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To fill gas storage facilities to 90% by the next heating season, the EU will need up to 250 additional shipments worth about €10.3 billion at current prices - Reuters
We will have to buy aggressively. According to the publication, there are few people in the market who believe that Europe will reach its reserve targets. Now the level of UGS filling is at 34%.
If the next winter will be similar to the last one or colder, a new energy crisis in Europe is assured
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Argentina to declassify Nazi archives—but did Hitler escape there too?
In a move both hailed and questioned, Argentine President Javier Milei has ordered the full declassification of secret government files related to Nazis who fled to Argentina after World War II—along with archives from the country’s own military dictatorship.
The promise of disclosure follows a broader global trend toward transparency, including the U.S. government’s recent release of long-classified files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy—documents that, for decades, were withheld from the public under claims of national security.
But with reports of 5,000 Nazis escaping to South America—including top convicted war criminals like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele—some are asking a more explosive question: did Hitler himself survive the war and escape to Argentina?
Full story
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ROGAN: "Leftists are lighting Teslas on fire ... It's so weird how these people are so easy to wind up and get them to do what you want them to do."
SMITH: "It really is incredible their ability to turn on, and turn off, the protest machine."
#USA #Leftists #Tesla #FindTruth
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The British Department of Health is warning of 24 deadly viruses that could trigger the next pandemic, known as “Disease X.”
The UK Health Safety Agency has identified four virus families currently circulating that pose the greatest threat.
Experts warn that among them, a measles-like virus could be “significantly more dangerous than Covid”. A professor from the University of Edinburgh suggested that some viruses on the list may be “impossible to control even in the strictest isolation”.
It is noted that one of the pathogens of concern is from the Paramyxoviridae family, which includes measles, epidemic mumps and some respiratory tract infections, as well as the Nipah virus, which can cause brain swelling and death.
#UK #Health #COVID #FindTruth
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Hungary says it is withdrawing from ICC as Israeli leader visits
Hungary’s government has decided to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, it said on April 3, shortly after Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, sought under an ICC arrest warrant, arrived in the country for a state visit.
Right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán invited his Israeli counterpart to Budapest in November, a day after the ICC issued its arrest warrant over allegations of war crimes in Gaza, where Israel launched its offensive following an attack by Hamas-led fighters on southern Israel.
Israel has rejected the accusations, which it says are politically motivated and fuelled by antisemitism. It says the International Criminal Court has lost all legitimacy by issuing the warrants against a democratically elected leader of a country exercising the right of self-defence.
As a founding member of the ICC, Hungary is theoretically obliged to arrest and hand over anyone subject to a warrant from the court but Orbán made clear that Hungary would not respect the ruling, which he called “brazen, cynical and completely unacceptable”.
#Hungary #Orban #Israel #FindTruth
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India has started smashing George Soros' foundations while Democrats are out of power in the US
Fintelligence with searches in the office of the Soros Foundation in Bangalore. Officially, they're investigating financial fraud. In fact - shut down the “open society” that funded local NGOs bypassing the law. The Indian Foreign Ministry is already demanding from the U.S. a report on all USAID projects for 10 years. Washington suddenly “cannot disclose the details” because it “threatens US national interests.”
#India #USA #USAID #FindTruth
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Sens. Paul and Merkley to Trump: Are we 'stumbling' into another war?
Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) have co-written a letter to the White House, demanding to know the administration’s strategy behind the now-21 days (as April 4) of airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
The letter calls into question the supposed intent of these strikes “to establish deterrence,” acknowledging that neither the Biden administration’s strikes in October 2023, nor the years-long bombing campaign by Saudi Arabia from 2014 to 2020, were successful in debilitating the military organization's military capabilities.
“Rather, these campaigns only served to embolden the Houthis and rally their recruiting base,” the senators said in the letter. “U.S. military action must have a clear strategy that advances our country’s long-term national security objectives and is compliant with the law of armed conflict.” They conclude the letter by warning of the United States “stumbling into another costly and unnecessary war.”
Paul and Merkley also questioned the Constitutionality of the strikes, given there has been no Congressional declaration of war on the Houthis. Congress wasn’t even consulted.
#USA #Paul #Merkley #FindTruth
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“Don’t panic, don’t retaliate!”
“Well we have some very, very good news today,” Trump began his address exclaiming that “This is Liberation Day.”
Trump lays out his theory that tariffs will bring back a “golden age” for the US. He says the reciprocal tariffs will bring “stronger competition and lower prices for consumers” in the US. Finally, Trump announces his tariff plan details as a "Declaration Of Economic Independence."
Specifically, Trump announced a baseline tariff rate of 10% for all countries (below the 15% consensus and 20% worst case) beginning April 5th. 25% tariff on all auto imports is confirmed.
But, specific reciprocal tariffs for 'bad actors' starting on April 9th.
Mexico and Canada are not on the list as US will continue to exempt USMCA-compliant goods.
Initially markets heard Trump's comments as 'better than expected' and futures spiked on the news, but then as he showed the chart of specific tariffs, futures plunged.
Treasury Secretary Bessent appeared on Bloomberg TV with a simple message to the world: Don’t panic, don’t retaliate.
“As long as you don’t retaliate, this is the high end of the number,” he says.
#USA #Trump #USMCA #FindTruth
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Putin envoy Dmitriev, Trump envoy Witkoff meet in Washington
Russian President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev met with U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday as the Trump administration continues to press Russia and Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said.
Dmitriev, a Stanford-educated former Goldman Sachs investment banker, is one of the most U.S.-savvy members of Russia's elite, with close relations to some key members of the Trump team. He is the highest-ranking Russian official to travel to the U.S. on state business since Russia's 2022 expanded invasion of Ukraine.
#USA #Russia #Negotiations #FindTruth
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Secret Pentagon memo on preparing for war with China
Over the weekend The Washington Post revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth distributed a memo in mid-March which ordered the Pentagon to prioritize its war-planning focus on potential future conflict with China.
The memo, called the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance "outlines, in broad and sometimes partisan detail, the execution of President Donald Trump’s vision to prepare for and win a potential war against Beijing and defend the United States from threats in the ‘near abroad,’ including Greenland and the Panama Canal."
It's nothing new that the Pentagon considers China a 'top pacing threat' - but it does confirm that the Trump administration would likely be willing to go to war in the event of a mainland invasion of the self-ruled island.
The memo interestingly presented a strategy of "assuming risk" in Europe and other parts of the world, to refocus efforts on top nuclear-armed rivals.
The Pentagon’s force planning and new focus "will consider conflict only with Beijing when planning contingencies for a major power war" and leave the "threat from Moscow largely attended by European allies" - according to the report.
Hegseth wrote that China "is the Department’s sole pacing threat, and denial of a Chinese fait accompli seizure of Taiwan — while simultaneously defending the US homeland is the Department’s sole pacing scenario."
#USA #Pentagon #China #FindTruth
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Status of US dollar as global reserve currency: Central banks diversify into other currencies and gold
The status of the US dollar as the dominant global reserve currency has helped the US fund its twin deficits, and thereby has enabled them: the huge fiscal deficit every year and the massive trade deficit every year. The reserve currency status comes from other central banks (not the Fed) having purchased trillions of USD-denominated assets such as Treasury securities, other government securities, corporate bonds, and even stocks. The dollar status as the dominant reserve currency has been crucial for the US, and as that dominance declines ever so slowly, risks pile up ever so slowly.
The US dollar lost further ground as top global reserve currency in 2024, according to the IMF’s COFER data released on March 31. Total holdings of USD-denominated securities by other central banks (not the Fed) fell by $59 billion to $6.63 trillion at the end of 2024, from $6.69 trillion at the end of 2023.
And the dollar’s share declined to 57.8% of total allocated exchange reserves at the end of 2024, the lowest since 1994, down by 7.3 percentage points in 10 years, as central banks have been diversifying their holdings for years to assets denominated in currencies other than the dollar, and into gold.
Nontraditional reserve currencies’ shares:
🇯🇵 Japanese yen, 5.8%.
🇬🇧 British pound, 4.7%.
🇺🇳 “All other currencies,” 4.6%.
🇨🇦 Canadian dollar, 2.8%.
🇨🇳 Chinese renminbi, 2.2%.
🇦🇺 Australian dollar, 2.1% .
🇨🇭 Swiss franc, 0.2%.
#USA #World #Economy #FindTruth
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Turkey moves to take control of Syria’s strategic T4 air base, aiming to deter Israeli aerial attacks
Turkey has begun efforts to take control of Syria’s Tiyas air base, also known as T4, and is preparing to deploy air defence systems there. Construction plans for the site are reportedly under way.
Ankara and Damascus have been negotiating a defence pact since December, following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad. The agreement would see Turkey provide air cover and military protection for Syria’s new government, which currently lacks a functioning military.
Although Turkish officials had previously downplayed the possibility of a military presence in Syria, describing such plans as premature, negotiations have quietly continued.
While Israel views a Turkish military presence in Syria as a potential threat, Ankara aims to stabilise the country by leveraging its military capabilities and filling the power vacuum left by the withdrawal of Russia and Iran.
Israel has regularly targeted Syrian military installations since Assad's government collapsed in December, with a recent surge in operations around T4. Last week, the Israeli air force struck T4 and the Palmyra air base, targeting runways and strategic assets.
An Israeli security source told the media that any Turkish air base in Syria would undermine Israel’s freedom of operation. “This is a potential threat that we oppose,” the source said.
#Turkey #Syria #Israel #FindTruth
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Elon Musk says Tesla terror 'generals' have been identified: 'We're coming for them'
Amid a wave of violence against Tesla vehicles, showrooms and charging stations, Elon Musk labeled the attacks as "wide-scale domestic terrorism" and demanded authorities "go after the generals" behind the violence.
Over the weekend, anti-Musk protesters saw one of their biggest shows of force as the decentralized movement known as Tesla Takedown planned a "Global Day of Action" targeting more than 500 Tesla locations worldwide.
"This is fundamentally a case of terrorism. It's wide-scale domestic terrorism with the purpose of intimidation, and it's harming innocent people. It's really terrible," Musk said Tuesday on "The Five."
"What we actually have to get to are the people who are organizing and paying for these attacks and protests. That's who we really need to go after, because the people that were actually throwing the Molotov cocktails — they're the foot soldiers, but we need to go after the generals."
"The president has made it very clear that we're going to go after those that are paying and organizing these violent attacks, and Attorney General Bondi has said the same thing. I believe that that is exactly what will happen," Musk said, adding the administration knows who these "generals" are.
#USA #Musk #Tesla #FindTruth
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Zuckerberg’s right-wing metamorphosis appears to be a giant facade
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s recent shift rightward appears to be little more than window dressing, as his company’s policies still favor mass censorship.
Zuckerberg rocked the online world in early January 2025 when he announced a grand policy change, vowing that his companies would pivot from their censorship reflexes. The ideological renewal culminated in video where Zuckerberg proclaimed, “It’s time to get back to our roots in free expression on Facebook and Instagram.”
Despite the grand decree, Meta’s current community standards still leave the door wide open for censorship. The current community standards still contain a comprehensive section instructing users not to post content which would fall under its “hateful conduct” policy, though those policies were relaxed regarding the issues of gender identity, sexual orientation and religion.
Meta’s community guidelines still contain a section on “harmful health misinformation” that covers non-Covid-related public health issues. The policy reads, “We consult with leading health organizations to identify health misinformation likely to directly contribute to imminent harm to public health and safety.”
As part of the company’s bullying and harassment policy, one may also find themselves on the wrong end of a suspension if they produce content that “degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating.”
A spokesperson for Meta explained that its bullying and harassment policy allows users to express disgust at an action but may not target a specific person and that the policy did not change as part of its January announcement.
#USA #Meta #Zuckerberg #FindTruth
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European countries resist US push to scrap diversity and inclusion initiatives
U.S. government efforts to eliminate diversity initiatives are not going down well on the European continent.
Laurent Saint-Martin, France’s minister for foreign trade, said on Monday the country won’t compromise after the U.S. State Department said that French companies who have contracts with the U.S. government need to drop diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. In neighboring Belgium, where some companies received similar requests, the government lashed out at the new U.S. rules.
French media reported last week that French companies received a letter saying U.S. President Donald Trump’s rollback of DEI initiatives also could apply outside of the U.S.
Saint-Martin spoke to RTL Radio following the reports and said French authorities will seek explanations from their U.S. counterparts about the letter.
The reported demands included abandoning inclusion policies that are part of French and European Union laws such as equality between men and women, the fight against discrimination and racism or the promotion of diversity to help people with disabilities, he said.
“All of this is progress that corresponds first and foremost to our French values, we are proud of this and we don’t want to compromise on it,” Saint-Martin said. “We can’t just cancel the application of our own laws overnight.”
#EU #USA #DEI #FindTruth
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Italian police increase security at Tesla dealerships after 17 cars destroyed in Rome fire
Italy’s interior ministry has written to police forces across the country to increase security at Tesla dealerships after 17 of the electric cars made by Elon Musk’s company were destroyed in a fire in Rome.
Italy’s state police anti-terrorism unit, Digos, is investigating whether the fire at the Tesla dealership in Torre Angela, a suburb in the east of the capital, was started by anarchists.
Firefighters worked for hours to put out the blaze in the early hours of Monday. Drone images showed a row of the burnt-out remains of the vehicles in a parking area of the dealership. Using his social media platform, X, Musk referred to it as “terrorism”.
There are 13 Tesla dealerships in Italy, all managed by the parent company, the majority of them in Rome, but also in other cities including Florence and Milan.
#Italy #Tesla #FindTruth
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‘We have to talk about non-German suspects!’ — German minister admits foreigners disproportionately represented in latest crime stats
Violent crime rose in Germany in 2024, with police recording a concerning increase in knife attacks, sexual assaults, and youth violence — trends that coincide with a disproportionately high number of offenses attributed to foreign nationals.
According to the latest Police Crime Statistics (PKS) presented in Berlin on Wednesday, foreigners accounted for over 40 percent of all criminal suspects despite comprising 15 percent of the population.
The data, however, significantly understates the true involvement of foreign-born individuals in crime. Under current statistical methods, naturalized citizens — those born abroad but now holding German passports — are classified as “German” in official crime records. This means offenders with a migration background may be underrepresented in the figures, as many are not counted as foreign nationals once naturalized.
The rise in violent crime was not limited to knife attacks. Sexual violence increased sharply, with 13,320 reported cases of rape and sexual assault — a 9.3 percent rise compared to 2023. Of the 11,329 suspects in these cases, 4,437 were non-German nationals, accounting for 39 percent of suspects in this category.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser admitted the seriousness of the figures at a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday, stressing the need for an open but honest discussion on the role of migration in crime. “We have to talk about this. If you don’t follow the rules, you have to leave,” she stated.
#Germany #Crime #FindTruth
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Victory for honest science versus corrupt?
The Senate confirmed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health last Tuesday.
The COVID-19 lockdowns and other government policies that the NIH pushed under previous leadership were disastrous, which is why top NIH officials Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci were so desperate to censor free speech revolving around their terrible policies. One of the targets of tech-government censorship collusion during lockdowns was Bhattacharya, as the Twitter Files showed. But now that the tables have turned and the censored doctor is put in charge at NIH, the agency will hopefully no longer prioritize authoritarian government power over the scientific method.
Fauci insisted that he didn't need a pardon for anything…
#COVID #NIH #Fauci #FindTruth
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What happens to EU's anti-war bloc without Marine Le Pen?
A political bombshell in France: the long-time leader of the right-wing National Rally party (Rassemblement National) Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for the next five years after a court in Paris found her guilty of embezzling the equivalent of $4 million in EU funds to pay National Rally staffers not working for the European Parliament.
It matters because the latest polls showed Marine Le Pen leading in the presidential race for 2027, projecting 34-37% of the votes in the first round.
At first glance, Le Pen’s disqualification could weaken the anti-war voices in France and the EU by reducing their cohesion and visibility. Her party is a founding member of the Patriots for Europe, the third largest political group in the European Parliament, where it sits with influential like-minded parties like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz, and Italian Deputy Prime Minster Matteo Salvini’s Lega.
Le Pen’s experience and networks in Europe made her a key player in ensuring the cohesiveness of these like-minded forces. Back in France, she has consistently criticized Macron’s hyper-activism on Ukraine and dismissed his idea of sending French peacekeepers to Ukraine as “sheer madness”.
Ultimately, the appeal and the resilience of the anti-war, pro-diplomacy voices in Europe does not depend solely on personalities, but on broader trends, such as war fatigue, changes in U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, the battleground situation in Ukraine, social and economic pressures stemming from the militarization drive, and the growing perception that the European publics were not really engaged by the elites in a proper democratic debate on the nature of threats facing Europe.
These currents exist, and they will find their champions, regardless of Marine Le Pen’s personal fate.
#EU #France #LePen #FindTruth
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Finland to revoke ban on anti-personnel landmines and boost defence spending
Finland has announced it will withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, an international agreement banning the production and use of anti-personnel landmines.
On April 1, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo of the Conservative NCP party made the decision public. The country would also significantly increase its spending on defence, the Finnish finance minister said.
“The most important goals of Finland’s foreign and security policy are to safeguard Finland’s independence and territorial integrity, to avoid becoming involved in a military conflict and to ensure the safety, security and wellbeing of the people of Finland,” he added.
Finance minister Riikka Purra, of the right-wing Finns party, also announced on April 1 that Finland would increase its defence spending to 3% of GDP by 2029, up from 2.4% in 2024.
#Finland #Landmines #FindTruth
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Democrat-backed Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, most expensive in history
Democrat-endorsed Susan Crawford has won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, beating Republican-endorsed Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in US history.
The campaigns and their supporters spent more than $81 million, and drew the involvement of Elon Musk, Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders, and other political figures.
Crawford's win means that liberals will retain a 4-3 majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
#USA #Crawford #Wisconsin #FindTruth
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Unearthed FBI chat logs reveal ‘gag order’ on Biden laptop expose
Internal FBI chat logs revealed that the bureau imposed a “gag order” on agents regarding the New York Post bombshell story on the Hunter Biden laptop. Along with showing Hunter’s depravity, the laptop revealed Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings.
The chat logs, published Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee on X, show that the gag order extended to an FBI analyst who attempted to alert social media companies that the laptop was authentic—before these companies moved to censor the story’s spread.
On Oct. 14, 2020, the New York Post released its first story on the laptop’s content. That same day, FBI officials instructed agents, “please do not discuss Biden matter.”
Earlier chats show a group of agents—including Laura Dehmlow, Bradley Benavides and James Dennehy—debating the Post’s story.
“You guys are tracking the coverage of the laptop right?” Dehmlow wrote. Both Benavides and Dennehy replied affirmatively.
Later, agents whose names remain sealed sent messages stating, “right answer – nobody on call is authorized to comment upon NY Post story” and “nobody is authorized to comment.”
One agent asked if another had “admonished” the colleague who nearly revealed the laptop’s authenticity to Big Tech companies. “yes but he won’t shut up,” one response read.
#USA #FBI #Biden #FindTruth
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China ends two-day Taiwan drills with simulated strikes on key ports, energy sites
China's military on Wednesday said it had completed two days of exercises that included "live-fire" drills and simulated strikes on key ports and energy sites aimed at Taiwan, the self-ruled island it claims as its own.
The surprise maneuvers were condemned by Taiwan, while the United States criticised it as "intimidation tactics". They came less than a month after Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te called China a "foreign hostile force".
Named "Strait Thunder-2025A", the drills were in the middle and southern parts of the Taiwan Strait as well as the East China Sea, the military said.
By Wednesday evening, a People's Liberation Army spokesman Shi Yi said "the Eastern Theater Command has completed all designated tasks of the joint exercises carried out from Apr 1 to 2".
Earlier, he said that Wednesday's exercises were meant to "test the troops' capabilities" in areas such as "blockade and control, and precision strikes on key targets".
The military also said it had held "long-range live-fire drills" and practised hitting "simulated targets of key ports and energy facilities".
Taiwan officials blasted the drills as "reckless" and "irresponsible". Taiwan's military subsequently elevated its readiness level to ensure China does not "turn drills into combat" and "launch a sudden attack on us."
#China #Taiwan #FindTruth
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Salary needed to achieve the American dream in the 50 largest cities
According to new GOBankingRates data, achieving the American dream and enjoying a comfortable lifestyle requires a minimum of earning $102,000 annually across the 50 largest U.S. cities.
GOBankingRates determined the household income necessary for achieving the American dream by analyzing the 50 largest U.S. cities based on population and sourcing key factors, such as annual grocery and child care costs and monthly mortgage expenses.
Washington, D.C., is the city with the highest salary for achieving the American dream. To live comfortably, residents must earn $189,306 annually.
D.C. ($189,306), Boston ($175,628), New York ($173,006), San Francisco ($172,340) and San Jose ($167,958) each ranked in the top five. A salary of at least $167,000 is needed for a comfortable lifestyle in these five high cost-of-living metros.
Nine California cities ranked in the top 50, the most from any state. To achieve the American dream in San Francisco (#4), San Jose (#5), Oakland (#6), Los Angeles (#7), Long Beach (#8), San Diego (#10), Sacramento (#13), Fresno (#15) and Bakersfield (#17), residents must earn a minimum of $143,000 annually.
Take a look at the amount of salary needed to achieve the American dream, from highest to lowest annual earnings.
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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Maryland reparations bill inches forward as Gov. Wes Moore dodges questions on initiative
A Maryland bill proposing the establishment of a commission to study reparations, including financial restitution, is expected to clear its final hurdle in the House of Delegates with only days remaining in the 2025 legislative session.
Senate Minority Whip Justin Ready, R-Carroll and Frederick Counties, told Spotlight on Maryland he is confused as to why this bill is being advanced as the state faces a historic $3.3 billion deficit, which is forecasted to balloon to $6.7 billion by fiscal year 2028.
The reparations bill, a legislative priority announced at the beginning of the session by the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, passed the Senate before Crossover Day in mid-March. Crossover Day marks the unofficial deadline for legislative leaders in the Maryland General Assembly to move bills to the opposing chamber they intend to send to the governor for final approval.
Similar reparations commissions have been established by state assemblies in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois. In 2024, the California Reparations Task Force released a report exceeding 11,000 pages that detailed its findings after a two-year study. The report called on the state to issue a formal apology for racial injustices, including slavery, and to provide financial payouts.
#USA #Moore #Maryland #FindTruth
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German politicians fret over gold reserves held in the US
Politicians and experts in Germany are increasingly concerned over the security of the nation’s vast quantity of gold stored in the United States as US-EU relations continue to deteriorate.
Germany currently holds the world’s second-largest reserves of gold at 3,352 tonnes, behind only the US. However, it is estimated that about 37% of those (roughly 1,236 tonnes) are held in vaults of the New York Federal Reserve, according to German publication Bild.
The yellow metal is known for its ability to provide security and liquidity during geopolitical turbulence. By keeping some of its gold across the Atlantic, the Bundesbank would theoretically have quick access to US currency should the need arise.
However, many in Germany are now feeling uneasy about keeping its precious metal there, now estimated to be worth over €100 billion, especially with US President Donald Trump repeatedly expressing the desire to gain more control over the Federal Reserve.
Some are now calling for the German government to bring their gold back as soon as possible.
#Germany #USA #Gold #FindTruth
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Norway reopens debate on EU membership
Norway has reopened a long-standing and controversial debate on European Union membership after its Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg said: “We are by definition in favour of EU membership.”
Despite that, the Conservatives’ probable coalition partners, the populist Progress Party, indicated it was firmly opposed.
“If there comes a window to apply, we will apply. I believe that Norway would be a better country if we were a member of the EU,” said Solberg, Norway’s prime minister from 2013 to 2021.
Conservative Party voted at a March 29-30 conference that the EU should engage in quick accession negotiations “should the situation warrant it”, while a poll among the general public showed 43% for and 37% against joining the bloc.
The biggest obstacle, though, likely would be the Progress Party, the Conservatives’ coalition partner during Solberg’s previous term as prime minister. Progress, often described as right-wing, has opposed Norwegian membership of the EU since 2016.
#EU #Norway #FindTruth
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Zeldin shutters multimillion-dollar Biden EPA museum that 'scarcely' saw visitors
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is shuttering the Biden-era EPA museum located near the White House that "scarcely" saw visitors since it opened in 2024.
Zeldin announced Monday afternoon that the National Environmental Museum and Education Center, which opened last year under the Biden administration, will shutter after costing taxpayers millions to build and subsequently drew a lackluster number of visitors.
"The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build in accordance with Smithsonian standards and more than $600,000 annually to operate," the EPA said on Monday, describing the museum as the "Biden EPA’s pet project." "It had less than 2,000 external visitors between May 2024-February 2025 and while the museum was free, the cost to taxpayers per external visitor amounted to nearly $315 per person."
The EPA museum opened in May 2024 within the William Jefferson Clinton federal building, which is home to the EPA's headquarters and sits just blocks from the White House. A smaller EPA exhibit previously was showcased in a neighboring federal building ahead of the construction and opening of the National Environmental Museum and Education Center in 2024.
#USA #Biden #EPA #FindTruth
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US must be ready for a 2027 Chinese invasion of Taiwan; Rep. Perry
The United States must act as if the Chinese regime’s ambition to annex Taiwan by 2027 is a “realistic potential,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) said late last week.
It follows a recent remark by the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, at an annual defense conference that Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s goal to invade Taiwan in 2027 has driven the Chinese Communist Party’s investment “in land, sea, and air based nuclear delivery platforms, and infrastructure necessary to support a major buildup of their nuclear forces.”
Meanwhile, rumors of escalated purges within the People’s Liberation Army in the past weeks have raised questions on how the CCP’s internal power struggle will impact the regime’s decision-making on Taiwan.
Perry said taking Taiwan by 2027 has always been the CCP’s goal, and the world “needs to take that seriously” rather than assuming the CCP will be unable or unwilling to carry out the plan.
“We have to proceed in everything that we do and say, in every decision we make, as though that’s a realistic potential,” he said.
Perry, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and a retired Army brigadier general, is among the 28 lawmakers who backed a resolution in February calling for normalized diplomatic relations between the United States and Taiwan.
#USA #China #Taiwan #FindTruth
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British Council institutes harsher criminal sentencing, but only for white men
The Sentencing Council of England and Wales, a non-departmental public body which determines the guidelines for court punishments of convicted offenders, has recently made controversial changes and ignited a firestorm among the native British populace.
The council has announced that special exceptions in sentencing will be made for ethnic minority offenders (the majority of violent crime in Britain) and religious minority offenders, as well as female offenders. In other words, everyone except white males will enjoy reduced sentencing, creating a two tier justice system that targets white men for harsher treatment.
Conservative shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick has called the guidance "two-tier justice" and "blatant bias" against Christians and straight white men, as he said it would make "a custodial sentence less likely for those from an ethnic minority, cultural minority, and/or faith minority community".
#UK #Criminal #FindTruth
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