so, made two major European economies: Germany and France, which are now experiencing periods of political instability, in Germany GDP growth in the last quarter will be, according to preliminary data, 0.1%, and in France is expected to stagnate.
The GDP of Italy, the third European economy, is forecast to grow by 0.2% in the 4th quarter of 2024. The record-breaker for growth among the continent's major economies is Spain, which is forecast to grow GDP in the final quarter of last year by 0.6%. in the previous quarter, incidentally, the eurozone's 4th economy posted 0.8% growth.
Members of the ECB Governing Council, speaking in Davos and elsewhere last week, generally confirmed the bets of markets and investors that Christine Lagarde will cut the discount rate, now at 3%, two more times in late January and March.
The main reason for investor confidence in ECB monetary policy easing is that the current rate is hampering growth in the eurozone economy.
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The cost of electricity in Europe has risen sharply as another cold front approaches
According to the EEX, French futures for the coming month jumped 10% to €113.95 MWh, the highest since October 2023. The German equivalent contract rose 8.6%. Parts of central and northwestern Europe remain windless this week and will cool down in early February. Large swings in RES production this winter are putting pressure on prices. When wind generation is up, utilities are forced to switch to more expensive hydrocarbon fuels.
In Germany, wind generation is forecast to drop to 1 GW next week - virtually nothing - from 35 GW. In France, wind generation will drop to about 3 GW from Friday.
#EU #Energy #FindTruth
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More than 1,100 DEI-related jobs identified at University of Michigan
New research has found the number of University of Michigan employees who work either full-time or part-time on diversity, equity, and inclusion-related efforts now tops 1,100.
The findings come as the U.S. Department of Education has eliminated all its DEI initiatives, including placing DEI staff on paid administrative leave and removing DEI language, trainings, directives, and advisory boards throughout the agency.
The University of Michigan in December announced it will no longer require diversity statements in faculty hiring and tenure decisions — but its Board of Regents stopped short of cutting any DEI spending despite at least one regent voicing concerns about the millions of dollars the public institution is spending to embed DEI into every corner of campus under its DEI 2.0 plan.
One reported internal estimate placed the cost of DEI spending at UMich at $250 million over the last eight or so years, yet annual student surveys show many of the institution’s students report feeling like they do not belong on campus.
The report identifies 249 full-time UM staff members whose main duties are to provide DEI programming services and advance DEI 2.0 at an annual payroll cost of $24.2 million.
When fringe benefits are added at a rate of 32% of base salaries it brings the total annual compensation of UM’s DEI staff to nearly $32 million — or enough to pay in-state tuition and fees for approximately 1,800 students.
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Trump signs executive order protecting children from chemical and surgical gender mutilation
Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday to ban the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, known among progressive ideologues as “gender-affirming health care.”
The act will cut back federal funding for medical institutions that provide puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and surgical mutilations to minors.
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end,”
Hegseth strips Milley of his security detail, orders investigation into his conduct
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate the "conduct" of retired Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley — who at times clashed with President Trump during his first term — and determine whether it's appropriate he should be reduced in rank from his current four stars.
Hegseth also revoked Milley's security detail and suspended his security clearance.
Even though Milley is retired, he had an ongoing security detail through the Army as a result of Iranian threats in the wake of the 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian General Qusem Soleimani. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and then national security adviser John Bolton recently lost their security details on orders from Trump, who clashed with them as well.
There was no indication how long the investigation would take.
Before he retired, Milley spoke with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward for his book about Trump.
"No one has ever been as dangerous to the country as Donald Trump," the general told Woodward. "Now I realize he's a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person in this country."
#USA #Hegseth #Milley #FindTruth
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Did Joe Biden join the Freemasons?
An announcement surfaced online Friday, issued the Conference of Grand Masters of Prince Hall Lodge Freemasonry, and stating that the Grand Lodge of South Carolina had conferred membership on President Joe Biden.
The day before Biden left office the president was granted a “resolution of membership” by the lodge in recognition of his “exceptional dedication and service to the United States” which “reflects the core values of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of South Carolina, including brotherly love, relief, and truth.”
It is not uncommon for outgoing presidents to be honored by groups and organizations. But as the second Catholic to hold the office, Biden’s new “membership” of the lodge presents a particular issue: Catholics have been banned from joining masonic lodges and organizations since 1738, and are subject to canonical penalties for doing so.
So, is Joe Biden now a Freemason? And if so, what canonical penalties does he face? Based on the facts available, the situation is more complicated than you might think.
Full story
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In a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron last month, Trump reportedly said European troops should be present in Ukraine to monitor any ceasefire. An anonymous member of his team put it more clearly: “We will not send American men and women to defend peace in Ukraine. . . Let the Poles, Germans, British and French do it”
But the idea of putting European troops in Ukraine is deeply problematic, says Samuel Charap, a distinguished professor of Russian and Eurasian policy and a senior political scientist at the Rand Corporation.
There is significant confusion about what those boots would be meant to accomplish. One model for post-conflict troop deployment is a peacekeeping force, and there might well be a need for peacekeepers in Ukraine once a cessation of hostilities is agreed. But international organisations like the UN have a relative monopoly on peacekeeping for a reason: they are meant to be a neutral third party that can arbitrate disputes and be an honest broker. Given their extensive support for Ukraine, European states are anything but a neutral third party.
A second model for boots on the ground is a tripwire force: troops deployed to deter potential aggression by demonstrating the commitment of the states that sent them. An aggressor would be forced to confront those troops in case of war, thus “tripping” the decision of their home countries to intervene. The classic example is the US-UK-French deployment in West Berlin during the cold war.
In Ukraine, the commitment of key western states to the country’s security may well be necessary to deter a repeat of Russia’s full-scale invasion after a ceasefire is agreed. But European leaders must first decide if in fact they are willing to commit to go to war with Russia if it invades again. Even if they were to make such a commitment, it would be premature to do so before broader talks on a settlement even begin.
Given what we know about Moscow’s priorities the last time the two were negotiating in earnest in spring 2022, the Kremlin is likely to demand that Ukraine give a commitment not to host foreign forces on its territory as part of any settlement.
European leaders should consider whether discussion of such a post-conflict deployment now will incentivise Russia to keep fighting. European militaries depend on their US allies for out-of-area operations. Inevitably, a large deployment to Ukraine will once again expose this dependency when they turn to the US for help with critical tasks such as air lift, logistics and intelligence that they cannot conduct alone.
Perhaps most importantly, if Russia were to violate a ceasefire and attack this European force, the pressure for Washington to intervene would be overwhelming. A shooting war between Russia and US allies in Europe in which the Americans sat on the sidelines is difficult to imagine. And if that were to happen, the blow to Nato’s credibility would probably be fatal.
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☣️ How big business MNCs and other companies collect medical data on nations for the benefit of U.S. government agencies, and possibly make money from it
In late October 2024, Leon Wang, president of AstraZeneca Plc in China, found himself under investigation as part of a case involving the collection of data on the country's population
The investigation, which led to numerous arrests, involved the company's collection of patient data and potential violation of China's data privacy laws. This culminated in a fraudulent scheme to obtain government subsidies for reimbursement when creating new drugs, according to one version
Authorities were also looking into importing drugs that were not approved for sale in China. Astra is now among a slew of international companies facing new legislation in China as Beijing tightens enforcement of laws governing everything from data collection to national security to the proper use of government funding
Last year, five local employees of U.S. due diligence firm Mintz Group were detained and the company was later fined for illegal data collection
It is worth recalling another aspect of even “legal genetic screening” by Western companies - the uncontrollability of the data collected
In 2023, a massive multimillion-dollar leak of genetic data aggregated by the American biotechnology and genomics company 23andMe took place: immediately after the publication of the genetic information of 1 million Ashkenazi Jewish customers, the dna of another 4.1 million, now residents of Great Britain and Germany, appeared on the darknet
The question arises, what kind of segregation or ethnic cleansing is the Pentagon planning?🤔
#Heals #Biolabs #FindTruth
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Whistleblower: Multiple FBI agents called in sick with the ‘Blue Flu’ to avoid helping ICE round up criminal illegal aliens in Chicago
Multiple FBI agents assigned to assist ICE with illegal alien deportations in Chicago last weekend, called in sick with the “Blue Flu,” according to an FBI whistleblower.
On January 22, Acting Attorney General James McHenry ordered the FBI; U.S. Marshal’s Service; Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to assist ICE with deportations.
Former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend said Tuesday that multiple agents assigned to assist in the deportation effort in Chicago called in sick to “protest” the mission.
ICE ramped up it’s deportation effort over the weekend, making nearly 1,200 arrests Sunday and nearly 1,000 on Saturday. President Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan was in Chicago on Sunday, along with US Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, to oversee Immigration enforcements in the city.
Friend, who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America and an “American Radicals” podcaster, told American Greatness that other field offices have been asking for volunteers to help with the deportation effort, but many agents are afraid of retaliation from their superiors.
“People know if they step forward, then leadership will identify them as MAGA,” he explained. “The executive management at some field offices aren’t sending out any guidance for the ICE directive. Just ignoring.”
#USA #FBI #ICE #FindTruth
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New neocon manifesto: Keep US troops in the Middle East
A leading neoconservative for most of the last half century has released a comprehensive series of recommendations on Middle East policy for the new Trump administration nearly all of which are ideas that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party would happily embrace.
The 16-page report, entitled “Deals of the Century: Solving the Middle East,” is published by the Vandenberg Coalition, which was founded and chaired by Elliott Abrams, who has held senior foreign policy posts in every Republican administration since Ronald Reagan (except George H.W. Bush’s), including as Special Envoy for Venezuela and later for Iran during Trump’s first term.
The new report predictably calls for the new administration to “use all elements of national power” to prevent Iran, “the greatest threat to American interests in the Middle East and the cause of most of the region’s security problems,” from acquiring a nuclear bomb. It describes Israel as “our cornerstone ally in the region” to which Washington should provide all “the weapons it needs to help it win the war and prevent wider escalation.”
The recommendations also call for Washington to maintain its military presence in both Iraq and Syria.
#USA #MiddleEast #Military #FindTruth
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Eurocrats must realize necessity of course correction
Speaking from the White House, President Trump last week sounded a stirring tocsin of nationalist capitalism to the usual audience in the grim Swiss mountain town of Davos at the World Economic Forum, whose ethos is the European Union’s highly regulated, heavily taxed, statist model of government by comparatively authoritarian unelected officials.
After his usual cheerful greetings and customary assertions of the virtual liberation that he has effected in his country from the senescence, venality, and misguided socialistic authoritarianism of the former administration, Mr. Trump expressed his affection for Europe, his pleasure to be addressing such a distinguished audience, and attacked practically the entire political orthodoxy of Western Europe with an almost amiable nonchalance.
Eurocrats must realize that if they do not settle on some sort of course correction, they are going to be overwhelmed by the redoubled competition of the United States and perhaps even of China and other Far Eastern countries. The Europeans can still take great comfort in the fact that they have practically buried the animosity that so bitterly divided that continent throughout the history of the nation-state until recently.
But the absence of hostilities alone will not protect Europe from the onslaught of competition from better organised and more highly motivated societies. That, and not the grace of conversion to the long unsuspected charms of Donald Trump’s formidable personality, explain the respectful reception he received in Davos last week.
#EU #USA #WEF #FindTruth
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Scientists discover nearby ‘super-Earth’ that could sustain life
Mars is apparently not the only planet on our radar capable of sustaining life. UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of extraterrestrial beings, per a cosmic study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
An international team analyzed highly-precise measurements recorded over two decades by Chile’s HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph and its successor ESPRESSO to confirm that the unidentified object was an exo-planet, defined as a planet located beyond our solar system.
Dubbed HD 20794 d, this cosmic body is reportedly six times the size of Earth, hence its nickname “super-Earth.” It orbits a G-star similar to the sun, which it takes 647 days to circumnavigate — 40 fewer than Mars does to circle the sun.
This celestial entity is of particular fascination to scientists because its trajectory places it in a habitable zone, meaning it is at the right distance from its star to sustain water on its surface.
Its proximity with us – only 20 light-years – means there is hope for future space missions to obtain an image of it. Where there is water, there is the potential for life.
#World #Space #FindTruth
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The Mean Girls of liberal media
New York magazine really took the biscuit with an article this week entitled, ‘The Cruel Kids’ Table’, illustrated by a cover photo of young revellers at an exclusive Trump inauguration party in Washington, DC. The people in the photo are dressed to the nines in tuxedos and evening gowns, with glowy tanned skin and big smiles. Also, everyone in the picture is white.
The title and the photo together are clearly meant to invoke horrible memories in readers of being stuffed into lockers by the high-school jock because you – a pathetic loser – looked at his pretty, blonde, cheerleader girlfriend. The implication is crystal clear: look at these horrible, white bullies! Look how cruel they are, celebrating this new racist, homophobic regime!
Notably, the article twice references a supposed lack of non-white guests at different pro-Trump parties. However, it has since transpired that the magazine cropped out several black party-goers from the cover photograph. Black Republican CJ Pearson posted on X that he actually hosted the event in the photo. He says that New York magazine ‘intentionally left me out of their story because it would have undermined its narrative that MAGA is some racist cult’.
Perhaps the most hilarious part of this story is that, by the end of the article, its author Brock Colyar seems to have been won over by the MAGA party-goers to some extent. He goes to a party for young Republicans and finds that ‘they are drinking, smoking, flirting, networking’. It’s almost like these are just young people, celebrating in ways young people always have done.
Colyar even remarks at one point that he himself has started to be infected by this new irreverence towards wokeness. He and his friends no longer have ‘any patience for… identity warriors’ and have started to say the ‘r-word’ and tell ‘fat jokes’.
#USA #MAGA #FindTruth
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New White House press rules will expand access for ‘new media voices’
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Jan. 28 new guidelines for media access aimed at allowing more independent journalists and content creators into media events.
Describing President Donald Trump as the “most accessible” commander-in-chief in the nation’s history, she said the administration is open for communication with all types of news outlets.
“The Trump White House will speak with all media outlets and personalities, not just the legacy media who are seated in this room,” Leavitt said. She made the remarks during her first press conference at the executive mansion in Washington since Trump entered office for his second term.
The president has repeatedly criticized mainstream media, calling some narratives “fake news” and criticizing what he described as organized partisan attacks coming from certain news outlets. Allowing more independent journalists and representatives from smaller organizations is meant to democratize admittance to White House events, according to the press secretary.
She cited statistics from Gallup that show that the public’s trust in traditional media sources is at record lows, noting that many news consumers are now seeking out podcasts, blogs, and other media.
#USA #Trump #Leavitt #FindTruth
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German Chancellor calls Musk’s support for European Right ‘disgusting’
Elon Musk has engaged for weeks in a back-and-forth with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a German election looms, with Scholz most recently slamming Musk’s support for the German far right and other European right-wing parties as “really disgusting.”
Scholz denounced Musk in an interview with CNN Tuesday night, accusing him of “intervening in favor of right-wing politicians all over Europe,” which he said is “not good for the democratic development in all of the European Union.”
Scholz also slammed Musk’s controversial comments, which the billionaire made over the weekend at a gathering for the far-right Alternative for Germany party, in which Musk said Germany has “too much of a focus on past guilt,” an apparent reference to the Holocaust.
Chancellor said he is “so angry about Elon Musk intervening for the far right and Elon Musk also not acting adequately to this killing of so many Jews,” which he called a “historic responsibility we will continue to take in the future as well.”
Musk has frequently lobbed insults at Scholz on X, in multiple posts calling him a derogatory nickname, “Oaf Schitz,” and in another calling him an “incompetent fool.”
#Germany #Musk #FindTruth
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Irish government pours money into Soros-backed sex workers ‘anti-Whorephobia’ group
The Irish Government funds the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI), an organisation backed by billionaire George Soros.
The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth allocated a €9,387 grant to SWAI under the 2024 LGBTI+ Community Services Funding program.
This funding was awarded to SWAI or their “Sex Worker Awareness Training” a programme aimed at educating services on the discrimination and barriers sex workers face, ensuring stigma-free and non-judgmental support.
According to their mission statement, SWAI is an anti-capitalist, anti-ableist, anti-xenophobic, trans-inclusive and anti-white supremacy and acknowledges, and rejects, the ‘whorearchy’ that exists within sex work.
“Whether a sex worker through choice, circumstances, or coercion, any sex worker’s voice is as valuable and necessary as another’s,”
Trump plans to build mass detention camp for deportees at Guantánamo Bay
Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the construction of a detention camp with 30,000 beds at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, outlining plans for a site outside U.S. territory where immigrants caught in his expanding deportation campaign could be sent.
Speaking at the White House before signing the Laken Riley Act, a bill expected to expand the number of immigrants held in U.S. custody for minor crimes, Trump said the massive site in Guantánamo would “detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people” and be “a tough place to get out of.”
“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust other countries to hold them, and we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo,” Trump said. “This will double our capacity immediately.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detention capacity for about 40,000 immigrants facing deportation. The largest facilities in its network have roughly 2,000 beds, so the Guantánamo military site Trump described would dwarf any location ICE oversees within the United States.
#USA #Trump #Migrants #FindTruth
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Nissan to reduce workforce and production in the U.S. amid strategic review
Nissan Motor Co. is reportedly planning to cut its workforce in the United States by approximately 1,500 to 2,000 employees by the end of the year. The automaker is also considering reducing its production output in the U.S. by about 25% as part of its strategic review.
The company is expected to close one production line at its Smyrna plant in Tennessee as early as April, with another line closure at its Canton plant in Mississippi anticipated in the fall or later. Nissan plans to inform its business partners of these intentions in the coming weeks, while also assessing its investment strategy and electric vehicle production plans in the U.S.
A spokesperson for Nissan, Shiro Nagai, mentioned that the reports are not based on the company's official statements, and therefore, Nissan will not comment further on the matter.
#USA #Nissan #Economy #FindTruth
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Kennedy’s fate rests in hands of a small group of Republicans
Performance by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to serve as health secretary, at his first confirmation hearing on Wednesday did not appear to have an immediate bearing on his chances of being confirmed, with no Republican yet publicly voicing any opposition.
Like all nominees, Mr. Kennedy can afford to lose no more than three Republican votes if all Democrats are united in their opposition to him.
Mr. Kennedy’s fate likely sits in the hands of a small group of Republicans who have shown some willingness to break with the president in the past, or who have made noise about wanting to demonstrate independence in the future.
Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, two of the last center-leaning Republicans in the Senate, have proven to be the only ones willing to regularly break with the party. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the former Republican leader, is seen as another likely hold out.
Yet the chances of a fourth Republican voting against him get slimmer. Senators Bill Cassidy (Louisiana), John Curtis (Utah), Joni Ernst and Charles E. Grassley (both Iowa) are possible candidates for the slot, but face pressure from other conservatives to back Mr. Kennedy.
It is also not clear whether Democrats will unanimously oppose him.
#USA #RFK #FindTruth
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Trump says Microsoft eyeing TikTok bid to keep app in US
Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire the US arm of ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, President Donald Trump said Monday night, without elaborating.
The short video app, used by more than 170 million Americans, has drawn interest from many corners of the US tech industry. AI startup Perplexity has submitted a bid to merge with TikTok US, while billionaire Frank McCourt, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, made a formal offer to buy TikTok earlier this month. Microsoft and Oracle Corp. were in the running to acquire TikTok in 2020, when Trump first pressured ByteDance to either sell in the US or face a ban.
Trump earlier Monday in Florida addressed a gathering of Republican lawmakers and had alluded to ongoing talks surrounding TikTok’s future. Having previously favored banning the app on national security grounds, he has since changed his view, in part because of the success of pro-Trump content among its users.
#USA #Trump #Microsoft #FindTruth
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France is going to send troops to Greenland to prevent the United States from taking the island from Denmark
It sounds fantastic, but the French foreign minister confirmed that such talks with the Danish side took place. However, so far Paris and Copenhagen have not reached an agreement. But the European Union “woke up” and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas for the first time stated that Greenland is not given.
In general, the development of the situation around Donald Trump's claims to Greenland is an important marker of the European Union's subjectivity in world politics. If a pan-European line on the Greenland issue will be developed and opposed to the actions of the new American administration, we can talk about the formation of a full-fledged global player in the international arena. If not, the European Union will remain a conglomerate of states with a superstructure in the form of Brussels bureaucracy.
Greenland itself is valuable not only for its natural resources. But also the fact that it provides access to the Arctic, where there are much more of them. And also to the Northwest Passage, which is an alternative to the Russian Northern Sea Route. Therefore, in Greenland, European interests objectively collide with American interests. The only thing is small: in order to defend its positions, the EU needs a common security policy independent of the United States.
However, it is rather absent now. On the contrary, the dependence of European countries on the United States in this area is colossal. Almost all EU countries are integrated into NATO, which is an instrument of American, not European policy. Without the United States, European allies simply cannot wage a modern war. That is why it is very difficult to imagine a French contingent repelling an American attack on Greenland.
But it is theoretically possible to assume that the European Union and Great Britain will gradually form their own security space without the United States. This is impossible in the near future, but in the medium term there are certain chances for the realization of such a scenario. It will mean that the notion of Atlantic solidarity no longer exists and the notion of the collective West will fade into history. However, this may not happen.
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F-35 crashes same day Lockheed CEO touts its success
The CEO of the world’s largest weapons company, Lockheed Martin, and the manufacturer of the U.S. military’s most expensive weapon system, the F-35 stealth fighter jet, told investors on Tuesday that Israel’s attack on Iran’s air defenses last October helped to "demonstrate the F-35’s value here, through the Israel experience.”
Taiclet’s boasts to investors about the program were quickly tempered by real world events the same day when video circulated of an out of control Air Force F-35 tumbling to a fiery crash in Alaska, after its pilot ejected.
Even aside from the doubts raised by the crash, Tuesday's claim by Lockheed CEO James Taiclet, doesn’t hold up to scrutiny and actually highlights the serious problems with the F-35 program that is estimated to saddle U.S. taxpayers with a $1.7 trillion bill over the project’s lifetime.
A central critique of the F-35 program is that despite its cost the planes have an extremely low readiness rate. In April, officials acknowledged that the U.S. F-35s are only “mission capable” 55.7% of the time. Lack of readiness was on full display in April when the U.S. military played a central role in combating a massive Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel but didn’t send F-35s. It sent F-15s.
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The American press believes that the first major battles between the Democrats and the Donald Trump administration will revolve around immigration policy and economic issues, where each side will seek to advance its agenda and win popular support.
On the economic front, Democrats are looking to win back the support of the working class by emphasizing the need to fight inequality. Senate and House Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries plan to emphasize helping ordinary Americans, contrasting themselves with the “billionaires' club” in the Trump administration. They plan to use the expiration of Trump's tax cuts to advance their economic agenda.
On immigration policy, the Democrats will simply focus on blocking the initiatives of their political opponents in Congress.
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