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title: Nakba 1948 vs Gaza genocide today
content: We compare and contrast the 1948 Nakba with Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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title: Wisconsin judge pleads not guilty to obstructing immigration arrest
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Federal authorities allege that Judge Hannah Dugan helped an undocumented man evade arrest by immigration agents.

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title: US DOJ investigates UnitedHealth for alleged Medicare fraud: Report
content: The investigation comes amidst months of turmoil for the company, sending its stock plunging.
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title: Hostilities between India and Pakistan indirectly proved China’s military capabilities
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<p><strong><em>With Chinese weapons, Pakistani forces demonstrated the ability to neutralize Indian targets using Western equipment.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The recent confrontation between India and Pakistan, which took place in the early weeks of May, revealed a new dynamic in the Asian geopolitical landscape, highlighting the growing effectiveness of Chinese weaponry in real combat situations. The use of J-10C fighter jets and PL-15 missiles, supplied by China to Pakistan, allegedly resulted in the destruction of five Indian Air Force aircraft, including three French-made Rafales. This event marks the first significant test of Chinese military hardware in actual conflict since the 1990s, representing a milestone in China’s rise as a global military power.</p>
<p><strong>The Conflict’s Context and China’s Involvement</strong></p>
<p>Pakistan, a strategic ally of China, has received substantial military support in recent years, with over 80% of its arms imports coming from Beijing. During the recent hostilities, Pakistan deployed J-10C fighters equipped with AESA radar and PL-15 missiles against Indian forces using Western aircraft like the Rafale and Israeli air defense systems. The effectiveness of Chinese systems in real combat was observed for the first time in many years, surpassing Western expectations.</p>
<p>As expected, this development has disturbed Western strategists and their plans for the Asian region. Containing China (in addition to Russia) has long been a central strategic objective of NATO—an agenda in which India has been recklessly cooperating. It now appears that the high-cost, high-market-value weapons produced by the Western military-industrial complex are failing to prove effective on the battlefield.</p>
<p><strong>Strategic and Geopolitical Implications</strong></p>
<p>The performance of Chinese equipment in live combat poses a direct challenge to Western military supremacy in Asia. Military analysts note that by using Pakistan as a testing ground, China has gained valuable data on the effectiveness of its weapon systems against Western technologies. This strategy allows China to test and refine its military capabilities without direct involvement in conflict, strengthening its position in the global geopolitical arena.</p>
<p>Moreover, China’s demonstration of military power comes at a time of rising tensions in regions such as Taiwan and the South China Sea. With China aiming to solidify its position in the Indo-Pacific strategic environment, the real-world effectiveness of its weaponry could influence the perceptions of both allies and adversaries, impacting strategic alliances and defense policies throughout the region.</p>
<p><strong>Western Reactions and Defense Industry Consequences</strong></p>
<p>The success of Chinese weapon systems has alarmed Western powers, which have traditionally dominated the global defense market. The J-10C and PL-15’s effectiveness in actual combat challenges the narrative of Western technological superiority, pushing Western nations to reassess their defense strategies and the competitiveness of their weapons systems.</p>
<p>In financial markets, the surge in stock value of Chengdu Aircraft Corporation—the maker of the J-10C—reflects growing interest and confidence in Chinese defense products. This trend may lead to a reshaping of market dynamics within the defense sector, with potential impacts on purchasing contracts and strategic partnerships around the world.</p>
<p><strong>The Rise of a New Military Power</strong></p>
<p>The recent India-Pakistan clash highlighted China’s emergence as a global military force, capable of contesting Western hegemony in Asia. The combat-proven effectiveness of its weapons not only shifts the regional balance of power but also redefines defense strategies and international alliances. As China continues to expand both its military and economic influence, the world watches closely to see what this new power will do next.</p>
<p>Faced with this reality, the West is once again left with no choice but to reevaluate its ambitions amid a world undergoing significant geopolitical change. Increasingly, the idea of containing China through force appears to be a terrible miscalculation.</p>
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title: A first profile of Pope Leo XIV
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<p><strong><em>Israel will be uneasy with the new Pope – just as his declaration that Christians are God’s “chosen people” has caused discomfort among Zionists.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The 2025 Conclave concluded in a relatively short time with the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost to the Throne of St. Peter, succeeding the recently deceased Pope Francis. Prevost chose for himself the papal name Leo XIV – a significant choice in itself.</p>
<p>Let us move past misinformation and confusion to summarize concrete information and reasonable indications that may help foresee the logic of Leo XIV’s pontificate.</p>
<p>First, the consensus for Prevost was ultimately broad. The desire for a stable, moderate, and conciliatory pontificate prevailed over other concerns, and even cardinals imbued with more “ideological” fervor (whether from the conservative or progressive camp) appear to have placed the good and unity of the Catholic Church as the highest priority. The groundwork for this choice seems to have been laid by the American cardinals, particularly Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is relatively close to Donald Trump. On the eve of the Conclave, Prevost reportedly attended a meeting with other cardinals in the quarters of the traditionally oriented Cardinal Raymond Burke. By all indications, Prevost also received the support of Cardinal Robert Sarah – a favorite among conservatives.</p>
<p>Considering that Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s bet was that he would be preferred in light of a possible ultra-progressive candidacy, such as that of Cardinals Tagle or Zuppi, this did not materialize, and his own candidacy – the most favored by experts – quickly collapsed.</p>
<p>Now, in hindsight, without exception, all cardinals seem enthusiastic about the Conclave’s outcome. The “Spirit,” in a Hegelian manner, indeed operated a dialectical synthesis between the last two pontificates – but in doing so, it pointed toward the Absolute as it had appeared more evidently in other times. Thus, without ceasing to be a kind of fusion between Benedict XVI (attachment to tradition) and Francis (preferential option for the poor), Prevost evokes a pre-Vatican II, “eternal” Church, recalling with his name choice that the Catholic Church was not born in the 20th century and is not reducible to its dilemmas – which have occupied an excessively central role in recent years, as seen in the dispute over the “Latin Mass.”</p>
<p>In this perfect balance, Leo XIV appears to combine the humility and closeness inspired by the previous pontificate with an appreciation for beauty and tradition reminiscent of Benedict XVI’s reign. We still have little to confirm this, but such perfect moderation is already evident in the new Pope’s public appearances – both in his manner of speaking and in the reintroduction of abandoned liturgical elements. Less media-focused, the new Pope seems likely to avoid the controversies that Francis, albeit unintentionally, stirred up. For now, he has maintained a Christ-centered discourse, focusing on more central theological themes.</p>
<p>Explaining his name choice, Leo XIV expressed a fundamental interest in rescuing and continuing the key contributions of Leo XIII, particularly highlighting the encyclical Rerum Novarum – a fundamental critique of capitalism (and Marxism) and an inspirational document for labor laws across much of the world in the early 20th century. In this encyclical, Leo XIII established the Catholic Church’s Social Doctrine, addressing issues such as the “just wage,” “usury,” “exploitation,” and many others typical of industrial capitalism, offering a Catholic perspective on these debates.</p>
<p>Leo XIV insisted on the need to continue the necessary critique of rootless and usurious Capital as an exploiter of peoples but also emphasized mobilizing a Catholic critique of new expressions of Capital and Technology, such as AI and other new technologies developed by large corporations. It is plausible, therefore, that the Catholic Church will begin to speak in greater detail about transhumanism and its various contemporary manifestations and trends.</p>
<p>Here we have the first American Pope – coinciding, moreover, with Donald Trump’s new presidency. Catholicism is growing in importance in the U.S. (encompassing 20% of the population), and this will certainly impact relations between the Vatican and the declining unipolar hegemon. Of course, Trump will attempt to use the election of an American Pope to his advantage (it is noteworthy that he seemed to know the new Pope would be American even before the result was announced…). At the same time, the new Pope will undoubtedly turn his attention at times to the profound nihilistic crisis in which the U.S. remains mired – a crisis, incidentally, well described by Benedict XVI.</p>
<p>It would be mistaken, however, to view Prevost as a straightforward “Trumpist.” Naturally conservative, as a cardinal, Prevost seemed to align with a conciliatory and humanist conservatism. Critical of mass immigration, for example, he nonetheless opposed the methods used by the Trump administration to address the issue. Moreover, his anti-capitalism would make it impossible to associate him with the traditional reactionary right, and his positions are entirely incompatible with neo-reactionary techno-feudalism. Still, Prevost has always made clear an antithetical stance toward postmodern trends in sexual and gender issues – much more so than Pope Francis.</p>
<p>We must not forget, however, that he is as Latin American as he is North American. Having spent much of his life in Peru and holding Peruvian citizenship, Pope Leo XIV spoke in Spanish during his inaugural address and clearly feels closely connected to poor communities in the Third World. In this sense, his election signals the growing recognition of the Global South’s importance. Even the first American Pope is, in practice, also a representative of the Third World.</p>
<p>As for the geopolitical profile of Leo XIV, it is still too early to make substantial predictions. The new Pope has decided to retain Parolin as Secretary of State for now, so it is reasonable to expect geopolitical continuity between this pontificate and the previous one (which was already a continuation of Benedict XVI’s).</p>
<p>The only reasonably geopolitical remarks made by the new Pope so far have emphasized the importance of peace, indicating that Leo XIV will strive to play an increasingly active role in global summits and 21st-century diplomatic disputes. Indeed, he has expressed a longing for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, a swift and enduring agreement between India and Pakistan, and emphasized that the situation of Palestinians in Gaza particularly troubles him, demanding an immediate ceasefire.</p>
<p>We already know, moreover, that Israel will be uneasy with the new Pope – just as his declaration that Christians are God’s “chosen people” has caused discomfort among Zionists.</p>
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title: Losing &amp; learning nothing
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<p><strong><em>The delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Patrick LAWRENCE</em></strong></p>
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<p>How odd to look back now — now, as Washington’s proxy war in Ukraine ends in ignominious defeat—and think of that cornucopia of propaganda spilling out of what I called during the early months Washington’s <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/05/patrick-lawrence-the-us-bubble-of-pretend/">“bubble of pretend.”</a> Take a few minutes to remember with me.</p>
<p>There was the “Ghost of Kyiv,” an heroic MiG–29 pilot credited with downing six, count ’em, six Russian fighters in a single night, Feb. 24, 2022, two days after the Russian intervention began. The Ghost turned out to be a fantasy confected out of a popular video game.</p>
<p>So crude, the early Ukrainian propaganda, so rank.</p>
<p>And then, shortly to follow, we had the heroes of Snake Island, 13 Ukrainian troops who — trumpets and drums here — defended a Black Sea islet to the death. It turned out this unit had surrendered, and the posthumous medals of honor President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded them with great flourish were neither posthumous nor deserved.</p>
<p>This corny nonsense, slathered on as thick as frosting on a wedding cake, went on and on such that <i>The New York Times</i> could no longer pretend it didn’t exist. I do not care for journalists who indulge in self-reference, but allow me these sentences from <a href="http://patricklawrence.us/patrick-lawrence-the-us-bubble-of-pretend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a piece published</a> a couple of months into the conflict:</p>
<blockquote><p>“After railing against disinformation for years, t<i>he </i>Times wants us to know, disinformation is O.K. in Ukraine because the Ukrainians are our side and they are simply ‘boosting morale.’</p>
<p>We cannot say we weren’t warned. The Ghost of Kiev and Snake Island turn out now to be mere prelude, opening acts in the most extensive propaganda operation of the many I can recall.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Prelude, indeed — prelude to a war so malignly reported it was soon impossible for readers and viewers in the Western post-democracies to see it (which was, after all, precisely the point).</p>
<p>And prelude, let’s be careful to note, to the probably fatal collapse of foreign correspondence among Western media, the<i> Times</i> and the BBC well in the lead in my estimation, but with many pilot fish swimming beside them.</p>
<p>By the end of that first year of the war — last reference to columns past here — I reckoned there were <a href="http://patricklawrence.us/patrick-lawrence-a-war-of-rhetoric-reality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two versions of the Ukraine conflict</a>: There was the war suspended in an opaque solution of cloudy rhetoric and the war taking place in reality.</p>
<p>And now, as we come out the far end of this debacle, the delusions and illusions remain just as they have been throughout. The U.S. and its puppet regime in Kiev have decisively lost the war they provoked but no, there is no speaking of a defeat.</p>
<p>There is no calling the victor in this conflict the victor and certainly no accepting that victory — the real world intrudes here — gives the victor the upper hand in setting the terms of a settlement. As to these terms as Moscow repeatedly articulates them, if you study them they are thoroughly reasonable and to the benefit of both sides but must never be spoken of as such. If they are Moscow’s terms — the golden rule — they cannot by definition be reasonable.</p>
<p>Most of all, there is no acknowledging the cynical sacrifice of Ukrainian lives somewhere in six figures in a cause that has had nothing to do with their well-being and certainly nothing to do with the democratization of their country.</p>
<p>And most, most, most of all, there cannot be and must not be any lessons learned from this wasteful disaster. The imperative is to go on to the next one.</p>
<p><strong>The Ordering of Obfuscations</strong></p>
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<p data-sanitized-id="caption-attachment-127963" data-sanitized-class="wp-caption-text"><em>Soldiers raise the Ukrainian national flag on Snake Island, July 2022. (Dpsu.gov.ua / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0)</em></p>
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<p>The mis– and disinformation soon got heavier-going after those first months of outright silliness, and, so far as I could make out, this was when the propaganda pros in Washington and London took over from those amateurs in Kiev.</p>
<p>The “Russian massacre” in Bucha over the last couple of days of that first March was not at the hands of Russians — <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">persuasive evidence</a> of this — but the never-happened brutality of retreating Russian soldiers is now fixed in the official record and the collective memory of those who still allow mainstream media to mesmerize them.  [A U.N. <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/12/un-report-details-summary-executions-civilians-russian-troops-northern" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> was ambiguous about who was responsible for the Bucha killings but blamed Russia for executing civilians in the Kiev region.]</p>
<p>Among my favorites in this line occurred later in 2022, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shelling the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant on the east side of the Dnieper River.</p>
<p>But because the A.F.U., the good guys, could not possibly be reported as indulging in so reckless an act, it had to be — straight across Western media, this— that the Russians were risking a nuclear meltdown by bombarding the plant they guarded and occupied and within which there were Russian detachments and a lot of Russian matériel.</p>
<p>Let us be clear as to what lies behind all this chicanery. Before all the obfuscation of the progress of the war in Russia’s favor these past three years there was the obfuscation of its causes.</p>
<p>I am so weary of the word “unprovoked” in accounts of this conflict I could… I could write a column about it. Ditto the notion that it began in February 2022 and not in the same month eight years earlier, when the U.S.–cultivated coup in Kiev set off the regime’s daily attacks on its own people in the eastern, Russian-speaking provinces, causing of the order of 15,000 casualties.</p>
<p>At issue here are questions of history, causality, agency and responsibility. The U.S. and its clients in Kiev and the European capitals have erased the first and denied the latter three.</p>
<p>The reason Westerners have not been given a clear view of the war is that they must not develop an understanding of why it began. Start to finish and no exceptions, the good guys must always be the good guys and the bad guys always the bad.</p>
<p>How’s that for the Western powers’ idea of high-end statecraft in the 21st century? Shall we call it un–<i>Realpolitik</i>?</p>
<p><strong>Undercutting Peace Talks</strong></p>
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<p>Recent rounds of talks notwithstanding, in my read this purposely constructed distance from reality is likely to make an enduring settlement — at the mahogany table, not on the battlefield — difficult and perhaps impossible. This stands to doom the lives of who knows how many more Ukrainian and Russian men and women.</p>
<p>Russia’s conditions — chief among these a new security framework in Europe, de–Nazification and a guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO — are deserving of negotiation, as I have already suggested. But, the bubble of pretend having never burst, any suggestion of this in Washington or anywhere else in the West is marked down as “echoing Putin’s talking points.”</p>
<p>It is infra-dig, no other term for it.</p>
<p>We find in consequence various new delusions abroad in the West. Volodymyr Zelensky, understood at last as the punk of the piece, carries on as if Kiev, the loser, has the power to set the terms of settlement talks with the victor<strong>.</strong></p>
<p>The Europeans, having supported Ukraine for years and now promising to continue this support, are working on a “peace plan” whereby they would change uniforms, so to say, and require Russia to accept them as keepers of the peace on Ukrainian soil.</p>
<p>As we watch the Atlantic powers twist themselves into pretzels to avoid any admission of defeat in Ukraine, I look to the larger significance of this conflict. Boiling the matter down, this is a confrontation between the West and non–West. At bottom — and I missed this for a time — it is a major front in the war the reigning order, the disorder with which we live, wages to resist the new world order swiftly enough coming into being.</p>
<p>To make this point in specific terms, a new security architecture between the Russian Federation and its European neighbors would mark an historically significant turn toward parity between the West and non–West. And it is parity that the Western powers resist most vigorously — never mind it will prove of benefit to all of humanity when it is finally achieved.</p>
<p><i>The Times</i> of London ran <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/kissinger-said-my-saigon-chopper-story-broke-his-heart-xsrv5xn7b?srsltid=AfmBOopOB8wfAXPbG5ef0DGKM15Fb2boezX0x5kgAH-5Vxt-TWQwLphr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a thought-provoking piece</a> in last Sunday’s editions about an 83–year-old veteran of the Vietnam war named Stuart Herrington. He served as an army intelligence officer in the final years of the war and recalled for a <i>Times</i> interviewer the days before the Viet Cong closed in on what was then Saigon.</p>
<p>Vividly and painfully, Herrington remembers those fateful last days in April of 1975, when the last Americans evacuated from the rooftop of the U.S. embassy. He had assured passage out to all the Vietnamese who had collaborated with the Americans, only to sneak out on a staircase to the roof and leave them behind in the final hours.</p>
<p>It was the broken promise that caused me to reflect on the then-and-now of the piece. The broken promise, the abandonment of those who supported the American cause, the implicit reality that the war was not waged for the Vietnamese but for some larger ideological cause that had nothing to do with them: Herrington seems to be no peacenik in his advancing years, but these were the sources of his enduring regret.</p>
<p>We have learned nothing from those days, he remarked as he considered, 50 years on, the Ukraine war. “Here we go again,” he remarked as the interview ended.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><strong><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/28/patrick-lawrence-losing-learning-nothing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Consortium News</a></strong></p>


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title: The illusion of American generosity
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<p><strong><em>Despite the mythology of the good superpower, the American empire has been enormously destructive.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By George D. O’NEILL Jr.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Because of our strong Christian heritage, most Americans innately believe in being generous to their neighbors. Good neighborliness was central to our country’s founding ethos. Locally and nationally, there are a myriad of groups and organizations that provide support and assistance to people in need. This tradition is an important component of our culture. Consequently, much of our populace believes the United States government is a force for good around the world and an important contributor to world stability. This is a myth.</p>
<p>For decades, this traditional national embrace of generosity towards others has been used by our political and cultural elites to gull the American population into supporting many activities that are anything but generous, and often turn out to be extremely destructive. Over the years, there has been a continuous chorus from the leading elites supporting the false narrative that the United States is doing good around the world—the myth of the “indispensable nation”.</p>
<p>Since the Second World War, American ruling elites have called for numerous military interventions to “save democracy,” protecting some nation from communists, terrorists, fascists, or various reincarnations of Hitler. (Or worse.) The accusations are usually accompanied by shrill calls for the great and indispensable nation to act, to hold the line, or mete out harsh justice to the latest designated evildoer. This nonsense is cheered on by mainstream media outlets. Until recently, average Americans have not had access to any information which would expose the lies and hidden malfeasance behind these claims. Fortunately, thanks to alternative media, that ignorance is rapidly receding.</p>
<p>Americans are now beginning to grasp the fact that most of what we have been told about American foreign policy is materially not true, and that this policy is not benevolent. Contrary to popular imagination, the U.S. has spent decades <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/did-us-fund-syrian-rebels-toppled-assad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directly supporting</a> jihadi groups or condoning the support of terrorist groups by our “<a href="https://www.iar-gwu.org/print-archive/an-analysis-of-qatari-connections-to-illicit-terror-financing-and-the-resulting-foreign-policy-implications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">friends</a>.” The Global War on Terror serves as a convenient excuse for interventions. It has been particularly useful in the Middle East to destroy obstacles to an expansionist Israel.</p>
<p>If we truly wanted to stop terrorism, one of our first priorities should have been to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stop funding</a> and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/us-taxpayers-may-funding-taliban-afghan-terror-groups-watchdog-says-rcna80446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arming</a> such groups and inducing our <a href="https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/has-saudi-arabian-funding-spread-wahhabism-around-world/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“friends” to stop funding</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-religion-syria-lawsuits-middle-east-75e15fcfc4b2c0dcdd18ff16e2556a20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arming</a> them.</p>
<p>The recent collapse of Syria was a result of the support of the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33997408" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States</a>, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-acknowledges-long-claimed-weapons-supply-to-syrian-rebels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a>, and fellow NATO member, <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2025/01/15/turkey-and-hts-a-new-era-of-extremism-in-syria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Turkey</a>, for anti-government jihadi groups. The new leadership of Syria is drawn from the ranks of Al Qaeda. How is that benevolent or “acting as the world’s policeman”? We have been told for decades that Al Qaeda is bad and must be eliminated, and now in Syria we have direct proof of Al Qaeda and related groups being employed as proxies for U.S. “interests.” How is creating another failed state in the Middle East good or in U.S. interests?</p>
<p>It is time to stop allowing ourselves to be duped by deceptive claims of generosity and good intentions, and start to acknowledge and learn from the many disasters our country’s leadership has authored. Jesus told us “you will know them by their fruits.” The list of tragic disasters is quite long, but the following is a sample of the most egregious examples.</p>
<p>During the fighting portion of the  Korean War from 1950 to 1953, we killed millions of civilians, and after seven decades, have not officially ended the war. We still have <a href="https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2024/08/08/some-us-soldiers-in-south-korea-will-now-serve-2-year-tours/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of troops</a> in Korea hindering normal relations between the North and the South. Our troops enforce the blockade which contributes to the starvation of North Korean civilians.</p>
<p>The CIA’s role in <a href="https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the 1953 overthrow</a> of Iran’s duly elected President Mohammad Mosaddegh was the initial cause of strife with Iran before Israel’s Likud government and its cheerleaders decided to start an ever-intensifying campaign vilifying 3000-year old society. (That same campaign has been successful in the destruction of the Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians, and other disobedient peoples.)</p>
<p>In the Pacific, the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975 <a href="https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP6.HTM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed millions</a> in Vietnam and neighboring Cambodia. Cambodia was so destabilized by U.S. bombing that the Khmer Rouge managed to seize control of the ravaged country and <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/cambodia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed over one third of their population</a>, on top of the people killed by the U.S. military. Most of what we were told about that war was untrue from the beginning.</p>
<p>Our bad behavior has not been exclusive to the Eastern Hemisphere. Closer to home, numerous American-backed <a href="https://www.trtworld.com/americas/the-secret-history-of-us-interventions-in-latin-america-23586" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coups</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2ded14659982426c9b2552827734be83">interventions</a> in Central and South America caused instability that continues to trouble those regions today.</p>
<p>In April 1961 the CIA engineered and supported the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56808455" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bay of Pigs Invasion</a> of Cuba. It was a complete catastrophe and <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/fidel-castro-us-presidents-outlasted-and-how-they-dealt-with-him-eisenhower-kennedy-johnson-nixon-ford-carter-reagan-bush-clinton-a7440486.html">cemented</a> the Castros’ <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/11/castro-death/508811/">control</a>, ensuring they ruled until their deaths six decades later. The inexplicable U.S. blockade still causes suffering for the Cuban people.</p>
<p>The Somalian Civil War has been ebbing and flowing since the 1980s, thanks to <a href="https://jacobin.com/2022/11/somalia-cold-war-war-on-terror-us-intervention-destabilization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. money and weapons</a>.</p>
<p>The First Persian Gulf War (1990–1992) was followed by crushing sanctions which caused many deaths and destruction in Iraq, and turned out to be a prelude for the 2003 Iraq invasion.</p>
<p>U.S. intervention in the Kosovo War (1998–1999) killed many civilians. What the military leaders promoting that cruel bombing campaign claimed would last a week at most turned out to be 16 months of death and destruction. It is hard to tell what was accomplished except proving to the Russians that NATO was not a defensive organization, as promised by the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations. This is one of the early provocations that eventually led to the present Russo–Ukrainian War.</p>
<p>The 2001 Afghanistan War was the result of America’s decision in 1979 to support Sunni Jihadists’ entry into Afghanistan as a means of destabilizing the Afghan government. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security advisor, wrote that year, “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War.” The plan was designed to force Soviet intervention to protect their southern flank. To the applause of the neocons, the Reagan administration <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/10/ghost_wars_how_reagan_armed_the">decided to arm and finance</a> the same organizations to fight the Soviets. When the Soviets departed, the freedom fighters—the Taliban—took over. So of course, after September 11, 2001, the U.S. couldn’t resist the allure of another intervention and fought them for 20 years. After years of dishonest claims of success, the U.S. retreated in defeat, leaving death and destruction for the unfortunate Afghans who aided us during the occupation. Sadly, as Scott Horton has pointed out in <em>Fool’s Errand</em>, beginning in 2001 and 2002, the Taliban offered many times to surrender but was continuously rebuffed by Washington.</p>
<p>The Iraq War of 2003 started with the standard-issue vilification campaign. After much death and destruction, there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction or of support for Al Qaeda terrorists. The many neocon assertions made to justify the war turned out to be false. Nearly a quarter of a century later, we still have troops in Iraq, and the region has yet to recover.</p>
<p>After the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Libya <a href="https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526163455/9781526163455.00029.xml">signed a cooperation treaty</a> with the George W. Bush administration agreeing to give up their nascent nuclear program and vowed to stop their support for terrorists. The neocons gave victory whoops. Just a few years later the same crowd cranked up the familiar demonization campaign and bombed the Libyan government into oblivion. The remains of the country are now fiercely disputed by rival warlords. The Libyan double-cross is a big reason that Iran will not give up its missiles. Most of the American public is not aware of this betrayal, but the rest of the world is—especially the Iranians.</p>
<p>The Syrian Civil War that started in 2011 was fueled by covert American support. The U.S. claimed to support “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2012/08/01/us/syria-rebels-us-aid">moderate freedom fighters</a>” who turned out to include Al Qaeda–allied jihadists. That war appears to have ended, due to the recent collapse of the Syria government; the country is now <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/links-isis-al-qaeda-raise-fears-syrias-new-regime-rcna184104">ruled by former terrorists</a>—but there will be more war coming from this sad example of U.S. cruelty. The American War Party will not let a good tragedy go to waste.</p>
<p>The Russo–Ukrainian War is a continuation of the conflict that arose from the 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine and is the result of decades of American provocation. These provocations have been carefully documented by Scott Horton in his book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Provoked-Washington-Started-Catastrophe-Ukraine/dp/1733647376"><em>Provoked</em></a>, which shows how decades of policy choices in Washington led to the war in Ukraine; the former CIA analyst <a href="https://sonar21.com/the-road-to-war-in-ukraine-the-history-of-nato-and-us-military-exercises-with-ukraine-part-3/">Larry Johnson</a> has listed the more recent provocations. After failed treaties and ceasefire agreements, in 2022 Russia invaded. Millions have been killed, wounded, and driven from their homes. The country is being wrecked. To this day, the U.S. is still sending weapons, money, and other assistance to encourage the continuation of that war.</p>
<p>In Yemen, the U.S. is still bombing Houthis after all these years. In 2015, we aided the Saudi bombing campaign. Now the Houthis’ crime is to<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/12/who-are-yemens-houthis-a-basic-guide"> protest the starvation and killing</a> of the Gazans. The U.S. has spent billions on this project killing civilians. The past year of the failed U.S. military bombing campaign is proof that attacks on much larger Iran would be a complete disaster.</p>
<p>Finally, the Israeli genocide in Gaza escalated intensely in 2023. To this day the U.S. is sending weapons and money to Israel which add to the starvation, destruction, and death. This is in no way generous and benevolent.</p>
<p>How is this generosity? Where is the benevolence? The beneficiaries are special interest groups and military contractors. Certainly not the suffering citizens of the debilitated countries, nor the average Americans saddled with trillions of dollars of ever-increasing war debt. None of these countries are functioning democracies as promised. None of the interventions turned out as promised. As usual, the result is death and destruction.</p>
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<p>The truth is many of our leaders are completely indifferent to the suffering they have caused. For example, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright thought that the deaths of perhaps as many as 500,000 Iraqi children—starved by a U.S. blockade—was <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-iraqi-kids-deaths-worth-it-resurfaces-1691193">“worth it.”</a> Our leaders are also indifferent to the starvation and death we support in Gaza. Lindsey Graham believes the deaths in Ukraine are a “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGOVevGHNXY">great deal for America</a>.” Almost none of America’s political leaders will make a genuine effort to stop enabling this daily slaughter.</p>
<p>This is not what our country should be. It is not what our founders intended. It is not what we should support.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><strong><a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-illusion-of-american-generosity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The American Conservative</a></strong></p>


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<p>Donald Trump propuso pacientemente a Benyamin Netanyahu que negociara con la resistencia palestina. Pero lo único que encontró en el primer ministro de Israel fue una ciega obstinación por masacrar a los palestinos, anexar Gaza y el sur de Siria y desatar una guerra contra Irán. Así que la administración Trump pasa ahora a otro registro. Hoy ya es evidente para Trump, como para todos los que nos interesamos por lo que ha venido ocurriendo en el Medio Oriente durante los 80 últimos años, que los sionistas revisionistas son enemigos de la paz… y que también son enemigos del propio Israel.</p>
<p>El principal obstáculo que Donald Trump está encontrando en sus negociaciones de paz, tanto con Irán como frente a Ucrania, es el papel de los sionistas revisionistas que hoy ejercen el poder en Israel<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [1]</span>.</p>
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<div data-sanitized-id="aswift_7_host">Hace 2 semanas que presenté aquí, de forma detallada y con las pruebas necesarias, las presiones que los sionistas revisionistas ejercen constantemente sobre Washington tratando de hacer fracasar las negociaciones del presidente Trump con la República Islámica de Irán<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [2]</span>. Pero en aquella crónica no abordé las presiones de los sionistas revisionistas israelíes en favor de los nacionalistas integristas ucranianos<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [3]</span>. Esas presiones sólo se hicieron públicas el 3 de mayo, con los elogios enfáticos del ex ministro israelí Natan Sharanski hacia Volodimir Zelenski<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [<a title="Despacho 3441 «Elogios de Natan Sharanski para Volodimir Zelenski», (…)" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article222253.html#nb4" rel="appendix" data-sanitized-id="nh4" data-sanitized-class="spip_note">4</a>]</span>.</div>
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<p>Yo había explicado antes cómo y por qué los sionistas revisionistas y los nacionalistas integristas se habían unido, en 1921, contra los bolcheviques y contra numerosos judíos ucranianos. Ante aquella alianza, la Organización Sionista Mundial ordenó una investigación y Vladimir “Zeev” Jabotinsky tuvo que renunciar al cargo que ocupaba en el consejo de administración de la organización<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [5]</span>. Aunque existen algunas excepciones, como los trabajos de Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, es obvio que los historiadores judíos prefieren ignorar aquel asunto –no les entusiasma estudiar cómo los judíos fueron masacrados por otros judíos. Además, el propio Natan Sharanski, desde su posición como presidente del Centro de Conmemoración del Holocausto de Babi Yar, en Ucrania, impide que los historiadores estudien ese tema.</p>
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<div data-sanitized-id="aswift_8_host">Y no debemos olvidar los contactos de los sionistas revisionistas judíos con el <i>Obersturmbannfuher</i> SS Adolf Eichmann, contactos que se mantuvieron hasta que el Ejército Rojo tomó Berlín, el 2 de mayo de 1945<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [6]</span>.</div>
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<p>Al principio de la operación militar especial rusa, el entonces primer ministro israelí, Naftali Bennett, exhortó Volodimir Zelenski a reconocer las justas exigencias de Moscú en cuanto a «<i>desnazificar Ucrania</i>» y el general Benny Gantz, en aquel momento ministro de Defensa, declaró rotundamente que, mientras él estuviese vivo, Israel no suministraría armas a «<i>los asesinos de judíos ucranianos</i>», aludiendo así a los nacionalistas integristas ucranianos, cuyos predecesores participaron junto a las SS alemanas en la masacre de Babi Yar<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [<a title="El 29 y el 30 de septiembre de 1941, precisamente dos semanas después del (…)" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article222253.html#nb7" rel="appendix" data-sanitized-id="nh7" data-sanitized-class="spip_note">7</a>]</span>. En cambio, el actual primer ministro de Israel, Benyamin Netanyahu, no tardó en autorizar las empresas israelíes a vender armas al régimen de Kiev.</p>
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<p>En 2022, el ministro de Exteriores de Rusia, Serguei Lavrov, respondía a quienes afirmaban que, dado el hecho que Zelenski es judío, era absurdo hablar de nazismo en Ucrania: «<i>¿Zelenski es judio? Eso no contradice los elementos del nazismo en Ucrania. Hitler también tenía sangre judía. Eso no significa absolutamente nada. El pueblo judío, en su sabiduría, ha dicho que los antisemitas más fervorosos son generalmente judíos. Como se suele decir, cada familia tiene su oveja negra.</i>»</p>
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<div data-sanitized-id="aswift_9_host">En aquel momento, el líder de la oposición israelí, Yair Lapid, respondió a Lavrov: «<i>Esas observaciones son a la vez imperdonables y escandalosas. Pero son también un terrible error histórico. Los judíos no se mataron entre sí durante la Shoah. El nivel más bajo del racismo contra los judíos es acusar a los mismos judíos de antisemitismo.</i>»</div>
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<p>Pero no debemos equivocarnos. La Historia no se divide en comunidades buenas o malas. La Historia la hacen los hombres y estos pueden asumir comportamientos diferentes. ¡Tenemos que abrir los ojos ante la realidad!</p>
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<p><strong>Hoy convertido en enviado especial de su amigo Donald Trump, el promotor inmobiliario Steve Witkoff es de cultura judía, pero ha entendido perfectamente las explicaciones del presidente Putin sobre los sionistas revisionistas israelíes y los nacionalistas integristas ucranianos. Ahora, los medios de prensa occidentales acusan a Witkoff de hacerse eco del enfoque ruso sobre la cuestión ucraniana.</strong></p>
<p>Pero volvamos al tema que nos ocupa. Donald Trump es el presidente de Estados Unidos, país cuyo mito fundacional afirma que fue fundado por los «<i>Padres peregrinos</i>» que huyeron del «<i>faraón</i>» de Inglaterra atravesando el Atlántico, como los hebreos que cruzaron el Mar Rojo, y que instalaron una colonia en Plymouth, como los hebreos que fundaron la “Tierra prometida”. Los estadounidenses de hoy celebran anualmente ese mito el día del <i>Thanksgiving</i>. Todos los presidentes estadounidenses, sin excepción, desde George Washington hasta el propio Donald Trump mencionan ese mito fundacional en sus discursos oficiales. Por consiguiente, la alianza entre Estados Unidos e Israel es algo que no se discute.</p>
<p>En Estados Unidos, país donde proliferan las sectas, país que proclama la libertad de culto pero no la libertad de conciencia, y que denuncia el laicismo francés sin entenderlo, existe un movimiento “cristiano sionista”. Ese movimiento se compone de cristianos que ven en el Israel bíblico el actual Estado de Israel. Y ese movimiento votó masivamente por Donald Trump, quien ahora tiene una especie de deuda con estos “cristianos sionistas”. Ya convertido nuevamente en presidente, Donald Trump designó a la pastora Paula Blanche –también vinculada a los “imperialistas japoneses”– como directora de la Iniciativa Fe y Oportunidad de la Casa Blanca.</p>
<p>En todo caso, si bien es cierto que nadie en Estados Unidos puede cuestionar la alianza con Israel, eso no implica de ninguna manera un apoyo invariable a los sionistas revisionistas que están en el poder en Tel Aviv.</p>
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<p><strong>El movimiento yemenita Ansar Allah, encabezado por Abdul-Malik al-Houthi ha resistido la embestida estadounidense. Ansar Allah llegó con Washington a un acuerdo de libre circulación. En virtud de ese acuerdo, el movimiento yemenita ya no atacará los barcos estadounidenses. Pero ese acuerdo no incluye los barcos de Israel, que seguirán siendo atacados como expresión del apoyo de Ansar Allah a la población de Gaza.</strong></p>
<p>Lentamente, el presidente Donald Trump va estableciendo una importante diferencia entre Israel y la persona del primer ministro Benyamin Netanyahu. Al recibirlo en la Casa Blanca –a pesar de la orden internacional de arresto que pesa sobre él–, Trump hizo que su secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, proclamara que su administración es la más proisraelí de la historia.</p>
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<div data-sanitized-id="aswift_12_host">Pero al mismo tiempo, aun recibiendo a Netanyahu en la Casa Blanca, Trump se opuso firmemente al plan de Netanyahu, que finalmente interrumpió el acuerdo de paz firmado con el Hamas y que pretende ocupar militarmente Gaza. Trump incluso llegó a contradecir públicamente a Netanyahu al afirmar que tropas de Estados Unidos –no de Israel– podrían asumir el control de Gaza. Ahora, después de comprobar que sus provocaciones no surten efecto en Tel Aviv, el presidente Trump acaba de dar un paso decisivo. Sin prevenir al aliado israelí, la administración Trump acaba de negociar una paz separada con Ansar Allah, precisamente cuando ese movimiento yemenita atacaba el aeropuerto Ben Gurion, en Tel Aviv.</div>
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<p>Restaurando la división entre el Yemen del Norte y Yemen del Sur, el movimiento Ansar Allah, lidereado por la familia al-Huti (de ahí viene la denominación peyorativa de «<i>hutis</i>» o «<i>hutistas</i>» que los medios occidentales utilizan para designar a los miembros de ese movimiento), logró poner fin a la guerra (con ayuda de Irán) y ahora apoya a los civiles palestinos atacando los barcos israelíes, o vinculados a intereses israelíes, que transitan por las aguas del Mar Rojo. Importante: el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU nunca ha condenado esos ataques sino el hecho que perturban la libertad de navegación de los barcos que nada tienen que ver con lo que sucede en Gaza. En una actitud de franco desprecio hacia la ONU, Estados Unidos y Reino Unido inicialmente crearon una coalición militar para responder a los ataques de Ansar Allah y prestar ayuda a Israel… mientras que el ejército israelí continuaba la matanza de civiles en Gaza. Los ataques contra los objetivos militares de Ansar Allah nunca arrojaron resultados significativos, porque se hallan en su mayoría protegidos en fortificaciones subterráneas. Los militares estadounidenses y británicos comenzaron entonces a atacar directamente a personalidades yemenitas, matando al mismo tiempo gran número de civiles.</p>
<p>En aras de presentar a Irán como un actor de esa guerra, los anglosajones acusaron constantemente a Teherán de estar proporcionando el armamento que utiliza Ansar Allah. La realidad es que el general iraní Qassem Soleimani (asesinado el 3 de enero de 2020, por orden de Donald Trump) ayudó Ansar Allah a reorganizarse para que fuese capaz de producir localmente su propio armamento y poder continuar sus operaciones militares sin depender de Irán. El gobierno iraní ha señalado constantemente que ya no está implicado en la guerra en Yemen, pero los anglosajones siguen repitiendo que Ansar Allah es sólo un «<i>proxi</i>» de Irán, lo cual es hoy absolutamente falso.</p>
<p>Llegados a este punto, es muy importante tratar de entender el enfoque de Trump sobre los conflictos del «<i>Medio Oriente ampliado</i>» o «<i>Gran Medio Oriente</i>». Mediante el uso de la fuerza, Trump trata de obligar las partes implicadas en guerras, tengan o no causas justificadas para ello, a parar sus operaciones militares. Pero su objetivo no es entrar en guerra con este o con aquel actor sino obligarlos a negociar compromisos que permitan en cada caso instaurar una paz justa y duradera.</p>
<p>Siguiendo esa forma de razonar, Trump ordenó en 2020 el asesinato del general iraní Qassem Soleimani, justo después de haber eliminado al “califa” de Daesh, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; autorizó las operaciones de guerra contra Ansar Allah y ahora acaba de detenerlas –después de darse cuenta de que Ansar Allah no es un grupo terrorista sino una fuerza política realmente legítima que está administrando un Estado todavía no reconocido–; autorizó las entregas de armas a Israel… pero ahora ha comenzado a apoyar el movimiento pacifista surgido en el seno de las fuerzas armadas israelíes, de manera que en este momento los sionistas revisionistas comienzan a carecer de medios para continuar la masacre contra los civiles de Gaza. Es por eso que optan ahora por tratar de matarlo de hambre.</p>
<p>Todo eso confirma que el acuerdo separado de Estados Unidos con Ansar Allah debe interpretarse como una ruptura del alineamiento de Washington tras las posiciones de Tel Aviv y como un paso hacia el acuerdo con Teherán. A mediados de marzo, cuando el gobierno de Israel vislumbró el posible paso atrás de Estados Unidos, Netanyahu no se planteó la eventualidad de una paz separada y se lanzó de nuevo en una escalada militar, con 131 bombardeos contra Yemen.</p>
<p>Ron Dermer, quien tiene doble nacionalidad –es estadounidense e israelí– y está además muy vinculado al ya mencionado Natan Sharansky –escribieron un libro juntos–, fue nombrado embajador de Israel en Estados Unidos y ahora es ministro de Exteriores. Ron Dermer es, por consiguiente, el principal responsable de los planes de anexión de Gaza y de la masacre allí emprendida contra la población civil. Ante el hecho consumado de la paz separada entre Estados Unidos y Yemen, este sionista revisionista visitó la Casa Blanca el 8 de mayo. Allí fue recibido, «<i>a título privado</i>», por propio Donald Trump<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [<a title="“Scoop: Trump had «private meeting» with Netanyahu adviser ahead of Mid-East (…)" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article222253.html#nb8" rel="appendix" data-sanitized-id="nh8" data-sanitized-class="spip_note">8</a>]</span>. Y no fue precisamente una visita exitosa porque Ron Dermer trató de decirle al presidente Trump lo que tenía que hacer… y Trump no dudó en ponerlo en su lugar.</p>
<p>Al día siguiente, el 9 de mayo, Thomas Friedman, editorialista del <i>New York Times</i>, escribió: «<i>No dudo, de manera general, que el pueblo israelí sigua considerándose un aliado inquebrantable del pueblo estadounidense– y viceversa. Pero este gobierno israelí, ultranacionalista y mesiánico, no es aliado de Estados Unidos (…) Podemos seguir ignorando el número de palestinos muertos en la franja de Gaza –son más de 52 000, incluyendo 18 000 niños–, cuestionando la credibilidad de las cifras, utilizando todos los mecanismos de represión, de denegación, de apatía, de distanciamiento, de normalización y de justificación. Pero nada de todo eso podrá cambiar el amargo hecho: los matamos, lo hicimos con nuestras propias manos. No podemos cerrar los ojos. Tenemos que despertar y gritar alto y fuerte: ¡Paren la guerra!</i>»<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [<a title="“This Israeli Government Is Not Our Ally, Thomas L. Frideman, The New York (…)" href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article222253.html#nb9" rel="appendix" data-sanitized-id="nh9" data-sanitized-class="spip_note">9</a>]</span>.</p>
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<p><em>El enviado especial estadounidense, Steve Witkoff no se dejó embaucar por Benyamin Netanyahu. De regreso en Washington, Witkoff, puso sobreaviso a su amigo, el presidente Donald Trump, sobre el historial fascista de los sionistas revisionistas.</em></p>
<p>Por otra parte, el presidente Donald Trump tiene previsto reunirse esta semana con los dirigentes de Arabia Saudita, de Emiratos Árabes Unidos y de Qatar. Pero no se reunirá con Benyamin Netanyahu. El secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, incluso anuló un viaje suyo a Israel que estaba planeado para el mismo momento. Esa anulación refuerza el mensaje de la administración Trump.</p>
<p>La agencia Reuters reveló el 8 de mayo que, al negociar con el heredero del trono saudita, el príncipe Mohamed ben Salman, el presidente Trump ya no plantea el reconocimiento de Israel como condición previa para cualquier acuerdo<span data-sanitized-class="spip_note_ref"> [10]</span>. De confirmarse, eso significaría que reconocer que el Estado hebreo se ha convertido en un Estado racista judío dejaría de ser un delito en Occidente.</p>
<p>A principios de marzo, supimos que el presidente Trump había autorizado Adam Boehler, su negociador para la liberación de los rehenes estadounidenses, a establecer un contacto directo con el Hamas, a pesar de que este sigue siendo considerado una «<i>organización terrorista</i>». El 12 de mayo, ese cambio de actitud estadounidense se vio recompensado por el anuncio de la liberación del israelo-estadounidense, Edan Alexander, que había sido apresado por los combatientes palestinos el 7 de octubre de 2023, siendo portador de armas. Además, desde principios de mayo, se rumorea que, durante su viaje a Arabia Saudita, Donald Trump podría anunciar que Estados Unidos reconoce el Estado de Palestina.</p>
<p>[1] «Cuando el velo se desgarra: las verdades ocultas, de Jabotinsky a Netanyahu», por Thierry Meyssan, Red Voltaire, 23 de enero de 2024.<br>
[2] «Lo que está en juego en las negociaciones de Donald Trump con la República Islámica de Irán», por Thierry Meyssan, Red Voltaire, 29 de abril de 2025.<br>
[3] «Lo que está en juego en las negociaciones de Donald Trump con Ucrania», por Thierry Meyssan, Red Voltaire, 6 de mayo de 2025.<br>
[4] Despacho 3441 «Elogios de Natan Sharanski para Volodimir Zelenski», Voltaire, Actualidad Internacional – N° 132 – 9 de mayo de 2025.<br>
[5] «¿Quiénes son los nacionalistas integristas ‎ucranianos?», por Thierry Meyssan, Red Voltaire, 17 de noviembre de 2022.<br>
[6] « מדוע חוסל קסטנר ». Edición francesa Pourquoi Kastner a-t-il été assassiné? [¿Por qué fue asesinado Kastner?], Nadav Kaplan, Éditions Steimatzky, 2024.<br>
[7] El 29 y el 30 de septiembre de 1941, precisamente dos semanas después del traslado de Stepan Bandera de Kiev a Berlín, los Einsatzgruppen de las SS alemanas y los nacionalistas integristas ucranianos de Stepan Bandera –considerado un héroe por el actual régimen de Kiev– masacraron a tiros 33 771 judíos ucranianos en Babi Yar.<br>
[8] “Scoop: Trump had «private meeting» with Netanyahu adviser ahead of Mid-East trip”, Barak David, Axios, 8 de mayo de 2025/<br>
[9] “This Israeli Government Is Not Our Ally, Thomas L. Frideman, The New York Times, 9 de mayo de 2025.<br>
[10] “Exclusive: Under Trump, Saudi civil nuclear talks delinked from Israel recognition, sources say”, Pesha Magid, Reuters, 8 de mayo de 2025.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Israel ficará incomodado com o novo Papa – tal como causou incômodo entre os sionistas a declaração do novo Papa de que são os cristãos o “povo escolhido” de Deus.</em></strong></p>
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<p>O Conclave de 2025 terminou em um prazo relativamente curto com a eleição do Cardeal Robert Francis Prevost para o Trono de São Pedro em sucessão ao recém-falecido Papa Francisco. Prevost escolheu para si o nome papal de Leão XIV, uma escolha significativa em si mesma.</p>
<p>Passemos, então, em superação às desinformações e confusões a um resumo de informações concretas e indícios razoáveis que possam permitir antever a lógica do Pontificado de Leão XIV.</p>
<p>Em primeiro lugar, o consenso por Prevost foi, derradeiramente, amplo. O desejo por um Pontificado estável, moderado e conciliador se sobressaiu em relação a outras preocupações, e mesmo os cardeais imbuídos de um ardor mais “ideológico” (tanto para o campo conservador quanto para o campo progressista) parecem ter colocado o bem e a unidade da Igreja Católica como prioridade máxima. A construção dessa escolha parece ter partido dos cardeais norte-americanos, particularmente do Cardeal Timothy Dolan, relativamente próximo a Donald Trump. Nas vésperas do Conclave, Prevost teria participado de uma reunião junto a outros cardeais nos aposentos do Cardeal Raymond Burke, de orientação tradicionalista. Ao que tudo indica, Prevost teria recebido também o apoio do – favorito dos conservadores – Cardeal Robert Sarah.</p>
<p>Considerando que a aposta do Cardeal Pietro Parolin era que ele seria preferido à luz de uma possível candidatura ultraprogressista, como a dos cardeais Tagle ou Zuppi, mas isso não se concretizou, a sua candidatura – a mais cotada por especialistas – acabou naufragando rapidamente.</p>
<p>Agora após os fatos, de fato, sem exceção, todos os cardeais parecem animados com o resultado do Conclave. O “Espírito”, de fato, hegelianamente operou uma síntese dialética entre os dois últimos pontificados; mas nisso ele apontou para o Absoluto tal como ele aparecia de maneira mais evidentemente em outros tempos. Daí que, sem deixar de ser uma espécie de fusão entre Bento XVI (apego à tradição) e Francisco (opção preferencial pelos pobres), Prevost remete-se a uma Igreja pré-Vaticano II, “eterna”, recordando com a sua escolha de nome que a Igreja Católica não nasceu no século XX e não se resume aos dilemas do século XX, os quais acabaram ocupando um papel excessivamente central nos últimos anos, vide a querela da “missa em latim”.</p>
<p>Nesse perfeito equilíbrio, Leão XIV parece reunir uma humildade e proximidade inspiradas no pontificado anterior com um apreço pela beleza e pela tradição que remete ao pontificado de Bento XVI. Ainda temos pouco para confirmar isso, mas essa perfeita moderação já se evidencia nas aparições públicas do novo Papa, tanto em seu modo de falar, quanto na retomada de adereços litúrgicos abandonados. Menos midiático, o novo Papa parece que evitará as polêmicas que Francisco, inocentemente, suscitou e, por enquanto, tem conduzido um discurso cristocêntrico focando em temas teológicos mais centrais.</p>
<p>Explicando a escolha de seu nome, Leão XIV colocou-se como fundamentalmente interessado em resgatar e continuar as contribuições fundamentais de Leão XIII, pondo em destaque a produção da encíclica Rerum Novarum, crítica fundamental do capitalismo (e do marxismo) e documento inspirador das legislações trabalhistas de boa parte do mundo no início do século XX. Nesta Encíclica, Leão XIII fundou a Doutrina Social da Igreja Católica, discorrendo sobre temas como “salário justo”, “usura”, “exploração” e inúmeros outros típicos do capitalismo industrial, para dar a esses debates uma perspectiva católica.</p>
<p>Leão XIV insistiu na necessidade de dar seguimento à necessária crítica do Capital desenraizado e usurário como explorador dos povos, mas enfatizou também a necessidade de mobilizar uma crítica católica das novas expressões do Capital e da Técnica, como a IA e outras novas tecnologias desenvolvidas pelas grandes corporações. É plausível, portanto, que a Igreja Católica passe a se pronunciar de maneira mais detalhada sobre o transumanismo e suas várias manifestações e tendências contemporâneas.</p>
<p>Temos aí o primeiro Papa norte-americano, aliás, coincidindo com a nova presidência de Donald Trump. O catolicismo cresce em importância nos EUA (abarcando 20% da população) e isso certamente terá impacto nas relações entre o Vaticano e o hegemon unipolar decadente. É claro que Trump tentará usar a eleição de um Papa norte-americano para seu benefício (e chama a atenção o fato de que ele já parecia saber que o novo Papa seria estadunidense antes mesmo do anúncio do resultado…), ao mesmo tempo que o novo Papa certamente ocasionalmente voltará a sua atenção para a profunda crise niilista na qual os EUA permanecem afundados (crise, aliás, muito bem descrita por Bento XVI).</p>
<p>Seria equivocado enxergar Prevost, aliás, como um “trumpista” pura e simplesmente. Naturalmente conservador, enquanto cardeal Prevost parece ter se situado nos marcos de um conservadorismo conciliador e humanista. Crítico da imigração em massa, por exemplo, ele não deixava de se opor aos métodos usados pelo governo Trump para enfrentar a questão. O seu anticapitalismo, ademais, tornaria impossível associá-lo à direita reacionária tradicional e suas posições são inteiramente incompatíveis com o tecnofeudalismo neorreacionário. Ainda assim, Prevost sempre deixou bem clara um posicionamento antitético às tendências pós-modernas em temáticas sexuais e de gênero – muito mais que o Papa Francisco.</p>
<p>Não se pode esquecer, porém, que ele é tão latino-americano quanto norte-americano. Tendo passado boa parte de sua vida no Peru e tendo cidadania peruana, o Papa Leão XIV falou em espanhol em seu discurso inaugural e claramente se sente proximamente conectado às comunidades pobres do Terceiro Mundo. Sua eleição, nesse sentido, é sinal do reconhecimento da importância crescente do Sul Global. Mesmo o primeiro Papa norte-americano é, na prática, também um representante do Terceiro Mundo.</p>
<p>Quanto a como será o perfil da geopolítica de Leão XIV ainda é muito cedo para fazer apontamentos substanciais. O novo Papa decidiu manter Parolin como Secretário de Estado, por enquanto, então é razoável prever uma continuidade geopolítica entre este pontificado o anterior (que já foi continuador do pontificado de Bento XVI).</p>
<p>Os únicos comentários razoavelmente geopolíticos feitos pelo novo Papa até agora enfatizaram a importância da paz e indicam que Leão XIV se esforçará para dar um papel cada vez mais ativo nas cúpulas mundiais e nas querelas diplomáticas do século XXI. De fato, ele expressou um anseio por uma paz justa e duradoura na Ucrânia, por um acordo rápido e duradouro entre a Índia e o Paquistão, e enfatizou que a situação dos palestinos em Gaza o incomodava especialmente, demandando um cessar-fogo imediato.</p>
<p>Já sabemos, aliás, que Israel ficará incomodado com o novo Papa – tal como causou incômodo entre os sionistas a declaração do novo Papa de que são os cristãos o “povo escolhido” de Deus.</p>
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Bruce Springsteen accused the Trump administration of persecuting dissenters during a concert in the UK.

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">US Treasury 'Surprised, Confused' By Trump's Sudden Lifting Of Syria Sanctions</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Much of the world was caught off guard when amid an avalanche of multiple US-Gulf deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars each being signed Wednesday, President Trump not only announced that he is lifting all sanctions on Syria, but even met in-person with US-designated terrorist and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani) in the Saudi capital.</p>

<p>Apparently even the State Department and US Treasury departments <strong>were caught off guard</strong>. Trump's move to lift sanctions on Syria <strong>"took many by surprise,"</strong> including his own officials at State and Treasury, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-big-syria-announcement-surprised-his-own-sanctions-officials-2025-05-14/"><i>Reuters</i></a>. </p>

<p>"In Washington, senior officials at the State Department and Treasury Department scrambled to understand how to cancel the sanctions, many of which have been in place for decades … <strong>The White House had issued no memorandum or directive to State or Treasury sanctions officials to prepare for the unwinding and didn’t alert them</strong> that the president’s announcement was imminent," several senior US officials anonymously told publication.</p>
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<p>"Officials were confused about exactly how the administration would unwind the layers of sanctions, which ones were being eased and when the White House wanted to begin the process," they added while emphasizing that top officials were "caught off guard."</p>

<p>"Everyone is trying to figure out how to implement it," Reuters cited the officials as saying. Legally and procedurally, the removal of the sanctions will be a process which could take weeks or even months.</p>

<p>Meanwhile there are reports saying the<strong> Syrian Pound (SYP) jumped 30%</strong> quickly upon Trump's announcement. The local currency has experienced runaway inflation, and people have to lug huge bricks of cash around to purchase simple items like eggs or medicines.</p>

<p>Syrians have further endured rolling blackouts and lack of resources, or even fuel, for years amid the US-sanctions regimen which was geared toward regime change. But <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/world/syria/trump-syria-sanctions-sharaa-damascus-mohammed-salman-saudi-assad-rcna206691">now</a>...</p>

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<p><em><strong>The streets of Syria were a carnival of car horns, fireworks and flags after President Donald Trump made the surprise announcement</strong> that the United States would lift sanctions that have throttled the country’s economy for more than 45 years.</em></p>

<p><em>Trump stunned even close observers on Tuesday by saying he wants to normalize relations after Syria’s longtime president, Bashar al Assad, was toppled in December. Trump met Wednesday with Assad’s successor, interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former leader of an al-Qaeda offshoot group, in Saudi Arabia after urging him late Tuesday to “show us something special.”</em></p>
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<p>Trump said he wanted to give Syrians a 'fresh start' - and indeed this could be the start of an economic turnaround after years of brutal proxy war.</p>

<p><strong>With Assad having been overthrown, the Saudis and Qataris are also stepping in to cover national debt and prop up public sector salaries</strong>.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs: "With the fall of the Assad regime last year, U.S. posture should change and shouldn’t continue to punish the Syrian people."<br><br>
A clear articulation of the US posture in Syria up until last year: to bring about the fall of the Assad regime, the US… <a href="https://t.co/lllUpwIZbF">pic.twitter.com/lllUpwIZbF</a></p>
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1923000663610622066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Ultimately, Washington and the Gulf monarchies got their desired regime change in Syria. It was never about "democracy" or the Syrian people at all. The brutality of the sanctions, which compounded the common mysery, proves that - as some US officials are now openly admitting.</p>

<p>But this sick policy of the Washington blob is nothing really new...</p>

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title: 3M Settles New Jersey's 'Forever Chemicals' Contamination Lawsuit For $450 Million
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">3M Settles New Jersey's 'Forever Chemicals' Contamination Lawsuit For $450 Million</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/3m-settles-new-jerseys-forever-chemicals-contamination-lawsuit-for-450-million-5857626?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&amp;src_src=partner&amp;src_cmp=ZeroHedge">Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times</a> (emphasis ours),</em></p>

<p><strong>Chemical manufacturer 3M has entered into a settlement agreement with New Jersey to resolve claims accusing the company of contaminating water and other natural resources with PFAS substances</strong>, popularly known as “forever chemicals,” the state Attorney General’s office said in a May 13 <a href="https://www.njoag.gov/ag-platkin-and-dep-commissioner-latourette-announce-historic-settlement-of-up-to-450-million-with-3m-for-statewide-pfas-contamination/">statement</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>The settlement, valued at up to $450 million and subject to court approval, is the “largest statewide PFAS settlement in New Jersey history,”</strong> said the statement. It resolves certain lawsuits filed by the state against the company in 2019.</p>

<p>PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are used in fabric, furniture, industrial products, and several household items. Known as “forever chemicals” because of their <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/processed-foods-linked-to-forever-chemicals-in-human-blood-study-5592601">inability to degrade over time</a>, these substances continue to accumulate in human beings and the environment.</p>

<p>The chemicals have been found in drinking water, livestock, and food packaging, and are linked to several adverse health issues such as cancers, endocrine disorders, developmental issues in fetuses, and negative impacts on reproduction and immune function.</p>

<p><strong>The settlement amount will be paid over a period of 25 years, with around $275 million to $325 million scheduled to be paid between 2026 and 2034, and the remainder between 2035 and 2050.</strong></p>

<p>The first lawsuit on the matter was a complaint filed in March 2019. It alleged that New Jersey sustained environmental damage from 3M’s role in contaminating the Chambers Works site in Pennsville and Carneys Point in Salem County.</p>

<p>The second lawsuit, also filed in March 2019, made similar claims against the company’s Parlin facility in Sayreville in Middlesex County.</p>

<p>A third complaint was filed against 3M and other manufacturers in May 2019, citing environmental damage and violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act. This was related to the manufacture and sale of certain products that allegedly contained or broke down into PFAS chemicals.</p>

<p><strong>With the settlement agreement, all these lawsuits are now resolved.</strong></p>

<p>“For decades, 3M knew that their PFAS chemicals were forever contaminating the New Jersey environment. But they continued to pollute the environment and escape accountability. That ends now,” said Attorney General Matthew Platkin.</p>

<p>“New Jersey has some of the highest levels of PFAS in the country. That’s why New Jersey has been leading the national charge against corporate polluters who contaminate our drinking water and harm our state’s communities.”</p>

<p>The agreement also settles 3M’s liability related to a statewide PFAS directive issued in 2019 by New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection.</p>

<p>Announcing the settlement in a May 12 <a href="https://news.3m.com/2025-05-12-3M-Resolves-PFAS-Related-Claims-with-the-State-of-New-Jersey">statement</a>, 3M said it had committed to ending all PFAS manufacturing by the end of 2025 and was “on track to do so.”</p>

<p>“<strong>This agreement is another important step toward reducing risk and uncertainty on these legacy issues, allowing 3M to focus on its strategic priorities,</strong>” it said.</p>

<p>“In the agreement, the State specifically recognized that 3M ‘has taken actions, which other companies have not taken, to cease manufacturing’ PFAS.”</p>

<h2>Tackling PFAS Contamination</h2>

<p>3M has <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/3m-reaches-10-3-billion-settlement-over-us-allegations-of-forever-chemicals-contamination-5351453">previously settled claims</a> related to PFAS contamination. In June 2023, the company reached a $10.3 billion settlement with multiple public drinking water systems. The amount was set to be paid over a period of 13 years.</p>

<p>The company was caught up in another <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-lawsuit-accuses-3m-dupont-of-hiding-dangers-of-forever-chemicals-5774780">complaint in December</a> when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against 3M and DuPont for allegedly misleading consumers about the safety of PFAS.</p>

<p>“Defendants marketed products containing harmful PFAS chemicals for over 70 years and were aware of the harmful effects of PFAS chemicals for over 50 years,” the state said in the lawsuit.</p>

<p>The Trump administration is taking action to combat PFAS contamination.</p>

<p><strong>On April 28, Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), outlined certain actions the agency <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/epa-to-take-actions-against-forever-chemical-pollution-5849548">intends to take</a> on the matter.</strong></p>

<p>Such actions include establishing liability frameworks to ensure polluters pay for contamination and creating limitation guidelines for PFAS manufacturers.</p>

<p>“I have long been concerned about PFAS and the efforts to help states and communities dealing with legacy contamination in their backyards,” Zeldin said.</p>

<p>“This is just a start of the work we will do on PFAS to ensure Americans have the cleanest air, land, and water.</p>

<p>“With today’s announcement, we are tackling PFAS from all of EPA’s program offices, advancing research and testing, stopping PFAS from getting into drinking water systems, holding polluters accountable.”</p>
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_2633.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Brussels is “far removed from the reality of farm life” in Ireland, according to Offaly TD Carol Nolan, who was speaking in the Dail after the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association’s (ICMSA) hit out at new CAP simplification measures as “unconvincing.”</strong></p>
<p>The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments are a crucial source of income for thousands of small farmers here, with changes, however many, specifically young farmers have called for more CAP subsidies. Some farmers argue, along with the ICMSA, that they have seen little to no benefit, and that other sections of the  EU Commission continue to heap regulations on farmers.</p>
<p>Deputy Carol Nolan, speaking on Thursday, referred to recent polling indicating a dip in support for the EU in Ireland.</p>
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<p>“Minister, you may have seen recent polling on Irish people’s views on the EU, and certainly it’s at historically low levels. I  believe that this is due in no small part to what is now almost a cliche, and that is the bureaucratic stranglehold that Brussels has on every single aspect of our lives, particularly agriculture. There is a level of intrusion, and often just plain stupidity, that is simply eye-watering,” she said.</p>
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<p>Deputy Nolan referred to the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association’s (ICMSA) comments relating to the European Commission’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) simplification proposals. The organisation criticised the measures as “unconvincing” after the commission on Wednesday outlined measures it was taking to boost farmers’ competitiveness.</p>
<p>The CAP, or Common Agricultural Policy, is the EU’s agricultural policy, designed to support farmers, ensure food security, and encourage sustainable farming practices. It’s a shared competence between the EU and its member states. The terms of the new CAP drew criticism in 2022 as under the policy, when Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue said that a “few hundred farmers” would see reduced payments under the policy.</p>
<p>While it said that the measures may involve some minor improvements for some farmers, ICMSA President Dennis Drennan said that the overall “regulatory tide” shows no sign of easing, adding that there is “no real confidence” in the commission’s simplification plan.</p>
<p>He said: “We’ve seen and heard it all before and so far from the issues being simplified, they become steadily more cumbersome and complex year-on-year.”</p>
<p>Mr Drennan added: “The EU Commission as a simple complete entity, needs to come together and simplify the regulations while still meeting their requirements. It’s possible and must be carried through.</p>
<p><strong>‘OVERLOADED LEVELS OF REGULATION’</strong></p>
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<p>“We have overloaded the levels of regulations on farmers and the reduction in food production across the EU is clear evidence of this. We need real simplification, not tokenism,” he added.</p>
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<p>In February, European Commissioner for agriculture, Christopher Hansen, said that farm subsidies should be better targeted so that more money goes to younger farmers who are starting off in the industry. This would require a “rebalancing” of how CAP payments are made to farmers. He also called for changes to CAP payments to take into account the differences between farms with five hectares and those with 5,000.</p>
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<p>“Let’s be clear, the CAP is not fit for purpose,” Nolan said. “It is a one size fits all policy designed in Brussels, far removed from the realities of farm life, while leaving Irish farmers drowning in paperwork, compliance costs, and ever-changing regulations that seem to change with the wind. The figures speak for themselves – in 2023, the average Irish family farm income was just €31,000, and for many small farms, it’s far less.</p>
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<p>“Input costs, fertiliser, feed, fuel, have all skyrocketed, up 40 per cent since 2020 while CAP payments have barely budged. And what about the young farmers? The next generation that we’re supposed to be encouraging? The CAP’s young farmer’s scheme is a drop in the ocean. As I understand it, the current funding for the young CAP farmer’s scheme, specifically the complementary income support for young farmers under the 2023/2027 CAP strategic plans, is mandated at a minimum of three per cent of each EU country’s direct payments budget.</p>
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<p>“This is an increase of just one per cent from the previous 2024 to 2020 period, where national authorities were required to allocate up to two per cent of their income support funding for the young farmers’ payment. Is it any wonder that young farmers are saying they do not believe that the EU rhetoric matches the reality of the crisis?”</p>
<p>In terms of nature restoration, Carol Nolan added: “Brussels has highlighted time and time again that there are food security issues. Surely, removing land from food production is in contradiction with that statement from the commission. And I hope that that would be challenged.”</p>


guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747322963
title: UK’s Starmer seeking third countries to set up asylum seeker ‘return hubs’
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PM’s plans compared to Conservatives’ controversial Rwanda deportation policy, which he had dismissed as a ‘gimmick’.

link:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/uks-starmer-seeking-third-countries-willing-to-set-up-migrant-hubs?traffic_source=rss


guid: yt:video:xs_uT22IQaQ
title: 80 Years Later: Why Was Fascism Defeated, but Not Destroyed?
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It was also evident in the deliberation process at the just concluded China-CELAC meeting in Beijing, and in the related bilateral summit between China’s President Xi Jinping and Brazil’s President Lula da Silva, which discussed China’s cooperation with the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean to build infrastructure projects to lift the population out of poverty across the region, as has famously occurred in China. &quot;We don’t just need export corridors, but routes that are vectors for development and unity,&quot; Lula explained.\n\nAnd in the West?\n\n&quot;What is most remarkable is the complete detachment of the present Establishments from considering the consequences of their actions,&quot; Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated in her weekly Dialogue webcast. &quot;It is as if they are being pulled by some internal or external mechanism, which has nothing to do with reality, which is some kind of drive to keep doing what they have been doing, to maintain a position of hegemony, of dominance. It’s very important that the population get more active and wake up,&quot; she insisted. &quot;The biggest problem is the passivity—when you think what is at stake!&quot;\n\nThere are consequences to one’s actions… and to inaction.\n\nCase in point: the unspeakable horror which is being inflicted on the two million people of Gaza, with intentional mass starvation being imposed upon a population already being mercilessly bombed and driven from their razed homes for over 18 months—by the Netanyahu government of Israel, with the acquiescence, and weapons, of Washington, London, and other European capitals. At a UN Security Council meeting May 13 to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher asked the international community to reflect on what they will tell future generations about what they did, or failed to do, to &quot;stop the 21st century atrocity to which we bear daily witness in Gaza.&quot; Will we use &quot;those empty words `We did all we could?’&quot; He noted that the International Court of Justice in the Hague has again taken up the issue of genocide, and &quot;will weigh the testimony we have shared. But it will be too late.&quot;\n\nZepp-LaRouche underscored that same point: We are on a countdown to zero in Gaza. Three quarters of that population are suffering Emergency or Catastrophic food deprivation, the worst two levels of the international five-level scale of food insecurity and nutritional deprivation. Nearly half a million people are at the point of dying right how: they are in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, illness and starvation.\n\nAnd yet the solution is at hand. The LaRouche Oasis Plan provides a programmatic solution which will benefit all of the people and nations of the region—from India to the Mediterranean, from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf—by creating plentiful fresh water resources for this arid part of the planet. The technology, the infrastructure, the science, and the political will are all at hand, if the West would only join forces with China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Global South in general. That is the urgent issue that must be taken up at the June 2-4 UN conference on Palestine; it is the urgent issue that will be addressed at the Schiller Institute’s May 24-25 international conference, as an urgent example of the kind of global policy shift required to establish a new global security and development architecture.\n\nThe consequences of inaction are unthinkable. They can be seen in the desperate eyes of the starving children of Gaza, and in the very real prospect of a nuclear mushroom cloud if British geopolitical wars are not stopped for good.","type":"application/x-shockwave-flash","height":390,"width":640,"thumbnails":["https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/xs_uT22IQaQ/hqdefault.jpg"]}]}


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Walmart is a bellwether of US consumer health and its statement is a signpost of the impact of the trade war.

link:
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/5/15/largest-us-retailer-walmart-warns-of-price-hikes-because-of-tariffs?traffic_source=rss


guid: yt:video:129trWY_HSk
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It was also evident in the deliberation process at the just concluded China-CELAC meeting in Beijing, and in the related bilateral summit between China’s President Xi Jinping and Brazil’s President Lula da Silva, which discussed China’s cooperation with the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean to build infrastructure projects to lift the population out of poverty across the region, as has famously occurred in China. &quot;We don’t just need export corridors, but routes that are vectors for development and unity,&quot; Lula explained.\n\nAnd in the West?\n\n&quot;What is most remarkable is the complete detachment of the present Establishments from considering the consequences of their actions,&quot; Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated in her weekly Dialogue webcast. &quot;It is as if they are being pulled by some internal or external mechanism, which has nothing to do with reality, which is some kind of drive to keep doing what they have been doing, to maintain a position of hegemony, of dominance. It’s very important that the population get more active and wake up,&quot; she insisted. &quot;The biggest problem is the passivity—when you think what is at stake!&quot;\n\nThere are consequences to one’s actions… and to inaction.\n\nCase in point: the unspeakable horror which is being inflicted on the two million people of Gaza, with intentional mass starvation being imposed upon a population already being mercilessly bombed and driven from their razed homes for over 18 months—by the Netanyahu government of Israel, with the acquiescence, and weapons, of Washington, London, and other European capitals. At a UN Security Council meeting May 13 to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher asked the international community to reflect on what they will tell future generations about what they did, or failed to do, to &quot;stop the 21st century atrocity to which we bear daily witness in Gaza.&quot; Will we use &quot;those empty words `We did all we could?’&quot; He noted that the International Court of Justice in the Hague has again taken up the issue of genocide, and &quot;will weigh the testimony we have shared. But it will be too late.&quot;\n\nZepp-LaRouche underscored that same point: We are on a countdown to zero in Gaza. Three quarters of that population are suffering Emergency or Catastrophic food deprivation, the worst two levels of the international five-level scale of food insecurity and nutritional deprivation. 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That is the urgent issue that must be taken up at the June 2-4 UN conference on Palestine; it is the urgent issue that will be addressed at the Schiller Institute’s May 24-25 international conference, as an urgent example of the kind of global policy shift required to establish a new global security and development architecture.\n\nThe consequences of inaction are unthinkable. They can be seen in the desperate eyes of the starving children of Gaza, and in the very real prospect of a nuclear mushroom cloud if British geopolitical wars are not stopped for good.","type":"application/x-shockwave-flash","height":390,"width":640,"thumbnails":["https://i2.ytimg.com/vi/129trWY_HSk/hqdefault.jpg"]}]}


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author: ;Prof Rodrigue Tremblay
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La complexité croissante des sociétés démocratiques et des économies avancées : le danger d’un cycle vicieux de problèmes et de crises.

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La crainte serait que des problèmes ignorés ou laissés sans solution, une certaine confusion intellectuelle et une désintégration sociale débouchent sur un chaos généralisé et qu’il s’en suit une période de perturbations politiques et sociales, et de stagnation économique.

link:
https://www.mondialisation.ca/la-complexite-croissante-des-societes-democratiques-et-des-economies-avancees-le-danger-dun-cycle-vicieux-de-problemes-et-de-crises/5698608


guid: 1030643 at https://www.zerohedge.com
title: Trump Admin Urges Supreme Court To Permit DOGE Access To Social Security Records
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Trump Admin Urges Supreme Court To Permit DOGE Access To Social Security Records</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-admin-urges-supreme-court-to-permit-doge-access-to-social-security-records-5857423?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&amp;src_src=partner&amp;src_cmp=ZeroHedge">Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times</a> (emphasis ours),</em></p>

<p><strong>The Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court on May 13 to let the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have access to Social Security data after lower courts blocked that access.</strong></p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/image_92%2840%29_0.jpg?itok=mORpFAhS" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/image_92%2840%29_0.jpg?itok=mORpFAhS"><picture><figure role="group" data-sanitized-class="caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images"><img alt="" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="ac83fae6-9ca8-449e-becb-a30e6b3b634e" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/image_92%2840%29_0.jpg?itok=mORpFAhS" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on April 3, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/29/2025-02005/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency">issued</a> Executive Order 14158 on Jan. 20, implementing DOGE, an advisory body that recommends cost-cutting measures. The order directed the entity to “implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.”</p>

<p><strong>Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the new filing that the lower courts have overreached and are attempting to turn themselves into “the human resources department for the Executive Branch.”</strong></p>

<p>The filing came after Ellen Lipton Hollander, a Maryland-based federal district court judge, issued an <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.49.0.pdf">order</a> on March 20 preventing DOGE from viewing Social Security Administration (SSA) records because such access “violates” the federal Privacy Act.</p>

<p><strong>The lawsuit was brought in February by labor unions and retirees represented by the Democracy Forward Foundation.</strong></p>

<p>“The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion. It has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack,” the judge wrote in granting a temporary restraining order against the federal government.</p>

<p>DOGE’s team at the Social Security Administration has had “unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses,” Hollander wrote.</p>

<p><strong>Hollander directed DOGE to delete any personally identifiable data in its possession. </strong>On April 17, Hollander <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-limits-doge-access-to-social-security-data-5843929">upgraded</a> the temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction.</p>

<p>On April 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit voted 9–6 to maintain Hollander’s order while the appeal process continues.</p>

<p>On May 2, the Trump administration <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-admin-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-doge-access-to-social-security-data-5851531">filed</a> an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, asking the justices to pause the preliminary injunction.</p>

<p>In the May 13 <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1063/358729/20250513153432172_SSA%20v.%20AFSCME%20%20-%20Stay%20Application%20Reply%20-%20Final.pdf">filing</a>, Sauer argued that the district court erred in preventing “the 11 members of the Social Security Administration (SSA) DOGE team—from accessing data ... for purposes that are unquestionably lawful.”</p>

<p>The district court “dictated to the Executive Branch which government employees can access which data and even prescribed necessary training, background checks, and paperwork for data access,” Sauer wrote.</p>

<p>“<strong>When district courts attempt to transform themselves into the human resources department for the Executive Branch, the irreparable harm to the government is clear</strong>,” he wrote.</p>

<p>When the courts “stymie the government’s initiatives to modernize badly outdated systems and combat rampant fraud—leaving those initiatives on a litigation track that may halt them for months or years—the irreparable harm is even clearer.”</p>

<p>Reviewing Social Security Administration data is important because the agency has “one of the largest documented histories of improper payments,” Sauer stated.</p>

<p>In a <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1063/358633/20250512154859924_AFSCME%20v%20SSA%20Opposition%20to%20Stay.pdf">brief</a> in opposition filed on May 12, the lead respondent, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, said that after years of honoring “its data security obligations,” the Social Security Administration “now seeks to throw open its data systems to unauthorized (and often unvetted) personnel who have no demonstrated need for the personally identifiable information ... they seek.”</p>

<p>The April 17 preliminary injunction should be left in place because it is “narrow and, contrary to the government’s assertions, permits SSA to disclose both anonymized and non-anonymized data to DOGE Team members,” the brief said.</p>

<p><strong>The Supreme Court could rule on the government’s emergency application at any time.</strong></p>

<p><em>Jack Phillips contributed to this report.</em></p>
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guid: https://www.whitehouse.gov/?p=12440
title: President Trump’s Policies Keep Paying Off
author: ;The White House
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>While President Donald J. Trump is in the Gulf region <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-historic-1-2-trillion-economic-commitment-in-qatar/">securing</a> over a trillion dollars’ worth of investments in U.S. companies, deals on the home front keep coming:</p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>Sanofi</strong> <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sanofi-to-invest-at-least-20-billion-in-the-us-through-2030-growing-investments-in-science-and-expanding-domestic-manufacturing-302455566.html">announced</a> it will invest at least $20 billion over the next five years in manufacturing and research and development.</li>
<li><strong>Kraft Heinz</strong> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/ketchup-maker-kraft-heinz-investing-3-billion-upgrading-us-manufacturing-2025-05-14/">announced</a> a $3 billion investment to upgrade its U.S. factories — its largest investment in its plants in decades.</li>
<li><strong>Carrier</strong> <a href="https://www.corporate.carrier.com/news/news-articles/202505_carrier-announces-additional-1-billion-investment-us-manufacturing-footprint-advanced-cuttingedge-rd-workforce-expansion.html">announced</a> an additional $1 billion investment in manufacturing, innovation, and workforce expansion, which will create 4,000 new jobs.</li>
<li><strong>Anheuser-Busch</strong> <a href="https://www.anheuser-busch.com/newsroom/anheuser-busch-announces-new-300-million-investment-in-manufacturing-operations-across-the-US">announced</a> a $300 million investment in its manufacturing facilities across the country.</li>
<li><strong>Siemens Healthineers</strong> <a href="https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/en-us/press-room/press-releases/us-investments">announced</a> a $150 million investment to expand production, including relocating manufacturing operations for its Varian company from Mexico to California. </li>
</ul><p>That’s in addition to the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/investments">trillions of dollars</a> already secured in President Trump’s second term — investments that will bring tens of thousands of new, high-paying jobs to communities across the country as President Trump ushers in the new Golden Age.</p>


guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2165386/khalilullah-yousuf-financement-daech
title: Terrorisme : un Torontois utilisait GoFundMe et des cryptomonnaies pour financer Daech
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<p>Selon la GRC, il s'agit du «  plus gros complot de financement du terrorisme dans l'histoire du Canada ».</p>

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747321244
title: Claudia Sheinbaum denounces proposed US remittance tax as ‘unacceptable’
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Republicans have proposed the remittance tax as part of a broader push to crack down on undocumented immigration.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/claudia-sheinbaum-denounces-proposed-us-remittance-tax-as-unacceptable?traffic_source=rss


guid: yt:video:lc3klGdlocs
title: Les conservateurs veulent que les libéraux déposent un budget #polcan
author: ;cpac
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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698585
title: Plaidoyer pour une politique des grands travaux mobilisatrice: Le Sud futur El ­­Dorado
author: ;Chems Eddine Chitour
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<p><em>« Si tu veux construire un bateau, ne rassemble pas tes hommes et femmes pour leur donner des ordres, pour expliquer chaque détail, pour leur dire où trouver chaque chose… Si tu veux construire un bateau, fais naître dans le </em>…</p>

link:
https://www.mondialisation.ca/plaidoyer-pour-une-politique-des-grands-travaux-mobilisatrice-le-sud-futur-el-dorado/5698585


guid: 1031003 at https://www.zerohedge.com
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"Everything You Said Was Essentially Dishonest" - RFK Jr. Destroys Dems In First Major Hearing As HHS Secretary

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">"Everything You Said Was Essentially Dishonest" - RFK Jr. Destroys Dems In First Major Hearing As HHS Secretary</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em><a href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/rfk-jr-stuns-critics-in-his-first">Via VigilantFox.com</a></em></p>

<p><strong>RFK Jr. just walked into Congress and took down his biggest critics in one fell swoop.</strong></p>

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<p>This was a masterclass.</p>

<p>A dentist congressman came out swinging on fluoride. By the time Kennedy finished, he realized he picked the wrong fight.</p>

<p>Then, a Democrat tried to accuse Kennedy of politicizing children’s health—but he got emotional, broke through the noise, and completely flipped the script on her.</p>

<p>If you watch one thing today, make it this. Kennedy just took the MAHA agenda to the next level.</p>

<p>Right out of the gate in his first major congressional hearing as HHS Secretary, Kennedy laid out a sweeping plan to reshape HHS from the ground up.</p>

<p>Here’s what’s on deck:</p>

<ul><li>
	<p>Ending “gain-of-function experiments and research based upon radical gender ideology”</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>A full-scale crackdown on fentanyl and drug addiction</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>$94 billion toward better food, fitness, and childcare</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>FDA action to remove toxic chemicals from the food supply</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Slashing wasteful NIH projects</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Merging mental health and addiction programs for faster, better care</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Giving local leaders more power to fix problems in their own communities</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>A major upgrade to Head Start, the early education program for low-income children</p>
	</li>
</ul><p><strong>“We intend to make the Trump HHS not just the most effective, but also the most compassionate in U.S. history,”</strong> Kennedy said.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Right out of the gate in his first major congressional hearing as HHS Secretary, Kennedy laid out a sweeping plan to reshape HHS from the ground up.<br><br>
Here’s what’s on deck:<br><br>
• Ending “gain-of-function experiments and research based upon radical gender ideology”<br><br>
• A full-scale… <a href="https://t.co/kptlIiHfet">pic.twitter.com/kptlIiHfet</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1922717549206147325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Then came a tense back-and-forth with Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who tried to pin him down on tobacco prevention funding. Kennedy didn’t just answer—he flipped the entire narrative.</p>

<p>DeLauro asked, “Do you commit to following the law, again, fully obligating those funds so that we can help adults who want to quit using tobacco and prevent teens from becoming addicted?”</p>

<p>Kennedy fired back: <strong>“</strong>Allow me to answer that by pointing out the absolute cataclysmic disorganization of this agency. <strong>Under your oversight, for 40 years</strong>, we had nine separate offices of Women’s Health.”</p>

<p>And he didn’t stop there.</p>

<p>“When we consolidate them, the Democrats say we’re eliminating them. We’re not. We’re still appropriating the 3.7 billion, but we’re not keeping all nine. We had eight separate offices for minority health. We eliminated one. <strong>We had 27 HIV offices</strong>.”</p>

<p>DeLauro tried to interrupt—“Okay, let me just. I’m going to—”</p>

<p>But Kennedy kept rolling: <strong>“We had 59 behavioral health programs.”</strong></p>

<p>At that point, DeLauro backed off: “I’m well over time.”</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Then came a tense back-and-forth with Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who tried to pin him down on tobacco funding. Kennedy didn’t just answer—he flipped the entire narrative.<br><br>
DeLauro asked, “Do you commit to following the law, again, fully obligating those funds so that we can help… <a href="https://t.co/QHceNdH2xu">pic.twitter.com/QHceNdH2xu</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1922717871051792833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>One of the most jaw-dropping moments came when Rep. Mike Simpson, a dentist, tried to challenge Kennedy on fluoride—and instantly regretted it.</p>

<p>“We better put a lot more money into dental education because we’re going to need a whole lot more dentists [if we ban fluoride],” Simpson said.</p>

<p>The rebuttal was too easy for Kennedy.</p>

<p>“We now know that <strong>virtually all the benefit [from fluoride] is from topical</strong>, and we can get that through mouthwashes. We can get through fluoridated toothpastes.”</p>

<p>Then came the line that hit hard:</p>

<p>“The National Toxicity Program issued a report in August, a meta review of all the science that now exists on fluoride, and <strong>showed a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure dose and lower IQ</strong>.”</p>

<p>“Which is an issue that we all have to be concerned with. We want high IQ kids right now,” Kennedy added.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">One of the most jaw-dropping moments came when Rep. Mike Simpson, a dentist, tried to challenge Kennedy on fluoride—and instantly regretted it.<br><br>
“We better put a lot more money into dental education because we’re going to need a whole lot more dentists [if we ban fluoride],”… <a href="https://t.co/dPta9V8TCu">pic.twitter.com/dPta9V8TCu</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1922718037091762243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Later, Rep. Steny Hoyer demanded answers on HHS budget cuts—but Kennedy was ready with numbers and a blunt dose of reality.</p>

<p><strong>“We’re spending $2 trillion a year that we don’t have!”</strong></p>

<p>He followed up: <strong>“When you’re spending $2 trillion more than you have, you have to make cuts.”</strong></p>

<p>Hoyer pressed again. Kennedy stayed firm.</p>

<p>“The cuts that were done were cuts that were to duplication, to redundancy, to streamlining,” he said. “We increased our workforce 70% in four years. So we were going <strong>back to the 2019 levels</strong>.”</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Later, Rep. Steny Hoyer demanded answers on HHS budget cuts—but Kennedy was ready with numbers and a blunt dose of reality.<br><br>
“We’re spending $2 trillion a year that we don’t have!”<br><br>
He followed up: “When you’re spending $2 trillion more than you have, you have to make cuts.”… <a href="https://t.co/WKZ1GCZuPY">pic.twitter.com/WKZ1GCZuPY</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1922718153341124823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Then came a moment of visible deflation from Rep. Mark Pocan, who tried—repeatedly—to get Kennedy to endorse vaccines.</p>

<p>“If you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles?” Pocan asked.</p>

<p>Kennedy didn’t bite.</p>

<p>“What I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant,” he said. “I think what we’re going to try to do is to lay out the pros and cons, the risks and benefits accurately as we understand them.”</p>

<p>Pocan pressed again: “Can you talk about chickenpox?”</p>

<p>Kennedy exposed a reality Pocan didn’t want to hear:</p>

<p>“Again, I don’t want to give advice. I can tell you in Europe, they don’t use the chickenpox vaccine specifically because the preclinical trial shows that <strong>when you inoculate the population for chickenpox, you get shingles in older people, which is more dangerous</strong>.”</p>

<p>Desperate for something, Pocan asked, “Polio?”</p>

<p>“Again, I don’t want to be giving advice,” Kennedy replied.</p>

<p>Pocan backed off with a clear look of disappointment: “That’s fair. No, that’s fair. Like I said, I was not doing it as a gotcha…”</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Then came a moment of visible deflation from Rep. Mark Pocan, who tried—repeatedly—to get Kennedy to endorse vaccines.<br><br>
“If you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles?” Pocan asked.<br><br>
Kennedy didn’t bite.<br><br>
“What I would say is my opinions about vaccines are… <a href="https://t.co/lnpBEIfpGH">pic.twitter.com/lnpBEIfpGH</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1922718311306957096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>One of the most shocking revelations came when Kennedy pointed to corruption inside NIH as the reason we still don’t have a cure for Alzheimer’s.</p>

<p>“For 20 years, because of utter corruption and fraud, we were directing Alzheimer’s research to one hypothesis, and any other hypothesis was shut down,” he said.</p>

<p>“We should have the cure for Alzheimer’s today. <strong>We don’t have it PURELY because of corruption at NIH. And we are going to have it quickly.</strong>”</p>

<p>Rep. Lois Frankel attacked Kennedy’s use of HHS funds, characterizing it as Elon Musk randomly plugging numbers into a computer to make decisions.</p>

<p>Kennedy fired back, taking offense at that false narrative.</p>

<p><strong>“Everything that you said was essentially dishonest,”</strong> he told her.</p>

<blockquote data-media-max-width="680" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Rep. Lois Frankel attacked Kennedy’s use of HHS funds, characterizing it as Elon Musk randomly plugging numbers into a computer to make decisions.<br><br>
Kennedy fired back, taking offense at that false narrative.<br><br>
“Everything that you said was essentially dishonest,” he told her. <a href="https://t.co/ZZP4igMY0C">pic.twitter.com/ZZP4igMY0C</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1922719206618898456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Later, Kennedy clashed with Rep. DeLauro once more. This time, he let loose.</p>

<p><strong>“Look at our children, they’re the sickest children in the world,”</strong> he said passionately.</p>

<p>Kennedy delivered a direct blow to DeLauro, noting he succeeded where she failed.</p>

<p>“Congresswoman DeLauro, you say that you’ve worked for 20 years on getting food dye out. <strong>Then give me credit!”</strong> he exclaimed. <strong>“I got it out in 100 days.”</strong></p>

<p>He then closed with a call to unity:</p>

<p>“So, let’s work together and do something that we all believe in, which is have healthy kids in our country for God’s sake. <strong>There’s no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children</strong>. There’s just kids, and we should all be concerned with them.”</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Later, Kennedy clashed with Rep. DeLauro once more. This time, he let loose.<br><br>
“Look at our children, they’re the sickest children in the world,” he said passionately.<br><br>
Kennedy delivered a direct blow to DeLauro, noting he succeeded where she failed.<br><br>
“Congresswoman DeLauro, you… <a href="https://t.co/VBAL4NSniV">pic.twitter.com/VBAL4NSniV</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1922719395756835263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQVuUUxvDmo">Watch the full testimony below:</a></p>

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Trump Touts 1.4 Trillion Investment In AI, Tech From UAE In Final Mideast Stop</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>After the several massive announcements and deals to come out of Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, developments during the last leg of the US President's Gulf tour in United Arab Emirates actually seem a bit humdrum by comparison. </p>

<p>But the visuals and spare no expenses official welcome and ceremonial events have certainly been interesting...</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">⚡️Trump arrives in the UAE<br><br>
(Don’t ask me what’s happening)<a href="https://t.co/dtUsPwF25W">pic.twitter.com/dtUsPwF25W</a></p>
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1923021034866798814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Among the more notable statements has been Trump's <strong>touting a 1.4 trillion</strong>... yes that's <em>trillion</em>... <strong>investment in AI</strong> and other tech sectors from the Emirates.</p>

<p>The White House had previewed this longtime in the works deal as related to<strong> artificial intelligence infrastructure, semiconductors, energy and manufacturing</strong>.</p>

<p>Further, Emirates Global Aluminum will "invest in the first new aluminium smelter in the United States in 35 years, which would nearly double US domestic aluminium production."</p>
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<p>According to more developments out of <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/5/15/donald-trump-live-us-president-signs-multibillion-dollar-deals-with-qatar">the UAE</a>:</p>

<ul><li><em>The White House said that Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/14/key-takeaways-from-day-two-of-donald-trumps-tour-of-the-middle-east">signed agreements</a> that would “generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion”.</em></li>
	<li tabindex="-1"><em>The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/5/14/peace-talks-boeing-jets-headline-trump-state-visit-to-qatar">agreements</a> are said to include a $96bn deal with Qatar Airways to buy up to 210 Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X aeroplanes, and a statement of intent for $38bn in investments at Qatar’s Al Udeid Airbase and other air defence capabilities.</em></li>
	<li><em>A meeting is scheduled for later today of US, Turkish and Syrian officials to discuss details of Trump’s announced dropping of sanctions against Syria.</em></li>
	<li><em>Trump’s three-country tour of the Gulf state region will conclude in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday.</em></li>
</ul><p>Amid lots of awards ceremonies, accolades, and a state dinner...</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The President of the United Arab Emirates just gave President Trump a special award.<br><br>
The respect they have for him is unmatched. <a href="https://t.co/7r9aKfcKKX">pic.twitter.com/7r9aKfcKKX</a></p>
— George (@BehizyTweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1923061485783171131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Trump has also been filling in more details of fresh arms deals inked with Qatar. "Yesterday we signed an agreement for Qatar to purchase <strong>$42bn-worth of the finest American military hardware including THAAD missile batteries</strong>," he said Thursday while speaking to US troops at Al Udeid airbase.</p>

<p>The commander-in-chief further detailed that the deal includes "Pegasus refueling aircraft, Desert Vipers, light armored vehicles, amphibious combat vehicles, the MQ-9B and the Sky Guardian drones."</p>

<p><em>A rare trip to the country's Grand Mosque...</em></p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">By the way, this is the first time the UAE's Grand Mosque has been closed to the public. They did it to show respect for President Trump.<a href="https://t.co/gdxNdMOU49">pic.twitter.com/gdxNdMOU49</a></p>
— George (@BehizyTweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/BehizyTweets/status/1923021229499269586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>As for Qatar, the president says he's still ready to accept a donated jet from the tiny oil and gas rich country, a flying palace of a future Air Force One, which Dems have been warning would be a violation of the US Constitution's prohibition on foreign gifts. Certainly he'll come back to Washington awaiting immense controversy and backlash from the corporate media and his political enemies.</p>
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<p>With gratitude,</p>
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/alice-kotlyarenko-n4sjEVninD4-unsplash-scaled.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>I am growing increasingly concerned about our apparent lack of strategy from our current Government when it comes to reconciling our current climate commitments – which would see us slash emissions by 51 percent by 2030 (which we’re nowhere near achieving) – with reality.</strong></p>
<p><span>I am concerned about this because it’s something of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation, and the only way we’ll be</span> <em><span>less damned</span></em> <span>is if we make pains to head off the situation</span> <em><span>now.</span></em></p>
<p><span>But we don’t appear to be making any effort to do so. At least not publicly.</span></p>
<p><span>This is on my mind because of a report that went, it seems to me, curiously uncommented upon in recent weeks, given its potential ramifications. Valerie Hanley over at Extra.ie reported that <a href="https://extra.ie/2025/05/04/news/irish-news/50000-irish-homes-power-outages">“more than 50,000 households and businesses are being hit with power outages every week,”</a> a number that appears to be on the rise:</span></p>
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<p><em><span>“Last year alone, more than 30,000 blackouts affected almost three million customers, which includes people temporarily left without electricity on multiple occasions, across the country, an increase on the 2.2 million recorded in 2023.”</span></em></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>Sure, a couple of politicians commented on it – Fianna Fáil MEP Barry Cowen and Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín – but by and large, for the size of the phenomenon we’re talking about here, it slipped by leaving the status quo relatively untroubled.</span></p>
<p><span>A couple of days before that was published, <a href="https://www.thesun.ie/news/15129781/esb-irish-homes-businesses-without-power-ireland-dublin-electricity/">over 20,000 homes and businesses were left without power in Dublin</a> as a result of a power outage that affected a number of places around the country. Dublin was simply the worst of them.</span></p>
<p><span>More anecdotally, as my colleague Ben Scallan and I recorded our weekly podcast earlier this week, he dropped out of the call suddenly, but not before I saw the lights go out in his room and the camera switch off. He, too, had suffered a power cut, just days after another one of our colleagues had the power to her apartment block cut off as well.</span></p>
<p><span>We experienced power cuts in rapid succession earlier this year, between Storm Darragh in December and Storm Éowyn in January, the latter needing no further explanation after it plunged almost 800,000 people into prolonged darkness and disconnection.</span></p>
<p><span>On a separate infrastructural note, there was also a cold snap in January that resulted in significant disruption to water supplies for thousands of people. You might respond that that’s just the way it goes in sufficiently cold weather – water freezes and pipes burst. But it’s apparently the way it goes in hot weather too.</span></p>
<p><span>Uisce Éireann was branded <a href="https://gript.ie/hosepipe-ban-proves-water-system-is-failing-says-td/">“utterly unfit for purpose”</a> by Cork North-Central TD Ken O’Flynn earlier this month after the announcement of the earliest-ever hosepipe bans across several parts of the country. This was followed by reports that <a href="https://www.independent.ie/weather/seventeen-areas-being-monitored-for-water-shortages-amid-wall-to-wall-sunshine-and-drought-fears/a354969288.html">seventeen other areas across the country were being monitored for water shortages</a> amid “wall-to-wall sunshine and drought fears”.</span></p>
<p><span>That the loss of power and other services is becoming a growing fixture of Irish life apparently can’t be denied, on either the basis of the figures obtained by Extra.ie or experience. Memory is a notoriously fickle thing, but I’ll go out on a limb anyway and say that I do not remember this being the case throughout my childhood and adolescence, nor do any of the people older than I that I’ve asked about it.</span></p>
<p><span>The common reason given for these disruptions is that climate change is resulting in more severe weather patterns, which has a knock-on effect on our national infrastructure. More powerful storms affect our grid and drier spells affect our water supplies. That meteorological factors weigh in on this cannot be denied.</span></p>
<p><span>Much was made as well of the state of our electricity infrastructure, especially in the wake of Storm Éowyn. An ageing, extensive and therefore vulnerable network fell easy prey to powerful winds and falling trees, which meant that an electrifying rural society was left in the lurch when heating and transportation systems operating on that basis were suddenly cut off and rendered useless.</span></p>
<p><span>Decarbonising in Ireland has meant out with the old reliables – turf, coal, gas and oil heating – and diesel generators, and in with the new but vulnerable.</span></p>
<p><span>However, this has been much discussed. What hasn’t been so discussed is the precarious green transition the country is undergoing which, even if you agree with it in principle, is woefully underconsidered and underplanned. The Irish Academy of Engineering released a report last month that said the country’s commitment to achieving climate neutrality by 2050 fails to acknowledge technological and financial realities and amounts to <a href="https://gript.ie/engineers-irelands-2050-net-zero-plan-is-wishful-thinking/">“wishful thinking”</a>.</span></p>
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<p><em><span>The report also touches on the fact that since 2014 annual national risk assessments have repeatedly identified the vulnerability of Ireland’s supply of natural gas. </span></em></p>
<p><em><span>“The exposure to a natural gas supply risk is particularly concerning because of the inescapable and continuing reliance the country has on natural gas as the energy source of last resort for electricity generation,” the IAE says.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span>“The fundamental challenge arising from the intermittency of renewables has not been adequately addressed to date and energy policy needs to recognise that there is no currently available or prospective alternative to natural gas as the backstop source of energy for electricity generation,” it adds.</span></em></p>
</blockquote>
<p><span>And yet we plough on ahead, making a commitment to a zero-emissions electricity system by 2050 “without first understanding and demonstrating how it is feasible,” in the IAE’s words.</span></p>
<p><span>So we’re caught between a rock and a hard place. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and the Climate Change Advisory Council stated in March that if Ireland misses its 2030 target of a 51 percent reduction in emissions, it could incur fines of between €8 and €26 billion. Potentially bye-bye Apple Windfall and then some. But if we</span> <em><span>somehow</span></em> <span>strive for this effectively, we risk jeopardising our ability to generate electricity reliably. Perhaps that’s what we’re already doing, if the data we began this article with and experience is anything to go by. </span></p>
<p><span>I am of the opinion that we should seriously reconsider our commitment to these targets, and quickly, because lawfare and smaller sanctions are infinitely preferable to either the punitive fines we’d face for failing to meet them, or far worse, the vagaries of an unreliable national grid, as Portugal and Spain got a sense of recently.</span></p>
<p><span>Watching this week as the London Metro was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/london-subway-power-outage-01c1aa727a7d10a146e7da091ffefb7e">engulfed in chaos by a power outage</a>, it struck me that energy insecurity may really end up being, as far as Europe is concerned, the story of the 2020s. Unless we change course, which we have a once in a generation opportunity to do. Unfortunately, as I began with, I don’t see any urgency about seizing that chance.</span></p>


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Valeria Marquez, a 23-year-old beauty influencer, was shot dead during a TikTok livestream at a beauty salon in Mexico.

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Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claims attack on Djibo military outpost, SITE Intelligence Group says.

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Donald Trump's lawyers seek to stop judges' national block on executive order in case that could decide policy's future.

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Baraka's defence team say they will file a motion to dismiss trespassing charges pursued by the Trump administration.

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Schiff Slams Clueless Fed, Says Powell Is Living In A Kind Of "Baghdad Bob World"</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://www.schiffgold.com/peters-podcast/peter-schiff-the-fed-admits-it-doesnt-know-anything"><em>Via SchiffGold.com,</em></a></p>

<p>In Wednesday’s episode of The Peter Schiff Show, Peter unpacks <a href="https://www.schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/fed-holds-rates-acknowledges-economic-uncertainty">the Federal Reserve’s recent decision to hold rates steady</a>, dissecting Jerome Powell’s latest press conference for its contradictions and disconnect from the economic realities faced by Americans. He also critiques ongoing trade policy blunders and warns that political posturing could lead the U.S. into a major economic downturn.</p>

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<p>Peter opens by reflecting on the Fed’s latest move and the market’s reaction, pointing out the <a href="https://www.schiffgold.com/peters-podcast/peter-schiff-dont-trust-the-rebound-yet">gap between Powell’s rhetoric and investors’ response:</a></p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>Well as expected [last week], the federal reserve left interest rates unchanged. The fed funds target remains between 4.25 and 4.5%. You know, <strong>I think this was one of the most hawkish press conferences that I’ve seen Powell participate in. </strong>You wouldn’t really know that by the reaction in the stock market. Stock market kind of, you know, just ignored what Powell said. The bond market did get a boost as you would expect.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Noting the mismatch between <a href="https://www.schiffgold.com/guest-commentaries/cracked-shells-how-supply-shocks-not-monopoly-drive-egg-prices">the Federal Reserve’s statements and actual inflation data,</a> Peter takes issue with Powell’s assertion that inflation expectations remain grounded:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>First of all, in the prepared remarks, one of the interesting comments– or more lie than comment– is that Powell said that inflation expectations remain well anchored and the Fed’s job is to make sure they stay that way. <strong>Now, I don’t know what world Powell is living in, you know, kind of like the Baghdad Bob world from the Gulf War because inflation expectations left the 2% anchor a long time ago. </strong>I mean, hasn’t Powell been paying attention to any of the Michigan numbers that have been coming out on inflation expectations that show, I think, one year expectations with a six handle and five year expectations have got at least a four handle? So we’re nowhere near 2%. </em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Peter is quick to highlight how the Fed’s optimistic portrayal of the economy doesn’t match the underlying risks. He questions how Powell can call the current situation “a great place” <a href="https://www.schiffgold.com/exploring-finance/jobs-last-three-months-saw-downward-revisions-of-57k-on-average">when real economic indicators tell a different story:</a></p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>How is Powell describing the economy as being in a great place? How is he saying that inflation is in a great place? How was he saying that the labor market is in a great place?</strong> It doesn’t sound like a great place to me. I mean, a great place would be that the odds of higher inflation are going down, right, not where the odds are going up… That would be a good place, but when you’re admitting that the odds of higher inflation are going up, that’s pretty far from a great place.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Turning from monetary policy to international trade, Peter addresses the <a href="https://www.schiffgold.com/commentaries/heres-why-tariffs-wont-bring-back-manufacturing">persistent uncertainty around trade negotiations with China.</a> He suggests that China would be wise to reduce its reliance on American consumers, who are increasingly unable to afford the goods they import:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>But I don’t have a lot of optimism for these China trade talks. And in fact, what <strong>I think the Chinese may finally be doing is the right thing. They’ve been resisting doing the right thing for a long time because there’s always some short-term pain.</strong> Because the biggest mistake that China made, and I’ve been talking about this for decades now, was hitching its cart to our wagon. They tried to service the US consumer, supply the US consumer with goods, without recognizing that the US consumer was broke and really couldn’t afford to pay for the goods.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Peter concludes with a critique of protectionist policy, using a recent proposal by Donald Trump as a case study in economic misunderstanding. He points out the <a href="https://www.schiffgold.com/commentaries/the-trump-tariffs-why-free-trade-is-the-only-way-forward">self-defeating nature of a proposed 100% tariff</a> on foreign-made films—a move that threatens an industry where the U.S. actually excels internationally:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>Probably the most ridiculous thing that the president said this week wasn’t even during that interview. It was on a post on Truth Social out of the blue. Trump posts, ‘I’m going to impose a hundred percent tariff on movies filmed outside the United States.’ A hundred percent tariff, right? First of all, the movie industry, Hollywood motion pictures, that’s one of our industries that we have a trade surplus. <strong>We export a lot more movies than we import. So movies, the motion picture industry, Hollywood entertainment, that is not a problem that Donald Trump needs to fix.</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Be sure to check out <a href="https://www.schiffgold.com/interviews/schiff-on-mining-network-gold-up-as-easy-credit-weigh-on-the-dollar">Peter’s other analysis from the Mining Network!</a></p>

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">DHS Reportedly Requests 20,000 National Guard Troops For "Interior Immigration Enforcement"</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Democrats had no concern for due process when millions of third-world illegal aliens, including violent criminals and terrorists, invaded the U.S. with help from far-left NGOs. But now, as the Trump administration ramps up mass deportations, suddenly, this same army of left-wing lawmakers is screaming "due process" to delay deportations and clog up the courts. Their legal resistance is seen in federal courts, where remnants of the Biden-Harris regime still cling to power through far-left activist judges hell-bent on obstructing the mandate the American people handed Trump: deport criminal illegal aliens.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The Left didn’t care about due process while America was being invaded by illegal aliens, so don’t let them fool you now. Their concern is not due process, their concern is preventing deportations — the final step in the due process for illegal aliens. <a href="https://t.co/CZx5TPInCl">pic.twitter.com/CZx5TPInCl</a></p>
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heritage/status/1912617453948911625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>A new report from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/national-guard-immigration.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>, citing officials with direct knowledge of the plans, says the Department of Homeland Security has requested over 20,000 National Guard troops from the Defense Department to support the president's mass deportation plans for criminal illegal aliens. </p>

<p>If approved, this would mark the first time National Guard members have been used for interior migrant enforcement operations in the U.S.</p>

<p>Here's more from the NYT:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>Lawyers at the Pentagon were reviewing the request with "interior immigration enforcement," according to a Defense Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations. It was unclear what role state National Guard members would play and whether they would be involved in rounding up people for deportation, the official said.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>The move only suggests that the Trump administration is preparing to ramp up mass deportations and fulfill the mandate the American voter gave him: restore national security through the deportation of criminal illegal aliens. </p>

<p>Last month, on Truth Social, Trump wrote, "I'm doing what I was elected to do, remove criminals from our Country, but the Courts don't seem to want me to do that," adding, "We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years."</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_12-32-46.png?itok=c4wY7pIS" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_12-32-46.png?itok=c4wY7pIS"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="1a676a21-9d03-44c4-99fd-2a2bf1a30da5" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="482" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_12-32-46.png?itok=c4wY7pIS" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Vice President JD Vance called the battle between the Trump administration and leftist activists federal judges a "fake legal process" that is the "ratification of Biden's illegal migrant invasion."</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country. This placed extraordinary burdens on our country--our schools, hospitals, housing, and other essential services were overwhelmed. On top of that, many of these illegal aliens committed…</p>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1912320489261027374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>"The judicial process is for Americans. Immediate deportation is for illegal aliens," Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller recently said.</p>

<p>What we're witnessing in the federal courts from far-left judges amounts to a subversion of the popular mandate—an orchestrated campaign of lawfare that, in effect, could be viewed as a soft coup through the judiciary. When these activist judges repeatedly obstruct or delay lawful executive orders backed by a clear electoral mandate, it's no longer about legal oversight—it's about undermining the will of the people. </p>
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title: Meta Stumbles: Delays Release Of Flagship "Behemoth" AI Model Over Performance Concerns
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Meta Stumbles: Delays Release Of Flagship "Behemoth" AI Model Over Performance Concerns</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A new report from <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-is-delaying-the-rollout-of-its-flagship-ai-model-f4b105f7">The Wall Street Journal</a> hit the wires late Thursday during the U.S. cash session, revealing that Meta is reportedly delaying the release of its flagship AI model, "Behemoth," due to internal concerns over its performance and mounting questions about its multibillion-dollar splurge in AI investments.</p>

<p>Initially slated for an April release around Meta's inaugural AI conference (LlamaCon) for developers, Behemoth has been pushed to late in the second half of this year.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/GrA2C7PXYAAhjQb.jpg?itok=GSdUvDba" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/GrA2C7PXYAAhjQb.jpg?itok=GSdUvDba"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="55ce317e-8c04-435c-a182-f6b328624682" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/GrA2C7PXYAAhjQb.jpg?itok=GSdUvDba" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>The delays come as Meta has publicly claimed that Behemoth outperforms competitors like OpenAI and Google on certain benchmarks. People familiar with the delays say Behemoth has faced "training challenges." </p>

<p>Since Meta's first Llama model was released in early 2023, 11 of the 14 original researchers from the company's Fundamental AI Research Team have left.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, Meta disclosed in its latest <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meta-soars-after-blowing-away-estimates-hikes-capex-forecast">earnings report</a> that it had raised its capital expenditure forecast to between $64 billion and $72 billion, up from a previous range of $60 billion to $65 billion—a significant portion of that increase earmarked for AI infrastructure.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/meta%20capex_0.jpg?itok=JdGTPKez" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/meta%20capex_0.jpg?itok=JdGTPKez"><img alt="" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="292" src="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/meta%20capex_0.jpg?itok=JdGTPKez" width="500"></a></p>

<p>This development mirrors delays at other major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, suggesting that progress in large language models has slowed. </p>

<p>"<strong>Right now, the progress is quite small across all the labs, all the models</strong>," Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, an assistant professor and faculty fellow at New York University's Center for Data Science, told WSJ.</p>

<p>In markets, Meta shares are down a little more than 2% - coming into resistance after a multi-week 37% run. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_12-30-56_0.jpg?itok=Nd20D8ws" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_12-30-56_0.jpg?itok=Nd20D8ws"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7efbf940-767f-4931-8395-c673b7acaa41" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="339" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_12-30-56_0.jpg?itok=Nd20D8ws" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>What could possibly go wrong?</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/GibaLvVWEAA2nQN-1.png?itok=VO-q-8vY" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/GibaLvVWEAA2nQN-1.png?itok=VO-q-8vY"><img alt="" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="331" src="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/GibaLvVWEAA2nQN-1.png?itok=VO-q-8vY" width="500"></a></p>

<p>. . . </p>
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title: VDH: The Real First 100 Days
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">VDH: The Real First 100 Days</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/15/the-real-first-100-days/"><em>Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>Pundits are confused about what to make of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.</strong></p>

<p>Supporters talk of <strong>“flooding the zone,” </strong>believing Trump is making so many changes so quickly that his opposition is reduced to deer-in-the-headlights infancy.</p>

<p>They must be right when the nation suffers daily Democratic pottymouth videos, vandalism of Teslas, infantile meltdowns at congressional witnesses, rioting against federal agents to protect illegal alien felons, protesting on behalf of women beaters, M-13 gangbangers, human traffickers, and assaulters, and visa-holding violent students praising Hamas terrorists.</p>

<p>In contrast, opponents either claim that Trump’s first three months are either directionless chaos or a Hitlerian nightmare or both.</p>

<p><strong>But what is really happening?</strong></p>

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<p><strong><u>One</u>, Trump is finally addressing the problems that proverbially “cannot go on forever, and so they won’t go on.”</strong></p>

<p><em>When, if ever, would the left have closed the southern border? After 10, 30, 50 million illegal aliens?</em></p>

<p><em>How many more criminal illegal entrants was the Biden administration willing to allow into American neighborhoods—500,000? 1 million? 3 million?</em></p>

<p><em>How long was the world simply going to ignore the human destruction on the doorstep of Europe?</em></p>

<p><em>Would Biden or Harris have sought a ceasefire? Or would it have taken another 1.5, 3, or even 5 million more dead, wounded, and missing Ukrainians and Russians?</em></p>

<p>Nor did past administrations ever seek a solution to the massive national debt, much less the uncontrollable budget and trade deficits.</p>

<p><strong>All prior presidents passed the day of judgment on to some vague future presidency, assured that their money printing would at least not blow up on their watch.</strong></p>

<p>All moaned that China was piling up huge trade surpluses while denying its own population the usual modern safety net. They knew Beijing’s aim was to use the trillions of dollars in trade surpluses to build a new massive military, a greater arsenal of nuclear bombs, and a new imperial Belt and Road overseas empire.</p>

<p>Yet no administration did anything but greenlight American outsourcing and offshoring while ignoring Chinese trade cheating and technology theft.</p>

<p>Indeed, prior presidencies appeased and enriched China on the foolish belief that such indulgence would lead to Chinese prosperity, and with such Western-style affluence, soon a globalized, democratic, and supposedly friendly China.</p>

<p>In sum, we just witnessed all at once a 100-day, 360-degree effort to address all the existential challenges that we knew were unsustainable but were either afraid or incompetent to address.</p>

<p><strong><u>Second</u>, the administration apparently wants to confront the source of these crises and believes it is the progressive project.</strong></p>

<p>The left maintains real political power not by grass-roots popularity, but rather by unelected institutional clout. The party of democracy uses anti-democratic means to achieve its ends of perpetual control.</p>

<p>It wages lawfare through the weaponization of the state, local, and federal courts.</p>

<p>It exercises executive power through cherry-picked federal district and circuit judges and their state and local counterparts.</p>

<p>The permanent bureaucracies and huge federal workforce are mostly left-wing, unionized, and weaponized by a progressive apparat. Their supreme directive is to amalgamate legislative, judicial, and executive power into the hands of the unelected Anthony Faucis, Jim Comeys, and Lois Lerners of the world—and thus to override or ignore both popular plebiscites and the work of the elected Congress.</p>

<p>Over ninety percent of the media—legacy, network, social, and state—are left-wing. Their mission is not objectivity but, admittedly, indoctrination.</p>

<p><strong>Academia is the font of the progressive project. Ninety percent of the professoriate are left-wing and activist—explaining why campuses believe they are above the rules and laws of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Congress.</strong></p>

<p>Add into the mix the blue-chip Accela corridor law firms and the globalized corporate and revolving-door political elite.</p>

<p>The net result is clear: almost everything the vast majority of Americans and their elected representatives did not want—far-left higher education, a Pravda media, biological men destroying women’s sports, an open border, 30 million illegal aliens, massive debt, a weaponized legal system, and a politicized Pentagon—became the new culture of America.</p>

<p><strong>So, Trump is not just confronting unaddressed existential crises but also the root causes of why, when, and how they become inevitable and nearly unsolvable.</strong></p>

<p>His answer is a messy, knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution to reboot the country back to the middle where it once was and where the Founders believed it should remain.</p>

<p><strong>His right and left opponents call such pushback chaotic, disruptive, and out of control.</strong></p>

<p>But the counterrevolution appears disorderly and upsetting, mostly to those who originally birthed the chaos; it certainly does not to the majority of Americans who finally wanted an end to the madness.</p>
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<p>Le budget 2025 de l’Ontario contient plus de 10 milliards $ en aide aux entreprises face aux tarifs.</p>

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UN stresses adherence to principles of neutrality and independence in delivering life-saving humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Putin Removes Commander Of Russia's Ground Forces In Another Defense Shake-Up</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The longtime commander of Russia's ground forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov, has been relieved of his command by order of President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. </p>

<p>Salyukov has led the Ground Forces as 'commander-in-chief' <strong>since 2014</strong>, making his removal a major decision amid what appears an ongoing shake-up of military leadership.</p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/landforces.jpg?itok=fFfTmzsJ" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/landforces.jpg?itok=fFfTmzsJ"><picture><figure role="group" data-sanitized-class="caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images"><img alt="" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c6fe3e37-b35d-434a-93ac-ce9643b62cc1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="358" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/landforces.jpg?itok=fFfTmzsJ" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>Chief of the Russian Land Forces Oleg Salyukov (far left) attends prior year's Victory Day, in Moscow, on May 9, 2024. Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>He just literally oversaw Moscow's Victory Day parade on May 9, and so his removal was likely a highly unexpected development.</p>

<p>As of yet, the Kremlin has offered no specific reason for the top commander's removal. Russia has continued making gains on the battlefield, particularly near Pokrovsk. But the advance has become <strong>a very slow grind</strong>.</p>

<p>Some the latest gains this week in Donetsk are <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/5/15/russia-grabs-a-bit-more-of-ukraine-as-it-heads-into-peace">as follows</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>Russian forces captured the settlement of Kotlyarivka, southwest of the embattled area of Pokrovsk, on Monday</strong>, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said.</em></p>

<p><em>The seizure brought Russian forces to within 3.7km (2.3 miles) of the regional border between Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine. Russian forces also forced their way into the village of Myrolyubivka, east of Pokrovsk, and claimed to have taken the entire settlement.</em></p>

<p><em>On Wednesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed its forces took the community of Mykhailovka, also in Donetsk.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>But it could be that Putin is growing impatient, and wants even greater breakthroughs at a moment peace negotiations mediated by the US are gaining steam. This huge figure points to this:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>RUSSIA DEPLOYS 640,000 TROOPS IN WAR AGAINST UKRAINE: MILITARY</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Meanwhile Salyukov's removal comes after a series of major defense ministry shake-ups which stretch well into 2023, which had also seen Sergei Shoigu removal as Defense Minister (and 'promoted' into a top security council role).</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The commander of Russia's Ground Forces Army General Oleg Salyukov has left his post and has been appointed deputy secretary of the security council under former defense ministry Sergei Shoigu. Salyukov had been the commander of Russia's Ground Forces since 2014.… <a href="https://t.co/KiE3CFtQEf">pic.twitter.com/KiE3CFtQEf</a></p>
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) <a href="https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1923066267075813376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>According to prior <a href="https://www.ifri.org/en/papers/commanders-putins-long-war-purged-reshuffled-and-disgruntled">analysis</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>Putin typically prioritizes loyalty over competence, which makes the command structure incapable of addressing sudden shifts in the combat environment</strong>. The recent profound shake-up of and purges in the Defense Ministry have resulted in a serious bureaucratic disorganization of this structure that is crucial for sustaining the war effort. </em></p>

<p><em>The lack of any changes in the General Staff <strong>weakens the ability to learn from experience and compromises the authority of the high command</strong>. Angst and anger among the fighting generals caused by the ineptness of the high command is a major source of political risk, which Putin can neither ignore nor properly address.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Indeed this analysis remains true, and it's hard to imagine someone with more experience than Salyukov - given that he has commanded the country's ground forces for a decade, including through well over three years of a complex Ukraine battlefield.</p>
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Israeli settlers assaulted a Palestinian woman who tried to stop a group from trespassing in the occupied West Bank.

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Dem Lawmaker Facing Calls For Expulsion And Arrest After Allegedly Assaulting ICE Agents Outside Detention Center In NJ

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Dem Lawmaker Facing Calls For Expulsion And Arrest After Allegedly Assaulting ICE Agents Outside Detention Center In NJ</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em><a href="https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/14/dem-lawmaker-facing-calls-for-expulsion-and-arrest-after-allegedly-assaulting-ice-agents-outside-detention-center-in-nj/">Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness</a>,</em></p>

<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday said the<strong> three Democrat lawmakers who scuffled with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New Jersey last Friday committed felonies.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/demrep.JPG?itok=2n-qR7Vh" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/demrep.JPG?itok=2n-qR7Vh"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3287d87d-caeb-4fd8-a667-e3c60f8e61a0" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="288" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/demrep.JPG?itok=2n-qR7Vh" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Robert Menendez and LaMonica McIver were part of a mob that protested at the Delaney Hall detention center, a privately run facility under contract with ICE that houses non-citizens awaiting immigration proceedings or deportation.</p>

<p><strong>The lefty protesters were demanding that the center be shut down, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/us-news/feds-weigh-assault-charges-for-pols-who-protested-nj-ice-center/">the New York Post</a> reported.</strong></p>

<p>Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) was arrested Friday afternoon and charged with trespassing after entering the facility and refusing to leave.</p>

<p>An ugly scuffle ensued as the lawmakers surrounded Baraka in an apparent attempt to shield the mayor from the ICE agents making the arrest.</p>

<p>“<strong>Don’t touch us!</strong>” McIver (in red) screamed over and over as officers tried to break through their blockade.</p>

<p>An online video shows the hefty McIver (in red), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, throwing punches and shoving law enforcement officers as they tried to regain control.</p>

<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IYF0wTbG9Ug?si=kSSmOEi1vbIoiYa0" title="YouTube video player" width="560" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></p>

<p>Watson Coleman said the group of lawmakers had already visited the facility and come out to talk to the mayor when they were the ones allegedly assaulted by ICE agents.</p>

<p>“Since DHS has been lying about this, allow me to correct the record. This scuffle, during which an ICE agent physically shoved me, occurred AFTER we had entered the Delaney Hall premises,” she <a href="https://x.com/RepBonnie/status/1920989902520340582">posted on  X,</a> Friday.</p>

<p>“<strong>We entered the facility, came BACK OUT to speak to the Mayor, and then ICE agents began shoving us. This is not how we entered the facility. We were escorted in by guards, because we have lawful oversight authority to be there</strong>,” she said.</p>

<p>”Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for public affairs, said on CNN Friday that DHS has damning body-cam video of the scuffle that has not yet been released to the public.</p>

<p>“We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body slamming a female ICE officer,” McLaughlin said.</p>

<p>“<strong>These members of Congress, this mayor and these protesters are not above the law</strong>,” McLaughlin noted on “Fox &amp; Friends,” Monday.</p>

<p>Noem hinted that more arrests are being considered during an appearance on Fox News, Tuesday night.</p>

<p>“This wasn’t oversight, this was committing felonies. This was going out and attacking people who stand up for the rule of law. And it was absolutely horrible,” Noem told the host Jesse Waters, noting that the acts of violence were committed in defense of violent criminals— rapists, murderers, and members of foreign terrorist organizations victimizing American communities.</p>

<p>“<strong>What are they trying to do? Get these people released back into the country so there can be more Laken Rileys?</strong>” she asked. “I just don’t understand what their point is. They’ve completely lost their minds.”</p>

<p>Noem said it was up to the Department of Justice to decide whether to press charges against the Democrat lawmakers.</p>

<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mzGH__XPBM8?si=pFm-7phviNCGKPFb" title="YouTube video player" width="560" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></p>

<p>Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) introduced a resolution Tuesday to strip the House members of all their committee assignments.</p>

<p><strong>Rep. Marjory Taylor Greene went further Wednesday, saying McIver needs to be expelled.</strong></p>

<p>Greene <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1922661736718491821">posted a photo on X</a> showing McIver “couldn’t even look up as video played of her assaulting ICE officers” during a Homeland Security hearing Wednesday.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/New-Project-2025-05-14T140619.839_jpg_92.jpg?itok=VzmJCE1z" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/New-Project-2025-05-14T140619.839_jpg_92.jpg?itok=VzmJCE1z"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0c7c4bd9-9a90-4e59-9a23-ef5e42e5d184" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="348" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/New-Project-2025-05-14T140619.839_jpg_92.jpg?itok=VzmJCE1z" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>“She has zero respect for law enforcement or the rule of law, which is especially disgraceful as we honor law enforcement during Police Week,” the congresswoman added. “This isn’t just grounds for censure or removal from committees. LaMonica McIver should be EXPELLED from Congress.”</p>

<p>During the hearing Wednesday, <strong>Noem again argued that the Democrat lawmakers were not conducting oversight when they fought with ICE agents.</strong></p>

<p>“What happened on May 9 at Delaney Hall was not oversight. It was a political stunt that put the safety of our law enforcement agents, our staff, and our detainees at risk,” she testified.  “This behavior was lawless, and it was beneath this body. Members of Congress are not above the law and cannot illegally break into detention facilities.”</p>

<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nzF8w1F4vbs?si=bj9EPGD3otnweEa6" title="YouTube video player" width="560" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></p>

<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), meanwhile,  criticized the Trump administration over their handling of the incident, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5299452-homeland-security-secretary-accuses-democrats-felony/">the Hill</a> reported.</p>

<p>“If anyone’s breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress, it’s the Department of Homeland Security,” she said in an Instagram video posted Sunday.</p>

<p>“<strong>It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem</strong>,” she added.</p>

<p>“You lay a finger on someone, on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman … or any of the representatives that were there, you lay a finger on them, we are going to have a problem,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “Because the people who are breaking the law are the people not abiding by it.”</p>

<p>Via Getty, the peaceful January 6 protester known as “the Lectern Guy,” shared his own thoughts on the fracas over the weekend.</p>

<p>“<strong>United States Representative LaMonica McIver has still not been arrested after assaulting multiple federal officers on video</strong>,” Getty<a href="https://x.com/lecternleader/status/1921552087202017300"> posted on X</a> Sunday. “Within 48 hours of smiling and waving in the Capitol on J6, I was in county jail isolation under 24-hour supervision, charged with 3 crimes, 2 were lies, the other debatable,” he continued.</p>

<p>“They put me in an ankle monitor and told me I was I was a danger to my community. Meanwhile, this animal is still collecting a paycheck from our tax dollars,” Getty added bitterly.</p>

<p><a href="https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/scoop-gop-plans-investigation-into-ice-threats-after-dems-storming-of-facility/">Fox News reported</a> Wednesday that House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is opening an investigation into threats facing ICE facilities in the wake of the attack on Delaney Hall Detention Center.</p>

<blockquote>
<p>Fox News Digital was told that Jordan is expected to schedule a hearing for next Tuesday, with former ICE and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials expected among the witness panel.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Republicans leaders, according to Fox, are still discussing what, if any, consequences could be in store for Reps. Watson Coleman, Menendez and  McIver.</p>
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The financially struggling budget airline Avelo took a contract with the Trump administration that began this week.

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Lethal Lidar: Volvo SUV's Infrared Beam Fries Smartphone Camera</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>High-powered lidar systems—commonly used in autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles—emit infrared laser beams to map their environments. While invisible to the human eye, these beams can damage smartphone camera sensors, as one Reddit user recently discovered the hard way. </p>

<p>Reddit user <em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Volvo/comments/1ke98nv/never_film_the_new_ex90_because_you_will_break/?utm_source=embedv2&amp;utm_medium=post_embed&amp;utm_content=whitespace&amp;embed_host_url=https://www.thedrive.com/news/volvo-ex90s-lidar-sensor-will-fry-your-phones-camera">Jeguetelli</a></em> recently shared a video on the <em>r/Volvo</em> subreddit showing a smartphone camera's image sensor being fried after filming the front-mounted lidar sensor on the Volvo EX90—a fully electric, seven-seat luxury SUV that serves as Volvo's flagship entry into the electric vehicle market.</p>

<p>"<strong>Never film the new Ex90 because you will break your cell camera.Lidar lasers burn your camera</strong>," Jeguetelli wrote. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_14-29-33.png?itok=a8aCAxWN" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_14-29-33.png?itok=a8aCAxWN"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a360209b-63a0-446f-8a4a-ce1ec490fd33" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="303" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_14-29-33.png?itok=a8aCAxWN" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Auto blog <em><a href="https://www.thedrive.com/news/volvo-ex90s-lidar-sensor-will-fry-your-phones-camera">The Drive</a> </em>pointed out, "It should be said that the risk here is inherent to lidar technology, and has nothing to do with Volvo's specific implementation on the EX90. In fact, earlier this year, the automaker even issued a warning against directing external cameras at the vehicle's lidar pod for the very reasons discussed."</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Filming this car's lidar system breaks the phone camera<a href="https://t.co/99rfffYS1l">pic.twitter.com/99rfffYS1l</a></p>
— Interesting things (@awkwardgoogle) <a href="https://twitter.com/awkwardgoogle/status/1922758949071139116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Volvo's website states:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><strong><em>Lidar light waves can damage external cameras</em></strong><em>: Do not point a camera directly at the lidar. The lidar, being a laser based system, uses infrared light waves that may cause damage to certain camera devices. This can include smartphones or phones equipped with a camera.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>"<strong>Would this damage your car's backup camera, if a LIDAR equipped car tailgates you?</strong>" one Redditor asked. </p>

<p>Another person said, "<strong>Thank god for Apple Care." </strong></p>

<p>The ongoing debate in the tech world centers on LiDAR vs. cameras—a big divide in the race toward fully autonomous vehicles, especially when comparing Tesla's camera-only approach to rivals embracing LiDAR.</p>

<p><strong>Elon Musk famously called LiDAR a "crutch,"</strong> arguing that camera vision powered by advanced AI is sufficient for FSD.</p>

<p>"In my view, it's a crutch that will drive companies to a local maximum that they will find very hard to get out of." Musk said several years ago, adding, "Perhaps I am wrong, and I will look like a fool. But I am quite certain that I am not."</p>

<p>The Counterargument: Tesla's competitors argue that LiDAR provides critical redundancy and reliability, especially for safety-critical applications like robotaxis.</p>

<p>The proliferation of LiDAR sensors on vehicles should come with a public service warning: avoid pointing smartphone cameras at these devices emitting infrared laser beams—they can permanently damage image sensors.</p>

<p>Also, will LiDAR risk burning camera sensors on Tesla vehicles? </p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">'Biggest Self-Own In The History Of The Internet': Hillary Clinton Tries To Get Cute Over Qatar</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em><a href="https://modernity.news/2025/05/15/hillary-clinton-steps-in-her-own-st-again/?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=hillary-clinton-steps-in-her-own-st-again">Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news</a>,</em></p>

<p>Hillary Clinton can’t help herself when it comes to President Trump, posting on X Wednesday “No one gives someone a $400 million jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious,” in reference to Trump’s acceptance of a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar’s royal family.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Hillary_jpg_92.jpg?itok=2VOHw1sE" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Hillary_jpg_92.jpg?itok=2VOHw1sE"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="fd606e96-8ee7-4085-a7ab-3fa426190fff" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="281" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Hillary_jpg_92.jpg?itok=2VOHw1sE" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Everyone quickly pointed out the hypocrisy, given the Clinton Foundation’s history of accepting substantial donations from Arab states, including Qatar, during her tenure as Secretary of State.</p>

<p>The Clinton Foundation has received over $40 million from Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and even accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar in 2011 without informing the State Department, despite Clinton’s agreement to disclose such contributions for review.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.</p>
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1922691279676121544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Respondents noted that Clinton’s post, comments closed as ever, reopened scrutiny of her own ethical lapses, with many pointing out that she’s the last person who should be commenting on this matter.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">what did Qatar want from you <a href="https://t.co/l3lIEp1zw3">https://t.co/l3lIEp1zw3</a> <a href="https://t.co/pog3p2KnJ1">pic.twitter.com/pog3p2KnJ1</a></p>
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1922717336429015069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Clinton’s out here tweeting “be serious” about Trump’s plane while her Foundation’s Qatari cash begs for a mirror.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Reminder, the Clinton Foundation received more than $40 million from four Arab states including Qatar <a href="https://t.co/2ijleAMBE6">https://t.co/2ijleAMBE6</a> <a href="https://t.co/gbC2AcFXvT">pic.twitter.com/gbC2AcFXvT</a></p>
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1922710320146964984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Her <s>money laundering front</s> Foundation is basically an ATM for Arab donors.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Be serious. Nobody give millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation without expecting anything in return. Be serious. <a href="https://t.co/IqHMYunYeR">https://t.co/IqHMYunYeR</a> <a href="https://t.co/VeHpLkzG9B">pic.twitter.com/VeHpLkzG9B</a></p>
— Soquel by the Creek (@SoquelCreek) <a href="https://twitter.com/SoquelCreek/status/1922715243412603349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>She’s permanently residing in a glass house.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Locking the replies gives the game away. She knows we know and yet</p>
— Thomas Raffles (@TomRafflesJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomRafflesJr/status/1922710790051676299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">No one tweets that stuff without expecting the replies. Be serious.</p>
— Amelia (@AmeliaHammy) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmeliaHammy/status/1922726450177683933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Hillary was on speed dial for Qatari cash.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This from someone who jetted around the world collecting “donations” and depositing them in the Clinton Foundation.</p>
— Random Observer (@WilburFudd) <a href="https://twitter.com/WilburFudd/status/1922736561197604996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>It’s OK when they do it!</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Although that is some of the best expert testimony on subject matter I've ever seen. If anyone knows about bribes and graft, it's the Clintons.</p>
— Frank Mustafa (@FrankMustafaDJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrankMustafaDJ/status/1922736170947006588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The Uranium One scandal was also referenced, with claims that Clinton facilitated a deal benefiting Russian interests after donations to her foundation, further fueling accusations of double standards.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">If there was ever a topic that Hillary Clinton specifically should stay out of it’s suspicious foreign transactions that have the stink of “pay for play” about them <a href="https://t.co/DXAHTsWvh5">https://t.co/DXAHTsWvh5</a></p>
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) <a href="https://twitter.com/ingelramdecoucy/status/1922711909033279770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This is the biggest self-own in the history of the internet. <a href="https://t.co/4Xj1uXoPs4">https://t.co/4Xj1uXoPs4</a></p>
— Couldn't Be Papa P (@CouldntBePapaP) <a href="https://twitter.com/CouldntBePapaP/status/1922725623300006207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The Pay for Play Queen has thoughts, y'all. <a href="https://t.co/BIWieTzyhN">https://t.co/BIWieTzyhN</a></p>
— Inappropriate Ray of ☀️ (Sworn Enemy of Rufus!) (@MrsRotnjetski) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsRotnjetski/status/1922702475825381692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">You ran a pay for play State Dept, so maybe you should sit this one out, you braying harpy <a href="https://t.co/rsqsPHJr3X">https://t.co/rsqsPHJr3X</a></p>
— CarolinaConservative3 (@1776Carolina3) <a href="https://twitter.com/1776Carolina3/status/1922716852830015752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Hillary isn’t getting an award for self-awareness any time soon.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Excellent point, <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>. No one knows this better than you.<br><br>
To use a random example in support of your assertion, let's look at foreign government contributions to the Clinton Foundation while you held positions of influence in government vs. contributions after you… <a href="https://t.co/iXP3KCH2lW">https://t.co/iXP3KCH2lW</a> <a href="https://t.co/3kD8G5WdqV">pic.twitter.com/3kD8G5WdqV</a></p>
— Jason Beale (@jabeale) <a href="https://twitter.com/jabeale/status/1922702516388499617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>How about that Qatari fan mail.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">I swear she posts these on purpose <a href="https://t.co/8Fh45uPCgv">https://t.co/8Fh45uPCgv</a></p>
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) <a href="https://twitter.com/beyondreasdoubt/status/1922719680101302617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">She is the master of unintended self-owns.</p>
— Jeffrey A. Setaro (@jasetaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasetaro/status/1922722587391443440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Montana Becomes Latest State To Ban Lab-Grown Meat </span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>On Tuesday, Montana State Governor Greg Gianforte <u><a href="https://news.mt.gov/Governors-Office/Governor_Gianforte_Bans_Lab-Grown_Meat_in_Montana">announced</a></u> that he had <strong>signed a bill into law banning the manufacturing and sale of lab-grown meat</strong>. </p>

<p>"So-called "lab-grown meat" has no place in Montana," Gov. Gianforte wrote on X, adding, "By signing HB 401 into law, <strong>I am proud to defend our way of life and the hardworking Montana ranchers</strong> who produce the best beef in the world."</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">So-called "lab-grown meat" has no place in Montana.<br><br>
By signing HB 401 into law, I am proud to defend our way of life and the hardworking Montana ranchers who produce the best beef in the world. <a href="https://t.co/INc2WuAvNI">pic.twitter.com/INc2WuAvNI</a></p>
— Governor Greg Gianforte (@GovGianforte) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovGianforte/status/1922359665041564153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><strong>Montana is now the fifth state in the nation</strong> to pass legislation prohibiting lab-cultivated proteins. The push comes after concurrent Biden-era policies that simultaneously created a loophole for safety testing while prioritizing lab-cultivated proteins as "Climate-Friendly" ahead of labeling requirements. </p>

<p>Not exactly a drug, but not necessarily food harvested in nature, in 2019, Congress directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish a formal agreement delineating each agency's responsibilities for regulating lab-made or "cellular-cultivated" meat.</p>

<p>By early 2021, the Biden administration prioritized lab-made meat products as a "Climate-Smart" Agricultural alternative, promising a fast track to manufacturers Good Meat Inc and the <u><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-backed-lab-grown-195311408.html">Bill Gates-backed Upside Foods.</a></u></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/E2HT0P1XIAMocuN.jpg?itok=gsrHRJbs" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/E2HT0P1XIAMocuN.jpg?itok=gsrHRJbs"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="455bd431-dcbc-44a3-b70b-de63b426297c" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="500" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/E2HT0P1XIAMocuN.jpg?itok=gsrHRJbs" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><u><a href="https://www.fda.gov/media/163260/download?attachment">By 2023, the FDA had issued a "No Questions Asked"</a></u> approval for lab-cultivated "chicken cells with characteristics of fibroblasts." </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_15-15-56.png?itok=W9pCtfzO" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_15-15-56.png?itok=W9pCtfzO"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c4dfceac-0b74-4611-a432-a866e83e9aa0" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="281" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_15-15-56.png?itok=W9pCtfzO" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>While the USDA does not regulate processed food, <u><a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/human-food-made-cultured-animal-cells/formal-agreement-between-fda-and-usda-regarding-oversight-human-food-produced-using-animal-cell">the agreement stipulated</a></u> that the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) would be handed off regulatory oversight "at the point of harvest." </p>

<p>Bureaucratic translation: The USDA's regulatory role would be limited to "labeling and sanitation." </p>

<p>While sanitation seems fairly straightforward, it's the labeling requirement - which has yet to materialize - that has state lawmakers pumping the brakes.</p>

<p><u><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/07/2020-22140/labeling-of-foods-comprised-of-or-containing-cultured-seafood-cells-request-for-information">Since early 2020, FSIS</a></u> has gone round-after-round with "stakeholders" about what to call this petri-dish creation. <u><a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/03/2021-19057/labeling-of-meat-or-poultry-products-comprised-of-or-containing-cultured-animal-cells">During the last round</a></u> of "name the thingamajig" stakeholders warned the FSIS that transparent labeling would "hamper innovation," and "violate the First Amendment."</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_15-16-26.png?itok=udQUgrJ6" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_15-16-26.png?itok=udQUgrJ6"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3ed7ab34-6ff6-4dcf-bfb6-df39cd8daf05" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="440" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_15-16-26.png?itok=udQUgrJ6" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>To-date, the USDA has not fulfilled its regulatory role, according to the delineated agreement. To be fair, the FDA didn't exactly uphold its end of the bargain either with fast-tracked "No Questions" approvals. </p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Some employees are comparing the lab-grown meat startup, Upside Foods, to Theranos.<br><br>
“Are we the next Theranos?” asks one former employee. "People are being lied to, but no one is going to die. Ideally.”<br><br>
"Batches of meat growing in the custom-made bioreactors would frequently… <a href="https://t.co/2kMhz7ZOju">pic.twitter.com/2kMhz7ZOju</a></p>
— Meat Head (@markeatsmeat) <a href="https://twitter.com/markeatsmeat/status/1707074860235538856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
<p>Even as whistleblowers were equating lab-made meats to the next Theranos, the <strong>"Big 4" meat packers <u><a href="https://www.agriculturedive.com/news/jbs-begins-work-on-lab-grown-meat-center-in-brazil/694616/">began rapidly investing billions</a></u> to replace ranchers with biotech</strong>.</p>

<p>With the FDA's blessing and zero red tape requiring transparent labeling, companies like JBS, Tyson, and Cargill have quickly begun producing lab-grown beef, cultured chicken, pork, fish, sausages, burgers, meatballs, and other prepared foods.</p>

<p>While some argue that state-level bans harm the free market, local lawmakers see them as part of a larger fight to <strong>preserve Western values</strong>.</p>

<p>"<strong>Agriculture is our state's number one industry, and this bill takes a clear stand to protect our ranchers and our food supply</strong>," Montana State Rep. Braxton Mitchell said. "<strong>We won't let synthetic products with misleading labels undercut the hard work of Montana's farm and ranch families."</strong></p>

<p>*   *   * </p>

<p>We've launched a "Rancher-Direct" e-commerce platform to secure access to clean, American-raised beef sourced from independent ranchers across the country.</p>

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<p>Eat real food. Very simple.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">"86 47" - Former FBI Director Comey Posts-Then-Deletes Creepy Threat Aimed At Trump</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Former FBI Director James Comey posted a photo of sea shells arranged into the numbers "86 47" on his Instagram account today, before shortly deleting the post.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Screen%20Shot%202025-05-15%20at%206.16.11%20PM.jpg?itok=uK_vSWE0" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Screen%20Shot%202025-05-15%20at%206.16.11%20PM.jpg?itok=uK_vSWE0"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a610f9b7-925b-471c-8d64-fd2eb9fd68da" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="315" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Screen%20Shot%202025-05-15%20at%206.16.11%20PM.jpg?itok=uK_vSWE0" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>The immediately preceding post shows Comey lounging at the beach while pretending to read his own crime novel, his presence at the beach lending to the fact that this was not a hack.</p>

<p>Many are blasting Comey for issuing a not-so-thinly-veiled threat at sitting President Donald Trump, including the President's son and Congressman Andy Biggs:</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Just James Comey causally calling for my dad to be murdered.<br><br>
This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!! <a href="https://t.co/4LUK6crHAT">pic.twitter.com/4LUK6crHAT</a></p>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1923118680658862260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Disgraced former FBI Director James <a href="https://twitter.com/Comey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Comey</a> is calling for President Trump to be eliminated.<br><br>
cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBIDirectorKash</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDDBongino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBIDDBongino</a> <a href="https://t.co/4R0s1Eo4Z4">pic.twitter.com/4R0s1Eo4Z4</a></p>
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1923128847148400992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>And here is his <strong>explanation </strong>for the 'shells' and the deletion...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/GrBg4IzX0AENBwx.jpg?itok=NQ_C6fUv" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/GrBg4IzX0AENBwx.jpg?itok=NQ_C6fUv"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="20714003-fd47-496c-9811-66ad5e101800" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="325" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/GrBg4IzX0AENBwx.jpg?itok=NQ_C6fUv" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>...you simply cannot make this shit up!!!</p>

<p>And we screen-grabbed this before it was deleted too - oh the <strong>inspiration</strong>...</p>

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<h2>Runs in the family...</h2>

<p>As covered previously in a ZeroHedge <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/epstein-diddy-spotlight-shines-james-comeys-prosecutor-daughter">piece</a> titled "From Epstein To Diddy: Spotlight Shines On James Comey's Prosecutor Daughter", Comey's offspring smell a little swampy as well. From the piece:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>In a thinly covered news story from <a href="https://www.billboard.com/business/legal/maurene-ryan-comey-ghislaine-maxwell-lead-prosecutor-joins-diddy-trial-1235843958/">December</a> that's suddenly relevant again (read on), New York Prosecutor <strong>Maurene Comey </strong>-<strong> </strong>whose father <strong>James Comey</strong> famously refused to prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information &amp; then participated in the Russia collusion hoax - joined the prosecution against Combs. The younger Comey has previously worked as lead prosecutor on both the <strong>Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases</strong>, <strong>as well as that of former Epstein cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione.</strong></p>

<p>...</p>

<p>Maurene Comey becamse a US attorney in the Southern District of New York in 2015.</p>

<p>In 2019, when she was just 30-years-old, <strong>Comey became one of the lead prosecutors in the Jeffrey Epstein case</strong> before he was found dead in his jail cell in August 2019.</p>

<p><strong>Two years later, she became one of three <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/maurene-comey-james-comey-daughter-leading-jeffrey-epstein-case-2019-7">lead prosecutors</a> in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell</strong>, Epstein's partner in crime and daughter of suspected Mossad operative <a href="https://x.com/basedspinach/status/1895205597718683709">Robert Maxwell</a>. </p>

<p>Before becoming a US attorney, Comey clerked for US District Court chief judge Loretta Preska of the SDNY - who notably oversaw a long-running <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/virginia-giuffre-lawsuit-led-to-criminal-case-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-2021-11">defamation case</a> filed by<strong> Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell.</strong></p>

<p><strong>Comey was also involved in the case of</strong> <strong>Nicholas Tartaglione,</strong> a former NYPD officer who was convicted of killing four men in 2016, and who was briefly <strong>Epstein's cellmate</strong> in the Manhattan Metro Correctional Center. Tartaglione claims to have <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/07/26/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-cop-cellmate-says-he-saved-multimillionaire-sex-offender-from-hanging-source/">helped Epstein</a> after 'finding him unconscious' (and totally not trying to kill him) prior to Epstein's actual death.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/230407131213-nicholas-tartaglione.jpg?itok=2iudzxPs" data-link-option="0" href="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/230407131213-nicholas-tartaglione.jpg?itok=2iudzxPs"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="833a1ef4-aa89-4fa7-9507-10e94404fc12" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="281" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/230407131213-nicholas-tartaglione.jpg?itok=2iudzxPs" alt="" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>In 2016, Tartaglione suspected a man named Martin Luna had stolen money from him - for which "Tartaglione tortured Martin and then forced one of Martin’s nephews to watch as he strangled him to death with a zip-tie," according to a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/statement-us-attorney-damian-williams-conviction-nicholas-tartaglione">statement</a> by the US Attorney's Office.</p>

<p>Two days after Epstein's death, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html#"><em>NY Times</em></a> reporter James B Stewart, who had spent 90 minutes with Epstein a year prior, wrote "The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute conversation was that <strong>Mr. Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich, famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it.</strong> He also claimed to know a great deal about these people, <strong>some of it potentially damaging or embarrassing,</strong> including details about their supposed sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.</p>

<p>And so, whether this is just a case of 'it's a small world' or something a little (or a lot) less innocent, <strong>James Comey's daughter is now involved in a second case where high-profile celebrities and politicians may have been secretly filmed engaging in sexual activity with minors.</strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Comey's deep state tentacles make the cryptic Instragram post that much more unsettling. Might there be some hints in Comey's shitty novel? Donald Barr's <em>Space Relations </em>anyone?</p>

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">As India-Pak Tensions 'Ease', These Are The Countries Holding The World's Nuclear Arsenal</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>India and Pakistan, currently experiencing a ceasefire </strong>after clashes along their disputed border, have caught global attention as the two neighbors are both armed with nuclear weapons. </p>

<p>According to <a href="https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2024/role-nuclear-weapons-grows-geopolitical-relations-deteriorate-new-sipri-yearbook-out-now">data</a> from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), <strong>each nation owns around 170 nuclear warheads.</strong></p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/8301/the-countries-holding-the-worlds-nuclear-arsenal/">As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the following chart,</a> India has added 8 nuclear warheads to its arsenal since January 2023, increasing from 164 warheads to 172. North Korea and China also expanded their arsenals in this time period, bringing their total figures to an estimated 50 warheads and 500 warheads, respectively.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/8301/the-countries-holding-the-worlds-nuclear-arsenal/" title="Infographic: The Countries Holding The World's Nuclear Arsenal | Statista"><img alt="Infographic: The Countries Holding The World's Nuclear Arsenal | Statista" height="502" src="https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/8301.jpeg" width="502"></a> </p>

<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href="https://www.statista.com/chartoftheday/">Statista</a></em></p>

<p><strong>Currently, there are estimated to be 9,585 <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/4269/nuclear-weapons/">nuclear warheads</a> in military stockpiles for potential use across nine countries, with Russia and the U.S. accounting for 8,088 of these. </strong></p>

<p>There are also an estimated 2,536 retired warheads that are yet to be dismantled.</p>

<p>The<strong> two European nuclear powers, France and the UK, together have 515 operational nuclear warheads</strong>. </p>

<p>With the exception of North Korea, <a href="https://de.statista.com/infografik/32030/anzahl-der-weltweit-durchgefuehrten-atomwaffentests/">none of the nations in possession of nuclear warheads have tested them since the 1990s</a>.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Colorado Could Be The Parental Rights Canary In The Coal Mine</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em><a href="https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/05/12/colorado_could_be_the_parental_rights_canary_in_the_coal_mine_1109615.html">Authored by J.P. De Gance via RealClearReligion</a>,</em></p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>Some may look at the pending Colorado legislation destroying parental rights and wrongly see the last gasps of a dying woke regime.   </strong></p>

<p dir="ltr"><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/686651_jpg_92.jpg?itok=dhQfbwNI" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/686651_jpg_92.jpg?itok=dhQfbwNI"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="359eb5b6-d1f0-4cb6-839a-30b1f3812d43" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="375" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/686651_jpg_92.jpg?itok=dhQfbwNI" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p dir="ltr">The dystopian state house bill, HB 25-1312 or better known as the “Kelly Loving Act,” <strong>allows the Colorado government to remove a child from her parents if parents refuse to go along with her gender dysphoria and self-styled new identity</strong>. It represents the most totalitarian legal destruction of parental rights in American history. </p>

<p dir="ltr">The bill passed the Colorado House and Senate. To understand why this destructive legislation might become Colorado law, we need to look closer at the cultural understructure. </p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>The most politically powerful defenders of children are married, biological parents. </strong>In 1970, married households with kids under age 18 made up 40 percent of all American households. Today, that number stands at just 17.8 percent of all households. </p>

<p dir="ltr">Colorado sits on the front edge of the demographic cliff with <a href="https://denverite.com/2024/11/07/denver-school-closures-dps-consolidation-proposal-2024/">K-12 schools already starting to shutter</a>. According to the US Census, married households with kids in the state are just 81 percent of the national average at 14.4 percent of all households.   </p>

<p dir="ltr">So, this evil legislation makes some political sense. The less married parents with kids in any electorate district, the more vulnerable parents and kids are to the onslaught of state power. </p>

<p dir="ltr">And given current trends in marriage and fertility rates – our future politics may look a lot more like Colorado’s politics than anyone realizes. This legal threat to parental rights will spread. </p>

<p dir="ltr">Here’s what we know both from the data and common sense.  </p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>A man not married to the mother of his child is less present in the day-to-day life of his child. </strong>Nearly all unmarried dads are nonresident dads who see their child less than once a week within two years of becoming a nonresident dad. A large portion of these men see their child only monthly or even less. <strong>These children don’t just lack the vital day-to-day influence that only a loving, present father can provide, they lose a powerful advocate and protector – particularly in politics.   </strong></p>

<p dir="ltr">Assuming she hasn’t been captured by gender ideology herself, the financially struggling single mom often becomes a patronage client of the same legislator who is now taking away her parental rights. </p>

<p dir="ltr">It’s a textbook example of divide and conquer.  </p>

<p dir="ltr">Here’s the reality.<strong> Marriage and fertility – either in its vibrance or absence – is a powerful political force in our nation’s politics. It often goes unnoticed by the politically conscious.  </strong></p>

<p dir="ltr">Seeing fertility collapse in Roman antiquity, Octavian focused part of his rule on policy to boost fertility. He failed and Rome struggled to form native-born armies eventually falling to the Barbarians.  </p>

<p dir="ltr">The strength of early Rome’s family and fertility only rebounded through the evangelism of Christian missionaries and the revolutionary power of the Gospel’s teaching on marriage, which produced the greatness of the West. Reproducing such a revival is vital. </p>

<p dir="ltr">Today, many parents and most church leaders are unaware of the hellscape and nihilism facing young people in sex and relationships.  </p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>A recent study by Date Psychology found that nearly half of young men have never asked a woman out.   </strong></p>

<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/what-happens-when-children-are-exposed-to-pornography">The average age of first porn use in the United States is now 12</a>. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2021.1985025?casa_token=pcnT3z3Ifc4AAAAA%3AbELDPJ4ZABh7lVa87gP0x9cfIQk6Fo3rtgxR4DMjIaVItD3FcRXmDS7Hp1UAdtCRGZ_AH2WzSpG1">Choking in consensual sex has become terrifyingly common</a> as porn becomes ubiquitous. The average age of first marriage for women is now far past peek fertility and moves ever closer to the age of the geriatric pregnancy. </p>

<p dir="ltr">Many who lament the current state of play choose to focus all the attention on bashing men – as if society got here merely because of one sex. </p>

<p dir="ltr">Our economy devasted the jobs where men inherently thrived. K-12 pedagogy became hyper feminized causing boys to conclude school was for girls resulting in women now outnumbering men in college admissions by a 50 percent margin.  </p>

<p dir="ltr">Popular media portrays women heroes as unconquerable while fathers are often portrayed as doofuses. Family law continues to skew against husbands.  </p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>This is all to say there are plenty of contributing factors to our situation. But, what’s the solution?  </strong></p>

<p dir="ltr">Unless one embraces a life of Pauline celibacy, we ought to first recognize the obvious: men and women need one another. We were made for each other, and this reality is designed into our very bodies.   </p>

<p dir="ltr">Adversarial approaches are unhelpful.  </p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>Equal in dignity, men and women both deserve to be treated as an end in and of themselves and not treated as a means.   </strong></p>

<p dir="ltr">We each must learn to live the radical biblical call of “being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.” The paradox of Christian marriage is that a life of sacrificial love lived for the other is where health and happiness most reliably flow. </p>

<p dir="ltr">So, an effective, long-term response to legislation like what is making its way into Colorado law, requires us to defend children by getting practical and tactical about renewing healthy marriage at the retail level. </p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>For churches, this means altering their ministry to proclaim the timeless truths of the Gospel into this moment.  </strong></p>

<p dir="ltr">In all, 85 percent of American churches invest nothing, zero budget dollars, on marriage and relationship ministry. Instead, the local church should be a life-giving oasis providing the civilizational cure.  </p>

<p dir="ltr">Young people need to find within the church an “in real life” community where they can meet a partner outside of either the consumerism of dating apps or the didactics of a Bible study.  While living in a community of believers, they ought to also learn how to prioritize, date and discern a marriageable partner. They ought to hear about why the erectile dysfunction ads constantly run during live sports and be challenged to avoid the poison of pornography.  </p>

<p dir="ltr">The social science supporting marriage is overwhelmingly positive. Married people with children who attend church are among the happiest and healthiest in America. Contrary to popular media accounts, married church goers even report having sex more frequently than their secular peers.  </p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong>The church must embrace becoming the counterculture in a deeply practical way.</strong></p>

<p dir="ltr">Effective political activism is vital to confront immediate threats.</p>

<p dir="ltr">But, increasing healthy marriages in the culture is necessary. It is the only path to defeating the radicals’ assault on children and parental rights. Otherwise, Colorado’s legislation will one day become national legislation. </p>
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<div>La présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, et l’institution qu’elle représente viennent d’essuyer leur premier revers juridique dans le scandale du <em>“Pfizergate”</em>.</div>
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            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Warren Buffett already stunned the Berkshire faithful with his "shocking" announcement last weekend that the 94 year old billionaire was, <em>gasp, </em>finally retiring as CEO of the $1 trillion+ conglomerate. Luckily, there were no surprises in Buffett's <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000095012325005701/xslForm13F_X02/form13fInfoTable.xml">latest 13F filing </a>published at the close today: while Buffett did not add any new positions in the quarter that preceded Trump’s trade war, he did liquidate two of his previous large holdings, and continued to trim positions in financial stocks while adding to a handful others.</p>

<p>Buffett started off the last year of his tenure as CEO of Berkshire by exiting his once-huge position in Citigroup, while also shrinking his holdings in Capital One Financial and continuing to trim his longtime stake in Bank of America.</p>

<p>While it is still a top 5 position valued at $26.4 billion at the end of Q1, Buffett started selling his BofA stake in July last year, without providing any explanation for the move. He now owns 8.3% of the US lender and is no longer its biggest shareholder, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. </p>

<p>Berkshire also fully liquidated its stake in Brazil’s Nubank, which has grown into one of the world’s biggest digital banks since its 2013 founding. Berkshire bought a $500 million stake before the bank went public in 2021. The stock has gained 46% since. </p>

<p>On the plus side, Buffett added to his stake in Constellation Brands, which now totals 6.6%, or $2.2 billion; he opened the new position in the alcohol distributor in the last quarter of 2024. He also bought more Sirius XM Holdings and Occidental Petroleum, where he is by far the largest holder with 27% of the shares outstanding. In addition, the company requested confidentiality treatment from the Securities and Exchange Commission, meaning Berkshire was allowed to omit one of more holdings in its filing Thursday.</p>

<p>After aggressively selling down his stake in Apple for much of 2023 and 2024, his AAPL shares were untouched in Q1 and still represents the billionaire’s portfolio’s most valuable holding.</p>

<p>Here is a full breakdown of what Berkshire did in Q1. It added to position in:</p>

<ul><li>Occidental Petroleum, +763,017 million shares to 264.9 million shares, or $13.1 billion as of March 31</li>
	<li>Verisign, +18.423 shares to 13.3 million shares or $3.4 billion</li>
	<li>SiriusXM, +2.3 million shares to 119.8 million shares, or $2.7 billion</li>
	<li>Constellation Brands, +6.4 million shares to 12.009 million, or $2.2 billion</li>
	<li>Dominos Pizza, +238,613 shares to 2.6 million shares, or $1.2 billion</li>
	<li>Pool Corp, +865,311 shares to 1.5 million shares, or $466 million</li>
	<li>Heico Corp, +112,401 shares to 1.2 million shares, or $245.2 million</li>
</ul><p>It reduced its positions in:</p>

<ul><li>Bank of America, by 48.7 million shares to 631.6 million shares, or $26.4 billion as of March 31</li>
	<li>Davita, by 953,091 shares to 35.1 million shares, or $5.4 billion</li>
	<li>Liberty Media, by 3.3 million shares to 19.4 million shares or $1.4 billion</li>
	<li>Capital One, by 300K shares to 7.150 million shares, or $1.3 billion</li>
	<li>T-Mobile, by 469K shares to 3.9 million shares, or $1.0 billion</li>
	<li>Charter Communications, by 7500 shares to 1.98 million shares, or $731 million</li>
</ul><p>Buffett largely refrained from making large acquisitions in recent years, instead building a cash pile that reached nearly $350 billion by the end of March. At the conglomerate’s annual meeting this month, the billionaire said the recent market downturn was “really nothing,” pointing to times in Berkshire’s history when his company’s stock lost half of its value in short spans.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/berkshire%20cash%20q1%202025_0.jpg?itok=NiIwkRuX" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/berkshire%20cash%20q1%202025_0.jpg?itok=NiIwkRuX"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0be68987-2f51-41ba-a441-e12696f05e66" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="301" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/berkshire%20cash%20q1%202025_0.jpg?itok=NiIwkRuX" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>As we <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/buffett-step-down-berkshire-ceo-year-end-cash-hoard-hits-record-348-billion">reported at the start of May</a>, Buffett will step down as chairman at year-end. He built Berkshire into a business valued at more than $1.1 trillion, with individuals as well as professionals closely watching and sometimes imitating his investment moves.</p>

<p>Shares of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire have gained more than 11% so far this year. The S&amp;P 500 Index has risen less than 1% during the same period.</p>

<p>A full breakdown of Berkshire's holdings is below.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Berkshire%2013F%20q1%202025.jpg?itok=Vff6Zb2I" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Berkshire%2013F%20q1%202025.jpg?itok=Vff6Zb2I"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="be0bb753-0320-4145-9bed-80bee739e02b" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="541" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Berkshire%2013F%20q1%202025.jpg?itok=Vff6Zb2I" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><em>Source: <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000095012325005701/xslForm13F_X02/form13fInfoTable.xml">Edgar</a></em></p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The DoD Audit Conundrum: Accountability Over Accounting</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em><a href="https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/05/13/the_dod_audit_conundrum_accountability_over_accounting_1109852.html">Via RealClearPolitics</a>,</em></p>

<p><strong>The Department of Defense (DoD) has failed every audit since 2018, costing taxpayers over $1 billion each year, marked by "disclaimers of opinion," along with thousands of formal “notices of findings and recommendations” (NFRs) from the auditors</strong>. The DoD Inspector General’s <a href="https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/DoD_FY24_Agency_Financial_Report.pdf">FY 2024 Agency Financial Report</a> documented 28 material weaknesses and more than $1 trillion in asset discrepancies, leading auditors to issue their seventh consecutive disclaimer.</p>

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<p>Audits of the DoD’s financial statements, guided by Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) rules based on private-sector Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), assess the DoD’s $850 billion budget using the profit-driven reporting mechanisms of balance sheets and income statements. This approach is suitable for private-sector, profit-seeking businesses like Boeing, IBM, and General Motors, but not for the DoD, a public-sector, taxpayer-funded federal agency whose primary purpose is to defend the homeland, not generate profits. </p>

<p><strong>This mismatch stems from the 1990 <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-20-566.pdf">Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act</a>,</strong> which, although well-intended, has unfortunately caused Congress and the public to prioritize financial health over military accountability. Rather than seeking auditor opinions, Congress and taxpayers should look for answers to questions like: Did $5 billion buy 55 F-35 jets? Did $18 billion deliver five ships? Did $330 billion in Operations and Maintenance obligations ensure wartime readiness?</p>

<p>The complete inability of GAAP-based financial accounting and reporting to address such questions or explain the causes of ongoing inefficiency and waste, <strong>such as the Navy’s $1.8 billion wasted on cruiser modernization (<a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-106749">2024 GAO audit)</a>, highlights GAAP’s irrelevance for an agency that spends, not earns.</strong></p>

<p>Instead, the DoD should implement a budgetary audit process focusing on the Statement of Budgetary Resources (SBR), incorporating managerial cost accounting as outlined in the Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (SFFAS) 4, and utilizing AI-driven forensic analysis through the DoD’s <a href="https://www.ai.mil/Initiatives/Analytic-Tools/#:~:text=Advana,data-based%20decision-making.">Advana data analytics platform</a>.</p>

<p>This transition would better synchronize audits with the DoD’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process, ensuring that the $850 billion enhances security, not just balances the books.</p>

<h2>The Problem: Scale and Systemic Flaws</h2>

<p>The DoD’s complexity dwarfs private-sector firms. The <a href="https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2022/DoD_FY22_Agency_Financial_Report.pdf">FY 2023 DoD Agency Financial Report</a> revealed that the DoD employed 2.1 million service members and 778,000 civilians across 4,600 global sites, managing $851.7 billion in discretionary funds—half of U.S. discretionary spending—and $3.8 trillion in assets, 70% of the government’s total.</p>

<p>Tracking these resources across 4,500 financial systems makes monitoring obligations and matching them to appropriations difficult; <strong>at least 232 are critical for <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-02-29.pdf">internal controls</a> over data entry, transaction processing, and reporting—an auditing nightmare.</strong></p>

<p>For example, the <a href="https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/financial-report/2022/gao-audit-report-2022.pdf">2022 GAO Audit</a> found discrepancies in 61% of $3.5 trillion in assets, and the <a href="https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2022/DoD_FY22_Agency_Financial_Report.pdf">2024 DoD Financial Agency report</a> found 28 material weaknesses, showing weak internal accounting controls, like failing to reconcile Fund Balances with Treasury (FBwT)—akin to a checkbook not matching a bank statement.</p>

<p>Issues include outdated systems, manual data entry, and training gaps. A  <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/820/817960.pdf">2023 GAO report </a>noted that 18 out of 22 financial systems faced workforce shortages, hindering modernization. Further, multi-year programs like aircraft development blur committed versus available funds, complicating audits. The result? Seven years of disclaimers, with headlines claiming the DoD “can’t pass an audit” and wastes taxpayer money.</p>

<p><strong>But is the DoD truly failing its fiduciary responsibility, or is it trapped in a flawed GAAP-based process irrelevant to its purpose?</strong> Cultural and political pressures, like Congress’s demand for “clean audits” to signal fiscal responsibility, perpetuate this misalignment, distracting from the real question: Are funds delivering security?</p>

<h2>Why GAAP and FASAB Fail the DoD</h2>

<p>GAAP, and by extension FASAB, measures profitability and equity for revenue-generating businesses. Boeing’s $66 billion revenue and $13 billion loss fit this model, but the DoD’s $850 billion budget is all outflows—$5 billion for F-35s, $145 billion for R&amp;D, $330 billion for operations and maintenance, with no income to tally.</p>

<p><strong>FASAB’s directed balance sheets show $3.5 trillion in assets and a “net cost” of $821 billion spent in FY2022, mimicking GAAP’s business-focused standards.</strong> However, 37% of unverifiable assets, according to a <a href="https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/financial-report/2022/gao-audit-report-2022.pdf">GAO Independent Auditor report</a>, aren’t a “loss” but record-keeping issues. In particular, material weaknesses contributing to $2.4 trillion or 61% in <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3219566/dod-makes-audit-progress-but-much-more-needs-to-happen-official-says/">untracked assets</a> and $14 billion in “missing” parts, flagging “ bookkeeping “control gaps, not “mission” gaps. </p>

<p>Former Navy Comptroller Russ Rumbaugh made this point in a recent <a href="https://breakingdefense.com/2024/08/navy-comptroller-erp-software-will-finally-enable-a-clean-audit-big-data-analytics/">interview:</a>  <em>“DoD is very accountable, it’s just not auditable,” </em>Rumbaugh told the conference. <em>“We know where the things that go ‘boom’ are, we know where the dollars get spent, [but] to answer those questions [to the satisfaction of auditors], we have to go ask a bunch of stove-piped systems.”</em></p>

<p>The DoD’s <a href="https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/resources/federal/federal-permitting/department-defense-dod#:~:text=DOD%20is%20the%20United%20States,at%20over%204%2C790%20sites%20worldwide.">4,800 sites</a> and <a href="https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2025/FY2025_Weapons.pdf#:~:text=The%20FY%202025%20President's%20Budget%20request%20for,Navy%2C%20and%2018%20with%20the%20Air%20Force.">2,000+ budget line items</a> for RDT&amp;E and Procurement alone defy GAAP’s clean ledgers, asking “Is it financially healthy?” when the real question is, “What did the taxpayer get?”</p>

<h2>A Better Approach: Managerial Cost Accounting</h2>

<p>A budgetary review process using managerial cost accounting organizes financial data to help DoD leaders allocate resources efficiently—a cost-benefit approach, not a balance sheet. In a <a href="https://christopherhanks.substack.com/p/a-proposal-to-emphasize-managerial">published paper</a>, <em>A Proposal to Emphasize Managerial Cost  Accounting in the Department of Defense</em>, <a href="https://www.dau.edu/sites/default/files/2024-07/No.%202%20Issue%2051.pdf">Dr. Christopher Hanks</a>, a former RAND analyst, argues that the DoD has neglected this tool, which is “unappreciated and underused.”</p>

<p>He argues that<strong> the Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 4 (<a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_4.pdf">SFFAS 4</a>) mandated by Congress tracks costs to outputs and is a better approach to evaluating the DoD budget, </strong>ensuring funds align with goals. For example, $82 billion in aid for Ukraine can be traced to emergency laws and evaluated for outcomes.</p>

<p>Unlike GAAP, this approach monitors obligations (commitments), <strong>ensuring compliance with appropriations and justifying variances, not chasing asset-liability matches</strong>. Instead, it should assess how budget approvals are documented. Are controls preventing overspending? Are goods being produced efficiently and providing the intended capabilities? This shift better aligns with Congress’s mandate to spend effectively, not mimic private-sector accounting.</p>

<h2>Aligning Managerial Cost Accounting to DoD’s Budget Process</h2>

<p>The DoD uses a detailed, although cumbersome, process to develop its annual budget. It goes through several steps: aligning the president’s and defense secretary’s security strategy through planning, developing proposed funding for programs that support it, converting those programs into budget requests, and executing it, or what is referred to as the <a href="https://www.dau.edu/acquipedia-article/planning-programming-budgeting-execution-process-ppbe">Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE)</a> process.</p>

<p><strong>This process was first introduced in the 1960s by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara,</strong> who brought this business-like budgeting process from Ford Motor Company to the DoD. It has undergone several adjustments and improvements, creating an arduous but, for the most part, effective method. However, it routinely receives scrutiny and is the subject of recent reform and questionable overhaul requests.</p>

<p>For instance, the recent congressionally directed <a href="https://ppbereform.senate.gov/finalreport/">PPBE Reform Commission</a> has called for stronger, more responsive connections between strategy and spending within the PPBE process. However, the commission's primary goal is to offer recommendations for the PPBE process that meet Congress’s demand for a “clean audit opinion.”</p>

<p>While the commission made several strong recommendations to enhance the PPBE process,<strong> it neglected to tackle the elephant in the room: the way the DoD conducts audits.</strong> Instead, it reinforced a business-oriented audit approach, focusing on better managing financial statements rather than recognizing that imitating them is the issue.</p>

<p>Integrating SFFAS 4 into PPBE is a better reform solution – tracking obligations to capabilities (e.g., $145 billion in R&amp;D for 10 hypersonic missiles) and ensuring that funds deliver results. Changing the term “<em>costs</em>” to “<em>obligations</em>” (both measured in dollars) allows SFFAS 4 to more effectively support PPBE reform by addressing the question, “Does $850 billion of approved obligation authority in the DoD’s budget, executed as planned, fulfill the president’s security strategy?”</p>

<h2>AI-Driven Forensic Approach for Execution</h2>

<p>One of the primary challenges in achieving a clean audit is reconciling how the DoD distributes funds. Thousands of systems, hundreds of checkbooks, and various financial systems create an almost insurmountable bookkeeping task.</p>

<p><strong>Until recently, manual efforts by thousands of auditors—costing $4 billion in audit remediation since 2018—were necessary to examine DoD finances </strong>as if the DoD were a business struggling to reconcile billions in obligations and payments due to chaotic financial systems, poor bookkeeping, and internal control challenges—essentially trying to fit a square peg (accounting) into a round hole (accountability).</p>

<p>With the advent of AI and a more forensic accounting approach to execution, it has become possible to scour the DoD’s 4,500 financial systems to trace obligations, detect fraud and waste, and confirm legal transactions. Using the Advana platform, <strong>AI-driven forensic accounting can trace questionable spending</strong>, such as <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2024/Aug/12/2003521744/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2024-114.PDF">the DoD Inspector General’s 2023 report</a> that found “47 (or 80 percent) of the 59 contracts reviewed, DoD contracting officers did not obtain sufficient documentation to support their positive determination of financial responsibility…”</p>

<h2>What needs to change</h2>

<p>Is a traditional business audit suitable for the DoD, which does not generate revenue but relies on an annual influx of capital? Like most federal government agencies, the DoD depends on approved budgets from Congress to continue existing and operating. Like all businesses, it does not rely on sales to customers and profits for investors to assess its financial health.</p>

<p>What needs to change is a more practical approach to assessing the budget, one that seeks accountability in the utilization of capital rather than a strict audit of expenditures. Did the obligations effectively support the mission and achieve the intended outcomes? Were the obligations used efficiently, effectively, and correctly accounted for?</p>

<p>Furthermore, <strong>can the organization monitor every dollar of its commitments to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and compliance with legal requirements?</strong> Can internal controls effectively reduce fraud, waste, or abuse, and can this assessment inform next year's budget request by considering anticipated challenges and new initiatives?</p>

<p>This approach to the DoD audit situation is not merely a cultural shift; it signifies a new method for assessing how efficiently and effectively taxpayer funds are utilized by the DoD and how they support future funding needs.</p>

<h2>How It Works</h2>

<ul><li>SFFAS 4 for PPB tracks costs to capabilities: The $44 billion for F-35s allocates $30 billion to aircraft, $10 billion to spares, and $4 billion to training, aligning with national defense goals. It measures unit costs (e.g., cost per jet) and ensures funds are cost-effective and provide the intended capability.</li>
	<li>AI Forensics for Execution: AI using Advana analytics verifies obligations traced to laws, enhancing accountability—did $5 billion produce 55 F-35s? It flags waste, like $80 million in misallocated funds, by analyzing hundreds of DoD “checkbooks” across systems. A well-funded AI pilot could recover billions and trace them to obligations.</li>
	<li>Restoring Advana’s Role:  Advana, mandated by the 2018 NDAA, has drifted into logistics and readiness but should refocus on its initially intended “audit” role. Additional funding could integrate SFFAS 4 and AI, streamlining financial tracking and quickly paying for itself within a few years.</li>
</ul><h2>Recommendations</h2>

<ul><li>Amend the 1990 CFO Act by limiting the requirement for financial-statement audits at the DoD to the Statement of Budgetary Resources (SBR) alone.  Clean auditor opinions on SBRs will reflect, among other things, solutions to reconciling DoD’s checkbook problems and ensure that intended deliverables (e.g., $4 billion = ships) are tied to appropriations.</li>
	<li>Revise the FASAB mandate to prioritize SFFAS 4 managerial obligation accounting to support budgeting and AI forensics for execution, replacing GAAP/FASAB’s financial focus with a more accountable approach to DoD’s budget.</li>
	<li>Mandate SFFAS 4 in PPBE: The FY2026 NDAA should lock SFFAS 4 into budgeting, splitting $145 billion R&amp;D into traceable costs (e.g., 10 hypersonic missiles that produce intended capability), not vague assets.</li>
	<li>nbsp;       Fund AI Forensics: Launch a DoD Inspector General AI pilot, testing, for example, $50 billion in procurement. Scale it to $850 billion, flagging obligations like “F-35 spares and parts to meet future operations and maintenance requirements.”</li>
	<li>Reintegrate Advana: Refocus Advana on audit readiness with proper funding, incorporating SFFAS 4 and AI to trace funds. Train financial staff and associate managers to support implementation.</li>
</ul><h2>Conclusion</h2>

<p>The DoD’s audit failures stem from applying GAAP’s profit lens to a spender’s mission. Seven disclaimers, over $1 trillion in asset discrepancies, and 28 weaknesses prove FASAB’s flaws. SFFAS 4 and AI forensics offer a fix: $18 billion = 5 ships, $5 billion = 55 F-35s, traceable to law, not ledgers.</p>

<p>Amending the CFO Act, mandating SFFAS 4, and funding AI and Advana will deliver accountability. Despite challenges like training and resistance, a phased approach ensures feasibility. Congress and taxpayers deserve answers to “What’d we get?” not “Where’s the receipt?” This shift makes $850 billion count.</p>

<p><em>Major General Don McGregor (USAF, ret.) is a combat veteran and an F-16 fighter pilot. While serving as a General Officer in the Pentagon, he was the National Guard Director of Strategy, Policy, Plans, and International Affairs, advising a four-star Joint Chiefs of Staff member. He is an expert in defense strategy, policy, planning, and global security and has been published in several defense news outlets. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree in Diplomacy and International Conflict Resolution from Norwich University.  General McGregor would like to acknowledge Dr. Christopher Hanks, a defense analyst and working capital funds expert, for his review and beneficial suggestions regarding the content. </em></p>
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RUSSIA HAS CUT OFF ALL CHANNELS FOR FREELOADER COUNTRIES.</strong></p><p>While there’re many events to examine at the moment, I received a note today about a process that was mentioned several weeks ago in one of my Russian translations having to do with rectifying the wrongs committed during the privatizing period of the 1990s and those that happened later. The Constitutional Court’s decision on this issue will have important consequences that readers can infer as they read. This is a secondary source item that’s been composed from some primary sources that are unnamed. The author is The Kremlin Whisperer and the document he provides is <a href="https://t.me/kremlin_sekret/17221">located here</a>. I’ll note that Dr. Hudson forwarded the document to me. I thank him by promoting his<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq8z8ojSmas"> solo chat with Nima</a> today that focuses on Trump’s policies effects on the Outlaw US Empire’s economy and the global condition. Now the document:</p><blockquote><p>The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation is stepping up efforts to nationalize enterprises, seizing them from unscrupulous owners and foreign jurisdictions. <em><strong>The agency has succeeded in transferring five large enterprises with assets worth 2.4 trillion rubles to the state. These companies, previously controlled by offshore structures, have been transferring profits abroad for years, evading taxes and ignoring social obligations to labor collectives. In some cases, facts of financing the Kyiv regime have been recorded.</strong></em></p><p>Nationalization affected several key industries at once: the fishing industry (a group of companies of the Far East “crab kings” Oleg Kan and Dmitry Dremlyuga), agriculture (grain producer and exporter Rodnye Polya and pasta manufacturer Makfa) and metallurgy (Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant). These assets played an important role in the Russian economy, but in fact worked in the interests of foreign owners. Profits went to unfriendly jurisdictions, and within the country, these companies did not invest in modernization and ignored the infrastructure development of the regions.</p><p><em><strong>The nationalization of these assets is not a point solution, but part of a systemic course to strengthen economic sovereignty. The state is eliminating the gray schemes through which Russian resources and money flowed abroad, redistributing them in the interests of national production and the budget. This is not just restoring justice, but creating conditions under which the income from the work of large enterprises will remain in the country and be directed to the budget.</strong></em></p><p>Obviously, the nationalization process will affect other assets, especially those where the owners continue to use offshore mechanisms to withdraw capital. This will cause resistance from business groups accustomed to working according to old schemes, but the trend is already obvious: <em><strong>control over strategic sectors is gradually transferred to those who are ready to work in the interests of the country. State policy in this direction will inevitably continue, forming a new economic model, where key assets work for national development, and not for foreign interests.</strong></em></p><p>The state is not just reclaiming assets—<em><strong>it is reclaiming the right to shape the rules. </strong></em>Those who created capital based on administrative resources are now faced with a new reality: <em><strong>anything obtained without transparency and legal grounds can be challenged.</strong></em></p><p>The Constitutional Court of Russia has effectively restarted the legal coordinate system regulating property disputes. Its ruling, according to which the statute of limitations for privatization transactions is calculated not from the moment of the transaction itself, <em><strong>but from the moment violations are identified during a prosecutor’s inspection,</strong></em> opens a fundamentally new stage in the strategy of state re-privatization.</p><p><em><strong>This is not just an expansion of the powers of supervisory authorities, but a transition to a legal model where historical justice can be restored even decades later.</strong></em></p><p>The privatization of the 1990s is no longer perceived as an inviolable foundation of property. If previously property obtained in violation of the law was considered practically indisputable after the expiration of the statute of limitations, <em><strong>now the state has the opportunity to selectively and systematically return assets to its control. </strong></em>It is important that this step does not seem sudden. It was anticipated by a number of cases: from the case of the agricultural magnate Korovaiko, as a result of which more than 370 real estate objects and 6.7 thousand hectares of land were transferred to the state, to the active investigation of Moshkovich’s assets.</p><p>The Constitutional Court’s ruling became an institutional superstructure over the already implemented practice, giving it legal completeness.</p><p>But the point is not only in the revision of transactions. <em><strong>This is a signal to big capital: the era of guaranteed inviolability of formally secured property rights obtained illegally is coming to an end.</strong></em> <em><strong>Now the main thing is not the fact of ownership, but the legitimacy of its origin and compliance with the long-term interests of the state,</strong></em> which is becoming a manageable tool for the formation of a sovereign economy. <em><strong>Most Russians perceive privatization as injustice that has legalized social stratification. Today, the state offers a different framework: not revenge, but adjustment, institutional cleansing. The Constitutional Court’s decision will have far-reaching consequences.</strong></em> It lays the legal basis for the seizure of assets in energy, transport, agriculture–-everywhere where the interests of the “old groups” previously dominated. In the near future, we can expect an expansion of prosecutorial inspections, increased legal support for transactions and the formation of a new class of “clean property”–-in direct dependence on state loyalty and transparency of the origin of capital.<em><strong> At the same time, the state acts in a targeted manner and within the legal field.</strong></em> Thus, the legal mechanism becomes the most important element of the sovereign economic course. Not slogans, but a structure, not head-on nationalization, but a cold revision of the mistakes of the past.</p><p>Looks like China has been teaching Russia how to run a country properly. [My Emphasis] </p></blockquote><p>I assume the last sentence is a comment separate from the document. However, I don’t know of any similar cases or law within China to support the contention. As for Russia, I parade of Kleptocrats losing their ill-gotten property will be applauded by Russians. Now I recall where I read about this development: <a href="https://karlof1.substack.com/p/34th-annual-congress-of-the-russian">the conference</a> Putin had with the Congress of industrialists and entrepreneurs where Putin told them that sanctions are forever and to act accordingly. The property reverts to the state, so does Russia add it to a state-owned conglomerate like Rostec that has many different companies under its management, or does it reprivatize it, or make it a joint-stock hybrid, or does it do something else? I’ll now need to look for such actions in Russian media.</p><p>*<br>*<br>*<br><em>Like what you’ve been reading at Karlof1’s Substack? 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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">New York Tops London As World's Leading Financial Center In 2025</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Financial centers are a core pillar of the modern economy, channeling capital, facilitating trade, and driving innovation across the world.</p>

<p>In this graphic, <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-worlds-top-financial-centers-in-2025/">Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualized</a> the world’s top 40 most competitive financial centers, using data from the 37th edition of the <a href="https://www.longfinance.net/publications/long-finance-reports/the-global-financial-centres-index-37/">Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 37)</a>.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Global-Financial-Centres-Index_S.jpg?itok=ET-mGm7q" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Global-Financial-Centres-Index_S.jpg?itok=ET-mGm7q"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="51ec55a3-5a30-4e27-aac8-447d1f97add6" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="510" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Global-Financial-Centres-Index_S.jpg?itok=ET-mGm7q" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<h2>Data &amp; Methodology</h2>

<p>The GFCI 37 was compiled using 140 quantitative measures from sources like the World Bank, OECD, and UN.</p>

<p>These measures are combined with assessments collected by respondents to the GFCI online questionnaire. In total, the GFCI 37 used 31,314 assessments from 4,946 respondents.</p>

<p>The data we used to create this graphic is listed below.</p>

<table data-sanitized-id="tablepress-5653" data-sanitized-class="tablepress tablepress-id-5653"><thead><tr data-sanitized-class="row-1"><th data-sanitized-class="column-1">City</th>
			<th data-sanitized-class="column-2">GFCI 37 Rank</th>
			<th data-sanitized-class="column-3">GFCI 37 Rating</th>
		</tr></thead><tbody data-sanitized-class="row-striping row-hover"><tr data-sanitized-class="row-2"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇺🇸 New York</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">1</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">769</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-3"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇬🇧 London</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">2</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">762</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-4"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇭🇰 Hong Kong</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">3</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">760</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-5"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇸🇬 Singapore</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">4</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">750</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-6"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇺🇸 San Francisco</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">5</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">749</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-7"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇺🇸 Chicago</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">6</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">746</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-8"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇺🇸 Los Angeles</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">7</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">745</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-9"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇨🇳 Shanghai</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">8</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">744</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-10"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇨🇳 Shenzhen</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">9</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">743</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-11"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇰🇷 Seoul</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">10</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">742</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-12"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇩🇪 Frankfurt</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">11</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">741</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-13"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇦🇪 Dubai</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">12</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">740</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-14"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇺🇸 Washington DC</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">13</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">739</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-15"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇮🇪 Dublin</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">14</td>
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			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">18</td>
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			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">26</td>
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			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">28</td>
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			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">30</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">722</td>
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			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">31</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">721</td>
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			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">32</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">720</td>
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			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">33</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">719</td>
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			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">34</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">718</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-36"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇨🇳 Qingdao</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">35</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">717</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-37"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇺🇸 San Diego</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">36</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">716</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-38"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇩🇪 Berlin</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">37</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">715</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-39"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">38</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">714</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-40"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇨🇳 Chengdu</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">39</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">713</td>
		</tr><tr data-sanitized-class="row-41"><td data-sanitized-class="column-1">🇯🇵 Osaka</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-2">40</td>
			<td data-sanitized-class="column-3">712</td>
		</tr></tbody></table><h2>Areas of Competitiveness</h2>

<p>The quantitative factors used in the GFCI model are grouped into five areas of competitiveness:</p>

<ul><li>
	<p><strong>Business environment:</strong> Transparency and stability of systems, regulatory complexity</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><strong>Human capital: </strong>Access to skill professionals, investment in education</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><strong>Infrastructure:</strong> Quality of physical and digital infrastructure</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><strong>Financial sector development: </strong>Accessibility to clients, development of digital solutions</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><strong>Reputation:</strong> Trustworthiness of legal and regulatory systems</p>
	</li>
</ul><h2>Regional Insights</h2>

<p>We’ve summarized the main highlights from each GFCI region below.</p>

<h4>North America</h4>

<p>North America has four centers in the top 10: <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/us-cities-by-gdp-map/">New York</a>, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The most improved within North America are Miami and Vancouver, which both climbed over 10 places in the ranking.</p>

<h4>Western Europe</h4>

<p>London is the region’s dominant center, with seven other cities featuring in the top 20. The average rating across Western Europe increased by 2.14%.</p>

<h4>Asia Pacific</h4>

<p>Asia Pacific has six centers in the top 20, with four belonging to China (Hong Kong SAR, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing). Looking elsewhere, Hangzhou, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, and Manila all rose six or more places.</p>

<h4>Middle East &amp; Africa</h4>

<p>The region’s leading centers are Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with Dubai climbing four places to 12th in GFCI 37. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv, Kuwait City, and Johannesburg each fell more than 10 places.</p>

<h4>Latin America &amp; The Caribbean</h4>

<p>São Paulo rose seven places this year, making it the leading financial center in the region.</p>

<p><em>If you enjoyed today’s post, check out <a href="https://www.voronoiapp.com/markets/Billion-Dollar-Companies-by-Country-in-2025--4925">Billion Dollar Companies by Country in 2025</a> on Voronoi, the new app from Visual Capitalist.</em></p>
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title: U.S.&amp;#039;s Privatization &amp;#039;Solution&amp;#039;: Gaza Starves While Nero Fiddles
author: ;David Shavin
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<p>While the regime of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uses starvation as a weapon against two million Gazans, with the promise that most of Gaza is about to be militarily seized, to be permanently kept by Israel, Washington continues sending arms and continues feeble protests over Israel’s cutoff of aid (food, medicine, etc.) since March 2. Yesterday, the U.S.-based “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF), recently founded supposedly to address Israel’s concern that Hamas not benefit by being seen by Gazans as the local delivery system of aid, issued its first public announcement. As reported by the Times of Israel (ToI), the Foundation states that they will have their first delivery station by the beginning of June, that the four planned locations Israel had first allowed will be expanded, and that Israel will temporarily lift its blockade.</p>
<p>ToI noted that Israel would not confirm the lifting of the blockade and that an Israeli official told them that there would be comments on the GHF statement in the coming days. Why this curious delay of confirmation, especially since Israel’s cabinet already decided on May 4 that, as soon as U.S. President Trump completed his trip to the Middle East—that is, over the next day or two—they would conduct all-out warfare to permanently seize most of Gaza and drive the population into a tiny enclave on the Egyptian border. It is not to be doubted that no food, medicine, or water will be allowed anywhere but in that tiny enclave.</p>
<p>Despite GHF’s statement yesterday that its “neutral, cooperative, and secure model will allow NGOs and humanitarian groups to operate safely,” those very groups who have been operating in Gaza issued a joint statement earlier in May, stating that they will not cooperate with GHF, due to Israel’s restriction to just four distribution sites, all in southern Gaza; to a GHF plan that leaves large masses of the vulnerable population without assistance; and to an arrangement where one family member every two weeks can pick up one 40-pound aid package. The present aid agencies point out that making families carry the heavy package merely exposes them to looting, whether by Hamas, by criminal elements, or by starving strangers.</p>
<p>It is also questionable why they need GHF to “operate safely,” as the notable deaths amongst the aid groups have come from Israel’s military. Further, it appears that the prime source of violence outside of the IDF has been, under the “Warsaw ghetto"-type conditions of severe shortages of aid, from the rise of criminal groups—where Hamas has attempted to suppress, including by arrest, and has carried out several executions.</p>


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title: US Secretary of State &amp;#039;Troubled&amp;#039; by Lack of Aid into Gaza
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<p>After a nearly 2.5-month-long Israeli blockade of all food, water, and medicine into Gaza, and a less than impressive rollout of Washington’s new, privatized model for aid distribution (see separate report), U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced some misgivings today. Present in Antalya, Turkey for a NATO gathering of foreign ministers, he stated, according to the Times of Israel, that he is “troubled” by the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Of note, he had just discussed the matter with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning, which might have been the occasion of his troubled feelings.</p>
<p>While Rubio stopped short of expressly criticizing Israel, he said that the U.S. is not immune to the suffering of the people in Gaza. ToI noted that his comments “seemed to be moving in that direction [of calling out Israel] after Trump officials had long exclusively blamed Hamas for the humanitarian crisis.”</p>
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title: Deaths Mount in Gaza Today, as Netanyahu Stonewalls Trump&amp;#039;s Envoy
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/Screen-Shot-2025-05-15-at-9.09.26-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Overnight, and through the course of the day, at least 115 more Gazan Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, were confirmed dead, killed by the Israel Defense Forces. There were also more bodies trapped underneath rubble, which the Ministry could not include in their confirmed figure. A significant portion of the bombing occurred around the European Hospital in Khan Younis. As quoted by London’s <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war/article/gaza-strikes-khan-younis-bombing-jwkz5m2xh"><em>The Times</em></a>, the Ministry stated: “The European Hospital in Gaza is not operational as a result of the latest attacks. The strike caused substantial damage to infrastructure, such as sewer lines, damage to internal wards and roads leading to the hospital.”</p>
<p>Yesterday, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff held a two-hour call with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. The <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostage-talks-kick-off-in-doha-but-pms-insistence-on-not-ending-war-curbs-optimism/"><em>Times of Israel</em></a> reported that Netanyahu refused to bend on his newest, add-on demand, that Hamas turn over half of the hostages prior to any talks of a temporary truce. Previously, Netanyahu had reneged on the agreement signed in January to conduct negotiations to end the assault on Gaza. After that, Witkoff tried to get him to agree to negotiate for more hostages in exchange for merely a temporary truce, allowing Netanyahu to renew his extermination campaign after several weeks. Now Netanyahu, in raising his price even higher, has clearly thrown up a wall designed not to be scaled.</p>
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title: London&amp;#039;s Daily Express Moots Assassination of Putin
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<p>Shakespeare observed that “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Then there’s the British fury over the failure of Russian President Vladimir Putin to fall prey to their games. This afternoon, as Moscow made clear that the Istanbul peace talks were serious, and not a publicity event for a Zelenskyy-Putin slapdown, London’s <em>Daily Express</em> published an article, <a href="https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/171768/vladimir-putin-won-t-meet-zelensky-turkey-ukraine-assassination-squad-close">“Vladimir Putin Is ‘Dead Man Walking’ as Expert Explains Peace Talk No-Show.”</a></p>
<p>It opened: “Speculation is mounting that Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s grip on power may be slipping, with experts predicting his reign could end in assassination due to the calamitous conflict in Ukraine…. Observers have noted that Putin’s conspicuous reluctance to engage directly with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, especially for peace talks in Türkiye, underscores his apparent anxieties…. Western intelligence now views the potential for an assassination attempt on Putin as not merely based in rumor but an impending threat.”</p>
<p>Who are these observers and intelligence experts?</p>
<p>The infamous Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the former commander of Britain’s Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Regiment, explained: “There are analysts, people who know better than I, who believe Putin is now a dead man walking, a spent force whose war in Ukraine will cause his end.” The reason he didn’t show up in Istanbul is that he believes “he could be in danger or face arrest for war crimes…. Putin cannot keep playing for time and his bluff has been called brilliantly by Zelenskyy’s challenge to meet him face-to-face in Türkiye….”</p>
<p>Bruce Jones, cited as a top expert on Russian intelligence and military dynamics, remarked: “Things never end democratically in Russia and the situation is bad for Putin. He has had people killed for years and some in his military have already been dealt with in such a way—he knows the way this goes for a leader in Moscow who is not making good decisions. So he is probably right to be paranoid.”</p>
<p>Colonel Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, offered a more pragmatic view: “There are plenty of people who would want to have Putin bumped off. But his security is so tight that there is a real question over whether that is at all achievable and I believe that for the moment it is unlikely to happen.”</p>
<p>Finally, an unnamed former British intelligence officer was quoted as having the <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/putin-could-dead-man-walking-35225340"><em>Mirror</em></a> yesterday: “Putin is a very diminished person. But there are questions over whether him [sic] being killed would serve any purpose.”</p>


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title: Brits Send Powell To Manage Zelensky on Turning Trump Against Putin
author: ;David Shavin
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/05/Screen-Shot-2025-05-15-at-9.03.58-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The UK sent Jonathan Powell, presently National Security Advisor for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to meet with Ukraine’s acting president, Volodymyr Zelensky, ahead of the Istanbul negotiations, in order to provide “background advice” on how he should handle the meeting, as reported by <em>The Guardian</em> yesterday. The paper identifies Powell’s mission as making sure that Zelensky does not do “anything that alienates Trump” and guiding him in an operation to persuade President Trump that Russian President Putin is the “obstacle to peace.” They go on to describe the possible negotiations as “an unpredictable meeting in an unclear format.”</p>
<p>Perhaps not unrelated, Vedomosti, in their roundup of pertinent quotes around the renewed Istanbul negotiations, chose to cite Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s having said that the British are <a href="https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2025/05/15/1110390-glavnie-zayavleniya-pered-startom-peregovorov?from=copy_text">“leading Zelensky like guides.”</a></p>
<p>It is not clear whether Powell was responsible for Zelensky’s laughable attempt today to get Trump to blame Putin, as Zelensky’s acting was over the top. After losing his five-day campaign to upstage the Istanbul 2.0 negotiations, and after Zelensky’s lengthy session with Turkey’s President Erdogan, where he acceded to sending a delegation to Istanbul, he had trouble containing himself. He began: “I believe the Kremlin ruler must demonstrate leadership, and if he is ready for negotiations, then he should meet without any preconditions. Let’s meet. We’re in Ankara now.” That train had already pulled out of the station, yet Zelensky could not let it go. “He’s not here, he’s not in Istanbul. We can’t run all over the world looking for the man….”</p>
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title: Is Russia&amp;#039;s Istanbul 2.0 Negotiating Team Capable, Prepared, and Equipped?
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/Y7RD5saOAprAAunP3aNZwuNV4bAxaPAA.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The Russian delegation to the Istanbul 2.0 Negotiations with Ukraine met yesterday in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin, before leaving for Istanbul. The <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76924">President’s website reported</a> that the team received briefings from such as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, from the heads of intelligence and security, and notably from Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, and the military commanders in Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson. Belousov and Gerasimov reported on the specific situations on the line of contact. “The meeting participants conducted a detailed joint discussion of all reports. Based on these briefings, the President summed up the meeting results, set tasks and charted the negotiating position of the Russian delegation in Istanbul.”</p>
<p>In his announcement of the talks on May 11, Putin had stated that Russia is set on “serious negotiations” with Ukraine and is seeking a “long-term, sustainable peace” that would address the root causes of the conflict. He also suggested that the negotiations could yield “a new ceasefire” that could pave the way for a comprehensive peace settlement, depending on the decisions of “the Ukrainian authorities and their supervisors.”</p>
<p>Today in Istanbul, Russia’s leader of the delegation Vladimir Medinsky announced that his delegation is ready to discuss “possible compromises,” yet the goal of the direct talks was “to sooner or later establish long-term peace” and “eliminate the basic root causes of the conflict.” Speaking outside the Russian consulate in Istanbul, Medinsky explained that Putin had held a “special meeting to prepare” the Russian delegation. He added that Putin “set the tasks and defined our negotiating position…. We consider these negotiations as a continuation of the peace process in Istanbul, which, unfortunately, was interrupted by the Ukrainian side three years ago.” He added that his delegation has all the “necessary competencies and powers to conduct negotiations.”</p>
<p>Of no little note, Medinsky was the leader of the successful negotiations at Istanbul in 2022. He reminded the reporters that it was Kiev that signed the draft agreement and then walked away from it. After that, the four Russian-speaking of Ukraine’s oblasts voted to join Russia. The spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova has summed up this, along with the previous loss of Crimea after the 2014 coup in Kiev, by noting that Ukraine’s territory shrinks every time Kiev disrupts the negotiation process.</p>

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title: Russia-Ukraine Talks To Begin Amidst Shrieks from War Party
author: ;Stewart Battle
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/f1aa3497de86fc4a3d8e6476d0ee77d2_1747241108_extra_large.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Direct talks between Russia and Ukraine are set to begin Friday, May 16, for the first time since April 2022, offering a potential pathway to bring this unnecessary conflict to an end. After much drama and chest-thumping, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy finally agreed to send a delegation to Istanbul for negotiations, after remarking how “disrespectful” it was for Russian President Putin to not be there personally to receive him. He is being coached by many in the trans-Atlantic war party to attempt to paint Russia as the “obstacle to peace,” as part of their last-ditch effort to stymie this promising development.</p>
<p>Russian President Putin’s special envoy <a href="https://x.com/kadmitriev/status/1922959414924832829">Kirill Dmitriev summarized</a> the hopefulness of the situation: “<a href="https://x.com/POTUS">President Donald J. Trump</a>, <a href="https://x.com/JDVance">J.D. Vance</a>, <a href="https://x.com/SteveWitkoff">Steve Witkoff</a>, <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio">Secretary Marco Rubio</a>, &amp; key Trump allies just made the impossible possible. Against all odds/fierce resistance—the first direct Russia—Ukraine peace talks in 3 years are set to begin. If not derailed last-minute, this could be a historic step to peace.” Thus far, President Trump and his team have not been fooled by these abovementioned antics, and the Russians have clearly taken note of this.</p>
<p>In Southwest Asia, on the other hand, the situation is not as hopeful. Israel continues its blockade of Gaza, and the alleged preparations for a new “U.S.- and Israel-approved” humanitarian aid organization look to be more show than substance. There are reports that U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff has been on the phone repeatedly with Prime Minister Netanyahu over the previous days in the hope of reaching a hostage and ceasefire agreement, but the Israelis are determined to continue the war at all costs and are resisting. It’s unclear whether Trump’s massive $4 trillion in economic agreements signed with the Persian Gulf states will tip the scales on the situation in Gaza, or will merely boost U.S. financial markets. However, given the fact that most of Israel’s weapons and ammunition comes from their U.S. sponsors, the genocide could be ended with one phone call.</p>
<p>The stakes the world faces today are extremely high. On the one hand, the post-World War II order is coming to an end, presenting a tremendous opportunity for realizing a new architecture that delivers justice to the corners of the world that have long been denied it. On the other hand, the moral and cultural decay that has increasingly characterized the West threatens to resist or even sabotage such a transformation. This is the reason that the only qualified leadership today is creative leadership. The stupidity and immorality of the West can not simply be denounced, it must be intervened on—<em>creatively</em>. And it is through such a commitment to uplift and transform a backward culture that true political leadership is born.</p>
<p><a href="https://larouchepub.com/lar/2009/interviews/3602lars_victory_brits.html">Lyndon LaRouche</a> said in a late December 2008 interview:</p>
<p>“Development [of an individual] always occurs in terms of a response to an historical process. And it may be a response to a past part of history, in the sense that you’re trying to bring it back. It may be a response to current conditions, to present an idea, which is necessary. But <em>always</em>, it’s an attempt to convey real ideas, and in this time, the problem is, we live in a period of complete sophistry…. Today, you have people who can not express ideas; they express a jumble of words, or they make sounds, like chimpanzee grunts and screams, which they call ‘music.’ So, it’s lost!</p>
<p>“And the first purpose, is to develop the ability to express ideas. Express them, yes, in a persuasive way, because that’s important, but also to get people to suddenly see a vision of an idea. It’s what the great poet does, and the great musician does, the great composer.”</p>
<p>Mankind must shed its failed axioms and discover the bounding principles for a new system. This Friday’s meeting of the <a href="https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/ipc_meeting">International Peace Coalition</a> on May 16 will take up this task, as will the May 24-25 Memorial Day weekend conference of the Schiller Institute, <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">“A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”</a></p>

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title: "I Can't Understand My Professor"
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">"I Can't Understand My Professor"</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>By Rob Jenkins of <a href="https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/05/01/i-cant-understand-my-professor/">Minding the Campus</a></em></p>

<p><span>My colleague at </span><span>Minding the Campus</span><span>, Jared Gould, has </span><a href="https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/03/27/foreign-students-price-americans-out-of-their-own-workforce/"><span>written persuasively</span></a><span> on the problem of colleges and universities over-admitting foreign students, who can fill seats that should have gone to American students, drive up costs for everyone, and ultimately take jobs from American workers. </span></p>

<p><span>In my view, however, a more pressing issue—<strong>although one that is rarely broached, lest the complainant be labeled “xenophobic”</strong>—is that of foreign-born professors, especially those whose command of spoken English is, shall we say, less than optimal.</span></p>

<p><span>These days, institutions have come to rely more and more on non-native Ph.D.s. Just scan through the faculty roster at any American university and see how many names you can pronounce. This is a problem for some of the same reasons Jared mentions: Not only did many of these professors take grad-school seats from American students, they eventually took jobs that might have gone to American candidates.</span></p>

<p><em><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/cant%20undertstand%20prof.jpg?itok=9F2Sulib" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/cant%20undertstand%20prof.jpg?itok=9F2Sulib"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="ddada6e3-925f-446a-a64b-f0dbb2f1c053" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="374" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/cant%20undertstand%20prof.jpg?itok=9F2Sulib" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></em></p>

<p><span><strong>There’s another problem with foreign-born professors, though, on an even more basic level: Students often struggle to understand them in class. </strong>If students literally can’t grasp what the professor is saying, due to a language barrier, how can they learn the material? Often, they resort to essentially teaching themselves, using textbooks, study groups, and online aids.</span></p>

<p><span>The daughter of a good friend is currently in medical school at a large, highly respected Southeastern university. I had a chance to chat with her over the holidays and asked her how it was going. What she said frankly shocked me.</span></p>

<p><span><strong>According to her, not a single one of her medical school professors, so far, has been American-born. </strong>All speak with thick accents, although some are clearer than others. Asking questions in class doesn’t help much, because she often can’t understand the answers. And she isn’t alone. Her classmates all have the same problem.   </span></p>

<p><span>So how are they supposed to learn this information that is presumably so important for doctors to know—information they will be tested over, repeatedly, throughout their years in medical school, culminating in board examinations?</span></p>

<p><span>This bright young woman, along with her classmates and many other medical students all over the country, has simply taken matters into her own hands, purchasing expensive software that covers the same material. She attends class religiously each day, then goes home and spends eight or ten more hours watching videos. Despite shelling out tens of thousands of dollars on an “elite” medical school education, she is essentially having to teach herself—all because her professors don’t speak clear English.</span></p>

<p><span>This is just one example of what seems to be a widespread problem. In my 40 years of college teaching and advising, I’ve had dozens of students complain to me that they have one or more professors they can’t understand, particularly in mathematics, engineering, and the hard sciences.</span></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="https://store.zerohedge.com/rancher-direct-clean-food/" data-image-href="https://store.zerohedge.com/rancher-direct-clean-food/" data-link-option="2" href="https://store.zerohedge.com/rancher-direct-clean-food/"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="1d7c3fc7-867d-4ae7-baa0-cd61d4246985" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="134" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/TBI_Ad_1500x400px_MemorialDay_1%281%29.jpg?itok=1P4CS8m5" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><strong><span>How did we get ourselves into this situation, and how can we get out of it?</span></strong></p>

<p><span>The answer to the first question, which also suggests an answer to the second, is that we got here mainly by prioritizing research over teaching—in some cases, by a wide margin. Indeed, some of our most prestigious institutions seem to value research almost exclusively and teaching hardly at all. Almost any tenure-track professor at a Research 1 university will tell you that their annual evaluations and tenure bids are highly focused on research, publishing, and grant procurement, with teaching coming in a distant second, if that. In other words, if a candidate is an accomplished researcher or has the potential to be, schools don’t really care if students can understand them or not.</span></p>

<p><span>The simple solution is for institutions to prioritize teaching, or at least make it equal to research. Honestly, most of what passes for “research” these days is either </span><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/diminishing-returns-in-humanities-research/"><span>derivative naval-gazing</span></a><span> or </span><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/prof-jenkins-plagiarism-just-tip-iceberg/24832"><span>unreproducible nonsense</span></a><span>; only a relative handful of professors are doing truly groundbreaking work in any field. The rest should be expected to teach more and publish less, and be evaluated accordingly. Departments, too, should be judged primarily on how well students learn in their classes, not on how many journal articles they produce or how much grant money they generate.</span></p>

<p><span>With a renewed emphasis on teaching, departments might start to care a little more about whether students can actually understand their professors and make that an integral part of the screening process for new faculty. Some institutions already do this, but every candidate for a faculty position should have to give a public presentation that students are encouraged to attend—bribed with food, if necessary—and their opinions solicited.</span></p>

<p><span><strong>In that way, perhaps we can eventually move beyond this frankly untenable situation in which even our brightest students sometimes struggle to pick up on important concepts.</strong> We might be pleasantly surprised at how much and how fast they learn once they actually understand what their professors are saying.</span></p>
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title: Water Wars: One-Fifth Of Pakistan's Electricity Comes From Hydro
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Water Wars: One-Fifth Of Pakistan's Electricity Comes From Hydro</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, a major water-sharing agreement brokered by the World Bank. </strong>The move came on April 23, within a day of a deadly shooting in Pahalgam, in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir, marking the first time the treaty has been paused since the pact’s inception in 1960. In response, Pakistan stated that an attempt to stop the flow of water would be considered an “act of war”. Tensions mounted between the two <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/8301/the-countries-holding-the-worlds-nuclear-arsenal/">nuclear-armed nations</a> in the following weeks, breaking out into four days of fighting, before quelling again with a ceasefire mediated by the U.S. announced on Saturday, with both nations pulling back from the brink.</p>

<p><strong><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/27272/water-conflicts/">Water resources</a> are an important part of the equation right now between the two countries. </strong>The <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1612691/india-and-pakistan-distribution-of-water-according-to-iwt">Indus Waters Treaty (IWT)</a> divides the six main rivers of the Indus basin between the two nations, with the three westerly rivers — Indus, Jhelum and Chenab — supplying Pakistan with water, while the three easterly ones — Ravi, Beas and Sutlej — feed India.</p>

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<p>According to <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-14/india-suspends-indus-water-treaty-pakistan-tensions-water-war/105286366">reporting</a> by ABC,<strong> in addition to the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, India has also fast-tracked the construction of four new hydropower projects on rivers flowing into Pakistan and refused to share data on river flows with Islamabad.</strong> David Michel, Senior Fellow for the Global Food and Water Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explains in an <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/can-india-cut-pakistans-indus-river-lifeline">analysis</a> that while India cannot completely stop the water flow to Pakistan in the near term due to its current infrastructure, it can stop the flow of information to its neighbor. He explains: </p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>“The IWT requires the parties to share a good deal of data on project development, river flows, and hydrological conditions. By suspending the treaty, India can also cease data sharing, depriving Pakistan of flood warnings, for example, prospectively hampering the nation’s water management and potentially imperiling Pakistani lives and livelihoods.”</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Observers cite concerns over India’s building of dams, including four which are on one of the westerly rivers intended to supply Pakistan, and flag the issue of what would happen to the flow of water to Pakistan if such infrastructure is expanded to enable more storage.</p>

<p><strong>Pakistan is dependent on the rivers of the Indus basin not only for some of its population’s drinking water, but also for agriculture, which accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s GDP, as well as for power.</strong> </p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34459/pakistans-sources-of-electricity-generation/">As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below,</a> using <a href="https://www.iea.org/countries/pakistan/electricity">data</a> from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows, 34.6 TWh of electricity in Pakistan was sourced from hydropower in 2022 (latest available data), all of which comes from the Indus basin. </p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34459/pakistans-sources-of-electricity-generation/" title="Infographic: One-Fifth of Pakistan's Electricity Comes From Hydro | Statista"><img alt="Infographic: One-Fifth of Pakistan's Electricity Comes From Hydro | Statista" height="501" src="https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/34459.jpeg" width="501"></a> </p>

<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href="https://www.statista.com/chartoftheday/">Statista</a></em></p>

<p><strong>This makes it the second most important energy source for electricity in the country</strong>, following only after natural gas (47 TWh or around 27 percent). </p>

<p>The next biggest energy sources are oil (16.6 percent), coal (15.9 percent and nuclear (15.6 percent).</p>

<p><em>Read more on the </em><a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/13485/india-pakistan-conflict/#topFacts"><em>India-Pakistan conflict 2025</em></a><em> and </em><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/27272/water-conflicts/"><em>water conflicts in Asia</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/new-york-to-send-inflation-refund-checks-to-eligible-residents-5858089?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge"><em>Authored by Rachel Acenas via The Epoch Times,</em></a></p>

<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday announced the state’s first-ever “inflation refund,” a one-time payment to eligible residents.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/image_51.jpg?itok=TXQnygOG" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/image_51.jpg?itok=TXQnygOG"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="af233046-c1d0-48f4-9c3e-6087e5d059e6" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/image_51.jpg?itok=TXQnygOG" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Hochul said during a news conference that inflation has driven up costs for New Yorkers, and they should get that money back. The funding, according to the governor, will come from the money the state collected in higher sales taxes because of inflation.</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>“We collected more in sales tax as a result. Unanticipated revenue. I said, this can go into the state coffers, but why not give it to the residents whose pockets it came out of? They paid more than they ever expected. That’s the whole idea behind an inflation refund.”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Collectively, the one-time payment will put $2 billion back in the pockets of over eight million New York taxpayers, Hochul said. The amount of the payment would be based on filing status and income.</p>

<p>Joint tax filers who earn up to $150,000 will receive a $400 check, while those earning between $150,000 and $300,000 will get $300. Single tax filers with incomes up to $75,000 should expect to receive a $200 inflation refund check, and those earning between $75,000 and $150,000 will get a $150 check.</p>

<p>Hochul first proposed her plan of an inflation refund check last December and secured the funding in the fiscal year 2026 state budget agreement. Her initial plan called for higher refunds, specifically $300 for single filers making $150,000 or less, and $500 for joint filers making up to $300,000.</p>

<p>According to data from the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/regions/northeast/news-release/consumerpriceindex_newyork.htm">Consumer Price Index</a>, the New York area experienced the highest inflation rate in the country from April 2024 to April 2025, with a rate of 3.9 percent. New York’s rate was much higher than the national average, which was 2.3 percent in April 2025. The New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area experienced a 3.9 percent increase in prices, while core inflation reached 4.3 percent.</p>

<p><strong>In announcing the inflation refund plan, the governor signed a large check while announcing the inflation refund. “We got it done, everybody. We got it done,” she told supporters.</strong></p>

<p>Residents who qualify for the one-time payment don’t need to fill out an application or take any type of action, according to a <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/we-got-it-done-governor-hochul-celebrates-huge-budget-win-put-nearly-5000-back-pockets-working">news release</a> by the governor’s office. Rather, the state will automatically send them a check based on their 2023 tax filing. The checks will be mailed over a period of several weeks beginning in the fall of 2025.</p>

<p><strong>As part of the state budget, Hochul is also giving 1.6 million New York families an annual tax credit of up to $1,000 per child under age four and up to $500 per child from four through sixteen, marking the largest expansion of New York’s child tax credit in its history.</strong> The state budget agreement also includes her plan to cut taxes for more than 75 percent of all tax filers in the state.</p>

<p>United Way of New York City President and CEO Grace Bonilla said in a <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/we-got-it-done-governor-hochul-celebrates-huge-budget-win-put-nearly-5000-back-pockets-working">statement</a> in response to Hochul’s budget: </p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>“These changes will ease the burden on people who are already facing untenable challenges – forced to choose between feeding their children or paying bills.”</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>According to United Way’s 2023 True Cost of Living <a href="https://unitedwaynyc.org/true-cost-of-living/">report</a>,<strong> 50 percent of working-age people in New York City are struggling to make ends meet.</strong></p>

<p>New York’s inflation refund checks are similar to California’s Middle Class Tax Refund program. That one-time payment was issued to eligible recipients between October 2022 and January 2023, to provide relief to residents in the state. California’s refund came in the form of a debit card that required activation.</p>
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            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In a limited survey by Statista Consumer Insights, between 6 and 17 percent of respondents said they had a food intolerance confirmed by a health professional. </p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34469/share-of-respondents-with-food-intolerance/"><em>As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports,</em></a> <strong>the figure was highest in the U.S. and lowest in France. </strong></p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34469/share-of-respondents-with-food-intolerance/" title="Infographic: How Widespread Are Food Intolerances? | Statista"><img alt="Infographic: How Widespread Are Food Intolerances? | Statista" height="500" src="https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/34469.jpeg" width="500"></a> </p>

<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href="https://www.statista.com/chartoftheday/">Statista</a></em></p>

<p><strong>In four other countries surveyed - the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico and China - between 10 and 11 percent said this was the case for them.</strong></p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/4274/global-health/">Food intolerances and allergies,</a> like insensitivity to gluten, dairy, sugar or more specific products, have been a hot topic over the last couple of years.</p>

<p><strong>While more and more people cut certain foods out of their diets because of allergies or because they consider them bad nutrition, other accuse those engaging in this behavior of following a fad.</strong> </p>

<p>While awareness around food insensitivities has certainly risen and more people were able to get <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/799/health/">diagnoses</a> in the field, hyperconsiousness around food, health and fitness are also becoming more widespread - with both areas increasingly harder to distingush from one another.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/food-intolerance/">According to the UK's NHS,</a> <strong>common food intolerances include lactose, gluten, histamines and sulphites, </strong>but also caffeine, alcohol and lesser-known salicylates.</p>
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            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/11/its-time-to-end-federal-control-of-education-and-restore-parental-authority/"><em>Authored by Sam Sorbo via American Greatness,</em></a></p>

<p>For decades, Americans have watched as federal involvement in education expanded, ballooning into a behemoth bureaucracy that imposes top-down mandates while divorcing parents from their rightful role as the primary educators of their children, while failing to achieve academic success for students.</p>

<p><strong>If we are serious about fixing our children’s education, we must restore parental authority and end federal control of education.</strong></p>

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<p><strong>America’s Founding Fathers never intended for Washington, D.C., to dictate how children in Kansas or Kentucky learn to read, write, and think</strong>. Education was, and should be, a local and parental matter. President Donald Trump rightly stated in Executive Order 13985, <em>Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping</em>, “The experiment of controlling American education through federal programs and dollars…has plainly failed our children, our teachers, and our families.” That failure is clearly documented by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as “The Nation’s Report Card.” Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, NAEP scores had <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard">stagnated or declined</a>. Today, nearly <strong>40% of fourth graders</strong> read <a href="https://nationsreportcard.gov/"><strong>below basic level</strong></a>, despite record federal funding. Billions of taxpayer dollars have produced declining literacy.</p>

<p><strong>It’s not just ineffective—it’s indefensible.</strong></p>

<p>Federal education initiatives have repeatedly promised results, especially for low-income students, but have failed to deliver. Programs like Title I and Head Start have cost hundreds of billions of dollars over the years with <a href="https://www.cato.org/">no consistent academic gains</a> to show for them. Similarly, federal control over college grants and loans has inflated tuition and <a href="https://www.newyorkfed.org/">buried young Americans</a> under a mountain of debt.</p>

<p><strong>The evidence is clear: centralized, bureaucratic control undermines education.</strong></p>

<p>As the founder of the “They’re YOUR Kids Foundation,” I work with parents every day who feel helpless. The system fails their children academically and often undermines their values. If we truly want to empower families, we must strip away the federal red tape and hand the reins back to those who know and love their children best: parents.</p>

<p>Representative Barry Moore of Alabama has proposed legislation (H.R. 2691, “Eliminate the Department of Education Act,” <a href="http://congress.gov/">Congress.gov</a>) to eliminate USED and redirect education funding based on what residents in each state pay in federal income taxes. But simply shifting USED’s functions to other agencies, as some proposals suggest, won’t solve the problem—it just moves the bureaucracy around.</p>

<p>That’s why I support the US Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) Blueprint: a five-step plan to close the U.S. Department of Education and return education governance to the states. The <a href="https://uspie.org/">Blueprint</a> is simple, sensible, and long overdue:</p>

<ol><li>
	<p>Return all program management and funding to the states.</p>
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	<li>
	<p>Repeal laws like the <em>Every Student Succeeds Act</em> (ESSA) that enable federal overreach.</p>
	</li>
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	<p>Privatize college loan programs through local financial institutions for increased accountability.</p>
	</li>
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	<p>Eliminate all divisions and spending within USED.</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Reduce federal tax collection so states retain education funds directly.</p>
	</li>
</ol><p>We have a singular opportunity to implement meaningful change, including a federal tax credit system that empowers parents to direct their own children’s education. Under this proposal:</p>

<ul><li>
	<p>Parents who homeschool or choose private education would receive a <strong>Child Tax Credit</strong> equal to the federal per-pupil expenditure.</p>
	</li>
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	<p>Federal taxpayers of households with children attending government schools would prompt their per-pupil allocation to be block-granted to their respective states.</p>
	</li>
</ul><p>This model respects choice while avoiding the pitfalls of government entanglement. Voucher programs, while well-intentioned, often bring government regulation with them. The 1980 Supreme Court ruling involving Hillsdale College affirmed that any institution accepting federal funds—even indirectly through student aid—is subject to federal control. [Grove City College v. Bell, 465 U.S. 555 (1984)] That’s the Trojan horse we must avoid.</p>

<p><strong>We must stop pretending we can reform federal education mandates and instead recognize them for what they are: unconstitutional, ineffective, and dangerous to parental rights.</strong></p>

<p>As a mother who homeschooled three children, I know firsthand the value of individualized learning guided by a parent who knows their child’s needs and aspirations. Education is not simply the memorization of facts or test preparation. It is the formation of character, virtue, curiosity, and conviction. That formation is best entrusted to families—not bureaucrats in Washington.</p>

<p>President Trump’s 2025 executive order declared that closing the Department of Education would “restore the proper role of families and local governments in education.” But that can only happen if we also change the funding structure and remove all federal strings. If not, we risk replacing one failed model with another, abandoning the nation’s most precious resource, and ultimately forfeiting our very future.</p>

<p>It’s time to reject the lie that Washington knows best. Parents are not the problem. They are the solution. Local communities, not federal mandates, are best equipped to nurture the next generation of citizens. And education must once again become the deeply personal, values-rooted family journey it was meant to be.</p>

<p><strong>We have a roadmap. We have legislation. And most importantly, we have an awakening of parents across this country who are saying, Enough is enough.</strong></p>

<p>Let’s seize this moment to make education truly free—by making it family-led.</p>
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