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The view from the bottom: how ABC’s harpies drowned out the last shred of civility
Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and Ana Navarro are not commentators. They are ideological enforcers. They don’t trade in ideas. They trade in outrage. Their airtime is used not to inform or entertain but to intimidate, mock, and vilify.
They talk about “our democracy” while smearing half the electorate. They claim to champion women while silencing any woman who disagrees with them.
Their hypocrisy is boundless, their arrogance is breathtaking, and, sadly, their influence is still significant enough to warrant attention.
In their world, racism is bad only when it's politically inconvenient. Bigotry is real only when it suits their narrative. And incitement is just spirited banter, so long as it comes from their side of the aisle.
#USA #ABC #FindTruth
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Microsoft fired a developer with autism who'd worked for them for 25 years because... the neural network suggested it.
On his birthday, they gave him a crystal for his seniority and followed it up with a termination paper. The AI deemed him “ineffective.”
Do you think Microsoft should listen to AI in such matters? 🤔
Write your opinion in the comments👇
#Microsoft #AI #FindTruth
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Biden administration placed COVID mandate critics on watchlists, intelligence documents reveal
The Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the National Counterterrorism Center got together for what must’ve been a bureaucratic bake-off of paranoia, whipping up a December 13, 2021 bulletin that redefined domestic extremism.
Gone were the days when such warnings targeted people who, say, mailed pipe bombs. Now, if you complained about your kid being forced into a cloth mask or dared mention the possibility that the government might have botched the vaccine rollout, you just might be on a watchlist.
The documents, obtained through a freedom of information request by Public and Catherine Herridge, gave federal agents carte blanche to initiate what they called “assessments.”
What were the red flags? Things like “opposition to mask mandates,” “concerns about vaccine safety for children,” and an all-purpose accusation that someone believed mandates were “government overreach.”
By early 2022, things got even worse. A sequel to the first document, charmingly titled Special Analysis: Joint Analytic Cell, doubled down on the practice of turning constitutional rights into case numbers.
What emerges from these documents is a portrait of a government that, faced with public hesitancy, chose suppression over dialogue. When your own citizens start asking questions and your first instinct is to start a file on them, you’re not governing, you’re managing the optics of control.
#USA #Biden #COVID #FindTruth
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A culture of impunity in corruption cases in the European Parliament and the European Commission
Former ombudsman O'Reilly compares the European Commission to the mafia and its leadership to “powerful consiglierei” (advisors to mafia bosses).
The EU is often shaken by high-profile scandals, but the system does not react to them.
Henrik Hololei, the director of an EU department from Estonia, was caught with gifts from the Qataris who paid for his expensive flights. This took place while Hololei's department was negotiating an airline deal with Qatar. The upshot is that no EU rules were violated and the official quietly moved on to a comfortable position as a senior advisor. The Estonian blamed Russia for his problems.
Emily O'Reilly, the European ombudsman, found four cases of unfair hiring, including a startling scam. The European Commission organized a selection process for a new deputy secretary general only to have it taken over by the son-in-law of a senior executive.
Harassment is also rife in the EU leadership. MEPs are being stripped of their subsistence allowances for them.
Investigations into gerrymandering, conflicts of interest, unethical behavior and abuse of position - from Pfizergate to schemes to promote “their own” - rarely result in real consequences.
“Ethical carelessness and political irresponsibility have created a culture of impunity that undermines EU citizens' trust in the institutions and plays into the hands of Eurosceptics,” says European law professor Alberto Alemanno.
Even when courts recognize violations, as in the case of European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen with Pfizer, or when an anti-corruption agency reveals fraud in personnel policy, the European Commission and the European Parliament impose formal penalties. There are even more uninvestigated cases - what is only bribes to officials paid to them by green NGOs.
European media live on the credits of states and oligarchs, so they do not write about scandals.
#EU #Corruption #FindTruth
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China is on its way to becoming world’s first ‘Electrostate’
China leads the world in electrification, with a 30% electrification rate—far ahead of the U.S. and EU at ~22%—dominating sectors like transport and industry.
Massive investment in electric vehicles, high-speed rail, and renewables has positioned China as a superpower in clean energy technologies, with renewables now making up 10% of GDP.
In 2024, electric vehicles made up approximately 47.9% of the total passenger car sales in China, a huge increase from 2020, when plug-in EVs accounted for just 6.3% of total sales. In comparison, electric vehicles accounted for less than 23% of new car sales in Europe over the timeframe.
The rapid expansion of China’s modern rail network has also helped supercharge the electrification of the country's transport sector. China boasts a 45,000 km high-speed rail network, five times the size of the EU’s. That figure is expected to expand to 60,000km by 2030.
China now leads the 4th Industrial Revolution, making huge strides in electrification, renewable energy, AI, robotics and the Internet of Things. And, just as oil and gas drive the petrostates of the Arab world, clean energy technologies are powering China’s growth.
However, China remains the world’s biggest polluter and emitter of greenhouse gases. China’s power sector emissions hit record highs last year, driven by a surge in coal consumption.
#China #Energy #EV #FindTruth
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'Politburo' secretly ran Biden White House
Alex Thompson, co-author of the provocative new book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, has ignited a firestorm across Democrat Party circles, asserting that a secretive cadre of aides ran the White House like a shadowy “politburo” to conceal President Joe Biden’s failing mental health.
Thompson told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that he began questioning the White House’s narrative about Biden’s mental fitness in April 2023, after hearing concerns from administration insiders about Biden’s capacity to endure a reelection campaign or another term.
Despite repeated denials from the White House, which labeled such claims false, Thompson’s reporting uncovered a different reality, eroding his trust in their statements. He described a tight-knit group of aides - referred to by some within the administration as the “Politburo” - effectively steering the White House. This inner circle, Thompson noted, included longtime Biden aides like Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, Bruce Reed, and Ron Klain, alongside key figures close to the Biden family, such as First Lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Jill’s chief of staff Anthony Bernal, and deputy Annie Tomasini, who often serves as Biden’s traveling chief of staff.
The term “politburo” refers to the elite inner circle of a communist regime, wielding unchecked power at the top.
#USA #Biden #FindTruth
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Chinese national accused of impersonating US marshal to scam victim
Data show government impersonation scams are a growing problem in the United States.
A Chinese citizen is accused of impersonating a U.S. marshal in an attempt to con a New York resident out of $98,000.
The St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office in Canton, New York, announced that its criminal investigation division had arrested Chinese national Chi Liqing and charged him with attempted second-degree grand larceny.
The suspect was arrested before he was able to collect money from a local resident as part of an impersonation scam in which individuals posed as U.S. marshals, said authorities.
In September last year, the U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of Louisiana warned that criminals had been spoofing the district office’s real number to deceive people into sending payments. The criminals’ tactics included trying to convince people that they would need to pay a fine for offenses, such as failing to report for jury duty, or go to trial.
#USA #Crime #FindTruth
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Romania’s Călin Georgescu retires from politics
Călin Georgescu, who was the leading candidate in last year’s Romanian presidential elections until the courts barred him from running, has said he will quit politics.
On May 26, Georgescu announced his retirement, saying he would focus on his family, “which needs peace”.
Georgescu said he would remain outside any party structure and keep a politically neutral stand. “However, if I see that the rights of those who have chosen differently are violated, I will once again engage with a clear voice to defend the principles of democracy and freedom.”
In Romania’s 2024 presidential election, right-wing nationalist Georgescu unexpectedly won the first round on November 24 with 22.94% of the vote, a result that was said to have been boosted by a TikTok campaign.
In an unprecedented and controversial move, the Romanian Constitutional Court then annulled the results on December 6, citing what it claimed was Russian interference favouring Georgescu, although evidence was contested.
#Romania #Elections #FindTruth
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Merz gives Ukraine green light to strike deep inside Russia
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Ukraine has been given permission to use weapons supplied by its allies to launch strikes deep inside Russia.
“There are absolutely no range limits anymore for weapons delivered to Ukraine, not from Britain, the French or from us — also not from the Americans,” Merz said at a conference in Berlin on Monday. “That means Ukraine can defend itself by attacking military positions also in Russia.”
Germany had long refused to deliver the long-range Taurus cruise missile, though Merz has expressed approval of its use.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that, if confirmed, a decision to allow long-range strikes could undermine efforts toward reaching a political settlement. He called such a decision “dangerous.”
#Germany #Merz #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Democrats don't need more scandals now, but here comes one
While Biden’s inner circle apparently saw no issue with a mentally diminished, terminally ill man controlling nuclear codes, the Clintons are back in the spotlight thanks to explosive revelations from Buzz Patterson, a former senior military aide in the Clinton White House who carried the nuclear football for Bill Clinton.
In a post on X, Patterson revealed another major Clinton scandal, this time involving sexual assault allegations aboard Air Force One.
“Apparently, Clinton had cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her,” Patterson revealed. “She was young, a staff sergeant, and married with children. I knew her, liked her, and she was super sweet. Now, she was in tears.” Patterson says he asked the pilot what she wanted to do. “He told me that she didn’t want to be another ‘bimbo,’ she wanted to remain in the Air Force and be promotable. All she wanted was an apology.”
This latest revelation is yet another reminder of the deep moral rot that defined the Clinton White House, something Democrats and their media allies have spent decades trying to whitewash. But Patterson’s firsthand account cuts through the spin and exposes just how far the corruption went.
#USA #Democrats #Scandal #FindTruth
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When Black Lives Matter colonised the world
Five years ago, Western elites fell to a reactionary racial ideology.
On 25 May 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer kneeling on his neck. His killing, and his muffled cry of ‘I can’t breathe’, were caught on video and shared around the world.
BLM had pretensions of radicalism. Activists believed they were railing against not one brutal, shocking police killing, but against ‘the system’ itself. A system they viewed as inherently racist, corrupted by ‘whiteness’ and forever tainted by the original sins of slavery and colonialism. Almost immediately this movement was embraced by just about every establishment institution under the Sun. From big banks to the tech oligarchs, from politicians to philanthropists, from Oxford University to the British royal family, Western elites all took the knee before the BLM juggernaut.
There was also serious money made from the Black Lives Matter moment. Diversity, equity and inclusion, already an $8 billion industry in the US before the BLM protests, became far more widespread and more firmly institutionalised across the corporate and public sectors. DEI initiatives seemed to give the business elites a sense of purpose that they had previously been lacking.
They could suddenly pose as warriors ‘fighting racial injustice’, ‘driving meaningful change’ and ‘doing the work of anti-racism’. It turns out those BLM protesters setting fire to police stations were not radical revolutionaries, after all – they were more like the militant wing of the HR department.
Five years on from George Floyd’s tragic murder, we can all see BLM for the reactionary, elite crusade it always was.
#USA #BLM #Radicalism #FindTruth
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$67 in France and $798 in US - why prescription drug prices are so high in America
Prescription drugs cost more in the United States than anywhere else in the world.
Trump has so far issued several actions related to prescription drug prices. The latest, announced May 12, is a Most Favored Nation Prescription Drug policy, requiring pharmaceutical companies to offer their lowest price to U.S. customers.
An earlier order aimed to ensure that the middlemen in the drug supply chain can’t hold on to rebates provided by pharmaceutical companies and instead must pass savings on to Medicare beneficiaries.
In all, the president has taken at least a dozen actions to reduce prescription drug costs, while no less than nine Senate bills aim for the same results.
Americans still pay nearly three times as much for prescription medication as any peer nation, often even more.
Trulicity, a medication for Type 2 diabetics, was listed for $67 in France, according to a 2021 Government Accountability Report.
In the United States, it cost $798.
Meanwhile, Remlivid, an oral cancer medication, was listed for $4,723 in Australia. In the United States, it was listed at almost five times that price: $22,048.
#EU #USA #Health #FindTruth
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Shadow fleet ban ‘could trigger escalation’
EU measures targeting Russia’s shadow fleet could risk triggering an escalation in response, experts have told Brussels Signal.
“Oil revenues remain one of the Kremlin’s most important sources of income”, said Aura Sabadus, a fellow at London’s RUSI think tank.
Moscow could therefore act to protect one of the few lifelines left for its wartime economy.
Russia has “spent a lot of money” to build a fleet of tankers that allows it to bypass sanctions and continue selling oil, she said.
“Russia already has begun to react against the interception of its tankers,” David Betz, professor of war studies at King’s College London, said in an interview. EU actions against the shadow fleet tankers could provoke further retaliation, he said.
“It does have the potential for some military response or indeed quasi-military or hybrid response to attacks on its shipping,” said Betz.
“I would expect them to take measures to protect this fleet,” agreed Sabadus.
The shadow fleet was “one of a number of areas where there is potential for escalation”, said Betz. “In war, escalation is a central dynamic,” he said. “History is full of examples of wars which got out of control and exceeded the initiating political arguments which animated that war.”
#EU #Russia #Sanctions #FindTruth
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Japan rides the censorship bandwagon
The manufacturer of the replicon mRNA Covid “vaccine” in Japan, Meiji Seika Pharma, has brought a lawsuit against a member of the Japanese parliament, Kazuhiro Haraguchi. Haraguchi had commented that the Covid injections are “akin to a biological weapon,” a statement which the Meiji Pharma president claimed was beyond the bounds of acceptable expression.
However, statements like Haraguchi’s about the dangers of the Covid mRNA injections are now commonplace in many nations, and drug companies do not seem to be suing people for making them, at least in the US. Instead, state attorneys general in Kansas and Texas have been suing Pfizer for misrepresenting its Covid injections.
In general, Japan has been gradually evolving into a place where it is difficult to publicly express ideas unapproved by powerful business interests and officialdom. In addition to government and mainstream news media collusion to keep Covid medical realities from the Japanese public, the government passed a law to squelch nonconforming messaging online.
The intentions behind this measure are clear: Prominent government figures have openly declared their conviction that “misinformation” is a major problem in Japan. In December 2024, Prime Minister Ishiba stated that he was considering more regulations concerning Internet discourse that he considers problematic, and a prominent LDP (Liberal Democratic Party) politician named Noda commented recently that Japan was being influenced more and more by “fake” information.
#Japan #Censorship #COVID #FindTruth
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Public indifference to bird flu fearmongering contributes to egg price drop
Egg prices dropped 12.7% since March, with the average dozen falling from $6.23 to $5.12, marking the sharpest monthly decline since 1984. However, costs remain nearly double pre-crisis levels.
Aggressive measures – including mass culling, quarantines and relaxed cage-free laws – helped stabilize supply chains. Summer migrations further reduced transmission risks, with only two isolated outbreaks remaining.
The 2024 election saw criticism of Biden's response, prompting Trump's USDA to boost imports, deregulate production and investigate potential price gouging by major producers like Cal-Maine Foods.
Experts warn that restocking farms takes time, and new outbreaks (e.g., in Ohio and South Dakota) could disrupt progress. Prices are expected to dip further but stay above historical norms.
While officials highlight containment, consumer refusal to panic may have stabilized demand. The crisis underscores vulnerabilities in globalized food supply chains amid ongoing avian flu risks.
#USA #Food #Prices #FindTruth
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Donald Trump said that Canada joining the new Golden Dome missile defense system will cost it $61 billion if the country does it as a separate state. He also added that the defense would be free if it joins the US.
Earlier, Trump said that Golden Dome would cost $175 billion in total and Congress is looking for $25 billion to start work on the project. However, the Congressional Budget Office found that the U.S. may have to spend up to $542 billion over 20 years.
#USA #Trump #Canada #FindTruth
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Elon Musk announces end to his time in Trump administration, DOGE
Elon Musk announced that his time working in the Trump administration as a “Special Government Employee” is drawing to a close, and he thanked President Donald Trump.
Musk’s post comes as the New York Times reported that Musk is “operating with some distance from” Trump, with alleged “White House officials,” claiming that Musk is on “good terms” with the president.
Musk, who once called himself the president’s “first buddy,” is now operating with some distance from Trump as he says he is ending his government work to spend more time on his companies. Musk remains on good terms with Trump, according to White House officials. But he has also made it clear that he is disillusioned with Washington and frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he upended the federal bureaucracy, raising questions about the strength of the alliance between the president and the world’s richest man.
Musk has previously expressed disappointment in the so-called “big, beautiful bill,” noting that it “undermines the work the DOGE team is doing.”
#USA #Musk #DOGE #FindTruth
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"Just gone. Like it never existed": YouTube nukes top Canadian political account after state-funded media complains
A Canadian YouTube channel that was dominating the platform during the country's recent election has vanished, after the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reached out to the social media giant, and branded it a 'content farm'.
The channel, "Real Talk Politiks," had over 300,000 subscribers and more than 70 million views in the month of April, making it the third-most viewed Canadian news and politics channel over the past three months.
In a Sunday thread on X, Real Talk Politiks explained:
CBC, Canada’s state-funded media just got YouTube to terminate my channel — not for breaking rules, but for having the wrong political views.
I didn’t break any rules. No strikes. No deception. Just political commentary. And yet — YouTube terminated the entire channel shortly after CBC reached out with hit-piece questions.
So what did they do? They contacted YouTube. And not long after… the channel vanished. No real explanation. No public process. Just gone. Like it never existed.
They think they can silence people with opposing views. But all they’ve done is expose their own fear — and their willingness to crush speech they don’t like.
When state media and Big Tech team up to silence a creator because of political ideology, it’s not just censorship — it’s tyranny with a smile.
#Canada #YouTube #FindTruth
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German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp to be ‘virtually dissolved’
Germany’s iconic industrial group Thyssenkrupp will be broken up and turned into a financial holding no longer producing steel.
According to a report seen by German media, the multinational planned to sell large parts of its current structure.
“At the end, Thyssenkrupp is virtually dissolved,” high-ranking sources from the company were quoted as saying.
After becoming a financial holding, staff numbers at its current headquarters would shrink from 500 to 100. Further job cuts were planned in administration, where 1,000 people were currently still employed.
As media quotes insider, “Only a parent company without content remained.”
Thyssenkrupp’s steel trading division, the brand’s historic core unit, would be sold to Czech billionaire businessman Daniel Křetínskýan. The automotive supplier division was also to be closed or sold. “Only a hull remains in the best case,” a manager said.
#Germany #Economy #FindTruth
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The American Pravda sues the Trump administration
In a recent executive order President Trump called for an end to taxpayer funding of NPR and “public” television (PBS), created by Congress in 1967 to laughingly create an “independent” news source.
Yes, they have always been independent of the free market and of the hapless American taxpayers, but certainly not independent of the deep state Washington establishment. NPR has always been a government-subsidized propaganda organ. If Americans want even more government propaganda thrown at them than what they already get from the “mainstream media,” Hollywood, the universities, Google, Facebook, and dozens of television networks, NPR and “public” television should have no problem at all at attracting investors and viewers for a very profitable private business.
NPR’s lawsuit claims that President Trump’s executive order deprives the employees at NPR of freedom of speech, with the implicit assumption that only government subsidies allow them to have freedom of speech and that that freedom will be abolished if the subsidies are ended.
Full story
#USA #NPR #FindTruth
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Military seizing massive swaths of public lands at the border
The government has transferred thousands of acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to be controlled by the Department of Defense (DoD). The transfer is part of an ongoing expansion of the military’s presence along the border which the administration claims is necessary to control illegal immigration.
Critics of the land transfer, including some who live near the affected areas, have raised concerns about the environmental impact of military operations on these large swathes of land. Additionally, much of the land now under the jurisdiction of the military encompasses national parks and other federal lands which the public is losing access to.
Pictures from the DoD highlighting operations at the southern border show troops walking along a grassy, mountainous area in San Diego and a Stryker combat vehicle driving along roadless terrain in New Mexico.
The Army responded to several questions about potential environmental consequences and disruption to communities that rely on access to these lands. The Trump administration has indicated that the Army’s jurisdiction over the National Defense Areas will last for three years at least.
#USA #Mexico #Border #FindTruth
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Europe is toxic for investors, and the EU Commission shows why
Europe has declared itself open for business — unless you're actually trying to do business there.
The European Commission's latest €500 million fine against Apple, levied under the new Digital Markets Act (DMA), is not only a staggering penalty; it’s a signal flare to global investors that Europe is no longer a place of rule-based predictability, but one where political agendas override legal clarity, engagement, or fairness.
Private investment in the EU has stagnated. According to Eurostat, inward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into the EU were €49.5 billion in 2021, with significant fluctuations in subsequent years. Meanwhile, venture capital funding for European startups fell sharply. Crunchbase reports that funding to European startups reached $52 billion in 2023, down 39% year over year from $86 billion invested in 2022. Additionally, Dealroom.co notes that European startups raised $63 billion in 2023, down 37% from 2022.
Multinational firms want to put their money where laws are clear, processes are fair and predictable, and regulators act like referees, not rivals. The EU Commission’s actions reveal a deep hostility toward the very companies it seeks to regulate, combined with an alarming indifference to due process.
#EU #Economy #FindTruth
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Germany deploys permanent troops beyond its borders for the first time since WWII
Germany has deployed a permanent military brigade beyond its borders for the first time since the end of World War II, with troops dispatched to the capital of Lithuania. The event was inaugurated by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said during a military ceremony in Vilnius that “the security of our Baltic allies is also our security.”
The decision is part of a series of actions in recent months by European nations to "bolster defenses" on NATO’s eastern flank amid claims that Russia intends to invade greater Europe if they defeat Ukraine. The "domino theory" remains unfounded and the Kremlin has never threatened to attack any country outside of Ukraine. The move to shift troops to Lithuania places them near the border of Belarus (a Russian ally) and within striking distance of Ukraine or the Russian border.
European governments have been threatening an escalation by eventually moving NATO troops into Ukraine in direct confrontation with Russian forces. Vladimir Putin has previously warned that NATO troops in Ukraine represent a red line which could result in nuclear conflict.
Putin asserted that if Ukraine's Western backers deepened their involvement in the war, such as sending troops, the consequences for the "invaders" would be "tragic".
"They must realize that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory," Putin said, in apparent reference to increasingly lethal Western weapons provided to Kyiv. "What they are now suggesting and scaring the world with — all that raises the real threat of a nuclear conflict that will mean the destruction of our civilization."
#Germany #Merz #NATO #FindTruth
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Indigenous Amazon tribe says New York Times story led to its members being smeared as porn addicts
An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued The New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as technology-addled and addicted to pornography.
The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, a sovereign community of about 2,000 people in the rainforest, filed the defamation lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages this week in a court in Los Angeles.
It also names TMZ and Yahoo as defendants, alleging that their stories amplified and sensationalized the Times’ reporting and smeared the tribe in the process.
The suit says the Times’ June 2024 story by reporter Jack Nicas on how the group was handling the introduction of satellite service through Elon Musk’s Starlink “portrayed the Marubo people as a community unable to handle basic exposure to the internet, highlighting allegations that their youth had become consumed by pornography.”
#MSM #NYT #Starlink #FindTruth
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The looming health care cliff Washington isn’t talking about
Congress must extend enhanced premium tax credits for seniors, families and others
Although the original Obamacare law was deeply flawed, and much of it has rightly been rolled back or reformed, one key provision has garnered support from voters across the political spectrum: tax credits that help Americans without employer-sponsored coverage afford health insurance. This critical lifeline has support from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, but the tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year.
As Congress prepares to enact adjustments to Medicaid eligibility through the reconciliation bill, extending these enhanced tax credits that help millions afford private health insurance is especially critical.
These premium tax credits are subsidies to help low- and middle-income Americans afford health insurance plans purchased through the federal health insurance exchanges.
Supporting these tax credits is a commonsense, pro-family, pro-worker solution. Members of Congress should continue to speak up and commit to extending these tax credits to ensure that working Americans, seniors and rural families aren’t left behind.
#USA #Health #FindTruth
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DOGE says it completed ‘major cleanup’ of social security records
DOGE said in a statement that its staff have completed a “major cleanup” of Social Security records after it was discovered that more than 12 million people aged 120 or older were in the system.
“After 11 weeks, Social Security has finished this major cleanup initiative,” DOGE wrote in a post on social media platform X, adding that some 12.3 million individuals listed as being aged 120 or older “have now been marked as deceased.”
But it added that “some complex cases remain, such as individuals with 2+ different birth dates on file,” which “will be investigated in a follow-up effort.”
DOGE also provided a portion of a screenshot that showed there were about 3.3 million people aged 120 to 129, 3.9 million aged 130 to 139, 3.5 million listed as age 140 to 149, 1.3 million listed as age 150 to 159, and around 124,000 listed as age 160 to 169, all of whom were marked as deceased in the Social Security system.
#USA #DOGE #SocialSecurity #FindTruth
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Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 — highest in Europe
Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe after its parliament adopted a law raising it to 70 by 2040.
Since 2006, Denmark has tied the official retirement age to life expectancy and has revised it every five years. It is currently 67 but will rise to 68 in 2030 and to 69 in 2035.
The retirement age at 70 will apply to all people born after 31 December 1970.
The new law passed with 81 votes for and 21 votes against.
#EU #Denmark #Retirement #FindTruth
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Macron, blink twice if you need help.
#France #Macron #FindTruth
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More than 52% of all cryptocurrencies launched since 2021 have ceased to exist
#Crypto #Economy #FindTruth
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Alarm over first US city's broad use of facial recognition tracking
New Orleans police recently paused their use without public oversight of a private network of over 200 surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology to track and arrest criminal suspects.
The Post published an exposé detailing how the New Orleans Police Department relied on real-time facial recognition technology provided by Project NOLA, a nonprofit organization operating out of the University of New Orleans, to locate and apprehend suspects. "Facial recognition technology poses a direct threat to the fundamental rights of every individual and has no place in our cities."
This, despite a 2022 municipal law limiting police use of facial recognition. That ordinance reversed the city's earlier outright ban on the technology and was criticized by civil liberties advocates for dropping a provision that required permission from a judge or magistrate commissioner prior to use.
#USA #Surveillance #FindTruth
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