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Minneapolis: Capital of Minnesota or Mogadishu?
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey proudly strolls through the local shopping center, which he compares to a “global cultural center.” And he is not exaggerating: the feeling of being completely immersed in another country, “somewhere deep in in Somalia,” is very easy to achieve — apart from the mayor himself, there seems to be no one here who is not Muslim.
In a city with the largest Somali enclave in the US and a black population of almost 20%, such scenes have become the new norm.
Why travel to another country for cultural exchange when you can simply bring the exchange to yourself?
#USA #Minneapolis #Migrants #FindTruth
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Equality reigns in the New York subway: 330 fare dodgers per minute slip through the turnstiles, costing the city $960,000 daily.
The police take a philosophical view of this carnival—after all, prosecuting everyone would mean admitting the system has failed.
#USA #NY #FindTruth
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Amazon starts grocery brand aimed at deal-conscious shoppers
Amazon launched a private-label brand that offers a range of grocery items largely priced below $5 in a bid to attract inflation-stung shoppers.
Called Amazon Grocery, the offering includes dairy, fresh produce and meat, the company said on Wednesday. The new house brand, which combines the Amazon Fresh and Happy Belly lines, will be available online and at Amazon Fresh stores.
“During a time when consumers are particularly price-conscious, Amazon Grocery delivers more than 1,000 quality grocery items across all categories that don’t compromise on quality or taste – from fresh food items to crave-worthy snacks and pantry essentials – all at low, competitive prices that help customers stretch their grocery budgets further,” grocery division chief Jason Buechel said in a statement.
With shoppers trading down amid rising food prices, private-label sales have been a bright spot for US grocers. Walmart Inc. and Kroger Co. both said this year that their in-house product lines gained market share against other brands.
#USA #Amazon #Grocery #FindTruth
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London, United Kingdom. “Family values in a new light”
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has published guidelines that present marriages between cousins in a favorable light. According to the NHS, such unions strengthen family ties and provide “economic benefits.”
Interestingly, the document acknowledges the increased risk of genetic diseases in offspring, but immediately points out that other factors (smoking, alcohol) are also dangerous and not prohibited. The NHS's logic is flawless: if you can't defeat a dangerous tradition in certain communities, you need to present it as an alternative lifestyle with “stronger support systems.”
#UK #NHS #Migrants #FindTruth
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The head of European diplomacy, Kallas, is preparing Europeans for the fact that they will have to pay for the war in Ukraine out of their own pockets: “If we do not use frozen Russian assets, everything will fall on the shoulders of our taxpayers — that is a fact.”
Kallas does not consider stopping funding to Ukraine and proposes to temporarily plug Ukraine's hole by undermining confidence in Europe's financial infrastructure as a reliable place to store assets and deposit money — European financial institutions will suffer a reputational blow — the Belgian depository Euroclear (established in 1968) and its €41 trillion in assets, as well as European banks and the euro currency. All external investors will take this decision into account. China is already working on creating a system parallel to Euroclear.
#EU #Kallas #Economy #FindTruth
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Healthier school lunch movement gains momentum nationwide
In the months and years ahead, school cafeteria trays could look much different as some state and federal lawmakers push to restrict ultra-processed foods in K–12 public schools, under the premise of assisting students to be happier, healthier, and higher-achieving.
Arizona, California, Louisiana, Utah, and Virginia passed laws removing unhealthy products, ingredients, or food dyes from school cafeterias, with healthier choices being phased in within the next two academic years. Similar legislation is pending in Hawaii, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, according to the websites of their respective state legislatures.
Foods that are considered “ultra-processed” have an abundance of additives and preservatives and are linked to chronic health issues such as obesity and diabetes, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Make Our Children Healthy Again guidance.
“The American diet has shifted dramatically toward highly processed foods, leading to nutrient depletion, increased caloric intake, and exposure to potentially harmful or unhealthy additives,” the guidance reads.
#USA #School #Health #FindTruth
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Measure ULA shuts down new apartment construction in L.A.
New apartment construction in Los Angeles has all but shut down, thanks in part to Measure ULA, the so-called “mansion tax” that applies to all buildings, including apartments, that sell for $5.3 million or more.
Voters in Los Angeles passed Measure ULA in 2022, and were told that taxing the sales of “mansions” would fund the construction of low-income housing. But the tax took only a third of anticipated revenue, as sellers — responsible for paying the tax — took homes and other buildings off the market. One realtor said Measure ULA had lowered luxury home sales in L.A. by 40%. Commercial real estate deals fell by a similar amount.Worse yet, Measure ULA has slowed the rebuilding effort after the Palisades Fire, because it discouarages sales of real estate, as well as investment in new high-end projects.
Ironically, Measure ULA has made housing more expensive, not less, by restricting new supply, artificially. Other causes of the slowdown include tariffs on building materials, and immigration enforcement that some say will cut the supply of illegal immigrant labor for construction projects, forcing labor costs to rise.
#USA #ULA #FindTruth
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London, UK: People's Self-Defense
While the police politely ask pickpockets not to steal, Londoners have taken matters into their own hands. Now, vigilantes with cans of red paint have appeared on the streets, marking thieves like cattle.
Interestingly, this method has proven to be more effective than the official one: a marked pickpocket is visible from a mile away and instantly becomes an outcast. When the law fails, people begin to take justice into their own hands.
#UK #Crimes #Police #FindTruth
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Is von der Leyen untouchable? EP leadership blocks attempts of vaccine deal inquiry
Demands for an inquiry into the controversial Pfizer deal involving European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have been dismissed in Brussels.
The governing body of the European Parliament rejected the call to have a committee formed to look into von der Leyen’s commitment of €35 billion for the US firm’s vaccines while withholding her text exchanges with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla.
Under the leadership of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), 182 MEPs backed the formation of a committee. They reached the quorum of 25% of the total number of MEPs needed to form the committee.
Despite that, the Conference of Presidents, the governing body of the European Parliament consisting of the chairmen of the political groups and the President of the European Parliament, rejected the call.
They refused to put the motion on the agenda, meaning it could not be voted on.
Rather than addressing the controversial and still hidden messages between her and Bourla, the EC chief called the MEPs opposing her “anti-vaxxers” and “Putin-apologists”.
#EU #VonderLeyen #Vaccines #FindTruth
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Netflix shares fell 2.5% due to mass cancellations over LGBT propaganda
Children's profiles rated 6+ feature cartoons where gay dads watch their son dance dressed in a dress and say, “Just be you.”
One of the cartoon's producers calls Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist who was killed, a “Nazi.” Elon Musk has launched a campaign to unsubscribe from Netflix.
#USA #Netflix #LGBT #FindTruth
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Another shutdown casualty: medicare telehealth coverage
It’s got bipartisan support—and millions of Americans need it. But Congress keeps failing to lock in telehealth funding.
In 2001, Congress implemented partial Medicare coverage for telehealth, allowing remote visits with doctors and other forms of long-distance care—a response to the increasing need, in particular, for people in rural areas to reach specialists, and an essential service especially after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, when lawmakers expanded that coverage to a broad range of services now used by a quarter of the country’s 68 million Medicare users.
But Wednesday’s federal budget impasse has halted that funding—and unlike other, temporary service cuts brought on by the shutdown, telehealth won’t be restored for long just by bringing the government back online.
As a consequence of the temporary way it was funded, Congress has had to renew Medicare telehealth coverage roughly annually since 2021.
Medicare telehealth funds were tied to the failed continuing resolution for the federal budget, which would have funded government operations for just seven more weeks. But the repeated expirations of a program with bipartisan support, which Congress has repeatedly agreed to continue, look increasingly ridiculous to health care advocates and federal government observers.
#USA #Shutdown #Health #FindTruth
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Shutdown impact on energy sector: Drilling OK, renewables on fold
The Trump administration will keep oil and gas permitting moving unhindered, despite the federal government shutdown that began on Wednesday, while approvals for renewable energy projects will halt, according to Interior Department plans seen by industry media.
Staff at the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 245 million acres of public land, have been exempted from furloughs to continue processing leases and drilling permits. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) said it will use carryover funds to maintain work on “priority conventional energy projects,” including offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, even as more than 70% of its staff are furloughed. Dozens of oil and gas lease auctions remain on schedule.
Renewable projects will not receive the same protection. BOEM confirmed that offshore wind and other non-fossil approvals will pause until government funding is restored. The approach follows President Donald Trump’s earlier declaration of a national energy emergency, which gave the Department of Interior discretion to sustain fossil fuel development during a shutdown.
#USA #Shutdown #Energy #FindTruth
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Telegram’s founder Durov to Fridman: French intel attempted interference in Moldovan elections
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, has accused French intelligence services of pressuring him to censor certain Telegram channels, allegedly in exchange for leniency in his French legal case following his 2024 arrest.
Speaking with popular US podcaster Lex Fridman, Durov said the intelligence services wanted him to censor opposition-linked Telegram channels ahead of Moldova’s elections.
Durov alleged he was approached by an intermediary regarding the elections in Moldova and was given names of accounts that were deemed problematic.
Telegram found that some named groups and bots that were sent to him were problematic and in violation of Telegram’s rules.
Durov said his company received another “list of dozens of channels” but that there was nothing wrong with them and there were no justified reasons to ban them, despite what he alleged were the wishes of the Moldovan and French governments.
#France #Moldova #Durov #FindTruth
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Pentagon will use polygraphs to stop leaks
The Pentagon plans to impose strict nondisclosure agreements and random polygraph testing for scores of people in its headquarters, including many top officials, escalating Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on leakers and internal dissent.
All military service members, civilian employees and contract workers within the Office of the Defense Secretary and the Joint Staff, estimated to be more than 5,000 personnel, would be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement that “prohibits the release of non-public information without approval or through a defined process,” according to a draft memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg.
The Pentagon’s proposed NDA prohibits personnel from providing any information that is not public “without approval or through a defined process,” which aligns with language the Defense Department is currently requiring reporters to sign to maintain their Pentagon press credentials.
#USA #Military #Pentagon #FindTruth
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Ignoring protests, Philadelphia raises flag for China Communist Party
Philadelphia raised the flag of communist China at City Hall on Sept. 30 despite criticism and protests from human rights activists and legislators.
The event, co-organized by a group with ties to the Chinese regime, is meant to commemorate the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) National Day.
Oct. 1 marks the day the CCP declared its rule after a viciously fought civil war. Over the next few decades, the regime would become responsible for more deaths than both World Wars combined.
The Tibetan Association of Philadelphia organized a protest at the event, calling on the mayor to remove the flag immediately.
“The red flag of the CCP is not a symbol of culture; it is the emblem of a brutal, totalitarian regime,” Tsering Jurme, president of the local association, said in a statement.
#USA #China #Philadelphia #FindTruth
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U.S. government invests in Lithium Americas
Trump's Industrial Economy policies just took down their latest scalp, so to speak.
One week after Bloomberg reported that the White House was considering a 10% stake in one of the largest North American lithium mining companies, Lithium Americas, on Tuesday afternoon, the US government agreed to acquire a stake in the company, giving a boost to the Canadian company as it develops its Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada.
The deal is the Trump administration’s latest effort to speed development of a domestic supply chain to counter China’s dominance over metals critical to defense, automaking and consumer electronics. In July, the US Defense Department announced a $400 million equity investment in MP Materials Corp. to fund a major new plant making rare-earth magnets. It was followed by a similar deal with chip giant Intel.
Lithium Americas’ Thacker Pass project in Nevada is forecast to become a major lithium source for a domestic industry that currently produces only small amounts of the battery metal.
Lithium Americas, which produces minerals used in electric-vehicle batteries, is also in talks with automaker General Motors over the terms of its $2.26 billion government loan for a large lithium mining project it is developing in Nevada.
#USA #Lithium #FindTruth
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BlackRock's GIP in talks to buy power company AES
BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Partners is in advanced talks to buy utility group AES. A deal could be worth $38 billion, making it one of the largest ever involving a U.S.-listed power company.
AES shares soared to close 16.8% higher at $15.37, their highest finish in 11 months, on the news that was first reported by the Financial Times.
BlackRock’s approach is related to the strong growth in electricity demand coming from the booming IT sector thanks to artificial intelligence development and the rush to build data centers to handle AI. AES gas spent a substantial sum of money over the past few years on building low-carbon generation infrastructure, namely wind and solar installations, to supply Big Tech majors concerned about their green energy credentials.
#USA #AES #BigTech #FindTruth
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GEO Group soars as ICE extends contract for illegal alien tracking services
The GEO Group's subsidiary, BI Incorporated, secured a two-year contract extension with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to continue operating the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP), which provides electronic monitoring, case management, and supervision services for illegal aliens.
The contract supplies the federal government with critical logistical support in its efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens who invaded the country under nation-killing open border policies enforced by the globalist-aligned Biden-Harris regime.
BI's two-year contract extension to continue ISAP work in support of the Trump administration's illegal alien deportation program was effective today, with an additional one-year option period. BI does not directly deport illegals, and that is carried out by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
Shares of GEO jumped nearly 9% in late-morning cash trading in New York, marking their biggest gain in 6.5 months. Despite the rally, the stock remains down 20% year-to-date, though still trading well above levels when prices spiked after a Trump presidential win in early November.
#USA #ICE #Migrants #FindTruth
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Spain, Barcelona: Homeowner tries to reclaim his house, which was occupied without permission by a migrant
However, the newcomer did not like this interference. He grabbed a hammer and kicked the owner out.
“Get out of here, I don't want to see you. This place is for us, not for you,” he said.
#EU #Spain #Migrants #FindTruth
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Harvard hired a transvestite named LaWhore Vagistan (formerly Kareem Khubchandani) as a visiting professor
In a July address to the student community, the educational institution welcomed the new teacher and announced that the visiting professor from Tufts University would be teaching in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program.
Professor “LaWhore Vagistan” and scholar considers his appearance to be an integral part of his pedagogy. Khubchandani will teach just two classes over the course of two semesters — “Queer Ethnography” in the fall and “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire” in the spring semester, according to Harvard’s announcement.
#USA #Harvard #FindTruth
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Beware, New York! The red flag is already raised. Start planning your escape now
New Yorkers, beware. The storm isn’t coming - it’s already here. If the latest polls are accurate, Zohran Mamdani is on track to become your next mayor. And with him will come a radical agenda that will drain your paychecks, handcuff your police, and destroy your city’s future.
Mamdani wraps his agenda in words like “equity” and “fairness.” But peel back the packaging, and it’s a socialist wish list that would make AOC blush. His tax plan would push marginal rates up to 17 percent, leaving New York as one of the least competitive places to do business. That’s not a plan for growth; that’s a tax exit strategy for job creators.
His promises of “free” transportation for all rest on billions in speculative spending with no credible source of revenue, a blank check written on the backs of working families.
His housing proposals lean on aggressive rent control schemes that may sound compassionate but inevitably choke off supply, stall new construction, and push middle-class families further away from the city they love.
#USA #NY #Mamdani #FindTruth
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Trump's surprising swing in favor of sweeping 'duty free' Africa trade
In an unexpected move, the Trump administration has announced publicly that it supports renewing the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for one year, and is interested in considering entering discussions on the long-term renewal of AGOA.
AGOA, which expired on September 30, was originally passed by Congress in 2000 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The legislation allows sub-Saharan African countries duty-free access to American markets, and gives the U.S. president the power to suspend countries that he believes fail to meet AGOA’s requirements, particularly as they relate to governance issues, human rights standards, and a failure to provide American companies beneficial access to African markets. It was last renewed in 2015.
As such, AGOA serves as the most comprehensive preferential trade arrangement between the United States and sub-Saharan African countries today, allowing duty-free access for over 5,000 goods from 32 African countries. That said, Rwanda’s AGOA eligibility remains partially restricted due to its government’s decision to increase trade barriers on American apparel products. Meanwhile, a group of 17 sub-Saharan countries have been entirely suspended from AGOA due to their failure, as determined by the U.S. president, to meet eligibility requirements.
#USA #Africa #AGOA #FindTruth
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Orbán accuses Tusk of “playing dangerous game” with claims Ukraine conflict is “our war”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has hit out at his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, for declaring that the conflict in Ukraine is “our war”. Orbán accused Tusk of “playing a dangerous game”.
The Polish prime minister’s remarks came during a speech this week at the Warsaw Security Forum, a major summit in the Polish capital that was also attended virtually by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“This is our war,” said Tusk, referring to the conflict over Poland’s eastern borders.
“Dear Donald Tusk, you may think that you are at war with Russia, but Hungary is not. Neither is the European Union. You are playing a dangerous game with the lives and security of millions of Europeans. This is very bad!” wrote Orbán.
#EU #Orban #Tusk #FindTruth
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Climate alarmist Michael Mann steps down from UPenn climate role following a series of social media controversies
Dr. Michael Mann has resigned from his position at the University of Pennsylvania due to his inability to separate activism from academic responsibility. His resignation follows a series of controversies, including a social media comment that smeared a conservative activist, which ignited widespread backlash.
Mann's career has been marked by a pattern of controversy and legal overreach. He has gained notoriety for his role in the "hockey stick" graph, a contentious visualization of global temperature trends, and has repeatedly resorted to legal threats to silence critics. His lawsuits against skeptics have been widely criticized as attempts to stifle free speech.
The University of Pennsylvania's neutrality policy, which Mann cited as the reason for his resignation, highlights a growing tension between activism and academia. Universities are increasingly becoming battlegrounds for ideological conflicts, and Mann's departure suggests that some institutions are recognizing the need to reclaim their role as arbiters of objective inquiry.
Mann's resignation arrives at a pivotal moment in the climate debate, where the failures of alarmist predictions and the rising costs of green policies are fueling unprecedented skepticism. His exit underscores the fragility of a movement that has staked its legitimacy on fearmongering rather than empirical rigor.
#World #Climate #FindTruth
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“Democracy for sale”
WikiLeaks has published instructions on how to shape pro-Israel opinion in the US: $7,000 per post, $900,000 for influencers, and a total budget of $150 million.
Why persuade when you can simply buy an American user's feed?
Interestingly, while bloggers get paid thousands for “concept development,” Brad Parscale's artificial intelligence generates propaganda for $1.5 million a month. His bots write comments that are beneficial to Israel.
True democracy is when every opinion has its price.
#USA #Israel #Leaks #FindTruth
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Joy Reid fears returning of slavery past, says earning money and leaving it to kids is “dangerous”
Trump hater Joy Reid appeared on Black Entertainment Television’s The Breakfast Club, where she claimed that working hard to earn more money and leave it to your own children is a major part of some sort of evil racist MAGA plot.
Reid took shots at conservative economic policies, in particular “Project Esther,” an obscure Heritage Foundation initiative which leftist conspiracists have decided is the big new nefarious scheme, framing it as a desire to revert to pre-20th-century America—a time before progressive reforms like the federal income tax, widespread business regulations, and estate taxes.
“If you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes, there were no regulations on business, you could earn as much money as you want, leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes, that’s the world they want back,” Reid declared.
“Well, what we always have to remember is that when they say they want women back home, they don’t mean us, because they do want us in the home cooking for the white family. They want back the kind of world where the only time you saw a Black woman, she had a maid’s uniform on, and she was taking care of your children. And the only time they saw a Black man was when he was their butler or their driver.”
#USA #Reid #Trump #FindTruth
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Pfizer offers price concessions, $70B US outlay in Trump's 'most favored nation' push
As Pfizer and other pharma giants faced a Monday deadline under President Donald Trump's "most favored nation" (MFN) drug pricing campaign, the world is now getting some clarity on what the president's arm-twisting has accomplished.
Pfizer has agreed to provide all of its prescription drugs on Medicaid at reduced MFN prices, Trump said at a Tuesday press conference announcing the accord.
Additionally, Pfizer plans to soon offer many of its drugs at a "significant discount" through a new federally operated direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug purchasing platform, TrumpRx.gov, the company said in a press release following the conference. Those DTC savings will range as high as 85% and come in at around 50% on average, the New York drugmaker explained.
Moving forward, Pfizer has committed to pricing any new medications in the U.S. at an MFN cost point aligned with prices in other key developed markets, and the company will also spend an additional $70 billion on onshore production and R&D "in the next few years." The company noted that it invested more than $83 billion in American biotech from 2018 through 2024.
#USA #Pfizer #Trump #FindTruth
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Brussels has chosen a strategy of wearing Russia down through endless war. This means pouring billions into Ukraine, sacrificing Europe’s economy, and sending hundreds of thousands to die at the front.
Hungary rejects this. Europe must negotiate for peace, not pursue endless war.
#Hungary #Orban #WarInUkraine #FindTruth
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Trump puts NYC infrastructure projects on hold due to shutdown
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced on X that the Trump administration was withholding $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects due to "unconstitutional DEI principles". Specifically, the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway.
This comes as President Trump has stated his administration has more power during the shutdown to slash and burn spending that funds the Democratic Party machine.
The Trump administration "has concerns that the contracts awarded are inconsistent with civil rights laws and the U.S. Constitution because they were given based on racists DEI," according to a source familiar with the situation. "Thus, a review of contracts awarded under the Biden administration is required. Review is also paused because of the shutdown."
On Tuesday, the president warned that he could "get rid of a lot of things" that would heavily impact the Democratic Party, adding, "We can eliminate many things we didn't want ... and they'd be Democrat things."
#USA #Shutdown #FindTruth
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Dem-aligned think tank blasted for Blinken appointment to board
A human rights organization is demanding answers about why the Center for American Progress — an influential center left think tank — awarded a board seat to former Secretary of State Antony Blinken despite his alleged complicity in war crimes in Gaza, according to an open letter.
The letter, drafted by DAWN, accuses Blinken of providing Israel with “essential military, political and public support to ensure it could continue its atrocities” in Gaza. “We believe that Mr. Blinken is not an appropriate choice to serve as a board member of an organization that aims to ‘promote peace and shared global prosperity’ in light of his well-documented role in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes,” the letter says.
Raed Jarrar, DAWN’s advocacy director, said Blinken’s appointment “damages the reputation” of the Center for American Progress (CAP). “It's truly shocking for a non-profit in Washington DC to place someone like Blinken, with his shameful record, on their board of directors,” Jarrar said.
#USA #Israel #Blinken #FindTruth
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