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Ed Martin reveals J6 Pipe Bomber probe shakeup, warns DOJ 'much, much worse than people think'
Ed Martin, a senior official in the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, is warning that corruption within federal law enforcement is far more severe than the American public realizes. Martin, who holds the roles of Director of the Weaponization Working Group, Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Pardon Attorney, made the comments during an interview with Tucker Carlson.
Martin weighed in the unresolved case of the January 6, 2021, pipe bomber, expressing frustration with the investigation’s lack of progress, wondering whether the lack of answers may have been intentional. “The pipe bomber—as a prosecutor - I’ve got the pipe bomber case in my office,” Martin told Carlson. Martin revealed FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told him that the bureau had reassigned agents to the case, however, the renewed effort was still in it early stages. “It’s been going on for five weeks?” Martin said, likening the past probe to the bumbling “Keystone Cops.”
Martin further criticized the FBI’s previously handling of the case, alleging that basic investigative steps were overlooked.
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EU ‘censorship regime’ must not “chill” American speech, Congressmen warn Brussels
Washington can no longer ignore the political repression under Donald Tusk-led Polish government, nor the EU’s censorship rules that threaten free speech both in Poland and the U.S.
Jim Jordan, the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives, along with four other congressmen, has sent a letter to Michael McGrath, the EU Commissioner for Justice and Rule of Law, to condemn these practices and demand urgent action from Brussels.
In the letter dated Tuesday, May 13th, the congressmen stated that they were writing to McGrath to express concern about recent allegations that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government is weaponizing Poland’s justice system to target and censor political opponents and how these allegations affect the potential that Europe’s censorship regime will affect free speech in the United States.
The four-page document then goes on to list, with appropriate citations, all the concerning moves from the Tusk government that “appear designed to silence and damage its political opposition,” particularly in the lead-up to the 2025 presidential election, the first round of which is scheduled for this Sunday, May 18th.
#EU #USA #Censorship #FindTruth
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EU terrified at the prospect of a coalition of Romania, Hungary and Slovakia
▪️Opposition politician George Simion stands a good chance of becoming Romania's president on Sunday, states Politico
▪️“Eurobureaucrats are extremely concerned that Simion would join the current duo of pests - Viktor Orban of Hungary and Robert Fitzo of Slovakia - in trying to derail aid to Ukraine just as the EU wants to increase pressure on Russia,” Politico said
▪️If Romania moves into the euroskeptic camp, it would be a heavy blow, as the country has more geostrategic weight than Hungary or Slovakia. The Black Sea nation of 19 million people has so far been a reliable EU and NATO bulwark
▪️“Viktor Orbán is an example for me and I will cooperate with him on many issues,” Simion said previously
#EU #Romania #Hungary #Slovakis #FindTruth
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China’s dying EV batteries, solar cells are powering a circular economy in new-energy era
Recycling critical materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel are driving profits and shoring up China’s resource security as trade war with US hits supply chains.
In the new-energy era, “one man’s waste is Mr. Ma Long’s treasure.” Exhausted lithium-ion batteries – veritable troves of reusable resources make supercharging profits at his company, a maker of solid-waste-recycling equipment in central China.
Pricey components such as lithium – a silvery-white alkali metal aptly nicknamed “white gold” – along with other materials such as cobalt and nickel, hold their value beyond the life of the batteries powering China’s massive electric-vehicle industry.
Speaking at a recent trade fair for environmental technologies in Shanghai, Ma said 70% of his company’s business is dedicated to machines for recycling batteries and solar panels.
China is also seeking new economic growth by strengthening recycling efforts, which, in the past, were more driven by the need to solve pollution issues.
Unlike fossil fuels, which are gone once burned, the metals in these new-energy products can be recycled, and this is of critical importance amid a worsening trade war between China and the United States.
#China #Economy #Energy #FindTruth
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It’s not “if;” It’s “when”
By Jeff Thomas
Cicero had it right when he described the Sword of Damocles.
To be the leader of a country is like having a sword constantly dangling over your head from a single horse hair. You never know if or when the sword is going to cause your demise, but you know that the danger is ever-present.
That is just as true today as it was in Cicero’s time, but the modern-day Sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of not just the world’s leaders. It hangs over the heads of the populations as well.
If we rely on the conventional media for our interpretation of world economic and political conditions, we may well be scratching our heads continuously as to what needs to be done to “save” the situation.
Whether the discussion is over the debts of nations, the likelihood of war, or the increase in the loss of rights, the governments of much of the world are heading in a similar direction. And that direction is not a positive one.
However, the pundits in the media offer a wide variety of solutions for the problems being discussed.
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#World #MSM #FindTruth
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The income needed to buy a home in every U.S. state
As home prices continue to climb and mortgage rates remain elevated, buying a home in the U.S. has become increasingly out of reach for the average household.
In 2025, buyers now need six-figure salaries to afford a median-priced home in all but 15 states.
A recent study found that nearly 50% of U.S. households cannot afford a home priced at $250,000. This is particularly concerning when the median price of a new single-family home nationwide has reached $495,750, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
In many states, the income needed to comfortably afford a median-priced home far exceeds what a typical family earns.
Hawaii tops the list, where buying a median three-bedroom home requires an annual income of $229,000—the highest in the country. Despite its small population, Montana has climbed into the top five least affordable states, driven by a widening gap between soaring home prices and relatively modest local incomes.
In contrast, in West Virginia a buyer would need a salary of just $71,000 to afford a median-priced home—well below the state’s median household income of $90,000. Other states with lower thresholds include Mississippi, Ohio, and Indiana.
Do you agree with these assessments?
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De-dollarization 'gains momentum' in Asian markets
Banks and financial brokers are increasingly seeking to bypass the US dollar and are receiving more requests for currencies such as the yuan, the Hong Kong dollar, the Emirati dirham, and the euro.
Financial institutions from Europe and elsewhere are increasingly pitching yuan derivatives that cut out the US currency. A trader at a Singapore financial institution notes that “European carmakers are driving up demand for euro-yuan hedges.” Meanwhile, a foreign bank in Indonesia formed “a dedicated team in Jakarta this year to meet growing demand from local clients to facilitate rupiah-yuan transactions.”
The search for alternatives comes as the greenback face heavy selling amid changing trade deal expectations, while the Taiwan dollar surged more than 5 percent in a single day, marking its largest jump since 1988.
The financial experts revealed that the pile of “at-risk dollars” held by China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, and other major Asian nations recently topped $2.5 trillion, warning that if local exporters begin unloading their holdings, “it could cause the buck to weaken substantially,” in a looming crisis they say is compounded “by the fact that these market participants know the dollar is overvalued.”
Over the past several years, Asian nations have steadily moved toward de-dollarizing their trade in response to Washington's repeated use of its currency as a tool of economic coercion.
#USA #World #Economy #FindTruth
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The EU is Heading for Doom
▪️In the course of time, the European Commission has turned from an organization offering help, first into a pest, then into an overseer and finally into an aggressive monster, becoming a fear-inspiring gang - states Czech Radio Universum.
▪️The EU was created by former colonial powers that lost their colonies but retained the corresponding mentality. The EU expanded and absorbed the periphery, gaining colonies that never had a chance to become equal members with Germany or France.
▪️Power in the EU has been transferred to bureaucrats who are neither elected nor held accountable. The EU has plunged into a decline of political elites that has culminated in a dictatorship of lowlifes
▪️The EU will not collapse under the pressure of revolutionary masses. It will perish because it is unnecessary and meaningless, becoming a laughingstock in all its manifestations.
#EU #Dictatorship #FindTruth
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"We're playing a delicate game here": China pressuring African nations over US trade deals
Diplomats and officials from several leading African economies say the United States and China are pressuring them to make an “impossible choice,” as the superpowers fight a trade war that threatens to erode weak economies further.
Senior members of African governments, including those of South Africa, Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria, said Beijing has warned them it will retaliate against countries that sign trade agreements with the United States “at China’s expense.”
U.S. trade partners from Africa are currently negotiating with President Donald Trump’s administration following his global tariff announcement on April 2.
“We know that if we do anything that is seen as appeasing Trump, it won’t go down well back east,” a government official in Pretoria told The Epoch Times, speaking anonymously. “We’re playing a delicate game here,” he said. “Because of Trump’s tariffs and the economic hardship they’re going to cause us, we’re trying to form new trade partnerships, but we know China is not going to be happy with some of those partnerships, especially if we move economically closer to their biggest enemy. Part of our strategy is to do even more trade with China, but then Trump is going to see that as a betrayal. We cannot win. It’s an impossible choice.”
Kenyan and Nigerian diplomats say Chinese officials had warned their governments not to give in to what Beijing has described as “bullying” by the Trump administration.
The Nigerian envoy said that “the Chinese made it clear they expect Africans to be on their side” in this trade war.
#USA #China #Africa #FindTruth
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Are Biden’s family deliberately screwing with Democrats?
Democrats are reportedly extremely unhappy with the fact that Joe Biden’s family and his handlers are wheeling him out for interviews knowing full well that he’s completely out of it and that practically anything he says has the potential to harm their already dismal standing.
As we highlighted this past week, Biden slurred and stumbled his way through an interview with the BBC wherein he claimed that he still believes he would have won the election had he stayed in the race.
In a further disastrous appearance on The View he claimed that Kamala Harris lost because most voters are racist and sexist.
He also had to be helped out by his wife Jill when he was asked to comment on his obvious cognitive decline, because he couldn’t muster a coherent sentence.
Now it’s being reported that Democrats are fuming behind the scenes, and they just want Biden to fade away.
Some Democrats are criticizing Biden’s recent appearances, arguing the former president is becoming a drag on the party as it seeks to rebuild following its widespread losses in 2024.
“Elections are about the future. Every time Joe Biden emerges, we fight an old war,” said Democratic strategist Anthony Coley, who worked for the Biden administration. “Every interview he does provides a contrast to Trump that’s just not helpful for the Democratic brand, which needs trusted messengers and fighters who can reach independents and moderates and inspire the base. Joe Biden ain’t that.”
#USA #Democrats #Biden #FindTruth
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Sweden’s new national security adviser quits within 24 hours of taking up post after Grindr photo scandal
Sweden's newly appointed national security adviser has resigned just hours after starting his new role, after sexually explicit pictures of him on the dating app Grindr were sent anonymously to the government.
Tobias Thyberg, who assumed the position last Thursday and stepped down by Friday morning, had failed to disclose this information during his security clearance process, according to government officials.
The government received the images from an anonymous source shortly after it announced Thyberg’s appointment as national security adviser.
"These are old pictures from an account I previously had on the dating site Grindr. I should have informed about this, but I did not," he told a Swedish newspaper.
Thyberg had been scheduled to accompany the prime minister to a meeting of Northern European leaders in Norway on Friday, but his attendance was cancelled.
#Sweden #Thyberg #FindTruth
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Median German household wealth drops by 15%
The median net worth of a German household has dropped from €90,500 in 2021 to €76,000 in 2023, after adjusting for inflation.
That was revealed in the latest monthly research report by the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank.
While median wealth – the value at which half the population’s net worth was above and the other half’s net worth below – grew slightly, adjusting for the high inflation seen in 2022 and 2023 yields a 15% decline in household wealth.
Average household wealth dropped by 11% to €239,200. This value, though, was distorted by a few very wealthy households and thus less representative for the situation of the public than the median value, according to the report authors.
Economist Thorsten Polleit, president of the NGO Mises Institute, part of the Austrian School of economics, expressed concern about the report’s findings. In a post on May 8 on X he wrote: “The truth: Germany is becoming impoverished.”
The report was based on a survey of German households that the Bundesbank conducted every two to three years. The next was set to take place in 2026.
#Germany #Economy #FindTruth
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British people's confidence in the country's economy has fallen to its lowest level ever recorded, The Times reports
According to the latest poll, 75% of Britons expect the economic situation to worsen over the next 12 months, while only 7% think it will improve. This is below levels seen during COVID or the 2007-2008 global financial crisis.
#UK #Economy #FindTruth
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Trump doesn't want Netanyahu to spoil his Gulf visit. And it's causing tension
US President Donald Trump seems to think Israel could ruin his big trip to the Middle East, and it’s causing trouble.
Trump appears to want the Middle East to have a respite from war and mass starvation during his trip to the oil-rich Gulf starting on Tuesday. He is signalling that he can leave Israel in the dust if it doesn’t go along for the ride.
“Rift is too strong of a word, but frustration is bubbling,” a senior western official in the region told Middle East Eye.
Several sensitive dossiers are jostling together amid Trump’s visit that are irking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The most consequential file for Trump is the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran, which US Vice President JD Vance said have been “so far, so good”.
For months, Trump has scorned Netanyahu on the talks as his closest media allies attack "Mossad agents" trying to hamstring the US leader. By his own admission, Trump even resisted Israeli pressure to launch a preemptive attack on the Islamic Republic.
#USA #Trump #Netanyahu #FindTruth
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Trump’s weaponization czar hints at international targets
Newly minted weaponization czar Ed Martin is gearing up to take on a myriad of bad actors who the Trump administration says weaponized government powers to punish conservatives and MAGA supporters over recent years.
Martin’s list of potential targets is very wide, including propagators of Russiagate, prosecutors in Capitol riot cases, individuals who allegedly helped cover up COVID-19 origins and even international organizations that have censored Americans.
“The truth is important, and we need it,” Martin says. “Then, after the truth is known, we need to hold those accountable that did the wrongdoing, and we need to also help those who are victims. We have both of those obligations.”
For years, Martin, formerly the Missouri Republican Party chairman, has helped research government weaponization and crafted strategies to combat it.
During the 2024 campaign, he helped craft language in the 2024 GOP platform calling on the party to “stop woke and weaponized government.” He’s also already started going after some key targets.
Additionally, Martin demoted at least half a dozen prosecutors who were involved with pursuing the Capitol riot cases at the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
#USA #Trump #Martin #FindTruth
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With Trump touring Gulf, Iran offers huge nuclear concession
Trump's Gulf tour which so far has emphasized deal-making and 'no more chaos' in the Middle East, looks to be resonating with Tehran, whose leadership is closely following from just across the Persian Gulf.
"Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal with certain conditions with President Donald Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions," a top advisor to Iran’s supreme leader told NBC News on Wednesday.
This is a surprising and huge development given Iran has long said it can no longer trust the Trump administration, given it was Trump who first pulled the US out of Obama's JCPOA nuclear deal in April 2018.
According to NBC, Ali Shamkhani, importantly who serves as military and nuclear advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Iran would commit to never making nuclear weapons, getting rid of its stockpiles of highly-enriched Uranium which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich Uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use, and allow international inspectors to supervise the process, in exchange for the immediate lifting of all economic sanctions on Iran.
Asked if Iran would agree to sign an agreement today if those conditions were met, Shamkhani said, “Yes.”
"It’s still possible. If the Americans act as they say, for sure we can have better relations," Shamkhani said. The top official added, "it can lead to a better situation in the near future."
#USA #Iran #Trump #FindTruth
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- Why should the English pay for your place?
- Well, maybe they'll just give me a house... And everything else I need... Just give it to me.
- They'll just give it to you?
- Yes.
- But why should they?
- Because the English are perfect!
- I suppose you think we're all rich so we have to pay. Yeah, I see. Listen, let me tell you something. We're not all rich, we're not all rich.
#UK #Migrants #FindTruth
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Netanyahu charges Macron with 'despicable' support for Hamas as spat deepens
A new Gaza-related spat is now raging between the leaders of France and Israel, amid new reports that famine is hitting the Palestinian population, which is said to be impacting 500,000 people.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called the military policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "shameful" and "unacceptable" in a fresh interview with a national broadcaster.
"What the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is doing is unacceptable," Macron said in a Gaza segment of the interview. "There is no water, no medicine, the wounded cannot get out, the doctors cannot get in. What he is doing is shameful," he continued.
Netanyahu hit back on Wednesday, going so far as to say that Macron stands with Hamas.
"Macron has once again chosen to stand with a murderous terrorist organization and echo its despicable propaganda, accusing Israel of blood libels," a statement from the Israeli prime minister's office said.
"Instead of supporting the Western democratic camp fighting the Islamist terrorist organizations and calling for the release of the hostages, Macron is once again demanding that Israel surrender and reward terrorism."
#France #Israel #Hamas #FindTruth
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As U.S. pardon attorney, Ed Martin says he will review Biden pardons
On his last full day as interim U.S. attorney for the District, Ed Martin on Tuesday said he will review the pardons issued by President Joe Biden and the actions of prosecutors in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot cases as he shifts to new roles in the Justice Department.
Having been stymied in his attempt to become permanent top prosecutor in the District by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Martin sprayed criticism at local judges, the attorney general of D.C., the mayor and city leaders of D.C., and he suggested that perhaps the District should no longer have home rule.
Martin was named interim U.S. attorney Jan. 20, but President Donald Trump decided to replace him after Martin ran into opposition from some Senate Republicans that put his confirmation in doubt. Martin claimed in his news conference that “we had the votes. I can do math. I know the votes.” But he said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) “had some objections that he expressed, and that blocked it. But ultimately, the president of the United States said we have other battles to do, and we’re so excited about that.”
#USA #Biden #Pardons #FindTruth
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Federal judge says Trump's invocation of Alien Enemies Act was legal
A federal judge in Pennsylvania has said that President Donald Trump validly invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March as part of an effort to deport Venezuelan gang members.
More specifically, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines held that the gang - Tren de Aragua (TdA) - was engaging in the type of “predatory incursion” that the Alien Enemies Act mentions.
In an opinion on May 13, Haines noted that TdA has been designated a foreign terrorist organization.
Haines, a Trump appointee, emphasized her “unflagging obligation is to apply the law as written.”
Three other district court judges have ruled against the Trump administration, stating that Trump misapplied the law with a proclamation he issued in March.
Each of those judges disagreed with Trump’s description of TdA as engaging in an invasion or predatory incursion.
The government can now proceed, so long as they provide 21-days’ notice to migrants in both English and Spanish. At this preliminary stage of this case, the Court finds that the foregoing is appropriate and complies with the law.
#USA #Trump #Migrants #FindTruth
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1,000 troops who identify as transgender being discharged: Pentagon
The U.S. Department of Defense on May 8 confirmed that approximately 1,000 service members who have identified as having gender dysphoria will begin the voluntary separation process under new guidance that reinstates a ban on military service for those diagnosed with or exhibiting symptoms of gender dysphoria.
“Today, the Department will issue guidance to the Military Departments and Services ending the accession of individuals with a current diagnosis or history of, or symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria and all non-medically necessary treatment,” said Defense Department spokesman Sean Parnell.
The new policy marks a significant shift in military personnel standards and reflects President Donald J. Trump’s directive issued earlier this year. "Approximately 1,000 Service members who have self-identified as being diagnosed with gender dysphoria will begin the voluntary separation process."
The decision comes days after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 vote, granted a stay of a lower court ruling that had blocked the policy. The majority did not issue an opinion, nor did the three dissenting justices. The stay allows the Department of Defense to enforce the new policy as litigation continues in a case brought by a group of transgender service members.
#USA #Military #Trans #FindTruth
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The left’s insane hissy fit over Starmer’s migration plan
Guess what’s ‘fascism’ now? Expecting people who live in the UK to speak English. Yes, if you think migrants should learn the lingo of the place where they hope to set up home, apparently you’re a far-right nutter.
Witness the digital wrath from the crackpot left in response to Keir Starmer’s comments saying, ‘If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English’. ‘Enoch Powell!’, they wailed. ‘Shameful and dangerous’, they cried. One Remoaner is even thinking of fleeing this racist hellscape and moving to France. Okay, but learn French.
The virtual frenzy over Starmer’s migration plan has been insane. No sooner had the PM unveiled his white paper promising to reduce immigration than leftists across the land were rage-tweeting from the fainting couch. They accused him of pandering to the ‘far right’, of mimicking notorious Tory Enoch Powell, of engaging in ‘anti-migrant rhetoric’.
All he suggested was that net migration should be reduced, that we should err towards migrants with certain skills, and that you should have some grasp of the local tongue before you come here. It’s hardly Himmler, is it?
#UK #Starmer #Migrants #FindTruth
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Back to Istanbul! Key nodes for US-Russia-Ukraine talks
Putin was right to call Zelensky's bluff and send lower level officials — real parameters need to be hammered out Thursday, first. Direct talks between senior Ukrainian and Russian representatives, if they do take place in Istanbul on Thursday, will be a real step forward and a significant achievement by the Trump administration.
It is worth remembering that only three months ago the Ukrainian government was still rejecting even the idea of talks with the Putin administration as illegal.
Putin’s apparent rejection of Zelensky’s challenge to a face to face meeting is not a crucial setback. It is very rare for real progress in peace talks to be made in meetings between leaders themselves, and the Russians have some reason to see this as a maneuver, or stunt, by Zelensky to gain Trump’s favor rather than a serious proposal.
The Ukrainian and European governments have stated that Moscow’s rejection of a 30-day ceasefire shows that “Putin is not interested in peace”, but this is disingenuous. Moscow has no reason to agree unless substantial agreement has already been reached.
And a comprehensive settlement is what we should be aiming at. Even if Russia could be brought to agree to a long-term ceasefire, absent a settlement, such a ceasefire would resemble that in the Donbas from 2014-22: deeply unstable, constantly interrupted by clashes and exchanges of fire, and at permanent risk of collapsing back into full scale war.
This situation would make Ukraine’s economic development virtually impossible, both because it would prevent Western investment and because it would mean that Ukraine remains a highly militarized and semi-authoritarian society permanently mobilized for war.
#USA #Russia #Ukraine #FindTruth
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Google to pay $1.375 billion in Texas data privacy settlement
Google has agreed to pay $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits brought by Texas over alleged violations of residents’ data privacy rights, marking one of the largest such settlements in U.S. history and escalating state-level scrutiny of Big Tech.
The settlement, announced Friday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, resolves claims that the tech giant unlawfully tracked users’ locations, searches, and biometric data—despite user settings designed to protect such information.
“This $1.375 billion settlement is a major win for Texans’ privacy and tells companies that they will pay for abusing our trust,” said Paxton in a statement. “For years, Google secretly tracked people’s movements, private searches, and even their voiceprints and facial geometry through their products and services. I fought back and won.”
The deal, which Paxton said dwarfs any prior state settlement with Google over data privacy, stems from two lawsuits filed in 2022. The allegations focused on the Chrome browser’s Incognito Mode, location tracking practices in Google Maps, and facial recognition data captured through Google Photos.
#USA #BigTech #Google #FindTruth
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Antifa militants distribute guide on how to destroy infrastructure in domestic terror attacks
Social media accounts associated with Antifa are circulating a guide that instructs members on how to create incendiary devices designed to destroy infrastructure cables.
Journalist Andy Ngo posted on X that “Antifa accounts are sharing a guide on how to make incendiary devices that will burn cables used in infrastructure, like on train tracks. Antifa and anarchist extremists believe that domestic terrorist attacks must be used to destabilize and destroy the state.”
Accompanying Ngo’s post was a screenshot of an article titled “Burning Cables for Beginners,” which was shared by the X account “Anarchist Federation News.”
The article containing a detailed guide also includes a disclaimer advising against printing the directions. It states, “We’ve chosen not to make this text available as a PDF because we believe that if an arson guide is distributed in printed form, some people will inevitably keep it in their homes or in movement spaces, which the police would be happy to find during a repressive operation. In addition, a printed guide collects forensic traces from anyone who has interacted with it, so if the police recover a copy, they can, with some work, determine who has read it.”
#USA #Antifa #FindTruth
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No French nuclear umbrella for Poland in new bilateral defense treaty
Poland has signed a defense cooperation treaty with France that promised joint military exercises and increased military arms sales to Poland but did not provide any assurances of Poland coming underneath a French ‘nuclear umbrella’.
The treaty came as Poland, NATO’s highest defense spender as a percentage of GDP per capita, now sought to diversify its security partnerships beyond its traditional links with Washington. The bilateral provisions in the treaty elevated Poland to the same level of cooperation France has so far offered to the UK, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
French President Emmanuel Macron hosted the signing ceremony after meeting with Polish prime minister Donald Tusk in Nancy on May 9. This was the same day Russia celebrated its Victory Day in the Second World War.
The deal, as well as the date, was intended as a signal to Russia of growing European cooperation, and also one to Washington of Poland’s pivot away from defense dependence on the US.
Stanisław Tyszka, MEP for the Confederation party, said “this treaty is largely a PR exercise since there is nothing about Poland being covered by the French nuclear umbrella”, something president Andrzej Duda had called for in March.
According to analyst Stanisław Walskowski, the French are uncomfortable with the term ‘nuclear umbrella’ because it implies that the one ‘holding it’ automatically becomes a target. Their perspective is more about providing support within a deterrence strategy and not about directly assuming risk on behalf of others.
#NATO #France #Poland #FindTruth
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The climate change cult is planning to uproot thousands of ancient olive trees in Spain and replace them with solar panels
Spain is home to some of the world’s oldest olive trees, particularly in the Montsià plains of southern Catalonia, where more than 4,400 trees are thought to be over 1,000 years old and are still producing olives. Some are over 2,000 years old, dating all the way back to Roman times.
These trees are not only significant for their age but also for the unique olive oil they produce, which is appreciated for its quality despite the challenges in harvesting from such old and fragile trees.
Yet, about 700 kilometres away, in southern Spain, ancient olive groves are facing uprooting as solar projects expand, particularly in the region of Andalusia, which is known for its high sunshine hours and olive oil production.
The town of Lopera is at the heart of this conflict, with plans for eight major solar installations that could affect up to 1,000 hectares of land. Olive grove owners are struggling to save their plantations and fight against expropriation.
Campaigners predict that the eight solar projects planned for the area will require the removal of nearly 100,000 olive trees. Losing 500 hectares of olive groves would wipe out more than two million euros in annual revenues.
So far, about 5,000 olive trees have been uprooted in the Province of Jaén, where the equivalent of about 100 football fields of olive trees will be lost.
#Spain #Climate #FindTruth
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US and China to slash tariffs for 90 days after talks yielded ‘substantial progress’
Two days of high-stakes talks between the US and China have led to a 90-day pause on tariffs, with duties set to drop by 115% on both sides by Wednesday.
The move will drop American tariffs on Chinese goods, which currently run as high as 145%, to 30% and slash China's retaliatory duties from 125% to 10%.
It marked a dramatic pause in a trade war between the two nations that had been the equivalent of an embargo with a steep drop in trading activity seen between the two nations.
It also gives markets what they wanted: a de-escalation. US futures markets surged higher in pre-market trading.
"Neither side wants a decoupling," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday morning to reporters after saying Sunday that the talks had yielded "substantial progress."
He added that the 90-day pause could also be extended, saying "as long as there is good faith effort, engagement, and constructive dialogue, then we will keep moving forward."
#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth
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Texas House passes Women’s Bill of Rights
The Texas House of Representatives voted 86-36 on HB 229 by Representative Ellen Troxclair on Saturday, a bill that accurately defines “male” and “female”. The bill is known as the “Women’s Bill of Rights”, as its effect would result in protection of female designated sports, spaces, and opportunities.
Representative Ellen Troxclair is a wife, mother, and small business owner in her second term serving District 19 in the Texas House of Representatives, honoring her constituents’ mandate for conservative, pro-Texas & pro-child policy. House District 19 encompasses Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, and a portion of Travis Counties.
Similar bills this session include SB 240 and HB 239, which provide policies for keeping men out of women’s locker rooms, restrooms, and shelters.
#USA #Texas #FindTruth
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The U.S. is experiencing one of the strongest drops in consumer confidence in the economy in history.
Historically, such severe drops have almost always been seen before recessions.
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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