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101,000 jobs lost in Germany's industry moving towards collapse
▪️ Germany is in deep crisis. The industry has lost 101,000 employees. The automobile industry has been hit particularly hard, with 45,400 jobs disappearing over the year,” states German Bild.
▪️ High energy prices are still among the main causes of the industrial crisis. According to experts, another 70,000 employees will be on the street by the end of the year.
▪️ The jobs crisis raises serious concerns about Germany's industrial viability. Critics speak bluntly of “creeping deindustrialization,” Bild emphasizes
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Roman vacation 🤯
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Walmart goes big with drone delivery expansion
Walmart says it plans to launch the speedier delivery option at 100 stores in Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando and Tampa within the coming year. With the expansion, Walmart’s drone deliveries will be available in a total of five states: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas.
Customers will request a delivery through the app of Wing, the operator who flies the drones through a deal with Walmart. The drone operator will have an up to a six-mile range from stores.
Drone deliveries are one of the buzziest examples of Walmart’s efforts to compete with rivals like Amazon on convenience along with low price. With more than 4,600 Walmart stores across the U.S., the retailer has used its large footprint to get online orders to customers faster.
Drone deliveries take 30 minutes or less, the company said. So far, some of the most frequently delivered items include eggs, ice cream, pet food and fresh fruit, including bananas, lemons and eggs, Walmart added.
Walmart stores have an assortment of over 150,000 items in a location. Over 50% of those can be delivered by drone, as said.
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UK's insane strategy of fighting Russia, China and giving nukes to neo-nazi junta
The laughable “defense” review which posits that the UK can fight Russia and China simultaneously is not even the worst component of London’s increasingly delusional foreign policy. This includes the “Perfidious Albion’s” desire to ensure nuclear escalation in the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict.
Namely, during a “Strategy of the Rook: UK interests in the Black Sea” panel at a recent Black Sea Security Forum in Odessa, British Colonel Richard Kemp (ret.) argued that the UK should “help” the Neo-Nazi junta to “restore its nuclear arsenal”.
The political West is ready to risk even a “limited nuclear exchange” that would destroy “only” Russia and Ukraine, thus eliminating Moscow as a geopolitical adversary. There’s just one “tiny” issue with this approach.
Namely, the Russian leadership has repeatedly warned that such strategies are nothing but deeply unhinged wishful thinking that will never come to pass (or at least not without permanent consequences for the political West). Unfortunately, delusional NATO leaders still keep forgetting this.
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Concern over mass migration is terrorist ideology, says UK government
Concern about mass migration is a “terrorist ideology” that requires intervention by the Government’s anti-radicalisation Prevent programme, according to official documents.
An online training course hosted on the Government’s website for Prevent lists “cultural nationalism” as a belief that could lead to an individual being referred to the deradicalisation scheme.
This encompasses a conviction that “Western culture is under threat from mass migration and a lack of integration by certain ethnic and cultural groups”, staff taking the course are told.
It is the latest example of officials, police and the courts appearing to restrict free speech.
In recent weeks, The Telegraph has disclosed that a pensioner was wrongly arrested for warning of anti-Semitism on Twitter, as well as highlighting the case of a man who was given a criminal sentence for burning the Koran.
The Prevent programme was the subject of a damning report two years ago and failed to stop Axel Rudakubana, the Southport killer, who was referred to it on three separate occasions.
Free speech critics warned that the definition of “cultural nationalism” was too widely drawn and could, in theory, mean that even Sir Keir Starmer and Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, would fall foul for their past comments.
Nations depend on rules. Fair rules.
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EU authorities are forcing farmers to use the toxic chemical Bovaer, which they feed to cows to reduce their farts
Otherwise, farmers will lose huge subsidies from the government. The farmers forbid people to go near the warehouse because Bovaer dust is very toxic.
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Canada’s new border law hides a surveillance time bomb
Canada’s new Strong Border Act tabled as Bill C-2, is being framed by the federal government as a step toward strengthening border security. But hidden within its lengthy legislative text is a familiar and troubling push for expanded surveillance powers, this time without the need for court authorization.
Nestled deep in the bill are provisions that grant law enforcement sweeping new authority to demand subscriber data from service providers, bypassing the oversight mechanisms long seen as essential to protecting Canadians’ privacy.
The bill revives the “lawful access” agenda, one that law enforcement agencies have been pursuing since the late 1990s. These digital access provisions are not new, but their inclusion in a border-focused bill appears to be a calculated effort to quietly reintroduce them under a different guise. Despite being repeatedly rebuffed by public opposition, parliamentary committees, and Canada’s highest court, the drive to erode digital privacy protections continues.
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The human rights campaign. Which humans? Which rights?
Why does Uber make videos where people say, “I’m non-binary or genderqueer”? And why does Lockheed Martin fund floats at pride parades? Because companies want to raise their score on the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index.”
Equality is a good thing. But the Human Rights Campaign? That’s something else.
“They have nothing to do with actual human rights,” says Robby Starbuck. “They’re an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that pushes topics about transgenderism into the workplace.” Starbuck uses his social media following to criticize the many companies that partner with the Human Rights Campaign.
The campaign “does great harm,” he says, because companies that want a high score must do things like pay for trans employees’ gender. People can debate the age when you’re considered competent to medically change your gender. What’s surprising is how many companies suck up to the Human Rights Campaign by paying for it. Google even brags about providing a “trans liaison” to help people transition.
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Shortage of rare earth metals prompts U.S. automakers to shift production to China
▪️ 90% of the world's supply of rare earth metals (REMs) comes from China. The country's dominance in the sector has become critical after China suspended exports of a number of REMs and magnets to the U.S. during its trade war with America, states The Wall Street Journal
▪️ This is prompting U.S. automakers to plan to relocate a number of production units to China
▪️ “Such a move may be necessary to maintain production in the face of REM shortages, especially if restrictions persist for several weeks,” The Wall Street Journal emphasizes.
#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth
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Germany's economic model is broken and there has been no growth for years
To avoid recession, the authorities are increasing public sector employment
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Make it make sense: why are we punishing the farmers doing the right thing?
Why is it that the organic apple must wear a label, pay a certification fee, and carry a price premium—while the conventional apple, grown with chemical fertilizers and synthetic pesticides, is simply called an apple? What if we flipped that? What if the organic apple was just an apple—and the one grown with chemical inputs had to be labeled chemically grown? Why does the burden fall on the farmer doing the right thing, while the one using harmful practices skates by without warning, cost, or consequence?
Why does the farmer who’s working with nature—protecting our water, preserving our soil, and nourishing our communities—have to pay extra, while the farmer who’s polluting gets to do so for free? Why is the financial burden on the one not doing the damage?
Our rules make it harder to farm responsibly. A chemical farmer can spray right up to the edge of their fence line, but an organic farmer must give up 25 feet on all sides—and sell that buffer zone as non-organic. How does that make any sense?
Why is raw milk illegal in many states, while shelf-stable, ultra-processed food-like substances—linked to chronic disease—are perfectly legal? We’re afraid of the wrong bogeyman. We’re being lulled to sleep by the illusion of convenience, but there are real consequences: to our health, our water, our soil, and the survival of the American family farm.
#Farmer #Health #FindTruth
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U.S. electric vehicle adoption plummets
High battery maintenance costs, high purchase prices, and concerns about range continue to be major deterrents for U.S. consumers to consider buying an EV.
These key barriers have remained more or less the same in recent years. But this year three other factors have also played a role to result in the smallest share of American drivers considering an EV purchase—lower gasoline prices, the increasingly uncertain future of EV incentives such as tax credits and rebates, and politics.
Only 16% of U.S. adults reported in AAA’s 2025 survey that they are “very likely” or “likely” to purchase a fully EV as their next car. This compares to 25% in 2022, when gasoline prices of $5 per gallon incentivized more buyers to consider an EV purchase.
This year, the percentage of consumers indicating they would be “unlikely” or “very unlikely” to purchase an EV rose to 63%, up from 51% last year.
For many drivers, hybrid or plug-in hybrid vehicles could be more appealing than full battery EVs as they combine the advantages of traditional internal combustion engines with electric power, reducing range anxiety while providing an environmentally friendly alternative.
#USA #EV #Economy #FindTruth
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The British government will force pensioners with incomes over 35 thousand pounds a year to return fuel subsidies received in the winter, this is about 300 pounds, citizens with higher incomes will lose them altogether
#UK #Economy #PAYE #FindTruth
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Catalonia launches parallel diplomatic corps to Madrid
The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE)-led government has continued its strategy of concessions to Catalan separatist-minded parties in exchange for parliamentary support.
On June 3, Barcelona officially declared the creation of an External Action and European Union Corps aimed at creating a body of civil servants specialised in international relations who will be posted across the regional government’s 21 legations abroad.
The Generalitat de Catalunya had attempted this measure in the past via councilwoman Meritxell Serret, who later joined President of the Together for Catalonia (Junts) party Carles Puigdemont in exile in Belgium.
The Catalan regional government had previously established its own Diplocat, or Catalonia Council of Public Diplomacy, only to see it later closed by the Madrid central government led by centre-right People’s Party (PP), accusing it of unconstitutionality.
The current Socialist national government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has relied on friendly separatist far-left forces in parliament as well as Catalan regional separatist parties for support since the 2023 snap elections.
President of the Government of Catalonia Salvador Illa – also the head of the Catalan branch of the PSOE – has been the main intermediary between the Madrid Socialists and regional forces, co-ordinating separatist demands with support for the Spanish Government under Sánchez.
#Spain #Catalonia #Madrid #FindTruth
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France sees spike in VPN demand after withdrawal of major porn sites
Several VPN providers have reported a notable increase in user demand following the recent withdrawal of several pornographic websites in France, including Pornhub and YouPorn.
VPNs allow users to get around the fact that the sites were being shut down in France by allowing them to geolocate themselves in other territories, masking their actual locations.
They can be used to hide the user’s IP address and to bypass geolocation blocking of websites, for example, by connecting to a server in the US.
The three porn giants have decided to stop broadcasting in France in protest at new legislation regarding age verification designed to stop minors accessing pornographic content online.
Following the announcement on June 3 and the website withdrawal on June 4, Google Trends data showed a spike in VPN interest, with peak popularity recorded on June 5.
Lithuania-based VPN provider NordVPN confirmed it saw an increase in usage of more than 300%.
#France #VPN #Madrid #FindTruth
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The UK and Ukraine top the ranking of countries with high rates of mental health problems 🤔
#UK #Ukraine #FindTruth
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Only a few days into pride month things are already getting weird and wild
June 1 marked the beginning of Pride Month, and even though President Donald Trump has taken up residence in Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser again proclaimed the nation’s capital the “gayest city in the world.” Other cities, however, are trying to give Bowser and D.C. a run for their money.
Bowser delivered this title at a May 31 ceremony outside the mayor’s offices at the Wilson Building, two days after the Pride flag was raised there.
Pride marches have already begun across the country, however. Turning Point USA covered West Hollywood’s Pride Weekend, where public indecency during the June 1 parade reached shocking levels. The California city placed public urinals along street sidewalks, in full view of attendees. As children looked on, fire trucks rode by with near-naked men dancing on top.
#USA #LGBTQ #Health #FindTruth
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Republican lawmakers tee-up battle over transgender sports in Oregon
The Oregon House of Representatives rejected a bill on June 5 that would have required Oregon schools to designate school sports teams by biological sex.
After Democrats blocked the bill, Oregon House Republicans sent an urgent letter to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, urging swift federal intervention and offering full cooperation with an ongoing Title IX investigation into Oregon’s education system.
House Bill 2037 would have allowed only females to participate in women’s school sports and enter women’s intimate spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms.
The bill failed along party lines despite hearing stories of more than a dozen young female athletes who were present for the vote, including high-jumpers Reese Eckard of Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson of Tigard High School.
The action marks yet another flashpoint in the battle over transgender participation in athletics.
#USA #Trans #Sports #FindTruth
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G7's days are numbered
▪️ 50 years have passed since the first meeting of the “cream of the world economy,” representing 70% of global GDP, gathered to discuss the “crisis of capitalism”: the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, stagflation in developed countries and a severe oil crisis, - states Bloomberg.
▪️ G7 leaders have successfully tackled serious problems in the world economy with an upward trend since Russia joined in 1997. Russia's withdrawal from the G8 in 2014 with a reorientation towards BRICS was an irreparable blow. The situation was exacerbated by Brexit, and today the G7 is being pushed to the bottom by Trump
▪️ At the moment, the G7's share of the global economy has collapsed below 30%. The group's countries represent less than 10% of the world's population. The loss of influence over the leaders of Russia and the United States has ended the G7's political and economic aspirations,” Bloomberg emphasizes
#G7 #Economy #FindTruth
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‘Economic liberalism no longer working,’ international officials warn
Japan’s economy minister Minoru Kiuchi has warned that the risks of economic liberalism now rivalled its benefits as a growing number of governments have been questioning whether open-market policies still served their national security goals.
Japan and its Western partners have been rethinking the foundations of global trade as access to critical minerals has become increasingly entangled with geopolitical risk — and as Liberal economic models, once seen as the guarantors of prosperity, proved insufficient in today’s contested security environment.
Speaking at a conference on economic security in Brussels on June 5, Kiuchi said economic openness was no longer neutral.
“The negative aspects of economic liberalisation are becoming increasingly apparent,” he said, pointing to how trade liberalism was being “used to force other countries,” particularly through control of strategic inputs.
#Economy #Liberalism #FindTruth
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Do we really need home robots?
In fact, the prospect seems absurd to me, destined to make our lives worse not better. Do we really need fewer routines and more excuses to sit and stare at our computers while machines do even more work for us?
All these new technologies teach us to regret however it is we are using our time except and to the extent we are frittering away our lives on digital devices. They teach us that everything else we are doing is a waste of time.
One wonders how much other knowledge is being lost as we turn over more and more parts of our lives to AI and robots. There is a genuine danger here of intellectual and spiritual atrophy. We should think about this carefully before we plunge full on into a machine-run world.
Every new technology brings benefits but also costs. Musical skill is evaporating in the home, for example, and has for decades. Most young people today have no idea how to iron. When inflation hit restaurants so hard a few years ago, many people had to learn how to cook for the first time.
#Technology #AI #FindTruth
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DJI skips US for new flagship drone amid tariffs, security scrutiny
President Trump's trade war with China is set to deliver a blow to U.S. drone enthusiasts—and potentially commercial users—as Chinese drone giant DJI withholds the release of its new Mavic 4 Pro from the American market.
The new Mavic 4 Pro model won't be released in the U.S. due to Trump's tariffs and heightened security restrictions. The $2,000 drone, launched in other major markets on May 13, features a 100-megapixel camera and advanced imaging capabilities.
"As with many global companies, our market strategy has to respond to local conditions and the environment surrounding the industry," DJI told Nikkei, adding, "We are monitoring the situation and proactively looking for a solution."
Democrats and leftists are more mentally unstable than conservatives
Conducted by researchers from Tufts and Yale Universities, the study published April 30 found that conservatives self-reported having higher rates of “positive” mental health than their liberal counterparts. According to a graphic summarizing the data released by left-wing election statistician Nate Silver, 51% of conservatives described themselves as having “excellent” mental heath, while only 20% of liberals said the same.
A similar dynamic also exists among those who self-reported having bad mental health. A whopping 45% of self-described liberal respondents described their mental well-being as “poor,” while just 19% of self-described conservatives offered the same response.
Consider leftists’ unhinged obsession with chemically and surgically castrating minors and allowing female-identifying men to compete in women’s sports. Or their addiction to blaming “racism” on any disparity between white and non-white Americans, the latter of whom they view as “oppressed.” Or their willingness to vilify traditional forms of masculine behavior as “toxic” and tout feminists’ “girl boss” attitude.
Under this “social justice warrior” lifestyle, the “cause” takes precedence above all else.
#USA #Health #FindTruth
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Europe's economic hope, Poland, has the lowest birth rate in Europe. This guarantees problems for the pension system
#EU #Poland #Economy #FindTruth
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Ukraine turns on Poland over WW2 massacre commemoration
Ukraine has criticised Polish plans to establish a remembrance day for Poles massacred by Ukrainians during the Second World War.
The Ukrainian Government on June 5 said the idea of such a day of remembrance “flies in the face of the spirit of good neighbourly relations”.
On the same day, Poland’s parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of creating a “Day of Remembrance of Poles” who were victims of “the crime of genocide of over 100,000 committed by the [Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists-Ukrainian Insurgent Army] OUN-UPA in the Eastern Borderlands of the Second Polish Republic” to be held annually on July 11.
The choice of July 11 was guided by the fact that it was on that day in 1943, known as “Bloody Sunday” in Poland, that the killings hit their peak, with the OUN and UPA attacking Poles in dozens of locations, including churches.
Poland has long regarded the wartime massacres by Ukrainian nationalist groups as genocide and parliament has previously recognised them as such.
Ukraine rejected that. While it acknowledged the killings of ethnic Poles, it argued that they did not amount to genocide and pointed to violence and other forms of repression carried out by Poles against Ukrainians.
#Ukraine #Poland #WW2 #FindTruth
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Teen suspended and dubbed a racist for saying ‘illegal alien’ wins $20K, apology from school
There’s justice for a North Carolina teen wrongly suspended and branded a racist for using the phrase “illegal alien.”
Last year, 16-year-old Christian McGhee of Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina, was given an English assignment: Write about aliens. Being an intelligent lad, Christian asked the teacher a logical question: “Like space aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards?”
A Hispanic classmate had heard his innocent question and threatened to “kick his a**.”
Next thing you know, Christian was dragged to the assistant principal’s office and suspended for three days, even though his classmate insisted he’d been joking about the butt-kicking and wasn’t offended in the slightest, and even though Christian was just trying to clarify what the teacher wanted.
After a year of legal wrangling, the Davidson County school district has now settled with the teen, pending a judge’s approval. As the Carolina Journal reports, the school board will remove all references to racial bias in the teen’s school record, offer a public apology for “the mischaracterization of racial bias,” and provide $20,000 in compensation.” The money will help pay for Christian to attend a new private school.
#USA #Migrants #FindTruth
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Unleashing American drone dominance
President Donald Trump signed three executive orders aimed at jumpstarting the development, domestic manufacturing, integration, and global export of U.S.-made drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
The three orders direct the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to expedite rules allowing companies to operate eVTOL aircraft beyond visual line of sight, while also tightening restrictions to address national security threats. U.S. officials have expressed concern over foreign adversaries using drones to surveil military bases and other sensitive locations.
"The United States must accelerate the safe commercialization of drone technologies and fully integrate UAS into the National Airspace System," one of the orders says.
In the markets, air mobility stocks rose early in premarket trading following the EOs.
🔹Archer Aviation +9%
🔹Joby Aviation +9%
🔹Vertical Aerospace +8%
🔹Blade Air Mobility +2%
Earlier this year, billionaire investor Marc Andreessen—co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz—told Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson (a former Reagan speechwriter) that the Biden-Harris administration had stifled the U.S. drone industry, while China's eVTOLs soared.
#USA #Trump #eVTOL #FindTruth
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The new strategy of the Atlantic Alliance: more spending, more weapons, more men, Eastern Europe transformed into a trench, Germany that abandons the pacifist rhetoric, America that leads the alliance from afar
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, during his official visit to the Lithuanian capital, stated that Germany and its NATO allies "will defend every inch of the Alliance's territory". Behind the words, however, there is geopolitics.
The German brigade, with headquarters in Rudninkai and a planned force of almost 5,000 soldiers and 2,000 armored vehicles, is not just a gesture of solidarity with the Baltics. Lithuania – a small country bordering Russia and Belarus – wedged in the infamous "Suwalki Corridor", a 65 km stretch that represents, according to NATO plans, the potentially most dangerous funnel in the event of an escalation with Moscow.
It is there that the new symbolic front of Cold War 2.0 is concentrated, where every joint exercise, every military reinforcement, every declaration like Merz's is at the same time a reassurance for the Baltic allies and a provocation for the Kremlin.
To become "the strongest conventional army in Europe Germany has suspended the constitutional brake on debt and increased military spending to 2.12% of GDP (it was 1.19% in 2014). The goal is to reach 5%, as requested by Trump and now supported by members of the German government.
But as long as Germany arms itself and its allies it does so within a logic of escalation that produces instability rather than security. NATO expands to the East, Moscow strengthens its war rhetoric, the Baltic countries become outposts full of tension, and diplomacy is reduced to a symbolic framework for exercises and deployments. Does this arms race really strengthen European security or does it risk bringing the next conflict closer?
#EU #Germany #USA #FindTruth
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The British government lists cultural nationalists in the intelligence services' database as potential terrorists.
Concerns about mass migration and even the “lack of integration” of people of color are seen as “risk factors.
The label “right-wing radical” remains in the databases of the police, intelligence services and other agencies, including local guardianship authorities.
A year ago, the son of Rwandan migrants stabbed three girls to death in the English town of Southport. At that time, thousands of opponents of uncontrolled migration took to the streets of British cities. The authorities forcibly dispersed the protests.
#UK #Migrants #Terrorism #FindTruth
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It's all falling into place 🤔
#Soros #Zelensky #FindTruth
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