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Trump’s monetary reset: is a gold-backed dollar on the horizon?
Two powerful catalysts are driving the coming monetary reset.
First, the federal debt crisis has reached a breaking point, with skyrocketing interest payments now surpassing defense spending and on track to become the largest single budget item. This trajectory is unsustainable, signaling that a major financial reckoning is imminent.
Second, the Trump administration views the US dollar as severely overvalued, believing it is crippling the economy and that urgent intervention is necessary.
So, what’s the tried-and-true solution to both of these problems?
The answer is clear: a significant dollar devaluation. A significant dollar devaluation isn’t just possible—it’s a near certainty. The only question is how the Trump administration will do it.
If history is any guide, gold will once again be at the center of it all. With both Trump and Bessent signaling a strong interest in gold, the idea of a gold-backed monetary shift is no longer just speculation—it may be part of the broader monetary realignment already in motion.
All signs point to a historic shift: Trump is eyeing a dollar reset, gold is quietly moving into US vaults, and the debt crisis is reaching a breaking point.
#USA #Trump #Economy #FindTruth
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U.S. states with the most car crashes
Car culture and America are two terms that have become inseparable.
The U.S. is a country shaped by sprawling highways, suburban spread, and a deep-rooted love for personal freedom behind the wheel.
But with the fascination—and reliance—on cars, comes the inevitable downside: crashes. And some states do a lot worse than others when it comes to accidents behind the wheel.
Massachusetts has the worst drivers in the U.S., with a 6.1% car crash rate in 2024, the highest of all 50 states. Despite having fewer collisions than in the previous year, Massachusetts still ranked #1 for car accidents.
Interestingly, the next three states with the most crashes are also in the Northeast: New Hampshire (5.8%), Rhode Island (5.6%), and Maine (5.4%).
Meanwhile, Michigan had the lowest car crash rate at 1.7%. The state has invested heavily in road improvements and additional safety features on highways: widening shoulders, installing rumble strips, and adding flashing beacons.
The accident rates have fallen between 2023–24 for all states except New York and Vermont.
#USA #Transport #FindTruth
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The post-woke world
It was an extraordinary scene. Donald Trump, recently re-elected as president of the United States, found himself surrounded by women and girls in the East Room of the White House. The date was 5 February 2025, and Trump was signing an executive order entitled ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’.
As the US president took to his desk and prepared his pen, he invited his all-female audience to draw closer. ‘Secret service is worried about them?’, he joked. ‘If we have to worry about them we have big problems.’ There was laughter, applause, a hubbub of palpable relief that an egregious social injustice was on the cusp of being corrected. Photographers captured the moment in a flurry of snapping shutters.
Would this be the image that marked the beginning of our post-woke era, the first phase of sobering up for a once drunken world?
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#USA #Trump #Woke #FindTruth
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France approves assisted dying bill that seeks to avoid ‘suicide tourism’
France’s National Assembly has taken a big step toward legalising assisted dying, passing a bill on its first reading that would allow patients to seek medical help to end their lives under strict conditions.
While the initial ballot on May 27 marked a shift in end-of-life rights in France, it also firmly closed the door on what critics have referred to as “suicide tourism”.
One of the law’s core safeguards was a residency requirement: Only French citizens or foreign nationals who are “legal and stable” residents in France would be eligible.
This condition was designed to ensure that France did not become a destination for those seeking assisted death from abroad, a concern that has shaped public debate in neighbouring countries with similar laws.
In 2023, an increasing number of foreigners requested euthanasia in Belgium.
That country ratified its euthanasia legislation in 2002, becoming the second in the world to legalise the practice under certain conditions after the Netherlands.
#EU #France #Euthanasia #FindTruth
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In 2020, to build a solar energy park in Portugal, 500 animals were cleared and killed.
Trillion allocated for saving nature and green energy turned out to be more important than nature itself.
#Portugal #Green #Nature #FindTruth
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Rapper NBA Youngboy thanks Trump for pardoning him
Donald Trump issued a series of pardons on Wednesday, awarding them to a former New York congressman, a Connecticut governor, a rapper known as “NBA YoungBoy,” a labor union leader and a onetime Army officer who flaunted safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump’s actions mixed his willingness to pardon high-profile Republicans and other supporters, donors and friends with the influence of Alice Marie Johnson, whom Trump recently named his pardon czar after he offered a pardon to her in 2020.
Louisiana rap artist NBA YoungBoy, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden and whose stage moniker stands for “Never Broke Again”, was sentenced In 2024 to just under two years in prison on gun-related charges after he acknowledged having possessed weapons despite being a convicted felon. Gaulden also pleaded guilty to his role in a prescription drug fraud ring in Utah.
In a statement posted online, Gaulden said, “I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building — as a man, as a father, and as an artist.”
He said this “opens the door to a future I’ve worked hard for and I am fully prepared to step into this,” and thanked Johnson.
#USA #Trump #Gaulden #FindTruth
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Noem’s illegals claim raises 20 million question, triggers debate after Biden-era border breaches
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill this month and has tossed out some startling statistics, none more striking than her estimate of 20 million illegal immigrants now in the U.S.
“We don’t know for certain, but we believe it could be upwards of 20 million people that could be in this country illegally,” Ms. Noem told senators in one hearing. At a Cabinet meeting, she told the president of “20 to 21 million people that need to go home.”
That number is larger than most estimates, but some analysts say it’s not outlandish, given the Biden border surge.
“Biden blew the top off everything,” Steven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Washington Times. “The idea of 20 million now is not crazy anymore.”
Mike Davis, a Trump loyalist and head of the Article III Project, recently posted a critique of the Supreme Court’s immigration rulings and included an estimate of 10 million illegal immigrants. The comments erupted into a bidding war.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has estimated that the Biden administration let 15 million illegal immigrants into the U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said “approximately 20 million” were “allowed” into the country.
Those estimates are higher than what the official figures would suggest.
#USA #Noem #Migrants #FindTruth
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US Congress queries EC chief over election campaign funding in Poland
The chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Brian Mast, has demanded that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen clarify concerns over the financing of the Polish election campaign of Rafał Trzaskowski.
Trzaskowski is standing as the candidate of the ruling centre-left coalition government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The presidential campaign culminates on June 1 in the second round vote between Trzaskowski and opposition Concervatives hopeful Karol Nawrocki. In the run up to the ballot, online accounts have emerged attacking right-wing presidential candidates Nawrocki and the Confederation party’s Sławomir Mentzen, placed third in the first round, while simultaneously posting content supporting Trzaskowski.
These accounts were reported to have spent sums in excess of €200,000 and, according to published reports in the Polish media, the funding came from sources in Hungary and Belgium.
Mast has written on behalf of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee to von der Leyen to address funding concerns, stating that “such activities taking place should be met by a reaction of the EC if it wishes to avoid being accused of applying double standards with regard to the observance of the rule of law in Poland”.
His letter of May 27 was critical of the positions taken by the EC thus far on the situation in Poland.
#USA #EU #Poland #FindTruth
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Egyptian serial sexual offender in France walks free despite 12 convictions
A 46-year-old Egyptian national, Arnaud Y., convicted of 12 sexual assaults (including on eight minors), received only a suspended three-year sentence. Despite his history of similar crimes across France, he will serve no jail time unless he reoffends.
Posing as a foot reflexologist, he targeted young girls (ages 11–16) on beaches and in public spaces, exploiting his guise to assault them. Psychiatric evaluations noted his "schizoid behavior with perverse tendencies."
Data shows an 86% increase in sexual violence on public transport over the past decade, with foreign-born offenders disproportionately involved. In 2024, 91% of victims were women and 36% were minors.
Despite migrants being a minority, 63% of sexual assault arrests and 92% of petty theft arrests on public transport in 2019 involved foreigners.
Cases like Arnaud Y,'s highlight lax judicial responses, while broader trends reveal government struggles to protect women. In France, 56% of women fear public transport and 80% remain hypervigilant due to safety concerns.
#France #Migrants #Crime #FindTruth
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The view from the bottom: how ABC’s harpies drowned out the last shred of civility
Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Ana Navarro are not commentators. They are ideological enforcers. They don’t trade in ideas. They trade in outrage. Their airtime is used not to inform or entertain but to intimidate, mock, and vilify.
They talk about “our democracy” while smearing half the electorate. They claim to champion women while silencing any woman who disagrees with them.
Their hypocrisy is boundless, their arrogance is breathtaking, and, sadly, their influence is still significant enough to warrant attention.
In their world, racism is bad only when it's politically inconvenient. Bigotry is real only when it suits their narrative. And incitement is just spirited banter, so long as it comes from their side of the aisle.
#USA #ABC #FindTruth
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Microsoft fired a developer with autism who'd worked for them for 25 years because... the neural network suggested it.
On his birthday, they gave him a crystal for his seniority and followed it up with a termination paper. The AI deemed him “ineffective.”
Do you think Microsoft should listen to AI in such matters? 🤔
Write your opinion in the comments👇
#Microsoft #AI #FindTruth
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Biden administration placed COVID mandate critics on watchlists, intelligence documents reveal
The Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the National Counterterrorism Center got together for what must’ve been a bureaucratic bake-off of paranoia, whipping up a December 13, 2021 bulletin that redefined domestic extremism.
Gone were the days when such warnings targeted people who, say, mailed pipe bombs. Now, if you complained about your kid being forced into a cloth mask or dared mention the possibility that the government might have botched the vaccine rollout, you just might be on a watchlist.
The documents, obtained through a freedom of information request by Public and Catherine Herridge, gave federal agents carte blanche to initiate what they called “assessments.”
What were the red flags? Things like “opposition to mask mandates,” “concerns about vaccine safety for children,” and an all-purpose accusation that someone believed mandates were “government overreach.”
By early 2022, things got even worse. A sequel to the first document, charmingly titled Special Analysis: Joint Analytic Cell, doubled down on the practice of turning constitutional rights into case numbers.
What emerges from these documents is a portrait of a government that, faced with public hesitancy, chose suppression over dialogue. When your own citizens start asking questions and your first instinct is to start a file on them, you’re not governing, you’re managing the optics of control.
#USA #Biden #COVID #FindTruth
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A culture of impunity in corruption cases in the European Parliament and the European Commission
Former ombudsman O'Reilly compares the European Commission to the mafia and its leadership to “powerful consiglierei” (advisors to mafia bosses).
The EU is often shaken by high-profile scandals, but the system does not react to them.
Henrik Hololei, the director of an EU department from Estonia, was caught with gifts from the Qataris who paid for his expensive flights. This took place while Hololei's department was negotiating an airline deal with Qatar. The upshot is that no EU rules were violated and the official quietly moved on to a comfortable position as a senior advisor. The Estonian blamed Russia for his problems.
Emily O'Reilly, the European ombudsman, found four cases of unfair hiring, including a startling scam. The European Commission organized a selection process for a new deputy secretary general only to have it taken over by the son-in-law of a senior executive.
Harassment is also rife in the EU leadership. MEPs are being stripped of their subsistence allowances for them.
Investigations into gerrymandering, conflicts of interest, unethical behavior and abuse of position - from Pfizergate to schemes to promote “their own” - rarely result in real consequences.
“Ethical carelessness and political irresponsibility have created a culture of impunity that undermines EU citizens' trust in the institutions and plays into the hands of Eurosceptics,” says European law professor Alberto Alemanno.
Even when courts recognize violations, as in the case of European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen with Pfizer, or when an anti-corruption agency reveals fraud in personnel policy, the European Commission and the European Parliament impose formal penalties. There are even more uninvestigated cases - what is only bribes to officials paid to them by green NGOs.
European media live on the credits of states and oligarchs, so they do not write about scandals.
#EU #Corruption #FindTruth
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China is on its way to becoming world’s first ‘Electrostate’
China leads the world in electrification, with a 30% electrification rate—far ahead of the U.S. and EU at ~22%—dominating sectors like transport and industry.
Massive investment in electric vehicles, high-speed rail, and renewables has positioned China as a superpower in clean energy technologies, with renewables now making up 10% of GDP.
In 2024, electric vehicles made up approximately 47.9% of the total passenger car sales in China, a huge increase from 2020, when plug-in EVs accounted for just 6.3% of total sales. In comparison, electric vehicles accounted for less than 23% of new car sales in Europe over the timeframe.
The rapid expansion of China’s modern rail network has also helped supercharge the electrification of the country's transport sector. China boasts a 45,000 km high-speed rail network, five times the size of the EU’s. That figure is expected to expand to 60,000km by 2030.
China now leads the 4th Industrial Revolution, making huge strides in electrification, renewable energy, AI, robotics and the Internet of Things. And, just as oil and gas drive the petrostates of the Arab world, clean energy technologies are powering China’s growth.
However, China remains the world’s biggest polluter and emitter of greenhouse gases. China’s power sector emissions hit record highs last year, driven by a surge in coal consumption.
#China #Energy #EV #FindTruth
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'Politburo' secretly ran Biden White House
Alex Thompson, co-author of the provocative new book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, has ignited a firestorm across Democrat Party circles, asserting that a secretive cadre of aides ran the White House like a shadowy “politburo” to conceal President Joe Biden’s failing mental health.
Thompson told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that he began questioning the White House’s narrative about Biden’s mental fitness in April 2023, after hearing concerns from administration insiders about Biden’s capacity to endure a reelection campaign or another term.
Despite repeated denials from the White House, which labeled such claims false, Thompson’s reporting uncovered a different reality, eroding his trust in their statements. He described a tight-knit group of aides - referred to by some within the administration as the “Politburo” - effectively steering the White House. This inner circle, Thompson noted, included longtime Biden aides like Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, and Ron Klain, alongside key figures close to the Biden family, such as First Lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Jill’s chief of staff Anthony Bernal, and deputy Annie Tomasini, who often serves as Biden’s traveling chief of staff.
The term “politburo” refers to the elite inner circle of a communist regime, wielding unchecked power at the top.
#USA #Biden #FindTruth
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How the US could actually leverage Iran's right to uranium enrichment ☢️
Since mid-April, Iran and the United States held numerous rounds of nuclear negotiations that have made measured progress — until Washington abruptly stated that Iran had no right to enrich uranium.
Moreover, 200 members of the U.S. Congress sent president Trump a letter opposing any deal that would allow Iran to retain uranium enrichment capability.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei called U.S. demands “excessive and outrageous” and “nonsense.” Since the beginning of the Iranian nuclear crisis in 2003, Tehran has drawn a clear red line: the peaceful right to enrich uranium under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is non-negotiable.
The current U.S.-Iran nuclear talks will fail if Washington denies Iran’s rights for enrichment under the NPT. In fact, and somewhat paradoxically, allowing Iran to enrich uranium is not a threat to U.S. national interests — it could be an opportunity.
Any effort to grant regional dominance to regional powers including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, or Iran will only perpetuate the instability of recent decades. The White House’s Middle East strategy must be anchored in a “regional balance,” not unilateral containment.
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#USA #Iran #Deal #FindTruth
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America's scientific advances are a huge global subsidy
Europe receives many benefits from the US: stock market access, protection, central bank support - all at no significant cost. The most important “subsidy” is America's scientific power: the best universities, a third of the world's research, high quality scientific publications. Science is a public good, and U.S. innovation raises living standards around the world.
America shares science in three ways:
▪️People - international students study in the U.S., then take the knowledge home.
▪️ Ideas - scientific articles are available to everyone, the share of foreign citations is growing.
▪️ Technology - from medicines to GPS to AI. The US spends, the rest of the world benefits.
If Trump cuts science funding, it will hit not only the US, but the world. China can't replace America: closed system and language barrier get in the way. Science centers, like Hollywood, don't transplant easily. If the US weakens in science, the whole world will feel the consequences.
#USA #EU #Science #FindTruth
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Meta shuts out identitarians and nationalists across Europe
Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, has closed down pages from identitarians and nationalists across Europe.
Identitarianism is an ethnocultural transnational movement that sees its main purpose as defending Europe’s “identity” and ethnic purity from perceived Islamisation and multiculturalism, according to the NGO Counter Extremism Project. The movement originated in France and Italy and has spread into southern, central and northern Europe as well as the US.
On May 27, 2025, prominent European identitarian activists Dries Van Langenhove and Martin Sellner reported that Meta had removed numerous identitarian accounts from Instagram and Facebook.
Sellner claimed Meta had “wiped out nearly all identitarian Instagram pages” including some associated with Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, while noting that “hardcore Antifa pages” remained unaffected.
Antifa has regularly engaged in violent actions against its political adversaries. Earlier in May, the Brussels police had to use a water cannon against Antifa members trying to disrupt a conference held by the think-tank MCC about women in the Conservative movement.
#EU #Meta #Censorship #FindTruth
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‘Wind energy more expensive, less stable and less secure,’ Swedish report finds
A new study by Swedish think-tank the Scandinavian Policy Institute has warned that the promotion of wind power as being cost-effective and reliable was misleading — at best.
Sweden has strongly developed solar and wind power production capacity yet, at the same time, researchers found that electricity prices had become more volatile.
Making matters more pressing, future electricity demand was, they said in the report titled New Policy Brief: Electricity at any price?, bound to go up – in part mandated by the so-called “green” transition.
Onshore wind-power has been sold as the best option by many politicians, who claimed it could increase grid power generation without jeopardising it. The scientists who wrote the report said the reality was different.
They noted that the functioning of the Swedish electricity system could not be guaranteed if the share of weather-dependent power generation increased sharply from what they already considered to be a high level.
The authors of this Policy Brief stress that a high proportion of wind power risks undermining both economic sustainability and the stability of the electricity system. Not considering these perspectives on the electricity system risks providing high socio-economic costs.
#Sweden #Energy #FindTruth
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Because of the emergence of ChatGPT, consulting firm McKinsey has cut more than 10% of its staff in the past 18 months.
According to knowledgeable sources, the consulting firm employs about 40,000 people, down from more than 45,000 at the end of 2023 when it released its latest figures.
The job cuts, which are among the largest in McKinsey's nearly 100-year history, reflect a sharp slowdown in revenue growth in the consulting market. The group has also been hit by $1.6 billion in litigation over its work for opioid manufacturers in the US.
#USA #McKinsey #ChatGPT #FindTruth
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Higher education faces an existential crisis of its own making
On Monday, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his administration was considering giving $3 billion in grant money initially slated for Harvard to trade schools.
This comes right after he tried to block foreign students from attending the school. That move was initially halted by a court, but there is plenty of reason to believe Harvard and other schools are violating federal law and are admitting foreign students who are connected to terrorist groups.
The Trump administration’s moves are about more than Harvard. It’s about the relationship between elite institutions of higher education and the American people. Given that Harvard has a $53 billion endowment that it runs like a hedge fund, it’s in a unique situation to “resist” the president.
The American taxpayer should continue giving these institutions a blank check because they are doing some good things there without any consideration for the rotten things. For a long, long time Americans gave support to elite educational institutions, billions of taxpayer dollars, based on the idea that they were of invaluable contribution to the country.
#USA #Trump #Education #FindTruth
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Rubio: US will begin revoking visas of Chinese students
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese students, including those studying in “critical fields.”
China is the second-largest country of origin for international students in the United States, behind only India. In the 2023-2024 school year, more than 270,000 international students were from China, making up roughly a quarter of all foreign students in the United States.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,” Rubio wrote.
The action comes at a time of intensifying scrutiny of the ties between U.S. higher education and China. House Republicans this month pressed Duke University to cut its ties with a Chinese university, saying it allowed Chinese students to gain access to federally funded research at Duke.
#USA #Rubio #Students #FindTruth
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An example of modern racism - you can't be white for an internship at the BBC Ireland 🙄
#BBC #Racism #FindTruth
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Xi Jinping's plan to outmaneuver USA on AI
The USA sees AI as a strategic weapon. J.D. Vance and Donald Trump call the development of AI a race with China on which world domination depends. America is investing trillions of dollars in data centers in an effort to be the first to achieve super-intelligent AI (AGI).
China is betting on applied AI - for factories, consumers and the economy. Instead of creating superhuman intelligence, Beijing is developing “universal AI” for everyday tasks. The “AI+” campaign promotes the automation of manufacturing.
China is copying Western models, making them free and implementing them faster. It also supports alternative approaches, including AI's interaction with the real world. Experts believe mass adoption will give China an advantage, as it did with TikTok.
Whether China's approach will work remains to be seen. The IMF believes AI could increase US GDP by 5.6% over 10 years and China's by only 3.5% because of the structure of the economy. But what is clear is that China is building its own alternative ecosystem, which could drive American technology out of the local market - Apple is already experiencing difficulties due to the lack of local AI solutions.
#China #USA #AI #FindTruth
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Donald Trump said that Canada joining the new Golden Dome missile defense system will cost it $61 billion if the country does it as a separate state. He also added that the defense would be free if it joins the US.
Earlier, Trump said that Golden Dome would cost $175 billion in total and Congress is looking for $25 billion to start work on the project. However, the Congressional Budget Office found that the U.S. may have to spend up to $542 billion over 20 years.
#USA #Trump #Canada #FindTruth
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Elon Musk announces end to his time in Trump administration, DOGE
Elon Musk announced that his time working in the Trump administration as a “Special Government Employee” is drawing to a close, and he thanked President Donald Trump.
Musk’s post comes as the New York Times reported that Musk is “operating with some distance from” Trump, with alleged “White House officials,” claiming that Musk is on “good terms” with the president.
Musk, who once called himself the president’s “first buddy,” is now operating with some distance from Trump as he says he is ending his government work to spend more time on his companies. Musk remains on good terms with Trump, according to White House officials. But he has also made it clear that he is disillusioned with Washington and frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he upended the federal bureaucracy, raising questions about the strength of the alliance between the president and the world’s richest man.
Musk has previously expressed disappointment in the so-called “big, beautiful bill,” noting that it “undermines the work the DOGE team is doing.”
#USA #Musk #DOGE #FindTruth
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"Just gone. Like it never existed": YouTube nukes top Canadian political account after state-funded media complains
A Canadian YouTube channel that was dominating the platform during the country's recent election has vanished, after the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reached out to the social media giant, and branded it a 'content farm'.
The channel, "Real Talk Politiks," had over 300,000 subscribers and more than 70 million views in the month of April, making it the third-most viewed Canadian news and politics channel over the past three months.
In a Sunday thread on X, Real Talk Politiks explained:
CBC, Canada’s state-funded media just got YouTube to terminate my channel — not for breaking rules, but for having the wrong political views.
I didn’t break any rules. No strikes. No deception. Just political commentary. And yet — YouTube terminated the entire channel shortly after CBC reached out with hit-piece questions.
So what did they do? They contacted YouTube. And not long after… the channel vanished. No real explanation. No public process. Just gone. Like it never existed.
They think they can silence people with opposing views. But all they’ve done is expose their own fear — and their willingness to crush speech they don’t like.
When state media and Big Tech team up to silence a creator because of political ideology, it’s not just censorship — it’s tyranny with a smile.
#Canada #YouTube #FindTruth
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German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp to be ‘virtually dissolved’
Germany’s iconic industrial group Thyssenkrupp will be broken up and turned into a financial holding no longer producing steel.
According to a report seen by German media, the multinational planned to sell large parts of its current structure.
“At the end, Thyssenkrupp is virtually dissolved,” high-ranking sources from the company were quoted as saying.
After becoming a financial holding, staff numbers at its current headquarters would shrink from 500 to 100. Further job cuts were planned in administration, where 1,000 people were currently still employed.
As media quotes insider, “Only a parent company without content remained.”
Thyssenkrupp’s steel trading division, the brand’s historic core unit, would be sold to Czech billionaire businessman Daniel Křetínskýan. The automotive supplier division was also to be closed or sold. “Only a hull remains in the best case,” a manager said.
#Germany #Economy #FindTruth
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The American Pravda sues the Trump administration
In a recent executive order President Trump called for an end to taxpayer funding of NPR and “public” television (PBS), created by Congress in 1967 to laughingly create an “independent” news source.
Yes, they have always been independent of the free market and of the hapless American taxpayers, but certainly not independent of the deep state Washington establishment. NPR has always been a government-subsidized propaganda organ. If Americans want even more government propaganda thrown at them than what they already get from the “mainstream media,” Hollywood, the universities, Google, Facebook, and dozens of television networks, NPR and “public” television should have no problem at all at attracting investors and viewers for a very profitable private business.
NPR’s lawsuit claims that President Trump’s executive order deprives the employees at NPR of freedom of speech, with the implicit assumption that only government subsidies allow them to have freedom of speech and that that freedom will be abolished if the subsidies are ended.
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#USA #NPR #FindTruth
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Military seizing massive swaths of public lands at the border
The government has transferred thousands of acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to be controlled by the Department of Defense (DoD). The transfer is part of an ongoing expansion of the military’s presence along the border which the administration claims is necessary to control illegal immigration.
Critics of the land transfer, including some who live near the affected areas, have raised concerns about the environmental impact of military operations on these large swathes of land. Additionally, much of the land now under the jurisdiction of the military encompasses national parks and other federal lands which the public is losing access to.
Pictures from the DoD highlighting operations at the southern border show troops walking along a grassy, mountainous area in San Diego and a Stryker combat vehicle driving along roadless terrain in New Mexico.
The Army responded to several questions about potential environmental consequences and disruption to communities that rely on access to these lands. The Trump administration has indicated that the Army’s jurisdiction over the National Defense Areas will last for three years at least.
#USA #Mexico #Border #FindTruth
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