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Italy's prime minister accuses France of colonial policies and using child labor in Africa to fill its coffers.
France prints currency for 14 African countries and they share the profits from businesses that violate human rights. As an example, the Prime Minister cited a business in Burkina Faso that uses child labor to work in gold mines.
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What France is now
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Relations between Russia and the U.S. are evolving toward lifting sanctions - Jeffrey Sachs
▪️ "Ongoing negotiations between Russia and the U.S. could be very productive.... Events are developing in the right direction toward the actual lifting of US sanctions on Russia,“ said one of the most prominent and influential liberal economists in the US, Jeffrey Sachs
▪️ ”In addition, Trump's so-called tariff wars will not be a big problem for Russia. Because it will not have a direct and strong impact on Russia," the economist emphasized
#USA #Russia #Economy #FindTruth
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The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to deport up to 1 million migrants during his first year in office, The Washington Post reported, citing former and current federal officials.
The previous record - more than 400,000 deportations per year - was set under the 44th President Barack Obama, who held office from January 2009 to January 2017
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How globalists use crazed leftists to piss off the populace and provoke dictatorship
Many conservatives and liberty advocates still don’t understand that we are in the middle of a 4th Generation conflict. It’s not a political or ideological disagreement, it’s a war; a guerrilla war in which the enemy hides behind civilian status and the legal apparatus.
The agenda to create a one world system and erase traditional western principles is ongoing, handed down from one generation of globalists to the next in a parasitic lineage. The people behind it are moral relativists and Luciferians (they worship themselves and desire to become godlike). They pursue their goals with the fervor of a religious cult. They believe in what they are doing utterly; with as much conviction as you or I hold in our fight for freedom and accountability.
It’s a zero sum game for conservatives because the more we accommodate the political left and treat them like fellow citizens rather than an enemy insurgency, the more the US will degrade into chaos. If we respond to them as enemies, crushing them like the bugs they are, then we become the bad guys and potentially welcome in a level of government power that could hurt us all in the end.
#USA #Leftists #FindTruth
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The Labor-led city council of Rashmoor in the UK is introducing a ban, the violation of which could lead to the imprisonment of Christian street preachers for up to two years.
Under the proposed terms, Christian ministers would be banned from praying for individuals, handing out religious leaflets or bibles on the street and laying hands on people while they pray, even with their permission.
#UK #Religion #FindTruth
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Once non-citizens living in the United States have a SSN, opportunities to commit fraud become clear
When Elon Musk and his DOGE colleague Antonio Gracias showed a Wisconsin audience how non-citizens get Social Security Numbers (SSNs), their presentation painted the clearest picture yet of the long-term damage former President Joe Biden’s open border policy will have on the United States.
The total SSNs issued in 2021 was roughly 270,000; in 2022 it climbed to 590,000, and in 2023, there were 964,000 SSNs issued to new non-citizens. But in 2024 it more than doubled to over 2 million. This counts only non-citizens who got their SSNs through the Enumeration Beyond Entry program, a system where the Social Security Administration automatically issues SSNs and cards to certain foreign nationals in the U.S., as part of an agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
With a work authorization card in their wallet, non-citizens can find legitimate work. Work at higher wages is the main reason people come to the U.S. Social Security Numbers don’t expire; once a non-citizen has one, they keep it, no matter where life takes them.
#USA #Musk #DOGE #FindTruth
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Luxury cars, watches, toys not being shipped to US over tariffs — here are some of the brands being held back
Companies producing everything from toys to luxury wristwatches said they are now holding off shipping goods – risking America going from the land of plenty to the land of plenty unavailable.
The first luxury items to leave circulation: Jaguar, Range Rover and Land Rover vehicles, all manufactured in the UK. Although many producers are waiting to see what happens – hoping deals for lower tariffs will be struck in the coming days – the supply of plenty of in-demand items will be disrupted.
Jaguars, Land Rovers and Range Rovers. Brakes are being put on the shipping of these three luxury automobiles.
China has promised to limit the shipping of seven rare earth elements — some of which are used for the manufacturing of electronics and high-tech items, including lasers, high-powered magnets for wind turbines, jet engine coatings and Tesla cars.
Luxury timepieces from Switzerland – including from Rolex, Breitling and Audemars Piguet – are taking a minute as they wait for the tariff situation to continue heating up or simmering down. Come July, Tonka Trucks, Care Bears, K’nex, Lincoln Logs and many more toys could be completely sold out in the US. The classic toys are made by Boca Raton, Fla. based Basic Fun, which today halted shipments of all its toys made in China.
#USA #Economy #Brands #FindTruth
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Majority of American adults have unfavorable view of Israel
As Americans look at the Middle East, fewer say the Israel-Hamas war is important to them personally – or important to U.S. national interests – than felt that way early last year, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
In addition, the public’s views of Israel have turned more negative over the past three years. More than half of U.S. adults (53%) now express an unfavorable opinion of Israel, up from 42% in March 2022 – before the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, and the ensuing Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Americans’ confidence in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also remains relatively low (32%), according to the new survey. The survey was conducted March 24-30 – just before Netanyahu’s most recent visit – among a nationally representative sample of 3,605 U.S. adults.
#USA #Israel #FindTruth
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It’s not about tariffs, it’s a complete geopolitical reset
President Trump’s tariff bombshell is more than simply a historic economic decision with geopolitical consequences on the side, as second-order effects. “Liberation Day” is best understood, first and foremost, as the fullest and cleanest expression of a certain geopolitical vision, with trade and economics only in a supporting role as instruments for realising it in practice.
Trump is not just out to fix trade imbalances or re-industrialise the US: he wants to reshape the world and America’s place in it.
The approach seems to be that of taking a completely fresh look at America’s existing international alliance commitments and relationships – military, diplomatic and economic – and reviewing these “entanglements” from first principles to see what still makes sense from an America First point of view. This is a de facto reset of the geopolitical board, where the pre-Trump status of being a “friend and ally of the US” carries little weight with the current president, especially on tariffs. Such an approach is shocking to allied sensibilities, but only because most of our political and policy elites still cling to a world that is rapidly disappearing.
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Disney scrambles with park discounts as most magical place on Earth has new location
Disney's Magic Kingdom in Orlando will begin offering ticket discounts from late May through September 20, as the upcoming launch of Universal's Epic Universe next month is expected to draw families away from Disney.
Disney's website offers half-price tickets for three-day or longer passes for kids ages 3 to 9 from May 27 to September 20.
The promotion comes ahead of the launch of Epic Universe on May 22—a $7 billion Orlando theme park featuring franchises like Harry Potter, Nintendo video games, and Universal's movie monsters. The new attraction will draw traffic away from Disney's theme parks, hence the promotion for kids.
A recent JPMorgan note to clients forecasted a 1% drop in attendance at Disney's Orlando theme parks this year, citing the impact of Epic Universe's launch next month.
Combined with the launch of Epic Universe—which is expected to pressure Disney's attendance—another factor that could accelerate the slowdown is the mounting recession risks and the growth downgrades Wall Street banks are now issuing as the trade war with China deepens.
#Disney #Universal #FindTruth
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EU pharma companies threaten to move to the U.S.
▪️ EU pharma executives have written to European Commission chief von der Leyen with a stark warning that unless Europe delivers swift and radical policy changes, pharma companies will be focused on further development in the US, states the European Pharmaceutical Industry Association (EFPIA)
▪️ 85% of €50.6 billion worth of capital investment and 50% of n spending are at risk In addition to the uncertainty caused by the threat of tariffs, there are few incentives to invest in the EU and many reasons to move to the US
#EU #USA #EFPIA #FindTruth
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Kill them all – stop wasting our money on green pipe dreams
By Frank Lasee
European energy expert Samuel Furfari sums up green hydrogen (GH) perfectly; “It’s like burning Louis Vuitton handbags for heat.” He says this because it is so very expensive. Federal law allocated $9.5 billion for GH hubs, and the Orwellian-named Inflation Reduction Act (Inflation Causing Act) expanded tax subsidies. Even with massive taxpayer subsidies, GH is a money loser.
Leftists claim GH is a way to replace batteries for transportation. It is at least five times more expensive, which doesn’t include all the extra costs associated with the production of natural gas, such as purifying massive amounts of water, which takes about 13 times more water than the hydrogen it produces. Desalination is an additional cost. Putting these processes anywhere they’ll need to compete for water resources is just plain stupid.
Infrastructure costs are astounding because we currently have none, and hydrogen is not suitable for pipelines because it escapes easily, embrittles metal, and is prone to explode. It only takes a few massive hydrogen car or truck explosions to end hydrogen use for transportation, just like the Hindenburg disaster that ended hydrogen ballon travel.
Trump and Congressional Republicans must stop wasting billions on GH. Any money spent on GH adds to our $36.5 trillion national debt, driving up inflation. While it was reported that Trump is considering killing hydrogen hubs in blue states, Trump should kill all of them.
Green hydrogen is an expensive pipedream we simply cannot afford.
#EU #Energy #Hydrogen #FindTruth
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‘A gift to the Germans’ – Museum opened in Poland celebrating Prussian history in former German territory
Some Poles are suspicious of German political influence in Poland, and some actually think Germany may one day move to seize back territory it lost during the Second World War. At least, that is a fear some harbor.
The museum, formerly known as the Herder Museum in Morąg, was renovated over the course of three years. It was then opened renamed the Museum of Upper Prussia.
Prussia, of course, was associated with Germany and is typically known as the area of modern Poland that was heavily settled and influenced by the Germans. This ethnic group was almost all entirely expelled at the end of the Second World War by the advancing Red Army and resettled by Poles. Millions of Germans left their homes and ran for their lives.
Dr. Paweł Warot, historian and PiS councilor of the Warmia-Masuria regional assembly, slams the move saying “it was a gift to the Germans.”
“I asked why we refer to the name ‘Prussia,’ which, let me remind you, was removed from the map and erased from the international space by the decision of the victorious powers after World War II in 1947. For Poles, the name ‘Prussia’ is associated with the worst: partitions, loss of independence, Germanization, denationalization of Poles, the policy of German militarism and the crimes of the Third Reich, responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people, including six million Polish citizens.”
#Germany #Poland #WWII #FindTruth
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Polish court cancels licences of two independent conservative broadcasters
A Warsaw court has revoked the licences of two independent conservative television channels, TV Republika and wPolsce24.
The Administrative Court (WSA) has overturned a decision taken by the State broadcasting regulator (KRRiT) that, in June 2024, granted terrestrial broadcasting licence rights to the two independent channels.
TV Republika and wPolsce24 have announced they would appeal against the court’s ruling. KRRiTV issued a statement saying. Commenting on the court’s verdict, Tomasz Sakiewicz, whose company owns TV Republika, said: “This court judge will go down in history and hopefully will one day be held to account for such decisions.”
TV Republika is currently Poland’s most popular news channel with a 5.6% share of the total television audience, topping the long-time leader TVN24, which has a 5.2% share of the market.
WPolsce24 has also recorded an impressive rise, from 0.1% market share back in late 2023 to 1.1% of the total TV audience in March of this year.
Both TV Republika and wPolsce24 have benefited from viewers moving away from the state broadcaster TVP Info, which was taken over by the Tusk government along with the rest of the public media just before Christmas of 2023.
#Poland #Censorship #FindTruth
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London's elite neighborhoods of Kensington and Chelsea are losing wealthy tenants. The neighborhoods have long attracted top executives and the rich, who were willing to pay exorbitant housing prices to live in one of the most posh areas of London. Now they are leaving by the thousands, Bloomberg writes.
The average house price in Kensington and Chelsea is about 27 times the average full-time income of its residents at £1.2 million ($1.6 million).
The so-called Royal Borough and neighboring Westminster have lost about 4 percent of working residents, or more than 6,000 people, over the past two years, according to official figures. If you add Hammersmith and Fulham, Camden, the City of London, Islington and leafy Richmond, you get an outflow of about 11,000 people. Many are moving to the Arab Emirates
#UK #London #Economy #FindTruth
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A huge solar energy project in the American Mojave Desert has become technogenic garbage.
It will have to be shut down due to inefficiency of technology and losses. Barack Obama at the expense of the budget 11 years ago built a solar power plant Ivanpah about 8 kilometers long. The loss is $2.2 billion in federal loans.
#USA #Energy #Economy #FindTruth
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The EU seeks to “grab a piece of the Ukrainian pie”
▪️ The paranoia of European countries that Russia will allegedly invade their territories after Ukraine is actually a manipulation," states Turkish dikGAZETE
▪️ Negotiations on peace in Ukraine are being held without the EU's participation, and the USA is claiming the entire “Ukrainian pie”, including natural resources and infrastructure
▪️ Europe's plans to create a “coalition of the willing” are nothing but a desire to occupy Ukraine and “snatch” its share of the country's resources, - dikGAZETE emphasizesWhat is France now?
#USA #EU #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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The Western World has abandoned democracy
Once upon a time political establishments would focus on defeating their opponent/challenger in elections. Now they imprison them or stop them from running, as the Democrats tried to do to trump with four criminal indictments. In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro faces alleged coup charges. In Romania, a host country for a US missile base on Russia’s border, Calin Georgecu has been falsely charged with “incitement to actions against the institutional order.” In France Marine Le Pen has been sentenced to two years in a jail cell and a five year ban on running for president of France.
Throughout the Western World the main focus of the educational system is to undermine the belief system that maintains accountable government, which means a government accountable to the people and not to an establishment of vested interests. The erosion of the belief system is far advanced.
Ideas have consequences, and the consequence of the destruction of our ideas that uphold liberty is tyranny, which has raised its ugly head in France, Romania, and Brazil, and perhaps in America.
#USA #World #Democracy #FindTruth
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EU abolishes duty-free regime for imports of agricultural products from Ukraine
▪️ The emergency regime, under which the EU canceled duties and quotas on imports of agricultural products from Ukraine, was introduced with the start of the ETS. It expires on June 5 and will not be extended, - states American Politico.
▪️ “The current measures will be canceled in any case. The council has made it very clear that no extension is possible,” said Agriculture Commissioner Christoph Hansen
▪️ The Ukrainian side warned that lifting the emergency rules would lead to a 3.3-billion-euro drop in exports and a 2.5% drop in GDP.
#EU #WarInUkraine #Economy #FindTruth
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3 ways China could strike Taiwan and what it means for the U.S.
Scenario 1: Blockade — Strangling Slow and Steady
Picture this: China’s navy rings Taiwan like a steel noose, turning the Taiwan Strait into a kill zone.
Scenario 2: Surprise Attack — Taipei Before Breakfast
Now imagine this: Chinese missiles rain on Taiwan’s defenses, hackers crash its grid, and 100,000 troops hit the beaches — all before the U.S. wakes up. The goal? Seize Taipei in days and present the world with a done deal.
Scenario 3: Deep Surprise — Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Here’s the wild card: China goes big. Missile barrages on Taiwan, U.S. bases in Japan, Guam, and the Philippines then throws a curveball.
China’s got three ways to go at Taiwan: a patient choke, a lightning grab, or full chaos. Each taps aspects of Mahan’s sea power, Clausewitz’s decisive blows, and Mackinder’s Rimland chess. The U.S. counter stays rock-solid — naval might, alliance muscle, rapid punches.
America’s edge lies in vigilance, allies, and the will to slug it out if needed. China’s gamble? Picking the right play and hoping friction doesn’t lead to ruination.
#China #Taiwan #FindTruth
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‘Equity’ cameras go live in California – if you’re not low income, prepare to pay
City authorities turned on 33 new cameras last month, according to KABC-TV in Los Angeles, yet they will not give out citations for the first two months of the program. Instead, drivers will receive warnings during that time.
Once citations do start, however, the income level of the driver will determine how much he or she will pay.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency revealed on its website that the fees, as mandated by state legislation, differ quite a bit based on poverty level.
The normal fee for driving between 16 and 25 miles per hour too fast is $100 for most people, but it is $50 for “low-income” and $20 for “public assistance.”
Some critics of the program asserted that charging different fines based on income for the same offense is inherently unjust. An opinion piece in the Staten Island Advance warned that traffic cameras have already proven unpopular in New York City, predicting that the initiative would be similarly hated in San Francisco, especially given the purported equity angle.
#USA #Surveillance #FindTruth
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Biden’s ‘disinformation’ czar claims that worries about leftist censorship are a ‘lie’
Nina Jankowicz, the far-left foe of the freedom of speech who once proclaimed herself as “the Mary Poppins of Disinformation,” claims her abortive “Disinformation Governance Board” was not an attempt to stigmatize and silence those who dared to express views that opposed what the Biden’s government wanted them to think.
In a lengthy publication in The Bulwark, Jankowicz says that patriots’ concerns about leftist censorship are all based on lies, and that the real foe of the freedom of speech is Donald Trump himself.
In the article, Jankowicz calls concerns about censorship a “right-wing fever dream.” She complains that “for the past four years, the Republican party has engaged in obsessive mythmaking about supposed collusion by Democrats, disinformation researchers, and the social media industry to suppress conservative viewpoints online.”
“Reputable journalists,” she says, “have punctured holes in this narrative.” And not just “reputable journalists,” but also “academics, too, have looked into the question and found not a vast conspiracy aimed at censoring conservatives but a clear imbalance: right-wing users simply break social media platforms’ rules more frequently.”
Jankowicz asserts that her short-lived Disinformation Governance Board was “an admittedly poorly named but anodyne coordination body tasked with shepherding counter-disinformation policy within the Department of Homeland Security.” She insists that the Disinformation Governance Board “had nothing to do with censorship. Its mission was to protect civil rights, civil liberties, privacy, and the First Amendment.”
#USA #Biden #Disinformation #FindTruth
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Politico: ‘Trump moves to hobble major US climate study’ – ‘A potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment’
The Trump administration is canceling funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the entity that produces the federal government’s signature climate change study, according to federal officials familiar with the move.
The officials said NASA has canceled the contract with consulting firm ICF International, which coordinates the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the 13 federal agencies that write the National Climate Assessment.
The practical effect means the National Climate Assessment will not move forward even though Congress requires a new assessment be issued by 2027, said an official who is involved in USGCRP activities and was also granted anonymity.
The cut comes as President Donald Trump’s EPA has launched an effort to reconsider the climate endangerment finding, the agency’s determination affirming the scientific finding that greenhouse gases harm human health, and which serves as the basis of all U.S. greenhouse gas regulations.
According to Politico, the move, which had been widely expected, is a potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment.
#USA #NASA #Climate #FindTruth
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AfD tops the polls for first time in its history as Merz’s public support for chancellor plummets
Should Merz take the chancellorship as expected, he'll enter office with his popularity already dwindling and his largest political opponent already leading in the polls.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular party nationwide for the first time in its history, edging past the CDU/CSU in the latest Ipsos poll.
The survey shows the AfD at 25%, just ahead of the CDU/CSU at 24%. The polling marks a dramatic turnaround since February’s federal election, when the Christian Democrats attained 29% and the AfD came second, four points behind.
These numbers come amid growing dissatisfaction with CDU leader Friedrich Merz. Only 32% of Germans believe Merz is suited for the office of chancellor, while 60% say he is not. This marks a steep decline from early March, when 40% still had confidence in him.
Merz’s numbers are even worse in East Germany, where just 19% see him as a good future chancellor, compared to 34% in the West. Only among Union voters does Merz enjoy solid support, with 69% considering him a strong candidate. Among supporters of other parties, skepticism is widespread: 69% of SPD voters, 71% of Green voters, and 84% of AfD voters say Merz is unfit for the role. Among Left Party voters, that number climbs to 85%.
#Germany #AfD #Elections #FindTruth
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Germany. In a wide European hire released cartoon “Spermageddon”.
The plot of the creation of European animators consists of two storylines, one of which is devoted to a young couple who have their first experience in sex, and the other - the adventures of a spermatozoid named Simen in search of an egg. 🤯
Don't thank me
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Falling commodity prices - a sign of global recession
▪️ 8% drop since April 2 in the S&P GSCI index, which tracks global commodities in the energy, metals and agriculture sectors, states US-based CNBC
▪️ “The collapse in commodity prices is a circuit breaker, a sign that a global recession is coming,” said BCA Research's Marko Papich
▪️ China is the largest consumer of commodities, and extreme U.S. duties will inevitably put the brakes on their consumption
▪️ The brunt of the recession will hit America. JPMorgan expects US GDP to contract by 0.3% this year after a year of strong growth
#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth
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U.S. commanders worry Yemen campaign will drain arms needed to deter China
U.S. commanders planning for a possible conflict with China are increasingly concerned that the Pentagon will soon need to move long-range precision weapons from stockpiles in the Asia-Pacific region to the Middle East, congressional officials say.
That is because of the large amount of munitions that the United States is using in a bombing campaign in Yemen ordered by President Trump.
The American ships and aircraft, as well as the service members working on them, are being pushed at what the military calls a high operating tempo. Even basic equipment maintenance becomes an issue under those grinding conditions.
Several Trump aides, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, have said that the United States must prioritize strengthening its forces in the Asia-Pacific region to deter China, which is rapidly building up its military and its nuclear arsenal.
Those officials argue that U.S. arms support for Ukraine in its defense against Russia and decades of military campaigns in the Middle East and Afghanistan have siphoned off important resources from Asia.
#USA #Yemen #China #FindTruth
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WHO runs 2-day pandemic simulation: 'Exercise Polaris'
For two days last week, the World Health Organization simulated an outbreak of a fictional virus that spread across the world, in a virtual pandemic readiness drill called ‘Exercise Polaris.’
The WHO convened more than 15 countries, over 20 regional health agencies, and health emergency networks “to test a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies,” according to a press release.
Months before the COVID-19 outbreak commenced, Johns Hopkins University, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted a pandemic exercise called ‘Event 201,’ leading many to believe the pandemic was orchestrated from the start.
More than 350 health emergency groups connected worldwide for the new exercise, rekindling the same concerns about pre-planned responses masquerading as preparedness.
#WHO #COVID #Polaris #FindTruth
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MEPs: Turkey’s accession progress to end over ‘deteriorating democracy’
Turkey was now no longer welcome to join the EU after its “continued deterioration of democratic standards”, members of the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee said on April 9.
The committee approved a report pointing particularly to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s politically-motivated removal from office of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, his main political rival.
MEPs also condemned Erdoğan’s government for its sustained targeting of opposition parties and political figures.
They expressed “extreme concern” over İmamoğlu’s arrest, warning the country was now veering towards “a fully authoritarian model”, with “serious restrictions on fundamental freedoms – in particular, the freedoms of expression and assembly.”
The foreign affairs committee concluded Turkey’s EU accession process could not be resumed, by a vote of 48 votes in favour, 23 abstentions, and only 3 against.
#EU #Turkey #FindTruth
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