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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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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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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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“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"
#USA #Trump #FindTruth
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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.”
#USA #LGBT #FindTruth
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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.
#EU #USA #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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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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