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Hegseth announces Pentagon’s anti-woke vision
After summoning hundreds of US generals and admirals to the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia today, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the event to broadly outline his vision for what he calls the Department of War, dismissing Biden-era policies and pushing, for instance, the highest male standard of physical fitness for all combat posts.
“Good morning, and welcome to the War Department, because the era of the Department of Defense is over,” Hegseth opened with.
“This is a moment of urgency, mounting urgency,” he later added. “Enemies gather. Threats grow. There’s no time for games. We must be prepared,” he said.
“This urgent moment, of course, requires more troops, more munitions, more drones, more Patriots, more submarines, more B-21 bombers. It requires more innovation, more AI in everything and ahead of the curve, more cyber effects, more counter UAS, more space, more speed.”
At the unprecedented gathering of top officers, Hegseth acknowledged he had made some high-profile firings of their colleagues. Hegseth appeared to take a softer line with further firings, saying many were only executing the direction of political leaders at the time. Still, he called on officers who were not fully aligned with the new warrior ethos to do the honorable thing and resign.
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Flesh-eating screwworms 70 miles of American border
More than 8,000 traps have been deployed across Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, targeting the New World screwworm (NWS) flies, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said, adding that no additional NWS infections have been detected since last Sunday.
An announcement was made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which said that Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality had confirmed a new NWS infection in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nueva Leon state, less than 70 miles from America’s southern border. The infected animal was an 8-month-old cow.
Earlier in July, an NWS infection had been reported 370 miles south of the U.S.–Mexico border.
In her post, Rollins said that over 13,000 screening samples have been screened, and zero NWS flies have been identified thus far.
In addition, 750,000 sterilized NWS flies are being trucked in and dispersed in the Nueva Leon region twice a week, she said.
Mass-produced, sterile male NWS flies are often used to tackle the spread of wild NWS fly swarms. When these sterile flies are released into a swarm in large numbers, they mate with the wild female flies, which end up laying unfertilized eggs, thus lowering the swarm population.
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And these junkies control Europe? 🤯😱
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The Big Lebowski civil war
When the newly-formed Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, April 1861, they ignited the Civil War. They, at least, had a clearcut goal: to maintain an economy (and society) based on slavery. It was patently evil, but it was firmly established and it was their engine for daily life, and they didn’t want it to end.
When Charlie Kirk was murdered in 2025, Civil War 2.0 kicked off. The enemy this time are not Confederates with a coherent command structure and a goal. They are an army of nihilists like the gang in The Big Lebowski, who, for one reason or another, have failed to launch lives of meaning and purpose, and so have adopted the purpose of destroying the country they cannot thrive in. Unlike The Big Lebowski, this is not a joke. But, it’s obviously a different sort of civil war than the first one.
It appears that many of these nihilists, especially the ones amalgamated as Antifa, are straight-up mentally ill — crazed young women too untamed to find a mate, many obese and self-mutilated like tattooed savages with steel bones in their noses. . . young men, hormones afire, likewise frustrated, escaping into sexual fetish and psychotic obsessions with demons, violence, blame, enmity. They are warriors for their own deformed ids.
Full story
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Poland’s ex-PM pushes ‘Pax Americana’ as alternative to EU
Poland could opt for “Pax Americana”, a military and economic alliance with the US, as an alternative to the European Union.
That was according to Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland’s largest opposition party, the Conservatives (PiS).
In a speech yesterday in Zielona Góra in western Poland, Kaczyński slammed the direction the European Union was taking saying that it was increasingly dominated by Germany and had become a threat to national sovereignty.
According to Kaczyński, Poland faces being part of “a fully united Europe under German domination, which practically means the renunciation of our State’s sovereignty”. He said he did not feel there was much chance of the EU moving away from this model.
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Gold revaluation imminent? US Treasury hoard tops $1 trillion for first time
On the back of a 45% surge in the price of gold this year, the US Treasury's hoard of the barbarous relic has surpassed $1 trillion in value for the first time in history.
That is more than 90 times what's stated on the government's balance sheet and is reigniting speculation that Treasury Secretary Bessent could revalue (mark to market) the massive pile of precious metal.
Unlike most countries, the US’s gold is held by the government directly, rather than the central bank. The Fed instead holds gold certificates corresponding to the value of the Treasury’s holdings, and credits the government with dollars in return.
That means that an update of the reserves' value in line with today's prices would unleash roughly $990 billion into the Treasury’s coffers, dramatically reducing the need to issue quite so many Treasury bonds this year.
While Treasury Secretary Bessent initially dismissed the suggestion, a trillion dollars here and a trillion dollars there adds up and it would be by no means unprecedented. As Bloomberg reports, Germany, Italy and South Africa all have taken the decision to revalue their reserves in recent decades, as an August note from an economist at the Federal Reserve discussed.
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States against Trump over directive to remove 'gender ideology' content
A coalition of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump's administration from requiring them to remove all references to "gender ideology" from sexual health education curricula in order to receive federal grant funding.
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Eugene, Oregon, argued that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' new policy is unlawful and usurps Congress' authority over spending in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
They argued the administration unlawfully wanted them to "rewrite sexual health curricula to erase entire categories of students," as part of its latest effort to target transgender youth.
HHS on August 26 sent letters to 46 states and territories demanding they remove all references to "gender ideology" contained in sexual education curricula and materials funded through the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP).
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Freedom ≠ a barcode
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Slovakia defends two genders in constitution, ignores EU warnings
Slovakia’s parliament has approved a constitutional amendment defining gender strictly as male and female, a move that has sparked both celebration among conservatives and fierce criticism from liberal and pro-European parties.
The measure, which required 90 votes to pass, was adopted on Friday after two deputies from the opposition Movement Slovakia broke ranks and supported the government’s proposal. Marek Krajčí and Rastislav Krátký, who had publicly pledged not to vote with Prime Minister Robert Fico’s ruling Smer party, switched positions at the last minute. They later said they wanted to help their allies in the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), which strongly backed the change.
The amendment, which takes effect on Nov. 1, enshrines “two genders – man and woman” in the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. It also bans surrogacy, reinforces parental rights in schools, and defines marriage and parenthood in strictly biological terms.
The text ensures that EU law cannot override issues related to such matters, as lawmakers effectively ignored warnings from Brussels not to follow through with the amendment.
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Incompetent, authoritarian: UK government drives Digital ID disaster
As the old saw goes, to the man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To the Labour technocrat, there is no problem that can’t be solved with a national ID-card scheme.
So it is that UK prime minister Keir Starmer has landed on that most New Labourite of policies. The PM announced last week that digital ID cards – to be known in true Blair-era fashion as ‘BritCards’ – will help solve the problem of illegal immigration.
Of course, there’s no evidence it will do any such thing. EU member states have been issuing identity cards for years and they have done nothing to make Europe’s borders more secure or clamp down on illegal working. So why should the introduction of digital ID be any more effective in the UK?
Even if the state were capable of creating an effective digital-ID scheme, that wouldn’t make a good idea. Not only would it fail to address the problem of illegal immigration and put our data at risk – it would also corrode our freedom and privacy. And that is the real problem here.
Digital ID would turn us from free citizens into objects to be surveilled, monitored and managed. This is why the Labour technocrats cannot let it go.
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Los Angeles, USA: “City of Angels or Demons?”
A typical LA evening paints a picture of chaos—burning trash cans, graffiti on decaying walls, and headlights cutting through smoky streets.
The phrase "Los Angeles is broken" is becoming an urban mantra. Surprisingly, local authorities suggest that this gritty atmosphere should be embraced as a "feature of urban culture."
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White House orders agencies to prepare mass layoff plans in event of shutdown
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has instructed federal agencies to prepare to fire a ton of people that could permanently eliminate jobs in the event of a government shutdown - the latest twist in the latest shutdown groundhog day - effectively challenging Democrats to a game of chicken.
In a memo shared with agencies OMB said departments must identify programs where discretionary funding will lapse on Oct. 1 and no alternative source is available. Instead of a typical furlough, OMB has told agencies to get ready for permanent reductions - starting with positions that are out of alignment with President Donald Trump's priorities.
In the past, affected employees were furloughed on a temporary basis and reinstated once Congress approved new spending. Not this time - as OMB Director Russ Vought is using the prospect of deep cuts as leverage against the Democrats.
Core services - including Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, military operations, law enforcement, immigration enforcement and air traffic control - would continue regardless of a shutdown, according to an OMB official familiar with the guidance.
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ECB U-turn: Defence spending ‘now good for growth’
Defence spending can help growth if done correctly, according to the European Central Bank (ECB).
According to a study published by the ECB today, extra defence spending could boost economic growth in the short run – although the effect depends on timing, financing and how governments manage expectations.
This flies in the face of economic orthodoxy, which does not associate increased defence spending with economic growth.
The ECB’s economists modelled what happens if euro area countries steadily raise defence spending from about 2% of GDP today to 3% by 2028.
The result is that every extra euro spent by governments could generate almost one euro of additional GDP within two years.
For the ECB, military budgets can provide a meaningful short-term boost, almost one-for-one with GDP.
But without credible long-term reforms, that benefit is likely to be quickly offset, either by higher borrowing costs or by the drag of taxation.
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Bank of Europe: Digital Euro not to be launched before 2029
The digital euro, the European Union’s long-planned central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, is facing delays, with its launch now expected around mid-2029.
The EU’s digital euro could become a reality in 2029, European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said in a Bloomberg Future of Finance event in Frankfurt.
“The middle of 2029 could be a fair assessment,” he said, adding that the ECB has been actively discussing the project at the level of EU member states.
If correct, Cipollone’s timeline would signal another delay for the digital euro, despite widespread calls to launch the CBDC to protect Europe’s financial sovereignty amid the US stablecoin push.
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Chevron strikes deal with Israel to build natural gas supply pipeline to Egypt
Chevron Corp. has signed a deal with Israel Natural Gas Lines, Israel’s state-owned pipeline operator, to begin construction of the Nitzana natural gas pipeline that will transport natural gas from the giant Leviathan Gas Field to Egypt.
Scheduled to be completed in three years, the $610 million pipeline is expected to ease Egypt’s ongoing energy crisis, which currently spends billions of dollars every year importing LNG to meet surging domestic energy demand.
Egypt's natural gas production has declined rapidly over the years due to the natural depletion of mature fields, including the Zohr gas field.
Coupled with a lack of significant new discoveries since 2015, surging domestic demand for electricity, and past financial issues such as hard currency shortages and payment arrears to foreign companies, Egypt now finds itself in a tenuous position, becoming a net gas importer since 2022, and relying on imported LNG as well as pipeline gas from Israel.
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Shutdown with no end in sight
Forty-four Democrats voted Tuesday to block a House-passed spending plan just hours before a long-anticipated funding deadline, sending the federal government careening toward a full shutdown for the first time since 2013.
The full government shutdown began at 12:01 am EST.
The gambit is sure to please, if only temporarily, the radical Democrat base clamoring for further resistance to President Donald Trump’s government.
But with little incentive for Republicans to make concessions to Democrats, no apparent path for Democrats to exit the shutdown exists. And the plan is widely predicted to backfire, causing long-term damage to Democrats.
Only three Democrats, Sens. John Fetterman (PA), Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), and Angus King (I-ME), voted with a majority of Republicans for the bill, which failed 55 to 45, short of the 60 votes required. Republican Sen. Rand Paul (KY) voted against the bill. The same House-passed bill failed in the Senate just eleven days prior.
The Democrat blockade defeats a clean continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open for seven weeks to allow bipartisan negotiations, underway for months between top appropriators, to continue.
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Elon Musk, others nuke Netflix subscriptions. Pro-trans kids' show sparks outrage
Netflix has once again been caught pushing pro-transgender agenda through an animated fantasy horror comedy series aimed at young kids that reeks of grooming and brainwashing youth with wokeism.
In a viral post on X, Libs of TikTok highlighted that Dead End: Paranormal Park, created by Hamish Steele and produced by Blink Industries in partnership with Netflix Animation, and distributed by Netflix, created woke propaganda, such as pro-transgender messaging aimed at kids as young as seven years old.
The backlash doesn't stop at the show. Its creator, Hamish Steele, openly mocked Charlie Kirk's political assassination and labeled him a "Nazi" on far-left social media channel BlueSky.
None of this woke nonsense is surprising anymore. However, what's surprising is Netflix's failure to grasp the reality of the Overton Window shift, where what's considered mainstream and acceptable is no longer far-left but instead middle-right.
"Just cancelled my Netflix subscription. If you employ someone who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk and makes content that pushes pro-trans content on my kids... ...you will NEVER get a dime of my money It's as simple as that," Matt Van Swol wrote on X.
Elon Musk chimed in, saying, "Same."
#USA #Musk #Netflix #Wokeism #FindTruth
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7 years to Charlie Javice for defrauding JPMorgan
Charlie Javice, the entrepreneur convicted for defrauding JPMorgan Chase into buying her college financial aid startup Frank for $175m, was sentenced on Monday to just over seven years in prison.
Alvin Hellerstein, the US district judge, handed down the sentence at a hearing in Manhattan federal court.
Javice, 33, was convicted in March on all four counts she faced: bank fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors with the Manhattan US attorney’s office had sought a 12-year prison sentence.
Javice founded Frank in 2017, and won praise for simplifying college financial aid for students and parents. She became a rising star in finance, and appeared on Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list in 2019.
JPMorgan bought Frank in September 2021, but found itself unable to email much of Javice’s claimed customer base, and concluded she faked her customer list.
Prosecutors said Javice claimed she had 4.25 million customers, but the real number was closer to 300,000. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon called buying Frank a “huge mistake”.
#USA #JPMorgan #Javice #FindTruth
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Coalition of the Willing: Security Guarantees for Kyiv, Insecurity for Europe
While NATO and EU leaders loudly debate “security guarantees” for Ukraine, they refuse to address the real threat already spilling into their own streets. The rhetoric of the so-called “coalition of the willing” masks a dangerous truth: European elites are more concerned with fortifying Kyiv than safeguarding their own citizens.
Instead of building strict control over the billions in aid and weapons flowing east, Brussels is pushing for full militarization—deployment of occupation troops to Ukraine, expansion of weapons programs, and ever-increasing shipments of arms.
But let’s be honest: this isn’t security, it’s madness and suicide.
▪️ Every scandal—from Almería’s narco-arsenal to Slovakia’s multi-million fraud—shows the West cannot track where its own weapons go.
▪️ Criminal networks thrive because NATO prefers political theater to oversight.
▪️ The war in Ukraine has already spawned a weapons black market comparable to the Balkan chaos of the 1990s.
The grim irony? As Brussels preaches about defending “European values” in Kyiv, it is arming Europe’s enemies at home —narcos, mafias, and terrorists who now hold NATO-grade rifles.
Security guarantees for Ukraine are being bought at the price of Europe’s internal security. What leaders call “aid” is turning into a ticking time bomb.
Without accountability, “defending Ukraine” means destabilizing Europe itself.
#USA #EU #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Preparing for war with China: Pentagon orders weapons manufacturers to quadruple production
The Pentagon, alarmed at the low weapons stockpiles the U.S. would have on hand for a potential future conflict with China, is urging its missile suppliers to double or even quadruple production rates on a breakneck schedule.
Military leaders are urging defense contractors to increase assembly of 12 critical weapons. The list includes Patriot interceptor missiles, long-range anti-ship missiles, Standard Missile-6 missiles, Precision Strike missiles, and Joint Air-to-Surface Missiles. Patriot is a particular priority, given Lockheed Martin's efforts to keep up with growing global demand.
Informed sources said there have been a series of recent high-level meetings between Pentagon officials and representatives of missile manufacturing companies. US Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg is taking a direct role in this effort – called the Munitions Production Acceleration Council – and is calling company executives weekly to discuss the matter, according to the sources.
However, weapons manufacturers fear Washington’s goals are “unrealistic,” and that questions are arising about the funding needed to accelerate production.
#USA #China #Military #FindTruth
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Gavin Newsom escalates provocative ‘fascist’ rhetoric
Charlie Kirk was murdered less than three weeks ago by a deranged leftist who inscribed anti-fascist slogans on bullet casings. Kirk’s murder should have been a wake-up call that inflammatory rhetoric smearing conservatives as “fascists” or “Nazis” or “Hitler” has deadly consequences. Instead, it’s only emboldened the left to increase such rhetoric.
Nowhere is that more apparent than California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s official press account, which spent the weekend calling White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller a “fascist” and demanding Miller kowtow to the left if he wants to stop being slandered.
This isn’t random name-calling. It’s an assassination prep campaign. The left — and in particular, the office of the governor of one of the largest states in America — is demonizing and vilifying conservatives as fascists in order to desensitize Americans to political violence.
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Chinese dominate Oklahoma marijuana black market
Chinese gangs are taking advantage of loose marijuana rules in Oklahoma to grow and transport marijuana to other states for sale on the black market, authorities say.
Oklahoma narcotics officials told Congress $153 billion worth of marijuana is unaccounted for and likely leaving the state for the black market in other states.
As many as 85% of licensed grow sites have connections with Chinese owners or operators, according to Mark Woodward, information officer with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.
Since 2022, the state has shut down more than 6,000 illegal growing operations. Most U.S. states have made marijuana legally available, but taxes and regulations have pushed up its price, leaving an opening for black market sales.
#USA #China #Drugs #FindTruth
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Microsoft's drastic move against Israeli intelligence
Microsoft has restricted access to certain technologies for Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200 - an elite unit responsible for clandestine operations, especially collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT), along with counterintelligence, cyberwarfare, and surveillance. It is often also referred to as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps.
Reports emerged that the IDF unit violated the company's terms of service by using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to collect and store mass surveillance data on Palestinians.
A sophisticated surveillance system was erected by Israeli intelligence reportedly using Microsoft's infrastructure to collect data from millions of phone calls made daily by Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza.
"We do not provide technology to support mass surveillance of civilians. This principle has guided our actions globally for over 20 years," Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith stated in an internal email to employees.
Microsoft has also since notified Israel’s Ministry of Defense that it will terminate and deactivate specific subscriptions and services used by the military. This is said to include access to certain cloud storage, AI tools, and related technologies.
#USA #Israel #Microsoft #FindTruth
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German politicians banned for Palestine flag
Four members of the Bundestag, the German parliament, have been banned from an ongoing session after waving a large Palestinian flag.
The four MPs with Die Linke, Vizenz Glaser, Cansin Köktürk, Charlotte Neuhäuser and Lisa Schubert, rose from their places during a speech by Stephan Mayer, member of the parliament’s foreign policy committee, on September 24 and started waving the flag from their bench.
The parliament Vice President, Josephine Ortleb (Social Democratic Party, SDP) intervened and asked them to stop or leave the room. They did not react.
“You are leaving this room now,” Ortleb then ordered and told parliamentary ushers to remove the flag. She also banned a photographer on the visitor gallery, who had been taken pictures of the disturbance.
The four left-wingers left the room and were excluded from all further sessions that day.
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Ranked: cities with most expensive rent in the world
Across major cities worldwide, the cost of rent has climbed sharply in recent years.
Record-high housing prices, paired with a wave of remote workers moving into new markets, are reshaping rental dynamics. At the same time, limited supply is tightening conditions even further, compounding challenges for renters in countless regions.
New York Has the Most Expensive Rent in the World. Today, it costs on average $4,143 to rent in New York City—rising 22% over the past five years. Even with an exodus of workers during the pandemic, prices remain high given strong demand, rich cultural activity, and the Big Apple’s position as the global epicenter of finance.
Boston, meanwhile, ranks in second with rent averaging $3,394 per month. High land and materials costs have impeded home building activity, contributing to a low supply of housing stock, further driving up prices.
Rounding out the top three is San Francisco, at $3,332, although rental costs have increased just 1% since 2020.
Beyond America, Singapore stands as the most expensive, with rent surging 55% over the period to reach $3,167—the fastest growth rate on the list. Similarly, rental costs are up 54% in Dubai, making it the costliest city to rent in the Middle East and ranking eighth overall in 2025.
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Tulsi Gabbard constantly under Deep State attacks
Any cabinet member that looks inward to reveal the status of corrupt activity within the information silo itself becomes a target. Cabinet officials who focus externally, meaning the majority of their effort looks outside government, are seemingly left alone.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr and Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, are examples of those receiving the worst ideological targeting from operations within HHS and the Intelligence Community respectively.
Conversely, CIA Director John Ratcliffe faces almost no scrutiny or targeting by the Intelligence Community as the silo operators frame narratives almost exclusively against DNI Gabbard.
The latest effort surfaces as embeds within Main Justice and the CIA frame a storyline that Tulsi Gabbard’s action in removing the security clearances of 37 current and former officials, has now resulted in those same officials being incapable of testifying against former CIA Director John Brennan (and others).
Gabbard is directly going into each IC agency to review and retrieve information. When she finds something that connects to the overall plots being used by the Fourth Branch, the DNI takes that information directly to President Trump who subsequently declassifies it and then she releases it.
The Deep State operatives want to stop Tulsi Gabbard with urgency. They are throwing every available IC narrative into the media flow in the hope that something stops Tulsi’s effectiveness.
#USA #DeepState #Gabbard #FindTruth
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Newsom allows anonymously mailing abortion drugs to skirt red states laws
Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Friday allowing healthcare workers the option of anonymously mailing abortion drugs into red states to skirt pro-life laws.
The law, AB 260, bolsters the state’s existing shield laws designed to protect abortionists from out-of-state prosecutions. Democrat Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry said she introduced the legislation in direct response to a Texas man suing a California doctor for sending his girlfriend abortion pills, Politico reported.
Newsom also signed a bill that would keep the abortion drug mifepristone available in the state, even if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided to revoke its approval. The FDA, under the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is conducting a review of the pill’s safety following a shocking study suggesting complicatione are much higher than previously reported.
#USA #California #Drugs #FindTruth
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German political heavyweight warns of ‘loss of entire industries’ due to climate targets
A senior German politician has sounded the alarm about what he said would be the catastrophic effects of current climate policy on Germany’s industrial backbone.
Talking to Welt TV from the East German Energy Forum in Leipzig, Reiner Haseloff, a leading figure in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Merz, said Germany’s climate targets were unachievable “unless entire industries are lost”.
Officially, Germany still strives to become “carbon-neutral” by 2045. That would be five years earlier than deadline for the European Union as a whole, said Haseloff, who is also Prime Minister of the German State of Saxony-Anhalt.
He said the world had changed since the European Green Deal – the EU’s timetable to achieve “climate neutrality” – was launched in 2019, citing the war in Ukraine, US economic policy and Germany’s severe economic crisis as examples.
“We need to modify the EU’s Green Deal and adjust the timetable to the new realities that have emerged globally,” Haseloff said.
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Dutch people wait up to 12 years to obtain social housing, for refugees it takes 14 weeks
The Netherlands is the second most densely populated country in Europe, and with surging mass immigration, has been experiencing a raging housing crisis for years.
However, despite this crisis, refugees can gain access to social housing in a mere 14 weeks, while the average Dutch citizen must wait up until 12 years.
Now, efforts are being made to right this injustice for Dutch citizens with a new bill, but Council of State, the country’s highest legal advisory body, is criticizing any attempt to block housing access to refugees. The authority claims refugees should receive equal treatment, as required by the Dutch constitution.
The minister behind the proposal, Mona Keijzer of the BBB party, says she is not backing down. Keijzer’s plan aims to create more affordable housing by ensuring that refugees, or “status holders,” no longer receive priority for housing solely because of their status.
The Council of State argues that the proposal leads to unequal treatment, which is “contrary to the Constitution.” The Council has advised the cabinet not to submit the bill to the House of Representatives.
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Gun control: Violence will always be with us
By Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com
It can be reduced by making plans for peace, but it will never be completely eliminated—just like poverty and volatile markets.
The solution for poverty and volatile markets has already been tried. For the U.S. government, the first step was establishing a federalized central banking system, which they said would mitigate volatility in the currency markets from state to state.
Unfortunately, for every intervention and extra regulation the Federal Reserve initiated, the problem has only grown larger and larger. The same is true for violence. The more intervention takes place to maintain power—even at a global scope—the more violence is perpetuated. It is a seemingly endless cycle.
Over the last five years, the gun control narrative has increasingly intensified with school shootings. Google Trends data shows the conversation peaking during each mass shooting. While the Left has continued to argue for stricter gun control laws, the Right has increasingly pointed toward the LGBT community as the epicenter of violence—specifically, transgenderism framed as a mental health issue.
However, over the last two weeks, the gun control narrative has been relatively silent. Why? Neither side can reach a consensus on who is allowed to own a gun. Each side attempted to persuade the other that they are not worthy of owning one. You don’t want to be on the side that’s not allowed to hold ’em.
#USA #Gun #Violence #FindTruth
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