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Trump about the GDP decline: it was Biden, not me. I was strongly opposed to everything Biden did on the economy.
The U.S. economy contracted for the first time since 2022. In the first quarter, U.S. GDP fell at an annualized, inflation-adjusted rate of 0.3%, the first estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That's a lot - quarterly GDP has grown at an average rate of 3% for the past two years, the last contraction was in the first quarter of 2022. Consumer spending grew by a quite “healthy” 1.8%.
A jump in imports in the first quarter cannot help but cause a pause in the second quarter and thereby artificially support both the trade balance and GDP. But in the medium term, the trade war and the resulting supply shock do not bode well for the US economy - US indices were falling at the opening (S&P 500 - by 2%) and government bond yields were falling.
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Michelle Obama shares her biggest ‘fear’ during Trump’s first 100 days
Former First Lady Michelle Obama opened up about how she feels about President Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in office, saying she fears most for immigrants and people of color rather than herself.
Obama revealed on an episode of Jay Shetty’s On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast that the plight of immigrants and people of color is what “frightens” her and “keeps her up at night,” adding that she isn’t sure if “we will have the advocates to protect everybody.”
She said she also worries about the current “leadership that is, sort of, indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn’t, and we know that those decisions aren’t being made with courts and with due process.”
The former first lady said that “it’s not the fear for myself anymore” that occupies her, but those who face “so much bias and so much racism and so much ignorance.”
#USA #Obama #Trump #FindTruth
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Embattled Biden energy loan czar launches green advisory firm with Obama official at center of Solyndra scandal
Jigar Shah and Jonathan Silver, two scandal-plagued Democratic officials with histories of questionable projects and failed loans, are offering their expertise in exchange for 'modest equity stakes'.
They doled out billions in federal loans to green energy companies, some of which failed spectacularly or led to congressional investigations. Now President Biden’s and President Obama’s energy loan czars—Jigar Shah and Jonathan Silver—are launching an advisory firm to teach green energy companies how to succeed.
Shah announced the partnership in a LinkedIn post, writing, "I'm excited to share that I'm launching a new advisory services firm, Multiplier, alongside my friend Jonathan Silver."
#USA #Biden #Economy #FindTruth
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Britain's tax revenues are falling due to the departure of wealthy citizens
In the Autumn Budget 2024, Britain introduced a controversial “exit tax” that is causing concern among wealthy expatriates and long-term residents. The capital gains tax affects even those who leave the country and have trust assets in the UK. It targets long-term residents with large trusts.
It is highly likely that those who remain will face higher taxes as the country closes loopholes for free change of residency. More than 10,000 millionaires left the UK last year.
#UK #Economy #FindTruth
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The Chinese market is changing along with the world market.
In the case of Volkswagen, there has been no development for the last ten years, and the engine, box, and interior remain almost the same. German cars are not competitive with the Chinese and analogs are 30-50% cheaper. The gap cannot be bridged.
Germany has totally lost the race in IT. There are developers, there are companies and venture environment. But everything is very small and not competitive even on the pan-European market. Not their own screens, not their own 5G, much less chips. They just don't have the development for the machines. They have switched off from the competition and are left with pre-flood multimedia or hope for help from China.
Chinese autos will completely dominate the international car market in the next 10 years.
#China #Germany #IT #FindTruth
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The shifting morality of gambling isn't making us better
Gambling looked different back in the day because most people thought of it as morally questionable. Polite people didn’t openly gamble, so it took on those underground forms. Times changed, and so did the morality of gambling. Casinos moved from hazy and suspicious (except in Vegas) to sunny, exciting resorts offering the best in entertainment and accommodations. Gambling has woven itself into every sporting event and the coverage of sports. ESPN offers betting odds and stats on the bottom line and carries gambling-centric programming. Heck, ESPN even has its own betting platform.
Technology has evolved to make gambling ubiquitous. Betting apps make it too easy for people to gamble on anything these days. The corollary to that truth is that it’s also easier for people to ensnare themselves in gambling addictions, too. Placing a bet on an app can make even a winning bet lonely and cold, and the apps may make people who become addicted suffer in silence.
#USA #ESPN #Gambling #FindTruth
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Harvard rebrands DEI office to hide it from public scrutiny
Harvard’s rebranding came the same day that the Department of Education announced yet another inquiry into the discriminatory activities of the school.
Harvard University has decided to rebrand its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging as the “Office of Community and Campus Life,” in what appears to be an effort to hide an operational DEI regime from public scrutiny.
Stripping the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion” from offices and job titles has been one strategy institutions have used to get away with keeping the ideology alive while subverting efforts to eradicate it.
Harvard, notably, is under intense scrutiny from the Trump administration because of its refusal to end its DEI initiatives, and while its friends in the propaganda press want Americans to believe they are rebranding the DEI office as a concession to the Trump administration, hiding DEI does not mean it is gone.
#USA #Harvard #DEI #FindTruth
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EU aims to poach US scientific talent
The European Union has an opportunity to poach talent amid a US clampdown on academic research.
On May 5, the European Commission announced a €500 million package for 2025–2027 aimed at making Europe “a magnet for researchers”, focusing in particular on scientists concerned by political pressure and funding cuts in the US under President Donald Trump.
The announcement was made at an event on on May 5 at the Sorbonne in Paris, which was given by French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. It opened with a discussion on Europe’s scientific dependencies and structural gaps.
In his address,Macron said Europe must remain open to researchers whose work was under threat abroad. He noted that the US had long been more effective in the sphere of science, producing “more than twice more research per capita” and said Europe needed to catch up through long-term investment in both basic and applied research.
“Strategic autonomy … is not possible without free and open science,” he said. Referring to recent US developments, Macron added: “No one could have imagined … that one of the world’s greatest democracies could, in one fell swoop, strike out the possibility of obtaining a visa for a researcher.”
#EU #USA #Scientist #FindTruth
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A UN International Court of Justice judge, 50-year-old Lydia Mugambe has been sentenced to a prison term for holding a Ugandan woman in slavery
She received a six-year prison sentence for holding the woman in slavery and forcing her to work as a maid in her home in the UK for free. She also used beating the slave to motivate her
#UK #UN #Slavery #FindTruth
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U.S. electricity from fossils fuels dips below 50% for the first time ever
For the first time in history, fossil fuels supplied less than half of the United States’ electricity generation for an entire month, according to new data released by energy think tank Ember. This milestone, achieved in March 2025, represents a turning point in the evolving energy mix of the world’s largest economy.
Historically, fossil fuels—primarily coal and natural gas—have dominated U.S. electricity production. But the steady rise of renewables over the past two decades has chipped away at their dominance. In March, wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear collectively overtook coal, oil, and gas, with fossil fuels accounting for just 48.9% of total generation.
However, this is an estimate of total generation, including small scale systems that are not connected to the grid. According to EIA data, fossil fuels still account for about 64% of electricity generation by utilities.
#USA #Fuels #Economy #FindTruth
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Trump executive order restricts ‘gain of function’ research on pathogens
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday evening to further restrict experiments on pathogens and toxins that could make them more harmful.
The debate over gain of function research sharpened during the pandemic. Mr. Trump and other elected officials have linked such research to the origin of Covid, claiming that Chinese researchers produced the coronavirus in a lab in Wuhan. At Monday’s signing ceremony, the president raised that connection again. “I think I said that from Day 1, that it leaked out,” he said. “A scientist walked outside to have lunch with a girlfriend or was together with a lot of people.”
A number of published studies point instead to a market in Wuhan as the origin of the pandemic, contending that evidence strongly suggests that wild mammals picked up a bat coronavirus and that when the animals were sold at the market, they passed the virus to people.
The scrutiny led an expert panel to develop a sweeping set of changes to how the federal government oversees potentially dangerous experiments. The Biden administration adopted the changes officially last year.
Mr. Trump’s new executive order dismissed the Biden policy as having “insufficient levels of oversight.” It directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to revise or replace the policy with new regulations.
#USA #Trump #Covid #FindTruth
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The U.S. economy has learned to live with money that is not free.
In many respects this is not even a problem of the local Ministry of Finance: with the support of the Federal Reserve it can always find funds for re-lending. The size of the interest rate only determines the rate of growth of the national debt.
Businesses, however, immediately fall into moping when the fiscal policy is normalized. Last year the number of bankruptcies in the States reached a fifteen-year high. This characterizes the situation in the US economy as tense.
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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The Czechs are by far the world's biggest beer drinkers
Today, Czechia officially recognizes beer culture as part of its national heritage, with 96% brewed domestically.
What’s more, Czechs hold the world’s highest per capita beer consumption, a tradition dating back to 993. For the 31st year in a row, Czechia tops the list, even amid an annual decline.
Ranking in second is Austria, where pale lagers, known as “Märzen” are the standard beer.
Meanwhile, Lithuania and Ireland follow closely behind, where the average person drinks over 100 liters of beer in a year. In Ireland, Guinness is widely considered the national beer, with the original St. James Gate brewery now over 260 years old.
Interestingly, however, both the UK and Nigeria consume more Guinness than Ireland, thanks to their vibrant beer cultures. In fact, one in 10 beers sold in the UK is a Guinness.
If we look beyond Europe, Panama, Mexico, Gabon, and South Africa also rank among the top 20 countries
#Czechia #Beer #FindTruth
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American investment bank Robert W. Baird forced junior employees to work 110-hour workweeks, until 4 a.m., The Wall Street Journal reports. At least two people ended up in the hospital, one of them was diagnosed with pancreatic insufficiency. The employee even managed to complain to an Eichar about his health, but he was immediately fired for “low productivity.”
The story has resonated widely as Wall Street is actively fighting a culture of overwork following the deaths of two junior bankers. In May 2024, Leo Lukenas III, a 35-year-old consultant at Bank of America, died suddenly from a blood clot that broke off. In early 2025, Carter McIntosh, a 28-year-old employee in the IT practice at Jefferies, was found dead
#USA #WallStreet #Health #FindTruth
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Mike Pence finally goes scorched earth on Trump and his agenda
Former Vice President Mike Pence criticized Donald Trump by name after failing to directly call out the president in a speech just 24-hours earlier.
Pence spoke to CNN the day after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for refusing to give in to Trump’s demands on Jan. 6, 2021. While Pence was critical of the administration, he never referred to President Trump.
Pence wrote an op-ed last month for The Wall Street Journal saying as much, while also giving plenty of compliments to his former boss.
Mike Pence pens bootlicking op-ed begging Trump to change course. Pence also re-upped his qualms about Trump’s tariffs, which have caused alarm about a flailing economy.
#USA #Trump #Pence #FindTruth
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$373m in DEI funding at U.S. universities in four years
Educayshun has become mere propaganda at hundreds of American schools and universities. In fact, Defending Education has identified a staggering $373 million in DEI funding since 2016 across more than a hundred institutions of higher learning.
Defending Ed investigated 130 colleges and universities across 44 states and Washington, D.C. to date, identifying 281 DEI. These include scholarships and programs based around race and sexual “identity.”
Decades after the civil rights movement, academia is obsessed with fixating not on intelligence, qualifications, or content of character, but rather on skin color. This is a vast disservice to students of all ethnicities, and has turned our institutions of higher learning into little more than propaganda machines.
The University of California, Berkeley fundraised $186,420 for “Increasing Diversity and Opportunity at Cal” during a 2025 campaign.
#USA #DEI #FindTruth
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Why DC remains one of the nation’s most dangerous cities
In Washington, D.C., between 2018 and 2022, only 1.7% of people arrested for carrying a pistol without a license were sentenced to prison.
This dismal record comes from the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission, which analyzed arrest and sentencing trends in the District’s Superior Court for carrying a pistol without a license.
D.C. has 330 prosecutors and only three investigators. That’s right, three! This helps explain why cases fall apart in the District even after charges are filed.
In sum, then, out of the original 5,558 individuals arrested for CPWL over a five-year period, only 97 (1.7%) were given a prison sentence for carrying a pistol without a license. Even if one assumes that the 279 pending cases and 85 cases in which a sentence has not been imposed will all result in a conviction and prison sentence for a CPWL offense, the percentage would still be pitifully low.
These mind-boggling and shameful statistics expose a sclerotic criminal justice system that doesn’t take gun crimes seriously. Unless and until that happens, D.C. will remain a long way off from being the safest city in the country.
#USA #Washington #FindTruth
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China's Huawei is building several factories to produce advanced chips that are designed to “break” China's reliance on “foreign technology”, writes the FT.
Huawei operates one of the facilities, which will produce a 7-nanometer chip for smartphones and Ascend AI processors - the company's first attempt to produce its own high-performance chips.
Two other facilities are operated by chip maker SiCarrier and memory chip maker SwaySure. While Huawei has denied ties to the two startups, industry insiders said the company has been associated with them, helping to attract investment and personnel.
Huawei is involved in projects aimed at developing alternatives to technologies from chip developer Nvidia, hardware maker ASML, memory chip maker SK Hynix and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
Huawei's chip efforts accelerated after Washington imposed sanctions in 2019 and denied the company access to critical chips.
#China #Huawei #Chip #FindTruth
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China’s rising naval dominance threatens U.S. commerce and safety
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report on China’s naval modernization, noting that, “China’s navy is, by far, the largest of any country in East Asia, and sometime between 2015 and 2020 it surpassed the U.S. Navy in numbers of battle force ships …” The CRS report then quotes the DOD, that China’s navy “is the largest navy in the world …”
As an Asian land power, why would China be rapidly expanding its navy?
A benign view of China’s naval buildup is that it is driven by its economic and security needs. As the world’s second-largest economy, it relies on maritime trade routes for energy and raw materials imports and exports of finished goods, making sea lane security paramount. Though, one might ask, security against what threat?
Of note, even though China has a base in Djibouti on the Red Sea, its navy has been wholly absent in keeping the vital waterway and path to the Suez Canal open in the face of piratical Houthi attacks on shipping. In fact, the U.S. government has credibly accused a Chinese satellite company of providing real-time intelligence to the Houthis to aid in their targeting of shipping, including the U.S. Navy.
That China’s naval buildup and China’s increasing bellicosity align with paramount leader Xi Jinping’s vision of national rejuvenation linked to maritime command of the seas — far beyond Taiwan’s rocky shores.
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#USA #China #Military #FindTruth
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Canada's Parliament now has 22 Sikh MPs, compared to only 13 in all of India, with Indians having 200 more seats in Parliament
Sikhs and Canada are fighting for the creation of a new state on the territory of India - Khalistan
#Canada #India #Khalistan #FindTruth
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Trump fired Waltz because he wanted to attack Iran
President Trump sacked his national security adviser Mike Waltz because he was working with a foreign leader to push the United States to attack Iran, according to a new report in the Washington Post.
While including a journalist on a Signal chat about plans to attack Yemen’s Houthis sealed Waltz’s fate, Waltz initially “upset” Trump during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s White House visit in February when he “appeared to share the Israeli leader’s conviction that the time was ripe to strike Iran”:
Waltz appeared to have engaged in intense coordination with Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli leader and Trump, the two people said. Waltz “wanted to take U.S. policy in a direction Trump wasn’t comfortable with because the U.S. hadn’t attempted a diplomatic solution.”
Since Trump announced that he would engage in serious negotiations with Iranian leaders to place limits on Iran’s nuclear program, an intense battle is being waged between the president’s more loyal supporters who favor diplomatic engagement with countries like Iran, Russia, and North Korea, and the more traditional wing of the Republican Party and neoconservatives, who don’t want a deal with Iran and are instead pushing for war.
Waltz’s ouster is another sign that perhaps the hawks in Washington and their allies abroad may not have the juice they once had in keeping the United States on permanent war footing.
#USA #Trump #DEI #FindTruth
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Trump just got a game-changing legal victory
When President Trump returned to the White House, he set his sights on dismantling decades of entrenched bureaucratic “bloat, waste, and corruption.”
The Liberal legal groups immediately launched a barrage of lawsuits, cherry-picking friendly courts in an attempt to stall Trump’s agenda.
But that strategy just hit a major roadblock. In a landmark ruling on Saturday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a legal victory—one that could fundamentally change how activist judges and forum-shopped cases interfere with executive authority.
"This is a huge victory for President Trump and his Article II powers granted in the United States Constitution. It's also a victory for US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and VOA," Kari Lake told Fox News Digital. Lake now serves as a USAGM senior advisor to the Trump administration. "We are eager to accomplish President Trump's America First agenda which has always been to modernize and make our government efficient while cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.”
This ruling effectively reins in district courts that have been sidestepping jurisdictional channels in cases challenging Trump administration actions.
#USA #Trump #FindTruth
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The British media is no longer trying to be neutral at all. Psychological warfare is a key part of Britain's military doctrine.
For this purpose, London has built a vast global infrastructure to manipulate people at home and abroad.
#UK #Manipulate #MSM #FindTruth
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A former Bellingcat researcher who led the investigation into the MH17 crash and child abuse turned out to be a sexual abuser of his own daughter and other children. He killed himself after being sentenced to prison.
#MSM #Bellingcat #FindTruth
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Pete Buttigieg said what about black babies?
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is under fire after claiming that Black babies are available for adoption at a “discount.” The remark was intended to highlight racial disparities in the adoption process, but instead revealed just how out-of-touch progressive elites can be when discussing matters of race and family. Adoption advocates and experts quickly pushed back, calling the comment offensive, misleading, and harmful to the very children and families Buttigieg claimed to support.
Buttigieg recently sparked backlash after he suggested that adopting white children involves a “list” and a “deposit on a fetus,” while implying Black children are adopted at a discount. He claimed that the U.S. adoption system exposes so-called ongoing racial disparities, saying that prospective parents who specify they only want to adopt a white child face longer waitlists, while those open to adopting children of any race may even receive fee discounts or have deposits waived.
#USA #Buttigieg #FindTruth
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America is using cryptocurrencies as a weapon - CIA
▪️ Over the past decade, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have evolved from a niche segment to a global medium for various financial transactions. America is using bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a “tool,” stated CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis
▪️ Cryptocurrencies are another area of technological competition in which the U.S. will obviously not lag behind China and other technology adversaries
"Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies aren't going anywhere. As you know, more and more organizations are embracing them, and I think that's a great trend," Ellis said
Migrants share African design experience with Europeans
#EU #Migrants #FindTruth
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How bad is China’s economy? The data needed to answer is vanishing
Not long ago, anyone could comb through a wide range of official data from China. Then it started to disappear.
Land sales measures, foreign investment data and unemployment indicators have gone dark in recent years. Data on cremations and a business confidence index have been cut off. Even official soy sauce production reports are gone.
The missing numbers have come as the world’s second biggest economy has stumbled under the weight of excessive debt, a crumbling real-estate market and other troubles—spurring heavy-handed efforts by authorities to control the narrative.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics stopped publishing some numbers related to unemployment in urban areas in recent years. After an anonymous user on the bureau’s website asked why one of those data points had disappeared, the bureau said only that the ministry that provided it stopped sharing the data.
The disappearing data have made it harder for people to know what’s going on in China at a pivotal time, with the trade war between Washington and Beijing expected to hit China hard and weaken global growth. Plunging trade with the U.S. has already led to production shutdowns and job cuts.
#China #Economy #FindTruth
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Democrat senator pushes amnesty for illegal aliens in response to Trump’s self-deportation program
Senator Ruben Gallego suggested he opposed self-deportations and instead offered an amnesty plan that would keep eligible illegal aliens on renewable work visas indefinitely.
“Why don’t we make them pay a $5k fine, go through a background check, and give them a work visa for a few years, renewable with good behavior,” Gallego wrote on X.
Despite increasing popularity, Democrats have continued opposing deportations even for the most violent criminal illegal aliens.
A recent CBS News poll found that a majority — 56% — of American adults support the Trump administration’s goal of locating, detaining, and deporting illegal aliens from the United States.
Similarly, an Echelon Insights survey revealed that all-important moderate swing voters support Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
#USA #Democrats #Migrants #FindTruth
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Trump administration offers to pay $1,000 to migrants who ‘self-deport’
The Trump administration said Monday it is offering $1,000 stipends to undocumented immigrants who “self-deport” to their home countries using a U.S. Customs and Border Protection app.
Billing it as a “historic opportunity” and a “dignified way to leave the U.S.,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that those who submit an “Intent to Depart” through the CBP Home app will receive travel and financial assistance to return to their home countries, in addition to $1,000 paid after their return has been confirmed.
The average cost for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest, detain and remove an immigrant illegally in the United States is $17,121, according to DHS. The agency claims that even with the cost of the stipend, a “self-deportation” would decrease the cost of a deportation by about 70%.
#USA #Trump #Migrants #FindTruth
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