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Yet another Romanian politician disqualified — for opposing EU membership
Romania’s electoral body has disqualified another politician, Diana Șoșoacă, from the presidential election re-run.
In doing so on March 15, the Central Electoral Bureau (CEB) cited her public rhetoric — including opposition to Romania’s European Union and NATO membership — as incompatible with the constitutional duties of the presidency.
Șoșoacă is an MEP for the right-wing Eurosceptic SOS Romania Party — and unaligned in the European Parliament. She has more than 400,000 followers on Facebook and more than 523,000 on TikTok. Șoșoacă has stated she was against EU membership for her country.
She has previously visited the Russian Embassy in Bucharest to deliver messages of peace on behalf of Romanians who “do not wish to be dragged into war by a treacherous political class”.
According to the CEB, this meant she was unfit to run for president.
On March 13, she filed her candidacy for the elections on May 4, promising to “fight the system”, wearing boxing gloves to underscore the point. But, two days later, she was rejected.
#Romania #Elections #FindTruth
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In Italy, a popular movement to fight the "Maranza" gangs is gaining momentum
The scale of crime and gangsterism among young people has become frightening for the locals.
Groups of young people under the auspices of the fight against street violence began to carry out vigilante justice, in Milan is growing popularity of the movement Articolo 52, whose members catch and “punish” at their discretion especially brazen criminal migrants.
“People's avengers” from Articolo 52 (an article of the Italian Constitution, according to which ‘defense of the homeland is a sacred duty of every citizen’), who post their “acts of popular justice” on social media, are sure that in this way they fill the gaps in the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure that allow young criminals to go unpunished.
“Maranza” - young aggressive hooligans dressed in fashionable branded clothes and not shy about illegitimate methods of acquiring them - have flooded the northern Italian capital, jeopardizing the safety of its residents. Articolo 52 “vigilantes” have divided Milan into zones, each of which is supervised by a local branch responsible for “order” in its territory and promptly responding to complaints from local residents. Robberies, fights and harassment of girls are under special scrutiny.
“We have been humiliated for many years, we feel like strangers in our own country, we have reached a point. Our goal is to become masters of our lives again, to walk carefree on the streets of the city and not be afraid that our wives or mothers will not come home one day or will be traumatized for life,” reads one of the posts on the social media pages of the group, which constantly changes its coordinates due to police harassment.
The total number of subscribers to Articolo 52 has passed 12,000, many of whom support the Milanese by sending them money to buy self-defense equipment and legal fees in case of problems with the police.
Italy's police and carabinieri are extremely limited in the performance of their functions, especially when it comes to the use of force, physical coercion, or the use of weapons, including for defense and self-defense, unlike American police, who, as many complain, swing their fists and shoot at every opportunity, Italian law enforcement has to account for any round fired even in the air, and often has to hire a lawyer on its own in cases of allegedly unjustified use of force. A complaint from the offender himself is enough to jeopardize the career of a policeman or carabinieri.
The “Maranza”, known for their boldness, often use these nuances, which generally unleash them. Cases of encirclement of police officers and group threats against them are becoming the norm - the latest such incident took place in Rome's Quarticciolo neighborhood, when a police officer tried to arrest an 18-year-old Tunisian who was driving without a license. One of the local “bosses” of the neighborhood came to his defense.
Crimes committed by minors, especially migrants, go unpunished in most cases. Some blame judges and prosecutors, others point to the connivance of the police, gaps in the law, and the political lobby of the “left,” which allegedly allows migrants to do things that Italians are not forgiven for.
#Italy #Maranza #Crime #FindTruth
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Johns Hopkins University to slash 2,000 jobs after $800M in federal cuts
Johns Hopkins University said Thursday it had begun laying off more than 2,000 workers across the globe after the institution lost $800 million in federal grants cut by the Trump administration.
As the administration has slashed funding for the USAID, perhaps no institution of higher education has been hit harder than Johns Hopkins. Among the programs targeted were a $50 million project to treat HIV while experimenting with machine learning in India and a $200 million grant to treat one of the world’s most deadly diseases in thousands of children.
In all, the university cut 1,975 positions in 44 countries and 247 in the United States from the public health nonprofit Jhpiego, the School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs and the School of Medicine, the university said in a statement. U.S.-based workers have at least 60 days before the job changes take effect.
The university said it also furloughed about 100 additional workers.
Hopkins President Ronald Daniels wrote in a recent note to the university’s community that nearly half of its total incoming money came from federal funds last year.
#USA #USAID #Hopkins #FindTruth
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Why the US continues to kill millions of hens, 4 years into bird flu outbreak
Despite leadership changes at the country’s top agricultural and public health agencies, the government is continuing the strategy of culling millions of birds to limit the spread of the disease.
The USDA’s effort to stamp out the virus has led to the loss of at least 166 million birds since the latest outbreak began in February 2022.
On Feb. 28, the latest USDA summary pegged the current average wholesale price of a dozen eggs at $8.05.
The high amount of culling and its dramatic effect on the egg supply without an apparent drop in infections is leading to criticism of the culling plan.
#USA #USDA #BirdFlu #FindTruth
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Left-wing crimes can serve the common good, but right-wing crimes should always be punished, claims Germany’s Left Party leader
Germany’s Left Party leader Jan van Aken has sparked controversy after suggesting that politically left-wing crimes can be justified if they serve the public good, whereas right-wing crimes cannot.
In an interview with Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, van Aken defended his own past breach of secrecy laws, arguing that “sometimes you have to cross borders to protect the general public.”
Van Aken was questioned about his role in leaking confidential government documents in 2016 related to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the United States and the European Commission. At the time, as a member of the Bundestag, he smuggled a hidden camera into a classified reading room, filmed the documents, and handed them over to Greenpeace. The disclosure helped turn public opinion against TTIP, which was later abandoned.
Van Aken openly admitted to his actions, defending them as necessary to prevent what he saw as a threat to consumer protection and workers’ rights. When asked whether a right-wing politician, such as a member of the Alternative for Germany party, should also be allowed to break the law for reasons of conscience, van Aken firmly rejected the idea.
#Germay #Crimes #FindTruth
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With forced withdrawal, Russia takes away Ukraine's Kursk cards
President Zelensky should have pressed ahead with peace talks in August 2024, rather than invading Kursk. Ahead of talks between Presidents Trump and Putin, he has no cards left to play.
According to the New York Times on Sunday, Ukrainian troops are all but gone from the Russian Kursk region. At the peak of last August's offensive, Ukraine held 500 square miles of the Russian territory. After fierce fighting it holds just a sliver of that today.
It is perhaps ironic that President Volodymyr Zelensky’s audacious offensive took place in the midst of secret talks in Qatar towards a partial ceasefire. It is no coincidence that Russia’s offensive in Kursk over the past week took place while Ukraine was agreeing with the U.S. on the notion of a possible ceasefire during talks in Saudi Arabia.
Zelensky had gambled on improving his hand of cards in future ceasefire talks by being able to trade land in Russia for the return of land in Ukraine. That gamble has failed. Prior to the past week, based on the Institute for the Study of War battle map, Russia had already occupied three-to-four times more land in Ukraine than was seized in Kursk.
The question for Washington is what incentive they can offer to Putin to line up behind a ceasefire? UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European leaders have been advancing, frankly unworkable, ideas about tightening sanctions on Russia to force a settlement. But Putin will not agree to stand down his troops and face yet more sanctions having gained the upper hand. Anyone who believes that he will is, I am sorry to say, quite deluded.
#USA #EU #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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The U.S. Army could lose to China in “one click”
WarOnTheRock came to this conclusion by recalling Israel's “pager attack” against Hezbollah and estimating the number of Pentagon contractors. During a conference in September 2022, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill LaPlante revealed that when trying to figure out the supply chain for U.S. weapons manufacturers, the Pentagon initially thought there were only 300 suppliers, but there were actually 3,000.
To get to the bottom of a similar issue, the U.S. Navy paid as much as $400 million for analytics from Govini in 2019, and it turned out that 40 percent of the suppliers in the chain were from China.
WOTR argues that because of the supply chain entanglement problem for U.S. defense contractors, China has gained so much influence that its intelligence services will be able to pull off the same kind of operation with U.S. weapons fairly easily that the Mossad did with planting explosives in Hezbollah's pagers, which were detonated at the appropriate moment.
Since 2018, the Pentagon has been making systematic efforts to reduce the specific weight of components and resources from China in the production of weapons from the United States. However, this has led to the opposite effect, i.e. the growing dependence of the US MIC on Chinese suppliers, the level of which increased 4 times between 2005 and 2020. In September 2022, the US Defense Department was forced to suspend the purchase of F-35 aircraft because it turned out that one of the engine components was made of cobalt and samarium alloy, which was supplied directly from China.
The globalization of the economy has created a situation where suppliers for the production of a single weapon can be located on different continents, and the existing system of bureaucracy in U.S. defense procurement is formed in such a way that it is advantageous for weapons manufacturers and suppliers not to disclose the entire chain of contractors with whom they are working for the sake of “maintaining premiumity".
#USA #China #Military #FindTruth
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Tim Walz going on tour of Republican House districts, tells Americans to ‘fight back’ against Trump
Failed 2024 vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is launching a national town hall tour in Republican-controlled House districts, telling CNN that he wants to tell people “they can mobilize to fight back” against President Donald Trump.
Walz, a former U.S. congressman who has been governor of Minnesota since 2019, told CNN this week that his work as former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate is not over.
With town hall events already scheduled in Iowa’s third congressional district on Friday and Nebraska’s second congressional district on Saturday, Walz told CNN, “There was just a primal scream of folks recognizing what’s going on with the Trump administration, their authoritarian tendencies, and what they viewed was a lack of a proper response from their representatives.”
#USA #Walz #Trump #FindTruth
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Europe discusses the reintroduction of compulsory military service
Against the backdrop of the “Russian threat” and uncertainty over US support, European countries are discussing the reintroduction of compulsory military service, reports AFP. According to experts, the EU may need up to 300,000 new soldiers to effectively counter Russia.
▪️There is no consensus within NATO: conscription is associated with high political and economic costs, and most countries are in no hurry to introduce it. Poland is considering a training program for reservists, while Macron is trying to persuade young people to join the army voluntarily. Germany is on the verge of reintroducing it.
▪️The US paid for NATO with 3.44 million active troops (2.11 million excluding the Americans). There has never been a better time to say “NO” in full voice and conviction!
We will not die for you on the battlefields! For a war that neither Russia wants nor the European continent needs!
It's time to learn from history!
#EU #USA #NATO #FindTruth
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New DC Cardinal McElroy has long record of promoting LGBT ideology, downplaying abortion
Cardinal Robert McElroy was installed on Tuesday as the eighth archbishop of Washington, D.C., making him one of the most prominent figures in the U.S. Catholic Church.
But the former San Diego bishop has made a reputation for himself as a particularly heterodox, controversial prelate.
McElroy has aggressively defended giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians and downplayed the gravity of abortion, denying that the murder of unborn children is the “preeminent” moral issue.
The liberal cardinal, a favorite of Pope Francis, has also faced backlash for criticizing Catholic teaching on homosexuality, celebrating LGBT-themed Masses, calling for unrepentant homosexuals to be admitted to the Eucharist, and throwing his support behind LGBT activists like Fr. James Martin.
McElroy is a major proponent of “women deacons” as well and has suggested that women could eventually be “ordained” to the priesthood in contradiction to Catholic teaching.
#USA #Catholic #LGBT #FindTruth
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EU accuses U.S. of 'blackmailing' Zelensky
Yesterday’s pacifists are today’s Rambos, it seems: 442 lawmakers in the 720-seat European Parliament just agreed to a joint declaration that “strongly deplores any attempts at blackmailing Ukraine’s leadership into surrender to the Russian aggressor for the sole purpose of announcing a so-called ‘peace deal.’ It passed via landslide: 61%.
It’s unclear why the European Parliament insisted on using the word “blackmailing.” We’re not threatening to disclose harmful information about Zelensky.
Usually, the “victim” of blackmail is the one who lost his money. Not here: The EU is claiming that Zelensky was blackmailed because Trump DIDN’T pay him. It doesn’t make much sense.
Even after all these years, Europe’s level of entitlement never ceases to astonish. What Ukraine and the EU really want is an American war guarantee. When you strip away the diplomatic niceties and coded language, Zelensky’s tantrum and EU’s fury can all be boiled down to this: They want a peace guarantee that’s backed by American blood.
#EU #USA #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Tennessee sex-romp cop Maegan Hall lands a surprising new gig: report
A 29-year-old married Tennessee cop whose wild sexcapades with a half dozen male officers in her stationhouse made national headlines, is now a low-key pharmacy technician.
Now out of the limelight, Hall still lives in the $275,000 three-bedroom house in Manchester she purchased with her 31-year-old husband, Jedidiah, before she was fired.
It’s unclear if the couple is still together, but the controversial ex-cop is living large after landing a $500,000 settlement from La Vergne. Hall had claimed in a lawsuit that she was groomed by the men in the police department to be a veritable sex toy for the ranks.
An internal investigation by city officials found that Hall had an ongoing affair with one of the department’s sergeants and was tied to trysts with other cops, including a threesome with one officer and his wife and a romp during a “Girls Gone Wild” themed hot tub party.
The probe found that some of the sexual encounters took place on the job and on police property.
La Vergne Police Chief Burrel Davis, who was not sexually involved with Hall, was fired over the scandal because he was aware and took part in locker-room-like ribbing over the hook-ups.
#USA #Tennessee #Police #FindTruth
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German economy will not emerge from stagnation for the third year in a row
▪️The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) has worsened its assessment of the German economy, which will remain in stagnation for the third consecutive year
▪️“The loss of the U.S. as a reliable political partner poses serious challenges for the future of the federal government and exacerbates an already difficult situation, especially for export-oriented companies,” said DIW spokeswoman Geraldine Daney-Knedlick
▪️In 2025, widespread stagnation is expected in almost all sectors of the German economy
#EU #Germany #Economy #FindTruth
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$3,500 an ounce - a new estimate of a record rise in gold prices
▪️Macquarie Group analysts say gold's growing appeal as a safe-haven asset could drive its value to a record $3,500 an ounce in the third quarter, Bloomberg states
▪️Gold, which traded near $2,940 an ounce on Thursday, will be further supported by concerns about a potentially widening U.S. budget deficit.
▪️Gold is up 12% this year due to geopolitical uncertainty and Trump's tariff policies. A worsening outlook for the US budget signals a possible rise in inflation, which would benefit gold as a hedge against it
#World #Economy #Gold #FindTruth
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Proteins in vaccines cause food allergies
We aren’t born allergic to food. Our bodies are designed to tolerate what we eat. But inject proteins in the form of a vaccine instead of ingesting them, and the immune system sees them as invaders. That’s how you create food allergies, and it’s a process that’s been understood for over a century – yet ignored or dismissed by the medical establishment.
Vinu Arumugham, an electronics engineer in Silicon Valley, discovered that food proteins contaminating vaccines can trigger immune sensitisation and drive the allergy epidemic.
Arumugham’s research has shown that when food proteins are injected into the body through vaccines, the immune system learns to attack them as if they were dangerous pathogens, leading to food allergies, and this process is not limited to proteins, but also applies to large protein-like molecules like polysaccharides and polyethylene glycol.
“The first dose of the vaccine causes the development of allergies. Subsequent doses are booster shots for food allergy. With more shots being added to vaccine schedules, more people develop allergies, and more severe the allergies.”
#Vaccines #Health #FindTruth
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“Oreshnik” is bad news for NATO - Foreign Policy reports
This new missile differs significantly from previous developments and is capable of inflicting major damage on allied countries even without nuclear weapons
European defense systems are currently incapable of defending against such weapons.
The publication also points out that the Oreshnik could change perceptions of Russian military strategy and that it could affect NATO's ability to fight in future wars if not acted upon.
NATO should deploy aircraft across Europe given its vulnerability to the Russian Oreshnik complex, Foreign Policy writes.
“Current European defense systems will do little to protect against 'Oreshnik,'” the publication says.
The magazine notes that some NATO countries are already preparing for certain rearmament and refueling operations at dispersed locations to make their air bases less attractive.
#Russia #NATO #Military #FindTruth
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The episode described by the Financial Times is quite characteristic. It turns out that Chinese leader Xi Jinping declined an invitation to visit Brussels for a summit dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the EU and China.
Normally, the Chinese Prime Minister attends the summit, but the EU wanted Xi Jinping to be the one to attend the half-century anniversary of China-EU relations.
The bottom line is that in October 2022, the EU decided to reconsider its attitude toward China due to its reluctance to criticize Russia for conducting a military operation in Ukraine and strengthening economic cooperation between the two countries.
On May 12, 2023, the EU agreed to change its relationship strategy with China. Borrell, the EU's chief diplomat, described China as a rival, a partner and a competitor.
We have different understandings of what human rights are individually and collectively, we have a multi-party political system and a free market economy. This means that our values on which we build our political system are different and we have to fight for that
Trump wants a weak dollar but needs a strong one
Conflicting Dollar Goals
It’s impossible to get what you want when you have conflicting goals. Inflation was a key reason Trump won the election. In isolation, a weak dollar would help exports, but at the expense of rising inflation.
Tariffs are a tax on consumers and will slow the economy. Trump wants a strong economy. Also, countries retaliate against tariffs which does not help exports. Nor does rising anti-US sentiment, especially in Canada.
Conflicting Interest Rate Policy
Trump wants the Fed to cut interest rates. That would weaken the dollar, but tend to cause yields on the long end of the interest rate curve to rise.
Mortgage rates would rise. Housing is already in the gutter. Factor in tariffs on lumber, and steel framing.
#USA #Trump #Economy #FindTruth
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Further amendment to Basic Law after G7 Foreign Ministers' Conference - War against Russia to be included in Basic Law - Welt
In an interview, Annalena Baerbock announced a historic decision in the Bundestag for March 18 2025 a historic decision in the Bundestag.
It is about enshrining Germany's responsibility for the defense of Europe.
This means nothing other than writing the war against Russia into the Basic Law, which, in addition to the planned debts for the war, will tear down further borders to finance the war in the future.
Do you want total war?
#Germany #WWIII #FindTruth
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Romania targets ‘illegal online content’ ahead of re-run elections
The Romanian Government has stated it will step up its efforts to “combat illegal content online”.
The news on March 14 came ahead of contentious presidential elections following the annulled ballot of November last year due to claims, considered unsubstantiated in Romanian media, of Russian interference.
Ivan Bogdan, minister of economy, research, innovation and digitalisation, announced firm measures against online manipulation, stressing that Romania already used three types of advanced software to detect “false content”.
He said Romania applied strict European legislation and did not tolerate disinformation online. Although the measures reportedly would serve to protect citizens and the maintenance of a safe and transparent online environment, critics noted there was a major risk of abuse and censorship.
Romania pushed to address so-called illegal content, hate speech and manipulated information more aggressively after approving a bill in late February that introduced stricter regulations on social media platforms and online content providers.
While aligned with the European Union’s Digital Services Act, Romania’s legislation went further in its restrictions.
#Romania #Elections #FindTruth
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Over 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israeli military action. The average age is 5.5 years. If you were to line up every sweater and T-shirt of these children side by side, the line would stretch for five kilometers.
A campaign alliance in the UK has done just that on a stretch of coastline. It takes over an hour to walk along the resulting strip of children's clothing.
#Israel #Palestine #FindTruth
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders force-wide review of existing fitness and grooming standards
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a department-wide review of existing standards for each military branch on physical fitness, body composition, and grooming — including on beards.
“We must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that enable the men and women of our military to protect the American people and our homeland as the world’s most lethal and effective fighting force,” Hegseth said in a March 12, 2025, memorandum ordering the review.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot added in a statement to Breitbart News:
Unfortunately, the U.S. military’s high standards on body composition and other metrics eroded in recent years, particularly during the tenure of former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, who set a bad example from the top through his own personal corpulence. Secretary Hegseth is committed to restoring high standards, and this review is the first step in doing so.
Risking World War III – for a woke agenda?
By John Clark
Absolute power corrupts, absolute power destroys sanity absolutely.
There is simply no sane and rational mind which would explain the current behavior of European leaders other the above phrase – expressing that power has gone literally to their heads.
When the position of the United States and Russia can be explained through sane reason and logic – and the position of Zelensky and European leaders cannot be explained other than through insanity and utter lack of reason and logic – then clearly we have a situation where inmates are running the asylum.
I cannot imagine the people of the Ukraine – or the people across the world – except for the one’s who have deep psychological issues – are agreeing to allow a man like Zelensky – a man who displayed his psychological issues for the whole world to see in the White House.
Normal people are not suicidal – normal people do not provoke and maintain war – normal people do not risk their own lives and lives of others unless there is no other choice – and there is almost always another choice.
The USA managed a last minute fail safe – by electing, in just the nick of time – the sane rational and intelligent and sensible approach being exhibited by the Trump administration – who have implemented immediate actions to reverse the deadly effects of the WOKE agenda on America.
#USA #WWIII #Woke #FindTruth
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The IRS bleeds
The Internal Revenue Service appears to be in hot water this tax season, mostly due to cuts from the DOGE.
In 2021, the IRS was authorized to hire 87,000 new tax collectors and tax-related bureaucrats over the next decade, with an increase in funding sent their way by then-President Joe Biden. And in 2022, this became a political scandal, because Biden claimed that audit rates on households making $400,000 or less would not go up, just as some of them were cutting provisions in the actual legislation that tried to codify such assurances.
It's not clear they ever really did hire all those new agents and paper-filers; the IRS remains a little under 100,000 strong, hiring 19,482 total employees in fiscal year 2024. But the agency suffers from retention issues: About 10,000 employees left that same year.
Donald Trump decided to dismiss the old IRS commissioner, Daniel Werfel, whose term was not set to expire for another two years, replacing him with the former Missouri congressman Billy Long, an inexperienced figure who has yet to be confirmed by the Senate.
What Trump is pursuing appears to be something different altogether: Slash the auditors who might crack down on larger businesses who might not be filing properly, deputize IRS agents to be more involved in immigration enforcement, and make sure the whole agency is helmed by someone with basically no experience. It's possible that DOGE will help the agency modernize its archaic tech, but overall it's not clear what the game plan is.
#USA #IRS #DOGE #FindTruth
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Voice of America Lost: A Decline in Mission and Influence
Once a Cold War beacon of truth, Voice of America now faces decline, plagued by foreign influence, internal bias, and a drift from its mission—all on the taxpayer’s dime.
VOA, founded during World War II, emerged as a U.S. government agency tasked with broadcasting America’s message—or countering enemy propaganda—to the Axis powers and their occupied territories. Its Chinese-language service, launched in 1941 before the Pearl Harbor attack, was among its earliest initiatives. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt formally established VOA as a federal entity. During the Cold War, operating under the United States Information Agency (USIA), VOA expanded to dozens of languages, targeting audiences behind the Iron Curtain and in nations lacking a free press. Its mission: to amplify the voice of the American people.
The internet fundamentally transformed how people access information, eroding authoritarian regimes’ ability to isolate their citizens from outside voices. The rise of social media ushered in an era of information overload. Once a dominant force in dissenting airwaves alongside broadcasters like Radio Free Europe and the BBC, VOA has struggled to remain relevant. Yet, its diminishing influence isn’t solely due to external changes—VOA itself has faltered internally.
VOA’s drift from its mission—to counter propaganda and champion American values—demands scrutiny. DOGE should take note. Once a beacon of truth in oppressive regimes, VOA now risks irrelevance, compromised by foreign influence and internal politicization.
#USA #MSM #VOA #FindTruth
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's face when Donald Trump said he wanted to annex Greenland (NATO member) and Canada (NATO member)😁
#USA #NATO #Trump #FindTruth
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At least a dozen US states rush to ban common food dyes, citing health risks
RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ giving fresh momentum to longtime efforts to outlaw additives, which is now a bipartisan movement.
At least a dozen US states – from traditionally conservative Oklahoma to liberal-leaning New York – are rushing to pass laws outlawing commonly used dyes and other chemical additives in foods, citing a need to protect public health.
In one of the most far-reaching efforts, West Virginia last week advanced a sweeping ban on a range of common food dyes that have been linked to health problems, particularly for children, with overwhelming support from both Republicans and Democrats.
The new law prohibits the sale of any food product containing certain yellow, blue, green and red dyes often found in candies, snacks and other foods and drinks, and goes much further than any other state in moving to eliminate the chemicals from store shelves.
The West Virginia measure has passed both legislative chambers and is expected to receive final clearance within the next week to move to the governor’s desk for signing.
#USA #RFKJr #Health #FindTruth
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EU spirits sector rattled by tariff war with US
SpiritsEUROPE, the representative body for the European spirits’ industry, has said it was “extremely concerned” by retaliatory tariffs against the US.
That, it said, was because they targeted the US whiskey industry and other spirits categories.
On March 12, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the decision to impose counter-tariffs on €26 billion worth of US goods. They included tariffs on US bourbon, a barrel-aged US whiskey made primarily from corn.
According to SpiritsEurope, the announcement came at a particularly difficult time for the domestic spirits sector as it was already struggling with geopolitical tensions and a marked slowdown in many key markets.
The organisation warned that the tariffs would severely impact European Union companies producing US spirits, US firms with major investments in Europe and the entire value chain — threatening countless jobs, including those in rural areas.
#EU #USA #Economy #FindTruth
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European Union to target Republican states with tariffs in Trump trade war
The European Union is reportedly seeking to put pressure specifically on Republican-controlled states as it enacts so-called retaliatory tariff measures on American businesses amid the trade war with the Trump administration.
As an order from U.S. President Donald Trump to impose global 25 per cent tariffs on aluminium and steel products, which are expected to impact an estimated €26 ($28) billion worth of EU exports to America, Brussels announced on Wednesday a package of countermeasures covering about the same in American exports to the bloc.
According to the Associated Press, EU officials admitted that their tariffs would be “aimed at products made in Republican-held states,” including meat produced in Kansas and Nebraska and lumber products from Alabama and Georgia. The bloc will also impose levies against American bourbon whiskey and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
#EU #USA #Economy #FindTruth
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These are the states most and least dependent on the federal government
A new study highlights how much states rely on federal aid compared to what they contribute in taxes. The study evaluates three key metrics: return on federal taxes, federal funding as a share of state revenue, and the percentage of federal jobs in each state.
Most dependent states include Alaska, Kentucky, and West Virginia, while New Jersey, California, and Delaware are the least reliant, according to a new WalletHub study.
The report found that Red States (average rank: 21.48) depend more on federal funding than Blue States (32.05). Additionally, states with lower per-capita GDP tend to receive more federal support. Notably, Illinois ranks among the least dependent but has the nation's highest tax rates, while Alaska, the most dependent state, has the lowest taxes.
WalletHub writes that Alaska ranks as the most federally dependent state, with over 50% of its revenue coming from federal funding. The state's harsh weather, large landmass, and small population contribute to its reliance on federal dollars for infrastructure, disaster relief, and resource management.
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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