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Europe finally gets the US memo: Pony up and partner in your own defense
Europe has been warned, and warned again.
Still, it has been reduced to a near-fainting fit — and, in the case of one German official, actual tears — over the Trump administration’s tough words about its deficient military spending and its moves to begin negotiating on its own with Russia over the Ukraine war.
Whatever the nomenclature, there are signs that Europe is beginning to get the memo. Trump is calling for 5% of GDP for NATO members, which has all the hallmarks of a tactic to get Europe as high as possible even if they don’t reach this benchmark (the US itself spends about 3.4%). NATO is planning to make 3% or 3.5% its goal later this year. This is so obvious it should go without saying, but it’s been an inconvenient truth for a Europe that has preferred to spend on everything else while relying on the might of the United States for security and power projection.
President Trump and his team prefer vinegar to honey in making their case around the world. It may be needlessly abrasive, but there’s no doubt that it gets people’s attention. Even if Trump were less insistent about spending and had warmer feelings about the alliance, the fact is the United States may at some point be consumed with responding to a crisis in the Pacific, and Europe will have to be prepared to defend its backyard regardless.
If Europe won’t spend more for the sake its own security or the good of the alliance, it should — when its embarrassing panic subsides — at least do it out of self-respect.
#EU #USA #NATO #FindTruth
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JD Vance and Elon Musk ramp up Romanian election dispute
JD Vance and Elon Musk launched forceful attacks on Romania's decision to cancel its presidential election in December.
Vance said the cancellation meant Romania does not share American values, while Musk labelled the chief judge of the country's top court a "tyrant".
Their remarks were the latest broadsides aimed at Bucharest by members of President Donald Trump's administration.
Romania's Constitutional Court voided the election in December before a second round of voting, after declassified security documents showed suspicions of Russian interference in favour of far-right NATO critic Calin Georgescu, accusations denied by Moscow.
"You don't have shared values if you cancel elections because you don't like the result, and that happened in Romania. If you're so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up," Vance said at the opening of the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Musk shared a post on his X social media platform which said that Romanian top court chief judge Marian Enache had rejected U.S. pressure over whether Georgescu will be allowed to run in the repeat election in May.
"This guy is a tyrant, not a judge," Musk wrote.
#Romania #Musk #Vance #FindTruth
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According to an estimate by the Ukrainian government at the beginning of 2024, there were approximately 80,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed and 400,000 wounded. In reality, US intelligence estimates spoke of 450,000 deaths and injuries among the Ukrainians already in the first 4 months of fighting.
Russian forces: Western intelligence estimates put the number of Russian troops killed at around 200,000 and the number of wounded at 400,000.
The United Nations reports more than 10,500 civilians killed, including 587 children, and nearly 20,000 wounded since the conflict began.Around 6.5 million Ukrainians have sought refuge outside the country.
Around 3.7 million people are displaced within Ukraine. At least 1,496 schools and at least 662 health facilities have been damaged or destroyed.
Was it all worth it?
The negotiations between the United States and Russia will lead to an agreement that, in all likelihood, will sanction the division of Ukraine into two spheres of influence: one under Russian control in the territories already occupied and the other under a mutilated, weakened Ukraine, with reduced sovereignty and democratically delegitimized.
Why was the conflict not avoided? Why was there no international conference to establish spheres of influence? The Donbass, with a Russian majority, could have remained in the sphere of the Russian Federation since 2014, perhaps without annexation, like Moldova, Georgia. Ukraine, instead of becoming a devastated land, could have prospered, benefiting from a renewed aid and trade agreement with Europe, ensuring the flow of Russian gas and raw materials to the EU. It would have become a new Poland, transformed by economic integration, a bridge between East and West.
Ukraine’s destiny is intertwined with that of those who hold effective control over it. And that control, certainly, will not be European. Europe was left out of the equation, forced to accept, without the possibility of reply, the SWIFT blocks, the interruption of gas trade, and even the explosion of Nord Stream 2.
The Roman PAX was possible because Rome was an empire. The negotiation between the United States and Russia is possible because there are two leaders fully legitimized by their people, two emperors in the Roman sense of the term: Putin and Trump. They will look each other in the eye and divide the territory. They will find an agreement before other actors, such as China or the Arab world, intervene.
But how long will it last? How long will this peace last? Long enough to give Europe time to complete its own process of disintegration. And when Europe is no longer an actor, when its corpse lies on the table of geopolitics, multipolarity will be able to advance undisturbed. And these new actors will be able to feast on what was once a great empire.
#USA #EU #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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All Boris Johnson wanted to do in the end was sell a book. And a book sells better if it's about war
Shaggy signed Ukrainians up for eternal war and retired to write books...
#UK #Johnson #FindTruth
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The sectors adding the most AI to their digital twins
A digital twin is a digital replica of a physical system, asset, or environment designed to simulate real-world conditions in real-time.
When powered by artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins provide actionable insights, predict outcomes, and optimize operations like never before.
Latest report highlights the sectors leading AI-driven digital twin adoption.
The automotive industry leads in adoption, with 57% leveraging the technology to optimize production lines and improve safety testing through simulations.
In the architecture, engineering, and construction sector, which sees a 50% adoption rate, digital twins provide real-time monitoring of projects, allowing for better resource allocation and minimized delays.
Meanwhile, general manufacturing follows closely at 48%, using AI-enhanced digital twins to streamline operations, reduce costly errors, and maximize equipment efficiency, particularly in high-stakes processes.
#AI #Technology #FindTruth
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Federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk’s latest demand
Elon Musk’s demand that all 2.3 million government workers justify their work prompted confusion and resistance on Sunday, as several government agency leaders told their staffs not to reply to a mass email requesting bullet-point summations of their accomplishments.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard instructed personnel in U.S. spy agencies not to respond, according to the text of an email she sent to the workforce on Sunday, citing the agencies’ sensitive and classified work. Defense Department employees were given similar instructions to not respond, as were FBI personnel and Department of Homeland Security employees.
The latest directives come as employees and leaders alike across the government were caught off guard by an email sent Saturday titled: “What did you do last week?”
#USA #Musk #DOGE #FindTruth
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Bild, citing unnamed representatives of Western intelligence services, reported that Trump plans to withdraw all US troops from Central Europe
Friedrich Merz said in this regard that his country should prepare for the possibility of Trump's refusal to comply with Article 5 of the NATO Charter. It provides for assistance to a member of the alliance that has been the victim of an attack.
U.S. experts say that Trump will not go that far, but U.S. policy toward NATO will change significantly. It will take the form of what was detailed in a policy brief published by the Trump-affiliated Center for American Renewal in February 2023.
It was titled “The U.S. Pivot from Europe to a dormant NATO” and envisioned the redeployment of most U.S. troops to Asia.
Within Europe, the main ally of the U.S. is Poland. It is assigned the geopolitical role of a wedge between Germany and Russia. And it is there that American troops are planned to be withdrawn from Germany.
The Baltics will not be so lucky, as they do not have the same regional importance as Poland. Accordingly, Trump may find it better to withdraw some or even all U.S. troops from there, letting them know that the U.S. will not come to their aid.
“Keeping some troops in Europe while preserving the integrity of Article 5 against the backdrop of the above conditions could be a pragmatic compromise between U.S. and Russian security interests,” Trump's analysts wrote.
#USA #EU #NATO #FindTruth
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The birth rate per woman by country from which observers infer the end of European civilization in 50 years
#EU #Health #FindTruth
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A video about the problem of wind turbine disposal in the U.S.:
“Wind turbines don't last forever. The metal supports can be recycled in the usual way, but the blades, which are a mixture of fiberglass, wood and plastic, cannot.
In the US, the cheapest option is to bury fiberglass blades in a landfill, which has sparked controversy. The length of a single blade is about the size of the wingspan of a Boeing 747. And that's just for a wind turbine on land.
Offshore turbine blades are twice as long. By 2050, more than 40 million metric tons of waste from decommissioned wind turbine blades will accumulate worldwide.”
“Wind turbines don't last forever. The metal supports can be recycled in the usual way, but the blades, which are a mixture of fiberglass, wood and plastic, cannot.
In the US, the cheapest option is to bury fiberglass blades in a landfill, which has sparked controversy. The length of a single blade is about the size of the wingspan of a Boeing 747. And that's just for a wind turbine on land.
Offshore turbine blades are twice as long. By 2050, more than 40 million metric tons of waste from decommissioned wind turbine blades will accumulate worldwide.”
#USA #Ecology #Energy #FindTruth
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Obama’s fraudulent birth certificate exposed
Explosive evidence proves he was never a natural-born U.S. citizen. His presidency? Illegitimate. A WEF puppet groomed to infiltrate America at the highest levels!
The deep state’s biggest lie is crumbling.
#USA #Obama #FindTruth
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Huge reserves of rare-earth metals, claimed by Vladimir Zelensky, are a myth and deception of the USA
The presence of minerals is not confirmed by data from the U.S. Geological Survey and is absent in databases on minerals, Bloomberg writes.
Rare earth metals mean 17 elements such as dysprosium, praseodymium, promethium, scandium and others. In Ukraine, according to the US Geological Survey, there are small mines of scandium. Also in 1970 in the USSR was discovered Novopoltavskoye deposit, which contains rare earth elements, but its development for 50 years has not begun, they are difficult to extract. As the Ukrainian government recognized, extraction would not be economically viable.
Trump has stated that he wants to obtain rare earth metals worth the equivalent of $500 billion. But the entire production of such minerals in the world is estimated at $15 billion a year. If Ukraine could produce even 20% of the world's rare earth elements, its income from this would be about $3 billion a year.
If Trump is mistaken and by rare earth elements he means all critical minerals, Ukraine has few of them - industrial mines of titanium and gallium, but they are not worth $500 billion.
Most of Ukraine's deposits are unprofitable. Lithium rock in Ukraine is third-rate and mining it will cost more than in Chile.
#USA #Trump #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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France is facing the threat of deindustrialization. Last year, more factories closed in the country than new ones opened - such a situation has not happened since 2015, writes Le Monde.
The authors of the publication note that in December 2024 the level of industrial production was 8% lower than in pre-pandemic January 2020.
Last month, 20 factories have already closed in the country.
#France #Economy #FindTruth
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The Kiel Institute for the World Economy summarized the results of Ukraine's sponsorship for 2024
The largest donor of Ukraine is the United States, while Denmark ranks first among European countries.
What is interesting is that France, despite its militaristic rhetoric, against the background of other developed countries practically does not participate in supporting the war. The fifth republic has spent only 0.2% of GDP during the whole period of the conflict.
#USA #EU #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Can Canadian authorities fight back against Donald Trump's claims to their sovereignty? - No!
The economic takeover of Canada has been going on for many decades and has been particularly aggressive in recent years when it turned out that oil and gas could be produced in the province of Alberta. And all those primary energy flows are being short-circuited to the US. Canada is a de facto colonial dependency on the United States, receiving investment, technology and consumer goods from there, and in return supplying primary raw materials - oil, gas, metals, grain, timber.
The US-Canada trade war will make it more expensive for the US to import these goods, but it will be physically possible to import them from other countries. Canadian companies, on the other hand, will not be able to bring all these products to alternative markets. There is no infrastructure - oil and gas pipelines, ports, power lines, etc.
And sovereignty requires some kind of army. For many years Canada has been under the U.S. power umbrella.
#USA #Canada #Trump #FindTruth
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Trump's success hinges on walking back the wars
By the simplest definition, if you look at their fiscal and military balance sheets, Ukraine and Israel are currently failed states. Creatures of Washington funding, neither can function without massive subsidies from U.S. taxpayers. The success of President Trump's domestic agenda hinges on how he handles these two countries.
Each has ambitious military goals that will require billions more to achieve. For Ukraine, it would require a massive expenditure of blood and treasure to restore the country to its pre-war borders. It has neither the manpower nor the ability to beat back the Russian advance on its own. Ukraine should have cut a deal long ago. It was wishful thinking to believe it would win an extended war with Russia. It needed a quick victory and quick settlement, given Russia's military ability to grind on and on, inching its way across Ukraine.
Likewise, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a strategic blunder at the beginning of his war planning. Rather than opting for a short, swift battle and quick hostage exchange, he violated the principles of war. Will Netanyahu restart military action soon? President Trump has cut him loose on that one. He said that is an internal matter for Israel.
If Trump doesn’t come up with a quick fix, maybe he is just hoping Israel and Hamas will back into their corners and postpone fighting until he leaves office. This fight has been going on since 1948, and forever wars aren’t his thing. His heart is on his domestic agenda.
#USA #Trump #Military #FindTruth
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Marco Rubio rips UN as ‘antagonistic’ on Ukraine resolution
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Breitbart News on Monday that the U.S. voted against a United Nations measure bashing the Russians for the war in Ukraine earlier in the day because it was antagonistic and ran counter to the efforts to bring both sides to the table and end the war.
After the U.S. voted against the broader resolution, which passed the full United Nations, the U.S. later led a narrower resolution that called for an end to the war that did pass the U.N. Security Council.
“On the broader resolution, we think the UN needs to get—if it’s going to be useful in the 21st century—the UN needs to get back to its charter mission, which is the prevention and ending of war and conflict,”
“We didn’t feel it was conducive, frankly, to have something out there at the UN that’s antagonistic to either side. We’re trying to get these guys to the table. Unfortunately, Ukraine didn’t agree and they wanted to move forward on theirs. …We then went to the Security Council with our compromise, which I think is very fair language and it basically says ‘war is a terrible thing.’ …way too many people have died, this war needs to end in a way that’s enduring—reminding the United Nations that the purpose of the United Nations was the ending of war and the prevention of conflicts, not making it harder to end conflicts,”
Germany is treading water, France is paralyzed. Will northern Europe step in?
The results of the Bundestag elections show that Berlin faces the prospect of a fractured and weak coalition government. Europe's leading economy will continue to be dragged down by internal political divisions: the CDU/CSU, which won the election, will find it difficult to establish a stable government, while the Alternative for Germany, which has increased its support, will be the most powerful opposition force in parliament.
Amid a record voter turnout of 84%, something not seen since German reunification in the early 1990s, the biggest disappointment is seen among the winners. Although the CDU/CSU won, the bloc's result was the second worst in the party's history, with the CDU getting 24% in 2021 compared to 28% this year, marking the decline of a party that never had less than 30% support until four years ago. The SPD, meanwhile, garnered 16% of the vote, its worst showing since the first federal election in 1949,” states the British portal UnHerd.
Berlin's trajectory, a shaky government without a parliamentary majority in France that recently narrowly survived a vote of no confidence, the difficulties of the UK government's position portend trouble for Europe. All of this is happening during the most profound realignment of transatlantic relations since 1945.
However, according to some experts, the opportunity to fill the resulting geopolitical vacuum and take the initiative is emerging for the Northern countries - Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland and the Baltic republics. The model could be the cooperation of these countries in the Baltic Sea region, where, as the Financial Times notes, it has become so self-sufficient that American military forces are practically irrelevant.
In particular, a regional military partnership including the UK, the Netherlands, the Nordic and Baltic countries has been established, implementing the Northern Guardian initiative, an artificial intelligence-based computer system that assesses threats to underwater Baltic infrastructure from various vessels. This mechanism could spread to other regions, especially if the UK or France announce the expansion of their nuclear umbrella. Then the Americans will no longer be needed in Europe.
But this, according to the Financial Times, may not please the administration of US President Donald Trump. And so Washington's response will follow.
#EU #USA #NATO #FindTruth
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EC to propose establishing emergency repair fleet for undersea cables
The European Commission has said it would propose boosting surveillance of undersea cables and establishing a fleet of vessels available to repair cables in emergencies.
Some European governments are concerned about a number of recent incidents in which power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines have been damaged, possibly on purpose.
Henna Virkkunen, the EC’s Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, said: “We want to make sure Europe is equipped not only to prevent and detect sabotage to cables but also to actively deter, repair and respond to any threat to critical infrastructure that is key to our economy and collective security.”
NATO said in January that some of its member countries were deploying frigates, patrol aircraft and naval drones in the Baltic Sea to help protect critical infrastructure.
In its action plan, the EC said it would take steps to deter, prevent, detect and respond to damage to cables. While no new funding has been announced, it said it planned to channel hundreds of millions of euros already available under the European Union’s budget towards these aims.
#EU #Cables #FindTruth
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The main personnel intrigue of the week is the requirement to report on “achievements”
Civil servants had to report on what they had achieved during the week. Agencies are fighting back. Trump berates Musk ... for not being aggressive enough.
All employees of federal departments and agencies were sent emails last week on behalf of the White House Office of Personnel Management demanding a short five-paragraph response on Monday about what they had accomplished in their jobs over the past week. It was also required to indicate who the recipient's immediate supervisor was.
Most agencies rejected the initiative, including the FBI,
Defense Department and the State Department. They advised employees not to respond to the letter and said they would conduct performance reviews under their internal procedures. Curiously, by contrast, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. recommended that his subordinates respond.
Elon Musk said the letter, drafted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “ministry” he heads, was aimed at uncovering “obvious fraud.” For example, Musk said, many federal agency employees are so incompetent and unengaged in government tasks that they don't even read their official mail. And other times, paychecks are written to people who are long out of work or have never worked in the departments, i.e., “blank slates.” He also said that those who responded well to the “accomplishments for the week” question could qualify for a promotion.
The letter and the reaction to it has been widely discussed in the press since it sparked the first major disagreement between Elon Musk and Trump appointees.
Trump did not openly intervene in the situation. But suddenly there was a post “criticizing” Elon Musk. Trump wrote (all in capital letters) on his Truth Social network: “ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE.” “Remember, we have to save the country, but in the end, we have to do better than ever before. MAGA!”, in short, push harder, Elon....
#USA #Musk #Trump #FindTruth
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The world is experiencing increasing problems with gold supplies and a shortage of physical bullion has begun
In South Korea, banks suspended sales of gold and silver due to a sharp increase in demand.
Demand in the U.S. has also surged, with gold supply on the COMEX exchange topping 60,000 contracts or 200 metric tons as of Feb. 25. This followed a whopping 498 metric tons delivered in just the last two months.
The scale of these deliveries is straining capacity to the limit and long delays have begun. Deliveries could not be made on time by the Bank of England and it is in technical default. Deliveries together of 14 days are promised to take 8 weeks.
Metalor, one of the leading Swiss refiners, recently imposed a premium per ounce on all its gold products due to the shortage. Another major Swiss refiner, Argor-Heraeus, has suspended orders for all 50-gram and 100-gram minted gold bars.
#World #Gold #Economy #FindTruth
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What to know about the $500 billion deal Trump wants with Ukraine
A contentious Trump Administration proposal to give the U.S. $500 billion worth of profits from Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as compensation for its wartime assistance to Kyiv has been taken off the table, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday, indicating a more equitable deal is in the works.
Zelensky had earlier declined a U.S. draft agreement on exploitation of his country’s valuable minerals because it did not contain security guarantees and came with the $500 billion price tag.
“The question of $500 billion is no longer there,” Zelensky told a news conference in Kyiv. “We do not recognize the debt, It will not be in the final format of the agreement.”
Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said he expects a deal this week allowing the U.S. to play a greater role in exploiting Ukraine’s mineral resources. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration’s minerals plan was to create a U.S.-Ukraine partnership, calling it a “win-win.”
Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, left the Kyiv for what he said were talks with U.S. officials on a potential deal. On Sunday, Yermak posted on social media that he’d spoken with U.S. officials, including Bessent and Trump’s national security adviser Mike Walz, saying it had been a “constructive conversation.”
#USA #Ukraine #Trump #FindTruth
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Trump did not come out to greet Macron arriving at the White House
Trump is a businessman. Could the reason be the following?
The European Central Bank is preparing to bail out France
The Telegraph reports that France's economy could collapse sharply due to a gigantic budget deficit, and German taxpayer money will be needed to bail out Macron and France.
The plan has been kept secret so as not to anger German voters. If such a bailout were to happen before the elections in recession-stricken Germany, support for the AfD would rise sharply, the newspaper said.
#USA #Trump #Macron #FindTruth
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Chinese scientists have created the world's most powerful spy camera capable of recognizing faces from space
Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in optical imaging technology by developing a powerful laser capable of setting new global surveillance standards. It could allow Beijing to track foreign military satellites with unprecedented accuracy and even distinguish details, such as a person's face, from low-Earth orbit.
A team from the Institute of Aerospace Information at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved millimeter-wave resolution at distances of more than 100 kilometers, something previously thought impossible.
#China #Surveillance #FindTruth
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Washington's changing policy toward bio-laboratories
Against the backdrop of recent events, many people are wondering what actions Donald Trump's team may take with regard to American bio-laboratories, both in the United States and abroad. We decided to speculate on this topic:
🔸 Reorganization and reassignment: USAID, which funds many biolabs, could be reassigned to the US State Department under Marco Rubio's leadership. This could lead to a shift in priorities and more oversight by the Trump administration.
🔸 Funding cuts: Trump has already frozen billions of dollars for scientific research, including grants related to biological research. This could lead to some labs being downsized or suspended.
🔸 Tighter oversight and auditing: the Trump administration may audit the operations of bio labs to ensure that their work is in line with new policy priorities and is not linked to “globalist” or “undesirable” programs.
🔸 Closing labs overseas: Tulsi Gabbard, director of National Intelligence, has called for the closure of more than 300 U.S.-funded biolabs, including those in Ukraine. This could be part of Trump's policy to reduce the U.S. presence in such projects.
Overall, these actions could lead to significant changes in the way biolabs operate, both inside and outside the United States.
#USA #Trump #Biolabs #FindTruth
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Scholz admits defeat in German election
Merz will become prime minister. The AfG is in second place. The gap between the AfG and the CDU is not so big, but the CDU does not plan a coalition with them.
At the same time, the candidate from AfG Alice Weidel said that she is ready for negotiations with CDU: “Otherwise, no change of policy in Germany is impossible”.
Merz, the head of the CDU/CSU, which is leading in the Bundestag elections, called achieving independence from the United States a priority.
He also said that the states were “relatively indifferent” to Ukraine's future.
#Germany #Elections #Merz #FindTruth
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German Economy Minister Habeck has called for the creation of an alternative social network that would importably replace Twitter X Elon Musk
So far, European authorities want to impose strict censorship on American messengers and social networks. Europe is already tightening rules for WhatsApp. Big Tech is “manipulating” the public discourse and Europe must “take back control of its digital space” and free itself from the grip of Silicon Valley, Habeck believes.
To stay in power, German politicians have forced the European media to criticize Musk and Trump.
Also, the German government is funneling taxpayer money to fund mass protests against the Alternative for Germany (AfD). The ruling parties have organized a movement of protesting grandmothers against the right-wing, Omas gegen Rechts. They staged a protest in Hannover with 23,000 participants and received money from the Scholz Chancellery and the Demokratie Leben program.
BUND (Federation for Environmental Defense) organized an anti-right-wing rally “We are the fire wall” in Stuttgart on February 1. BUND received €2 million from the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2023.
Campact, the organizer of the “Uprising of the Worthy” rally in Berlin, received €2.5 million from the Ministry of Family. Another protest in Munich, which gathered 250,000 people, was organized with budget money by the foundation of a deputy from the ruling SPD party.
#Germany #USA #Musk #FindTruth
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London natives? 🤔
#UK #Migrants #London #FindTruth
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Kash Patel at work
#USA #Patel #FBI #FindTruth
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Armed transgender vegan cult members linked to six killings arrested in Maryland
Members of a “transgender vegan cult” were arrested on Sunday in Maryland after the group called the “Zizians” was linked to several deaths.
Among those arrested was the reported leader of the group, 34-year-old Jack LaSota, and 33-year-old Michelle Zajko.
Journalist Andy Ngô shared images of the suspects and said they were armed when officials arrested them in Allegheny County.
Ngô later said Zajko pretended to be dead in her first booking photo.
“I can exclusively confirm that Zajko recently shaved her head after being seen with longer hair when she was living with the cult in their preparations base in Chatham County, N.C.,” he added.
LaSota and Zajko are facing charges including that include trespassing, obstructing and hindering, and possession of a handgun in the vehicle, the Associated Press reported.
#USA #Trans #Crime #FindTruth
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California Military Generals Pledged Loyalty to 'LGBT People' in 'Culty' 2016 Ceremony, Unearthed Photos Show
'The room was full because everybody knew who it was important to,' retired guardsman who attended ceremony. Military leaders at the highest levels of the California National Guard pledged loyalty to the LGBT community during an official ceremony led by the general whom Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) later appointed to lead the force in 2022. One attendee told that members felt pressured to appear at the ceremony, which felt "culty."
The California National Guard is tasked with safeguarding the state from natural disasters such as the fire that scorched Los Angeles in January, but at least four of its generals took a break from those duties to profess their allyship with the LGBT community during a June 27, 2016, event at the guard's Sacramento headquarters.
The generals also committed to educate themselves and others about "oppression, discrimination, heterosexism, biphobia, transphobia, and homophobia" and to "come out as an ally and tell my family, friends, and colleagues know [sic] that I support equality for LGBT people."
President Donald Trump in January signed an executive order abolishing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the military, and Hegseth pledged to remove any "woke" service members. The California National Guard did not return a request for comment.
#USA #Military #LGBT #FindTruth
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