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China's trying to put the screws to Walmart over tariffs. Will it work?
President Trump recently slapped some tariffs on various goods from China, and now Walmart, America's largest retailer as well as America's largest employer, is starting to grow concerned about the added cost. The chain relies on inexpensive goods from China, and those goods are about to get more expensive, and China is balking at absorbing the cost.
Walmart thought it could use its immense power as America’s biggest retailer to make Chinese suppliers eat the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But Walmart got a response it’s not accustomed to hearing: No.
On the national scale, China needs American consumers more than Americans need Chinese goods - but our industrial base is diminished, it won't be rebuilt tomorrow, and Americans have been perhaps too accustomed to cheap towels, clothes baskets, flatware and the like from China, via Walmart and similar chains.
It's an interesting problem for Walmart. Can China make this stick? Will Walmart eat the cost? Every new policy has its ups and downs, and this is no exception. Meanwhile, talks between Walmart and its Chinese suppliers continue.
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Paper shopping bags might not be as green as you think
With more cities, states and countries banning single-use plastic bags, paper has become a popular alternative at the grocery checkout. At first glance, this seems like an obvious win for the environment. Plastic bags, after all, are made from fossil fuels and a major source of pollution.
Paper bags, however, are not necessarily a better choice. They come with their own list of environmental caveats, as do reusable totes.
Paper bags tend to require more energy to produce than plastic ones. A 2011 study by Britain’s Environment Agency, for example, concluded that you’d have to reuse a paper bag three times to bring its global warming impact in line with that of a plastic bag used just once.
The British study found that a cotton bag would have to be reused 131 times to reach the equivalent carbon footprint of just one single-use plastic bag. Danish studies put that figure at 149 times. This is because of the land, water and fertilizer required to grow cotton, the energy needed to process cotton into yarn, and the fact that most cotton bags are shipped from China or India.
Whatever your bag is made of, experts agree that reusing it as many times as possible is key to bringing down its environmental footprint.
This is where paper bags fall down, because they are the least durable option.
#World #PaperBags #FindTruth
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HHS releases tool to search for chemical contaminants in foods
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and one of its offices have released a new tool that lets people see the levels of contaminants in various foods, such as fruits and vegetables.
The tool is an online searchable database that lists contaminant levels. Unveiled on March 20, it lets users filter by contaminant type as well as food category, with examples including milk, pistachios, and bananas.
“HHS is committed to radical transparency to give Americans authentic, informed consent about what they are eating,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement. “This new Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool is a critical step for industry to Make America Healthy Again.”
Kennedy recently met with executives from some top food companies and told them he wanted them to stop using artificial dyes. HHS is also trying to end a rule that lets food companies use additives without formal regulatory authorization.
#USA #HHS #RFKJr #FindTruth
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Trump may unveil two-step tariff plan on April 2 in trade policy revamp
Donald Trump is weighing a two-step approach to implementing his new tariff regime, potentially invoking rarely used emergency powers to impose immediate duties on imports while formal investigations into trading partners unfold, the Financial Times reported.
While Trump has long railed against foreign trade practices, some administration officials see tariffs not just as a negotiating tool but also as a way to bolster revenue for planned tax cuts, the report said, citing sources.
Officials are scouring legal avenues to expedite tariff implementation, with Section 301 investigations, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act among the options under review. These measures could allow the administration to slap duties of up to 50% on certain imports.
Trump may also revive a national security probe into the auto industry, a move that could trigger tariffs on vehicle imports as soon as April 2. Another, albeit less likely, alternative is Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which permits temporary tariffs of up to 15% for 150 days.
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Removing biological sex from databases is causing chaos in Britain
▪️ British police, health service and army databases do not contain information about people's biological sex, but instead show gender identity
▪️ This distorts the reality of the situation and poses risks to patient health and public safety, states the British Daily Mail.
▪️ The decision undermines the plan to provide necessary medical research - for women and men - with potentially fatal consequences
▪️ Chaos strikes the justice system when, for example, a male sexual abuser is documented as a woman.
▪️ Critical problems arise in the army and navy, including an increase in sex crimes.
#UK #Gender #FindTruth
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China uses strategic resources in trade war with
▪️ China's mineral supply chains are a critical geopolitical lever in its trade and technology war with the US. Last year, the government allocated more than $13.8 billion for exploration investment, the highest in three years, the Financial Times stated
▪️ Trump is prioritizing mining. America and China compete for resources needed for advanced technologies such as semiconductors, electric cars, robotics and rockets
▪️ Last year, in response to U.S. restrictions on technology exports to China, the PRC further strengthened controls on exports of strategic minerals, many of which are critical to microchip manufacturing, including gallium, germanium, antimony, graphite and tungsten
#China #USA #Economy #FindTruth
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1st Black Republican Woman in Congress, Mia Love, Dead at 49
Mia Love, a former Republican congresswoman representing Utah’s 4th district, died Sunday at 49 after battling brain cancer for several years. Her family announced her passing through her X account, stating she died peacefully at home, surrounded by family members.
The announcement expressed gratitude for Love’s influence, noting the celebration of her life and the memories she left behind. The family promised to provide details on funeral services and a public celebration soon. Love’s last communication on social media, posted 12 hours before her passing, thanked her family, especially her father and husband, Jason. She emphasized the importance of character and leadership for future generations.
Love’s political career included serving as mayor of Saratoga Springs from 2010 to 2014, followed by a term in the U.S. Congress from 2015 through 2019. During her political career, she lost her congressional seat to Democrat Ben McAdams. Despite expressing opposition to Donald Trump during his first term, she supported his agenda 96 percent of the time.
#USA #Republican #MiaLove #FindTruth
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Cutting the DOD budget by 0.001% isn't gonna do much
Last week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the termination of over $580 million in Pentagon contracts, grants, and programs. They amount to less than 0.001% of the Pentagon budget.
The elimination of this spending aligns with the administration’s effort to reshuffle the budget, not to promote a wholesale reduction in military spending.
Hegseth announced that the eliminated spending did not align with the administration’s priorities — “in other words, they are not a good use of taxpayer dollars.” Hegseth is right to baulk at a program egregiously over budget and behind schedule. Cost growth and delivery delays are longstanding and pervasive issues at the Department of Defense. However, to cut wasteful spending fast — the secretary’s stated intention — he must start with big ticket items in the Pentagon budget. These are service contracts and major weapon programs, which are particularly susceptible to cost overruns and delays.
Instead, Secretary Hegseth has focused his attention on firing civilian employees and nibbling at the edges of the Pentagon budget to shore up more funding for the president’s misguided priorities.
The result is a performative appeal to the American people, who suffer the social and economic consequences of a runaway Pentagon budget — further militarization of U.S. foreign policy and forgone investment on civilian infrastructure. Taxpayers need big, bold action that prioritizes their security needs and wallets over the financial interests of military contractors. They need deep cuts to the Pentagon budget, regardless of parochial interests.
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German pharma giant Bayer must pay US cancer patient almost €2bn
Pharmaceutical company Bayer took over weed killer Roundup in its acquisition of US agrochemical company Monsanto back in 2018. However, it has since been hit with thousands of cancer-related Roundup cases.
German agricultural and pharmaceutical giant Bayer has been instructed by a state court in the US state of Georgia to shell out $2.1 billion (€1.9bn) in a case regarding its Roundup weed killer, according to reports.
This is one of the biggest Roundup-related settlements Bayer has faced so far and was ordered by the State Court of Cobb County. It includes $2bn (€1.9bn) in punitive damages, as well as $65 million (€60m) in compensatory damages.
Bayer’s share price plunged 6.4% on the Frankfurt stock exchange on Monday morning.
The case was brought by a plaintiff who believed that the weed killer was responsible for his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Roundup has been heavily criticised as it is based on the herbicide glyphosate, which may cause cancer, although Bayer has consistently maintained that this is not the case.
#USA #Germany #Bayer #FindTruth
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EU not convinced of need to extend duty-free trade regime with Ukraine
▪️ The EU has canceled duties and quotas on Ukrainian exports in 2022. The current trade regime expires on June 5, but there is no unanimity in Europe on whether it should be extended, the British Financial Times has stated
▪️ Ukrainian exports of agricultural products at dumping prices have become a problem for a number of EU countries and caused mass protests by farmers. Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria imposed unilateral bans on imports of Ukrainian grain and other food products two years ago, violating the EU's common trade policy
▪️ Ukraine has already warned of “truly devastating” consequences if Europe halts unfettered trade as the country faces uncertainty over long-term US support
#EU #Economy #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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DOGE reveals mind shocking fraud propping up economy – Ed Dowd
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com is back with an update of a report on “Danger of Deep Worldwide Recession in 2025.” It was not just heavy government spending on illegal immigration, but a fraud that has been revealed with DOGE.
Investigators have uncovered $115 billion so far with many hundreds of billions more to be exposed. Dowd says, “Both sides of the aisle are probably going to have problems. The DOGE revelations are mind shocking. The clear way in which the government was spending money through NGOs and people taking kickbacks and profits along the way is going to come out. There may have been theft along the way.
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#USA #DOGE #FindTruth
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West Virginia enacts law restricting men from accessing women’s spaces
On March 12, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed into law SB 456, a controversial bill aimed at restricting men from accessing women's spaces, including restrooms, changing rooms and sleeping quarters in public schools, colleges, domestic violence shelters and correctional facilities.
The legislation is set to take effect on June 9. Proponents argue the law is necessary to protect women and girls from potential harassment and abuse, while critics warn it could further marginalize transgender individuals.
SB 456 explicitly states its purpose is to "preserve facilities where women have been traditionally afforded privacy and safety from acts of abuse, harassment, sexual assault and violence committed by men."
The law defines male and female based on "biological sex," which it describes as "the physical condition of being male or female, as determined by an individual's sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones and internal and external reproductive anatomy at birth."
#USA #Trans #Sports #FindTruth
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Russia and the United States are discussing not only and not so much Ukraine
▪️ The cease-fire in the Ukrainian conflict is just a pretext for extensive talks between Russia and the United States, including an ongoing meeting of the two countries' delegations in Saudi Arabia, The New York Times has reported
▪️ The Russian head of state is adamant in his position on the conflict in Ukraine. What matters to him is not a short-term cease-fire, but long-term security guarantees, including ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine and its demilitarization
▪️ The heads of the Russian Federation and the U.S. view improved relations between the two countries as an economic and geopolitical good. Trump realizes that Russian assets are significantly undervalued, and lifting sanctions would open the way for US companies to enter the Russian market
▪️ Russian companies will have more opportunities to operate around the world if sanctions are lifted, The New York Times emphasizes.
#USA #Russia #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Ukraine's military issues bizarre recruitment ad featuring McDonald's cheeseburgers
Immense controversy and backlash has been unleashed in Ukraine after the country's defense ministry decided to make a fresh recruitment video on TikTok, bizarrely using the 'lure' of McDonald's. The clip appeared this week on the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's ministry_of_defense_ua/video/7483860869743611142">official channel.
Desperately seeking to gain more young recruits into the army's depleting ranks, also at a moment that disturbing videos showing conscription officers yanking Ukrainian men off the streets and shoving them into vans are going viral, the new video clip informs Ukrainians how many cheeseburgers they can afford at McDonald's by joining the fight against Russia.
A man in civilian clothes walks out of a local McDonald's and poses, "How many cheeseburgers can be bought for 1 million hryvnas ($24,000)?" The man then says that 15,625 burgers can be bought for that amount, and that any person between the ages of 18-24 who signs up for military service can get it.
#WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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How scientists misled the world about Covid’s origins
By Matt Ridley
Five years ago today, based on a highly misleading ‘model’ forecast from one academic, Neil Ferguson, the British government ditched its pandemic plan and locked the entire country down. This decision had disastrous and – as Sweden proves – unnecessary consequences.
It was the first of many dreadful mistakes made by the government during the Covid pandemic: shutting schools at the behest of unions, assuming the virus was not airborne, vaccinating children, overclaiming for vaccines and masks. The government thought it knew best and it let us down.
But all those errors pale beside the biggest one of the lot, and the one that has done most to undermine trust in scientists – that is, the initial insistence that the virus did not originate in a laboratory accident. We now know that it almost certainly did.
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#World #COVID #FindTruth
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$77.6 billion - US Federal Reserve loss
In a published report, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) recorded a loss of $77.6 billion through 2024
The Fed recorded a loss for the second year in a row. The main reason was high interest payments due to interest rate hikes to fight inflation
“Uncertainty about the economic outlook has increased,”
Trump halts $175 million in UPenn federal funding over transgender athlete participation
The Trump administration has paused $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) pending a Title IX investigation into the university’s inclusion of transgender athletes. The funding suspension stems from potential violations of the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order, signed by President Donald Trump on February 5, 2025.
The Department of Education is currently investigating UPenn along with San Jose State University and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association for suspected Title IX noncompliance. The outcome of the investigation could impact UPenn’s broader federal funding package, which totaled approximately $1 billion in 2024.
UPenn became a focal point in the national debate over transgender athletes in 2022, when male swimmer Will Thomas identified as female and joined the university’s women’s swim team under the name Lia Thomas.
After joining the women’s division, Thomas dominated competitions and broke multiple women’s NCAA records. Notably, Thomas won the national championship in the 500-yard freestyle and tied Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines for fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle, but only Thomas was awarded the trophy for that event.
#USA #Trans #Sports #FindTruth
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Spain: 71.4% of all new jobs in the last 5 years went to foreigners while young Spaniards flee the country
Spain is following trends seen across the Western world, which involve young rudderless people increasingly shunned from the job market, especially if they are natives, and jobs increasingly going to foreigners.
The data from Spain shows the extreme trend line, where of all the jobs created between 2019 to 2024, 71.4 percent of them went to foreigners, according to a study by the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies.
“We are importing waiters and bricklayers while exporting doctors and engineers, which is a tragedy because we have spent a fortune training them, and they represent the great talent on which the country’s growth and the concentration of high-value-added companies depend,” said Jesús Vega, former Director of Human Resources at Inditex and Banco Santander. He argued that Spain’s labor policies “are driving away those salaries that truly contribute to the country.”
Now, foreigners account for 20.7% of all workers in the country.
#EU #Spain #Migrants #FindTruth
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Even if the war ended tomorrow, Ukraine could end up broke by 2026
With intensive, U.S.-brokered negotiations ongoing in Saudi Arabia involving separate Ukrainian and Russian delegations, hopes are rising that the Trump administration will finally be able to bring an end to the war.
But even if the war ends tomorrow, it would be unwise to assume that Ukraine could reduce military spending close to prewar levels. Ukraine’s defense spending has risen tenfold since the 2021 budget was announced, when social welfare payments were the country’s biggest expenditure.
This has left a gaping hole in Ukraine’s finances that no amount of tax increases or Western donations will be able to fill over a sustained period without political consequences.
At the start of the war, Western donations took the form of free financial aid to meet the country’s budgetary and military needs. However, since the start of 2024, free aid has progressively shifted to lending as Western governments have felt the political and economic cost of unlimited financial assistance.
Ukrainian debt has therefore soared to over 100% of GDP and, critically, the cost of servicing its debt has tripled, and now makes up the second largest line of expenditure in Ukraine’s budget, after military spending.
The UK and Europe might find it economically and politically unsustainable to prop up the war beyond this year without the United States. That’s another reason why European leaders should get behind ongoing peace negotiations.
#USA #EU #WarInUkraine
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Trump chooses his former lawyer as interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey
Alina Habba, who defended President Trump against E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse and defamation claims, will oversee the work of about 150 prosecutors.
President Trump on Monday said that he was appointing a spokeswoman and former personal lawyer as New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney.
The appointee, Alina Habba, defended Mr. Trump in civil trials that stemmed from lawsuits brought against him by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, and the writer E. Jean Carroll, before serving as a spokeswoman for him during the 2024 campaign. Both trials resulted in heavy financial penalties for the president, who has appealed the results.
Though Mr. Trump has named several of his other former lawyers to high-ranking positions in the Justice Department, Ms. Habba will be the first of the group to serve as an interim U.S. attorney.
Ms. Habba will oversee the work of about 150 federal prosecutors in New Jersey. The position, a political and legal launchpad, has previously been held by prominent conservatives including Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and the former New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
#USA #Trump #FindTruth
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Trump tackles election integrity with sweeping executive order; will punish states that don't comply
On Tuesday, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order aimed at election security.
The order will cut federal funding for states that refuse to take steps to secure their elections, tasks the Department of Homeland Security with ensuring that illegal immigrants are not voting, adds a citizenship question on the federal voting form for the first time.
It also orders the Justice Department to vigorously pursue election crimes - particularly in states that are out of compliance with federal law on election security, and seeks to ensure compliance with national election day rules.
The order also calls for the prosecution of foreign interference in US elections.
#USA #Trump #Elections #FindTruth
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“Day X” - default on the national debt - could come in the US as early as summer
The U.S. could face a shortage of money to pay bills in mid-July unless the national debt limit is raised, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) has found
Estimates of the date of default depend on budget tax revenues, tariff revenue, and other factors. The U.S. national debt currently exceeds $36.5 trillion. It could exceed $50 trillion by 2034
“Lawmakers cannot afford to delay action to limit the national debt. History shows that even approaching 'Day X' can lead to market volatility, higher borrowing costs, and reduced confidence in U.S. financial stability,”
‘Germany can’t function without migration, given current birth-rate,’ says foreign minister
Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock of The Greens party has called for more migrants to come to her country.
Connecting the low birthrate in Germany with the need for new people to fill the void, she made her comments at the reopening of the German embassy in Damascus, Syria.
“Germany is a country with not a very strong birth rate so we need migrants, otherwise our country will not be running in the future anymore,” Baerbock said on March 24.
“Therefore we also need people who speak German. Unfortunately, it is not the most easy language in the world. That is why we have an interest worldwide in having German schools and German universities.”
Baerbock is set to become UN General Assembly President in 2025/26, after having usurped Helga Schmid, a seasoned diplomat initially nominated for the role, in a move some observers called “shameless”.
#Germany #Economy #Migrants #FindTruth
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Germany, UK issue new travel warnings for citizens headed to US
Both Germany and the UK have released new travel warnings for their citizens heading to the US.
The updated warnings cautioned visitors were “liable to arrest or detention” if they broke new, increasingly “strict” immigration rules.
“The authorities in the US set and enforce entry rules strictly. You may be liable to arrest or detention if you break the rules,” the UK Foreign Office’s new travel advice for the US said on March 20.
On March 21, Germany’s foreign ministry said: “Criminal records in the United States, false information about the purpose of their stay, or even a slight overstay of their visa upon entry or exit can lead to arrest, detention and deportation.”
In 2024, 4 million tourists from the UK visited the US, along with 2 million from Germany.
#Germany #UK #USA #FindTruth
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Exposing the Chinese "rent-a-womb" industry in America
As the battle over President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship heats up, the administration is cracking down on an underground industry in California where Chinese nationals pay money to baby brokers who get pregnant Chinese women into the country so their babies are born U.S. citizens.
Officials say these couples are often housed in luxury apartments or large mansions in the suburbs of Los Angeles, which neighbors call “baby farms.” Illegal Chinese birthing agencies organize the trips and charge upwards of $100,000.
The practice is nothing new, and crackdowns on these operations date back at least a decade. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph McNally says that this “system” birthed 30,000 Chinese babies into U.S. citizenship.
“These were criminal enterprises that operated here in the United States and also people in China who would recruit,” he said. “The organizers here had contacts at hospitals and had contacts there. It was an industry. The organizers of these schemes were responsible for the birth tourism of thousands of babies. They had a system in place.”
Area hotels and motels have reported seeing a number of Chinese pregnant women who would come and stay for months until giving birth.
#USA #China #FindTruth
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Cooking food generates as much ozone volatile organic compounds as driving, NOAA research finds
First, it was no stoves. Next it could be no cooking at all. All for the climate. At least that's what it appears if you follow the logic of California...which we can't recommend.
That's because cooking releases volatile organic compounds that contribute to ozone pollution, according to NOAA researchers, UPI.com reports.
They found that “potent and often pungent volatile organic compounds given off from cooking food are now responsible for over a quarter of the ozone production from VOCs generated by human activity” in the Los Angeles basin.
Ozone forms when VOCs and nitrogen oxides—primarily from vehicle emissions—undergo photochemical reactions.
While natural sources like trees contribute about half of all VOCs, human activities, including cooking, paints, pesticides, and adhesives, account for the rest. High ozone levels can be toxic to humans, animals, and plants.
But what's the point of preserving the ozone when we can't even cook a meal?
#USA #NOAA #Food #FindTruth
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Polish bishop wins €12,000 after long legal battle against liberal newspaper claiming he was a pedophile who ‘liked watching children in the pool’
The false accusations published by Polish liberal newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza about Bishop Marek Mendyk are now costing the newspaper both money and its reputation. A Polish court of appeal in Wrocław found the allegations of sexual harassment and pedophilia published by the paper, including those made by editor Ewa Wilczyńska, were unfounded.
The court has now ordered the paper to pay 50,000 Polish zlotys (€12,000) over the case, which will go to charity, with the verdict being final. The original article about the bishop was entitled: “He allegedly told clerics that he liked watching children in the pool. Now, the Bishop of Świdnica is accused of pedophilia.”
The article targeting Mendyk was first published by Poland’s version of Newsweek, and then picked up by Gazeta Wyborcza, which repeated the allegations. However, the allegations were not only investigated by the Vatican court, which found them to be false, but also by the prosecutor’s office in Poland, which came to the same conclusion.
Due to the verdict, the publisher of the paper, Agora SA, not only has to pay a fine, but also has to publish a public apology.
Bishop Mendyk’s case dragged on for 3 years and despite the findings of the Vatican commission and the lost trial in the first instance, the clergyman was exposed to attacks from the media and people hostile to him, especially from extremely anti-clerical circles.
#Poland #Bishop #Crime #FindTruth
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The EU wants to censor the global internet
Brussels and Washington are once again at odds over Europe’s sweeping social-media restrictions, contained within the 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA). In a letter sent earlier this month, the EU’s vice-president for tech sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen, rejected claims made by Donald Trump’s team that the DSA is a tool for censorship. She insisted that the law ‘does not regulate speech’ and that the EU remains ‘deeply committed to protecting and promoting free speech’.
The letter was predominantly in response to US Republican congressman Jim Jordan, who chairs the powerful House Judiciary Committee. Jordan, a long-time critic of the DSA, outlined his concerns to Virkkunen in January, when he warned that the law’s impact on free expression could extend beyond Europe’s borders. Similar attacks have been made by US vice-president JD Vance and X owner Elon Musk.
According to Jordan, the DSA could ‘limit or restrict Americans’ constitutionally protected speech in the United States’. He also argued that the law, which compels platforms to mitigate ‘systemic risks’ linked to ‘misleading or deceptive’ speech, will likely incentivise companies to remove even lawful content.
#EU #USA #Censorship #FindTruth
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Commission excludes UK arms manufacturers from EU defence fund but not Ukraine
The European Commission has shut out defence companies from the UK and other third countries from the European Union’s common defence fund.
In a proposal for a council regulation on the Security Action For Europe (SAFE) instrument, dated March 19, commission officials set strict eligibility criteria for arms procurements by member states financed through the €150 billion SAFE fund.
Contractors involved in common procurement must be established and managed inside an EU, European Economic Area (EEA) or European Free Trade Association (EFTA) State – or Ukraine.
#EU #UK #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Network news star abandon Democratic Party
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend, a former Democratic operative, said she would be registering as an independent in response to Senate Democrats helping to pass a funding bill.
Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York has come under fire from left-wing media figures and Democrats in Congress over his decision to break a filibuster of the GOP-backed spending bill. Sanders Townsend, a former Biden administration official, said Schumer's decision was a deal-breaker for her.
Sanders Townsend praised Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, for keeping House Democrats largely united in their opposition to the legislation, which passed by a 217-213 vote March 11. Former Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland blamed Schumer for not providing vulnerable House Democrats with cover.
Schumer initially declared his opposition to the Republican spending bill, demanding a 30-day continuing resolution, before he agreed to pass the Republican legislation. Jeffries later declined to respond to reporters when asked if Schumer should continue leading Senate Democrats.
Polls from NBC and CNN showed that less than a third of respondents had a favorable view of the Democratic Party, while majorities disapproved of the Democrats.
#USA #Democrats #MSM #FindTruth
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